Recently, many readers have given feedback that they feel that Shiba Yiyin is a loss-making business in Kanto. Is Uesugi Teruhora that bad?
It's a pity that the Uesugi family was so bad in history. They were constantly fighting among themselves, eager for quick success and short-sighted strategy.
The siege of Odawara Castle was the crowning moment of Terutora Uesugi's victory over Ujiyasu Hojo. After that, the entire Uesugi family's strategy would take a turn for the worse, with all kinds of suffocating operations.
Historically, the Uesugi family's food was robbed on the spot in Kanto and transported back to Echigo country. As a result, when the Uesugi retreated, the Hojo family shouted "Six Dukes and Four Citizens", and many samurai families ran back to the Hojo family.
The break with Narita Choyasu led to the separation of the Kanto samurai family. After that, Uesugi Teruhora was defeated in Usui Castle of the Lower General Kingdom, and the Uesugi family began to form an alliance with the Hojo family.
The two samurai families in Hitachi Shimono felt that they had been betrayed and formed the Oriental Group to protect themselves. The Satomi family on the Boso Peninsula immediately turned around and negotiated peace with the Hojo family.
Uesugi Teruhora has been busy for a long time, except for one Kanto governor who is considered to be the real one, but in fact he has broken trust with the samurai families from all over the eight states of Kanto, and their hearts have been dispersed.
When I first saw these mysterious operations, I could not understand them at all as I was spinning mosquito coils in my eyes.
If there are some plots in the book that you, readers, feel are not right. Don’t scold me, I feel something is wrong too. This book of mine is a side story of history, and it is impossible to go too far to make a false statement.
Uesugi Teruhora has this kind of virtue. To be honest, if he hadn't been good at fighting, he would have been killed long ago. The political operation was a real failure.
I once introduced that the main plot of this book is about the guardian daimyo of Ashirisbo versus the warring states daimyo of Oda Toyotomi.
The two sides continued to accumulate conflicts in the dynamic process. Because of their different ideas, systems, and systems, they gradually drifted apart, from joining forces to confronting each other, and finally had to use war to solve the problem.
After all, the carrier of thoughts is the body. If the theory does not make sense, then the body should be eliminated. Yoshihiro Saba is actually a representative of the old forces, who wants to kill Oda Nobunaga who is radically reforming.
Many people don’t understand why the protagonist must go to Guandong. I repeatedly emphasized in the book the importance of land in a farming society. Without land, there would be no population, food and army.
Oda Nobunaga occupied the Nobi Plain, and in the future Kamikawa would also occupy the Omi Basin and the Osaka Plain.
Such a large amount of fertile land was enough to crush all the daimyo of the Warring States Period, with the only exception being the Kanto Plain.
The Kanto Plain is the largest plain in Japan. The weakness of the Kanto Bashu is due to long-term wars, the establishment of strongholds and the disrepair of water conservancy. In fact, the foundation is very strong.
Historically, Tokugawa Ieyasu conquered the world because he quietly worked in the Kanto Plain for decades, developing water conservancy and storing grain.
Of course, development will definitely accelerate in the book and will not wait for decades. But the strategic logic is consistent. Without the help of the Kanto Plain, Oda Toyotomi's new system cannot be defeated.
If the old forces represented by Shiba Yoshigan want to fight against Oda Toyotomi's family, the Shiba family must have a place in Kanhachishu.
The fact that the system forces Yiyin has always been the most criticized aspect of this book by readers. However, the guide to the Eight Prefectures itself is very important in the structure of the entire book.
Finally, I want to say that this is my first book and I have made a lot of stupid mistakes, enough for readers to complain about it from the first chapter to the current chapter 1,080.
But I'm still quite proud because I don't have a eunuch!
The general structure of the novel is still intact, and the logic is quite clear. As a middle-aged and elderly person with only a technical secondary school education, I am ordinary and confident, and if I insist on finishing it, I will be victorious.
Finally, I would like to thank all readers for their support. Your subscription is the motivation for me to persist. I will continue to work hard and bow my thanks.