Yiyin listened carefully to what Hamohashi said.
He knew that Oda Nobunaga attached great importance to this opportunity to go to Luo, and wanted to capture the strategic location of Minami Omi in one fell swoop. But he did not expect that Oda Nobunaga would act so quickly and resolutely.
Omi Province is the gateway to the east of Kongu, Minami Omi is the best route to Luo, and Koga County is the most important strategic location of Minami Omi.
Suzuka Pass leads to Koga County in the north, Iga Province in the southwest, and Kitai Ise in the southeast. The three places surround the Suzuka Mountains, forming a triangle shape.
To get Koka County is to occupy the northern foot of the Suzuka Mountains. To the north, you can suppress the plains of Minamiomia, and to the south, you can block the Suzuka Pass in and out of Konki.
The Koga people who control this place are not only a group of samurai, but also have ninja backgrounds. The ninjas are good at spying, and the Koga people are familiar with nearby people and have a strong ability to obtain information.
Once Oda Nobunaga gets their help, he can quickly integrate into Konku and have an intelligence network that extends to the entire Konku.
This is a real trouble for Yoshihiro Shiba who wants to prevent Oda Nobunaga from infiltrating Konki.
Yiyin frowned.
"His Majesty Oda has received the support of the Koga people?"
Pu Shengxianxiu shook his head and said.
"It may have gained support from some people, but there were so many hills in Koka County that there was a stalemate for a while.
The Rokkaku family has ruled Minami Omi for hundreds of years, and among the twenty-one Koga clan there are die-hard loyalists to the Rokkaku clan. Without Mochizuki Yoshitomi nodding his head, it will be difficult for the Koga clan to unify their opinions."
Yiyin understood what Pu Shengxianxiu meant.
He controls the Iga clan, and of course he knows the internal situation of the Koka clan. There are ninja clans in Iga and Koka, and they are enemies when they travel together. The person who knows you best is often your enemy.
Therefore, the Iga clan knows the Koga clan very well, and Yoshigan naturally also knows it in detail.
The twenty-one Koga families who are Rokkaku's retainers are divided into three Kashiwagi families, nine Kitayama families, six Nanshan families, and three Sonai families, and they belong to four regional powers.
The other families of the Fifty-three Koga families also belong to these four areas and work together to keep warm. Their internal structure is a joint self-governance of the local areas in the prefecture.
Speaking of which, Wada Yaimai was also a Rokkaku retainer of the Koga Twenty-one Family, and the Wada family was one of the six Nanshan families.
She first served as an official for the Rokkaku family, and then was favored by Ashikaga Yoshiteru and accepted as a direct minister, and became a diplomatic service member of the shogunate for the Ashikaga Rokkaku family during their honeymoon period.
The Mochizuki Yoshito mentioned by Kenhide Kamao is the governor of the Mochizuki family for this generation. The Mochizuki family among the Koga clan is one of the three Shino clans in Shinano country and is a branch of the Mochizuki family.
Her family has a very high status among the Koga people, and is known as the Hattori of Iga and Mochizuki of Koga, which is as famous as the Hattori family that once ruled Iga country.
Mochizuki Yoshitomi has a close relationship with the Rokkaku family. As long as she remains loyal to the Rokkaku family, the Koga clan will not be able to express their position.
Because the joint autonomy of the four forces in Koka County is very unique, major issues need to be discussed at a meeting and collectively decided by each family.
With Mochizuki Yoshito's prestige, if she does not change her words, the Koga clan cannot change the family for a while. But the situation of the Rokkaku family is in danger, how long can the Mochizuki family hold on?
Yoshigan sighed, Oda Nobunaga was too powerful and scary.
Compared with her, Asai Nagamasa, who honestly mobilized peasants and soldiers in Kita Omi, causing his retainers to complain about the delay in spring plowing, was just a good boy.
Yiyin thought for a while and asked.
"If there was no Kamao Clan Township, what would you choose?"
Pu Shengxianxiu was stunned, glanced at his daughter next to him, and said in a deep voice.
"I will serve the Rokkaku family faithfully and fight to the end.
The Wu family was rewarded by the public, and I have been an official for many years and have been the governor of the family for three generations. Even though Rokkaku Yoshino Yoshiharu and his mother and daughter treated me harshly, I cannot but think of the kindness of His Highness Rokkaku Tairai."
Yiyin said in surprise.
"Do you want to die for the Rokkaku family?"
Pu Shengxianxiu shook his head and said.
"No, I just want to fulfill my duty as a minister. After I have fulfilled my duty, I will then consider the continuation of the family business."
Xian Xiu spoke in a reserved way, but Yi Yin rolled her eyes secretly in her heart. It turned out that she wanted to establish her own value before defecting to the new owner, so as not to be looked down upon by others.
Kenhide Hamo chose to resist stubbornly, and finally surrendered after being defeated. She spent her own strength to be loyal to the Rokkaku family, so that the new owner could clearly see her ability, so that she could continue to make a living in the future.
This old fox... Yiyin couldn't help but sigh, as expected, none of the martial arts families that can succeed these days are easy.
Sibo Yiyin said calmly.
"In that case, then continue with your original idea. The Shiba family will not intervene in the Minami Omi dispute. My goal is the Miyoshi family in Kyoto.
The Kamo clan has Shiba retainers, but the Kamo family can make their own choices. Whatever choice is beneficial to you, do it.
For the sake of the Kamao clan, I will not interfere."
After much thought, Yoshihiro was still unwilling to get involved in Minami Omi's dispute.
The Rokkaku family is definitely going to be ruined. The idiot Yoshiharu Rokkaku actually chooses to join forces with the Miyoshi trio. She has completely broken with Yoshigan politically, and it is impossible to help her.
The three good people are the direct murderers of the general. Others may get away with it. Yiyin must not let these three people go.
Judging from Kenhide Kamao's analysis, after the demise of the Rokkaku family, the Oda family will definitely take over most of the Minami Omi samurai family and land, and Asai Nagamasa will not be able to compete with Oda Nobunaga.
From Yoshigan Shiba's point of view, although he does not want to see Oda Nobunaga become bigger, he does not want to directly confront her.
The reason is very simple, you can't beat it.
In recent years, the Shiba family only had a territory of 200,000 koku, while the Oda family had a territory of 1.4 million koku. Ever since Oda Nobunaga captured Kitai Ise, the Shiba family's territory has been adjacent to the Oda family.
How do you get 1.4 million stones from 200,000 stones?
Moreover, Yoshigami has been away from Konjisbo Territory for too long, and the responsibilities within the retainers group are not clear, and there are many hidden dangers. There are a lot of sequelae that need to be sorted out, and he has no confidence to confront the Oda family.
As for uniting with others to form an anti-Oda Nobunaga encirclement, it is even more impossible. Asai Nagamasa is her younger brother and sister, and Yoshihiro is not sure about Ashikaga Yoshiaki's attitude.
Once the invasion of Luo is successful, the Oda family's presence in Higashi Konji will be very strong.
Unless Oda Nobunaga is too arrogant and offends Asai Nagamasa and Ashikaga Yoshiaki to death, there is really nothing Yoshigan can do about her.
Therefore, even though Yoshigan was opposed to Oda Nobunaga's expansion in his heart, he still had to smile and play happily with her.
This is politics. You will never fall out before you have no money to do so. Patience is the basic skill of political struggle.
In this case, Yoshihiro could only express regret for Kamao Kenhide's intention to surrender. He did not want to conflict with Oda Nobunaga, so he had to avoid risks in advance.
Kenhide Kamao said that if the northern and southern Omi samurai families disagreed, most of them would defect to the Oda family. But Yoshigan knew very well the virtues of those xenophobic old samurai families in Owari.
He was burying nails for Oda Nobunaga. The Oda family became more and more prosperous, but the samurai family under Oda Nobunaga became more and more complicated.
Senior Owari, Mino's underachiever, Kitai Ise's subordinates, plus a group of newly surrendered Minami Omi samurai.
If Oda Nobunaga cannot straighten out the relationship between these people, the development of the Oda family will come to an end.
After a hundred years of troubled times, heroes have emerged in large numbers.
It is not uncommon for a million-koku name to emerge from the sky, but once it grows to more than a million koku, it often begins to fail.
For example, the Imagawa family could only control the two countries of Suruga and Toe, while the Tokugawa family of Mikawa Kingdom rebelled at the first opportunity. Another example is the Miyoshi and the four sisters, who relied on the samurai families of Awa and Sanuki to conquer all directions.
No matter how large the territory is, the most reliable Wu family is still the direct lineage retainers from the beginning. The new retainers are unreliable, and the family governor cannot believe them.
When the Ming Dynasty passes away, the successors are unable to control the situation, and there are many daimyo whose businesses collapse in an instant. Those who can shrink back to their basic base and not perish are already lucky.
This is the biggest disadvantage of enfeoffment. Outsiders are unreliable, and there are too few of our own people. The traditional ruling method of the Wu family cannot digest the new territory at all, and can only rely on the enfeoffment of the Wu family to assimilate the local area.
But after the expatriate warriors stayed in the local area for a long time, they spread out and became local people and represented the interests of the local people, they became restless again.
The Kamakura shogunate and the Muromachi shogunate's samurai tenka are the nominal co-lords of the world.
Especially for the Muromachi shogunate, the Ashikaga shoguns of all dynasties have always played a balancing act by pulling together one faction and fighting another. As for the strength to suppress the world? That's really not the case.
Not to mention controlling the sixty-six countries in the world, the Ashikaga shoguns did not have control over the nearest few countries for more than three generations. The first to rebel among the ten kingdoms of Kanto was the Kamakura Ashikaga family, the shogun's own clan.
Yoshihiro wanted to see how Oda Nobunaga, who had great ambitions for the world, could solve the stubborn problems of the samurai family, unite her increasingly complex group of retainers, move forward with a heavy load, and realize her dream of becoming a world leader.
If she can't do it, she will be the next Sanhao Changqing, so there is nothing to worry about. If she does it, Yiyin doesn't know what to do.
If you can't beat him, do you want to fight again?
He couldn't help but swallow as he thought of Oda Nobunaga's increasingly sexy figure after not seeing him for three years.
If things are not harmonious, it is not impossible to sacrifice a little for the Sibo family business.
As long as Oda Nobunaga doesn't go too far, Yoshigami will bear with it for now. Anyway, with her arrogant temper, she will sooner or later offend all the samurai families in the world.
If you endure until then, there will always be a turning point, right?
Pu Shengxianxiu heard Yiyin's polite refusal and felt a little disappointed in his heart.
To be continued...