Satake Yoshige is a talent, and Yoshigan feels that it cannot be wasted, so he chooses Northern Yushu for Satake Yishige, just to let her work as a helper for Tozawa Moriyasu.
After sleeping with Yoshiun, Tozawa Moriyasu returned to Senboku County in the north of Yushu in high spirits and prepared to attack Minato City to complete the agreement with Yoshigan.
Yiyin valued Tozawa Moriyasu's ability, but the geographical location of Tozawa's home was really a bit disadvantageous.
Senboku County of Dewa Province, where the Tozawa family is located, is a passage between Ou and Ou countries in the north.
The terrain of northern Ou is similar to the Koshishin Mountains, which is also mountainous. The core of the samurai's campaign is the few seaside plains and mountain basins between the mountains.
Plains and basins represent cultivated land, which is especially valuable in the cold Ou region.
The Ou area is vast, divided into Dewa Province and Mutsu Province, also known as Yushu Oshu. It has an extremely vast area and continuous mountains.
About one-fifth of the land of the sixty-six countries in the world is in the Ou area, but because the frozen soil in the north is difficult to develop, the stone height is only about 2.6 million stone.
A series of basins and the Sendai Plain in southern Ou occupy most of the cultivated land in the Ou area. Northern Ou is even more bitter and cold, and the largest samurai daimyo in the southern part only has 150,000 koku.
Therefore, Yoshigami shouted out 400,000 koku to Satake Yishige, which was an imaginary number. The entire northern Yushu may not have 400,000 koku in total. It was just a family threshold.
But Satake Yishige cannot ignore it. The land may be empty, but the reputation has other uses.
The saint personally promised 400,000 dan. Even if the Satake family in northern Yushu does not have 400,000 dan in the future, all the samurai families must treat the Satake family with the honor of 400,000 dan.
Territory is territory, etiquette is etiquette, 400,000 dan is converted into 400,000 dan, and the family status is not lost is the best result that Satake Yoshito can get now.
Let’s not mention Satake Yoshige for the moment, let’s talk about Tozawa Moriyasu’s dilemma.
The Mahiru Mountains separate the Kitakami Basin in Oshu and the Yokote Basin in Yushu.
There is a lake in the northern mountainous area of the Mahiru Mountain Range, named Lake Amasawa. The terrain of this generation is gentle, and it has become a communication channel between the northern parts of Ou and Ou.
Senhoku County in Dewa Province, where the Tozawa family is located, is located in the area around Lake Amasawa in the north of the Yokote Basin. It has great strategic value and can be said to be an important bridge town guarding the exchanges between the northern parts of Ou and Ou states.
Tozawa Moriyasu faced a lot of troubles.
Senboku County is inland and has no port, so the tacit agreement reached between Yiyin and Tozawa Mori'an is that Tozawa Mori'an will first open up Minato City, and then Yiyin will recognize the strength of the Tozawa family and provide support.
And only by capturing Minato Castle can the Tozawa family be connected to the shipping line of the Hokuriku Road trade route, and can they receive economic support from the sea from the Shiba family.
Tozawa Moriyasu needed to send troops from the Yokote Basin, march westward along the Omonogawa River, open up the Akita Plain, and reach Minato Castle on the seaside.
The Anton family that controls Minato City is the strongest samurai family name in northern Yushu, echoing the Nanbu family in northern Oshu.
Tozawa Mori'an was caught between the two major forces, and his life was not easy.
The southerners coveted Senhoku County, and several times they wanted to open up the Yokote Basin in northern Yushu from the Kitakami Basin in northern Oshu. This was the hidden danger behind Tozawa Mori'an.
And the Anton family is the life and death enemy of Tozawa Mori'an.
The Anton family was once divided, but was later integrated by a generation of British lords. It consists of two branches: Minato Anton in the Akita Plain and Hiyama Anton in the Noshiro Plain.
The revival of the Tozawa family is the process of Tozawa Moriyasu continuously defeating the Anton family's strategy of Dewa Hokutosei and maintaining the independence of the Senhoku region.
The Minato Castle that Tozawa Moriyasu now wants to capture belongs to the Minato Anton lineage, and is actually Tsuchizaki Minato Castle.
The Andong family is a wealthy family in northern Yuzhou.
Hiyama Anton built Noshiro Minato on the Noshiro plain to the north, at the mouth of the Yonero River.
Minato Anton built Tsuchizaki Minato at the mouth of the Omonogawa River in the autumn plains in the south.
In the territory operated by the Anton family, agricultural products such as Akita cedar, Ani gold mines, and rice and beans flow down the river and are transported by water and sea to gather at the port.
Tsuchizaki Minato is the largest port in northern Yushu. The goods departing from here will go to Kinki for trade, earning a lot of money for the Anton family.
Tsuchizaki Minato Castle is the core base of the Anton family's foreign trade. If Tozawa Moriyasu wants to capture this place, the Anton family must fight her tooth and nail.
In the southern part of Xianbei County, Yuli County and Xiongsheng County are not at peace either.
The samurai belief in Yuri County is somewhat similar to the mountain belief in the Koshin Mountains worshiped by the Shino clan, where Sanada Nobushige was born.
Chokai Mountain in Yuli County has a unique local belief in Medicine Buddha. The ancestors of the local martial arts cast statues of twelve generals to protect Medicine Buddha.
Yuri County is on the seaside, and locals can see Chokai Mountain when they look up. The close connection between Yakushi Tathagata and the Twelve Divine Generals has extended the concept of Yuri Twelve Heads, which represents the local samurai group.
The Onodera family of Katsuo County is a powerful daimyo that spans the three Senhoku counties and attempts to unify the Senyu area, which is the Yokote Basin.
Mount Chokai lies between Shonai and Yuri, and has captured the Mogami clan in the Shonai area. Its troops have already crossed Mount Chokai and entered Yuri County, Xiongsheng County.
The martial arts families of the two counties are currently busy dealing with the pressure from the Mogami family and will not cause trouble to Tozawa Mori'an for the time being, but no matter who has the upper hand in the future, they will cause trouble to Tozawa Mori'an.
Whoever allowed the Tozawa family to occupy the northern transportation thoroughfare, whether it was from east to west or from south to north, the Tozawa family in Senboku County was the stone blocking the road in the eyes of others and must be kicked away.
And behind the Mogami family, Honjo Nobunaga, under the command of Yamanaka Yukimori, is coveting the Shonai area of the Mogami family.
Sakada Minato in the Shonai area is a maritime commercial trade network connecting Tsuchizaki Minato. Even if Tozawa Moriyasu captured Minato Castle and opened Tsuchizaki Minato, the relationship between enemies and friends in the Shonai area would still have to be considered.
Yoshihiro is willing to let the Shiba family's trade network tilt towards Tozawa Mori'an and help her with blood transfusions, but she must also be able to control the local power herself, and cannot be choked by others and rely on others.
The situation in northern Yushu is so complicated, which made Yiyin sigh after learning the relevant information.
It is really not easy for Tozawa Moriyasu. Under such difficult circumstances, she can still rely on her own efforts to revive the family business. She is indeed a fierce woman.
It was only because he understood the situation in northern Yushu and further confirmed Tozawa Moriyasu's personal abilities that Yoshigan thought of asking Satake Yishige to help.
The Satake family could not stay in Kanbazhou any longer. Satake Yoshie had violated the interests of too many people, so they had no choice but to find another place to start their family business.
Yiyin transferred the Satake family to the northern part of Yuzhou, which is of the same feudal nature as the Western Zhou Dynasty's feudalism of pointing out locations for nobles on the map.
A feudal person is someone who establishes a feudal land and establishes a state. Bring your people and weapons and conquer that place. That is your territory.
Yoshigan had previously told Yoshigege Satake that the Kanto Sheriff's Office could discuss the crimes of the Oriental People slowly, and first do a good job in the Kanto Prosecutor's Office's counterpart assistance work.
Sooner or later, the Satake family will leave Hitachi Country and go to northern Yushu.
But as long as there are a few years for Satake Yoshitaka to prepare food and fodder, ascertain intelligence, and lead the core group of retainers and people to explore northward, the probability of success will be very high.
Yoshigan's idea is to place Satake Yoshige in the area of Yuri County and Yusheng County to form a southern barrier for Tozawa Mori'an.
Then, by taking advantage of the Satake family's status as the same clan as the Nanbu family, he used Tozawa Moriyasu's diplomatic support to stabilize the Nanbu family.
After all, Tozawa Moriyasu's actions in northern Yushu were based on the instructions of the saint. As long as Satake Yishige is willing to do his best, the Nanbu family may not be willing to offend the saint Yoshigan.
As long as Tozawa Moriyasu can capture Minato Tsuchizaki and suppress the Anton family, and as long as Satake Yoshige establishes a foothold in the area, the situation in the Ou region will be completely different.
The Tozawa family and the Satake family are in the north, but what about the south? Kaji Keizuna, under the command of Yamanaka Yukimori, is encroaching on the Aizu area, and Honshu Shige is coveting the Shonai area.
The spheres of influence of the Mogami family and the Date family are gradually shrinking, and Yoshigan's influence in the Ou area is gradually expanding.
In the farming era, the frozen soil in the north was difficult to develop, and Yoshigan did not have much interest in Ou's land, but he had to make the samurai in the Ou area bow to him.
Today, the land of Kanto is falling into the control of Yiyin.
The territories along the Hokuriku Road have always been close to Yoshigan because of the existence of the Hokuriku Road trade route.
The Tokaido will soon reopen as a trade route, and the Shiba family's influence will rapidly increase.
Located in the Koshin Mountains in the center of the Honshu Island Mountains, the Takeda family has completely turned to the Shiba family.
The integration of Guanbazhou is also in progress. Although there are many troubles, the future is bright.
Now, even in the farthest Ou region, Yiyin has begun to have spare capacity to deploy.
The Kanto samurai family has entered a new era in which they do not know the Ashikaga generals and only know Shiba sage. The entire Kanto is adapting to the Shiba family's new system step by step.
Once everything is on track, Kanto will truly become Yiyin's rear area and become his greatest confidence in unifying the world.