Chapter 1726 Without the Saint, there would be no New Guandong
Yiyin stayed in Xiaojincheng for two days, and waited until Dao Shengmeng's pregnancy stabilized before heading north, taking various troops with him, and returned to Ancient River City.
The war ceased, but the troops mobilized by the Hojo family were not in vain.
The saint personally promised that the Hojo family would maintain the order of the Minamisou clan. Hojo Genan immediately tore off his friendly face and remotely controlled the core elites of the Hojo clan to station in the territories of the Minamisou clans such as Chiba Takajo.
The Chiba family always had a good time in Nanxia, and the good days of eating Hojo and Satomi had come to an end.
Taking advantage of the chaos of the war to reshuffle the cards, Hojo's army quickly occupied key locations in the Nanxia General Headquarters and fully implemented the privileges granted by the saint.
During this period, Satake Yoshige finally persuaded the Eastern Princesses of the Northern Front to go to Furukawa Castle together to apologize.
Sasuke, Utsunomiya, Edo, Oyama and other thirteen daimyo of Hitachi Province, Shimono Province, and seventy-two small and medium-sized powerful samurai families of the two countries as assistants, left the coalition's main formation and came to the imperial court alone to surrender.
The concubines on the southern line of the Oriental Army were frightened when they heard the news. They saw that Yoshiyao ignored the Hojo family's occupation of Xiaogong Castle and moved southward aggressively, so they hurriedly contacted all the families on the southern line.
Satomi Yoshiyao was angry that Satake Yoshige was so shameless that he knelt down before him, which made it impossible for him to kneel down even if he wanted to look good.
The Hojo family's troops are at their backs, but more importantly, the bastards on the northern front cannot be allowed to monopolize the opportunity to surrender. This will increase the culpability of the families on the southern front.
Although all the families on the southern front have already expressed their righteousness in front of the battle, everyone is worried in their hearts. They don't know if the saint was just expedient at the time, and whether he will do something about it in the future, or whether he will settle accounts in the future.
Satoshi Yoshiyao informed each family on the southern line of their strengths and weaknesses, and each family accepted her plan and headed north to the ancient river city to surrender.
Headed by Satomi Yoshiyao, twenty-eight house governors and castle lords including Masaki, Toki, Sakai, Maratani, and Minami Takeda, all went to the front of Furukawa alone and bowed their heads in submission to the saint.
At this point, the massive rebellion in the East was completely put down.
Yiyin temporarily summoned the rebel army, and it took only more than twenty days to defeat the 32,000 troops of the Northern and Southern Allied Forces of the East. Hundreds of families from the four Eastern countries knelt outside Furukawa City and begged for surrender, which aroused the horror of countless warriors.
The majesty of the saint once again shocked the land of Guandong.
Every family in the Kanto region sent envoys to show their respect. Even the remote and barbaric land at the northern end of Ou, the southern family, and the Anton family also wanted to send people to pay tribute.
At this time, the most embarrassing thing was the Kamakura Ashikaga family of Furukawa Castle.
The political status of the Kanto general Ashikaga Yoshiji is in jeopardy. The Kanto samurai family has developed to the point where they only know saints but not generals. She can hardly keep her qualifications as a puppet.
As the actual controller of the Furukawa Territory, Harusuke Kada is even more miserable.
The saint directly took away Guansu City, the base that her family had run for many years. He didn't even bother to say hello, but she didn't even dare to show her anger.
At this time, the inside and outside of Furukawa City had been taken over by the saints. Tens of thousands of rebels had gathered, and elite warriors from various Kantō shrines also arrived on horseback.
Let alone taking away a Sekisu Castle, the saint had to take away Harusuke Kada's head, and she had to offer it up obediently.
Otherwise, being implicated in the rebellion would be enough to kill her whole family and turn her family name and property into ashes.
The war is over, but there are more troubles.
As the horse teams of Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin arrived at Furukawa Castle, the two women had a conversation with the saint, and something unpleasant seemed to have happened.
The saint directly ordered that all the family governors of the Dongfang family who had pleaded guilty outside Furukawa City should be taken back, the army should be disbanded, production should be resumed, and they would await punishment. This was a strong statement of their attitude towards safeguarding the east.
The conflict between the eastern and western parts of the Guanba Prefecture was not resolved through this war. It was just the accumulated anger of the four eastern countries that was forcibly extinguished by Yi Bank.
If the Kanto Palace of the Western Eight Prefectures is dominated by samurai families, we can continue to bully the samurai families of the four eastern countries and act recklessly.
So even if the chief culprits like Satake Yoshige are killed, the four eastern countries can still elect new representatives to fight the Kanto Palace to the bitter end.
This is like the political situation of the Tang Dynasty before the Anshi Rebellion. Because Guanzhong squeezed and exploited Hebei, Hebei people accumulated too much anger.
An Lushan raised an army, and the people of Hebei supported him, which was overwhelming. After An Lushan died, the people of Hebei could still support others and continue to fight the imperial court until death.
The outcome of the war may determine the final outcome, but if the political balance is not done well, the price paid will be very heavy.
Due to the consumption of the Anshi Rebellion, the Tang Dynasty directly dispersed the vitality of the empire in the rising period. From then on, it could only repair and go downhill.
The situation of Yiyin is even worse. He needs a united and complete Guanbazhou, and a Kanto Princess Warriors that reduces internal friction and unites with the outside world.
Because the political cooperation between him and Oda Nobunaga was in a very delicate balance.
Oda Nobunaga has always hoped to conquer Yoshigan, annex Sika, and establish his own world hegemony, Oda Gonggi.
The Oda family now owns the five countries of Owari, Mino, Omi, Ise, and Echizen.
The Noo Plain and the Omi Basin are both large granaries with thousands of miles of fertile land. Ise Bay of Ise Province and Tsuruga Bay of Echizen Province are also the starting points of Kinki for maritime trade on Tokaido and Hokurikudo.
According to Shi Gao's calculations, Oda Nobunaga already had a mobilization power of three million koku. With the addition of trade, minerals and other resources, the mobilization power even exceeded four million koku.
In addition, Oda Nobunaga reformed politics and supported the military with policies such as the concentration of samurai families, the separation of peasants and soldiers, and the entertainment and entertainment venues, which greatly squeezed the potential of the territory.
The Oda family's mobilization force of four million is stronger than the four million koku of the samurai family in the traditional sense, and their combat effectiveness is more fierce.
It was a fluke that Yoshigan defeated Oda Nobunaga last time.
On the one hand, it was a military success. Yoshigan used artillery sneak attacks, sky-changing plug-ins, and the outstanding performance of the Sanada people to barely defeat Oda Nobunaga once on the battlefield.
On the other hand, the economy was strong. Takada Yono used a simple financial system composed of stocks, real estate, and food stamps to successfully raise two million koku of military resources twice in a short period of time to support the war.
Although Yiyin won, he knew best how reluctant he was to win.
The price of military victory was that he had to reward the Kwantung Allied Forces with a large tract of land in the Kwantung region, and tacitly allowed the Kwantung Secret Service to attack the Four Eastern Kingdoms, which was the direct trigger of this rebellion by the Eastern Rebellion.
The price of economic strength is the backlash of the financial system. The potential of the Hokuriku Road trade route has been exhausted, forcing Yiyin to seek to develop new interests in Nanman trade through Lilu's identity as a Nanman.
Yoshigan knew very well that if the current situation continued, if Oda Nobunaga turned against him one day and wanted to have sex with him, it would be difficult for him to defeat her again and force her to sign another alliance under the castle.
Because Yoshigan and Oda Nobunaga had already joined forces, after Oda Nobunaga eliminated his worries, he immediately began to prepare to conquer Settsu Country and Kaga Country, and came up with the idea of Ishiyama Honganji Temple.
Oda Nobunaga is like a greedy glutton who can never be fed and never knows satisfaction.
Her desire for territory and conquest is endless. Every moment, she is either on the way to conquer or preparing to conquer.
Being whipped by this whip called Oda Nobunaga, the poor little Yoshigami can't even try to be lazy, he must work hard.
He needs to integrate the Kanto samurai family and accumulate enough strength so that he will not be overwhelmed by Oda Nobunaga, and he will not be wiped out by Oda Nobunaga.
Yoshigan's ability to suppress Oda Nobunaga in the future lies in the Kanto Plain, which is the land of the eight states under his feet.
In the medieval times, although the island country was a large island geographically, its economy was a thoroughly agricultural economy and agricultural society.
In the final analysis, the strength of the Wu family is based on food production. Whoever can control more plains, produce more food, and raise more people will be awesome!
The land potential of the Sendai Plain could not be fully developed due to the lack of fuel in the Middle Ages and was excluded. The political struggle in the core area of the island country revolved around the three great plains.
One is the Guandong Plain, covering an area of 17,000 square kilometers.
The second, Nongwei Plain, covers an area of 1,800 square kilometers.
The third, the Osaka Plain, is 1,700 square kilometers.
From the data point of view, the Guandong Plain can be said to be unparalleled, leading other plains by a cliff.
Even if the Oda family occupied grain-producing areas such as the Noo Plain, Ise Plain, and Omi Basin, they would not be able to compete with the huge size of the Kanto Plain.
But the Kanto Plain itself also has many problems, which are very troublesome.
First, due to its geographical location in the north, the climate is colder than that of the southern plains, and the yield is slightly lower.
Second, perennial wars have caused serious damage to production facilities, affecting yields per mu.
Third, the Tone River, the mother river, overflowed, causing large areas of plains downstream to turn into reed marshes, losing their farming value.
Among these three points, the two or three that most affect output can be solved.
Yiyin advocated that there be no war in Kanto and stop fighting each other. The Wu Family Yili Promotion Association came forward to engage in charity and low-interest loans to promote water conservancy construction and increase productivity. It has achieved good results.
The stone height of the Guandong Plain should be over 2.5 million stone at this time. As long as we persist in construction, the stone height will definitely exceed 4 million stone, the highest in the world.
Relying on this yield per acre alone, not counting mineral resources and commercial interests, the Kanto Plain is enough to suppress the strength of the Oda family and achieve the hegemony of Yiyin.
Therefore, Yiyin must win Guanbazhou.
However, the integration of the Guanbazhou Territory cannot be resolved by intensifying the conflict between the east and the west, and one party massacring the other. That would be too damaging to one's vitality.
When the land is barren, it takes three years for it to be cultivated again. When a person dies, he needs to be fertilized and grow up, and it takes twelve years of eating, drinking, and diarrhea before he can be of great use.
If a war of annexation of the East and West were to be fought to completely solve the problem, Yoshihiro couldn't afford it, and there was no time for him to do it slowly. Oda Nobunaga was still watching with eager eyes.
Therefore, the integration of Guanbazhou must not be carried out in a drastic way of uprooting.
Yoshigan can allow the Kanto Imperial Household families to acquire land from the four eastern countries. This is his reward promise to the Kanto Allied Forces families who sent troops to Kinki.
But after this rebellion, Yiyin must draw a bottom line for all the families in the Kanto Palace, that is, fight with words rather than force.
The samurai families of the four eastern countries returned to the Kanto Palace. The culpability was discussed slowly and the punishment was gradually imposed. First, the samurai families in the west provided money to aid the famine in the east. They could not create new hatred and wanted peace and love.
But this aid plan for counterpart assistance fell apart as soon as Yoshihiro mentioned it to Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin.
What was originally about plundering and obtaining maximum benefits at the minimum cost has now turned into giving money and coaxing the four Eastern countries to bow their heads. How could the Takeda-Uesugi family accept it?
Uesugi, Takeda, Hojo and other Kanto families were samurai families and not philanthropists. When had they ever done such a loss-making business?
Even Takeda Shingen, who had always supported Yoshigan and followed the saint wholeheartedly, did not dare to let go easily.
Aiding the entire four eastern countries is a bottomless pit, and the benefits are very unclear.
When the people from the East return to the Guandong Palace, can they easily admit guilt, bow their heads and accept punishment, give up their territory, and be willing to help the Western martial arts family?
Even Takeda Shingen felt that the saint's mercy this time was too holy and out of touch with reality. Not to mention that Kenshin Uesugi, who had always been tough, simply refused and made Yoshigage unable to come to Taiwan.
Yiyin didn't dare to give in. Because he was commanding from the front, the rebellion was finally put down without any danger.
But next time, can we still have such good luck?
This strategic plan of oppressing the east by the west, which obviously intensifies the contradictions, must be abolished and a new start is made. This is the bottom line that the Bank of Japan cannot give in to.
The three of them broke up unhappily, and Yoshigan simply asked Satake Yoshige and the others from the East to collect them all and go and do whatever they had to do.
Anyway, they all lost to Yiyin, and Yiyin has the absolute right to dispose of them.
If those greedy ghosts in the Kanto Palace are unwilling to compromise, then they will go and conquer the people of the East again.
The saint's attitude is so clear, and the people in the East feel confident. If the Guandong Palace insists on going its own way, it may not reap good results.
Although Yiyin has always been a hands-off shopkeeper, it respects the decision of the Kanto Imperial Council and allows it to operate on its own.
But anyone with a discerning eye can clearly see that the real credibility of the Kanto Chamber of Commerce actually comes from Yoshihiro, a saint who does nothing.
Once the saint's attitude is clear, even if the Great Council of the Kanto Palace passes the voting process, what will happen?
This is like the veto power of the five good men of the United Nations. The five good men seem to be awesome because of their veto power, but in fact it is the opposite.
In fact, it is because the five good people are powerful enough to prevent you from succeeding, so they deserve the veto power in their hands.
Since he won't get anything done if he doesn't agree, then let's just give him the right to veto, and let everyone vote first, so as not to try and fail again, wasting time, energy and money.
When it comes to Yiyin, he is not the five great benefactors, but the only great benefactor!
If the Kanto Chamber of Commerce really wants to leave Yiyin and go it alone, who can be convinced by each other?
In the end, it is not for you to go back to your Huaguo Mountain, but for me to go back to my Gao Laozhuang. After everyone has finished the dinner, they can pat their butts and go home.
Without the Saint, there would be no New Kanto. This is the consensus of all participants in the Kanto Shisho, and it can even be said to be the only consensus.
Who else but a sage could bring these Kanto warriors, whose interests are entangled and even contradictory, together for a meeting and negotiation?
As Yoshigami and Takeda Shingen, Uesugi Kenshin broke up on bad terms, Satake Yishige and other criminals happily went home, the samurai inside and outside Furukawa Castle were once again caught up in the trade-off between sides.
Struggling forward in this fog, the Kanto Chamber of Commerce does not know where it will go in the end.