Ashikaga Yoshiki, with a livid face, looked at Yusa Shinji, who had arrived overnight, and when he saw her kowtow and cry bitterly, he begged.
"I also ask the Lord Gongfang to make decisions for my Yuzuo family and for my loyal and brave mother."
The Yusa family has followed the Hatakeyama family for nearly two hundred years, and is considered a famous samurai family in the shogunate. Now that the family governor died in the army for no apparent reason, Ashikaga Yoshiteru is angry.
It can be said that Hatakeyama Takamasa was too inexperienced in life. Yusa Chokyo was loyal to her and made great contributions to the Hatakeyama family's stabilization of the Hanoi state.
Not only did she not win over him with rewards, but she became jealous and was despised by all the martial arts masters.
The foundation of the samurai society is to serve the public and reward them with kindness. If the Yusa family serves the public with all their heart, the Hatakeyama family should reward them.
This is not a matter of strength ebbing and flowing, but a contract between the upper and lower martial arts families.
Now that Yusa Chokyo is dead, her daughter came to the army to meet the general and cried out that Hatakeyama Takamasa assassinated Yusa Chokyo, which shocked Ashikaga Yoshiteru's face.
When the shogunate army fought in Hanoi, the assistance of local samurai was very important. Not to mention other things, the number of peasant soldiers who provided transportation and supplies was huge.
Mihaoshi Changqing's invasion of Hanoi this time brought half of the Mihaoshi family's invading army in recent years.
In order to counteract Ashikaga Yoshiteru, the shogunate army also gathered the allied forces of the Yamashiro Shogunate, the Minami Omi Rokkaku family, the Kita Omi Asai family, and the Kawachi Hatakeyama family.
During this battle, Miyoshi Chokei's supplies were gathered at Sakai Port and transported by merchants' logistics. Ashikaga Yoshiteru's supplies were concentrated in mountain towns and transported by peasants and soldiers.
Among them, the Kawachi Hatakeyama family was a local samurai family, which provided a large number of peasants and soldiers to provide support for logistics and transportation.
If Hatakeyama Takamasa really assassinated Yusa Chokyo at this time, then Ashikaga Yoshiteru can only say, I am a fool!
The Yusa family has helped the Hatakeyama family to stabilize Hanoi over the years. From another perspective, it means they have gained real power in the country.
Now that the family governor has died inexplicably, once he rebels in anger and the logistics collapse, the morale of the shogunate in Hanoi will be shaken.
Ashikaga Yoshiki asked calmly.
"You said that Hatakeyama Takamasa assassinated Yusa Chokyo, is there any evidence?"
Yuzuo Xinjiao wiped away his tears and answered.
"I have brought my mother's body, and I would like to ask the general to take a look."
Ashikaga Yoshiki was also a samurai who went into battle to kill the enemy, so naturally he was not afraid of seeing dead people, so he asked Kagami Hatamoto to bring the body in.
"My lord, please see, my mother was shot to death by five iron cannons at close range, and the wounds were all on her back!
My mother came out of the camp to watch the enemy's formation. She rode a fast horse and didn't go far.
May I ask the general, was it possible that my mother was hit to death by five iron cannon samurai from the Miyoshi family while she was galloping?"
Ashikaga Yoshiteru felt furious, Hatakeyama Takamasa, you bastard!
How dare you take advantage of the war to assassinate Yusa Chosuke! Do you really believe that your bloodline is noble, and I, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, dare not kill you?
"Where is your mother's approach flag?"
"I captured them all. They have confessed that they were bribed by Hatakeyama Taomasa a few years ago to lurk around my mother as spies.
During the recent war, they were ordered to take advantage of the chaos and kill my mother..."
As he said this, You Zuo Xinjiao choked with sobs and burst into tears.
"This is their confession, please read it carefully."
Ashikaga Yoshiki took the confession and asked while reading it.
"Where are they?"
"He was decapitated by me and his body was thrown into the wilderness to feed the dogs."
"Kill well! This is how a traitor to the Lord should be treated!"
Ashikaga Yoshiki walked around for a few steps and said.
"You go down first, don't alert the enemy, I have my own opinion."
"Thank you, Mr. Gongfang."
Yuzuo Xinjiao kowtowed in gratitude, and then walked out. He endured it until he was in his own army, and then he couldn't restrain his lips and showed a smile.
Since ancient times, there has always been a reason for rebellion. After all, the Yusa family has been with the Hatakeyama family for nearly two hundred years.
Without a sufficient reason, betraying the master's family will be despised by all martial arts families.
Working under the Hatakeyama family for many years is the capital of the Yusa family's strength, and it is also the shackles for leaving the master's family.
Hatakeyama is arrogant and unprincipled, is it really just because of stupid loyalty that Yusa Chosuke helplessly wipes her butt?
No, it's because the Yusa family has been following him for too long and has become too entangled with the Hatakeyama family.
Not to mention other things, the position of the guardian of Kawachi and the status of the family in the shogunate samurai family have nothing to do with the Hatakeyama family.
After leaving the Hatakeyama family, the Yusa family is like a tree without roots, a helpless orphan of the samurai family.
This is the truth about Yuzuo Changjiao’s loyalty.
The Yusa family has received too many benefits from following the Hatakeyama family. If you want to seize these benefits, you must continue to be loyal. This is a contract and a transaction.
However, her daughter You Zuo believes in religion but has a different view.
Externally, the decline of the Ashikaga shogunate is becoming more and more obvious, and anyone with a discerning eye can see that the shogunate will collapse sooner or later.
The troubled times are coming, the most important thing is to jump off the shogunate ship, which is doomed to sink, and take a few more things before jumping off the ship, so that they can be used to stabilize the position when boarding a new ship.
Today, the Hatakeyama family is left with only Hanoi, and the real power in the country is controlled by the Yusa family and the Yasumi family respectively. The Yusa family is confident of controlling the southern half of Hanoi and is waiting for a price.
Internally, Yusa Chojiao's use of his own strength to suppress the country and help the Hatakeyama family rule has hurt the fundamental interests of the Yusa family's retainers.
If we cannot break away from the Hatakeyama family in time to stop losses, then today's Hatakeyama family will be tomorrow's Yusa family.
It is a sign that a retainer under his command goes beyond the governor to express his dissatisfaction to the young master.
Yuzuo Xinjiang must make a choice, either to abandon his stubborn old mother, or to suppress the Yuzuo family retainers and force them to accept the reality that their interests are harmed.
Inside the Ashikaga Yoshiteru main camp shogunate.
After You Zuo Xinjiao left, a man appeared from behind the scenes, knelt down and saluted.
Ashikaga Yoshiki asked with a frown.
"What's going on?"
The man raised his head, and it was none other than Daimoku Yagyu Sogan.
The main force in this battle is the coalition forces of various factions. Ashikaga Yoshiteru needs to know the movements of each faction and cannot be blind and deaf.
Then the Omatsu, who monitors the daimyo of the Ashikaga family, will naturally go out to investigate.
Yagyu Soyan answered respectfully.
"Youzuo Changjiao went out of the camp to observe the formation. He took five members of the Youzuo family with him to approach the flag base. The six of them quickly left the camp and did not go far. They just watched from a nearby hilltop.
Then there was the roar of iron cannons, and Yusa Chojiao's Hatamoto brought her body back."
Ashikaga Yoshiteru said dissatisfied.
"That's it? Nothing else?"
Yagyu Soyan was also helpless.
The power of the shogunate was not as strong as it used to be, and even the daimufu, which had made various daimyo tremble in the past, also declined.
Nowadays, the Omatosuke headed by her is no longer able to monitor the inside stories of each company. They do the same thing as the ninjas, and some people may not do it well.
After all, the professions are not the same, and the secret police are not intelligence personnel after all. There is a difference between hunting for treason and gathering intelligence.
But when the general asked, of course he couldn't keep track of everything. Otherwise, her position would not be guaranteed, and there would be many people watching her position from behind.
She needs to show her abilities, not just her sword skills.
"Then a strange thing happened. Yuzuo became a believer in Yuzuo's army, and the five bannermen died.
Although Yuzuo Xinjiao claimed to the outside world that they were bribed and died at the head of an owl.
But there is also secret news that the five people have wounds on their abdomens, and it seems that they committed seppuku."
Ashikaga Yoshiki looked at her suddenly, his eyes condensed.
"Then it's not the owl leader, but Jie Cuo?"
"The general is wise."
The difference between Xiaoshou and Jiecuo is huge.
The Wu family's killing is a cruel way of killing, in order to frighten the enemy, while Jiezong is a follow-up attack to commit seppuku.
To put it simply, seppuku is a ritual in which one performs a knife on the stomach, which is extremely painful.
At this time, you need to find a person with strong swordsmanship to be the person who commits seppuku, called the person who commits seppuku.
The purpose of Jiezhu is to reduce the pain of the person who commits seppuku. After she commits seppuku, she will be decapitated quickly to avoid suffering.
If those five flags really died from seppuku, Yuzuo’s belief in religion is a lie!
Seppuku is a ritual among Hime samurai, used to die with dignity and to assume responsibility with dignity.
If those flags committed seppuku, that is to say, they did the right thing in the wrong way.
In other words, they did nothing wrong in killing Yusa Chosuke. They were not Hatakeyama Takamasa's secret accomplices! The Yusa family is going to rebel!