Chapter seven hundred and seventy seventh Takeda family gambling
Takeda Harunobu glanced at his bulging belly.
The prestige that had already declined, and because she insisted on keeping the child, only increased the doubts of the retainers. She knew in her heart that the attack on Suruga Kingdom was urgent.
Echigo can first go to Echigo to eliminate worries, while Matsudaira Motoyasu can digest new ideas in Mikawa and slowly wait for the opportunity. Only he can not delay any longer.
She must use a vivid victory and a complete conquest to dispel the doubts of the retainers and stabilize her position.
At this moment, someone knocked on the sliding door outside, and Takeda Harunobu asked.
"What's up!"
The sliding door opened on the left and right, and an envoy hurriedly walked in, kowtowed to the ground and said to the Lord.
"Your Highness, His Majesty the Imagawa clan has officially sent someone to inform my family. From today on, the Imagawa family will no longer sell salt to my family."
As soon as this statement came out, the whole place was in an uproar.
The strategy of stopping salt was the most provocative act of hostility by the coastal warriors against the warriors of the two countries.
Because salt is not produced in the Koshin Mountains, the coarse salt necessary for daily life must be purchased from outside the mountains. The first goodwill clause finalized by Yiyin in the Kawanaka Island discussion was to send salt.
But Imagawa Shima didn't seem to know about this. Faced with the aggressive aggressive attitude of the Takeda family, she resolutely came up with a strategy to stop the salt, intending to frighten the Takeda family's strategy.
"idiot."
Takeda Harunobu spit out these two words.
The Takeda retainers were still hesitant at first, but because of the Imagawa family's true salt-control strategy, they were completely angered.
The insecurity of lack of salt has always been on the minds of the Jiashin Wu family, and the strategy to stop salt is a threat that they will never tolerate.
This strategy can only be used to scare people verbally. If you really play this card to get things done, you will end up at the disadvantage.
Not to mention that the Takeda family already had a supply of Echigo salt, even if the Takeda family really had no salt to buy, the reserve would be enough for a while.
Not only will this strategy not help the Imagawa family to really intimidate the Takeda family, but it will actually stimulate the Takeda family's desire to conquer Suruga Country and seize the seaside salt fields.
Takeda Harunobu shook his head, guessing that Hojo Ujiyasu knew about this and had the heart to kill Imagawa Ujima, his naive daughter-in-law.
With Imagawa's true help, Takeda Harunobu finally no longer has to worry about how to encourage the Takeda retainers to fight.
She laughed.
"Imagawa-san, does she really regard my Takeda family as a wild dog wagging its tail begging for mercy?
My Takeda family is never threatened. If she refuses to give it to me, then I will reach out and get it myself!
After the spring plowing, mobilize all the families to go out to Suruga Kingdom and capture Omiya Castle. I want to go to Suruga Castle in person to ask for an explanation from the Imagawa clan!"
"Hi!"
The Takeda princesses were as powerful as a rainbow, and Takeda Harunobu sat on the main seat, seemingly full of ambition, but knowing in his heart that this was a huge gamble that could not be turned back.
After the spring plowing, Hojo Ujiyasu will soon detect the whereabouts of Echigo's army. At that time, she will no longer hesitate and will definitely send troops to rescue Imagawa Uzuma.
If Takeda Harunobu wants to successfully take over Suruga Country, he can only use the period after spring plowing when the Hojo family is investigating Echigo's movements to completely defeat the Imagawa family's military power in Suruga Country.
This is not a goal that can be achieved by relying on force. Takeda Harunobu dares to go to war because he is betting on the Suruga people who are really unable to control the Imagawa family and are secretly colluding with the Takeda family and have different aspirations.
As long as they are willing to rebel, they will agree to any conditions first.
As the Imagawa family's stupid move revealed the truth, Takeda Harunobu, on the grounds that the Imagawa family was the only enemy of salt, brazenly tore up the alliance between the Takeda, Imagawa, and Hojo families, and officially launched the Suruga invasion.
Hojo Uyasu who was in Odawara Castle in Sagami Province learned about the salt ban. He beat his chest and scolded Imagawa for his mistake.
But it was too late by this time. The Takeda family tore through the last layer of window paper between the three families, used the salt ban to get rid of moral condemnation, and officially became hostile to the Imagawa family.
In order to fight against the ambitious Takeda Harunobu, Hojo Ujiyasu sided with his daughter-in-law Imagawa Uzuma, and also adopted the salt-control strategy against the Takeda family, creating a situation where the two families joined forces to fight against the Takeda family.
Matsudaira Motoyasu, who was far away in the Mikawa Kingdom, began to contact the three people from the Nishi Ene Kingdom at a fast pace. Just waiting for the Suruga Kingdom to start the war, he took advantage of the fact that the Imagawa clan had no time to look west, and invaded the Toe Kingdom in one fell swoop.
At this point, Tokaido was in chaos.
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The news of the chaos on the Tokaido Road has not yet spread, but the new logistics policy of Sakai Port Takada Yono in recent years is still being scorned and ridiculed by the merchant townspeople.
Sakai Port, the headquarters of the Shinsengumi.
Takada Yono tapped the papers, and there were two recently arrived letters on the table.
Sitting down, Imai Munehisa said worriedly.
"Sir, our tough attitude has angered many caravans, and many would rather give up subsidies than withdraw from the Hokuriku Route.
I have calculated that we have lost about 15% of our share these days, and it is still falling, and in the end we may not even be able to keep 30%."
Imai Soku looked helplessly at Takada Yono who was distracted and thinking about his own thoughts.
In business, the emphasis is on being friendly and making money. If you give me face today, I will help you build a ladder next time.
But what Takada Yono did this time was too arrogant. Many caravans were secretly entangled and divided into Hokuriku Road and Tokaido, also out of the consideration of sharing risks.
As soon as Takada Yono announced his new measures for the Hokuriku Road trade route, he was pushing various caravans towards Tokaido.
Not only did the hesitant caravan decisively withdraw, but many of its business partners who couldn't bear to face it because of their kinship also followed.
What Imai Munehisa is worried about now is that if Shiba Yiyin's judgment is wrong and there are no problems with the Tokaido, she may not even be able to keep her share of 30% of the cargo from Sakai Port last year.
She planned the Hokuriku Road trade route by herself and worked hard for more than a year. She worked hard to do this so that her family could have the confidence to earn a living in the Shiba family for a long time.
The Imai house has become the Imai family, and they abandoned business and rose from the military class to become a samurai family. Of course she does not want the family fortune to fall and go back to being a lowly businessman.
If the Hokuriku Dou trade route was ruined because of Takada Haruno's misjudgment, Imai Munehisa would not be able to cry.
The Takada family is the only remaining descendant of the Shiba family, and Takada Yo is a close confidant of Yoshihiro Shiba. She still has a way to survive if she does something wrong, and Imai Munehisa will most likely take the blame for her, so how can we not panic.
Takada Yono didn't know that Imai Sohisa was struggling with these things. Her morbid attachment to Shiba Yoshigan made her never doubt the correctness of her master.
The Lord said that the East China Sea Road was going to be in chaos, so it was bound to be chaos. In this case, those caravans retreated as soon as they retreated, and one day they would kneel down and beg to come back.
Merchants’ face? Oh, when the war on the Tokaido Road blocks the trade routes, goods pile up, and there are problems with capital turnover, will they watch themselves go bankrupt?
In troubled times, there is no chance of a comeback. It is normal for the whole family to turn to ashes. In order to survive, these businessmen will definitely come back and kneel down to Takada Yono for a way out.