Toudo Takatora stepped back gratefully, and Yoshigami turned his attention to the next Ji warrior.
"Otani Yoshitsugi."
"Hi!"
"Since you followed me, you have fulfilled your duties and fought bravely. You have been awarded five thousand stones in Nanyiga."
Otani Yoshitsugi burst into tears and kowtowed to the ground.
At first, she fled in panic and had no choice but to surrender to Sibo Yiyin.
Who would have thought that in less than a year, she would reap such a huge reward.
In Kyoto, Yoshigami sought the favor of Ashikaga Yoshiteru for her, and Otani Village became the shogun's royal palace, dispelling the Rokkaku family's prying eyes on her family's ancestral land.
Now, with the addition of Minami Iga's Five Thousand Stones Tomoyuki, the Otani family has officially entered the ranks of high-level martial arts families.
Nowadays, she must be treated with courtesy by the Liujia family. Most of the domestic servants who regretted the marriage would beat their chests and regret it endlessly.
The territory of Otani Village was stabilized.
Even if the Rokkaku family goes to war with the Shiba family, her family will not touch the general's palace.
If the shogunate and the Rokkaku family were at odds, the Rokkaku family would not dare to touch the territory of the Shiba family's important ministers.
In this way, she can live up to the family business passed down by her ancestors, and build a solid family status for future generations, achieving success and fame.
Otani Yoshitsugi was very grateful to Shiba Yigen.
She was suffering from a strange disease and her skin was ulcerated. She covered her head and face all year round, making her unpopular.
Only if the Lord gives her a chance can she be where she is today.
Otani Yoshitsugi leaned down again and grabbed the ground with his head.
"The Lord's kindness will never be forgotten. I am willing to shed the last drop of blood for the Sibo family."
Yiyin nodded and motioned for her to retreat.
Toudo Takatora and Otani Yoshitsugi are the two secrets of the Shiba family extending to Omi country.
In recent days, Sibo Territory, with Beihanoi to the west, is now the territory of the Sanyuan family and is an ally.
To the south is Kofukuji Temple and Tsutsui Junkei. It doesn't matter whether they are friends or enemies. The nuns and warriors can't help but fight.
What's more, there is still the thorn in the side of Suzuki Shigehide.
To the east are high mountains, which separate the country from Ise. As long as the main road in and out of Iga is defended, it will be difficult for the army to cross the mountains and enter the Shiba Territory.
To the north are Yamashiro Country and Omi Country. Yamashiro Kyoto is the center of the shogunate, so there is no problem on this side.
Yiyin and the shogunate worked together to repel the Miyoshi invasion, relying on each other to jointly maintain the shogunate's protective system.
The Shiba family has a noble character. As long as Yoshihiro focuses on making profits within the guardian system instead of overthrowing it, there will be no irreconcilable contradiction in the relationship with the shogunate.
Even if the two sides have some disagreements, they will not go to the point of fighting each other.
Omi Country is the direction that the Shiba family needs to pay most attention to.
Omi's land is fertile, and Lake Biwa's commerce is developed. With Omi as a country, it has the strength equivalent to the Miyoshi family.
What's even more frightening is that Omi is right next to Kyoto. Through Lake Biwa and the Seta River in Kyoto, military supplies flowed smoothly.
Whoever captures the entire Omi Kingdom will be the biggest enemy of the shogunate.
As the vested interests of the shogunate, the Shiba family looked after Omi to maintain the tranquility of the shogunate system in Eastern Japan.
Whether it is the Minami Omi Rokkaku family or the North Omi Asai family, whoever unites Omi will be the enemy of the Shiba family.
It has nothing to do with feelings, just because of the fundamental conflict of interests. Neither the shogunate nor the Shiba family allowed Omi to become a dominant player.
The Shiba family happened to have two grips that could pry Omi away.
The Todo clan is a veteran Kitaomi samurai family. During the Battle of Noryota, they dared to defect to the Asai family to fight against the Rokkaku family, which shows that this group of people in the north are well known.
Although he was only a low-status countryman, Yoshigan did not dare to look down on Tougao, the governor of the Toudo family.
This middle-aged warrior princess is resourceful and brave, but lacks the opportunity to climb up.
Now Yiyin has given the Todo family a chance, with territory and identity, backed by the big tree of the Shiba family.
Let’s see if her family can create a wedge for the Shiba family in Kitaomi.
When the Asai family moved south, the three northern Omi counties surrendered in name only, and they had no intention of paying for military and food services.
The Asai family won the Battle of Noraga, but their vitality was severely damaged, so they reluctantly agreed to be the Lord of Kitaomi in honor.
Nowadays, Asai Nagamasa has been appointed as the guardian of Kitaomi in the shogunate, and his family has also improved a lot.
Then, forcing the military families of the three counties to make concessions and effectively rule the three counties was put on the agenda.
Yoshigan is not asking the Todo family to fight against the Asai family, but to raise the status of her family so that the desperate Sanjun samurai family can have a way out.
The Asai family is now close to the Shiba family because the Rokkaku family is powerful.
But if you don't have long-term worries, you must have immediate worries.
Yoshigan hopes that the Todo family can have more appeal in the three counties of Kitaomi, just in case one day. . One more chip to play against the Asai family.
This is a hidden gem.
On the side of Otani Yoshitsugi, it was even more simple. The Rokkaku family hated Shiba Yigen deeply, but they were also deeply afraid of him.
It was he who helped the Asai family win the Battle of Noragada, which made the Rokkaku family's best opportunity in more than a hundred years, and the opportunity to unify Omi come to a close.
Today, the Rokkaku family is dissatisfied with the master's family internally, and is suppressed by the shogunate externally, and they are inseparable from Yoshigan.
Yoshigan's current Iga territory is adjacent to the Rokkaku family's Minami Omi.
If you don’t plan early, who knows whether unexpected emergencies may occur in the future.
Yiyin wants to use Otani Yoshitsugi to play first.
This time she got five thousand shi Zhixing, so she would definitely return home in fine clothes and recruit people from the Minami Omi country to enrich the grassroots of the territory.
Since the Rokkaku Sadayori era, the Rokkaku family has expanded externally and frequently started wars.
Although they have been victorious and even conquered the three counties of Kitaomi, the oppression of the lower-level countrymen and servants has become more and more cruel.
The Otani family is one of the victims.
All the Hime warriors in the family died in the battle, leaving only Otani Yoshitsugi alone. The Rokkaku family also peeked into her village, hoping to engulf her family's ancestral land and replenish the war losses.
This is the saddest thing about Chinese people.
They are at the bottom of the shogunate's protective system. They have obligations but no rights, and can only be squeezed.
Nowadays, the Rokkaku family has lost consecutive battles.
Not only did they lose the three northern Omi counties that Rokkaku Sadeyori had conquered, but the shogunate also took away the mouth of the river from Lake Biwa to the Seta River to build Sakamoto Castle.
If it fails externally, it will inevitably squeeze more cruelly internally.
The military and food services that were originally shared by the three counties were now all falling on the people of Minamiomi, causing unspeakable suffering.
At this time, what will happen when the proud Otani Yoshitsugi returns to his hometown to recruit Samurai Hime?
The Rokkaku family has ruled Minami Omi for more than a hundred years and is deeply rooted. Yoshigan knows that he cannot shake her family.
But what if Otani Yoshitsugi's territory is filled with people who cannot survive in the Rokkaku family's territory and hate her family?
These Ji Samurai are inextricably linked to various grassroots families in Minami Omi.
If one day, the Rokkaku family and the Shiba family conflict.
Will they choose the Rokkaku family who helped exploit them, or the Shiba family who gave them a way to survive?
Will it trigger riots at the bottom of Minami Omi and shake the Rokkaku family's fighting spirit?
This is another hidden gem.
Yoshigan Shiba could not have expected it to be so far-reaching. These were the arrangements planned by Akechi Mitsuhide when he and he were discussing military merit rewards.
Sometimes when Yoshiyin looked at Akechi Mitsuhide's sunny smile, he felt chills in his heart.
She is a terrible woman who can calculate rewards to such an extent.
When I was angry with her before, I wanted to make her cry. Now after a deep conversation, I almost feel scared.
What a terrible woman.
