Wherever there are people, there are fights. In troubled times, the new year is the beginning of a new conquest.
Sagami Country, Odawara Castle.
Three generations of the Hojo family have passed since the Ise woman came to Kanto and conquered the Kanto plain.
A generation of Ise women received help from the Imagawa family, started from the Kokokuji Castle west of the Kano River in Suruga Kingdom, entered Izu Kingdom, and conquered Sagami Kingdom.
The second generation Hojo Utsuna continued to expand his territory and invaded Musashi Country. She pretended to be Hojo Miao and claimed to be a descendant of the Hojo family who ruled the Kamakura shogunate. Unfortunately, the Kanto samurai family did not buy it.
Kanto was a place that had always been xenophobic. The Hojo family that was in charge of the Kamakura shogunate was once extremely powerful, but it had long since perished following the Kamakura shogunate.
Guanbazhou, where the Kanto Plain is located, is the birthplace of the samurai shogunate. There are many famous families here, and the imperial family members are not as good as dogs. One stone can knock out three descendants of famous families.
Even if the Hojo family pretends to be a famous family, the local samurai family will not recognize it and will still regard her family as foreign invaders.
The Kanto Plain was known as Bando in ancient times. When the Minamoto family descended from Hanoi, the Minamoto no Yoshi family called on the local samurai to attack the indigenous Mao people who occupied a large area of Kanto and fought a war for twelve years.
Later, the imperial court refused to reward the samurai family for participating in the war on the grounds that the Minamoto no Yoshi family started the war without authorization. The Minamoto no Yoshi family sold their property to reward the samurai family, and this led to the Bando samurai family's oath to be loyal to Kawachi Genji from generation to generation.
It's just that the Wu family is only interested in profit, so it's okay to just listen to this kind of oath.
Later, the direct descendants of the Kawachi Genji clan and the Taira clan, who were born in the Ise Taira clan, competed for power in the emperor's court. Genji was defeated, and his legitimate daughter Minamoto Yoritomo was exiled to Izu Country.
The Bando family pretended to be deaf and dumb, and the oath from that year was still in the temple, and the oath was still floating in the air. But who the hell would take it seriously? What are the benefits of helping Kawachi Genji fight the war?
But then, things changed.
The Taira family was in great power and quickly moved closer to the emperor and his ministers. Her family used Kinji as their base and squeezed the Kanto warriors to the extreme. The Bando warriors dared not speak out in anger.
Kantō and Kansai have been full of contradictions since ancient times, and Bandō is mostly descended from the Taira clan. The Ise Taira clan are actually descendants of the Bando Taira clan who went to Ise country to open up areas.
The Taira family among the common people gained power, but instead helped the court to oppress the direct descendants. Regardless of the differences between Kanto and Kansai, the difference between concubine and concubine, or the interests of money, food and taxes, the three layers of superimposed discord are unbearable.
Seeing an opportunity, the Hojo family of Izu gave their son to the exiled Minamoto Yoritomo for sex, and gave birth to a direct descendant of Kawachi Genji.
The two sides hit it off immediately, and the Hojo family called on the Bando Taira families to raise troops to follow Minamoto Yoritomo. Each family seemed to remember their original oath to Kawachi Genji for a moment.
As a result, the Bando Hachihei clan, who followed Minamoto Yoritomo, the first shogun, was officially released.
Minamoto Yoritomo took over the Kanto Plain and established a service office in Kamakura in Sagami Province, which was the prototype of the shogunate. The Bando Hachihei clan followed in the footsteps of the shogunate and conquered the world, multiplied and grew stronger.
Nowadays, a branch of the Kyoto Ise family belonging to the Isehei clan has come to Kanto to cause trouble. How can the Kanto samurai family recognize the Hojo family's Miao name that her family falsely claimed!
Calling Hou the Hojo family has already given her enough face. If not for the power of the Hojo family, she would have thought of annihilating her family.
The Odawara Castle Castle and the Hojo family are also holding spring reviews.
Hojo Ujiyasu is the daughter of the second generation Hojo Uzuna and the current governor of the family. She sat on the main seat with her eyes closed and relaxed, listening to the group of retainers discussing the household affairs.
The Hojo family is an outsider, and it is very difficult to develop in the Kanto Plain. It often takes one generation of family governors to pioneer, one generation of family governors to stabilize, and three generations of steady work to get to where we are today.
Geographically, the Kanto Plain refers to the eight kingdoms of Kanto, Sagami, Musashi, Ueno, Shimo, Hitachi, Shimotsou, Kamizou, and Anfang in ancient times.
In addition, the two countries of Izu and Kai are the ten kingdoms of Kanto in the political sense, the Kanto shoguns, and the fiefdom of the Kamakura Ashikaga family.
The first generation of Ise women conquered the Izu-Sagami kingdom, and the second generation of Hojo clan stabilized the territory, built Odawara Castle, and then conquered Musashi country.
When she arrived at Hojo Uyasu, she completely defeated the Kamakura Ashikaga family and the two Uesugi families, making the Hojo family the overlord of Kanto in the eyes of the concubines.
Today, the Hojo family occupies the three kingdoms of Izu, Sagami, and Musashi, encroaching on the four kingdoms of Ueno, Shimono, Shimotsou, and Hitachi. It has truly become a nightmare for the Kanto samurai family.
The two Uesugi families were wiped out by her, and only Kenmasa Uesugi escaped. The Kanto general Ashikaga Haruji was also forced to become a puppet of the Hojo family.
Hojo Ujiyasu's younger brother and Ashikaga Haru gave birth to Ashikaga Yoshiji, who succeeded the Kanto Shogun. Ashikaga Yoshiji married Hojo Ujiyasu's daughter. From then on, the Kanto shoguns were completely reduced to puppets of the Hojo family.
After Hojo Uyasu achieved a series of military and political victories, his family business became even more prosperous. The martial arts families in Kanto were afraid of the power of the Hojo family, and began to join forces to fight against her family, both covertly and covertly.
For example, Satomi Yoshiyao of the Anfang family, claiming to be the deputy commander of Kanto, has been conquering the Anfang peninsula where the lower lord, the upper lord, and the Anfang Three Kingdoms are located.
Satake Yishige of Hitachi Kingdom was also wary of the Hojo family, and the two sides had constant disputes over the border between Hitachi and Hitachi.
The ruined Ryogamisugi family also caused trouble for Hojo Ujiyasu.
Kensei Uesugi fled to Echigo Province and entrusted all his family property to the Fuchu Nagao family of Katsukami Shimo, only seeking revenge for the extinct Yamauchi Uesugi family.
The Ogitani Uesugi family has occupied Musashi Country for many years. Even if it is destroyed, the retainers who have lost their backbone still miss their old master and are full of malice towards the Hojo family.
The local samurai family headed by Ogitani Uesugi family chief and the Ota family were very uneasy and had been fighting against the Hojo family, so they could only use force to suppress it.
At this time, the Takeda family fired another shot in the Suruga country behind the Hojo family, intending to go south and invade the Imagawa family.
It seems that the family business is prosperous, but it is still struggling, suffering from internal and external troubles. Hojo Ujiyasu was tired in his heart, but he didn't show it on the outside.
She listened quietly to the deliberation of the retainers, nodding her head from time to time to express her opinions. Seeing that the governor is as stable as a mountain, the retainers also feel at ease.
Because the Hojo family were outsiders, it was difficult for them to be accepted by the local samurai family. Therefore, her family attaches great importance to domestic affairs, attaches great importance to territory construction, and wins people's hearts with benevolent policies.
In Kanto, where the tax burden is six to the public and four to the people, the Hojo family has always adhered to the light tax of four to the public and six to the people.
Kanto is no better than Kansai. The business in Kanto is underdeveloped, and the Wu family mostly relies on local taxes and land taxes to survive. The Hojo family can only use more sophisticated internal affairs and commercial methods to make up for these losses in money and food.
Fortunately, there is a consensus within the Hojo family and they understand that pioneering is difficult. The six Myousu families who followed them to Kanto, three generations of branch relatives, are all very united.
Although the Hojo family, which had a stable group of retainers, did not expand quickly, the power gathered by three generations still made Hojo Ujiyasu famous.
But as the family business grows, Hojo Ujiyasu has to face bad situations that his grandmother and mother have never seen.
If you sail against the current, you will retreat if you don't advance.
The outsiders like the Hojo family were, after all, rejected by the Kanto samurai family. She couldn't retreat, there was an abyss behind her, and she would be doomed if she retreated.
