Looking at the frustrated Nobuzada Obata, Yukitaka Sanada asked deliberately.
"Obata-hime, what do you think? Do you still need me to introduce you to His Highness Takeda?"
Kobata Nobuzada shook his head and sighed.
"Please allow me to think about it again, alas, the world is so big that there is no place for me to live.
I pride myself on being brave and brave, but am I really going to live in mediocrity all my life and never get ahead? I am really unwilling to do so. "
Yukitaka Sanada smiled slightly.
"That's not necessarily the case."
Obata Nobuzada raised his head and glanced at Yukitaka Sanada, kowtowed to the ground decisively, and said.
"Please Mr. Sanada, please show me a clear path."
Yukitaka Sanada asked.
"Obata-hime, do you know Shiba Kenshin-kun?"
Kobata Nobuzada nodded.
"How could you not know that the name of Godaisho is as loud as thunder? Echigo's military was at its peak, and Godaisho played a part in its control.
The Sano leader battle where the Kanto attendants were stationed was a great success. We, the Kanto samurai family, are truly blessed to see the legendary valor of the direct descendants of the Genji family in Kawachi. "
Yukitaka Sanada nodded.
"The imperial court does not show favor to women, which makes us Samurai Princess ashamed. Since you admire the elegant style of the royal palace, Obata-hime, why don't you consider joining the Kanto Imperial Palace?"
Kobata Nobuzada was stunned for a moment and asked.
"I was expelled from Nishi Ueno by my mother-in-law because of what the Hojo family said. How could the Echigo family be willing to take me in?"
Yukitaka Sanada shook his head and said.
"This is wrong.
Mr. Nagano cruelly expelled you in order to eliminate the voices of Nishi Ueno getting close to the Hojo family and to give His Highness Uesugi an explanation.
But what does this matter have to do with the Kanto Palace? "
Xiaobata Nobuzada thought for a while, but still didn’t understand, and said.
"Please give me a clear explanation, Mr. Sanada."
Yukitaka Sanada smiled and pointed at her and said.
"You are wise once in a while and confused sometimes.
His Highness Uesugi brought order out of chaos and could not tolerate the rebellion of those who were close to the Hojo family. In order to give His Highness Uesugi an explanation, Mr. Nagano had no choice but to kill his relatives out of justice.
However, the Kantō Imperial Palace is an institution of the shogunate. When the imperial chamber came to Kantō, it was already stated that it would reorganize the imperial family of Kantō and make it available to the direct descendants of the Genji family in Kawachi.
Since you took the initiative to leave Nishi Ueno, you have cleared your previous sins and stayed out of the matter. Why can't he join the Kanto Palace, serve the shogunate, and serve the direct descendants of the Genji family in Kawachi?
The Obata family of Kunamine Castle came from the Kodama Party, one of the Seven Musashi Parties. The Kodama Party was a powerful imperial family member during the Kamakura Shogunate. With your family background, you are enough to be admitted to the Guandong Palace and serve as a minister of the Imperial Palace.
At present, the Echigo clan is the dominant one in the Kanto Imperial Palace, and the Imperial Palace is also very embarrassed. Of course he is willing to have more royal family members from other territories join him, and he is also open-minded.
Look at Ogasawara's long life, even though his family fortune has declined, he can still be protected by Odai and get a place in Hokushin, and no one dares to bully him. "
Xiaobata Nobuzada suddenly realized.
Yukitaka Sanada said a lot of truths, most of which were nonsense. In fact, they all pointed to the same meaning. Echigo is not monolithic, and the interests of Uesugi Teruhora and Shiba Yoshigan are inconsistent.
Nagano is the person who is close to Uesugi Terutora. Your bet on the Hojo family failed and was forced to go into exile. Now that things have come to a point, you can definitely go to the Guandong Chamber of Commerce to place another bet.
The Echigo army has defeated the Hojo army and will be strong in Kanto for a long time.
Betting that it would be difficult for other forces to defeat Echigo, there was no need for Nobuzada to sacrifice the near and the distant. If you can't beat him, just join. Mu Qiang of the Wu family is not ashamed.
Nagano is joining the Uesugi side, and Kobata Nobuzada can go and pledge allegiance to the Kanto Shisho side. With her influence as the former governor of the Kohata family in Kokumine City, Yoshihiro Shiba had no reason not to accept her.
Nagano Industry is now dominating Nishi Ueno, which is also a hidden danger for Echigo. With Obata Nobuzada in hand, Yoshigan Shiba has a fulcrum that can leverage the situation in Nishi Ueno.
The more Kobata Nobuzada thought about it, the brighter his eyes became. She found that she was indeed valuable to Shiba Yiyin. As long as she has value, she has a chance to get ahead.
The road pointed by Yukitaka Sanada is indeed good. Obata Nobuzada was sincerely convinced and bowed in thanks.
"Thank you, Mr. Sanada. Listening to Ji's words, my trip was well worth it."
Yukitaka Sanada said with a smile.
"You and I have been friends for many years, so there is no need to say such foreign words.
Obata-hime, you have no roots in the Kanto Palace, and I am a little worried about you. If you are determined to go and serve, it is better to do this.
My incompetent little granddaughter served as a servant in Guandong and achieved some military exploits, which can be regarded as a bit of status.
I’ll write a letter in my hand. You can take it to Azuma County to find my granddaughter who can introduce you to the imperial office, okay? "
Sanada Yukitaka spent a long time talking, just for this moment.
Terutora Uesugi and Yoshigan Shiba are launching a strategy to conquer Kanto. It is impossible for the two of them to have a quarrel over such a trivial matter as Nobuzada Obata and Yamasa Nagano.
Yoshigan Shiba will be attracted to Nishi Ueno, but he has to worry about the reaction of Uesugi and his family, so he will probably choose to deal with it coldly first.
As the actual controller of Azuma County, Sanada Nobushige was connected to the Nishi Ueno territory, and he was also the introducer of Nobata Nobusada.
Shiba Yoshigan will definitely put Obata Nobuzada in Sanada Nobunaga's place for long-term planning.
And Yukitaka Sanada also achieved his goal, adding a heavy bargaining chip to Sanada Nobuhige's Nishi Ueno strategy.
Xiaobata didn't know that he had been betrayed by Yukitaka Sanada, but he was still overjoyed and bowed.
"Then please thank Mr. Sanada for your trouble. I will remember everything you have done for me, and I will definitely pay off in the future."
Yukitaka Sanada smiled and waved his hands and said.
"It's no longer an affair, it doesn't have to be like this between us."
Obata Nobuzada now had a direction to work towards, and her mood improved a lot. She was chatting and laughing with Yukitaka Sanada.
The two parties chatted for a while, and Yukitaka Sanada asked Nobuzada Obata to rest first, and then write a letter for her and prepare her luggage and food for the journey.
Obata Nobuzada burst into tears of gratitude. After bowing deeply, the waiter led him out of the tea room.
Sanada Yukitaka's face was tired. She was old, and the long conversation made her feel exhausted. She picked up the cooled tea on the table, took a slow sip, and said.
"Come out."
The sliding door behind her opened, and her daughter Masayuki Sanada came out with a troubled look on her face.
Yukitaka Sanada glanced at her and asked.
"What? Do you have any questions about what I did?"
Sanada Masayuki kowtowed to the ground and said.
"My daughter doesn't dare, it's just... Mother, is there something wrong in leading Nobazada Obata to Nobushige's place?"
Sanada Yukitaka asked without moving his expression.
"Tell me, what's wrong?"
Masayuki Sanada said.
"If Nobata Nobuzada becomes an official of the Takeda family, His Highness Takeda will definitely take our eastern believers as the vanguard to conquer the western Ueno land.
By then, my Sanada family will definitely benefit a lot. The improvement of status in the Takeda family and the sealing of territory are both foreseeable.
The opportunity is right in front of you, but you turned away Kobata Nobuzada and lured her to the Kanto Palace.
Nobushige's Matsushiro Domain was already quite large, and after annexing Azuma County, it reached more than 10,000 koku. My family's territory in Dongxin is far inferior to that of her branch family.
If she takes advantage of Nobuzada Obata and takes over the Nishi Ueno land in the future, it will be a prince worth hundreds of thousands of koku.
At that time, will my family still be able to influence her will? What would Nobuyuki think? If this gap leads to disaster at Xiao Qiang, what should we do? "
Masayuki Sanada was worried because his eldest daughter, Masayuki, was very talented and not mediocre.
Masayuki Sanada should be happy to have given birth to two outstanding daughters, Yukiyuki Sanada and Nobushige Sanada. But if the bowl of water is not level, the Sanada family will be in big trouble in the future.
The decline of many martial arts families was not due to losses in foreign wars. It was the sisters in the family who drew swords against each other and fought in the same room, which caused the family fortune to wither.
Yukitaka Sanada drank the cold tea in one gulp, savoring the cold taste as it slid into his esophagus.
"Masayuki Sanada!"
"Hi!"
Hearing Yukitaka Sanada shout out his full name sharply, Masayuki Sanada kowtowed to the ground and listened to his mother's teachings.
"It's only been a few years since we came back? How many years has it been since the Sanada family returned to their homeland? Have you forgotten those days when you were homeless and living under someone else's roof?"
"No! I will never forget!"
Yukitaka Sanada sighed when he saw his daughter looking up and the unforgettable tingling in her eyes.
"Do you think we have returned home, revived our family business, and settled down?
My daughter, wake up, these are troubled times. As powerful as the Takeda family, they may be destroyed one day, let alone our little Sanada family.
Under the overturned nest, there are no eggs left. Being prepared for danger in times of peace is the long-term solution.
I am not afraid that Xinfan will develop too fast or become too powerful, which will affect the majesty of the main family. What I'm afraid of is that the Sanada family doesn't want to make progress and is content with the status quo.
I appreciate Nobushige's ambition. Instead of handing Obata Nobusada to the Takeda family, let us follow His Highness Takeda to get some leftovers.
It's better to hand her over to Nobushige. Maybe Nobushige can lead the Sanada family to a higher place that neither you nor I can reach. "
Sanada Yukitaka's extremely cold-blooded utilitarian speech left Sanada Masayuki speechless.
She understood the truth, but both children were born in her ten-month pregnancy. If she prefers one to the other, the disaster that will happen to Xiao Qiang in the future is the cause and effect she planted today, how can she bear it?
A trace of unbearability flashed in Masayuki Sanada's eyes, and Yukitaka Sanada saw it.
"Changxing, you are a good daughter and a good mother. But you must remember that each generation has its own mission.
My mission, Yukitaka Sanada, is to bring the Sanada family back to their ancestral land and revive the family business. Your mission, Masayuki Sanada, is to root the Sanada family here and develop it.
Children and grandchildren will have their own blessings. Let them use their own wisdom to solve the future of Xingzhi and Xinfan.
I am getting old, and I don’t know if one day I close my eyes and I will never be able to open them again. Sometimes I don't dare to sleep at night, for fear that I will never wake up again.
Half asleep and half awake, I seemed to see the Ashikaga family perishing, the Takeda family also perishing, and countless all-powerful samurai families perishing.
There is no room for hesitation in troubled times, and hesitation will lead to death. His Majesty Takeda is like this, and so are you and me.
Don't think about the future that you cannot control, use all your strength to make your family business bigger.
The Sanada family can fight with each other, and sisters can kill each other. But the Sanada family cannot perish. They must survive and survive this troubled world.
Masayuki Sanada! Do you understand it! "
"Hi! I understand, Mother."
After scolding the last sentence, Sanada Yukitaka was panting and his forehead was covered with cold sweat. Masayuki Sanada, who was lying on the ground listening to the instructions, also had his back soaked with sweat.
Yukitaka Sanada was so tired that she closed her eyes. She was unwilling to bury the risk of civil strife in her family. It's just that the world is difficult, and we can't stop at this time. The Sanada family must strengthen itself as soon as possible.
The lesser of two evils, failure to develop is a dead end, and the only hope for the consequences of rapid expansion is the wisdom of future generations.
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Various Kanto families who were paying attention to the Sano-led battle made their own choices after the situation became clear. The Guandong Plain has been in chaos for more than a hundred years, and the local martial arts families are all good at adapting to the changing circumstances.
Their proficiency in using justice for personal gain made both Uesugi Teruhu and Shiba Yoshigage in the center of the whirlpool feel dumbfounded.
After Sano led the battle, Sano Castle was captured by Yoshigan Shiba and became the garrison of the Echigo army.
Inside the residence, Terutora Uesugi groaned angrily when faced with the influx of intelligence from various places. She shook the paperwork in her hand and said to Shiba Yiyin.
"What a group of loyal and courageous Kanto warriors. Their shamelessness really opened my eyes."
Sibo Yiyin smiled and said nothing. These things had been predicted by the two of them for a long time. There was nothing to be angry about.
After the news of the victory of Echigo's army spread, the first to take action was Nagano Yamasa, an old friend of Echigo and a good ally of Uesugi Teruhu.
She quickly captured Kunimine Castle in Nishi-Ueno, expelled Nobusada Obata, expressed the loyalty of the people of Nishi-Ueno to the Uesugi family in Uesugi Teru, and blocked Uesugi Teru's excuse to use the topic.
Terutora Uesugi and Yoshigan Shiba chose the Sano Territory as a breakthrough point because of the pro-Uesugi samurai family in the central and southern parts of Ueno. They united to form a blockade to prevent the army from going south.
From west to east, the Xiaobata family in Guofeng City, the Nagano family in Mangqiao City, and the Dahu family in Dahu City. The three cities and one line blocked the southward march of the Echigo army.
There was also Naha Munejun who was behind the three families. She personally guarded Akaishi Castle, followed the Hojo family with determination, and challenged the Echigo army head-on.
It was not that Uesugi Teruhora and Shiba Yoshigan were unable to break through the three-city blockade, but they were unwilling to have a grudge against the Ueno samurai family due to political considerations.
As for the wave of Zongjun behind the three cities, he could not break through the three cities' blockade, so naturally he could not hurt her at all and could only let her scream.
But now the situation is different. With Sano's victory in the battle, the decline of the Hojo family has become apparent, and samurai families from all over Kanto have joined forces with Uesugi Terutora.
Nagano Yamasa personally pulled out the nail that was the Kohata family in Kunmine City and broke a corner of the three-city blockade.
The Nagano family of Mangqiao City, the Dahu family of Dahu City, and Naha Munejun of Akaishi City, even if they want to surrender at this time, they have to be given a chance by others.
After hearing the results of the Sano leader's battle, Yoshige Shigeru, the largest citizen in Ueno, personally led an army to attack Naba Castle and sneak attack on Naba Munejun's retreat.
While Yura Shigeki was attacking the city and grabbing territory, he wrote a letter to Uesugi Teruatora of Sano Castle to express his loyalty, looking righteous and awe-inspiring.
Uesugi Teruhora glanced at Shiba Yoshigan who was smiling and said nothing, and said.
"Why don't you speak?
If we linger in Sano Castle for a while longer, Ueno Country will be divided between Nagano Yamasa and Yura Shige. "
