Teruhora Uesugi's understatement of "I'm pregnant" sounded like a bolt from the blue to Honjo Mino and Naoe Keizuna's ears, making them charred on the outside and brittle on the inside.
Because Uesugi Teruhora was obsessed with Shiba Yoshigan and always refused to get married, no one in the Uesugi retainers group dared to say anything for fear of causing disaster.
At first, Nagao Masaki had selfish motives and created a bit of a scandal, putting Usami's son at the top of the scandal.
As a result, Teru Uesugi didn't even blink, and directly forced the two important ministers Nagao Masaki and Usami Sadami to death.
Usami Sadamitsu's son was killed by her own hands, and the Usami family, a prominent family in the Kashiwazaki Plain, was exiled and met a miserable end.
If it weren't for the fact that Nagao Masaki's husband was Uesugi Teruhora's biological brother, the fate of the Ueda Nagao family would have been hard to say.
From then on, the Uesugi retainers kept the governor's marriage secret, and no one dared to talk about it casually. However, the issue of the inheritance of the family business has always been on everyone's mind.
On the surface, no one dared to talk nonsense, but there was already an undercurrent within the retainers group.
In troubled times, human life is like a piece of grass. Even for Uesugi Teruhu, who is the leader of Kanto, who knows that something unexpected will happen one day and his life will be gone.
The Uesugi retainers are united under the name of the family, so naturally they cannot fall apart because of the death of the family governor. Life must go on.
In fact, there are already two people who are qualified to inherit Uesugi Teruhu's family business.
Terutora Uesugi was born in the Fuchu Nagao family, and the other two families of the Echigo San Nagao family, Ueda Nagao and Furushi Nagao, are now in charge of Uesugi Kagenobu.
Uesugi Kagenobu is the governor of the Furushi Nagao family. He was gifted by Uesugi Teruhu and uses the character Uesugi Miao in his title. He is the leader of the Echigo Nagao clan.
She replaced the deceased Nagao Masakai and helped Nagao Masakai's daughter Uesugi Kagekatsu manage the Ueda Nagao family.
Uesugi Kagekatsu is the daughter of Nagao Masaki and Uesugi Teruatora's elder brother. She is the person closest to Uesugi Teruhu by blood, and was gifted by Uesugi Teruhu to use the character Uesugi Miao.
In the view of the Echigo Nagao clan headed by Uesugi Kagenobu, Uesugi Kagekatsu is the most suitable successor to Uesugi Teruhu.
Another candidate for heir is Uesugi Kagetora, who was adopted as his adopted daughter by Uesugi Teruhu.
Uesugi Kagetora is a descendant of the Hojo family Yasushi. During the Kanto Campaign, he was sent to the Numata family by the Hojo family in preparation for inheriting the Numata family business.
However, the Echigo army moved south ahead of schedule, disrupting the Hojo family's deployment, and Uesugi Kagetora was captured by the Echigo side.
Yoshigan Shiba took pity on the child and asked Terutora Uesugi to adopt her as an adopted daughter in order to weaken the fighting spirit of the Hojo family in the subsequent war.
It's a pity that the Kanto Strategy had many twists and turns, and in the end Uesugi Kagetora still failed to come in handy.
But the child himself was plotted by Kenmasa Uesugi, who hated the Hojo family for annihilation, and almost died in the palace.
Yoshigan Shiba took advantage of this and got angry, making Terutora Uesugi truly accept the adopted daughter and ordered Honjo Mino to be her teacher.
Returning to Kanto this time, Shiba Yoshigan adopted Uesugi Kagetora as his adopted daughter, further enhancing her status.
Today, Uesugi Kagetora is the legitimate adopted daughter of Uesugi Terutora, and theoretically has the right to inherit. The Naoomi faction headed by Honjo Mino is close to her, and there is also the background of Shiba Yoshigan's adopted daughter.
The Wu family cares more about the common interests under the family name than blood ties, and it is not uncommon for adopted daughters to inherit the family business.
If Terutora Uesugi suddenly died suddenly and left no last words, Kagetora Uesugi would even have the advantage of inheriting the family business than Kagekatsu Uesugi.
But it would be difficult for Uesugi Teruhu's true blood relatives, the Nagao clan, to accept the heirs of the Hojo family occupying the Echigo estate.
Therefore, in the invisible corner of Uesugi Teruhora, Uesugi Kagenobu and Honjo Minoru each represent the interests of the Nagao clan and Naoomi's side of the Hatamoto clan, and they have somewhat clear meanings.
But before all these contradictions intensified, in the face of the reality that Uesugi Teruhu was pregnant, everything had to be overthrown and started over.
Honjo Minoru and Naoe Keizuna looked at each other, not daring to speak for a moment.
Teruhora Uesugi loves Shiba Yoshigan so much that she suddenly becomes pregnant. Could it be? .
No wonder that after Shiba Yoshigan returned to Kanto, the two masters did not have differences due to the failure of the Kanto strategy, but instead became more united.
It turned out that Uesugi Teruhu had already made Shiba Yiyin and made a doll.
The eyes of the two Uesugi family ministers were bright and their spirits were high.
If Teruhora Uesugi and Yoshigan Shiba really had a physical relationship and had a child, there would indeed be no need to mention the matter of the Kanto Palace, and the Kanto system could be discarded.
Once Uesugi and Shiba merged, the Uesugi retainers didn't even care whether the future heir was called Shiba or Uesugi, because the Echigo duopolity was already integrated.
Regardless of whether they are from the Shiba clan or the Uesugi clan, everyone is the servant of this child. The fat water does not go to outsiders, and the good meat rots in the pot.
The Wu family gathers under one family name and cares about the interests of the entire Wu family group. As long as this child can inherit the family business of the two masters, there is no need to change the title of the retainer group to Miao.
Terutora Uesugi exterminated the Nagao family in the house and inherited the Uesugi family in Yamauchi. The retainers did not object, but were very supportive. This is why.
What the two important ministers now want to be sure of most is that this child is really Sibo Yiyin's son. The second thing is to pray that the baby will be a girl.
But no matter how impatient they were, they didn't dare to ask Terutora Uesugi directly if she was pregnant with Shiba Yoshigan's child.
Honjo Minoru thought about it for a moment and then said tentatively.
"May I ask my lord, does Jinduo Palace know about this?"
Uesugi Teruhu shook his head and said.
"I'm not ready to tell him just yet."
Hearing what Uesugi Terutora meant, the two important ministers were overjoyed at first. This child was really the blood of Shiba Yoshigan. That was great.
It's still the master Niuxu, who gets on the bus first and pays for the ticket later. No matter how much trouble the people at the Kanto Palace Office make, the Uesugi family has the king bomb in their hands, so they can naturally sit back and relax.
Then the expressions of the two changed drastically. They couldn't understand why Uesugi Teruhu didn't have a showdown with Shiba Yoshigan? Isn't it wonderful that the two of them bonded over this offspring and completed the union of Uesugi and Shiba?
Naoe Keizuna couldn't help but ask.
"This child is the eldest daughter of Tsudo-dono and a direct heir of the Shiba family. Why did Your Highness hide it from Tsudo-dono?"
Naoe Keizuna couldn't help but regard this child as a female fetus and fantasize about the good days in the future.
She couldn't believe why Uesugi Teruhora refused to confess to Shiba Yoshigan. This was the best opportunity for Uesugi Shiba to join forces.
Teru Uesugi shook his head.
"This is a troubled autumn in recent times, and Jinduoden has already planned to return to recent times, and the trip will be after autumn.
The shogunate is in chaos, and his identity is sensitive. If he marries me at this time, it will be detrimental to his position in handling recent affairs. "
This was not Uesugi Teruhora's real thought, it was just used to deal with the two important ministers.
Before Yoshigan went to Oda Castle, he did talk to Terutora Uesugi, saying that he wanted to return to Konki after autumn.
With everything in the Kanto Chamber of Commerce on track, the Grand Council and the Standing Council have been able to operate independently, replacing Yoshihiro who is not in Kanto to promote Kanto's strategic goals.
In recent years, the situation has been chaotic and changeable. Although Mitsuhide Akechi hopes that Yoshigami will not go back, he will wait until Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Oda Nobunaga decide the outcome before stepping in to clean up the mess.
However, Yoshigami has always had lingering fears about Mitsuhide Akechi killing Ashikaga Yoshiki, and he did not dare to let this uncontrollable poisonous man go too far.
He stayed in Kanto for more than half a year, already to show off face to Ashiki Mitsuhide, and then decided to go back and watch the situation, not daring to let Akechi Mitsuhide do whatever he wanted.
From Uesugi Terutora's perspective, she has been waiting for Yoshigami to leave. Naoe Keizuna's words about the eldest daughter of the righteous silver deeply hurt Uesugi Teruhu's heart.
None of Uesugi's ministers knew about Yoshigami's private life, and regarded him as a noble figure like a pure saint.
Uesugi's ministers didn't know that Yoshigage had an affair with how many Hime warriors, but Uesugi Teruhu had a vague feeling, but the only one who was sure was that beast Takeda Shingen.
Teruhora Uesugi understood that the child in his belly was not Yoshigan's eldest daughter.
Yoshigan's real eldest daughter was the evil child conceived by Takeda Shingen through despicable means during the days when he was imprisoned in Yantian City after the Battle of Kawanakajima.
Yoshigami was about to leave Kanto in the autumn, and at that time Uesugi Teruhora had not yet shown her pregnancy. I won’t tell him about the child for now.
Terutora Uesugi, who is emotionally mysophobic, must first deal with Takeda's daughter and clear Yoshigan's shame, and then propose to him.
Yoshigami didn't know yet that he had a scoundrel in the Takeda family, and Uesugi Terutora wasn't prepared to tell him, for two reasons.
First, she didn't want Yiyin to recall the experience of being captured and humiliated. This was out of love and protection for Yiyin.
Secondly, she and Takeda Shingen were both illegitimate, and Takeda's daughter was the eldest daughter.
If Terutora Uesugi really gave birth to a daughter, then in order for her daughter to monopolize the privilege of being the eldest daughter of Shiba Yoshigan's bloodline, she must eliminate the hidden danger of Takeda's daughter.
This is her love for her daughter and does not allow her daughter's status to be threatened in any way.
The Shiba clan has become extinct. Yoshihiro Shiba revived the clan as his legitimate son, but achieved achievements that surpassed those of the clan.
Rather than saying that the current Shiba family is the continuation of the Shiba clan, it is better to say that it is the new country created by Yoshihiro Shiba himself.
Although the Wu family values bloodline and family name, as the first generation Shiba Yiyin, he has far more power and prestige than ordinary family governors. With his character that values friendship, he would never treat his children harshly.
Although Terutora Uesugi didn't think Yoshigan Shiba would have any affection for Takeda Shingen who insulted her, she was very afraid of that scoundrel of the Takeda family.
Just because it was impossible to determine how Shiba Yoshigan would react to the existence of this scoundrel, it was better to hide it from him and clean up the Takeda family.
Seeing the twinkling eyes of the two important ministers, Uesugi Teruhu said decisively.
"You don't need to persuade me anymore, I have made up my mind, let's hide it from Jindo-don for now.
During this year, Uesugi's various departments will recharge their batteries, which should be enough for next year. "
Hearing that Terutora Uesugi had the idea of using weapons again, Honjo Minoru was stunned and said.
"Your Highness, the Kamakura Palace has an imperial decree, and there is no war in Kanto."
She explicitly said it was Ashikaga Yoshiji, but actually she was referring to Shiba Yoshigan. Now the entire land of Kanto and Hachishu is surrounded by the politically correct atmosphere of peace in Kanto, and even the Hojo family seems to be at peace.
The Mogami family and the Osaki family who were far away in Ou also used this excuse to invite reinforcements from Shimogotsu, which brought Date Masamune into disgrace.
Uesugi Teruhora now mentioned that he wanted to go to war next year, and Honjo Minoru had to persuade him. It was really not convenient for him to go to war at this time.
Naoe Keizuna also said.
"Your Highness, there has been a severe drought in Kanto for three years. Echigo's various places have had business profits from the Hokuriku Road trade route, and life has been relatively easy.
But Guanbazhou has become a human tragedy. Fifty to seventy percent of the harvest is considered good. In some places with barren land, there is almost no harvest.
It is precisely because of this that the Guanbazhou Wu family enthusiastically supports Shiba's new ideas for the peaceful development of Tsudado Hall. Everyone really has no intention of fighting. "
Naoe Keetsuna also gave round-the-clock advice, not wanting Teruhora Uesugi to get confused.
War is the most expensive thing to do.
It takes two kilograms of grain to raise an ashigaru for a year, which means they are still half-starved and half-fed. When the war started, the food had to be doubled, otherwise people could die suddenly from exhaustion.
The Wanshi territory can only support a reserve team of two hundred ashigaru and forty or fifty Ji warriors. It's okay for Ashigaru to be in charge of food, but Ji Samurai needs salary, knowledge, and rewards for winning battles, which are all costs.
Even if it is the land tax of six public officials and four people, the annual harvest of the ten thousand stone territory is only six thousand stone, which may not be enough to fight a hundred days of war. It also requires mobilizing troops and consuming labor.
If in good times everyone went out to grab food, land and men, that would be fine.
But now the land of Guanbazhou is so poor that it is necessary to wear pants. Is the war going to grab territory now, or to provide warmth?
Shiba Yoshigan also forbade the Echigo family to go to Kanhachi Province to grab food. After conquering this territory, they still had to take care of the food. No matter how rich Echigo was, the landowners did not have much surplus food in the disaster years, so they could not afford such waste.
Not to mention the political correctness of All Quiet War in Kanto, if you look at the economic accounts, it is also a real loss-making business. Naoe Keizuna is in charge of the public and is in charge of the Uesugi family's purse, so of course he doesn't want to.
Uesugi Teruhu shook her head. She naturally understood the advice of the two important ministers.
"You have misunderstood. I am not going to use troops against Guan Bazhou, but to attack the unjust Takeda family.
Takeda Shingen's desires were overwhelming. I tolerated her when she invaded the Shinano Kingdom. Tsutado-den even helped her obtain the position of guardian of Shinano from the Kyoto shogunate.
But what about her? Still greedy, he failed to live up to the kindness of Tsutama Hall and went to attack Suruga Kingdom, disrupting Tokaido.
How can I tolerate this kind of scum who is unfaithful and unjust and causing trouble in Guandong!
When I formed an alliance with Hojo Ujiyasu, it was to jointly defeat this traitor. Unfortunately, Hojo Ujiyasu died of illness later, which delayed the matter.
However, it is said that Hojo Ushimasa also deeply hated this thief and had contacted Oda Tokugawa to attack the Takeda family.
Since I have an agreement with the Hojo family, why can't I get a share of the pie? "
Honjo Minoru and Naoe Keizuna were both stunned. Their master turned out to be a rare ruthless person today, full of benevolence and morality, but full of evil and shamelessness.
When I got Shinano to protect Takeda Shingen and gave her salt and daily necessities, I was begging them to attack Suruga Country and split the three alliances of Imagawa, Takeda and Hojo.
Now that the Suruga Kingdom has been taken, Uesugi Teruhu turns his back and refuses to recognize anyone, and wants to use this reason to attack the Takeda family. Isn't it a bit too shameless?
Naoe Keizuna hesitated and said.
"Beixin's trade routes were strictly ordered not to be cut off from Jindo Hall."
What she meant was that Yoshigan Shiba wanted to maintain harmony with the Takeda family and maintain strategic pressure on the Hojo family.
Uesugi Teruhora united with the Hojo clan, and even Oda Tokugawa to take over the Takeda family, which was not in line with Yoshihiro Shiba's strategic vision.
Uesugi Teruhu said calmly.
"Tsudadono will leave Kanto after autumn."
Honjo Minoru smiled bitterly.
"Tsuda-den has left temporarily, but the Kanto Palace is still there. The Standing Council will not allow us to deviate from Tsutama-den's strategic intentions."
After hearing her words, Uesugi Teruhu's face looked a little strange and he said slowly.
"I am confident that Takeo Shima and Yukimori Yamanaka will support me in my crusade against Takeda."
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