In the late summer and early autumn, when Yoshihiro Saba was arranging logistics, conducting diplomacy, and deploying troops, Oda Nobunaga was indeed a little impatient.
The Noo Plain, which owns the two countries of Owari and Mino, also suppressed Omi Country, the gateway to and from Konki. Oda Nobunaga quickly recovered from Yoshigan Shiba's sudden change of attitude.
Oda Nobunaga, who was far more convenient than Yoshigan Shiba in mobilizing and gathering strength, was already getting ready to take action.
At this time, trouble began to occur in various parts of the Oda family, first of all, civil strife broke out in Echizen Country.
Oda Nobunaga, who had just taken over Echizen Kingdom, treated the former Asakura retainers who came over very kindly, and for the time being focused on stability and tolerance.
Not only did she not touch Asakura Kageki of Tsuruga County from the Shiba camp, but she also gave Asakura members, old ministers, and local powerful samurai the skills to calm down and pacify people, including Asakura Kageki.
However, as the Oda family's main army retreated, Asakura's former ministers who surrendered to the Oda family began to compete with each other for land rights in Echizen.
First, there was a quarrel between Maenami Yoshitsugi and Tomita Nagashige. Both sides wrote slanderous letters to Oda Nobunaga to slander their opponents. Afterwards, another mobilization started, and the former Boji was defeated and killed.
Tomita Nagashige was not satisfied with taking over Yoshitsugi Maeba, so he tricked Uozumi Kegu into coming to the city for a banquet, and took the opportunity to kill him and annex his territory.
At this time, Tomita Nagashige had taken over most of the territory of the Asakura clan, and his power was strong. Her treachery and killing of her colleagues also aroused the fear of Asakura's old ministers.
The Echizen girls joined forces to besiege, but Tomita Nagashige continued to fight and win. Seeing that she was about to take over the Echizen country, she was bombarded with iron cannons at close range by her angry retainers and was killed on the spot.
Regarding the civil strife in Echizen, Oda Nobunaga initially looked on with a cold eye and was happy to watch Asakura's old ministers kill each other, so as to clear up hidden dangers and eliminate dissidents for the Oda family to truly control Echizen State in the future.
But Oda Nobunaga never expected that the mantis stalked the cicada, the oriole was behind, and the internal strife in Echizen also gave Hokurikudo an opportunity that he had always been able to take advantage of.
The Echizen samurai family, exhausted by civil strife, was caught off guard by a surprise attack from Hokurikudo. The Ono people who controlled the Daishoji River were defeated, and their leader, Asakura Kagyou, died on the battlefield.
Nanari Yorishu and Shimoma Yoriteru, the two generals of the Ichibuki clan in Kaga Echichu, joined forces to launch the Ichibuki clan and swept the entire Echizen country in an instant.
At this time, in Echizen's country, important Asakura former ministers either died in internal fighting or were overthrown by the swept-up Ichiki.
Big bosses such as Tomita Nagashige, Uozumi Kagegu, Maeba Yoshitsugi, and Asakura Keikag all died. The leaderless Echizen samurai family couldn't stop them and could only keep asking for help from the Oda family.
Oda Nobunaga was so angry that she watched the infighting in Echizen with joy, waiting for a good opportunity to completely annex and digest the Echizen country. This was a good time, and it was completely advantageous for Hokurikudo.
Hokurikudo has always been aggressive. They bypassed Asakura Kageki, who belonged to the Shiba camp, and went directly to the Kitaomi territory, panicking the Kitaomi samurai family who had recently joined the Oda family.
Hokurikudo has always been arrogant, which Oda Nobunaga will never tolerate.
She finally killed Asai and Asakura's family and took over their territory. If Ichigo Ichikui continues to be so unbridled, how can the local samurai family respect and submit to the Oda family?
Just when Oda Nobunaga decided to go to Echizen Country and fight back the Hokurikudo, something happened again in the land of Kitaise.
Nagashima, who had been lying dormant for several months, attacked again, launched a siege, and captured Ogijie Castle on the border between Owari and Ise, intending to cut off the connection between Owari and Ise, causing great panic.
The turmoil in Nagashima, which has always been unstoppable, directly threatened the trade circle between Nobi Plain and Atsuta Shrine. It was the rice bag and money bag that Oda Nobunaga used to conquer the world, and there was no room for loss.
Therefore, Oda Nobunaga sent Shibata Katsuie north to attack the Hokuriku Road. Sakuma Nobumori was sent south to capture Nagashima. Grasp with both hands, use both hands to suppress it with all your strength.
At this point, the Oda family was too busy to take care of themselves, and Oda Nobunaga no longer had the intention to interfere with Yoshihiro Shiba's dispatch, and had always bought a lot of time for Yoshihiro Shiba.
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Kyoto
, Spo Mansion.
In the crisp autumn weather, Yoshigage looked at Reina who was playing in the courtyard. No, she should be called Takeda Yoshinobu now, smiling and saying nothing.
Beside him, Kamao clan knelt down to serve him, looking at the child with him.
Yiyin asked softly.
"Have you delivered all the things I asked you to send to Kasugayama Castle?"
Kamojigo said with a bow.
"Don't worry, Your Majesty, everything has been delivered. But..."
Pu Shengshixiang stopped talking, and Yiyin turned around and glanced at her.
"Speak directly if you have something to say, why are you hesitating?"
Pu Shengshixiang sighed.
"You don't shy away from it and directly send something to Uesugi Miyuki. It can easily arouse speculation from the outside world. After all... people's words are scary."
Yiyin smiled indifferently.
"Even if Uesugi Ken uses the fig leaf of his adopted daughter to cover up, in fact, no one knows that Uesugi Miyuki is my daughter.
No matter what Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin did, both children are innocent. They are my blood, and I have to think about them.
If I were cold and indifferent and didn't think about Miyuki's situation at all, and rumors spread that I favored one over the other, I wouldn't want to wrong Miyuki's kid. "
Looking at the melancholy Yoshiyin, the villager of Hamo clan had nothing to say, and finally turned into a sigh.
"Your Majesty, you are too soft-hearted.
Your Highness Uesugi dares to go beyond using the word "Kenshin" to give himself a Dharma name. This is a serious provocation to you. Not only do you not blame her, but you also send gifts to her heirs to show your closeness.
In the eyes of outsiders, this is condoning His Highness Uesugi's reckless behavior and damaging your prestige. "
Yoshigan glanced at the Kamo clan helplessly. Ever since Sakai Minato and his party deceived the Kamo clan again, the little housekeeper had become more and more resentful.
She said that Takeda Uesugi was disrespectful, but the envy in her eyes could not be concealed. She treated Takeda Yoshinobu so well that even Yoshigan felt that she doted on her children too much.
Listening to her ramble, Yiyin felt a little tired and couldn't help but yawn.
Spring is sleepy and autumn is tired, and this is the warmest period after autumn. Although the temperature difference between day and night is large, it is still very comfortable and easy to sleep during the day.
Yiyin himself has been very leisurely recently.
Akechi Mitsuhide is a bastard, but an extremely useful bastard. With this sinister woman around, Oda Nobunaga was already dizzy and had no time to trouble Yoshihiro.
Nagashima continued to rebel, and Hokurikudo even reached the northern border of Omi, severely damaging Oda Nobunaga's face.
I don’t know how Akechi Mitsuhide operates, but Ashikaga Yoshiaki has become active again recently.
The Ashikaga General first considered giving the two generals of the Ichikai clan, Shichisato Yori Shugema and Yoriteru, the shogunate service in charge of the Echizen Kingdom, and slapped Oda Nobunaga hard on his attitude.
After that, she came forward to ask the samurai family of Takashima County to obey the shogunate, so that Takashima County, headed by Isono Yuanmasa, could have an excuse to deal with Oda Nobunaga and turn a blind eye to the Shiba family's behavior of borrowing the road north.
Anyway, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was responsible for all the bad things, while Yoshihiro became a spectator. Oda Nobunaga jumped in anger, but there was nothing she could do about Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Kyoto.
Today's Kyoto is under the protection of the Shiba family's general, Maeda.
Oda Nobunaga could not threaten Ashikaga Yoshiaki, so Ashikaga Yoshiaki opened his arms and slapped Oda Nobunaga one by one, making Oda Nobunaga furious and venting his resentment for being bullied by Oda Nobunaga.
Politically, there is Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the self-destructive Ashikaga general who acts recklessly, and militarily, there are two major forces who are always attacking from the north and the south.
Even though he was as strong as Oda Nobunaga, he was still very busy at this time and had no time to trouble Yoshigan. She was very busy right now.
The most interesting thing is that these things have nothing to do with Yiyin from beginning to end.
Even Mitsuhide Akechi picked it cleanly, without any fishy smell sticking to it. Yiyin really admires this ability of secretly stirring up trouble.
Oda Nobunaga's side is in chaos
Having no time to deal with Yiyin, Yiyin can naturally prepare calmly and make detailed arrangements for the battle after the snow melts in spring next year.
Food, grass, and armaments were raised and distributed by Takada Yono and Ohkuma Asahide in recent Kantō. In terms of military affairs, three Spur territories were mobilized separately, and the Kantō Shisho organized righteous soldiers to send troops.
When everything was on track, Yiyin suddenly found that he didn't need to interfere too much and was quite leisurely.
Centralization has the benefits of centralization, and decentralization has the benefits of decentralization.
Even though Oda Nobunaga is in great power, she also concentrates all her faults and resentments on herself, bearing all the good and bad on her own, which makes her feel tired.
Yiyin, on the other hand, has a thorough decentralization of power. Even though he is like a mascot, he is frustrated in everything he does. He has to coordinate with others and talk heart-to-heart with others, and he has to be careful to maintain his authority.
But when the Sibo family encounters real trouble and is in danger of overturning, everyone connected with Yiyin will suddenly find that they are also in trouble.
The Sibo retainers in the Sbo Territory in the three places discovered that if the Sibo family collapsed, their current benefits would be wiped out, and all their happy lives would be gone forever.
In recent years, the shogunate leaders who have been protected by Yoshigan, Kofukuji Temple, local powerful factions, and even Ashikaga Shogun and Hieizan are all trembling, fearing that Oda Nobunaga will gain power and bully him.
The Kanbazhou samurai family, who had made a profit in the Kantō shrine system, also discovered that the Shiba family was unlucky, and it seemed that they themselves could not escape the turmoil. After finally having a peaceful life for a few days, who wants to go back and continue the chaos?
Even the samurai family, a place for eating and drinking along the Hokuriku Road Trading Road, found that the good days of sitting in rows of fruits and vegetables seemed to be coming to an end. They even used their own capital to invest in the Hokuriku Road Trading Road, which made them panic.
Even fringe forces such as the Noto Hatakeyama family and the Etsuchu Jimbo family became active, participating in the Kwantung Allied Forces and supporting the army's transit.
Only then did Yoshigami realize that if he were defeated, it would be at most Ai Oda Nobunaga's fault, and he wouldn't be much worse in other aspects. As for mugwort, isn’t it already grown in Owari?
However, the losses of the retainers under his command, the Leping Clan, his recent allies, the Kayou Party along the Hokuriku Road, and the beneficiaries of the Kanto Shisho system seemed to be greater and more difficult to accept.
Because Yiyin was too generous in its distribution, whether it was power or benefits, he only kept a small part of it and gave away most of it.
Therefore, once the Shiba Wujia Group is defeated, the person who suffers the most heavy losses will definitely not be Yiyin himself, because he himself does not have much in the first place.
Everyone watched the excitement for a long time, and when they came back to their senses, they suddenly discovered that the clown was actually me.
At this moment, everyone was anxious to help Yiyin, not because he was a good character or virtuous, but because Yiyin lost, and everyone suffered greater losses than Yiyin.
On the contrary, Yiyin became more relaxed and did not need to worry too much. Perhaps this is called fully mobilizing everyone's subjective initiative.
Under the warm autumn sun, Yoshiyin was so lazy that he watched Yoshinobu having sex at his knees, and listened to the complaints of a harem like a harried woman in the Hamo clan.
He suddenly laughed and said to Kamao clan.
"Ujigo, why don't you give birth to one too?"
Kamao clan was stunned for a moment, looked at his master, his tone became nervous, and he spoke squeaky.
"Your Majesty...well...I have no plans to get married yet."
She looked frightened, as if she thought Yiyin was going to marry someone else's son.
Yiyin looked amused, leaned into her ear and spoke softly.
"I'm not asking you to find a husband, I just want to ask you if you want to have a baby with me, so as not to make others jealous every day."
Kamaojigo's eyes widened in disbelief. His ears were itchy from the heat of Yi Gin, and he tilted subconsciously, almost falling to the ground.
Seeing her look like this, Yiyin couldn't help but burst out laughing, and even winked teasingly at the Hamo clan, with a playful look on his face.
Pu Sheng's face turned red with embarrassment, but his voice was as light as a mosquito buzzing.
"Your Majesty knows how to tease people!"
Yiyin looked at her with gentle eyes and sighed softly.
"My clan has finally grown
As I grow older, I also know how to be shy.
It's been five years since your mother sent you to me as a nickname, right? "
Kamojigo nodded slightly.
"Hi, it's been five years."
Yiyin looked at Kamao's hometown and saw that the little bean sprouts had grown up. Although they had not yet grown into full-grown peaches, they were no longer the shriveled beans they once were.
The young body exudes the smell of youth, and the slender figure is already as big as it should be and as small as it should be.
Yoshigan picked up the tip of Kamojigo's chin with his fingers and looked into her eyes. Kamojigo was looked at by Yoshigan in a frivolous manner, but he forgot to avoid his gaze for a moment.
Over the years, the little loli has grown into a big girl, and the gratitude she once felt has gradually turned into an undercurrent called love, flowing slowly in her heart.
Yi Gin's fingers traced Kamao Shigo's chin, passing over her pretty face with baby fat, feeling her smooth and tender skin.
Just as the atmosphere became increasingly ambiguous, Takeda Yoshinobu, who was tired from playing in the distance, suddenly ran over, shouting as he ran.
"Father! Father!"
Kamouso Shigo was so frightened that she quickly lowered her head, and Yiyin picked up a strand of black hair that she had scattered and hung it behind her ear.
Takeda Yoshinobu had already jumped into Yoshigami's arms and said coquettishly.
"Father, I want to eat Tang Guozi."
"Oh my, didn't you just eat it this morning? Eating too much sweet food will cause tooth decay."
"Uuuuu, father, I want to eat."
Takeda Yoshinobu pulled Yoshigami's sleeves, looking pitiful, and the Kamao clan watching on the side couldn't help but said.
"I'll go to the dining room to see if there's anything left."
Takeda Yoshinobu jumped up with a smile.
"I'm going too, I'm going too."
Yi Gin glared at Kamaojigo.
"I'm just spoiled by you. Oh, forget it. After eating, take Yoshinobu to Kosaka Masanobu's place for a nap."
"Hi."
Yoshigan looked at the Kamao clan pulling Takeda Yoshinobu, holding the big hand and the small hand, walking farther and farther, with a warm smile on his lips.
After reviving the Shiba family and ensuring his own survival, being able to protect the happiness of those around him is Yoshigan's greatest pursuit in his life.
