Pandora's box has been opened, and the food stamp financial system that helped the Spo family grow rapidly faced a crisis in less than three years.
Takada Yono is afraid of the crisis and looks forward to the crisis. She hopes to use the crisis to solve her own troubles and further strengthen the food stamp financial system.
She wants to use the stock market crash of the Hokuriku Doro Trading Road and the corruption of the Wu Family Giri Promotion Association to get rid of the huge debt she is carrying and complete the settlement of the accounts.
Then he can easily go into battle and take advantage of the new business opportunities of Donghaidao Trading Road and Nanman General Agent to start the next round of financial expansion.
In crisis, there is opportunity.
As long as this step can be taken, Shiba's food stamps will become more powerful, and will also become the most powerful tool for the Takada family to compete for the favor and give birth to a descendant of the gods.
Two years. . In order to achieve his goal, Takada Harano will plan within two years to actively instigate this financial crisis, kill others, and strengthen himself.
At this time, Yoshigami didn't know that the greedy fool in Kanto had been targeted by Naoyoshi Hansawa, and he didn't know that Takada Harano was planning to catch the cicada with the mantis and the oriole behind.
Yoshigan is happily enjoying the hot springs of Mount Hakone, enjoying the tenderness of Hojo Ujimasa, and imagining the great strategic significance of reopening the Tokaido trade route.
Originally, Yoshigan was still struggling with whether satisfying Hojo Ushimasa's request to have sex would trigger a new round of mugwort craze, which would be a bad start.
But after he really fell asleep, Yiyin was too lazy to worry about how to have a headache in the future. He was drunk today and worried tomorrow.
Hojo Ushimasa is so delicious!
The generosity of the Hojo family and the obedience of the Hojo clan far exceeded Yoshigami's imagination.
Perhaps because he was so brutally killed by Yoshigan, the Hojo retainers' fear of him has exceeded Yoshigan's own expectations.
As long as Hojo Ujimasa can get on Yoshigan's bed and become a member of the Shiba Kami descendants, the Hojo family is really willing to spend a lot of money and directly take out hundreds of thousands of stones of land in Tomusashi.
With such huge efforts, the Imagawa clan has truly become an inconspicuous addition.
Tokaido has three pillars. Even if the Hojo family holds the Imagawa clan's trump card and has enough righteousness, it is actually of little use.
First of all, after the death of Hojo Ujiyasu, the Hojo retainers group became more conservative. The new governor of Hojo Ushimasa was not reliable in any way, and no one had confidence in him.
Let Hojo Ushimasa lead the Hojo family to go head-to-head with a famous boss like Takeda Shingen, and the retainers themselves don't think they can win.
Secondly, even if the Hojo family really won the Suruga Kingdom, it would be a defeat for both the Takeda family and the Tokugawa Ieyasu who was eyeing him.
Tokugawa Ieyasu has continuously penetrated into the Suruga Kingdom over the years and has a deep relationship with the Suruga people. Even if the Hojo family drives away the Takeda family, it will still be embarrassing and replace the Takeda family's ecological niche, which is just as troublesome.
Third, the Takeda family has joined the Kanto Palace. Under the righteous call for peace in Kanto, the Hojo family cannot find a reasonable excuse to start a war.
After all, not everyone is as unlucky as the people in the East. They have become public sacrifices and can feast and eat in the name of righteousness.
Fourth, the crusade against the Eastern Masses is already a certainty. Compared to the Suruga Kingdom, which is more troublesome and less profitable, the Hojo family's strategic goals have completely shifted eastward, looking towards the Bosou Peninsula on the other side.
The Takeda family, which is interested in conquering the Hitachi Kingdom, can help the Hojo family to contain other families of the Orient, allowing the Hojo family to attack the Satomi family with peace of mind.
Why would the Hojo family offend the Takeda family, a quasi-ally, at this time for the sake of a useless Suruga country?
To sum up, the Hojo family's current strategic target is no longer the Suruga Kingdom to the west. The Hojo family, which owns the natural dangers of Mount Ashigara and Mount Hakone, is not too worried about threats from the west.
Let the Imagawa Clan return to the country to serve as the guardian of Suruga, under the supervision of the Shiba family, and turn the Suruga country into a strategic buffer zone between the Tokugawa, Takeda, and Hojo families, which is conducive to the Hojo family's eastward expansion.
Moreover, the reactivation of the Tokaido trade route will also help the Hojo family obtain cheap supplies and reduce the consumption of conquering the Boso Peninsula.
Therefore, when Yoshigan proposed to meet Imagawa Clan and the Shiba family to lead a peace meeting between the three parties and four families and reopen the Tokaido trade route, the Hojo family agreed without hesitation.
Hojo Umasa is now like an innocent girl who has satisfied her love fantasy. Her blind worship of Yoshigoshi is different from the love of ordinary Hime samurai, and satisfies Yoshigan's machismo.
The Hojo retainers group headed by Hojo Genan was also willing to offer the territory of Higashi Musashi, hand over Imagawa Clan, and tie themselves firmly to the chariot of the Shiba family's Kamisan group.
Both parties get what they need and the cooperation is happy.
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Odawara Castle, castle tower.
After a comfortable few days in Mt. Hakone, Yoshigan was welcomed back to Odawara Castle by Hojo Ushimasa, and met with Imagawa Uzuma and Asahina Taitomo, the elder of the Imagawa family, who had rushed from Izu Country.
In the main hall, Imagawa, who was kneeling in front of Yiyin, was really tired, but his spirit was very high, and he kowtowed to the ground.
"The sinful minister Suruga protects the Imagawa clan. He has lost his virtue and lost his country. He is unworthy of the entrustment of the shogunate and the Ashikaga clan. I still ask the saint to punish him."
Yoshigan was very impressed by what she heard, and asked her to get up gently. He saw that the Imagawa family governor had pretty features, but was a little fat. It seemed that the Hojo family had not treated her badly in the past few years and had taken good care of her.
As soon as Imagawa opened his mouth, Yoshigami knew that this man was not stupid, at least he had been educated.
She did not directly accuse Takeda Shingen of betraying his faith, attacking Suruga without any reason, and taking away the Imagawa family's territory. Instead, she emphasized that she was incompetent and unethical, so she lost her country and she blamed herself for the crime.
Although Takeda Yoshinobu's external identity is that of an abandoned baby adopted by Takeda Shingen, only a fool would take it seriously. The fact that Takeda Shingen gave birth to the eldest daughter of Yoshigan is a secret known to all the samurai families in the world.
Yoshigan and Takeda Shingen had a baby after they had sex. In order to protect the baby, Yoshigan and the Shiba Oda family even fought a battle involving 200,000 people.
Is the relationship between the Shiba Takeda family a normal relationship?
If the Imagawa family really accuses Takeda Shingen here and talks nonsense, Yoshigan will see that she is ignorant of current affairs, and the return of the Imagawa family to the country may be ruined.
Even if he returned home and became a puppet of the Shiba family, it would be better than living under the influence of others in the Hojo family. The Imagawa family had already considered this clearly.
Yoshigan is the current elder of the Genji clan and the most prestigious leader of the Ashikaga clan. If the Imagawa clan really stands up for him, even if the Suruga Kingdom is lost in the future, he will definitely make some compensation to the Imagawa family.
The Imagawa family really has no ambition to conquer the world. Why not live with the Shiba family and continue the family business?
The Ashikaga Shogunate was naturally weak and was a hodgepodge of samurai alliances. The Ashikaga Shogun was known as the Lord of the World, but in fact he had little power and mainly relied on the support of powerful samurai clans from various places.
These powerful samurai who served as important ministers in the shogunate, acted as local guardian daimyo, and lived in various places for generations were collectively called the Ashikaga Ichimon Oyakata.
These samurai families basically have branches of the Ashikaga family, which are the supporting force of the Ashikaga shogunate.
Among them, only the Ishibashi, Osaki, and Mogami families are not branches of the Ashikaga family, but they are branches of the Shiba family.
Therefore, the Ashikaga Shogunate was actually a weak samurai regime composed of a large family that relied on blood relationships to maintain blood alliances, and retainers under the large families.
The Imagawa family came to Suruga Kingdom to serve as guardians, as well as the Kira family of Mikawa and the Shiba family of Owari. They were all members of the family sent by the Ashikaga general to Tokaido to see the scene.
Although relatives such as Shiba, Kira, and Imagawa later fought against each other, weakened in strength, and were overthrown by subordinates, the responsibilities assigned by the Ashikaga Shogunate remained unchanged.
The Imagawa family really blames themselves for losing their moral integrity and losing the country, and they are responsible for the shogunate. This political stance is very correct and also satisfies Yoshigan.
Regardless of whether someone taught Imagawa to really say this, it at least shows that she is very aware of her puppet role after returning to Suruga Kingdom, implying that she is willing to obey the organizational distribution of the Ashikaga clan.
As the leader of the Genji clan and the eldest brother of the Ashikaga clan, Yoshigan faces the wise Imagawa clan, and must ensure a good outcome for the Imagawa family in the future. This is the tacit political understanding between the two parties.
(End of chapter)
