Hojo Umasa is pregnant with the saint's descendant?
Hojo Gen'an subconsciously looked at Hojo Umasa's lower abdomen, his expression uncertain.
"Are you...are you...sure?"
Hojo Umasa touched his belly and asked without answering.
"Lord Hojo Genan, am I the governor of the Hojo family? Do I have the power to decide the future of the Hojo family?
Please give me a clear answer. "
Hojo Genan looked at Hojo Ushimasa's hands touching his belly, kowtowed to the ground, and said solemnly.
"Of course you are the governor of the Hojo family. The future of the Hojo family is in your hands."
Hojo Umasa nodded.
"Mobilize the Minami Musashi people, the Tamado people, the Odawara people, the North Izu people, the Oizu people, etc., all mobilize.
My aunt, Daidoji, Matsuda, Shimizu, Kasahara and other families will go out together to fight against Satake Yishige in Shimo-sou Kingdom! "
After Hojo Ushimasa finished speaking, Hojo Genan's expression was solemn. The people Hojo Ushimasa mentioned were all the second and third generations of the Hojo retainers. He named them deliberately at this time and meant something.
Hojo Genan whispered.
"My family is full of elites, won't Your Highness go to the front line to supervise?"
Hojo Umasa's face turned pale, and he retched at the container next to him. After a while, he picked up the water glass, took a sip of water in his mouth, and then spit it out.
“I can’t go.
On the way back, I started to vomit a little. After consulting a doctor, I found out that I was already one and a half months pregnant.
The seed of a saint is not trivial. I need to rest and rest. I ask my great aunt to take care of my affairs in the army.
There are saints on the front line. I believe that all the troops will work together to kill the thieves and will not let me down. "
Hojo Genan stopped talking and turned into a sigh.
Regardless of whether Hojo Ushimasa's physical discomfort was true or not, Hojo Genan could not question it.
According to rumors, Shiba Yoshigina descended from Bishamonten, and his descendants also had supernatural powers. Takeda Shingen and Uesugi Kenshin were both in a weak state for a long time before and after their birth.
There was nothing wrong with what Hojo Ushimasa said. Even if she was pretending to be powerless, Hojo Genan would not dare to force her to work on the front line.
You must know that the divine seed carried by the Hojo Ujimasa is the divine seed that the Hojo family finally climbed onto the holy bed to ask for at the expense of the land of Tomusashi and the Imagawa clan.
The Hojo family was very ambitious, and they only spent more than ten days with the saint before she became pregnant with the divine descendant.
At this time, everyone in the Hojo family had to protect and coax Hojo Umasa, but they didn't dare to put the worthless god seed in her belly in the slightest danger.
As Hojo Genan said, the future of the Hojo family is already in the hands of Hojo Ujimasa. From the moment it was confirmed that Hojo Ujimasa was pregnant with the divine seed, the future route of the Hojo family has also been determined.
Before conceiving a divine descendant, the Hojo family might have to make two preparations. But with the Goddess in hand, the Hojo family finally has a bargaining chip that is not weaker than the Uesugi Takeda family, and can go further.
The Hojo clan dignitaries sent troops without even arranging a general. They just asked the Hojo army to go to the front line and obey the command of the saint.
The battlefield is the easiest place to form friendships. The Hojo Young Faction followed Shiba Yoshigan in a battle, and they changed from enemies to licking dogs.
Now, the Hojo clan ordered the old members of the Hojo family, the Sagami clan and the Izu clan, to mobilize all of them and follow the saint to fight.
It only takes a few good battles, and the military morale of the Hojo family will completely fall to Yoshigami Shiba.
In the martial arts society, the morale of the military is both the morale of the people.
The Hojo military's heart has turned to Shiba Yoshigan, and even if old ministers like Hojo Genan want to maintain the independence of the Hojo family, it will become increasingly difficult for them.
And Hojo Ushimasa, the family governor who resolutely integrated into Shiba's theocratic power, could manage with less effort from now on.
This is why Hojo Genan hoped that Hojo Ushimasa would go to the front line to serve as the general, but Hojo Ushimasa refused to go on the pretext of raising a child.
Hojo Genan looked helplessly at Hojo Ushimasa. Not only was the young governor pregnant with the saint's seed, but his soul had also been taken away by the saint.
The Hojo clan leader is trying to do something evil, leaving Hojo Genan, an old fox, unable to do anything. The child was in Hojo Umasa's belly, so of course it was Hojo Umasa who had the final say.
Unless the Hojo family is willing to give up this hard-won divine descendant and revise their strategic plan to join Shiba Yoshigan.
Otherwise, Hojo Ujimasa's voice will increase with the birth of this child. When the idea comes to fruition, Hojo Ujimasa will be completely invincible.
With this child, the bond between Hojo Ushimasa and Shiba Yoshigan will become extremely strong, and all the pro-Shiba warriors in the Hojo family will stand firmly by the side of Hojo Ushimasa, the family governor.
Shiba Yoshigan led the Hojo army to fight on the front line, and has won the hearts of the Hojo young faction.
The Hojo Ushimasa sent all the old members of the Hojo family to the front line and put Yoshigan Shiba under the command. God knows how many Hime warriors in the Hojo army will fall to the saint after the decisive battle with Satake Yoshige.
As long as Hojo Ujimasa gives birth to a child, these people will become the staunchest supporters of Hojo Ujimasa and help Hojo Ujimasa achieve his goal of integrating into Shiba theocracy.
As for the old people like Hojo Genan and Daidaiji Morimasa, they will slowly decay and wither over time, watching helplessly as the Hojo family becomes part of Shiba's divine authority.
Hojo Genan has very complicated feelings about this future.
From an emotional ideal point of view, she does not want the family business that the four generations of the Hojo family have worked hard to become a branch of other people's families. She longs for the Hojo family to become the overlord of Kanto and dominate the world.
But from a realistic point of view, the Hojo family has integrated into the Shiba theocracy and become part of the highest ruling group in the world. This is a great thing that cannot be obtained from anyone.
Looking at Hojo Umasa's young face, Hojo Genan suddenly felt that she had aged ten years again in an instant, and she smiled helplessly.
Each generation has its own mission, and each generation has its own unique environment. The experience and choices of the elderly may not be correct.
Some old people always complain that young people don't work hard and make progress, and want to point fingers at young people, because in their time, hard work and progress can really reap sweet fruits.
But now? When hard work fails to yield sufficient benefits, does persuading people to make progress still have any practical guiding significance?
Most old people who lack wisdom should keep their mouths shut, not suffer others' suffering, and do not be kind to others. Young people know their real position better than the old people, and know better how to think about their future.
Hojo Genan smiled in relief and bowed.
"I will obey the wishes of the family governor."
Hojo Umasa nodded slightly, but did not feel happy because of Hojo Genan's compromise. She was already thinking about more distant things in her heart.
Her child will be born in eight months. By then, Takeda Yoshinobu will be five years old and Uesugi Miyuki will be two years old.
If I could give birth to a daughter. .
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The truest love between parents in the world is that the tears and blood melt into the bodies of their children. He worked so hard to become a son, which pity the hearts of parents all over the world.
The three of Uesugi, Takeda and Hojo fell in love with Yoshigen Shiba, and even more loved their children.
The love between a man and a woman is as hot as fire. The love between mother and daughter is warm and lasting. Before the Spo family was conquered, every mother began to worry about her daughter's future ten or twenty years from now.
If Shiba Yiyin knew these mother-in-law's thoughts, would she want to laugh or cry?
Yiyin started using mugwort when he was fifteen years old and has been practicing it for eighty or nine years. However, except for the three powerful clans in Kanto, the other Ji warriors have achieved nothing.
I don't know if it was a coincidence or God's will, but it happened that these three most powerful family governors in Guandong succeeded in getting pregnant.
How would Akechi Mitsuhide feel if he knew that his plan of occupying the magpie's nest, which he had worked so hard to plan, had turned out like this?
Would she blame her stomach for not being able to live up to expectations, or blame the island's strength, Yamanaka Yukimori, and these useless things for allowing people to get there first in Kanto?
In short, with the unbalanced birth of Shiba Yoshigan's children, the Shiba theocracy with the divine descendants as the core has become imbalanced between Kanto and Kansai. This is a serious political issue.
But at this moment, Yoshihiro Shiba doesn't know this yet. He is singing that it is better to chase the poor bandits with courage, and not to be a famous scholar. After chasing Yoshihiro Satomi, there is no way to the sky and no way to the earth.
Satomi Yoshihiro was defeated and fled under the castle of Kokufu, and was rescued by the Sakai Army. As soon as she returned to Chiba Castle to gather her troops and prepare to regroup, Yoshihiro Shiba led the Hojo Army to follow her.
The frightened Fangzong coalition forces were so frightened that they broke up again when they saw Shiba Yiyin's military flag, and they did not dare to fight at all.
With this run, he ran back to Xiaogong City, the starting point where the Fangzong coalition forces gathered to dispatch troops. The families and horses scrambled to retreat, losing all their harvested territories and cities, and returned to the front overnight.
Xiaogong Castle was the bridgehead for the Satomi family's previous invasions of the Lower Kingdom. Satomi Yoshiyao had already arrived at Xiaogong Castle at this time.
The prestige of Yoshihiro Satomi was far greater than that of his daughter Yoshihiro Satomi, and he finally stabilized the Boso coalition forces, defended the city, and faced off against the Hojo army led by Yoshigan Shiba.
Shiba Yoshigan has few soldiers in his hands, and he has the trouble of Satake Yoshige behind him. Forcibly attacking the city is beneficial and harmless, but a wise man would not take it.
Since Satomi Yoshiyao led tens of thousands of Boso's coalition forces to huddle in Xiaogong City, the rest of the Boso peninsula was naturally empty.
Shiba Yiyin simply sent cavalry to attack everywhere with his family's crest flag, harassing the cities of the Kingdom and causing local commotion.
Then, Toki Norayi, the leading party, took the lead and secretly contacted each house owner. The homeowners' families had long been scared out of their wits by Sibo Yiyin, so they turned against him one after another.
For a time, there was a wave of uproar in the Shang Kingdom, and the Sakai, Masaki, and Toki families turned around and joined the Shiba Yiyin camp.
Satomi Yoshiyao and Satomi Yoshihiro's mother and daughter were shocked. Seeing that they could no longer distinguish between friend and foe, they led their family and horses to retreat south from Kogami Castle overnight, crossed the Yoro River, and retreated to Shiizu Castle.
Originally, Satomi Yoshiyao thought that relying on the natural danger of the Yoro River and the solidity of Shiizu Castle, he could stop Yoshihiro Shiba's troops here.
But at this time, Maritani and the Tominami Takeda family, who had returned to their original duties, also turned against justice and turned to Shiba Yoshigan.
Marissatani Castle and Tōnan Castle were right behind Shiizu Castle, which completely blocked the Satomi Army's retreat. Satomi Yoshihiro had no choice but to abandon the city again and fled back to Kururi Castle in embarrassment.
At this point, Satomi Yoshiyao had lost most of the Shangso Kingdom's sphere of influence in just a few days, and could only rely on the favorable mountainous terrain of the Boso Hills to cling to the base of the Anfang Kingdom.
The Bosou coalition was completely disintegrated, relieving Shiba Yiyin's worries.
Since the Boso Peninsula is no longer a concern, there is no need for Shiba Yoshigan to cross the Yoro River and continue to attack the mountain fortress in the Boso Hills.
After ordering the Bosou Peninsula samurai family to go home and reflect, Yoshigan Shiba turned around and led the Hojo army back to Shimonoseki. It was time to have a good talk with Satake Yoshige.
Satoshi was horrified when he saw Yiyao, but he also couldn't trust the Fang Zongwu family who had just betrayed him. The Fang Zongwu family could only strictly guard their own houses and helplessly watched Shiba Yiyin calmly lead his troops back.
And Shiba Yiyin's impressive record of defeating the Boso coalition forces in one battle and conquering the Boso Peninsula without a fight once again shocked Kanto and strengthened his undefeated status.
Satake Yoshige has already faced disaster.
