In the courtyard where Yiyin was temporarily stationed, he sat on the porch, the sun shining on him was so warm that he didn't want to move.
Satake Yoshitaka knelt on the gravel ground under the steps, lying low on the ground. The people around her looked at her warily.
Yiyin exhaled, recovered from the warm spring sun, and said.
"Get up and answer."
"Hi."
Looking at Satake Yoshige's haggard face, Yoshigan found that this mature woman was quite beautiful. If she were twenty years younger, she would be a rare beauty.
It's a pity that beauty ages easily, and now she is in such a miserable state that her former glory can only be seen from a few bones.
Yiyin patted the porch board next to him and said.
"Aren't your knees uncomfortable when you kneel on the gravel road? Come and sit."
Satake Yoshige was a little confused about Yoshigage's kindness, so he kowtowed to the ground.
"I dare not. I have committed a heinous crime and deserve to die. I have no face to accept the saint's preferential treatment. I beg you to take back your life."
Yiyin shook his head and said.
"Who can comment on the merits and demerits of a thousand years?
The Satake family is a famous Minamoto family and has been in Hitachi since the Kamakura shogunate period.
The Hitachi Kingdom is the bridge between Guan Yashu and Ou. The samurai family explores the depths of Ou. The Hitachi Kingdom is the bridgehead. It is the Satake family that contributes to maintaining the stability of the samurai world.
No matter what you Satake Yishige has done, the five hundred years of credit and hard work of the Satake family deserve my respect. Come and sit here, this dignity is for the Satake family. "
Satake Yoshin choked up and kowtowed.
"The guilty minister thanked the saint."
Yoshihiro was to give the Satake family dignity, and Satake Yishige had to give it up. This also made her feel a little relieved. The saint may not be really unfair.
Being under the roof, she had to numbly convince herself that maybe the saint really meant well, but the little people below made things worse, which damaged the saint's reputation.
In any case, Yoshigage's affirmation of the Satake family gave Satake Yishige a glimmer of hope in his heart, which was a good sign.
In fact, Yoshihiro is not as noble as Satake Yishige. Everyone is the governor of the family. Everyone knows what kind of bastard nature the Wu family group has.
The house governor is a fool riding on the back of a tiger. Who is not so anxious that he takes the blame for others? Satake Yoshige feels bitter, but Yoshigage feels better?
There's nothing we can do about it!
The samurai family follows the principle of public service and reward. Yoshihiro mobilized the Kanto samurai family to fight Oda Nobunaga, so there must be something in return.
But in order to defeat Oda Nobunaga, Yoshigami lost two million koku in money, food and military equipment, and his family's fortune was almost depleted.
Basically, he is willing to pay another two million stone reward, but if there is no land to know and do, the soup will still be bland and cannot convince the meritorious ministers.
Others regard him as a saint, but who knows his troubles? The economic base determines the superstructure. If he has no money or land, he will become a saint!
Fortunately, the people in the East were ignorant and refused to send troops to promote justice, which just gave Yiyin an excuse.
If you don’t take it from the west, take it from the east.
The Kwantung Allied Forces only received money and food rewards from the war in Kinki. As for the land that the samurai family cared about most, they had no choice but to seek recourse from the people of the East.
Satake Yoshige felt that his family's unjust reputation was wronged, but this was the best choice that Yoshinegi could find. If this land could not be found by the people of the East, who else could it be?
But Yiyin didn't expect that the people at the Kanto Palace could do such a rough job. They didn't give the people of the East any way to survive, and they refused to use any means of disintegration, so they just forced themselves on them!
The ladies of the Kanto Palace are not stupid, they are simply bad, blinded by greed.
They believed that the Guandong Imperial Guards had strong troops and horses, and it would be best to directly knock out the bones and suck out the marrow of the Eastern people. They were not prepared to leave any room for the Eastern people, but they would directly drive people to the point of jumping over the wall.
Yoshihiro's ideal idea of conquering the East should be under the political coordination of the Kanto Secretariat, and the various families of the United Front should discuss with each other.
Under the framework of the Grand Council, everyone cooperated with each other, continued to encroach and advance, and took over the land in the eastern part of Guanbazhou. In a few years, the entire Guanbazhou area was brought under the jurisdiction of the Kanto Palace.
Yoshihiro originally wanted to let the Kanto Secretariat play its own game, and he should not get involved. He would use this sure-fire expedition to fine-tune the system of the Grand Council and allow the new Kanto system to mature.
But the reality is so cruel. Yi Gin's face is almost swollen by those greedy guys at the Kanto Palace. Those people don't follow the ordinary path at all. They only take advantage and don't suffer any losses. They are simply bastards!
The Guandong Shisuo used the stupidest and most brutal methods to deal with the Eastern people, and naturally ushered in the most violent and radical resistance from the Eastern people.
As for Yiyin, he is the unlucky political pressure relief valve!
The Guandong Waiting Office is acting recklessly, and the people in the East are filled with resentment, so let’s fight the Guandong Waiting Office! The resolution was voted by the Grand Council, and it was not decided by my order. It’s my job to do it!
The rash attack of the Oriental People has disrupted Yiyin's political planning. And Satake Yoshigeage decisively came to surrender, which created a huge problem for Yoshigan.
In Yi Yin's vision, the grand council system must mature, and the good operation of aristocratic co-governance can help him save a lot of trouble.
The politics of island countries have always been dominated by two major economic centers. Kinki and Kanto are two large economic centers, and there is always the possibility of division and confrontation.
The Kamakura shogunate fought against the Kyoto court, and the Kamakura Ashikaga family fought against the Ashikaga shogun family. These are the blood and tears of the rulers in the history of the island country.
Before Yoshigan unifies the world and completes the Shiba theocracy and the political system of the Goddess family, he must firmly control both Kinki and Kanto.
The Kanto Imperial Palace system is a political asset that Yi Bank is relatively satisfied with. Aristocratic republican autonomy may not be the optimal solution, but it is definitely not the worst.
Theoretically, the consensus system is stable enough. Although internal strife and wrangling are unavoidable, small conflicts are usually vented during discussions, so it is not easy for major conflicts to accumulate and cause big troubles.
But reality is far funnier than theory.
The concubines of the Kanto Palace were greedy for the territory of the Eastern People, so they simply kicked the Eastern People out of the Great Council, and then passed a resolution to attack the Eastern People.
As soon as the Guandong Chamber of Commerce took over, the people in the East had no channel to bargain. The contradictions accumulated to the point where they could not be reconciled. In the end, they were all vented on Yiyin. Was Yiyin wronged?
Fortunately, Yiyin's pressure relief valve was strong enough and managed to withstand the pressure. Now the Oriental crowd was so vented that their legs were weak and they knelt down, which led to new troubles.
Yiyin hopes that through negotiation, cooperation, and crusade, the Kanto Secretariat will slowly digest the power of the Eastern Host in the four countries of Shimono, Hitachi, Shangzong, and Anfang in a few years.
A mature mechanism has been formed politically, a consensus for cooperation has been formed militarily, and an overall planning plan has been formed financially, making the Kanto Palace a new political system that can operate independently and well.
The failure of the Eastern Army's proactive attack severely damaged their morale. The time of the war against the Eastern Army will be greatly shortened, which has made it difficult for Yi Yin's political plot to achieve its goals.
As for Satake Yoshige's kneeling, he smashed Yoshigage's wishful thinking to the ground and stepped on it several times.
In Yiyin's expectation, the people in the East should choose to retreat and shrink when they are unable to do anything.
Just like Satomi Yoshihiro's choice, he ran back to the base area to resist, Satake went back to Hitachi, and Utsunomiya went back to the field. Anyway, you have to be this bad guy and resist to the end.
Only in this way can the Kanto Palace's crusade against the people of the East continue to operate normally. Even if the difficulty is not as good as before, at least go through the process, play for a year or two, and practice the training system.
But now, when Satake Yoshigege, the most powerful top boss in the East, kneels down, it will immediately cause a chain reaction.
Panic is likely to arouse on the Eastern side. Once the domino effect of surrendering early and suffering less, and surrendering late being unlucky occurs, a crusade by the Eastern crowd may become unnecessary.
The enemies have all surrendered and are lying there to be slaughtered. To attack someone is called accepting!
The most troublesome thing for Yi Gin was not that the crusade ended in vain, but that the various families in the Kanto Palace had no credit for this war, not even hard work!
Almost all the battles were fought by Yiyin alone, and the Pu Sheng clan suffered a little bit in Xiaojincheng.
It was probably only the young men of the Hojo family, Yasunari Hojo, who really contributed. Daidaiji Morimasa followed him and ran around the Boso Peninsula without even flashing his knife before he ran back.
Daosheng fiercely recaptured Guansu City and finally made a contribution.
Then what? Who else? Who else!
A group of United Front Soldiers from the Kanto Palace were debating the nonsense. Yoshigan himself and his assorted rebels defeated the Eastern Army. It took only twenty or thirty days, and in the blink of an eye, it was over!
The Wu family values rewarding the public. If you don't have any merit, how dare you divide the territory? Even if you are embarrassed, can others be convinced?
The system has not been tempered, and the hidden dangers in the east have not been truly eliminated. Even if they succeed in forcing the people from the east to surrender, they will only have more troubles in the future.
Yoshihiro originally wanted to use the Kanto shrine system to operate on his own, so that he could act as the boss, but in the end, all the credit would be his own. If the land was all under his own control, wouldn't he cry to death?
The Shiba clan was destroyed, and the Takata sisters were replaced by fakes. The newly acquired retainers of Yoshihiro were not enough to manage the Shiba territory. What human resources did he use to cover the Shikoku lands in the eastern part of Kanhachishu?
If in the end, these lands only belong to Yiyin in name, but in fact, P has no control over them, and they can be used to take advantage of them regardless of the circumstances, and they can also take advantage of the Spo family's welfare, why should Yiyin take it?
He is not really a philanthropist. Just listen to the name of the saint, but don't take it seriously!
Yoshigan couldn't help but sigh as he looked at Yoshige Satake who was sitting carefully next to him on the porch, leaning sideways and hunched over as if to listen to instructions.
He didn't like to see Satake Yoshishige like a dead dog lying on the wormwood. He actually wanted to see Satake Yoshishige being unruly and leading his troops back to Hitachi Kingdom, determined to fight to the end.
But Satake Yoshitaka is not stupid. If he is not given a chance, he will be very desperate!
Yiyin had a good sleep last night, and his thoughts became particularly clear after he woke up.
The most important thing now is not to punish Satake Yoshige, but to find a way to resolve the political imbalance caused by this emergency and reshape the political balance of the Kanto Palace.
That's why Yoshigan received Satake Yoshige politely, allowed her to sit at the table, and treated her with courtesy.
It is not in Yoshigan's interest to completely trample the dead dog of the Satake family to death. On the contrary, it is more in Yoshigan's interest to maintain the dignity of the Satake family.
Yiyin asked softly and kindly.
"Before His Majesty Satake sets off, how is the battle situation in Xiaojin City?"
Satake Yoshitaka bowed in fear.
"The guilty minister was temporarily confused and tried to fight against the heavenly soldiers. He besieged Xiaojin City for thirteen days, destroyed embankments and flooded the fields, and even the west wall collapsed, but still found nothing.
The heavenly soldiers are mighty, and the ministers are well-dressed. "
Yiyin nodded with satisfaction.
There is nothing wrong with Kokinjo and Kamoji Township. This is the prerequisite for a good conversation between Yoshigan and Satake Yoshige. If there are really three advantages and disadvantages in Kamaoji Village, Yoshigan will be rude to Satake Yoshige.
Satake Yoshige obviously also understands this truth. She was so angry before that she couldn't capture Xiaojin Castle, but now she is so happy that she didn't capture it.
The current situation of Xiaojin City cannot be hidden from anyone, and Yoshigan does not think that Yoshige Satake has the courage to lie to him.
Satake Yoshitaka came to surrender last night, and the people of the East found that the general was missing. Naturally, they had no intention of attacking Xiaojincheng again. The village of Kamou clan was already safe.
Yoshigan was in a good mood, and just as Ii Naomasa came over with a breakfast plate, he pointed at Satake Yoshige and said.
"Bring one to His Highness Satake. She must be hungry after a long night of fatigue. Then give her a dry towel to wipe her with. The spring dew is heavy, so don't catch a cold."
Satakeyi thanked him profusely, with a look of tears of gratitude, and took the dry towel handed to him by the crowd to wipe his hair.
Yoshigan didn't care whether her acting skills were real or not, he just waved his hand and waited for Naomasa Ii to pick up another breakfast and place it in front of Yoshigeage Satake.
The breakfast for both of them was a bowl of rice porridge, with some delicacies and dry goods sprinkled in it. It smelled so fragrant that it made Satake Yoshige's stomach growl and his face turned red.
In this barren island country in the Middle Ages, rice porridge was a precious medicinal food that ordinary people did not eat at all. Only the nobles had the opportunity to enjoy it when they were sick.
Yiyin smiled and said.
"Thanks to you, I'm a little tired from running around these days. The doctor prescribed some medicinal food to restore my strength. I happened to have some dried matsutake mushrooms that Sanada received as tribute on hand, so I ate a little extravagantly."
Satake Yoshige bowed again and said regretfully.
"This is all my fault."
Yiyin shook his head and picked up the chopsticks.
"It's also thanks to you that I have a good appetite today. I think you are also hungry. Let's eat together. Food is the first priority for the people. It's a big deal that we should wait until we have a full stomach."
Satake Yoshitaka said respectfully.
"The saint is wise."
