Satake Yoshige was a talented person, and Yoshigan felt that it could not be wasted. He chose the northern part of Yushu for Satake Yishige, just to let her work as a helper for Tozawa Moriyasu.
After sleeping with Yoshiun, Tozawa Moriyasu returned to Senboku County in the north of Yushu in high spirits and prepared to attack Minato City to complete the agreement with Yoshigan.
Yiyin values Tozawa Moriyasu's ability, but the geographical location of Tozawa's family is really a bit disadvantageous.
Senboku County of Dewa Province, where the Tozawa family is located, is a passage between the two countries of Ou in the north.
The terrain of northern Ou is similar to the Koshishin Mountains, which is also mountainous. The core of the samurai's campaign is the very few seaside plains and mountain basins between the mountains.
Plains and basins represent cultivated land, which is especially valuable in the cold Ou region.
The Ou area is vast, divided into Dewa Province and Mutsu Province, also known as Yushu Oshu. It has an extremely vast area and continuous mountains.
About one-fifth of the land of the sixty-six countries in the world is in the Ou area, but because the frozen soil in the north is difficult to develop, the stone height is only about 2.6 million stone.
A series of basins and the Sendai Plain in southern Ou occupy most of the cultivated land in the Ou area. Northern Ou is even more bitter and cold, and the largest samurai daimyo in the southern part of the country only has 150,000 koku.
Therefore, Yoshigami shouted out 400,000 koku to Satake Yishige, which was an imaginary number. The entire northern Yushu may not have 400,000 koku in total. It was just a family threshold.
But Satake Yishige cannot ignore it. The land may be empty, but the status has other uses.
The saint personally promised 400,000 dan. Even if the Satake family in northern Yushu does not have 400,000 dan in the future, all samurai families must treat the Satake family with the honor of 400,000 dan.
Territory is territory, and etiquette is etiquette. Four hundred thousand stones are changed to four hundred thousand stones, and the family status is not lost. This is the best result that Satake Yoshito can get now.
Let’s not mention Satake Yoshige for the moment, let’s talk about Tozawa Moriyasu’s dilemma.
The Mahiru Mountains separate the Kitakami Basin in Oshu and the Yokote Basin in Yushu.
There is a lake in the northern mountainous area of the Mahiru Mountain Range, named Lake Amasawa. The terrain of this generation is gentle, and it has become a communication channel between the northern parts of Ou and Ushu.
The Senhoku County of Dewa Province, where the Tozawa family is located, is located in the area of Lake Amasawa in the north of the Yokote Basin. It has great strategic value and can be said to be a bridge town guarding the exchanges between the northern parts of Ou and Uzhou.
Tozawa Moriyasu faced a lot of troubles.
Senboku County is inland and has no port, so the tacit agreement reached between Yiyin and Tozawa Mori'an is that Tozawa Mori'an will first open up Minato City, and then Yiyin will recognize the strength of the Tozawa family and support it.
And only by capturing Minato Castle can the Tozawa family be connected to the shipping line of the Hokuriku Road trade route, and can they receive economic support from the sea from the Shiba family.
Tozawa Moriyasu needed to send troops from the Yokote Basin, march westward along the Omonogawa River, open up the Akita Plain, and reach Minato Castle on the seaside.
The Anton family that controls Minato Castle is the strongest samurai daimyo in northern Yushu, echoing the Nanbu family in northern Oshu.
Tozawa Mori'an was caught between the two major forces, and his life was not easy.
The southerners coveted Senhoku County, and several times they wanted to open up the Yokote Basin in northern Yushu from the Kitakami Basin in northern Oshu. This was the hidden danger behind Tozawa Mori'an.
And the Anton family is the life and death enemy of Tozawa Mori'an.
The Anton family was once divided, but was later integrated by a generation of British masters. It was composed of two branches: Minato Anton of the Akita Plains and Hiyama Anton of the Noshiro Plains.
The revival of the Tozawa family is the process of Tozawa Moriyasu continuously defeating the Anton family's strategy of Dewa Hokutosei and maintaining the independence of the Senhoku region.
The Minato Castle that Tozawa Moriyasu now wants to capture belongs to the Minato Anton lineage, and is actually Tsuchizaki Minato Castle.
The Andong family is a wealthy family in northern Yuzhou.
Hiyama Anton built Noshiro Minato at the mouth of the Yonero River in the Noshiro Plain to the north.
Minato Anton built Tsuchizaki Minato at the mouth of the Omonogawa River in the autumn plains to the south.
In the territory run by the Anton family, agricultural products such as Akita cedar, Ani gold mine, and rice and beans will flow down the river and be transported by water and sea to gather at the port.
Tsuchizaki Minato is the largest port in northern Yushu. The goods departing from here will go to Kinki for trade, earning a lot of money for the Anton family.
Tsuchizaki Minato Castle is the core base of the Anton family's foreign trade. If Tozawa Moriyasu wants to capture this place, the Anton family must fight her tooth and nail.
In the southern part of Xianbei County, Yuli County and Xiongsheng County are not at peace either.
The samurai belief in Yuri County is somewhat similar to the mountain belief in the Koshin Mountains worshiped by Sanada Nobushige, who was born in the Shino clan.
Chokai Mountain in Yuri County has a unique local belief in Medicine Buddha. The ancestors of the local martial arts cast statues of twelve generals to protect Medicine Buddha.
Yuri County is by the sea, and locals can see Chokai Mountain when they look up. The close connection between Yakushi Tathagata and the Twelve Divine Generals extends the concept of Yuri Twelve Heads, which represents the local samurai group.
The Onodera family of Katsuo County was a powerful daimyo that spanned the three Senhoku counties and attempted to unify the Senyu area, which was the Yokote Basin.
Mount Chokai lies between Shonai and Yuri, and has captured the Mogami clan in the Shonai area. Its troops have already crossed Mount Chokai and entered Yuri County, winning a great victory over the county.
The martial arts families of the two counties are now busy dealing with the pressure from the Mogami family and will not cause trouble to Tozawa Mori'an for the time being, but no matter who has the upper hand in the future, they will cause trouble to Tozawa Mori'an.
Whoever allowed the Tozawa family to occupy the northern transportation artery, whether from east to west or from south to north, the Tozawa family in Senboku County was the stone blocking the road in the eyes of others and must be kicked away.
And behind the Mogami family, Honjo Nobunaga, under the command of Yamanaka Yukimori, is coveting the Mogami family's Shonai area.
Sakata Minato in the Shonai area is a maritime commercial trade network connecting Tsuchizaki Minato. Even if Tozawa Moriyasu takes Minato City and opens Tsuchizaki Minato, the relationship between enemies and friends in the Shonai area will still have to be considered.
Yoshihiro is willing to tilt the Shiba family's trade network towards Tozawa Mori'an and help her with blood transfusions, but she must also be able to control the local power herself, and cannot be choked by others and rely on others.
The situation in northern Yushu is so complicated, which made Yiyin sigh after learning the relevant information.
It is really not easy for Tozawa Moriyasu. Under such difficult circumstances, she can still rely on her own efforts to revive the family business. She is indeed a fierce woman.
It was only because he understood the situation in northern Yushu and further confirmed Tozawa Moriyasu's personal abilities that Yoshigan thought of asking Satake Yishige to help.
The Satake family could no longer stay in Kanbazhou. Satake Yishige had violated the interests of too many people, so he had no choice but to find another place to start his family business.
Yiyin changed the transfer of the Satake family to the northern part of Yuzhou, which is of the same feudal nature as the Western Zhou Dynasty's feudalism of pointing out a location to the nobles on the map.
A feudal person is someone who seals land and establishes a state. Bring your people and weapons and conquer that place. That is your territory.
Yoshigan had told Satake Yishige before that the Kanto Sheriff's Office could discuss the crimes of the Oriental People slowly, and they should first do a good job in the Kanto Sheriff's Office's counterpart assistance work.
Sooner or later, the Satake family will leave Hitachi Country and go to the northern part of Yushu.
But as long as there are a few years for Satake Yishige to prepare food and fodder, ascertain intelligence, and lead the core group of retainers and people to explore northward, the probability of success will be very high.
Yoshigan's idea is to place Satake Yoshige in the area of Yuri County and Yusheng County to become the southern barrier of Tozawa Mori'an.
Then use the Satake family's status as the same clan as the Nanbu family to help Tozawa Moriyasu in diplomacy and stabilize the Nanbu family.
After all, Tozawa Moriyasu's actions in northern Yushu were based on the instructions of the saint. As long as Satake Yishige is willing to do his best, the Nanbu family may not be willing to offend the saint Yoshigan.
As long as Tozawa Moriyasu can capture Minato Tsuchizaki and suppress the Anton family, and Satake Yoshige can gain a foothold in the area, the situation in the Ou region will be very different.
The Tozawa family and the Satake family are in the north, but what about the south? Kaji Keizuna, under the command of Yukimori Yamanaka, is encroaching on the Aizu area, and Honshu Shigetsu is coveting the Shonai area.
The spheres of influence of the Mogami family and the Date family are gradually shrinking, and Yoshigan's influence in the Ou area is gradually expanding.
In the farming era, the frozen soil in the north was difficult to develop. Yoshigan did not have much interest in Ou's land, but he had to make the samurai in the Ou area bow to him.
Today, the land of Kanto is falling into the control of Yiyin.
The territories along the Hokuriku Road have always been close to Yoshigan because of the existence of the Hokuriku Road trade route.
The Tokaido will soon reopen as a trade route, and the Shiba family's influence will rapidly increase.
Located in the Koshin Mountains in the center of the Honshu Island Mountains, the Takeda family has completely turned to the Shiba family.
The integration of Guanbazhou is also in progress. Although there are many troubles, the future is bright.
Now, even in the most remote Ou region, Yoshiyin has begun to have spare capacity to deploy.
The Kanto samurai family has entered a new era in which they do not know the Ashikaga family generals, but only Shiba Sage. The entire Kanto is adapting to the Shiba family's new system step by step.
When everything is on track, Kanto will truly become Yiyin's rear area and become his greatest confidence in unifying the world.
(End of chapter)
