On the afternoon of September 14, the seventh year of Tenmon (1538), news of the death of Amano and his son and the fall of Inui Castle reached the rebel camp, and Imagawa Yoshima's last hope came to naught. He did not hold an evaluation meeting, but retreated into the tent alone, allowing the public opinion in the camp to rage.
Jucheng fell, foreign aid was cut off, and they were attacked from both sides - the rebels in Yuanjiang were in dire straits. The minds of all the wealthy families became active and they began to think about how to return to the side of the Imagawa clan. However, surrendering directly would be too detrimental to their reputation, and the wealthy families lacked an excuse.
What was shocking was that Imagawa Yoshima actually delivered the excuse himself.
In the evening, Imagawa Yoshima suddenly mobilized his banner team and attacked the main tents of the small wealthy families under his command, seemingly wanting to control all the retainers in one fell swoop. The frightened governors of the small wealthy family fled back to the location of their troops. Just as they were about to send someone to ask Imagawa Yoshima what happened, they saw Imagawa Yoshima acting like crazy, and at the same time he attacked thousands of troops from the Yue country An onslaught was launched. It has to be said that the combat power of the banner team trained by Imagawa Yoshizhin is really amazing. In an instant, they defeated thousands of Yuanjiang people's troops with one enemy.
After the initial surprise, the wealthy families in Yuanjiang immediately realized that this was an excellent opportunity. Although I don’t know the reason why Imagawa Yoshima became mad, his indiscriminate attack on his retainers has already determined that he is no longer qualified to be the governor - this gave the wealthy families of Yuanjiang a reasonable reason to rebel. Reason, and will not be laughed at by the world. So after a simple alliance, the wealthy families in Yuanjiang raised a rebellion at the same time. On the one hand, he reported Imagawa Yoshima's crazy behavior to the Imagawa clan and declared that he was willing to correct it anyway; on the other hand, he mobilized his troops to attack Imagawa Yoshima.
After receiving the news, Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezhai were shocked and hurriedly led their troops to the rebel camp. But when they arrived, the outnumbered Imagawa Yoshizhin's main team had been defeated, and a blazing fire broke out in the center of the camp - it looked like he had set himself on fire.
Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezai did not bother to accept the surrender of the people of Toe Country, and hurriedly went to check on Imagawa Yoshima's condition - the Imagawa clan's troops tried their best to put out the fire, but could not identify them among the pile of corpses that were burned beyond recognition. Yoshima Imagawa.
"Did the third brother run away again?" Imagawa Yoshimoto said helplessly to Taiyuan Xuezhai, "What should we do now?"
"Look for a random corpse and say that Imagawa Yoshizhin's body has been found, and announce its death to the entire Imagawa family." Taiyuan Xuezhai quickly decided, "Then accept the surrender of the people of Yuanjiang Kingdom and let They all surrendered hostages. After that, we will deal with the punishment of the rebels and the praise of the meritorious service members. The top priority is to stabilize the situation."
"There is really no way..." Imagawa Yoshimoto sighed and wiped his hand, which was stained with a lot of cigarette ashes, on the handkerchief. At the same time, he asked uneasily, "At the same time, what if my third brother is not dead? Are you still alive to make trouble again?"
"It doesn't matter whether he is alive or not. The key is whether the people of the world want him to live. If the people of Yuanjiang Country still need a banner of rebellion, even if he is dead, the people of Yuanjiang Country can still say that he is alive and find someone to pretend to be Him. But if the people of Yuanjiang Country have surrendered and have no intention of rebelling again, they will say that he is dead. Even if he really appears alive, he will be labeled as a fake and executed quickly." Taiyuan Xuezhai was revealed. That signature smile, "Yes, the world is so dangerous."
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On September 14, the seventh year of Tianwen (1538), Yuanjiang's rebellion was finally put down, and the two and a half years of civil strife in the Imagawa family came to an end. Imagawa Yoshimoto and Taiyuan Xuezai led their troops to Nishizaki Castle, the former residence of Imagawa Ryoshi, and issued a notice of rewards and punishments for each retainer.
First of all, the territory of the Fukushima family, which was exterminated two years ago, will naturally be changed. The territory of the Imagawa clan that Imagawa Yoshizhin had stolen in Yue was also confiscated. Secondly, for the people of the Toe Country who supported Imagawa Yoshimagi's rebellion this time, considering that Imagawa Yoshimoto had just come to power, it was not appropriate to change a large number of old ministers in order to stabilize the situation; and because they finally abandoned the dark side and turned to the bright side, they finally decided to deal with it leniently, but the punishment was still Inevitable.
The two main forces of the rebellion - the Horikoshi family and the Iio family: the Horikoshi family's 25,000 koku territory was reduced to 15,000 koku, and the Iio family's 18,000 koku territory was reduced to 12,000 koku. The remaining major families participating in the rebellion: the Ii family's 22,000 koku territory was reduced to 17,000 koku, the Uiseki family's 8,000 koku territory was reduced to 6,000 koku, the Amano family's 12,000 koku territory was reduced to 10,000 koku, and the Kuno family's 8,000 koku territory was reduced to 6,000 koku. ...There are also many small wealthy families whose degree of reduction of seals is basically the same as theirs. The Umohara family, which had previously taken refuge with the Hojo family, also had its entitlement reduced from 7,000 koku to 5,000 koku.
Naturally, the Imagawa clan will not be stingy with rewards for those who have made meritorious service in this battle. From the Toe area: the Asahina family was sealed from 26,000 stone to 36,000 stone, the Sena family was sealed from 14,000 stone to 20,000 stone, the Ogasawara family was sealed from 10,000 stone to 14,000 stone, the Matsui family was sealed from 8,000 stone to 12,000 stone, and the Shinno family was sealed from 8,000 stone to 12,000 stone. 6000 stone is sealed to 8000 stone. The Osawa family, who had been guarding the isolated city for two years, was directly granted a title of 15,000 shi from 8,000 hours, and became an important retainer in the Yuanjiang region.
In terms of the Suruga family: the Okabe family was raised from 23,000 koku to 33,000 koku, the Kotsu family was raised from 4,000 koku to 7,000 koku, the Anhara family was raised from 5,000 koku to 8,000 koku, the Fuji family was raised from 5,000 koku to 8,000 koku, and the Ogi family was raised from 5,000 koku to 8,000 koku. The seal was increased from 3,000 koku to 4,000 koku, and the Abe family’s seal was increased from 3,000 koku to 4,000 koku. The Itami family, newly appointed as ship admiral, also received 2,000 koku from Tomoyo near Ejiri Port.
In addition, in order to stabilize the situation in Toga, the Imagawa family also transferred a large number of family members in the Suruga area to Toga. As a relative, the Sekiguchi family was transferred to the small mountain town of Toyuanjiang, with 10,000 koku; the Uden family was transferred to Mikachi Castle at the junction of Yuanjiang and Mikawa, with 6,000 koku; the Miura family was transferred to Mitsuke Castle between Kakegawa Castle and Hikima Castle has 15,000 koku; the rest of the Yuhi family, Ichinomiya family, Hasegawa family and other wealthy families have also been entrusted to various key places.
After the Jinchuan family put down the Yuanjiang rebellion and recovered half of Hedong, Shi Gao regained nearly 400,000 shi. By taking back part of the rebel territory, the Imagawa clan expanded the number of directly governed territories from the original 60,000 koku to 110,000 koku. Yamada Keitaka and Asai Masatoshi led the Imagawa family's Hatamoto second branch and Hatamoto third branch to station in Nishizaki Castle, maintaining the Imagawa clan's presence in Toe.
The Imagawa family also issued a warning to the wealthy families in the Higashi Mikawa area, such as the Okudaira family, the Kira family, and the Toda family, who had been affiliated with the Imagawa family during the Imagawa clan's period but had now broken away, asking them to surrender again. Seeing the strength of the Imagawa family's troops, the wealthy families of Dongsanhe did not dare to resist. Although they did not send hostages, they sent envoys to express their surrender.
After the announcement of rewards and punishments, Taiyuan Xuezhai stayed in Yuanjiang to take charge of the overall situation and was responsible for the change, transfer and handover of the territory. And Imagawa Yoshimoto, who loved his wife eagerly, hurried back to Imagawakan to accompany Ginkgo, who was already on her due date.
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On September 20, the seventh year of Tianwen (1538), in the Imagawakan castle tower.
"Sir, I guess you still have some conscience."
Ginkgo looked at Imagawa Yoshimoto who hurried back, chuckled and complained, "My wife is pregnant in ten months, and my husband said he would stay at the Imagawa Pavilion to take care of her, but in fact he led his army to make a surprise attack. Sure enough, what a man said I can’t believe it.”
"That's all the old man's plan, don't blame me." Imagawa Yoshimoto gently caressed Ginkgo's belly. Miaomiao on the side also looked at the bulging belly curiously, quietly wagging her tail.
"This kid just won't be quiet. He keeps making noises every day and won't let me get a good night's sleep. There's really nothing I can do..." Ginkgo patted her belly gently, feeling the movement of the baby in her belly. "It's almost half a month old. I couldn’t sleep the whole night, and I couldn’t even eat.”
Imagawa Yoshimoto looked at Ginkgo's heavy dark circles and haggard look, and hugged her with some distress, "If I don't let you sleep, it will kill our Ginkgo."
"It's just... when the baby is born, it's up to you to coax him or find a wet nurse." Ginkgo yawned deeply, so sleepy that she couldn't even open her eyes. "The doctor said it's only been these two days. I can finally sleep well."
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On September 22, the seventh year of Tianwen (1538), the due date of delivery arrived, and Ginkgo's stomach started to hurt on time. The midwives and doctors who had been on standby at the Imagawa Hall immediately got ready to deliver the baby to their mistress. According to convention, Imagawa Yoshimoto was not allowed to approach such dirty things, so he had to wait quietly on the first floor of the castle tower.
Although Ginkgo has always been in good health, and the doctor also said that it was probably a natural birth and there would be no problems - but at this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't help but become nervous, circling back and forth in the room, so anxious that he almost sweated on his forehead . He had never read Buddhist scriptures properly, but he unexpectedly pulled out several volumes from that corner. Kneel down on the futon devoutly and pray for the ginkgo.
However, at this moment, Naguyeji Yutaka brought back strange news.
"Fourth brother, please come here." Na Furunoji Yutaka, who broke into the room, couldn't help but interrupt Imagawa Yoshimoto who was chanting sutras.
"What are you going to do?" Imagawa Yoshimoto was obviously very dissatisfied and worried that his pause would cause the Buddha to be displeased. "Didn't you see that I was chanting sutras?"
"Meet someone." Naguya Yutaka said in a low voice, obviously not wanting others around to hear him.
"How can I have the leisure to meet people at this time?" Imagawa Yoshimoto shook his head irritably, "You can deal with it yourself, I really have no time to think about it now."
"You have to see this person, and the rest of us can't make up our minds." Furunoji Yutaka leaned even lower, almost leaning into Imagawa Yoshimoto's ear and whispered softly.
"Who is it?" The abnormality of Furunoji Yutaka finally attracted the attention of Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Our third brother, Imagawa Yoshima."
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While following Furunoji Yutaka on the way to the Ninomaru dungeon in a hurry, Imagawa Yoshimoto had time to ask:
"Are you sure? Did you admit your mistake?"
"There is absolutely no mistake. I have seen him in Kyoto. There is no mistaking his appearance. Fourth brother, have you forgotten?"
"How did he come to Imagawa Hall?" Imagawa Yoshimoto asked again.
"At first he claimed to be an envoy from Mikawa and took the Okuhira family's seal. The guard checked that it was correct, so he was brought over after searching him. It was me and Hayasaka Koichiro who received him. When we saw it, I was shocked when I realized that it was actually Third Brother's fellow. He did not burn himself to death in Yuanjiang River, but ran out again." As he spoke, Furunoji Yutaka cursed bitterly, and even his steps changed. Getting angry:
"I just don't know what the hell the fight was about. He apparently escaped, but he came back to throw himself into the trap. He told me that he wanted to see the fourth brother alone, and he couldn't let anyone else discover his traces with the fourth brother. I entrusted you with something important. So we hid it from the other guards and I came to find the fourth brother. Xiao Qilang quietly escorted him to the dungeon."
"Have you been searched?" Imagawa Yoshimoto followed Furunoji Yutaka quickly down to the dungeon. When Hayasaka Nao saw the two of them coming, she immediately stepped forward to lead the way to the top-secret room where Imagawa Ryojin was detained.
"I have searched it, please rest assured, Your Highness, there is absolutely no problem." Hayasaka Nao assured, while opening the door in front of her. The person sitting on his knees in the dungeon was none other than Imagawa Yoshima.
