On the evening of March 26, the 14th year of Tenmon (1546), in the Makishima Castle Castle Tower, the samurai who went to Luo to support Hosokawa Harumoto gathered together to discuss future countermeasures. Sitting on the left-hand side of the guest seat from the fourth rank, Daisuke Imagawa Yoshimoto, is the chief guest, the third most powerful person in the room besides Hosokawa Harumoto. The second person in the room is Tansho Shobi from the fourth rank, who is in the same position. The leader, Rokkaku Sadayori, was sitting opposite Yoshimoto Imagawa - the chief on his right. Sitting next to Imagawa Yoshimoto was Takeda Harunobu, the fifth chief chef.唳
Those present were all daimyo of various families or generals of various armies, except for one person - Taiyuan Xuezhai who was sitting diagonally behind Imagawa Yoshimoto. As the head of the Imagawa family, he was specially invited to attend the meeting - of course, no one in the lobby would question it, because everyone understood the old monk's bottomless strategy.
"Your Highness, please express your condolences." Everyone paid their condolences to Hosokawa Harumoto who was sitting in the chair before taking the seat - after all, in the recent Awa coup, Miyoshi Yoshihide murdered Hosokawa Harumoto's younger brother (some say Cousin) Hosokawa Motaka, seized control of Awa. However, Hosokawa Harumoto didn't look sad and just returned the favor in a routine manner. After all, his brother has always been against him, and he has long wanted to take Apo back. It would not be a loss for Hosokawa Harumoto to have an outsider kill Hosokawa Motaka, and it was better than deposing a clan by himself.
"Whoever can put an end to the rebellion of our Hosokawa family in this battle and take the head of Miyoshi Chokei, I will grant the freed Awa country to him." So, with a stroke of his pen, Hosokawa Harumoto boldly An entire country was thrown out as a reward. Among the daimyo here, the one with the largest territory only has a few hundred thousand koku. The 180,000 koku of Awa Kingdom is not unattractive - it is even more astronomical for those small daimyo whose entire family wealth is only around 100,000 koku. number.
As expected, everyone was shocked when the grand prize was announced. The little eldest names all opened their eyes wide, as if saliva was starting to pool around their mouths. The big names began to think about the reliability of Hosokawa Harumoto's award - if he said it in public, he wouldn't regret it, right? Even if there is some deduction afterwards, it is still a considerable reward. It's just that it's too far away from the real thing, so how to manage this enclave is a big problem.
Only Imagawa Yoshimoto looked unconcerned, but secretly complained that Hosokawa Harumoto was a bit heartless - how could he say that he was also his younger brother, and the tea was cold before the bones were cold? Is the territory going to be confiscated now? I have never heard that Hosokawa Motaka has died. Logically speaking, shouldn't this territory be passed on to his children?
"Under a heavy reward, there must be a brave man. Your Majesty is so generous, so those three good repair heads must be in hot demand." Saito Michizan answered with a smile. As the person with the poorest background among the people here, he is not He would pass up the opportunity to get close to Hosokawa Harumoto.
"It can't be that easy." But after hearing this, Hosokawa Harumoto shook his head and sighed: "The world is declining, and people's hearts are not the same as before. I thought that if I raised my arms, all the people with lofty ideals in the world would be loyal to the shogunate. They will gather in Jingluo and follow me to rebel. Who would have thought that the traitor Sanhao Changqing would actually attract friends and collude with a Guanxi Xiaoxiao to help him. I don’t know which of them were deceived by the traitor, and which of them were originally It’s just that you are rebellious!”
"Are there many people coming from Kansai?" Takeda Nobutoyo, the daimyo of Wakasa Country, asked uneasily, which caused a roll of eyes from the daimyo present.
"He doesn't even know this?" Takeda Harunobu frowned when he heard this, and quietly complained to Imagawa Yoshimoto sitting next to him: "Isn't that right? His own territory is in Kinki, right next to it. Kansai, don’t you even have an intelligence network at all? My family really deserves the name "Takeda". "
"I don't know either." Imagawa Yoshimoto replied matter-of-factly, almost choking Takeda Harunobu.
"Izu Mamoru (Takeda Nobutoyo) is the son-in-law of the commander-in-chief (Rokkaku Sadeyori), right? He and the commander-in-chief (Hosokawa Harumoto) are brothers-in-law. He may just be here to help relatives. He doesn't have many soldiers, so why worry about that? Much?" Imagawa Yoshimoto smiled and excused Takeda Nobuyo, as if he was also covering up for himself.
"But you are not related to them, and the Imagawa army you brought is the third most powerful force in our coalition. How could you not know this?" Takeda Harunobu angrily pointed the muzzle of his complaint at Imagawa Yoshimoto. .
"that is not
I have a teacher. "Imagawa Yoshimoto turned his head and pursed his lips towards Taiyuan Xuezai, and Taiyuan Xuezhai also glared at Imagawa Yoshimoto.
"Okay, stop teasing me, tell me who's here." Imagawa Yoshimoto quietly tugged on Takeda Harunobu's lapel again.唳
"There are more than 80,000 people." Takeda Harunobu paused, and then explained for Imagawa Yoshimoto: "20,000 people from the Miyoshi family, 5,000 people from the ally Hatakeyama family, 4,000 people from the Hatano family, and 3,000 people from the Isshiki family , 10,000 people from the Ouchi family, 10,000 people from the Otomo family, 3,000 people from the Mori family, 10,000 people from the Nizi family, 6,000 people from the Yamana family, 4,000 people from the Kono family, 3,000 people from the Urakami family, 3,000 people from the Akamatsu family, and 2,000 people from the Mimura family.”
"Why are there so many famous Chinese people here?" Imagawa Yoshimoto just couldn't understand. "And there are those from Kyushu? What does the Kinki matter have to do with them?" - It didn't even appear that the Imagawa family came all the way to meddle in other people's affairs. conscious.
"This is a long story." Takeda Harunobu had no choice but to become a teacher again and explained to Imagawa Yoshimoto: "Back then, Ouchi Shaoer (Ouchi Yoshitaka) invaded Kyushu and repaired with Otomo (Otomo Yoshikan) The fight almost forced the Otomo family to run out of ammunition and food. At the critical moment, the ancestor Kōhoden (Ashikaga Yoshiharu) sent someone to mediate and saved the Otomo family from the fire. Since then, the Otomo family has maintained an extremely close relationship with the shogunate. Thanks to our relationship, we used the shogunate’s name to conquer Kyushu.”
"So, after the news of Kōhoden's murder came out, the samurai in Otomo's family became excited. In order to maintain his prestige in Otomo's family and in Kyushu, Otomo repairman must make a gesture of revenge for Kōhoden. Of course, Otomo is a seasoned politician himself, so naturally he doesn't really care about the so-called "revenge" and "kindness". So he didn't care at all who murdered Xiandai Gongfangdian, as long as he made this gesture, it was enough. So, he ignored the leader (Hosokawa Harumoto) and chose to send troops to join Miyoshi's repair side. It is said that Miyoshi Xiuxiu promised him the "Kyushu Exploration" because the remuneration offered by Miyoshi was more generous. "
"Otomo repair sent his legitimate son Otomo Shintaro (also known as Otomo Sorin) to lead the army to Luo, and also invited the Ouchi family who was an ally. At this time, the Ouchi family was in the midst of fierce internal fighting. The originally wise and powerful Ouchi Shao Er After the loss of his son (Ouchi Harumochi), he was devastated. He no longer interfered with political and military affairs, and entrusted everything to the leader of the Bunji faction, Sagara Toe (Sagara Takehiro). Well, it is similar to your situation, Goro." Harunobu Takeda He did not forget to intersperse a comment about Imagawa Yoshimoto in the explanation, and then continued:
"However, the dogmatic faction in the family was deeply dissatisfied with Ouchi Shaoer's lack of enterprising attitude, and they could not accept Sagara Enie's monopoly of power. The dogmatic faction headed by Tao Owari (Tao Takafusa) and Naito Shimono (Naito Yukimori) then Seizing the opportunity of the Ouchi family's invitation to go to Luo Kuang, he continued to make suggestions, asking the Ouchi Shaoer to imitate his father, Ouchi Governer (Ouchi Yoshihiro), lead his army to Luo Kuang to support the shogunate, and once again restore the prestige of the Ouchi family."
"In the end, the Wenzhi faction and the Dogmatist faction reached a subtle tacit understanding. The Dogmatist faction wanted to go out to win military glory, while the Wenzhi faction wanted to take the opportunity to squeeze the Dogmatist faction out of the center of power and alienate their relationship with Ouchi Shaoer. So Xiang Liangyuan, Jiang finally agreed that Tao Ouchi and Naito would go to the field to replace Ouchi Shaoer and lead the Ouchi army and Ouchi army to Luo."
"So, the Ouchi family sent the powerful families such as the Aki clan, the Mori family, the Yoshikawa family, and the Kobayakawa family under him as the vanguard, and took the Sanyo Road to Luo by land. And this had to pass through the Bingo Kokugami Border Castle under the control of the Nizi family. . Tao Oizhang may have had this kind of calculation. Any attempt to imitate the imperial governor and lead Shangluo is just a pretense. His goal is just to obtain military power and conquer the Nizi family on the grounds of Shangluo."
"As a result, the same funny situation happened in Kansai as we did in Kanto." Takeda Harunobu laughed twice, "The Nizi family didn't want to face the coalition forces, so they took advantage of the trick and sent the Nizi Punishment Bureau (Nizi Kunhisa) of the Shingu Party to lead the army, claiming We must go to Luo together with the Ouchi family and the Otomo family to support the repair doctor Miyoshi Changkei. In the name of justice, we put the Ouchi family and the Otomo family on the fire, forcing the two families to pinch their noses and recognize this ally. Of course. , the condition of the Nizi family is that the Mori family, as the advance team, has to walk in the queue of the Nizi family, and becomes the hostage of the Nizi family opening the back passage to the Ouchi family and the Otomo family. "
"These three Western giants
Wu Ba has gone on an expedition together, how can the little daimyo from Kansai dare to say "no"? Therefore, in order to avoid being invaded and partitioned in the name of "impeding the Shangluo army", the daimyo who were coerced along the way had no choice but to declare their joining the Miyoshi repair side and send troops to coordinate with Shangluo. In the end, the snowball grew bigger and bigger, and it became like this . "
"The result is..." Imagawa Yoshimoto couldn't help but feel that the situation in front of him was a bit magical, "A battle between the world's daimyo?"
"Yes, it is comparable to the war like the Onin Rebellion 70 years ago." Takeda Harunobu nodded slowly and glanced sideways in the direction of Kyoto, "They are now stationed north of us, stationed in Kyoto."
