The Wakasa Takeda family is not a soft persimmon.
Both Matsunaga Hide and Kyogoku Takamasa are very clear about this.
Even if they could instigate civil strife within the Takeda family in advance, it would not be easy for the Kyogoku family to cut through the mess quickly.
In other words, if they want to successfully attack Wakasa, the Kyogoku family needs to invest a lot of troops.
But can the Kyogoku family really let it go without any worries?
Of course it's impossible.
Not to mention the Echizen Asakura family, who had always been eyeing Wakasa, the other neighbors of the Kyogoku family, the Minami Omi Rokkaku family, were the first to disagree.
Previously, the Kyogoku family was able to successfully defeat the Asai family and unify Omi, but it was only because they were fast enough that the Rokkaku family did not have time to react.
But with the lessons learned from the Asai family, once the Kyogoku family reveals its offensive against Wakasa this time, it is absolutely impossible for the Rokkaku family to sit idly by.
It is said that one mountain cannot tolerate two tigers, but Omi now has two famous families, Rokkaku and Kyogoku.
In terms of overall strength, there is no doubt that the Rokkajia family has a great advantage. Regardless of whether it is from a high-tech or economic perspective, the Rokkaku family must stabilize the Kyogoku family.
But if the Kyogoku family captures Wakasa, then Ishigao will gain another hundred thousand koku of territory, and from an economic perspective, Wakasa Kohama Port is not inferior to Kannonji Castle.
And if you include the maritime trade with profound interests, Wakasa Kohama Port is even stronger than Kannonji Castle.
It can be expected that once the Kyogoku family captures Wakasa, things will not be as simple as one plus one equals two, and the strength of the Kyogoku family will increase exponentially.
This is definitely not what Rokkaku Sadai wants to see.
Therefore, Rokkaku Sadeyori will definitely intervene in the attack on Wakasa.
In other words, the Kyogoku family needs to be wary of the Rokkaku family at all times when attacking Wakasa.
This resulted in the Kyogoku family needing to leave enough troops within their territory to deter the Rokkaku family. As a result, the Kyogoku family would not be able to mobilize their troops as they pleased, which would be contrary to their original goal.
If there are not enough troops to attack Wakasa, then we cannot use the fastest speed to let the fat piece of Wakasa fall into the mouth of the Kyogoku family.
Therefore, Matsunaga needs to add chips to the Kyogoku family in other ways.
Temporarily recruiting ronin is one method, but this is very expensive and a long-term process. After all, a sufficient number of ronin cannot be recruited in a day or two.
But if the Kyogoku family starts recruiting ronin in advance, then the surrounding Rokkaku, Asakura and Wakasa Takeda families will know the Kyogoku family's movements in advance and be prepared, thus exposing the Kyogoku family's target in advance.
Therefore, recruiting ronin is not advisable.
Therefore, Matsunagahide could only target the bandits, the random waves, or the pirates.
These groups have rich combat experience and recognize money rather than people.
The Kyogoku family may have been short of money before, but with the development of the castle town and the disasters Kyogoku Takamasa caused in Ise, there is definitely no shortage now.
At first, Matsunaga's target was on the bandits and Ranbo.
However, the areas where the chaos crowd gathers are Omi-Koka County and Iga Country. These two places are the base of the Rokkaku family and are obviously not displayed.
As for the bandits, all the bandits in the Kyogoku family have been wiped out for a long time, and Wakasa has just been informed by Yoneda Sonrokuro that there are no bandits.
This road is also broken.
Fortunately, Yoneda Sonrokuro provided a new idea for Matsunagahide, and that was pirates.
And there are a lot of pirates.
The only problem is that the Kyogoku family has never dealt with pirates before, and they don't even know where to find these pirates.
But when drowsiness came, Yoneda Sonrokuro immediately handed over the pillow, which played into Matsunagahide's wish.
Moreover, Matsunagahide also captured a key piece of information from this matter, that is, Yoneda Sonrokuro was going to roll up his sleeves and follow the Kyogoku family.
This is good news.
Previously, Yoneda Sonrokuro and the Kyogoku family had more of a cooperative relationship, each getting what they needed, an unreliable relationship of mutual use.
But now, Yoneda Sonrokuro has taken the initiative to get closer, and the relationship has developed into a master-slave relationship.
Although Yoneda Sonrokuro made some requests, it was normal for a businessman to make requests because he had no profit and could not afford to do so early.
If Yoneda Sonrokuro really has no desires and desires, then Matsunaga scholar will doubt Yoneda Sonrokuro's intentions.
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Wakasa, Goze Mountain Castle.
Although the history of this city is only about ten years, as the city where Wakasa protects the Takeda family, its development is not slow at all.
Located at the northern foot of Mount Goze, Goze Mountain Castle is magnificent and spectacular as a whole, which also shows the financial strength of the Wakasa Takeda family.
In the past two days, the atmosphere in Goze Mountain Castle seemed a bit festive, because Takeda Hikoro, the son of Takeda Motomitsu, the head of the Takeda family, was holding a wedding. Therefore, the entire Goze Mountain Castle is a joyful scene.
But at this time, in the imperial palace of Gozeyama Castle, the protagonist Takeda Hikoro could not be happy at all.
Listening to the words of Takeda Nobutaka, who was chanting words above, Takeda Hikoro held his hands tightly, and his eyes were filled with unwillingness and anger.
"...Now there is...a son-in-law and a son...inherited the name of the family in Yama County...renamed Yama County Shimonosuke...given the word Tong Sheng , inherited the name of the Yamagata family in the name of Yamagata Shimonosuke Shengxin, and the former leader of the Yamagata family, Heluo Yamashiro Tomoyuki, led 5,000 stones to secure the place..."
Takeda Hikoro or Yamagata Morinobu was extremely angry at this time.
As the eldest son of Takeda Motomitsu (the previous introduction was wrong, please correct it here), but he is indeed the eldest son of a concubine. This embarrassing status seems to have been destined to be a tragedy from the birth of Yamagata Shengxin.
Yamagata Shengnobu knew that Takeda Motomitsu's health had become worse and worse in the past two years. In order to clear the way for his younger brother, Hikojiro, who was lucky enough to be the first wife, Takeda Motomitsu had adopted two sons. out.
One is his younger brother who was adopted into the Naito family.
The other one is himself, who was also adopted as a son-in-law and adopted son to Laidong from Laoshan County.
what is this?
Just because his mother is a concubine?
Why are you so partial to someone who is your son?
In what way am I worse than Yanjiro, who only knows romance all day long?
But no matter how unwilling and angry Shanxian Shengxin was, the deal was already done and nothing could be changed.
Takeda Motomitsu still has authority in the family, and there is naturally no possibility of taking back the decisions he has made.
If nothing else goes wrong, Shanxian Shengxin can only guard one-third of an acre of land in Heluo Mountain City, and look up to his younger brother Yanjiro to succeed him as the master in the future.
After the wedding, Shanxian Shengxin returned to Heluo Mountain City with his new wife in confusion.
The wedding night was originally something worth looking forward to.
However, at this moment, Shanxian Shengxin couldn't get interested. In other words, looking at his seven-year-old wife, Shanxian Shengxin couldn't get hard at all.
In the courtyard of Shanxian Pavilion, Shanxian Shengxin looked up at the bright moon in the night sky with a wine plate in his hand, his eyes full of melancholy...
