Hosokawa Mochitaka has been in a beautiful mood recently.
The main wife had not given birth to an heir for many years, and even after having several concubines, they had nothing to show for it. Fortunately, the concubine's young master gave birth to his eldest son, Hosokawa Mototaka, which made Hosokawa Motaka very happy.
Of course, if Hosokawa Mochitaka knew the secret behind this matter, he might not be able to laugh anymore.
Since Hosokawa Harumoto went to Kyoto to serve as the governor, the entire Shikoku region has basically followed Hosokawa Mochitaka's lead. It is said that there are no tigers in the mountains, but monkeys dominate.
This kind of kingship and hegemony has been going on for a long time, and Hosokawa Nobitaka's mind gradually became active.
Especially when he saw Hosokawa Harumoto giving orders from the leadership position, Hosokawa Mochitaka became increasingly unhappy.
In Hosokawa Motaka's view, Hosokawa Harumoto has no ability and only relied on his own help to get where he is today.
Why can a member of the Awa Hosokawa family become a leader, but not a member of the Ki Hosokawa family?
The longer time passes, the stronger this feeling becomes.
But Hosokawa Mochitaka also knows that he alone cannot defeat the current Hosokawa Harumoto. Although Hosokawa Harumoto does not have many troops, the opponent has the support of Hatano, Kizawa and others, and even the Kyogoku family He is also willing to work for Hosokawa Harumoto.
If he wants to seize power, Hosokawa Motaka must find a helper for himself, and the Miyoshi family is Hosokawa Motaka's goal.
As early as when Miyoshi Nagakei first entered the server, Hosokawa Nobitaka personally found Miyoshi Nagakei and expressed his willingness to help Miyoshi Nagakei secure his position as the leader, but the condition was that Miyoshi Nagakei had to work for him.
Naturally, Miyoshi Nagakei would not refuse the olive branch offered by Mochitaka Hosokawa, so the two secretly reached an agreement.
In the past two years, with the help of Hosokawa Motaka, Miyoshi Chokei completed the internal integration. In order to win over the Miyoshi family and stabilize his position in Shikoku, Hosokawa Motaka even proposed to let two of Miyoshi Chokei The younger brothers were adopted to the Shihe family of the Sanqi wealthy family and the Anzhai family of Danlu.
Hosokawa Molitaka hopes to take advantage of the Miyoshi family's reputation, and Miyoshi Nagakei also needs Hosokawa Molitaka's support. It can be said that the two hit it off after each took what they needed.
The outbreak in Kyoto allowed Hosokawa Mototaka to see an opportunity, so he proposed to Hosokawa Harumoto to let Miyoshi Nagakei lead troops to Luo.
"My lord, the troops of the Mihaoshi family have reached Danlu. If nothing happens, they will be able to land at Settsu tomorrow. If this happens, my lord's status in the family will definitely overwhelm the others!" A retainer said flatteringly at the side.
Hosokawa Motaka said with a smile, "Huh, the leader may seem like a good person, but in fact, it all depends on my support. When I gain a foothold in Kyoto, I won't be far from that position."
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Three days later.
Kyoto, outside the Hosokawa clan building.
Hundreds of Ikaku, led by more than a dozen monk soldiers, stationed here. Although they did not take any hostile actions against the Hosokawa Clan, this posture also caused panic in Hosokawa Harumoto.
"Why haven't the troops from the Mihaoshi family come yet? They are almost surrounding my residence!"
After finishing dressing up, Hosokawa Harumoto took the saber from his junior hand and angrily yelled at the retainers around him.
In the courtyard, hundreds of warriors stood behind the gate as if facing a formidable enemy, watching the front vigilantly, fearing that there would be any movement outside the door.
Hosokawa Motaka stood beside Hosokawa Harumoto, waving a folding fan as if strategizing.
"Don't worry, my lord. The Miyoshi family's troops arrived in Settsu yesterday and will be here soon. I have already sent people to the Ichigo Sect and Honganji Temple. They will not attack my family, so lord, you can rest assured."
"The knife is almost to my neck, how can you trust me?"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a noise outside the courtyard.
Soon, a samurai lay in the crack of the door and watched for a while. He immediately ran over and reported with surprise, "My lord, it's the troops of the Miyoshi family!"
"Quickly, open the door and let Sunjiro in."
"ha!"
When a group of samurai opened the door of the residence hall, they found that the Miyoshi family troops outside the residence hall directly surrounded Hosokawa Harumoto's residence hall. Hundreds of archers even bent their bows and aimed arrows directly at the residence hall.
This posture directly frightened all the Hosokawa family samurai.
Looking at the thousands of Miyoshi troops waiting in formation outside the building, a few timid samurai even peed their pants.
A clever warrior tried hard to control his trembling legs and ran back while rolling and crawling.
"Lord, it's not good. The Mihaoshi family's troops have surrounded the residence for some reason. There are at least four to five thousand people outside, and there seems to be signs of launching an attack."
"What?!"
There were two people who exclaimed, one was Hosokawa Harumoto and the other was Hosokawa Mochitaka. Both of them looked at each other in disbelief, their faces full of shock.
Hosokawa Harumoto was confused, wasn't Miyoshi Nagakei here to help him resist Ikku, why did he surround himself instead?
Hosokawa Mochitaka didn't understand even more.
Hosokawa Mochitaka didn't understand why the plot was different from the script he designed. What was Miyoshi Nagakei doing? Even if you have any temporary plans, shouldn't you inform yourself in advance?
What is Sanhao Changqing doing?
Just when everyone was at a loss, there was a sound outside the residence.
"Please come out and answer the question!"
"Please come out and answer the question!"
Hosokawa Harumoto subconsciously wanted to escape, but he also wanted to know what Miyoshi Nagakei wanted to do.
rebel?
Not quite.
If there was a rebellion, the Sanhao family would have invaded directly by now, why are they talking nonsense to me here?
Before Hosokawa Harumoto could respond, Hosokawa Mochitaka could not sit still.
"My lord, please wait a moment. Please go out and investigate."
With that said, Hosokawa Mochitaka greeted the two sidemen and walked out.
Looking at the hundreds of Ashigaru with their bows and arrows drawn outside, Hosokawa Mochitaka gritted his teeth and walked towards the Miyoshi family's troops. When Miyoshi Nagakei appeared in front of Hosokawa Mototaka on horseback, Hosokawa Mototaka suppressed his anger and asked, "Sonjiro, what are you doing?"
"Why did Sanqi Shoudian ask such a question? Didn't you let me down?" Miyoshi Changqing replied calmly.
"It's true that I asked you to come, but why do you want to surround this place? Have you forgotten why I asked you to come?"
"How can I dare to hope for this, but there is something that has always bothered me. When my father followed Guan Lingdian to defeat Hosokawa Ukyo (Hosokawa Takakuni), why did Guan Lingdian listen to the slander afterwards, causing my father to die in Xinxing? This temple!”
"I came here today just to get an explanation!" Sanhao Changqing said his purpose.
"You!" Hosokawa Mochitaka was so angry that he couldn't speak for a while, "Did you forget our agreement?"
"Sanqi is guarding the palace. I have been a loyal minister of Hosokawa for generations. You want to do this to subjugate the superiors. It will really make it difficult for me to sleep and eat well."
"If it were anyone else, I would have reported it to the Guanling Palace already, but out of the past friendship with Sanqi Shoudian, let's just drop this matter."
Looking at the pale Hosokawa Motaka in front of him, Miyoshi Nagakei silently felt pity for him.
Why is this man so naive? Or is it that everyone in the Hosokawa family has this kind of virtue?
You want me to help you defeat Harumoto Hosokawa. If it succeeds, then why don't I, Miyoshi Chokei, just take over? What's the matter with you, Mochitaka Hosokawa?
In recent years, Hosokawa Motaka has been oppressing the people of Shikoku under the banner of the Hosokawa family. The people in Shikoku have long been very dissatisfied with Hosokawa Motaka.
Sanhao Changqing secretly recruited many people in order to one day replace him.
Why do you want me, Sanhao Changqing, to hang out with you?
