Spring goes to spring and returns, and the flowers bloom again.

The cold winter has passed, everything has recovered, and the nineteenth year of astronomy has passed like this, and in the blink of an eye, it has come to June of the twentieth year of astronomy.

Last year, the Tsugawa clan defeated the old Michinoku powers, the Date family and the Ashina family, and accepted the allegiance of a bunch of people from Minami Mutsu, successfully unifying the two countries of Dewa and Mutsu.

Shogun Ashikaga Yoshito also personally arrived at Dewa Ueno Castle to congratulate Tsugawa Soji and canonize Tsugawa Soji as the deputy shogun of the shogunate! This is amazing, although the deputy general is a deputy, but no one in the world has ever won such an honor.

Even Miyoshi Chokei, who had gradually controlled Kinai at this time, was only an accompaniment of the shogunate, and as for the leader Hosokawa Harumoto, he was already in name only.

Ashikaga Yoshito also has no way, two things in a row to restore the power of the shogun failed, last year the Great Imperial Ashikaga Yoshiharu also died, Ashikaga Yoshito had a very hard time in Kyoto.

In the 18th year of Astronomy, Miyoshi Nagakei expelled Ashikaga Yoshito and his son to Omi, and successively defeated Miyoshi Masaga, exiled Hosokawa Harumoto, and initially controlled the Kinai region.

Ashikaga Yoshito began to panic at this time, thinking about it, it seemed that only the Tsugawa family, which was now in full swing, could help him, so he immediately contacted his good buddy - Takeda Nobutoyo, the head of the Wakasa Takeda family, found a clipper and ran all the way to Tsuruoka Castle of his younger brother Ashikaga Yoshimune with a few sides.

Tsuruoka Castle was built on the coastal plain of the Shonai region at a cost of 20,000 kan, and it is also the largest port in the Hazen area, second only to Minato Castle and Jujuminato in the entire Higashiyamado Road.

The main room of Ashikaga Yoshimune is Aoda Nobunaga's aunt Ayan, the head of the Oda family, who was matched by Tsugawa Soji. The head of the Owari Katsuhata Oda family has now been returned, and in April last year, Oda Nobuhide, the tiger of Owari, died of illness and was succeeded by his son Oda Dewa Nobunaga.

Regarding the arrival of the general of Zhengyi, Tsugawa Soji naturally did not dare to slack off in the slightest. Although Ashikaga Yoshito is no different from a salted fish at this time, at least the name is still there.

Tsugawa Soji immediately led the important ministers of the Tsugawa family to meet Ashikaga Yoshito at the Tsuruoka Imperial Palace, and after seeing Tsugawa Soji, Ashikaga Yoshito seemed to have found the backbone, holding Tsugawa Soji was sobbing, of course, this was only when they met in private.

Ashikaga Yoshito complained to Tsugawa Soji about his three days of suffering, and told Tsugawa Soji how he was angry between Hosokawa Harumoto and Miyoshi Nagakei. Anyway, it means one, I hope that Tsugawa Soji will fulfill his promise as soon as possible and send troops to Shangluo to help him pacify Jinnai.

While serving Ashikaga Yoshito delicious food and drink, Tsugawa Soji called the important ministers of the Tsugawa family to discuss.

In the Tsugawa annex outside the Tsuruoka Imperial Palace, twenty or thirty retainers of the Tsugawa family sat in the hall together, waiting for Tsugawa Soji's speech.

"Ladies and gentlemen, when the family met with the general yesterday, the general had personally invited the family to Shangluo, what do you think of this matter?" As soon as Tsugawa Soji came, he dropped a bomb and directly startled the retainers below.

"Is this true?" The old Komura Yoshijing of the pen family looked at Tsugawa Soji dumbfounded, although the Tsugawa family now has the status of the number one force in the world, but it does not mean that the mentality of the retainers has changed.

Shangluo or something, it seems that it is still too far for the Tsugawa family.

"Of course it's true." Soji Tsugawa nodded.

"My lord, now my family has the three kingdoms of Mutsu, Dewa, and Sado, and the total stone height has reached 2.1 million stones, and the standing army under his command is expected to reach 30,000 people this year, and it does have the strength of Shangluo." When the government affairs pursued Ogasawara Shin, he said slowly, and he still agreed with Kamiluo Ogasawara Shinshi.

"But the land of Ou is too remote from Kyoto, and there are too many forces to pass along the way, so it's not easy to get to Rokuro!" Sanada Yutaka, the director of the Senate, pinched his chin and said with a solemn face.

"As Dan Masataka said, the Kanto region is intricately intertwined, and Tokaido has a powerful daimyo like the Imagawa family. Shinano's Takeda family and Kanto's Hojo family are also very strong, and if you want to go to Luo, you must surrender these three families first, but how easy is it? Hiroke Yoshikawa, the elder of the family, also voted against.

Immediately afterwards, many retainers expressed their opinions, but most of them were mainly opposed.

In general, the retainers meant that the Tsugawa family did have the strength of Kamiraku, but the land of Ou was too far away from Kyoto, and it was really not conducive to marching. And there are also a lot of strong forces along the way, and at such a distance, it is impossible to successfully go to Luo.

Once Shangluo's troops are dragged on the road and the logistics supply is insufficient, then it will be a big defeat and a loss. In addition, the land of Mutsu has just been pacified, and it is a time when the territory is unstable, and if someone jumps out to do things inside, then the achievements that the Tsugawa family has achieved with great difficulty will be directly ruined.

I have to say that what the retainers said does have a certain amount of truth, but Tsugawa Soji has already had other plans.

As a traverser, how could Tsugawa Soji not know the power of the Kanto kraft candy (the union of the people), and none of Hojo, Takeda, and Imagawa were easy to mess with, plus the distance was long, it was impossible for the Tsugawa family to go to Luo.

Therefore, Tsugawa Soji didn't plan to go to Luo from here at the beginning, but had already chosen another path!

No, it's two!

"The land of Ou is indeed a bit far from Kyoto, but it also depends on where you go!" Tsugawa Soji asked Yajima Jimitsu to hang a large RB map prepared in advance behind him, and then pointed to the Hokuriku Province line in the map and said, "Among the Hokuriku provinces, the four countries of Echigo, Noto, Echizen, and Wakasa belong to the Nagao family, the Hatakeyama family, the Asakura family, and the Takeda family, and all four of them are allies of the family!" ”

"The only thing that can't be sure is Honganji Temple in Kaga! But this point has also been solved not long ago, the master of the sect has always been a high monk Mingdefang Juexiao and his family is very good, and he has personally gone to the stone mountain imperial fang to negotiate this matter with the sect master, I believe that I will receive a reply soon! ”

"In this way, Echigo, Echichu, Noto, Kaga, Echizen, and Wakasa will all be opened up, and the forces of the family will be able to start from Dewa and directly enter Omi Province along the Hokuriku Road! Is it still far from Kyoto when you get to Omi? Soji Tsugawa said with a smile.

And as Tsugawa Soji's words went deeper and deeper, the retainers present also fell into shock. Sanada Yutaka stared at the route depicted by Tsugawa Soharu even more, and couldn't help but sigh, "It's worthy of the lord, the family's road to Shangluo seems to be blocked, but the lord has found a feasible way from Hokuriku Province!" And the layout began a few years ago, Echigo Nagao, Noto Hatakeyama, Echizen Asakura, Wakasa Takeda, Koga Honganji, tsk, it's really breathtaking! ”

Sanada Yutaka was really convinced, and when the eyes of himself and others were still limited to Kanto, Tsugawa Soji's thinking had already jumped out of this dead place.

It's just that.....