On October 5, the twelfth year of astronomy, the autumn harvest of the Tsugawa family was successfully completed, and after statistics, a total of 114,000 koku of grain was harvested in the territory of the Tsugawa family in the autumn harvest this year, and according to the agricultural tax of the six koku and the four people and the individual five koku and five min, the Tsugawa family collected a total of 65,000 koku of grain. Pen fun and pavilion www.biquge.info

After the grain was put into storage, Tsugawa Soji sent someone to inform Yoshino Yoshino of Minato Castle and delivered 20,000 stone of grain to Yoshino Yoshino. Yoshino Yoshino also delivered the subsequent 8,000 kan to the Tsugawa family.

After the transaction is completed, the Tsugawa family's current grain inventory plus the previous inventory still has more than 70,000 stones, which is enough to support the Tsugawa family's war in the coming year.

The construction of the city also began in an orderly manner with the end of the autumn harvest. The Tsugawa family issued a decree mobilizing the people to go to Mt. Ueno to build the castle, and each lord was paid 10 copper coins a day, and most of the lords had nothing to do after the autumn harvest, so the lords were very enthusiastic about building the castle.

In just two days, Ogasawara Nobutoki mobilized 1,200 people to go to Mt. Ueno. This is still taking into account that it is better to mobilize the people of the neighboring areas to build the city, otherwise the number will be even higher.

Saigo Kizo, as the chief commissioner of the castle, personally stayed at Uenoyama to oversee it, while Kiuchi Nagaru went to Ōtakashiro to take charge of the preparation of the timber. Tozawa Moritsuna, the lord of Otaka Castle, mobilized more than 100 ashigaru and hundreds of its citizens to begin cutting down trees and transporting them to the Ueno Mountains area via the Omono River.

Yasunaga Ogasawara was in charge of mining stone from Mt. Ueno with a portion of his lords and miners recruited from the iron and Maeda silver mines outside Tsugawa Castle. Since the entire summit of Mt. Ueno needed to be flattened to build the castle, the stone was completely sufficient.

And Ogasawara Nobutoki returned to Tsugawa Castle after mobilizing the labor force to deal with the internal affairs of the Tsugawa family, and the Tsugawa family is now in charge of internal affairs with four retainers, so it is necessary to leave one person to handle government affairs, otherwise Tsugawa Soji will be exhausted if they are all lost to Tsugawa Soji.

The Tsugawa family's city-building work is in full swing, but in Minatojo, Anton Tongji is anxious like an ant on a hot pot.

"Ladies and gentlemen, according to the report of the Honke family, the Tsugawa family is building a castle in Kawabe County, and it is said that this castle will be used as the residence of Tsugawa Soji. You say, could this be that the Tsukawa family wants to use troops against us? Anton Tongji said anxiously to the retainers beside him.

Anton Tongji is not the family governor of the Anton family, the real family governor is Anton Saburo who succeeded from the Hiyama Anton family, and Anton Tongji is just a member of the Anton family.

However, this is only on the surface, and now the real power of the Andong family has fallen into the hands of Andong Toji after the Hiyama Andong family was repelled by the Tsukawa family last time. The retainers of the Anton family have all looked forward to Anton Tongji, which made Anton Tongji live a very nourishing time during this time.

But now, Anton Tongji is not happy. Because the Tsugawa family has begun to show signs of using troops against Minato, this will make it difficult for Anton Tongji to sleep.

Now that the Minato family has broken with the Hiyama family, if the Tsugawa family is abandoning the covenant and mobilizing troops against the Minato family, then what will the Minato family use to confront the Tsugawa family?

In the castle tower, Toshima Shigemasa, the lord of Toshima Castle, Masayoshi Shirane, the lord of Shirakaba Castle, Kubota Ieji, the lord of Kubota Castle, and Minato Minato were the leaders of Inoue Iwasui, and Minato was the commander of the Anto family's naval army. As well as the head of the Akao Tsu family, the head of the Akao Tsu family, and the head of the Corn family, Corn Yoshimitsu, are also among them.

After listening to Anton Tongji's words, the faces of everyone in the hall were different. Akao Tsuieho and Maize Yoshimitsu have not changed much, but Shirane Masayoshi and the others don't look good.

Toshima Shigemasa was the first to say, "What do you mean by the Tsugawa family?" If they are building a city under our noses, will the other party not care about the covenant with their own family? ”

"Hehe, Lord Toshima, don't be impatient." Shirane Masayoshi on the side said with a smile, "The Tsugawa family just built a city, and they didn't really attack it, so why panic?" ”

"Echizen Mamoru Lord, the Tsugawa family has already started to build the city, will it be far from really sending troops to attack it?" Toshimashima scolded loudly.

Shirane Masayoshi immediately fought back: "Isn't that still being repaired?" The Tsukawa family won't be able to finish the castle in a short period of time, so we still have time to discuss it. ”

"Alright, don't make any noise." At this time, Ando Tsuki stopped the argument between Shirane Masayoshi and Toshima Shigemasa, and then turned his gaze to Kubota Ieji, who closed his eyes and recuperated, and then asked, "I see that Kubota-sama looks confident, I wonder if Kubota-sama has a countermeasure?" ”

After Anton Tsuki finished speaking, everyone in the hall turned their eyes to Kubota Ieji.

Kubota Ieji slowly opened his eyes at this time, and then said to Anton Tsuki, "Why are you so alarmed? Even if the Tsugawa family comes to attack, why worry? ”

Anton Tongji's face was overjoyed when he heard this, and he asked eagerly, "I would like to hear about it." ”

Kubota Ieji slowly stood up at this time, and his legs were a little numb after sitting for a long time as he was older.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the most powerful in our Hago region right now are none other than the Tsugawa family and the Hiyama Anto family. Since the Tsugawa family is going to be an enemy of the main family, why don't we seek the support of the Hiyama Yasuto family? If the Hiyama Anto family is willing to send troops to support, the Tsugawa family will not have to worry. Kubota Ieji looked at the people in the hall and said.

As soon as Kubota's voice fell, Maize Yoshimitsu, who was sitting at the bottom, hurriedly said, "But Kubota-sama, we broke with the Hiyama Ando family not long ago, and at this time, we have to seek the help of the other party, how easy is it?" ”

"Haha! So last time we had a bad relationship with the Tsugawa family, didn't the Tsugawa family also send troops to support the family? Kubota asked rhetorically.

For a while, everyone in the hall lowered their heads and thought about it, and the Kubota family continued as if no one was around, "The last time the Hiyama Anto family attacked the main family, and the Tsugawa family supported the main family, do you really think that it is because of the 500 kan we promised each other?" ”

"Of course not!" Kubota Ieji asked himself and said, "It's because the Tsugawa family can't watch Minato Castle, the largest port in the Tohoku region, easily fall into the hands of the Hiyama Anto family, which will greatly increase the strength of the Hiyama Anto family!" ”

"In the same way, Andong Shunji of Hiyama Castle will not sit idly by and watch the Tsugawa family attack and destroy the main family! Therefore, once the Tsugawa family wants to use troops against the family, the Hiyama Anto family will not sit idly by! Kubota said with a smile.

"I see!" Anton Tongji and the others said with relief.

"So our top priority now is not to care about the construction of the Tsugawa family, but to quickly send someone to Hiyama Castle and tell Anton Shunji about it! I think that after Anton Shunji learned the news, he didn't need to say much from his family, the other party would naturally take the initiative to support us! Kubota continued.

Anton Toki hurriedly said, "What Kubota-sama said is extremely true! So how about Kubota-sama sending Hiyama Castle as an envoy? ”

"Willing to help!" Kubota Ieji nodded and said.

"Haha! Listening to what Kubota-sama said, the Tsugawa family really doesn't have to worry! Ha ha! Anton Tongji swept away his previous boredom and said with a laugh.

Shigemasa Toshima and the others in the hall also smiled in agreement. It's just that what everyone didn't notice was that Kubota Ieji showed an intriguing smile at this time...............