And the end of the Battle of Yamashiro means that the position of Date Zhengheng has been consolidated.

In today's Yamavagina and Sanyo Road, except for the barely breathing Niko Harumu and the Yamana clan, which has long since changed, no one can threaten Date Masaki's position. It can be said that as long as he does not make mistakes, Date Mashiro's position will become more and more stable.

Nowadays, Date Mashiro is relying more and more on the warriors who are one in a hundred, but on the innovation of musket technology, from the birth of the first medium-sized musket to the manufacture of gunpowder, which makes the Date army rarely defeated on the frontal battlefield.

As a result, no matter how brave the samurai regiment on the other side was, as long as there were muskets, they could be dealt with with infantry. This method of warfare is a bold innovation in the history of tactics, which was slowly developed by Oda Nobunaga after defeating Takeda Katsuyori, which can be said to be twenty years ahead of schedule.

With the end of the Battle of Yamashiro and the uncertainty of the movements of Izumo Province, Date Masaki moved his residence to Okayama Castle, and at the same time to construct the policy of the Date family, the first thing to clarify was the complex relationship between the public family, the temple family, and the samurai family.

The power relations in the Middle Ages were complexly related to the government, temples, and samurai.

The public can temporarily act as the imperial court. After the defeat of the Southern Dynasty, the public family collapsed. By the time of the Warring States Period, most of the sources of public income were taken by the daimyos, and the annual income was only about 7,000 yuan, and the economy was very poor. Although the Imperial Court of the Wakoku Kingdom was not armed with force, it still had authority, and as long as it occupied Kyoto, it could use the authority of the Imperial Court to act. The impoverished public families had to receive tutors from local daimyo to teach waka songs, calligraphy, keju, etiquette, calendars, etc., to make ends meet. After the fires at the beginning of the year, the authority of the imperial court was once again swept away. Thanks to Date Masaki's funding, the imperial court was able to survive for a long time. In fact, it will continue to survive.

The terraya of the Wakoku country owned a large estate. Date Masaki, like all the new and radical Sengoku daimyo in history, confiscated the excess land after the land survey. As a result of the original Bikoku's indentacious behavior, the temples in Bikoku were cleaned up, and there was no longer enough energy left to deal with the taxes imposed on the Date family. However, Date Masaki was also compromised on religion, and did not start to clean up the temples in the territory at a deep level, but only confiscated a number of land and stopped dealing with them, and at the same time reached an alliance with Ishiyama Honganji.

The Date family belonged to the samurai regime, and it was inevitable to limit the influence of the public family and the temple family. Restricting the estates of the public and the temple family, especially to prevent the resurgence of the temple family, constituted a factor of internal instability, abolished the power of the public family and the temple family, and formally established the samurai regime.

Sun Tzu said in the Art of War, so the first army to fight, the second to fight, the second to attack the army, the next to attack the city, the law of siege is a last resort. The intricate relationship between the public family, the temple family, and the samurai family is difficult to sort out. He wanted to abolish the power of the government and the temple family and consolidate the power of the samurai. The best way to use troops is to achieve victory by strategy, and the second is to defeat the enemy by diplomacy. The second is to defeat the enemy army by force, and the last strategy is to attack the enemy's city.

Historically, Oda Nobunaga personally went into battle to defeat the people who had always been in battle, defeated the Honganji Temple in the Battle of Ishiyama, and burned Mt. Hiei in order to weaken the power of the temple family, but he was doomed to a bad death in person, and he was indeed unable to continue his dream of "the world of Buwu" in the change of the Honnoji Temple.

The method that Masahiro taught Hosokawa Fujitaka today can be said to be a yang scheme, with Hosokawa Fujitaka's character, even if he doesn't want to see the lives of the people of Li and the catastrophe in the world, he will not hide it or not report it, as long as he tells Ashikaga Yoshiteru as it is.

Whether Ashikaga Yoshiki uses it or not, is not something he can control. Masahiro understands that Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Hosokawa Haruhoto are not puppets in their own hands, they will do whatever they say, they have their own judgments and choices.

But Masahiro knew better that his words would plant seeds in the hearts of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Hosokawa Harumoto and others, and when the right roar was right, it would take root. Anyway, just watching the rats bounce in front of them vigorously, even if there is no harm, is disgusting enough. What's more, the Miyoshi Changqing, who occupies the province, is not a mouse, but a tiger.

Zhengheng's remarks are the persuasion of the devil, and the blossoming and fruiting may not be now, but there will always be a day when it will thrive. In Zhengheng's hunch, this time will not be too long, and the hexagonal Yoshixian is now exhausted, and it is a matter of time before he succumbs to Miyoshi Changqing. Rokkaku Yoshiken compromised, and Ashikaga Yoshiki looked very embarrassed. He will either embark on the road of escape, or he will once again be reduced to a puppet at the mercy of others. Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who is in a desperate situation, can't guarantee that he won't do crazy things.

Based on Masahiro's exploration of Ashikaga Yoshiteru's character, Ashikaga Yoshiki is a persistent person who gets up before dawn to practice kendo all year round, regardless of wind, rain or snow. A persistent person tends to go crazy about one thing. Ashikaga Yoshiteru's fetters are the Nakako shogunate, and he can forget to sleep and eat for the shogunate's sake.

It can be said that the words of Masahiro are just an introduction, as long as one of the people of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Hosokawa Harumoto has a demonic attack, they will do everything possible to induce an outbreak that has always been a flaw, once it has always broken out in Jinai, even if it is a person who has to run away for fear of being held up and losing his godhead as a religious leader, not to mention Xianru, who has just ascended the throne at the age of thirteen or fourteen. At that time, it was not whether he was willing or unwilling to stand in the position of the general leader, but he had to sit down. If you don't sit down, you don't have no brothers, you don't have no cousins, at most you can support one more.

It has always been an outbreak, first of all, Miyoshi Changqing fell into blood mold, and had to suppress the rebellious people, if he didn't suppress it, he would wait to die, and if he suppressed it, he was afraid that he would immediately fall into the vast sea of people's war, and in the end he had to put on a hat of "Buddha enemy" on his head.

Miyoshi Changqing fell blood mold, followed by religious forces such as the Tiantai sect, you Honganji wants to establish an earthly Buddha kingdom in, so where do you want to put us, do you want to wipe us out, so it will inevitably form a coalition like the Astronomical Lotus Rebellion to fight to the end.

No matter who wins or loses, the temple family will be greatly damaged in the turmoil. Not only will it consume their financial and material resources. At the same time, it will also deplete their hearts and minds among the people. Once too involved in the world, especially the people's livelihood is in danger.

Devout believers will die in large numbers, less devout believers will think, once there is thinking, faith will collapse, and new beliefs will take time to establish, which is a good opportunity to take in the displaced people in Shanyin and Shanyang, where there are fewer people and more land.

The smile between Zhengheng's lips is the confidence of knowing everything. He knew it in his heart. Once there is a great chaos in Kinai, Miyoshi Chokei is exhausted, and the real power faction in the Kinai family, the temple family, and the samurai family will be greatly damaged, and once the winner is divided, it is the time for him to sweep everything.

At the beginning of the same day, Hattori and his son Hattori Masanari came to Tsurushou Castle with a letter from Hosokawa Fujitaka to ask for an interview, and he reported that his name was Hattori Shocho in Mikawa, not Chiga Jimasa, and it was obvious that he wanted to abandon his past.

Zheng Heng pinched the letter in his hand and muttered the name of the person who came, "Hattori Baochang", he was unfamiliar with this name. In fact, he is also unfamiliar with Hattori Masanari, if he says their common name, Hanzo. Then it's thunderous.

I don't know what the relationship between this Hattori security chief and Hattori Hanzo is, if he can contact Hattori Hanzo through Hattori security chief, then it will be the icing on the cake for the Date family, he didn't let Hattori security chief wait, and ordered someone to take him to the hall.

Hattori was seated in front of Mashiro, and his son, Hattori Masanari, was sitting in the hallway outside the door. Zhengheng stared at the ordinary-looking farmer-like man in front of him, and at the face of the chief of Shinwa Hattori. Hattori's eyes did not waver in the slightest.

Hattori enduring the intimidating eyes of the political balance, thinking that once he could not bear this kind of eyesight, it would be time for his body to be destroyed, and he would lose the opportunity to go out of the Shida family and become a samurai. He heard countless stories of peasants, robbers, bandits, and ranbo who became samurai in the castle town, and most of them were stories with names and surnames rather than legends, which strengthened his belief that he was born into the Date family.

Zhengheng tried to see something strange from the face of the Hattori security chief, and when a murderous aura of murderous cultivation suddenly erupted in his single eye and enveloped the Hattori security chief's body, even Hattori, who was sitting at the door, felt a feeling of sweat hair standing up.

Hattori tried to push back. Zheng Heng smiled, the murderous aura disappeared from his eyes, revealing the brilliance of wisdom, his smile was like a spring breeze, and the Hattori security chief didn't feel anything yet, but the Hattori at the door was prostrate on the ground with a serious expression.

Zheng Heng glanced up at the young man at the door, of course he saw the young man with misty eyes, he didn't notice his specialness at first, but just now it made him feel a feeling that his mind was guessed, what an interesting kid.

Zhengheng nodded, opened Hosokawa Fujitaka's letter, saw the end at a glance, and then looked up and said, "Do you have any intention to be out of me?" His voice was deep and powerful, as if he had read through Hattori's thoughts.

The Hattori security chief immediately prostrated in the tunnel and said: "The Hattori security chief is willing to serve the dogs and horses." When he was lying on the ground, he suddenly remembered that when he met Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, he suddenly felt the same as back then, and he had forgotten that he was on the orders of Hosokawa Fujitaka.

Zhengheng looked at him, pointed to Hattori Masanari at the door, and then said, "Your son is smarter than you, but you are still not incorrigible." I like smart people, but I don't like smart people. Give you a thousand stones. ”

The voice is still so powerful, but it makes people feel solemn and weighty, and at the same time it is as if it wants to see through people's hearts. Cold sweat oozed from Hattori's forehead, and the reason why he was able to get the opportunity to become a leader was naturally because he played some tricks and deceived Hosokawa Fujitaka. Hattori raised his head slightly in surprise.

So, Zheng Heng said again: "Well, first of all, you have to build a ninja army of 100 people in a month's time, and you need all of them to be elites. I need to put this unit in Kinai, and the task is to gather intelligence. ”

Hattori was obviously not expecting to get such an important task as soon as he came, and he was stunned for a while before he had recovered from Sengoku's fortune. Fortunately, his son, Hattori Masanari, knelt on the ground again, and the sound of his head hitting the ground woke him up.

Hattori raised his head and said in an uninhibited voice, "This is my extremely rare luck. ”

Zheng Heng waved his hand and said, "Go down and prepare!" Saying that, he raised his head and smiled slightly at Hattori Masari, who had just touched his red and swollen forehead, and suddenly, he pointed at Hattori Masari and said to Hattori Shosei: "This is your son, it's interesting, let him stay as my little surname." ”

Hattori once again replied in a stunned voice: "Little surname?!" "It's an unprecedented thing to let the children of ninjas become small surnames, even in an enlightened samurai daimyo wouldn't do that, Matsudaira Kiyoyasu once said such things, but Matsudaira Kiyoyasu is just talking.

Zhengheng pretended to be unintentional and said: "Since you are reluctant, then forget it." ”

Where would Hattori Baochang give up such a good opportunity, knowing that becoming a daimyo is likely to become a heavy minister in the future, rather than a despised ninja, he immediately knelt on the ground and replied: "Thank you for the lord's grace for Xiao'er." ”

As he spoke, he pulled Hattori Masanari and said, "Don't hurry up and see the lord." Hattori Masanari still looked confused, knelt on the ground under the pull of Hattori Chief, and kowtowed: "Zhengcheng greets the lord, the lord is safe." ”

Zhengheng looked in a good mood, looked at Hattori Masanari, and said: "My little surname is all Yulu, since you have become my little surname, then give you twenty stone Yulu, work hard." Wait a while, follow Sukegoro to the arsenal to pick up the equipment. ”

Hattori Masari left under the leadership of Sukegoro Tsuda, and Hattori also retired and left, and Masahiro suddenly asked, "Hattori, do you know a person from Hattori Hanzo?" ”

Hattori Hocho looked back in amazement, the patriarchs of the past generations have been passed down from generation to generation with Iwami Mamoru so Hattori Iwami Mamoru is widely known, and Hattori Hanzo is his name after leaving Iga Province in order to clear himself from the past, due to the death of Matsudaira Kiyoyasu, the name of Hanzo is rarely known, and in history because of Tokugawa Ieyasu, the name of Hattori Hanzo is widely known. Suddenly, when he heard Zhengheng ask, the consternation in his heart can be imagined, and he turned around again and knelt down and said: "The minister is frightened, Hattori Hanzo is the name of the minister." ”

Masahiro didn't explain where he learned about Hattori's Hanzo name, and it was good to give Hattori a misunderstanding to make him understand that even such a little-known thing could be figured out, and mistakenly believe that there was a hidden intelligence network behind it in addition to Tozawa Hakusai.

Zhengheng muttered, "Hattori Hanzo? (To be continued......)