Chapter 51: A New Beginning (3)
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If it weren't for the fact that Takakura Mountain Castle was not a place to live for a long time, it would be the road under the wall that the gentleman did not erect, which is why he tried his best to repair Matsuyama Castle, if Takakura Mountain Castle was as strong as Tsurushou Castle and Matsuyama Castle, it would indeed be a good place, and the distance from Tsurushou Castle and Matsuyama Castle was almost the same, and it just connected the two places to become an important material transit station. It's just that building a new city is much more difficult than renovating Matsuyama Castle, the mountain road near Takakura Mountain is narrow, and it is quite difficult to transport stones, and the repair of Matsuyama Castle requires more than 1,000 people for more than half a year, and it takes the same five or six years to build the same big city, and it is difficult to achieve the scale of the former, planning a new city is much more difficult than repairing an old city. Zhengheng is not stupid enough to spoil the people's fat and ointment at will, what he needs to do now is to appease the people, so that the hearts of the people who belong to the various powerful countries will all be gathered under the Date family and his command.
According to Zhengheng's meaning, Matsuyama Castle also does not need to be repaired, but his idea is that he wants to directly put the main formation in Xingshan Castle, so as to control the granary of China, with his inherent idea, whoever has rice and grain can have an army, but in the slight change in the faces of the retainers, it can only be listened to as a joke. According to the idea of preparing Chinese, whoever controls Zhì Songshan Castle is the biggest overlord of Prepare China, whether it is the Hosokawa clan, the guardian of China, or the later guardian generations, to Zhuang Weizi, who does not control the complete situation of zhì. Even the three village families, who are known as heroes, have launched a strategy around Songshan Castle, which is enough to show the status of Songshan Castle in the hearts of the Chinese. Now that the Date family has defeated the dealer and controlled Matsuyama Castle, it is not good to repair it, and move the camp to Matsuyama Castle where can I control the situation in China. Even if a large number of good governance is proposed, even if it is the usury that burns the loan of the Zhuang family that makes the common people excited, and the good government of Xinjian Zhuang is six public and four peasants several times, it cannot be completely controlled.
As can be seen from the situation of the two provinces of Yin and Yang, Bigoku was surrounded by some powerful forces such as the Urakami clan in the east Bizen, the Niko clan in Izumo in the north, and the Mori clan in Aki in the west, and Matsuyama Castle, as the most important castle in Bikochu, was built by Akiniwa Saburo Shigenobu in the first year of Niji (1240) in the Omatsuyama Sorghuma area of Woniu Mountain, and after the expansion of Takahashi Muneyasu to Komatsuyama in the Motohiro period, it passed through the hands of the Akiniwa clan, the Takahashi clan, the Takahashi clan, the Ueno clan, and the Sho clan. Due to the importance of Matsuyama Castle's geographical location. The castle itself is easy to defend and difficult to attack, so it has always been a battleground for all families, and all the daimyo of Matsuyama Castle are based on this castle. Hundreds of years of operation are enough to bind the hearts of the people of China. Speaking of preparing for China, the only thing that the common people can think of is Songshan City, so whoever controls Songshan City will be the boss of Bei China. Regardless of Zhuang Weizi and high-ranking father and son, in the last years, they have completely lost control of the overall situation, and they cannot shake their status under the situation of being trapped in one place, which is enough to see one or two.
Gaocang Mountain City is small, the cool breeze blows the tent, but Zhengheng can't sleep peacefully before leaving, and his one eye is slightly closed and he sleeps. The trend of thought is surging. How China controls and how it will develop in the future. There are many problems as to how to deal with relations between neighboring countries. Complicated minds. He touched the blindfold on the one-eye, and the wound had already stammered, leaving only a black hole-like eye socket, which was terrifying. Date Masahiro's Date family is indeed not comparable to the Maori family of Maori Motosa, although he has always taken Maori Motoon as his benchmark to think about problems, and the only hobby living in Umegawa Temple for more than ten years is to write the general stories of celebrities in the troubled times of the Warring States Period, Takeda Shingen's wind forest volcano, Oda Nobunaga's internal and foreign affairs, the most important thing for him to read is Mori Motosa, who let him watch before crossing is the Taiga drama based on the anecdote that describes the life of Maori Moto, and the most profound influence.
Zhengheng now admits that the Date family is indeed inferior to the Maori family, and it took the Maori family as long as thirty years to prepare the Maori family to rule several countries, and then won the battle in the Itsukushima Battle to be able to quickly expand into the hegemony of several countries without any major turmoil, but the Date family could not fully achieve this. Heroes such as Maori Yuan had to spend 30 years to control the Aki Province before they had the ambition to expand their territory and infiltrate the Bigo Kingdom, forming the Bigo National People's Federation to infiltrate the Bigo China and Bizen countries. Mao Li Yuan already had a very good situation when he became the governor of the Maori family, and it can be said that his father and brother have laid a good start for him, against the lord of An Yiguo's guardian of the Hao clan. The Date family has only been from scratch for a year so far, and when Date Masahiro became the head of the Date family, he only had two retainers, Noyama Yoshitomo and Nikaido Nobuhiro, plus more than 30 panicked soldiers, and the castle was burned down, and the first castle he got was still grabbed from Nakayama Fanshi. The foundation is incomparable, and the foundation accumulated over time is also very different, and now if you want to fully control China, Zhengheng can only go into battle in person. As for getting out of Bei China, so far, Zheng Heng can't even imagine it, and the only idea is to govern Bei China, and grab some benefits when Yoshicho Ouchi, Haruhisa Niko, and Mori Moto compete for hegemony in the three heroes, so that the Date family can get out of the weak period before it is king.
After a day of temporary stay, Zhengheng said goodbye to Takakura Mountain Castle, where he had lived for more than 20 days, and Takakura Mountain Castle also began to bid farewell to its core days of preparing for China, and began to enter the countdown to abandonment. There is only one reason for abandonment, there is no need to maintain such a huge maintenance cost, now there is no enemy of the Date family in China, since there is no enemy, why maintain such a large castle complex, in addition to the main road to neighboring countries to repair and even expand the scale of the castle fortress, other castles must be put on a streamlined agenda, when the time comes, with Matsuyama Castle as the core, more than ten middle castles as the main point, the interest group of control of China will be formed, of course, these are still slowly formed in the mind of Zhengheng, Haven't sued anyone yet. If those little wealthy families knew what Zhengheng was thinking now, maybe they wouldn't be so happy, and whoever had the walled city was abandoned would be happy.
Zhengheng rode on a handsome war horse, this outstanding war horse was originally Zhuang Weizi, the love horse of the high-ranking father and son, I heard that it was rewarded by the nobles of Yunzhou, whether it was true has been impossible to verify, the original owner has already been fluttering in the wind, the original speckled horse from the three village Saemon became the mount of Atsutaro Kiyokawa, in addition to more than 2,000 soldiers of the Date family, there are also large and small Hao clan people from all over the country, they are accompanied by only two or three personal soldiers, most of the others have been sent home, The team also expanded to two or three thousand people at once. The scale was large, and the speed dropped a lot, and it took less than an hour to walk from Takakura Mountain Castle to Heshou Castle for four hours before it arrived.
Zhengheng turned his head and glanced at the various people who followed behind him, and his attention was also from their faces to their clothes, and he could see that most of the Hao people who followed the Date family to Heshou City were young people, young people with ambitions, and some small wealthy families with small territories, looking forward to becoming the direct retainers of the Date family, so as to protect the safety of their territory. These small wealthy families with small territories are not qualified to see Zhengheng, so they have to wander around and wait for Zhengheng and the generals under their command to favor them, and the size of their territory is not much different from Zhongshan Fan Shi and others.
Most of the clothes worn by these people from the small wealthy family are neat, but there is not much difference between the others, but there are a few grandiose young people who are a little more decorated, but they can't see anything, they can only be distinguished by their body and physique. Zheng Heng identified their identities one by one, and more than half of them were only able to recognize the flags, and had never met each other, and they could distinguish their origins from their banners, but many of these small wealthy families were from the same clan and clan, and the flags were almost the same, making it even more difficult to correspond their names to people.
Zhengheng saw an acquaintance from the crowd, Muneji Shimizu from Takamatsu Castle, with a black and thin figure riding on a slightly short and fat horse, he was one of the few courtiers who could ride on a horse, horses belonged to the ranks of luxury goods for the Wa Kingdom, and being able to ride a horse was the standard for becoming a middle and upper samurai, and being able to become the lord of a city was the standard for the old and important ministers of the family. At present, the Date family has collected only thirty-five horses from the hands of various powerful people, and the number of horses in the entire preparation of China will not exceed fifty, which is enough to show the rarity of horses in the Wa country.
If it weren't for the foil of the horse, the black and thin of Shimizu Soji would not be able to be discovered by Zheng Heng at a glance in the crowd, Zheng Heng also attached great importance to this young man, otherwise he would not have given the Art of War Tao Strategy, and this return to Heshou City was even more designated to accompany him.
Seeing that Masahiro's gaze was within his reach, most of them avoided it slightly, but there were also some aspiring people who dared to look directly, Masahiro smiled slightly, thinking that if he had left Bei China and went to Owari Province to join Oda Nobunaga, would he have tried his best to express himself like them, and wanted Oda Nobunaga's gaze to linger for a while?!
Thinking in such a strange way, the team gradually stopped advancing, and the city of Heshou arrived. (To be continued......)
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