The summer rain came and went, and the rain gradually stopped, and the breeze blew, blowing the signs on the streets, ping-pong sounded, urging the people to take shelter from the rain, and the rain stopped, and everyone went back to their homes. Pen, Fun, Pavilion www.biquge.info Zhengheng and his party went out, and the people who originally sheltered from the rain were afraid and avoided it. Naturally, the people of the town don't know that it was their lord who had just left, the master of Osaka Castle, but everyone understands the principle of seeking advantages and avoiding disadvantages. At first glance, the temperament and literacy are trained by high-level martial artists, and I don't know which family's son and young master came out to play, and if I am annoyed, I have to eat whipping, or it is better to provoke less.

Under Osaka Castle, the killing of townspeople by samurai in the streets was regulated by laws and regulations, and there was no trace of it since its establishment. However, the whipping was still inevitable, and the townspeople rushed into the samurai, and the whipping was considered light, and they had to serve hard labor, which was fatal.

Where there are people, classes arise, and in feudal societies the gulf between different classes is especially obvious. There is a huge difference in the status and living standards of the characters of different classes, and the ass of Zhengheng sits on the side of the samurai, and of course it is for the benefit of the samurai.

The continuous military operations from the end of the second year of Eiroku to the beginning of the first year of Tensho caused the jurisdiction of the Date family to suddenly develop from the original 14 countries to the current 30 countries and one island. It stands to reason that Zhengheng governed a country in the twenty-fourth year of astronomy, but it almost took less than ten years to develop to the current point in the way of almost three jumps a year. Of course, theoretically, it would be difficult for the Date family to govern such a large area, but in practice, the political balance relied on the two pillars of the army to support it.

The subtlety of the matter lies in the two pillars of political balance, which can be seen by a discerning person at a glance, and understood is understood, but it is impossible to imitate if you want to imitate. The first pillar is the direct retainers, according to the theory, the thousands of samurai in more than 30 countries are all directly under the Date family, directly under Date Masahiro, of course, in fact, they have each other's subordinates, because all are direct retainers, to ensure the promotion channel from the lower samurai to the senior samurai. The second pillar is the police system, which is a four-way police system, and every time the Date family occupies a place, they will set up a local police system, recruit local ronin for their own use, and fight against local thieves to ensure law and order lawsuits.

It can be said that the samurai in Date Territory were only loyal to the Date family and to Date Masaki, indicating that the samurai's belonging was unquestionable, that the police system ensured local stability, and that the police force was a supplementary reserve of the Date Standing Army.

Almost ninety percent of the samurai who walked in Date territory belonged directly to the Date family, and Masahiro was their general agent, so it was natural to protect their political and economic interests, and politically, the samurai were the ruling class. Economically, there is no fallacy of competing with the people for profit, and it is the duty of the samurai to sharpen their martial arts. However, Masayo did not restrict their families from engaging in business, and Osaka Castle was able to prosper rapidly, and they were all part of the merchants in the castle town. Of course, no matter how big their background is, they can't escape paying taxes, you must know that the taxes are handed over to the Date family, and they will eventually fall into the hands of Date Zhengheng, who dares to evade taxes.

However, as the territory expanded again, the Date family had to stop the pace of expansion, and except for the use of troops on the barren island of Shikoku, the rest of the direction stopped. In the Battle of Tsuruga, Katayama Moricho defeated 120,000 with 3,000 soldiers and horses, and Katayama Moricho did not submit a letter of suggestion to send troops to Echizen Province, but in the end, Masahiro rejected Katayama Moricho's suggestion under the trade-off, and sat back and watched Honda Masanobu sit big.

In addition to the direction of Echizen, in Mino Province and Owari Province, if you follow the consistent method of the Date family, you will not tolerate the existence of Daimyo such as Mino Saito and Oda Oda in the system of the Date family, you must know that the Date family has gone all the way, I don't know how many famous families have been eradicated, it is not that there are no famous families who do not want to join the territory of the Seibo family, it is really the Date family that is too cruel, and wants to seize their net worth territory and deprive them of everything.

Not to mention, Ise Country.

However, he said that Zhengheng and his group had just walked into Osaka Castle, and before they stepped into the gate, they saw a city executive rushing to Zhengheng, as if he had encountered something important.

After coming to Masahiro, the priest reported with a salute: "Regent, when you went out, a guest came to the office, claiming to be a retainer under the Kitabatake sect of the three powers of Ise Kunisho, and also brought the name of the Kitabatake Sect and the name of the Kikutei Right Mansion, saying that there was something important to ask to see the regent, and the minister did not dare to slack off, so he sent a villain to inquire, did he summon him?" ”

Hearing the report, Zhengheng was slightly stunned and asked, "Ise Kuniji Kitabatake Gujiao, didn't I mediate the relationship between the Kokuji Mansion and Akechi Mitsuhide a few years ago, what are you doing with me now?" Soon after Masahiro became the Minister of Taisei, Kitabatake Gukyo asked Masahiro through the imperial court to mediate the relationship with Akechi Mitsuhide, and since Akechi Mitsuhide entered Ise Province, the originally chaotic small Warring States of Ise tended to be unified.

When the men and horses led by Akechi Mitsuhide spread from Yamato Province to Ise Province, the number was less than 12,000, of which only 3,000 were elite soldiers. Such a big crocodile rushed into the small pond of Ise Country, who would be his opponent, and annexed a lot of land at once, of course, after the defeat of the Kitabatake Gujiao in the field battle, he stuck to the city, and Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't eat much in the hands of the Kitabatake Gujiao, so he turned north, and then Lianzhan Lianjie almost beat all the forty-eight families of the Hokusei by him, and invaded the four counties of Kitabatake, Suzuka, Kawame, Santui, and Chaoming, and became the first major trend in Ise Country.

Feng bowed his head and said: "This villain doesn't know, do you want to see him, regent?" ”

Zheng Heng originally just asked casually, not expecting to get an answer from the mouth of the person who was being pursued, but after hearing the inquiry, Zheng Heng thought for a while before replying: "Place him in the guest house first." ”

Between the answers, Masahiro frowned slightly, and a look of thought flashed in his eyes, secretly thinking about the problem of Ise Province. It can be said that Akechi Mitsuhide's entry into Ise was single-handedly facilitated, when he wanted to capture as completely as possible, and let Honda Masatin lead the remnants of Honganji Temple into Echizen to disrupt Hokuriku, and urged Akechi Mitsuhide to enter Ise Province all the way. Now Honda Masanobu is at home in Echizen, Kaga and other places, and it is rumored that he has become the military leader of Honganji. Akechi Mitsuhide broke the territory of Ise Province, and the northern trend tended to be unified, so that the Ise National Commander Kitabatake Gukyo had to ask the imperial court for mediation.

It's a lie to say that Kitabatake Gujiao is incapable, but it's slightly inferior to Akechi Mitsuhide, plus he dominates the country in Ise, and when he meets Akechi Mitsuhide, who is used to seeing big scenes and fighting old battles, he has to be deflated. The vitality of Kitabatake Gukyo, who had experienced Akechi Mitsuhide's repeated attacks, was greatly damaged, and if it weren't for the fact that Masahiro didn't want to see Akechi Mitsuhide dominate in Ise, he wouldn't have come forward to reconcile the two families. Of course, Akechi Mitsuhide's aggression also damaged the interests of Honganji's largest branch temple in Tokaido, and the general Honganji Temple, who moved back to Yamashina from Ishiyama Honganji Temple, issued an order to Kanshoji Temple, and because of the relationship of interests, Kanshoji Temple was willing to accept the guidance of Yamashina Honganji. In this way, the siege on all sides forced Akechi Mitsuhide to agree to mediation, and the two sides stopped attacking.

It can be said that Akechi Mitsuhide is now confined to the north, and the north is the temple, and of course Oda Nobunaga is also eyeing it, which is also the reason why Akechi Mitsuhide does not want to invade the temple too much, and needs a buffer zone. To the south was Kitabatake, and the two sides drew an armistice line.

Therefore, when he heard that the people of the Kitabatake Sect asked to see him, Masahiro was naturally puzzled. You must know that Ise Province borders Omi, Yamato, and Iga, so it is natural to pay more attention to it, and many spies have been sent into Ise Country. There was no information on the rash actions of the wise Mitsuhide, why did he suddenly send someone to ask to see him, could it be that there was something wrong in Ise that he didn't know about?

In the middle of such a dark thought, Zhengheng had already come to the middle hall of Osaka Castle, and when he looked up, he saw that Hattori Masanari had been waiting for a long time at this time, and when he saw Zhengheng appear, Hattori Masanari hurriedly came out, and his expression was extremely respectful.

Hattori Masanari knelt down and said: "My lord, there has been an accident in Ise, and the Nagano Kudo family of Nagano Kudo expelled the second son of Kitabatake Gujiao, Nagano Jiro Goto, and then the head of the family, Nagano Fujita, turned to marry the adopted daughter of Akechi Mitsuhide, and was subordinate to Akechi Mitsuhide. ”

The Nagano Kudo family has ruled Ise for a long time, and it is the fourth strongest in Ise after Kitabatake, Akechi, and Honganji, and before Akechi Mitsuhide entered Ise, Kitabatake had just made a forced landing on Nagano, and Kitabatake Gukyo passed his second son to Nagano Tota, the governor of the Nagano family. Historically, Nagano Fuji was bound to die on May 5 last year at the age of Chinese New Year's Eve, the same day that his father Ueto died. But now he is still alive and well, and his father also eats Ma Ma Xiang.

Zhengheng's brows furrowed again, and he asked, "When did it happen?" ”

Hattori Masanari replied, "I was expelled the day before yesterday, but this matter should have already begun to appear, and the intelligence officers who infiltrated the Ise country are not of high status and cannot obtain more specific information, so I have not found out until now." ”

Zhengheng nodded slightly, the status of the intelligence personnel who infiltrated various places was not high, and most of the information obtained was ordinary information, but if you want to dissect more detailed information from it, it is the matter of the Shangnin and the Sho Pavilion, obviously they are also very surprised about this matter, who let Ise Country stop for more than half a year. After the mediation, both sides were accumulating strength and did not expand outward, so that the same information could not attract enough attention.

Zhengheng asked, "Is there any specific countermeasure against the Kitabatake Gujiao?" (To be continued.) )