Chapter Seventy-Four: The Akai Family Surrenders
"Uncle, because my father always remembers one thing. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info"
"One thing?"
"Hey! One thing, before his father died, he told him that when he was a child, he fled to Harima Province with his grandfather. ”
"That's true, when the family was attacked by the Naito family, and the skills were almost lost, and my father only had time to take my brother away, and the rest of us escaped with my uncle in the mountains. After all, it is a family ugly, so the family has always been taboo to mention this matter. Akai Yukiya recalled.
"My father said that I had received the favor of the Akamatsu family back then, so I couldn't submit to the Kuroda family."
"I see, alas! My brother is so stupid sometimes, and he always wants to take all the responsibilities alone. ”
"Uncle, the problem now is that the Kuroda family has already Chen Bing Sanwei Castle, and my Akai family has lost hundreds of elites in Kuroi City at present, and it is definitely not the opponent of the Kuroda family. It's better to surrender the Kuroda family, as long as my uncle and I are together, with the current development momentum of the Kuroda family, the Akai family will surely prosper again in a few years. ”
"Just ......"
"Uncle, before he died, my father told me to work well for the Kuroda family, but I am still young and still need my uncle's guidance from time to time."
"Hey! In that case, I don't have anything to say, so I'll go and meet Kuroda-sama! ”
After the Kuroda family captured Kuroi Castle and subdued Mio Castle, the Akai family basically only had the power of Goya Castle left.
Although there were a lot of complaints in his heart, Akai Naoyoshi still came to the back house castle accompanied by the Akai Yuki.
Although it was doubtful that Akai Naoyoshi was not dead, after knowing the identity of the two of them as the current envoys of the Kuroda family, everyone in the Akai family immediately had a different attitude. Anyway, after pretending to be a bit of a show, the Akai family accepted the Kuroda family's conditions and Kaejo surrendered. The submission of the Akai family also represents the suppression of Mizu-gun.
After returning to the camp, Kuroda was very satisfied with Akai Naoyoshi, so he privately promised that he would support him to become the governor of the Akai family. Akai only thanked him for this and didn't say much.
After the Kuroda Jobaka army captured the territory of the Kosai family in Sanuki Province, they did not immediately attack other places, but waited, waiting for the reaction of the surrounding wealthy clans and the forces of the countrymen, and also waiting for the reaction of the Shikawa family.
At this time, in Yutaki Castle, the Yasutomi clan was discussing countermeasures against the Kuroda family.
The Yasutomi clan was a famous samurai family that was active in the Kamakura period, and served as a shogunate minister in the middle of the Kamakura period. In the middle of the Muromachi shogunate, due to the rise of the Hosokawa Kyosho family, the Yasutomi clan took refuge in the Hosokawa Kyosho family and became an important minister of the Hosokawa family. And became the guardian of Sanki Province on behalf of the Hosokawa family.
As an important minister of the Hosokawa Kyosho family, the Yasutomi clan received the title of Hosokawa Four Heavenly Kings during the period when Yasutomi Mori was the governor of the family, and at the same time, he also represented the Yasutomi family, becoming a pivotal force in the Sanki country, and since then has received the hereditary right to protect the eastern Sanki country.
But the good times didn't last long, and the Hosokawa family, who was also one of the Four Heavenly Kings of Hosokawa, was the ancestor of the family of Kosai Motozai, who had just been destroyed by the Kuroda family, and through the war, he took his original land from the Yatomi clan, including the Kosai County of the Kosai family.
Not only was he bullied by the Xiangxi family, but the Hankawa clan and the Ueda clan began to encroach on the land of the Antomi clan. The power and prestige of the Azumi clan as a guardian generation have long been lost.
Especially after the rise of the Miyoshi family, the Tokawa family, a branch of the Ueda clan, became the ruler of the Sanki Province because of the relationship between the ten rivers and the one existence, and the Kosai family, the Kagawa family, the Kankawa clan, the Ueda clan, and the Yasutomi clan all submitted to the Tokawa family.
As an important minister of the Kagawa family, the Antomi clan surrendered to the Miyoshi family, but life was still not as good as day by day.
And this time, the Kuroda family came to Sanki Country, and just now they have received the news from the Kuroda family that they have destroyed their old rival Kasai family. The Anfu clan is still very happy about this, and there is nothing more joyful than the destruction of the old enemy.
But after that, things were not so simple, and now it is clear that the Kuroda family wants to gain a foothold in the country of Sanki, or even to defeat the country of Sanki, so it will be a very difficult problem for the Yasutomi clan to show their attitude now.
If it is said that the Sanki Province and the Misaku Province are the same, the dragons have no leader and fight separately, and the Kuroda family has eliminated their long-standing enemies, the Yasutomi clan is estimated to be the first to submit to the Kuroda family's command.
The current situation is that although the Kuroda family has thousands of troops coming, and they have quickly wiped out the local tycoons, the Xiangxi family, which owns 30,000 stone of land, is extremely strong. But don't forget, there is also the equally powerful Tokawa family next to it, as the spokesperson of the Miyoshi family in Sanuki Province, the Tokawa family has ruled in Sanuki Province for a long time, and the local wealthy clan and people fear it no less than the Kuroda family's thousands of troops.
If it is said that the Kuroda family surrendered, in the subsequent battle with the Shikawa family, and even later with the Miyoshi family, the Kuroda family won, it is easy to say. As an active defector, the Yasutomi clan should be rewarded by the Kuroda family if he performs a little better in battle.
However, if the Kuroda family loses in the battle with the Shihe family and the Miyoshi family, the Yasutomi clan, as a wealthy family that has taken refuge in the Kuroda family, plus it is an important minister of the Hosokawa Kyozhao family for many generations, will not be treated by the Miyoshi family in the first place, and the Miyoshi family will definitely rule the Yasutomi clan at that time, and the result can be seen at that time. However, for the Yasutomi clan, what is even more terrifying is that if they don't submit to the Kuroda family now, with the Kuroda family's combat effectiveness in the Xiangxi family, it is likely that it won't be long before the Yasutomi clan, a famous martial artist, will become history under the attack of the Kuroda family.
At this time, in the Imperial Pavilion of Yutaki Castle, the current head of the Yasutomi clan, Yasutomi Morisei, had already summoned his eldest son, Yasutomi Morishige, two uncles, Torumu Castle Lord Yasutomi Morihiro, and Ida Moriharu, the lord of Ida Castle (as an adopted son, inheriting the Ida family), as well as his right-hand men Kawamori Gong, Ito Morihei, Rokuche Sozhan and others to come to hold a meeting of important ministers.
As for how the Yasutomi family quarreled in the middle, the process of deciding will not be repeated here, anyway, after an hour of discussion, Yasutomi Shengding, took his eldest son, Yasutomi Shengshige, to Katsuga Castle to ask for a meeting with Kuroda Zhitaka.
"In Shimoan Fushengding, I have seen Kuroda Danmasa-samatsu." (To be continued.) )