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Three Rivers Butterfly Chapter 363 Ambition is hard to achieve

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    The biting cold wind of late winter blew from Yatsugatake into the Kofu Plain, and the heavy snow that had been raging for half a month finally stopped last night. The surrounding area of ??Kai Yuzakikan was heavily guarded, and people walked out of their huts at dawn to start a new day's work.  The warriors coming and going were all absent-minded and frowning.  Takenouchi and Gozaemon stood in the shed in a daze while rubbing their red hands. Next to him was a fire that was about to go out. It was the remains of a bonfire left by the previous post. His mission was to keep an eye on Shinano.  Except for a few of the legitimate son hostages sent by the Chinese and the hostages sent by the Shinano people who were taken as direct samurai, most of them were put under house arrest in the small courtyard of the Uzaki Hall. There were several courtyards like this, and the prisoners were detained in them.  These are all people.  After Takeda Harunobu returned to Kai, he ordered the entire territory to be under martial law. Civilians were recruited to rebuild the stone walls that had not been completed a few years ago. In the winter, thousands of farmers braved the wind and snow to repair the city. Within a few days, the civilians suffered from widespread frostbite.  The followers who were supervising the siege were also complaining, but the orders of the family governor had to be carried out. Everyone knew that they must not hit the gun at this time. There was a resentment in the Takeda family. Anyone who dared to hit them would die.  .  "I wonder if Kobaizhaiden can survive this winter!" "I think it will be difficult. I heard that the arrow sores are festering badly. I don't know what kind of arrows the Kira family uses. If you are hit by an arrow, you will definitely be dead.  , so many samurai have died in Kofu these days because of this." Takenouchi and Gozaemon couldn't help but remind them: "Keep your voice down, don't you want to live?" His colleague, Kawamura Shimonosuke, waved indifferently.  Waving his hands: "Hey! What are you afraid of, Yu Wu? Look at where else people are coming on this street. Who doesn't know our situation now? The lord and his concubine ran to Yugu Hot Spring to recuperate. Regarding the things within  Don't ask at all. The young master and the Nomama Palace are still in the hands of the Kira family. Not to mention the entire territory of Northern Shinano, even Saku County was lost. Didn't you hear that the Echigo Army crossed Shinshu a few days ago?  They are attacking our Kaibi!" Iwashita Somokuro came over and said, "I heard about it too. It is said that two thousand elites came and killed them one by one. Fortunately, our Kaibi warriors are united enough, and more than a dozen villagers gathered together.  Thousands of people just scared the Echigo army back! But from my perspective, it will be even more difficult next year!" "That's right! Our army is so weak, how can we resist the arrogance next year?  The arrogant Echigo Army!" Ariga Sadei smacked his lips and said, "I think we are really in trouble." Seven or eight samurai stood at the door chatting. They were middle and low-level samurai from the Takeda family.  Outside of the battle, there is usually nothing to do in the garrison. The only thing that makes people unhappy is the night watch, which rotates every ten days. Night watch on cold days will make you suffer from the cold, not to mention the civilians who are frozen.  Some of these warriors had their fingers cut off and their ears damaged by the cold.  There was a noise in the distance, vaguely like shouting.  Gradually, they could see the fire coming out, and several warriors immediately came back to their senses.  Shouted: "It's flooded! Go and put out the fire!" The fire started at several food storage points in the castle town of Tsuzakikan. There was a small castle in the castle to store food. Residents outside the city also had to buy food from the grain houses. Kaibi  The grain merchants relied on their status as the royal merchants of the Takeda family to engage in hoarding and huge profit trading. It was simply that they were very good people over the years, and sent a lot of benefits to the policemen guarding the city, so the samurai in the city were very  Happy to help him.  Takenouchi and Gozaemon looked around for a long time and exclaimed: "Oops! It seems that the fire started at the grain storage point of the Yamanashiya Ichibei family, the largest grain merchant in the town. Let's go help quickly! Let his grain house be destroyed.  If it's burned, the townspeople will starve!" "But our duty is to look after these hostages" Iwashita Suirokuro hesitated for a moment.  Kawamura Shimo Susuke slapped him on the head: "You idiot! What are you looking at! These Shinano people have already surrendered, and they are still looking at the use of these wastes. If you don't put out the fire quickly, it will be too late!"  The peasants who built the castle brought their own grain, and the townspeople in the castle town had no food income if they did not work hard. The food consumption of the thousands of townspeople in Tsuzakikan throughout the winter was not a small amount. Once the grain storage point in the grain house was flooded and burned,  The price of food will inevitably increase several times in a short period of time. Now that heavy snow has fallen and transportation is blocked, even if you want to transfer food from other counties, you will not be able to quench your thirst.  News of the leakage of grain houses spread to the virus. Takenouchi and Gozaemon followed their colleagues and left their posts to put out the fire, but they did not notice a few diners quietly walking out of the corner shop. Their appearance was nondescript on the street.  It will definitely be forgotten. He walked out of the yard and looked around unintentionally. After making sure that no one noticed, he quietly walked into the yard. It didn't take long for him to come out with a dozen children of different sizes.  At different times on the same day, the same scene appeared one after another in the Tsuzaki Hall, and some samurai from Shinano suddenly appeared.? disappeared. Dozens of people disappeared in just one day. By the time Takeda Shodai came to their senses and realized something was wrong, these people had already left Kai and were on their way back to Shinano.  The Takeda family discussed the news in the middle of the night and unanimously decided to suppress the news. It is undeniable that the situation is getting worse. Takeda Harunobu is ill and has confirmed that he will miss all family affairs for half a year.  Nobubu and a Noburyu were killed. The most terrible thing was that Taro Yoshinobu was captured, which caused chaos in the Takeda family. The governor was recuperating and did not care about worldly affairs. The heir of the governor was captured. The members of the clan suffered heavy casualties. The entire Takeda family was facing collapse.  Critical situation.  Komai Masatake has been in and out of coma for more than a month. The old man has been holding on with just one breath, but his physical weakness is an indisputable fact. These days, his coma is getting longer and longer, and his waking time is getting shorter and longer.  Shortened, I woke up again in the middle of the night and saw Nagasaka Mitsuken's concerned expression.  "Is the situation outside okay?" "Not so good. As soon as the snow stopped in the morning, the grain houses in the castle town caught fire one after another. Then the hostages of Shinano Country who were imprisoned in the castle town were rescued. The ninjas of Penetration discovered that the fire was caused by man. They can  It's definitely the work of Ninja Kira." Nagasaka Mitsuken knew that time was urgent and he didn't dare to talk nonsense.  Komai Masatake gasped and said with difficulty: "Is it Kira ninja again? We lost the battle in a bizarre way. We lost three branch cities in a dazeand then the main camp was stolen in a daze.  , The morale of our army was shaken and we had no way to retreat Looking back now, it was all the fault of the ninjas!" Nagasaka Mitsuken sighed: "My lord's old illness relapsed and he went to Yuguya Hot Spring for recuperation.  We, the generals, are trying hard to keep it up, but our hearts are already broken!¡± ¡°Hey! This is fate! The fate of our warriors is that the sun rises and the sun setsRising Sun General Minamoto Yoshinaka died miserably.  Awazu. We can't escape this disaster" Komai Masatake answered vaguely, and after a while he suddenly sighed: "My deadline is tonight" "Kobaizhai! Please hold on!  !" Nagasaka Mitsuken looked at his old friend's painful expression and bitterly encouraged the dying old man. Several young people standing beside him hurriedly brought the soup but did not dare to come over.  However, Komai Masatake suddenly sat up and held Nagasaka Mitsukane's arm tightly. As if he had exhausted all his strength, he chanted loudly: "I didn't expect it to be so fast! I, Gao Baizhai, have a clear conscience in my life! Mitsukane has been  I wrote down my last words of farewell! It is like a dream but not a dream, it is empty and not empty, the fate of the world is all in my heart" After that.  The old man raised his head and sighed and fell straight down, taking his last breath with the last trace of unwillingness and nostalgia.  Nagasaka Mitsuken said in a trembling voice: "Inform my lord, just sayKomai Masatake, who entered the high road of Hakusaihas passed away!"  In Sagami Odawara Castle, Hojo Ujiyasu was talking to his eldest son Hojo Umasa. It took half a year.  He looked so high-spirited before, but now the Sagami Lion is so old. The blow of the defeat in the war has made his body lose weight. The side of his majestic face has suddenly become frosty. Hojo Ujiyasu is in a good mood. Looking back on the past and the present  Talked for a long time.  In the end, the topic turned to the recent changes in the Takeda family.  "The Takeda family was defeated, and they were even more defeated than us. Most of Kai's samurai were gone for a while, and the Takeda family had no chance to stand up. I never thought that Echigo's military power would be so powerful. Before last year, Echigo was unable to manage it at the same time.  The two battlefields were able to withstand simultaneous attacks from four directions in just two years. Kira Zhenfu and Changwei Tanzheng were both top-notch generals in the world. We did not lose unjustly. We can only blame ourselves for being so small.  Seeing Echigo's potential! " "Don't you hate him? The child means Murasameru. After all, it was because of that knife that we were so miserable. In the past few years, the child did not dare to go out to hunt hawks at will.  I'm worried that the residents will make up some bad stories when they see the Hojo family's family crest. It's really annoying to talk about. Why are other samurai hawks hunting while our Hojo family kills and eats meat? This is unfair!  "The Hojo clan is still aggrieved and aggrieved.  "Aren't you eating meat for the sake of killing?" The Hojo family smiled and said, "In fact, I have already looked away from that grudge. Looking back on the events of the year, the Zhenfu Palace was still a **-year-old child, and I, Hojo,  Our family had no grudges in the past, so why would they want to frame us? The Hattori clan happened to join the Kira family before stealing the sword, so we quickly came to the conclusion that it must be the young Xinxing who sent ninjas to steal the Murasame Maru, but they didn't.  I don¡¯t want to cause trouble by killing Lord Kanto, otherwise why go to all the trouble to just steal a sword instead of taking away all the financial treasures of Lord Furukawa¡¯s family?¡± ¡°But in this case, isn¡¯t Lord Ashikaga Haruji dead?  Isn't it unfair? You threw your life into a deep well for a knife thief. This is so unbelievable, my child.?Understood!  " Hojo Ushimasa is still young after all. He was in his early twenties and wanted to do something high-spirited. However, he never expected to be dealt a blow and was defeated by Nagao Kagetora. He still hasn't gotten out of his psychological shadow. Hojo Ujimasa hesitated to speak.  He knows very well that the shadow must be overcome by himself, just like the night battle in Kagoshima more than ten years ago, he overcame the psychological shadow of the 80,000 Kwantung Allied Forces and finally won a shocking victory. "After all, he is still too young, if it is given to him again.  Just give it a few years to practice.  "Hojo Ujiyasu frowned slightly and said slowly: "The latest news is that Takeda Daisen went to Senzuka Hachiman Shrine and became a monk under the auspices of Kai's eminent monk Kihide Motobo. His Buddhist name is Dereiken Kiyama Shingen, and he will be called Dereiken Kizan Shingen from now on.  He entered Dao Shingen for Takeda Daizen.  ¡± The so-called title of Derongken Kizan Shingen is a simple name commonly used by samurai. In fact, it is a combination of the name of the academy, the name of the Taoist priest, and the name of the Buddhist monk.  The appellation system comes from the tradition of Japanese Buddhism, and the habit of referring to temples has been passed down for hundreds of years, such as Honganji Temple, Chaoshengji Temple, Shengxingji Temple, Zuiquanji Temple, Kotokuji Temple, and so on.  This is the case for Honkakuji Seiun. Takeda Harunobu did not become a monk, but he only became a monk but did not enter the temple. His name is similar to that of Hojo Soun.  There are also "Uncle Ming" of Mingshu Qingjun, the former abbot of Miaoshin Temple, "Xi'an" of Xi'an Xuanmi who will be the abbot of Miaoshin Temple, "Taiyuan" of Taiyuan Xuezhai, and Meiyue Chengfang, the former Buddhist name of Imagawa Yoshimoto.  The "Mei Yue" is also of this type. This tradition comes from the Tang Dynasty. During the prosperous civilization of the Tang Dynasty, many eminent monks and virtuous people were born, such as Nanyue Huairang's "Nanyue" and Mazu Daoyi's "Mazu".  This is true for "Huangmei" Linji Yoshigen's "Rinzai" and Huangbo Nozomi's "Huangbo". From now on, Takeda Harunobu cannot be called this name. According to the formal name of the hospital, it should be Dereigen Shingen.  This was the case for the famous monk Hozoin Shinei of Kofukuji Temple. If the documents recorded in Erinji Temple are marked with Kizan Shingen, in fact, it was common sense for samurai in that era to be ordained and worship Buddha at home. It was common sense for samurai to take the Three Refuges but not observe the Five Precepts.  "In essence, he is still a samurai wearing a monk's robes and carrying the name of a monk, and he is still doing the business of killing people and seizing property. "Is it a statement that Dr. Takeda Daisen has become a monk now and has become a monk?  So what attitude does he want to express?  Take responsibility for failure.  Expressing a concession attitude or a spirit of refusing to admit defeat?  "Hojo Ujimasa thought hard. "It should be that you don't admit defeat!  If they admit defeat, the Takeda family's envoy should wait in Kasugayama Castle for a long time.  There has been no movement at all in the past two months, and now he is suddenly ordained as a monk. He must be unwilling to fail.  Hojo Ujiyasu said disapprovingly: "What if he is still unwilling?"  This defeat wiped out all the energy and energy accumulated by the Takeda family for decades, and most of the essence accumulated by two generations was lost. No matter how hard you try, it will be of no avail.  " "According to what my father said, doesn't the Takeda family have any chance to counterattack?  But the kid thinks they still have a chance!  "Hojo Ushimasa was afraid that his majestic father would misunderstand his thoughts, so he hurriedly explained: "Does the child mean that there is no chance of recovery?  The kid thinks they still have a chance!  After all, the Shinano Hankoku is still in the hands of the Takeda family, and Kai still has many young samurai. They grit their teeth and persist for five or seven years. If they survive this threshold, there may be a chance to revive!  " Hojo Ujiyasu knew very well what his boy was thinking. He clearly pointed out whether the Takeda family could get out of the predicament, but in fact it was a metaphor that the Hojo family should insist on supporting it. No matter whether his idea was right or wrong, it should not dampen his enthusiasm, so he appreciated  Said: "There is still hope for the Takeda family, but it is very difficult and not easy to achieve. On the other hand, the situation of my Hojo family is much better. If you endure it for three to five years, you will be able to regain all your strength. What you have to do is to restore me as soon as possible."  The vitality of the Hojo family must not be provoked before the strength is restored, and do not try to get involved in Ueno. This is what the Ming Dynasty sages said about keeping a low profile and keeping a low profile.  " "My child understandswait a minute!  "Hojo Umasa raised his head in surprise, looked at his father's particularly kind face, and said in panic: "Did the father say that the child would do this?  Why is it not the father who does it, but the child?  " "Because I have made up my mind as a father, I announced my official retirement at the New Year's Day meeting It would be better to inform Shinkuro in advance so that you can make more preparations. In the blink of an eye, Shinkuro has grown into an adult in his twenties.  , The struggle of our family over the past twenty years has not disgraced the inheritance passed down by your great-grandfather and grandfather. Now this heavy responsibility is entrusted to you. You must work hard and not lose the prestige of the Hojo family.  "Speaking of this, a trace of memories and nostalgia flashed in Hojo Ujiyasu's eyes. "Father!  You are in the prime of life and full of ambitions. This is a great time to show your ambition and travel to Guandong!  One failure is not enough to damage the foundation of my Hojo family. It only takes a few years to restore the old outlook. How can you say it at this time?Angry words!  The people with lofty ideals in Sanshu are looking forward to you leading the Hojo family to build a great foundation!  "Hojo Ushimasa knelt down and begged, "Father, please take back your life. Our Hojo family cannot do without your leadership, and our children cannot do without your guidance!"  " "Shinkuro!  You are the son of my Hojo family, just like the eagle that controls the sky and looks down at the earth. You are destined to spread its wings and soar in the sky. How can you imitate the sparrow who loves its nest and never flies away and behaves like a small family I have made up my mind and there is no need to say anything else. Just take advantage of the opportunity.  Take this month to sort out your political and military strategies. If you have any questions, feel free to ask. Go ahead!  "Hojo Ujiyasu waved his hand and asked him to retreat. "Hojo Ushimasa made this war very easy. At first glance, an uninformed layman would see that the total losses of the Nagao and Ueno families were equivalent to those of the Hojo family, as if this was just a matter of time.  It looked like a draw but in fact it was not. The Nagao Legion refused to defend the camp due to its inferior strength. The Hojo family was surrounded by a large army. In the end, they were beaten by the inferior Nagawei Legion and almost completely collapsed.  Most of the 8,000 soldiers lost were from the hands of the Nagao family. At a glance, we can see how strong Echigo is. He took advantage of two enemies. In the end, he was rewarded with two people.  First, for the Hojo family, this was a loss-making transaction in which they killed five hundred enemies and lost one thousand. In the end, they were forced to accept Nagao Kagetora's harsh exchange requirements, causing his uncle to lose face in Hirai Castle.  Hojo Ujiyasu of Shunshui also retired and lived in seclusion after the heavy damage in Eiroku three years ago. Therefore, in the crisis situation where he suffered a heavy blow and was unable to resist, Hojo Ujiyasu's ambition was destroyed and there was little left. Not long after he returned to Odawara Castle, he  Thinking of the plan to retire, not long after, news came out that the Sagami Hojo family would pass the position of governor to the Hojo Ushimasa, while Hojo Ujiyasu himself lived in seclusion in Odawara Castle and did not care about the world. His retreat also represented the belonging of the Sagami Lion.  The era has passed, and the dark clouds hanging over Kanto seem to have dissipated a lot, and the future is still unclear (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel will be better and updated faster!
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