A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

Imagawa Yoshimoto still attaches great importance to the matter of peace negotiation. After all, he also hopes that the survival of the Hojo clan will leave a buffer zone between his Izu Suruga and Nagao Kagetora's Kanto.

Although Hojo is not a high-ranking family name, he is just a nouveau riche pretending to be the Ise family. But now it has been run by four generations for decades, and it can be considered a local snake. Moreover, Hojo was quite benevolent and righteous, and implemented good governance of the four publics and six citizens, and small landowners and farmers supported him quite a bit.

Judging from the siege of Odawara, Sagami Izu's resistance was relatively resolute. They did not give up resistance until the outer base was completely lost. This was still a panic-stricken situation.

Therefore, Imagawa Yoshimoto thought it was good to keep the Hojo clan, while Nagao Kagetora didn't want to delay any more time in Sagami. After all, sieges wear down people's patience. Since peace can be negotiated and the conditions are accepted, I am naturally willing.

At this time, Sagami Province had not yet entered the country through Ieyasu to prepare large-scale water conservancy and develop new fields. However, four generations of the Hojo family had managed it. Now the entire branch country has more than 40,000 kan, and by the Edo shogunate period, it exceeded 50,000 kan. Coupled with the important location of Kamakura, it has always been an important transportation route between the east and west countries. There is no problem saying that it is a battleground for military strategists, and the huge castle town of Sagami Nada and Odawara has become the center of the entire southern Kanto.

First of all, Odawara's complete destruction of the city belongs to Nagao Kagetora's bottom line. It would be too uncomfortable to chew on this turtle shell, and he will not be allowed to exist anymore. The Hojo clan also knew that Odawara would definitely not be saved. After all, half of the five-mile-long outer base had been stripped by Nagao Kagetora. Regardless of whether you agreed or not, Nagao Kagetora was already doing it himself.

The second was to commit seppuku on the jade rope of Hojo Tsunari in exchange for the survival of most of the Hojo family. Hojo Tsunari and his son knew that they would not be spared, so they agreed readily. After all, the two of them were also very cheerful when they killed Ogiya Chaosada, and they could not repay it in this world. in this way.

Hojo Ujiyasu and Hojo Nagatsuna (Genan) were also willing to commit seppuku, but there was an ongoing dispute over whether Hojo Ushimasa should become a monk or commit seppuku. Hojo Ujiyasu said that he was the one who made the final decision in the family affairs and had nothing to do with Ujima (he was still a child, please save the child!).

As a result, Nagao went to the city in person to criticize the Hojo clan government. You were so arrogant in Hirai, but now you are so cowardly. Is it a man? Still thinking about surviving?

Come on, Lao Di was exposed by witnesses. Hojo had no reason to explain, and finally agreed to Ushimasa's request to commit seppuku together as the leader. So in the end, five members of the Hojo clan, including Ujiyasu, Ushimasa, Nagatsuna, Tsunaari, and Yasunari (Ushishige), were ordered to commit seppuku.

Then the Hojo clan, a commoner clan, had all the original Miao characters of Katsurayama, Takahashi, and Fukushima changed back, and was no longer allowed to use the Miao characters of Hojo.

As for the Ujiyasu clan, Ushiteru succeeded the Oishi family, Ushiboshi succeeded the Fujita family, Ujigiri succeeded the Imagawa family, Ushitada succeeded the Toshi family, Ushiyao succeeded the Miura family, and the youngest Ushihide succeeded the uninhabited Fushi Nagao. (This is no longer the son of Nagao Kagetora, but the son of Nagao Kagenobu).

The family name of the Hojo clan was inherited by Ushimasa's son Ushimasa, but his Hojo name was no longer the one that ruled the Hojo clan in Kamakura. The descendants of the Mori clan who changed the name to Hojo Takahiro and changed the Miao name to Hojo in Echigo Hojo-so consider their ancestor to be Oe Hiromoto. It is to completely dig out his legal name for ruling Kanto and make Hojo lose his legal authority.

Ashigara County was no longer owned by the Hojo clan, and Ashigara Shimo County and Izugamo Half County were granted to the Satomi clan as a reward from Satomi Yoshihiro. The two counties of Izu Kimizawa and Tianfang returned to present-day Kawagimoto. Anyway, Satomi Yiyao's navy is now the strongest east of the peninsula in the future, and there is no problem at all in maintaining these territories. As for Imagawa Yoshimoto, Izu is directly adjacent to him. He has already supported and arranged for a group of Izu sages to manage it, and he is not afraid of causing trouble at all.

One more thing here, Satomi Yoshiyao and Kogumi Yoshiaki were completely opposed to the Hojo clan when they participated in the first joint battle of Kokufutai. His father, Yoshiyao, actually won the throne with the support of Hojo, but Satomi Yoshiyao's drive to dominate the Hojo family has never weakened. Even when his son Satomi Yoshihiro was at odds with Mifuneyama and the Hojo clan, he still managed to bite off a piece of meat on the Izu Peninsula without the assistance of Nagao Kagetora in history. He was the most determined anti-Hojo force.

Although Sagami Ashigara has given some of it to Satomi Yoshihashi now, he will definitely work very hard to suppress the Hojo clan, and he can also monitor and contain the Imagawa clan. Compared with the harvest, Ashigara doesn't care about the little territory.

Sagami Koza, Kamakura and Miura counties became the direct leader of Nagao Kagetora due to the location of Kamakura Shrine, but Echigo Yasuda was placed as acting official. The Tamana Castle that Hojo Tsunari worked so hard to renovate was directly granted to Yasuda Keimoto. I really hate to press the golden thread every year to make wedding clothes for others.

Yasuda Keigen turned around brilliantly and now became the Kamakura County Dai, and was suddenly named the Daimyo Lord of Six Thousand Kanmon. Presumably Yasuda Kiangen will not commit suicide again in the future for the rewards of knowledge and deeds in several villages. In short, the Yasuda clan has become famous and rich.

So far, the Hojo clan finally only had the four counties of Tsukui, Aiko, Ozumi, Taoaya and part of Ashigaragami-gun, totaling more than 16,000 kan, which were resettled in Tsukui Castle and under the supervision of Imagawa Yoshimoto and Ota Shimasa.

Moreover, Tsukui is close to Kai Country, and the meaning of this arrangement is very subtle. Who knows whether the piece of meat from Hojo is put into Takeda Harunobu's mouth. Maybe Takeda Harunobu would be happy to seize this key to and from Kanto. If the Takeda family were to destroy him, it would have nothing to do with Nagao Kagetora.

At the same time, the head of the Hojo clan was replaced by the extremely young Nao Hojo, and the Hojo clan lost the teachings of Hojo Uyasu and Hojo Masaru. All uncles whose names were mentioned in history were also moved to other counties. I am left with a family elder, Matsuda Kenhide, who was a second-fifth son in history. I don’t know what kind of person he will develop into. It’s hard to say whether he can withstand the temptations of careerists from all sides who are coveting his piece of fat.

The other Ota clan (not yet named) will definitely no longer be qualified to inherit the name of the Iwatsuke Ota clan. If he is not allowed to become a monk now, he will probably be forced to become a monk by the Hojo clan himself in the future. This is considered a shame. It's cold.

The other half of Ashigarajo-gun, half of Izukamo-gun and the seven thousand kan of Naga-gun are still left in Sagami country. Nagao Kagetora has other uses.

The Hojo clan had a total of 29,000 kan (115,000 koku) and were placed in the five Kanto countries, and there would basically not be much of a threat.

This condition was eventually accepted by the Hojo clan. Thus Nagao Kagetora's Kanto expedition was a great success.