Amago no Miko

January 1562 Izumo Tsukishan Toda Castle

"Happy New Year!"

"Congratulations!

Good afternoon, everyone. From Tsukiyama Toda Castle, Therma Hisako Amago.Neko Izumo Sainomiya Imperial Palace is the fifth most respected subordinate, and Minister Genko Kuko presents his New Year's greetings to Izumo and the people of Neko.

Have you ever tasted the feeling of being surrounded by dozens of miserable essays?I'm tasting it in an ongoing fashion.

This is the situation of Tamma Cassinica Comarete Osote Delarenaña.

Yeah. I mean, it's hot and bitter in the middle of winter....

However, since this is also one of the main tasks of the Neko family, you must respond with a nice smile.I wish my smile wasn't cramping.I'm a little worried.

"Congratulations, and may this year also be a good year for my neko family and my people."

After a month-and-a-half trip from Kyushu to Kinai, I returned to Izumo.I am delighted to have successfully celebrated the New Year with Izumo.So, we are gathering all the Shigemitsu in the Great Hall of Yamanaka Palace in the middle of Tsukiyama Toda Castle to receive the New Year's greeting.

At the beginning, I felt like I had received some strange radio waves, and it seemed like I had a dangerous delusion, so I apologized very much.

It was Grandpa Taha who first greeted him on behalf of his minister.From the Neko family's sequence, it seems reasonable for Gengoro's brother not to say hello, but no matter how much I say to my lord, my brother who says hello to my sister seems to make Gengoro's brother not the same person as his family minister, so I feel pathetic.

I was replaced by Grandpa Taha.In fact, I think it would be better for Gengoro's brother to say hello in the part of bullying.I think it's still sweet that I can't be ruthless.But this is all....

Therefore, Yamanaka Palace is not the palace of Yamanaka Kanosuke.Write "Yamanaka" and read "Sanchu".It's in the middle of the mountain, so it's the Yamanaka Palace.Kanosuke's mansion is further down the mountain, outside the curved circle, but it is properly located in Shinomiya Valley, so there is no need to worry.

If Kanosuke's mansion was in the best place in Tsukiyama Toda Castle, I don't know who the main one is.The lord of this castle is me!

So, there are Sannomaru, Ninomaru, and Honmaru on the top side of the mountain than this Yamanaka Palace, but they are rarely used.Especially the main circle. Minomaru and Ninomaru are also replacing rice caches and armories with treasure caches and other warehouses?It's too much trouble to climb the mountain, and it's too convenient to climb the widest mountain palace.

My usual living space is also in this mountain palace.

Tsukishan Toda Castle, as its name suggests, is a sturdy castle that uses the entire mountain of Tsukishan.It is no exaggeration to say that it is almost impenetrable.In fact, even in historical reality, Ouchi has been defeated, and Māori's two-year military offensive and manoeuvring have almost made it possible to open the castle.

Well, even though it is difficult to fall, it is surrendering and opening the castle at the end of the day, so there may not be a castle that does not fall in the world.Even Osaka Castle was buried in the moat, but it eventually fell.

This is my theory, but in the first place, I feel like I've already lost the battle at a stage where I had to choose a cage castle.The territory has been trampled by enemy forces, so naturally the people to be defended must have suffered looting and other damage from enemy soldiers.

It is no exaggeration to say that a lord protects his people and is guaranteed his position.A lord who cannot protect his people is not in a position to complain, even if he is abandoned by his people.So the truth is, we have to deal with it before we have to choose a cage castle.

If you think so, you'll be impressed that you were able to defeat Ouchi during the first battle of Tsukiyama Toda Castle.

You've derailed me.

From here on out, we have to be serious, so I want to be very careful.Even though it's New Year's, I don't think it's a good idea to talk about the smell of blood, but I can't help it because it's for Neko and the future happiness of my family and my people.

"Yamana Sagamasuke!

"Ha, here!

How's Inaba's soldier training?

"Ha, thanks to the princess, the artillery team has not stopped training."

Oh, is everything going well... well, I arranged for gunpowder and so on to go well, so it was a natural thing to go well.If you only train in the procedure of firing live ammunition, you may experience unexpected confusion in the event of an actual battle.

If you don't get used to shooting live ammunition from your regular training, I don't think it will work in real life.However, this may also be a training you can do because you are a wealthy Neko family.In other big names, I shouldn't go like this.

Hmm ~, even so, it seems like this is the first time I've started a fight...However, there is another aspect to the battle against Tajima Yamana three years ago, if we consider it a continuation of the battle.

I feel like I've dealt with the enemy in the past.As a result, because the territory is spreading somehow, I don't feel anything different from a war of aggression.

But since the enemy invaded Neko's territory in the first place and repelled it, it was only a counterinvasion, so it is not said that Neko will be condemned.In other words, it's kind of in the name of cause and justice.

There is only one naval cannon shot off the coast of Kishiwada.The Yasuzu Navy asked me to do it, so I had to do it, and it wasn't Neko's flag, but the Yasuzu flag was mercenary work.

Toyotomi Yamana is under my banner, but I am obliged to respond to it because I have come to seek refuge against the name of Mazan.If we do not comply with that obligation, it may lead to the rebellion of the people of China because they think that 'Neko cannot be relied on'.

I don't think there's any difference between waging war on other countries for the control of ministers and hostile policies against neighboring countries in order to divert domestic dissatisfaction... but what we're doing is the same as a bad country in the future, like a hole in the same hole, and we're going to be a little depressed.

Now you can't laugh at the politicians of the future.

For the first time in that position, I know that if you stand over there, you won't stand over here.In other words, it was very difficult to combine nanny with nanny.Sengoku Daimyo was also a causal business.....

An internal distress or external illness may be saying this.

Toyotomi Yamana and Takashin Takeda accumulate dissatisfaction, so unfortunately I cannot choose not to start a war.Could this be a self-restraining rope?No, it shouldn't be... but I'm more or less aware of it.

Well, even if you stretch it out, it's a good place to limit it for about a year, so if that's the case, I think it would be better to set it up here because it seems like you've done less damage before Tajima Yamana consolidates Tajima.

"Yes, it's superimposed.... you've kept me waiting for a long time. "

"So...?

"Yes, we'll be sending troops to Tajima after mid-February, so get ready for that."

Thank you!

Yeah, I can see it, I can see it.I can see a tail growing on Toyotomi Yamana's buttocks with her head down, and her tail swinging around joyfully and bravely.Perhaps this is the power of God that Princess Hanasaki gave me.

No? I wanted more effective powers than any of these.Well, even if I said that, was it a strange thing?

"" "Whoa!

Are you finally attacking Tajima?

My arms are ringing.

The warriors are trembling.

You guys really like fighting, don't you?I think it would be more beneficial to cultivate fields and create new industries than to fight… I feel that war only breeds destruction.

But I'm going to start a fight, so you didn't tell me.

But human history is about destruction and regeneration.Humanity has evolved over and over again, so it is somewhat distracting to deny all the wars.Without war, mankind might have declined or, worst of all, perished.

This is because there are many new technologies that have been put into practice for the first time due to war.

"So, what is Tajima's current situation like?

"The lord of Ashiya Castle in Nikata Prefecture, close to the border with Inaba, is likely to scourge us if we advance our troops."

"Salt smelting, that salt smelting?

"On the left. It seems that Tajima's salt smelting is a division from Izumo."

I didn't expect you to hear the name of the salt smelter who defied his main family, Neko, for three generations.Salt metallurgy doesn't seem like a curse to Neko.

Well, Tajima's salt smelting is not guilty because it was a branch a long time ago, so it was rude to say that it was the name of a curse.

"I see. Salt metallurgy High Definition is a family friendship, and I will give you a stamp of territorial appeasement, so pull it in here."

"Sincerely,"

Even if I were a family member, it would only be the descendants of Sasaki Genji who broke up with me a few hundred years ago.But it turns out that the family is the same.

Izumo's salt metallurgy was destroyed against Neko, and Tajima's salt metallurgy bowed to Neko and left the house?Sometimes there are situations around the house, but I would like to ask what the person at the main house thinks that the branch will survive and keep the house even if the main house is crushed.

However, I would like to ask, but I can't ask because the main house of salt smelting has already been destroyed.

Well, I was the one who stabbed and destroyed it!