$ Chapter 406 9. Mikawa Is Always in Control

"I'm afraid Mikawa will be in trouble from now on!" Xiao Pingtai said in a deep voice.

"The peaceful Matsudaira clan also restrained the heroes of Western Mikawa thirty years ago. How can they be in chaos now?"

Matsudaira Kiyokusa had previously raised troops to attack the Mikawa Kira clan, and he was a rebel, so he gathered a few traitors, such as the Okubo clan that Matsudaira Ieyasu defected to as soon as he entered the country. He has the most basic element for establishing a basic regime - the samurai group.

With enough samurai groups, you can form a team, suppress the village community, collect annual tribute rice, organize labor, and deter the scoundrels.

Unless there is an incident in which the samurai group suffers a major loss, the rule of the general daimyo will not undergo any drastic changes. Of course, if there is a change within the samurai group, no one can save it, just wait to die.

"Back then, the Imagawa clan of Suruga was behind the Ansheng Matsudaira clan, with countless golden rice, and there was no sign of decline. But now the Oda Dan behind Matsudaira Mikawa is defeated in northern Ise and unable to send troops."

"I'll kill you while you're sick!"

Combining his previous memories with the actions of Matsudaira Ieyasu and the defeat of Oda Nobunaga, Kobayata can conclude that the Mikawa Ikko Uprising is bound to break out.

The anti-Ansheng Matsudaira clan forces in Mikawa will unite together, with the Sakurai Matsudaira clan as the banner, and set off a large-scale uprising that will sweep across most of Mikawa.

On the surface, the Ikko sect temples in Mikawa are dissatisfied with the land inspection behavior of the new lord Matsudaira Ieyasu, but in fact, the Mikawa locals are dissatisfied with Matsudaira Ieyasu's pro-Oda attitude.

Mikawa Province fought against Oda Nobuhide of Owari for years during the eras of Matsudaira Kiyokasa and Imagawa Yoshimoto. It is unknown how many people in the Mikawa samurai group died under the sword of Oda Nobuhide, and the two sides have an indelible blood feud.

Now that Matsudaira Ieyasu is content to be Oda Nobunaga's backyard watchdog, the Mikawa samurai group, except for some shameless people, must be dissatisfied. Coupled with the fuse of large-scale land inspection, the entire Mikawa is now on the verge of breaking out.

"If there is nothing going on at home, this is a good opportunity to intervene in Mikawa." Yamauchi Shukei sighed.

"It's hard to predict the world!" Kobayata didn't think so. Matsudaira Ieyasu finally survived this test. Not only did he directly control a large amount of territory, but he also gained a group of extremely loyal retainers.

Moreover, between the Yamauchi family and the Matsudaira family, there are the Kokuminshu of Higashi Mikawa. Although Udono Nagateru and others are close to the Yamauchi family, they are just submissive to Yamauchi Yoshiharu. They are not vassalized, and they are not even externalized.

The Higashi Mikawa people are still independent Kokuminshu, with all independent power.

Who knows when Yamanouchi Yoshiharu will die, and the Higashi Mikawa tribe will find a new owner, continue their free and independent life, and sell themselves for a good price.

Yamanouchi Shukei wrote two letters and his and Kobayata's opinions, and asked the Nagashi tribe to send them to Komaba overnight, so that Yamanouchi Yoshiharu could check them at any time.

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At this time in Mikawa, due to Matsudaira Ieyasu's continuous military campaign and the country's war, Matsudaira Ieyasu, who had seen the power of new weapons such as iron cannons and large barrels, kept trying to raise funds, and even frantically plundered his people.

This land survey was also mainly to increase Matsudaira Ieyasu's economic income and increase the number of troops that could be mobilized.

Unlike Higashi Mikawa, the temples in Nishi Mikawa mainly belong to the Ikko sect, while the temples in Higashi Mikawa mainly belong to the Soto sect. Each of them possessed a large amount of temple property and monks, and at the same time received offerings from local people and lords.

In the face of years of war, Matsudaira Ieyasu forced the Ikko sect temple in the west of Mikawa, which had huge wealth, to pay temporary levies.

After weighing the pros and cons, the Ikko sect in Mikawa agreed to pay a portion of the money and rice to Matsudaira Ieyasu. After all, there were not many daimyo who allowed the Ikko sect to preach at this moment. As the emerging lord of the west of Mikawa, the Ikko sect was still in the stage of testing and making friends.

But the bad thing was that the Ikko sect was loose, and when the samurai of the Matsudaira family went to the Ikko sect temple to collect rice, they found that the rice warehouse of the temple was piled up like a mountain, and the money and rice paid were just a drop in the bucket.

This made these little samurai who lived a poor life angry, and they couldn't control their hands at the time and wanted to take it all away. Originally, if they took a little more, the temple would turn a blind eye, and kickbacks were not unique to any place.

But those samurai of the Matsudaira family, he wanted them all!

Now the temple was not happy, because this was also the money and rice they had worked hard to deceive believers, not falling from the sky. Gathering monks and believers, they drove away the Matsudaira samurai who came to collect grain, which naturally angered Matsudaira Ieyasu.

He heard that the temple had a mountain of money and rice, and he gave full play to the subjective initiative of the feudal lords, and brought swords, guns and cannons to force the Ikko temple to surrender and hand over the money and rice.

The temple was full of farmers and landlords from various groups. Matsudaira Ieyasu strictly inspected the land and took away most of the crops they depended on for survival, which was equivalent to forcing them to die.

Under the influence of various factors, the first temple raised the banners of "Those who advance will be reborn in paradise, and those who retreat will go to hell." and "Namo Amitabha". Under the pressure of life or death, they brazenly launched the general uprising.

Under the connection and instigation of Ikko monks and small landlords who were dissatisfied with the peaceful rule of the Matsudaira clan, Ikko believers from all over the country and farmers who were forced by heavy taxes and land inspections all mobilized overnight, took up arms, and fought for survival.

The uprising swept across almost the entire western Mikawa in a short time. All the government offices, government offices, barracks, and post stations set up by Matsudaira Ieyasu in local counties and towns were fiercely attacked by the uprising.

The entire western Mikawa was in flames, and Matsudaira Ieyasu's grassroots rule was completely paralyzed. Warnings from all directions were transmitted to Okazaki Castle, leaving the young Matsudaira Ieyasu at a loss.

What was even more exaggerated was that many samurai and foot soldiers originally stationed in Okazaki Castle crossed the city one after another, obeyed the call of the gods and Buddhas, and took up arms to fight Matsudaira Ieyasu.

All the anti-Anxiang Matsudaira forces in Mikawa merged, and all the ambitious elements temporarily surrendered to the banner of the Ikko sect, claiming to fight to establish a "Buddhist country on earth" and a "country of the people".

Caught off guard, Matsudaira Ieyasu did not even have time to mobilize the troops around Okazaki Castle, and was horrified to find that the monks with monk scarves on their heads were mixed with more rebellious peasant soldiers, holding Buddhist flags, chanting Buddhist mantras, and surrounding the entire Okazaki Castle.

Looking at the Ikki army surrounding the castle below the city, surrounding the city, layer after layer, one circle after another, densely packed, with amazing momentum. At a glance, the number of people is no less than 20,000.

What's even more distressing is that due to the participation of a large number of samurai servants, the military organization of the Ikki-kun is completely different from the usual chaotic Ikki-kun, with many flags and a strict formation.

Matsudaira Ieyasu is in great trouble!