Chapter 567 29. The Echigo Rebellion Is Hard to Describe

The child that came, Kobayata couldn't recognize him for a moment, but he knew the mother holding the child.

This was certainly not a bloody plot, and it was definitely not the kind of man abandoning his wife and children and coming back ten years later.

The mother was Naoe Kagetsuna's sister, Naoe Fuji, or Higuchi Fuji. She was the wife of Higuchi Yosanemon Kanetsugu, a retainer of Nagao Masakage, the lord of Ueda Sakado Castle.

The ten-year-old boy in front of him should be the future number one minister in the world, Naoeyama Castle Lord Kanetsugu!

"Come in, come in, it's cold outside!" Kobayata hurriedly greeted.

"This is Naoe Yamato no Kami's sister!" He led the person into the house and introduced her to his two elders.

"With six and seven, salute Fujiwara Danjo and two adults!" It turned out that in addition to the one in his hand, a maid behind him was carrying a younger one on her back.

"Hello, Uncle Danjo!" The Higuchi brothers saluted in a proper manner and sat back next to their mother.

"Why didn't Yosanemon come? What happened in Echigo? But what has changed in the war?"

"Yosanemon died in battle with His Highness Nagao!" Ateng's words were earth-shattering.

"Nagao Sakado died in battle!" Hosokawa Harumiya, Uncle Tsunayoshi and Kobayata said in unison.

The incident was far beyond everyone's expectations. The internal conflict in Echigo turned around eight days ago. It can even be said that it was a turn that Kobayata could not see through.

Under the armed persuasion of more than 10,000 people including the former Kanrei Uesugi Kenshin, the current Kanrei Uesugi Kenshin, the Lord of Kaizu Castle Takanari Masahiro, the Yamanouchi family elder Isshiki Miyauchi, etc., the two sides of the battle, or the Usami Sadamichi side that had the upper hand, agreed to temporarily stop the siege of Ueda Sakado Castle and negotiate.

Nagao Masakage breathed a sigh of relief and finally began to return to the negotiation table to resolve it. Since he sat down, the worst that could happen was to drink three glasses of wine as a penalty. Anyway, Ueda Sakado Castle was still in his hands, and he was not afraid at all. Lower your head, call me big brother, pay two manors and several hundred taels of gold, and you will be a hero again next year!

Uesugi Kenshin saw that the chaos that had swept Echigo for more than three months finally had hope of ending, so he personally asked Nagao Masakage to go out of the city and negotiate with Usami Sadami.

After such a fight, the two sides naturally distrusted each other, but the victory was that the peacemaking group had too much face. You can't find such a big face peacemaker in Japan. Everyone patted their chests and said it was okay, let's talk, let's talk, our peacemaking group will maintain peace with arms.

So after some twists and turns, the two sides decided to hold peace talks in Yuzawa. In order to ensure safety, Nagao Masakage was only allowed to bring 30 guards, and Usami Sadami was the same. The guards of the venue were guarded by Takanari Hidemasa with 500 soldiers, and only in this way did they get unanimous approval from everyone.

On the surface, the peace talks were relatively smooth. Anyway, the central point was that Nagao Masakage and Nagao Akikage promised not to participate in the selection of Uesugi Kenshin's successor. In fact, this was also a test of Kenshin Uesugi, asking him to exclude the possibility of the son of Xiantaoyuan as the heir.

He also asked Nagao Masakage to swear to the gods and Buddhas, and write a document to declare his renunciation.

The binding force of a piece of paper in the Warring States Period?

The world's daimyo who always supported Toyotomi Hideyori was written with a smile!

Nagao Masakage signed it very happily, and turned around to prepare to use this document as a toilet paper. Anyway, if Kenshin Uesugi died, the choice of heir would still depend on the sword in his hand.

In addition, Sakaki Castle in Nagao Masakage's territory needed to be transferred to the Usami family, and 500 taels of gold should be compensated to Usami Sadami as compensation for military expenses.

Although the cession of Sakaki Castle made Nagao Masakage a little painful, he was also a wise man who knew the times. Anyway, the city had been captured by others a long time ago, and now he was just admitting the fact. If he didn't agree, Usami Sadami would not let him spend the New Year, so he simply agreed.

Moreover, Usami Sadami's attitude of asking for a sky-high price made Nagao Masakage feel relieved. After all, they were doing it for the sake of profit. As long as the matter could be solved with money, it would not be a big deal.

After the agreement was reached, both sides drank three cups. Usami Sadami kept his promise and disbanded a part of the army that surrounded Ueda Sakado Castle on the same day, about 500 troops, to show that he kept his promise.

He also sent Nagao Masakage into Ueda Sakado Castle and waited for him to send 500 taels of gold or the same amount of Yongle money to share the money with everyone who had been busy for three months, otherwise Usami Sadami would not be able to disband the army.

Nagao Masakage, who entered his own castle, finally relaxed. Seeing that the army under the castle was disbanding, the armed persuasion group was in Yuzawa, which was less than half a day's journey away. The agreement had also been established. The cession of land and compensation shut up Usami Sadami's mouth. Although he was not convinced, at least his life was saved.

Then he tried his best to raise a sum of money worth 500 taels of gold in the city to send to Usami Sadami, but at this time something strange happened. The seemingly relaxed Usami army under the city immediately launched a strong attack on Ueda Sakado Castle, and even lit torches to prepare for a night battle.

The city had already been beaten to a standstill, and after hearing that the consensus was reached, a ceasefire could be reached. The foot soldiers and samurai couldn't help but feel lazy and war-weary, and prepared to go home for the New Year.

The result was obvious, Ueda Sakado Castle was broken. In less than two hours, the entire castle turned into a sea of ​​fire.

The armed persuasion group in Yuzawa realized that something was wrong, but it was dark, and it was impossible for tens of thousands of troops to march overnight. When they arrived at Ueda Sakado Castle at noon the next day, the entire city was already a white land.

He slapped Uesugi Kenshin, who presided over the consensus, in the face, and Uesugi Kenshin immediately wanted to find Usami Sadami to ask for punishment.

But Usami Sadayuki only sent the head of Usami Sadami and a suicide letter. Usami Sadami committed seppuku after breaking the city!

Now, let alone Uesugi Kenshin, all the peacemakers were speechless. What's the point?

After receiving the letter, Uesugi Kenshin read it silently and sat in the Buddhist temple for a long time.

The Ueda Nagao clan was completely destroyed, and all the members of the clan were basically killed. The main retainers were also slaughtered. There was no Ueda Nagao clan in Echigo.

The Usami clan of Biwajima was sentenced to exile because of the victim Usami Sadami's seppuku. The clan members were deprived of their territories and expelled from Echigo.

Naturally, the territories of the Ueda Nagao clan and the Usami clan all became the direct territory of Uesugi Kenshin, and Uesugi Kenshin's authority in Echigo increased instead of decreasing. After all, authority is based on the number of territories and warriors under his command. With two more territories, his strength naturally increased sharply.

"Wait, what happened to Nagao Rokuro (Uesugi Kagekatsu)?" When Kobayata heard Ateng say that Ueda Nagao suffered heavy casualties, he suddenly thought of it.

"His Highness Rokuro was killed by Usami Suruga-no-kami together with him."