A sophisticated old man.

Yamakawa Bie, who has a kind-hearted and honest personality, has always presented himself as a good old man.

After inheriting the position of the family elder, he was mainly responsible for financial work and loyally assisted Matsudaira Yongho.

With his highly respected status and strong skills, he rebuilt the Aizu Domain's finances and greatly increased the Aizu Domain's financial revenue.

It is no exaggeration to say that it was thanks to Yamakawa Bie's financial management skills that Matsudaira Rong retained the confidence to go to Luo.

The "blame-shifting faction" led by Saigo Norimu opposed the Aizu Domain's war.

The "militant faction" headed by Sagawa Kanbei supported the Aizu Domain in going to war.

The "fishing faction" headed by Yamakawa Bie is constantly trying to make peace with the enemy.

At this time, the Aizu ministers gathered in the meeting room, a total of only about ten people, were able to divide into three distinct factions... One has to sigh: Party strife is really everywhere!

On the other hand, Zhenfu Mansion is much quieter.

After all... they didn't have a choice.

The Aizu side can cite a hundred reasons to refuse to send troops.

Only the Zhenfu Mansion has no such power.

As the governor of Gyeonggi Province, Qingdeng had no reason to stand by and watch when turmoil broke out in Gyeonggi Province!

As if he could no longer stand the nonsense of his subordinates, Matsudaira Yongho, who had been silent since just now, suddenly stretched out his hand and slapped the low table in front of him - a loud bang resounded throughout the hall and outside.

"Okay! Everyone be quiet!"

For a moment, the whole place was silent.

"If different opinions cannot be put forward, it cannot be called a 'military discussion'."

"I sincerely welcome everyone here to express their opinions."

"But! Ridiculing and insulting each other is another matter!"

"How can we, who are both pillars of Aizu, be like a country shrew who repeatedly hurts others with vicious words?"

"I hope you will pay more attention!"

The feudal lord has spoken... Saigo Norimu and Sagawa Kanbei both bowed and apologized.

"...There is one thing that really puzzles me."

Suddenly, Shannan Keisuke said.

Finally, someone from the Zhenfu Mansion spoke.

Matsudaira Yōho and other Aizu ministers, including Saigo Norimu, listened unconsciously.

"This incident happened too suddenly."

"Did they directly start a riot? Didn't they make any demands to the local lords?"

As soon as these words came out, everyone at the scene looked at me and me, as if trying to find the answer on each other's faces.

According to textual research, Ikaku was first initiated during the Muromachi Shogunate era.

Seriously speaking, Yikui does not necessarily require an armed uprising, it is more like an "armed protest."

Farmers whose lives are too difficult to survive mostly negotiate for their own demands - such as asking for tax cuts and grain releases - and only when negotiations break down do they start armed uprisings.

Usually during bad harvest seasons, or when people are suffering from the exploitation of usurious loans, they will launch riots to demand the cancellation of annual tribute, or to demand the "moral decree" that the loan contract be invalidated.

Generally speaking, most of the time, the local lords—especially the lords of each vassal—will be happy to listen to and agree to the people's demands when a rebellion breaks out.

"Cutting down the feudal lords" has always been the basic national policy of the Edo shogunate.

Looking back on the past two hundred years or so, we can see how many families have been brutally cut off from their vassals, transferred to feudal states, and eliminated from the country.

If a large-scale peasant uprising broke out, the local feudal lord would definitely be in trouble.

Even if the rebellion is successfully suppressed in the end, the shogunate will impose severe punishments such as cutting down the vassal, transferring the feudal lordship, or even expelling the country.

Therefore, whenever an uprising breaks out in a certain place, the lords of that place will try their best to comply with the people's requests for fear of being punished by the shogunate to avoid the expansion of the uprising. As long as there is no armed uprising, everything else is easy to say.

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Just when everyone was deeply puzzled by the suddenness of the uprising, Qingdeng's voice suddenly sounded:

"Let's think about this kind of thing later."

"No matter what, what we should do now remains the same - send troops to defeat them!"

Having said this, Qingden turned to look at Matsudaira Yongho.

"Due to the late formation of the army, the Shinsengumi currently does not have a well-established cavalry, archery or iron artillery unit."

"Higo-sama, how about this - can you lend me some of the cavalry, archers and iron gunners?"

"As long as I can get the support of these three...especially the archers and iron gunners, I will be confident to defeat the bandit army!"

As he spoke, he leaned over to look at the map on the low table.

"The bandit army has raised troops in Ise and is heading towards Kyoto."

"In this case, the best place to meet..."

Qingto stretched out his right index finger, pressed it against the square black dot representing Kyoto on the map, and slowly slid it toward the lower right corner.

After a while, his finger stopped somewhere southeast of Kyoto.

"Iga! We will meet the bandit army in Iga!"

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