Hearing the praise of General Ashikaga Yoshito, Uesugi Masatori was very excited, and hurriedly said: "Becoming a pillar of the military general, restoring this troubled era, and returning everyone to the previous peaceful appearance, this is the righteousness in the hearts of His Majesty." ”

Yoshicho also hurriedly said: "Your Majesty has seen too many wars, and I very much recognize the words of Uesugi Danzheng Shaobi, and I am willing to work together with Uesugi Danzheng Shaobi." ”

Ashikaga Yoshito said pointedly: "The ambitions of the two are really admirable, if the shogunate had more courtiers like you, the world would have been peaceful a long time ago, and this Kyoto would not have become what it is now."

You see, the houses there were burned down because of the war, and the original owner's family no longer knows where to go, even Kyoto, and other places will only be worse, but unfortunately there is nothing I can do, I can only hope that you will work harder. ”

Zhenghu suddenly said: "Ha! Your Majesty will definitely work hard to stabilize this troubled world for His Royal Highness as soon as possible. ”

Yoshicho then said, "Your Majesty is willing to attach to the throne. ”

Ashikaga Yoshito could see that Uesugi Masatora was sincere, and as for Yoshinaga, Yoshito didn't see anything wrong.

Of course, he would not discuss any important matters with the two great loyal ministers outside, and immediately said, "In this case, you should go and visit the Heavenly Empress first, and then come to me." ”

Then Ashikaga Yoshito left first, and he was returning from Honnoji Temple.

Uesugi Masatori watched Ashikaga Yoshito leave, and then stood up and said to Yoshinaga: "I heard that Gyeonggi is under the management of the Miyoshi family here?" ”

Yoshicho said in a low voice: "Yes, all the affairs of Kyoto are managed by the retainer of the Miyoshi family, Matsunaga Shu, and the shogunate is completely useless. ”

Zhenghu frowned and said, "It's really hateful to be so disrespectful to His Royal Highness!" ”

Yichang sighed: "If you want to help His Royal Highness, you can only help with gift money in the near future, and in the long term, you have to open the road to Shangluo and lead troops to support His Royal Highness." ”

Zhenghu nodded and didn't say anything more, he saw several members of the public coming over.

The people who came over were Mibuchi Fujiei and his younger brother Hosokawa Fujitaka.

Hosokawa Fujitaka was the young samurai who had just stopped Yoshicho and Masato.

Mibuchi Fujiei walked up to Yoshicho and Zhenghu and said: "In the lower Mibuchi Fujiying, this is the younger brother Hosokawa Fujitaka, I have seen the two highnesses, just now the younger brother was a little reckless, and I specially brought him here to ask for guilt, and asked the two highnesses to forgive him for his behavior." ”

Zhenghu didn't care, but said: "Mibuchi is serious, Hosokawa is loyal, all for the safety of His Royal Highness, he is a good samurai." ”

Mibuchi Fujiei smiled and said: "The younger brother can be praised by His Royal Highness Uesugi, which really makes Zai Xia very happy, and when the two of you are free, I will invite His Royal Highness to drink."

When the two highnesses first arrived in Kyoto, they didn't have a place to stay, right? It just so happens that the younger brother is very familiar with Kyoto, so let him entertain the two highnesses, right? ”

Yoshicho was delighted, "That's really troublesome Hosokawa, it's really our first time in Kyoto, and we really need a guide who is familiar with Kyoto." ”

Yoshinaga is actually still familiar with Kyoto, but for Hosokawa Fujitaka, he still wants to be close to him, and when he thinks of his Shinano, there are few people who are the most famous.

Now that I see Hosokawa Fujitaka, of course, I have to win over my feelings and see if I can dig a corner.

However, the current Hosokawa Fujitaka is a close attendant of the general Ashikaga Yoshito, and it is still a little difficult to dig into the corner.

However, the current Hosokawa Fujitaka is still very young, and he is still a little immature in terms of talent, after all, he doesn't have much experience, of course, Yoshinaga can use modern knowledge to train him.

However, he was worried that Hosokawa Fujitaka still had his heart set on the shogunate, and if he ran back to the shogunate to help, it would definitely be detrimental to him.

Thinking about it like this, Yoshicho was a little entangled, and in the end he could only sigh that no one under him would be in such an embarrassing situation.

Mibuchi Fujiei agreed to his request, so he said to his younger brother Hosokawa Fujitaka, "Fujitaka, you have to entertain the two highnesses, and take the two highnesses to find a place to settle first." ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka nodded and said, "Ha, I understand." ”

He turned to Yichang and Zhenghu and said, "If your two highnesses need anything, please give me instructions." ”

Yoshicho said gently: "In this case, Hosokawa will take me and Uesugi Danmasa Shaobi to find a place to stay, and if we want to meet His Majesty the Emperor, what else is the process, we also need Hosokawa to mention something." ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka said bluntly: "If the two highnesses want to meet the emperor, then they must first visit the Yamashina Nachizo Hall. ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka is talking about Yamashina Yanji, according to the regulations, only those who have obtained more than five positions can go to the palace, and those who have no official position can not meet the emperor.

The dominion or retainers who donated money to the imperial court were all performed by the ministers such as Yamashina Yanji and Konoe Maehisa, and the emperor did not come forward, which was due to identity considerations.

At that time, the Japanese aristocracy was clearly divided into high and low family ranks, and the family was not high enough to hold high-ranking official positions.

However, the official positions and family personalities of Yoshicho and Masahu are enough to meet the emperor.

The main distinction between the nobles is as follows: the children of the "five regents" such as Konoe and Takaji can be up to the level of regent, Kanhaku [an important official position in charge of government affairs on behalf of the emperor, and the emperor is called "regent" when he is young, and "Sekihaku" after he is in power, that is, everything must be done in the name of Kanhaku (originally meant to inform) this official. 】。

The children of the "Nine Qinghua Families" such as Sanjo and Juting can be the highest and subordinate ministers; The children of the "Three Ministers' Families" such as Masakin-cho and Sanjonishi can achieve up to the three great speeches; River fin, Shinoi and many other "Habayashi families", their children can be up to four guards lieutenant generals.

Many "famous masters" such as the Persuade Temple, Wanli Xiaolu, etc., can do up to five attendants from their children. Nearly half of these families mentioned above are from the Fujiwara clan, and all of them are from the "North family", a branch of the Fujiwara clan.

Yamashina Yanji is the descendant of the Fujiwara clan, and in terms of family character, he belongs to the "Habayashi family". Yamashina Kenji had maintained close ties with the Katsuhata Oda clan since before Nobunaga's birth.

In July of the second year of Tenmon (1533), a year before Nobunaga's birth, two ministers, Yamashina and Asuki Masatsuna, were invited to Owari to teach the countrymen and the art of kata and kemari (kicking), and were hospied by Oda Nobuhide, who was twenty-five years old at the time.

Yamashina Yan had been running around for many years for the financial revival of the imperial court, and his main tasks were twofold, one was to collect donations from the princes in various places, and the other was to ask the princes to restore the imperial court's "imperial material land", that is, the property of the imperial court that had been embezzled.

In most cases, his efforts will come to naught, either in the chaos of war or in the dust, and only a few Sengoku daimyo such as Oda Nobuhide treat him with courtesy.

Based on this relationship, when Oda Nobunaga went to Luo, the imperial court sent Yamashina Yan, who was in the position of authority at that time (power means extra, referring to the excess official position), to serve as the "samurai denatory" and was responsible for liaison and negotiation with Oda Nobunaga.

If Yoshicho and Masaho went to visit Yamashina Yanji, in fact, they were just sending money, and sending one or two thousand guan would be enough for the emperor and the ministers to celebrate.

However, in order to get the righteousness of the Quartet, Yichang is prepared to bleed in his heart, what is money, political capital is the most important, money can be earned after it is spent, and the righteousness of the Quartet can help him continue to expand his territory.

Hosokawa Fujitaka took Yoshicho and Masata to find a place to stay, while Mibuchi Fujiei caught up with Ashikaga Yoshito's horse team.

Ashikaga Yoshito saw Mibuchi Fujiei coming over and asked, "What do you think?" ”

Mibuchi Fuji Yington said, "Your Highness, the minister still needs further communication. ”

Ashikaga Yoshito sighed and said, "Our preparations are simply not enough, the Rokkaku family is dead again, and with the support of Hosokawa Guanling, I am afraid it will be difficult to defeat the Miyoshi family." ”

Mibuchi Fujiei was silent, their strength was indeed too weak compared to the Miyoshi family, but many shoguns were clamoring for a war with the Miyoshi family, mainly because Matsunaga Shu, who was in charge of Kyoto, forced the shogunate too much.

At this moment, Matsunaga Hide's subordinates were monitoring Ashikaga Yoshito's every move, and the matter of Yoshinaga and Masato's entry into Beijing was also known to Matsunaga Hide.

Matsunaga Xiu, one of the three villains of the Warring States, is most famous for burning down the temple, and Nobunaga has a fight, he was almost regarded as an enemy of the Buddha, but fortunately it was not the Ichizong who offended.

Of course, the current Matsunaga Show does not have the ambition of the next gram, so the ambition is that in the later years of Miyoshi Changqing, all the political affairs are basically handled by the Matsunaga Hide, so that he can see the hope of the next gram.

In the later years of Miyoshi Changqing, the Miyoshi family had declined, and in the more than ten years of dominating Gyeonggi, several capable ministers of the Miyoshi family gradually died of illness or war, which led to the decline of the Miyoshi family's strength.

These reasons prompted Matsunaga Xiu to want to go down, especially after Changqing's death, the three of Miyoshi were led by Matsunaga Xiu.

However, the current Matsunaga Show is still very attentive to the Miyoshi family.

He was still very interested in learning that Yoshinaga and Echigo had come to Kamiraku, and as for the shogun Ashikaga Yoshito being close to them, he could think of it with his toes, but Shinano and Echigo were so far apart that they would be of little help to the shogunate.

What he has been worried about recently is that the general's family suddenly has a batch of iron cannons, the source of which he has already checked, as if it came out of thin air.

This scared Matsunaga a little because there was a place in Gyeonggi where the Miyoshi family had no pipes, and smart people like Matsunaga so quickly realized the importance of the problem.

So Matsunaga Shu directly sent people to monitor the shogunate.

Of course, such a move could not be concealed from the shogunate, some of whom were smart people, and some of them noticed that someone was spying on them, and then they looked closely and found that the entire shogunate was being watched, which did not need to be thought of to know that it was Matsunaga Hide's doing.

For this reason, a conflict almost broke out between the two sides, but it was Mibuchi Fujiei who stepped in to stop this.

Matsunaga Hide's only makes people pay a little attention to Yoshicho and Masato, and his focus is still on where the general Ashikaga Yoshito got the iron cannon.

And the initiator behind this, Yoshicho, is now in front of a large courtyard to check the situation of the house.

This courtyard belongs to the Konoe family, and the current head of the Konoe family is the Konoe family, who was closed ten years ago, but he has already resigned.

His son is Konoe Maehisa, and Konoe Maehisa is now the Minister of the Interior, but in the next year he will be the Right Minister, and in the 2nd year of Eiroku (1559), Uesugi Terutora Kamiraku, Konoe Maehisa and Teruko took care of each other, and formed an alliance with the blood book as an alliance.

In the 3rd year of Eiroku (1560), he went to Echigo and contributed a lot to the general strategy of Ueno and Shimoto in the Kanto pacification war, and was one of the few public families full of action during the Warring States period.

Yoshinaga heard Hosokawa Fujitaka say that this was the courtyard of the Konoe family, and immediately felt that this might be the fate set by God.

If they want to rent the courtyard, they have to go to the Konoe family's house.

When they arrived outside Konoe's house, Hosokawa Fujitaka knocked on the door, and soon a well-dressed middle-aged man opened the door, he knew Hosokawa Fujitaka.

Hosokawa Fujitaka said, "Please also tell the Minister of the Interior that Dr. Ogasawara Daizen and Uesugi Danmasa will come to visit." ”

The middle-aged man knew all the public houses in Kyoto, and when he heard this, he knew that the one who came to visit was definitely not the minister of Kyoto, because he had not heard of it, so he nodded and said, "Please wait a while, the villain will go and report it." ”

After a while, the man came back and said, "Please come in." ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka and Yoshinaga and others, led by the middle-aged man, went to meet Konoe Maehisa.

The life of the public family is not easy, but now that there is no war in Kyoto, and there are three good families to help them, life is still better.

However, Konoe learned that someone was coming to visit, so he asked the porter to bring them in, after all, when a daimyo from other places came to visit, he would always give some gifts, but as a minister, he still had the style he should have.

Although Konoe was at home for a long time, he was still wearing the clothes of the minister, meticulous, and although the clothes were not very new, they were neat and atmospheric.

However, when Yoshicho and Masaho came in, compared with their bejeweled new clothes, Konoe Maehisa's face was a little unnatural.

Yoshicho and Zhenghu hurriedly met Konoe Qianjiu in accordance with etiquette, and Qianjiu said softly: "The two of you came to visit me, is there something wrong?" ”

Yoshicho said bluntly: "The Imperial Palace, in order to succeed the previous official position, I came to Kyoto to present a gift to the imperial court, because I had to stay for a few days, so I found a place to stay, and that place was the courtyard of the Imperial Palace. ”

The guard nodded again and again, and his heart blossomed, it turned out that he was here to send money, it was really a double happiness, the court recently paid some salaries, but it was not enough, and now the righteous chief and the political tiger offered gifts, and the court had money to pay salaries to the public.

Of course, the Konoe family is not so embarrassed.,It's also a high-standard public house.,There are still some industries in Kyoto.,It's mainly the life of those poor and crazy lower public families who are worried.。

At the same time, there are several wars in Kyoto, which need money to repair, and only a small part of the Miyoshi family has been produced, such as the place where the emperor lives today is not as good as Miyoshi Changqing.

"You are really loyal servants of the court." Konoe said with a smile.