At the beginning of the month, Naoxiu's official position of "Anfang Shou" was deposed, and Mao Min, the head of the white lord clan, was upset for his father, and since then he has been sick.

Since Mao Min is "sick", it is not easy for the white lord to celebrate Mao Min's birthday, so the guests who come are either well-informed, or relatives and friends from the Northland:

Let's take the six retainers who were "involved in the country" who were present, Tsunaki Hashimoto, the mastermind of Keiki, Yoshiro Yorimu, Yoshio's Yorimu, Saigo Takanaga of Satsuma, Takeshi Hanpeita of Tosa, Ninomiya Keisaku of Uwajima, and even Sakuma, a confidant of Governor Keiki, these are all old acquaintances of Naohide, and even Takeshi was a student of Naohide.

Therefore, the noise downstairs, Zhixiu is also very puzzled, on the day of the feast, who is deliberately sweeping the white face of the lord?

This is not only his idea, but the remaining ten guest of honor are also a little worried, Naohide was deposed, and the white lord Matsudaira family is a sensitive season, but don't let the entourage he bring cause trouble.

Just when everyone was surprised, the shoji door opened, and someone came in to say goodbye.

Seeing that this person was going to approach Naohide's secret report, Tsunaki Hashimoto spoke:

"Why are you so cautious?"

Naohide knew that big things were about to happen now, so Hashimoto also cared about small things, so he had to let his subordinates announce what he had learned:

The atrium of the Four Seasons Building is a patio, surrounded by private rooms (private rooms), and stairs are built around the atrium. As a result, when the head of the white main group, Gengoro Kitazo, went downstairs, he accidentally fell down due to drunkenness.

It just so happened that his embarrassed appearance was seen, and some guests made sarcastic remarks, and Bei Tian started to act in shame and anger.

The old dragon horse and the navy Fantou River Xuanming, the two have begun to mediate the matter.

As soon as he heard that this was the case, Naohide was happy, and this Shijilou is not Ikedaya, why did Gengoro slip for no reason.

Gengoro Kitazoe is not famous, but his other name is "Jima" is famous.

If it hadn't been for Naohide's incurrence, Gengoro Kitazoe would have died in this year's "Ikedaya Incident", thus ranking among the "Seven Martyrs". Even later generations will fictionalize the famous scene where he fought with the new writer Isamu Kondo, and then fell from the second floor.

But thinking of this, a cool breath ran down his back on the top of Zhixiu's head, and he hurriedly made a gesture to let people inform his family to be on guard - today is a mixed bag, if someone really wants to stab, then it will be a lot of fun.

Then, Naohide wanted to let go of the matter gently, why bother with this day of celebration.

However, there is no such cheap thing in the world.

Hashimoto wanted to know which side was causing the trouble, so he motioned for Naohide to let his subordinates reveal the details.

As a result, as soon as I heard the inside story, some people here couldn't help but dance with their eyebrows:

It turned out that it was the people from the imperial court who made trouble, and the leader was the lecture of the study institute. This straightforward Anfang Shou had just been deposed, and he was slapped in the face again, and this hatred became bigger.

There are two ministers here, Iwakura and Xiyuan Temple, are the people you brought in a ghost?

However, Iwakura saw that Naohide had no intention of involvement, so he didn't pay attention to other people's playful and abusive eyes at all, and put on a casual and calm appearance.

Seeing Iwakura's appearance, Hashimoto also regretted a lot of things, he nodded to Naohide, took the wine glass and drank it all.

But everyone is fine, but the Gongqing Xiyuan Temple refuses to stop:

Just now, Choshu Kido Junichiro begged him for help, and now he is still lying in front of him. There is such a great opportunity to get out, so how can you not take advantage of it!

So, in the name of mediation, Xiyuan Temple got up and ran away.

Naohide wanted to follow, but was stumped by Iwakura toast, and then he felt that there was Ryoma outside

hosted, and didn't get up again. And the main owner, Saionji, ran away, and Kido also returned to his place.

As soon as the topic of this matter changed, it was about the nearby Aoi Festival.

The Spring Festival, the Aoi Festival, and the Ishimizu Festival are the three festivals of the imperial court.

And the Aoi Festival is on the unitary day of April, which is also a big event that is approaching.

The Aoi Festival is a sacrifice that arose from the Kamo Gozu Shrine, and the shrine of Kamo Shrine is a two-leaf aoi, which is related to the Tokugawa family's three-leaf aoi. In addition, the lip gloss of "He Mao", so the general Iemao also attached great importance to this, and accompanied Emperor Fuso to participate in this ceremony last year.

This time, Gongqing Iwakura is here, and Mingli is celebrating Jiamao's birthday, but secretly, it is to ease the relationship.

He hinted to Naohide that as long as Shimoto attended the Aoi Festival, he would later guarantee that Naohide would be reinstated, even if not Mamoru Anbo, but from other positions under the five.

But Naoxiu was noncommittal about this, and in addition to expressing gratitude, he did not have the slightest enthusiasm.

So the two of them were hypocritically circulating, while the people next to them watched coldly - to put it bluntly, this is the fighting method between the imperial court and the shogunate, and the white master, as a chess piece, can only involuntarily toss with him.

At this time, Saionji made an effort to return in a hurry.

Naohide didn't bother to ask what was going on, but just whispered to the attendants to quickly send the troublesome study hall lecture away, and the matter ended here.

Don’t wait for prosperity to care for the things important to you.

Zhixiu wants to calm things down, but Xiyuan Temple doesn't do it. After only sitting for a while, he ignored Iwakura's dissuasion and asked Naohide loudly:

"Righteousness is not respectable? What can people say? Is the courage of the benevolent invincible? ”

After listening to the first two sentences, Zhixiu was still calm, but when he heard "the courage of the benevolent", then Zhixiu only smiled bitterly - the legend says that Chen Buzhan was scared to death, this benevolent courage sounds good, the unity of knowledge and action, and the generosity to die, but in the end, what is the use?

In his life, he talked about his heart and mind, and reported to the king when he died.

Hehe, this sentence is a bit mean, but really speaking, it's nothing to die by yourself, people are willing, but you can drag others to die together, why?!

It turned out that what Xiyuan Temple went out to do just now, someone had already told Zhixiu:

The group of people who made trouble were not only the lectures of the Imperial Academy, but also the old acquaintance of Naoxiu, Miyabe Dingzang.

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Originally, these people were not in line with the white lord, but the palace was born in the Kumamoto Hosokawa family of Higo, not only the acquaintance of Naohide when he was a teenager, but also the old Hyunaki of the current white lord water army Fantou River - in the early years, when the palace was not out of the domain, he was quite respected by the elder of the Hosokawa family, and the palace department took this opportunity to take care of the in-laws and adoptive families on the river.

This time, Genming on the river drove a boat to send Naohide and others to Osaka, and later followed Shangluo. And after learning that the river arrived in Kyoto, the palace often came to hook up, and he was familiar with the white lord, so he was invited into the Four Seasons Building this time.

There are many guests today, and Kawagami is busy after arranging Miyabe's entourage, and accompanying Miyabe and others is the head of the group, Junjiro Ishikawa.

But no one expected that Matsuda Shigesuke, Otaka Matajiro and others who followed Miyabe Dingzou did not talk speculatively with Junjiro, and the more they talked during the banquet, the more stiff they became, so when Gengoro Kitazoe fell down the stairs, these people took the opportunity to make fun of him, which led to a fight.

There is no good hand to fight, and there is no good mouth to scold.

Although Xuanming Kawagami, who rushed to hear the news, tried his best to persuade him, the two sides were still entangled, and even when Xiyuan Temple arrived, the two sides were still accusing each other:

The people brought by the palace thought that the white lord did not respect them, and arranged them in a remote room on the first floor;

And the white lord said that the people of the academy were unreasonable in their words, and it was really rude for the congratulatory guests to dare to laugh at the master's house!

Xiyuan Temple didn't come to mediate, he just used this to ask for entanglement. After listening for a while, he became angry:

If there is such a person who recognizes him, he will naturally bow his head and give salutes; But the white lord and these people were trained by Zhixiu to be lawless, so they naturally didn't take him seriously.

Moreover, when Xiyuan Temple ordered the two sides to reconcile, the white lord still did not forgive, and he had to apologize to the other party.

Even Ryoma, who came with him, didn't care about his face, and asked Genaki Kawagami to persuade Miyabe Dingzang to "take people away immediately" - in fact, it was to pick people up.

This heaven and earth are big, and the face is the biggest.

Xiyuan Temple was frustrated, and after listening to a few gossips from both sides, he was very angry, so he didn't sit down for a while and started to go crazy.

Actually, when I first heard that there was a study institute to participate, Naoxiu's head was bigger than two:

As for the so-called "training" of the study institute, in fact, many people are simply arguing for the Ronin, and some ministers gather them in the study academy, and then let these people run to serve their lives.

Among these people, the leaders who were able to handle affairs were often rewarded with low-grade official positions in the imperial court.

Most of them were low-level samurai or even wild samurai of various domains, and after they got the official position of the imperial court, they felt that this was a major event to honor their ancestors, so they acted even more fanatically.

In fact, before Keiki was appointed as the "Governor of the Imperial Guard", it was also a proposal from these study institutes to "set up a personal soldier of the imperial court".

In the second year of Wenjiu (1862), there was a letter to the secretary of state of the Langshi, "with the mountain city, Settsu, Da~he, Omi and other countries as the heavenly leader, reopen the national divisions, set up pro-soldiers, and implement the royal government retro." ”

Fortunately, the ministers were not completely dazed, knowing that it was a taboo for the Heavenly Leader to accept the four orders of the country, but since then, the small imperial court in Kyoto has constantly tested the shogunate and asked for the establishment of personal soldiers to protect the safety of Kyoto.

No, it's over when a "Forbidden Imperial Guard Governor" is made.

Moreover, not to mention the wind and rain of the study institute's lectures, from the perspective of the study institute itself, from the beginning of its establishment, it was the base camp of the anti-shogun ministers.

In the 4th year of Honghua (1847), some ministers raised funds to set up a study institute to teach their children; In the second year of Kaei (1849), seeing that the shogunate did not care, the Fuso Imperial Family officially granted the "Gakuin" quota.

From then on, the ministers who were not willing to be lonely gathered in the study institute - the eighty-eight secretaries of the court in 1858, and the seven secretaries who died in the August 18 change of August 1863 last year, either graduated from the study institute or were funders or professors of the study institute.

Although the ministers only had one place to study, except for the private school, and it may be biased to say that the problem of the study institute was wrong, it was undoubtedly confirmed that the atmosphere of respecting the king and rebelling against the curtain was profound.

The white lord is now a member of the Zuo Mu family, which is in line with the study institute, so it's good.

Moreover, Miyabe Dingzang is not a good stubble:

He was separated from the feudal domain because of his participation in the rebellion, and was later valued by the Minister Sanjo Minomi and promoted to the study institute.

These three real beauty are the leaders of the Seven Emperors who were expelled from Kyoto during the August 18 Revolution, and now they are settling in Changzhou, the pioneer.

Although I don't know why Miyabe didn't follow the three runs, according to Naoxiu's understanding, this person's radical stance has never wavered.

Therefore, Xiyuan Temple made a difficulty, asking, "Righteousness is not respectable?" What can people say? Is the courage of the benevolent invincible? This must have come from a dispute between the Miyabe group and their own boys.

For debating with these people, Naoxiu is not interested in it at all.

Why?

Because this is no different from playing the piano to the fish and judging the cat!