In July of the second year of Bunkyu (1862), the ronin tenden executed Shimada Masatsun, showing a new trend in the small court of Kyoto, that is, the position of the head of Shimada's family, Sekihaku Kujo Shotada, was crumbling.

These nine articles were the head of the pro-shogunate ministers, and the shogunate could not ignore the situation, so they appointed Aizu Matsudaira Yoho as the new director of Kyoto, and immediately went to Rakuro to stabilize the situation in.

Although Rongbao received the order, he made a request to the elder Qingyong and the general Empress Keiki on August 16, hoping that the white lord Matsudaira would send troops with him.

This white lord Matsudaira family is a popular fried chicken that has just jumped up this year, and the old foundation is the former white lord of the shogunate, and it is the force created by Naohide Hori, the director of the Enhakokan, who can fight, has money and is loyal, so no matter from which point of view, it meets the requirements of this military service.

It stands to reason that Qingyong and Qingxi should agree:

After all, Rong Bao's family was reluctant at first, saying that they would bring their own dry food to Kyoto and how about this trip to the muddy water, and it was these two hard persuasions that made Rong Bao reluctantly agree.

Now Rong Bao wants to help, and it can't be said if you don't agree.

Speaking of which, at this time, Rong Bao is twenty-seven years old, Qingxi is twenty-six years old, and Qingyong is thirty-five years old, this Rong Bao is not the youngest one, but compared with the other two who have experienced some ups and downs, he seems much more naïve.

Qingxi and Qingyong are not as naïve as Rong Bao, they both have their own thoughts:

Qingxi knows that Kyoto is a critical place, Qi Zhao has respected the king for so many years, and finally raised the Fusang royal family, how can he give it to others, this is a piece of the pie to outsiders for no reason, and he is not afraid of adding chaos in the future;

As for Qingyong, he takes the world as his own responsibility, and feels that the white lord Matsudaira family is the barrier of the north, if the power is so dispersed, in case Lucia provokes in the north, wouldn't it be a bad thing, digging the east wall to make up the west wall, this is not what a person in charge of the government should do.

But even if you don't want to, you have to explain the scene, so the two of them called Naohide into Edo Castle - Naohide is the head of the white lord Matsudaira family, and the father of the feudal lord, which can be at least half of the family.

This shogunate's assistance in military service, and the participation in the Hajj, the assistance in military service, and the hand-to-hand invitation and the Zhuzhongma monopoly are called the four major evils, and it stands to reason that there is no willing initiative of the princes to participate in the peace.

Unexpectedly, when Ren Zhixiu heard the news, he neither refused nor shirked in every possible way, but only asked Rong Bao a few questions, and then said that he would ask the head of the family, Mao Min, to make a final decision.

This can make Matsudaira Rong Polo bad, this suspect is the buyer, just use the problem of Naoxiu to cut into the key, it means that there is a drama in the matter.

But as soon as Zhixiu returned to the White Lord's mansion, people from all walks of life came to the door:

The first to come were the henchmen of the old and middle-aged and big-eyed people.

These people complained that Naohide was too honest, this refused, what else can Aizu do to the white master? With everyone here, how can you let the white master be bullied.

Zhixiu knew that most of these people didn't really care about their families, and all they were worried about was the white master's money and food.

At the beginning of August, the shogunate had already announced that these families were going to reclaim the Ezo land, and if the military service of the white lord was completed, wouldn't it be difficult for them to reach out to the white lord to borrow money and food - after all, the white lord Matsudaira family was newly established, and it was possible that the family was not thick, and then it would be bad if they said that there was no money.

So Naoxiu prescribed the right medicine, thanked for the care, and said that he would do what he could, and his words counted, and he would never delay everyone's plan to make a fortune together in the Northland.

But as soon as these people were sent away, the next day Matsudaira Rongbao's old Saigo Lai's mother broke into the door.

Saigo came late, not because the Aizu clan didn't care, but Naohide asked a few questions, and they had to prepare. Otherwise, if Zhixiu is not satisfied, then the bamboo basket will be empty.

Actually, Naoxiu's question is difficult to answer, Saigo and others stayed up all night to get the answer, and this night is a day away.

What did Naohide ask?

It's nothing more than what to do, how many people to produce, how long to stay, and what role the Aizu clan needs to play.

Don't underestimate these questions, they are meaningful.

"What to do", that is to say, Matsudaira Rongbao is the representative of the Kyoto Institute, ruling over Kinai, guarding Kyoto, and supervising the imperial court and the Kansai princes by the way, but Rongbao has a name, but what is the white lord Matsudaira family?

If it's just a coolie and a black pot, then you can't talk about it.

As for "how many people will come out", that is also a temptation.

The white lord Matsudaira family is the self-leader of 30,000 koku and the escrow of 10,000 koku, and according to the rule, 610 soldiers should be dispatched, including 35 cavalry and a number of other troops.

But Kyoto, Edo, and Osaka are collectively called Sankyo, and the population is not a million but hundreds of thousands, and now the ronin is gathered, known as tens of thousands, even if there is a part of the water, the person of the white lord plus the three thousand feudal soldiers of the Aizu domain, something really happened, I'm afraid I can't suppress it.

So Naohide asked how many people he asked, in fact, he asked the shogunate:

"Let's give an explanation, what are you going to do, is it really to maintain the calm of the market, or do you have other plans.

It's okay for the white lord to send troops, but it's not okay for my family to go up recklessly.

At the very least, with today's sentence, when there are fewer people and accidents, don't put the black pot on my family's head. ”

There is also "how long to stay", it seems that it is to plan food, grass and ordnance, but in fact, there is also a deep meaning, there is a spectrum or not, what is this long-term plan.

As for the final "What role does the Aizu Domain need to play by the White Lord", it is even more necessary to mention the Aizu Domain, I don't know, what is this going to do, how can we cooperate, and it is not too late to think about it and then pull people into the fire pit.

It stands to reason that in the past, if a daimyo dared to bargain like this, the shogunate would have been angry for a long time:

"Let me go, why do you ask so much."

But now is different from the past, Qingyong and Qingxi are in power, although there is a lot of harmony in the face of everyone in the center, but if you really want to say that it is like an arm, it is not a trouble.

I don't see that the shogunate has a standing army like Gobankata, but it's really Shangluo, it's not still the Aizu Domain.

Besides, the white lord Matsudaira family is also nominally a pro-domain, and the current head of the family, Mao Min, is still the son-in-law of the general Jia Shige, and asked a few words what's wrong - of course, the father-in-law Jia Mao is seventeen years old, and the son-in-law Mao Min is also seventeen years old, and the two of them are a bit of a bit of a raffle in the same year, but no one dares to break this gossip in public.

At that time, when Naohide asked Matsudaira Rongbao about these things, his old Saigo Lai's mother was also present.

After going back, everyone in the Aizu Clan felt that the head of the family, Rongbao, felt that it was right, and the suspect was the buyer, and the white lord Matsudaira family really intended to draw a knife to help.

Aizu was also one of the six princes who helped reclaim the Ezo land, and began to deal with Naohide in the sixth year of Ansei (1859), knowing that Naohide's style was not as straightforward as his subordinates, but he did not have the habit of fooling people with empty words and white teeth.

This box house has always been like this:

Let's work together, first discuss all aspects as much as possible, and then get a coordination mechanism - Aizu doesn't know, this is the so-called PDCA and project management in later generations, and improve while doing it.

Actually, even if there is no direct mention of it, this Rongbao has also reacted a little:

On July 21, the ronin beheaded Shimada Masatsuna.

On August 5, the shogunate was appointed as the representative of the Kyoto office.

But Rong Baozheng was full of loyalty and preparation for Shangluo, but new news came, on July 23, Guan Bai had been replaced, and Kujou Shangzhong went home to eat old rice, and this Konoe Zhongxi made a comeback.

Who are the guards?

From high to low, there is a saying of "four palace families, five regents, nine Qinghua, three ministers, sixty-six Yulin, twenty-eight famous families, and twenty-six half-families" - the official position of the small court in Kyoto is also hereditary, and the birth is at the end.

Konoe, Kujo, Erjo, Ichijo, and Eagle Division, the five families are the regent's house, and Guan Bai can only choose from these five families.

The so-called peers are enemies, and this Konoe and Kujo are each other's enemies.

So it's not surprising at all that Kujou Shotada fell, and then Konoe Tadashi was promoted to Sekihaku.

And the guards are not without heels:

In addition to his own high background, his biological mother was born in Owari Tokugawa of the Gosan family;

There are also marriages with daimyo such as Sendai Date, Shimazu, and Tsugaru;

Parent-child and adopted sons, all have their own futures, such as the minister, the priest of the shrine, the residence of the mountain, the Dharma master, and the great Zen master;

In particular, it is worth mentioning that although the Atsuhime of the Imperial Palace, although she is the adopted daughter of Shimazu Saibin, she is the adopted daughter of this person.

However, although this man had a close relationship with the shogunate, he was able to promote the Eighty-Eight Emperors incident and oppose the signing of a peace agreement with the Mi people—by the way, the envoy Ohara Shigetoku, who is now in Edo, was very active in this incident shirtless.

At that time, although the guards did not go into battle shirtless, they also encouraged the young ministers a lot.

Later, because his arrogant position remained unchanged, he had been working against the shogunate, so he was taken down by the old man in the Ansei prison, and finally resigned and became a monk - because Naohide entered indiscriminately, the monk Yuezhao who was mixed with Saigo Takanaga, this did not throw himself into the water, but he was not caught by the shogunate. This benefactor is the guard.

This guard became Guan Bai, Qingyong and Qingxi loved and hated:

What I love is that because of his in-laws, he is very close to the Owari Domain and Satsuma Domain of the Qi Zhao family, and he is also the nominal father-in-law of the Great Imperial Palace;

Hate, of course, it's time to change, and now Keei and Kei are nominally in charge of the shogunate, although it was good for everyone to chisel the shogunate together, but now, the official union has not yet been synthesized, this Kyoto and Edo are a little opposed, and old friends are a little bit of a new opponent.

But what did Qingyong and Qingxi think, Matsudaira Rongbao couldn't take care of it.

He was appointed as the head of the Kyoto Prefecture after the Ronin killed a retainer of Sekihaku Kujo Shotada, and the shogunate was seriously dissatisfied with the turmoil in Kyoto.

But now that Kujo has fallen, this matter is sitting on wax:

If you don't succeed in getting out of school, no, if you don't get out of school, the character you want to protect will be gone, so what should my family do? Do you want to do this?

Of course, it's going to be carried out, how can you ignore the rampant punishment this day.

But after this change, Rong Bao was quite dissatisfied:

On the 21st day of the seventh month of the calendar, the ronin beheaded the retainer Shimada Masatsun, and on the 23rd of July, Guan Bai was replaced.

On August 5, he appointed himself as the new director of the Kyoto Institute, and immediately went to Rakuro to stabilize the situation in.

This is calculated according to time, there was a difference of two days between Shimada's death and the fall of Kujo, and as a result, he didn't know the news of Guan Bai's replacement at all, so he agreed to Shangluo in a daze.

After agreeing, the next day, the shogunate Daime Fu informed himself of the new appointment of the imperial court.

Although, this shogunate Daimu Fu said that he hurriedly relayed the news as soon as he received it, but Rong Bao felt that it was wrong, the same news from Kyoto, one arrived early and one arrived late, why.

After thinking about it, Rong Baosi still felt that the shogunate should have received the news earlier, and Qingyong and Qingxi had something to hide from their own family - doing great things together, mutual trust is the foundation, but Fusang is a family at this time, and it is difficult to establish a foundation of mutual trust.

Therefore, Rong Bao had a thorn in his heart, and when he encountered a few questions asked by Zhixiu, it was like a basin of cold water on his head, which extinguished most of his enthusiasm.

And the old Xixiang Lai's mother and others were originally against Shangluo, so they took this opportunity to list all the hidden dangers.

This time, Saigo came to the door, just to have a good idea with Naoxiu, what is this problem?