There are no impermeable walls in the world, and the capital of Japan, Kyoto, has no walls at all, so the news that the emperor is probably not a god has gone viral in this ancient city.

Rumors that the first emperor, Emperor Jimmu, was the first emperor who was ordered by the first emperor to go to sea to seek immortals, Xu Fuku, has existed in Japan for a long time. But it was just an after-dinner joke, and no one took it seriously, and no one wanted to study it in detail. No one would have thought about the consequences of this rumor once confirmed!

However, in the spring of the third year of Wanzhi, in the streets and alleys of Kyoto, the news suddenly spread that Emperor Jimmu was really Xu Fu, a priest of the Qin Dynasty, and this legend that has been passed down in Japan for an unknown number of years is actually true! In China's Shaanxi Province, the general Wu Sangui's subordinates who fought against the Liukou, while building a castle in Lishan, dug a burial pit for the First Emperor's mausoleum, among which there are some bamboo slips that record Xu Fu's request to the First Emperor to be crowned the king of Shenwu.

That's a big deal! Emperor Jimmu was not a descendant of a god, but a monk who deceived Qin Shi Huang!

Moreover, this Fang Shi who deceived the First Emperor still cheekily begged the First Emperor to be crowned the King of Shenwu - if this matter is confirmed, then the Yamato Imperial Court was a courtier of the Emperor of the Celestial Empire from the beginning! This nature is completely different from the later "tribute of the five dynasties...... The former is equivalent to a "franchisee" and the latter is equivalent to a "subsidiary".

If we look at "Xu Fu seeking to be crowned as the king of Shenwu and the king" and the "tribute of the five Japanese dynasties" in the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties of China, then the nature of the "tribute of the five Japanese dynasties" has become the continuation of Xu Fu's feud. And the incident of Queen Tuigu proclaiming herself emperor in the early years of the Sui Dynasty is an out-and-out rebellion!

What made the people of Kyoto even more frightened was that the Kyoto Institute had already issued a notice that the general Ietsuna would lead 100,000 troops to Luoluo in the near future...... Investigate whether Emperor Jimmu is really Xu Fu, a priest of the Qin State!

What does it mean to be stupid? Led 100,000 troops to Shangluo to find out if Emperor Jimmu was Xu Fu? Do you need 100,000 shogunate soldiers for this? The people of Kyoto are smart, how can they be deceived by the stupid princess? He led 100,000 soldiers to Luo, he must be a rebel and a thief!

So as soon as the news broke, the streets of Kyoto were in an uproar.

"What does the public want to do? Why bring an army of 100,000 to find out the true identity of Emperor Jimmu? Could it be that after confirming that Emperor Jimmu is Xu Fu, he is about to overthrow His Majesty the Emperor? ”

"That's a rebel thief! That is an evil deed that even the Rising Sun Shogun would not dare to do, and Tokugawa Shogun is not afraid of becoming a person who is spurned by the whole world? ”

"Now that the Western Army has not been destroyed, if the Tokugawa Shogun dares to do something unsubordinate, then he is a national thief, and the whole world will be an enemy of him, and then the Tokugawa family will be finished!"

"That's right, if the public side dares to encroach on the disobedience, then the righteousness will be in the Western Army......"

"Yes, the righteousness is in the Western Army!"

I have to say that the people of Kyoto are still very in awe of the Emperor, even if the Emperor is likely to be a liar rather than a descendant of a god. But people have been deceived for so many years, and the people of Kyoto are used to being deceived and don't want to be deceived by others.

However, public opinion changed very quickly, and at the beginning of February, when the news of the defeat of 50,000 troops by the Mori and Asano coalition forces reached Kyoto, the citizens began to think that it was always bad for the Emperor to deceive people!

"It's so unbelievable, I've been deceived for more than a thousand years, and I didn't take us for fools!"

"It's really worthy of being a descendant of a god, you know how to pretend to be a god and deceive everyone......"

"Lie to people, just lie to people, just be the king of Japan, why do you want to be called the emperor? That's trespassing! ”

"But isn't it, Queen Tuigu can betray the Celestial Empire, why can't His Royal Highness betray the Emperor?"

In late February, the shogunate's 100,000 troops (only 20,000 in fact) left Edo and the news reached that the people of Kyoto were heading for Kyoto.

"I've been deceived for a thousand or hundreds of years, and it's time to change someone to deceive!"

"Actually, it's not a complete replacement, the general's family is from the Qing and Genji clans, and the roots are also the descendants of Xu Fu!"

"Yes, yes, they are all descendants of Xu Fu, why can't the prince be the king?"

"The world of Japan is originally public, and the so-called emperor is only 30,000 koku...... Not to mention that compared to the general's family with four million stones, even compared to most of the feudal lords! ”

The Emperor's 30,000 koku is actually imaginary, and what he owns is not a piece of land that can receive 30,000 koku of brown rice, but only the right to receive 30,000 koku brown rice from the shogunate. Moreover, these 30,000 koku brown rice could not be used by the emperor indiscriminately, and had to be managed by the samurai sent to the emperor by the shogunate - Tokugawa Ieyasu's granddaughter and son had brought some samurai as vassals when they married Emperor Gomizuo, so the emperor's 30,000 koku brown rice was under their management.

In addition to the 30,000 stone from the Heavenly Emperor, there are also a bunch of ministers in Kyoto who ask for food, and their Yulu plus a piece is almost 30,000 stones. A total of 60,000 stone brown rice is the entire stone height of the Japanese emperor and minister, and it is not worth mentioning at all to the Tokugawa shogunate.

Therefore, what has always supported the emperor is not strength, but the godhead - the emperor is the son of God!

But now, the Sons of God have become the Sons of God......

Therefore, when the "100,000 army" led by Bengong Fang Jiagang marched into Kyoto, the people of Kyoto had already taken the same strength as the people of Beijing during the Jiashen period, and they all put on their best clothes and greeted them on the wide streets of Kyoto City.

The whole of Kyoto is waiting for the arrival of the new Great King of Japan!

Of course, there are also those who are unwilling to let Tokugawa Ietsuna be the king, such as Emperor Gosai, but he does not have the strength to stop Ietsuna. Therefore, when Tokugawa Mitsukuni entered Nijo Castle in Kyoto with the Tokugawa family platform, the desperate Emperor Gosai had no choice but to find his father Emperor Gomizuo, his sister Emperor Akimasa and his mother-in-law, Empress Dowager Genkazuko of Tofukumonin to discuss countermeasures.

Emperor Ming Zheng and Empress Dowager Genkazuko of Tofukumonin both have the blood of the Tokugawa family, and Genkazuko is the daughter of the second-generation shogun Hidetada, Tokugawa Kazuko, who is 53 years old this year.

Emperor Meisho, on the other hand, was the daughter of Kazuko, who became a female emperor after the abdication of Emperor Gomizuo, when she was only seven years old, and now she is only 36 years old.

If there is anyone else in the Heavenly Emperor who can stop Tokugawa Ietsuna and Tokugawa Mitsukuni, I think there will only be these two women.

"It must not be admitted that Emperor Shenwu is Xu Fu...... If you admit it, it's all over! Tokugawa Kazuko, who was Tokugawa Ieyasu's granddaughter in the end, was still a little more politically clever than Emperor Gonishi, and immediately pointed out the crux of the matter.

"But, but Ietsuna led 100,000 troops to Luo......" Emperor Gosai's voice trembled a little.

Emperor Ming Zheng snorted: "So what? As long as you don't admit it, they won't dare to usurp the throne, and at most they will kill you! No big deal! ”

Kill......

"This, this is not going to work!" Emperor Gosai is crying when he speaks, how can he die?

The stepmother and sister are unreliable, so they can only ask their father for help.

He turned his head to look at his father, a monk who had been a monk for many years, "Father, can you say something......?"

Emperor Gomizuo just sighed softly, he used the method of passing on his daughter to exclude the bloodline of the Tokugawa family from the emperor, showing a certain trick of power - the female emperor could not get married, so there would be no offspring, and if he did not abdicate at that time, it was possible to have a son with Kazuko, then the emperor would become the grandson of the Tokugawa family. But now he's a little helpless!

The crisis facing the Emperor is greater now than it was then...... The Tokugawa family is not going to be the emperor's grandfather, but the real king of Japan!

Once you admit that Emperor Jimmu is Xu Fu, then everything is really over!

"Father," the 36-year-old Emperor Ming Zheng saw that his father was helpless, and spoke again, "It's better to let my younger brother abdicate and let me be the emperor again, and shelter the emperor from the wind and rain!" ”