"Oh...... That's what happened......"

"Huh? Did the new guardian make such a decision? It's not something I've decided to make, but it's ...... It's hard to put into words......"

"Hmm...... It's not that it's incomprehensible from the shogunate's standpoint, but it'......"

"Alas...... If we can fully consider the situation of all parties, we should be able to make a better solution......"

……

In the face of the bitter and bitter accusations of the visitors, the flat hand continued to respond in an ambiguous tone, neither saying that he resolutely refused to help, nor did he refuse to reveal the slightest excess kindness.

Tashiro Omiya was a little too excited, and his speech was not very smooth, but the old Zen master was quite calm, but he seemed to be a little tired, and he was listlessly holding on. However, relying on the appropriate supplement of Tokuya Zongyi, Hisho Tsusuku still roughly understood all the content.

A few months ago, Hitehide, who was making a great contribution to the limelight, retreated from the rapids, relinquished his position as guardian of Izumi and moved to the barren island of Awaji on his own initiative.

Subsequently, at his own suggestion, the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki invited Yamato Matsunaga, Kawachi Miyoshi (Yoshitsug), Hatakeyama, Tanba Hatano, Akai, Settsu Ikeda, Itami and many other "heroes" to gather together to nominate a new candidate for the Izumi guardian in the name of "courtiers' deliberations".

At that time, Yoshiaki of Nijo Castle was certainly full of confidence, but Oda Nobunaga, who was far away in Gifu, did not take it to heart, not believing that these so-called "heroes" dared to get close to the shogunate and ignore Oda.

The ending proved the prestige of the Ashikaga family, and it surprised Nobunaga.

These samurai, although they were highly independent and did not need to be at the disposal of the shogunate, maintained a deep respect for the position of the shogun, at least on the surface. Everyone knew that the Ashikaga family no longer had real power, but the people still agreed with their right to rule. This subtle political rule is indeed a bit difficult to understand for the rough "Eastern Samurai" of the Oda family.

In fact, Nobunaga deliberately let his cronies, Naomasa Tsukami, who was temporarily serving in Kyoto, take over from Izumi Kazumi, although he did not say it publicly, but this is not too deep a secret.

If he took the initiative to push his own people up, then the people would not dare to oppose it openly - after all, the soldiers were on the side, and no one would get along with their heads.

Therefore, in the face of this controversial issue, Hinohide did not suggest that the shogunate directly "elect" Awaji Guardian, but took a curve. Because both Nobunaga and Yoshiaki had already publicly proposed their respective candidates at that time, there was no point in engaging in "ministers' deliberations".

In the end, he managed to make a big circle and successfully kicked the ball out, while he also generously gave up the rich Ichikuni Ichikoku.

The impression of a flat is that he has never been a materialistic person. However, Hequan is the commercial center of Fuso in this generation, and he has been quite careful in his management, implementing measures such as "printing and signing tax" and "auction meeting", how can he watch this land fall into the hands of others?

In fact, there is no need to deliberately make any stumbling blocks, as long as things continue to move forward normally, what should come will naturally come.

Like now.

Since leaving, Hei Tenohide has been sending people to pay attention to Izumi's information, and today he heard the thoughts of the parties from the mouths of these "representatives of public opinion" in front of him, and things are going more smoothly than he imagined.

It is said that when the shogunate resigned, there were three successors pushed out by the shogunate, namely Iio Shinharuka, Miki Masaki, and Nomura Dingsei, all of whom were born in the pedigree of the shogunate, and they were put aside one or two hundred years ago, and they were also considered to be the children of the high family. But today, it's not a name worth remembering.

After a series of political manipulations within the Ashikaga family, as well as the active participation of the surrounding wealthy clans, it was finally divided between the two guys of Iio and Miki and the eastern and western parts of Izumi Province, and the one named Nomura seems to be a military official appointed as a samurai.

The protagonist of the time-traveler naturally has the knowledge and perspective to travel through the limitations of time and space, so he is suspicious of several obscure shogunate genealogies from the beginning.

And in fact, these people did quickly cause disaster in Izumi.

This is not because they are slack and derelict in their duties, corrupt and pervert the law, on the contrary, Ikaga Yoshiaki can be looked down on by Ashikaga Yoshiaki, Iio Mayuka and Miki Masaki are both very reliable samurai, although they dare not be completely selfless, but they are generally conscientious and worthy of the "kindness" of the princess.

However, the consequences -

The words of the pure old Zen master are very long and tactful, but the meaning is still clear:

“…… Buddhism is not a place outside the world, and it is inevitable that there will always be some people who do not abide by the rules, but with the principle of 'temple and community autonomy' of the people in charge of the affairs of the people, we will do our best to clean up, and it will not go too far; moreover, the temple has the right to 'not lose or enter', and the disciples are also proud of it. The new guardian wants to eliminate the scum in Buddhism, but out of public interest, the poor monks dare not question it. However, once the situation expands and collides with the dignity of the gods and Buddhas, it will inevitably put everyone in danger, and I am afraid that it will cause the consequences of going in the opposite direction...... I think the new acting officials are all people with lofty ideals who are loyal to the country, but they are still young, and they are inevitably a little anxious to become ......"

After a period of chatter, he finally complained without speaking ill, but in the end, he couldn't help but laugh. In fact, the "new officials" he spoke of were all in their early thirties, and they were already middle-aged in this generation, but the "equal masters" he tried his best to flatter were still twenty months away from the year of their establishment.

Of course, the flat hand will only chuckle and sneer, and will not correct him. This is also a kind of culture, so there is no need to dwell on it.

And Miyaji Tashiro is much more straightforward. He first glanced at the old Zen master Jing twice—I don't know if he was dissatisfied, and then respectfully bowed down towards Hijo Tsunohide, and said in a loud voice: "Of course, the contemptible people don't dare to suspect that the shogunate has any two hearts, but the behavior of those few people is really incomprehensible. As soon as he opened his mouth, he said that he would confiscate 800 stone of land from the shrine, and he also forced my generation to sever relations with the various branches, which was unprecedented in the hundreds of years since the opening of the Otori Shrine, and it was really sensational. ”

This Omiya is also very sincere—or maybe he is wise and foolish. actually said the key points in person.

What "collides with the dignity of the gods and Buddhas", like "Amitabha Buddha" and "Wuyun Prosperity", is a high-sounding and meaningless word, and what human beings really care about is still property, force and authority.

Hirata still smiled and expressed his understanding, but in his heart, he knew very well why the new acting official did this.

In fact, the "autonomy of temples and shrines" that had been implemented in Wazumi Province was originally a plan to "launch the gods and Buddhas to fight the gods and Buddhas". The so-called autonomous organizations, under laissez-faire, soon became a tool for the big temples and big shrines to annex the small temples and small shrines.

Generally speaking, the daimyo of the Warring States period were extremely wary of religious organizations in their domains, fearing both their territorial expansion and the impact of different sectarian wars on law and order and the economy. For those monks and priests who are armed with swords and guns and control large tracts of land, they should be absorbed as much as possible if they can, and if they can't be absorbed, they must do everything possible to prevent them.

And the situation when Hirate Hasuhide arrived in Izumi is unique. First, as a foreigner, he does not have a deep foundation in connections, and secondly, the temples and societies in Hequan have little influence, and they are relatively low-key, and their evil deeds are generally not large.

For example, in the 20 years since he was in power, there have been only three or five villages that have been burned, only one hundred and eighty Diao people have been killed, and there are even only a dozen or so eldest girls and little daughters-in-law who have been enlightened. This style is almost a model of behavior in the same class, no matter how nitpicking you are, at most it is a penalty of three glasses of wine, and it is not an example of the level. If the temple is to be severely punished, except for the above-mentioned sufferers, the rest of the people will probably unite to oppose it. If hundreds of temples and shrines incite the people together, it is not a joke.

Therefore, I simply changed my thinking, and instead of weakening and disintegrating one by one as in the Oda family, as I did in the past, I regarded all the temples and shrines as a whole. Coming up with "temple and community autonomy" is equivalent to setting aside 40,000 stone of land in Hequan Province alone, and as long as the whole does not cross the line, it doesn't matter what kind of mess it makes.

In other words, the Hite-hoshu strictly forbade the Daiji Taisha to reach out, but the fire inside the temple shrine turned a blind eye. This is similar to the way some countries in the 20th century approached "dynamic social organizations".

The old Zen master and Tashiro Omiya Tsukasa and others, of course, thought they understood these meanings. At first, they tried to make a small fuss, and then tied and didn't react. Later, the Taisha Temple, headed by "Fukudoji Temple" and "Otori Shrine", became more and more unscrupulous, and attacked the surrounding small temples and small shrines by various means, from the beginning to find reasons to annex the territory and instigate against the monks and soldiers, and later simply forced the other party to hand over their financial rights by force and became vassals.

The means are getting more and more intense, and there is more and more blood on the back. But as long as the fighting is limited to the temple and does not affect others, even if one or two hundred people die at a time, the tie will not be able to turn a blind eye.

As for the unity and solidarity that I said before, I have long forgotten about it.

Therefore, during this time, both the old Zen master and the Tashiro Omiya Division were living quite well, their power and territory continued to increase, and the hidden fields and privately minted weapons that were previously hidden were also whitewashed in the name of "autonomous organizations".

Of course, there are also a lot of grievances, but those are not enough to worry about.

Those small temples and small shrines of twenty or thirty people used to give you face because they wanted to unite sincerely to fight against the centralization of the daimyo, but now that the attitude of the lord in charge of the guardian Daihei is so friendly, it is naturally not necessary.

Standing on the shore, Hirata Tsunohide watched the fish enter the net, and was still thinking about the posture of closing the net, but the conflict between the shogunate and Oda intensified, so he happened to use a chain of tricks, which could not only withdraw from the dispute between Yoshiaki and Nobunaga, but also better complete the rectification of the temple.

Nothing changed as expected. The new daisy sent by the shogunate was shocked to discover the bloody situation within the Izumi religious forces, and he became extremely suspicious of the level of the so-called "wise shogun to handle affairs", and immediately showed his presence and sternly stopped such illegal acts.

Of course, not only temples, but also the "military service tax exemption" implemented among the Chinese people has also received a certain impact, but the influence is relatively small.

Even the "stamp duty" policy, although it was retained as good governance, was implemented with a lot of discounts - this was due to the lack of talent in the hands of the new officials.

……

After a lot of effort, Hirata reluctantly agreed to come forward to do something, but he didn't say what to do, so he sent someone to send the guests to the guest room to rest.

Hu Zai Zongyi was the last to leave, and before leaving, he suddenly said with a straight face: "Presumably, these two people deserve death in your mind, but I advise you to leave their lives behind. It will be useful for me as well as for you. ”

Hearing this, Pingshou Fan Xiu didn't look embarrassed at all, and replied: "This time, you, the monk, miscalculated, not only did you spare your life, as long as there is no accident, I will let them continue to serve as the leader of the 'temple and community autonomy'." Of course, the actual operation needs to be changed. ”

Tiger Zai Zongyi breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Thank you." But then he smiled bitterly again, and sighed lightly: "When the poor monk first met the Imperial Palace, I am afraid that your eyes could not tolerate such sand. ”

Pingshou Fan Xiu smiled dumbly, and after a while, he straightened his face and responded in a deep voice: "If it was Tiger Zai Zongyi at that time, he would not have said anything to intercede for such a person." ”