Chapter Fifty-Nine: Reforming the Old and Replacing the New (II)
The much-anticipated "The Laws of the Martial Arts" was released in a voice of peaceful praise.
As the first version of the draft, it was not too detailed in detail, with only about 20 entries in total, less than 1,000 words in length, which could be copied on a piece of paper.
But it's such a short text, but it starts with explosive content.
Article 1: Return of Imperial Grace. Ask all daimyo to "voluntarily" hand over all their territories to the shogunate, leaving not an inch of land!
Article 2: Bestow by the Grace of God. It means that all the territories that the daimyo "voluntarily" handed over were returned as they were, and they were rewarded as they were.
Many people dropped their jaws when they saw the first one, and they began to think about the success rate of the rebellion, but when they saw the second one, they had to put their chin back on.
All handed in, and then given as it is, is the motive to be idle and boring and deliberately play others?
Does it mean anything?
In particular, residents of the, Tokai, and Kanto regions who have long been accustomed to the idea that "those who are strong are nobles" will think that these are two nonsense sentences that are funny.
However, there are a few people in Kyushu and Ou who understand the weight of the words.
In those two regions where the Tengo Emperor was far away, the legitimacy of certain forces was based on the Kamakura period and even earlier, and there was no truly widely recognized master-slave relationship with the Muromachi shogunate, and the Ashikaga clan had always been relatively weak, and even the vicinity of Kyoto could not maintain stability for a long time, so they did not have the spare energy to sort it out.
The word jurisprudence, sometimes lighter than a feather, sometimes heavier than Mount Tai, is a very subtle existence. In the past, Tieshou Fanxiu could use a pragmatic attitude to avoid hypocrisy and flexibly treat all righteous names, but now it has reached the moment to promote hypocrisy with reality.
After setting the tone first, and then disposing of the princes for state replacement (transfer of other lands), reduction of seals (literally), and change (confiscation of territories), there are ten percent sufficient reasons for the princes.
At this stage, it is obvious that the implementation of two seemingly false and empty policies will not be met with too much resistance. The history of the rise of most of today's foreign daimyo is relatively short, and the issue of fame inheritance is not too concerned. And a family like the Shimazu family has a long history that is either in decline or in decline.
Hirate Honhide once dealt with the Ise Kitabatake family very forcefully and roughly, completely ignoring the friendship of the Southern Dynasty ministers in the big family. He also personally destroyed the secular power of the Tosa Kuniji Ichijo family in Shikoku, although at that time it seemed that it was only in response to the invitation of the head of Chosamune's department.
Looking back at this moment, did you have some foreshadowing in the first place?
In the last years of Muromachi, Fuso was known as the "Sengoku Sangokuji", referring to the ruling families of the three ministers who were able to maintain their rule as the national secretary during the troubled times of the Warring States.
Legally, they are not naturally subordinate to the rule of any samurai regime.
In addition to the destroyed Ise Kuniji Kitabatake family and Tosa Kuniji Ichichi family, there is also the Hida Kuniji Koji family, which is located in the middle of nowhere. However, the lineage of this family has actually been severed, and now it is the Miki clan who usurped the name and spent money to buy the approval of the imperial court more than twenty years ago.
Now the tie Fan Xiu turned over the old accounts and found that hey, the one who allowed the Miki family to inherit the Miao character of Xiao Xiaolu was the one who was Guan Bai Konoe for a long time!
Konoe Qianjiu, this guy, because he was forced by Miyoshi Nagayi and Shinohara Nagabo to recognize Ashikaga Yoshiei's status as a general, has long become the No. 1 backstabbing man in Tianzi, and he has been criticized and criticized.
At present, it is only a tie Honhide, out of consideration for balancing the ministers of Nijo Harura's faction, allowing Konoe to return to Kyoto for a long time, but there is no hope of restoring his official position for the time being.
Then the decision he made back then can naturally be disagreed with now.
So as the Minister of Zuo, on behalf of the imperial court, Heishou Tsunohide announced that the Miki family's inheritance of the Miao character of Xiaolu was illegal and banned. Sekihaku Kujo Kanetaka was very voluntary and self-conscious, and by no means coerced to express his full support.
At that time, Hida Koji Yoritsuna, who was the secretary of the country, hurriedly brought the whole family to the door to intercede, saying that he was willing to give up the territory, just to keep his family name, and go to Kyoto to be a high-ranking guest.
I've seen this kind of situation many times, but it's the first time I've seen someone who has chosen it like this, I don't know if it's because Hida Country is too poor, or if this guy has a special sense of honor?
It is said that the wife of Yoritsuna Koji is a half-sister of Nohime, and his relatives are brothers-in-law with Nobunaga. However, due to Nohime's old age and childlessness, he had faded out of the circle of power early, and Oda Nobutada did not stand up to help speak.
However, by chance, he saw Yoritsuna's daughter, and she felt that she looked exactly like Nohime more than 20 years ago, and her name was "Fluttershy", which was reminiscent of her youth in the past......
Something self-explanatory happened.
Therefore, he was given additional lenient treatment: he ordered Yoritsuna himself and his eldest son Nobutsuna to come to Kyoto, change from a samurai family to a public family, and maintain the Miao character and official rank; The second son, Hidetsuna, changed his surname back to Miki and inherited the territory of Hida Ichikoku.
In this way, it is equivalent to keeping the name and the truth, and everyone is happy.
But I didn't expect it to still make a big mess.
Ji Xiaolu Lai Gang himself is a cultural person who likes to sing poetry and paint, and would rather not ask for a family name. However, his eldest son, Nobutsuna, did not inherit his father's temperament, and did not want to be an errand in Kyoto, so he used the excuse to delay and stay in Hida, and also negotiated with his younger brother Xiuzuna and wanted to exchange.
It happened that Xiugang's idea was exactly the same as that of his brother, and he said that "this is a tie decision" and refused to agree.
Because of this, Nobutsuna was embarrassed and sent a crony to infiltrate the city and poison him, wanting to make his younger brother sick in bed and unable to govern, and then used this as a reason to apply to stay in the territory under Hida's jurisdiction.
As a result, his cronies were not reliable, he was caught in the process of doing things, and he couldn't help but torture and confess the mastermind behind the scenes.
As the second son, Hiroji Hidetsuna, his mind is not very clear, and he did not immediately send someone to report to Kyoto after knowing the beginning and the end, but immediately ordered his retainers to bring knives and guns, and planned to attack his brother first.
However, the news leaked again and failed to achieve a raid, so that Xiaolu Nobutsuna also had the opportunity to gather his supporters.
Suddenly it became a situation of brothers against each other.
Due to the complexity of the terrain of Hida Province, the news reached Kyoto about ten days later.
Xiao Xiaolu Lai Gang almost fainted when he read the letter, but he thought it was interesting - he only issued the "Yanwu Order" a few months ago, and he was worried that he couldn't find a fool to kill Liwei!
Immediately ordered Mino Oda Nobutada, Echichu Honda Tadakatsu, Shinano Takeda Katsuyori, Noto Island Kiyoshi, and ordered each country to bear 1,500 troops, and then let Hirate Yoshimitsu lead 3,000 people from Omi and Echizen to preside over the pacification of the rebellion.
Don't look at the total of less than 10,000 people, for the Hida country, where the scale of the war has been limited to three digits for a long time, it is a large army to overwhelm the territory.
It was too late for the brothers Xiao Lu Xingang and Xiao Xiao Lu Xiugang to react. The former stubbornly said that he would hold on, but was cut off by his retainers and surrendered to the city. The latter dared to go out of the city and fight, and with 300 outnumbered troops, he defeated 2,000 members of the Takeda family, and in less than a quarter of an hour they were scattered and died.
These two fools who broke into a catastrophe became the first batch of objects applicable to "noisy and successful".
As for the Xiao Lu family, under the hard work of the little girl who looked like Nonghime, she was not implicated too much, and Lai Gang's youngest son was given the right to inherit the family name, and then the three concubines changed back to Miki's Miao character, and gave Zhixing 10,000 stones, 8,000 stones, and 5,000 stones respectively, and the rest of the land was confiscated.
This insignificant upheaval subsided in less than a month.
But there were some unpredictable butterfly effects.
Hida has a countryman Jiang Ma clan, who nominally belongs to the management of the Koji Koji family, but in fact has been linked to the Kai Takeda family for a long time. As soon as the Xiaolu family fell this time, their identities began to be embarrassed, and they were directly under the management of the Shogunate, which meant that they would face land seizure and sword hunting, and they might be held accountable for the crime of concealing land and private weapons.
So the head of the Eima clan, Hui Sheng, turned to his old friend Takeda Katsuyori for help, and said something in his words: "Although the Heite clan has established the shogunate, the contemptible people still remember the heroic posture of the Dharma Temple (Takeda Shingen) back then, and their hearts still look forward to Takeda's horse, and once the world changes, I am willing to follow the work of dogs and horses."
Originally, it was nonsense in private, but as long as it was not exposed, it was nothing.
However, Hida also has a Chinese, Uchijima Clan, who has always been the old enemy of the Eima family, and has a lot of old grudges with Takeda. The Uchijima clan somehow learned about the private "words of disobedience" between the Eima family and the Takeda family, and actively sent people to Kyoto to report and expose it!
At that time, Hirate Hohide and Hirate Yoshimitsu didn't pay much attention to it and entrusted it to the retainers. However, Hattori Hidean was very interested, sent a secret agent, hurried in the starry night, and seized the corresponding information with lightning speed.
As a result, a little search revealed that the letter with the words "no subordinate" that Uchijima had said could no longer be found—it was probably destroyed immediately after arriving at Takeda Katsuyori, but there was another letter that had not yet been sent, with similar words.
Everyone got the stolen goods, and there was nothing to say, Jiangma Huisheng cut the abdomen, and all the money was confiscated, and the clansmen were reduced to commoners.
The Uchijima clan is meritorious, and the seal is 3,000 stones.
As for Takeda Katsuyori, he was actually quite unlucky, completely unjustified, and the only mistake was that he did not confess to the shogunate in time after receiving the letter. In all fairness, he was also forced to do so. People think of the old love and take the initiative to come to you, if you sell it again, how will you behave in the future? Where do you put your face?
But now that it's happened, I can't just brush it off.
Heite Tsunohide met with Takeda Katsuyori, who rushed to Kyoto to apologize for his sins, and comforted him, and then said: "Lingzun's prestige in the Koshin area is too high, I'm afraid that there will inevitably be such things in the future!" It's better to move away. I've already calculated, the Higo country plus the five southern counties of Hizen has a total of 930,000 stone territory, I don't know if you are satisfied? ”
Of course, Katsuyori Takeda can only say that he is satisfied.