[266] Japan Disruption Plan 2

As we all know, the Japanese emperor is a rubber stamp-like ornament, the emperor is powerless to control the samurai class, but the samurai class can control the emperor, and the emperor can only protect his own safety by giving up power for the "gods" with peace of mind. The emperor of Japan has long since had no power, and has nothing to do except deal with his poor ministers. The shogunate promulgated 17 articles of the "Prohibition of the Laws of the Shogunate and the Public Family," stipulating that the emperor was only allowed to engage in academic work, reciting the "Shoshu Zhiji" and "Forbidden Secret Copying", chanting waka songs, and not interfering with politics. The shogunate built "Nijo Castle" in Kyoto as a shogun. Set up officials and send secret agents to monitor the imperial family and the princes of Kansai. The legal system strictly dissociates the public military, and the official position of samurai is granted by the shogunate, and the system of appointing officials from the imperial court to the samurai is abolished. In this way, the connection between the royal family and the samurai was completely severed. During the reign of the Tokugawa shogunate, even scholars who were deeply influenced by the Confucian idea of loyalty to the emperor could justifiably deprive the emperor of his powers. Once the emperor threatened the power of the shogunate and angered the shogunate, the shogunate could depose the emperor under the pretext that "the emperor was immoral".

These are still secondary, and the most difficult thing is that they are short of money and stretched. The emperor's annual income was 45,250 koku, and 26,400 taels of gold. Compared to the income of a small candidate, it is not even half of it, but the expenses are very huge. The dignitaries and nobles in the court have a good name, but their income is very small, and the maximum annual income is only 10,000 stones, and some are hundreds of stones. The total income of all the princes and nobles is less than 150,000 stones, and the entire imperial court and other incomes are only 40 to 500,000 stones, which is far less than the income of a big prince and the royal family for this group of poor officials. But where is the source of money? had no choice but to sell the official beard, but the poor official and poor lord couldn't afford to sell it for a price, and only the purple clothes were worth a little bit. This purple robe is a purple robe with gold trim, and those who have the permission of the emperor are eligible to wear it. And those who wear purple clothes must be highly respected and well-educated monks. In the monastic world, this is the supreme glory. Japanese monks are quite wealthy, so many people spend money to buy purple clothes to wear.

In the event of the Purple Clothes Incident, the Imperial Court allowed dozens of monks from Daitokuji Temple and Myoshinji Temple to wear purple clothes without consulting the shogunate in advance for the sake of finances. However, the shogunate's decree on the birth of monks, and the purple cloth edict of Kyoto's Daitokuji Temple and Myoshinji Temple were invalid. Japan's Emperor Gomizuo was Tokugawa Iemitsu's brother-in-law, and in order to solve the current dilemma, he desperately sold purple clothes. As a result, this thing was proliferated, causing the displeasure of the shogunate. So the shogunate deliberated and decided that all purple clothes granted by the emperor would be invalid.

In the sixth year of Kanei (1629), the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu actually sent his nurse Kasuga Bureau to meet the emperor, but because the Kasuga Bureau had no officials and no position, he went to meet the emperor (the brother-in-law of the Kasuga Bureau was the Imperial Court Secretary Sanjo Nishishijo, and the father of the Kasuga Bureau was Saito Toshizo, a subordinate of Akechi Mitsuhide, and the former husband was the daimyo Inaba Masasari), which was considered a great shame by the emperor and felt that the shogunate did not take his authority seriously. In the same year, the angry emperor gave up the throne without warning to the imperial daughter, Prince Kokonai, who was only seven years old, for Emperor Akisho, in order to show the shogunate's ambition to inherit the throne with his own grandson. After the abdication of Emperor Go-Mizuo, he continued to regent as Emperor Taijo, and was also committed to waka and Buddhism.

However, this does not mean that Masahito has no rights at all**, more often, Masahito is powerless. However, the emperor, who was trying to survive in the gap between the various daimyos, understood very well the reason why the castle head changed the banner of the king, and although there were daimyo such as Shimazu, Mori, and Matsuura who came out to oppose the Tokugawa shogunate, there was even the Ming Kingdom on the other side of the sea to help. But the Ming ** team will be withdrawn after all, and when the time comes, will Shimazu, Mori and Matsuura still be opponents of the Tokugawa family?

Masahin did not have the luxury of returning the power to himself, the emperor, but now he did not dare to agree to the decree that the Tokugawa family should be named as an enemy, nor did he dare not agree to the demands of the daimyo such as Shimazu and Mori. As a result, Emperor Gomizuo Masahito suddenly frowned and said, "I have already abdicated, so you should discuss this matter with Prince Xingzinai!" I~ It's a little comfortable! As soon as his eyes rolled, his body staggered, and he fell on the tatami mat with a thud before he could speak.

"Your Majesty~ Your Majesty!" The palace maids and attendants serving Zhengren are in a mess

Song Youliang said disdainfully: "I didn't expect the dignified emperor to come to this trick." ”

Shimazu Hisamitsu and the others didn't dare to continue urging, after all, they couldn't afford to force the Emperor Taishang out of three long and two short.

Leaving the palace, Shimazu Hisamitsu said worriedly: "Your Majesty refuses to give an order, so what should I do?" ”

Song Youliang wiped his chin and said, "Can you say that the minister will come forward?" ”

"Takako Fujiwara, the daughter of Sekihaku Takashi Shinbo, is married to Tokugawa Iemitsu as the main room, and it will definitely not work to ask him to come forward!" Maori Xiu shook his head

Song Youliang said with a smile: "Is there only one family in your country?" ”

Maori Xiu replied: "No, there are many public houses in Japan." The public family has a distinction between the upper and lower halls, and the general official position above the "lower five" is the upper hall, and the upper hall has the qualification of the upper hall, but there is no such qualification underground. From the Heian period onwards, there were more than three nobles who had been promoted from the public service, and from the Senate to the highest position of the Imperial Minister. The Minister of the Minister, the Right Minister, the Left Minister, the Minister of the Interior, the Senate, the Great Minister, and the Central Minister are all official positions that can only be held by the secretary class. The four most famous surnames at the end of the Heian period were Fujiwara, Genji, Taira, and Tachibana. The public family is divided according to the bloodline (that is, the family of the public family): the Regent family, the Tsinghua family, the minister's family, the Yulin family, the famous family, the half family 6, etc. Among them, the regents: also known as the five families of the regent, are divided into Konoe, Kujo, Ichijo, Nijo, and the five regents of the Eagle Division, all of which are from the Fujiwara clan, and can all be officials to the regent and Sekihaku. The rest ~~~~"

Mao Lixiu wanted to continue to introduce, but Song Youliang waved his hand, interrupted him, and said, "Maolijun, you just pick the most important one and say, which one can we woo?" ”

Shimazu Hisamitsu said: "In my opinion, let's win over Fujiwara Yoshimasa, this guy is a more intelligent and ambitious person among the younger generation of the Fujiwara family." ”

Mao Lixiu smiled and said: "I've heard of this person, this guy is a more strategic person among the public ministers, because he is a little talented, so he seems arrogant, and the relationship with other ministers in the court is not very good." Privately, I also expressed my dissatisfaction with the Tokugawa family! In addition~~" Mori Shu added: "We can also contact the Uesugi family of the Yonezawa clan in the north, who are also the daimyo of the Western Army who were reduced after the Battle of Sekigahara. ”

During the Warring States period, the Yonezawa area was the domain of the Date clan. In 1591, Date Masamune was transferred to Iwaideyama Castle by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was governed by the Gamo clan and the Aizu area. Keikatsu's retainer Naoe continued to receive 300,000 koku in Yonezawa's domain. In 1598, Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness and was succeeded by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and the political situation began to be turbulent, and he was hostile to another of the five elders, Tokugawa Ieyasu. Later, because Ieyasu returned to halfway through the expedition to Aizu, the Battle of Sekigahara broke out, and Tokugawa Ieyasu won the victory. In 1601, Uesugi Keikatsu was given a reduction in his territory, but it was not completely confiscated, and only Yonezawa was left with 300,000 koku, and the territory was 180,000 koku in Zhishi County and 120,000 koku in Nobuo County.

In the early days of the Yonezawa Domain, the size of the 6,000 family retainers was maintained, and the actual income of the domain was 510,000. Later, the situation of the Yonezawa clan deteriorated. In order to maintain the large retainers and support the illusory self-esteem of the Uesugi family's million-stone daimyo in the past, the domain's finances have fallen into a vicious circle of making ends meet. Within the territory of 150,000 koku, the Yonezawa clan intensified its excesses and taxes, and the overwhelmed citizens continued to flee, and those who could not escape had to endure abortions and infanticides. The Yonezawa Domain's population plummeted, ultimately causing fatal damage to the foundation of an agrarian-based economy. At that time, 90% of the revenue of the Yonezawa Domain was used to support more than 5,000 feudal lords, and the annual deficit was as high as 30,000 taels of silver, and the debts of merchants were hundreds of thousands. Due to poor harvests and loss of government, the population of the domain was only 100,000, and Yonezawa was still one of the poorest feudal clans in Japan. At that time, the citizens of Edo, in order to get rid of the "golden energy" of the iron pot, often pasted a white paper with "Yonezawa" written on it on the bottom of the pot, and the joke and sarcasm were incomprehensible - from the Warring States to the first poor feudal domain in Edo, Uesugi Kenshin, the dragon of Echigo under the Nine Springs, would not know how to feel if he knew that his descendants were broken

"Okay, I'll send someone to do it about contacting Yonezawa Domain, and I ask you to send an envoy to follow and convince Uesugi Tsunatsu together!" Song Youliang said

Subsequently, Song Youliang went to the residence of the minister in Kyoto with Shimazu Hisamitsu, Mori Hidesa, Matsuura Zhenxin, Zong Yoshinari and others to visit Fujiwara Yoshimasa.

The Fujiwara family was a poor public minister, and as it sounded, his name was terrifying—the Left Minister, second only to the Right Minister and the high-ranking officials of the Shogun. However, it is really shabby to say, there are few maids in the dignified Minister Zuo's family, and Minister Zuo only has a few sets of clothes that serve as a façade. There was no way, the shogunate gave too little money to the ministers.

Fujiwara Yoshimasa met Song Youliang and his party in a gorgeous straight hang, and Song Youliang could see at a glance that the straight hang was a dress that had been sleeping at the bottom of the box for a long time and was not often worn, and the creases caused by the folding of the clothes were clearly visible

As soon as he heard that he was going to lead the call on the people of the world to raise an army to fight against the unscrupulous Tokugawa shogunate, and to return power to the imperial court, Fujiwara Yoshimasa was immediately excited, "The Tokugawa family's oppression of the Japanese people, their contempt for the emperor, and the bullying of the daimyo have reached the point of no return. Fujiwara Yoshimasa stood up suddenly, faced in the direction of Edo, raised his right hand and said loudly, "It is better to die a glorious and heroic death than to live so miserably!" ”

"However, we lack the righteousness given by the Emperor Taishang right now!" Shimazu Hisamitsu reminded

"Then it's up to me to name the Tokugawa family as the enemy!" Fujiwara Yoshimasa said, "If it succeeds, then no one will pursue the false proclamation. If it fails, then all the blame will be borne by I, Fujiwara Yoshimasa, and His Majesty the Emperor will not be held responsible. ”