Chapter 67: The Rebellion of Tianzheng Stone Mountain (Part II)
Within a month of the earth-shattering and turbulent months, in the eyes of outsiders, Yoshimitsu Hirate faced a rather embarrassing situation.
If you can't take the rocks, you won't be able to maintain the tranquility of Kyoto and, and there will be political risks. But if you die in Shishan, it is tantamount to letting the situation in the west collapse, and the east may not change.
Not to mention that he is only "the three great ministers and the general of the town guard", and has not yet officially become the lord of the shogunate, and he will not be able to ascend the throne for a while.
After all, Daddy's life and death are uncertain.
Fortunately, there has been no controversy about the succession of the Heite family, and Yoshimitsu already has a wealth of experience in leading troops to fight and deal with national affairs, and is very familiar with the people in charge of all aspects, even if the other brothers have any messy ideas, they will not become the climate in a short time, and the retainers except for Konishi Yukinaga are still closely around the second generation.
The Shogunate's bannermen and officials maintained an astonishing unity, and there was no vacillation or confusion as outsiders imagined. Even if he couldn't defeat the heavily defended Stone Mountain for a while, he could firmly gain the upper hand, making the "crowd" of the Yizong Sect tired to deal with it.
Hokuriku was the first to solve the problem, and then Hirate Hideyoshi led Honda Tadakatsu, Shima Kiyoko and others to the south with 30,000 troops, easily defeated the army of Kaga Ichijomune, and entered Kinai to support. The Eastern Rebellion was also gradually quelled by the efforts of Imagawa Hideji, Ii Hidenao, Sasa Naimasa, Kobayakawa Takakei and others, but due to the severance of Tokaido, it was impossible to take the king by land.
The rebels of Ichijo gradually fell into passivity, and in just a few days, many mysterious warriors and supplies were sent to the stone mountain.
Due to the size of the castle, the shogunate army was unable to block all the entrances and exits, and could never cut off such things, so the siege was never able to make progress.
And then—
About two months after the outbreak of the war, Hirate Honshu landed from the sea and appeared openly at Kishiwada Castle in Izumi. He suffered some minor injuries, but they were fine. A few days later, he led a thousand cavalry guards to the front line of Stone Mountain, and galloped around in front of the tents of the barracks, inspecting his soldiers.
General Zhengyi did not die in the earthquake, but was just conditioning his body and organizing disaster relief!
The official tone of the shogunate has always been 100% true!
Then it's no wonder that the army of the Pingshou family can maintain cohesion, probably the core personnel of the middle and high-level know that the lord is still alive, and they have long been reassured.
On the other hand, those who believe that Tieshou is dead before jumping out to make trouble, or secretly acting in the shadows, will inevitably lose their proportions. The news was released by President Konishi and was confirmed, so who was this guy misled, or did he make up lies to mislead others for personal gain, or did he take on a secret mission to engage in counterplots?
Has the shogunate already laid a net waiting for people to drill into the trap?
This issue cannot be ignored, but it cannot be considered.
The arrogance of the rebels suddenly disappeared for the most part.
Shishan's tens of thousands of troops instantly fell into a chaotic situation, and two-thirds of the soldiers escaped within five days. Mixed in with it was also the little monk named "Sojo", that is, the concubine of Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who had no intention of reviving the family business, and ran straight to Heite Yoshimitsu crying and shouting for asylum.
Then there was Governor Konishi, who also disappeared as soon as possible, and set a fire to destroy his temporary residence near Stone Mountain. Many people wanted to confront him and ask what was going on, but they were all one step too slow, and by the time they arrived, they were already empty, and they saw the fireworks in vain.
Araki Murashige, Bessu Nagaji and other daimyo who don't know whether they were coerced or actively participated in the rebellion, and they also disappeared. The samurai and peasants of the Settsu, Harima, Kii, Shikoku and other regions who had always believed in the sect lost their command, or killed each other, or fell into the grass, and could no longer be called armies.
If the Honganji sect is the same inside and outside, upright and unyielding, he still wants to "die with the temple", and he is neither willing to run away nor surrender. However, the official Lai Lian accepted Xianru's secret strategy, and rebelled against the general Jiaoru to be bound out of the city and surrendered, in order to obtain forgiveness.
After hearing about this, Saori also pleaded for this arrogant brother with illness. So for the sake of the second elder and her face, he left a life, and ordered him to be taken to Ryukyu to be accompanied by Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
As a result, the stone mountain was calmed down. Only Shibata Katsuya was left to lead a rabble of more than 10,000 people from all over the world to persist in the battle. They are probably outlaws who hate the Tie family and have no way out. These people continued to resist for more than ten days, and finally they were completely wiped out in Yueshui City. The upper-level generals learned from the Matsunaga Show of the year to blow up the castle tower and commit suicide, and the bones are unrecognizable.
In a sea of blood and ruins, the war ended.
Next, Heide Honhide immediately sent someone to deliver the letter, and in a stern tone, angrily reprimanded the princes of Mori, Shimazu, Takeda and other princes for their slow actions and ineffective suppression of bandits.
On the contrary, this made them settle down and actively reflect on it with sincere fear.
Because the meaning of the general's words is to stop here, and he will not pursue the matter of colluding with the thieves of Shishan and secretly providing assistance.
It was immediately decided that the various parts of the western country would be decided.
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The "Dharma of Temples and Shrines" can finally be passed.
The territories of the Ichijo clan in Ishiyama, Nagashima, and Kaga were confiscated, and the main mountain was moved to Yamashina Honganji Temple in Kyoto, but the local temples were still allowed to hold real estate ranging from 100 koku to 2,000 koku according to their rank to maintain their daily operations, and they were allowed to preach normally like other sects, except that they were not allowed to form armies and interfere in administration.
The biggest obstacle to the "separation of monks and laymen" has been removed.
Seeing the fate of the Honganji Ichijo sect, the Tendai sect of Mt. Hiei, which had already been hit, naturally did not dare to resist, and the Shingon sect of Koyasan and the Hosho sect of Nara were also aware of the current affairs and generally accepted the reform.
The two officials of the Kii Tsuda clan and the Yamato Tsutsui clan were transferred to Chikugo and Kanto Kamiso in Kyushu as ordinary foreign vassals, while Genraiji Temple and Kofukuji Temple honestly returned to their religious profession and no longer had the status of secular samurai.
In response to the performance of the foreign feudal lords in various regions in the turmoil, the shogunate carried out a round of large-scale rewards and punishments, mainly punishments, and squeezed out 1.6 million koku of territory from the unperforming princes, plus those obtained in the previous wars, for a total harvest of more than 3 million koku.
It mainly includes Shimazu's transfer to Okuwa, and the exchange with Date, Kasai, and Tozawa. The Mori family's Nagato Ichigoku was deprived and the Yoshikawa Hiroke was granted independence as a feudal domain, and Oda Nobutada lost the four prefectures of Owari Kami, and only received Hida as compensation...... These are considered to be daimyo who are ineffective in combat or have a questionable attitude.
Among them, 800,000 stone was awarded as a reward to the internal and external soldiers who had made meritorious contributions, 1 million stone was collected under the direct jurisdiction of the Imperial Material, and the rest set up several new relatives.
The three younger sons of the first shogun, the fourteen-year-old weak mage, the thirteen-year-old Victory Maru, and the eleven-year-old Senkanemaru, held a ceremony of the Motofu together, named Hidekei, Hidehiro, and Hideyan, and each received the domains of Harima, Chikugo, and Kaga.
Tieshou Xiujing granted the position of Beijing as an official career, temporarily appointed as "the fifth upper left Jingliang", and in the future can be promoted to the "positive four upper left/right Jing doctor", and then it will be called the Jingzhao family.
Hirate Hidehiro granted the repair job as an official career, and temporarily served as "Repair Ryo on the Fifth Position", and in the future, he could be promoted to "Repair Doctor on the Fourth Position", and then he was called a craftsman writer.
Pingshou Xiuyan granted the post of Dashan as an official career, and temporarily served as "the fifth Shangda Shan Liang", and in the future, he could be promoted to the "four Shangda Shan Dafu", and then it was called the Guanglu family.
Since these three people are the descendants of the first shogun, they are the closest branch of the shogunate to the main trunk, and they are called the "inner three families".
And Hatakeyama, Imagawa, and Miyoshi, although they have the same bloodline, but have inherited the Miao characters of other families, are called "outer three families".
Then there are Xiuyi, Xiuyin, Changchen, Zhengli, and Zhenchang, who are allowed to use the word Pingshou Miao as relatives, and are called "Tongwen Five Families".
These are the eleven daimyo of the feudal clans who guarded the places for the shogunate.
In Ishiyama, after the dismissal of the disciples of the Ichijo sect, Heite Honshu demolished Honganji Temple and built a castle of unprecedented scale on the original site, which was named "Anroku".
The peace of Chang'an, the Luo of Luoyang. In this way, it is deeply expressed the general's yearning for Tang Tu.
The shogunate institutions that had been scattered throughout Yamashiro, Izumi, and Omi were all relocated. Many merchants, temples, scholars, and craftsmen were invited to live in the castle town, and the foreign feudal clans in each region also established houses that matched their status.
In particular, merchants in Kaimachi and temples in Kyoto were generally asked to move their headquarters to the vicinity of Anroku Castle.
At Castle Castle Bunshu, there is a Seisheien for tea ceremonies and other elegant events, a Budokan for various competitive competitions, and Gozaza for official auctions.
Half a day away from the coastline, the Fuso Castle Tower, which has six outer floors and nine floors, is a magnificent castle tower with a height of more than 60 meters, and you can see all the surrounding towns at a glance from the top floor. From the inside to the outside, the stone wall is gradually lowered, divided into four echelons with a total of 19 curved wheels, from the residence of the general and his family, daily office, personal guard stationing, to the worship of gods and Buddhas, material storage, and so on.
The area under the castle is about 80 towns (8 kilometers) long and about 50 kilometers wide, and there is a network of roads that span seven and nine vertically, and there are countless small alleys connecting them, and there are walls on the periphery, and there are also horizo ditches that allow you to travel by bridge. After going out in the north, east and south directions, it is directly connected to the newly repaired national highway, and on the west side is a port that can accommodate 100 large ships at the same time.
At the time of completion, the emperor abdicated and the imperial grandson ascended the throne. As the father-in-law of the new monarch, after the symbolic resignation, he received the "Minister of the Imperial Minister" and the "Quasi-Three Palaces". He immediately stepped down from the position of general of the Seiyi and handed it over to the twenty-nine-year-old Yoshimitsu, who came to the Owari Kasugai County where he grew up since childhood.