Chapter 82: Seats and Titles (I)
"Ise Seki? I'll take you in. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info have you seen the seating map? Uh, uh...... This one...... Wanwang Haihan, your seat is elsewhere, and the word 'Guan' written here refers to Mino's Guanshi. ”
"Excuse me, and beg you to show me your name. Lord Arima, can you tell me if it's Settsu Arima or Kii Arima? It's a shame......"
"Huh? Your family governor feels unwell and wants to leave early? Please hold on a little longer, if there is any dissatisfaction, we will correct it immediately! We also have a physician on standby if needed! ”
"Accommodation for the retainers? If you look to the left, yes, it's the tent. Right, right...... Three rice balls per person, one dish. No thanks, no thanks, you can be satisfied. ”
"Do you have any problems? What the? Too much to eat and not full? This, this, this...... Please wait a minute, I'll register and get some more food right away. ”
"Forgot where to tie the horse? Don't worry, we've all marked it as agreed. Can't even forget what the mark is? Well, I'll send someone to accompany you to find ...... slowly."
"You're not right, are you...... I just met the people of the Tango Yano family a few days ago, isn't it like you? Hey, wait, don't run! This guy really doesn't have long eyes, he dares to come here to eat and drink! ”
When the tie arrived at the venue in the northern suburbs of Luo, what he saw was a beautiful scenery of chickens flying and dogs jumping, people and horses neighing, turning upside down, and being anxious.
The shogunate's reformation ceremony and the Oda family's grand event were the front and back feet in time, so Honhide had just arrived from the Imperial Palace.
Compared to the solemnity and solemnity of Ashikaga, I really don't know what to say about the scene in front of me, and it is no wonder that Kyoto people say that Oda is the "daimyo of the farmhouse" in the countryside.
However, it seems that this cannot be entirely due to subjective factors, after all, the shogunate's reform ceremony was only about a dozen shoguns and more than 20 close princes as guests, while Oda's banquet invited more than 600 families from several countries in Kinai, and counting the guards and attendants, there were at least 10,000 people who needed to be entertained.
For example, Izumi under the command of Tieshou Tsunoxiu, more than a dozen people were invited to attend.
Even if he is a trump card like Sadakatsu Murais, he has organized activities of hundreds or thousands of people at most in Omi and Mi in the past, but today is the first time to get started, and some bad situations are also being cleaned up.
Of course, the bad situation is aimed at those small forces and small actors. As the guardian of a country, Tieshou Honxiu can sit in the first three rows today, and this seat has been repeatedly confirmed by the government, and there will be no mistakes.
In addition to Nobunaga himself and the envoys sent by the imperial court and the shogunate, the highest status is the "allies" of the Oda family, including Akira Akira Hatakeyama of Kawachi, Yoshiki Ichishiki of Tango, Kyogoku Takayoshi Omi, Kitahata Gubo, Yamato Matsunaga Shu, Mikawa Tokugawa Ieyasu, and so on. What they have in common is that they all have official positions officially canonized by the imperial court and are widely recognized as big names. But in fact, half of these people have been reduced to puppets, and one has no power. On the contrary, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who has the lowest status, has the greatest real power.
Echizen Asakura Yoshikage also received an invitation, but apparently he would not agree to the banquet. However, as a famous martial artist who pays attention to etiquette, he still replied to the letter and found some nonsense reasons such as the injury of the child and the illness of his wife.
The second is those subordinate forces that have land and soldiers, but have no officials and no titles, including Mizuno Nobugen in Mikawa Bikai County, Gamo Kenhide in Omi Gamo Prefecture, Ikeda Katsumasa, Itami Kinko, and Wada Yumasa in Settsu, Akai Naomasa in the three western Tamba Counties, and Hatano Hideharu in Taki Prefecture. These people were all collected in the name of the shogunate. Of course, there will be a difference between distant and close relatives, Mizuno and Gamo have a relatively strong centripetal force towards Oda, while Hatano and Akai are purely nominal vassals and cannot withstand any tests.
After coming down, it was the turn of Oda's relatives and genealogical retainers. With Shibata Katsuya on the left and Mitsuhide Akechi on the right, it seems that Nobunaga is going to take this opportunity to reveal his identity. This is also the first time in a year that Fenxiu has reunited with his colleagues.
The rest of the people were not in any order, and only according to the region, the wealthy families from the same country were grouped together.
Generally speaking, the seating is distributed according to obvious rules, at least the doorways in the first three rows are very clear. But those who have a heart still find something wrong, that is, Omi Asai is not among the allies of the first row, but is classified as a subordinate wealthy family in the second row.
This phenomenon cannot but attract attention.
Indeed, the Asai family was not from a high background, had a short rise time, and had no money to donate money to Kyoto, so there was no official position recognized by the imperial court, and he could not get the guardian service (Bizen Mamoru was self-proclaimed), and in terms of name, it was no different from the ordinary wealthy landlords. However, Asai Nagamasa now has more than 300,000 stone territory, and a total of 20,000 troops, second only to Oda in terms of power, similar to Tokugawa, and far higher than everyone else present.
Asai's response to this arrangement was that Nagamasa himself refused to be present due to illness, but sent his brother-in-law, Masamoto, as a nodai to attend. This not only shows obedience to Oda, but also does not lose face.
It is unclear whether Nobunaga himself has any opinions, but his colleagues expressed their understanding, and Shibata whispered to excuse him: "It is indeed a little harsh to treat Asai in this way, and it is enough to prove Asai's loyalty to send his brother here." ”
But Fan Xiu felt in his heart that Asai's attitude showed that his proposal should have played a role to some extent. I just don't know when I'll get an official response.
This time, everyone couldn't talk a few words, and Nobunaga at the front didn't wait for everyone to sit down, so he didn't wait for the signal to start.
So after receiving the instruction of the eyes, the two powerful people who persuaded Shuji Haruhide to get up immediately, he opened the edict in his hand, read a lot of official nonsense, and then talked about the core issue: "Enter Oda Nobunaga for the four positions, and the line is playing the big shot." ”
The official position of "Danzheng Dabi" did not surprise everyone. But "under the four positions" let those who know how to taste it.
The lowest rank required to serve as Danzheng Dabi is under the fifth position, and it is generally assumed as the fourth position. It is already extremely difficult to climb to the height of the four people who are not from the minister's background, and the overlord Miyoshi Changqing also stayed here. Now that Nobunaga has been promoted to the rank of the fourth rank, it means that his status in the imperial court has surpassed that of the Miyoshi Chokei of that year, which makes everyone present rejoice, or pretend to be happy.
Tie is certainly no exception. It's just that while he was congratulating with the crowd, he was very curious, and he didn't know what kind of way Nobunaga had used his strength to make the court so happy.
Immediately afterwards, Ise Sadako also congratulated on behalf of the shogunate, and it is said that the relationship between the two sides was ambiguous, and the Ashikaga retainers should feel unhappy when they saw Oda Nobunaga get a high official position, but Ise Sadako was smiling and flattering, and he couldn't see the arrogance of being a deacon of the government office at all. Perhaps because of this, Nobunaga also showed a great degree of kindness and closeness to him.
Then Nobunaga waved his hand generously and said, "You don't have to be formal, I, Nobunaga, am not a big man to be feared, so you can relax a little!" ”
Following his words, the feast officially began.