For the people of Fuso during the Warring States period, it seemed to be a matter of course that the samurai controlled the real power and the imperial court held the title. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 However, anyone who can read ancient books knows that this political pattern is actually less than 400 years old.

The first person to take over the world as a samurai was Taira Kiyomori of the Heike family. In the second year of Ringan (1167), he became a minister, and then let his family monopolize most of the high-ranking positions in the court, and occupied more than half of the positions of state secretary (i.e., XX Shou) of the nation. This is the so-called "Taira regime".

The process of the Taira clan creating a foundation is inseparable from the internal turmoil of the imperial family and the imperial court. Taira Kiyomori and Emperor Go-Shirakawa can be said to be a brother-in-law, and this nepotism is an important help for him to appear on the historical stage.

However, after defeating Genji together and gaining power, Taira Kiyomori and Emperor Go-Shirakawa gradually became estranged, and turned from allies to enemies.

At that time, the Taira clan had an endless land and an army of hundreds of thousands, while the imperial family seemed to have almost no territory and soldiers. So Taira Kiyomori openly showed hostility, deposed the emperor, and installed his grandson, the two-year-old crown prince, to succeed him.

However, this move unexpectedly became the fuse, igniting rebellions all over Fuso, Minamoto Yoritomo, Minamoto Yoshitsune, Kiso Yoshinaka and other juniors continued to emerge, and the public, temples, and people also stood up to respond, and the Taira clan soon fell into an embattled situation, and in just a few years, it disappeared and died.

The above process was written into the famous literary work "The Tale of the Heike Family", which is familiar to the people of Fuso.

Isn't this incident a reference for the relationship between Oda and Ashikaga?

The power of the monarch in the feudal era was loose and unstable, largely based on the "sense of identity", and the sense of identity is easily influenced by the outside world, so once it encounters a military defeat or a blow to the name, it will form a snowball effect.

First of all, the prestige declined, and there were doubts within the retainers, and then the old enemies who had absconded and the forces with conflicts of interest took the opportunity to become active. (Miyoshi, Rokkaku, Kitabatake, Asakura, Asai)

If you can't strike a timely blow at an enemy who is coming up, it will make people feel that they are strong from outside, and then the neutrals will start to change their stance and take advantage of the chaos. (Honganji, Nagashima, Mt. Hiei, Kinai Kokuto)

Immediately after the surrender, the peripheral members will gradually respond passively to the war, or simply defect, and once the trend of defection is formed, the scale will only become more and more intense. (Conspirators such as Matsunaga Shu, Yusa Nobuyo, Araki Murashige, etc.)

In the end, it will be a test of whether your core team can withstand these pressures and turn the direction of the snowball.

In the history of the existence of no time-travelers, the core strength of the Oda family was very tenacious and withstood the test. Therefore, after parting ways with Ashikaga Yoshiaki, he still succeeded in leveling the previous "encirclement".

But the difficulties and obstacles are also very amazing. A dozen members of the Oda family alone were killed in battle, and Mori Kosei, Sakai Masanori, Naomasa Tsukasa, and other leading generals who no longer had to take the lead also died in the fierce battle.

As a person fighting in the arena of power, he should certainly not fear death, nor should he run away from any necessary adventures. But it would be unwise to artificially increase the risk because of a mistake in judgment when there is a better way to deal with it.

Originally, in history, Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were too eager to succeed, and the rhythm of taking the world was too careful, so they encountered a lot of hidden dangers and even troubles. The counter-example was Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had already occupied a strong position after his victory at the Battle of Sekigahara, but it still took nearly twenty years to finally settle the Toyotomi family.

Therefore, now Hirate Honhide believes that he should find a way to ease Oda Nobunaga's style of behavior and avoid too much conflict with Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

However, it is definitely not possible to persuade openly, and there is no need to think about it.

Nobunaga, this guy, has a disadvantage that he doesn't shed tears when he sees the coffin, but at the same time, he also has an advantage that he will definitely shed tears when he sees the coffin.

When the situation is not chaotic and calm, it is easy for His Highness to be overly optimistic and misassess the situation. But once things don't go well, he can sum up the lessons with a realistic attitude, and will not hide his ears and deceive himself for boring face-saving problems. At least not yet.

In other words, with a little bit of small means, there is still hope to convince him......

Inspired by what Inu said, "resign from the guardian generation of Izumi", Hirate Honhide thought about a strategy of "retreating as advancing".

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Early the next morning, he returned to the assessment room with the end of his vacation and wrote a letter, saying, "Due to the frequent wars, he was appointed by the imperial court as the 'middle minister', and he was too busy with official affairs to take on the post of 'Izumi guardian' of the shogunate, so he resigned." ”

Everyone can see that this is a 100% excuse. But it can be regarded as an excuse, and it expresses the meaning that "the official position of the imperial court is better than the official service of the shogunate", which is a certain degree of "political correctness" in the case of the Oda family.

Moreover, back then, Ashikaga Yoshiaki appointed Hirate Honhide to serve as the guardian of Izumi, which had the intention of divisiveness, and he didn't have any good intentions. It's just that this method is very clever, and Nobunaga, out of various considerations, not only can't stop it, but wants to order Hanohide to take over the appointment without pretentiousness.

Now that Hirate has taken the initiative to resign from this position and vaguely proposed to move to Awaji Province, isn't it tantamount to expressing his loyalty to the Oda family?

Theoretically, Nobunaga should be happy. What a spirit of selfless dedication to let go of the land that has been built and run to the front line to run it yourself! In the future, the role of Izumi Guardian should not exist, or at least it should be divided into several parts: south, north, and middle, with a deputy official in each part, so as not to be suspected of being too big to fall.

However, if you think about it a few times, it is not without its potential problems. Heite Honhide's business in Izumi was extremely successful, pacifying the territory and developing the economy, without reaching out to the Kaimachi of Nobunaga's direct jurisdiction. If it had been managed by a different person, would the situation have remained so good?

After all, it's not really a peaceful and prosperous world, so what if you get a mediocre person to go up and ruin this good situation? Dispatch capable people over, and worry about a conflict with Kinoshita Hideyoshi, the "Kaimachi Commissioner".

Compared to Nobunaga's "painful troubles", Ashikaga Yoshiaki was much more disappointed.

If Tieshou Fan Xiu is really a person who can abandon the guardian of a country for the sake of loyalty, then wouldn't the previous series of methods to win over discord be in vain?

Fortunately, Hadahide also added another paragraph to his letter to the shogunate, suggesting that Ashikaga Yoshiaki use the method of "important ministers' deliberations" to decide on the replacement plan for the Izumi guardian. Again, this is like an expression of a certain amount of goodwill.

The so-called "important ministers' review" of course does not refer to the flashy and famous ministers of the shogunate, but to the semi-independent forces in various parts of the Kinai who can speak well. These men were ostensibly also courtiers of the shogunate, although they did not obey orders very much.

At the same time, the tie show also comes with a trendy idea of "real-name recommendation and secret ballot".

This proposal made Ashikaga Yoshiaki a little intrigued.

Yoshiaki's current situation is that although he holds the name of righteousness, he does not dare to disobey the threat of force from the Oda family, so he can only keep making small moves. But if you can gather the "heroes" of Kinai and come up with a "collegiate council", wouldn't it be enough to fight against the Oda clan?

After all, Awaji is just a poor island, and the acting officials there are not very easy to fight for, and the symbolic meaning is far greater than the actual meaning. But the rich Izumi is different, and the wealthy people of Ki will definitely be very concerned about who is sitting in this seat.

Especially after Oda Nobunaga clearly asked for a reward for Kamiraku, if he could still choose someone who was not right with the Oda family to be the guardian or guardian generation, wouldn't it be tantamount to openly sweeping away Oda's prestige? And it can be pushed to public opinion, but it is not the intention of the shogunate!

Of course, all the letters written to the shogunate were monitored by Akechi Mitsuhide and secretly reported to Nobunaga, and Hirate Hatsuhide did not think about keeping them secret.

Ashikaga Yoshiaki replied with a very enthusiastic reply, greeting health, approving the resignation and expressing regret, saying that he would definitely try the method of "important ministers' review".

Oda Nobunaga also wrote at the same time, but questioned his intentions.

The answer to this is four words: "Lead the snake out of the hole." ”

What he meant was that the situation in was complicated, and there were too many potential enemies of the Oda family, and unless they were fully aware of and prepared for this, they should not make hasty decisions.

When Nobunaga received the answer, he couldn't help but curse a few words of "cowardly as a mouse", but he didn't interfere again, but hinted to the shogunate through wise Mitsuhide: "If the candidate is selected by the Heroes, the Oda family will not have any opinions." ”

After all, it was the judgment of the wise general, and Nobunaga was a little skeptical. He also wanted to see through the results of this incident what the attitude of the people towards the Oda family was.

If there were many people in who were hostile to the Oda family, then the Oda family's policy would naturally change accordingly. At this point, he is much stronger than Yuan Benchu, who unjustly killed Tian Feng.

If Fan Xiu's estimation is wrong, of course, he will inevitably be scolded. However, considering that he is open-minded, he will not punish too much.

Unconsciously, even Nobunaga himself was unaware, and he subconsciously accepted such a point of view: "Even if Hirate Honshu treats the Ashikaga family too appeasemently, it is because he is worried about the overall situation, and he is by no means ill-intentioned." ”