It is said that Ashikaga Yoshiaki hesitated for a long time after learning that his fate would be to "flee to the Ryukyus", but in the end, the idea of not wanting to bend his knees and surrender to the army prevailed, and he gritted his teeth and accepted the arrangement.

Heite Honhide specifically instructed the daimyo to say, "Although the Ryukyus are small and outnumbered, they can exist as a buffer and trade channel with the big moe, and the value left behind is even greater." ”

Everyone knows it.

Anyone who utters the slogan "Conquest of the Ryukyus" at this time will of course be suspected of returning to the Muromachi shogunate, and this topic will become taboo for a long time.

As for the son of Ashikaga Yoshiaki who stayed in Kyoto, he has gradually reached the age of dawn in recent years. Back then, in order to prevent being retained, the "Runaway Princess" kept saying that "it was not me", and did not hesitate to make up a green hat for himself.

So now it's easy.

Under the guidance of his nursing mother, the seven-year-old child announced that he would become a monk at Myoshinji Temple of the Rinzai sect in Kyoto to avoid controversy, and took the Dharma name "Sojo".

It seems logical to change the old and make the new.

In recent years, under the leadership of the new regime, the estates that the royal family and ministers nominally owned in various countries, but which in fact had long been unable to control, were all abolished and replaced with more reliable land in the mountain city as compensation. According to the rank, each family was given enough money to have food and clothing to worry about. Such "virtuous administration" was widely praised, so the imperial court did not have any objection to the advent of the "Hishogunate", and the only expectation was that His Majesty, Emperor Fangren, was petty and felt that he had already changed the yuan four times during his term of office, and did not want to add another era name, so as not to cause people to talk about it a hundred years later.

Hijo has other plans in his heart, and he readily agrees to this.

Then there is no doubt about it.

Of course, the official "announcement of the general of Zhengyi" is a very grand event, and it requires a series of complicated and lengthy processes that do not know what to do but are regarded as a guideline by the old diehards.

In fact, the heart of the flat is to be simple and fast, but these days, you have to consider the public opinion, and the people and retainers must be looking forward to the grand and solemn ceremony.

Grand is easy to do, just throw money at it.

How is solemnity reflected? To put it bluntly, it is nothing more than a sense of ritual. It is necessary to take care of things, as if facing a great enemy, to make a lot of things that ordinary people can't understand, so that people can be satisfied.

This is not a deliberate attempt to fool the people. It is the people of this era who want to be fooled.

However, it has been revealed in advance that the imperial court intends to award the honor of "Cong Yi Minister" first, and then after a year and a half, it will officially give the "General Zhengyi Xuanxia". Next, he hoped that he would take the initiative to resign from the official position of "Left Minister", only retain the rank of "subordinate one", establish the shogunate as a "loose official", and lead the samurai of the world.

Why such a proposal?

Kujo Kanetaka said with some embarrassment: "With the merits and benevolence of the Inner Mansion, not to mention Minister Zuo, even the Minister Taizheng is well deserved. Ling Lang is now living in the 'Senate', and he should be promoted to 'Zhongnayan' in due course. As for the rest of the doors and important ministers, they must be rewarded for meritorious deeds, and canonized official positions are. However...... In this way, if there are too many martial artists in the ranks of the imperial officials, it may be difficult to maintain the promotion practice of the minister. Ten or twenty years later, there may not be a qualified candidate to succeed Guan Bai, and it will not be ...... then."

Hijo said with a smile: "How about the integration of public and military forces in the future, and the shogun will concurrently serve as Guan Bai for generations?" ”

Hearing this, Kujo Kanexiao was stunned for a long time, and then the two trembled, sweating like pulp, and repeatedly kowtowed and begged: "Don't make such a joke in the Pingshou Inner Mansion!" The contemptible people are about to die of fright! ”

"Really? Unfortunately, I thought it was a welcome offer! Pingshou Fanxiu pretended to regret, and then shook his head and said: "Then we can only retreat to the second best thing and implement the 'samurai official position system'." ”

Kujo Kanetaka doubted: "What is the 'samurai official position system'? ”

Pingshou Fan Xiu said eloquently: "That is to say, any official rank has two sets of seats for the public family and the samurai." The official positions were appointed by the imperial court and remained in their original state. The samurai official position was appointed by the shogunate and was only used as a medal. ”

Kujo Kanetaka understood: "That is to say, in the future, from Zaifu to the eight provinces, two people can sit in any seat at the same time, one is the minister, the other is the samurai, and it does not affect each other." ”

"Exactly." Tie hand Tsuki smiled with his beard.

Kujo Kanetaka hesitated: "It does avoid the influence of the promotion practice of the minister, but there are two left mansions, two right mansions, and two inner mansions in the world at the same time, does it seem a little child's play......"

"So it's just a second-best thing!" Hijo Honshu nodded and said, "Sure enough, it's still a combination of public and military, and the system of the shogun concurrently serving as Guan Bai is better, right?" ”

"Ah, your 'samurai official position system' is really a unique feat in the world!" Kujo Kanetaka immediately changed his words: "When the contemptible person goes back, he will discuss it with everyone and see how to implement it!" ”

"Really?" Tie Hand Tsuki smiled without saying a word.

……

In July of the fifth year of Tensho (1580), Kyoto began to prepare for "major events" in full swing.

Yoshimitsu Hirate, who is known as the "Prime Minister Seda", is not an important member of the court, but goes to Ou to spread "Tenmui".

It was in September and October last year that the army was officially dispatched and basically completed in June, and the waterways were advanced in parallel, with high efficiency.

The situation in Ou was different, as the thick snow that fell in the cold winter did not completely melt until March and April, and the large troops from the and Kanto regions could not be sent to it.

It was not until May that Yoshimitsu Hirate led his troops to the Aizu area, where they joined Ashina, Uesugi, Takeda, Tokugawa, Oda, Satake, and Satomi.

There was also an episode during this period.

It was Takeda Katsuyori who deliberately stood up in front of the other daimyo and admonished: "Prime Minister Seda, the word 'righteousness' in your name 'Yoshimitsu' is said to come from some ominous person, so you might as well give it up now." ”

Hearing this, Yoshimitsu was puzzled: "The word 'righteousness' in my name is obviously from Hachimantaro Hall (Genyoshika)!" Hachiman Taro is a peerless hero, the recognized ancestor of the descendants of Genji Kawachi, how is it an ominous person? ”

Takeda Katsuyori was immediately dumbfounded and speechless.

At this time, the barrel mouth of Kanse, who accompanied Uesugi Keikatsu to attend, suddenly said sincerely: "I heard that Oishan (Takeda Katsuyori inherited his father's name) had hysteria in the prime of life, and often had amnesia and delusions, and the contemptible people always thought it was fake, but I didn't expect it to be true, this is not good, it must be treated well!" ”

As soon as these words came out, Takeda Katsuyori's face turned the color of pig liver.

Uesugi Keikatsu, who has always been silent, nodded at this moment and said, "Yes, yes!" ”

Satomi, Satake, Ashina, and others have expressions of "We are strictly trained, no matter how funny we are, we will not laugh unless we can't help it".

Only the loyal elder Tokugawa Ieyasu came out of the round and said with a smile: "We all know that the name of Prime Minister Hirate (the name of the Senate Tang is the Prime Minister) comes from Hachiman Taro Hall!" But Takeda Dashan is not hysterical, he didn't check and listen to any rumors for a while! ”

Hearing this, Takeda Katsuyori was stunned for a moment before he could react, and Sanada Masayuki beside him had already kowtowed and fell to the ground: "In the past, it has been rumored in the Kanto region that the word 'righteousness' in the name of the Prime Minister of Hirate comes from the 'runaway prince' who abandoned the righteousness of the world and ignored the righteousness of the world. Now that I think about it, it should be a rumor spread by the Hojo clan with the intention of slandering and smearing! The contemptible person is really confused to believe it, and because of this, he misled the lord, and he deserves death! ”

Everyone laughed and admonished, "Don't believe rumors in the future!" Or something like "someone else is in charge of investigating the news."

Aside from this little episode, there is nothing worth mentioning about the entire trip to the Northeast.

Ashina and Dahoji Temple have long been surrendered.

Out of a difficult situation, the Soma family eagerly demonstrated their loyalty through the Satake family as an intermediary.

The powerful Date and Mogami who have basically resolved the civil strife have some complaints about the detailed division of the land, but generally show an attitude of obedience.

At the same time, Kurokawa, Shirakawa, Tamura and many other powerful people who were subordinate to Date were more or less ready to move, hoping to take the opportunity to get rid of the position of forced submission.

Among them, the Spo clan was divided, and the Osaki family, who considered themselves to be famous, behaved the most seriously, and even shouted that "there is no reason for the descendants of Genji to live under the descendants of Fujiwara (Date)".

Andong and Nanbu both claimed to be happy to see the central hegemony in charge, but they invariably sued Tsugaru for a bunch of black things, and the result was not only unsuccessful, but was angrily reprimanded.

Onodera and Tozawa are the only ones who didn't complain, and they didn't take the initiative to come to worship out of a crisis, and the original territory was not large, so they received a certain amount of courtesy.

The rest of Kasai, Waga, and Barnyard Kan can be said to be "limited submissions", and they all advocate that their own territories should be fully blocked, and they are relatively resistant to transfer.

It looks very lively and complicated, and the intrigue can make up several thick books.

However, this area of Ou is a veritable poor and remote area, with barren land, inconvenient transportation, sparse population, and few commercial and trade areas, not only with little output, but also with a low degree of centralization, and has always been considered the least developed area of Fuso.

The Undoubted No. 1 overlord here, the Date family, is only able to mobilize about 10,000 troops, not counting those subordinate forces who "listen to the tune and don't listen to the announcement".

He is on the same level as Aizu Ashina and Tokoro Satake.

And Ashina and Satake used to be obviously a head shorter in front of Uesugi and Hojo.

Locals may think that Date Terumun is very powerful and terrifying, and when he comes to Hirate Yoshimitsu, he is only qualified to occupy a seat at the banquet.

Then Mogami, Anton, Nanbu and the like, can recruit three or five thousand people to fight, and by the standard of Okuba, they can be regarded as "local heroes" with weight, and they can barely accompany the last seat.

The others, except for Tsugaru, who took the initiative to come to Kanto two years ago to express his loyalty, are not worth mentioning.

No matter how much legal argument you have about your neighboring land, or how many grievances you have suffered before, Hirate Yoshimitsu simply doesn't bother to listen.