In the blink of an eye, in February and March, the traces of the cold winter and snow disasters that have been rare for many years have gradually faded, and the war that has died down is about to reopen.

Kai Takeda sharpened his sword, Echizen Asakura was a tiger, Ise Kitabatake harbored evil intentions, and Yamato Matsunaga was abused.

In order to take into account the overall situation, the incident at Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple must be resolved immediately, and the results must be reached immediately, without delay.

"The Tiantai Sect acts recklessly, colluding with the traitors, and the sin is unforgivable, bringing disaster upon itself; Zuo Zuo Cheng has no king's law, and he is good at using swords, although he is really meritorious, he is not advisable. ”

- This is a judgment made by Tieshou Tsuei in front of the public, and anyone with a long head can see how crooked his position has become, which is self-evident.

As the fifth place, the criminal department is the young assistant, and the guardian of the three kingdoms, what he said, although the voice is not small, but it may not count.

However, if the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiaki also declared: "Both sides are at fault, and this fact is difficult to decide. ”

Then the tone of the matter can't be reversed.

Sasa Narumasa is still ignorant, but Hirate Hohide seized the black spot that was sheltered by Enryakuji Temple in Mt. Hiei after Matsunaga Doritsu besieged the Imperial Palace, and bit it to death, making a big fuss, while overtly and secretly emphasizing the potential threat of the Takeda family, and finally succeeded in impressing Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

Of course, the royal family and the imperial court were very dissatisfied, and the business and cultural circles were also concerned.

However, he casually and secretly found a support, and said lightly: "A few years ago, the former Sekihaku Konoe who colluded with the puppet prince Ashikaga Yoshiei has been in collusion with the Koshu Takeda family for a long time. This person has been in a high position for a long time, and it is inevitable that there will be intertwined branches, so it is necessary to beware of hidden remnants who use the affairs of Enryakuji Temple to make waves. ”

This reminds everyone that the enemy in the east is still eyeing it!

And Matsunaga happened to respond to Takeda and besieged the important accomplices of the Imperial Palace.

Hirate took out this person and regarded it as the core element of the "Burning of Enryakuji Temple". Then, whoever wants to jump up and down in this regard will undoubtedly be suspected of conspiring with internal and external enemies and opposing the current shogunate.

The clans, ministers, and monks in Kyoto do not think that Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Hirate Tsunohide are more cute than Takeda Shingen and Konoe Maehisa. Everyone can also guess that among these nobles, there must be a secret communication with Takeda. But who would dare to speak out about such a deed?

There are really people who don't know each other, not to mention that the sword in the samurai's hand won't spare you, and your peers will spray you to death first.

The dignified predecessor Sekihaku Konoe had been on the wrong side for a long time, and once he stood on the wrong team, he had a black history that could not be washed away like "supporting the interests of righteousness and glory", and he still fled from Kyoto in a hurry, not daring to stay for a while.

Of course, if he dared to hold on and not run away, Oda Nobunaga and Ashikaga Yoshiaki might not necessarily kill people, but who wants to gamble their own heads?

All in all, it seems that the matter of Enryakuji Temple in Mt. Hiei is about to come to an end.

Apart from the sudden tension between the imperial court and the shogunate, there was no greater aftermath.

The nobles could only grit their teeth secretly and denounce Ashikaga Yoshiaki for not knowing how to lift.

As for the tie, there is still a slight gap between the qualifications of being hated by the Seki family.

All in all, it was easier than expected, and Sasa Chengzheng escaped accountability. Many monks secretly cursed him to die, but Ashikaga Yoshiaki's punishment was to "shave his hair and enter the Tao, and become a monk to cultivate to show that he has no disrespect for the gods and Buddhas." Offending the mountain gate is only for the ears of state affairs. ”

Then, under the reminder of a friend, the person concerned asked: "Kai Takeda has a bad intentions and is menacing, so if the thieves are not eliminated for a day, it will be difficult for the loyal and righteous people to sleep and eat." I beg the Lord Gongfang to allow me to wear my sins and go out into battle, and if I don't die, I will spend the rest of my life repenting. ”

Ashikaga Yoshiaki was noncommittal about this, and his face was a little dissatisfied, but he did not reprimand him harshly.

Obviously, the Shogun was very impressed by the siege of the Imperial Palace, and in a short period of time, his first priority was to unite all the forces that could be united to resist the invasion of the Takeda clan, and other than that, it was easy to discuss.

Sasa Narumasa himself was satisfied.

He had no doubts about what Honhide had said that day, and immediately decided to lead his troops up the mountain, not only out of loyalty to Nobunaga and trust in his old friend, but also to bring him closer and ensure that the Heite clan would support the war on the Owari front.

The price of shaving a fortune is not significant.

There was no reason to be upset - everyone was thinking about the aftermath of the incident, but no one was bothered to track down the details of the cause of the disaster.

The monks undoubtedly insisted that it was Zuo Zuo Chengzheng who burned the ancient temple in a frenzy, but the latter thought that he had no motive and no idle time, and suspected that the abbots who had always been greedy for ink set fire to destroy the evidence of the crime.

Whether the culprit who assassinated Nobunaga is hiding in the temple or not is also a topic of debate. Sasa Narumasa did not catch the criminal himself, but according to common sense, Enryakuji even dared to shelter Matsunaga Tsuri who attacked the imperial palace, and it was indeed unclear with the anti-Oda forces, so it was logical to accept Igazaki Michishun, and there was no need for any evidence, so everyone believed it first.

Both sides insist on their own words, and no one can say clearly. The people of Kyoto can only hear all kinds of contradictory rumors that do not know the truth or falsehood, and the matter comes very violently, but it goes inexplicably.

Best of all, not many of these rumors seem to be suspicious of the Tie family.

So throughout the process, Hirate Hohide received much less attention than Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Sasa Narumasa. He insisted on standing on the side of his old friends, taking things out of context and ignoring the facts, and he was also hated by many people from Buddhism, but there were also many old people in the Oda family who thought that this kind of behavior of helping relatives and not helping them was very worthy of advocacy.

An orphan who was born into an Owari farmhouse, and was passed on to Mori Yoshikatsu, who died in the battle between barrels and saga, and is now known as Mori Yoshidori, the Hirate family guards the guards, and said with great fanfare at the Kyoto Tavern: "Now our Oda family is indeed not as good as before, but it doesn't mean that we have to shrink our necks to be people!" As long as you offend people for the sake of justice like Sasa-sama, the Punishment Department will definitely not care! ”

It just so happened that Oda Nobutada spent the winter in Cheongju Castle and was unable to get in in time. And after he learned about this, he was also a little hesitant, and he did not endorse Zuo Chengzheng for the first time.

Shibata Katsuya is at a low point in his life, and he is powerless. Takigawa Kazuki of Kitaise, who thinks he is smart, does not express any opinions. Shigeharu Takenaka wanted to take a stand, but he couldn't really be seen as "his own person".

Two influential sects, Oda Nagayi did not hesitate to follow in the footsteps of his eldest brother (his wife was the daughter of the Hirate family). Tsuda Nobusumi is closer to Shibata who lives in Kyoto, and he is inexplicably alienated and wary of the flat watch, and neither of them seems to have a strong desire to help Oda Nobutada stabilize the situation.

weakened the hidden dangers in the rear and earned influence, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone.

However, what Hirate would like to see is to observe the shogunate's response to the crisis.

The conflict between the ministers, the Buddhists, and the cultural people is projected into the Nijo Imperial Palace, and the essence of the factional struggle between them gradually becomes clear.

After observing, the flat hand has a vague feeling -

The vast number of shoguns who remained loyal to the shogunate were not Yoshiaki himself, but the shogunate, the Ashikaga family, the aggregate of traditional values, or the charisma of the previous shogun.

Otherwise, why did a monk who was ignorant and ignorant of the world get so many people to save him desperately?

And the second son, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was born as a child, also has his own desire for power and ambition, and for his own selfishness, he occasionally prioritizes traditional values a little lower.

In the past, Nobunaga covered the sky with one hand, and the two factions needed to huddle together to keep warm.

Now that there are many forces in Kinai, and the authority of the shogunate is quite restorative, contradictions are beginning to show.

In particular, Yoshiaki threw the widow of the previous minister, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, to Echizen and passed it on to the Asakura family.

Perhaps the old-fashioned courtiers hoped that Yoshiaki, who had no children for more than Chinese New Year's Eve, would make the widow of the previous generation his heir, but Yoshiaki thought that the Spring and Autumn Period was in full bloom and resolutely refused to accept this arrangement.

Then, Takeda Shingen of Kai called the widow who was thrown into the Asakura family "Echizen Gongkata", and waved his troops to Shangluo under the banner of "supporting the Echizen Gongfang as Zhengshuo......

In this way, will there be some strange changes in the hearts of those old-school shoguns?

This time, especially after Ashikaga Yoshiaki showed a pragmatic attitude in the "Enryakuji Incident" and discarded traditional values like a broom......

Therefore, in what I have seen and heard recently, it seems that there are only Ise Sadako, who has always pursued pragmatism, and Mibuchi Fujiei, who doesn't know how to be persuaded to win over, and then there are Akechi Mitsuhide, Kinoshita Hideyoshi, Shibata Katsuie, these supernumerary personnel with extraordinary abilities but embarrassing identities.

And Isshiki Fujinaga, Odate Haritada, and Makijima Akimitsu...... And so many people's attitudes are very subtle.

In this case, I have to think of Oda Nobunaga, who was closely watched by Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and I don't know what is going on with his old man's health now......

Thinking of this, although there is no evidence, Hirate Honhide thinks that he has clarified the general direction.

Then, he began to do something fanciful -

Help the Yamato Matsunaga family check their household registration.

After some investigation, according to statistical analysis, Matsunaga Xiu is not a very good woman, with only one son, two daughters, and three children in total.

The daughter doesn't care about it first, the son is Matsunaga Tong, who has been shot to death by Sasa Seimasa on Mt. Hiei.

Matsunaga had two sons, the eldest son was nine years old, and it was almost certain that they died together in the mountains. The second son was six years old and sickly and stayed with his grandfather in Yamato.

In addition, Matsunaga Xiu also has a twenty-year-old nephew, but since the previous generation, he has changed his surname to Naito.

After finding out the situation, Hirata Honshu made a decision and ordered the heads of Matsunaga and his eldest son to be retrieved, framed and sent to Yamato Matsunaga Hide.

Aren't you known as a heartbreaker, drawing a clear line, and breaking away from the relationship between father and son?

Didn't he keep saying that all the bad things were done by the bastard son, and he was completely coerced?

That's just right to help you clean up the portal, no thanks.

It depends on whether this old fox will be carried away by anger and raise troops to fight against him regardless of the overall situation.