Chapter Forty-Eight: The March into Vietnam
In Shangluo this time, the dragon girl didn't have an official, but she asked for the 'imperial decree' and it was an order to beat the unrighteous people around. Among them was the Ise clan, who called themselves Hojo. However, the first to bear the brunt is, of course, Vietnam. If the Vietnamese are unstable, then they can't happily fight the tiger. The stability of Vietnam and China is directly related to the stability of Echigo.
In fact, there is only one reason why the court does not want to be an official - I want to be a Guan Bai!
The word "Guan Bai" comes from the Chinese Han Dynasty Huo Guang's auxiliary government, when Huo Guangquan leaned towards the government and the opposition, "everything is closed to Baiguang first, and then the Son of Heaven is played". Theoretically, the two positions of regent and sekihaku can only be held by the five regents (Konoe, Kujo, Takaji, Ichijo, and Nijo) from the Fujiwara family. The rule of the public family lasted for a long time, and the nobles became more and more corrupt and degenerate, probably like the scholars in the Wei and Jin dynasties, who were greased and powdered every day, drank alcohol and made gifts, ** the court, could not get on the saddle, and could not pull the bow and arrow. This corrupt life contributed to the rise of the samurai, and the Heian period would no longer be peaceful, and the curtain was about to open on the samurai's substitution of public rule.
Although Oda Nobunaga came from the Taira clan, the imperial court was afraid of his power, so it was okay for the imperial court to let him choose one or two of the three official positions of 'Taisei Minister', 'Sekihaku', and 'Seiyi General'. It's a pity that Oda Nobunaga refused, and then he was burned in Honnoji Temple like a roast duck by Akechi Mitsuhide.
When the two of Echigo's daimyo Nagao Keitora and Aizu daimyo Uesugi Asadashi went to Kamiraku to meet with the general Ashikaga Yoshisashi, they went to the Omi Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine to worship and meet with the Rokkaku clan, and the then fourteen-year-old Kawada Naga family accompanied his father and other neighboring small wealthy clans to meet the wind, and Asada's eye for heroes was recognized as a hero, and he was accepted as a close friend because he thought that the young eldest family had a good talent, and when he returned to Echigo, the Kawada clan moved to Aizu with the Uesugi family. By the time Asada, Ryunu and the others returned to Echigo, it would be November.
Although Kawada Changqin didn't do much in the early stage of another time and space, he was in charge of the battle line in Vietnam, gold mining, etc., when the dragon girl was about to go to Luo, and also served as the lord of Qiji City, and also led the Qiji people! It was in this winter that the dragon girl listened to the advice of the Asada, and sent Okuma Ashide, Honjo Minoru and other henchmen to begin a large-scale land inspection of Echigo and the development of Shinta, and the arrival of the hungry people in Echigo was the second year of Koji. And Chaoding returned to Aizu with his own team of men and horses first. The effect of land inspection is very good, the original Echigo country stone height is only 391,000 stones, and even the country of Vietnam and Central has 380,000! The reason for this is that a large number of shrines and temples have the right to be guarded and not entered, and they occupy a large amount of land.
There are many shrines in each prefecture! For example, there are 13 buildings in Tsujo-gun, 6 in Koshi-gun, 6 in Mishima-gun, 5 in Uonuma-gun, 13 in Kambara-gun (1 large?). 12 small), 5 (and small) in Nutaru-gun, and 8 (and small) in Iwafune-gun.
For this kind of situation, Asadachi also thought about it, but he didn't expect that there were so many shrines in Echigo! I had to follow Imagawa Yoshimoto's practice and ask Minoru Honjo and others to inform the person in charge of the shrine and temple, telling them that it was not the Uesugi family who was serving as the guardian of Echigo, but the Nagao family! If you want the shrine and temple to continue to receive the incense money of the people, then hand over the land and reduce the scope of the temple and shrine.
As soon as this "order for the return of land to shrines and temples" was issued, it caused an uproar in Echigo. Many of the lords did not know what was going on, but there were still some abbots who still held on to the land and did not let go. In this case, Honjo can only ask the dragon girl to temporarily let the two hundred iron cannons under his command step light at the entrance of the shrine and temple to the sky and send troops to surround some stubborn shrines and temples. In the end, after sorting and measuring, Echigo Ishitaka had 450,000 koku in one month! This is the normal stone height. And the territory that was collected was also managed as the direct leader of the Nagao family, and it was not directly rewarded to the retainers. This also stimulated many retainers of the Longtail family to want to make meritorious contributions in exchange for land.
In January of the second year of Hongji, the Nagao family was finally going to make a move against the Jinbao family in Echichu. And Shiina, who is a mortal enemy of the Jimbo family, naturally can't stop smiling, and he Shiina Yasuyin naturally knows that he can increase a considerable amount of territory as long as he sends troops, because he is familiar with Etsuchi. This time, Asahei is a little unable to leave, and Ayahime is already nine months pregnant. But Ayahime, as the princess of the Nagao family, is very righteous and awe-inspiring, and she also knows that the Jibo family and the Nagao family in Yuezhong are mortal enemies, so she let Chaoding not have to be by her side, and she has Gui Die and others to take care of him without him worrying. After hearing this, Chaoding still asked Ota Zizheng to serve as a stay-behind guard, and he personally led the brigade to join forces with the Nagao Army to send troops to Yuezhong.
This time, the strength and combat power of the Uesugi family are different from the previous ones. First of all, after receiving the iron cannon presented by Saito Michizo, in just one month, Asadaki asked Ogasawara Akimura to seize the time to train the iron cannon Ashigaru, and the other iron cannon head was served by Ogasawara's long-term younger brother - Ogasawara Nobuta.
The Uesugi army was headed by Kawada Chokin, who was appointed by the court as the head of the ashigaru, and the Uesugi army consisted of 500 knights of the Koseshi Knights (200 lancers, 100 naginagi cavalry, 200 saber cavalry), 200 ryuza horses, 100 naginagi samurai, 100 heavy infantry (carrying a large curved shield with a red cross painted on the front and holding a cocha as a weapon), 200 bayonets and iron cannons, 500 standing guns, 300 standing saber ashigaru, and 100 standing bows, with a total strength of 2,000 men. Of course, the nature that should be left behind should be stayed. Ota Shimasa is always sure as a pen leader, and those who stayed behind like him were Hojo Takahiro, Usami Dingkatsu, Anazawa Toshimitsu, Inawashiro Morikuni and others, and the only ones who accompanied Asada, Namba Hiroshi, Honjo Shiranaga, Hojo Takamasa, Kawada Nagakin, Katsuyama Yunkatsu, Ogasawara Nagasawara Nagasaki, Ogasawara Nobutasa, Ogasawara Sadasang, and Ogasawara Akimura. If the Date family and other daimyo are ready to move, they can still rely on the assistance of the Shinbata family, who was transferred to Aizu, and even if they mobilize and recruit Ashigaru, Ota Shimasa is still very confident that he can recruit thousands.
At the end of January, the Uesugi army of Asadaki arrived at the foot of Kasugayama Castle and fought with the army of the god of war. The Long Tail Army still can't recruit standing ashigaru and standing troops on a large scale, and all of them are still conscripted ashigaru, but not the large-scale peasant soldiers they used to be.
This time, Nagao Keishunabu had 3,000 troops, Yamamoto Temple had 2,000 troops, Kakizaki Keike had 3,000 troops, Honjo Minoru had 1,500 troops, Usami Dingman had 1,100 troops, Naoe Keisesuna had 1,700 troops, Chisaka Keiko had 500 troops, and the main team (200 mounted samurai, iron artillery Ashigaru 200, and Ashigaru 2,000) had 2,400 troops, and the Nagao family had 15,200 troops! Counting the Uesugi army of the dynasty, it is 17,200 people! This is not counting the people who surrendered to the Nagao family, such as Tohi Masahiro and Shiina Yasuyin, who surrendered to the Nagao family.
In the second year of Hongzhi, February 3. The combined forces of Nagao and Uesugi entered Vietnam, and the four of them, Yasumina Shiina of Matsukura Castle, the lord of Kosho Castle, Tsuchihi Masashi, the lord of Moriji Castle, Nagasawa Mitsukuni, the Jimbo clan, and the lord of Fire Palace Castle, Jimbo Kakuhiro, were personally at the junction of Echigo and Vietnamese China, waiting for the arrival of the Kuyoba military god with their own military strength. This scene is just like when Changwei Weijing, the god of war of Jiuyaopa, came to Yuezhong.
"Ministers, see the lord, repair the doctor's hall!" The four of them, their retainers, and the samurai behind them all knelt down in front of the dragon maiden and the horses of the court.
"Let's be even, this time, under the orders of the Gongfang Palace and the order of the imperial court, we want to unify Yuezhong, which has been in turmoil and destroyed by the Yixiang Sect." The dragon girl was the first to dismount, and then the retainers of the Nagao family and the Uesugi family such as Asadai dismounted one after another.
"Yes, please let your ministers be the vanguard!" The four leading parties said that they wanted to make meritorious contributions, and they also looked at the dragon girl and the others with firm eyes.
"Let's go to Yujin City first to set up the main formation and settle the army, after all, this dispatch will not end in a while." Chaoding knows that this time he will eradicate all the forces of the Takeda family and the Ichijo sect, so the time will definitely not be short!
Just when our Kuyoba military god was drinking a little wine in the happy Honmaru Castle Tower of Uozu Castle, the Jibojia learned that the Nagao and Uesugi coalition forces plus the four wealthy clans who were the first to lead the way had more than 20,000 troops stationed in Uozu Castle! At this time, the chief of the god was so frightened that he hurriedly sent people to the Takeda family, the Jiangma family (the Missile-rich family, hostile to the Nagao family), and the Tsuyo Sect for help. As a retainer of the Jimbo family, Kojima Zhizhen was very calm, because he knew that the Jimboo family could not defeat the Nagao family, so he directly sent someone to Uozu Castle to tell the Nagao family's retainers that they would help the Nagao family open the city gate when the Nagao family attacked Toyama Castle and so on.
And what about this Xiangzong? The Yixiang sect is a sect of Buddhism, which is also very popular in Taiwan today, and is a branch of the Pure Land sect. It is believed that after reciting Amitabha Buddha to the point of not being disturbed by his mind, he will go to the Western Elysium. This sect is quite wealthy because it encourages believers to raise donations. They also like to build temples, which caused a big problem in the Warring States period of Japan, because they often occupied the land of the princes to build temples, so it caused conflicts (in modern terms, it is to occupy public land to build temples).
Buddhism was introduced to Japan very early from China and Korea. In 753, the monk Jianzhen made his seventh successful journey to the east, which made Buddhism even more prosperous in Japan. After Jianzhen's death, more schools of Buddhism emerged in Japan, the most influential of which were the Tendai sect and the Shingon sect. The Tiantai sect was supported by many princes and nobles, and had a lot of money, and owned a lot of land and wealth. Many monasteries of the Tendai sect even had the ability to raise monks and soldiers to compete with the local princes. Shingon Buddhism, on the other hand, organically combined imported Buddhism with local Shintoism, and promoted the idea that people could enter the Tao through personal practice, thus attracting more middle- and lower-class civilians.
After the Onin Rebellion, Japan suffered from war disasters one after another. The people have no means of making a living. From the ministers to the commoners, they all wanted to be liberated through religion. Some schools of thought came into being, including the Nichiren sect, which evolved from the Tendai sect. Nichiren Buddhism advocates that believers can become Buddhas by reciting the Horenge-kyo Sutra day and night. The Pure Land sect that emerged at the same time was simpler, and propaganda did not need to go through the temple, as long as the chant of "Nam no Amitabha" every day could alleviate sins and get rid of the sea of suffering. The Pure Land Shinshu after the Pure Land Sect went even more extremely, abolishing all the rules and precepts, and the believers could achieve the right result without even becoming a monk. The Pure Land Shinshu vigorously advocated the excesses of the so-called wicked, attracting a large number of soldiers, samurai, and thieves to become religious. Only with faith in the Buddha can disciples of the Pure Land Shinshu be reborn in the "Pure Land".
During the Warring States period, the Ichijo sect set off a monstrous disaster, and it was from the Honganji Temple of the Pure Land Shinshu sect that it was the birthplace. The eighth generation of the Dharma Master of the Ichijo sect, the monk Renru of Honganji Temple, personally went to the countryside to preach, attracting a large number of disciples. The peasants spontaneously organized themselves and formed peasant associations similar to those of the church. They practiced together, but more often than not they met to discuss various matters in the village. As a result of the war, such peasant associations gradually evolved into armed self-defense organizations. When the village-to-village ties became closer, the peasant union became stronger. They often clinged together to resist the payment of land rent, and even drove out the lords to establish theocratic political organizations. This is the origin of the Eternal Hammer. At its peak, its power spanned, Hokuriku (Kaga, Noto), Tokai (Mikawa, Owari, and Mino), Ise, Shima, and China (Aki, Harima, Bizen, and Bichu), spreading almost half of Japan. As a result of these peasant uprisings, many feudal states, such as Kaga, became known as the "land of the people." The famous general of the Asakura family, Asakura Sode, has been fighting against them for most of his life. It has also been heard from time to time that a faction in various localities has been fighting each other because of conflicts of interest.
Honganji did not support this kind of riot. They were more interested in building their own power than in relying on rabble peasants. After the 10th generation of Dharma Masters such as monks, Honganji Temple expanded its power by building a large number of buildings, funding and encouraging nearby commerce and handicrafts, and establishing a monk army. Gradually, Honganji's financial resources and armament were almost able to compete with the local daimyos.
In general, the Ichijo Peasant War was an armed uprising of the Honganji sect of the Pure Land sect with the participation and leadership of the main peasant body, including temple monks and nationals, with the goal of seizing local power, and it took place during a period and region when the Honganji order was greatly developed.
From the perspective of time, the great development of Ichijo was from the period of turmoil of the Northern and Southern Dynasties to the late Muromachi period, and from a regional point of view, it was mainly in the area, the Hokuriku region (Kaga, Echichu, Noto, Echizen), the Tokai region (Mikawa, Owari, and Mino), the Hida region bordering Mino in Vietnam, and the Chugoku region (Aki, Harima, Bizen, and Bichu). Most of these areas belong to the advanced and intermediate regions of socio-economic development. For a long period of time, the Ichisō sect was mainly reflected in the development of its main schools, the Honganji school and the Buddha Koji school. These schools were formed after the death of Qin Luan, and the Foguang Temple school said that once a person's name is recorded in the name book, he will attain bliss in the past life, and he advocates that reciting the Buddha can cure illness, get rid of poverty, and attain happiness in this world. As a result, it gained popularity among the masses of the people who longed for happiness in this world, and spread widely, but the Honganji sect, which rejected this theory and considered itself to be an orthodox sect, developed slowly. It was not until the eighth generation of His Holiness Renego (1415-1499) adopted the above teachings and propagated them himself, and many monks and disciples from various sects of the sect returned to Honganji, and the Honganji Order developed by leaps and bounds in these places, during the Onin Rebellion.
The most basic organization of the Honganji Order is "Preaching". There is at least one "preaching" in a monastery, and there are more than four or five, and there are also cross-county preaching. Each sermon has as few dozen believers as few as a few hundred as possible. The Lotus Organization is to strengthen the religious life of believers and strengthen their faith in the Buddha's original wishes. However, it gradually lost its original nature and became a place for believers to gather to vent their dissatisfaction with society, and then became a fighting organization for believers to rebel against the rulers for the happiness of this world.
In the Hokuriku region, the Honganji Order grew rapidly since Renru came to organize it in the 3rd year of civilization (1471), and in a short period of time overwhelmed the old sect of Buddhism and other schools of Buddhism. The peasant believers, who considered themselves to be the sons of the Buddha and believed in the power of the Buddha and had obtained the strength of the Order Organization, were greatly emancipated and began to act aggressively without scruples, denying the gods and Buddhas, despising the power of the feudal warriors such as the guardians and the landlords, refusing to pay annual tribute and refusing to submit to forced labor. At first, the people of the country also tried to suppress the rebellion of the peasant believers by force, but when they realized the strength of the organized peasant believers, they changed from suppression to exploitation in order to maintain their position in the village and realize their ambition to replace the guardian daimyo, and joined the Honganji cult one after another.
As a result of the above, a coalition of peasant believers, monks, and Japanese believers was formed, and in Kaga Province, these believers skillfully used the inner lever of the guardian family in the 70s to grow their power. At this time, Lianru, who was still preaching in the Hokuriku area, issued precepts continuously, asking believers to follow the rules, not to disobey the guard, not to refuse to pay tribute, not to despise the gods and Buddhas, and also played the banner of "the king's law is the foundation", in a vain attempt to bind the hands and feet of the believers with these precepts, but the believers did not listen, ignored the authority of the guardianship, launched uprisings everywhere, refused to pay the annual tribute, occupied the manor, and even "drove away the important duties of state affairs", "slandered the law, destroyed the Buddha statues and scriptures, and smashed the shrines and Buddhist pavilions", so that there was a "world without Buddha" Kaga became the "land of the unowned". For this form, the ruling class exclaimed that "the sun and the moon have fallen into the dirt", "lawlessness unheard of in previous generations". When the decisive battle finally came, in the 2nd year of Choheng (1488), the Kaga rebels sent a letter to the believers of Noto, Echichu, and Echizen countries, and besieged Takao Castle with an army of 100,000 to 200,000. On June 9, the besiegers conquered the castle and the guardian daimyo Tomiyama was killed himself, and the rebels immediately took over Kaga Province by establishing Tomiyasu Takataka (a cousin of Masako) as the nominal guardian. The Chinese believers immediately took the land of the Chinese people who were the guardians of the country into their own hands, and the annual tribute of the peasant believers was also reduced. A passage in the "Chronicle of General Views" reflects the joy of the peasants after the victory of the uprising: "It is difficult for the samurai to do the work of the land, and the abbot has always been the lord and can live as he pleases. Since then, Kaga Province has been governed in a coalition system by a powerful representative of the country's believers and representatives of the temple abbots from small and medium-sized lords. The representatives of the countrymen relied on their fighting organizations "groups", and the representatives of the abbots of monasteries relied on "preaching" organizations with a large number of peasant believers. For more than 90 years, Kaga Province became largely a "country owned by the people" because of the powerful diversion effect of the "Speak" and the attempt of the Kunishi clique to monopolize all political power and rule the peasants.
Encouraged by the victory of the Kaga believers' uprising, the believers of Noto, Echichu, Echizen and other countries rose up one after another, and although they did not win, they persevered in the battle for 90 years. The uprising of the followers of the Ichijo sect was not limited to the Hokuriku region, and in the 17th year of the Bunbun (1485) year (1485), there was also an uprising against the powerful samurai Uchijima clan at Teruenji Temple, the central temple of the Ichijo sect. In the 16th century, the flames of the uprising spread to the provinces of Hanoi, Izumi, Settsu, Kinai, and Mikawa.
Hasuru, who returned from Hokuriku in the 7th year of civilization (1475), built Honganji Temple in Yamashina in Kyoto, and ruled all of Japan with the temple as the main mountain. Honganji collects "Shinai money" from apostles in various places in a tightly organized manner to enrich its finances, nominally as a donation to repay the Buddha's kindness. In the thirties of the 16th century, the 10th Hosho Shojo moved the mountain to Ishiyama Honganji Temple (in Osaka), and then expanded the temple area to allow new industrialists and merchants to move to Terauchi Town, actively developed industry and commerce, and strengthened defense measures, and the Honganji Order became a powerful religious kingdom, and its existence was not tolerated by the Sengoku daimyo in the struggle for hegemony. In the 6th year of Eiroku (1563), the apostles of Mikawa Province staged an uprising against Tokugawa Ieyasu's cruelty, and the battle lasted for six months, dealing a heavy blow to Tokugawa Ieyasu, which is considered to be the worst crisis of his life. Successive Honganji priests had always been opposed to the apostolic uprising and curry favor with the feudal lords, but when Oda Nobunaga forced the Honganji Order to fight a decisive battle in the first year of Motogame (1570) and threatened the existence of this religious kingdom, the eleventh Hoji Shoru Kosa (1543-1592) mobilized all the apostles to fight for the defense of the temple. The apostles persisted in the "Ishiyama War" (1570-1580) for 10 years under difficult conditions, and in the 8th year of Tensho (1580), the apostolic power disappeared, and then the uprisings in various places, including the Kaga apostolic domain, were suppressed one by one.
In the following hundreds of years, with the introduction of Confucianism and Western Catholicism, Buddhism gradually declined and changed. Buddhism is a religion that pursues the other world, and everything is bound by the law of eternal reincarnation of life and death, and human death is only one of the repeated and endless processes of the six realms of life and death (hell, hungry ghosts, animals, humans, asuras, and heavenly realms), and it is Nirvana that gets rid of this reincarnation. In the society of the shogunate period, Buddhism succumbed to the popular religion of the people who strongly hoped for the prosperity of the family as a group in the present world, which led to the worship of ancestors and the blessings of the family members in the world. Now that ancestors are regarded as Buddhas, and thus the families that are protected by the Buddha (ancestors) and worship the Buddha (ancestors) have acquired important doctrinal significance, this is of course recognized by the state, a hierarchical society established as a family unit, and famous monks of the time, such as Suzuki Shozo (1579-1655) of the Soto sect and Asai Ryōi (?-1691) of the Pure Land Shinshu, preached filial piety to parents and encouragement of family business. Buddhism, which originally denied the family, has undergone a radical change in doctrine - supporting the family and ancestors to become Buddhas has characterized modern popular Buddhism in Japan.