In late autumn, the pond has a somber mood, and most of the duckweed and calamus have turned yellow, except for a few places where there is still a faint green. From time to time, the trees on the edge will throw a few fallen leaves onto the water, causing ripples and swimming fish to pop up.

I don't know if I'm a benevolent person and a wise person, but in short, I like mountains and water very much. Although I also ordered someone to build a small pond with bluestone in Yulong Mountain City, and attracted the mountain spring to stock fish and shrimp, it was too small, and second, it always had a little bit of "craftsmanship".

The five large and small ponds in Tianyi Temple are different, they are basically some natural puddles. The garden was built based more on the natural environment, so although it is surrounded by a snow-white low wall, it retains some wild interest.

Although the name is Tianyi Temple, the real Buddhist temple is only slightly stronger than a quarter. The rest are several courtyards of different styles, which make up the whole architectural complex. When I come to pour incense with my family (mainly to accompany Xianzhi), I often go to these gardens to rest for a while, and I sometimes sit by the pond in a daze like now.

However, today is not the day to burn incense, and the wives and concubines and minor children did not follow. Thinking about the people who were waiting in front of me, I had a feeling of returning to the mortal world.

Kiyoharu Takenaka's prediction was not wrong, the mediators sent by the shogunate to Kyushu did not play any role, and because of the ambiguous attitude of the shogunate, some of the direct participants had unrealistic illusions. It's not a bad thing for people to have illusions, but it's definitely a disaster if they don't have reason anymore.

Some fools, overwhelmed by religious passions, began to want to make a great deal of noise for their side, and could not wait to provoke their opponents. The fight between believers soon grew from dozens to hundreds or thousands, and bamboo spears were occasionally seen between hoes and dung forks.

However, it is a pity that neither side has made decisive progress, and I wonder if it is God's arrangement, which always makes the temporarily inferior side inexplicably turn the situation around. It's like a certain time when a shrine gathered more than 300 people and wanted to arrest a monk who was developing followers on his own territory, but somehow the news leaked in advance, and the person to be arrested not only did not catch it, but a small group of people fell into an ambush of the other party during the pursuit.

This kind of thing once or twice is just a frustration, three or four times can still be restrained, once the number rises to five or six times, some people with "flexible" minds can't help but think of some other tricks.

After all, farm tools are farm tools, and although they can also be used to hit people, they are still not as good as real weapons. This doesn't seem to be difficult, after all, the war has just ended for more than ten years, and I haven't implemented the "Sword Hunting Order" very seriously, and the main area of the battle is concentrated in Kyushu, where it is not too difficult to get a few iron cannons. And so it was, and the few fanatical activists who were pushing for it quickly made headway, but before they had time to rejoice, things took a new turn.

Hizen Yoshikiyoshi, Bungo Maeda Keiji, Higo Otomo Yoshitomi, and Shimazu Yoshihisa of Satsuma have all received secret reports from unknown people: there is a rebel party plotting rebellion in their territory! The results of the search seemed to confirm this, not only finding several secret warehouses with enough weapons to equip hundreds of people, but also catching a dozen people who were secretly working in tandem.

The problem is serious, the situation is serious, and no matter who this behavior is aimed at, it cannot be easily let go! It's better to say that it's his past enemy, but if he lets go of the rebel who plotted to overthrow the shogunate and is stabbed again, then he will be at a loss for words. Even the most benevolent regime is unlikely to relax in this kind of matter, and it is impossible to let it go even if it is wrongly killed, and several daimyo have instructed the investigators of this case: torture and torture, and investigate to the end!

The matter was later clarified, it was just a private conflict between several sects, and if it was followed by this idea, it could also be a public security incident, but no one in several daimyo dared to determine this "sex"! It happened that the shogunate official in charge of mediation was in Kyushu, and all the files were sent to him.

This time, the important member of the shogunate in Kyushu was none other than Spo Yoshitomo, and after spending three days researching, he came to his own conclusion - don't believe it! This must have been a conspiracy to subvert the shogunate, and the scope is likely to spread throughout the country. He wrote down his comments in a detailed explanation and sent them to Osaka with them.

After receiving this information, Nobukiyo summoned the leaders of various departments to solicit opinions, and the results were quite different from each other, with some advocating that all captured personnel and belongings should be sent to Osaka for re-examination, others advocating sending personnel to settle the problem on the spot, and even advocating that the investigation of the same party should continue nationwide.

The shogunate had not yet made a decision, but the wind had already spread across Japan, and some people who were eager to take credit and buy good money could not wait to receive the order and began to track it down themselves. If you can't catch the rebels, doesn't that mean that you are disloyal to the shogunate or have problems with your ability?

However, most of these people don't know the cause and effect of the incident, and only vaguely heard that they are involved in religious circles, and it seems that their "suspects" here should also be discovered from here. Fortunately, there are not too many such daimyo and wealthy families, but such rumors still cause panic in people's hearts, and the monks have become a group of people who are afraid of it!

His own hand is grabbed in someone's pocket, who will believe you if you say it's not stealing? Now, even if you go around confessing that it is not a rebellion, I am afraid that even those who dare to listen will rarely see it. Although it is not easy, the people who can be caught still have to be fished out, otherwise once they are tortured, they will not be able to pull out some others, and there may be how many people will be folded in.

Buddhism contacted the ministers through the connections of Todai-ji Temple, Kofuku-ji Temple, and Tofuku-ji Temple, but most of them were closed. Such a big thing is not something that small characters can afford, but the big people are mostly cautious people.

However, there are also some people who try to seek a breakthrough among the important ministers of the star system, but there are not many such people, and the still water ghost fox promised to help but said that it was not enough for himself, and Kamiya Shiyuan simply refused. As a last resort, some people approached Ikeda's second son, Terumasa Tsutsui.

Catholics and Protestants approached a merchant house that had a long-term business relationship with the shogunate, and the merchants did try to express their intentions to Nobukiyo through Masuda Nagamori and Nagashu Masaka, but the reply was delayed. This situation has affected their private trade, and if it does lead to the promulgation of the ban on religion, their decades-long efforts will be ruined.

The knife hanging over the head is the most abrasive, and the crisis that broke out in the summer dragged on until October. Finally, someone broke through the layers of blockade and delivered the requested submission to me.

In fact, someone thought of me at the beginning of the incident, but not all kinds of people can enter Yulong Mountain City. I have been fighting for the world for more than 20 years, and it has been nearly ten years since I retired, and people like Nijo Harura and Asayama Hisakari have long since passed away, and people like Ernst have also been extinct in Japan for many years. At this time, there are still a few people in the world who are worthy of my face, and even if they do, they may not be willing to stand up for this matter, such as Ikeda Hengxing and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

There is no fortress in the world that cannot be attacked, and people who are desperate will explode with great subjective initiative. Several pleas from various parties reached my ears, and it was said that there was almost a consensus outside asking me to intervene to mediate.

I'm a retired man who uses the old phrase "I've been the boss for a long time!" "Naturally, it is impossible to be very clear about the actual situation outside, so I warmly urged the forces of all sides to just say: Invite the main figures of each side to Sakai Town, and let me understand what is going on first! It's not that difficult, and those people have been gathering around Kyoto and Osaka lately.

Although I was ready to come forward to resolve the matter, I didn't intend to give the parties the feeling that they would definitely get an answer, so this time I openly convened the meeting by the presiding officer of Tianyi Temple, Masayashi Tonghai, and I was just a participant.

The monk Zhenglin Tonghai was born in the Lotus Sect and was recommended by the two people of Still Water Fox and Eagle Tail Takayasu. He traveled extensively as a teenager and had a pretty good level of literature, and that's what I really liked.

Now that things have stabilized, and I have reached the stage of sorting out the first half of my life, the most important of which is history. This is not a simple official version, but a series of standards in all aspects, and what I need is something that will not change for thousands of years.

I don't want to write a canonical history, because that kind of thing will often be criticized and criticized in later generations, and its authenticity will even be challenged by wild historical miscellaneous stories. My approach is to ask many people to write and let them write their own work, even if there are some contradictions, it doesn't matter, so that it looks more realistic. However, for some major issues, it is still necessary to record them in a unified official manner, and after the book is written, I will spend money to expand their influence for them, as long as there is no disgusting boasting and praise of merit, then people's opinions will be swayed by me thousands of years later.

Personally, from my point of view, many Ming Jun ended up doing a stupid thing, that is, compiling things like "Yongle Canon" and "Siku Quanshu", who doesn't know what is going on. The things I support now don't seem to be related on the surface, but in fact they are all approved by me, such as the release of Washio Takayasu's travelogue, I paid 7,500 silver dollars in three installments. I believe that after a few generations, even if someone wants to reconstruct the history books, the only information that can be found is these things that I have introduced.

The role of Zhenglin Tonghai is to communicate with these people as a "private" person, and from time to time "borrow" what they write to read them. He will provide some material or publication support for good works that promote positive mainstream ideas, and he will also propose personal revisions to those "dross" mixed with unhealthy content. As for the persuasion and education of those who are obsessed, that is not his business!

"Lord, they have been waiting in front for half an hour!" Kiyoji Takenaka came behind me silently at some point.

"Oh......" I stood up, my waist aching.