Ladies and gentlemen, I'm going to talk about something a little more serious, and you won't see Oda Nobunaga or Tokugawa Ieyasu for a long time. Because I don't think it's good to suddenly talk about the middle and late Warring States period, it's better to talk about it from the beginning, and as for the alliance between Oda and Asai, I'll continue to talk about it when I get to this plane again.

The plot of the 300,000-strong crowd near Kyoto is relatively simple, but the social factors contained in it are quite complex. To improve the quality of this article, I'll start at the beginning.

The thousands of years of feudal history of the Celestial Empire tell us (and of course it may also be my high school history textbook that tells us) that the monarchy's centralized form of government is the most advanced political system in line with feudal society. (There are too many reasons, don't talk about it, if you want to know it, go to the book) but small Japan has not had the tendency to centralize power, and the Japanese monarch ** can't talk about it, the emperor of Japan "unified but not governed", breaking sticks on the side, and drinking tea The glorious tradition has begun since the 9th century AD. The first to let the emperor go for tea was a super family, the Fujiwara family. The Fujiwara family has many important ministers of the court, and each generation of emperors has to marry the daughter of the Fujiwara family...... Is it true that there are no problems with such frequent marriages of close relatives? According to biology, this is to appear some touching genes, such as cerebral palsy and lack of limb function. But the gang seemed to be lucky, and there were no mentally retarded or immobile emperors. The Fujiwara family is awesome, they have created a position called "Sekihaku", whose power is equivalent to that of the country's prime minister, and has a hereditary monopoly on the post. Historically, this form of government was called "Regency Politics", which means Regency Guanbai, that is, Regency Guanbai, that is, Regency Guanbai. Countless struggles in history tell us that if the regent does not "take the master" together, it will often not have a good result, such as Zhang Juzheng and Dolgon.

The emperor was unhappy, he didn't want to break the stick, drank tea, and in the face of the loss of power, the emperor created a system of imperial government, and personally promoted his cronies to fight against his uncle Seki's family. So the two sides began a long-term struggle.

The snipe and the clam compete, and the fisherman profits. When the two great powers were in a frenzy, the samurai group rose up, which was the foundation of the Warring States hundreds of years later.

Due to Japan's domestic economic backwardness, many people have become a factor of social instability, and not all countries have the absolute economic strength and governing ability like ancient China. Japanese society is very chaotic, there are many nonsense mafia-like organizations, and the country does not have a strong central government to maintain stability, which makes those large manor owners cannot count on the government in the face of unstable social changes, so they have to build their own armed forces to protect their land and farmers, which is the origin of the samurai group. At the same time, there were no family planning supplies in ancient times, the emperor's imperial family (small Japan later said that the Great Japanese Empire was a lineage) has not been broken for so many years, and there are many royal people, which makes the imperial family financially tight, and it turns out that nothing is used in front of the banknotes, including the emperor, so the emperor who has no choice can only ruthlessly demote some of his children to ministers and give them surnames, and the emperor has no surname (the emperor is called X Ren, what Akihito, Muren). These people who were kicked out of the royal family can only go to the local area to be self-reliant, and they can't rely on the emperor's father and can only rely on themselves, and the most awesome of these people is the Genpei family. In Japan, which had a very low level of social education at that time, the former members of the imperial family who could read and write and had a certain degree of military literacy mixed well, and after all, they had the blood of the emperor, and the local lords of the large estates also gave some face and provided land to support them. In return, they worked as guards (I always felt like they were dishonoring the emperor's face), i.e. samurai. Over time, these men became the leaders of the samurai group. I think these big manor owners are actually quite cool, after all, there are people from the former royal family to show you the door, in that era of paying attention to face, can this be unpleasant?

Since the emperor and Sekihaku are both in the Kyoto Imperial Court, they are unable to manage the remote areas, nonsense, how can the two sides have a dry fight, where can there be a place where birds don't. As a result, the local wealthy families took refuge in the Genpei samurai group, which had relatively strong military strength (originally many landlords deposited land in the name of the Fujiwara family), and the strength of the two families gradually increased. As a result, the old royal family and the Seki family, and the newly rising Genji and Taira samurai groups began a new competition.

If you look at the history of Japan, most of the real fights took place between relatives, and see, the Fujiwara family is the emperor's own uncle, and the Hei family, the original family are all their own cousins. Relatives are useless, ** say "power comes out of the barrel of a gun", so it is better to have a gun than not to have a gun, so the result of this civil-military battle can be imagined. The struggle went through three stages: first, the head of the Heike family, Taira Kiyomori, defeated Genji in the "Heiji Rebellion" (1159), overhead Seki (after all, there is no imperial blood, get out), held the emperor hostage (anyway, I have been drinking tea and got used to it), and took power, and then the two leaders of the Minamoto family, Kiso Yoshinaka and Minamoto Yoritomo (both cousins and feuds, Kiso Yoshinaka's father was killed by Minamoto Yorito's father), raised troops and drove the Heike forces to the west of Kyoto to farm and gain legitimate power, and finally Minamoto Yoritomo defeated Kiso Yoshinaka, In 1185, he destroyed the Taira family in the Battle of Genpei. The struggle ended with Minamoto Yoritomo winning a complete victory, and in 1192 he founded the shogunate (i.e., Kamakura shogunate) in Kamakura (present-day Tokyo) and appointed himself as the shogun. It is worth mentioning that in 1185, in the Great War of Genpei, a man of excellent literacy died, his name was Taira Atsumori, and he was the author of Oda Nobunaga's favorite dance song "Kowaka-Tsumori".

During his lifetime, Lai Chao established a hereditary system of generals, that is, non-descendants of the Genji clan could not be generals, and I think that normal people are not willing to hand over the results achieved through hard work to others, and their sons are more close.

Dictators have a common problem, being suspicious. In the course of the rebellion, Lai Chao kept killing his relatives and generals. For example, the first "tragic hero" in Japanese history, Yoshitsune Minamoto, the half-brother of Yoshitsune, this young man is more handsome than Yori, more capable than Yori, and better than Yorito, so he was killed by his brother. The rest of the relatives who were killed by Lai Chao were countless, so when he ascended the throne, he was really "alone".

It's still the same sentence, "xx fights, xx gains". When Minamoto Yoritomo was 13 years old, he was exiled to Izu Island by Taira Kiyomori, and was favored by the local wealthy Hojo Tokimasa and married his daughter Hojo Masako to him. With the growth of the Lai Dynasty, the Hojo family naturally became stronger. The general in the world is the most awesome, and the second awesome is the general's father-in-law, the Hojo family, as soon as the general Lai Chao died, Hojo's father-in-law showed the face of the gray wolf, and stretched out his poisonous hand to the two grandsons. At the same time, Yorito's wife, Masako Hojo, also showed a strong political interest (with or without Wu Zetian's feelings). As a result of this battle, Yorito's son (Hojo Masako could even kill his own son) and grandson were killed, and then the father-in-law was driven away (exiled) by his wife, who ruled with his brother-in-law. is still the same sentence, in the face of power, family affection can only be used to pad the table legs. At this time, there was trouble, these people slaughtered Lai Chao's son and grandson, but they did not discredit Lai Chao, that is to say, Lai Chao's words are still useful during his lifetime, so "non-Genji descendants cannot be generals", how can this be done? History has taught us countless times that the imagination of politicians is limitless. Aren't you afraid that the lineage of the successor is not enough? Then who am I looking for a higher level? Royal house. At this time, the emperor, who was drinking tea, almost choked to death......

In fact, there are so many descendants of the Genji family, and the reason why they have to find the royal family is just an idea that the Hojo family thought of in order to block the counterattack of the Genji members. So the Hojo family ruled Japan for more than 100 years until its demise.

The next person to rule Japan in place of Kamakura was a very important protagonist in our Warring States history, the Ashikaga shogunate.