Chapter 030: Muromachi Shogunate Monogatari

The Ashikaga shogunate is a branch of Genji, anyway, how much pure bloodline this branch has, everyone knows in their hearts, just like Zhu Yuanzhang wants to have a relationship with the sage Zhu Xitao, famous people always want their ancestors to be a famous person. The Ashikaga shogunate was originally established by the Ashikaga clan, the head of the Ashikaga clan. There's also a more nonsense story here.,I'll tell you.,You know that Hojo's father-in-law is his grandson.,The great-grandson is all slaughtered.,Genji members were excluded and suppressed.,The ancestors of the Ashikaga family were suppressed.,(I don't know if it's true or not),Legend has it that Ashikaga's ancestor Yoshiya had a suicide note.,I hope that his seventh generation grandson will win the world.,With the hatred of snow humiliation.。 However, when it came to the seventh generation of the Ashikaga family (the grandfather of the Ashikaga family), he failed to fulfill the last words of the ancestors, he felt that he was sorry for his ancestors, and the Japanese were upright, and if they wanted to be in China, they would be sorry if they were sorry, what was the big deal, and there was not much bit of paper, but the Ashikaga family was different, and he had a very special idea in his head, and one day, he prayed to Hachiman Bodhisattva, and hoped that one of his three generations of descendants could fulfill the last wish of his ancestors, and then, with hatred, committed suicide by disembowelment. Suicide! , this is suicide, little Japan's psychological endurance is really incomprehensible to me. The two poles are sometimes really funny and stupid, but most people still prefer the two poles, and God thinks that this two poles moved him, so this language is actually realized......

It should be noted here that the Ashikaga Shogunate (Muromachi Shogunate) was established without completing the unification of the whole country, because it was not the Kamakura Shogunate that it overthrew it, but the famous Emperor Go-Daigo. This Emperor Go-Daigo he felt that as the leader of the country (only he thinks so), he can't always drink tea on the sidelines, what is he going to do, he has long seen that his cousin Genjia and his cousin's uncle Hojo family are unhappy, Lao Tzu is the boss of Japan, so under his call, many samurai and peasants in Japan who are dissatisfied with the rule of Kamakura have thrown themselves into his command, including Japan's legendary national hero - Kusunoki Masanari, whose status is similar to that of Wen Tianxiang in our country, and now the only statue outside the emperor's palace is him. After numerous revolutionary struggles, the Emperor's Army finally defeated the Kamakura Army and seized power under the rebellion of Ashikaga Takashi (this Ergozai), the commander-in-chief of the Kamakura Army at the time.

The emperor is not the same as the emperor of China, the emperor of China is only the pinnacle of secular power, but the emperor has divine power, and people are descendants of Amaterasu (this can really fucking bullshit), the emperor doesn't speak Japanese, people speak "crane language", so the emperor is not a man, he is a god, a god, and ordinary people are not the same, after seizing power, they quickly broke away from the masses and began a corrupt life, which is nothing more than drinking and playing with women. And Ashikaga Taka (once again made Nigozai, so Nigozai can't be trusted) united with the progressive forces, defeated the emperor, occupied Kyoto, and the royalist Kusunoki became a royalist and died in battle. But Emperor Go-Daigo ran away, I don't know if he had the death of Masasari Tori Kusunagi (die-hard people are often pitiful), he ran very chicly, and took away the three major artifacts of the Japanese emperor (Yaga Mirror, Grass Shaving Sword, Yasaka Qiongquyu). Of course, this may also be fake, maybe this guy casually said to outsiders: "I took away the three artifacts!" "Anyway, these three "artifacts" are said to be cursed, just like the pyramid of the pharaohs, whoever peeks at it except the emperor will die, and it is said that someone actually died. Whether it is true or not, in the case of so many illiterates in ancient times, feudal superstition was still very marketable. So even if he didn't take it from the old man, he was the only one who touched those three things, so Ashikaga Zun's dumb ate coptis chinensis, and he couldn't say anything about his suffering, and he couldn't refute it if he had it in his hands. Emperor Go-Daigo was driven to the mountains south of Kyoto to fight guerrillas, while the Ashikaga clan set up another emperor in Kyoto (there are many descendants of Amaterasu, so it's okay). Japan entered the era of the Northern and Southern Dynasties (many of the sayings in the history of Little Japan are copied from China, and there is no way who will let us be awesome at that time). It was not until the third generation leader of the Ashikaga shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu (that is, the great shogun in the anime "Wise Ikyu"), that he surrendered to the Southern Dynasty and completed the unification.

The establishment of the Ashikaga shogunate implied that he would not end well, not because I thought Ashikaga looked stupid, but because of the unique (funny) political system of the Ashikaga shogunate. The political system of the Muromachi shogunate can be roughly summarized as follows: one general, two passes, three administrations, and four guards.

One general: It is the shogunate general bureau, this is the supreme leader of this system, at least in the hearts of the middle and lower class samurai, the general is very good, and we all have to listen to the general. As for the upper floor, huh......

Two passes: the two major positions of the Kanto Princess, and the Kanto Governor, first of all, the Kanto Prince. Since the establishment of the shogunate by Minamoto Yoritomo, the center of the samurai group has been in Kamakura (Tokyo), but the Muromachi shogunate had to fight against the guerrilla Emperor Go-Daigo, so the Ashikaga clan had to move the capital to Kyoto, thousands of miles away from Kamakura (see the map for yourself). But the old nest can't be guarded by no one, (just like the two main capitals of Beijing and Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty, the central capital Fengyang is not counted), the dictatorial rulers have a problem, obsessive-compulsive psychonoia, always feel that someone wants to harm themselves, that is, the suspicion is very heavy, and the nominal ancestor Gen Yorito, Ashikaga Zun gave his younger brother Ashikaga Kei to that something (so familiar plot). So for the candidates to stay behind, Ashikaga Zunshi pondered for a long time, and finally came up with a "clever plan": let his son not be able to keep it! (It's like this in ancient times, no way)

Thus, the first Kanto Minister, also known as the Kamakura Prince, was officially born.

This is indeed a good idea, as long as his son is not insane, he probably will not oppose himself. But this son is the "second son", and countless ancient political struggles are because of these two words "second son".

You let your second son guard his hometown, and when your eldest son succeeds to the throne, will he still be loyal to your eldest son? And to the eldest son of your eldest son?

He is your second son, not your eldest son's son, and he will be your grandson's uncle. Zhu Yuanzhang did not consider this problem in his later years, and as a result, Zhu Di, the king of Yan, cleared Emperor Jianwen on the side. Of course, there was almost no solution to this problem at that time (the disadvantages of feudal dictatorship), there was no way, so it was like that. The position of the Kanto Princess, which has actual control over the Kanto Ten Kingdoms (66 countries in Little Japan) and is the sacred land of the samurai, is the only place that the shogunate can actually control is a few countries near Kyoto. More importantly, the "Gongfang" of the Kanto Gongfang is the direct family of the shogun's family, and he has every right to inherit the throne in blood. Therefore, the Kanto public side was in a bad mood one day, and he also went to the addiction of "Qingjun side". It turns out that there are many people who want to have fun, and they are making a lot of noise one after another, but ...... None of them worked out. It's not because the generals in Kyoto are awesome, but they have a car accident before they can walk on the road to success, and the driver who caused the accident is another pass - the Kanto Governor.

The Japanese have a tradition of "going down", so it seems that when designing positions, it is always necessary to give "down" and "up" opportunities, and the Kanto Governor is set up to assist the Kanto public in handling government affairs. For example, dealing with land disputes between landlords, public financial revenues and expenditures and personnel arrangements and other "small things", people who have these powers (there is no way to breed power**), it is inevitable that they will not do some selfish things like making money and pulling the mountain, and over time, such a force will begin to rise. Japan has basically learned everything from China, but there is no academic system, so these official positions are actually hereditary, and this Kanto position is also hereditary by a large family, the Uesugi family. Family planning is really a good policy, in ancient times without family planning, there was always a litter of children, and then the nest fights, and the Uesugi family also gave birth to more, divided into dog hanging Uesugi clan, Yamauchi Uesugi clan, Ogiko Uesugi clan, and Tonai Uesugi clan. In other words, the Kanto Governor can only be taken over by members of these families, especially the first three of the stronger ones, and no one else can even think about it. But there are some people who dare to think (more on that later)

Let's talk about "three management and four positions". "Manage" refers to the position of leader; "Job" refers to the waiter. The authority of the governor is similar to that of the Kanto governor, except that the latter's jurisdiction is limited to the ten countries of the Kanto, while the governor nominally handles the affairs of the whole country (Emperor Go-Daigo expressed dissatisfaction). The duty of the chamberlain was to be in charge of the garrison of the shogunate, that is, the commander of the garrison of the capital. Due to Japan's glorious traditions, these two positions are also hereditary. The position of steward is held by the three families of Spo, Hosokawa, and Hatakeyama, and the chief of the chamber is held by the four families of Akamatsu, Yamana, Isshiki, and Kyogoku (the family background of the high-definition classmates is prominent), which is known as the "three stewards and four positions". This was the core system of the shogunate, and on the periphery was a large group of guardian daimyos.

In order to improve the quality of this article, I will next talk about something that is relatively less. The political root cause of the war in Japan was the chaotic political system of the Muromachi shogunate, especially the guardian system, which was basically the legitimate protection of national separatism and local separatism. Not to mention the Kanto Princes and Governors, even the seven families of the "Three Pipes and Four Positions" at the core of the central government are outright super guardians, each with the territory of several countries, such as the Hatakeyama family, one of the "three pipes", which is also the guardian of Hanoi, Kii, and Vietze; In his heyday, the Yamaga family was known as the "one-sixth hall" (the hall was naturally His Royal Highness the Emperor, after all, the emperor was still the nominal leader of all Japan, in fact, he could only drink tea), that is, he owned one-sixth of the world and more than ten kingdoms - these naturally became a huge threat to the shogunate.

The shogunate is naturally unhappy, and no one is happy to change it, whose world is my Ashikaga world? Damn, in the face of this situation, there is only one way - to cut the feudal domain, and the process of cutting the feudal domain of the shogunate is like this: support the Kanto Princesses and the Yamauchi Uesugi clan to destroy the Inukaku Uesugi clan, and then use the hands of the Yamauchi Uesugi clan to attack the Kanto Princes who want to seize the throne of the general, and then provoke civil strife in the families of the "three managers and four positions" (anyway, the family has a lot of births, and they are not afraid of not making trouble). In this way, the shogunate successively suppressed the five families of Spo, Hatakeyama, Yamana, Kyogoku, and Isshiki—and victory seemed to be at hand. However, countless rulers died on the way to cutting down the feudal domain, and were cut down by the feudal domain. The shogunate played very beautifully, and as a result, it became big. Mr. Ashikaga Yoshikyo, the 6th generation general, was hit by the Hongmen banquet when he set out to kill the Akamatsu family (countless people died like this, salute Zhao Gao, Oda Nobuyuki, and the meat bun son of Uncle Michisan), and was hacked to death by the other party. The boss died, and the feudal clan was still a fart, so the centralized action of the shogunate failed, and he went home for the funeral.

The death of Ashikaga Yoshikyo was a turning point in the rise and fall of the Muromachi shogunate, and it marked the gradual transformation of the identity of the Ashikaga shogun from the leader of the country in real power to a puppet, and the Japanese should be accustomed to the tradition of the lower kage. The shogunate was no longer able to wage a large-scale struggle to reduce the feudal domain. In view of the sudden, unnatural death of the general, which has always been troublesome, there was a commotion over who would inherit the general's throne; And in the shogunate, except for the general, who is the commander and the chief of the chamberlain (the commander of the Kyoto garrison asks if you are afraid), these two families naturally want to seize the power of the shogunate. As a result, the efforts of Ashikaga Yoshikyo and his father, grandfather, etc. instantly turned into a phantom, and the situation was not as good as before.

While the general's efforts came to naught, the two great families rose. One is the Hosokawa family, who has been following the general's family and has not been hit (anyway, there is a pot on the general's back), and the other is the mountain name family who has been hit, but has taken advantage of the chaos to make a comeback (how to say that Lao Tzu is also a sixths of the hall) - remember? That's right, it's the family of the leaders of the Eastern and Western armies in the Onin Rebellion. Okay, the protagonist of this scene is on the stage, so let's start the show