Chapter 163: The Battle of National Policies (Part II)

"Well," I nodded slightly, "since it's Shigeji's own intentions, I naturally don't care about it." ”

"Yes...... Then His Majesty will retire and will not disturb the glory of the Great Palace. The messenger bowed and said that he was about to exit the main hall.

The envoy's attitude is very calm...... I secretly praised it in my heart. You must know that ordinary retainers will be more or less submissive in front of me, even Xinjing and Jingzheng are no exception. However, the emissary's calm retiring demeanor was no different from that of ordinary daimyos, and his attitude was both respectful and reserved.

I suddenly remembered that when shìnv gave him his name just now, it seemed that he was saying "Si bō Minbu-sama". I originally thought that this might be the Miao character given to him by Shinjing, after all, the Guan Ling Si Bō family had been extinct for many years, and even the last head of the family, Si Bō Yoshigin, changed the Miao character to "Tsugawa", and his three sons were born to Oda Nobuyige, the son of the NV, so they didn't care much. But now, judging from temperament, this person seems to have some origins.

"Wait a minute," I called the messenger, "I heard that your Miao character is 'Si bō', I don't know where you come from?" What was his position in the shogunate? ”

"Back to the Great Imperial Palace, His Majesty was born in Mutsu, is the head of the Takamizu Temple Si Bō family, and is currently the identity of the Takamizu family flag, serving as the ceremonial guide of the Gongfang Palace, and responsible for liaison with the Grand Imperial Palace and the Kyoto Commissioner's Office."

Nodding his head, he understood the identity of this person. The Takamizuji Si bō family is a side line of the Si bō family, which owns the Si bō gun of the Michinoku country. This prefecture is very special, it was obtained when Minamoto Yoriyoshi, the pillar of the second generation of the Genji clan, was ordered to conquer Mutsu, and later it was divided into the hands of the Ashikaga family. When it was passed to the Ashikaga family, he married the Nv of the name Etsu Hojo family as the main family, and gave birth to the eldest son, the Ashikaga family, but at this time, there was a dispute within the Hojo family, and in order to control the Ashikaga family, the ruling Hojo Tokiyori forced the Tai family to break away from the main room and marry his sister instead, and the family family also lost the right to inherit and was sealed to the Lu Os bō gun, becoming the ancestor of the Si Bō family. For this reason, the Si Bō clan held a very high position in the Ashikaga Ichi-mén, and when the Ashikaga Takashi clan raised troops, the head of the Si Bō family, Si Bō Takatsune, was almost able to compete with him, and was also the chief founding father of the shogunate.

The situation of the head of the Takasuidaji family is very similar to what happened to the Ashikaga family in the Ashikaga family. He was also the eldest son of the family, and served as the deacon of Kanto and the general of Oshu, but it was only because his younger brother Shogun Shogun was favored by his father that he was recommended as the first ruler of the shogunate at the age of thirteen, and he lost the inheritance of the clan and stayed in the birthplace, creating a lineage of the Takasuidaji Shogunate. This vein also has a very high status in the Si bō one mén, and is even known as the "Si bō Imperial Office".

The man in front of me, named Si Bō Quanzhi, was the last head of the Daimyo Takamizu Temple Si Bō family, and he was also a very talented person, but it was a pity that he was too busy and usually did not pay much attention to government affairs, and Si Bō County was renamed Zi Bō County in later generations, which was his idea, because when he was visiting the Kitakami River in the county, he found that the red stone at the bottom of the river was shining purple sè in the sun, and even the bō light on the river became purple sè, and he felt that this was an auspicious omen, so he changed the name of the county to "purple bō". However, no matter how big the auspicious omen is, it can't save the bad luck of the Gaoshuiji Si Bō family, although he once took advantage of the southern family to recover all his own territories in history, and once invaded the Iwate County of the southern family, which is considered a rare talent among the last generations of family heads, but after all, it is inevitable that the southern family will swallow up the family business.

Yet in this day and age, because of me, history has changed. The inner luàn of the southern family, which should have been caused by the death of Nanbu Haruma last year, because Nanbu Shinnao (Harumasa's nephew and NV son-in-law, who had been the heir of the family) sent someone to assassinate the young head of the family, Nanbu Haru, and then made the southern family húnluàn for a while, but in my time, when Nanbu Harumasa died, Nobuyai was about to end the Kyushu seizure, Hideyoshi was uniting Hojo and Uesugi to crusade against Takeda, and the world had entered the eve of unification. The entire southern home will be removed from the center. As a result, he had no choice but to recognize the young lord of the family, and as an afterthought, he assisted him in consolidating the territory, and accelerated the pace of annexing the surrounding minor daimyos, thus being able to unify the entire Rikuchu region.

Nanbu Nobunao is a smart man and thinks very reasonably, which can be seen from what happened to the Tsugaru family in the northernmost part of the Tohoku region. The head of the Tsugaru family, Tsugaru, as an old minister of the southern family, not only brazenly set off the anti-flag, but also attacked and killed many small wealthy families in the vicinity one after another, the younger brother of the southern Harimasa, the biological father of the southern Nobunao, Ishikawa Takanobu, and the làngoka oka imperial palace handed down from the Kitabatake family, were all destroyed in the hands of Tsugaru for the letter, and even when the letter was sent to the northeast, this guy did not restrain himself, but took advantage of the fire to rob when the southern family rushed to help Hitachi. As a result, as soon as Shigeharu Takenaka arrived in the northeast, he immediately united the Ida, Nanbu, Mogami, and Ando families, completely destroyed Tsugaru Noshin, and transferred his territory to the Andong family.

It is conceivable that if Nanbu Nobunao had plotted to assassinate the young head of the family before, causing the family to be luàn, not only would he himself be attacked by the shogunate, but the southern family would also fall apart because of the heir. However, as soon as he relented in this way, the southern family was stable, and he himself became the chief family elder of the family with 30,000 stones because of his merits, but the Gaoshui Temple Si bō family lost the opportunity to cheer up, and it was three or four years less than in history......

I retracted my thoughts, looked at the Si bō in front of me, and said lightly: "You are a member of the Si bō family of Gaoshui Temple?" Was it that after the extinction of the family name, he was born in the shogunate? ”

"The Great Imperial Palace," replied Si Bō, his voice becoming respectful, "thanks to the kindness of the Imperial Palace, his majesty was able to rebuild his family business, become the lord of the high family who received thousands of stone domains, and participated in the affairs of the shogunate. His Majesty was so generously favored that he was to be loyal to the Shogunate and the Imperial Palace. ”

Is Xinjing kind? I couldn't help but wonder. He probably didn't know that the creation of the Gao family was my opinion, right? However, at that time, I only mentioned it in passing, and it was not included in the official "Kira Shogunate Eisada Hodo", and it is reasonable for him to attribute his fortune to Shinkei's kindness.

"I'm very glad you have this kind of realization," I smiled and closed the folding fan and threw it in front of him, "I'll give you this...... The fan painting above is the handwriting of Master Kano Eitoku, and the painting style is excellent, and it is not available on the market. ”

"Thank you for the generous gift of the Great Imperial Palace," he picked up the folding fan and walked out of the main hall with his hands on his back.

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It wasn't until a long time later that I realized how high the status of the Gao family banner was, and why Si Bō Quanzhi was so grateful to Xinjing. The Kakake Banner system of Shinkei was not just a good deed of the shogunate, as I said to him, to restore the high mén samurai who had destroyed the mén, and to have them engage in some ceremonial activities, such as receiving daimyo from all over the world, teaching them the rites of audience, and participating in Ise Jingu, Ishishimizu Hachimangu Shrine, Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine, Eisada Shrine, Tanemaji Temple, and Forget-in Temple on behalf of the shogun, etc., but as the actual representative of the shogun himself, he sent envoys to the imperial court and various feudal domains on behalf of the shogun, and conveyed the will of the shogun himself. If necessary, he can even act as an arbiter to mediate disputes between major names. Moreover, although the territory of these Gaojia banners is only a few thousand stones, in terms of official rank and stature, they are close to the quasi-national daimyos, which are higher than the city lord-level daimyo of tens of thousands of stone territories. For example, that Si bō Quanzhi was the four lower Minbu Daisuke of the imperial court, and among all the genealogical daimyos, he belonged to the upper rank.

The establishment of such a system is completely a struggle for power with the elders and the middle-aged elders.

Not only that, in the next three or four years, Xinjing successively set up three other institutions, the first is the right pen, which is filled by well-educated monks or làng warriors, which is equivalent to the Shangshutai originally set up by Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, and the right pen is equivalent to the Lang official of Shangshutai, which is used to hold the privy council, restrain the elders and the elders, or bypass them to deal with central affairs; The second is the performer's side, which is filled by the sons of the small and famous families in the Kanto region, and is stationed in the atrium between the table and the oku, and all the officials below the middle and elder must first report to them, and the general has instructions to the big and middle elders, and they are also responsible for conveying them; The third is the academy and the imperial court, the former is responsible for the daily defense of the general, and the latter collects information for the general, so as to set aside the permanent equipment and the metsuke group, and can mobilize hundreds of jīng sharp samurai around the elders and middle elders.

Of these three institutions, the Sonataka had existed since the Muromachi period, and after I met with Shogun Yoshiteri, my brother Yorichen Ishitani was quickly promoted from the Imperial Priest (who had the qualifications to meet with the shogun) to the Sonataka (who had the qualifications to introduce the shogun to the shogun); The right pen side is even more common, and many daimyo families in the Warring States period have set it up, such as Murai Sadakatsu and Takei Yuan, who served as Nobunaga's right pen. Therefore, these two measures of Xinjing seem very common, and they did not attract much attention from everyone at first. It wasn't until the establishment of the academy that the chief Daimu Fu Ishitani Nobumasa felt that the matter was serious, and he hurriedly sent someone to spread the word to me.

Looking at the strange samurai who came to report, I immediately missed Hattori Masanari, and if he was still in charge of Daimefu, he would definitely be able to detect it in advance and remind Ishitani to announce it. It's a pity that he has resigned two years ago and returned to the clan to live in seclusion due to his age, and the efficiency of the Mufu group is much lower.

Then I missed Shigeharu Takenaka again. If Shigeharu Takenaka is still there, with his qualifications, prestige and talents, as well as Xinjing's trust and dependence on him, he can completely bridge the differences between the general and the elders, and the middle elders, so as not to make trouble like now. On the one hand, Xiujing felt that Xinjing's appointment of the sī people and the central center to fight for power had undermined the laws of the shogunate, and he advised Xinjing many times, and once even went straight to Okuma, and drove out the Hirano Nagasaki and Nagajing brothers who were recruited by Xinjing's mother, Zhongnayan Bureau, to protect Xinjing, because although they were the sons of Zhongnayan Bureau and the elder brother of Hirano Nagatai, they were not retainers of the lineage who had been served since childhood, and they were not qualified to meet the general; On the other hand, Xinjing felt that Xiujing relied on his seniority and uncle's status to dictate his actions, and always oppressed him with the Great Imperial Palace and the Shogunate Law, which damaged his majesty as a general, so that he couldn't even get used to the entire center, and fought against the elder and the middle elder even more vigorously.

I don't understand, how did it get to this point? I have the impression that Xinjing is a very gentle person, and since he was a child, he rarely contradicts the opinions of me and several assistant family elders. Perhaps, it was Xiujing who managed too much and too strictly, so that the rebellious psychology attacked? After all, he is no longer the heir of the past, but the shogun who commands the entire world, and he also commands nearly 300,000 troops to pacify the eastern country, and has his own majesty and strong self-esteem.

But in my opinion, none of this is a big deal. The institutions set up by Xinjing are only within their own cities, and their powers have come to an end. After all, those people are not the elders of the shogunate genealogy, they are not even the status of the daimyo, they have no territory and military strength, and their influence is very limited. When Xinjing was in power for a long time, these institutions would naturally be completely used by him, and he would no longer have to use those small tricks.

The old minister and the new monarch compete for power, and the imperial power and the prime minister compete for power, not to mention in Japan, even in China, which is extremely centralized, I don't know how many times it has been staged in thousands of years. Take the last two dynasties as an example, the emperors of the Ming Dynasty could not compete for the cabinet, and they hid in the deep palace one after another, playing with concubines and concubines, playing with wood, and still ruling the world; Several chiefs in the Qing Dynasty were well-dressed and fed, doing everything themselves, abolishing the Council of Ministers of the Parliamentary King, abolishing the cabinet, and setting up a completely ** military aircraft department, but they earned a good reputation for themselves as "diligent government", and they were quite míhuò some of the widows of later generations, but what was the actual result? The busier you are, the more luàn there is wood? Is the Queen Mother auspicious? However, when Zai Yan was still young and Lan'er's wrists were still tender, the ministers reluctantly tossed out a "Tongzhi Zhongxing".

Of course, for the ruler himself, this is undoubtedly very uncomfortable, even if it is a small matter, over time, it will accumulate strong dissatisfaction, which will erupt in various ways, and the current Wanli Emperor of the Ming Dynasty and his emperor and first assistant Zhang Juzheng are a pair of ready-made examples. In this regard, Xiujing is too rigid and trivial, after all, he is a person who has been in auxiliary work for a long time, and my original intention was to let him grasp the big and let go of the small, but he has become a little bit of a guard, and he does not let go of any small things, like a strict housekeeper.

"The academy has been set up, and there are only more than 400 samurai. A few years ago, a little bit of a big name, which one is not a hundred samurai? I smiled relievedly, "You bring a letter to Da Nayan for me, so that he doesn't have to be too strict, the two children of the Hirano family, you might as well give a Qianlai Stone Territory and the identity of the Genealogy Banner, and put it by Xinjing's side, it's not a big deal, and occasional extrajudicial favors are allowed...... If I'm not mistaken, the public must have mentioned this matter to Da Nayan, and then Da Nayan vetoed it on the grounds of incompatibility and incompatibility, right? It's no wonder that the princess is dissatisfied, after all, he is the head of the shogunate, not a child."