Chapter 84: A Journey to Todai-ji Temple (Part 1)
Ashikaga Yoshito got up and left in a big rage, and the court meeting naturally broke up unhappily, after the court meeting, Kira Manmatsu Maru was stopped by the maid, it turned out that Ashikaga Yoshito wanted to find him, followed the maid's small broken steps slowly and leisurely around half of the pool, Kira Manmatsu Maru said secretly: "This is to appease me, right?" ”
When I entered the Tsukigosho, I saw Ashikaga Yoshito slashing his head and holding Hosokawa Harumoto and criticizing it bitterly: "Hosokawa Harumoto, that bastard, dares to expose your scars in front of the shogunate's ministers!" This is simply unreasonable! The Hosokawa family can't even manage their own housekeepers, so what kind of face do they have to say that others are not! ”
"Hosokawa Kyotaki is just a momentary angry talk, His Royal Highness the princess, please stop being angry! Joy and anger! ”
"Humph! You don't know what kind of person Harumoto Hosokawa is! Yu Ke had enough of his capriciousness since he was a child, and in his early years, he also supported Li Yiwei as a general and treated his father as nothing! Such a fatherless and kingless person should also be defeated by Miyoshi Changqing! Ashikaga Yoshito was obviously angry, and even said such uncompromising words, but he didn't know that this sentence was even put into it himself, and the shogunate had no protection to control it, and it was not as good as a dehaired phoenix, at most it was a dehaired quail.
Kira Manmatsu Pill began to be silent Dafa, your general said that I will persuade you a few more words when I am tired of listening, and then you continue to say that I will continue to listen, and the job of being a good person afterwards is too simple.
Straight Ashikaga Yoshito drank the fifth glass of water, the sun was in the west, and when he saw that there was no hope of returning to Sakamoto today, Ashikaga Yoshito finally changed the topic as a whole: "Saburo rest assured!" More than I can do justice for you. ”
When you say this, you must have subconsciously said it, right? Otherwise, you haven't sobered up yet. Kira Manmatsu Maru bowed his head and hung his head, actually hiding that he was pouting.
"So work hard to defeat Sanzhu, and the position of the leader will be in charge of letting you sit!"
Kira Manmatsumu continued to bow his head and pout: "It's another empty vernacular painting cake, and I haven't woken up yet!" ”
"As long as you retake Kyoto for the shogunate, Kita Omi will be the master and give it to you!"
Kira Manmatsumaru's eyes lit up, and he said respectfully: "Your Majesty doesn't dare to ask for the title of the North Omi Half Country, just ask for Sakamoto County!" ”
"There are too few counties!" Not sobered yet.
"One county is enough!"
"At least two counties! How is Kuritae-gun? ”
"Ugh! That's the territory of the Rokkaku family tree, right? Kira Manmatsumu had a bitter face and said secretly: "Don't make trouble for me, Kuritai County is the core area of the Rokkaku family, didn't I ask for trouble if I asked for it?" ”
"Huh?" Ashikaga Yoshito also seemed to realize that something was wrong, and hurriedly changed his words: "Then Takashima-gun!" ”
"Takashima Seven Heads is a member of the Hexagonal Family!" Kira Manmatsu Maru kindly reminded him.
"It's okay! Are you not a member of your family? Takashima Shichitou is not the same as a retainer of the family? That's it! Ashikaga Yoshito waved his hand and sent him out, before leaving, he didn't forget to ask for a copy of the imperial book, this thing can't be used now, but it can be used as a memo in the future, and it is indeed worth fighting for the two counties if you take Kyoto.
In the next few days, Kira Manmatsumu took Katsuhime and Aju to visit his uncle's house, and by the way, he stayed in the East Temple for a few days, and said that the last time he came and went in a hurry, he didn't visit the East Temple very carefully, and now he came again to find that the East Temple is indeed extraordinary, and the East Temple, which was built in the early Heian period, is also known as the Koo Gokokuji Temple, which is the main mountain of Tantric Buddhism built by Kobo Master Kukai at the behest of Emperor Saga.
Kobo Master Kukai's status is equal to that of the master of the Tenkyo sect who founded Mt. Hiei Enryakuji Temple, one is the first ancestor of Tantric Buddhism, the other is the first ancestor of Tiantai Sect, and the two are in the same era, and they are also outstanding figures for a while, and the status of the elders of the East Temple is not inferior to the status of the head of the Tendai Suzerain, and in the Heian period, the East Temple is called "East Secret", and the Enryakuji Temple is called "Tai Secret", and the status of the two in the Buddhist world is evenly matched.
The Pure Land Shin Sect, Rinzai Sect, Soto Sect, and Hokke Sect are very luxuriant, such as the Rinzai sect, Nichiren sect, and Ichijo sect, which are the most widely spread now, are all born from the Tendai sect, and the Tantric sect is passed down from the Toji sect, the Sanki Zendoji Temple, the Koyasan Kongobuji Temple, and the Genraiji Temple are also very strong, and the roots are all near Kinki and Nankaido.
Of course, these two major factional groups are not harmonious, for example, Toji Temple once competed with Koyasan for the status of Mt. Suimoto, because Emperor Saga set the status of "Shingon Esoteric Fundamental Dojo", so until the middle of the Heian period, Toji Temple has always held the status of Mt. Tsumoto unchanged, until Fujiwara Michicho ascended Koyasan to revive Kongobuji Temple, and since then the imperial family and ministers began to frequently visit the mountain and give financial support, so that Koyasan was revived.
The scale of Toji Temple is not large, because of its location in the center of Kyoto, its rise and fall has always been related to the rise and fall of the imperial shogunate and attitude, compared to Enryakuji Temple and Kofukuji Temple, even if it declines, there are still 35,000 monks and soldiers, such as Koyasan Kongobuji Temple, Neraiji Temple, Ichizomune Ishiyama Honganji Temple and other large monk groups are not to be compared.
The whole temple of the East Temple, plus the old monks who guard the door, together there are only seven or eight hundred people, there are more than 100 small bald heads, the youngest is a few years younger than him, some flower beds in the temple are opened up into vegetable gardens to grow radishes, soybeans and other crops, there were originally royal families, ministers to give economic assistance, but they now who have spare money to give, can only wait for the shogunate merchants to donate.
In fact, the East Temple also has a large number of temple leaders in the mountain city country, but some people are not very particular about occupying the temple leader directly and saying that it is his family's vegetable garden, and the East Temple has no monks to scare people, so he can only find the shogunate for help, the shogunate used to work, and in recent decades it is not very bright, those people bully the East Temple without arming and occupy it unscrupulously, and now it can really control more than 1,000 stones, plus from time to time a rich man to donate a sum of money to pay back.
But the monks don't just eat and don't work, occasionally have to preach the scriptures, occasionally have to hold a scripture debate or something, in short, there are a lot of places to use money, that little savings are not enough at all, the elders of the East Temple can only think of some crooked tricks, such as finding a rich good man to canonize you as a Dharma Bridge person, and you can also earn some donations.
"No one has a hard time in this troubled world!" Looking at the monks in the East Temple, Kira Manmatsumaru is also lamenting that there are difficult scriptures to be recited, especially in a busy area like Kyoto, where many temples are fiercely competitive, and even the abbot of the great temple must have two brushes to eat peacefully, which is indeed not easy enough.
Regardless of the history of the struggle of the East Temple, the scenery here is really good, although the Golden Hall was burned down by the earth and rebuilt a little inferior, it is a pity that the lecture hall, the five-storied pagoda, the Gokagedo, the Dainitsu, the Bishamondo, the empowerment temple, the Takazora, the town guard Hachimangu Palace, the Taigendo, and the Bentendo are all very good, and the five-storied pagoda burned down and rebuilt after four lightning strikes is also a miracle.
After visiting the two major towers of the East Temple, Kanchi Temple and Bao Bodhi Temple, Kira Manmatsumaru took the two sisters, one big and one small, to return to Sakamoto, and when he walked halfway up, he met the Ma Hui samurai who reported the news, "Lord of the museum! Oh no! Hosokawa Harumoto's retainer Nokomi ran to Sakamoto to make trouble because of Hamoru and threatened to overthrow the samurai of my Kira family one by one! ”
Ah Ju covered her mouth with one hand, and covered Katsuhime's mouth with the other hand and didn't dare to interject, Kira Manmatsumari turned around and smiled at them, then turned back and frowned and asked, "How is the situation now?" ”
"His Royal Highness Yamamoto suppressed his subordinates and didn't respond to the battle, and sent his subordinates to contact the hall master to make a decision again!"
"What are you hesitating about? Directly let Watanabe Takatsuna! Before the family returns to Sakamoto, end this farce! And tell them to clean up and don't cause trouble for their own family! ”
"Yes!" The warrior turned over and rode away.
"Oni-chan! It's going to be okay, right? Not only did Katsuhime look nervous, but Ah Ju also had a worried face.
"Don't worry, this thing won't bother me!" Kira Manmatsu Maru was relieved, and beckoned the accompanying Ma Hui to continue the journey.
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