The school hall in the outer hall of the Edo Imperial Palace was orderly, and dozens of students of different sizes sat upright and meticulously read the texts, the oldest of them was eight or nine years old, and the youngest was only four or five years old, these children were the brothers of the Ashikaga family, and a group of their friends were also included.

The inner school and the companion reading system are very interesting, and there is a teacher who comes to lecture the students every day, to a bit similar to the Mongolian school system of the ancient Chinese royal family, Ashikaga Yoshitoki is painstakingly concerned about the education of his son, and the old family not only arranges for several children to do auxiliary service, but also takes time out of his busy schedule to give them lectures.

"Sunshine Mountain, don't be the master of Nanguangfang Tianhai!" The students in the school paused for a moment, hurriedly packed up their books and sat down.

After a while, I saw a young monk with clear eyebrows and beautiful eyes walking in with a faint smile, this monk was very young and very kind with a light smile, and he couldn't see any fireworks at all, but none of the dozens of students in the school dared to underestimate him, because he had the right to evaluate the year-end evaluation, and if one less excellent, these children didn't know how many beatings they would take, and it would even affect their future.

Nankofang Tianhai is Ryukoji Temple with the wind, when the monk who was a sensation in front of Ashikaga Yoshitoki has grown into a famous monk, in fact, he is only thirty-two years old this year, two years ago he served as the famous temple of the Tiantai sect Nikko Mountain Wheel Temple, but in fact it is stationed in Edo Castle all the year round to participate in the great politics, with its strong grasp of politics and far-sighted opinions, quickly got the reuse and promotion of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, only a few years of kung fu all the way to the top of the ranks of the status is not inferior to several generations of important ministers.

In the public opinion of the Kanto region, it is said that the Edo Imperial Palace is the Kanto Shogunate. Ashikaga Yoshitoki was naturally a Kanto shogun or a Kanto Imperial Palace. Shogunate vice-shogun and other honorific titles. And Nanguangfang Tianhai is known as the black-clothed prime minister, which shows that Nanguangfang Tianhai's influence in the Kanto region is not trivial.

The so-called prime minister does not refer to the minister, the prime minister here refers to the four senators in the imperial court, the conditions for the senator are between the four and the two, which is literally understood to participate in the political court, and the Han name is the prime minister, the prime minister, the prime minister, the Ping Zhangshi, and the doctor, and the status is equivalent to the governor's affairs of the Great Song Empire, and the so-called black clothes are the robes worn by the monks. This name means that he is a senator in the monks.

As a senior staff officer of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, Nankobo Amami was very busy as a member of the Edo Garrison during the official expedition to Mutsu, and it was not easy to find time out of his busy schedule to answer children's questions, so he was not responsible for teaching students basic literacy, hyphenation, word and sentence, and those who had their own shogunate culture to do it.

His task is to gradually guide students to form a correct outlook on life and values through his rich knowledge and experience, he gives students the impression of both majestic and kind, every time he tells the story of the scenery as far as the Ming Kingdom, as far as the Jin, it always attracts people to indulge in it unconsciously, and each story has a profound meaning.

During this time, he was lecturing on "The Tale of Baoyuan". In order for children to understand the system of samurai society from the roots, it is necessary to analyze the formation process of the samurai group step by step. From the initial Crusade of Emperor Shinjin to the middle of the Heian period, the period focuses on the process from the rise of the samurai family to the Genhei period, and it took nearly a year intermittently from King Jingji to the death of the Minamoto family.

Classes like this have to be lectured for an hour every morning, and students need to make a summary at the same time as the lecture is completed, and they can freely express their views on historical events, as long as they do not plagiarize and say mistakes, they will not be punished, in Nanguangfang Tianhai's view, the top priority in educating these children is to let them form a basic sense of integrity as soon as possible.

As the son-in-law of the Kanto Ashikaga family, Ashikaga Zhenwang Maru has been loved by thousands of people since birth, and he is indeed a smart and keen son of the sky, but all smart people always have a little pride in their hearts, and the young Ashikaga Zhenwang Maru is also like this, when he found that many friends were afraid of talking to Nankofang Tianhai, he decided to test how much ability this great monk had.

Taking the initiative to catch up with the kind and not easy to get close to the great monk, and asked for special guidance, Nanguangfang Tianhai was surprised: "The samurai who assist the young hall are the best group of people in the entire eastern country, I believe that with the wisdom of your highnesses, you will definitely be able to answer questions and solve doubts for the young hall, I don't know what else needs special guidance from the poor monks?" ”

Ashikaga Zhenomaru also seemed to anticipate this question, and put on an expression that was neither humble nor arrogant, and said without pause: "Yes, I admire the culture of the Ming Kingdom very much, and I heard that there is a very powerful school called Zhu Zixue in the country, and I want to ask Master Tianhai for advice." ”

"I see...... Nanguangfang Tianhai nodded thoughtfully: "Shaodian probably knows that His Royal Highness doesn't like Zhu Zixue very much, right?" ”

Ashikaga Zhenomaru pouted and said, "My father wants me to familiarize myself with historical materials to understand my own mind, and to practice the way of bowing and horses to strengthen my body, and I want to learn more things, just like my father to become a samurai with both wisdom and bravery." ”

Nankofang Tianhai did not blindly reject the young man's proposal, but thought for a while and said solemnly: "Although these doctrines are good, they are not very suitable for the Japanese system.

Shaodian should know that the laws and customs of my shogunate are very different from those of the Ming Kingdom, and that our samurai are shouldering the arduous mission of reviving the name of the samurai, and that the samurai general is the actual supreme ruler of the world, and many of Zhu Zixue's views are contrary to my samurai shogunate, and His Royal Highness hates Zhu Zixue from this......"

Finding that Ashikaga Zhenomaru didn't think so, Nankobo Tianhai shook his head and smiled: "The most important one is that this Zhuzi study is very difficult to learn, and there are very few people who dare to speak out and be proficient in it out of my martial arts customs and habits...... The hour was not early, and the poor monk retired first. ”

Seeing that the great monk said to leave, the proud Ashikaga Zhenwang Maru turned his head and said with disdain: "What's there!" It's just a monk with a weird temper. ”

When Ashikaga Zhenomaru turned to leave, Nankobo Tianhai turned around and looked at the immature figure again. He pondered, "It seems that it is necessary to adjust the training curriculum of the Young Temple. ”

The afternoon class is Allah of the Imagawa clan speaking about Kyoto culture. The classes of this master of the art are very popular. Because he can speak "The Tale of Genji" and "Pillow Grass", these two books were very famous in medieval Japan, and there may not be many samurai who want to read books full of bloody killings like "The Tale of Homoto", but there are few people who don't like to read the famous books full of peace and extravagance.

Listening to the various gossip and anecdotes between the former high-ranking Heavenly Emperor and the Fujiwara family, it will be very exciting to stage scenes of bizarre stories, and the children who follow the rules are more yearning for an exciting life, and of course, the Imagawa clan is not stupid enough to talk about those inappropriate intrigues, or all kinds of cheating between men and women are also vaguely involved. The lesson still ended on time, and the children didn't notice that time was over so quickly in the blink of an eye.

"It's not too early, so let's stop here today!" The Imagawa clan really packed up the teaching aids and left slowly, thinking that it would be better to get something delicious at night, looking at his relaxed appearance really did not look like a Imagawa clan governor who had lost his country and lost his family, and he had already been accustomed to everything here in the four years he had come to Edo Castle, just like the queen Liu Chan said to Sima Zhao, "I can't miss it here."

Five years of Chenguang changed too many people and things, the unlucky Imagawa clan was just one of them, in the sixth year of Eiroku Takeda Shingen launched the Toe attack battle, most of the people of the Toe country turned against the water and took refuge in the Takeda family. The castle lord of Kakegawa Castle, Asahina Taichao, was forced to face a huge crisis, and the castles around Kakegawa Castle were devastated. Most of the fortresses could not hold on to the city and surrendered, and a small number held out until the last moment and the whole clan died in battle.

Asahina Tai Dynasty with the death of the people of the country, and then back to the head of the hair to find that the country of Ene can not even find a minister, in desperation had to take the Imagawa clan to escape the sad place of the country by boat, this escape is four years in the blink of an eye, Imagawa clan Shinya from the initial ambitious attempt to restore power, to the decadence and idleness after refusal, and then to the immediate acceptance of the facts and complacency, staged a scene of the bizarre history of the famous samurai breaking the jar and falling.

Imagawa really walked leisurely through the lush woods, thinking that there were his wife and children waiting for him to come back for dinner on the other side of the woods, and a faint smile appeared on his face: "Prosperity is a dream after all, maybe this kind of life is more suitable for me." ”

Some people are alive and he is dead, some people are dead and he is still alive, the seemingly contradictory words are appropriate to apply to the declining famous family like Imagawa Shin, Imagawa Shin is indeed alive, but there is no direction in life, life is better than death, slightly better than the walking dead, such as immortals like mortal dust, without any nobility.

The era that belonged to the Imagawa clan has gradually passed, and the Enoe Province was swallowed by Takeda Shingen in one bite and there was not even a bone left, and Mikawa Province became the gladiatorial arena of the two major forces of Takeda Shingen and Oda Nobunaga, occupying Saijo Castle, and Arakawa Yoshihiro pro-Takeda family, who controlled Tojo Castle, these two people represent the ideology of East and West Mikawa, and they are in conflict with each other to make Mikawa Province chaotic like Kitaise Kosengoku.

Matsudaira Ieyasu, who once ruled the entire territory of Mikawa Province and entered and exited Enoe Province, was completely defeated, and in the seventh year of Eiroku as the head of the Mikawa Province flag appointed by the Oda family, he returned to his homeland and stationed in Okazaki Castle to enter the Mikawa Province for the Oda family, using the contacts accumulated by the Matsudaira family in Mikawa Province for many years to adjust the people in Ota Prefecture, and gradually eliminate the influence exerted by Takeda Shingen in Mikawa Province.

This is not the biggest change, in recent years, the Tokaido has been surging in recent years, and now Tokaido has long been changed, and the Owari fool, who was despised by the world in the past, has risen rapidly at an astonishing speed, and at the moment when Ashikaga Yoshitoki proudly announced the birth of a new generation of Kanto Gongfang in Kamakura Tsuruoka Hachimangu Palace, Oda Nobunaga also launched a Sino-American strategic war in this year.

Shigeharu Takenaka led the sixteen cavalry to raid Inabayama Castle, which made Saito Ryuko's already low prestige frustrated again, Oda Nobunaga saw the opportunity to send various generals to launch a large-scale attack on Mino, Niwa Nagahide persuaded Kajida to surrender to Kaejo, Mori Kecheng was responsible for capturing Wufeng Castle without a defender, Kinoshita Hideyoshi also took the opportunity to say that he would surrender Unuma Castle, and then captured Sarupeck Castle and Tangdong Castle to sweep Central Mino.

Oda Nobunaga was carried away by a series of victories, and at the beginning of the sixth year of Eiroku, Oda Nobunaga led a large army into Nishimino to attack Inabayama Castle, and he despised the young Saito Ryuko too much, and paid a heavy price for it, and the losses in the Battle of Iinoguchi were almost as great as those in the Battle of Kana Kou fifteen years earlier. More than 3,000 people were killed and drowned. Oda Nobunaga was crushed by a blow to the head.

Experience teaches. Oda Nobunaga fled back to Kiyoshu Castle to actively learn a lesson, held a closed-door meeting for more than ten days to summarize his gains and losses, gave up his ambition to eat Mino Province in a short period of time, and set the goal of capturing the Nagara River and then pressing to capture Inabayama Castle step by step, so he cast a good story of Kinoshita Hideyoshi contacting the river and building Sumamata Castle.

The ancient name of the Nagara River is the Sumamata River, and there was a battle of the Sumamata River in the Genpei period, where the Taira general Taira Shigeheng led 30,000 horsemen and met the 6,000 horsemen of the Genji general Shingu Juro Gen Expert. The Yuan Xingjia troops couldn't defeat the Heijia army head-on, so they planned to use a surprise attack to break the main force of the Heijia.

Who knew that Ping Chongheng had already expected to pretend to be in the plan but actually put out a pocket formation for him to drill in, this battle of the source of the family lost their armor and fled in defeat, the source of the Yoritomo to enter Kyoto ambition temporarily dispelled to concentrate on the management of the Kanto, the two clans once formed a certain tacit understanding, the two seemed to want to divide the east and west of Japan to play their own game, until the source of the Hokuriku army and the battle of Kurigarato defeated the Hei family into Luo, it completely changed the direction of the world.

There was a Sumamata Castle subordinate to the Saito family on the Nagara River, and the soldiers of Saito Ryuko's army were outnumbered, and if they wanted to defend it, they couldn't hold on to it, so they simply burned down the city. Kinoshita Hideyoshi took on the responsibility of building Sumamata Castle, and there was a reason why he was appointed as the general builder of Sumamata Castle. Earlier, Kinoshita Hideyoshi served as the second commander of Kawanami Zhongtori, and the friendship between the two sides behind him was exactly what Oda Nobunaga valued.

Kinoshita Hideyoshi did not live up to Oda Nobunaga's expectations, and with the assistance of Kawanami, he took advantage of the water transportation of the Nagara River, and smuggled wood from the upper reaches of the Nagara River to the vicinity of Sumamata Castle at night.

He also deliberately divided the three hundred defenders handed over to him by Oda Nobunaga into two teams, one team stood guard and took on the burden of resisting the Saito army, and the other team worked hard and was busy building the city, so the so-called "Sumamata Night Castle" was built so secretly, in fact, he used not one night, but seven days and seven nights, fortunately, the internal contradictions of the Saito family were fierce, and they didn't find the small movements on the Nagara River at all, so they gave Kinoshita Hideyoshi a chance to display his talents.

The construction of Sumamata Castle means that Oda Nobunaga has a firm foothold in Nishimino, and in the seventh year of Eiroku, that is, the second year of Takeda Shingen's swallowing of the Enoe, Oda Nobunaga appointed Matsudaira Ieyasu to sit in Mikawa Province as the banner leader to resist the Takeda family.

The rebellion of the Mino trio took place quietly, and Saito Ryuxing was still full of thought that the three genealogy elders were "loyal and reliable", but he didn't know that these three families had quietly introduced the main force of the Oda army into the vicinity of Inabayama Castle, and when he found out that the papaya-patterned flag of the Oda family appeared under the castle, it was too late to scold.

The Oda army, which had learned its lesson, set fire to the town of Inoguchi, which was in the way, and the Mino trio deceived the big gate under the banner of "reinforcements" and swarmed in, Saito Ryuko saw that the general trend was gone, so he abandoned his family and business, and escaped from Inabayama Castle with a few henchmen to take refuge in Ise Nagashima Ichijomune, and the Mino Saito family, which was at its peak, went through three generations before and after, but it perished in twenty years.

In August of the 7th year of Eiroku (1564), Oda Nobunaga moved the castle away from Owari to build a new and more powerful city among the rubble of Inoguchi Town.

Oda Nobunaga, who was full of ambition, said to Sawahiko Soen, "This city has no name for a short time, so please ask Zen Master Soen to give this city a new name!" ”

Once upon a time, he was scolded as a man who was a big fool of Owari, but he could become a great name for the two countries of Mino-Owari, and Sawahiko Soen guessed that the young man in front of him was only thirty years old and was definitely not a thing in the pool, maybe he was the peerless talent who had become a blockbuster if he did not make a sound, and he might as well have an attempt to aspire to the world, so he said: "In the past, there was a holy king in the Tang Dynasty in the Central Plains, King Wen of Zhou, who started in Qishan, and a phoenix who came to Mingfang, who had a peaceful foundation of 800 years, so he might as well follow the story of King Wen of Zhou and take Qishan as the name." ”

"Those who know me, my master Zong Enye!" Oda Nobunaga said with a smile: "But my family thinks that it is far from enough to have peace in this world, and I do not let the prosperity of Tokaido not let Kinai lack the gap in cultural heritage, so I need the favor of the god of learning very much, and the prosperity of the world's Taiping culture is a good medicine for governing the world, so it is better to take the word Qufu where Confucius was born and change the name to Gifu!" ”

Three years later, in April of the 10th year of Eiroku (1567), Oda Nobunaga had already taken Ise Province into his pocket, and according to rumors in Edo Castle, it seems that the Ise Kuniji Kitabatake family was besieging Okochi Castle, and Kitabatake Gukyo asked the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru to intervene in an attempt to escape.

It's a pity that he underestimated Oda Nobunaga's means to break through the lower limit, and Oda Nobunaga took advantage of the opportunity of his second son, Cha Shimaru, to succeed as the adopted son of Kitabatake, and instigated a rebellion against the Okabatake family in Okochi Castle, and seized the last fort of the Kitabatake family in Ise Province.

The pacification of Ise Province means that the Taisa of Tokaido falls into the hands of Oda Nobunaga, as an important transportation hub connecting Kinai and Kanto, carrying the essence of connecting the two centers, although the Imagawa family of the three groups of Junyuan is in the forefront of the world's great names, but it is still much inferior to the combination of the three countries of Noose, and the Oda family at this time can be regarded as the Imagawa family of magnifying the first one.

In the past, Owari Kunichisuke had become the overlord of the Tokaido in the three countries of Oyu, and he spent more than ten years to complete the brilliant achievements that the Imagawa family had struggled for several generations that could not be achieved, and the great success once made Oda Nobunaga unprecedentedly inflated and self-absorbed, and he really couldn't find a reason not to be proud.

Standing on the castle tower of Gifu Castle and looking out at the lush greenery of the distant mountains, the surging pride and ambition in his heart became more and more difficult to control, and sitting and watching the turbulent Warring States turmoil may best reflect his mood at the moment.

In his hand he held a seal cast by a craftsman written by Sawahiko Munen himself, which was not engraved with the usual one-word monogram, but with the four big characters of "World Buwu", which was a silent challenge from Owari Fuiji to the world, and it also represented that he had a heart of high ambition and unwilling to be lonely.

Holding the seal and pondering for a long time, he suddenly laughed and said: "The general trend of the world is nothing more than this, and when the time comes for me Oda Nobunaga to become the leader, the world will change in the hands of my Nobunaga!" I would like to thank you for your help and support, but Nobunaga is by no means a samurai who surrenders to defeat and is willing to be dependent, and even if you play the role of Tokoku as the first samurai in the world, it will not change my ambition...... We are destined to be rivals! (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank the book friend for the dog in pants for the tip.