Chapter 26: Butterfly Wings
"Zhengqing has worked hard, my family has appointed you as the leader of the people, and you are allowed to wait for three days of rest before performing your duties." Kira Manmatsumu is very satisfied with the efficiency of Hattori Masakiyo, and he does have a real ability to take Mura Yumaru quietly, and when it comes to this ability, even a hundred horse samurai are not as good as him.
"Your Majesty has other important things to report." Hattori Masaaki raised his head and glanced at the little surname serving outside the door, and Kira Manmatsumaru immediately opened the little surname, "If there's anything, just say it." ”
"Your Majesty...... In the Kanto region, there was a catastrophe, and Lord Furukawa died. ”
"What? Furukawa is dead? Kira Manmatsumari jumped up and shouted, "You mean Ashikaga Harumu is dead?" How did he die? Did you kill me? What exactly did you do? Make it clear to me! ”
"It's not! His Majesty has no such rebellious thoughts. Hattori Masaaki was also anxious, and directly touched the ground with his head, and the whole person knelt on the ground and couldn't get up, and his mouth kept explaining: "Your Majesty obeyed the instructions of the owner of the pavilion to attack the Furukawa Imperial Palace at night, first set fire to the south side of the warp wheel, and then caused a riot on the west side of the warp wheel, and took the opportunity to drive the Furukawa Gongfang to escape from the castle tower, and the minister took advantage of the chaos to sneak into the castle tower to get the village rain pill evacuated, all of this went smoothly without mistakes, and it was not until the next day that the minister learned that the Furukawa Gongkata accidentally fell into the well and drowned." ”
"......" Kira Manmatsumaru's expression at this time was indescribable, he wanted to laugh but couldn't, wanted to cry but wanted to cry without tears, he sat on the tatami mat and stared at Hattori Masaaki, "Are you saying that Furukawa Gongkata's death has nothing to do with you, it was he who didn't walk long and fell into a well and drowned himself?" ”
"It's true! Your Majesty is willing to swear to the gods and Buddhas! Every word and word of His Majesty is true! Hattori Masaaki said again: "The next day, the news of the death of the Furukawa Imperial Palace came out, and the old man of the Furukawa family, Takasuke Hita, announced that someone had killed the Furukawa Prince-sama that night. ”
"Don't pant in the future, don't say it in one breath, okay?" Kira Manmatsumaru's tense nerves suddenly relaxed, "How could such an accident happen?" That unlucky Furukawa Gongfang drowned like this? That's too much of a coincidence, isn't it? ”
"Your Majesty doesn't know, because it was a moonless night that night, and Your Majesty only faintly heard the crying, and retreated without going to investigate because the task was urgent, probably at that time, the Furukawa Gongfang stumbled and fell into the well!" Although I don't understand what "big gasp" is, I still understand the second half of the sentence.
"The Furukawa family decided that the death of the prince was the work of the Hojo family, and the old man Takasuke led the retainers of the Furukawa family to arrest and hang the daughter of the late Hojo Sakyyoden Yoshiharuin and her son Umechiyo Wangmaru, and then Takasuke Sukita elected the Ashikaga Fuji clan as the new Furukawa Gongkata, and on the same day, with the head of Yoshiharuin and Umechiyo Wangmaru, issued the Kanto crusade order, calling on the Kanto samurai to crusade against the Hojo clanyasu."
"What's going on? Is there really no question for you? Why did the death of the Ashikaga Haruhru detour to the Hojo family? The Furukawa family killed the daughter and grandson of the Hojo family again, where is this! Kira Manmatsumu felt that he was messy again, and he was anxious to ask the ins and outs: "Go on, what's going on next?" ”
"Yes! The reaction of the Hojo family is a little strange.,The mobilization order was launched on the second day of the death of the mother and son of Yoshiharuin.,But it seems that there is still a dispute about what has not been out of the battle.,The people of Kanto seem to have been frightened.,In short, there was no movement before the return of the minister.,On the night of the seventh day after the death of the old Kokawa Princess, there was a major earthquake.,Countless houses collapsed.,Countless civilians were killed and injured.,Some people say that this is the resentful spirit of His Royal Highness Ashikaga Haruhura.,And then there were rumors about the earthquake in the seventh year of Meita.。 Hattori Masaaki said as he cautiously observed Kira Manmatsumaru's movements.
"Go on! What rumors? ”
"Demons are born, the earth moves!"
"Na...... Nani? And this kind of rumor? Why has the family never heard of it? "Kira Manmatsumaru has read a lot of books, but he has never heard of such a thing, and he doesn't know much about folk rumors, Yamamoto Kansuke has always paid little attention to things other than military strategy, the art of war, and political strategy, and Okochi Nobutada is a fanatical follower of Kyoto culture, and the two teachers didn't take folklore seriously, so he naturally didn't know anything about it.
"Because in the seventh year of the Ming Dynasty, there was a legend that the eastern country had a wild goose, and according to legend, the eagle once ate all the people in a village, and it seems that the resentful spirit of His Royal Highness Furukawa Gongfang put the demon into the Kanto region." Hattori Masaaki searched the intestines and scraped the stomach to explain the ins and outs of this legend clearly, the eagle is a very famous monster in ancient Japan, in the "Heike Monogatari" is a kind of big monster that makes the emperor uneasy, for which there is also a legend of the retirement of the three Lai Zheng.
Since it is the eagle in the eastern country, the nature of the matter can be completely changed, more than 60 years have passed since the Ming Que earthquake, at this time, the people of the eastern country suddenly spread the ancient rumor of "demons are born, the earth moves", obviously someone is secretly making waves, this rumor is the crusade order of the ancient river princess, the target is directly aimed at the Hojo family.
"Odawara Castle, known as the strongest castle in the eastern country, was also greatly damaged by the earthquake, and most of the houses in Odawara Castle were destroyed, and even many of the Hojo family's residences collapsed, which is also rumored to be the evil spirits of the Furukawa Princess."
"Shhh So ruthless? This is the life of Hojo Shiyasu! Kira Manmatsu Maru gasped, this thing is very famous, there were many famous resentful spirits in the Heian period, such as the predecessor of Sugawara Michizane, the god of learning, who was a famous resentful spirit that ravaged the Heian Dynasty for more than a hundred years.
It is said that the imperial court hated this rebel who openly rebelled and called himself the "emperor", so after the head of the Taira Shomen was transported to Kyoto, the imperial court issued the first order to "expose the head".
In the Warring States Period, it became a routine intimidation method after the annihilation of traitors, but in the Heian Period, it was never the case, and exposing the head of the deceased to the public was seen as a blasphemy against the deceased.
Therefore, when the imperial court announced that the head of the rebel Heishomon would be hung in front of the gate of the Great Prison of Shichijo Kawara, the whole court and the central government were angry about it, but as the head of the Heishomon began to rot, there were many rumors among the people, such as hearing the laughter and roaring of the Heishomon in the middle of the night.
A man named Fujiroku Zuojin ran and turned the head of the gate to the east, and then made a waka and said, "The fatal wound on the forehead of the gate is due to Fujita." Tahara Tarata Fujita is the original name of Fujiwara Hidego, so the head of the flat shomen suddenly roared: "I want to be together with my body, and I will fight you again when I go back!" ”
Then the rotting head shouted, "My body! Fly into the sky and fly to Kanto, because this incident has stirred up the city of Kyoto, everyone is worried about the resurrection of this resentful spirit, and then set off a huge wave of turmoil, and then there is no new news from Kanto, so that the imperial court has settled down.
With these two large resentful spirits as a foreshadowing, the power of the resentful spirits of the Furukawa Gongfang will not be much smaller, and the first seven after death will cause the Kanto earthquake, and then the "demon life" This is the rhythm of forcing the Hojo family to death! Who will stand on the side of Hojo Shiyasu, it is definitely a problem with his head, and there is no need to say much about the next thing, Kanto will definitely make trouble again.
However, there is another question that interests Kira Manmatsumaru: "Did you take Hattori Ninja and do nothing, and keep watching the turmoil in Kanto?" ”
"His Majesty and his ninjas also contributed to the spread of rumors, from Tokiriku to Ueno in the east, and the ninjas under his subordinates are trying their best to spread rumors...... "Hattori Masaaki told the rumors he made up one by one, such as Hojo Yasu wanted to kill Ashikaga Haruhura, and he himself was the Kanto Minister.
Of course, there are some rumors of a high level, such as the Hojo clan Yasu wants to learn from the former Hojo family to kill the Kanto Genji samurai, and support the Ume Chiyo Wang Maru to be the Kanto Prince, and he himself wants the former Hojo family to take power to unify the ten kingdoms of Kanto Yunyun, which is actually not a rumor, the Hojo family married their daughter to the Ashikaga Haru clan, and forced the Ashikaga Haru clan to abolish the Ashikaga Fuji clan born to the deceased Mrs. Tsukita after the Kawagoe Night War, which has the intention of completely controlling the Furukawa Prince.
And the Hojo family has been working hard in Kyoto since the Hojo clan changed the Miao character of Ise to Hojo, hoping to get a better name from the shogunate to rule the Kanto, and to the Hojo clan Yasutoki because of the victory of the night battle of Kawagoe, so that he started the idea of the Kanto governor, and in recent years, he has been offering gifts to the public side of Kyoto, and has been trying to seek the position of the Kanto governor, but the shogunate is not stupid, and has never agreed to the Hojo family's attempt.
The plan to seize the Kanto Command spread widely in the Kanto region, and the Hojo clan didn't think it was too good at the beginning, and always thought that this was a good opportunity to intimidate the Kanto samurai, who would have thought that there would be the unfortunate thing that the Kanto Princes would die, plus it was very coincidental to encounter the Kanto earthquake, combined with this half-truth and half-false rumors, which hit the nail on the head, the two basins of "national thieves" and "demons" on the heads of the Hojo family will not be able to be taken away for a while.
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