In the seemingly unintentional glance just now, he had already seen through Konoe's mental calculations, and this righteous brother quietly stood on the side of Kira Yoshitoki, indicating that the political situation around him seemed to be developing in an unknown direction, but Ashikaga Yoshiteru could not despise the snubbing of Konoe Maehisa, because this righteous brother was an important support for him to firmly grasp the context of the imperial court, and as a political ally, he needed more conceptual fit rather than opposition.

Kira Yoshi's desire to replace him as the Kanto Princess's office has almost become known to everyone, even if the news from Kyoto is a few months behind, it is almost known at this moment, and from the sporadic information sent by the Kanto, it can be judged that the war of the Kira family is very fierce, especially the war related to the belonging of the Kanto, which usually lasts for several years to more than ten years to determine the winner.

For example, the Xiangtoku Rebellion lasted for a full eighteen years from the outbreak of the third year of Xiangde (1455) to the fourteenth year of civilization (1483), and the Changxiang Rebellion, which broke out after an interval of four years, from the outbreak of the first year of Changxiang (1487) to the end of the second year of Eishō (1505), and went through another eighteen years, one on the left and one on the right, this is the youth of two generations of samurai, and the frequent chaos also exhausted the last trace of loyalty and patience of the Kwantung samurai.

But the birth of Kira Yoshitoki made all the difference, this man full of miracles seemed to have a unique charm, always able to deal with a mess of things in an orderly manner, always able to manage the barren and useless land in fertile and fertile land, he brought victory after victory to many people inexplicable confidence, as if to say to the world with action: "Look! I succeeded again in the Ashikaga family! ”

Konoe also knew that it would be very difficult to get Ashikaga Yoshiteru to trust him completely, but there were some things that he had to do even if he knew it was difficult. In his heart, he always had unwavering support for the Ashikaga shogunate and an ardent hope for the pacification of troubled times. Ashikaga Yoshiteru can't give him peace of the world's future. But Kira Yoshitoki can give these and is putting them into practice, which is an important reason why Konoe chose to support Kira Yoshishi for a long time.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru's indifference did not break his confidence, and Konoe still persevered in explaining: "This is the best opportunity for the shogunate at the moment, and seizing this opportunity will only be good for the shogunate, and there should be no problem as to whether Yoshitoki will pose a threat to the shogun's family!" Yi Yihui's influence on him should not have to worry about more changes. ”

"It's a pity that Yu's sister-in-law is still dead...... It's so bizarre that it's dead, who's behind it? Ashikaga Yoshiteru raised his eyebrows and looked at Konoe in front of him suspiciously, trying to see even a trace of regret and panic in the eyes of this righteous brother, but all these efforts ended in failure. Konoe has always shown a clear conscience.

Konoe could feel Ashikaga Yoshiteru's suspicion and suspicion for a long time, and he also clearly knew that this dearest righteous brother suspected that it was no one else, that is, his other righteous brother Kira Yoshitomi was playing ghost in it, and this suspicion may have been buried deep in Ashikaga Yoshiteru's mind.

Knowing that Ashikaga Yoshiki was suspicious of his other righteous brother, Konoe had no way to defend his innocence for Kira Yoshitoki, so he had to spare the topic and said: "I believe Yoshiki must be able to guess that the Miyoshi family is doing the trick!" Miyoshi Changqing and the minions of the Miyoshi family are all over the country, and they are arrogant.

In addition, he also has many servants in the Seto Inland Sea around Shikoku Island, and the Izumo Akuni has an unknown origin but can take the line of the two imperial palaces by virtue of the pursuit of buying daily necessities, and he is also planning to attack Yoshiki. And this time has to be pushed forward by three years, and three years ago, only the dormant Miyoshi family was probably the most capable to do it! ”

"It seems like there's only one reasonable possibility. But Mr. Yu felt that something was wrong, was it really Yu making a fuss? Ashikaga Yoshiteru still doesn't feel at ease, so that he still has doubts about Kira Yoshitoki's suspicions, in the past few years, the Kira family has been fighting one after another, either running to Dewa or running to Hokuriku to expand everywhere and is busy.

To make him believe that Kira Yoshishi is hiding so deeply, and he is still full of bad stomach to attack his main wife Konoe Kenko, most of them are unreliable, because if he wants to start, he will definitely not do it against his disciples, and may create an accident to make him, the general, "accidentally die" before giving birth to his son-in-law, he believes that the Kira family must have a similar way to deal with himself, and the chance of finding an unknown Izumo Akuni to dance for a while and sneak into the Nijo Imperial Palace is too high.

It takes three years to implement the plan even more procrastinating and boring.,From this point of view, you will feel that this is really not what Kira Yoshitomi instructed to do.,When the Kira family uses strategy, they often prefer to be tightly connected into a system.,Rather than blindly attacking his wife Kenko Konoe.,This is also the most unlikely thing to happen.。

Kira Yoshitoki and Konoe Maejiu have a very good relationship, he himself is also a special samurai who respects women very much, and I have never heard of him doing cruel and vicious acts against any woman, Konoe Kenko and Kira Yoshitoki have known each other as early as his ebony hat ceremony, and the two sides are both related to each other and are the nobles of the two ways in a camp that supports the shogunate, and the relationship has always been very good.

Kenko Konoe represents her husband and brother occasionally bumped into each other in the palace and will say a few simple greetings.,In this era, it's a model of getting along well.,Compared to Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who is ruthless when he throws things, he is grumpy and angry.,Konoe Kenko's body is a collection of beautiful, gentle and kind and other female advantages.,A strange woman full of intellectual beauty I've never heard of anyone being full of resentment towards her.,At least Kira Yoshitoki is not such a person.。

And more importantly, Konoe Kenko and Konoe Family's Maiden Nagao Toraki are righteous sisters, and Tora Ji is the main room lady of Kira Yoshitoki, which is needless to say, Konoe Jehime, who was the first to marry Kira Yoshitoki, is the sister of Konoe Maehisa and Konoe Kenko, and now Kira Yoshitoshi will also send some books, velvet felt hats, gloves and thick-soled felt boots as gifts in the Mid-Autumn Festival in the first month of the first month of each year.

Kira Yoshitoki was very careful not to use animal skin products to destroy the three refuge and five precepts of the mountain's beauty, so every time he gave velvet and wool fabric as a gift. And each gift is made according to the standard size measured by the tailor in Kyoto. Absolutely do not leave her a chance to give away at will. Dozens of sets are delivered at a time.

As time passed, the aristocratic women who came and went to the Illumination Temple gradually knew that this young courtyard master was the former lover of the hot Kira Yoshitoki, and gradually more and more people approached her, although it would break the pure and comfortable practice of Zunshan Xiu, but it also made her gradually understand that the cute little boy in the past gradually became a famous general who shocked the world.

And Tiger Ji is also very fond of sending some small gifts to Kyoto, such as sending a lot of gifts from Echigo on time every year according to the festival customs of Kyoto, as small as some small toys invented by Kira Yoshitoki, some spinning gadgets, and hand-sewn baby clothes. From gold, silver, jewelry, silk, tea and other high-end products are gifted.

Through this never-ending way of giving gifts, Mr. and Mrs. Kira gradually formed a consensus in the aristocratic circles of Kyoto, that is, Kira Yoshitoki was a very good person, sincere and enthusiastic to others, and never cared about personal gains and losses, which can be understood as a fool of the wronged head, or it can be interpreted as a generous and generous fight for righteousness and squandering money, in short, the imperial court has always had a very positive attitude towards Kira Yoshitoki.

In the past few years, Ashikaga Yoshiki has often heard the word "lady diplomacy" from the mouth of Konoe Kenko, and several times I was a little curious to knock on the side, but he was fooled by the vigilant lady in a few words, and in desperation, Ashikaga Yoshiki also did the gentleman of Liangshang. It's just that what he stole was not money and books, but the letterhead between his wife and Tiger Queen.

After reading the letterhead exchanges between these women, he realized that his brain capacity was a little insufficient, and this way of writing was even more non-mainstream than the use of kana. It's basically a private message written by some pseudonyms with various inverted piles superimposed into a strange word order, to a bit similar to the more ancient way of keeping the letterhead secret, and he only barely understands the general part after pondering for a long time, as if it is about what to eat without gaining weight and how to put on makeup and what clothes to wear.

"In this way, the possibility of righteousness is the least, then only Miyoshi Changqing and his minions have the ability and patience to prepare for a less successful murder operation! It seems that it is indeed not righteousness, but the possibility that he exerted influence in it cannot be ruled out. Ashikaga Yoshiteru is still hard-mouthed, but in fact, in his heart and quietly, he quietly crossed Kira Yoshitoki off the list of suspects.

Ashikaga Yoshiki ascended the throne as a general when he was extremely disgusted with the Miyoshi family, as the Kyoto shogunate gradually gained a foothold and gradually withdrew some of the governing power, which was praised by the world's turbulent public opinion as the lord of the shogunate, so that his hostility towards Miyoshi Nagakei was also reduced from mortal hatred to hate, but after the misjudgment of the battle of Luozhong and the death of his son-in-law, it seems that he is going to hate Miyoshi Nagakei again.

As the general of the Shogunate who is determined to revitalize the shogunate, the number one enemy he has to face is still the Miyoshi family, the overlord of Kinai, but because of his short-sighted behavior, he completely angered the Kira family and the Rokkaku family who fought for him in the Rakuchu War, making the willingness of these two families to continue to defend Kyoto very low, but Ashikaga Yoshiteru, as a shogun, could not bow his head and admit his mistakes to the two retainers, even if he knew that he had made a mistake, he had to bear his own face.

This is to die to save face and suffer the crime, the dignity of the general does not allow him to make impersonal behavior, the general can not be at fault, then the fault must be the subordinate, either the subordinate is at fault or the subordinate misunderstands the general's intentions, in short, he did not realize it when the battle between Luozhong and China just ended, and when he wanted to understand this and then wanted to find the bottom of the stairs, he found that the matter had already settled.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru is not stupid or stupid, and he is not only proficient in swordsmanship, but also very familiar with diplomatic strategy, military strategy is almost zero because of the lack of excellent teachers when he was growing up, and most of his political strategy is obtained by rummaging through the notes left by his father and referring to his own thinking, plus knocking on the side of the shogun.

Ashikaga Yoshiharu himself is not a successful general, and the overall level of military strategy, wisdom and political strategy is not very high, and the only impression left to the world is that Eshu Taiki and Sakai Taiki competed for the throne of the general, and Ashikaga Yoshiharu's best sprinting talent was the only magic weapon to survive the turmoil in Kyoto.

With such a not-so-successful father, you can imagine how much Ashikaga Yoshiki can learn, as for the long-time construction of Nakao Castle in the military sense, it is not very useful to hold Nakao Castle when the shogunate loses Kyoto and retreats, so it can be seen from this point that Ashikaga Yoshiharu's military strategy is still very watery.

The only thing that can be called the right thing to do. It was to adopt Ashikaga Katsuhime as the adopted daughter of the Ashikaga family and marry Konoe Maehisa. Then the three of them build an iron triangle of righteous brothers through complex relationships. Each other's wives have a close relationship, and they both appreciate each other's talents, which is also something that Ashikaga Yoshiki used to be proud of.

The more I think about it, the more I feel that the positive impact on him is far greater than the negative impact, but he is also a younger brother of the same clan who knows how old he grew up, and he single-handedly raised the name of the Ashikaga family, which makes Kira Yoshitoki naturally carry a layer of Ashikaga Yoshiki's imprint, and wherever he goes, people will be reminded of how he promoted him to become a member of the company.

If you figure this out, you can explain the attitude of the former Konoe, even if he is ambitious now. As Konoe said a long time ago, even if he was given a Kanto party, he couldn't do anything, at most it didn't matter if he made a mess in the Kanto nest, those people in the Kanto country have experienced hundreds of years of chaos and become very unruly and very barbaric, in the eyes of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, this is a group of hateful "evil parties", Kira Yoshitoki is willing to clean them up and let him be.

He can be sure that Kira Yoshitoki will definitely not think about the shogunate, at least as long as he Ashikaga Yoshiteru is still in the day, he will definitely not have to worry about the possibility of being usurped by the Lianzhi people, as for whether his descendants have the ability to suppress the Kanto Princess, whether they will evolve the "Meiwa Coup" or provoke the "Eternal Peace" depends on their creation.

Ashikaga Yoshiki paused for a moment and said, "It's not impossible to consider the Kanto Princess. But there must be a big premise before he can be given, and he must stay in Kanto honestly and not leave without permission. The war in Kaga Province will stop in place and cannot invade Echizen Province, and Hida Kuniyu will give him Hida Guardian to protect the Hida Mountains with peace of mind, and Tokaido is divided into Izu Province and Suruga Province, and the east is under the jurisdiction of the Kira Yoshishi era, and the west is the direct leadership of the shogunate, and they cannot attack each other. ”

"So, has Yoshiki figured it out?" Konoe said happily: "That's good! I will persuade Yoshitoki to make more contributions to the shogunate......"

Ashikaga Yoshiteru waved his hand and said, "Give it to him!" But Yu wants to emphasize that the oath must be strictly observed, and without Yu's order, you must not step out of this boundary! ”

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When Kira Yoshishi returned to Edo Castle and did not rest for a few days, he accompanied several ladies to visit Edo Castle, where he was about to relocate, only to see that this bare wasteland was full of piles of building materials, and nearly 10,000 people with bowls on their heads and wooden hammers in their hands waved and shouted to ram wooden stakes, and huge stone rollers repeatedly leveled the land back and forth on this wasteland.

On both sides of this wasteland is a great river that flows, and to the south is a blue sea in the distance, and several ladies lifted the veil on their hats and looked at it carefully, and then they put down the veil and gathered together to whisper for a while, they did not like this noisy and messy construction site, and if it were not for the husband's strong request to come and take a turn, they would never have appeared here.

Hu Ji pouted and complained, "Your Highness! Is this what you call Edo Castle? It's messy everywhere, and it doesn't seem to be as good as Naoetsu Town, but Echigo is more comfortable. ”

Sandalwood's hot body came over, and said in a coquettish voice: "My sister is right, the concubine has only been here for a few months, and there are a lot of small rashes on her arms, so uncomfortable!" ”

The other ladies also expressed their discomfort, Inu began to worry about his baby daughter Yukihime, who was only a few months old, and Yoshino also began to think about his baby son Yoshichiyo, seeing that the family was about to turn around, Kira Yoshitoki shrugged his shoulders and said, "Then let's go back!" Anyway, it's really not much to see here. ”

Although the castle town of Edo was not built, the Edo Imperial Palace, which was demolished and rebuilt, was completed early, but at present, the Edo Imperial Palace is still relatively simple compared to the Kasuga Imperial Palace, and there are less than 20 prefabricated houses with maids and maids, leaving a large area of open space near the Imperial Palace that is still being developed, and this is the new building of the Imperial Palace that Kira Yoshitoki plans to start building in the near future.

The main structure of Edo Castle, including the grand seven-story castle tower and the blueprint for the four five-story castle towers, has not yet been implemented, and none of this is a goal that can be achieved in two or three years.

A few days later, some of the buildings in Edo Castle were completed and put into use, and one of the largest halls served as a temporary large room, and Kira Yoshitoki held the first major assessment in Edo Castle, and the meeting mainly focused on the relocation of the Kira family's residence to make various reports, from the labor, materials, storage management, and other aspects to explain one by one.

Kira Yoshitoki did not tire of the inquiries of the practitioners, and when he found that a statement felt wrong, he would exhaustively investigate it to the end, until it was clear which link had gone wrong, and if there were defects and gaps in the system, he would quickly propose new remedial measures to improve the system, and if the commissioner had a problem, he would investigate the relevant responsibility of the commissioner, whether to write a petition to summarize the mistakes, or to suspend himself from his post for reflection or retire from his post to return to his hometown to work as a farmer, or even more severe punishment was the judgment of the generational public, and he did not need to meddle in the specific links.

This is the process of gradually forming a complete set of executive institutions, and the perfect system and self-correction ability can reduce a lot of unnecessary troubles for the management of Kira Yoshitoki, and there is probably nothing more pleasant than being a hands-off shopkeeper. (To be continued......)