Chapter 20: The Great Kanto Earthquake

Because no one disturbed his sleep very deeply, when he woke up, the sky outside the window was already bright, and when he came out of the house, he knew that he had slept until noon, and used vegetarian food in the monastery, speaking of which these monks ate better than his, and a kind of pasta called glutinous rice in Tang Chuan was even more delicious than rice.

In the afternoon, Yamamoto Kansuke returned from Saijo Castle, and the eight hundred standing ashigaru who came with him were divided into two teams, one team was stationed in Saijo Castle to guard the castle of the Kira family, and the other team blocked the castle town that fell into chaos last night.

After interrogation, the interrogators, except for the three local townspeople who took advantage of the fire to loot, the remaining 28 people were all from Suruga and Enoe, and it is said that this rebellion was an act of their own instigation when they saw a fire in the castle town.

Fortunately, their actions of setting fire to incite riots everywhere were soon met with spontaneous resistance from the townspeople, and the two sides broke out into a conflict and injured each other, and then they were captured by the standing ashigaru brought by Yamamoto Kansuke, and after preliminary statistics, 33 houses collapsed due to the earthquake in the castle town, 25 were burned, 18 people died, and 100 people were injured, causing losses of more than 1,000 times, which can be described as a heavy loss.

Fortunately, the Kira family rebuilt Saijo Castle a few years ago, and the new town was so strong and beautiful that there was no loss, and in the middle of the night, Kira Manmatsumu was violently shaken, and he was not hurt at all except for a little fright, and the samurai and family members who lived in Saijo Castle were also safe and sound, except for a few unlucky people who accidentally fell and were injured.

Then Yamamoto Kansuke asked Kira Manmatsumu to deal with the arson criminal last night, and the handling of this kind of case is just a routine inquiry, and the result of the trial has come out, which is nothing more than to let him take out the governor's flower charge and seal it, and the result of the disposal is not unexpected, and he has always been merciless to such people who have committed great evils, all of them are pulled down outside the city and beheaded, and their heads are nailed to the streets of Atsuta with wooden stakes and "beheaded".

I feel that the samurai of this era are really a little cruel.,More than 30 people fell to the ground under the supervision of Yamamoto Kansuke.,Kira Manmatsumu was also invited to watch the beheading.,Many townspeople outside the city came to watch the beheading.,There's no fear or fear at all.,It's like watching the excitement on the street.,This cold-blooded atmosphere of the times made him very uncomfortable.,He ran to the Misho An Kokuzen Temple to chant for half a day.,Only was invited out by Yamamoto Kansuke.。

"Mamoru Isshiki Nagato, Mamoru Yamaoka Awaji, Mamoru Okochi, Mamoru Takachi Danmasa, Mamoru Takahashi Deha, Mamoru Ogasawara Satsumori, Ogasawara Yasuru Mamoru and Ehara Tanba Mamoru have entered the castle."

"Hmm." Kira Manmatsumu nodded, these people are all the henchmen of the Kira family, and it is not surprising that they rushed over at this time.

"It is rumored that this earthquake came from the Kanto region, Kai area, and the damage suffered by Suruga was even heavier than that of the main family, so it stands to reason that the Imagawa family's preparations for the Mikawa family to go out to Mikawa Province should be put aside first!" Kansuke Yamamoto said that according to rumors, it can basically be determined that it is not far from the actual situation.

Although Yamamoto Kansuke served the Kira family in Mikawa, Suruga has always maintained a network in the country, which Kira Manmatsumaru and the late former governor Yoshiyao Kira are very clear, he and Suruga Asahina family have a good relationship, and when Astronomical lived in Suruga for five years, he was taken in by Asahina Motocho as a food, in fact, he was a doorman and also taught Motocho's sister-in-law Asahina Shinji, and this relationship was maintained until Yamamoto Kansuke left Shikira family.

It is precisely because of his deep relationship with the Suruga Asahina family, especially because this Asahina Shinji inherited the position of family governor after the Kodozaka War last year, and it is because of this relationship with Yamamoto Kansuke that Asahina Shinji fell to the Takeda family soon after the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto, which shows that the understanding of interpersonal relationships in pan-East Asian countries is roughly the same.

Kira Manmatsumaru knew about these old things, but he also knew that his master craftsman had been in Suruga for six or seven years and was not in vain, and it was not surprising that he had his own connections, and the two returned to Saijo Castle surrounded by Ma Hui samurai, and when they entered the castle town, a group of people wearing carcass, wearing a hat on their heads, and a flag with Ashikaga two leading two houses on their backs, and holding three long handles appeared in front of him.

Their movements were uniform, led by a samurai dressed in red and beard, and they quickly blocked the street pathways along the road, and their reactions were swift and clean, and the sloppy and undisciplined ashigaru he had seen before surprised everyone, including Kira Manmatsumaru.

"Is this the secret weapon that the master has been preparing for five years? 800 Standby! What a great asset! Seeing that a samurai dressed in black looked mighty, he drove his mount slowly and asked condescendingly, "What is the name of this samurai?" ”

This samurai was tall and strong, and he was very powerful with a scythe spear in his hand, and when he saw Yamamoto Kansuke approaching him with a child on a horse, he immediately knelt down and said, "Your Majesty's name is Watanabe Takatsuna, meet Miyakata-sama!" ”

"Watanabe?" Kira Manmatsumaru paused for a moment and carefully looked at this strong samurai who was less than thirty years old, "The ancestor of your family is Watanabe Tsuna who was born in the Saga Genji clan and one of the four heavenly kings of Minamoto Yorimitsu?" ”

"Yes!" Watanabe Takatsuna buried his head much deeper.

"The family crest is a three-star text, your ancestor is the Watanabe Michitsuna who served as the public during the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu era of the Shikaen Temple, and was subordinate to the ancestor of the family, the Ryumonji Temple, Kira Toshi's clan?"

Kira Manmatsumu looked the samurai up and down in a slightly surprised tone, making the Watanabe Takatsuna even more ashamed and difficult to look up: "Yes! ”

"I'm a samurai of the Gen clan, why do I want to come out of the Matsudaira clan, who was born in the Shisha clan?"

“…… Fan Gang, the ancestor of the family, is the second son of the Duke of Michitsuna, because he is not qualified to inherit the family business, so he moved to live in Urabe Village, Etian County, Mikawa Province. "In just this short sentence, the situation of their family is summarized, the Watanabe family is really bad enough, and they can't be registered in the Matsudaira family, no wonder they will join a party to fight against the Matsudaira family in the future.

"I see, then in the future, you Watanabe Takatsuna will work hard to serve your family! The Watanabe family, the Genji clan, is famous again! Kira Manmatsumaru nodded slightly at Watanabe Takatsuna, and then rode around and slowly left, not far away when he heard Watanabe Takatsuna's shout behind him: "I, Watanabe Takatsuna, swear allegiance to Lord Miyakata!" ”

Kansuke Yamamoto, who was deliberately dragging behind, also woke up slowly, and said to Kira Manmatsumaru with relief: "The master's master's skill is becoming more and more skillful, and I, Kansuke, will never worry about the future of my family from now on." ”

"Master craftsman, don't be kidding, I still know how much ability my Wan Songmaru has, just now it was just with the prestige of my Kira family, and it has nothing to do with me." Kira Manmatsu Maru shook his head and smiled, how much does the prestige of the family have to do with him? If it weren't for the tiger skin of the governor of the Kira family, who would care what a nine-year-old child said?

Of course, he knew how much attraction and influence the samurai family had on the samurai, and every Spring Festival, there were many wealthy families of Mikawa Province who went to the city to pay respects, and even the governor of the ShimoKira family had to visit the Kira family, and the imperial court and shogunate would also send people to congratulate them.

Those who did not have the opportunity to meet the Kira family in the countryside stretched their necks to see the governor of the Kira family, but because the Kamijira family has always had Kamiro as the head of the shogunate and the head of the government as the public servant, so many samurai may not have seen their lords in their lives, which is also one of the reasons why the Matsudaira family can develop like a fish in water in Nishimikawa, and there are no tigers and monkeys in the mountains to dominate.

Later, Kira Manmatsumaru's father, Kira Yoshiyao, served in Kyoto Gangyuan and served the Ashikaga shogun's family for a few years, the Imagawa clan led the Suruga army to attack the Inimaso that belonged to the territory of the Kira family in the Nishienoe, and the head of the Okochi clan and its relatives Jukai clan successively killed many relatives, although the Yoshiro of the Kira family was retained because of Kira Yoshiyao's request to the Imagawa clan, but with the decline of the Kira family, it was annexed by the Imagawa clan within a few years.

With the decline of the shogunate, the support for the Kira family was also declining, and the political situation inside and outside Mikawa deteriorated rapidly, Kira Yoshiyao changed the long-term Kamiraku Fenggong to a temporary residence in Kamira for two or three months at a time before returning to the house, and more than 30 years later, the samurai of Mikawa Province gradually became accustomed to the governor of the Kamira family sitting in Mikawa Province all year round.

ps: In the eighteenth year of astronomy, the Great Kanto Earthquake did happen, and it was recorded in detail in the "Records of Myohoji Temple" that Hojo Shiyasu issued the "Official Pardon Order" to pardon tax service and other things, and many castles in Kanto were destroyed and rebuilt after the disaster, because the impact and intensity could not be compared with the Mingyu earthquake, so the earthquake was initially estimated to be around seven magnitude.