Chapter 43: The Eve of Shangluo
On the night of August 27th, after retrieving the two treasures, Kira Manmatsumu was busy with another matter, before leaving Mikawa, Kira Manmatsumu decided to do something meaningful, this thing was to write a long letter to Nagao Keitora, "Since I have deviated from the norm, I don't care about doing a little more, I want to stir up the Sengoku with my own strength, first of all, let's start with the future Echigo Dragon Nagao Keitor!" ”
The letter was quickly written and folded, and sealed with clay, this letter will be forwarded to Echigo by Hattori ninja through his own intelligence channel, and will be passed to Nagao Jinghu by a certain channel in the future, although the process is long, but it can ensure that it is accurately delivered to the hands of the designated target, and the professional level of Iga ninja is still very high.
In the early morning of August 28, more than 1,600 people gathered outside Saijo Castle, together with the families of the samurai, and a total of 2,300 people from the people and Hida craftsmen who accompanied them.
Faced with an unexpected number of personnel, Kira Manmatsumaru felt a lot of headaches, fortunately, there were thirty-five carriages, five of which were stuffed with women and children, and the remaining thirty were filled with 23,000 pieces of money, Okochi Nobusada's work efficiency was very high, and he used 4,000 pieces of Yongle money to exchange for 18,500 pieces of money, and the quality of the money was still very good, and I don't know which merchant was so unlucky to plant it in his hands.
Before leaving, Okochi Nobutada took out the fifty pack horses in Kira's house and said to Kira Manmatsumaru: "Since the owner of the pavilion is going to Luo, let's take these pack horses with you!" Each horse is loaded with five buckets of sea salt, and it is the only thing that our pedigree generation can do for the hall master! ”
"Please accept our wishes!" This time, the genealogies are very united, and the family governor Shangluo still cares about the gains and losses but loses the hearts of the people, so Okochi Nobusada didn't think much about the problem of pack horses, which was originally used as a common property for salt transportation and sales, and this time it was taken out and given to Kira Wanmatsu Pill, and everyone had to lose hundreds of kanbun.
"Alright! I understand your intentions. "Japan has always been short of horses, especially in western Japan, there are no horse farms at all, all horses come from Kanto, Hokuriku, Koshin, Oshu and other relatively remote areas, pack horses are unruly inferior horses, each worth between 30 and 40 kanwen, 50 horses sold is a huge amount of money.
Okochi Nobusada took out all the pack horses of the Kira family to transport supplies, loaded them with seventy-five stone salt and transported them to Owari, Mino got rid of it is the income of more than 300 kanbun, which is basically enough to pay for the travel expenses of Shangluo, and the simple practice will end soon, at the beginning of the hour, Kira Manmatsumu turned over and said to the retainers behind him: "The family is leaving!" The whole Kira family will be entrusted to you! Please take care! ”
"We will do our best to serve the public and live up to the trust of the hall master!" The retainers of the Kira family knelt down in unison.
"That's it! No further ado! My family is leaving! With a shout of "go", the long procession began to slowly move like a huge machine, and the Kamiraku team left Saijo Castle as the townspeople knelt down all the way to the eyes.
"Lord Pavilion, please take care!" The generations shouted, only to see Kira Manmatsumaru waving goodbye to them in the distance.
The section of the Tokaido that connects to Owari is called Hatazu Street, and if you go west, you will enter the core area of the Owari Oda family by passing through Kariya Castle, which is the residence of the Mizuno clan on the side of the Oda clan, and you will enter the core area of the Owari Oda family, and on both sides of the Atsuta street stand Narumi Castle and Odaka Castle, and you will come to Atsuta Jingu, which is not only the third palace of Owari Province, but also the most famous trading town in Owari Province, and can even be regarded as the epitome of Tokaido's commercial prosperity.
Atsuta Jingu's reputation is very loud, even if people who don't know Japan at all in later generations have heard of this name, in fact, his reputation is really big, because Atsuta Omiya Si Fujiwara Jifan's daughter became the main room of the Minamoto Yoshitomo and gave birth to Minamoto Yorichao, so Atsuta Jingu's reputation is very big, as for the three artifacts or something, just look at it.
Since the Kofun period, the Japanese imperial family has used the three artifacts as an important prop for enthronement, and gradually became a symbol of the emperor's legitimacy in the Asuka period, but all this ended at the end of the Genpei War, with the defeat of the Taira clan, the eight-year-old Emperor Antoku in the Battle of Tannoura was held by his grandmother and two nuns and jumped into the sea, and went to the underwater dragon palace to establish his underground court.
Emperor Antoku's jump to the legitimacy of the Japanese imperial family to jump, his brother Emperor Gotoba did not have three artifacts, can only rely on the Emperor of the White River Temple to succeed to the throne, to the Jianwu period, Emperor Go-Daigo to think of this stubble, made a fake three artifacts as a symbol of the legitimacy of his imperial family, emphasizing that his Southern Dynasty is orthodox, and the Northern Dynasty does not have three artifacts is a puppet regime.
To the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu period finally unified the Northern and Southern Dynasties together, as a result, because Ashikaga Yoshikyo died in the Cargill Rebellion, within two days the remnants of the Southern Dynasty stole the three artifacts, and after more than ten years it is said that the three artifacts were found, and then have been used until now, in short, the so-called three artifacts are the high imitation of the fake, or the high imitation of the fake, worship him is better than worship the ancestral spirit.
In order to show his respect for Atsuta Shrine, Kira Manmatsumaru still presented Yongle Qian Gokanwen, a handful of ribs, and a handwritten prayer: "May the troubled times be peaceful and the shogunate will be revived." ”
That night, Kira Manmatsumari approached Kansuke Yamamoto and asked about the itinerary of Joraku, but the chief retainer gave a surprising answer: "Take the waterway from Atsuta Town to Tsushima, and then take a boat north to enter Omi Province via Minobuki, this is the itinerary that His Horezen set for the lord of the museum." ”
"Look at the dead chickens! Don't joke with your family! Isn't it nonsense to go north along Tsushima? Saito Toshimasa is an ally of the Oda family, and the family is not dead when he walks by his door with more than 2,000 people? "Kira Manmatsumu is not stupid, this simple logic can be understood without thinking much at all, Saito Michizo is not a person to be messed with, if he bites him, wouldn't it be more deceitful than staying in Mikawa and subduing the Imagawa family?
Kansuke Yamamoto nodded noncommittally and asked, "So in the opinion of the hall master, which path should we take?" ”
"Of course, it's to take Ise-sana Prefecture through Kazuki Pass, and take the route of Iga and Koga into Kinai, this section does not have a strong daimyo, and it is much safer than going to Mino!" He reported this route almost without much thought, there are only three main land passages into Kinai, the one in Hokuriku does not count, the road on the Higashiyama Road takes Mino Bubakan, the road on the Tokaido goes through the Ise Kasuzu Pass, you can walk casually through Iga, and it is no problem to take the Yamato Province to go north to Kyoto.
"But the opinion of the subordinates is completely opposite to that of the lord of the pavilion, it is safer to go to Mino than to go to Iga and Koga, and the people of Iga and Koga have never bought the account of the shogunate, and the lord of the pavilion has no effect on the banner of Kamiro to protect the shogunate, and the two thousand troops of my Kira family must be jumping wherever they pass, and it is still a question whether they can pass safely!"
"Isn't there Hattori Iwami? He's a native of Iga Province, so he's going to be able to solve these problems, right? Kira Manmatsumu retorted with some weakness.