In the words of Kira Yoshitoki, good behavior and habits are based on effective systems and management, and now all industries need to be treated more, and the problems encountered today may become a warning for the coming day.

As the Kira family's residence moved out of Kasugayama Castle, Echigo's military strategy shifted from strategic offensive to strategic defense, leaving only 10,000 city guards to continue to defend various places, and they would stabilize local security with the cooperation of the concentric people in Echigo, and the remaining military service would either be disbanded on the spot or reorganized as a reserve and moved to Ueno Province as the second echelon.

Due to the relocation of the Kira family's residence to the left to Ueno Country, Kira Yoshitoki's control over Ueno Country has increased sharply by several grades, and the cantonment points in each city are heavily guarded, and almost everywhere you can see the familiar flag of the two leading armies fluttering, fortunately, Ueno Country has already completed the localization of the flag in advance, otherwise Kira Yoshitoki really doesn't know how to face the embarrassment of facing an Ueno country between two important territories.

As 300,000 Echigo peasants gradually moved south to Musashi, a new round of village merger and land preparation and embankment repair began spontaneously, and the expenses required also increased geometrically.

Since Kira Yoshitoki came to Musashi Province, in just a few months, the originally quiet atmosphere was broken, and suddenly a large number of people appeared and added a lot of things, making Musashi Province toss around. In every village, the rectors of the Kira clan can be seen trying to persuade the elders to send more strong men to serve in the general service. During the labor period, the treatment of money and food and so on.

The dry mouth of the old man could not persuade the old underground people to actively cooperate. These stubborn landlords generally replied with two words "no", it was not so easy to test the roots of their villages, the deep-seated hostility between the indigenous people and the new conquerors was very strong, and the Hojo family spent many years and a bunch of means to initially win the hearts of the people, compared to the Kira family still has a long way to go, and the people's hearts and minds are by no means overnight.

Just when Kira Yoshitoshi was busy, an envoy from the shogunate sent from Kyoto came to Edo Castle in a light car. This is a young samurai with an elegant temperament and extraordinary appearance, and he rides a black horse to carefully examine the huge army of general servants outside Edo Castle, and he is surprised that these peasants who are burdened with general labor do not show the familiar pain and helplessness.

On the contrary, all of them were full of emotions and high momentum, men carrying wooden stakes, women were busy weaving blocking nets, or holding small chisels to beat the wooden beams of mortise and tenon joints little by little, everywhere was the scene of enthusiastic struggle for the construction of a new home, and the young samurai rode slowly and slowly looked around, muttering strange, as if they had found something interesting.

He had long heard that Kanto was the most chaotic place in the world, where the peasants lived the hardest and most tiring lives, and the samurai there had the most partiality and roughness. The symbol of the Kanto samurai quickly declined from the Kamakura samurai, who brought infinite glory to the samurai in the past, to a group of brutal and chaotic samurai groups.

Disrespecting generals, not obeying orders, no faith, and no righteousness is the image that the Kwantung samurai have given to the people of the world in the past 150 years. Although they are still powerful and can still influence the changes in the general situation of the world, this group of samurai is no longer Kamakura samurai, they are not united, disloyal, and lack the reverence for the spiritual pursuit of righteousness and virtue as a samurai.

There is no ideal, no ambition, only respect desire to act wantonly, and the lower Ke Shang's betrayal of the lord Riche and even the usurpation of the lord have become the new signs of this era, and many unknown young samurai have quietly changed their ambitions and goals to these successful people, and the initiator of all this is from Hojo Sakumo and Nagao in the Kanto region.

"Master Samurai, there is Edo Castle in front of you, and the small one can only take you here." A twelve or thirteen-year-old child stared at him with wide eyes, for fear that he would be deceived by someone who would not give the guide money this time, but fortunately, this young man did not look like those ronin samurai who came here to try their luck.

"Take it!" The elegant young warrior threw him the money to hang Yongle, and then turned back to the little boy and patiently instructed: "Don't look for money, put it away so that no one will see it, and be careful to bring disaster to you." ”

"Hmmm! Thank you! You're a kind-hearted samurai master! The child respectfully knelt down and kowtowed, and then jumped away like a little bird excitedly, and the young samurai did not think it was angry, but shook his head and smiled: "It seems that this Kanto is still quite interesting!" ”

After several procedures such as showing a warrant to verify his identity, the young samurai finally came to Edo Castle within the high walls, and saw that the bare wilderness was idle, and the young samurai's heart still couldn't help but chuckle, but fortunately, his good professionalism quickly adjusted his mentality, and followed the attendants into the heart of Edo Castle unhurriedly.

In just a few moments, the young samurai pulled out some seemingly inconsequential news from the mouth of this attendant, he learned that Edo Castle had only begun large-scale construction in the summer, and that the original Edo Castle had been demolished by Kira Yoshitoki because it was narrow and cramped and unsuitable for planning, and that the exquisitely shaped building in front of him had actually been rebuilt with the building materials of the original Edo Castle Castle Tower.

After chatting with this attendant for a while, he had an intuitive attitude in his heart, that is, the Kira family's plan was very big, and the Kira family was very rich, and more importantly, it didn't take long to know how invincible the Kira family is in Kanto now, and Kira Yoshishi is also called "only the war he doesn't want to fight, and there is no war he can't win".

Gradually, the pace of the two slowly increased, and the young samurai learned many details about the Echigo army and even the Musashi army from the mouth of this attendant, and the feeling of the Kira family in his heart formed a preliminary impression in this conversation, and the young samurai was led by the attendant to one of the relatively secluded houses before he could think about deeper questions.

Finding that the large wide room was crowded with people sitting together, not knowing what topic was being happily discussed, the young warrior gritted his teeth and stood under the corridor and said loudly: "Wise Ten Soldiers Wei Guangxiu see His Royal Highness the Town Mansion. ”

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Wise Mitsuhide, a man who will be famous all over the world sometime in the future. Suddenly appeared on the land of Kanto in a completely unexpected way. Let Kira Yoshitoki suddenly have a sense of absurd dislocation. How could this guy who caused the change in the temple be here, and why did he come here, a large number of questions swirled into his mind repeatedly.

And Akechi Mitsuhide looked at the surprised general of the town guard mansion in confusion, and bowed down to report his name, at this time, Langoka Fufang coughed before he came back to his senses: "Well, the Wise Ten Guards Hall of the Toki clan!" Speaking of which, when Yu was in Shangluo back then, he heard that there was a talented Ten Guards Hall in Mino, but he didn't expect to meet here after more than ten years. ”

"I was fortunate to be named thin when I was young. It is really a blessing to be remembered by His Royal Highness the Town Prince. Akechi Mitsuhide secretly breathed a sigh of relief, probably knowing that Kira Yoshitoki must have been recalling the old events of the Astronomical Year just now, and he vaguely remembered that he seemed to have heard about it by chance at that time, but there was such a thing as Kamira of the Kira family, but at that time he was standing in the Saito Michisan camp and was busy cleaning up his own ancestor Tsuki Raiyun did not take it to heart.

Akechi Mitsuhide has no front and rear eyes, how could he never have thought that more than ten years ago, the little royal highness of the Kira family could soar into a dragon in the blink of an eye, and the samurai and caravans who passed through the Tokaido every year to enter Jingluo are unknown, how many people have great ambitions and amazing talents, but they are finally drowned in the vast sea of people in Kyoto, and how many people can mix in Kyoto?

Most of the samurai who went to Kyoto to try their luck were thrown into the raging sea like a pebble, splashing a little and then sinking into the water without a trace. A small number of people who have risen to prominence by virtue of their personal talents are not willing to be subordinated to a certain force. It is the pride of solitude that turns into a meteor and disappears after flashing the brightest light, the latter kind of person is similar in nature to the stones thrown into the sea, but the result is not the same.

"I'm probably barely a samurai myself!" Akechi Mitsuhide suddenly recalled the hard days over the years, and there was nothing wrong with him being a member of the same clan of the Toki clan, but his aunt Mrs. Komi was the main room of Saito Michizo, and Sun Shiro and Kiheiji, who were once killed by Yoshiryu, were the sons of Mrs. Komi, that is, the cousins of Akechi Mitsuhide.

Because of this, Akechi Mitsuhide chose to help Saito Michizo seize Mino Province at the beginning, and then became a powerful arm of the Mino Saito clan and made a lot of contributions.

A few years later, Kira Yoshishi was in Kyoto to become a famous shogunate, and Akechi Mitsuhide lamented that he was unlucky and missed a good opportunity to make friends with famous families, and then he heard that this shogunate general couldn't think of going down to the remote Echigo, and he also lamented that the Ashikaga family was going to fall completely.

But he never expected that all this would come and go quickly, Kira Yoshitoki did not fall into the dust as he expected, but his proud uncle Saito Michizo was killed by the rebel son Saito Yoshiryu in the Nagara River, this father thief turned around and personally led tens of thousands of troops to rush to Akechi City, in the face of the terrifying and powerful military force, Akechi Mitsuhide chose to retreat, looking at the entire Mino is Saito Yoshiryu's party, he does not surrender and does not even have a chance to rely on the opportunity to turn over.

Kaesong surrendered and had to abandon his family and business, and escaped from Mino Province with dozens of people from his wife's retainers, of course, this can also be described as exile, Saito Yoshiryu did not allow Akechi Mitsuhide to return to Mino Country, this is a reward for his clever choice Kaejo surrender, and Akechi Mitsuhide, who picked up a life, can only wander the countries, just like Yamamoto Kansuke did when he was young.

But he still can't be compared with Yamamoto Kansuke who has nothing to do and is alone, although Yamamoto Kansuke is lame and blind and sick, but he has always regarded himself as an ordinary werewolf, and he doesn't feel ashamed to work all day for a meal when he is poor, in the end, he is only poor himself, and he is a typical person who eats enough and the whole family is not hungry.

Akechi Mitsuhide is not like this, he took his retainers with his wife Mu Xizi and children, especially his wife, Mu Xizi, who was originally a beautiful woman, suddenly got a strange disease before getting married, because the family had no money to treat the disease, and his face was ruined, in the face of his wife Mu's request to withdraw from the marriage, Akechi Mitsuhide still insisted on marrying his wife home and became a model of a good couple.

I want to go to Luo Jinjing to have a chance, but the amount of food and clothing for a family is not a small number. The retainers of the genealogy even gave up their territory to follow him, how could they abandon him. And he is an elegant person who claims to be proficient in the way of waka, tea ceremony, and archery. Even the latest iron artillery technique introduced to Japan has also developed a set of corresponding methods for using military training, and it is definitely not possible for such a person to let him face the chaff and eat vegetables.

In fact, although Akechi Mitsuhide lived a poor life during his time in Omi, in order to expand the thin name of Mino Province to Kinai, he had to slap his swollen face and slap the fat man's face in the temple to invite the nearby countrymen and lords to attend the meeting, hoping to get the attention of the nearby lords and include him as a retainer.

However, there are a few samurai who are willing to rashly accept a large number of outsiders from the genealogy of the retainers, and the small lord does not have so much territory to support the big lord, and the big lord has a large number of retainers of the genealogy to reject, which dooms all the actions of Akechi Mitsuhide to be in vain. On the contrary, because there is no income, the repeated tea party song will waste his little family money, and if he has no money, he can only sell clothes and jewelry to spend the day, and the longer the time passes, the more poor he becomes, and the disappointed retainers leave one by one, and those who stay are hungry and full and suffer with a meal.

Once, he was so poor that he couldn't even eat, but in order to report that a banquet still had to be held as scheduled, he quietly told his wife Mu Xizi about it, hoping that his wife could take out some more jewelry to pawn, and his wife Mu Xizi promised to come down but she already had no jewelry in her hand to pawn, so he cut off his long hair with a shawl and pawned a sum of money for the banquet.

This incident was not discovered by Mitsuhide Knowing until after the banquet, when he discovered that his wife had been wearing a headscarf during the banquet. While admiring his wife's virtue, he asked what was going on, until his wife, Kiko Kiki, silently removed the headscarf that covered her hair. Akechi Mitsuhide was taken aback, it turned out that Heeko's long and beautiful black hair had long since disappeared.

Akechi Mitsuhide hated and regretted his wife's behavior of selling his hair to support her husband, hated that he didn't use his wife to sell his hair to satisfy his desire to get ahead, and regretted that he was so careless that he didn't even know that there was not even a grain of rice left in the pot at home, Akechi Mitsuhide apologized while crying, but his wife instead persuaded him not to worry, his hair would grow back one day.

From that day on, Akechi Mitsuhide vowed to change his ways, and left the sad place of Jonenji Temple with his wife and loyal retainers, and went to Kyoto to enter the shogunate to seek employment.

Kira Yoshitoki noticed that Akechi Mitsuhide was also a little distracted, so he said, "Akechi Shibei Hall is here to serve as an envoy of the shogunate!" How is Odate Saemon Sasa lately? I haven't seen you for many years, and I miss the days when I worked together in the shogunate! ”

"Yes! Odate Mutsu Shouden is in good health, and he has retired last year and transferred to the Imperial Minister's companionship, and this time he can go to Kanto to make an envoy to Kanto is also a strong recommendation of the Mutsu Shouden. In a few words, Akechi Mitsuhide told the story of Harumitsu Odate's official Mutsu Okumori, and the story of his first entry into the shogunate and his great appreciation.

"It turns out that Odate Mutsu Mamoru has been promoted! In the past few years, I have been a little negligent, and I haven't paid attention to the movements of Kyoto for a long time. Kira Yoshitoki casually found a reason to cover up his negligence, and he also remembered that he seemed to have seen relevant information, but he didn't take it to heart and forgot about it.

Finding out that Akechi Mitsuhide was a diplomatic envoy recommended by Odate Harumitsu on the line, the next conversation was much more relaxed, and Kira Yoshitoki also found that Akechi Mitsuhide had a strong desire to make friends with himself, and forced the important things to pass on the edict of the shogunate, and eighty percent had some similar thoughts.

He guessed correctly, Akechi Mitsuhide didn't want to be just an ordinary diplomatic envoy, he suffered so much in Omi that he swore that he would get ahead, a strong-willed and ambitious samurai like him would not change once he set his goals, and the strongest one in the shogunate system was Kira Yoshitoki, Akechi Mitsuhide thought that without him, there would be no revival of the shogunate for more than ten years, and it was not a strange thing to be attached to him in the shogunate system.

Akechi Mitsuhide bowed down and said: "There are two things to do here, the first is that the crusade order issued by the shogunate has been issued, and His Royal Highness is very indignant about the killing of the Mikawa Kira family, and immediately orders Mikawa to be ordered by the public to rush against the Matsudaira Tibetan family Yasu, I believe that in the near future, this thief will be punished as he deserves." ”

"Hmmm! Thank you for the kindness of His Royal Highness the Princess, I will remember every kindness of His Royal Highness when I am righteous, and my deceased brother can feel at ease in the Yellow Spring. "Kira Yoshitoki was not overjoyed by the crusade order. In fact, the shogunate's crusade order was completely certain for a long time. It's just that I don't know why the imperial court didn't issue a decree to govern the enemy.

Ji Liangyi asked a little unhappily: "Why didn't the imperial court issue a decree to govern the enemy?" What did Yu's brother-in-law say? ”

Wise Mitsuhide smiled bitterly and said: "Here's the thing, the Konoe Guan Bai Palace tried his best to promote the imperial court to issue a decree, but at the court meeting, the Nijo Guan Bai Palace questioned the desire to use the public weapon of the imperial court to take revenge for his own personal revenge and vetoed it, when the emperor mentioned it again today, it was still rejected by the two Guan Bai, and the Konoe Guan Bai Palace was helpless. ”

"Nijo Sekihaku...... Is Nijo Seki Hakuzuo Minister Hariraden? ”

"Exactly."

Kira Yoshishi was angry for a long time and couldn't speak, and he also knew these two Guan Baizuo Minister Qingliang. One of the five regent family, the governor of the Nijo family, is the political enemy of his righteous brother Konoe for a long time, the five regency family was divided in the Genhei era, and the Konoe family was originally established with the Konoe family as the descendant and the Kujo family as the other stream, but the Kujo Kanemi, who originally belonged to the other stream, was raised to the clan because of his proximity to the source Yorito, especially the situation that the two major descendant systems competed for the elders of the Fuji clan for hundreds of years.

Because the Konoe family was originally a family descendant, the Kujo family split into two families in order to deal with the Konoe family, and the Nijo family and the Ichijo family united against the Konoe family, and then the Konoe family divided the Takaji family to fight against these three families, thus forming a stable system in which the five families dominated the imperial court in the Kamakura period.

Two to three is not fair, and you can know by counting the Guan Bai and Fuji elders of the past generations. The Konoe family was always in a state of disadvantage, which forced the Konoe family to take the risk and join the Southern Dynasty during the Northern and Southern Dynasties. After the defeat, although he returned to the Northern Dynasty and was forgiven, he was far less than the Kujo Ichichi mixed up in the Muromachi shogunate system.

Until the outbreak of the Onin Rebellion in recent decades, the current governor of the Konoe family saw a glimmer of light, and the deeds of the Hino family relying on being close to the Ashikaga shogun's family made the Konoe family feel excited, and marrying a daughter to the Ashikaga shogun's family became a top priority, but the Hino family controlled the marriage line of the shogun's family and made the Konoe family feel uncomfortable.

Due to the incident of the exile of the general of the Ming Coup d'état triggered the decline of the shogunate, the Hino family lost the full support of the Ashikaga shogun's family, and the status of the imperial court continued to fall, in the end, it was just a famous family that was not enough to meddle in the court politics, and if it was not a relative, it would lose the capital to continue to be prosperous, and after the death of Ashikaga Yoshisumi, a new round of turmoil, Hosokawa Takakuni once again deposed Ashikaga Yoshinori and supported Yoshiharu Rishiharu, and then Ashikaga Yoshiharu and Ashikaga Yoshinori opposed each other to give the Konoe family a golden opportunity to choose.

The Hino family can only be a shogunate parasite The family is no longer in line with the interests of the Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Yoshinori has the Zhou defense Ouchi family as a reliance, so Ashikaga Yoshiharu is very afraid that he will lose power and be exiled, so he urgently needs to get the support of the imperial court, at this time Ashikaga Yoshiharu and the Konoe family happened to meet together, and there was a good story of the two generations of the Konoe family marrying the shogunate.

The main reason why Ashikaga Yoshiki was abandoned was that he married the daughter of Ouchi Yoshiko, and the family rules of the Ashikaga shogun's family had an important one, the main room of the general's family must be the secretary of the imperial court, and the son-in-law must be the bloodline of the minister's family in order to effectively avoid the situation between Hojo Masako and the Hojo family, but this one doesn't seem to be very effective, and Hino Tomiko's ability to toss things is not much worse than Hojo Masako.

This Ashikaga Yoshimi married the daughter of the Ouchi family, which is tantamount to violating the taboo of the shogun's family, if this is the only point, it will not let Hosokawa Harumoto abandon him, because Ashikaga Yoshinoi's mother is the daughter of Spo Yoshikan, and it is also the son of the Shuliu who has samurai blood, and Hosokawa Harumoto will not give up a chess piece for the taboo of the shogun's family.

The bigger reason is that the relationship between the Ouchi family and the Hosokawa family has been very poor since the Ningbo tribute incident, these two are also the overlords of the two regions, not soft persimmons that can be handled casually, deposing Mrs. Ouchi is equivalent to turning the face with the Ouchi family, and not deposing means that Ashikaga Yoshiki will become a general, and his uncle Ouchi Yoshitaka will rise to power, maybe another trip to Shangluo will make Kinai scattered.

This is what Hosokawa Harumoto, who is preparing for the puppet general, can't allow, just like Hosokawa Masamoto can't allow Ashikaga Yoshisai to get close to Hatakeyama Masacho, it's for this reason that Hosokawa Harumoto will gradually alienate Ashikaga Yoshiwei, and take the opportunity of Miyoshi Motocho's death to completely abandon this useless chess piece, so Ashikaga Yoshisumi's sister-in-law Ashikaga Yoshiharu was re-established as a general, and the Konoe family, as a relative, also took this opportunity to become a big celebrity in front of Ashikaga Yoshiharu, and gradually found some opportunities to bring back the Kujo Ichigo family in the imperial court.

The Kujo family happened to have a problem at this point, and the current governor of the Kujo family, Kujo Shitsu, lost all the manor territories of the Kujo family because of his opposition to his retainers, and was forced to live in seclusion in Settsu under the great loss of face, and the Ichijo family put all their energy on the troubles of the Tosa Ichijo family dying one after another.

So Nijo Harura became the actual pillar of the Kujo One series, and it was because of Konoe's active performance that he was unanimously praised by the imperial court, but Nijo Harura was taken down by the imperial court because of his inaction, and seeing that the imperial court was getting better and better in the years when his political opponent served as Sekihaku, the feeling in his heart was like 10,000 ants biting.

So he wanted to take revenge for personal gain, taking advantage of the opportunity of the Kujo family to just succeed his son Kujo Kaneko, and Ichijo Neiki was just three low-level ministers to speak on behalf of the three families of the Kujo family, and he spoke alone as the three families of the Seki family.

Kira Yoshishi was very unhappy, wondering if Nijo Harura had been eyeing Konoe for a long time, and took advantage of his proposal to violate the laws of the imperial court to strike at it, so it was not good for him to entrust this matter to Konoe for a long time, but it was not appropriate not to entrust it to him, after all, the deceased Kira Yoshiaki was still his old father-in-law, and this father-in-law returned to heaven before he saw each other, and he would be too sorry for Katsuhime if he didn't find a chance to take revenge.

If he's not happy, he can't take Nijo Harara, after all, that's the former minister of Guan Baizuo, and it's no problem to find fault with the guard in terms of etiquette, and he is still retiring from his post without an official body, and it is impossible to force him to resign to blackmail him into shutting up, it seems that there is no better way than to sulk.

"Another thing is more important." Wise Mitsuhide took out the brocade bag and took out the scroll framed in silk, and respectfully offered it with both hands: "This is the imperial teaching book issued by His Royal Highness to the palace of the town government, please take a look at the palace of the town government!" ”

"Oh!" Kira Yoshitoki took the imperial book from his surname and gently unfolded it, and the familiar handwriting of iron and silver hooks poured down into his eyes, and Kira Yoshitoki knew Ashikaga Yoshiteru's handwriting well, and he could be sure that no second person in the whole world could learn this calligraphy as sharp as a sword. (To be continued......)

PS: Bow again and thank Xiao Zimu for the reward, and congratulate Xiao Zimu on becoming the third hall master of this book! Ume is working hard to save the manuscript, and it is expected that there will be an outbreak in a few days.