Standing at the foot of an inconspicuous Mt. Saruto, Kansuke Yamamoto introduced to Kira Manmatsumaru: "There are many shrines in Mikawa, but the Sarutou Shrine is the one that I and other samurai worship the most. ”

If you follow the direction that Kansuke Yamamoto pointed out, you can see the red torii gate between the mountains of the forest, and it is the Sarutou Shrine of Sannomiya in Mikawa Province, also known as Sasatou Shrine.

Ichinomiya refers to the shrine with the highest status in the region, and is usually called the one of the shrines, one of the palaces of the multi-command country, although there is no literature that stipulates the criteria for the selection of the first house, but it has the function of being a semi-official shrine, and the shrine that is second to the first house is called the second house, and the second is called the third house, and a few orders will have four and five houses.

Walking on the approach to Sarutou Shrine, the road to the Great Temple Shrine since ancient times is the best level, even the Taisha Shrine of the distant country will not be much worse than the streets of, there are four major shrines among the many shrines in Mikawa Province, and they are rated as four palaces, one of which is the first shrine Toshi Shrine, the second shrine Chiritsu Shrine, the third shrine Sarutou Shrine, the fourth shrine Ishinomaki Shrine, how to balance the four shrines between the question of who is the first palace He has no interest in paying attention, this time just as an ordinary mountaineer to visit.

Crossing the torii gate in front of the shrine, it was greeted by the shrine Daisuku in person, and under the warm reception of the shrine's Daiju, a team of dozens of people such as Kira Manmatsumaru simply used some pastries in the shrine, and with the Daijo tour of the shrine's scenery, as a local shrine-level Sarutou Shrine is actually very small, it looks less than one-tenth the size of the Honshoji Temple, and several rooms in twos and threes are dedicated to the legendary characters that will only appear in the "Kojiki" and "Nihon Shoki".

The main sacrifice god is the great Usui life, also known as the great Usui prince, this Da Ui prince is the son of the twelfth generation of Emperor Jingxing, it is said that he was very unlucky to die in the ape mountain, the reason is that he died of snake venom, and then this shrine was established in the period of Emperor Nakawai, for this kind of Shinto Taoist completely unreliable legend, Kira Manmatsu Matsumaru has always been respectful and far away, this time it is just a simple visit to the wood carved statue to send a few Yongle money.

He doesn't pay attention to the gods, but there are many things that have been accepted by the ministers and warriors of the past dynasties, such as swords and armor, and what is especially surprising is that there are important books and historical materials such as "Spring and Autumn Classics", "Analects", "Historical Records" and other important books and historical materials.

The most outrageous thing is that there are Li Shimin personally written, the Tang Dynasty printed version of "Emperor Fan", and Wu Zetian personally wrote "Chen Rail", in addition to the Northern and Southern Dynasties era of the "Anthology", Bai Juyi's "Bai's Anthology" and other famous books, the collection of books is mostly from the Tang Dynasty, and it can be seen from the side that the age of this shrine is long enough.

"It is said that the name of Kamo Prefecture came again because of the leader of the Kamo Gozu Shrine, and the main blessing of the shrine is still a middle-aged man with the Miao character Kamo, and I don't know what it has to do with the Kamo clan in Kyoto." Kira Manmatsumaru was disgusted by this shrine Daisuku who always had a smirk on his face, and felt that he didn't look like a shrine at all.

Under the urging of Kira Manmatsumaru, this worship party took less than half an hour to hurry, looking at the appearance of Kamo Dazhu's unfinished appearance, it seemed that he had a very pleasant chat with Yamamoto Kansuke, but he didn't care what the two of them talked about, and now he just wanted to go back and wash off the dust and sweat on his body, and the bangs in front of his forehead were all stuck to his forehead, which felt really terrible.

It was only after the rain that the sky was sunny for less than a day, and the big sun brought back the scorching heat, and when he went down the mountain road, he heard Yamaoka Zenjiro whispering to him: "Is it really okay to ride a horse all morning on such a hot day, and run to this Sannomiya to worship God without drinking a few cups of tea?" But then again, it seems that Atsuta Jingu is only three palaces, but it is very famous, which is really strange, and I don't know how these societies evaluate the one-house system! ”

Yamaoka Zenjiro is full of complaints, and the horses who follow behind are naturally complaining, and it is not a pleasant thing to ride out on this hot day, and just now I was thinking about staying in the shrine and deepening the relationship with the beautiful little witch, but now I was hot into a water rabbit, and I almost stretched out my tongue.

Walking down the mountain along the approach road of the Sarutou Shrine to the south, I happened to meet a team of more than 20 people head-on, led by several grandmothers wearing Wu clothes waist and crotch knives, more than 20 horsemen and the horses of the Kira family all mounted the horse, the two teams silently looked at each other at a glance and passed by, it seems that they also came to the Sarutou Shrine to worship, but the face is very raw I don't know which one is Mikawa.

The team of the Kira family politely waited on the side of Mt. Shima for the people who went up the mountain to pass, and it was not until the group of people who went up the mountain gradually disappeared in the approach that Yamamoto Kansuke said: "They are the people of the Matsudaira family and the Takiwaki Matsudaira family in Kamo County, and these two families are the main forces that oppress the Nakajo family in Matsudaira and Kamo County, and most of the more than 20 townships lost by the Nakajo family were divided by these two families. ”

"Oh! The Matsudaira Kiyoyasu clan, who is said to be able to rule the world after the age of thirty, I remember! It seems that the Matsudaira family claims to be descendants of the Kamo clan, right? Kira Manmatsumu suddenly remembered an interesting story about the later Tokugawa Ieyasu changed the Miao character, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who claimed to be Genji, changed a new Miao character Tokugawa clan, first claiming to be a descendant of the Tokugawa clan of the Fujiwara clan, and in the later period, he claimed to be the last descendant of the Seiwa Genji Nitta Ryu Shiryota Ryu Shiryada Ryū Tokugawa clan into the descendants of the Matsudaira family, which is really intriguing.

"Yes! The Matsudaira clan is indeed a clan of the Kamo clan in Kyoto, and Matsudaira Nobumitsu served as the official of the Shogunate Shogunate's deacon, Isesada, and was appointed by Isesa to go to Mikawa Province to assist Mikawa in protecting Hosokawa Nariyuki, and to manage the Imperial Warehouse after the attack of the people of Eita County, and to establish the Iwazu Matsudaira clan on this basis. Kansuke Yamamoto's concise introduction to the summary of the Matsudaira family made Kira Manmatsumomaru immediately have a clear understanding of this mysterious Matsudaira family.

The Kira family was very disdainful of the Matsudaira family, who had rebelled, and no one even wanted to mention them in the family, but he also had a rough understanding of the Matsudaira family's short family history, and in the second year of the Ming Dynasty (1493 in the Western calendar), the Nakajo family and the official launched the Iidano Rebellion against the Iwazu Matsudaira family, and as a result, they were defeated by the Matsudaira family with 4,000 to 2,000, and the Nakajo family fell into decline since then.

In the fifth year of Eisho (1508 in the Western calendar), the Imagawa family army led a large army to attack Iwazu Castle on behalf of Ise Munerui, and finally because the expedition to Mikawa Division was unknown and the logistics supply difficulties Division veteran fatigue, he was defeated by the Matsudaira Naga family who fought to the death in Cage Castle and the Toda clan of Hachijo Prefecture, this Ise Sorui was the first governor of the Later Hojo family, Hojo Sakumo.

Although it can't be proved that Matsudaira Nagakin's ability is comparable to that of the first governor of the Hojo family because he defeated Hojo Sakumo, who was on the teacher's expedition, this is definitely a capital worthy of the Matsudaira family's boasting, and the Kira family doesn't like the Matsudaira family very much, but this will not affect Kira Manmatimaru's judgment.

How can you not pay attention to this family that has won the world, unfortunately the situation within the Matsudaira clan is very complicated, although there are still a few families that are still subordinate to the Kira family, but there is little news within this clan, and the Matsudaira clan has no old feelings for the old lord Kira clan who once surrendered.

Kira Manmatsumaru thought for a while and said: "In this way, the Matsudaira family is indeed from the Kamo clan, and the Oda family in Owari is from the Kibe clan, the Suwa family from Suwa County, and the Aso family in Kyushu, these are all from the Miyaji Daizhu family, but they can win the territory on the next gram, which is really incredible." ”

The Kira family generally visits their own Mijihachimangu Palace, and rarely goes to other shrines to worship, and they don't have a good impression of these samurai families from Daizhu or Miyaji, let alone much friendship, for example, this time there is no face of the Oda family who sold Owari, which makes Oda Nobuhiro very annoyed.

"The owner will get used to it in the future." Yamamoto Kansuke smiled at Kira Manmatsumaru, who was interested, and looked at the slanting sun on the horizon: "There are still two hours before the sun sets, we have to go back quickly, otherwise the horse hall will complain about his subordinates again." ”