The raging flames in the middle of the night can be clearly seen in Sakamoto Castle at the foot of the mountain, and the entire Mt. Hiei turns into a sea of red fire, like the terrible Shizuka that depicts the fire of Mt. Toyama in hell, and the faint cry from the mountain wakes up the townspeople who are asleep, including Otsu, Katata, and Kyoto in the distance.

People of all faiths were silently praying for the dead on the mountain, and it was not long before they saw the monks of Enryakuji Temple who had escaped from the fire and massacre running down the mountain, and as soon as they arrived in the town, they were quickly controlled, and the frightened monks could not tell what was happening, and they could not say anything other than describing the sea of fire and the slaughter of the army, and the disaster came too quickly and quickly far beyond their expectations.

The Kira family had clearly learned the information long before the Ichi-Ichi army swarmed, and at the front foot of the Ichi-ichi army, the army of the Kira family rushed to their base camp, and confiscated the money, food, materials, weapons and equipment, etc., and the relatives of the people who stayed behind in the old nest and all the people involved in the case were all detained in different places, and at the same time ordered Hoshino to order the people of Takashima to guard the direction of Takashima County, and the Ichi-ichi army fled and entered.

The vicinity of Sakamoto Town was surrounded by the Kira army, and even the townspeople spontaneously joined the defense of the castle town, and when they arrived at the third watch, Mt. Hiei began to light up with a red light, and the soldiers and civilians of the Kira family stared nervously at the movement on the mountain, and as the fire became more and more vigorous, the shouts of killing became louder and louder, and this time even the merchants who lived temporarily in the port near Sakamoto Town were also awakened, including some cultural people who gathered in the town to whisper about what happened.

After more than an hour of shouting and killing, the movement on the mountain was getting closer and closer, and unknown people fled towards Sakamoto on the approach road down from the Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine, and the Kira army immediately captured these unknown people. Half an hour later, a team of several hundred people appeared. They also saw Sakamoto Town, full of torches, waiting for him. Without saying a word, this group of troops turned around and fled north, and the Kira army did not blindly pursue, but still chose to wait under the town.

Until about four o'clock in the morning, a group of defeated soldiers escaped from the valley, some of them still holding the banner of "disgusted with the filthy land, seeking the pure land", "Nan no Amitabha" or "swastika", these defeated soldiers seemed to want to move closer to Sakamoto Castle, but they did not go far before they were frightened back by a salvo of iron artillery arranged in the castle town. So the group of routs also turned around and fled north.

While the rout was fleeing northward, a long string of torches appeared at the mouth of the valley one after another, and when they saw the Kira army outside Sakamoto Castle pause slightly, a warrior monk immediately ran over and shouted menacingly, "Where did you see the deserters retreating?" ”

Kira's army was calm about this, and replied casually, pointing to the fading fire in the north, "North! You can also see the torches! It's too late to catch up! We've also captured a lot of unknown people, and we've handed them over to you! ”

The warrior monk waved his hand and trotted all the way back to give the order, but in a moment the monks of Mt. Hiei chased after him to the north, and after a while, a pair of monks came to receive the unknown person seized by the Kira family, and the Kira army was also disbanded on the spot and went back to continue to rest, and Kira Yoshishi did not even leave the castle tower at all. Just rubbing his eyes and looking at the fire in Mt. Hiei for a while, he lay down and continued to sleep.

It wasn't until the afternoon of the same day that news came that Omi's Ichi-Ichi-ichi army had set a fire to Enryakuji Temple on Mt. Hiei in Kitaya. The number of people burned to death has not yet been counted, but it is expected that the death toll will exceed 2,000, and the first army also left 800 corpses and fled to Kita Omi, and the east tower of Enryakuji Temple burned in an area of nearly 100 towns, and the fire was basically extinguished until noon.

Of course, all this had little to do with Kira Yoshitoki, he just sent people to condole, sent hundreds of worth of medicine and food, and then did not follow, the impact of this incident can be said to be huge, this is regarded as a provocation by the Isunzong to the five mountains of, and the burning of the "Buddhist Mother Mountain" Enryakuji Temple is comparable to the killing of Ashikaga Yoshikyo, which immediately caused a major earthquake in the region.

The anger of Prince Yao Zunfa of the Tiantai Throne Lord, this is simply a great shame, even the Ashikaga Yoshikyo did not dare to burn down Enryakuji Temple back then, this group of lawless soldiers really dared to risk the world's disapproval, and the monks of the Tiantai Sect could not sit still, they glanced at the vacant places in the root hall, the owners of these seats were talking and laughing with them yesterday, and today they were buried in the fire or begged to death by the mob of the Sect of the Sect, which made them feel that they were hurt and so on.

So the fastest resolution in the history of the Tiantai sect was drafted in only a quarter of an hour, Prince Yaozun issued a decree in the name of the lord of the Tiantai throne to crusade against the Ichijo sect, and all the forces of the Ichijo sect were within the scope of the attack, and the Honganji temple of Ishiyama Gobo was shot while lying down, which was also the successor of his great-grandfather Honganji Renru, and the Ichijo sect was once again accused of being the "enemy of the Buddha".

Not only that, Prince Yaozunfa also personally went out of the mountain, with a group of monks and soldiers carrying the mountain king's authority of the shrine to sue the imperial shogunate, and strongly demanded that the shogunate send troops to exterminate Ishiyama Honganji Temple, Kyoto shook Shake, and in a few days, the incident of Enryakuji Temple being burned for no reason spread all over the world like wings.

The people of the Tiantai sect in the Kinai also swarmed, they played the banner of respecting the law and rebelling, and raised the Tiantai army, and the Omi country instantly swarmed tens of thousands of troops, and the Yamashiro country also had nearly a million people to join, and the huge momentum gathered in the blink of an eye, almost scared the monks of Honganji, and the decree of Prince Yaozunfa was all over the country, and even in Miyoshi Changqing and Hatakeyama Takamasa also received the decree, but these two families were happy to pinch each other, and they didn't have time to deal with this matter.

Honganji certificate as above self-defense, he invited his own family Hino Higashi Dana Yan Qingguang from the peace, but it doesn't seem to be very good, although the emperor has a good impression of Honganji Zhengru, but there is the angry Enryakuji Temple, and the same enemy of the Five Mountains Temple, and even the sworn enemy Kofukuji Temple also expressed support, Enryakuji Temple is also the world's famous mountain gate, just say that it will be burned, so what should these Kyoto Buddhist temples do in the future? All the temples in Kinai suddenly stood on the side of Enryakuji Temple, and at this time, everyone knew what to do.

However, Honganji is not a vegetarian, with the powerful network of Honganji Temple immediately found out the ins and outs, Kaga Ichizo went to Omi Katata activities, which revealed how strange they had no time to manage, so they could only take advantage of the situation to put the blame on Kaga Ichikozong disrespectful order to enter Kinai without authorization, and burn down the mother mountain of Japanese Buddhism Dagaran is a great crime.

At the same time, he also reprimanded Echizen, Koga, and Echichu by name for repeatedly violating Honganji's orders and violating the "three decrees" of the Venerable Rinnu, and ordered some temples in Echizen and Echichu to break down their doors together, and to dissolve the illegal Ichi-chan army gathered in the above temples immediately.

At this time, the nature of the matter changed, and Kaga had always been in Kaga's troubles in Kyoto, and the aristocratic cultural people couldn't control it, but they actually ran to Mt. Hiei to kill people and set fires, and in the long run, where was the majesty of the imperial court and the shogunate? Anyone will burn it, burn Mt. Hiei today, burn Guasheng Mountain tomorrow, burn Kyoto the day after tomorrow, what is the face of the major mountain gates in?

The Kyoto nobles, who realized it later, became angry and turned over the old accounts of Kaga who had always killed the Tomigashi clan and established themselves as a country controlled by the people, making Kaga a human Buddhist country independent of the shogunate, and asked the imperial court and the shogunate to severely punish this group of bandits.

In the past, who would care about what happened to a local tyrant and a peasant in a distant country, whether it was a riot in Kaga Province, or the battle of the Nine-Headed Ryukawa fought by the Echizen Asakura family, it may not even be a topic for conversation after tea and dinner, where can you talk about the past and the present, and study songs, tea ceremonies, or Chinese poems, calligraphy and painting.

This time it was different, whether it was the followers of the Tiantai sect or not, everyone was very concerned about the burning of Mt. Hiei, not to mention that more than half of the followers of the Tiantai sect in Kyoto came from the ministers and royal families of the imperial court, and once the matter fell on them, these nobles felt that what the Tendai sect had done was so dirty, and they repeatedly used the power of the people to launch a fight, and it was a despicable and dirty sect.

In desperation, Ishiyama Honganji deserves to repeatedly say that he was kept in the dark, but Honganji still bears an unshirkable responsibility, especially their teachings actually encourage you to become a Buddha without reading Buddhist scriptures and reciting the Buddha's name, which is simply a fallacy in a fallacy, and has been exiled by the imperial court before.

At this time, Xiang Zong also panicked, and began to beg people everywhere to intercede but with little success, and some unsober officials shouted at the top of their voices: "Why don't you launch a fight!" "Honganji Zhengru was almost angry to death by this rammer, at this time he also launched a fart, and then launched that can confirm the reputation of the cult, let alone mobilize believers in the future, it would be good not to be chased by the samurai to feed the fish in the sea.

Some people in Kyoto are very sympathetic to him Ishiyama Honganji, and there are many ministers who have dealings with Honganji and Honganji Temple, and they usually receive a lot of gifts from Honganji, and they feel that the character of this temple is not bad, and the Buddhist classics talk about the sky, and there is no trace of any cult trend, of course, this cannot be said explicitly, and the situation can only be slowly reversed by helping them say good things.

After more than half a month of crisis public relations, plus the clan of the Honganji Otani family, Hino Harimitsu ran before and after the intermediary, the imperial court decided to open the net to the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, raised it high and gently put it down, and the crisis of the Honganji family being destroyed again gradually disappeared.

For the sake of the face of the imperial court, Prince Yaozunfa decided to spare Ichigan Zong, but the lord of the Tiantai Throne still did not intend to spare them, Prince Yaozunfa first asked Yizun to give compensation, and then issued a huge fine worth 300,000 Guan Yongle money, and at the same time, Honganji Temple certificate such as burning Shishan Honganji Garan and immediately withdrew from, and announced in a high-profile manner that Ichizan was strictly forbidden to engage in preaching activities in, otherwise Tiantai Sect would be punished.

Honganji proved that he was innocently shot to death, but what could he do, Beiling Enryakuji Temple was too strong and he didn't dare to provoke, when the Lianru Master was pointed out by the Tiantai sect as a "Buddha enemy", and then ran out of to preach in the poor countryside of Hokuriku, he didn't want to repeat his great-grandfather's mistake and go to Hokuriku to hide. (To be continued......)

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