Eastern Buddhist society attaches great importance to ethics and morality, and the level of the samurai is relatively not very particular about ethics and morality, and it is not uncommon for fathers and brothers to regard them as enemies and even fight in the same room, but as a famous samurai family as the top of the entire samurai ecosystem, it always has to represent the face of the entire group, so when Ashikaga Yoshitoki made fasting and chanting, he got the collective support of the Kanto samurai group, so there were hundreds of people kneeling on the futon and chanting with a sad face.

Not only did Ashikaga Yoshitoki need a good reputation, but all the samurai families under the Kanto Shogun's Office wanted a good reputation, so Ashikaga Yoshitoki also specially ordered Yoshitoki to make a number of letters of gratitude at one time to thank the samurai who participated in the chanting of the heroic souls who died in the Great Rebellion of Eiroku, which is equivalent to a certificate issued by the Kanto Shogun's Office, telling the world that this is indeed the case during this time.

The saying of crying spirits was not popular in ancient Japanese society, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki originally thought about whether to come to a period of Liu Da'er crying to buy people's hearts, but after careful consideration, he found that this would lose the majesty of the lord, and crying and crying as a child would not only fail to buy people's hearts, but also make the retainers think that the image of the lord is too undignified, like a useless woman, rather than a brave and serious general.

The thousand-year-old aristocratic tradition inherited from the Asuka era is extremely heavy, no more than the 300-year cycle of chaos of the Central Plains Dynasty, this small closed society of the island country has always maintained the original stubborn tradition, the ministers can only see laughter and never see crying, the nobles of the high gate are only majestic and do not see the chagrin, and the samurai advocate the custom that Mount Tai collapses in front of the same color.

Imagine the experience of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, who was lost and had nothing to rely on, and took his belongings to the west of Luojing at the age of the general horn. This is the beginning of 20 years of magnificent legendary samurai history. Growing up, I didn't know what tears were. Always maintain a wise and resolute and far-sighted attitude, guide the Ueki Ashikaga family to overcome difficulties and obstacles, and finally achieve the hegemony of the Kanto region, and suddenly cry is difficult to be understood by the retainers of the spectrum.

Although there was no habit of crying spirits in this era, there was an extreme custom of seppuku martyrdom, such as the Sakura River Dynasty committing suicide by seppuku in front of the tomb of Date Minoru, and at the same time as Miyoshi Yoshiken committed seppuku, the servants of the small surname were martyred en masse. The horses were either killed in battle or seppuku, and there are countless examples of seppuku martyrdom for the lord, and it is not reliable to let Ashikaga Yoshitoki go to Ashikaga Yoshiki to be seppuku martyred.

This custom is not absolute, it depends on the personal understanding of the martyr, generally the lord will die unexpectedly and the servant Ma Hui must be martyred to understand, the retainers of the genealogy will basically not die for the lord, they can choose to mourn, or further cut down the family monks, or after the death of the three good righteous sages. His genealogy of retainers has become monks, and Shinohara Nagafang has entered Ziyun. Shinohara Chang entered the Tao and escaped, and it was this reason that Ichinomiya Chengzhu entered the Dao Bu Xian.

It's a pity that Ashikaga Yoshitoki can neither cut his stomach nor cut his family, he is a mature monarch and not an ordinary samurai with feelings, Ashikaga Yoshikyo was killed and not many people grieved, and the death of Gen Mi did not arouse the conscience of the imperial family, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was very kind to the Kanto Ashikaga family, but he could not abandon his family and pay such a big price.

At this moment, the situation in Kyoto is unclear, and it is at a critical moment when the Kanto Ashikaga family is facing a choice, as a monarch, he must not be emotional for personal friendship, and the way he chooses is to temporarily send a useful body, praying for the shogun for a hundred days to overspend the dead soul, even then it is not easy.

Chanting sutras during the day and discussing government affairs at night, Ashikaga Yoshitoki is the owner of more than a dozen realms, there are many things to care about every day, often from the evening meeting until midnight to rest, how hard it is during the period is self-explanatory, but it is still better than the military and political power in previous years, everything has to be intervened, and the life of getting up early and greedy all day is much easier.

With the assistance of a professional staff team, he detailed the procedural rules for every step of his life, and even pre-designed what to talk about in those conversations, etc., to ensure that Ashikaga Yoshitoki, the general, would not encounter any accidents, and always maintained a calm and steady posture, which was not designed for Ashikaga Yoshitoki himself, but a valuable legacy for future descendants.

It was night, wind and rain, lightning and thunder, and the storm rolled up the waves and beat the solid seawall mercilessly, and at this moment the side hall of Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace was brightly lit.

The ministers knelt down in front of him in a neat queue, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki was wearing a sackcloth with a bowl on his head, and sat on the futon with a sad expression, sighing: "Less than 100 days after His Royal Highness the Shogun passed away, there were people who wanted to plot chaos, the turmoil in the country of Dewa, the turmoil in the country of Mutsu, and the stubborn disease like the Kanto clan that could not be cured for a long time, which is really a headache!" ”

Koyama Takachao thought that he was worried about the battle ahead, so he persuaded him: "His Royal Highness Don't worry, Mogami Kyoshoden sits in Oshu to fight against thieves, and there are Oshu samurai such as Date Kyozhao Hall, Ashina Repair Hall, Soma Dan Main Hall, Kasai Kyozhao Hall, Osaki Kyozhao Hall, Naito Bigo Guard Hall and other Oshu samurai from the side, and it is not difficult to come to pacify Oshu for a while, please ask Your Highness Gongfang to believe in the ability of the samurai." ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki shook his head and said: "What Yu is worried about is not that the princes of Oshu are not doing things well, but that they are worried about this inexhaustible swarm!" It is important to know that Yu's tolerance is limited, the situation in Gyeonggi cannot tolerate the slightest slowdown, and the imperial family's urgent task of reorganizing and sorting it out is imminent, and Yu's progress cannot be stopped by these trivial matters. ”

The old and thin Numata Mitsukane suddenly came out of the corner and said in a loud voice, "What His Royal Highness said is very true! However, the subordinates thought that they could attack Kinai first, and with the connection of the subordinates in Hokuriku, they led the naval army to raid Tsuruga Port and seize Wakasa Province, which happened to be integrated with the three counties of Kita-Omi, and at that time, it may be possible to attack the Asakura family in one fell swoop, and open up the important joints of the Hokuriku Province to Kamiraku, so that the great cause can be expected! ”

His speech immediately attracted the attention of many samurai, Numata Hikaru Kanejin could not even judge the public, and his status within the followers has never been high, but because of a special identity, he has been looked down upon many times, and this time he made a high argument to attract the collective attention of the retainers, and the old man raised his head disapprovingly, as if to say that you young people are still not as good as me.

Sanada Yutaka was absent from the meeting and was replaced by his sister-in-law, Yoshiyuki Sanada, who was sitting behind his father's side, and happened to see the old man staggering to the middle to bow down and speak. He retorted: "No! How can we raise troops outside if we are not quiet internally? If it is a confidant, the place of trouble will cause a wall. The morale of the army is shaken, and the soldiers are defeated, won't we die without a place to be buried? ”

Another recent hot and powerful pursuer, Nagano Yegu followed closely behind: "It's really inappropriate, there are too many flaws in the tactics of the navy, not to mention that the main force of the navy is now assembled in the Kanto region, the Northern Continent Naval Force has not developed for nearly seven years, and it is difficult for the brigade to cooperate with the Northern Continent operation. It would be extremely inappropriate not to be in the interests of the Kanto region. ”

Honda was looking up at his old father-in-law, shook his head secretly at the old man's behavior of jumping up and down, and said slowly: "The eight countries of Kanto are the key places of the henchmen, and the pivot to open up the key points of the Kanto region is in the Kai country, one of the ten countries of the Kanto region, the core of the Kai Takeda clan, as long as the Kai Takeda clan makes a slight move, the main force of the Hokuriku will not be able to come back for a while, and the henchmen of the Kanto region will be exposed in front of the enemy, and even if they do not die, they will be seriously injured." ”

In and out of the words, your old man is talking nonsense. It is not easy to squeeze Numata Hikaru and some young samurai directly put mocking expressions on their faces. Just scolded him for not knowing what to do and not knowing what to do, and over the years, Numata Hikaru served as the second commander of Hokuriku Province, thinking that he had a plan, and he ran up and down all day long, just to pull up a group of supporters of the "Hokuriku Rapid Attack", and he was indeed "close" to success, at least he himself thought so.

Another son-in-law, Kitabatake, said: "There's no need to repeat the same old tune like Hokuriku Rapid Attack, right? The internal tranquility of the eight countries of the Kanto region requires the rectification of Yuoku to calm the Kanto region and strengthen the binding force and enforcement of the law, and then the Takeda clan, the fierce rival who controls the Kai Nexus in Tokaido, should not choose Hokuriku Province from any aspect, at least not first. ”

Numata Mitsukane did not speak, the passage of time left a deep mark on his face, this old man who was over seventy years old has lost the vigor of the year, Ashikaga Yoshitoki once talked to him, suggesting that he retire from his post within the year to live in Edo Castle, as for the Hokuriku to take the second service to his son Numata Yumitsu to lead.

The old man is still very unwilling, his grandson Matsuchiyo is very well-behaved and clever when he reaches the age of ten, but he is getting farther and farther away from the road he expected to fight for the heir, the so-called concubine has completely become a laughing stock in the family, if it is not for the scruples of the sons-in-law of the Numata family, who are all very capable, there will definitely be people who ridicule Numata in front of him.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki didn't intend to embarrass his old father-in-law, he had a total of three living fathers-in-law, Nagao Torahhime's father, Nagao Weike, who had been dead for many years, Oda Inu, Oda City's father Oda Nobuhide died of illness for fifteen years, and Ii Naoto's father, Ii Naomori, died in the Battle of Barrel Sasama, all of which were dead.

Among the three living fathers-in-law, Mogami Yoshihime's father, Mogami Yoshimori, lived in seclusion in Yamagata Castle, Mochizuki Yoshino's father, Mochizuki Yoshito, was still guarding the family business in Koga, and only Numata Sandalwood's old father was under the nose of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and there was a group of powerful sons-in-law in the center to help, even if he didn't do things authentically, he had to give some face.

"Looking ahead and looking backward can't make a big deal." Ashikaga Yoshitoki stroked the two well-trimmed beards on the corners of his mouth, and said flatly: "The Kai Takeda clan is just a disease of scabies, and there is no need to panic in the Mutsu Rebellion. ”

The retainers of the spectrum listened to the training, but there were still many people who muttered a little in their hearts, the fifteen countries in the northeast of the Guandong Luyuao and other places were under the jurisdiction of the Kwantung General's Office, and it seemed that the territory was really vast, almost half of the island of Honshu from east to west, and there was still a shortage of 100,000 soldiers in such a large territory to guard various places, especially those newly attached places According to the traditional view, it would take at least one to two generations and decades of kung fu and grace to gradually form local prestige and influence.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki reprimanded: "Yu knows that what you are thinking about is nothing more than that the new annex of the territory is undecided, and it is just that it needs to recuperate and establish prestige. Can it affect Kanto stability? Can it win the hearts of the people? ”

The retainers of the genealogy suddenly realized, no wonder in recent years, there have been swarms in various places, from the first few counties of the country to rebel at the same time, were suppressed and beheaded with a group, and then the trouble was reduced to a county to make a rebellion, and then was suppressed and resumed to make a rebellion, and even a county could not be controlled, and those stubborn villages were marked one by one by repeated encirclement and suppression, and finally the army raided and simply captured these villages collectively. All of them were sent to Sado Island to be enslaved.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki firmly believes in one. Repression can only take root by a combination of killing and distribution. What indoctrination to educate them is to fear the cow and the like, and the naïve idea of the Amilian nation, which was not yet born, carried out a bloody massacre of the Indians, and they believed that only the dead Indians were good Indians.

This also applies to the Kwantung General's Palace, where those who gather together to fight together are killed according to the rules, and those who are rebellious are disguised according to the rules, and there is no mercy from the old and weak women and children, and the sinners have to pay the price for their recklessness, and wars are always bloody and merciless. Only a naïve person would try to educate the aliens of the enemy of life and death.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki glanced around, no one dared to raise his head to look at him, and then said slowly: "Some of the remnants of the remnants of the remnants of the landless ronin are unwilling to fail, and gather the officials and lords from all over the country to raise troops to make a rebellion, which is against the order issued by Yu to have nothing to do with the eastern country, but there are those who violate the law, regardless of their relatives and respect, they will never forgive, and if they rebel once, they will kill them once and then they will kill them again, and they will kill all the people and then transfer immigrants from Kanto, and Yu is not distressed." What are you worried about? ”

"Respect for tradition is a virtue, and tradition represents history and records the footprints of the struggles of the sages. Respect for tradition means loyalty, righteousness and shame, but not every tradition is worthy of respect, the local lord and the local ruler in order to consolidate themselves will gang up, gather in the mountains and forests, and do the bad deeds of those bandits and bandits, some people collude with the local people to entrench themselves as a major force, and when they travel, they are surrounded by pomp and circumstance, which is comparable to the guardian of the county division.

The shogunate's edict was accepted or rejected if it was not accepted, and this kind of person was called an evil party in the Kamakura period, and how could the tradition of this evil party be worthy of respect! What surprised Yu even more was that you and the others had to make repeated concessions to these evil parties, because they were worried that they would be unable to control themselves because of the huge power of the shogunate, or that they would collude with them? ”

Although the Kamakura shogunate established a samurai ruling system and gradually dismantled the serf estate system that was popular in the Heian period, the resulting Somura Autonomous Consortium was in the ascendant, and there were still a large number of remnants of the serf estate system in various places, especially in areas far from Gyeonggi.

Officials and lords such as local emperors, who spent money from the Kyoto court or large temples to buy a shelter privilege, still exercised power over the people of Zhuangding, and even if the Kanto Shogun's office repeatedly ordered the abolition of the manor system and the privileges of the lords, these people broke into pieces and infiltrated the villages, and still exercised strong control over the villages.

Each famous lord family is a powerful landlord in the locality, with dozens of strong men and dozens of armor and war horses, they can easily control two or three hundred anti land by various means, and they can still rely on force to coerce the peasants to be reduced to serfs for their ploughing for their drive, and they can even obtain the right of peasant women to the first night, as well as the privilege of buying and selling human beings at will.

These people are a headache, because they have infiltrated the grassroots units of the Kwantung Army, and have become the minions of the major legions or the head of the ashigaru group at the grassroots level, or the samurai on horseback to be dispatched in Edo Castle.

Hosokawa Fujitaka frowned and said: "In recent years, the state land inspection has been obstructed many times, and many villages do not hesitate to resolutely resist the land inspection by gathering people, and the mobilization of the army to suppress can only catch three or five leaders on the table, and the people hidden behind the scenes are always at large, such as social diseases that make people headaches!" ”

Matsui Yuxian reflected: "For the matter of prosecuting the land and resisting the law, we also asked Mochizuki Anyun to participate in the palace as a coordination, but there are many local forces involved, and the relationship is intertwined and extremely troublesome, and we are also worried about the predecessor of the attack, so we have repeatedly tolerated and tolerated it, but we don't want to cause the hidden danger of chaos, it is really our mistake." ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's brows furrowed more and more when he heard this, and he tapped the tatami mats with a folding fan and said, "You know a lot about these evildoers, but you can always pretend not to know how to let them go...... Yu was very surprised and chilled! ”

The ministers bowed their heads in panic and said, "I don't dare to deceive His Royal Highness, it's just ......"

Ashikaga Yoshitoki waved his hand to interrupt, and said solemnly: "There is no need to say much about the matter at this point, from now on, the implementation of the land inspection and the specific handlers will be held accountable one by one, and all the samurai involved in the case will be arrested regardless of their status, and Yu must see which daring people dare to cause trouble in the Kanto region, and dare to take Yu's orders as child's play!" ”

Soon after the meeting, the Imperial Company Judge made corresponding punishments, and the Governor in charge of the inspection was suspended for reflection, and many of the Inspectors were demoted and returned to the Imperial Company Judgment Agency for redeployment, and dozens of people were implicated, and the military discipline within each regiment began to be rectified, and the samurai involved in a sensitive area were handed over to the Hattori Masaaki for separate interrogation.

At the same time, in the form of secret orders, it was issued to the commanders of the regiments in each town, ordering them to carry out a wave of military suppression of the sensitive areas of Ichi, and with the cooperation of the inner line, hundreds of commanders of Ichiba were captured and harbored, which greatly dealt a blow to the arrogance of the rebel forces in various places.

The rebellion on the Bosu Peninsula was put down by Nobutsada Kohata and Yoshiyuki Sanada, and the naval army general Kuki Takaji gave corresponding support, and then ordered Mogami Yoshimitsu to serve as the commander-in-chief, and Date Terumune as the vanguard to lead the army of the Mutsu town to go to various places to quell the rebellion, focusing on the remnants of the two families in Andong and Nanbo.

Staying at Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine all summer, oblivious to the war between Kanto and Mutsu, the Kanto samurai clearly felt that the Kanto Princes were brewing and might set off a storm someday in the future. (To be continued......)

PS: Bow and thank the book friend for the floating heart and the bookworm No. 866 for the reward.