Time flies like a shuttle, and five years have passed unconsciously, and after a number of baptisms of cold and summer, the time has quietly come to March of the third year of Tensho (1575), which is a full six years since the Battle of Ujigawa outside Kyoto Castle, and it is also the sixth year of Minamoto Yoshitoki's tenure as the shogun of Seiyi.

The former right minister of the Intermediate Yuan was officially resigned from his official post in November last year on the grounds of old age and infirmity, and the imperial court immediately promoted the Yuan Yi as a right minister, and the Central Plains Tongmian immediately promoted the two Great Nayan and the Right Guards General, and the Iidekawa Sunny Season was also promoted to the two Great Nayan and the Left Guards General.

Konoe also announced his retirement in the first month of this year, and gave up the governor to his eldest son, Konoe Yoshihei, and resigned from the post of Guan Bai, Zuo Minister, Neilan, and Fuji Elder, and the imperial court immediately pardoned him as a Taizheng minister, and kept a Xuanxia, and gave the quasi-three palaces to show his honor, and served as Guan Bai twice for a total of 21 years, and completed the process of the world's chaos to the great rule during his reign.

At the age of fifteen, Yoshitsugu Konoe not only succeeded the governor, but also succeeded Genyoshi at the end of last year as the second minister, and by the beginning of this year, only two months later, he had been promoted to a minister, Sekihaku, and Fuji elders, which was comparable to a step to the sky, and he was also the first fifteen-year-old young governor to serve as Sekihaku in recent decades.

The marriage between the nominal grandson of Minamoto Yoshitoki, the first prince of the current Emperor and Prince Hito, and the daughter of Gen Yoshitoki, seems to be contrary to human ethics at first glance, but in fact this is a normal situation of political marriage, Fujiwara Bubi and others married the eldest daughter Fujiwara Miyako to Emperor Bunmu, and married the youngest daughter Fujiwara Mitsuko to Emperor Shomu, this Emperor Shomu is his own grandson, that is really against the principles of human ethics.

But this is not a matter at all in the eyes of the ancient nobles, there are countless dirty and black ones, compared to Genyitoki's actions are considered to be in order, Gentetsuko is the daughter of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and the Prince Kazuhito she gave birth to is actually not related to Minamoto Yoshitoki, which is absolutely unacceptable to Genyoshitoki and the shogunate. So he wants to marry his daughter to strengthen the blood bond with Prince Heren, and this person happens to have it, her young women's football team Li Huiye.

Taken from the Tale of Taketori in Princess Kaguya, this folklore is the story of the famous name in the early Heian period of Japan, deliberately spoofing the five people who participated in the Mishin Rebellion launched by the prince of the sea people in the early Nara period.

This myth and legend itself is not particularly unusual, simply put, it is the goddess who fell into the mortal world, and the mortal magnates wanted to marry at first sight, but the goddess had no intention of contaminating the fireworks of the mortal world. I can't help my adoptive father's pleading. There were a few problems and asked the five people to take the stone bowl in front of the Buddha, the jade branch of Penglai, the fire rat fur, the beads on the dragon's head, and the swallow's son Anbei. In fact, let those powerful people retreat, but I didn't expect the emperor to also want to marry the Heavenly Maiden as his wife, but fortunately, at this time, the Heavenly Girl came to give the Heavenly Maiden immortal medicine, and the Heavenly Maiden wore the Heavenly Feather Coat and ascended to the Heavenly Palace.

The meaning of this name given to the young girl who had just turned one year old is self-evident. Folklore has it that the emperor did not marry the Celestial Maiden, so my source family's Kaguya will be the emperor's wife, and the emperor does not need to take out five treasures to marry a wife, just to ensure that the source family's martial arts are not declining, and the source family's Kaguya is the emperor's middle palace.

The intention of this marriage was determined when Ashikaga Kaguya was born, and it was a political marriage without freedom, and the natural fate of the daughter of the samurai family was marriage, and marrying a good husband was the greatest hope, and Kaguyahime, who was only one year old, was very lucky. Her four-year-old husband and Prince Ren are physically strong, and they are also very cute, and they must be a very good husband.

Ashikaga Yoshiyasu is eighteen years old, and three years ago he was promoted to three great Nayan and the general of the town guard, and last year he was promoted to the three great Nayan and Dazai marshal. This is a system of remote consuls specially established by Minamoto Yoshitoki, and a defense system is established around the security of the two regional centers of Kyushu Dazaifu and Mutsu Jinmorifu.

The core of this system is several subordinate officials of Dazaifu in Kyushu, who are assigned to the four lower Dazai Daizai Daiji who are assigned to the Mogami Yoshimitsu of Kitakyushu, and Shimazu Yoshihisa and Hojo Tokimasa respectively serve as the five lower Dazai Shaoji, these are the big local forces in Upper Kyushu, each of them has at least 300,000 koku or more territory, but they have no military power in their hands, not only they have no military power in their hands, in the entire Japanese Goki Seven Provinces and 66 countries, only the shogunate has military power.

The military service in Kyushu is a professional samurai and a professional ashigaru, they are all hereditary soldier assessment systems, whether samurai or ashigaru are hereditary families of all sizes, the so-called assessment is that there is only one place for the hereditary, there is no such thing as a family giving birth to three sons and becoming three families, a samurai has an inheritance, and the other sons are either engaged in business or returned to farming, and they are really reluctant to pay for their own family to raise them, but the shogunate will not protect their privileges, and the privilege of wearing a sword is only granted to the successor of this samurai family.

This is not a sword hunting order, Yuan Yishi does not believe that the sword hunting order can govern the country, Meng Yuanzhi fiercely squeezed to the Han people three households have a sword, but the peasant uprising at the end of the Yuan Dynasty is still in full swing and unstoppable, it can be seen that the so-called confiscation of weapons is unreliable, as long as the shogunate is strong, he is not afraid of the threat of those few knives and guns.

The shogunate only forbade the possession of dangerous items such as offensive crossbows, iron cannon gunpowder, and plate armor-shaped equipment, and as for the ornate large armor, simple carcass, and belly rolls, as well as ordinary maruki bows, bamboo bows, short knives for self-defense, small knives, and ribs, and other weapons were still prohibited, and daily security patrols were maintained by the police in various places, so there was basically no need to worry about safety.

The samurai can only take office through the assessment, and the samurai are assessed in many subjects such as archery, swordsmanship, iron artillery, military strategy and arithmetic, and the degree of discernment, and the three are qualified, the four are acceptable, the five are good, the six are excellent, the seven are outstanding, and the eight are selected.

The assessment of Ashigaru is much simpler, good health, good conduct, law-abiding, familiar with military discipline, familiar with the basic tactics of Ashigaru Formation, spearmanship or iron artillery, bow skills qualified, only need to go through literacy, law, military discipline, fighting skills assessment, physical fitness test can be hired to pass, this is the only way to maintain strong fighting spirit in the peaceful and prosperous times.

Many people are worried about whether it will be affected if the samurai and ashigaru fail the assessment, and the shogunate's explanation for this is also very clear, since it is a hereditary assessment, it must be a combination of hereditary and assessment, and if this generation fails the assessment, the next generation will come again. If the eldest son is not qualified, the second son will come, if the heir is not the heir, he will be inherited by the same clan, and if there is no same clan, the shogunate will appoint a related subordinate of the same rank to inherit.

The samurai succession process is very strict, must be carried out under the supervision of the shogunate, and then reported to the Imperial Court for review before the permission takes effect, the main purpose is to ensure the priority of the same clan, the closer the blood relationship of the samurai to the throne succession, the stronger the succession, if there is no candidate for the same clan, then choose the heir from the close branch of the same bloodline.

For example, if the Dapeng clan of the Bandong Ping clan is the heir, priority will be given to finding excellent heirs from the Dapeng clan and one family. If there happens to be no male heir in the clan. Just look for an excellent heir from the Bandong Taira system. And so on, the Ping system, and the other branches in the end, this method can effectively ensure the fetters of a collar and effectively combat the behavior of geographical factors through coercive means in private. On the other hand, Ashigaru is relatively simple, as long as it is a willing successor in the world soldier system.

The shogunate brought all military power under the direct control of the shogunate, and the Kyushu soldiers were transferred to the Kinai, Saikoku, Shikoku, Tokai, Hokuriku, and Kanto regions according to their different origins.

The samurai at the rank of reserve commander were appointed directly by the shogunate through the Imperial Judgment Public, and these samurai were mid- and low-ranking samurai who had been selected from a lineage family or who had received outstanding evaluations. The reserve general is also transferred to another place at the expiration of his three-year term, and the reserve general is forbidden to command the reserve soldiers from his hometown, the same clan, the relatives, and the old one.

The junior officers in each reserve are ordinary samurai in the world military system, and they will be promoted and promoted by the reserve generals according to their age and level. The older grassroots samurai retired and gave up their positions to their colleagues, and replaced their own heirs from the grassroots level.

Just like the imperial examination system of the Ming Empire once every three years, the examination of a subject is one in 100,000 of the lucky people, all of them can be called the heavenly talents, the assessment is a threshold set by the shogunate for the world soldiers, forcing the soldiers not to dare to indulge in the seriousness of military discipline and the honing of skills, the assessment is to give the world soldiers a chance to climb upward, the capable samurai can naturally leap into the dragon, fraud can not escape the eyes of the shogun, Lu Yao knows that the horsepower has been popular for a long time, and the senior samurai who are shielded by the cheaters cannot last long.

The two-government system is not to let Dazaifu and Zhenshufu sit on a large army, but Kyushu Dazaifu relies on a few important ministers to control the political stability of Kyushu for the shogunate, and they are equivalent to the shogunate appointing old talkers in Kyushu to gather strength for the shogunate's implementation of the decrees in Kyushu.

The same is true of the Mutsu town guard, the important ministers of Ha Oku such as the Soma clan, the Date clan, the Mogami clan, the Ashina clan, the Osaki clan, the Kasai clan, and the Iwaki clan have to make great efforts for the stability of Oshu, and it is not for nothing to give them territorial rewards, and they must do something for the shogunate, and they do not need to take care of the internal affairs of each territory, they only need to record what they see and hear, and discuss a solution with the local government, and jointly report to the shogunate if they cannot solve it, and have the right to supervise, suggest, and report, but they have no right to adjudicate.

The shogunate's world soldier system is after several reductions, and 250,000 elites are selected by synthesizing the essence of the five and seven roads, these people are the world soldiers, and everyone is brave, and the eliminated ones are also properly placed in the concentric police, which is a bit similar to the meaning of the Northern Song Dynasty Xiang Army spending money to keep them from making trouble, of course, their role is not the same as that of the Xiang Army, and they are still responsible for maintaining public security patrols and other things.

The system of the two prefectures and the assessment system of the world soldiers is not easy, and it took many years of repeated discussions between the source and the imperial court to gradually improve this system, which is just in line with the new shogunate system, and the source of the shogunate set up three levels of the upper, middle and lower levels of the system, these three levels are the royal companions, the royal line judges, and the royal family.

The royal family is the grassroots level, that is, 250,000 world soldiers, the world outside the system does not know the world soldier assessment system, this is just a set of competition system within the imperial family system, not only the samurai in the reserve team are the royal family, and the pursuit of serving as a government affairs in various places is also the imperial family, and the two government systems are of course also the imperial family, and there is no distinction between civil and military affairs within the imperial family, and there is no difference between the east and the west, only the internal division of responsibilities is different.

The Imperial Judgment was a permanent institution established by the Kamakura Shogun for many years, and this system was originally used by Minamoto Yoshito, and it was also conveniently managed as the top level of the Shogunate in accordance with the old practice. In the years since the establishment of the shogunate, this institution has long since become the essence of the imperial family system.

There are more than 600 members in this system, and the best grassroots samurai from all over the country are selected to enrich the system of the Imperial Family, and they can be selected to be entered into it every two years according to the changes in the support of the local Imperial Family System and the normal inheritance rights of the Imperial Family.

Members of the Royal Company may serve three consecutive terms and then retire. If the number of times allowed to run for election is five terms, the candidate shall not be re-elected. If the five terms have not been promoted to the royal companion. This shows that this person was not favored by the shogun, or was disliked by the shogun and discarded, which can effectively ensure that the Imperial Judgment will not form a party to affect the governance of the shogunate, and there is no hereditary lineage of the Imperial Judgment. It's a place where you only ask about ability, not about your origin, not about your origin, or even about your gender.

Samurai who have served at least one term in the past six years include Mitsuhide Akechi, Hideyoshi Hashiba, Hidenaga Hashiba, Sadakatsu Murai, Kakuei Maeda, Takataka Kuroda, Shigeharu Takenaka, Yukimori Yamanaka, Michiyuki Tachibana, Naoshige Nabeshima, Naoya Ukita, Mimoto Date, Shumasa Ishikawa, Masatoyo Naito, Tomoru Takayama, Takashiwa Takakei, and Shimazu Tokihisa.

In addition, there are several interesting people outside the system recommended by the royal family as special advisers, these people are limited to the non-imperial family system and can only give some advice, among which the high monks Tsuihiko Shuliang and Kuaikawa Shaoxi are relatively normal, the tea man Imai Munehisa, Tsuda Muneji, Sen no Rikyu, Lian Geshi Samura Shaoba, the chess and card sage Ben Infang is a bit of a sword off the edge, and some people have tried to recommend Floys but gave up because Genyi did not like the Southern Barbarian Sect. There is a woman who has been successfully recommended, and that is the infamous Izumo Akuni.

It seems that the deviant Imperial Judgment is not as chaotic as imagined, and the Imperial Imperial Judgment has set up a five-person supreme administrator, who was nominated by the shogun and personally appointed by the Imperial Companion for a three-year term. A maximum of five consecutive terms can be re-elected, with an interval of five terms.

Interestingly, there is no limit to the number of consecutive terms, it is conceivable that five terms of office are fifteen years, and the interval of fifteen years and then fifteen consecutive years is three fifteen years, not to mention how difficult it is, this time span is enough to go through two generals, and it is almost impossible to do it in the system of one dynasty and one courtier.

The Imperial Judgment Appointed by the General has the right to convene a meeting of the Imperial Judges, at which they review the government affairs with the members of the Imperial Judgment, and make a decision on the draft for or against through a resolution, and then hand it over to the higher-level Imperial Companions to make the corresponding choice, and finally the General makes the final decision.

The top-level royal companions, much more serious than this, pay attention to factors such as the merit of the family, the prestige and morality, etc., the elite children of each family have their own ability to gain support, and enter the royal company to judge the big waves and sand for three or five terms, during which they will be released to serve one or two terms as a general or reserve general, and they can be selected by the general to join the royal companion by virtue of their ability.

This is no longer the original retirement place for the imperial companions, but a serious and cautious line of defense for the shogun to guard the last gate, and there will definitely be no possibility of Hashiba Hideyoshi from a civilian background, Takayama Yuteru from the Southern Barbarian sect, and Ishikawa Shumasa from the Tokugawa anti-party to be mixed in.

The family governor of the Bandong Hachihei clan, an excellent retainer who followed Genyoshishi for many years of meritorious service, a pedigree with high prestige and strict work, these people are innocent, virtuous, and excellent in ability and background are the important assistants of the general, and the royal judgment is at most to give the royal family class a voice to speak to alleviate the conflict, and limit the authority and seniority of the imperial companions.

The members of the Imperial Companion include the elites of the current shogunate, Honda Tokimasa from Mikawa, Hosokawa Fujitaka from Kyoto, Naoe Keissuna from Echigo, Kitabatake from Mutsu, Ota Shimasa from Kanto, Takeda Nobushige from Kai, Akechi Mitsuhide from Mino and the shogunate, Ukita Naoke and Mori Terumoto from the Western Kingdom, and Hojo Tokimasa, Mogami Yoshimitsu and Shimazu Yoshihisa who currently belong to the Dazaifu system. Yuki Haruho, Date Terumune, Ashina Mori, Satake Yoshishige and others in the town guard system are all members of the Imperial Companion Clan.

In contrast, the total number of members of the Imperial Companions is very small, the current quota is 80 members, and half of them are re-elected every three years to take care of the retirement and recuperation of those who are old and in poor health, or when the father, son, and brother are all selected by the general to be the Imperial Companions, one of them retires or temporarily gives up.

The three ministers were still nominated by the shogun and appointed with the support of the Imperial Ministers, each serving a term of six years, and one of them had to step down every six years. Cannot be re-elected for more than two consecutive terms. Elections may not exceed three terms at intervals. Almost limiting the power of the royal companions.

It is allowed to serve concurrently in the case of not having a kinship with a certain member, which is an extreme case of taking care of some family governors whose fathers and sons are excellent samurai, and there is no taboo in this aspect of the Imperial Judgment's signature, as long as it is selected by the Imperial Judgment and reviewed by the general and the Imperial Companion. The difference between the two is still very big.

Uesugi Kenshin was the first imperial companion, the other two were Sanada Yutaka and Hojo Shiyasu, and this year happened to be the end of the first term, and Hojo Shiyasu, who was over sixty years old, was about to step down and go to Kyoto to live in seclusion in his old age, and the new co-opted appointment should be Takeda Nobushi, these three excellent samurai will become crucial figures in the shogunate for the next six years.

These three systems are very complex, and combined with the system of the Imperial Lianzhi and the Imperial Gate Yezhong set up in the Yuan Yi period, they form a complex and intertwined network. The original system of genealogy and appearance was completely abolished, and there was only one basic system for the imperial family, and the six countries of the five provinces, seven provinces, and sixty-six countries were all appointed by the shogunate to pursue the combination of local and local councils, forming a system of unification and autonomy.

The Shogunate's royal family rotated every three years to guard the main roads in various places, and the major ports belonged to the Shogunate. Various mineral deposits such as gold, silver, and copper mountains in various places belonged to the shogunate, and the annual fishing period and hunting period were all set by the shogunate, which was an unprecedentedly powerful shogunate, so strong that no samurai dared to give birth to a rebellious heart.

The sword became the symbol of the imperial family, and the concentric police of the non-imperial family were only allowed to wear small swords, short knives, and spears to maintain local security, and each standard sword was cast by the shogunate craftsman, and the scabbard and handle were specially sealed, and it was a capital offense to steal and rob the use of the imperial sword, and the saber imperial family became a real samurai class, which was only 250,000 people, and only a small number of people in the system would gradually increase the population, which was a means to ensure that the interests of the group were not weakened, and to maintain centripetal force and competitiveness.

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As night fell, the Edo Imperial Palace was brightly lit, and Genyoshi dined with his ladies, and Toraki looked at the empty seats and said sentimentally, "I don't know if Katsuomaru, Hoomimaru, and Kuroomaru are used to eating?" Kuroomaru is still a child of a few years old, and it is really pitiful to be a fan so early, and the concubine is really worried about the children. ”

Seeing Genyoshi's silence, Numata Sandalwood smiled and said, "Sister don't worry, Your Highness said that the children will return to Edo, and it is the new practice of the shogunate to return to Edo Province every year, and I will see the children soon." ”

Among the ten sons of Genyoshitoki, the eldest son Ashikaga Yoshitai was the second shogun of the shogunate, and the other three men inherited the Ashikaga clan, and the second son, Katsuomaru Motofuki, inherited the Miao character of the Kira clan, and married Nagao Masaki and Princess Aya's daughter, Princess Keihime, as his wife, and changed his name to Kira Yasushi, as the head of the Imperial Eda Public, and the 600,000 stone of the Ise Province was called the Seshu Domain.

The third son, Howang Maru, succeeded as the adopted son of Hatakeyama Takamasa, married Princess Chenghime, the daughter of Hatakeyama Yoshitsuna, and inherited the family name of the two major families of the Hatakeyama family, and changed his name to the Hatakeyama Shigeji, as the Imperial Chain, he was called the Echizen Domain, 600,000 stones, and was called the Echishu Domain.

The fourth son, Kuramaru, succeeded to Spo Yoshiin as an adopted son, because he was too young, he was only the adopted daughter of Spo Kannao in advance, and his father was engaged to Spo Naohime of the Kitabatake Mansion, and the name of Kuro Maru was Sporai, and as the royal branch of the people, he was called Banshu Domain on Harima and Tajima 600,000 stones.

The above three people are the Shogunate's Imperial Eda people, and the Ishitaka branch is one of the three important areas near with 600,000 stone divisions, which help to help the Shogunate stabilize the situation in, and Ise, Echizen, and Harima are also rich places, and the favor of the Imperial Edada is very strong, and the three children are allowed to return to Edo Province every year to escape the summer, and they go back and forth every year from March to September, and they don't have to worry about the administration of the territory personally, and they have their own shogunate officials to take care of it.

The treatment of the next six concubines will be much lower, and the son of Ii Naoto, Tiger Chiyo, is named Imagawa Genmoto, and inherits the family name of the Imagawa family as the son-in-law of the Imagawa clan. His wife was Imagawa Tachihime, and as the head of the Mimon leaf, he was pardoned and conferred the title of Nagato Ichikoku, and the 250,000 koku of the Zhou Defense Half of the country, called the Choshu Domain.

Numata Sandalwood's son, Matsuchiyo, whose name is Isshiki Masahisa, inherited the name of the Tango Isshiki clan that had been extinct, married Princess Fuyuhime, the daughter of Oda Nobunaga, and was given 250,000 koku for most of the country of Shikoku Island, known as the Yoshu Domain.

Yoshichiyo, son of Yoshino Mochizuki. The name of the yuan service is Ishibashi Shinbo. Inherited the name of the Shibon Matsuishibashi clan that was almost extinct. Married to Princess Akihime, the daughter of Takeda Nobushige, as the main room, the fief was 250,000 stone in the Kyushu Hyuga Province, and it was called the Xiangshu Domain.

Oda Inuhime's son, Komage, is named Shibukawa Yukishi. Inheriting the name of the Shibukawa clan of the imperial family, which had been extinct, he married Princess Tamahime, the daughter of Shimazu Yoshihisa, as the main room, and the fief was 250,000 stone in Tosa Province, called Tosa Domain.

Mogami Yoshihime's son Kuma Chiyo, the name of the Motofu is Ueno Sadacho, inheriting the Ueno clan of the Ashikaga family, and the main room is Princess Yoshihime, the daughter of Hojo Tokimasa, and the fief is 250,000 stone near Yamagata Castle in Dewa Province, and it is also called the Yamagata Domain as the territory of the original Mogami Yoshimitsu.

Oda Tokihime's son, the third mage. The name of Momoi Kiyocho is Momoi Kiyocho, inheriting the Ashikaga family that became extinct more than 100 years ago, and Mrs. Masamuro is Princess Nagahime, the daughter of Masamuro Sanada Yoshiyuki, and her fief is 250,000 koku in the territory of the Hiranohara clan in Sendai, Mutsu Province, and is called the Sendai Domain.

These six concubines serve as the Imperial Gate Leaves. The territorial divisions in Nishikoku Nagato, Shikoku Iyo, Kyushu Hinata, Shikoku Tosa, Dewa Yamagata, and Mutsu Sendai almost encompass several important areas, which is the shogunate's pro-feudal arch system, with Nishikoku, Southern Kyushu, Shikoku, Dewa, and Mutsu all having pro-feudal clans to ensure local stability to the greatest extent.

There are also four non-Genyi out of the Imperial Gate, among which Kira Yoshiyasu's sister-in-law Kira Yoshida has the highest status, obtained 150,000 stone in Higo Province, and became attached to the eldest female daughter of Oda City, Richa Cha, as the son-in-law of Genyoshitoki, he passed on the family business, and although his fief was in Higo Province, it only took three years to be a feudal domain.

The current governor of the Oshu Kira clan was awarded the title of 150,000 stones, and passed on the blood of the Oshu Kira clan, and his sister-in-law Kira clan Yori and Oda Inu's youngest daughter Ashikaga Haohime were engaged, and in the future it will also be the royal Yuo of the source of Yoshishi, and he will pass on the family business, and he will also be a feudal clan once every three years.

The next two were much worse in status, Nishio Yoshiji, who had more than enough success and more than failure, obtained 100,000 koku near Higashimi Nogani Village Castle, and Arakawa Yoshihiro, who was even more stupid than him, died of illness early, and his son Arakawa Hirotsuna was sent to Hirosaki 100,000 koku in the northernmost part of Michinoku Province.

Yuan Yishi couldn't see the sentimental looks of several ladies, shook his head and said: "Yu sent the children down to block the mouth of the Youyou, but fortunately, the adjustment of the various feudal domains has basically been achieved, and the children will be stationed in Edo Castle in the future." ”

"Really? That's great! His Highness is indeed the best man in the world! Mogami Yoshihime also realized that something was wrong after saying this, and the giggling flowers and branches trembled, all of them were twenty-eight years old, but they were still cheering like little girls back then, and the atmosphere of the dinner suddenly became cloudy and clear, and the women whispered and laughed about how the children were doing, what things they would buy for the children in the future, and so on, and Minamoto Yoshitoki smiled and listened to the conversation of the ladies, and occasionally interjected to say a few words.

Early the next morning, at the daily meeting, when the imperial companion was discussing government affairs, eighty people were arguing over a contradictory issue, and the three of them, Uesugi Kenshinbu, Sanada Yukitaka, and Takeda Nobuyoshi, were not surprised by this, and coughed at the appropriate time to show attention to decency and etiquette, and when the general Genyoshi, the great general of the expedition, sat in the curtain behind Sanbetsu with his eldest son, Ashikaga Yoshitai, and did not participate in the speech.

This is the new system of the shogunate, and the general only needs to take the eyes to see and listen to the ordinary issues, and only once every half a month the imperial court will make instructions.

In this way, the prestige of the general can be maintained, and the royal companions and the imperial judgment can speak freely when the general is not there or make it clear that he will not speak, and Genyoshi is to use this system to listen to everyone's opinions, and he has another pair of eyes and ears to see that Mochizuki Yoshicho and Hattori are becoming the general's service, and he can easily distinguish which people talk at the meeting, but secretly like to do some despicable deeds of flies and dogs.

For the greedy profit-seeking clowns and ill-intentioned conspirators, Yuan Yishi's attitude is to neither sanction nor accuse, but to take a small notebook and record it. For example, the lion napping is harmless at first glance, but it is not known whether it is really sleeping or fake sleeping.

Outside the curtain, the royal companions debated fiercely, and the atmosphere of the father and son in the curtain was very relaxed, discussing some topics that the bold royal even the judges did not dare to discuss easily, and the fierce debate of the royal companions was not a matter for Ashikaga Yoshitai, who was good at government affairs, not to mention his father Genyoshi, a heroic figure who had gone through strong winds and waves, and the father and son were discussing around a very sensitive topic, that is, the courtiers and the conquest of the dynasty.

Ashikaga Yoshitai frowned and said, "What does my father mean that the conquest of the dynasty is a deception of the world and a thief of fame?" But the children always felt that what they said was not wrong! The 250,000 elite troops under the command of the shogunate have high morale and tenacious fighting spirit, and if they are kept like this, they will become a group of wastes who have not been in battle for thirty years. And the samurai are in a mood of meritorious service and reward......"

Yuan Yishi shook his head and said, "Wrong, wrong!" The original intention of the shogunate was to protect the interests of the samurai. Maintain stability and stability in the world. Sooner or later, these 250,000 elites will follow Yu to the Kingdom of Heaven, and their descendants will sooner or later be a group of arrogant people who don't know the soldiers, this is the way of heaven and the truth can not be reversed, if you don't believe it, you can look at the descendants of the famous families in the Yuanping era. How many are still brave and fearless? The descendants of Yataman Taro will still fall, and how can you stop the day when 250,000 elites decay?

Yu set up the world soldier assessment system is to delay the decay time as much as possible, so that your children and grandchildren have enough time to work hard to adjust the strategy, do not be deceived by the illusion of peace and prosperity in front of you, and do not be confused by the abundance of copper coins, once the campaign of conquest is launched, all this will be buried in vain in the land of Korea, 200,000 elite lives in foreign countries caused the authority of the shogunate to lose vitality and damage, and all the prestige that Yu had worked hard to accumulate was lost. I believe that Yu's judgment has never missed. ”

Ashikaga Yoshitai thought for a while and seemed to have a clear meaning, but he was entangled and didn't know how to express it, Gen Yoshitoki smiled slightly: "Do you know why Yu wants to give up the conquest of the dynasty, one does not want to see the shogunate's vitality greatly damaged, and the enmity of the Ming Empire has ruined the hard-won good start of maritime trade."

Second, they didn't want the shogunate to repeat the tragedy of the praying mantis catching cicadas and yellow finch. For the sake of the conquest of the dynasty, your own vitality is greatly damaged and your authority is lost, and your descendants will produce an unvirtuous and unfilial person as a general, maybe it will be a new Yingren Rebellion, and your children and grandchildren will be pecked to death by the new turbulent yellow sparrow.

Third, Japan and the Ming Dynasty had a bad relationship with each other but no benefit, and the empty consumption of national funds killed and wounded elite but only gained a mortal enemy, and the interruption of trade made the Southern Barbarians and the Hu people in the north of the Ming Dynasty become another yellow bird, so this proposal to conquer the dynasty is a wild statement, and then when someone mentions it, he will expel this person. ”

"The boy probably understood! Therefore, my father sent Master Ceyan Zhou Liang and Master Nanguangfang Tianhai to the Ming Empire to pay tribute! Ashikaga Yoshitai pondered for a moment and said, "Then what about the samurai's desire for rewards and rewards?" If it's just stationed for training, people will be angry over time. ”

Yuan Yoshishi chuckled: "Then go to develop Ezo, a few years ago Yu made a decision to develop Ezo, they are eager to reward them, the vast plains of Ezo Island are thousands of miles, as long as you voluntarily give up the identity of the royal family, follow the local servants who voluntarily sign up to go to Ezo Island to develop the land, and the land obtained belongs to you, if you are not willing to give up the identity of the royal family, you will patiently wait for the shogunate to send troops to Ezo, Ezo Island needs at least a hundred years of development, this is a hundred more years for Yu to fight for a hundred years of peace and stability." ”

"And what about a hundred years from now?" Ashikaga Yoshitai said distressedly: "In a hundred years, the land will be divided, and even if there are corners, there will not be many corners, and the shogunate will have trouble again." ”

Yuan Yishi said lightly: "** is the poisonous spell released by the outer heavenly demons, everyone has been hit by this poisonous curse from the moment they are born, excellent samurai must learn to resist the temptation of **, and borrow the power of ** to achieve their own goals, you have also seen many swordsmen use real swords to duel, do you know why Hayashi Shisuke wants to put the sword in the sheath and not trigger it?" ”

"Is it because of surprise? Doesn't seem right! Could it be ......" Ashikaga Yoshitai didn't know much about the Iai technique, and he still didn't understand it after thinking about it for a while.

Gen Yoshitoki took out his saber mustache cut, showed a bright blade and slowly returned the knife into the sheath, under the confused gaze of Ashikaga Yoshitai, said: "The two swordsmen duel with real swords, after all, it is not a battlefield to kill the enemy and draw a knife to slash, the two sides fight for only one moment, and a sharp sword is clearly displayed to cause a great threat." The moment the samurai drew his sword, he exposed his hostility in advance and lost the opportunity to attack, which made people feel defensive, and then pondered the flaws of the samurai who drew the sword and took the opportunity to kill him.

The same sharp knife is put into the scabbard, so that people can't see through how many hidden moves, and can't figure out when the sword in the scabbard will explode, as long as the other party is careless or thinks that he has an advantage and exposes the flaw, it is the decisive time to control the enemy with one sword, and the rest of the imperial family is like putting the imperial knife into the sheath, although the light is not bland, but dare to underestimate the power of the 250,000 imperial family members of the shogunate. There will be a terrible price...... Trigger but not trigger. It's called a deterrent! ”

"The child finally understood! Thank you, Father, for your advice! ”

Yuan Yishi said with a smile: "Three years ago, Yu sent Master Ceyan Zhou Liang and Master Nanguangfang Tianhai to Ming Kingdom. He met with the emperor who had just ascended the throne of the Ming Kingdom, and offered 10,000 silver coins and 1,000 gold coins, and asked for a tribute for five years for the exploration trade. In two years, it will be the day of the tribute, and you will go to the Ming Kingdom on behalf of Yu to meet His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, and take Yu's handwritten letter to tell His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty that my Yuanyi clan is willing to be hereditary and loyal to the Ming Dynasty, and defend the East China Sea for the Ming Dynasty to exterminate the Japanese invaders, and ask for a qualification to allow normal trade. As long as this meaning is expressed, I believe that the Zaisukke of the Ming Kingdom will definitely take note of the will of the shogunate. ”

Ashikaga Yoshitai bowed and said, "Remember, child." ”

"At the beginning of the year, the Imperial Court communicated with the shogunate to set a date for Emperor Togari, and in March, five years later, it would be the date of Emperor Togari Edo. The Tokyo Imperial Palace can be built urgently. Gen Yoshitoki stared at Ashikaga Yoshiyasu's immature face, and said slowly: "At that time, Yu will announce his resignation as the general of the Shogunate and hand over this shogunate to you completely." ”

"Father! How can you ...... in your spring and autumn heyday" Ashikaga Yoshiyasu was at a loss, and he didn't know how to express the correct attitude for a long time, but just repeated mechanically: "This decision is really unexpected!" ”

Genyoshitoki patted Ashikaga Yoshiyasu on the shoulder, comforted him not to be nervous, and said with a smile: "Those who are about to become generals should be happier......"

"How could the child be happy with such a sudden decision by the father! You are the shogun of the shogunate, and you have conquered the whole world! Ashikaga Yoshiyasu hung his head in frustration, and when he looked up again, his eyes were full of reverence, admiration, reluctance, and pleading, and the young man did not know how far he could fly without his father's protection.

"The eagle will always have a day to spread its wings and soar, Yu can't sit on the court forever to protect you, the shogunate belongs to you sooner or later!" A trace of memory flashed in Yuan Yishi's eyes, and the little baby grew into a seventeen or eighteen-year-old boy in the blink of an eye, and he couldn't help but sigh that time flew by without mercy.

He is already a thirty-five-year-old middle-aged man, and in another five years it will be the year of no confusion, and he has been physically and mentally exhausted for twenty years in the first half of his life.

Thinking of this, he became more and more firm in his thoughts, and Yuan Yoshishi comforted his son-in-law: "The assessment of the world soldiers, the imperial family, the imperial judgment, the imperial companions, the two prefecture system, the pro-feudal arch guard, the money and grain system, the Kyoto Edo Daifan service, the rotation of the garrison, etc., constitute every link of the shogunate, and Yu's abdication will be the last link in the whole chain, and this last link will start from Yu!" ”

While the father and son were talking quietly, the quarrel outside the curtain suddenly stopped, and an attendant walked quickly to the outside of the curtain and leaned over and said, "Your Highness, a large fleet of Nanban ships has requested a docking at Edo Port......

"It turned out to be her!" The corners of Yuan Yishi's mouth turned up slightly, revealing a happy smile: "She's finally here......"

In the eighth year of Tensho (1580), under the escort of 30,000 elites of the Shogunate imperial family, the emperor took Minamoto Minamotoko Nakanomiya and Emperor Kazuhito, as well as hundreds of Chinese military officials, thousands of maids, servants, and servants, and left Kyoto Higashikari Edo in a hurry, which was the first time that the emperor left Kyoto Higashikari Kanto since the legendary Japanese warrior, which was of great significance.

The Emperor and the Ministers were surprised to find that a super megacity several times the size of Kyoto had risen in the wild land of Kanto, and the surprise and shock in their hearts were overflowing, and the Shogunate's warm hospitality, the Emperor immediately decided to take the Togashi Edo once every five years from today, and the Tokyo Imperial Palace in Shibuya, located in the southwest of Edo, became the Emperor's bedchamber, and Edo was renamed Tokyo.

Minamoto Yoshitoki asked the imperial court to resign as a shogun, and was later appointed by the imperial court as a minister of Taisei, and then returned to Kyoto with his family to follow the emperor's carriage to live in seclusion, and his sister-in-law Ashikaga Yoshitai succeeded him as the shogun of Seiyi, the second right minister, and the elder of Genji, becoming the second shogun of the Edo shogunate.

At this moment, the curtain of the Edo period was slowly opened, and the era of peace and tranquility began.

(End of book)

ps：

Bow and thank the book friends for their hearts floating and the dog in pants for rewarding, this is the last thank you before the end of the book, thank you to every book friend who has supported and encouraged Ume, here Ume wants to say thank you! Without your support, Ume wouldn't have persevered to this day!