At the beginning of the first month of the twelfth year of Eiroku (1569), the light snow that had been going on for many days gradually stopped, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki came to visit Kenko Konoe in the Imperial Palace, and almost every few days he would come here to visit his sister-in-law.

Since the outbreak of the Eiroku rebellion, Konoe Kenko came to Kanto, during which she suffered so much that the blow of her husband and aunt almost killed this woman, and as soon as she arrived in Edo, she had a high fever and couldn't afford to get sick, and she cried in fright, and begged to save their mother.

Nagata Tokumoto personally took care of the treatment, and it took a lot of effort to pull her back from the line of death, and Mr. Sixteen Bunkan quietly told Ashikaga Yoshitoki that the cold poison accumulated in Konoe Kenko's body had not been cleared, and the excessive worry over the years had further aggravated the condition, and this sudden blow almost had no chance to save her, and Konoe Kenko was on the hospital bed for nearly three months, and only recently did she get out of bed to try to recover, but her brow never stretched again.

Today is the usual follow-up day, Nagata Tokumoto for Konoe Kenko to check the pulse for a while, and then prescribe a few warm prescriptions handed over, admonished: "The body of the Imperial Observatory Hall is strong, and the speed of recovery is far better than expected, and it is expected that it will be cured in two months, but the Imperial Observatory Hall will pay attention to maintenance in the future, whether it will fall into the root of the disease depends on the warmth, during this period, you can properly soak in the hot springs, which will help expel the sequelae caused by the cold." ”

"Thank you Mr. for your hard work, and my sister-in-law can be saved thanks to Mr.'s wonderful hand to rejuvenate."

Nagata Tokumoto got up and said: "It is my duty as a doctor to save the dead and help the wounded, and this is what the old man should do." I don't dare to be praised by His Royal Highness. He also thanked His Royal Highness for moving the Ashikaga School to Edo. It is a good deed to be able to train more physicians to help the sick! ”

Seeing Nagata Tokumoto leave slowly, he turned his head to look at the depressed appearance of Kenko Konoe, Ashikaga Yoshitoki sighed faintly: "The general's suffering is a tragedy for the shogunate, and it is also a shame for my samurai, this is not a family feud or a temporary grudge, please believe in my righteousness, I will definitely get this blood debt back." Give my righteous brother justice, and return my Ashikaga family to a peaceful paradise. ”

Konoe Kenko was dressed in simple filial piety clothes, her expression was sad, and when she saw her two daughters playing in the courtyard, she couldn't help but cry bitterly: "If the concubine didn't care about the two children, she would have thrown herself into the river early and died, but she was guilty of this life." ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said embarrassedly: "Sister-in-law, don't say that, the two princesses can't leave their mothers, and the shogunate can't lose a kind Imperial Shrine, for the deceased righteous brother, and the sister-in-law must not have the idea of suicide." It is the duty of the sister-in-law to try her best to live better and keep the enemies awake at night. ”

Kenko Konoe wiped tears from the corners of her eyes. Qiang Zi cheered up and said: "The concubine understands, thank you for coming to see me as a widowed woman in your busy schedule, and you can't use up all the things you sent to the concubine, please bring it back when you are right." ”

"Eh, it's not that I treat my sister-in-law very preferentially, it's just the same treatment given according to the daily equipment of the tiger queen, the sister-in-law has to bring the two princesses very hard, these gold and silver utensils and other mundane things are nothing, as long as the sister-in-law and the princesses can be healthy, these are not a problem."

When I returned to the palace, it was close to noon, and I had dinner with a few companions in the palace, discussing the just ended Oshu Ichijo Pacification, and the Oshu Raiding Army, under the command of Mogami Yoshimitsu, easily smashed the Yu Ao Ichi, which had spread to several counties, and the small and medium-sized wealthy clans that were wiped out in the process of marching all the way north, and more and more people joined the crusade army one after another.

In order to establish the influence of Oshu, the Kanto Shogunate held high the banner of the Incident Order and swept away any people of Oshu who tried to resist the edict.

The main general likes to win the flag the most, with such a shrewd and capable local countryman to assist, Mogami Yoshimitsu's mouth is happy crooked, so when the battle exploits are counted, he will report the results to Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and attach Oura for the letter to break away from the southern family, and don't come out of the Miao word Tsugaru clan's request, Ashikaga Yoshitoki agreed to his request without much thought, so Oshu was born all the way to a new powerful daimyo, Tsugaru for the letter.

The southern clan was once again implicated, and the Northern Nobu Ai, Southern Changyi, and Eastern Masakatsu were successively punished by reducing the seal and denigrating, and the current governor of the Southern Clan, Nanbu Shinao, was also punished, and his biological father Ishikawa Takanobu instigated a blow, and how could the son-in-law, who was the leader of the bandits, be exempt from the fault alone.

Mogami Yoshimitsu captured Nanbu Shinnao and brought it to Edo Castle to ask for guilt, this thorny problem was placed in front of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, and it was not appropriate not to deal with it, and it was likely to trigger a new wave of rebellion in the southern family.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's attitude was very simple, Nanbu Nobunao could not deal with it and was not suitable to deal with it, the best way was for the governor to stay in Edo Castle as a close minister of the shogun's office, and the southern lord would hand over the management of his family elders on their own, and the Kanto shogun's office would appoint an acting official as a supervisor, and if the family elder was found to have misbehaved, he would be punished as appropriate.

This set of practices is very similar to the way Imagawa Yoshimoto treats the people of the Toe country, sending his own samurai to serve as the lineage elder of the family who matches the people of the country, and secretly controlling the housekeeping by virtue of his special status, for example, the Ii family was tossed apart by Ono Michiyoshi, Ashikaga Yoshitoki felt that the approach was too harsh, so he chose a compromise method, similar to the meaning of appointing acting officials to supervise and pursue in the late Tokugawa period.

In the afternoon, the evaluation meeting was not held for a long time, and when the meeting was about to end, a waiter came in to deliver the news, Konoe came to Edo with a family of young and old, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki hurriedly left government affairs and went to Edo Port to greet him, but he didn't want to find that Konoe's chariot and horse had just entered the palace just after leaving the palace.

"Brother! I miss it so much after not seeing each other for many years! Seeing that the former elegant and chic Konoe had also grown a beard and turned into a majestic and mature middle-aged man, Ashikaga Yoshitoki laughed and said, "I haven't seen any change in my brother after a few years of pampering. Sure enough, the water and soil of Kyoto are more able to support people! ”

"Huh! In my opinion, this Edo Castle is also a rare paradise! When I first arrived at Edo Port, I thought I was back in Sakaicho. Such a big city was built in the past few years? Konoe looked at the spacious garden-style palace in amazement. Even in winter, you can see the green trees, and she exclaims, "Even the emperor's inner hall is probably less than one-tenth of your palace!" ”

The two brothers hadn't seen each other for many years and were about to swim together, but they didn't want a soft voice behind them: "Brother! It's rude to see Katsuhime pretending not to see it! ”

"Ouch! Look at my memory, how did I forget Katsuhime! It's really time to fight! Turning around with a smile, he saw an elegant and demure lady, leading two large, two small and four children on the left and right to get out of the carriage, this woman, three boys and four children are the children raised by Konoe and Ashikaga Katsuhime over the years. The eldest daughter, Maeko, has grown into a slim and beautiful girl, and the youngest brother is still a baby who has just turned one year old.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki was surprised: "I haven't seen her for many years, Katsuhime has become more and more beautiful, so that my brother almost can't recognize the little girl back then!" ”

"I still remember when I was a child, Katsuhime liked to pester her brother to tell fairy tales, and Katsuhime told these fairy tales to the children, and the children adored you as an uncle!" Ashikaga Katsuhime hugged her youngest son and said, "Call uncle." ”

"Uncle...... Uncle...... Giggles! The baby reached out and tugged at Ashikaga Yoshitoki's beard, and the children laughed with his sad face.

The eldest daughter, Konoe Qianzi, made a lady's salute in a proper manner: "Meet my uncle." ”

"You're the little princess of the Konoe family! So pretty, just like your mother looked like when she was a teenager. Ashikaga Yoshitoki smiled slightly and said, "We will be a family in the future, and I will take you to see your future husband, Junjin Wang Maru." He's already a mighty little samurai! ”

Konoe Maeko hung her head shyly, cowering behind her mother and not daring to look up. Ashikaga Katsuhime smiled: "Brother is too anxious!" I'm scared of the former son, and your Zhenwang Pill doesn't have a wife! ”

"Don't be frightened, the main lady of Zhenwang Maru is blessed by the Buddha of Freedom!" Laughing and laughing, the group entered the heart of the palace, along the way Konoe did not forget to praise the beauty of the garden-style palace, the scenery is as wonderful as the Hiei mountain gate on the side of Kyoto, Ashikaga Yoshitoki arranged a detached courtyard for this family, the scale is no less than the Konoe Mansion in Kyoto, and the facilities are still on it.

In the evening of the same day, a welcome banquet was held to entertain the former Seki Hakunee Maehisa, at the banquet Konoe Maehisa announced the appointment of the imperial court in a high-profile manner, which immediately caused a huge sensation, and the Kitabatake said with a smile: "The two right guard generals and the right horse liao imperial supervisor, doesn't it mean that His Royal Highness the Gongfang is going to take the orthodox path of the successive expeditions and generals since the Luyuan Courtyard Palace!" His Royal Highness's arrangement in the court is really not in vain! ”

Ben Tashi clenched his fists and said excitedly: "Of course it was not in vain, His Royal Highness Gongfang is wise and martial, he has worked hard in Kyoto for 20 years, and he has scattered no less than 800,000 pieces of money, and most of the ministers in Kyoto have inherited the favor of His Royal Highness Gongfang, and the former Seki Hakuden is a righteous brother, and the former Inner Palace is an uncle, and the relationship and connections are all over Gyeonggi, and it is not comparable to the rootless Ashikaga Yoshiaki." ”

For a while, the Kanto samurai were talking nonsense, and many young samurai couldn't help but fantasize about a bright future, but Uesugi Kenshin suddenly coughed at this time to let the ministers shut down, and said slowly: "What is more important is the hint of His Majesty the Emperor, you should know the meaning of the right general to my Kwantung samurai, the former Kwantung samurai received the right general or the source of the two Lai Chaogong in the Jianjiu period, who is the source of the two Lai Chaogong?" Who can answer me! ”

The samurai raised their fists and shouted, "General Zhengyi! ”

"Wrong! It's not just the general of Zhengyi! Or the pillar of my family, the pillar of the samurai family! Uesugi Kenshin turned around, leaned on the ground and bowed his head: "Please ask His Royal Highness Gongfang to raise troops and crusade against the evil general Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Kyoto!" Give me back a pure land of Genji in Hanoi! ”

"Please give an order from His Royal Highness! We are willing to serve His Royal Highness to the death! "Sanada Yutaka, Hojo Tokimasa, Satake Yoshishige, Mogami Yoshimitsu, Date Terumune, Yuki Harusao and other samurai knelt on the ground one by one, looking expectantly at the long-silent monarch in the high position, as long as he gave an order, the Kwantung samurai would follow.

But at this moment, Ashikaga Yoshitoki hesitated, glanced at the familiar faces in the hall, and sighed: "The will of the princes I understand when I am righteous, Oda Nobunaga's intention to break the alliance has been firm, and the change in Kyoto is a good time to start, stuck at this time to send troops to attack it unprepared, but the rest of the preparation is useless!" ”

Hojo Shiyasu frowned and asked, "May I ask His Royal Highness, what is the backhand?" ”

"It's a backhand that gives Yu a good reason to raise troops, the stupid Ashikaga Yoshiaki is about to take the wrong step, and what awaits him will be a series of deaths, and there is not much time left for you!" Ashikaga Yoshitoki didn't give them a chance to ask questions, and continued: "Yu is going to announce a major move at this time, recruiting the Kanto Imperial Family!" ”

The hot Ozhou Fengyun Erzu was lightly convinced, and suddenly said in surprise: "Royal family! Does His Royal Highness still insist on rebuilding the royal family? ”

The former Furukawa Gongfang family tree is the elder, and Harusuke Tanada said distressedly: "Yes! His Royal Highness has said many times that he wants to rebuild the royal family, but how? After all, it was a system that had disappeared for more than 200 years, and the first public and the royal family were still very different. ”

The following discussion was loud and loud, and all kinds of voices came into the ears of several samurai, and the elders of the spectrum family also exchanged their opinions with each other, and when the voice gradually became smaller, Ashikaga Yoshitoki said: "There are four cores of the Kanto Imperial Family, the first Bando Hachihei clan, the second Fuji clan stream, of which the Hidego stream is the head, the third Genji clan, and the fourth courtiers. ”

Uesugi Kenshin opened his eyes and said lightly: "Bandong Hachihei clan! Sure enough, we want to rebuild the Bando Hachihei clan! If the Kwantung samurai want to re-establish order, will my Bantohira clan rise again? ”

For example, the first-class bloodlines of the Miura Party and the Chichibu Party are mainly concentrated in Musashi and Sagami, the Chiba Party is mainly in the Bosu Peninsula, the Kamakura Party is in Ueno and Echigo, the Daisho Party is in Hitachi Province, and the Hojo Destruction, Tsuchihi, and Kumagai Decline are not mentioned, which is very troublesome to calculate. (To be continued......)