Edo Castle Tsunekosho, dozens of important Kanto ministers gathered together, they want to witness the first meeting of the former Kanto overlord Hojo clan surrender here, seeing so many familiar faces appear in the Jogosho, Hojo Clan's heart always feels a little awkward, being watched by former enemies and defeated generals, probably one of the most painful things.

Wearing a silver-white hunting suit with a black hat on his head, he walked over slowly as if the prince was dressed for a leisurely trip, and the Hojo father and son saw that this person was tall and magnificent, and there was a majesty in the world, and they knew that this was the Kanto prince Ashikaga Yoshitoki himself, and hurriedly bowed and saluted respectfully and said: "Hojo Sakyo Doctor (Sagami Mamoru), see His Royal Highness the Prince." ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki walked to the front seat and sat down cross-legged, and said with a spring breeze on his face: "No need to be polite! Yu is very happy to see the two Highnesses here, because Yu feels that the background of the same Kyoto samurai must be extraordinary, and today I see that the two Highnesses have a good temperament and are comparable to ordinary samurai, and it is a great blessing for my Kanto Ashikaga family to be able to persuade the two Highnesses today. ”

Hojo Yasu bowed and replied seriously, "I don't dare to be a compliment from His Royal Highness." ”

"Speaking of which, it should also be the Hojo Kamisuke-den and the Hojo Anbo Shouden to meet the two highnesses." Ashikaga Yoshitoki took out a folding fan and knocked on the desk, and after a while, he saw Hojo Tsusunari and the Hojo clan under the guidance of the small surname to the permanent palace, and the father and son brothers met and it was a different feeling, and the Hojo clan looked at Ashikaga Yoshishi with a happy and grateful face, as if celebrating the feeling of the aftermath of this long-lost disaster.

The small reunion was just an appetizer, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki immediately proposed it to Hojo Shiyasu. I hope that he will take on the important role of the elder of the Ashikaga family tree, and this proposal is also in accordance with the rules set by Ashikaga Yoshitoki. Basically, every time a samurai is subdued, a position will be arranged according to his territorial origin. In the Kamiki Ashikaga family, where the position is not hereditary. It is not an exaggeration to reward the newly submitted samurai with a strong lineage.

It's just that Hojo Shiyasu still seems to be estranged, and he is not very willing to serve the Kanto public side in front of him, so he refuses on the grounds that he is old and mediocre and weak and weak, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki is also very reasonable to reassure him not to be discouraged and disappointed, and it is okay to take care of his body first and then serve it.

It always takes a lot of courage to rashly invite a former enemy to be his own genealogy, and of course the other party also needs a lot of courage to succeed, and this refusal is not much unexpected when Ashikaga Yoshi, and it is not a big secret that Hojo Shiyasu is not in good health. The Hojo clan inherited a severe disease of high blood pressure, which was almost impossible to face in ancient times when there was no cure for such a chronic disease as high blood pressure.

Cao Cao and Li Shimin, Li Zhi and other Ming monarchs all died of high blood pressure, it is conceivable that Hojo Shikang is helpless in the face of this genetic disease, the age of forty is not as good as before, in the year before the retirement of the family governor, often can only be busy for half a day and rest for half a day, and later after the defeat of the Alpine Battle made him firm in the belief of retirement.

Let him continue to serve as the elder of the spectrum family, not to mention how twisted his heart is, even the heavy work of the spectrum family may not be able to support the body, and the forced appointment can only make the Hojo clan Yasu, who is struggling to persevere, die if he can't hold on for a few years, which is not in line with Ashikaga Yoshitoki's expectations, and he hopes that the Sagami Male Lion can live a few more years. At least it can calm the Hojo remnant of Sagami Izu.

"Since the old man of the spectrum family can't take responsibility, it's better to retreat and take on the rest of the royal companions!"

The honorary position of the royal companion. If you don't have real power, you don't need to work for the family business of the Ashikaga family, you just need to accompany Ashikaga Yoshitoki to eat, chat, chat and exchange some views and opinions, probably like an expert assessment team that does not have to take responsibility is one thing, this time Hojo Shikang did not refuse, and happily agreed.

After arranging the position of Hojo Shiyasu, he turned to the current governor of the Hojo clan, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki said to him: "Hojo Sagami Shouden is young and promising, and serving as Yu's pedigree family elder can reassure the samurai in the family, and Yu is now more concerned about the Miao character problem raised by many Kanto retainers, I don't know what Sagami Shouden thinks of the Miao character problem?" ”

"Please forgive Your Highness, Your Majesty really has nothing to say about the problem of Miao characters." The Hojo clan is a little embarrassed to avoid the ridicule and ridicule from the corner, the Sagami Hojo clan is also known as the Hou Hojo clan, and his Hojo clan is obviously not a branch of the Kamakura shogunate Hojo Tokumune family, and the self-proclaimed Miao character Hojo can't be counted, so he has always been wantonly ridiculed by the Kwantung samurai.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki knew how deep the contradiction was, and said with a smile: "Yu Zhi has two proposals for Sagamishu to choose, the first is to restore the Ise clan of the family, the Ise clan is from the Ise Taira clan and the Hojo clan are from the same case, and it is absolutely no problem for the Ise Taira clan to restore the original Miao character, and the second is to continue to use the current Miao character Hojo clan, Yu can give you a high degree of recognition from the Hojo clan." ”

The Hojo clan is very contradictory, the Ise clan is their family's main sect Miao character, Ise Shinkuro entered the road in his heyday, and it is the ancestor of their Hojo family, Hojo Sakumo, and the Ise clan is also a hereditary samurai who is the deacon of the shogunate, and his status in the shogunate is second only to the three lords, and even stronger than the four positions since the end of the Onin War.

But the Hojo clan can only be counted as a division of the Bichu Ise clan, not qualified to inherit the sect of the family is better than continue to use the previous Miao word cost-effective, whether from personal psychology or actual interests, continue to use the Miao word Hojo is the best choice, after all, these decades of hard work to play the name of the Sagami Hojo clan, the brand effect has been produced and thrived into a towering tree, at this time it is absolutely unwise to suddenly stop the waist to cut this big tree.

The Hojo clan said firmly: "I decided to continue to keep the name of the Hojo clan. ”

"Are you sure you don't regret it?"

"No repentance!"

The young Kanto Gongfang smiled silently, applauding lightly for the persistence of the Hojo clan, and the new Senators of the Kanto Spectrum Dynasty applauded when they saw the Gongfang, so we also clapped our hands and took it as meaning, the young Satake Yoshishige stared wide-eyed and didn't understand what kind of play this was, and the veteran Koyama Takatomo couldn't figure out what the reason was.

Yuki Haruhuza seems to think of something but is not sure, Haga Gaoding and Daseki Gaosan have not yet figured out the character of the Kanto Gongfang and dare not jump to conclusions, Utsunomiya Hirotsuna and Nasu Zi Yinguang are busy looking at each other and contacting each other with eye killing. I didn't notice how many things I couldn't see involved in the small changes in the hall.

"That being the case. So how about Yu decide to give the clan government hall a word of worship? ”

The Hojo clan was stunned for a moment, and his heart was slightly puzzled. This word is not a big deal, why bother to do it so solemnly, and hurriedly bowed down and said: "Thank you for the grace of His Royal Highness!" ”

"Don't be busy yet, there is a saying about the word Yu, and it should be used as a common word for the Hojo family, and Sagami Mamoru can think about it." Ashikaga Yoshitoki smiled like a cunning fox.

The Hojo clan subconsciously sensed that something was wrong, and turned his head to see his father Hojo clan Yasu quietly glancing at him, meaning to tell him to vaguely refuse not to agree, but when the matter came, he didn't dare to fool the Kanto public at will. After thinking about it, he gritted his teeth and said, "Please ask His Highness for grace." ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said proudly: "Then give the remaining word 'time' to the Hojo family!" Your future name will be Hojo Sagami Punctuality! ”

"Ahh The Hojo clan almost fainted when he sat down, and at this moment he understood why his father kept giving him a look and asked him not to agree, he didn't intend to give the word "Yi" as a general character at all, even if he used "Shi" as a general character and did not use "Hojo Toki" as a new name according to the rules, but similar to the peculiar example of Uesugi Teruto, he abandoned his own general character "Jing" and kept the character "tiger" instead.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki disapproving Kojima: "Don't be afraid! Yu is not afraid of the current political palace, what is he afraid of? It doesn't matter if he happens to have the same name as a deceased historical figure of the Hojo family, what he does doesn't represent the words and deeds of the Sagami Hojo clan, does it? Therefore, your children and grandchildren will carry forward this word of 'time' and put it in the latter word as the name of the descendants! ”

"Of course you're not afraid, but I'm going to die." The newborn Hojo Tokimasa was frightened and his legs and feet were weak, and he didn't know what to do, and the Hojo family had no face from generation to generation. Hojo Tokimasa was a powerful minister since the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, and in his later years, he once wanted to support a puppet shogun to realize his dream of dictatorship. Abandoned by his daughter Masako Hojo and son Yoshitoki Hojo, he eventually died in exile in Izu Province.

Hundreds of years ago, the Kamakura Hojo clan has long been wiped out, and now this Sagami Hojo clan is from the Ise clan from Kyoto, and the same Miao character Hojo also uses the Hojo three-scale flag, but the Hojo clan has never said its relationship with the Kamakura Hojo family, and has made a simple distinction between the two Hojo clans in the samurai group of the eight countries in the Kanto region, and the Hojo clan, who was in power in the Kamakura era, is called the former Hojo clan, and now the one in Sagami Odawara Castle is called the Later Hojo clan.

In fact, there is no direct blood relationship between the same Hojo clan, and if you want to say how much there is to be related, there is also a little bit of something, and the predecessor of the Hojo clan, the Ise clan, is the first-class Huan Wuping clan, which happens to be the branch created by the Isetai clan, and the descendant of their branch is the line of the Taira family, the pillar of the Hei family.

The Ise clan was not famous as a branch of the family, and it was only an inconspicuous clan during the period of Taira Kiyomori's power, and it was precisely without raising his eyes that he was able to survive the 150 years of wind and rain from the end of Genhei to the end of Kamakura, and in the last years of Kamakura, he gradually approached the Ashikaga family and became a confidant by virtue of his identity as the guardian of Kamiki Province.

Ashikaga Sonji's father, Ashikaga Sadaji, and Ise Sadatsugu were ebony relatives, and with this relationship, Ise Sadatsugu became the imperial bureaucrat of the Muromachi shogunate, thus standing out among several Taira clans and becoming a famous family of the Taira clan in the Muromachi period.

The former deacon of the government office, Ise Sadataka, is the nephew of Hojo Sakumo, and Ise Sadataka's father, Ise Sadatsu, is the nephew of Hojo Sakumo and the brother of the Hojo clan.

In addition, the Hojo clan changed the Miao character to Hojo also has a little relationship with the former Hojo, and his main wife is the mother of the Hojo clan Kang, and the origin of the pearl house is extraordinary, and his father Yokoe Hojo Sagami Mamoru is one of the several branches of the former Hojo clan, escaping a turmoil in the last years of Kamakura and successfully preserving the Hojo clan's lineage, so the Hojo clan changed the Miao character at the beginning with the meaning of a little son-in-law and adopted son, but this story has never been declared, but it is known that there is such a thing within the Hojo clan.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki suddenly proposed to give the former Hojo clan the character "Shi" as the new character of the later Hojo clan, which made a member of the Hojo family break out in a cold sweat, which is nothing more than the frightened body of the Hojo clan and dare not move. I probably think that the Kanto public side has calculated the Hojo family back and forth. Watching the lively Kanto people, they were smiling one by one. Rubbing his palms excitedly is even happier than the New Year, when have he seen the Hojo family embarrassed, this good thing will let them meet.

Hojo Shiyasu wanted to speak several times and stopped, and his thoughts turned and he couldn't help but think to himself: "Why does His Royal Highness mean this, it's worth thinking about!" It doesn't look like a simple name with the same name as the ancients is not simply the intention of deterring my Hojo clan, with the current situation of the Kanto public side unifying the Kanto, there shouldn't be any need to target my Hojo family! ”

Having the same name is not a particularly remarkable thing, and there are many families where their descendants deliberately take the name used by their ancestors, and the most famous Date One-Eyed is named after his ancestor. Mei Chiyo Wangmaru, who died early, is the Ashikaga Yoshishi of the Waste Wood Prince, and he also took the name of the Ashikaga Kamizaburo Yoshiji, the pillar of the three generations of the Ashikaga clan.

There are also more perverted samurai who love to use two names and insist on using them, such as the Iyo Kono clan is such an extreme example, Kono Tongnao, Kono Tongxuan two names father and son use back and forth, grandfather and grandson names are exactly the same, and they can continue to be used for generations, and the name is the same, so the only way to distinguish is to look at the age and the official position.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki was a bad taste, and of course it was not as simple as trying to scare the Hojo family, his dream was to recreate the samurai style of the Kamakura period, and he could not imitate the bloody and chaotic Kamakura samurai customs. After all, the times are different, and it is necessary to use a more civilized and advanced system to manage the Kanto, and the necessary power and conspiracy are also indispensable.

Using the Hojo family and giving the Hojo family a new character was part of Ashikaga Yoshitoki's plan. Not to mention that the Hojo family has always been on the edge of the shogunate's heavy retainer system, and more than ninety percent of the family's genealogical retainers are samurai who follow Hojo Sakumo from Kyoto, such as the Ise clan from the main family, the Matsuda clan, the Tominaga clan, the Ogasawara clan, and the Daido Temple clan.

The powerful pedigree of Yamato Haruno and his ilk is also the Kyoto samurai who have come to Sagami in the last twenty years, and they have a natural affection and attraction for Ashikaga Yoshitoki from the shogunate, and they are all outsiders who have settled in Kanto for more than 60 years, and they have been constantly bullied by the local indigenous Kanto samurai, and they have also made this group of outsiders from Kyoto very close, and the loyalty of the Hojo retainers has always been the most united among the Kanto samurai and even the samurai of the world, and the Shimazu clan, which relies on blood support, is not necessarily better.

"His Royal Highness means to warn the family not to follow the example of the Kamakura Hojo family and seek power and usurp the throne! But is it just to knock on the family by changing the name of the family so suddenly? The Hojo clan looked at him with confusion and puzzlement, hoping to get an accurate answer from His Royal Highness, lest there was always a knot in his heart that could not be solved.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki didn't want to frighten the Hojo clan, so he smiled kindly and said: "Yu didn't mean to target the Sagami Shouden, this is the first time Yu met with the Sakyo Daifu Hall and the Sagami Shouden, and he appreciated and respected the demeanor of the two of them. ”

"That's a lot of roads, so it really has an inside story!" Hojo Shiyasu's mind turned, and he immediately had a sense of enlightenment, and said: "Your Majesty was thinking about the intention of His Royal Highness just now, it must not be so simple, maybe this is both a spur and an encouragement!" Is it for the Hojo clan to restore the prestige that this Miao character itself bears? ”

Ashikaga Yoshitoki nodded and said: "The Kamakura Hojo clan was originally a powerful imperial family, and it was also a relative of the Kawachi Genji clan's pillar family.

Now, I have to authorize Sagami's Shouden to restore the seedling character of the Hojo clan, shoulder the burden of reviving the Hojo clan's family business and take over the sins they committed, from today onwards, I must always take out the "Azuma Mirror" and read and reflect on it more often, and always be vigilant that I and the samurai around me should not go back to the road of no return of the Kamakura Hojo clan. ”

Perhaps because he felt that it was immoral for him to scare the hard-working Hojo clan in this way, he gave the Hojo Tokimasa captain a sword, a pair of large armor, and a hybrid war horse with the blood of Trekna and Kisoma, and allowed the Hojo clan to live in a partially built Yashiki in Ninomaru in Edo Castle.

At the end of the banquet, he summoned Hojo Tokimasa alone, and personally told him that he didn't have to worry too much about the new characters, that as the Kanto Prince, he was by no means an unreasonable and mediocre ruler, and he would choose to give the Hojo clan the opportunity to restore the family name of their ancestors, and he also valued that their clan had rare loyalty and bravery, and perhaps the Hojo clan, which was famous all over the world, could be revived in his hands.

After a heart-to-heart conversation, Hojo Tokimasa's heart knot was finally erased, so that he could sit firmly on the family governor with peace of mind, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki gave more preferential treatment than imagined, including all the six counties in the central part of Sagami Province to Hojo Tokimasa, so that the territory of the Sagami Hojo clan was raised from 100,000 koku in Sagami half of the country to 140,000 koku in Sagami half of the country.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki also gave very preferential treatment to the surrendered Hojo clan, and those who were willing to follow the Hojo clan in the West Sagami country and the Izu country were allowed to go to the East Sagami country with the transfer, and the Izu country of more than 70,000 stone and the West Sagami country of 50,000 stone became the royal food of the Ashikaga family, which was also a win-win situation for everyone. (To be continued......)

PS: This is the third shift, and the next shift is still at 18 o'clock in the evening.