Hirata and Izumimori's eyes began to change, and his left hand involuntarily rested on the sword, and he slowly bowed and said, "...... Be! ”

Zhou Wei laughed and said: "It turns out that the door of the Shogunate is open to the west, and you can enter and exit the sword room that only the general enters, what is wrong with the shogunate?" Can you answer me? ”

Hirata and Izumi Mamoru stared for a moment, then suddenly smiled: "...... Sure enough, it was still recognized, and Zhou Weidian's intelligence and sensitivity were as amazing as the rumors in the streets! It's a pity that you left the Deer Park Courtyard anyway. ”

Zhou Wei smiled: "If the poor monk hides in the Luyuan courtyard and can ensure that he is safe, the poor monk will definitely hide in the temple forever and will not come out...... Probably the aftermath that Izumi Mamoru prepared, right? Burning down Kinkakuji Temple? ”

Hirata and Izumi Mamoru simply let go of his mind and responded frankly: "I didn't burn Kinkakuji in my lower body, and I can't bear this responsibility in my lower body." ”

"Perhaps! The Miyoshi family still has a bit of a conscience...... Zhou Wei smiled, turned to look at the little novice who was cowering in the corner, and sighed: "It's just that the poor monk never thought that Jisuke would betray the poor monk, is fame and fortune moving?" ”

"I'm really sorry, it's not early, I'm going to invite His Royal Highness Zhou Wei on the road." Hirata and Izumi Mamoru let out a low shout: "Yoshisuke! ”

"Yes!" Ji Zhu trembled, took out a dagger from his sleeve, walked towards Zhou Wei tremblingly, and muttered, "I'm sorry, Your Highness!" I am really disgusted with the life of this deer garden, I want to marry a wife and have children, I want to make a career and inherit the family, I want fame and fortune, I can't stay in this small temple for the rest of my life...... Sorry! ”

Zhou Wei's eyes widened angrily: "Jisuke." Don't you dare! You forget the kindness of these ten years. Have you forgotten what the poor monk has done to you all these years? Lay down your weapons. Poor monks can not blame the past, let it go! ”

"I ......" Yoshisuke was stunned as he grabbed the dagger, realizing that the left was neither right nor right, and looked helplessly at Hirata and Izumi Mamoru, who was tired of dying in his heart, and shouted angrily: "Don't do it yet!" Do you think you'll get forgiveness by begging for mercy now? Don't send Zhou Weidian on the road as soon as possible, so that you can get your share of the reward! ”

"Yes...... Be! Yoshisuke gripped the dagger tightly and walked over with a sharp bow. In the gap between Zhou Wei's face and retreating sharply, he stabbed the dagger into his chest and shouted, "I'm sorry, Your Highness!" I, Jisuke, thank you for your love and affection over the years, but please die with peace of mind today! I'm sorry! ”

Zhou Wei covered his blood-stained cyan robe, slowly retreated and sat down on the ground, blood gushing out of his mouth and nose, pointing at Ji Zhu and saying intermittently, "You do this...... Will be punished by the gods and Buddhas...... The treacherous one...... It's about to fall into the Infernal Hell! You will definitely ...... ...... at a cost"

The struggle of the dying was very painful, the fierce gasping like pulling the bellows gradually lost its strength, and when the last blood dissipated with the last wisp of the sunset, the young and energetic life passed quietly, and Yin Hong's blood gathered into a path. The pebbles along the river flow into the Kamo River, and down the river like a stream of countless streams into the sea.

"I did it...... I killed someone! I've been rewarded! Yoshisuke knelt in front of Zhou Hui's corpse and cried loudly: "Father and mother of heaven! I, Jisuke, am no longer the cowardly and bullied child! From today onwards, you will become a glorious samurai. A powerful samurai with a thousand stone Chiyuki! ”

Ji Zhu lay on Zhou Hui's corpse crying and laughing, completely ignoring the regretful eyes of the former benefactor full of affection, his eyes gradually lost their luster, even if the lord's family died in front of the reward, it didn't matter, as long as he could live a better life, then the lord's death was worth it, maybe he would be grateful in his heart to Zhou Wei for dying bravely, it was safer to be deceived into killing with his own hands than poisoning.

Hirata and Izumi Mamoru drew their knives and walked gently, in the thick twilight, the snow-white sword light shone like to illuminate the river, the sharp blade gently slashed through the weeds by the river, and cut the leg-high grass waist through a sloping path, a little dew on the blade of the blade in a blink of an eye, and only the sizzling sound of cutting faintly spread around.

Yoshisuke seemed to be aware of it and looked back, and saw Hirata and Izumi Mamoru standing behind him with their backs to the sunset, and the setting sun shrouded him in shadows, so that his facial features could not be distinguished, only the snow-bright sword in his hand emitted a cold light, as if silently signaling that death was coming.

Yoshisuke suddenly had an ominous premonition, quietly swallowed his saliva and clenched the dagger tightly, and said nervously, "Izumi Shouden...... We...... Is it okay to go......

"Hmm......" Hirata and Izumimori's voices were ethereal, and the figure that seemed to be hidden in the shadows still stood still: "Get up!" It's time for us to go, I'll take care of the aftermath......"

"Good! I'll get up now. Yoshisuke put down the big stone in his heart, quickly stood up, walked a few steps forward, looked around, and said strangely, "How can we go back with only one horse?" Shall we all ride back to Kyoto on the same horse? That should be fine! I think it's okay under it. ”

"No...... You don't have to ride the same horse...... I have a better suggestion. Hirata and Izumi Mamoru quietly walked behind Yoshisuke and whispered softly like a mosquito and fly: "I'll go back to Kyoto to resume my life, and you go down to serve Zhou Weidian!" ”

The light of the sword pierced into Yoshisuke's back in a blink of an eye, and then passed through his chest and brought out a ray of blood, and the sharp pain instantly spread throughout his body, and the pain convulsed all over his body, and Yoshisuke looked down at the blood-stained Xue Liang Tai Knife, which retreated little by little, slowly retreated into his chest cavity and disappeared without a trace, and the next moment blood spurted out like a spring.

"Poof", Yoshisuke knelt on the ground and looked in the direction of Kyoto like a pilgrim, the severe pain shattered his reason and made him hiss and cry, tears and blood flowed down, Yoshisuke cried bitterly and said, "Why did you do this to me...... Why...... I just want to go back to Kyoto, I still have a younger sister to take care of...... She was only ten years old...... I live on my meager money...... Unwilling to give me the knowledge to do...... You don't have to kill me......"

"Because you did what you shouldn't have done, and you knew what you shouldn't have known, you had to die!" Hirata and Izumi Squatted beside him pityingly, looked at Yoshisuke and sighed, "I can't help myself, I hope you can understand!" The above requirement is that only one person can return to Kyoto, then there are only two options. It's either you die or I die...... You have a sister. I also have a wife and children. So sorry! ”

"Please...... Save my sister......" Kisuke gasped for breath, his healthy face was as pale as paper, his eyes were full of begging, and a pool of blood quietly formed in the depression beneath him, apparently his days were numbered.

Hirata and Izumi Mamoru sighed: "I have investigated your home, and your sister is a very cute little girl...... If you wish, I will take her as a side room, and in the future I will give birth to a boy who will inherit your name. Live for you......"

"That's fine...... Such...... Just ...... Thank you...... Your Highness can't be allowed to ...... It's been too long...... It's time for me to go......" Yoshisuke's face showed a faint hint of joy as he swallowed his last breath.

……

Zhou Wei died without suspense, and Jueqing was also escorted to Koizumi Castle as scheduled, and Miyoshi Yoshiji refused to take Jueqing on the grounds of physical discomfort, in fact, he was frightened by Ashikaga Yoshikin's killing under his nose, for fear that the general's descendant would inexplicably die in Katsuryuji Castle, so he sent someone to wait at the pier early to prevent Jueqing from getting off the boat, and directly turned around and went to Koizumi Castle on the other side of the river.

The three of them were angry that the family governor was irresponsible, but now they had no better choice, so they could only bite the bullet and welcome Jueqing to enter the humble Xiaoquan City. After a few days of good food and drink, Jueqing relaxed his vigilance, and when he saw the humble expressions of the three of Miyoshi and Matsunaga Xiu, he snorted coldly and turned his face in disgust.

Jueqing monk's robe has not been changed. It is still the dress of the young monk, from the face does not look like it is over thirty years old, the lips are red and the teeth are white, the eyes are bright and majestic, sitting in the castle tower silently reciting a Buddha name, and said lightly: "Say it! What is the so-called thing to lure a poor monk outside the city of Kyoto? ”

"We want to support His Highness as the general of Zhengyi......"

Jueqing raised his head suspiciously, and said disdainfully: "Huh? You lowly warriors of the four kingdoms dare to depose the shogunate minister, don't you know that the current prince is my brother in law? To emulate Hosokawa Masamoto and depose General is really bold! Act recklessly! Don't you know that Hosokawa Masamoto has no place to be buried, and you also want to taste the pain of the sword? ”

Being scolded in public and despicable, the three of them were blue but dared to be angry, in the eyes of the Ashikaga shogun's family, their three good families were indeed not fart, the general was rich and sat all over the world, these sixty-six countries were all the general's family, and thousands of samurai were all retainers for his drive, except for the emperor in Kyoto, who was like a clay tire and wood sculpture, there was no one who could make the general look at the same time, even if the Kanto dragon Ashikaga Yoshitoki couldn't.

Compared with one-sixth of the famous family of Dianshan, the Ouchi family who dominated the western country, and the Hosokawa family, who had mastered the shogunate for nearly a hundred years, their Miyoshi family, especially the Miyoshi Sanren and Matsunaga Shu's generation in front of them, are nothing, Miyoshi Nagakei is just the head of the Hosokawa family, and the Miyoshi Sanren and others are just the retainers of Miyoshi Nagakei.

And the Hosokawa family got rid of a position of management in name only, and in the ranking of the Ashikaga family's blood kinship, they couldn't even rank in the top ten, Miyoshi Nagakei didn't dare to pose in front of the general, and the three of Miyoshi dared to pose in front of the future general? I probably don't know how the dead word is written.

Miyoshi Changyi lowered his head and slumped over like a dying old man, and said cautiously: "Yes!" We know that this trip is against the will of God, but we are also forced to be helpless! In recent years, my Miyoshi family has lost the British lord in order to help the family business to collapse, and even the ancestor of the lord Jukoin Hall offended the Kanto Prince, so that the Kanto Princess, together with the Kawachi Takayaden, Yamato Tsutsui clan, Omi Rokkaku clan, Tamba Hatano clan and other clans, tried to dismember our Miyoshi family, so that the general trend of peace and tranquility in Kinai collapsed, and we had no choice but to act......"

Jueqing waved his long sleeves and said in a low voice: "Don't say these high-sounding perfunctory words in the poor monks, the poor monks can't see you kind of superficially righteous and vicious lowly samurai, Ashikaga Yoshitoki's attack on the shogunate is a hundred times stronger than you villains, don't find a reason to frame others!" ”

Iwacheng Youtong hung his head with a bitter face and said in a low voice: "Oops! This highness is also a difficult character, what can I do! ”

The three of them didn't expect Jueqing to be so vigilant, and it can be seen from his words that this gentleman has a clear head and a sharp mind, and he can't raise his head to reprimand them with only a little sign of it, and it becomes a very difficult thing to persuade Jueqing to attack his brother Ashikaga Yoshiki.

Matsunaga Shu shook his head slightly, he was very dissatisfied with the stupid methods of the three of Miyoshi, he didn't believe that Juekei didn't have the idea of being a general in his head, every child of the Ashikaga family had an ambition to be a general, just like every prince dreamed of becoming an emperor. If you don't have ambition, why sit here with a swagger. reprimanded them for how despicable and shameless they were.

A monk who has no ambition should have a heart like water, and be devoted to the Buddha. Jueqing's intelligent, arrogant and ambitious posture does not look like an unambitious monk, at most, because of the presence of his own brother and biological mother, he is unwilling to easily commit disloyal and unfilial deeds, in other words, as long as they can find a plausible reason to persuade Jueqing to approve of the illegal actions of the deposed general.

The elegant point is called the inconsistency between the appearance and the inside, and the non-elegant point is to be both a bitch and a memorial arch. If he wants to eat fish, he is still fishy, and he doesn't give a reasonable reason, he is embarrassed to do the evil thing of betraying his brother with confidence, in short, he has to stand up morally, and it is not okay to be a general without legitimacy and legitimacy, after all, the people of this era are still relatively thin-skinned, and they have not yet degenerated into the cheeky skin of the turtle that kicks the nose on the face decades later.

Sorting out this truth, Matsunaga showed that his whole person was full of confidence, and he bowed lightly and said, "Please Your Highness!" Since the Onin Rebellion, the world has been in turmoil for a hundred years, and many samurai have changed like clouds. Only the general's hall has been unchanged from generation to generation! Today, His Royal Highness has been born with the expectation of the public, and has been working hard to revitalize the shogunate for more than 20 years. Appointed the general of the Kwantung Gongfang Town to guard the palace through the eastern country, just ten plants swept Liuhe in all directions, more than ten countries were recovered in an instant, and his exploits shook the past and the present, but ......"

"Huh? Keep talking! Jueqing said with a cold face: "What do you do to see the poor monk?" Keep talking! ”

The corners of Matsunaga's mouth turned up slightly, and he bowed his head and said, "Yes!" However, today's Royal Highness of the Shogunate has suffered from having no heirs for a long time, and he has no children to inherit the joy of his knees over thirty years old, which is a major disaster for the shogunate, and the Kanto Princely Party intends to inherit the ancestral family of the Ashikaga Shogun by his step-son, and transfer the ancestral business of the Ashikaga Shogun family to the Ashikaga family. ”

Jueqing's face immediately fell, and he pinched the rosary and silently recited the Prajnaparamita Heart Sutra several times before he said slowly, "What's the difference? What difference does the poor monk not see? It's all my Ashikaga family, and the lineage hasn't changed! ”

"If Your Highness is not clear, I will dare to speculate one or two, if there is anything wrong, please forgive Your Highness." Matsunaga Shu smiled faintly, and when he saw the excited expressions of the three of Miyoshi, he continued: "Today's shogunate is called the Muromachi shogunate, and its name comes from the Muromachi Koji in Sakyo District, Kyoto, and the flower palace of the Shikaen Temple.

The prestige of the Shikaen Temple shines all over the world, it is the pride of my samurai, and it is the supreme pride of the shogun's lineage, but the Kamisui Ashikaga family is not the descendants of the Shikaen Temple, and neither is the Shuliu, its origin dates back to the Kamakura Shogunate period, and the long history makes the samurai and other samurai almost forget, and the so-called blood distant relatives are probably like this......"

Ashikaga Yoshimitsu of the Deer Yuan Temple, the only general who enjoys the dignity of the past generations, mentioning the name of this ancestor, Jueqing's spiritual head rose several levels, and before he was happy for a while, he was poured cold by a basin of cold water covering his face, and the high monk of the Ichicheng Temple felt a little unable to pretend on the spot.

The fingers holding the rosary kept trembling, and there were words in his mouth: "Shuliu fights for heirs...... Intolerable, unforgivable! Ashikaga Yoshitoki was so bold that he didn't know whether he was alive or dead, no wonder the temple called the Ashikaga family murderers, this group of remnants of the Southern Dynasty who had a backbone in the back of their heads, actually gave birth to such vicious thoughts! ”

The internal strife within the general's family is not a foreign minister can intervene, Jueqing can unceremoniously scold Ashikaga Yoshishi for rebellion, but the three good family of these foreign ministers are determined not to do it, "Respect and Inferiority Division" has a meaning, since ancient times there is a difference between the upper and lower levels, such as the Central Plains has the king of Zhou Tianwang is the king of the princes, and the lord of all countries rules all nations.

So much so that the king of the Eastern Han Dynasty wrote "On Balance" and said: During the Zhou Dynasty, the world was peaceful, and the Japanese people came to offer grass; When he became a king, he offered pheasants, and the Japanese paid tribute, and the white pheasants wore grass, and they could not get rid of the evil.

Respect and humility throughout thousands of years of civilization history, this is also the most important one in the Oriental ethical system, to the Dong Zhongshu era was evolved into the monarch as the minister, the father as the son, the husband as the wife of the social theory system, strengthen the rule of respect and inferiority is the core, the nobility of the classical feudal era is the evolution of the tribal lords, the big slave owners, the Central Plains Dynasty Yu Xia Shang Zhou is the same, Japan's Asuka era to the Warring States period of the millennium will also be the same.

He is not the poor prince who is displaced and no one dares to accept it, as the largest feudal lord Ashikaga Shogun Shogun Masaso Shoyu, the young and vigorous Kakukei does not feel that there is anything wrong with such arrogance, he can unceremoniously scold the world-shaking Hosokawa Masamoto for not dying well, or he can curse the Ashikaga Yoshitoki who is in the middle of the sun is the remnant of the Southern Dynasty, the three of Miyoshi and Matsunaga Hide hurriedly leaned over and bowed their heads and did not dare to move, this is the difference between nobles and nobles, and feudal customs have penetrated into their bones for thousands of years.

Hojo Yoshitoki must hold a grand funeral for the general after the death of the Gen Mi Dynasty, Akamatsu Mitsusuke also only dared to cut off his head after the death of Ashikaga Yoshiyo and send it back to Kyoto, Hosokawa Masamoto hurriedly supported the Yoshisumi of Toshi, and sent troops to expel and exile Ashikaga Yoshizai, the general can die or flow, but must not be insulted, no one dares to trample on this iron law, Miyoshi and the three dare to follow the example of Hosokawa Masamoto to abolish the establishment and exile the general, but they dare not have the slightest contempt and disrespect for Kakukei.

Matsunaga Hideki struck while the iron was hot, and said in a low voice: "Although the Kanto Princesses are also from the Ashikaga clan, they shocked the Eastern Kingdom in the Kamakura period and made great contributions to the Ashikaga clan, but after all, the Kanto Princes are not descendants of the Rokaen Temple, and they are not even in the same lineage as the Shoin Temple, and it is the hometown of the early years of Kamakura...... retrospectively."

Jueqing's face was pale, and he smashed his fist on the table, shaking the tea and pastries out of the air, scattering them all over the ground, and said gloomily: "He's not...... Of course he wasn't! He's from Ashikaga Naoyoshi's faction, and he's hostile to the other houses! Two hundred years ago, the rebel who supported the Ashikaga family was hostile to the Waitoin, and his clansman Kira Sada's family killed the Hatakeyama family, causing a great rebellion in the four rulers of Oshu, and the Kanto region was in turmoil, and the evil son and grandson of Nitta Yoshisada took the opportunity to revolt!

When the holding house was forced to send the second son, Ashikaga Kei, to serve as Kamakura's stay-at-home in Kanto, there was a Kamakura duke! All the calculations are the fault of Ashikaga Naoyoshi and the Kamiki Ashikaga family! If it weren't for this group of rebels and thieves to provoke the Southern Dynasty to provoke resentment and disturbance, there would be no chaos in the eastern part of the country, and there would be no Kamakura public in the Kanto region, and there would not have been the suffering of repeated confrontations between the shogunate and the Kanto public government for two hundred years! It's all their fault! ”

This is called anger, the Ashikaga general's family is so mixed, it is to blame the remnants of the Kamakura Gongfang in the Kanto region for doing against the shogunate all day long, so that the shogunate is not as good as a day by day, so that the rebellion of Onin and the coup d'état will break out, the Kwantung samurai are at fault inside and out, and then push forward to figure out the situation of Ashikaga Naoyoshi and Kira Manyoshi are the culprits, as for whether it is reasonable to think so, he doesn't care, the angry person is never reasonable, he just needs to drop the sentence very middle, in short, all this is your fault is enough.

Matsunaga Xiu was overjoyed, and the anger in Jueqing's heart was a great victory, so he continued to slander: "What His Highness said is very true! The Kami-Ashikaga family, where the Kanto Princes were located, was indeed a samurai of the Southern Dynasty, and even though Nishikikojiden (Ashikaga Naoyoshi) was defeated in the Battle of Satado Pass and was forced to surrender to the Shoin Hall (Ashikaga Honji), the Kami-Ashikaga family still insisted on fighting in the Southern Dynasty for many years, until the Ashikaga Imperial Sect was ordered to use the ability of Mikawa to secure the blockade before surrendering......"

"I didn't see that you know a lot of secrets! How could a lowly warrior like you know these secrets! Jueqing looked back vigilantly, Matsunaga Xiu hurriedly lowered his head humbly, and Jueqing immediately snorted coldly: "No matter where you come from to tell the secrets of hearsay, you must remember your duty, and don't want to interfere in the internal affairs of my Ashikaga family, this is not what you should do!" ”

Matsunaga Xiu continued to pretend to be his grandson, bowed his head and said continuously: "Yes, yes!" We don't mean that! We are just afraid of the prestige of the Kanto Prince, if we allow the Kanto Princess's passage through the Eastern Kingdom, even if His Royal Highness the Shogunate Shogunate is never allowed to inherit the throne, it will not take three or five years to complete the rule of the Kanto region, and then it may be possible to follow the old example of the Genpei era, and it will be extremely good to go to Luoden! ”

"He dares! This is rebellion! It's on the next gram! It is unfaithful and unrighteous! If Ashikaga Yoshitoki was lucky enough to be present at this moment, he would definitely draw a knife and cut him into seventeen or eighteen pieces, and then cut off his head and hang it on the three bridges to "show his head" as an example. (To be continued......)