Just after the hour, the quiet Kamakura suddenly became noisy, and samurai from half of the Honshu island rushed to the outside of Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine in an attempt to see the inauguration ceremony of the Kanto Prince, but unfortunately it was the preparation of the Ueki Ashikaga family, and tens of thousands of troops entered the Kamakura Gokou to guard the important pass, and if you want to come in and fish in troubled waters, you must first walk in front of these samurai with helmets and armor.

It didn't take long for a strict cavalry regiment to slowly enter Kamakura, serving as the vanguard of the 2,000 red armor cavalry, followed by 2,000 black armor cavalry, 2,000 yellow armor cavalry, 2,000 green armor cavalry, 2,000 white armor cavalry, adding up to tens of thousands of elite horsemen wearing a special cuirass, striding into Kamakura with neat steps, to the nearly 100,000 people who came to watch the great spiritual shock.

There were many ronins who came to watch in the crowd of black oppression, and when they saw this unified system of horseback warriors, they immediately exclaimed: "Ten thousand cavalry! Is this also a five-color preparation? It's really powerful! ”

The Hojo family has a total of 10,000 people in five colors, and the Ashikaga family also has a total of 10,000 horsemen in five colors, and the Hojo family has a total of more than 3,000 horseback teams that can be called the strongest in the Kanto region, and the horseback warriors of all the samurai families in the entire eight countries of the Kanto region are combined, and they may be able to compare with the Ashikaga family with more horseback teams, and the gap is still very large.

"I didn't expect the Kami-Ashikaga family to be so powerful! It's incredible! Some of the merchants sent by the big merchant houses were also thinking about whether to set up a semicolon in Edo Castle, and there were even spies from all over the world who secretly wrote down every fragment they saw, and perhaps in the near future it would be presented in the form of documents on the desks of the daimyo of all over the world.

The enthronement ceremony was more like a show of personal force by Ashikaga Yoshitoki, with 10,000 samurai on horseback showing off their might and 2,000 iron artillery units striding in with new flintlock muskets without arquebuses. A heavily armed legion armed with a shield hammer staff. The regular three-gun regiment rushed in. There were as many as 30,000 armed forces entering Kamakura alone, and the entire Tsuruoka Hachiman Shrine was so tightly surrounded inside and out that it was difficult for even an insect to leap over.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki, dressed in black court clothes, walked into the Taiko Bridge under the guidance of a ceremonial officer, and the bridge was painted with vermilion lacquer to symbolize it, so it was also called Akabashi, and the Hojo clan of the Hojo Tokushu clan had a house next to this red bridge during the Kamakura period, so this branch of the Hojo clan was also called the Akahashi clan.

This Akahashi-ryu Hojo clan once had two generations of Kamakura ruling powers, namely the sixth generation of the Kamakura shogunate, the first ancestor of Akahashi-ryu, who was in power for Hojo Nagashi. and the last ruling Hojo punctuality of the Kamakura shogunate, the political status of this family is second only to the Hojo Tokumune family, and it is the highest status family in the entire Hojo family, Ashikaga Zun's wife Akahashi Noriko is the sister of Hojo Punctuality, and only followed the Ashikaga clan to destroy the Kamakura shogunate and avoid changing its name to the Akahashi clan.

Under the Taiko Bridge is a large lotus pond, this lotus pond also has a nice name called Gen Hirai, the so-called Gen Flat is Hojo Masako as the "Ni Gotai" era, the two huge lotus ponds excavated are called Genji Land and Taira Land respectively, there are three artificial islands in Genji Land There are four artificial islands in Tairaji Land, and it is said to symbolize all the processes of people from birth to death.

Cross the Taiko Bridge into the core area of Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine. In front of it is a large stone section of sixty-one steps, and the dance hall under the steps is said to be the source of the Lai Dynasty to catch Jing Yu before. and asked her to dance the white beat dance in front of this dance hall, and the sad ballad is still sung to this day.

"I am deeply attached to the person who left footprints on the snow of Mt. Yoshino and then drifted to Oshu separately! Ah Jing, Ah Jing, you are like the twine ball used for weaving, spinning your life like twine, how good it would be if you were like it was now......

Ashikaga Yoshitoki stood in front of the dance hall and paused for a moment, then shook his head and smiled, obviously his heart was as hard as iron, but he still had a deep feeling for the legendary story of nearly 400 years, at this time, the inside and outside of Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace were tightly surrounded by samurai wearing straight dresses, and the lack of the most important tourist atmosphere was the three steps, one post, five steps and one sentry.

Walk through the Sakura Gate and enter the hall, there is a leafy ginkgo tree in the small square, this ginkgo tree is the big ginkgo tree that Hachimangu Bedang Gen Gongxiao ambushed and killed the Gen Dynasty, and a farce of nephew assassinating uncle was staged under this big tree, which directly led to the complete severance of the Genji lineage in Kawachi, and it is still unknown what role Hojo Masako played in it.

The enthronement ceremony was held in this hall, and hundreds of samurai dressed in gorgeous clothes poured into the small square, looking wide for a glimpse of the enthronement ceremony of the Kanto Princess, and outside the square, 500 of the tallest and bravest samurai stood on both sides of the approach as imperial guards, but the ceremony began with the ringing of bells and drums in a moment.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki slowly walked into the main hall of Hachimangu Palace under the guidance of the ceremonial officer, and the samurai bowed down one by one where he passed, and from time to time there were respectful titles in the crowd of "Gongkata Palace-like" and "Imperial Palace-like", Kagura also played quietly at this moment, wearing a black court robe, Konoe Maehisa stood under the porch with a wat board in his hand and waited for his arrival, Konoe Maehisa was a minister of Sekihakuzuo, he was the supreme envoy who came on behalf of the imperial court, fully indicating the high support of the imperial court for Ashikaga Yoshitoki's accession to the throne, and this time he was also personally serving as the Kanto Gongfang enthronement ceremony.

This is not in accordance with the rules, it was supposed to be Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace Besto presided over the enthronement ceremony of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace Bedang has always been held by the descendants of the Kanto Princess, several generations of Kamakura Princes have served as Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace Bedang, the last Bedang was Ashikaga Yoshiaki Kokumi, with his defeat and retreat from the Fangsu Peninsula and quickly died in the national capital platform, Bedang's position has been vacant and no one has taken over.

The Hojo clan had wanted to serve as the Hojo family, but unfortunately this abacus had not had time to come out, and it ran into the Imagawa family's Hanakura rebellion and put the entire Hojo family into it, and the Hojo clan was depressed and ended up his son Hojo clan Yasu had never played this score, and the current Kazubetsu was the club of the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace, and his status was not high, and he had no prestige in the Kanto samurai, and he was not qualified to preside over the Kanto Gongfang enthronement ceremony.

The entire enthronement ceremony was complicated and lengthy, and to the accompaniment of Kagura, several priests recited the lineage of the Kawachi Genji family, from Genpei to Kamakura and finally to the Kamisui Ashikaga family and Ashikaga Yoshitoki himself, which can be regarded as a complete justification of his origins, and this ceremony is also mixed with many small ceremonies that inexplicably honor the ancient rites.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki walked according to the rules one by one. Recite words according to fixed requirements and do not say a single extra word. Until noon. Ashikaga Yoshitoki was able to pay homage to Hachiman Bodhisattva and swear to the ancestors of Kawachi Genji to protect the land of Kanto, and then sent an oath to Natai sword armor as a prayer, and this lengthy inauguration ceremony was completed, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki was already exhausted by tossing.

The next is not over, Ashikaga Yoshitoki also has to pay homage to the inheritance of Kawachi Genji, walk to the apse and look up to see a slightly shabby white flag, on the book "Nan no Hachiman Great Bodhisattva", I heard the whisper of the Ashikaga Commander: "This is the white flag used by the right general hall when raising troops." This flag is one of the three sacred objects of my Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine. ”

"Is the Imperial White Flag used in the Right General's Palace?" Ashikaga Yoshitoki stared at the slightly exaggerated strokes, thick and heavy as a mountain, and although the font was not beautiful, it contained the roughness and courage of a samurai, which was the first white flag written by Minamoto Yoritomo, the first general of the first dynasty.

The meaning of the Genji white flag to Kawachi Genji is incomparably significant, the white flag symbolizes the highest spiritual sustenance of the samurai, symbolizes the highest respect for the ancestors, ordinary samurai write the same word under a white flag, that is not called a white flag, that is a transgression, when the shogunate is strong, it is to be killed, only a number of samurai descendants since Kamakura Muromachi can use the white flag, these families have either been extinct or are in the dying struggle before the extinction. For example, Dapeng Zhenguo and Chiba Yinzong are all like this.

As the Warring States period progressed, more and more famous samurai families disappeared. Instead, there are penniless low-ranking samurai of a small family, who have the drive to not care about the rules and are more unscrupulous than anyone else, who naturally defy the rules and try to override them by force, but they don't know that what they think is the best is nothing more than repeating what Minamoto Yoritomo did hundreds of years ago.

Minamoto Yoritomo used his own force to establish a new regime to break the original system of monopoly by the minister, if compared to innovation, maybe they are not as meaningful as the creation of a new aristocratic class of Minamoto Yoritomo, some people may think that the demon king is the greatest man in the world, but in the eyes of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, his ability is just that, too far worse than the origin of Yoritomi.

At first glance, it seems that there were not many surprising movements during the short reign of Minamoto Yorito, but if you look closely, you will find that the Seiku Rebellion broke out more than 20 years after his death, and the Kamakura shogunate, who was enraged by Emperor Go-Toba's war to launch the Shogunate, ordered the Kanto region to go into battle, and a full 190,000 horsemen entered Kyoto to scare the Emperor Go-Toba, who was a foreign powerhouse and a middle officer.

The result is self-evident, the Kamakura samurai slaughtered all over Kyoto with ruthless butcher knives, slaughtered all the northern samurai loyal to the imperial court, and then arrested the party of Emperor Go-Toba, the leader of the party, Emperor Go-Toba, was exiled to Oki Island, Emperor Shuntoku was exiled to Sado Island, and Emperor Tsuchigomon, who opposed the fall of the curtain, was lightly punished, but first exiled to Tosa Province and then exiled to Awa Province, and Emperor Nakako, who had only been on the throne for two months, was deposed.

Then came the more ruthless method, confiscating all the 3,000 houses held by the imperial court, thus laying the way for the Kamakura shogunate to gradually transform from a local government in a corner of Kanto to a national government.

The so-called kassho is a village, before the Warring States period was a manor system, a village controlled a large territory with many soldiers, each manor owner is a powerful local samurai, their position in the court and shogunate is "land", probably equivalent to the knight class in medieval Europe, the small manor owner was born to play the knight's style.

Three thousand houses are three thousand villages, that is really a surprising number, at the beginning of the three good Changqing and the three good masters of the battle for the seventeen in Hanoi failed, so it was completely hostile to the three good masters and buried the hidden danger of the battle at the mouth of the river, seventeen rich villages can make the three good family turn against each other, and the villages held by the three thousand royal families must be a lot of wealth.

With Ashikaga Yoshitoki as a territory as large as the Kantoku Tohoku region, all the villages together do not necessarily have as many as 3,000 kansho, which shows that even if the imperial court was so corrupt and degenerate before the Kamakura period, in fact, the resources owned by the emperor and the minister were still very terrifying, and the samurai in various places were originally only the "land" of the emperor and the secretary of state to guard the manor below, such as Shimono Ashikaga and Ueno Shindaso, and then formed a samurai regiment with the manor as the seedling character, and many Lang parties evolved in this way.

He founded the Kamakura shogunate at the hands of Minamoto Yoritomo, established a government under the rule of the Kamakura samurai themselves, and deposed and exiled several emperors in the subsequent Jokusa War. And single-handedly figured out a situation where the Ming Yuan and the Dajue Temple were superimposed. As a result, the court was divided into two factions, and there was always infighting. The Kamakura shogunate could easily manipulate the imperial court to complete the full penetration of, Western Province, and Kyushu.

It was during this period that a large number of Kamakura samurai went to these places to serve as the head of the land, thus laying a solid foundation for the defeat of the Ashikaga clan in Kyushu more than a hundred years later.

It is nothing more than a power shuffle for the new samurai nobles to defeat the old samurai nobles, because the sudden death of the demon king also caused a collapsed situation. Of course, the shogunate created by the turtle was definitely quiet and peaceful compared to the previous two shogunates, but it was also his descendants who made a lot of stupid things, which directly caused the samurai shogunate to lose the opportunity to change itself, and was completely abandoned by the times and swept into the pile of old papers.

The enthronement ceremony is full of sacredness, and the greater significance is that the samurai highly identify with the traditions left by their ancestors, etiquette is a yardstick to measure whether civilization is developed or barbaric, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki's requirement is to be perfect without the slightest mistake, to show the most powerful power to deter the Kanto samurai and strengthen their sense of identity with the new princess.

By the time the ceremony was over, it was time to finish. Ashikaga Yoshitoki was served a plate of delicacies, from and geese to chickens, ducks and geese. From crucian carp to tuna and pufferfish, there are also customs in ancient Japan to eat puffer fish, and there are still people who dare to try it knowing that it is highly poisonous, and only the most astute chefs dare to take on the challenge of making puffer fish, and the ability to make delicious puffer fish meat is considered to be a sign of culinary excellence.

Before the banquet began, Ashikaga Yoshitoki gave a speech encouraging the Kwantung samurai to be loyal and brave to the samurai, praising their achievements in protecting the people of the dawn in the Kanto region, and at the same time putting forward higher requirements, hoping that each samurai would lead by example and strictly abide by the laws of the shogunate and the Kanto family.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki's imperial palace was located in Edo Castle, so it was also called Edo Gongkata, and not long after the end of the speech, he retired to let the samurai below play freely, and he himself went to the apse of Hachimangu Shrine and quietly came to the shrine where the Genji military equipment was enshrined, staring at the white flag left by the Minamoto Yoritomo for a long time, as if he could see the bloody wind and rain of four hundred years ago through this flag, and countless Genji samurai fought bloodily to leave a legendary epic.

Konoe came quietly a long time ago, and when he saw that he was still in a daze, he said softly: "The right general has been an ancient man for many years, and Kamakura has long been away from us, this is a new era!" ”

"What a pity! Yu suddenly felt sad, the first right general has passed away, Kamakura Takeshi is not there, it's really disappointing! Ashikaga Yoshitoki was silent after saying a sentence without a beginning or end, and it was not until the bell of the first watch rang that he said lightly: "Yu Ruo is fortunate enough to really want to see the true face of the right general, and I really want to see the demeanor of the Kamakura samurai!" ”

Konoe frowned tightly before a long time, he didn't understand why this righteous brother remembered these words, and said calmly: "Do you pity the Kamakura shogunate?" The lawless Kamakura samurai were too much, and some of the samurai did not hesitate to cut off the descendants of the shogun for their own selfishness, and if the crime was extremely evil, there was probably no worse than the Kamakura samurai! ”

The clever Konoe did not name or even use the specific name of the Kamakura samurai for a long time, because the Ashikaga family was one of the members of the Kamakura samurai back then, not only one of them in the original Chengjiu Rebellion, Ashikaga Kamizaburo Yoshishi was the first samurai to cross the Uji River to raid Kyoto, and it can be said that he was the most staunch samurai against the imperial court at the beginning.

The curtain is not a new word, the rebellion of the Shokushi is caused by the fall of Emperor Go-Toba, after the end of Kamakura, Emperor Daigo launched a huge curtain war, this successful curtain to create a short return to the light of the new imperial court, and then in the betrayal of the Ashikaga clan, the only success of the shogunate with the samurai to the samurai is probably a group of strange people of the turtle family, and the only experience in the previous two times, both ended with the samurai defeating the imperial court and winning the victory.

Standing in the position of Konoe for a long time, of course, I don't like Kamakura samurai, and the descendants of the Konoe family once suffered a setback, because the tributary of the Konoe family, Konoe Jingzhong, turned away from the Northern Dynasty for his own selfishness and went to Emperor Go-Daigo, Konoe Jingzhong and his son Konoe Jingjia mixed in the Southern Dynasty It was very good, and the minister of Sekihakuzuo held it in his hands all the year round, but how meaningful it was that the decree of the small court of Yoshino could not be transmitted outside the mountain.

From the establishment of the Kenbu Shikime in the third year of Kenbu (1336) and the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate in the first year of the Senshu Dynasty (1338) to the fifth year of the Sengoku period (1525) when the Konoe family served as Sekihaku, the Konoe family served in the imperial court for only 16 short years.

What a shame it means to have only sixteen years! As the Fujiwara clan's descendants, he has really served as Sekihaku for less than one-tenth of the time, which means that the Goseki family has been in the hands of a minister of the Kujo system for a long time, and the five generations from the Konoe Kiji to the Konoe Fang Hei have only served as Sekihaku for a total of six years, and the longest tenure is two years and the shortest is one year.

Knowing that he was suffering very miserable, the Konoe family was determined to cling to the shogunate, and sure enough, from the beginning of Konoe Shotsu's voice in the imperial court increased greatly and served as Sekihaku twice, Konoe Shotsu married his daughter to Ashikaga Yoshiharu to open the curtain of the Konoe family to follow the shogunate, and the climate Konoe family married his daughter to Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and his sister-in-law Konoe has been restored to the prosperous family background of the Konoe family for a long time.

Konoe was loyal to the imperial court for a long time but was more loyal to the shogunate, and all the emperor could give was the official title of Minister Sekihakuzuo, and his righteous brother was the general of Seiyi who could give him a long time to sit firmly as the minister of Sekihaku, Konoe had served as Sekihaku for nine years, and no one has yet been able to shake his position, even if the former Sekihaku Nijo Harara.

This is what power can bring him, without power, he must abdicate voluntarily in accordance with the old practice of being a three-five-year guanbai, Konoe has long been fed up with the oppression and humiliation of the Kujo family, so he is closer to the shogunate than any minister's heart, and closer to the Ashikaga Yoshitoki in front of him, the shogunate general Ashikaga Yoshiteki's authority relies on the strong strength of Ashikaga Yoshitoki to support, without the support of Ashikaga Yoshitoki, perhaps Ashikaga Yoshiki should nest in Sakamoto Castle and curse the injustice of fate.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki smiled noncommittally: "The Kamakura samurai may be extremely evil, maybe not as bad as imagined, the royal family is the fierce dog under the general's seat, as long as the imperial envoy is the emperor, the phenomenon of devouring the lord will not occur, Yu admires the ferocity and fearlessness of the Kamakura royal family very much, and hopes to train a group of fierce dogs like that in Kanto." ”

"It's still too dangerous, what the Kwantung samurai look like, I think I can see it very clearly, they have no faith, no righteousness, no loyalty, filial piety, shame, shame, selfishness, if it weren't for the fear of the strong military power of the Ashikaga family, maybe tomorrow they will pull up the anti-flag and bring you, the trusted Kanto Prince, back to Echigo." Konoe's worries for a long time reflect the bad feelings that many people have about the Kanto samurai.

For more than 100 years since the Cargill Rebellion, there were also a lot of ministers who went down to Kanto, and many ministers recorded what they saw and heard in Kanto in their diaries to circulate to each other when they returned to Kyoto.

The group of Kanto samurai didn't know why they used pickled radish rice to entertain the minister, and the next day they saw that they had said goodbye, and many Kanto samurai didn't know how to offend these Kyoto lords, and the result was that the number of samurai in Kanto was getting less and less, but it was not as good as the Mutsu turtles they looked down on, the kind of lonely and unknown people in the Date family who could be mixed with the imperial court for several generations in a row, and the Kanto Hachiyagata group of self-proclaimed governors who claimed to be so-and-so were eager to hit the ground with their heads and pull them down. (To be continued......)

PS: The outbreak of promises is tomorrow, so please get ready.