Just when Oda Nobunaga of Owari was alone in the first test of his life, in the western country, almost with Oda Nobuhide to the prefecture to report, there was also the important minister of the Ouchi family, Naito Prosperity.

Speaking of which, Naito's prosperity is unlucky enough. Historically, he did not die of illness until at least on the eve of the famous bloody battle of Itsukushima between Tao Longfang and Maori Yuan. It's just that since he was defeated by the Luo family in Chikuzen, and then his sister-in-law and daughter-in-law were snatched away by Masayo, Naito Xingsheng was so angry that he couldn't afford to get sick. I thought that I would have nothing to do after recuperating for a while, but I ended up encountering a period when the contradiction between the "martial arts faction" and the "Wenzhi faction" at home intensified. Seeing that the mediation of the family governor Yoshitaka Ouchi was ineffective, Naito Xingsheng, who was worried about the situation at home, had to drag the sick body to the door on both sides, trying his best to maintain the stability of the family.

Why did Naito work so hard to maintain stability at home? You must know that in history, when Tao Longfang sent troops to attack Ouchi Yoshitaka, he not only did not remind Ouchi Yoshitaka when he had already learned that Tao Longfang was going to rebel, but also saw death when Ouchi Yoshitaka was chased and killed by Tao Longfang and asked him for help. It can be said that historically, he supported Tao Longfang's rebellion. It's just that now it's different from what it was in history. Because the Roche family appeared.

In Naito's view, at this moment, the Ouchi family has the Niko family in the east, and the Luo family in the west. Especially the Luo family's family governor Luo Shi Zhengliang. In Naito's view, Roshi Masarashi is a ferocious and greedy goshawk who will bite the Ouchi family at only one chance. If the Ouchi family is not united at this time, once it is divided by the Nizi family and the Luo family, the Ouchi family, which seems to be a giant, will collapse. And after the collapse of the Ouchi family, the Naito family will inevitably be threatened. That's why he worked so hard to maintain stability at home at this time.

It's just that the "martial arts faction" headed by Tao Longfang and the "bunji faction" led by Sagara Takeren have long reached the stage of incompatibility. What made Naito feel even more helpless. His sister-in-law, Naito Xingtaka, who has just inherited the position of family governor and guardian, is also the core backbone of the "martial arts faction". After some effort. Not only could he not persuade his in-laws (the main room of Tao Longfang was Naito's granddaughter), but even his own sister-in-law could not be persuaded to stop, so in deep helplessness and worry about the future of the family, Naito Xingsheng finally died in the spring of this year and went to the underworld to find Jizo Bodhisattva to drink tea.

Originally, Naito Xingsheng was here, and the two factions would maintain a little restraint, but now that Naito Xingsheng is gone, the family governor Ouchi Yoshitaka always makes some mediation methods such as marriage. Not only did it fail to mediate, but it added fuel to the fire, so the conflict between the two factions became more and more excessive.

Not long ago, Tao Longfang and Naito Xingtaka jointly carried out an assassination operation against Sagara Takeren, but they accidentally leaked the news and were known in advance by Sagara Takeren, who has always been cautious. So he left a letter to Yoshitaka Ouchi, saying that his life was not guaranteed, and I quit doing this job of TMD, and then he hid in the Aso family in Chikuzen, and he didn't want to go back to Zhoufang. Yoshitaka Ouchi knew the beginning and end of the matter. scolded Tao Longfang and the others fiercely, and then hurriedly sent someone to Chikuzen Province to persuade Sagara Takeren to return to the Ouchi Pavilion.

Naturally, these things that happened in the Ouchi family were passed back to Masara in the school city one by one by the Luo family's fine work.

"Did it happen?" After reading the information provided by the Intelligence Cabinet. Masahiro first breathed a sigh of relief. In fact, according to history, these things should have happened last year. So when Masarashi didn't receive these things from the Ouchi family last year, he once thought that because of his appearance, the historical development of the Ouchi family was deviated, and some events would not happen because of this. Now that these events have finally happened, Masa-liang's tense mood has finally been relieved.

Let's take a look at the family changes in the Ouchi family during this time, in Masaliang's view, the root of everything is still in Ouchi Yoshitaka, and many people may think that when they look at the history of the Ouchi family during this period of time, they will think that Ouchi Yoshitaka is too mediocre to cause these events to happen. But in Masasahiro's view, these incidents were actually deliberately created by Yoshitaka Ouchi.

Yes, in the fiasco of that Izumo expedition in the eleventh year of astronomy, this battle was badly defeated. Ouchi Yoshitaka and Tao Takafang picked up their lives and fled back to Zhou Fang Nagato, and on the way, Yoshitaka also lost the life of his adopted heir, Ouchi Haruto. Yoshitaka Ouchi, who returned to Yamaguchi with a disgraced face, began to break down a little mentally because of the double blow of military defeat and the loss of his heir, and since then he has been tired of military affairs, and in the following years, he has been intoxicated by the prosperous Yamaguchi culture every day, and he simply handed over political affairs to Sagara Takeren, the head of the Bunji faction in the family. At the same time, he is also taking the opportunity to weaken the rights of some of his retainers.

If you want to talk about why Yoshitaka Ouchi did this, you have to start with the council system of the Ouchi family. Since the Onin War, the daimyo in various parts of the Wa Kingdom have changed to Sengoku daimyo (simply understood, daimyo who like to engage in expansion and annexation), and in the process of this transformation, the degree of change varies from house to house. Like the Hojo family and the Oda family in the future, they are currently the fastest transforming, they have concentrated the power of the territory through land inspection and other means, and the family governor also has almost the power of the court; Daimyo such as the Kai Takeda family and the Aki Mori family have changed a little slower, and they have concentrated their territorial power through the so-called "two-mountain system" and "two-river system", and the family governor also has great discretionary power, but it will still be influenced by the retainers and wealthy families; As for the Ouchi family in the western country, the Hankura family in Echizen, and the Asai family in Omi, they adopted a more backward collegial system of heavy ministers.

Among the three, the speed of transformation to the Sengoku Daimyo is fast and slow, among which the Asai family in Omi is the slowest, and among the Hancang families in Echizen, the Ouchi family in the western country is the best. The reason for this assertion is clear from an example.

Needless to say, when the Asai family in Omi was deciding whether to break the alliance with the Oda family in order to maintain the alliance of the Hankura family, Asai Nagamasa, who was the governor of the family and was reluctant to tear up the alliance with the Oda family, finally succumbed to the resolution of the collegial system of the important ministers and confronted Oda Nobunaga. Under such a system, at home. As a family governor, he has to completely obey the decisions of the collegial system of important ministers.

And the Han Cang family in Echizen. In history, the eighth-generation family governor Asakura Clan's younger brother (that is, a relative who belongs to the lineage) was watching a sumo wrestling show. Because of the relationship between the lineage, he sat in a better position to watch the play, which caused the jealousy of Mr. Asakura, who was born earlier but sat in a bad position to watch the play because he was a concubine. Then he was killed by Mr. Asakura Kei. But as the governor of the family, the Asakura clan Jing was unable to investigate the guilt of the Asakura Jing at this time, because in the collegial system of the important ministers of the same clan, his three clan uncles deliberately rebelled in order to reflect their authority, and when the four people voted, the Asakura clan Jing, who only accounted for one vote, had to give up the decision to execute the murderer of Asakura Jingzong, and even later had to use the enemy who killed his younger brother as a retainer.

The collegial system of important ministers of the same clan like the Han Cang family is a little better than that of the Asai family. At least the power is concentrated in the hands of the family members, unlike the Asai family, where different families form an alliance council, and the family governor is just the leader of the alliance who has no power to be pushed out. At least in Han Cang's family, although the rights of the family governor are restricted, they also have a little right. Only when major matters and intra-clan matters are involved, it is necessary to vote through the collegial meeting of the important ministers of the clan.

The Ouchi family, which was the last of the year, also implemented a "evaluation of the public" meeting system similar to that of the collegial meeting of important ministers. The Ouchi family's "evaluation of the public" is composed, and it involves the troika as the main force, namely the Tao family, the Naito family, and the Sugi family. The Tao family itself is a fellow member of the Ouchi clan, and the hereditary position of Zhou Fang Guardian; What about the Naito family. The family governor has been a major minister of Ouchi for generations, among which Naito Prosperity has held the position of Nagato guardian for half a century; Sugi family. He was responsible for the attack and defense of Kitakyushu for Ouchi. These three families are also known as the "three elders of the Ouchi", and their status is extremely honorable, and they are each responsible for commanding a front army externally, and they have always served as evaluators internally - if there is any major event, the family governor may not be counted, and the three must unanimously agree.

Therefore, the Ouchi family, which is extremely beautiful on the surface of the western country, also implements the old collegial system of important ministers, which is still a little short of the unification of the power of the Sengoku daimyo. When the Izumo expedition was made, in fact, Ouchi Yoshitaka may not have agreed in his heart, mainly because important ministers like Tao Longfang nodded, so he half agitated and half hijacked Ouchi Yoshitaka to set up the carriage. After the failure of the expedition, Yoshitaka Ouchi was tired and dissatisfied with such a "democratic life", and it was not easy for him to directly intervene to weaken the power of these elders, so he threw out the card of "Wenji faction".

Most of the Bunji faction are close to Yoshitaka Ouchi.,There is no intertwined relationship.,The political background is also simple.,For example, Sagara Takeren is an outsider who came from the Sagara family in Kyushu.,Let these people be evil.,It's the most appropriate thing to change the law.。 If Yoshitaka Ouchi can take the opportunity to reduce the power of those old ministers this time, then the Ouchi family will have a chance to catch up with the family management system like the Takeda family.

It's a pity that in this process, Yoshitaka Ouchi handled it really badly. He engaged in reform, and he was quite able to exude the smell of being able to spill but not get it back. On the one hand, Sagara Takeren made a lot of trouble, first squeezing out the power center of the Arbitrary Faction, and then directly began to confiscate the land of the Arbitrary faction (such as the previous occupation of the Tao family's territory by the Sagara family); On the other hand, the arbitrariness faction led by Tao Longfang and Naito Xingtaka is eager to kill Sagara Takeshi and then quickly, and he is sharpening his knives all day long. Just when these two factions were red-eyed, it was originally the best opportunity for Yilong to come forward, he just called the two factions, his face sank, "What kind of trouble, give me fifty boards each!" "Come to a clam and crane to compete for the fisherman's profit, and take the opportunity to strengthen the authority of the governor, this is called imperial learning. Ouchi Yoshitaka is good, and when he asked Sagara Takeren to offend people, he patted them on the back and said, "Be bold and do it, it's really not good for me." When they cornered Masahiro's father-in-law, Sagara Takeren, he was at the Liange Club and didn't even show his attitude.

Until the trouble reached the worst, there was a miasma of black smoke, and Sagara Takeren cried and shouted: "I won't do this job!" Then he fled to Chikuzen, and only then did he come forward to mediate. But his level of mediation is not high. Just like the previous incident of the Sagara family occupying the Tao family's territory, Yoshitaka Ouchi actually came up with a reconciliation method for marriage. Big brother, everyone is already on the bayonet and ready to fight, but you run and say, "Don't fight, don't fight, why don't you be in-laws?" As a result, the murderous spirit of both sides of the fight not only did not decrease, but even increased by hundreds of percentage points.

As for Tao Longfang, they gradually became more and more angry at Yilong's ambiguous attitude of dragging mud and water and indistinguishable rewards and punishments. In addition, Ouchi Yoshitaka holds a party every day, and from time to time there is a hunting party or something, and the domestic tax is extremely heavy (seven public and three people), and the people's grievances are boiling up and down - the arrow of contradiction is quietly moving towards Ouchi Yoshitaka.

In Masayo's opinion, Yoshitaka Ouchi has now become a bit of a self-immolation.

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