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After eighteen years as the shosho, Itakura Katsushige asked the shogunate to retire, and because his position was quite recognized, the shogunate continued to let his son Shigemune come to the position of the shocho in Kyoto, and he has served as the shosho for almost fourteen years, starting with the fifth year of Motowa and now in the tenth year of Kanei.

The two generations of father and son served as the head of the office in Kyoto for more than 30 years, and they ordered the upper and lower levels to use their own prestige and power, and the prestige and power they accumulated were so amazing that they could simply ignore the imperial court. Although he has always been very respectful to the emperor and the public family on the surface, they are definitely not taken seriously in the mainland.

It is precisely because of his power and prestige that the ministers in Kyoto are very jealous of him, and they almost talk about it. When Eagle Si Jiaoping said his name, even Ichijo, who was the highest among the ministers, couldn't help but change his color a little.

"What are you afraid of, there are only three of us here, can we still leak outside?" Nijo Yasudo didn't mean to back down at all, "Our Fujiwara family...... Has it been reduced to the point where you don't dare to say what you think in private? ”

As soon as he asked this, Ying Si Jiaoping's face also changed.

Yes, he is also a descendant of the Five Photographers, how can he not have that resentment in his heart?

"Hey......" he sighed, hanging his head, "I just don't think it's useful to talk about it." Tokugawa Iemitsu is still young after all, and who can say what will happen in ten or twenty years? Besides, even if the Tokugawa family is in turmoil, and in the end, the samurai will not still launch a new shogunate, so how much difference is there? ”

"If we only know how to go with the flow, what are we complaining about, wouldn't it be better to endure it silently? But you can stand it, I can't stand it. Nijo Yasudo still didn't mean to back down, "Ten or twenty years later, you can prepare now, as for the new martial arts...... Let's not say that when the time comes, I will have the opportunity to take advantage of the situation to regain power, and even if I can't take it back, no matter how bad it is, it will not be worse than the Tokugawa family. ”

"This ...... This ...... "Eagle Priest Kyohei wants to say something but doesn't know how to say it."

There are two schools of thought within the ministers today, one of them still remembers the tragic situation of the court and the ministers in the troubled era of the Warring States period, for fear that the country will be chaotic again, so they feel that the Tokugawa family can tolerate even if it is harsh, although they are dissatisfied with the status quo, they also have to get by; On the other hand, they are still nostalgic for the old days of the imperial court, but instead they are looking forward to the rapid collapse of the Tokugawa family's rule and the rebuilding of the imperial court in the troubled times.

The former faction is mostly numerous, and the latter faction is small but cannot be underestimated, and now it seems that the right minister, Nijo Yasudo, is one of them.

"Don't argue, you two, today's cherry blossom viewing is a grand event, and it's nothing to talk about in your heart." Ichijo Kaneya suddenly interrupted their words, and then looked at Nijo Yasudo, "Youfu, you mean that the Tokugawa family is likely to be in civil strife soon, so you need to prepare now?" ”

After hearing this question, Nijo Yasudo was immediately overjoyed.

As the prince and the elder of the Teng family, and the chief courtier of the imperial court, his willingness to continue this topic is actually a statement.

"Yes, I've heard that the people around Tokugawa Iemitsu are now advising Iemitsu to put Tadashi to death as soon as possible. These people ...... I'm really afraid of Tadagawa's succession...... Haha, the Tokugawa family has always prided itself on being a constant force, but they can't even tolerate their younger brother, how can their world last long?! ”

After inheriting the position of general, he often had conflicts with his younger brother, and punished his younger brother Tadashi several times, relying on the protection of the still living Hidetada, Tokugawa Tadashi did not lose his life, but was suppressed very badly, and Iemitsu sent Tadashi to Kofu under house arrest for the crime of being violent and indiscriminately killing innocents.

However, just last spring, Tokugawa Hidetada died, and Tokugawa Tadanaga's situation became even more difficult, and Tokugawa Iemitsu found an excuse to confiscate his original fiefdom and strengthen his care.

The previous generation of general Xiuzhong doted on the main room Chongyuan Yuan all his life, so the sister-in-law only gave birth to these two sons with her, although there was another illegitimate son Baoke Masayuki, but he had no inheritance right after all. In the current situation where the family has no children at the age of thirty, Tadashi has become an eyesore.

Iemitsu's cronies didn't like Tadashi in the first place, and naturally had a feud with Tadashi in the years of assistance, and they didn't want "Iemitsu to die without an heir and Tadashi to succeed to the throne", so they also tried their best to persuade Iemitsu to kill Tadashi to prevent future troubles. Now, the loyal chief is becoming more and more precarious, and his life is on the verge of death, and he doesn't know when the general will issue a sentence to kill him.

If Tadanaga had died and Iemitsu had been left without an heir, the Tokugawa family might have been in civil strife by that time - this may have been more of a curse than a real fact, but it did not prevent those who opposed the Tokugawa family from wishing for it.

Ichikan Ya and Nijo Kangdo want this to happen.

"That'...... What does the Right House think we should do? "Ichijo asked again.

Although he was full of ambition and resentment towards the Tokugawa family, he still knew what was going on after all, and the current imperial court was just an empty shelf, with no money, no land, and no land, and even if he wanted to restore his former glory, he didn't know where to start.

"Of course you can't just go on like this!" Nijo Yasudo replied immediately, and then impassionedly glanced around at the two people, "Zuofu, you are the head of the imperial court and the elder of the Fujiwara family, you have the hope of the imperial court and the world, you can't help but think about the world!" ”

"For the sake of the world...... Ichijo muttered, "I want to think about the world, but what should I do!?" I don't have anything in my hands. ”

"As the Zuofu and the regent, how can you say that there is nothing?" Nijo Yasudo frowned, and even his neck was stiffened, "You are the regent, representing His Majesty the Emperor and the righteousness of the country, and all the titles are in your hands...... The imperial court is the orthodoxy of the people of the world, how can you say that there is nothing? ”

was rebuked by Nijo Kangdao, which made Ichijo both ashamed and annoyed, "You...... It's not that you don't know the embarrassment of the court now, so why do you accuse me with these words? I'm the Left Mansion, but you are also the Right Mansion of the Imperial Court, why didn't I see you bring you something?! ”

"Who says we can't do anything?" Nijo Yasudo didn't argue with him, and then suddenly staggered closer to him, and then lowered his voice, "Since we have righteousness, we can use it and lend it to those who can use it." ”

"Lend ...... righteousness?" Ichijo Kaneya became more and more frightened, and he found that the other party seemed to be very strange today, as if he had come prepared.

But he still didn't know what the other party thought.

"How do I lend it out? Right now...... Where else can anyone use this righteousness now? Ichijo Kanecho sighed, "The shogunate now has such a big advantage, even if some daimyo are dissatisfied with them, who can stand up and defeat the shogunate?" Don't forget...... Back then, Emperor Daigo was able to escape from Kyoto and set up a separate imperial court because there were still some loyal ministers and righteous people who wanted to establish a separate imperial court. But...... But who is loyal to the court today? They were all under the obscenity of the Tokugawa family, and they did not dare to make any more changes, and even if the court had great righteousness in their hands, they could not gather people to defend the court......"

Nearly 300 years ago, it was the era of the Kamakura shogunate, but after resisting the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty twice, although the Kamakura shogunate successfully defeated the invasion of the Yuan Dynasty twice, due to the economic situation at the time and the financial difficulties of the shogunate, it was unable to reward the anti-Yuan officers and soldiers with due favors, which led to the growing dissatisfaction of the samurai against the shogunate.

At that time, Emperor Go-Daigo actively prepared a plan to bring down the shogunate, and contacted some of the forces dissatisfied with the shogunate, but was reported by Yoshida Dingfang around him, and the shogunate discovered his conspiracy, and Emperor Go-Daigo escaped from Kyoto with the three artifacts, and then used the monastic forces of Mt. Hiei as a stronghold, and issued a document calling on righteous people from all over Japan to raise troops to fight the shogunate. However, the shogunate's troops soon pursued him and finally surrounded him at Mt. Kasaki. The shogunate captured the castle with an overwhelming superiority in force and arrested the emperor. This was the Motohiro Rebellion.

The Kamakura shogunate deposed Emperor Go-Daigo, who had planned the downfall, and enthroned Prince Kanhito, who held the Meiin system, as Emperor Kogan. And Emperor Go-Daigo himself was exiled to Oki Island, a hostile place dedicated to the exile of nobles.

The following year, Emperor Daigo arrived on Oki Island. However, the forces that fell at that time, such as Prince Gora, Kusunoki Masanari of Kawachi Province, and Akamatsu Norimura of Harima Province, were active all over Japan, expressing their allegiance to Go-Daigo, and calling on anti-shogunate forces from all over the country to gather to bring down the Kamakura shogunate.

So three years later, Emperor Daigo, with the help of Nawa Naganenu and others, fled from Oki Island and fled to the province of Hakuki, and raised troops to fight against the scene. The ruling power of the Kamakura shogunate (the Kamakura shogunate since the first shogun Minamoto Yoritomo was the dictatorship of the Hojo clan, and the shogun was also overturned by the Hojo family, and its leader was called the ruling power) Hojo punctually sent the general Ashikaga Takashi to the conquest, but when the Ashikaga Takashi led the army there, because he had always been ambitious, he fell to the side of Go-Daigo and raised the banner of respecting the emperor and rebelling.

The army of the Ashikaga Takashi clan captured the Shogunate's Rokupola Exploration and then marched all the way to the shogunate, after which Nitta Yoshisada raised troops in the eastern country and captured Kamakura, and the Hojo clan and the Kamakura shogunate perished together.

After returning to Kyoto, Emperor Go-Daigo abolished both the shogunate and the regency system and established the emperor's dictatorship, with the emperor appointing and dismissing officials at his own discretion. On the surface, the new policy of Jianwu is retro, but in fact, it established the **** regime of the emperor, and excluded the samurai, and generally only reused people from the public family.

However, the ambitions of the Ashikaga Takashi clan (who had been given the name Ashikaga Takashi by the emperor at this time) were not extinguished by the fall of the Kamakura shogunate, and his desire was not to be a loyal servant of the emperor, but to emulate Minamoto Yoritomo and become a general of the imperial court himself. Taking advantage of Go-Daigo's radical reforms and the loss of the support of the samurai and some aristocratic forces, he raised his army again and soon entered Kyoto.

After the Ashikaga army entered Beijing, Emperor Go-Daigo fled to Mt. Hiei to resist, but Ashikaga Takashi suggested a settlement, and Emperor Go-Daigo handed over the three artifacts, and imprisoned Emperor Go-Daigo, once again deposing him as emperor.

However, Emperor Go-Daigo still did not give up, he once again found an opportunity to escape from the place where he was imprisoned, and then claimed that the three artifacts handed over to the Ashikaga clan were fakes, and he himself fled to Yoshino in Yamato Province, and then opened the Southern Dynasty Imperial Court, pointing Ashikaga Zunji and others as enemies, thus beginning the Northern and Southern Dynasties era in Japan.

With the support of generals such as Yoshisada Nitta and Prince Kaira, Emperor Go-Daigo temporarily maintained the stability of the imperial court, and died a few years later, leaving Emperor Gomurakami to succeed to his throne "to destroy the enemy and retake Kyoto."

However, the world did not go as he wanted, and the resources and military strength of the Southern Dynasty were too weak compared to the Northern Dynasty, and after many wars and defenses in the past 60 years, the power of the Southern Dynasty gradually declined, and it was no longer possible to resist the attack of the Muromachi Shogunate, and finally Emperor Kameyama returned the three artifacts that he claimed to be genuine to the Northern Emperor after the Southern Dynasty, ending the Northern and Southern Dynasties era. The shogun at that time, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, also became the most powerful martial artist in Japan after Minamoto Yoritomo. The court and the public family fought against the samurai, and the final dignified surrender was also the endgame.

At that time, the Kamakura Shogunate and the subsequent Muromachi Shogunate did not have the same large territory and economic strength as the current Edo Shogunate, and then the emperor still had a group of loyal ministers to assist him in the future, but even so, the 60-year struggle of Emperor Go-Daigo and his descendants still ended in surrender to the Muromachi Shogunate. A man who is familiar with history can only be full of bitterness in his heart, and he cannot see any hope.

However, he also knew that these stories must be very clear, and since he dared to say so, he must have some other ideas. A little fluke, he couldn't help but have some expectations for Erjo Kangdao.

"How can it be said that there is no hope? Now that the Tokugawa shogunate has gone against the grain, it has already provoked the anger of the heavens, and as long as there is a chance, it will definitely respond, and the Edo shogunate will definitely disappear like smoke like the Kamakura shogunate, so let me wait to vent the evil anger in my heart. Nijo Yasudo was as unhurried as he had hoped, as if he really had something in mind.

"That'...... So how, exactly? Who? I...... As a minister of the left, I really can't see who I can rely on! Curious and anxious, he couldn't help but ask, now his drunkenness had long since disappeared, and the whole person trembled with excitement and nervousness, "Come to the Maeda family?" Although they have a million-stone territory, they are not loyal at all, and they are most afraid of the Tokugawa family, where do they have the courage to start an incident? By the Shimazu family? Their family was the enemy of the shogunate, but ...... But now that they are being pressed by the shogunate in a small territory of the Satsuma Domain, where will they have the strength to rise up against the Tokugawa again? As for the others...... I've seen all over the world, but where can I find someone like Kusunoki Masanari......" he said as he sighed again, his deep grief overflowing.

"Yes, Zuo Fu is right." Eagle Si Jiaoping also echoed, "Now that people's hearts are not ancient, where can I find loyal ministers?" Everyone only thinks about self-interest, and who is willing to risk their lives for the sake of the court......"

"If you can't find it in Japan, wouldn't you like to find it outside of Japan......?" Just when they were despondent, Nijo Yasudo suddenly said coldly.

This cold tone made the two young people's backs suddenly cold, and then they glanced at each other.

"You...... What do you mean......" asked in a trembling voice.

In fact, he had already guessed the meaning of Nijo Yasudo in his heart, but he still couldn't believe it, so he wanted to confirm it again.

"Japan no longer has the strength to confront the Tokugawa shogunate, but there are now forces outside Japan, and they are much stronger than the shogunate." Erjo Kangdao really said what he thought in his heart, "In China, now the Han has swept across the Quartet, and the army is unstoppable. Moreover, their armament is also breathtaking, the iron cannons can fight better than those trafficked by the Westerners, and their gunboats at sea can compete with the best gunboats of the Westerners...... Since they had such a powerful army, it should be easy to deal with the shogunate. ”

Although he was not in a hurry, the two young men were already gasping when they heard it.

Borrowing troops from a foreign country to defeat the shogunate is something that Japan has never done before!

"This ...... This doesn't work, right? After all, Japan's affairs are Japan's affairs, and foreign countries should not be involved......," Takaji Kyohei subconsciously wanted to refute. "We can't lure wolves into ......"

However, the idea of a Kaneya is completely different from that of the Eagle Division. He has already had enough of this aggrieved life now, so as long as he finds a life-saving straw, he wants to grasp it to the end. He was just a little hesitant, not understanding why Nijo Yasudo was so sure.

"Dahan...... Would the Great Han send troops to the shogunate for the sake of Japan......? ”

When he asked, Nijo Yasudo knew that he had already achieved most of his goal.

"If it was an ordinary emperor, of course he wouldn't care, but ...... I have heard that the current founding emperor of the Han Dynasty is a man of great talent and a penchant for conquest, just like Kublai Khan in the past, as long as we can impress him, he may follow Kublai Khan's example and conquer Japan. ”

"But what do we do to impress him?" Ichikane asked immediately. "We don't have anything now, do we?"

Now that the imperial court and the public have no resources and bargaining chips, he does not know how to impress the emperor of China to send troops for the Japanese court.

"We don't have it, but Japan does." Nijo Yasudo laughed again, but this time there was a lot more meaning in his smile. "Unlike the previous Ming Dynasty, the Han Dynasty attached great importance to business and money, so it sought to trade with Japan from the beginning...... Japan has gold and silver, and when the time comes, wouldn't it be good to exchange these gold and silver for the Han Dynasty to help the imperial court regain the power of the imperial government? ”

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I understand why Nijo Kangdo is so determined.

"Dahan...... Would the Great Han send troops to the shogunate for the sake of Japan......? ”

When he asked, Nijo Yasudo knew that he had already achieved most of his goal.

"If it was an ordinary emperor, of course he wouldn't care, but ...... I have heard that the current founding emperor of the Han Dynasty is a man of great talent and a penchant for conquest, just like Kublai Khan in the past, as long as we can impress him, he may follow Kublai Khan's example and conquer Japan. ”

"But what do we do to impress him?" Ichikane asked immediately. "We don't have anything now, do we?"

Now that the imperial court and the public have no resources and bargaining chips, he does not know how to impress the emperor of China to send troops for the Japanese court.

"We don't have it, but Japan does." Nijo Yasudo laughed again, but this time there was a lot more meaning in his smile. "Unlike the previous Ming Dynasty, the Han Dynasty attached great importance to business and money, so it sought to trade with Japan from the beginning...... Japan has gold and silver, and when the time comes, wouldn't it be good to exchange these gold and silver for the Han Dynasty to help the imperial court regain the power of the imperial government? ”

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