Chapter 46: The so-called "righteous son" culture
Iki came to the attic of Hojo Prefecture, which was tens of meters high and had a panoramic view of all of Kyoto. It can be said that apart from Arashiyama, the loft of Hojo Prefecture is the highest place in Kyoto.
Here, she had a clear view of Fujiwara Mansion, nearly ten kilometers away, and the large crack that had been caused by the bones and wood that had been cut through for several kilometers shortly after.
"Weird...... It seems that there will also be weird, damn it, ghosts in Kyoto. Time is running out, and the plan is going to be accelerated......" A book floating in mid-air also appeared in front of Ikki, but it was just a very ordinary paper book.
The paper book contains some strange contents, as well as some seemingly evil spells called "ghost arts". What she has been studying is a page that records a ghost technique called "The Resurrection of the Dead".
After a long time, she closed the book again, and the cover of the book was written in the words of Sakura no Kuni, and in the lower right corner of the cover, there was a line of small letters that read "- Transcription of the Demon Monk Wanhai".
This strange book of the art of resurrecting the dead was obtained from an ugly old monk after countless years of searching. And when she was about to start the resurrection of the dead, she learned that the demon monk Wanhai had died, and died in the demon domain of Hiei Mountain.
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The four of them returned to Arashiyama, but fortunately, the few remaining fighters did not encounter other demons on the way.
On the way, Levi figured out a lot of things.
Why did the head of the Fujiwara family trust him so much, why did the head of the Fujiwara family take him as a righteous son when he just picked him up, why did he get engaged directly to the eldest daughter of the Fujiwara family when he just picked him up, and why not long after he became Fujiwara Yoshiko, the lord handed over all the matters of the temple to him.
This is the truth, there are no newcomers for no reason. It's just that in the perception of the head of the Fujiwara family, Levi is a god from another world.
But only Levi himself knew that he was not a god. The outer gods that the head of the Fujiwara family may want to summon may be great beings such as Naia, Yogurt, and Yellow Clothes, but in the end, it is only Levi who is dying in the forest fire. And he, Levi, is just an ordinary forest firefighter in another world.
Li Wei was full of thoughts, and after the four of them helped each other back to Lanshan, all the people in the entire Lanshan exploded.
The first is the news of the death of the head of the Fujiwara family, and the entire Fujiwara Mansion has turned into a sinkhole like an abyss, and the rift that has spread for several kilometers is as terrifying as a cataclysm.
Now gathered in Arashiyama are either the subordinates of the Fujiwara family temple shrine, such as the onmyoji of the Tsuchigomon family, the monks of the Hanakyoin family, and some priests and shrine monks of other shrines.
And the second type of people are the people who are separated from the Fujiwara family.
The Fujiwara family was the most powerful family in the country in the early days of Sakura no Kuni 100 years ago, controlling the emperor for nearly 50 years, and like the current Shogunate Genji, they were the real masters of the entire Sakura no Kuni.
It wasn't until the subsequent Nara coup that the Fujiwara family began to fall and was squeezed out of the center of power. It wasn't until later that the Hei family became the new shogun and the capital was moved from Kyoto to the capital of the gods, that the Fujiwara family completely declined from the first family in the world to the current situation.
However, the camel that suffered death was bigger than the horse, and several branches were divided in the glory of the Fujiwara family, and now other capitals such as the Uesugi family and the Tokugawa family are all distant relatives of the Fujiwara clan.
In Kyoto, there are many Fujiwara family divisions, although many branch families have changed their surnames and do not regard themselves as Fujiwara clans, most of those people have not come to Arashiyama, and even if some do, no one takes them seriously.
What really makes people headache is the recent separation of the Fujiwara clan, which is headed by the younger brother of the former head of the Fujiwara family.
In the final analysis, that is, the division of the lineage saw that the entire Fujiwara family was now leaderless, and wanted to come out to become the new head of the Fujiwara family and completely dominate the power of the entire Fujiwara family.
And the second message, of course, is the news of the strange entry into Kyoto. Levi concealed the information that the Bone Tree was the head of the Fujiwara family, and blamed the Demon for the appearance of the Bone Tree.
His original purpose was to gather all his strength to deal with the demons, and he didn't particularly care about any political struggle, or even the position of the lord. Not only the current Fujiwara family, but he also has to gather several other people from the family to have the possibility of competing with the Hojo family, the daimyo of Kyoto.
But now, the topic of the whole meeting is not how to deal with demons and weirdness, but the faction led by Fujiwara Kanenaga, the leader of the split family, began to attack and impeach Levi.
"Fujiwara Levi, the Fujiwara family can't be left without a master for a day, and in the case that the lord has passed away, we must first elect the next lord of the house. After all, you're just a righteous son who picked it up. On the other side of the seat, a middle-aged man said.
He was just one of Fujiwara's staff, and Fujiwara was next to him, looking at Levi with a playful expression.
To explain briefly, there is a tradition of inheritance by a son in this custom, and in many cases, if the main family has no children, they will accept a son, and the son will marry the daughter of the main family, inherit the surname of the main family, and become the next head of the family.
Because here, the family values not the bloodline, but the surname. As long as the righteous son voluntarily inherits the surname, the head of the family will be far more pro-family to this than his own waste son.
This is also a tradition that is difficult to understand in Levi's opinion, the big families here are generally families that have been passed down for hundreds of years, and the head of the family needs to have enough courage and ability to lead the family to continue to be brilliant.
However, as Li Wei understood in his previous life, if he has always been succeeded by his own son, it would be fine if the eldest son was capable, but if the next heir was not capable, the whole family would be doomed.
So there is this seemingly absurd tradition of righteous sons, that is, recruiting sons-in-law. If there is a son in the family, and the son is very capable, then he is likely to be the next head of the family.
But if the main family has no children, or if the son is very wasteful, the main family will recruit a very capable son-in-law as a adopted son to inherit the family. The main family is considered by the whole family, because the possibility of a son being talented is only about five or five, but the probability of a son-in-law being talented is 100 percent.
If you don't have talent, the master won't take a fancy to you at all.
Therefore, the deeds of talented commoners or children of poor families marrying the princesses of the family are not fairy tales, but very common traditions.
And Li Wei is the son-in-law who belongs to the head of the Fujiwara family, and directly recognizes him as a righteous son, and makes him the so-called young head of the family when the head of the Fujiwara family is still alive.
Levi is the real first in line to the throne and the only one.