Speaking lightly, the "old priest" took out a map from his bosom and spread it out on the table. Pen Fun Pavilion wWw. ｂiquge。 ｉｎfo

The map is the most common map of Tokyo, but unlike other sightseeing maps, this map is called a "map of the shrine."

In this country, which also believes in Buddhism and Shinto, even ordinary people who do not know how to practice will wear a "half-robe" or "folded five-jo" around their necks, wear short white clothes from the holy places of pilgrimage, and go from one famous temple to another.

This "Tokyo Metropolitan Pilgrimage Map" lists all the Buddhist temples and shrines in the Tokyo area, and even lists in great detail which class the official shrines belong to in the national Shinto. , and which sect do those famous ancient temples belong to?

Among them, the 1st Division, which was reorganized from the Tokyo Military Town in the Meiji era, and the Guards Division, which was stationed on the outskirts of the Imperial Palace, were especially the focus of the old priest's view.

"The Konoe Division had a special status, and Emperor Meiji, who implemented the abolition of Buddhism, would not want a bald donkey to live outside his dormitory, so the religious facilities outside Miyagi were basically shrines. Well, Tokyo Daijingu ...... This shrine is actually just a branch of Ise Jingu and is dedicated to the god Amaterasu and the three gods of creation recorded in the Kojiki. This family temple that belongs to the emperor does not have any masters in it, or rather, Koyasan does not want the emperor to master any masters, so it is crossed out. ”

"The second is the Tsukudo Shrine in Kudanzaka, which is dedicated to Amaterasu's grandson, Emperor Jimmu's great-grandfather, Kizuzun. However, idiots from the Japanese Army often come here to pray for the Heavenly Sun Qiongqiong Pestle, who defeated the god of Kunitsu, and bless them with a long military fortune. It's the same as the notorious Yasukuni Shrine next door, and it's all used to deceive fools. ”

The Chiyoda Ward, the most revered shrines in the country, were all crossed, and the old priest took a purple pen and drew a circle on several small shrines on the side.

"Since the Edo period, this has been a place of great commerce, and a developed commercial area can be without temples, but it is impossible to do without Inari Shrine. ”

The old priest looked at the small shrines around Miyagi marked with torii symbols: Fifty Inari Shrine, Misaki Inari Shrine, and Yanagimori Inari Shrine...... It is like a street and a shrine, and the Chiyoda Ward, where the Emperor's Palace is located, is dyed into a kingdom of foxes.

And when it comes to Inari Shrine, it is impossible not to mention the so-called Inari Daimyo God that it enshrines. Although the great god of Shinto is the soul god of Uga, but Buddhism has been impregnated for thousands of years, and the so-called god of Uga's soul god, its original godhead has long been usurped by the people of Buddhism led by Kukai, and replaced by the Buddha Gate Tujini Heaven. ”

Speaking of this, the old priest glanced at the short-skirted maid standing beside him: "Yujia's Imperial Soul God is this kind of rushing to the street, and I can't find it for a while, but I have a ready-made candidate here." ”

The immortal warlock pretending to be a Shinto priest was stunned at this moment: "Zhu Yue, I want you to use these Inari Shrines in Tokyo as a base, and use your deity Tujini Heavenly Law to cover those army members who are preparing to start an incident, can you do this?"

Facing the old priest's questioning, Zhu Yue touched her chest with her hand and bowed slightly: "Please rest assured, Lord Lord, I promise to complete the task!"

As Zhu Yue took the order to leave, the immortal warlock pulled the black hat on his head, looked at the map and tapped lightly on the table: "According to the information collected through Captain Kaminai, Koyasan's previous series of actions in Tokyo can be called lightning fast. But even though Koyasan's monk army is strong, I don't believe that there is no Koyasan in Tokyo for such a big move. ”

His fingers circled the "Map of the Tokyo Metropolitan Area", and the sorcerer's fingertips finally rested on a large temple in Minato Ward.

"To be on the safe side, I'm going to have to explore the existing temples in Tokyo. As for the bell you ......"

"Do you need to say it, look at the excitement, where is there no shortage of me!"

However, in response to Sima Ling's statement, the fake old priest just took out a press release written in Japanese from his arms: "You still go and contact those media figures in Tokyo, whether it is the Asahi Shimbun or the Yomiuri Shimbun, and ask them to honestly send out the headline on the front page of this manuscript of "The Prime Minister Plans to Abolish the Military Department's Manchurian Raiders!"

As he spoke, the Immortal Warlock threw away the Neuralyzer, the memory modification flash reserved for the man in black: "It doesn't matter if it is a complete revision of the memories of those reporters and editors-in-chief. Although it is in-depth manipulation of human memory, this matter has somewhat violated the code of astral adventurers, but we can afford the relevant fines now!"

"Since my uncle said so, then I'll take it. But first, uncle, what do you want the press to do with this news?"

"Towards Dali!"

With Wei Ye's approval, Sima Ling "meowed", happily ripped off the Japanese-style maid on her body, revealing the two-foot sleeves and calfskin boots that are very characteristic of a Taizheng aristocratic girl: "Then I'll go, uncle, pay attention to your own safety!"

"This is Tokyo, not Wakayama Prefecture, and no one can stop me!"

Speaking of this, the fake priest looked at Sima Ling's back and shook his head: "As for the dirty work below, it's better for you and Uncle I to come alone." ”

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In the early morning of September 17, Showa 7.

In the armory of Azabudai in Minato Ward, in addition to the sentinels on duty, even Captain Morioka, who is in charge of managing the armory, should be asleep at this moment. However, at this moment, the bespectacled, fat logistics officer of the 1st Division, who was only a one-armed Captain Kannai, walked to the small room next to the armory and respectfully made him a cup of hot tea.

In the armory, soldiers from the 3rd Wing of the 1st Division were busy carrying guns and ammunition onto the truck.

This scene looked like an ordinary ordnance replenishment, but the cold sweat on Captain Morioka's back was still stained with his clothes.

The bigwigs from the military department instructed him to cooperate fully with the arms transfer incident. But Captain Morioka knew that as long as there was the slightest mistake in this matter, whether it was the discovery of their late-night transfer of ordnance, or the failure of the plans of those military bigwigs, he would be the first scapegoat to be pushed out to confess!

This kind of thing is also a tradition in this country, and in the shogunate period, the retainers had to take responsibility for the lord and cut their stomachs, and in the current Showa era, the retainers who were responsible for the crime were replaced by adjutants and secretaries.

And now, Captain Morioka can only hope that this thing will be carried out as those big people have planned. Otherwise, he would have to die like a samurai......

Compared to seppuku, suicide by drinking a bullet should be quicker and more painless...... It's just ugly......

Captain Morioka, who was blue-faced, was thinking about what was behind him, but Captain Kaminai in front of him was indifferent, took the teacup in front of him and drank it all, and then patted the other party's shoulder: "Thank you for your hospitality, this tea is very fragrant!"

After that, he didn't care about the other party's extremely difficult face, and walked out directly.

In Tokyo in September, the temperature was getting colder and colder, and Captain Kaminai, who walked out of the reception room, even saw the white breath exhaled from his mouth and nose.

Accompanying him to receive this batch of ordnance was Nakahashi Kiaki, a military talent with the pen name "Restoration Righteous Army", who had helped Kita Yihui write a lot of pamphlets to promote the ideas of the Imperial Daoist School with his outstanding articles in recent years, and was the most appealing figure among the junior officers and soldiers of the Guards Division and the First Division.

The soldiers who came here with them this time were almost all the personnel of the Third Wing of the First Division, and Nakahashi Kiming, as a representative of the Imperial Road faction among the junior officers, just walked around a few stations at random and pulled out so many people!

Even from an afterthought, as the struggle between the imperial faction and the control faction within the army became more and more intense, the internal division of the army became more and more obvious.

It can be said that the entire lower echelons of the army have been gathered up by the banner of the "Showa Restoration" of the imperial bigwigs led by Shinzaburo Mazaki. And the ruling faction relied entirely on Emperor Hirohito standing behind it, and the country's largely preserved medieval traditional system, to barely suppress the volcano.

However, the trend of enlightenment since the Taisho period not only provided theoretical guidance to the citizens and intellectuals, but also pointed out a narrow path for the soldiers. And under the instigation of people with intentions, this volcano seems to be calm, but there is a large amount of magma brewing, which can erupt at any time!

Nakahashi Kiaki was standing in front of Captain Kaminai at this moment, and said with a frown: "Time is too rushed, if we are more prepared, we can let Mr. Kita Ichiki and them mobilize the courage of the people, and connect with the patriots of the Black Dragon Society, our strength will be even stronger." ”

When Captain Kaminai heard the words "Black Dragon Society", he shook his head imperceptibly.

Indeed, the Black Dragon Society, as a freak within Japan, was born from the descendants of the feudal lords left behind by Saigo Takamori, and these radical groups called "mainland ronin" have always been most closely integrated with the military department. Their commander-in-chief, Tou Shanman, is more like a political boss who has not entered politics, but has a far-reaching influence on the political arena, and is also an important ally of the imperial bigwigs.

Since the Sino-Japanese War and the Russo-Japanese War in the Meiji era, the Black Dragon Society has been cooperating with the military department's Manchurian and Mongolian operations, spying on intelligence, assassination and sabotage. It can be said that if there was the cooperation of radical groups such as the Black Dragon Society, this mutiny would have gone more smoothly.

But as a member of the special high class, Captain Kaminai will not be unaware that there are too many religious overtones in the organization of the Black Dragon Society. Toyamamitsu's best friend, Iguchi Hisaburo Dai, is said to have met the Great Tengu in Mt. Takama and cultivated the forbidden art of summoning souls and predicting good fortune and evil. With this supernatural power, he founded a new order called the Great Ben Sect, a self-proclaimed holy teacher, and his followers across the country numbered at least a few million in the initial investigation!

The so-called "Wang Ren" means "ghost", and the tengu is a monster that the Tiantai Tantric Dharma monk failed to achieve the right result and broke his vows and fell into a demon in the legend.

And in this way, the Black Dragon Society, which fully supports the activities of the Great Honjiao, naturally has a esoteric color.

For Captain Kaminai, it is better not to get involved at this juncture with such a dubious position!

But there is no need to inform the young officer in front of him about these things.

He just looked at Nakahashi Kiaki sincerely and said: "Nakahashi-kun, as soldiers, we only need to die at the right time and in the right place, for Your Majesty and the country! ”

At the moment when he spoke, the bright moon in the sky suddenly darkened, and the clouds around him gradually gathered, covering his face with a layer of haze.

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In Minato-ku, Tokyo, there is an extremely old Buddhist temple called Koeiji Temple in the Heian period, and it was built by the monk Soei, a proud disciple of the first ancestor of Koyasan, Kukairen.

In the Muromachi period, this light temple was changed from Shingon Buddhism to the Pure Land sect, and Amitabha Buddha was worshipped as the main figure, and the name of the temple was changed to Zojoji Temple, which was used to highlight the increase in the upper edge of Amitabha Buddha to all beings in the Pure Land.

At the end of Japan's Sengoku period, the then abbot monk married the Tokugawa family, so the area was greatly expanded by Tokugawa Ieyasu and built into the Sanjimon, which is said to be one of the national treasures of traditional Japanese architecture. The generals of the Tokugawa shogunate also regarded Zojoji Temple as the spiritual temple of the family, and six generations of generals of the Tokugawa family were buried here, and the Pure Land sect also listed this temple originally built by the Shingon sect as the main mountain of the Pure Land sect in the Kanto region, ranking first among the eighteen temples in the Kanto region.

However, after the Meiji era, a large number of temple land was forcibly divided into parks for nearby residents, and only the magnificent main temple buildings can still show a little bit of the original shogunate spirit temple style.

Captain Kaminouchi, who was secretly on guard, wore a black hat unique to a priest, but wore a samurai haori on his body, and a wooden knife at his waist, and sat nondescript under the Great Hall behind the Sanjiji Gate.

Opposite him was the current head of Zojoji Temple, who was already in his 70s.

Exit Wang Ren Saburo looked at the Sanjimen Gate, and said with a slight sigh: "Unexpectedly, everyone thinks that when Tokugawa Ieyasu built Edo Castle, he used Kaneiji Temple, the head of the Kanto Mountains of the Tiantai Sect, as a seal to seal the ghost gate. But the real Inner Ghost Gate has been hidden for hundreds of years under the seal of the Three Liberation Gates of Zengshang Temple! If it weren't for the fact that he was born in the Forbidden Dao, ordinary cultivators would not have been able to discover the mysteries here!"

With his emotion, Michishige only shook his head: "Koyasan Daia Ayanri is carrying out the Goma Fire Offering in the Imperial Garden, and he can't let any filthy things enter the Imperial Garden through the Onimon, the only weakness of Edo Castle. Your Excellency from the exit of the Forbidden Path, please cheer up and help this temple strengthen the seal of the Three Liberation Gates, and at least ensure that within three days, the Ghost Gate will not be breached by those monsters from the darkness!"

(End of chapter)