Yuan Si posted a post a few days ago, and he was finally able to talk about the reasons why he wrote this book in the first place.
As early as when he was writing "Tosa", he told me that he should try writing a book. At that time, I said that I was too lazy to write it, and I felt that writing about Japan's Warring States Period had been almost covered by the previous books.
What should be written all have similar themes, and it is difficult to surpass the former if written hard.
Later, due to some reasons, I started to write something and tried it on a small website, but the results were not very good. When I was confused, Yuan Si suggested that I write about Japan's Warring States Period in May or June.
I thought about it and decided to write a different story.
At that time, I didn't read the novel very carefully. After choosing the characters, I realized that there seemed to be some connection with Horikoshi Sadao.
I was writing about Mikawa Kira, and the original version of Yuansai was written by Kanto Kira, and the previous version of "Tosa" was still Tosa Kira. In the end, I was a little embarrassed. I couldn't really write "Kira Monogatari", right? In that case, this book's "
The traces of "Tosa" are too obvious.
So in June and July, while fleshing out the outline, I flipped through the information, looking through the dark history of the Kira family and the Ashikaga family, and then I found the lines about the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Kamakura, and Genpei. I found that something didn't seem right.
Why is it so different from the Warring States period?
The more I searched carefully, the more I discovered, and then I had a new idea in my mind. It was no longer a Japanese Warring States novel, but an attempt to interpret a story about the Genji samurai family.
I hesitated for a long time when choosing the title of the book. A friend suggested that I choose "XXX of the Warring States Period". Yuan Si also felt that this title was not very popular, so he hesitated for several days before deciding to stick to this title. I will try my best to match the theme in the future.
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The original idea was just a line, but Kira Mikawa was so poor and weak that he couldn't hold his own territory, so how could he go out and fight outside?
The protagonist must have an external force to force him out, and this external force happened to be Taiyuan Xue Zhai, who was called the "Military God" in the eyes of the Mikawa samurai.
The protagonist's eight hundred ashigaru will definitely not be able to defeat Taiyuan Xue Zhai who can mobilize an army of 20,000, so leaving becomes an inevitable choice.
The protagonist also needs a stage to give him a chance to advance, so there is the Kyoto Volume.
I was fully prepared for the Kyoto volume. It mainly embodies the theme of war, farming, expansion, war again, farming again, the process of expansion failing, and finally the choice that must be made.
Some book friends may not understand why they can defeat Shihe Yicun in Kyoto, but cannot defeat Taiyuan Xuezhai in Sanhe...
For this question, you can use the simplest method and compare the attributes of the two people in Xinye, and you will know where the gap is.
Tokawa Ichimon is a fierce general and an important part of the Miyoshi family. Losing him is a huge blow to the Miyoshi family. At the same time, the protagonist is forced to die. As long as he is in Kyoto, he is always targeted by Miyoshi Chokei. At the same time, this is also
Lay some of the groundwork for leaving.
The choice of Sakamoto was considered for a long time. It can not only take advantage of its economic advantages, but it will also encounter development bottlenecks that cannot be circumvented. Without expansion, it cannot support the growing prestige and the desires of the retainers, forcing Kira Yoshi to make a response.
This response is the new volume, the Echigo volume.
It’s not that Kinai is bad, nor is it that we have to give up our foundation. Given the situation in Kinai, it would be a waste to keep the protagonist. Sakamoto Castle Town has basically reached its limit. If it develops further, it will be in a situation similar to Sakai Town. There will definitely not be another three-month period.
Small changes, big changes every year.
Staying in Kinai will obviously mean spending more time wandering around in conspiracies and putting out fires. Can you not go to the Hatakeyama Rokkaku Miyoshi battle? If you win the joint battle, you won't necessarily get much, but if you lose, you will be included in it.
In the end, the only option is to follow the example of the Rokkaku family and stay far away. Instead of doing that, it is better to let the protagonist run away. The general asks Sakamoto to send troops, and uses the protagonist's order as an excuse to only guard Kyoto and ignore the rest, fighting life and death. What do the two counties have to do with each other?
Preserving the Yodogawa River, the economic lifeline of Lake Biwa, and maintaining Sakamoto's position as the economic center in the Kinai region are most important. This does not need to be explained by the protagonist. The remaining samurai must also take good care of them. Without this foundation, they will be slaughtered by others.
Rokkaku, Asai, Mount Hiei, even Miyoshi, and the shogunate may come to cut their flesh. They have no capital to sell their teammates. If they leave the banner of the Kira family, they will be eaten up by the greedy predators, even the dregs will be left.
Let’s talk about the issue of staying near Kinki. Ashikaga Yoshiteru has already begun to suppress the protagonist. This is the beginning of his learning of power. A comfortable life without the ability to exert power breeds dissatisfaction.
At that time, Hosokawa Harumoto claimed to be the protector of the shogunate, and Rokkaku Sadayori also claimed to be the protector of the shogunate. This made Ashikaga Yoshiteru's childhood very unhappy. Almost every time the person who protected them ran away, the person being protected was The general will follow and escape.
And the most terrible thing is that Hosokawa Harumoto feels that he is indebted to the shogunate, and he wants to control the shogunate in everything. In addition, since he is the leader, there is no matter in the shogunate that he cannot interfere with, which arouses Ashikaga Yoshiteru's great rebellion. psychology.
So in history, Ashikaga Yoshiteru was full of hatred for Miyoshi Nagakei, the "protector". Hosokawa Harumoto was a relative of the Ashikaga family after all, but the Miyoshi family wanted to be the protector despite being nothing. How could he tolerate this? .
Kira Yoshitoki's situation was similar. Although he was very obedient and made Ashikaga Yoshiteru feel that he could control him, he was worried and defensive about his military ability and strategy. He was even more worried that the Ashikaga family would not be willing to be a leader. Simple "protector".
Because Yoshiki Kira rejected all the rewards offered by Ashikaga Yoshiteru to take charge of the leadership and even the leader many times, this made Ashikaga Yoshiteru and even the shogunate very worried about his intentions. This is a bit like Oda Nobunaga at the time. The commander-in-chief didn’t want it, the commander-in-chief didn’t want it, and the deputy general still didn’t want it. Ashikaga Yoshiaki hesitated, what do you want? The position on my head, or the head on my neck?
This is especially reflected in the change in mentality after the plot against Hosokawa Harumoto, which gradually affected his judgment of Kira Yoshitoki, from full support to limited support, to manic behavior in times of crisis, etc., all of which were intentional. Despite suppression and testing, Kira Yoshiki's performance was correct, but the seeds of suspicion took root and sprouted, and they could no longer maintain a close relationship with each other.
Therefore, Yoshiki Kira does not dare to stay in Kinai. If he takes the initiative to ask for a guardian daimyo in Kinai, as long as it is not the Yamashiro Kingdom or Omi Kingdom that is subordinate to the shogunate, other guardians will definitely get the full support of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. As for the development, he does not know. Will take care of it.
When he is needed, he must listen to the instructions, otherwise he is disrespectful to the shogunate and has evil intentions. If he says a word, the entire offended forces in Kinki will jump up and stamp on him.
This is what I mentioned in the book review section. When Kira Yoshiki was a fierce dog, he swore allegiance to Ashikaga Yoshiteru. This dog chain was in the hands of the shogunate, and it had to be moved if it was pulled.
Then let’s talk about Echigo. It was already very obvious in the section of Kasugayama Castle in Chapter 79 that Nagao Kagetora had an extra sister, who would be the future heroine. No one saw it at the time, and I didn’t mention that one.
Including this joke about Konoe Zetsuhime, it is also borrowed from an anecdote in the history of Nagao Kagetora. When Nagao Kagetora went to Kyoto to visit Konoe's family, he accidentally met Konoe Zetsuhime, and then the two fell in love at first sight, and ended up having a lover.
They failed to get married, and of course there is no record in the historical materials about the woman Konoe Zetsuhime.
But this book combines anecdotes with historical data. Konoe Maekyu did have a younger sister who became a monk, namely Kohōin Takashi Hideo, who historically lived until his death in 1571. There are many more small details like this in the book.
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Then continue to talk about Echigo. This section has been decided a long time ago. There are three steps, Mikawa, Kyoto, and Echigo. Going up step by step, from the beginning a team of more than 2,000 people cautiously climbed up to Luo, to now there are more than 20,000 people.
A huge downward trend, this is a process of quantitative change.
The protagonist did not decline because of this, but instead laid a solid foundation for the future.