"Oh? Are you so confident that you can expose him?" Kira Mansomaru snickered, but he couldn't help but feel pity for Yamaoka Zenjiro. Would it be too cruel to fight Honda Masanobu with his head, so he kindly reminded:
"Don't underestimate others. Yahachiro's advantage is his intelligence, and yours is the way of bow and horse. You two are destined to take different paths. Zenjiro, you should maintain a harmonious relationship with him!"
"As the leader of the close people, how can I be afraid of a child? So I, Zenjiro, must make Yahachiro obey no matter what!" Zenjiro Yamaoka confidently announced his surrender plan. Of course, this plan is full of loopholes.
It was so miserable that Kira Mansomaru clicked his tongue in admiration that the fool's head was different.
"Well, since you don't hit the wall and don't look back, let me let you suffer a little first!" Kira Mansomaru sent this fool away, and before he left, he told Yamaoka Zenjiro that Honda Yahachiro would have the right in the future.
Going into the academy to borrow books immediately hit Zenjiro Yamaoka. He thought that the gym leader was biased and left with his head hanging down with a sad look on his face.
"I seem to be the guy stirring up trouble again!" Kira Mansomaru felt that he had done a good job. Although Zenjiro Yamaoka was a close confidant of the family, Yahachiro Honda obviously had more potential, and a fight seemed good.
Time flies by in the blink of an eye. More than ten days have passed, and it has entered late July. Because the autumn harvest is approaching, the elders of the family, including Nobuzada Ohuchi, are busy returning to their respective territories to supervise the autumn harvest, pay annual contributions and other matters, so Kira Manshomaru seems very...
Since he was free, he didn't have to worry about the autumn harvest of the Kira family. Yamamoto Kansuke, who also had no knowledge of what he was doing, continued to be the direct minister of the Kira family with a high salary of 500 kanfu.
Without Ohuchi Nobutada's buzzing preaching, he lived a very comfortable life. He enjoyed reading and writing every day, practicing military skills and so on. He had already forgotten about his promise to Kansuke Yamamoto. What about the Imagawa family?
It's too far to train soldiers and so on, it's more comfortable to just be a little lord in peace and contentment.
"Master!" Yamaoka Zenjiro went to the castle tower again and told him about his recent depression with a grimace on his face. Kira Manshomaru would not break his good mood just to hear him pour out his sorrows. Anyway, he was just talking about Yahachiro again.
How do you get along with people with minor surnames, or how does Yahachiro use the name of the owner of the hall to publicize, "He defended other minor surnames and said how I treated them harshly..." and other boring topics.
"Speaking of it, you, a guy who has become a Yuanfu, is worse than a child three years younger than me. Isn't it embarrassing!" Kira Manshomaru said with a smile.
"How can you say that to me, Master! I am doing this all for you, Master!" Zenjiro Yamaoka was filled with grief and anger. He felt that the Master did not understand him at all, even though he had a hard time disciplining dozens of children.
It's really sad that I was told by the owner that my skills are not as good as others!
"Okay, okay! Stop yelling and let the people know that Zenjiro came to my family to complain. It will definitely be regarded as an act of admitting defeat by an incompetent person, right?"
"Ah! Damn Yahachiro! I, Zenjiro, will never admit defeat... But Yahachiro is too cunning! He doesn't have the courage of a Mikawa samurai at all!" Yamaoka Zenjiro is still aggrieved. He feels that Honda Yahachiro has no courage at all.
Like the Mikawa Samurai.
"The courage of the Mikawa samurai? What is that?" Kira Manshomaru asked curiously: "Speaking of which, I have never understood the so-called Mikawa samurai. What kind of person is a Mikawa samurai?"
"This... is a general statement spread among lower-level samurai." Yamaoka Zenjiro seemed to feel that he had slipped up, and quickly made up for it: "As a member of the famous samurai family, it is normal for the master to have never heard of it. I only occasionally heard of it." I heard someone mention it when I was drinking with the horse warriors."
"Drinking? You can already drink!" Kira Manshomaru smacked his lips, stared at Zenjiro Yamaoka who was huddled in a ball, and said, "Where did you go to drink? A wine shop? It is said that a new whale house opened in Saijo Castle Town. I think we should discuss this issue with your father."
"Master, please spare your life! I will never dare to do it again! I really will never dare to do it again... wuwu!"
"Okay, okay, go wherever you like! Don't cry all over the place, it's disgusting... By the way, your name in the original server is Yamaoka Naocha! I haven't called you that since the beginning of the year in the original server. What’s the taboo?”
"Naonaga and Zenjiro are both my subordinate's names. Please continue to call me Zenjiro, Master!"
"Okay! Don't continue to talk nonsense. Let's talk about what Mikawa Samurai is. I'm very interested in knowing."
"Yes! Loyalty, bravery and silence! This is the courage of my Mikawa samurai! It is also the way of our samurai!" Zenjiro Yamaoka said with a serious face.
Kira Mansomaru has always disliked samurai who used swords to scratch their stomachs, and the kind of samurai who was chatting and laughing with you one moment, and then pulled out his sword to fight to the death the next moment was very annoying, so when Zenjiro said this, he maliciously speculated: : "Oh, a silent samurai? He has an introverted personality and does not express his emotions or anger. If the master punishes him, other than committing seppuku, does that mean he is rebellious?"
"No! Please don't misunderstand me, Master! The way of a warrior is loyalty first. Those who are unfaithful will become evil ghosts and fall into hell after death, and gods and Buddhas will not forgive them!"
"I know, I know! It's time to go about your business, brave Mikawa samurai!" He drove Zenjiro Yamaoka away.
It has been more than five hundred years since the rise of the samurai family. Except for the first nine years of the Heian dynasty, the leaders of the Hanoi Genji samurai family who emerged from the war in the last three years have become the masters of Kanto. However, the so-called samurai code of conduct has not appeared. During the famous Baoyuan Rebellion, It's happened before.
Minamoto Yoshitomo and his father, Minamoto Yoshitomo, were in conflict with each other, and they were on opposite ends of the spectrum during the Homoto Rebellion. In the end, Minamoto Yoshitomo, who won the victory, personally oversaw the execution at the Fourth Mound in Kyoto, and the prisoner executed was none other than his biological father, Minamoto Yoshitomo. , the fourth brother Yuan Lai Xian, the fifth brother Yuan Lai Zhong, the sixth brother Yuan Wei Zong, the seventh brother Yuan Wei Cheng and the ninth brother Yuan Wei Zhong.
Later, Minamoto Yorishio also followed the tradition of his father's generation and forced Minamoto no Yori and Minamoto Yoshitsune to death. His descendants were used by their relatives, the Hojo family, to eliminate their heirs because of cannibalism. Therefore, the Kamakura shogunate was completely controlled by the Hojo family. The code of conduct of the samurai class is only governed by laws and regulations such as the "Go Success and Failure Style Code".
Before that, there was no so-called eldest son inheritance system in the Wu family. Except that the pillars of the Wu family were inherited by the eldest son, the division of land, property and power was equally distributed. Therefore, the original Wu family was a battle of blood and fire. Father and son were like enemies. There are many cases of brothers wielding knives at each other.
It was not until the War between the Northern and Southern Dynasties that broke out nearly a hundred years ago that Zhu Xi's teachings spread from the nobility of the public and the Kinai Five Mountains Temple became popular, allowing the Ashikaga Shogunate to re-establish the orthodox inheritance of the samurai family. This was the first time that the behavior of the samurai family was specifically regulated. For special reasons, the eldest son must be the heir. If a succession dispute arises, he must go to the shogunate in Kyoto to file a lawsuit. This is also one of the ways for the shogunate to strengthen its ruling authority and strengthen its binding force and deterrent effect on the wealthy families of the country.
The Samurai Way mentioned by Zenjirō Yamaoka was completely non-mainstream in this era. Leaving aside the guardian state system of the Muromachi Shogunate, the core ideas of the royal family system established by the direct descendants of the Genji family in Kawachi were the four "royal benevolence to serve the public".
The word means to exchange bravery and loyalty for the reward of the territory. Without the reward, no one will serve the emperor. This was confirmed by the two Mongolian expeditions and the subsequent imperial family's trip to Kamakura to ask for the reward.
However, the good times did not last long. As the Kamakura shogunate was dominated by the Hojo family, they arbitrarily placed relatives in control of most of the guards and local positions, making it impossible to maintain the rewards. The imperial family went bankrupt and became increasingly resentful of the shogunate.
The imperial family they represented completely broke apart, leading to the collapse of the imperial family and the fall of the Kamakura shogunate. The Motohiro Rebellion, the Kenmu New Deal, and the subsequent outbreak of the Southern and Northern Dynasties era, the samurai group once again emerged and caused a major blow to the authority of the imperial court and the shogunate.
The Tomuromachi shogunate has lasted for two hundred years.
After the Muromachi period, the Ashikaga clan attached great importance to the development of the clan, but it seemed that they paid too much attention. The three chiefs controlled the puppet generals of the shogunate. In the past hundred years, there have been endless chaos and coups. Generals died young, were killed, died young, and were exiled, which made the shogunate's authority more powerful.
Lost, how to use it, and how to use it has always been a question that the Wu family has been thinking about.
So far, the new samurai norms have not yet been established, but the lower-level samurai in Mikawa Kingdom have indeed shown new signs. This is a product of the Zen thought of Linji Buddhism and some of Zhu Xi's Neo-Confucian thoughts. It will still be seen in the next hundred years.
It will be mixed with the shadow of Shintoism and continue to exist.
Kira Manshomaru did not like this idea. The samurai before the Muromachi period were too barbaric and had no moral integrity. After the Warring States Period, the authoritarian establishment of this non-mainstream idea in the countryside of Mikawa Country bound the entire class and made the samurai