Soon, the monk who was running errands ran back dejectedly.
"Master, the leader refused to meet, saying that unless we hand over the bandits, there is nothing to communicate with." The envoy who was rejected reported to Shan Ruhui in disgrace.
"Hiss..." Shanru frowned when he heard this, then turned around and walked back to the temple to find those bandits, "What a bad luck. Did those guys really offend the Imagawa family?"
"What, Hatamoto of the Imagawa family came to our door?" The bandit leader turned pale with fright after hearing the news, "Are those horses from the Hatamoto of the Imagawa family?"
"Are you really so blind that you even want to steal the horses of the Imagawa family?" Shanruhentiebuchengcheng scolded him a few times, shaking his head constantly.
"Then what should we do?" The bandit leader slumped down in confusion, "Master Shanru wants to hand us over?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Shanru's face darkened when he heard this, and he waved his hands vigorously, "The poor monk has already said that even if someone from the Imagawa family comes, they will not even think of entering my temple. This has been passed down from ancient times.
Here are the rules. I just want to tell you, don’t get into trouble like this in the future.”
"Then if the Imagawa family's soldiers come to the door..." the bandit leader asked tentatively.
"What they don't dare to do is rely on the 1,800 people at the door. Do they really think they can take us to the temple?" Shanru sneered twice with disdain, "We can't even enter the temple gate."
then……
On August 23, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Okuhira Yoshimasa led more than 100 Okhirabei people to arrive outside Shangguji Temple.
On August 26, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Makino Yasunari led more than 300 Makino preparations to arrive outside Shanggong Temple.
On August 27, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Kira Yoshiaki led more than 900 Kirabei people to arrive outside Shanggong Temple.
On August 28, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Matsudaira Yoshiharu led more than 300 people from Tojo Matsudaira to arrive outside the Jogung Temple.
On August 30, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Kannuma Sadamura led more than 200 Kanumabei people to arrive. On the same day, Asai Masatoshi led more than 1,200 people from Imagawa Army Banner Honan Enbei to arrive outside Shanggong Temple.
The total strength of the Imagawa army outside Shanggong Temple exceeded 4,000. At this time, the monks inside Shanggong Temple began to panic.
"What kind of situation is this? To be able to mobilize the Imagawa Army's headquarters, the two branches stationed in Mikawa and Toe, and to mobilize the people in the Mikawa area. This is definitely not a scale that Obara Hizen and Yamada Ukonoe can mobilize...
Zenru gathered a group of officials and bandits into the main hall of the temple, and asked everyone with a solemn face: "Who was the first person to come to the door? Is it the same as the young man with a Kyoto accent?"
"That's that person." The monk soldiers guarding the door looked at each other, realizing that they had probably caused a big disaster.
"At this level... they must have offended Imagawa Yoshimoto or the people around Master Xue Zhai..." Shanru still did not realize the seriousness of the problem when he speculated, so he was too optimistic, "Then they became angry and went back
Report it to Imagawa Yoshimoto or Master Yukssai to send troops to support them. But the battle is too big, so they must be favorites or close associates..."
"Send someone to return the horses to them. It's better to settle the matter and make peace with them." Although Shanru is unruly, he is not an ignorant person. "If the horses are returned, they will have no reason to continue to pester, right? After all, Imagawa
I'm sure you won't want to have an unprovoked conflict with our Jodo Shinsect, right? Even if this cronies still want to continue the quarrel, Master Imagawa Yoshimoto and Yukisai will not continue to let them do whatever they want."
"No problem, no problem at all!" At this time, the bandits still had the air of killing people and stealing goods. They all nodded and prepared to offer the expensive horses they had snatched without any resistance. "Troublesome, please."
Master!"
At the same time, inside the Imagawa family camp outside Shanggong Temple.
That's right, the number of Imagawa troops arriving at this time already requires a "big camp" to accommodate them.
"The Okuhira family came really quickly this time, and it was really hard work." At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto was holding the first evaluation meeting with all members present in the shogunate, and he took the lead in praising the new governor of the Okuhira family, Yoshimasa Okuhira:
"The Okuhira family's castle is nearly a hundred miles away from here. It was really not easy to arrive with the army 6 days after receiving the order."
"Your Highness, the Governor of the Household, is ridiculous. The number of Okuhira is small and the territory is compact, so it is naturally easy to mobilize." Yoshimasa Okuhira did not dare to accept the award happily in front of so many colleagues and senior generals. After all, the Okuhira family who had just committed a serious crime of treason should not be publicized.
, so he quickly lowered his head and thanked her. But as soon as he said the words, he realized that something was wrong.
The Okudaira family turned out to be a powerful family with a huge territory, but it was because of their previous rebellion that they were reduced to this position - so by saying this, didn't he implicitly complain that the Imagawa family's punishment was too harsh? So Okudaira Yoshimasa was deeply troubled.
He leaned over deeply and added: "I and the samurai of the Okuhira family are fully aware of the serious sins of the mistakes we made before, and are willing to be shrouded in horse hides to wash away the stigma."
"Work hard." Imagawa Yoshimoto was not generous enough to just forget the blame, so he encouraged him, and then looked at the subordinates present. Just when he was about to open his mouth to lay out the next plan, Hayasaka Nao hurriedly opened the door
He leaned over the tent door and reported: "Your Highness, there is an envoy from Shanggong Temple asking for an audience, and he has returned with a few horses."
Hearing this, there was an uproar in the tent:
"Have you sent the horses back?"
"As expected, they robbed it."
"Is this a request for peace?"
Imagawa Yoshimoto also stood up immediately and walked out of the tent. At the same time, he ordered Hayasaka Nao: "Bring him to the side tent to see me."
Not long after, the monk who was the envoy was brought over by Hayasaka Nao.
"Confirmed, it's our stolen horse." Hayasaka Nao reported to Imagawa Gimotohui while closing the door.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Yes, yes." The monk also knew at this moment that the person in front of him might be one of Imagawa Yoshimoto's confidants or favorites, and he did not dare to act like he did a few days ago
He was so arrogant, but he answered honestly: "After the Lord left that day, Master Shanru took us to search the whole temple, and finally found the abandoned horse in the wasteland of the back mountain, and specially brought it back to the Lord.
"
"You haven't found anything for so many days. When you saw the army coming, you found it right away?" Imagawa Yoshimoto sat down leisurely on his seat and raised his eyes to look at the monk. "Master Zenru said before that he had taken the entire upper palace.
We’ve searched all over the temple, but we can’t find a few living animals?”
"It's because we didn't search carefully enough before, causing you to wait for a long time. I'm really sorry." The monk didn't mean to talk back at all, he bowed his head and apologized, "It turns out that the believers who were responsible for searching the wasteland in the back mountain have been punished.
Punish them for neglecting the search mission."
"Okay, the matter of the horses will be settled once you return them." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded slightly. The monk in front of him was relieved and immediately leaned over to thank Imagawa Yoshimoto.
However, Imagawa Yoshimoto changed the subject and said, "But, what about those bandits? Why weren't they brought out together?"
"Huh?" The monk was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you mean..."
"The return of the horses is still a matter of horses, but how could those bandits not pursue it?" Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't know why the monk was in a daze, so he explained patiently.
"But they didn't just steal your horses. Wouldn't it be great if the horses were returned to you?" The monk replied matter-of-factly, and then confidently laid out the sky-high negotiating terms that Master Shanru allowed him to offer, "If
Your Excellency is still angry, Han Temple is willing to pay a sum of fodder fees to make up for the cost of this army's labor, no matter how many thousand dan, you can make whatever price you want."
After the monk finished speaking, he showed a confident smile - yes, thousands of kilograms of food, after supplementing the food and salary for this army mobilization, will be more than enough. This favorite of Imagawa Yoshimoto can put it into his own pocket or
It is an irresistible reason to use it for some benefits. But these few thousand stones are nothing to Shanggong Temple - it occupies so much land, and it can receive so many tributes from believers every year.
The people support the people, and the temples don’t have to pay taxes, so what’s the difficulty in saving some food?
But Imagawa Yoshimoto's face unexpectedly turned worse.
"Just stole the horses?" Imagawa Yoshimoto calmly repeated the monk's words.
"Yes...yes." The monk nodded without knowing why.
"They killed an innocent family of three in a nearby village. Don't you know this?" Imagawa Yoshimoto took a deep breath and kept his tone calm.
"Knowing is knowing... But isn't that just a poor old woman and two children? She should have nothing to do with the Lord and your army, right? If they are really family members of the samurai, how can they live there in such a shabby way?" The monk looked at him carefully.
Imagawa Yoshimoto's expression made me wonder where he was angry.
"Isn't the death of three innocent beings even worthy of being mentioned as a matter for you, the Jodo Shinsect?" Imagawa Yoshimoto has already held his hand on the hilt of his katana, "There is a saying: "Building a Hundred Buddha Temple,
"It is better to live one life." Rather than willing to demolish hundreds of Buddhist temples to save one life, you Jodo Shinshu believers regard human life as nothing but grass, stubborn and extremely evil... Don't you understand the principle of murder for life? You usually chant
"The scriptures in the Bible teach you not that "all living beings are equal and that all people are saved", but "killing innocent people indiscriminately and taking human life lightly"?"
"This..." The monk of the Ichigo Sect was obviously asked about a blind spot by Imagawa Yoshimoto, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
"Three lives, do you think you can make a big deal out of trouble by handing over the stolen goods?" Imagawa Yoshimoto tightly grasped the handle of Ryumaru's knife and scolded the monk in front of him: "Go back! Talk to your abbot! Either you hand it over yourself.
The murderer, either our Imagawa army enters the temple and searches for it ourselves! We want to see the person alive, and the body after death."
"Does this gentleman know what it means to let your army enter the temple?" Seeing that Imagawa Yoshimoto had said this, the monk who came to envoy finally got tough and replied angrily: "Breaking the guard will not allow entry.
It is a custom to make an enemy of the whole Sanhe and even the whole world of temples. Can you bear the responsibility of this crime? Aren't you afraid that the master will cut you to pieces when you go back?"
"I am the governor himself." Imagawa Yoshimoto coldly waved his sleeves and walked away, "It is useless to say more, just go back and convey it."
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