Hosokawa Motonsune glanced at the frustrated Mibuchi Haru, somewhat worried about this ignorant sister, fearing that she might do something bad.
So, he said.
"Haruyu, I see that you are not looking very well these days, so you will stay in Shengryuji Castle to rest for the time being, and leave all matters related to the Mibuchi family to Fujihide.
Afterwards, you don’t need to participate in the funeral of the ancestors in Shangluo and the succession of the general. Just take a good rest for a while."
Mibuchi Fujiei was also worried that his mother would ruin his good deeds, so he bowed and said.
"Mother, please take good care of yourself and leave your affairs at home to me."
Mibuchi Haru looked at Hosokawa Motonsune's serious expression, then at Mibuchi Fujihide who looked worried, and finally turned his gaze to the indifferent and calm Hosokawa Fujitaka, sighed and nodded.
At the beginning, she teamed up with Hosokawa Fujitaka to oust Hosokawa Motonsune from power and placed her in Shoryuji Castle for retirement. Now that Hosokawa Motonsune is doing the same thing to others, what can she say?
The power struggle between the Hosokawa and Mibuchi families was much more gentle than the fierce and bloody conflicts within other samurai families.
She also didn't want the trouble to end, leaving everyone with no way out but to compromise.
Seeing Mibuchi Haru's embarrassment, Hosokawa Fujitaka felt a faint sense of revenge.
Mother, please don’t blame me. I am doing this for the good of the Hosokawa and Mibuchi families. When I marry Shiba Yigen, will you also be happy?
After all, you have always treated him as your own child. When I marry him, you will really become a family.
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Hosokawa Fujitaka made a small plan, and Mibuchi Haru, who did not want to break up, was forced to take a back seat and was forced to stay in Shoryuji Castle to recuperate.
Although Motosune Hosokawa and Fujihide Mibuchi did not say it explicitly, they were obviously very interested in the price offered by Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
As for Yoshihiro Shiba, because of Mibuchi Haru's stupid actions, it is difficult for the Hosokawa and Mibuchi families to take advantage anymore.
Hosokawa Fujitaka wanted to give Hosokawa Mototsune the illusion that he would not get any benefits from the Shiba family. He cooperated with Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ise Sakyo to force Shiba Yoshigan to submit and let him marry him.
She is not sincerely cooperating with Ashikaga Yoshiaki. As long as Yoshigan Shiba marries her, she will immediately distance herself from Ashikaga Yoshiaki and form a united front with Yoshiaki Shiba again.
Once Ashikaga and Ashikaga merge, the local powerful factions will be closely united and become a decisive force in the shogunate. Ashikaga Yoshiaki will have to make more compromises.
And Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ise Sadakyu are not fools. Of course they know the result. Therefore, it is one thing to use Hosokawa Fujitaka, but it is another thing to really get Hosokawa Shiba to join forces.
Just as the nuclear bomb is at its greatest deterrence when it is on the launch pad. Hosokawa Fujitaka, who has not yet obtained Yoshiyoshi Shiba, is Ashikaga Yoshiaki's close ally.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Ise Sakyo already knew that the day that Hosokawa Fujitaka married Shiba Yoshigan was the moment when the alliance between the two parties broke down.
What they need is to use Hosokawa Fujitaka's sexual desire to make them crazy. But to really get Hosokawa Fujitaka's wish, that is another bargaining chip, and they have to negotiate the conditions.
With Yoshiba's current status, no one dares to drive him into desperation. Even without the golden seal of the sword, the white flag of Hachiman Taimu behind him is still a sign of great justice.
What's more, since Shiba Yiyin's debut, he has been victorious and invincible. Who among the shogunate can defeat him?
Ashikaga Yoshiaki just wanted to force Yoshigashi to give up his status in the Ashikaga Shogun family so that he could become a powerful and arbitrary Ashikaga Shogun.
But she has not yet understood that pure status does not mean the surrender of the concubines. As strong as Ashikaga Yoshiteru, even if he wants to hold on to the real power of the shogunate, he will die.
How could she, a mediocre Ashikaga twin, have power without the support of Yoshigan Shiba? She was extremely stupid.
When dealing with people, you are not afraid of fools being stupid, but you are afraid of fools being clever.
Although the Shiba family's territory is not large, the influence of Shiba Yoshigan on several recent families is really to the point of death, and it is more than enough to overthrow an Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
Therefore, from the beginning to the end, Ashikaga Yoshiaki never thought about subduing Yoshigen Shiba. She only wanted to convince others with virtue. She used Yoshigan Shiba's benevolent and righteous character to bully him, an honest man.
Shiba Yigen has a righteous character and has a bottom line in his behavior. The bastards in the shogunate rely on themselves and have no bottom line. They bully Yigen and force him to get out.
But they don't know that Giri is just Yoshigami's character. What really makes him different from the martial arts in this world is his three views.
In other words, he is not so pure and flawless on the surface. If you make him angry, he can do anything.
I'm so desperate that I'll vote for No. 8... No, I'll vote for Oda! This is the best thing about a man's gender. Once his clothes are taken off, Oda Nobunaga will definitely accept him.
Hosokawa Fujitaka, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and Shiba Yoshigan were all calculating, but everyone was half wrong.
As for Oda Nobunaga, he could only sneer in his heart as he watched the people in the shogunate calculating from a distance.
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The various forces are moving to Luo, and there is a constant undercurrent of alliance. As time goes by, the re-establishment of the shogunate is also advancing step by step.
Under the dual pressure of Ashikaga Yoshiaki and Kakushu Shonin, the Rinzai Shokokuji sect finally could not withstand the pressure and admitted that the funeral of Ashikaga Yoshiteru held for the Miyoshi family exceeded the standards of etiquette.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki assigned the Tendai Sect to hold a new funeral for their ancestors, and the Tendai Sect happily took away the remains of their ancestors from Shokokuji Temple.
After the funeral, Ashikaga Yoshiaki decided to build a pagoda to enshrine his ancestors in Mount Koya, where the old Shingon sect would chant sutras and pray for generations.
The Tendai Sect, which had already suppressed the Rinzai Sect, had no objection to this and gave Ashikaga Yoshiaki a face.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki used this to show that he did not forget his origins, which greatly moved the old Shingon sect in Mount Koya.
When Ashikaga Yoshiaki did these things on behalf of the Ashikaga Shogun family, Yoshigan Shiba who was at the Shiba Residence did not speak at all, which seemed to be acquiescence.
At this point, Ashikaga Yoshiaki became famous.
Following the strategy of Ise Sada, he properly balanced the relationship between the two major sects, the Tendai Sect and the Shingon Sect, and gained support from both parties.
And through Yoshigan Shiba's tacit support, the inevitability of her succession to Ashikaga Shogun was clearly seen both inside and outside the shogunate.
After completing Ashikaga Yoshiteru's funeral, Ashikaga Yoshiaki finally established a foothold in Kyoto and truly began to prepare for the succession ceremony.
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In the spring and summer, Ise Sakyo was the first to write a letter begging Ashikaga Yoshiaki to succeed Ashikaga Shogun.
Subsequently, various families in the shogunate submitted letters one after another. At that time, the paper in Luoyang was expensive, and they only wanted Ashiki Yoshiaki to ascend the throne.
In the end, a letter of petition from Yoshihiro Shiba was sent to the Nijo Imperial Palace. Ashikaga Yoshiaki was finally unable to suppress the anger of the shogunate. After three requests and three concessions, he was forced to accept everyone's suggestions.
The shogunate announced that on an auspicious day, a succession ceremony would be held, and she would become the fourteenth Ashikaga shogun of the Muromachi shogunate.
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Yiyin sat in the hall and looked at the long flags fluttering outside the hall.
This is the Nijo Imperial Palace, and it is the succession ceremony of Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
The shogun, whose real name is the general who conquered the barbarians, was originally a temporary military system established by the emperor's court to defeat the foreign hairy people entrenched in Kanto.
The Emperor's court followed the example of the mainland imperial dynasty's official position of conquering foreign shoguns. Because they had the power to recruit subordinate officials on their own and set up official offices and flags, they were also called shoguns.
After the Genpei War, Minamoto Yoritomo established the first political power of the samurai family, the Kamakura shogunate.
From then on, the shogun became another name for the leader of the samurai family, replacing the emperor as the actual ruler of the island country.
Originally, the general who conquered barbarians still needed to be conferred by the emperor's court. Although the Kamakura shogunate held the real power to govern the world, it was still a minister of the emperor according to the legal system.
Until the collapse of the Kamakura shogunate, the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate, and the third-generation general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu killing the emperor's ministers, the samurai shogunate became the only orthodox government in the Japanese archipelago, with no more constraints.
Because Ashikaga Yoshimitsu is independent based on the legal system of the Japanese king granted by the Ming Dynasty, he calls the Japanese king externally and uses the Japanese king's seal as his seal.
However, within the Japanese archipelago, Ashikaga Shogun still takes the title of shogun, pillar of the samurai family, and elder of the Minamoto family to rule the samurai families in the world and suppress the sixty-six countries.
Therefore, the sword granted by the Emperor to the General of the Conquering Barbarians is still a symbol of the shogun's power.
After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the succession ceremonies of successive Ashikaga shoguns were a mixed ceremony of canonization by the Celestial Empire and investiture by Japan.
When the Ashikaga shoguns came to power, either the ancestors retired or died. But today, Ashikaga Yoshiaki, the new general, will take over the golden seal of the sword from the ancestors' Odaisho.
This is also the reason why Ashikaga Yoshiaki is obsessed with kicking Yoshigan Shiba out of the Ashikaga Shogun family.
During the ceremony, I received two tokens of the power of the Ashikaga Shogun, the sword and gold seal, from Yoshigan Shiba.
In terms of etiquette, Ashikaga Yoshiaki's legitimacy comes from Ushiba Yoshigan, and he will never be able to get rid of the influence of Shiba Yoshigan in this life.
The Wu family attaches great importance to etiquette, and the status is determined, which means superiority and inferiority.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki was unwilling to bow to Yoshigoshi Shiba, so Ise Sakyo offered a marriage plan, and the two worked together to play dirty tricks on Yoshigan Shiba.
Yoshigan had not yet realized that the strategy he had planned for the shogunate to jointly expel Oda Nobunaga would be impossible to realize.
With this naive idea, he was going to hand over the two tokens left to him by Ashikaga Yoshiteru to an ungrateful white-eyed wolf today.
At this time, Siba Yiyin, who was sitting at the main seat in the main hall, was wearing a white hunting coat and a white feather fabric, and his face was as handsome as a god descending from heaven.
He looked at the ceremony unfolding outside the hall, feeling vaguely uneasy in his heart.
The people in the shogunate were very slick, and the chips prepared by Yiyin were stolen one by one by them without knowing it.
When Yiyin came to his senses, he realized that he had not received any definite promise at all, and all the bargaining chips he had used for the transaction had been stolen.
He glanced at the golden seal of the sword on the case. It was a token given to him by Ashikaga Yoshiteru for protection, and it was the proof that he occupied the Ashikaga Shogun family.
Today, he wanted to give her even this affectionate guarantee from Ashikaga Yoshiteru, and he couldn't help feeling uneasy.
Is what I am doing right?
Oda Nobunaga was hiding in Tofukuji Temple and there was no movement. Oda's army was well behaved in the capital, and Qiu made no mistakes. The concubines of the shogunate praised Oda Nobunaga one after another, and praised Oda Nobunaga as a loyal and virtuous minister.
Yoshigan found out in embarrassment that it was very difficult for him to unite the various shogunate families to deal with Oda Nobunaga now that he was committing evil deeds, and the shogunate families did not understand his concerns at all.
Even though I spent all my chips, I got some ambiguous answers and didn't really achieve what I hoped for.
Yoshigan suddenly thought of Akechi Mitsuhide. If she were here, what advice would she give him and what warning would she give him?
This vicious and cunning woman was responsible for the death of Ashikaga Yoshiki. Yoshiki never wants to see her again in his life.
But when I come back to my senses and think about it, she is Yiyin's most effective adviser. She is indispensable for Yiyin's ability to successfully establish a foothold in Jinji and win the 200,000 stone territory of Jinji Sibo.
When Yoshihiro was in Kanto, he often lamented that if he had brought Akechi Mitsuhide to Kanto, many twists and turns might have been avoided. Although this bastard is bad, he is really powerful.
Originally, he met Umino Riichi in Kanto, and he had a talent similar to that of Akechi Mitsuhide. Unfortunately, Umino Riichi was unwilling to leave Sanada Nobushige, so Yoshigan had no choice but to become a good companion for the monarch and his ministers.
Today, in the main hall, Yoshigami looked around, and suddenly felt that he was being fooled by the shogunate concubines. After all, he couldn't help but think of Akechi Mitsuhide's goodness.
But for the unjust death of Ashikaga Yoshiteru, he will never forgive Akechi Mitsuhide in his life, and will never use this poisonous snake with no bottom line again.
no way!
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Ashikaga Yoshiaki was extremely excited in his heart, but his face was serious and upright, and he followed the performer to complete the ceremony meticulously.
Outside the main hall, there is a courtyard, which imitates the appearance of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu when he received the canonization of the Celestial Dynasty. He worshiped in the direction of the capital of the Ming Dynasty and considered his succession to the throne.
The island nation of Japan has always had an ambivalent mentality of inferiority and pride in its treatment of the Celestial Kingdom.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's legal tradition of overthrowing the emperor and proclaiming himself king obviously came from the Japanese king who was canonized by the heaven.
But internally, in order to take care of the sensitive self-esteem of the islanders, the Ashikaga family has always regarded themselves as shoguns and rarely mentioned the name of the King of Japan.
Everyone knows that the legal system cannot be circumvented, but everyone remains silent at the same time, pretending not to see it, and each of them understands it tacitly.
Compared to the neglected courtyard set aside, the Japanese-style long flags hung on both sides are orderly and awe-inspiring.
Each family set up banners to express their support for the new Ashikaga shogun. High-ranking samurai armed with kodachi entered the side hall opposite the main hall to wait for the summons.
After Ashikaga Yoshiaki receives the golden seal of the sword and is officially called the General of the Conquest, each family will present a small sword to express their respect and congratulations.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki glanced back at the main hall. Yoshigan Shiba, dressed in white, was sitting on the throne, like a god enshrined in the main hall.
She cast her eyes on the slip of paper beside Shiba Yoshigan, on which was placed the golden seal of the sword that made her salivate. Then she looked up and saw the imperial white flag of Hachiman Taimu behind Shiba Yoshigan, and her heart trembled.
The arrow is on the string and must be fired.
After today, the plan to expel Shiba Yoshigan will be launched. Whether it is to marry him off, or... he must disappear from the center of the shogunate!
A trace of guilt flashed in Ashikaga Yoshiaki's eyes, and then he gathered his determination.
I am the 14th Ashikaga Shogun and the pillar of the samurai family! No one can step on my head or dictate to me!