As winter turns to spring, everything revives. Looking down from the mountainside of Inari Mountain, the earth is full of green.
Yiyin stood on the gravel road, looking at the scenery in the distance, and secretly rubbed his waist.
Yukino, that crazy woman, when we met at Fushimi Castle last night, she insisted on dragging Yono, Tachibana Kanade, and Yoshigage to have in-depth and simple conversations until midnight.
If that's all it is, that's fine.
However, the sisters of the Takada family came to visit with a political mission, to finalize the location of the New Shinto branch in Kyoto.
Before daybreak, they begged the saint to move to Inari Mountain to inspect the new society, which made Yoshigan, who had been tired for half the night, shouting that it was too much.
Sex is like a bone scraping steel knife. Although Yiyin has the eternal sixteen-year-old aura of cheating, no matter how good his body is, he can't withstand such torture.
As soon as he reached the halfway point of the mountain, he felt his waist protesting, so he simply pretended to admire the scenery and give his weak legs and waist a chance to breathe.
As early as the beginning of spring, Yoshigan came from Tamonzan Castle in the Nara Basin to Fushimi Castle in the southern suburbs of Kyoto.
He announced a spring outing, but in fact he was sitting in this government office south of Kyoto, supervising the first spring review after the reorganization of the Kyoto shogunate and the Kanto shrine.
According to the tradition of the old Grand Council, during the slack time after the busy farming season in spring and autumn every year, the Grand Council convenes two plenary meetings in spring and summer, inviting all United Front members to participate.
United front generals from various places represent local martial arts groups, attend general congresses, express the demands of their own martial arts groups, and make political deals with other martial arts groups to complete new integrations.
Generally speaking, even if the United Front members are unable to attend the meeting due to illness or other reasons, they will send capable retainers to attend the meeting on their behalf, and will never miss the general meeting of the Wu family.
Although the busy farming season has just passed at this point in time, and there are still some days before the opening of the big review, many United Front soldiers from all over the country have already come.
The official meeting lasted only three to five days, but it was just a hand-raising and applause meeting, a ceremonial program to show the unity of the United Front.
The real political deal was completed before the opening.
For Yi Yin, he does not care about the private interests behind the big review.
Those small profits are just to let everyone taste the benefits. The successful holding of the big review is the greatest benefit to the Spo family.
The Shiba family successfully saved the situation and established a new samurai consensus system recognized by the majority of samurai families. It was only a matter of time before the Shiba family appeared in the world.
The makers of the rules of the game do not care about other people's interests within the rules of the game. As long as everyone is willing to play within the rules of the game, it is the greatest benefit to the makers.
The first proposal at the opening of the New University Council after the reorganization was about Ashikaga Yoshiji's request to remove the word Ashikaga Miao and move it to the Kiren River.
The current Ashikaga Yoshiji has inherited the Ashikaga Yoshiteru orthodoxy, theoretically replacing Ashikaga Yoshiaki who was destroyed by lightning and becoming the head of the Ashikaga Shogun family.
Of course, she did not inherit the position of Ashikaga General.
The position of governor of the Kamakura Ashikaga family that Ashikaga Yoshiji originally occupied was officially extinct because of her entry into the Ashikaga Shogun family.
Therefore, once Ashikaga Yoshiji, the head of the Ashikaga Shogun family, successfully gave up the name Ashikaga Miao, moved to the Kiren River, and called himself the Kirenkawa Yoshi family, it meant that the Ashikaga Shogun family was also extinct.
The two-hundred-year-old orthodoxy of the Ashikaga world has been cut off, and the direct line of the Kawachi Genji family will fade away. Therefore, it is natural for the Shiba family to inherit the line as the most noble family among the Ashikaga relatives recognized by the samurai family in the world.
Everything is in line with the tradition of the Wu family, everything is reasonable, and all it takes is Yiyin's ceremonial bow and three concessions to accept all the direct descendants of the Genji family in Kawachi.
At this point, the Shiba Goddess Group had its great mission to replace the Ashikaga Shogunate and establish the world of Shiba.
The dual blessing of divine power and secular power made the Shiba family's orthodoxy and righteousness comparable to that of the emperor who was massacred by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, giving the descendants of Shiba the true confidence to remain in the lineage for eternity.
But at this moment, the Takada sisters from Sakai Port came to the door.
They first half-pushed and half-pulled Yiyin to have fun for half the night, and then pushed the exhausted him up to Inari Mountain, which made him feel refreshed and depressed at the same time.
Inari Taisha Shrine is four kilometers north of Fushimi Castle, not far away.
If it were a normal day, Yiyin would lead a team on horseback, dismount and climb the mountain, and they would be there in half an hour.
But today, he could only stand with his waist up and look at the scenery in the middle of the mountain, sighing that his body is not old yet his heart is also old.
Just as Yoshigan was admiring the scenery, Yukino's voice came from behind.
"What is the saint looking at?"
Yoshigan looked back, and saw Yukino lying comfortably on a chair, being carried up the mountain by two Mibu wolves, squinting to feel the mountain breeze, like a little kitten curled up from sleep and just waking up.
Seeing how comfortable she looked, Yiyin was not angry at all.
Last night when Yoshigin, Haruno, and Tachibana Kanade were sweating, Yukino also looked contented, watching the three of them exhausted.
Yukino always looks ignorant and stupid, but Yoshigami always feels like he is being manipulated by her.
The one who feels the same way as Yoshigami is Yukino's biological sister, Takada Haruno.
Holding on to the trekking pole and walking up the steps, Yangno took a deep breath. Yiyin was tired, and so was she. They had been busy for most of the night, and the eldest brother didn't laugh at the second brother.
Yangno glanced at Yukino, who was lying comfortably on the chair, walked forward and said softly.
"Sage, a few steps further up is Inari Taisha Shrine."
Yukino is in frail health, so the chair she sits on is a privilege granted by the saint, and others do not have this privilege.
Although Yangno was a fake warrior, she still wanted the dignity of the samurai family, so she could only ignore the weakness of her legs after a long night, gritted her teeth and continued to climb the mountain.
Yiyin raised his head and looked up, already faintly seeing the vermilion torii gate, and smiled.
"You'd better choose a place."
Inari Taisha Shrine was built in the eighth century. It is said that it was built by the Qin family, a descendant of the Qin Dynasty. The vermilion-painted torii gate is used to prevent corrosion and to ward off evil. It is the symbolic building of the island shrine.
After Ashikaga Yoshimitsu massacred the Emperor's ministers and destroyed Shintoism, all shrines in the island country have been removed from the list. Even some historic shrines that were preserved by the Ashikaga Shogunate have declined one by one.
In addition to the fact that Hachimangu Shrine, which is dedicated to Hachiman Daibodhisattva, is deliberately maintained as the patron saint of the samurai family, the remaining priests and witches in the past two hundred years have become increasingly embarrassed.
Excluded from mainstream society, they have no one to rely on and can only fend for themselves.
For example, the priests and maidens of Izumo Shrine form groups to travel around the country, perform skills, and sell their bodies to barely keep the shrine running.
Most shrines are not as lucky as Izumo Shrine and can only decay with the passage of time and disappear in the long river of history.
And Yono Takada comes from a business background and knows best how to reorganize assets and discover value.
As a result, she bought over various shrine forces that had deep foundations but were inevitably declining one by one, and quickly expanded the base of New Shintoism. Inari Taisha Shrine was one of them.