Nine hundred and twentieth chapters eternal wanderer
Saito Rizo also couldn't figure out the same question about Shiba's mansion in Kyoto.
She was sitting in the tea room opposite Akechi Mitsuhide, thinking about how her conspiracy was going to succeed step by step, and she was filled with admiration in her heart.
Although, she didn't know that Akechi Mitsuhide's final goal was to kill the general.
But just in the current situation, watching this elegant woman change the world and play with several forces at her fingertips has already made her extremely in awe.
Akechi Mitsuhide took a sip of tea and said slowly while holding the tea cup.
"You ask me why?"
Saito Tobi kowtowed and said in fear.
"Your Majesty made a mistake."
She just saw that the conspiracy was about to take shape, and the situation in Kyoto changed. Her mood was turbulent and she blurted out the doubts that had been in her heart for a long time.
Akechi Mitsuhide, a thoughtful master, why did she want to overthrow the Muromachi shogunate, which seemed to be promising for ZTE?
Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head, his eyes slightly dilated, thinking about something on his mind, and whispered softly.
"If it cannot be destroyed, it cannot be established. Ashikaga Yoshiteru cannot revive the Ashikaga shogunate. This old house that has been supported for more than 200 years should have collapsed long ago.
You have to know that the Ashikaga shogunate has never been able to control the entire world. The Ashikaga family's control over the world is not even as good as that of the Kamakura shogunate, which was far away in the corner of Kanto.
The Ashikaga Shogunate was like a loose alliance of samurai families, and the Ashikaga Shogun was only the nominal co-leader of the samurai families.
The guardian system is more of a status cloak used by martial arts families from all over the world to compete for power. It seems rigorous, but in fact it is full of flaws.
What does family status count? Except for a few big nobles with clear origins, after the martial arts family in other places becomes powerful, is it difficult to marry a son from the last descendant of a famous family and recognize a famous ancestor?
The Ashikaga shogunate is beyond the reach of distant neighboring countries, so what else can it do besides pinching its nose and admitting it? In order to maintain the justice of the guardianship system, should it go to war with local powerful forces?
The guardianship system is a joke.
The third shogun, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, massacred the emperor's court. The seal of the Japanese king given by the Ming Dynasty and the sword given by the emperor's court were universal and parallel.
Would you say it’s interesting?
The imperial court system was destroyed, and it is hard to mention the general who conquered the barbarians at the beginning. The Ming Dynasty was too embarrassed to mention the name of its vassal state. The name of the vassal king was only used in foreign negotiations.
Except for the third generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the Japanese king who petitioned the Celestial Empire and was officially canonized and sealed by the Ming Dynasty.
Afterwards, those Ashikaga shoguns who did not write letters to inherit and alienated the Celestial Tribute System, were they considered kings? How could they stabilize their political power?
The Ashikaga shogunate was an incompetent figure who could not find a fig leaf. The Ashikaga family could only use the trick of driving a wedge between the samurai family and pulling one faction against another to sit on the crater of the shogunate.
After the third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the order of the world gradually collapsed, and chaos grew day by day. Until today, the guardian system has almost collapsed.
The so-called Ashikaga revival and the resurgence of the shogunate are just doing a dojo in a snail shell, and they are just deceiving themselves."
Akechi Mitsuhide had a smile on his face, but he spoke vicious words one after another, slandering the shogunate and the general, which made Saito Rizo sweat profusely.
She said sarcastically.
"Lord, you don't have to say this to me. I've only been with you for a short time, aren't you worried that these words will spread outside?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"You won't, I promise."
Although she was smiling, Saito Rizo felt his hair standing on end and bowed to answer.
"Thank you, Lord, for trusting me."
Akechi Mitsuhide didn't care about her little intention to change the topic, he just stared blankly at the few green smoke in the tea cup, his tone was erratic.
"I am willing to tell you these words, and I hope you can write them down and pass them on to future generations.
I, Mingzhi Guangxiu, come from a noble family, but my family fortune has been ruined and I am living in a foreign country. After observing the chaos in the world, I have the ambition to bring peace to the world.
The source of the chaos in the world lies in the Ashikaga Shogun. The Ashikaga family has an unfair name and abuses power.
As long as the Ashikaga Shogunate is destroyed, the chaotic world will never end. Only by completely smashing this chaos can we start over.
The world of the samurai family should not be like this. The Ashikaga shogunate has taken the wrong path and must be completely destroyed.
Overcorrection must be overcorrected.”
Saito Rizo asked in a low voice.
"But what happens after it's smashed? Will the new shogunate after reconstruction do better than the Ashikaga shogunate?"
Akechi Mitsuhide glanced at her and smiled.
"I'm just a despicable person hiding in a dark corner. How can I tell you the answer?
From now on, it is up to the real heroes to clean up the mess and restore order."
Looking at Akechi Mitsuhide's calm smile, Saito Rizo felt a martyr's open-mindedness from her and couldn't help but ask.
"Yingjie, will you understand your painstaking efforts?"
Akechi Mitsuhide lowered his head with a warm smile on his face.
"No, he won't understand me, because I personally pushed him into the abyss.
He will never, ever forgive me."
Akechi Mitsuhide closed his eyes in pain, his heart felt like a knife.
How does a man unite and rebuild the world in troubled times? The strategy of occupying the magpie's nest is the strategy I have prepared for him.
But this shameless strategy will sacrifice his reputation.
The widow of Ashikaga Shogun used his own body and blood to form a new samurai group to rule the world. It is simply appalling.
Future historians will denounce his debauchery, and history books will use the most vicious words and malicious speculation to analyze his words and deeds.
He will lead the martial arts back to order and gain new life. And he himself will receive the hatred, slander, and curse of countless people in this and future generations, and become a slut despised by hundreds of millions of people in future generations.
Akechi Mitsuhide put down the tea cup, hid his hands in his sleeves, and dug his nails deeply into his palms, but he couldn't make her feel any pain.
Because her heart was torn, she pushed the man she loved most into the bottomless abyss, where she would never be reincarnated.
She loves him, but she is using him to fulfill her own ambitions. To calm the world and restore order.
She is determined, she is confused. She is calm, she is violent. She is rational, she is crazy.
She was Mitsuhide Akechi, crazy about love. But she killed the most holy and inviolable angel in the world because of her ideals.
She deserves to die, she deserves to die.
Saito Rizo didn't know the distress in Akechi Mitsuhide's heart, but she was also troubled by herself.
Akechi Mitsuhide seemed smart and wise, but she was actually a real fool at heart. She didn't consider her own safety at all, but just tried her best to realize her ideals.
Saito Rizo lowered his head and said nothing.
So what about me? What about my future? Or Lord Saito Ryuuki. His Highness Yoshitsune entrusted her to him, how could he let her future go into darkness.
Akechi Mitsuhide's momentary exposure to loneliness and weakness inadvertently planted a seed of uneasiness in Saito Rizo's heart.
Under the cover of the nest, there are still intact eggs. What the future holds is still unknown.
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Great changes are imminent in Kyoto, and Yoshigan Shiba, who is far away in Echigo, is still completely unaware of all this.
With Kenyasu Numata fleeing to Echigo for help, the Kanto strategy had to start early. At the Imperial Government Office in Joetsu, a small meeting of only four people was having secret discussions.
Yoshigan Shiba and Terutora Uesugi are in the first and second place, and there are two people on the left and right below, namely Ohashi Asahi and Naoe Keizuna.
Since ancient times, when going into battle, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass have gone first.
Echigo's unique dual-headed politics meant that if you wanted to mobilize resources, you had to coordinate both parties first, and the first one to bear the brunt was the Naoe Jinkan Office.
Today's Naoetsu is not only the largest port town in Echigo, but also the terminus of the Hokuriku Road trade route at the Kanto end.
As the main unloading and distribution market, and the two forces of the Uesugi family and the Kanto shrine, it is a tax-rich area that profits the commercial profits of Hokuriku Road.
The most important thing is that the military rations needed for this Kanto attack were also purchased and transported to the warehouse in Naojiangjin in batches. The storage and allocation were inseparable from the coordination of the Naojiangjin Customs Office.