On the night of March 15th, the fifth year of Tenmon (1536) (that is, two days before the Hanakura Rebellion), Zentokuji Temple in Suruga Province, Tokaido.
The fourth son of the Warring States Daimyo Imagawa clan who ruled the Tokaido Suruga and Toe two countries - and the sibling brother of the current head of the Imagawa clan Teru Imagawa - the future famous Imagawa Yoshimoto - is still a young monk named Kagotake Seiyoshi
——Reading scriptures by candlelight in the temple. According to the practice of the Wu family, in order to avoid brothers fighting for power, other descendants of the daimyo are often sent to become monks, and the Imagawa family is no exception. However, Yue Chengfang was not ordained when he became a monk.
Tie up your long flowing hair at the back of your head, euphemistically called practicing with hair.
However, people who are familiar with Yue Yue Chengfang know that the arty Yue Chengfang simply does not want to damage his handsome appearance by shaving his head. However, compared to the great monks of Xiangzong who marry wives and have children, drink alcohol and eat meat, Yue Yue Chengfang is still a vegetarian after all.
Already considered a clean figure among monks
Of course, those who are familiar with Yue Chengfang must also know that it is absolutely impossible for him, who has always been playful, to stay up late reading Buddhist scriptures.
Taiyuan Xuezhai is the person who is most familiar with Yue Chengfang. As the eminent monk assigned by the Imagawa family to be his teacher for more than ten years, he was ordained in accordance with Buddhist rules. However, when he returned to the temple late at night, he was carrying a
A big chicken leg dripping with oil, the white cassock on his body was also messy, the woman's lip prints were clearly visible on his neck, and he still had a strong smell of rouge. Needless to say, you know where this crooked old monk came from.
Came back.
Taiyuan Xuezhai was leaning quietly outside Yue Yue Chengfang's room at this moment, carefully looking at Yue Yue Chengfang in the room through the window paper. Taiyuan Xuezhai knew his disciple better than anyone, who was extremely talented but never chanted sutras well, so he was naturally familiar with him.
His nature - he must have been pretending to read Buddhist scriptures, but in fact he was peeking at "Xianshu". The reason why he stopped and watched for a long time was just to judge whether Yue Chengfang was peeking at pictures of flowers and birds or a collection of Japanese songs.
Just observing, Taiyuan Xuezhai coughed heavily, threw down the chicken legs, pushed open the door, and strode inside. Hearing the sound, Yue Chengfang panicked and hurriedly closed the Buddhist scripture in front of him, but
Taiyuan Xuezhai, who was killed behind him, took out the picture of flowers and birds hidden in the scripture.
"Tell me, where did you get it from?" Taiyuan Xuezhai shook the flower-and-bird picture he had seized from Yue Chengfang with his greasy hands that had just been holding the chicken legs, "I just received you a collection of Japanese songs the day before yesterday, why are you peeking at it again?
Can’t you recite sutras well?”
"Hey! Old man! Don't touch my painting with your oily hands! It's so dirty!" Yan Yue Chengfang saw that her cherished flower and bird painting was instantly stained with oil stains. She was so anxious that her face turned red and she was about to go and grab it.
, but Taiyuan Xuezhai took it into his arms with a shake of his big hand, and shouted majestically: "Confiscated!"
Yue Yue Chengfang instantly lowered his head like a defeated rooster, turned his face away gloomily, sat down angrily, and muttered: "There is really no way..."
"You brat, it's good that you are gentle and well-educated in front of outsiders, but you are so rude in front of me as your teacher! When you were a child, you called me teacher, but now you have to call me 'old man' or 'old man' every day!" Taiyuan Xue
The more Zhai talked, the angrier he became, and then he sat down cross-legged opposite Yue Chengfang, cleared his throat and said, "Old rules, I punish you by listening to my teacher lecture."
"It's that red bird story again..." Yue Yue Chengfang muttered angrily, leaning on the desk and pretending to snore. Taiyuan Xuezhai didn't take it seriously at all, but said to himself: "You didn't understand, why?
The teacher just keeps talking! Talk until you understand!"
"When I first tasted it, there were steep mountains in the north of Suruga, and fierce birds lived in the forests of the mountains, with red feathers all over their bodies..."
The familiar story had just begun, and Yue Yue Chengfang suddenly fell asleep. Although he usually couldn't stand this boring story, this time he got sleepy too quickly and fell asleep all of a sudden.
He seemed to have had a long, long dream, in which many things happened and many tears were shed.
But when he was shaken awake by the angry Taiyuan Xuezhai, he suddenly couldn't remember anything. Only two sentences vaguely lingered in his ears -
"Yu Qiuping...do you know what you did?"
"What do you know? This is the realization of His Highness the Governor!"
On the same night, under the same bright moon, in Odawara Castle, the home of the Hojo family in Sagami Province.
The Hojo family and the Imagawa family have been allies for decades. At first, the Hojo family was a retainer of the Imagawa family. The first generation of the Hojo family, Soun Hojo, was the uncle of the Imagawa clan's father, the ninth generation head of the Imagawa clan, the father of Kagaku Seiyoshi. He was the supporter of the Imagawa clan.
The high-ranking ministers were rewarded for their merits in the Kokokuji Temple area east of Suruga. Based on this, the Hojo family gradually developed into the Kanto region east of Suruga, eroding Izu Country, Sagami Country and half of Musashi Country. Now it has
He became a daimyo as powerful as the Imagawa family.
However, the two families still maintain close contact through their marriage relationship and frequent exchanges. This month, the governor of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Ujiteru, took his second brother Hikogoro to visit Odawara Castle and stayed for a long time to demonstrate the "Shunto alliance"
The stability of the family. Now the second-generation head of the Hojo family, Hojo Utsusuna, and his retainers are holding a tea party to see off the Imagawa brothers.
In the back kitchen of Odawara Castle, Hojo Ujiyasu, the legitimate son of Hojo Ujitsuna, was hiding behind the stove and feasting on delicious ochazuke rice. And his uncle Hojo Genan, a famous monk and tea master in the Hojo family, happened to return home.
Making tea in the kitchen, I bumped into Hojo Ujiyasu.
"Young master, how could you be so unbecoming of someone who didn't go to the tea party to accompany the guests and instead hid in the kitchen?" Hojo Genan criticized Hojo Yasumichi as he sent his subordinates to bring the brewed tea and presented it to the Imagawa brothers.
"That's more decent than arbitrarily making decisions and poisoning guests, right? Dad doesn't know about this yet, right?" Hojo Ujiyasu didn't even raise his eyelids, and continued to eat while mumbling inarticulately.
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"Uncle, you don't have to hide it from me. There must be a chronic poison in the tea. It will cause death after two days. The Fuma Ninja just prepared it not long ago, and there is no trace of poisoning at all." Hojo Ujiyasu swallowed his food, and then looked at him.
Hojo Genan smiled:
"The head of the Imagawa family and the first heir are about to die on the same day, and Imagawa Sosuke (Imagawa Uji Teru) has not left any heirs... The remaining heirs are his two younger brothers - Genguang Etan
Or Yue Chengfang, who will win? Tsk tsk... The Imagawa family is about to be in chaos. When the time comes, the Hojo family will send troops to uphold justice in the name of their allies... Tsk tsk... This Suruga is what we say.
"
"Young master, it's best to eat more and talk less." Hojo Genan did not answer directly, but picked up a cup of tea on the table and poured it into Hojo Ujiyasu's bowl.
"Hey, uncle, what do you know?" Hojo Ujiyasu hurriedly took away the bowl. It took a while to prevent Hojo Genan from pouring the tea into it. He said carefully, "Chazuke rice, if you pour too much tea soup, it won't taste good.
."
"Then what do you want to eat, young master?" Hojo Genan shook his royal blue cassock, leaned on the stove and looked at Hojo Ujiyasu.
"Dad, he always misses the old relationship with the Imagawa family. Even though the general manager (the 10th generation Imagawa Ujiteru) is so weak, he can't be greedy for the Imagawa family and insists on letting me marry the late repairman (
The daughter of the ninth generation Imagawa clan) is really an amazing and good person." Hojo Ujiyasu shook his head, poured the remaining ochazuke rice in the bowl into the trash can, and stretched the empty bowl in front of Hojo Genan, "But
I'm different, I'm not a good person. I'm so greedy for these two fat pieces of meat, Suruga and Enji, aren't they as delicious as chazuke rice?"
"Young master, if you want to eat, I will bring it to you, monk." Hojo Genan sneered, and looked at each other in understanding with Hojo Ujiyasu.
"Uncle, you're right -" Hojo Ujiyasu brought the bowl to his mouth, drank the remaining tea juice in one gulp, then wiped his unshaven mouth, and laughed in a low voice, "The Imagawa family is already at your mouth.
Up."
Almost at the same time, the Suruga Kingdom spread throughout the Zhaokoji Temple.
The third eldest son of the Imagawa family, Xuanguang Huitan, who became a monk at Benzhaoguang Temple, was now in tears. He looked at the mirror in disbelief, and then looked at the signature at the end of the letter in front of him - "Xuan Guanghui"
The four words "Exploration" were clearly visible. He touched his face over and over again, integrating the different memories belonging to the two periods of life in his mind over and over again, and finally cried bitterly.
"The sky has eyes... let my unscrupulous descendants travel back to their ancestors hundreds of years ago. Countless people in our lineage, who were expelled and hunted for countless days and nights, dreamed of reviving the Imagawa family.
...I didn’t expect that heaven would really give me this opportunity, but at this best time..." Xuan Guanghui put his hand on the letter, raised his head and stared at the familiar and unfamiliar face in the mirror again, murmuring to himself
Saying:
"The severed lineage, the lost territory, and the tarnished Imagawa family... all the glory of the past will be protected by me in the future, as Genguang Etan. Father, grandfather, great-grandfather,
Ancestors of the Imagawa family...please give me, Saburo, strength."
Then he looked at the date at the end of the letter—March 15th, the fifth year of Tianwen (1536). Xuan Guanghui Tan clearly remembered the dates of every major event in the history of the Imagawa family, so naturally he would not miss the Huacang Rebellion.
In two days, the governor of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Ujiteru, and his younger brother, Imagawa Hikoro, will both die violently in Imagawakan (Shunfu Castle). The battle for the governor, which will determine the fate of the Imagawa family - the Hanakura Rebellion will also break out.
If history does not change, as the legitimate son, Yue Chengfang will, under the planning of Taiyuan Xue Zhai, get the support of his mother Shou Guini and a group of family members, and seek reinforcements from the Hojo family to defeat the weak Xuan Guang
Etan later changed his name to Imagawa Yoshimoto and led the Imagawa family to glory—and destruction after glory.
But this time it's different.
Xuan Guang Huitan wiped away his tears, stood up slowly, and made a vow in his heart.
Turn your attention back to Zentokuji Temple in Suruga Province.
"You brat, is the story of being a teacher really that boring?" Taiyuan Xuezhai looked at the sleepy Yue Yue Chengfang and shook his head in confusion, "In the blink of an eye, you can fall asleep?"
"Ah, teacher, I always feel like I've had a long dream, as if something terrible happened." Yue Yue Chengfang fumbled vaguely, rubbing her eyes that couldn't be opened, "I feel so dizzy.
, I can’t remember anything, I really can’t help it.”
"Monks don't tell lies. You've clearly just fallen asleep for a while, how much can you dream about?" Taiyuan Xuezhai couldn't help laughing and scratched his bare head, "Tell me, what do you remember?"
"Yu Qiuping...it seems to have these few syllables." Yue Yue Chengfang frowned and muttered the only memory she had left, "Does it mean it's going to rain in autumn...or is it a Japanese song...or..."
Is it a name?
The two masters and disciples did not know that history had undergone earth-shaking changes at this moment.
Author's note: The author made a simple map based on the Nobunaga 14 map and put it in the highlight post in the book review area for everyone to understand!