Because no one disturbed him, he slept deeply. When he woke up, it was already bright outside the window. When he walked out of the house, he found out that he had slept until noon and ate vegetarian food in the temple. It seems that these monks ate more than he did. Even better, a kind of pasta called Xuanton from Tang Dynasty is even more delicious than rice.
In the afternoon, Yamamoto Kansuke returned from Saijo Castle. The 800 standing ashigaru who came with him were divided into two teams. One team was stationed in Saijo Castle to guard the Kira family's home castle, and the other team blocked the castle town that was in chaos last night. Some of them were really happy last night. The people were arrested on the spot, and the old underground people in the town took the initiative to identify and pick out these unidentified people one by one.
After interrogation, it was found that except for the three local residents who took advantage of the fire, the remaining 28 people were all from Suruga and Toe. It is said that the rebellion was an impromptu action when they saw the castle town burning.
Fortunately, their actions of setting fires everywhere and inciting riots soon met with spontaneous resistance from the townspeople. The two sides broke out into conflicts and injured each other. Later, they were captured by the standing ashigaru brought by Yamamoto Kansuke. After preliminary statistics, thirty-three houses collapsed in the castle town due to the earthquake. 25 buildings were burned down, 18 people died, and 100 people were injured. The damage caused was more than a thousand dollars, which can be said to be a heavy loss.
Fortunately, the Kira family rebuilt Saijo Castle a few years ago. The new castle was so strong and beautiful that no damage was caused. Kira Mansatsumaru was violently shaken in the middle of the night, but other than being slightly frightened, it did not hurt him at all. The samurai and family members living in Saijo Castle Except for a few unlucky guys who accidentally fell and got injured, everyone was safe and sound.
Later, Kansuke Yamamoto asked Kira Manshomaru to deal with the arsonists last night. The handling of this kind of case was just a routine inquiry. The result of the trial was already out. He just asked him to take out the governor's monogram and seal it. The result of the handling was also Unsurprisingly, they were always merciless towards those who had committed great evils. They were all taken out of the city and beheaded. Their heads were nailed to wooden stakes and stuck in the streets of Atsutian to "show their heads".
I felt that the samurai of this era were really cruel. More than thirty of them were killed under the supervision of Kansuke Yamamoto. Kira Manshomaru was also invited to watch the beheading. Many townspeople outside the city came to watch the beheading, and there was no trace of them at all. He looked fearful, as if he were watching a show on the street. This cold-blooded atmosphere of the times made him very uncomfortable. He went to the Mixiang Anguo Zen Temple to chant sutras for half a day before being invited out by Yamamoto Kansuke.
"The guards of Isshiki Nagato, the guards of Yamaoka Awaji, the guards of Okouchi Tajima, the Jukai Damsho Shaotada, the guards of Takahashi Deha, the guards of Ogasawara Yazu, the guards of Ogasawara An Yun, and the guards of Ehara Tanba have entered the city."
"Yes." Kira Manshomaru nodded. These people are all close confidants of the Kira family. It is not surprising at all that they came here at this time.
"According to rumors, this earthquake originated from the Kanto and Kai area. Suruga suffered more damage than our family. The Imagawa family's preparations for going to Mikawa Kingdom should be put on hold first!" Yamamoto Kansuke said that according to the rumors, it was basically It can be determined that it is close to the actual situation.
Although Yamamoto Kansuke serves the Kira family in Mikawa, he has always maintained connections in Suruga. Kira Mansomaru and the late former family governor Kira Yoshihiro are very clear about this. When he was living in Suruga, he was taken in as a boarder by Asahina Motonaga. In fact, he was a retainer and the direct son of Asahina Nobunaga, who also served as the tutor of the Motobashi. This relationship was maintained until Yamamoto Kansuke became an official of the Kira family.
It is precisely because of his deep relationship with the Suruga Asahina family, especially when Asahina Nobuyuki inherited the position of family governor after the battle of Azozaka last year that it was further strengthened. Historically, Asahina Nobuyuki relied on this relationship with Kansuke Yamamoto. It was only after Imagawa Yoshimoto died in the war that he quickly fell in love with the Takeda family. This shows that countries across East Asia have roughly the same understanding of interpersonal relationships.
Kira Mansomaru knew these old things, but he also knew that his master craftsman had been working in Suruga for six or seven years, and it was not surprising that he had his own connections. The two of them returned to Saijo surrounded by horse warriors. When he entered the castle town, a group of people appeared in front of him wearing tōmaru, wearing array hats, with flags bearing the crest of the Ashikaga Nibiki family behind their backs, and holding three long-handled ashigaru.
Their actions were uniform. Under the leadership of a samurai wearing red uniforms, they quickly blocked the street passages along the road. Their reactions were quick and their movements were clean and tidy. The loose and undisciplined ashigaru he had seen before made everyone, including Kira, Everyone including Wansongmaru was shocked.
"Is this the secret weapon that the master has prepared for five years? Eight hundred of them are always available! What a huge wealth!" Kira Mansomaru's interest was also a little moved when he saw a samurai wearing black uniforms who looked very mighty. , he drove his mount to walk over slowly and asked condescendingly: "What is the name of this warrior?"
This samurai was tall and majestic, holding a scythe spear very powerful. When he saw Kansuke Yamamoto, surrounded by children riding on a horse, came to ask him, he immediately knelt down and said, "My name is Watanabe Takatsuna. ,Greetings to Lord Oyakata!"
"Watanabe?" Kira Mansatsumaru was stunned for a moment and carefully looked at this strong warrior who was less than thirty years old. "Is your ancestor Tsuna Watanabe, who was born in the Saga Gen clan and one of the Four Heavenly Kings?"
"Yes!" Watanabe Takazuna buried his head much deeper.
"The three stars in the family crest mean that your ancestor was Watanabe Michizuna who served as a minister during the Rokuonin Ashikaga Yoshimitsu period and was subordinate to the family's ancestor, Kira Toshi of Ryumonji Temple?"
Kira Manshomaru looked the samurai up and down with a slightly surprised tone, making Watanabe Takazuna even more embarrassed and unable to raise his head: "Yes!"
"Why should I, a samurai from the Minamoto clan, be a member of the Matsudaira clan who came from an official family?"
"...The family ancestor Fan Gang was the second son of Duke Daogang. Because he was not qualified to inherit the family business, he moved to Urabe Village, Nedian County, Mikawa Kingdom. It happened that Songping Nobuguang went to Nedian County, and the family ancestor took advantage of the situation and became an official in Songping County. Home." This short sentence summed up the situation of their family. The Watanabe family is really bad at it. They can't even get registered with the Matsudaira family. No wonder they will join the Ichikukata and Matsudaira families in the future. confrontation.
"I see, then from now on you, Watanabe Takatsuna, work hard to serve your family! The Watanabe family of the Genji clan will make the family name famous again!" Kira Manshomaru nodded slightly to Watanabe Takatsuna, then turned around on his horse and left slowly. , not far away, I heard Watanabe Takazuna shouting from behind: "I, Watanabe Takazuna, swear allegiance to Lord Oyakata to the death!"
Yamamoto Kansuke, who was deliberately dragging behind, slowly woke up and said to Kira Mansomaru with great joy: "Your Majesty, the master, has become more and more skillful. From now on, I, Kansuke, no longer have to worry about the future of our family."
"Master, don't be kidding me. I, Mansongmaru, know how capable I am. I just used the prestige of my Kira family and it has nothing to do with me." Kira Mansongmaru shook his head and laughed, using the reputation of his family and how big he was. Relationship? If it weren’t for the Kira family’s headmaster wearing tiger skin, who would care what a nine-year-old child said?
Of course he knew how attractive and influential the famous Wu family was to the Wu family. During the Spring Festival, many wealthy families from the Mikawa Kingdom came to the city to pay their respects. Even the governor of the Kira family wanted to pay a visit to the Kira family. The imperial court and the shogunate would also send people to congratulate them.
, the people of Owari Province, which is close to Nishi Mikawa, and the merchants doing business along the way are bound to give a generous gift.
Those rural servants who had no chance to visit the Kira family craned their necks to see the governor of the Kira family. However, because the Kira family always had Kamiro as the head of the shogunate, and the position of the head of the shogunate was that of the shogunate, many of them
A samurai may never meet his lord throughout his life, which is one of the reasons why the Matsudaira family was able to thrive in Nishi Mikawa. There were no tigers or monkeys to dominate the mountains.
Later, Kira Manshomaru's father, Kira Yoshihiro, served in Kyoto for a few years and served the Ashikaga Shogun's family for a few years. The Imagawa family led the Suruga army to attack Hikima-sho and Shoto Okouchi, which belonged to the Kira family's territory in the Saito River.
The Kira clan and its relatives, the Jukai clan, successively killed many of their relatives in the war. Although the Kira family's Hikima village was preserved due to Kira Yoshihiro's request for the Imagawa clan, with the decline of the Kira family, it was destroyed again within a few years.
The Imagawa clan personally annexed it.
With the decline of the shogunate, support for the Kira family also dwindled, and the political situation at home and abroad in Mikawa deteriorated rapidly. Kira Yoshihiro changed his long-term stay in Luo Luo to stay in Luo for two to three months every three years, and then returned home.
More than ten years have passed, and the samurai of Mikawa Kingdom have gradually become accustomed to the fact that the Kira family governor is in charge of Mikawa Kingdom all year round.
PS: In the 18th year of Tenmon, the Great Kanto Earthquake is indeed true. There are detailed records in "Myohoji Chronicle". Hojo Ujiyasu issued a "Public Amnesty Order" to pardon all tax servants and other matters. Many cities in Kanto were destroyed by the earthquake and rebuilt after the disaster.
Because the impact and intensity cannot be compared with the Ming'an earthquake, it is initially estimated that the earthquake was around magnitude 7.
