At the time of the military meeting, Imagawa Tsuruhime came to Edo Castle with Manzhumaru. Seeing his sister-in-law and young and ignorant nephew who looked sad, Kira Yoshitoki felt very unhappy. The relationship between the brothers was not very close.
It could not block the family affection flowing in the blood. Kira Yoshitsune promised to Imagawa Tsuruhime that he would seek justice for his brother and take back the territory belonging to Manzhumaru.
Imagawa Tsuruhime was very grateful for his promise. Nothing was more important to her than preserving the reputation and status of her late husband. Keeping all this could ensure that her son Manzhumaru would obtain a decent status belonging to a famous family in the future. From the time of Kira Yoshiki
Judging from his statement, the death of Kira Yi'an did not change the status of the Mikawa Kira family in his heart, and he would not be less given.
Kira Yoshitoki arranged for the mother and son to live in an annex in Edo Castle, and specially arranged for a maid to be responsible for daily living. The treatment was based on a family standard. He could understand the nervousness of the mother and son who came all the way to Edo Castle alone.
Interested, Imagawa Tsuruhime's elder brother, the Imagawa clan, is trapped in Kakegawa Castle and cannot save himself. If he does not take refuge with Kiragi in Kanto, he may face the embarrassing situation of sleeping on the streets.
Watching Imagawa Tsuruhime dressed in plain clothes and black clothes and taking Manzhumaru, who was just over three years old, bow to him and leave. There was still a deep sadness in her lonely figure that could not be resolved. Kira Yoshiki was holding back a feeling in his heart.
With unknown anger, he groaned and said: "Send an envoy to Kyoto with gold, silver, pearls and jade to contact the Guanbai Palace, His Highness Kōkō, to inform you of the matters regarding the extermination of the Mikawa Kira family, the imperial court's decree to conquer the enemies of the enemy, and the shogunate's expedition order.
We must invite someone to make Matsudaira Ieyasu pay the price! The price of blood!"
Chao Enzhi Failunzhi, as the name suggests, means that the court refers to a certain warrior as an enemy of the dynasty. The distant ones are like the Huanwu Ping family, which is a common general, and the more recent ones are the rebellious Nanmu Zhengcheng of the Southern Dynasties. It is said that in recent years, this type of
In 2000, Masatora Kusunoki, who claimed to be a descendant of the Kusunoki clan, was active near Kyoto and asked the court to pardon Masashige Kusunoki, a rebel in the Southern Dynasties. This surprised many samurai in the shogunate for a long time.
During the preparations for the attack on the Furukawa Imperial Palace, Kira Yoshi summoned several powerful warriors from the Musashi Kingdom in Edo Castle. He greatly appreciated their obedience and gave them gold, pearls and fine clothes to commend the Musashi people for abandoning the dark side and supporting the shogunate. During this period, he met several powerful warriors from the Musashi Kingdom.
A samurai with a special status, among whom is the current head of Oshu Kira, Yoriyasu Kira.
In the newly opened Imperial Palace in Edo Castle Honmaru, a middle-aged man with a weathered face and a young boy were sitting respectfully on their knees. They were Yoriyasu Kira and his adopted son Tomo Kira. The two father and son were sitting in a separate room with stiff expressions.
He welcomed the young man and served him refreshments, and from time to time his eyes looked into the corridor outside the door.
When he saw Kiragi wearing a pure white hunting coat with two prints and a black hat on his head and holding a folding fan, surrounded by several people with minor surnames, he quickly bowed and saluted: "Kirazaemon Monsaku and the Inuko clan
I pay my respects to His Highness Gongfang, and wish His Highness good health and long-lasting military fortune!"
"There is no need to be polite in the Shitian Palace. You and I come from the same sect and we are one family." Ji Liangyi waved away his surname and sat down cross-legged, smiling and saying: "You and I have not been together for more than two hundred years since the separation of the Southern and Northern Dynasties.
Come on! Speaking of which, our ancestor, Ryumonji Temple, adopted his second son to the Oshu Kira family as the heir to the family governor during the Rokuonin era. In terms of blood relationship, you and I are closer than Saijo Kira and Tojo Kira!"
"Yes! During the era of our great ancestor Lai Zhigong, no heirs welcomed Lai Shi as his son-in-law and adopted son from the Longmen Temple family. In the blink of an eye, more than a hundred years have passed." Kira Yoriyasu recalled the infinite glory of his ancestors in the past and couldn't help but sigh.
Said: "My Kira family has been in decline for more than two hundred years since the Kuomintang turmoil. I have long forgotten the glory of our ancestors in the Kamakura period... But thanks to the appearance of His Highness Kōkata, my Kira family's declining family fortune has been saved again!"
The Kira family was also known as the Mikawa Ashikaga family, and in the Kamakura period it was also called the Mikawa party of the Ashikaga family. These are names that can be shared, but the Kira family is not the name of only one family. Initially, the Mikawa guardian Ashikaga Yoshiji was in Mikawa
There were two Kira clans, the first one was the Kira Naga clan, the ancestor of Kira Yoshi, and the second one was Kira Yoshitsugu. The two families were originally called Nishijo Kira and Tojo Kira.
The ancestors of the Kira Yoshitoki branch emerged from the Kira Mitsuru clan, a powerful clan of the Ashikaga family. During the Kamakura period, they received the highly valuable Echizen guardianship, becoming the second powerful samurai family besides the Ashikaga clan to obtain the Kamakura guardianship.
, taking this opportunity to gain the title of Ashikaga Utsusaburo, and keep pace with the Owari Ashikaga family founded by his father-in-law, Ashikaga Taiji, who had deposed his direct descendant, the Shiba family.
The Tojo Kira family was far worse off than the Ashikaga family, and their influence in the Mikawa Kingdom was completely suppressed. For two consecutive generations, they were only part of the Tojo territory, until the Kira Keke family obtained land from the Kamakura shogunate.
The position of head of the Fujitani village in Adachi County, Austria was later passed down to the Kira Sada family, who moved the family out of Mikawa country and renamed it the Kira family of Oshu.
As soon as Tojo Kira left, the original territory was vacated and fell into the hands of the Ashikaga family. It was not until the end of Kamakura that the Kira family raised troops to follow Ashikaga Takauji to destroy the shogunate. In the chaos that followed, Ashikaga Takauji and Ashikaga Naoyoshi were in conflict, leaving
The Ashikaga family in Mikawa and the Kira family in Oshu were both unfortunate enough to join Ashikaga Naoyoshi's companions and become unlucky ghosts.
At that time, the name of the Ashikaga family was banned and downgraded to the Mikawa Kira family. The two sons of the Mikawa Kira family's governor, Kira Mitsurugi, were forcibly separated by Ashikaga Takauji. The eldest son, Kira Mitsada, inherited the clan and was once again called the Saijo Kira family.
His younger brother Kira Tsuyoshi founded another family called the Tojo Kira family. Because there was a family of Kira Yoshitsugu before Tojo Castle, so there is a saying of former Tojo and later Tojo.
Kira Yoshishi laughed heartily and said: "There is no need to flatter Yu in the Makita Palace. Yu is tired of hearing such flattery on weekdays. Today we will only talk about old friendship and not talk about those disturbing topics. This time we can see my relatives in Kanto."
One sect is very happy, and one sect that has not had contact with each other for hundreds of years will still want to get closer to each other in the future."
Yoriyasu Kira was overjoyed and quickly bowed to express his thanks. The first meeting went so smoothly, completely beyond his imagination. In fact, the Oshu Kira family was far worse off than the Mikawa Kira family. Not to mention the incredible Kira Yoshitoki.
To revitalize the reputation of the Ashikaga family, let's say that the Oshu Kira family has been in decline for the past two hundred years. They were downgraded from the leader of Oshu to one of the four leaders of Oshu, and then downgraded to the point where they could no longer survive in Oshu and were forced to join the Kanto clan.
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The Mikawa Kira family, led by Kira Mitsuyoshi, was lucky enough to be able to turn over the dark side in time and regain the understanding of the shogunate. The stubborn Oshu Kira family, led by the Kira Sada family, stood firmly in the southern camp.
Back in the dark, the second-generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshiki once issued a royal letter, ordering Ishibashi Tomoyoshi to attack the Kira family. At that time, the Oshu Kira family was defined as a major crime of rebellion, which shows how miserable this family was at that time.
During the chat, Kiragi also mentioned the deeds of the rioters in the past. I think the Kira family really thought highly of the second general Ashikaga Naoyoshi, but this man was really incompetent and forced some generals to suffer a huge defeat.
As a result, the Kira clan not only gave up their dream of being the sole ruler but also lost most of their family fortune and became a lost dog.
If we look back at our old enemy Shiba, we are already far behind. Shiba Gaojing became more and more prosperous as time went by, and even got a few guardians. His legitimate son, Shiba Yishou, even established the dominance of the third shogunate leader. The regret and depression in his heart
You don't need to think about it to know how big it is, so later the Kira family bowed to the Shiba family and they were very frustrated when they married each other's daughters to maintain unity. During the Kamakura period, the Kira family got along better than the Shiba family.
The Kira family is filled with endless depression over the disastrous failure of the Observation Disruption. For two hundred years, they have been thinking about reviving their reputation. This dream has been successful in the hands of Yoshitoki Kira. This is what Yoriyasu Kira is most excited about.
The revitalization of a leader's family means that he, a phoenix in trouble, can soar into the sky.
This is what it means to do what one likes. In the following speech, Yoriyasu Kira deliberately talked about the devastation of the past hundred years, lamenting: "The life of the next generation in Oshu was miserable! The governor of the house didn't even have a decent new shirt every year.
No. The whole family was in danger and struggling on the line of life and death... Fortunately, they survived in the end!"
Kira Yoshitoki smiled and listened to him tell the history of the Oshu Kira family's migration to Kanto. At first, a group of rebels from the Southern Dynasties escaped the shogunate's sanctions under the protection of the Kamakura Lord. The defeated Oshu Kira entered the Kamakura Lord's palace and followed him.
Kamakura Kōkō became Furukawa Kōkō and continues to exist.
The Oshu Kira family cannot enjoy the family status of the imperial family granted by the shogunate, but the Kamakura Crown Prince said that it doesn't matter if the shogunate has it, we can also have it. It means that the Oshu Kira family is treated like a Kanto imperial family.
It is to tell the people of the world that I, the Kamakura Shogunate, will be the shogun.
The behavior of the Duke of Guandong can no longer be described as Sima Zhao's heart. Their clan is like a middle-aged boy who keeps jumping up and down in front of his family, as if to tell his father that he is the head of the family. His behavior
Of course, they would be angered and disgusted by the Ashikaga Shogun family. The Ekyo Rebellion was Ashikaga Yoshitaka's determination to overthrow the Kamakura Lord's family.
Although luckily the Ashikaga Shige family escaped from Kamakura Kōgata's family and established the Furukawa Imperial Palace in Shimonosu Province's Furukawa Township to continue the struggle, the influence of Kanto Kōgata was far less powerful than before. Ashikaga Yoshitsune refused to give up during the Yuki War.
He killed countless samurai. If Ashikaga Yoshitaka had not been killed by Akamatsu Mitsuke the following year, the Kamakura clan would really have died.
While chatting for an hour, Kira Yoshitsune noticed that the young man behind Yoriyasu Kira remained silent, so he smiled and asked, "Is this the legitimate son of Makita-den? What's his name?"
Yoriyasu Kira said: "This is my adopted son, Kira Tomo. He was originally the second son of the Horikoshi Imagawa family, Hori Sadatomo. I had no children to inherit the family line at my age, so I accepted the invitation of Hojo Sagami Mamoru to join the Horikoshi Imagawa family.
Welcoming an adopted son."
"It turns out that he is the legitimate son of the Horikoshi Imagawa family. Your ancestor Toshinori was a great samurai! My ancestor, Ryumenji Temple, was also the son-in-law of Toshinori." Kira Yoshitoki was very kind to this Kira family member who came from Horikoshi Imagawa, and his name was
The Horikoshi clan, who is the Imagawa clan, has always had a bad relationship with the Suruga clan, the Imagawa clan. Even the elder brother of the Kira clan, Horikoshi Sadanobu, is still fighting for independence. For various reasons, he wants to treat this clan well.
The allusion mentioned by Kira Yoshitsune is actually that after the Mikawa Kira family was split into two parts by Ashikaga Takauji, Kira Toshi, the second generation head of Saijo Kira, became the son-in-law of Imagawa Sadase, Ryuu Toshi. Kira Toshi's ordination name was Ryumonji Temple.
Just like Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's ordination name is Luen-in, the samurai try to avoid mentioning the names of their deceased sages out of the habit of keeping tabs on their sages.
What is different from ancient China is that the samurai family has always been proud to use the names of their ancestors. The usage of Tongzi is to use the two characters of the first generation ancestor's name as a generational Tongzi. For example, the first ancestor of Kanin-ryu is the Shonibi Shoudaina.
Speaking of Fujiwara Komin, the general character used by successive family governors of the Sanjo family, Saionji family, and Tokudaiji family that he branched off is "Komin". And it is a high-end way of distinguishing seniority every generation.
The usage of the Wu family is relatively crude, that is, the direct descendants of the Wu family are passed down from generation to generation. The benefits of this in the feudal era are obvious. As long as you report where you come from, the Miao character Tong, and your official position, the other party can immediately know which family you are a child of.
, even two strangers can verify that they are close relatives through a series of special proofs such as the word Miao and Tong, which is a bit similar to the slang of ancient Chinese hall names.
The first meeting with Yoriyasu Kira, a member of the same clan of Musashi Province, went smoothly. When Kira Yoshihiro learned that he only had a small territory in Shida Village, Kuraki County, Musashi Province, and his life was very difficult, he could only rely on the support of the Hojo family to maintain his food and clothing level, so he
With a swipe of the pen, Yoriyasu Kira received a unique treatment. As the governor of the Musashi Kira family, he enjoyed the rank of an important minister with 20,000 koku. There was no shortage of seasonal fruits, vegetables, meat and eggs, and he was given gold, silver, and silk worth 5,000 Yongle gold on the spot.
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The Kira clan was transferred to Edo Castle to join the public service and participate in government affairs. His position was to serve as a senior follower of ritual observance. In this way, the 20,000 koku and various benefits received by Kira Yoriyasu became a family fortune. The Kira clan dynasty
The salary he received as a senior minister was a job salary. On the way out of the Edo Imperial Palace, Yoriyasu Kira smiled so much that he could hardly close his mouth.
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Faced with the fierce power of the people of the Kanto Kingdom, Kira Yoshitoki's maneuvers were also launched rapidly at the same time. The first to be mobilized was the famous Otaku clan in the Hitachi Kingdom. The Otaku Sadakuni and his many branches were spread throughout the Southern Hitachi Kingdom.
The Hitachi Sansankan has a very powerful influence, and even the Hitachi Satake family cannot suppress these Chinese people.
It's just that the Daibaku clan itself is not strong, and it is involved in all kinds of internal disputes and cannot exert its strength. Kira Yoshitsune contacted the Daibō Sadakuni with the intention of persuading him to join the Kira clan's camp and fight against the Oda clan of the Nakahitachi Kingdom.
Haru and Tadamichi Edo, as well as Hitachi overlord Satake Yoshiaki.
The strategy for Shimono Country first started with Sano Masatsuna. This unscrupulous samurai family had actually been on the line of the Ueno Ashikaga family for a long time. Kiryu Suketsuna, a member of his clan, was serving as an Ashikaru in the Ueno Army under Kira Yoshi.
General Kiryu Suketsuna was middle-aged and had no children, and faced the crisis of extermination. He specially selected a second son from Sano Masatsuna to be the heir to the Kiryu family's headship.
The fetters of this relationship made the Sano family naturally gravitate towards the Kira family, especially when they received a gold and silver gift worth 500 Kanbun Yongle money brought by the Kira family envoy. Sano Masatsuna immediately happily accepted the adjustment to switch to the camp, and received
With his own military strength, he turned around and left Furukawa Imperial Palace and returned to his home to rebel.
Another target of the transfer was the governor of the Nasu family, Nasu Shiin. I have to say that the people of the Kanto Kingdom, or the samurai of the Warring States Period, were really unscrupulous. Nasu Shiin, who was in the anti-Kira alliance, clamored to support Ashikaga Fujimasa.
The Ozeki of the Nasu family increased in opposition to Kira. Ohtawara Tsunakiyo and Fukuhara Shitaka repeatedly stopped them, claiming that they were determined to stand in the pro-Kira camp.
As a result, it didn't take long for another 180-degree turn. Most of the pro-Kira Nasu Seven Knights turned against Kira. Nasu Shiyin, the original anti-Kira vanguard, also had a change of attitude, especially after seeing Asayama.
The secret envoy appointed by Japan quickly agreed to evacuate the Furukawa Imperial Palace and return to Shimono Country. As for the life and death of the Kwantung Allied Forces, he had little to do with him. He wanted to go back and launch a raid on the territories of several uncles.
The attitude of the Chinese people is so interesting. They will support what they think is good for them, and if they think it is harmful to them, they will oppose it. This kind of consideration is usually selfish and disregards the overall situation, so we often encounter some Chinese people.
They look like wallflowers and chameleons, with their faces changing from cats to dogs, creating a strange scene.
This set of survival rules is a unique culture of the Warring States Period. Although it is very unethical, it is useful most of the time. As long as you don't encounter powerful daimyo or the interference of the higher-level imperial shogunate, it won't be a big deal. Kira Yoshitoki is targeting them.
He dared to take action only because of his temper. He wanted these warriors to be as loyal and brave as they were in the battle of Yuecheng more than a hundred years ago, but instead he had no off-board moves to use.
A group of people in the country who used to be pro-Satake and anti-Hojo all followed Satake Yoshiaki's camp and changed to the anti-Kira side. What's more, the Utsunomiya family's heir apparent Yoshiada Takasada proposed an astonishing plan. He actually planned to
Unite the Sagami Hojo clan to fight against the domineering Kira family. Of course, this proposal was opposed by many Kanto samurai families including Satake Yoshiaki during the implementation process. Many middle and low-level samurai families also have a life-or-death feud with the Hojo family for killing their fathers and brothers.
It is still very difficult to make life-and-death enemies suddenly become allies.
For example, Satomi Yoshihiro, who did not participate in the Kanto Allied Forces, is a potential opponent. The hatred between the Satomi family and the Hojo family is definitely deeper than that of most samurai families in the Furukawa Imperial Palace. The only one who can stabilize one end is probably the Kira family.
The Ota clan, and Yuki Haruto who was replaced by the heir of the Oyama family, but Yuki Haruto himself did not seem to be eager for revenge, but was busy organizing the Kanto coalition for Ashikaga Fujimasa, and at this moment the power wanted to overtake his adoptive father Yoshitsune.
Brother's life-and-death hatred.
The other direction is the puppeted Utsunomiya Hirotsuna. Utsunomiya Hirotsuna's wife is the daughter of Satake Yoshiaki, and the generational retainer has changed from being pro-Kira to anti-Kira. Hōga Couture must be obeyed at home.
The command and control of the important minister Yoshiga Coutata was greatly influenced by his father-in-law Yoshiaki Satake outside the home. As a house governor with ideals and ambitions, it must have been very frustrating.
It was based on this judgment that he sent an emissary to contact Utsunomiya Hirozuna. The young governor was very surprised that the Kira family's emissary found him. As expected, he was very interested in the proposal to withdraw from the Kanto Allied Forces, but
After much deliberation, he finally declined the Kira family's proposal. His concern was that Hoga Couture played an important role in the political stability of the Utsunomiya family. If he fell out with him, it would be like ruining the good situation he had worked so hard to obtain. The best result would be to become a supporter of the Kira family.
A puppet governor.
The deployment of Utsunomiya Hirotsuna ended in failure, which did not expose the Kira family's deployment. Utsunomiya Hirotsuna had his own concerns, which did not affect his judgment that he was not optimistic about the behavior of the Kanto people's coalition forces. He was also willing to
His private contact with the Kira family's emissary was exposed, and it was easy for the clever Faga Couture to strengthen the monitoring and vigilance of the family emissary. He cared more about his freedom and superior life than revealing the whereabouts of the Kira family's emissary, and put
It's nothing to hide this news and betray the Kwantung Allied Forces.
This failure did not discourage the Kira family's secret envoy. After confirming that Utsunomiya Hirotsuna would not reveal his secrets, he secretly found Mibu Tsunao and Minagawa Toshimune who had objections to Hoga Couture's monopoly of power. These two families were
The rebellious minister of the Utsunomiya family had long thought of counterattacking to seize the helm of the Utsunomiya family. The plan to coordinate the withdrawal of the two families and rebel was very successful. He only gave them some gold and silver and agreed with them to retreat home together at a time.
The Date clan, the Ashina clan, the Iwaki clan, and the Shirakawa Yuki clan in the Mutsu Kingdom have no intention of reconciling them at all. Among the four samurai families, the Date clan is the most resolute in their anti-Kira attitude, followed by the Date clan who is anti-Kira.
Relatives, strong allies and supporters, the Ashina Mori clan, and the Iwaki Shigetaka, who successively married the anti-Kira Date clan, and the Satake clan, and the Shirakawa Yuki clan, the only one who can be called soy sauce, were surrounded by them and had long been married.
It is impossible for alliances to rebel.
At this point in the deployment, almost all the available forces have been used. Kira Yoshito sneered as he admired the growing number of Kanto allied forces outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace, and ordered Yukitaka Sanada to lead ten thousand troops to join the Edo Castle formation.
He also ordered Ota Shimasa and Narita Choyasu to lead 6,000 Musashi troops to Nissagami Country to support Uesugi Teruhora.
The Musashi Kingdom has been mobilizing large-scale military forces one after another, making the atmosphere in the Kanto region increasingly strange and subtle. The people of the Kanto Kingdom gathered outside the Furukawa Imperial Palace are also aware of this. Yoshiaki Sasaki tried to urge Ashikaga Fujimasa to take advantage of the opportunity of high morale.
Send troops as soon as possible, but this idiot only wants to eat, drink, have fun and be gay, so it is really difficult for him to send troops with 45,000 troops to fight against Musashi.
Even though Yoshiaki Satake had such a big reputation, there was nothing he could do, and the remaining people of the Kanto Kingdom were even more unable to push him. Forty-five thousand troops gathered together to "defend" the Furukawa Imperial Palace. The cost of food and drink was not a small amount. As time went by
As time passes and the most important autumn harvest of each year approaches, the Chinese people will inevitably become anxious and impatient.
Date Terumune sat in the camp outside Furukawa Imperial Palace in a daze all morning. It was not until lunch time that he realized that he had not moved for so long. He sighed to himself: "It is a waste of time for me to come here! Why are you so gullible?
Why did Mr. Furukawa's rhetoric lead him to the hinterland of Kanto to fight against the Kira family? What should we do now that we can't advance and retreat?"
