The shrine in front of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine has three torii gates and is called Wakamiya-dori.
The main road extends from the Yuigahama coast to Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, with a total length of two kilometers. Uesugi Teruhora led all the Kanto samurai from here to visit the Hachiman God, and then completed the succession ceremony.
Harusuke Kada, the samurai performer, had already entered Hachimangu Shrine to communicate with the priests and prepare for the ceremony.
Ashikaga Yoshiji, as the lord of Kanto, and Shiba Yoshigan, as the witnesses of the Ashikaga Shogun's family, also arrived at the upper palace first to wait.
There were more than 200 other famous families in Kanto who participated in the audience, together with thousands of knights under each family who had the honor of seeing the family. Under the leadership of Uesugi Teruhora, they walked up the approach to the palace and entered the palace.
Before going to the palace, Shiba Yoshigan looked at the majestic Uesugi Teruhora in the distance, riding a tall southern horse and walking in front of the queue.
Although the pocket version of Yujie is half a head shorter than the others, everyone has their heads lowered, and only she raises her chin high.
Seeing this weird scene, Yoshigami couldn't help but smile. Today may be the most glorious moment in Uesugi Teruhora's life. He is short and tall.
As a representative of the shogunate, Yoshigan stood quietly aside, watching the most important political activities in the Kanto system, being careful not to interfere.
The ancients said that the most important thing in the country is killing and killing. But that is wrong, the most important thing in the country is sacrifice and military service.
The deep-rooted ancestor worship in Chinese culture is the biggest difference from other great civilizations that rely on religion to establish the legitimacy of their political power.
The various East Asian civilizations within the cultural radiation circle of the Celestial Dynasty also tended to this.
Worshiping ancestors is one of the most important tasks of the rulers, telling the ruling class where they come from and why they are united.
The Japanese Shinto culture of becoming a god takes this feature to the extreme.
The target of sacrifice is both ancestors and gods. It involves ancestor worship and religious beliefs, which further strengthens the justice and divinity of the ruler.
Japan has many volcanoes. The mountain range in the center of the island runs through the entire Honshu Island. Countless active volcanoes and extinct volcanoes fragment the plains.
For farming people, plains are land, population, food, and strength. No plain is broad enough to have enough power to suppress the entire Japanese archipelago and become the core.
Faced with countless fragmented small plains, the rulers were unable to maintain the cost of centralized rule and had to delegate power to local governments, which led to the expansion of local power.
Whether it is the emperor's court or the samurai shogunate, the central government never has enough power to restrict places, and can only rely on ancestors, religion, blood, family status and other things to maintain order.
In the world of the Wu family, the shogun is only an arbiter, not a dictator. Pulling one faction to fight another is a skill that must be mastered.
Relying on sects, kinship branches, retainers, and external vassals, rulers carefully guarded their limited power.
The Kamakura shogunate collapsed, Ashikaga Takauji rose to power in Kanto, was defeated in Kyoto, went to Kyushu to regroup in the Western Kingdom, and finally conquered the world.
The Ashikaga shogunate has never really controlled the samurai's land of Longxing and the Eight Prefectures.
The Kamakura Ashikaga family originated from the daughter of the first Ashikaga shogun, Ashikaga Takauji, who divided the ten kingdoms of Kanto and ruled the two countries of Kanhachishu and Izu-Kai.
In order to enhance the recognition of the Kanto samurai family to the Kanto system, successive Kanto generals and Kanto administrators would hold succession ceremonies at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, the samurai's holy place.
The Wu family in Guanbazhou is proud. The rulers of almost every place are from famous Wu families dating back hundreds of years. If you want to rule this group of Wu families with noble blood and family status, you must be nobler than them.
Therefore, this tradition has been carried out for two hundred years.
No matter how turbulent the land of Guanbazhou was, and wars continued, the succession ceremony of the past dynasties has not been interrupted. Along with it, there are also the superiors and inferiors in the Guandong system.
Yoshigan glanced at the majestic Kanto general Ashikaga Yoshiji in the upper palace. Blood politics is good for this. No matter what kind of loser you are, your lower limit is determined by birth.
The dragon begets the dragon, the phoenix begets the phoenix, and the mouse's daughter knows how to dig holes.
Yiyin's success today relies on the exaggerated effects of system plug-ins, as well as its own bloodline.
No matter how strong a person is, what can he do? Can he not eat? Not go to the toilet? Not sleep?
People are fragile, and there are always times when we are tired and slack. This is how we rely on each other and the reason for the birth of human society.
Wu family society has its own rules for its operation. If you don't have the ability to overturn the rules and rebuild them, then you should make good use of the rules to survive.
Yiyin has been able to reach its current position in four years because it has made full use of the rules of Wu family society to seek benefits for itself.
Relying on system cheats, gender advantages, and bloodline, he has made it to where he is today. Looking back now, he succeeded by luck.
While he was thinking diffusely and having random thoughts, most of the ceremony was completed.
Harusuke Kada presided over the ceremony, Ashikaga Yoshiji recognized it, and Terutora Uesugi officially succeeded to the position of governor of Kanto.
Just when the ceremony was about to be completed and everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, an accident suddenly happened.
Uesugi Teruhora, who paid homage to the God of Hachiman and succeeded the Kanto governor, walked out of the upper palace. All the samurai waiting outside the palace dismounted and saluted him.
Thousands of people dismounted and paid tribute, but only one person remained motionless on his horse. Terutora Uesugi looked dissatisfied. That man was Narita Chotasu, and he dared to look at him at eye level.
Terutora Uesugi remembered the quarrel between the two at the foot of Odawara Castle, and a feeling of anger rushed to his forehead.
Echigo's army went south and destroyed the Hojo family. Now all the Kanto samurai are afraid of Uesugi Teruhora. Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine is the most dazzling moment in her life.
Even Hojo Genan, the envoy of the Hojo family, followed him and bowed to the ground, but Narita Choyasu, that bastard, dared not to dismount.
It’s so outrageous!
Terutora Uesugi pointed at her and said to the Nagao Ichimen who were guarding her.
"Go and pull her down for me!"
Several Hatamotos shouted in joy and rushed down the steps to Narita Chotae. They did not listen to her explanation and even beat and pulled her off the horse.
Seeing Narita Chotai in such a distressed state, Terutora Uesugi burst out laughing, looking arrogant and domineering.
"Climb over here!"
Narita Nagayasu refused to crawl, but Nagao Ichimon had a way to poke her buttocks with the scabbard, forcing her to come to Uesugi Teruhora.
Seeing her in such a state of embarrassment, Uesugi Teruhora was still angry. He slapped her on the head where she had just raised her head to explain, and slapped away the black hat that she had been wearing when she went to the shrine.
The black hat fell to the ground, and all the warriors in His Highness were shocked. This was a visit to the God of Hachiman and a slap in the face in front of the ancestor. This humiliation was enough for Narita Chotai to go crazy.
Yoshihiro looked on and was dumbfounded. Why did Uesugi Terutora, a second-generation rich man, get mad at this person? He didn't even ask what happened, so he humiliated him like this.
All this happened in just a few breaths, and everyone was stunned on the spot, digesting this sudden accident.
Yoshigan was still in a daze, and Harusuke Kada quickly walked up to him, his face turned pale, his lips were trembling, and he whispered urgently.
"Odaisuo, please quickly persuade His Highness Uesugi to stop fighting."
Yiyin's heart trembled and she said in a deep voice.
"what happened?"
The situation was urgent, and Harusuke Kada did not dare to be too wordy, so he explained it straightforwardly.
"The Narita family of Ninja Castle is a tributary of Fujiwara Shisuke. When their ancestors met Hachiman Tai Ni, they rode on horseback and exchanged greetings. Their descendants enjoy the privilege of visiting the royal family."
Yiyin's pupils shrank, secretly thinking something was wrong.
Fujiwara Shisuke was born in the Fujiwara Kita family, and his three daughters were the Fujiwara Kaneke who pioneered the politics of the Shogakus, and were the ancestors of the five Shoshu families who headed the public ministers.
Although the emperor's ministers have been massacred by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the Fujiwara clan has a long history, and some members of the clan have long been integrated into the samurai group. There are many famous descendants of the Fujiwara clan in various territories.
The ancestors of Narita Choyasu should have the same status as the ancestors of the Kawachi Genji family, Hachiman Tai Ni Minamoto no Yoshitsune, so they were granted imperial exemption privileges by the Genji family.
Terutora Uesugi didn't know about this. When she got angry, she didn't give Narita Choyasu a chance to explain. Now she caused a big trouble!
Terutora Uesugi was born in the Fuchu Nagao family, one of the Bando Hachihei clan, the branch of the Nagao family that opened up Echigo country, and is a descendant of three Nagao families.
The Fuchu Nagao family is a distant branch, and its family status is lower than that of the Ueno Kingdom headquarter Shirai Nagao family, which is a close ally of the Yamauchi Uesugi family, and the Ashikaga Castle Nagao family of Shimono Province.
Terutora Uesugi was able to lead the army southward with great justice and was supported by the Kanto samurai family. Her title came from the governor of the Uesugi family in Yamauchi and Kenmasa Uesugi, her adoptive mother.
After finally completing the entire process, he became the recognized leader of the Kanto Warrior Family. Who knew that this fool would cause trouble at this time.
There are many famous families in Kanto, and ceremonial status is the most important thing. This is why Terutora Uesugi must hold a ceremony at Tsuruoka Hachimangu Shrine in order to gain their support.
But this guy didn't know about the immunity privileges of the Narita family in Ninja City, and humiliated Narita Chotasu in front of him during the ceremony.
From a small perspective, this is Yuan Zhi's ignorance, and the Nagao family in the mansion does not understand etiquette. From a large perspective, she is blatantly trampling on the public etiquette of the samurai family of the Kanto system.
All the Kanto warriors looked at Terutora Uesugi with horrified, confused, and angry eyes. This guy was still complacent and had no idea of the seriousness of this accident.
Shiba Yoshigami glanced at Ashikaga Yoshiji in the palace, and saw her looking calmly at the chaos outside the palace, feeling sick in his heart.
Since he ascended the throne, the Kanto general was first held in the hands of Hojo Ujiyasu, and now he has become the puppet of Terutora Uesugi. He has really disgraced the Kamakura Ashikaga family.
Seeing Terutora Uesugi's embarrassment, I wonder if she will have other ideas in mind?
Yoshigan did not dare to delay any longer. He ignored the taboo of representatives of the shogunate interfering with the Kanto ceremony. He stepped forward and picked up Narita Choyasu's black hat that was knocked off by Uesugi Teruhora's palm.
Uesugi Teruhora looked at him, a little stunned, wondering why Yoshigami would intervene at this time.
The two of them had a tacit understanding for a long time. Yoshigan would not interfere with matters in the Kanto system, and Uesugi Teruhora would train these Kanto warriors. She couldn't help but frown, feeling something was wrong in her heart.
Yiyin handed the black hat to Narita Chota with both hands and said sincerely.
"It's a rare opportunity to pay homage to the God of Hachiman. Your Highness Uesugi is so happy that I'm joking with you.
I also ask Narita-sama not to take it to heart, as this matter will be compensated."
The Wu family attaches great importance to etiquette and dignity, and giving a naked favor may be interpreted as humiliation. But for a while, Yiyin couldn't think of a better way, so he could only bribe him with heavy profits.
During the ceremony to pay homage to Hachimangu Shrine, Teru Uesugi asked his subordinate Hatamoto to dismount Narita Nagata, and treated a lowly servant with rudeness to a high-ranking nobleman.
Not to mention, she asked Narita Chotae to crawl in front of her and knock off the black hat with one slap. This was not only humiliating, but also forced the Narita family to rebel!
In full view of the Kanto samurai family, if Narita Chotayoshi had no way to go down, he would not be able to go back without rebelling, or he would choose to commit suicide.
Otherwise, she would not have the face to sue her ancestors and her descendants.
The retainers who eat with the Narita family will also point their noses at her and call her rubbish. The memorial arch of the Narita family in Ninja City was left to soak in the toilet. Will the retainers under the family's name still have food to eat in the future?
Yoshigan Shiba returned the black hat with both hands and humbly expressed his willingness to compensate the Narita family. This was already an apology at every turn. He couldn't say that Terutora Uesugi made a mistake, right?
Terutora Uesugi is the governor of the Yamauchi Uesugi family and the leader of the Kanto family. She is the great leader of the Kanto samurai family who is always correct. She was not wrong before today, and she will never be wrong from now on.
Narita Nagata looked at Yiyin's sincere eyes, and slowly turned his gaze to his black hat, feeling his face burning.
She knew that she had to swallow this breath today. As long as she dared to say no now, the Odaisuo in front of her, who softly begged her for forgiveness, would immediately fall out.
The Echigo army was at its peak. To attack the Hojo family was to fight, and to attack the Narita family was to fight. Anyway, whoever disobeyed Uesugi Teruhora, the Kanto leader, would be beaten in one word.
This is political correctness that must be implemented to the end, and Narita Nagayasu has no choice but to surrender.
The Narita family has small arms and legs, so what right does it have to disapprove? Shiba Yigen has already given her enough face. If she continues to be ignorant, the Narita family business will be in danger of overthrowing immediately.
Narita Nagatai silently took the black hat, walked back to the queue with a numb expression, and followed the example of others to salute.
Although she didn't say anything and was so obedient as to kneel down, her behavior made other Kanto warriors feel the sorrow of the rabbit dying and the fox dying.
Narita Changtai's face was stiff, her hands were clenched tightly, and her nails pierced her palms. The pain made her remember this day firmly.
Anger boiled in her heart. Hanyu led her before, and today happened next. Uesugi Teruhu didn't take the Narita family seriously at all and humiliated them wantonly.
Not far away, Hojo Genan, who also participated in the ceremony, buried her head deeply. She did not dare to raise her head because the uncontrollable ecstasy on her face was not convenient for others to see.
She has been secretly inciting and instigating these days, but although the Kanto samurai family is dissatisfied with Uesugi Teruhora, they dare not make fun of their own family business.
How can everyone not understand what the Hojo family is thinking?
The joint battle led by Sano not only defeated the elite Hojo troops, but also frightened the courage of the Kanto samurai family. Intimidated by the power of the Echigo army, even if they were dissatisfied with Uesugi Teruhora, no one wanted to be the leader.
I had already given up on Hojo Genan, but who knew that something unexpected would happen and something unexpected would happen during the worship ceremony. God help me.
Seeing how polite Shiba Yoshigan was to Narita Choyasu, Uesugi Teruhora already knew that he must have missed something.
Yoshigan turned his back to everyone and gave her a fierce eye roll. Uesugi Teruhu wanted to save face, snorted and pretended not to see it.
Kada Harusuke wiped the sweat from her head and quickly continued the next step of the ritual. As for the consequences of this accident, she had no time to think about it for the time being.
