Akechi Mitsuhide was also surprised. Yiyin seemed to be hesitating just now. Why did he make up his mind immediately after an urgent delivery? What did the urgent delivery say?
Yoshigan saw Akechi Mitsuhide's doubts and sighed.
"In early summer, His Highness Uesugi picked up a baby girl in Kasugayama Castle, adopted her as an adopted daughter, named Uesugi Miyuki, and made her his heir. He also decided to become a monk and take the Buddhist name Kenshin."
Akechi Mitsuhide, who was as thoughtful as he was, couldn't help but sigh.
"Your Majesty Uesugi, your handling of this matter is too rough, isn't it?"
Yiyin smiled bitterly.
"She doesn't care, she just wants to show me."
Both Yoshigan and Akechi Mitsuhide knew that the baby girl they picked up must be Uesugi Kenshin's biological child. Uesugi Kenshin repeated Takeda Shingen's routine for fear that others would not understand.
Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't help but look at Yoshigan with resentment. No wonder the king suddenly made up his mind to follow the Shinto way.
The two powerful sects of Takeda and Uesugi have obtained the king's blood. It is even more difficult for Shiba's family to have peace. The eyes of those admirers are probably red.
Tang Monk's meat at home has become cheaper than that of the goblins outside. No matter whether it is eaten alive or skinned alive, the mentality of the important ministers will be further disturbed and uneasy. Your Majesty is probably also very panicked.
Yoshiyin was stared at by Akechi Mitsuhide's faint eyes, and he felt a little weak, so he explained.
"I cannot ignore the stability of the Echigo duopoly and must make some physical sacrifices to win over His Highness Uesugi."
It's hard for Yoshihiro to say that he didn't realize that acquiring his bloodline would cause political turmoil, so he wanted to use a child to tie up Uesugi Kenshin's heart.
Now that he had suffered a lot with Takeda Reina and received a warning from Akechi Mitsuhide, he naturally understood that he had taken the problem too superficially.
But what's the use of regretting now?
The emergence of Takeda Rena and Uesugi Miyuki will inevitably make the internal and external samurai covet Yoshigan even more. If he wants to stabilize his position, Yoshigan can only bite the bullet and choose the Shinto mentioned by Akechi Mitsuhide.
He coughed and said.
"Mitsuhide, what do you have in mind regarding the specific plan to walk Shinto?"
Yoshihiro was so embarrassed that he changed the subject, and Mitsuhide Akechi couldn't continue to be pretentious. The ship was done and the rice was done, what problem could the resentment solve at this moment?
Akechi Mitsuhide sighed and said.
"Since you have made up your mind, I will definitely help you succeed.
For thousands of years, the island nation has been ruled by an emperor who claims to be of the eternal lineage. The emperor claims to be the son of the Great God of Rizhao, and he regards himself as a living god, which means he uses his godhead to control mortals.
When the Kamakura shogunate collapsed, Ashikaga Takauji launched an army to fight for the world. She started her career in Kanto, but was defeated and fled to Kyushu alone.
Relying on his status as a direct descendant of Kawachi Genji and the suppression and humiliation of the samurai group by the emperor's court, Ashikaga Takauji was able to gather the imperial family members of Kyushu Western Kingdom and go to Luo to achieve shogunate hegemony.
When the Ashikaga Shogunate was established, the Shogun family was weak. It was not until the third generation of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu used extraordinary means to establish the authority of the Shogunate that Ashikaga Shoguns became worthy of the name.
It was also Ashikaga Yoshimitsu who had great power over the entire government. When he was at the peak of his power, he massacred the emperor's court and eliminated the biggest hidden danger for the Ashikaga shogunate."
Yiyin nodded.
The Shiba family is the highest-ranking nobleman in the shogunate, and he is certainly familiar with the history of the Ashikaga shogunate. Ashikaga Takauji is not very capable, and her ability to conquer the world and establish the shogunate depends entirely on the support of her colleagues.
Before the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, although the samurai group had occupied most of the island country's land, the Hime samurai were lackeys of the emperor's court, and the ownership of the land and estates was still in the hands of the emperor's ministers.
Originally, the Taira family, who was born in the Ise Taira clan, had already defeated the Kawachi Genji family and could definitely become the pillar of the Wu family and the representative of the Wu family.
However, the Taira family chose to betray the samurai class and instead pursued becoming a family noble. The Taira family's oppression of the samurai group was even more cruel than that of the emperor's noble ministers, and they arrogantly declared that those who were not from the Taira clan were in no way human.
Completely disappointed with the Heike, the angry Bandohime warriors united around Minamoto Yoritomo, the direct descendant of the Genji family in Kawachi, and wiped out the Heike in the Genpei War.
Minamoto Yoritomo has a clearer political mind than the Taira family.
She tried her best to win over the samurai group, obtained the title of general to conquer the barbarians from the emperor's court, opened a palace, and established the Kamakura shogunate.
Doing so not only established the ownership of the land by the samurai group and gave the Hime warriors peace of mind. It also linked the land occupied by the Hime warriors to the Kamakura shogunate.
Since then, serving the public and being rewarded has become the core value of the samurai family, and the rights and obligations that Ji warriors regard as their treasures are traded equally.
Furthermore, Minamoto Yoritomo established the imperial family system, allowing powerful imperial family members loyal to the Kamakura shogunate to participate in decision-making through review, and the shogunate regime became a stage for the samurai nobles to rule the world together.
From then on, the first samurai regime gained a firm foothold politically. If it had not been for the Mongol invasion and the economic collapse of the Kamakura shogunate, perhaps this imperial family collegial system could have persisted longer.
After the collapse of the Kamakura shogunate, the emperor intended to take back the samurai group's land management rights and revive the imperial court.
The troops loyal to the emperor defeated Ashikaga Takauji, but the emperor's policies hurt the interests of the samurai group. The Hime samurai returned to the old method of supporting Minamoto Yoritomo and fully supported Ashikaga Takauji.
Although Ashikaga Takauji was defeated in many battles, he still successfully established the Ashikaga Shogunate regime, which is the story of tens of thousands of Western Imperial family members who followed Ashikaga Takauji to Raku to conquer the world.
Although Ashikaga Takauji became the shogun, the strength of the Ashikaga family was exhausted early in the war. She relied on the support of powerful local samurai families to return to Kyoto.
Therefore, the Ashikaga Shogunate was a weak regime from the beginning, with the samurai alliance as co-leaders, and the political situation was very turbulent.
The Ashikaga Shogunate really gained a firm foothold when the third Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimitsu came to power.
The third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can be said to be the real world leader among the shoguns of Ashikaga. She spent her life doing three things for the Ashikaga Shogunate, which laid a solid foundation for the two hundred years of the Ashikaga Shogunate's world.
First, through superb means, the powerful samurai were instigated to attack each other, which greatly strengthened the arbiter status of the Ashikaga Shogun and made the Ashikaga Shogun's majesty deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
After her, the Ashikaga shoguns of all dynasties liked to use political balance to instigate and instigate powerful samurai against each other, so that the arbiter of the Ashikaga shogun was favored by all parties and had unparalleled authority.
Secondly, he insisted on opening up trade with the Ming Dynasty. Even though he was rejected again and again, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu never gave up.
In the end, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu fulfilled Ming Seizu's request to exterminate Japanese pirates, was officially canonized by the Ming emperor, was granted the Japanese King's Seal, and finally gained the benefits of joint trade with the Ming Dynasty.
With a large amount of profits from the Akikawa trade, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had enough money and food to form a group of three thousand Ashikaga horses directly under the Ashikaga shogun, intimidating the world's samurai with absolute military superiority.
Third, he slaughtered the emperor's court.
In order to prevent anyone from using the emperor's name to threaten the Ashikaga shogunate again, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu brazenly massacred the entire emperor's court at the peak of his power.
She killed all the families of the emperor's ministers, and only a few of the ministers and samurai families who had integrated into the samurai group were spared.
In order to eliminate the root cause, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu aligned with Buddhism and eliminated Shintoism, which had endorsed the emperor's lineage for eternity.
At this point, the Imperial family, which ruled the world in the name of living gods, completely disappeared from the history of the island nation.
Today, Akechi Mitsuhide brought up the old story of Ashikaga Yoshimichi's massacre of the Emperor, which obviously meant something.
Yiyin asked.
"Do you want me to re-establish the sign of the Emperor's Eternal Lineage?"
The Genji Taira clan was originally a descendant of the Emperor. He was given the surname and status of a minister by the Emperor and was decentralized to various places. Yoshigan was born in the Kawachi Genji clan. If he wanted to follow the Shinto path, there was nothing wrong with him changing back to the Emperor.
Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head and said.
"After General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu massacred the Emperor's court, he used the sword of the General to conquer the barbarians internally to command the martial arts of the world, and used the Japanese King's Seal to negotiate with the Japanese dynasty and other countries externally.
Although the title is a little weird, after two hundred years, the martial arts in the world have long forgotten the emperor's court. If you borrow the title of the emperor's line, there will be little benefit, but harm.
After all, you are a loyal minister of the Ashikaga Shogunate. Even if the Ashikaga Shogunate is about to die, you cannot slap Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the most outstanding Ashikaga general, in the face. This is not in line with your consistent principles."
Yiyin nodded and asked.
"Then what do you want to do?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"The people of the world are ignorant and ignorant. Even if there was a lineage of emperors for eternity, someone would have to continue to advocate it for eternity to convince the ignorant people and women.
At that time, General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu joined forces with Buddhist sects to annihilate the Shinto religion, which was advocated by the emperor, thus completely eliminating the influence of the emperor's court.
General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu eliminated political dangers, and Buddhism became the world's only religion for two hundred years. Both sides got what they needed, a so-called win-win situation.
In today's world, the Nanman Sect has traveled far across the ocean and is fierce and aggressive. His Highness Oda has deviated from the teachings and set fire to Mount Hiei, disrespecting gods and Buddhas.
All sects of Buddhism are in panic, fearing that their orthodoxy will be destroyed and their faith will cease to exist.
The god-making movement is a propaganda war. In the Middle Ages, the whole people had not yet become enlightened. As the ruling class, the Wu family had a large number of illiterate warriors, not to mention the lower class untouchables.
The market for feudal superstition is almost infinite, and the benefits of faith are so great that naturally there are countless religious players fighting to the death.
Buddhism was the champion of the last island nation's faith competition, and the loser was Shintoism, which had been buried in the soil for two hundred years.
If Yoshigan wants to become a god, he doesn't have to dig up the dead Shinto religion. He can learn from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and cooperate with the Buddhist sect.
In these troubled times, the secular world is not peaceful, and the religious heaven is not peaceful either.
The Southern Barbarians invaded, and those missionaries traveled thousands of miles, not even caring about their own lives, and devoted themselves to spreading the glory of Christianity across the earth.
The Nichiren sect within Buddhism hated the Tendai sect even more than the Nanman sect because of the Lotus Rebellion. Heretics deserved to die more than heretics.
As for Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful among the secular forces, she has no respect for the Buddhist sect, and her attitude is like looking at a group of fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The Tendai sect, which occupies the Enryaku Temple on Mount Hiei and is known as the Father of Buddha. The Shingon sect, which takes over the Kofukuji Temple in Yamato Buddhism and closes its doors to chant sutras. The Ichiko sect, which takes root in grassroots beliefs and aspires to establish a pure land on earth.
These mainstream Buddhist forces are under unprecedented threat. If Yiyin can ally with them and let them take the initiative to build momentum for Yiyin's Shinto, the road to becoming a god will be almost certain.
Yiyin thought for a while and asked.
"Is this okay?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"Your Majesty, please don't underestimate these big sects. The Tiantai sect loves to go to the top, the Shingon sect is a master of Buddhist scriptures and has deep thoughts on Buddhism, and the Xiangsong sect works in the grassroots villages. The foolish women of the villagers are the most pious.
As long as these major sects reach an agreement and are willing to go all out to build momentum for your Majesty, becoming a god will definitely be twice the result with half the effort and have great certainty.
Besides, the deceased Master Jueshu has already set the template and written the script for them."
Speaking of Master Kakushu, Yoshigan couldn't help but glare at Akechi Mitsuhide. He knew very well that the death of Master Kakushu was probably inseparable from the sinister woman Akechi Mitsuhide.
But Akechi Mitsuhide pretended not to know and continued talking on his own.
"There have been rumors in recent days that Your Majesty is the incarnation of Bishamonten.
Bishamonten is the Buddhist protector god. According to legend, he is also the protector of roads and commerce. He is also known as the military god. These qualities are actually very suitable for you.
You protected the Yamato Buddhist Kingdom and the Hokuriku Dou trade route, and were invincible and invincible. You encountered a miracle at Hachimangu Shrine in Tsurugaoka, Kanto, and inherited the imperial white flag of Hachiman Tainiang. The Kanto samurai family respects you like a god.
As long as the three major sects are willing to openly brag about it, they will definitely be recognized by most people, especially the middle and lower class Wu family believers, who will definitely believe it."
Yoshihiro nodded, Akechi Mitsuhide said it right. It doesn't matter whether others believe it or not. The most important thing is that Samurai Ji must believe it.
Especially the local servants in the middle and lower-class villages, they are the cornerstone of the political power that truly supports the martial arts world.
Although Yoshigan is not as drastic as Oda Nobunaga, he is actually quietly promoting the samurai reform, which is to force the upper-level samurai families to share profits to the middle- and lower-level samurai families, uniting the entire samurai group.
Compared with Oda Nobunaga's radical approach of breaking the privileges of the samurai family and turning all islanders into his own resources, Yoshigan's efforts to unite the entire samurai group to redistribute interests can only be regarded as a small effort.
Comparing the two, the Samurai Group would rather choose the man Yoshigan as the boss than the class traitor Oda Nobunaga.
After all, it makes a big difference whether the meat is rotten in the pot or scattered on the ground.
As a Samurai Hime, Akechi Mitsuhide was dissatisfied with the current situation of samurai society, but she must have supported Yoshigan's internal reform of the samurai group, rather than Oda Nobunaga's changes.
The plan she proposed to become a god is essentially to seek recognition from the Wu family group for the truth that Yi Yin is the patron saint of the Wu family, and to solidify the divinity of Yi Yin as the leader of the Wu family.
As for whether the pariah ants who are not from the samurai family believe it or not, Akechi Mitsuhide doesn't care?
The samurai family is the ruler of the world, and the innovation pursued by Akechi Mitsuhide is the self-evolution of the samurai group to continue to rule this island nation.
Instead of acting like Oda Nobunaga, it would be a nightmare for those untouchables to climb up and be on an equal footing with the Hime Samurai!
