The theory of how people should be divided into relatives and distances has been discussed as early as the Western Zhou Dynasty thousands of years ago. Later, it was officially made into law during the Cao Wei Dynasty, also known as the Eight Ideas.
In other words, if people with eight identities commit crimes, the judicial organs have no power to deal with them and must petition the emperor for a ruling.
The first of these eight discussions is Yiqin, that is, the emperor's own relatives.
The emperor's relatives are naturally superior to others. The so-called princes who break the law are guilty of the same crimes as the common people. It is just the common people's sexual immorality, which is completely false.
In ancient feudal society, hiding from relatives was both a moral norm and a legal principle. Behind the seemingly unfair nature, there was actually a profound social reality.
People are born equal, this is the consensus of feudal society.
Yoshigan was very satisfied with Satake Yoshige's proposal, because this middle-aged mature woman is really sensible.
Satake Yishige deeply hated the Kantō Shishuo, headed by the three powerful feudal lords, who pushed people too hard, but she had to follow a standard when speaking, that is, the distinction between closeness and distance.
No matter how bad the three powerful clans are, they are still relatives of the saint. What qualifications does Satake Yoshishige have to make irresponsible remarks on them? Does she still expect the saint to make the decision for the people of the East and punish her own women and children?
If Satake Yoshige wants to leave some dignity to the Satake family, he must find a way to do three things.
First, prove your ability to put forward a plan that is in line with Yiyin's interests for the messy current situation in front of you.
Secondly, in this plan, she must show her own value and make up for her shortcomings.
Third, the great famine that was looming in the Guanbazhou area due to this rebellion was quelled, so as not to leave any future troubles for the Satake family.
It is actually very difficult to achieve these three points, but Satake Yoshishige not only accomplished it, he also used private revenge to give the three powerful clans a soft nail.
She took advantage of the saint's dissatisfaction with the Kantō Service and with the help of the saint, she forced the Kantō Service headed by the three powerful vassals to provide relief to the four eastern countries and relieve the famine crisis.
You must know that among the four eastern kingdoms, there is Hitachi Kingdom, and among the people suffering from famine, there are also members of the Satake family.
The common people and public sentiment discussed by Yoshigan and Satake Yoshige never included rural farmers and castle town residents.
They are talking about the martial class who have names and surnames. Those are the real common people. The untouchables in the island country do not have surnames.
The Satake family will definitely be severely punished this time, but no matter how severe the punishment is, Satake Yishige must first ensure that his retainers have food to eat.
Only by preserving its basic base can the Satake family have hope of continuing and reviving.
Satake Yoshige's revenge should not be too cruel, and he should even follow Yoshigashi's wishes, just to make the families in the Kanto Palace uncomfortable, and use money and food to do good deeds for Yoshigan in exchange for the status of the Four Eastern Countries.
After all, the conquest of the East has come to an end, and each family in the Kanto Palace has no merit, so how can they have the nerve to ask for rewards?
Even the land of the East is the reward that Yiyin promised to the various families of the Kanto Palace for their Western expedition.
But they messed up the matter themselves, and the saint personally wiped their butts for them. Naturally, the rewards originally promised also had to change.
The Eastern People were conquered by Yiyin, so Yiyin has the right to say how to divide the land of the Eastern People.
The rewards will still be given to the various families in the Kanto Palace, but each family in the Kanto Palace must contribute money and food to help the four eastern countries to survive this great famine.
The person who paid the money was the Kanto Palace, but it was the saint who was thanked by the martial arts families of the four eastern countries. There is no doubt about this.
The people's hearts mentioned by Satake Yoshitaka are dedicated to the saints. Those bastards in the Kanto Palace just bought the land with money and food. If they want to rule the new territory, they must follow the wishes of the saints.
In this way, a new balance emerged between the east and west of Guanbazhou. The previous confrontation between east and west turned into the great western lord of the four eastern countries obeying the sage's appointment, and their title was captured in the hands of Yiyin.
Once the people of the Kanto Service Institute begin to serve in both positive and negative ways again, the Eastern Warriors will become pawns in the hands of Yiyin, making the rule of the people in the Kanto Service Agency in the Four Eastern Kingdoms unstable.
The Kanto Palace is still a tool in Yoshigan's hands. With the new leader of the Four Eastern Kingdoms as a ballast, the three powerful vassals must also treat it with caution. Yoshigan's control over the Kanto Palace has been strengthened.
Yoshigan looked at Satake Yishige and said.
"These are your personal suggestions. The families in the East may not be willing to accept them, and the Satomi family and the Utsunomiya family will not agree to you making this decision for them."
The three giants of the Oriental People, Satake, Satomi, Utsunomiya, and Satake Yoshige can only represent the Satake family at best. This time she came to surrender first, and the Oriental People must have cursed her to death.
Yoshigan doubted whether Satake Yoshige still had the charisma to help him complete such a complicated counterpart assistance plan.
The people of the East were defeated and must accept the future of changing their vassal status and reducing their vassal status. The land they were cut off from was the new territory of each family of the Kanto Palace.
If you want to complete this plan, you may need all-round cooperation. Are the Oriental People willing to be represented by Satake Yishige? Can they be willing to fail?
Satakeyoshi sighed heavily.
"The saint gave me food just now and said that eating is the most important thing, and I deeply believe it.
The famine after autumn is bound to come, and the people in the East have already been defeated. If someone wants to accumulate military supplies and resist stubbornly, it will only intensify the severity of the famine.
Does the Saint think that the Eastern People are a cohesive martial arts group? In fact, they are just forced to stick together, and their own little ideas are too numerous to count.
Satake, Utsunomiya, and Satomi are known as leaders, but their actual influence is not strong.
The Satomi family is the weakest. Toki, Masaki, Takeda, Mariya, Sakai and other local samurai families do not really serve the Satomi family, but only regard the Satomi family as the leader of the alliance against the Hojo family.
Satomi Yoshihiro was able to resist the invasion of three generations of the Hojo family. In fact, it was because the families on the Boso peninsula were dissatisfied with the Hojo family, not because of the Satomi family's prestige.
The Utsunomiya family's position in Shimono country is also very embarrassing. The Oyama family once served as the guardian of Shimono, and has been secretly challenging the Utsunomiya family over the years.
The Utsunomiya family has a strong challenger in the country, called the king, but in fact no one can command it. Nasu, Sano, Minagawa, Mibuo and other powerful samurai families all lack respect for the Utsunomiya family.
As for my Satake family, I am not afraid of the saint's jokes. Although I sit in the seven northern counties of Hitachi Kingdom, the southern samurai families of Hitachi Kingdom are wary of me.
On the contrary, the samurai families in Nanao Prefecture were persecuted by Date Masamune, and they were closer to the Satake family, and they also wanted to pull me against the Date family.
You are worried that the people in the East will rise up to oppose it, but that is unlikely to happen.
After this defeat, neither Satomi, Utsunomiya, nor I have lost the ability to unite the loose alliance of the Eastern People.
The trees fell and the hozens scattered, each sweeping the snow in front of his door.
The families in the East dare not disobey your orders, and surrendering in exchange for relief will be the inevitable choice for everyone to survive this famine.
After surviving the famine, the people's hearts turned towards the saint who rescued them. Who would have the ability to resist? Of course, whatever the saint said, things would be done.
I would like to serve as an envoy under the sage and travel to every family in the East to promote your benevolence and persuade every family to accept your relief strategy."
Yoshigan couldn't help but clapped his hands again for Satake Yoshi. This beautiful mature woman's words not only relieved Yoshigan's worries, but also proved her worth.
She is the person who is most familiar with each family in the East. She is the best liaison person on how to divide each family, defeat each one, and accept Yiyin's counterpart assistance policy.
Satake Yoshige, who had betrayed the Oriental People, had no other choice. He had to stand firmly on Yoshigan's side and could no longer liaise with the Oriental People. This was enough to reassure Yoshigan.
Yoshigan looked at Satake Yishige and said.
"Your crimes will naturally be punished.
My principle has always been that all matters in Kanto are decided by the Kanto samurai family on their own. Therefore, your issues must be submitted to the Grand Council of the Kanto Palace for resolution.
However, the Guandong Palace is not the one-spoken hall of the Western Guanbazhou martial arts family. The Eastern martial arts families also have the right to join and have the right to speak out. This is the fundamental principle of the review system.
The political consultation mechanism that unites the military family and achieves peaceful development cannot be allowed to be destroyed.
The division of the eastern and western parts of Guanbazhou is painful for all of us. A great war delayed spring plowing, and the shadow of famine hangs over all of us. This lesson is too profound.
At this time, I don’t want to see the Kanto Warriors make easy punishments, and I don’t want the Kanto Warriors to roughly decide the future of the people of the East.
Crimes can be discussed slowly, but things must be done. I agree with His Highness Satake's suggestion that the eastern martial arts counterpart should help the western martial arts.
After the Oriental People completely lay down their weapons and give up resistance, I will appoint you to be my special envoy to appease the various families of the Oriental People and have in-depth communication with them.
In addition, I will propose that the Kanto Secretariat hold a temporary general review and recall the United Front members of the four eastern countries to hold a fair and just discussion.
This civil strife that should not have happened should be taken as a warning by the Kanto servants. The punishment can be negotiated slowly and sentenced slowly. It doesn't matter even if it takes a few years, but the result must be convincing.
The Kanto Palace must arrange a famine relief plan. This is the responsibility and obligation of the Kanto Palace as the management agency of the Kanto samurai family.
Your Highness Satake, please go back first, I hope to see this meaningless war end as soon as possible and for the people of the East to put down their weapons as soon as possible."
Satake Yishige bowed solemnly.
"The guilty minister understands that he will do his best to share the saint's worries."
"Go ahead."
"Hi."
As soon as Satake Yoshige walked down the steps, Yoshige asked again.
"Please wait a moment, Your Majesty Satake, the Satake family currently has 400,000 koku in Hitachi Kingdom's territory, right?"
Satake Yoshitaka was stunned. The Hitachi National Stone was worth 540,000 yuan, but at this time, the Satake family had not yet captured the Edo family of Mito Castle in the middle, let alone the 33 houses in the south.
Yoshigan's guess of 400,000 koku was actually a bit too high for the Satake family.
Satake Yishige said frankly.
"The Satake family only occupies half of the Hitachi Kingdom. Including the territory of Nanao and Aizu, the total is about 400,000 koku."
Yiyin nodded.
"The Satake family, the Takeda family, and the Southern family in the northern part of Ou all come from the Minamoto Yoshimitsu lineage. Each of them defends their own side. They are all prominent families that the shogunate relies on.
Satake made a mistake and was replaced by Takeda. However, the Satake family guarded the Ou Pass for the shogunate for five hundred years. They had meritorious service and hard work, and occasionally made mistakes. After all, I cannot let the blood of loyal ministers and martyrs be cold.
The Nanbu family is doing well in northern Oshu. The Satake family might as well go to northern Yushu and have a look. Maybe they can break into another world.
As long as His Majesty Satake can handle the matter of helping you, I will give you the title of Yuzhou 400,000 shi. Whether you can get it depends on the ability of the Satake family."
Satake Yoshitaka trembled all over and quickly kowtowed to the ground to thank him.
Although the same is 400,000 koku, the northern part of Ou is bitter and cold and is far less wealthy than Hitachi Country, but after all, it is the family status of the 400,000 koku territory.
Satakeyoshi committed a serious crime again, so it is not easy to continue the family name.
Yiyin generously gave him 400,000 koku as a daimyo. Even if the Satake family couldn't get it all, it could at least ensure that the family name would not be lost and the lintel would remain the same.
This kindness was enough for Satake Yishige to be grateful. Even if he risked his life, he would provide assistance to the saint and unify the important matter of the eight states.
