"Please come in and talk, Your Highness Mogami. After all, you are a member of the Shiba clan, and this dignity must be given to you after all."
What Mogami Yoshimitsu wants is this opportunity to explain to the saint face to face. Whether he can seize this opportunity well depends on what Mogami Yoshimitsu says.
When a middle-aged beautiful woman from Pu Sheng clan came in, kowtowed to her and bowed, Yiyin sighed.
"We have been exchanging letters for several years, and we finally have the opportunity to meet, Your Highness Mogami."
Mogami Yiko kowtowed and choked with sobs.
"The highest honor in my family, Yoshimitsu, has failed the saint's kindness and righteousness, and he deserves death!"
Yiyin murmured.
"Family..."
The name of a general clan comes from the vassal system. For example, the Umino family, as the general clan of the Shino clan, had the power and status to lead the entire clan in the early days of the samurai system.
The clan system is a martial arts system with a general clan as the core, commanding the entire clan, and emphasizing clan identity.
The word "family" was originally a term used by a general family to refer to their subordinate martial arts families and their fellow clansmen.
After the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, the first shogun Minamoto Yoritomo created the imperial family system. The imperial character is the honorific title of the general. The original meaning of the imperial family is the general's family, the people who unite around the general.
The early form of war in the Wu family was crude. The most primitive method of mobilization was for the lord to ascend high and call, and a Ji warrior would take her seven or eight men and go out with their own dry food to help the lord fight.
The army formed in this form of mobilization, called a mob, is just to promote them. It is simply a fight between the villagers. Sometimes they can't even distinguish between themselves and the enemy, and they can only fight indiscriminately.
There were also big problems with the early inheritance system of the Wu family. It was not the inheritance system of legitimate sons, but each heir could get a share of the family property equally.
The result of everyone having a share is that the powerful Wu family will, after a few generations of reproduction, break into a group of branches of the same clan, lose their centripetal force, and their power will decline.
The core of the military is organizational power. The early form of warfare of the Wu family was actually fragmented counter-organizational power, which could not form a strong military organization.
This is related to the economic environment at the time, because the early output of the manorial economy was low, and there was little exchange of surplus materials. The self-sufficient independence of the manorial system resulted in weak connections between manors.
However, after the Genpei War and the war against the emperor's court, the military needs of the samurai increased, and the Kamakura shogunate gradually formed a new system that was conducive to the rule of the samurai regime, that is, the imperial family system.
The basis of the imperial family system is the collar system.
In order to organize the Hime Samurai warriors to fight, the samurai family gradually formed the Hime Samurai Order with the clan as the core during the Kamakura Shogunate period, which offset the problem of scattered strength caused by the inheritance of family business.
For example, the Ashikaga family is a general family under the shogunate system. If the Kamakura shogunate has something to do, it will come to you. You will lead the whole family and handle affairs for the shogunate.
Shiba, Kira, Hosokawa, and Imagawa under the Ashikaga Ichimen will listen to you in everything. This creates a centripetal force of organizational power. This is the rise of the shogunate system.
As the chief family of the Ashikaga clan, the Ashikaga family was granted the status of a powerful imperial family member by the shogunate to participate in shogunate politics, forming an imperial family system led by the shogun and with the collective efforts of the powerful imperial family members.
Therefore, the basis of the imperial family system is the consolation system, and the gradual disintegration of the consolation system later ended the imperial family system.
The origin of the collar system is that the early inheritance system of the Wu family was based on the idea that each heir had a share, which divided the family's strength.
In order to gather scattered forces, we can only strengthen the clan identity and use the leader system to find the leader of the family, that is, a general leader, who can command the whole clan and strive for common interests.
But as the blood relationship becomes further and further away, the appeal of clan identity becomes weaker and weaker. In the end, the interests of each family are inconsistent, and no one cares about the orders of a general leader.
The constable system could not solve the problems caused by the inheritance of the Wu family. In order to prevent the decline caused by the fragmentation of the family business, the Wu families abandoned the practice of dividing family property and began to move towards a new family supervision system.
The word "jiadu" first appeared in historical records. The eldest son of a family was called the "jiadu".
During the Kamakura period, the family governor system with the eldest son as the core emerged and gradually became popular among samurai families, eventually replacing the traditional samurai family inheritance method of enfeoffment among the various sons.
The inheritance of family property with the family governor as the core, although most of the family property is handed over to the eldest son, the family property is not owned by the eldest son alone, but is the public property of the Hime Warriors under the family name.
In other words, in the past, everyone lived their own lives after dividing the inheritance, but now everyone does not divide the family, but everyone has a share in the company's shares.
As long as the family business is there, everyone will have a share, and cohesion will naturally form. Therefore, the family supervision system has more advantages than the collar system.
As a result, the zocol system is on the way to extinction. Since the zocol system has perished, the imperial family system based on the zocol system will naturally come to an end as well.
In the early days of the Ashikaga Shogunate, the imperial family system could still support the situation, but with the spread of the family governor system, it soon became no longer applicable. What followed was the rise of the guardian system that was suitable for the family governor system.
And with the demise of the collar system, the Wu family no longer paid attention to any general clan.
When the Shiba clan was wiped out, there was no reaction from Ou's Shiba clan members. Everyone was no longer a family, and everyone was living their own lives behind closed doors.
Only the mountain people of the Shiye Tribe of the Jiaxin Mountains would stick to their old ways and cling to the rules of their ancestors, taking a general family very seriously and robbing it from here and there.
But no matter what, the name and lineage of the Wu family are a kind of status. Although a general family has become a false name, it can still be used to show off when necessary.
Yoshigan had not yet established a firm foothold in Kanto before, so it was hoping for help from its fellow tribesmen in the Ou area.
Most of Ou's Shibago relatives have declined, and only the Mogami and Osaki families are left with some strength, and they are both threatened by Date Masamune.
As a result, the two sides hit it off, Yoshigan pretended to be the leader of the family to help their fellow clans overcome difficulties, and the Mogami family and the Osaki family pretended to be of the same clan and helped the Shiba family to support the situation in the Ou area.
Originally everything was fine, but a sudden Saba-Oda war ruined everyone's political cooperation in appearance.
The Mogami family and the Osaki family did not want to get involved in the central struggle, and they did not respond to the call when the Shiba family needed it most, thus pouring cold water on Yoshigan.
Date Masamune took the opportunity to attack and destroy the Osaki family, and Yoshigan stopped talking about kinship and just watched with a cold eye and didn't care at all.
The Mogami family was besieged on all sides, and Yoshimitsu Mogami was immediately anxious. Now he is kneeling in front of Yoshigami and keeps calling himself family. He just picked up the trap of the so-called collar system to gain recognition from the clan.
It’s not that she has lost her mind, it’s because it’s really impossible not to tell her. What leverage does the Mogami family have to negotiate terms now? Apart from counting on the saint’s kindness and pretending to be pitiful, Mogami Yoshimitsu really has no other way out.
When she called her family, she meant it sincerely. As long as the saint was willing to give Mogami a hand, it would be fine if she lowered her face and called her biological father, let alone calling herself family.
Mogami Yoshimitsu lost all face, licked his face and called his family, Yoshigami felt angry and funny.
If we had known today, why did we do it in the first place?
He sighed and said.
"Get up and talk."
When Mogami Yoshimitsu raised his head, Yoshigine discovered that this beautiful woman's eyebrows were somewhat similar to Date Masamune's.
He suddenly remembered that Mogami Yoshimitsu's brother married Date Masamune's mother and gave birth to Date Masamune. In this way, Date Masamune was still Mogami Yoshimitsu's biological niece.
It is said that they have not left their uncle's house for three generations, so the relationship between these two people is really close.
Date Masamune was so ambitious that the Ou samurai were frightened, but they never stopped slandering her.
What a cold-blooded patricide, banishing her biological father and humiliating her father's family. To put it bluntly, everyone is afraid of her ambition and ability to unify South Ou.
As for Mogami Yoshimitsu, she is actually a very warm-hearted person who values her family members very much. She has a very good relationship with her younger brother. Because of her younger brother, she was reluctant to be cruel to Date Masamune several times.
Just because Mogami Yoshimitsu's warmth was not common among samurai families, Yoshigami temporarily softened his heart and gave her a chance.
Yiyin's fourth and fifth child is about to enter this world. Facing his increasingly complex family, he still hopes that the world can be a little warmer.
For a samurai family like Mogami Yoshimitsu who cherishes their loved ones, it is better not to force them to death. In the rotten environment of samurai society, this kind of person will really die, one less person.
