Chapter 1836 The overflow self-purification movement
In the twelfth lunar month of winter, the weather is getting colder day by day, but no matter how biting the cold wind is, it is not as sinister and trembling as the human heart.
Returning to Yoshigan in Kinki, I gradually fell into the deep winter chill. The wind was blowing everywhere but I didn’t know where the cold came from.
In this winter, he still has a lot of work to do, but he can never finish it.
In the distance, Kanhachishu's ice and snow are even colder and biting than those in Kinki.
Even the cold of winter could not withstand the passion of the young warrior Hime. The self-purification movement in the Central Government has reached its climax. The boiling grassroots and the out-of-control order have taught the high-level samurai a hard lesson.
What about Toki, Sakai, Masaki, and Mariya? Seeing the once high-ranking famous family tremble in front of them, the dopamine of the rural people has already broken through the forehead, and it is better than Zuo Ai.
When the men in blue and the village servants took away the man who managed the territory, the daimyo remained silent.
When they began to imprison the members of the Hime Warriors of each family and parade the important ministers and elders through the streets, the daimyo remained silent.
The high-level officials hesitated again and again and compromised step by step, allowing the self-Qing movement to completely overturn the already unstable order of the Wu family.
What is a Wu family leader? The big guys in the city have no control over the peasant women in the fields. Every time they collect taxes, the followers have to bring soldiers. It is called taxation, but in fact it means going to the countryside regularly for armed robbery.
If Samurai Ji does not bring enough people and swords, the cunning farmers will not obediently hand over the food, because in this barren island country, there is not enough food to eat.
Even if taxation is the benevolent government of the Wu family, it is the benevolent government of the untouchables chewing the bark of trees.
After so many years of fighting in the Guanbazhou area, the general rule in various places is five citizens, five citizens, six citizens and four citizens. Only the Hojo family, an outsider, would consider buying the hearts of the locals and insist on the tax rate of four citizens and six citizens.
The bottom floor has long been piled with dry firewood, just waiting for a spark to ignite. Unexpectedly, a fierce fire called the self-purification movement came.
When dry wood and fiery fire met, they immediately ignited countless people in the world and sent the noble ones to the rooftop.
Because the Self-Qing movement was related to the political game at the Kanto Palace, it was a civil struggle between the eastern and western parts of the eight states of Kanto and they were unable to use force when there was no war in Kanto.
Therefore, the daimyo of the Shangzong Kingdom have been hesitant and did not dare to use force to suppress. The Wu family's greatest source of power, force, was thus imprisoned by themselves.
After losing the ballast stone of military suppression, the fragile order in the Wu family's territory unsurprisingly lost its balance in an instant and collapsed.
The self-Qing movement was like peeling an onion, layer by layer removing the peripheral followers, bannermen, important ministers, and family elders, and breaking down bit by bit the Hime Warriors who maintained the violent rule of the samurai family.
Wait until the people in blue, with the fanatical village servants, arrive in front of the noble and powerful warrior family, the name of the city lord, and the famous nobles.
The noble people sitting in the upper positions suddenly discovered that the violence and organization that maintained their dignified status had been disintegrated.
The noble superior had a rope tied around his neck and was dragged out of his residence like a wild dog. He watched helplessly as his husband, his children, and his family were humiliated by the lowly servants in the village.
The nobles were thrown into the stables and cowsheds, and were given one meal a day, without food and clothing. In this cold winter, countless noble warriors with wounded self-esteem chose to commit suicide and commit seppuku to maintain their dignity.
The tragic situation of the high-ranking martial arts families of the Shangzong Kingdom has frightened all the senior officials in Kanto who are concerned about the direction of the self-Qing movement.
Regardless of whether it is the eastern and western samurai families of Kanba Province, Ou, Koshinobu, Hokuriku, Tokai, high-level officials from all over the country have turned their attention to the Upper General Kingdom.
All the senior officials were watching in panic this carnival belonging to the lower class. Even the Hojo family, which was the most active in supporting the self-Qing movement, became at a loss.
The out-of-control spontaneous movement at the bottom was so violent that all the negative emotions suppressed in the hearts of the islanders, the anger and hatred towards the upper class seemed to be revealed at this moment and completely exploded.
At this moment, the people at the bottom are not willing to distinguish between justice and injustice. As long as they are noble, they are all guilty and deserve to die!
Uesugi, Takeda and Hojo, who originally wanted to use the self-Qing movement as a political tool to deal with the people in the East, gradually changed their mentality.
This is no longer an internal conflict between nobles, but a general outburst of oppression and oppression by the lower class against the upper class following centuries of war and exploitation. It is a contradiction between ourselves and the enemy!
When the kept lackeys have turned into hungry wolves and may turn around and attack their masters at any time, the conflict between the martial arts families in the eastern and western parts of Guanba Prefecture does not seem so acute.
At this juncture when the attitude of the top officials was changing, the self-cleansing movement that had already spread to the upper echelons of the Upper Sovereign Kingdom began to spill over again, penetrating deeper into the Anbo Country on the Boso Peninsula.
In the entire Kanto region, the one who is most concerned about the changes in the Upper Sovereign State and most afraid of the spread of the self-Qing movement is the Anfang Kunisato family next door.
Satomi Yoshihide, who had been hesitant earlier, now did not dare to hesitate and immediately sent an envoy to visit Satake Yoshige of Hitachi Kingdom.
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Hitachi Country, Ota Castle, Jukan.
Satake Yoshige looked at the envoy of the Satomi family who was pleading in front of him with an expressionless face, and sneered in his heart.
If I had known today, why bother in the beginning.
At the beginning, everyone joined forces to start a rebellion, marching together from the north to the south, and raided the saints who were visiting the Furukawa Territory of the Lower Kingdom. If the rebellion had succeeded, the people of the East would not be in the embarrassment they are in today.
Where can I see Yi Yao?
Full of selfish motives, she sent her daughter Satomi Yoshihiro to send troops to seize cities and expand territory in the southern part of the Lower Sovereign Kingdom. She did nothing to cooperate with the coalition forces, but refused to go north to help Satake Yoshiki.
The Eastern People were at odds with each other between the north and the south, and were defeated by the Sage. The rebellion was extinguished by the motley army assembled by the Saint in just twenty days, making the Eastern People the laughing stock of the Kanto warriors.
The people of the East who once gathered the power of the four countries were defeated by the saint in one fell swoop. Satomi Yoshiyao wants to fight back now. Is there something wrong with her brain? Or does she want to seduce the Satake family?
Satake Yoshige knew very well that the morale of the people in the East had been dispelled during the last rebellion, so the powerful military masters of the Central Government did not dare to suppress the movement and were tortured to death by a group of mud-legged people.
Satomi Yiyao did not really want to cooperate when he sent people here this time. He was just forced into desperation by the overflowing self-purification movement and sought medical attention in a hurry.
A drowning person still wants to drag others into the water, which is really unorganized and harmful to others and himself.
Facing the anxious Satomi family envoy, Satake Yoshitaka said calmly.
"I already understand Your Highness Satomi's thoughts, please give her a few words for me.
The people of the East are finished, and the Kanto Palace has completely won. Please stop harboring any illusions when seeing His Highness. No one will raise an army to cause rebellion, and no one dares to resist at the risk of offending the majesty of the saint.
The martial arts families in the Shangzong Kingdom would rather be tortured to death than dare to start another rebellion. Because they know very well that rebellion is seeking death, and no one can defeat the saint's army on the battlefield.
Instead of falling into rebellion again, it is better to wait for the judgment of the saints. I believe that the saints of benevolence and righteousness will not watch the self-Qing movement rampage, destroy the famous Wu family, and shake the foundation of Guanbazhou."
The Satomi family envoy said anxiously.
"But the Saint is far away in Kinki and doesn't know about the chaos in the Upper Kingdom! If the Saint knew about this and sent people to stop the chaos, all the families in the East would have been dead!
Your Highness Satake, we need to unite, and only by uniting can we get through this difficult time!"
Satake Yoshige laughed loudly, leaning forward and back as if she heard a joke. After a while, she wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes and said coldly.
"Unite? It's too late. The people of the East have never been truly united, and there will never be another chance to unite in the future.
I might as well tell you that just a few days ago, the Utsunomiya family has officially expressed its surrender to His Highness Uesugi, opening the door to invite the Uesugi family to take over Shimono Country."
"What!"
Satake Yoshizuke glanced at the Satomi family envoy who was making a fuss, feeling rather disdainful in his heart.
Satomi Yiyao wants to live in a desperate situation and drag others into trouble, but others are not all fools.
The Utsunomiya family was not strong in Shimono country to begin with, and the powerful samurai families in various places were unruly. The Oyama family peeked at the position of guardian of Shimono, and the Sano family had become the lackeys of the Uesugi family.
After seeing the tragic situation of the local high-ranking samurai families in Shimoshima during the Self-Qing Movement, the Utsunomiya family was not as panicked as the Satomi family, and they simply kowtowed to Uesugi Kenshin without mercy.
The Uesugi family took over the Shimono country, which was not unacceptable to the Shimono samurai family.
Although Uesugi Kenshin is domineering and difficult to get along with, she is actually the most deceptive boss among the three powerful Uesugi, Takeda and Hojo clans because her ruling method is very traditional.
The Hime Samurai Order of the Uesugi Retainers has the most traditional ruling structure, and local samurai have great autonomy. Uesugi Kenshin, a samurai woman, does not have much interest in controlling territorial rights and centralizing power in the Warring States Period.
The rising star of the Utsunomiya family was not supported internally by the Shimono samurai family, and externally they saw the terrifying power of the self-purge movement, so they simply surrendered without taking any action and became dogs of the Uesugi family.
Uesugi Kenshin was the governor of Kanto and had a noble family background. He also gave birth to a descendant of a saint, so the future of the Uesugi family was bright.
The Utsunomiya family knelt down as soon as their knees gave out. There was no psychological burden. There was no shame in being a dog for the Yamauchi-Uesugi family, and it was even more of an honor to be a dog for the Kamishi-Uesugi family.
Seeing that Yiyao's side was still unaware of the changes in the country, the envoy's face suddenly turned pale.
The Oriental Hosts are mainly distributed in the four eastern kingdoms of the eight states of Guanzhou. Among them, the Shangzong Kingdom has been caused by the self-Qing movement and the order of the Wu family has collapsed, and the Lower Wild Kingdom has now opened its doors to surrender.
Nowadays, only Anbo Country, where the Satomi family is located, and Hitachi Country, where the Satake family is located, are left.
The Anfang Kingdom was weak, and Satomi Yoshihiro, who had withdrawn from the Upper Sovereign Kingdom, did not have enough strength to resist, so he could only place his hope in the Satake family's help.
But who is Satake Yishige? How could she try to make someone else's wedding dress for nothing?
Seeing the pleading look from the Satomi family envoy, Satake Yoshitaka sneered.
"I, Satake Yoshitaka, begged for surrender in front of the battle. It was the saint who treated me kindly. He undressed me and gave me food. I will never betray the saint again. Being a pig or a dog is worse than an unjust person!"
The Satomi family envoy said with despair in his eyes and gritted his teeth.
"The Satake family is not afraid of the self-Qing movement spilling over. Isn't His Highness Satake worried that the whole family will become the playthings of the untouchables?"
Satake Yoshige laughed.
"The Satake family treats the guilty, and the punishment and suffering are justified by the crime.
I'm not afraid of any kind of self-purification movement. Those people in blue can throw me into the stable and bullpen at most, humiliate me, and abuse me, but they can't change the saint's decision!
The Satake family will change its title and move north. The saint promised me that the territory of 400,000 koku will remain unchanged. The Satake family will still be a famous Minamoto family, one of the most powerful feudal lords in the world!
A temporary catastrophe cannot shake the foundation of the Satake family. It doesn't matter if I suffer some physical pain. As long as I don't rebel, the future of the Satake family is promising."
The Satomi family envoy's eyes dimmed, and she had to admit that what Satake Yishige said was reasonable.
The Wu family values family property most, and the continuation of the family name is above all else.
The saint has promised the Satake family a future. Even if Satake Yoshitaka encounters turmoil and is tortured to death by untouchables, she will still grit her teeth and not gnaw.
Starting a rebellion at this time is the stupidest choice. Why fight if you know you can't defeat it?
He also wanted to make the sage's promise that he had already obtained go crazy. Satake Yishige had a bad brain and would follow Satomi Yoshiyao and go crazy.
Takeda Shingen is now patiently waiting for Satake Yoshitaka to get out. The two famous families of Takeda and Satake come from the same origin. The Takeda family accepts the protection of Hitachi and the Satake territory. Naturally, they hope that the political transition will be smooth.
As long as Satake Yoshitaka doesn't cause trouble, Takeda Shingen will definitely ensure the basic stability of the Satake family, so as to avoid extraneous problems and ruin the Takeda family's plan to take over the Hitachi Kingdom.
Therefore, Satake Yoshige is the most calm samurai name among the people in the East.
With one hand holding the saint's promise and the other holding the Takeda family's guarantee of peaceful transition, what can those innocent little girls in blue do to the Satake family?
Most of the Blue Dressed Princess Warriors are just a group of children who have been dazzled by their ideals and used as political tools. They are young, ignorant, and full of passion, and they know how evil people's hearts are.
Hitachi Country is not the Sovereign Country. There is chaos here. What is shaken is the promise of the sage and Takeda Eyama. The most anxious person is definitely not Satake Yishige.
If possible, Satake Yoshige would really like to go into a shed for a few days, walk along the trails, write letters to saints, and repent of his past.
With the kindness of a saint, he might feel guilty for this, so Satake Yishige could leave a huge debt of gratitude to the Satake family.
Calculated this way, it’s a huge profit.
At this moment, Satake Yoshige was actually looking forward to the self-Qing movement spreading to Hitachi Country, which would make him suffer for a few days and suffer for a few days.
Shimono country is the target of the Uesugi family, and Hitachi country is the target of the Takeda family. These two families just want to expand and have no intention of killing people to seize land.
It is also the best choice for the Utsunomiya and Satake families not to resist, and the most desperate among the people in the East is the Satomi family.
The Hojo family's ambitions are on the Boso Peninsula, and the fate of the Satomi family is worrying.
Satomi Yoshihiro was supported by the Hojo family back then, but after he matured, he turned against the Hojo family and fought with the Hojo family for many years, making it impossible for the Hojo family to take over the Boso Peninsula. The two sides had long-standing grievances.
When the Hojo family launched the self-Qing movement, Satomi Yoshiyao couldn't stop it. She had no other way out and could only jump over the wall.
Unable to instigate the people of the East to rebel again, the Satomi family is seeking death on their own, and their future is bleak.
Just when the Satomi family envoy was speechless and his face was ashen, Satake Yishige suddenly smiled.
"Actually, Your Highness Satomi has another choice. It depends on whether she is willing to try it."