Chapter 2097 The Ashikaga Family Disappeared Silently
After reading the letter, Kosaka Masanobu was silent and didn't know what to say.
She is Takeda Shingen's lover and the clone who protects her daughter. Her mission to accompany Takeda Yoshinobu is to act as the final insurance.
If something unexpected happens to Takeda Shingen, Kosaka Masanobu will use the saint's closeness to him to inherit Takeda Shingen's legacy and assist Takeda Yoshinobu to successfully inherit the Takeda family.
Therefore, Takeda Shingen never concealed some of his views and plans on Kanto from Takasaka Masanobu, and even had to explain them to Takasaka Masanobu carefully to avoid misjudgment from her.
Kosaka Masanobu misjudged, and it was his own daughter who suffered the loss. Naturally Takeda Shingen would not do such a stupid thing.
Therefore, although Kosaka Masanobu has been following Takeda Yoshinobu around these years, he is actually very aware of the changes in the political situation in Kanto.
The sage also understood the tacit understanding between Takeda Shingen and Kosaka Masanobu.
Rather than saying that the sage was seeking Kosaka Masanobu's opinion, it is better to say that the sage wanted to refer to Takeda Shingen's wisdom.
Takeda Shingen was not as arrogant and fierce as Uesugi Kenshin in fighting, but she was a hundred times better than Uesugi Kenshin in strategizing and calculating.
The saint's attitude is so direct, Kosaka Masanobu will not be able to hide it. If it seems too selfish, it will make the saint disappointed with Takeda Shingen and himself, and the gain will not be worth the loss.
Kosaka Masanobu said.
"His Majesty Takeda has had some exchanges with me about the future of General Kanto.
His Highness once said in a letter that the Kanto General knew the current affairs and was far more reliable than the poor general who fled Kyoto.
Instead of letting Ashikaga Shogun run wild, it would be better to let Kanto Shogun succeed Ashikaga Shogun's family and inherit the legacy of his ancestor, Ashikaga Shogun Yoshiteru.
Of course, when His Highness Takeda talked about this matter, General Ashikaga had not yet suffered divine punishment, and he did not know that General Kanto had already decided to abdicate in favor of others."
Yiyin touched his chin.
"Let Ashikaga Yoshiji inherit the legacy of Ashikaga Yoshiteru..."
The rulers of the female-dominated world are different from the rulers of the male-dominated world. Their children need to be born one by one.
As long as the male ruler is in good health and spreads his seeds freely, he can harvest a lot.
No matter how hard a female ruler works, her gains will be limited. After all, there is always a limit to the number of children she can have in her lifetime.
This difference leads to the fact that the number of female samurai families is far less than that of male ones. The Ashikaga family is a clear proof.
There are many branches of the Ashikaga family in the male-dominated world, which adds a lot of confusion to the power struggle.
However, the female shogun Ashikaga gave birth to fewer children and did not divide many families, which limited the choice of heirs.
The first Ashikaga Shogun, Ashikaga Takauji, had no descendants.
The direct descendant of the Ashikaga Shogun family sat in Kyoto and ruled the world. The other daughter went to Kamakura, Kanto, and became the Kanto Shogun, governing the ten countries of Kanto.
Originally, I thought that if the two families were of the same spirit and echoed each other from afar, they would be able to secure the world.
But Ashikaga Takauji still thinks too much. Kanto and Kansai are full of contradictions and have disliked each other since ancient times. How can things go smoothly?
The Kamakura Ashikaga family was based in Kanto and was supported by the Kanto samurai family, so they naturally wanted to compete with the Kyoto Ashikaga shoguns.
The two families were at odds with each other, and the sisters were at odds with each other, which eventually got out of hand.
According to Takeda Shingen's wishes, she actually once had the idea of letting the Ashikaga Yoshi of the Kamakura Ashikaga family succeed the Ashikaga Shogun's family and crowd out the orthodoxy of Ashikaga Yoshiaki.
If you think about it carefully, this method is really feasible.
Ashikaga Yoshiteru died suddenly, and no successor was announced at all. Ashikaga Yoshiaki actually escaped from the temple and returned to secular life, claiming to be Ashikaga's legitimate daughter.
If it weren't for Yoshigan Shiba and Nobunaga Oda supporting Ashikaga Yoshiaki, it would be impossible for the samurai family in the world to recognize her as a wild nun who appeared out of nowhere, and it would be even more difficult for Kamiro to succeed to the throne.
Ashikaga Yoshiji was a Kanto shogun who succeeded to the throne after formal procedures at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine, so her status cannot be questioned.
Therefore, if the Ashikaga Shogun family were to die out, it would really make sense for the Kamakura Ashikaga family to be directly succeeded.
According to the rules of the samurai family, it was only natural that the Ashikaga Yoshi clan should recognize Ashikaga Yoshiteru as his mother and join the clan as an adopted daughter.
This would deprive Ashikaga Yoshiaki of his orthodox status and kick aside this stupid general who couldn't see the situation clearly and ran to the Western Kingdom to play with himself.
But now, all the Ashikaga Yoshiaki people are dead, and Ashikaga Yoshiji has asked himself to remove the name Ashikaga Miao. It is too late to talk about Ashikaga Yoshiji inheriting the Ashikaga Shogun family.
Yiyin sighed.
"Times have passed and circumstances have changed, so it's okay not to mention it."
Kosaka Masanobu smiled.
"That's not necessarily true."
"oh?"
"Now that General Ashikaga Yoshiaki is dead, there is no obstacle to General Kanto's succession to the Ashikaga General family.
The saint cannot forget the kindness of the past generals, and the legacy of the past generations has been cut off and there is nothing to offer sacrifices to. This is always a heart disease for the saint.
How about inviting the Kantō General to succeed him, and then choosing a place with beautiful mountains and clear waters, granting it to the Kantō General to rest in peace, removing the word Ashikaga, and adding the word Miao, so that he can be regarded as a kinsman of Shiba. What does the saint think?"
Yiyin felt a little dizzy after hearing this. When he came to his senses, his eyes looked at Masanobu Kosaka a little differently.
This mature lady who seems to be loyal and honest is not a kind person at heart. Her move is to break the roots of the Ashikaga family.
Let Ashikaga Yoshiji first become the adopted daughter of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and inherit the Ashikaga Shogun family, and the Kamakura Ashikaga family will be extinct.
Just like when Kenshin Uesugi inherited the Uesugi family in Yamauchi, the Nagao family in the Fuchu family became extinct.
The Wu family values the family name, but the retainers group welcomes this kind of heir from a low-level family who succeeds a high-level family. This is like the reorganization of a company. Everyone has a better future, so there is no reason to object.
Therefore, if the demise of the Kamakura Ashikaga family was due to inheritance from the Ashikaga Shogun family, then no one can say anything bad about it.
After all, people want to go higher. The Kamakura Ashikaga family wanted to do this more than a hundred years ago, but they just couldn't defeat the Ashikaga Shogun's family and failed to rob it.
From the moment Ashikaga Yoshiji became the adopted daughter of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and inherited the Ashikaga Shogun family, the Kamakura Ashikaga family naturally became extinct.
As long as no one steps forward to inherit the Kamakura Ashikaga family, its hereditary Kanto shogun will naturally be gone. The unclear Yoshino Bank will erase the influence of the Kanto shogun, the supreme leader of Kanto for two hundred years.
Without the Kanto Shogun, the Kanto Ten Kingdoms system under the hereditary jurisdiction of the Kanto Shogun will no longer exist, and the special political status of the Furukawa Territory as the imperial residence of the Kanto Shogun will no longer exist.
Ashikaga Yoshiji only inherited the orthodoxy of Ashikaga Yoshiteru. She was not an Ashikaga shogun and had not gone through the procedure of inheriting an Ashikaga shogun. Then she was just an ordinary governor of the Ashikaga family.
As a result, the Ashikaga Shogun and the Kanto Shogun, the two most politically influential pillars of the Ashikaga Shogunate's ruling system, disappeared without a trace.
There is no master in the world, so it is natural and beyond reproach for Shiba to join the direct lineage of the Genji family in Kawauchi.