Chapter eight hundred and seventeenth wise to protect the law
The two masters and ministers were full of thoughts and were speechless for a moment.
The civil strife in Sanhao, the Danbo rebellion, and now the Nanman priests are coming to Luo. It is really a wave of unrest and another wave.
Matsu Nagahide secretly helped, but he did not dare to openly publicize it and stood on the opposite side of Ishiyama Honganji Temple.
The religious dispute between the Yixiang Sect and the Nanman Sect in the Settsu Kingdom was extremely fierce. When Master Xianru of Shishan learned that the Nanman Sect's priest had arrived in Kyoto, he didn't know how angry he would be.
How long can the trio of Miyoshi remain strong? What will the girl Miyoshi Yoshitsugu do if she succeeds? Matsunaga Hide has no idea at all.
She suddenly felt tired. After all the turmoil in the Miyoshi family, it was time for them to end. And she should think more about the future of the Matsunaga family.
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Kyoto, Shiba Residence.
Since Yoshigan Shiba has been away for more than a year, this mansion, which was rewarded by the Ashikaga Shogun, became Akechi Mitsuhide's base in Kyoto.
Although she often entertained people in the mansion, she never dared to meet people in the main hall and slept peacefully in the inner room. She only borrowed the side hall of the teahouse to greet and see off people.
Others praised her for understanding dignity and respecting her superiors as if they were human beings. But Mitsuhide Akechi knew very well that she was afraid that she would not be able to enter the main hall or the inner room.
When I go there, I can't help but think of that person. He's not here, but his appearance, his smell, and his posture are still vivid in my mind.
Even the bits and pieces of him and her tossing and turning on the bed, moaning and trembling, are firmly fixed in Akechi Mitsuhide's mind, and he cannot forget them even if he wants to.
How dare she go?
In the past, I always thought that being in love with a scene was all about deceiving others. Only when you experience it yourself can you understand the truth that love goes deep and leaves no trace anywhere.
I thought so hard that in the middle of the night, under the moonlight, I hid in the quilt and shouted my name, comforting myself, not daring to face the direction of his inner room, just because I was afraid that I would not be able to stop.
Akechi Mitsuhide often asks himself, what's wrong with me?
For him, there is much joy in meeting a monarch and his ministers, and serving a wise master. Or there is a lot of joy in having a girl in love, and there is much infatuation with a single-minded nymphomaniac.
But she was neither loyal to her master nor her lover. She was just self-righteous and did the dirty things she thought she should do.
At this time, she had just returned from the Imperial Palace. Xiao Yingying and Saito Rizo met in her guest room. Below her, sitting on her knees were the Fujibayashi sisters from the same group.
By candlelight, Akechi Mitsuhide looked at the military intelligence report brought back by the Fujibayashi sisters, and read while reading.
“In the middle of the night, the cavalry crossed the Shochuan River and headed south, and made a surprise attack on Hinomiya Castle. They killed dozens of people and recaptured the city.
The next day, the troops from Wufu Mountain were united and moved to Zengshan City. The Ni soldiers went out into battle. They wiped out more than a hundred enemies and the enemy troops defended the city and did not dare to come out again.
On the third day, they crossed Shochuan River and entered Tonami County. They took Inoue Castle to the south and approached Zuisen Temple within thirty miles. Zuisen Temple asked for help from all directions overnight.
On the fifth day, march west to Fuguang City, ambush the reinforcements, and kill thirty more. Go north to Shanfa Temple, break down the gate and kill the nun.
On the 6th, they rushed north along the Oyabe River and attacked halfway across the river. The enemy troops were defeated, trampled and drowned hundreds of people, and the corpses blocked the flow and temporarily stopped the flow.
They destroyed temples along the way to get food, and it was unstoppable."
Akechi Mitsuhide put down the military information document and couldn't help but sigh.
"How magnificent, my lord is truly a wonderful man in the world.
My lord is brave and good at fighting and is the best in the world. A mere Xiangzong dared to tease the tiger's beard, but now he knows how powerful he is?"
Akechi Mitsuhide was amazed, but Saito Rizo frowned and said.
"Previously, Echigo's army destroyed temples and killed nuns in Shinkawa County, and now the Godaisho is fighting against Kaga Etsuchu and Sodai.
I don’t know how Ishiyama Honganji Temple will react, or whether the Master Mianjo will be angry and use the Dharma to launch a new campaign on Hokurikudo.”
Akechi Mitsuhide looked at the new retainer who had come to seek refuge in his hometown in Meinong. Seeing that she was worried, he chuckled.
"What nonsense are you talking about?
It was clearly the Yuezhong Kaga Yixiang Zong who made a sneak attack on Gaogang Castle and disturbed the imperial garrison. Xinchuan County Yixiang Zong raised troops to respond.
The Imperial Guard was forced to counterattack, and the Echigo army had no choice but to clear out Shinkawa County in order to secure a way back."
Saito Toshizo thought to himself, intelligence has been coming in one after another these days. Akechi Mitsuhide's words are not consistent with the facts?
But when she looked up, Akechi Mitsuhide was also smiling at her, and she suddenly woke up.
Hokurikudo had always been shameless towards the clan, so Mitsuhide Akechi was not stingy and poured all the dirty water on them.
What is the fact? Can it be eaten?
Shiba Yiyin never wanted to have a direct conflict with Yi Xiangzong, and he also tried to cover up the incident in Xinchuan County.
Even before the incident happened, it was already hinted that Mitsuhide Akechi and Yono Takada would find a way to appease Master Xianru.
Hokurikudo's Ichigo clan didn't know what Yoshigan was thinking. They were afraid of the Uesugi Jinho coalition's coming, so they chose to strike first.
Militarily, Spo Yiyin was caught off guard, but it also gave up the political initiative to the Spo family.
Now it is no longer time for Mitsuhide Akechi to find a way to prove to Ishiyama Honganji that the Shiba family did not deliberately destroy the temple and kill the nuns in Shinkawa County.
Rather, Master Mianyu wanted to prove to the Shiba family that he did not issue a decree to order the Hokurikudo Ichikai clan to attack the governor of the Shiba family, the imperial office, and the leader of the powerful local faction in the shogunate.
Originally, Xianru Shangren could choose to break the situation violently. Shiba Yiyin fought fiercely in Vietnam, and the counterattack caused huge casualties to Yixiang Zong, so Yixiang Zong simply turned his back.
But now, Master Xianru may not dare to fall out.
Because Yoshihiro Shiba asked Akechi Mitsuhide and Takada Harano to find a way, they actually played some tricks and got a huge bargaining chip.
Saito Rizo looked at Mitsuhide Akechi, who was holding the pearl of wisdom, and asked.
"My Lord, you went to the Imperial Palace today and gained something?"
Akechi Mitsuhide answered with a smile.
"I stood up hard in front of the general and expressed my attitude on behalf of the Shiba family. My family will never accept the shogunate's recognition of Nanmanism and the granting of missionary rights.
You haven’t seen how moved the people from the Tiantai Sect and the Shingon Sect were, and the masters from the Shingon Sect tried their best to praise me for my piety."
Saito Toshizo was speechless.
Frois's entry into the capital was secretly arranged by Takada Harano, and Akechi Mitsuhide found someone to help him. He followed the Ninagawa family lineage, the acting official of the political office.
Akechi Mitsuhide brought people to Kyoto, but he himself became the protector of Buddhism and worked hard within the shogunate to prevent the Nanman Sect from obtaining missionary rights.
Isn't this too shameless?
Akechi Mitsuhide saw that her expression was unnatural, and he was amused in his heart. Saito Rizo brought Saito Ryuuki to join Akechi Mitsuhide. Akechi Mitsuhide had a good impression of this old family member from Meinong.
The Akechi family and the Saito family are already married, and they are considered distant relatives.
Coupled with the desperate relationship with Saito Ryuuki, Akechi Mitsuhide felt at ease with her and slowly revealed many things to her.
But what happened today seemed a bit shocking and frightened people, Akechi Mitsuhide explained with a smile.
"Even if I don't come forward, the Nanman Sect will not be able to get the right to preach.
The Tendai Sect has already reached out to the Odaisho, and the Ashikaga Shogun will give him some face. Besides, the Nanman Sect can't offer anything to seduce the General.
Kyoto is the center of recent times and even the world, and business is very prosperous. The Nanman people are best at commercial concessions, and they cannot shake the general's will.
The Nanman iron cannons had long been imitated by Sakai Port merchants and the Kii people. Unless they were willing to offer better craftsmanship to the shogunate, they would be useless.
Just sending out a few finished products has no effect, and the general’s eyelids are not that shallow.”
Saito Rizo nodded in agreement.
The shogunate had a cornucopia of castle towns in Kyoto, so it did not care about the benefits of Nanman trade. Even if the Nanman religion's missionary rights could not be negotiated, there would still be commercial trade.
But if Ashikaga Shogun opened the door to the Nanman Sect, it would be difficult to explain to the Buddhist forces in Kyoto.
These sects have been entangled with the shogunate for two hundred years, and their relationship is intricate. It really pissed off the sects and was not conducive to the rule of the shogunate.
