Saito Rizo also couldn't figure out the same question about Shiba's mansion in Kyoto.
She was sitting in the tea room opposite Akechi Mitsuhide, thinking about how her conspiracy was going to succeed step by step, and she was filled with admiration.
Although, she didn't know that Akechi Mitsuhide's final goal was to kill the general.
But just in the current situation, seeing this elegant woman turning clouds and rain, and playing with several forces at her fingertips, already made her extremely in awe.
Akechi Mitsuhide took a sip of tea and spoke slowly while holding the tea cup.
"You ask me why?"
Saito Rizo kowtowed and said in fear.
"Your Majesty made a mistake."
She just saw that the conspiracy was about to take shape, the situation in Kyoto changed, her mood was turbulent, and she blurted out the doubts that had been in her heart for a long time.
Akechi Mitsuhide, a thoughtful master, why did she want to overthrow the Muromachi shogunate, which seemed to be promising for ZTE?
Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head, his eyes slightly dilated, thinking about something on his mind, and whispered softly.
"If it is not destroyed, it cannot be established. Ashikaga Yoshiteru cannot revive the Ashikaga shogunate. This old house that has been supported for more than 200 years should have collapsed long ago.
You have to know that the Ashikaga Shogunate has never been able to control the entire world. The Ashikaga family's control over the world was not even as good as that of the Kamakura shogunate, which was far away in the corner of Kanto.
The Ashikaga Shogunate was like a loose alliance of samurai families, and the Ashikaga shogun was only the nominal co-leader of the samurai families.
The guardian system is more of a status cloak for martial arts families from all over the world to compete for power. It seems rigorous, but in fact it is full of flaws.
What is family status? Except for a few big nobles with clear origins, after the martial arts family in other places became big, would it be difficult to marry a young master from a famous family and recognize a famous ancestor?
The Ashikaga shogunate is beyond the reach of its distant leaders. What else can it do except pinch its nose and recognize it? In order to maintain the justice of the guardian system, go to war with local powerful forces?
The guardian system is a joke.
The third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu massacred the emperor's court. The seal of the Japanese king given by the Ming Dynasty and the sword given by the emperor's court were universal and parallel.
Would you say it’s interesting?
The imperial court system was destroyed, and the general who conquered the barbarians was hard to mention. In the Ming Dynasty, the title of a vassal state was too shy to be mentioned. The name of the vassal king was only used in foreign negotiations.
Except for the third generation general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the Japanese king who petitioned the Celestial Empire and was officially canonized and sealed by the Ming Dynasty.
Afterwards, those Ashikaga shoguns who did not write letters to inherit and alienated the Celestial Tribute System, were they considered kings? How can they stabilize their political power?
The Ashikaga shogunate was a disgrace that could not find a fig leaf. The Ashikaga family could only use the trick of driving a wedge between the samurai family and pulling one faction against another to sit on the crater of the shogunate.
After the third generation of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the order of the world gradually collapsed, and chaos became more and more chaotic day by day. As of today, the guardian system has almost collapsed.
The so-called Ashikaga revival, the resurgence of the shogunate. It's just a dojo in a snail shell, just deceiving yourself. "
Akechi Mitsuhide had a smile on his face, but he was saying vicious words, slandering the shogunate and the general, which made Saito Rizo sweat profusely.
She said sarcastically.
"Lord, you don't have to say this to me. I've only been with you for a short time, aren't you worried that these words will spread outside?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"You won't, I promise."
Although she was smiling, Saito Rizo felt his hair standing on end and bowed in reply.
"Thank you, Lord, for trusting me."
Akechi Mitsuhide didn't care about her little intention to change the topic, he just stared blankly at the few green smoke in the tea cup, his tone was erratic.
"I am willing to tell you these words, and I hope you can write them down and pass them on to future generations.
I, Akechi Mitsuhide, come from a noble family, but my family fortune has been ruined and I am living in a foreign country. After observing the chaos in the world, I have the ambition to bring peace to the world.
The source of the chaos in the world lies in the Ashikaga Shogun. The Ashikaga family has an unfair name and abuses their power.
As long as the Ashikaga Shogunate is not destroyed, the troubled times will never end. Only by completely smashing this chaos can we start over.
The world of the samurai family should not be like this. The Ashikaga shogunate has taken the wrong path and must be completely destroyed.
Overcorrection must be overcorrection. "
Saito Rizo asked in a low voice.
"But what happens after it's smashed? Will the new shogunate after reconstruction do better than the Ashikaga shogunate?"
Akechi Mitsuhide glanced at her and smiled.
"I'm just a despicable person hiding in a dark corner, so I can't tell you the answer.
After that, it is up to the real heroes to clean up the mess and restore order. "
Looking at Akechi Mitsuhide's calm smile, Saito Rizo felt a martyr's open-mindedness from her and couldn't help but ask.
"Yingjie, will you understand your painstaking efforts?"
Akechi Mitsuhide lowered his head with a warm smile on his face.
"No, he won't understand me, because I personally pushed him into the abyss.
He will never, ever forgive me. "
Akechi Mitsuhide closed his eyes in pain, and his heart felt like a knife.
How can a man unite and rebuild the world in troubled times? The strategy of dove occupying magpie's nest is the strategy I prepared for him.
But this shameless strategy will sacrifice his reputation.
The widow of Ashikaga Shogun used his body and blood to form a new samurai group to rule the world, which is simply appalling.
Future historians will denounce his debauchery, and history books will use the most vicious words and the most malicious speculation to analyze his words and deeds.
He will lead the warriors to return to order and gain new life. And he himself will receive the hatred, slander, and curse of countless people in this and future generations, and become a slut spurned by hundreds of millions of people in future generations.
Akechi Mitsuhide put down the tea cup and hid his hands in his sleeves. His nails dug deeply into his palms, but he couldn't make her feel any pain.
Because her heart was torn, she pushed the man she loved most into the bottomless abyss, where she would never be reincarnated.
She loves him, but she is using him to fulfill her ambitions. Peace the world and restore order.
She is determined, she is confused. She is calm, she is violent. She's sane, she's crazy.
She is Mitsuhide Akechi, crazy about love. But he killed the most holy and inviolable angel in the world for his ideal.
She deserves death, she deserves death.
Saito Rizo didn't know the distress in Akechi Mitsuhide's heart, but she was also troubled by herself.
Akechi Mitsuhide seems smart and wise, but he is actually a real fool at heart. She didn't consider her own safety at all, she just tried her best to realize her ideal.
Saito Rizo lowered his head and said nothing.
What about me? What about my future? It's still Mr. Ryuuki Saito. His Highness Yilong entrusted her to him, how could he let her future become unclear.
Akechi Mitsuhide's momentary lonely and weak exposure inadvertently planted a seed of uneasiness in Saito Rizo's heart.
Under the cover of the nest, there are completed eggs. What the future holds is still unclear.
———
Great changes are coming in Kyoto, and Yoshigan Shiba, who is far away in Echigo, is still completely unaware of all this.
With Kenyasu Numata fleeing to Echigo for help, the Kanto strategy had to start early. At the Imperial Government Office in Joetsu, a small meeting of only four people was having secret discussions.
Yoshigan Shiba and Terutora Uesugi are in the first and second place, and there are two people on the left and right below, namely Ohashi Asahi and Naoe Keizuna.
Since ancient times, when going out to fight, the soldiers and horses have not moved, and the food and grass have gone first.
Echigo's unique dual-headed politics meant that if you wanted to mobilize resources, you had to coordinate both parties first, and the first one to bear the brunt was the Naoe Jinkan Office.
Today's Naoetsu is not only the largest port town in Echigo, but also the terminus of the Hokuriku Road trade route at the Kanto end.
As the main unloading and distribution market, and the two forces of the Uesugi family and the Kanto shrine, it is a tax-rich area that profits the business of Hokuriku Road.
The most important thing is that the military rations needed for this Kantō campaign were purchased and transported to the warehouse in Naojiangjin in batches. The storage and allocation were inseparable from the coordination of the Naojiangjin Customs Office.
