Akechi Mitsuhide was also surprised. Yoshihiro seemed to be hesitating just now. Why did he make up his mind immediately after receiving an urgent letter? What did the urgent letter say?
Yoshigan noticed Akechi Mitsuhide's doubts and sighed.
"In early summer, His Highness Uesugi picked up a baby girl in Kasugayama Castle, adopted her as an adopted daughter, named Uesugi Miyuki, and made her his heir. He also decided to become a monk and take the Buddhist name Kenshin."
Akechi Mitsuhide, who was as thoughtful as he was, couldn't help but sigh.
"Your Majesty Uesugi, your handling of this matter is too rough, isn't it?"
Yiyin smiled bitterly.
"She doesn't care, she just wants to show me."
Both Yoshigan and Akechi Mitsuhide understood that the baby girl they picked up must be Uesugi Kenshin's biological son. Uesugi Kenshin repeated Takeda Shingen's routine for fear that others would not understand.
Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't help but look at Yoshiyin with resentment. No wonder the king suddenly made up his mind to follow the Shinto way.
The two powerful sects of Takeda and Uesugi have obtained the king's blood. It is even more difficult for Shiba's family to have peace. The eyes of those admirers are probably red.
Tang Monk's meat at home has become cheaper than that of the goblins outside. No matter whether it is eaten alive or skinned alive, the mentality of the ministers will be further disturbed and uneasy, and your Majesty is probably also very panicked.
Yoshigan was stared at by Akechi Mitsuhide's faint eyes, and he was indeed a little weak, so he explained.
"I cannot ignore the stability of the Echigo duopoly and must make some physical sacrifices to win over His Highness Uesugi."
It's hard for Yoshihiro to say that he didn't realize that foreign vassals acquiring his bloodline would cause political turmoil, so he wanted to use a child to tie up Uesugi Kenshin's heart.
Now that he has suffered a lot with Takeda Reina and received a warning from Akechi Mitsuhide, he naturally understands that he took the problem too superficially.
But what's the use of regretting now?
The emergence of Takeda Rena and Uesugi Miyuki will inevitably make the internal and external samurai covet Yoshigan even more. If he wants to stabilize his position, Yoshigan can only bite the bullet and choose the Shinto mentioned by Akechi Mitsuhide.
He coughed and said.
"Mitsuhide, what do you think about the specific plan to follow the Shinto path?"
Yoshihiro was so embarrassed that he changed the subject, and Akechi Mitsuhide couldn't continue to be pretentious. The wood has become the boat and the rice has become the cooking pot. What problem can the resentment solve now?
Akechi Mitsuhide sighed and said.
"Now that your Majesty has made up his mind, I will definitely help you succeed.
For thousands of years, the island nation has been ruled by an emperor who is said to be the eternal lineage. The emperor claimed to be the son of the great god Rizhao, and regarded himself as a living god, thus controlling mortals with his godhead.
When the Kamakura shogunate collapsed, Ashikaga Takauji launched an army to fight for the world. She started her career in Kanto, but she was defeated and fled to Kyushu alone.
Relying on his status as a direct descendant of the Genji in Kawachi and the suppression and humiliation of the samurai group by the emperor's court, Ashikaga Takauji was able to gather the imperial family members of the Western Kingdom of Kyushu and go to Luo to achieve the hegemony of the shogunate.
When the Ashikaga Shogunate was established, the Shogun family was weak. It was not until the third generation of Shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu used extraordinary means to establish the authority of the Shogunate that Ashikaga Shoguns became worthy of their name.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who was also powerful in both the government and the public, at the peak of his power, slaughtered the emperor's court and eliminated the biggest hidden danger to the Ashikaga shogunate. "
Yiyin nodded.
The Shiba family were the highest-ranking nobles of the shogunate, and he was certainly familiar with the history of the Ashikaga shogunate. Ashikaga Takauji is not very capable. She was able to conquer the world and establish the shogunate, all because of the support of her peers.
Before the establishment of the Kamakura shogunate, although the samurai group had occupied most of the island country's land, the Hime warriors were lackeys of the emperor's court, and the ownership of the land and estates was still in the hands of the emperor's ministers.
Originally, the Taira family, who was born in the Ise Taira clan, had already defeated the Kawachi Genji family and could definitely become the pillar of the Wu family and the representative of the Wu family.
However, the Taira family chose to betray the samurai class and instead pursue becoming a noble family member. The Taira family's oppression of the samurai group was even more cruel than the emperor's ministers, and they arrogantly declared that those who were not the Taira clan were in no way human.
Completely disappointed with the Heike, the angry Bandohime warriors united around Minamoto Yoritomo, the direct descendant of the Genji family in Kawachi, and wiped out the Heike in the Genpei War.
Minamoto Yoritomo has a clearer political mind than the Taira family.
She tried her best to win over the samurai group, and obtained the title of general to conquer the barbarians from the emperor's court. She opened a palace and established the Kamakura shogunate.
Doing so not only established the ownership of the land by the Wu family group, but also gave Ji warriors peace of mind. It even linked the title of the land occupied by the Hime warriors to the Kamakura shogunate.
Since then, serving the public and being rewarded has become the core value of the samurai family, and the rights and obligations that Ji warriors regard as treasures are traded equally.
Furthermore, Minamoto Yoritomo established the imperial family system, allowing powerful imperial family members loyal to the Kamakura shogunate to participate in decision-making through review, and the shogunate regime became a stage for the samurai nobles to rule the world together.
From then on, the first Wu family regime gained a firm foothold politically. If it hadn't been for the Mongol invasion and the economic collapse of the Kamakura shogunate, perhaps this imperial family collegial system could have persisted longer.
After the collapse of the Kamakura shogunate, the emperor intended to take back the samurai group's land management rights and revive the imperial court.
The troops loyal to the emperor defeated Ashikaga Takauji, but the emperor's policies hurt the interests of the samurai group. The Hime samurai returned to the old method of supporting Minamoto Yoritomo and fully supported Ashikaga Takauji.
Although Ashikaga Takauji suffered repeated defeats, he still successfully established the Ashikaga shogunate regime. This is the story of tens of thousands of Western Imperial family members who followed Ashikaga Takauji to Luo and conquered the world.
Although Ashikaga Takauji became the shogun, the strength of the Ashikaga family was exhausted early in the war. She relied on the support of powerful local samurai families to return to Kyoto.
Therefore, the Ashikaga Shogunate was a weak regime from the beginning. It was only a co-leader of the samurai alliance, and the political situation was very turbulent.
The Ashikaga Shogunate really gained a firm foothold when the third Ashikaga Shogun Yoshimitsu came to power.
The third shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can be said to be the real world leader among the shoguns of Ashikaga. She spent her life doing three things for the Ashikaga Shogunate, which laid a solid foundation for the two hundred years of the Ashikaga Shogunate's world.
First, through superb means, the powerful samurai were instigated to attack each other, which greatly strengthened the arbiter status of the Ashikaga General and made the Ashikaga General's majesty deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
After her, the Ashikaga shoguns of all generations liked to use political balance, instigating powerful samurai to fight against each other, so that the arbiter of the Ashikaga shogun was favored by all parties and had unparalleled authority.
Second, he insisted on opening up trade with the Ming Dynasty. Even though he was rejected again and again, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu never gave up.
In the end, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu fulfilled Ming Chengzu's request to exterminate Japanese pirates, was officially canonized by the Ming emperor, was granted the Japanese King's Seal, and finally gained the benefits of joint trade with the Ming Dynasty.
With a large amount of profits from the Akikawa trade, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had enough money and food to form a group of three thousand Ashikaga horses directly under the Ashikaga shogun, intimidating the world's samurai with absolute military superiority.
Third, the emperor's court was massacred.
In order to prevent anyone from using the emperor's name to threaten the Ashikaga shogunate again, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu brazenly massacred the entire emperor's court at the peak of his power.
She killed all the families of the emperor's ministers, and only a few of the ministers and samurai families who had integrated into the samurai group were spared.
In order to eradicate the root cause, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu aligned with Buddhism and eliminated Shintoism, which had endorsed the emperor's lineage for eternity.
At this point, the Imperial Family, which ruled the world in the name of living gods, completely disappeared from the history of the island nation.
Today, Akechi Mitsuhide brought up the old story of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's massacre of the Emperor, which obviously meant something.
Yiyin asked.
"Do you want me to re-establish the sign of the Emperor's Eternal Lineage?"
The Taira clan of Genji was originally a descendant of the Emperor. He was given the surname and ministerial status by the Emperor and was decentralized. Yoshigan was born in the Kawachi Genji family. If he wanted to follow the Shinto path, he would have no choice but to change back to the emperor.
Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head and said.
"After General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu massacred the Emperor's court, he used the sword of the general to conquer the barbarians internally to command the samurai of the world, and used the Japanese king's seal to negotiate with the Japanese dynasty and other countries externally.
Although the title is a bit weird, after two hundred years, the martial arts families in the world have long forgotten the emperor's court. If you borrow the title of the Emperor's lineage, there will be little benefit, but rather harm.
After all, you are a loyal minister of the Ashikaga Shogunate. Even if the Ashikaga Shogunate is about to die, you cannot slap Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the most outstanding Ashikaga general, in the face. This is not in line with your consistent principles. "
Yiyin nodded and asked.
"Then what do you want to do?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"The people of the world are ignorant. Even if the emperor was a member of the eternal line, someone would have to continue to advocate it for eternity to convince the ignorant people and women.
At that time, General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu joined forces with Buddhist sects to annihilate the Shinto religion, which was advocated by the emperor, thus completely eliminating the influence of the emperor's court.
General Ashikaga Yoshimitsu eliminated political dangers, and Buddhism became the world's only religion for two hundred years. Both sides got what they needed, a so-called win-win situation.
In today's world, the Nanman Sect has traveled far across the ocean, coming fiercely and aggressively. His Highness Oda apostatized, burned Mount Hiei, and disrespected gods and Buddhas.
All sects of Buddhism are in panic, fearing that their orthodoxy will be destroyed and their faith will cease to exist.
Your Majesty, this is a good opportunity. "
Yoshihiro somewhat understood Mitsuhide Akechi's thoughts.
The god-making movement is a propaganda war. In the Middle Ages, the people were not yet enlightened. As the ruling class, the Wu family had a large number of illiterate warriors, not to mention the lower class untouchables.
The market for feudal superstition is almost infinite, and the benefits of faith are so great that naturally there are countless religious players fighting to the death.
Buddhism was the champion of the last island nation's faith competition, and the loser was Shintoism, which had been buried in the soil for two hundred years.
If Yoshigan wants to become a god, he doesn't have to dig up the dead Shinto religion again. He can learn from Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and achieve cooperation with Buddhist sects.
In these troubled times, there is no peace in the secular world, and there is no peace in the heaven of faith.
The Southern Barbarians invaded, and those missionaries traveled thousands of miles, not even caring about their own lives, and wholeheartedly wanted to spread the glory of Christianity across the earth.
The Nichiren sect within Buddhism hated the Tendai sect even more than the Nanman sect because of the Lotus Rebellion. Heretics deserved to die more than heretics.
As for Oda Nobunaga, the most powerful among the secular forces, she has no respect for the Buddhist sect, and her attitude is like looking at a group of fat sheep waiting to be slaughtered.
The Tendai sect that occupies Enryaku-ji Temple on Mount Hiei and is known as the Father of Buddha. The Shingon sect that closed the door and chanted sutras was taken over the Kofukuji Temple of Yamato Buddhism. The Yixiang Sect takes root in grassroots beliefs and is determined to establish a pure land on earth.
These mainstream Buddhist forces are under unprecedented threat. If Yiyin can ally with them and let them take the initiative to build momentum for Yiyin's Shinto, the road to becoming a god will be almost certain.
Yiyin thought for a while and asked.
"Is this okay?"
Akechi Mitsuhide smiled.
"Your Majesty, please don't underestimate these big sects. The Tiantai sect loves to go to the top, the Shingon sect has a poor scholar and a master who thinks deeply about Buddhism, and the Yixiang sect works in the grassroots villages. The foolish women of the villagers are the most pious.
As long as these major sects reach an agreement and are willing to go all out to build momentum for the king, becoming a god will definitely be more effective with half the effort and have great certainty.
Moreover, the deceased Master Jueshu had already set the template and written the script for them. "
Speaking of Master Kakushu, Yoshiyin couldn't help but glare at Akechi Mitsuhide. He knew very well that the death of the Master was probably closely related to Mitsuhide Akechi, a sinister woman.
However, Akechi Mitsuhide pretended not to know and continued talking on his own.
"There have been rumors in recent days that Your Majesty is the incarnation of Bishamonten.
Bishamonten is the Buddhist protector god. According to legend, he is also the protector of roads and commerce. He is also known as the military god. These qualities are actually very suitable for you.
You protect the Yamato Buddhist Kingdom and the Hokuriku trade route, making you invincible and invincible. I encountered a miracle at Hachimangu Shrine in Tsuruoka, Kanto, and inherited the royal white flag of Hachiman Tainiang. The Kanto samurai family respects you like a god.
As long as the three major sects are willing to openly brag about it, they will definitely be recognized by most people, especially the middle and lower class Wu family believers, who will definitely believe it. "
Yiyin nodded, Akechi Mitsuhide was right. It doesn't matter whether others believe it or not. The most important thing is that Warrior Ji must believe it.
Especially the local servants in the middle and lower-class villages, they are the cornerstone of the political power that truly supports the Wu family.
Although Yoshigan is not as drastic as Oda Nobunaga, he is actually quietly promoting the samurai reform, which is to force the upper-level samurai families to share profits to the middle- and lower-level samurai families, uniting the entire samurai group.
Compared with Oda Nobunaga's radical approach of breaking the privileges of the samurai family and turning all islanders into his own resources. Yiyin unites the entire Wu family group to redistribute interests, which can only be regarded as a small fight.
Comparing the two, the Samurai Group would rather choose the man Yoshihiro as the boss than the class traitor Oda Nobunaga.
After all, it makes a big difference whether the meat is rotten in the pot or scattered on the ground.
As the Hime Samurai, Akechi Mitsuhide was dissatisfied with the current situation of samurai society, but she must have supported Yoshigan's internal reform of the samurai group rather than Oda Nobunaga's changes.
The plan she proposed to become a god is essentially to seek recognition from the Wu family group for the truth that Yi Yin is the patron saint of the Wu family, and to solidify the divinity of Yi Yin as the leader of the Wu family.
As for whether the pariah ants who are not from the samurai family believe it or not, Akechi Mitsuhide doesn't care?
The samurai family is the ruler of the world, and the innovation pursued by Akechi Mitsuhide is the self-evolution of the samurai group to continue to rule this island country.
Instead of acting like Oda Nobunaga, it would be a nightmare for those untouchables to climb up and be on an equal footing with the Hime Warriors!
(End of chapter)
