It was already Qing'an when a copy of the imperial proclamation promulgated by the Kyoto Imperial Court's Emperor Gomizuoin regarding the abolition of the title of Emperor Kobuin Taijo and labeling him as an enemy of the court was delivered to Kokobuin Koiko. It’s August 13th in the fourth year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is just two days away.
At this time, Kobuin Koko and her husband Zhu Jijiong had already lived in the Toyama Imperial Palace (Toyama Castle) in Ezhong. The three countries of Echigo, Etchu, and Sado, as well as the Chichi County and Nobuo County of Dewa Province, were all here. Already completely under the control of Xingwuyuan Xingzi and her ministers.
Retainers of the Tokugawa shogunate, such as Masayuki Hoshina, Mitsuyoshi Matsudaira, and Naomi Matsudaira, gathered the remaining troops and retreated to Matsushiro Castle (also known as Kaizu Castle) in Kawanakajima of the Sanada family.
Because the weather in Hokuriku is cold at this time, heavy snow will block the mountains in October of the lunar calendar, making it impossible to go anywhere. Therefore, the shogunate and the Kobuin side had stopped large-scale military operations in mid-August and began to deploy defenses in preparation for the winter.
In the name of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, Kobuin summoned all of its loyal ministers to its new home, Etchu Toyama Imperial Palace.
In the Honmaru Hall of the Toyama Imperial Palace, which was hastily completed (actually not completely completed), Xingzi, who was dressed as a noblewoman of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Cijiong, who was wearing the imperial robe of the Ming Dynasty, sat side by side and accepted the worship of their ministers.
After the ceremony, Xingwuyin Xingzi took out a copy of the announcement from the imperial court that Emperor Housuiwei had deprived him of his title and accused him of being an enemy. He read it out in front of everyone with a smile. After reading it, he looked at the ministers below with a smile.
Of course, a group of ministers understand what Xingwuyuan means, so hurry up and show your loyalty!
Therefore, the ministers of Kobuin, Kusunoki Masayuki, Yamada Choyasu (the guy who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in the Philippines), Suzuki Gipu (Zagapu), Uesugi Tsunakatsu, Takeda Shinji, Marubashi Tadaya, Masuda Toki Under the leadership of Zhen, Matsukura Shigetoshi and others, they expressed their loyalty to Kobuin one by one.
"Your Majesty, this is an act of chaos!"
"His Majesty, the Supreme Patriarch of Housuiweiyuan has no right to issue such a proclamation!"
"Your Majesty, no matter what decree is issued by the court in Kyoto, I will swear allegiance to Your Majesty to the death!"
"I only know that there is Your Majesty, but I don't know that there are other emperors and emperors in Japan..."
"I ask your Majesty to restore the throne of the Emperor!"
Later, the show of loyalty turned into persuading people to join!
Sure enough, they are all loyal ministers!
The Emperor of Xingwuyuan was finally satisfied. Then he turned to look at Zhu Cijiong and said softly: "What do you think, husband?"
Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "Housuiweiyuan is not the real emperor, and Shao Ren is not the real emperor. There is only one real emperor in Japan today, and it is you, my wife!"
"Why do you say this, husband?" Xingwuyuan asked with a smile, "The three artifacts that symbolize the emperor's legal authority are still in Shao Ren's hands!"
"Hmph," Zhu Cijiong smiled, "How can you call yourself the emperor if you don't have a million dan? Shao Ren is just a puppet of the shogunate. He has no power and power. His salary is only 10,000 dan. He can barely be a feudal lord. How can he be called the emperor? Moreover, In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, how can ministers issue decrees to control the king? So Shao Ren is not the real emperor even if he holds the Tencongyun Sword (Kusanagi Sword), the eight-foot magatama, and the eight-tatama mirror!"
"What do the ministers think of what King Ning said?" Xingwuyuan asked the question to the ministers below.
"What His Highness Prince Ning said is absolutely true, His Highness Shao Ren's position as emperor is not true!"
"Your Majesty, please reset!"
"Your Majesty is the true emperor!"
Xingwuyuan nodded and asked: "If Gosuiweiyuan and Shao Ren are not the real emperor or the real emperor, then are the five regents and nine Qinghua princes real and fake?"
"Of course it's false!" Ning Wang Zhu Cijiong said, "Gongqing is the collective title of the Three Gongs and Nine Qings. The Three Gongs and Nine Qings are the assistants to the emperor and the important ministers who govern the world. Today in Japan, the world's Guanwu Regent, Jiuqinghua and so on What's wrong? They are just beggars from the shogunate. How dare they call themselves ministers? All the gentlemen here are the real ministers!"
Now all the ministers of Kobuin understood. It turned out that Kobuin's line was not the integration of public and military affairs, nor was it the way of Emperor Go-Daigo to use public ministers to govern the samurai. Instead, it was to kick away the begging ministers in Kyoto and directly establish the samurai court. This It is much more legitimate than the shogunate governing the country.
Ning Wang Zhu Cijiong continued: "From now on, the land of Japan will be divided into the celestial territory directly controlled by the emperor and the vassal territory controlled by the ministers... In addition to the vassals, the emperor will also have direct vassals to receive salaries. Ministers. The vassal ministers’ salary is no less than 10,000 shi, and they can serve as three ministers and nine ministers. The salary of direct ministers is no more than 5,000 shi, and they can only hold lower official positions.”
This is good. All the loyal ministers of Xingwuyuan understand that Xingwuyuan and Prince Ning directly copied all the Tokugawa shogunate's tactics. From now on, the three ministers and nine ministers will be the shogunate senior middle school and Ruonian.
Kobuyuan took over the topic at this time and continued: "From now on, the imperial court will implement the system of cabinet ministers. The minister of Taizheng, the general who conquers barbarians, the minister of the left, the minister of the right, and the minister of the interior will jointly assist the emperor. The ministers will be in charge of the country's affairs.
The eight ministries are led by the Minister of Central Affairs, the Minister of Shibu, the Minister of Administration, the Minister of Civil Affairs, the Minister of War, the Minister of Punishment, the Minister of Dazang, and the Minister of the Imperial Palace to implement the decisions of the five ministers meeting before the imperial court. The generals of the left guard and the right guard lead the army of guards respectively to protect the court and conquer the unfavorable subjects. The Great Nayan and Zhong Nayan jointly led the Procuratorate to impeach traitors. To protect and manage the territory of the heavenly territory, and to guard the lands of the various vassals as the lord of the vassal.
All the five ministers, eight ministries, procurators, guards, guardians and other officials are temporary officials and cannot be appointed for a long time, let alone hereditary. Among them, there are five phases and eight divisions, all of which are headed by feudal lords. The procuratorates, guards, guards and other officials are all appointed directly by the emperor.
In addition, there are additional powerful officials who do not hold actual duties and receive no salary. They are only for promotion and are awarded to the lords of various regions to show the court's favor. "
Xingwuyuan paused and then said: "As for the position of regent, from now on it can only be granted to the husband of the emperor, the queen, the queen mother, and the prince. My husband, Prince Ning, will be granted the position of regent, and he will share the power with me! I The eldest son, He Ren, will be established as the crown prince.
The positions of the Five Prime Ministers will be awarded to Uesugi, Kusugi, Takeda, Yamada and Suzuki..."
Xingwuyuan glanced at the regent Zhu Cijiong, who said: "King Uesugi!"
Uesugi Tsusakatsu responded quickly, walked a few steps on his knees, reached the center of the hall, and knelt down in front of Xingwuyuan and Zhu Cijiong.
Zhu Cijiong said: "King Uesugi has been granted the post of Taizheng Minister! Echigo will be granted a kingdom. When Ueno Kingdom is recovered in the future, half of the kingdom will be granted!"
"My dear, Uesugi Tsunayoshi, thanks His Majesty the Emperor and His Majesty the Regent for your great kindness! The Uesugi family shall be loyal to the Imperial Family from generation to generation!"
Generations? Zhu Cijiong said in his heart: Do you still have generations to come? He is already quite old... Forget it, I will adopt my second son to you from now on!
"Qing Kusunoki!" Zhu Cijiong called Kusunoki Masaki to him again, "You have granted me the post of general to conquer barbarians! I will grant 300,000 shi to Deyu Zhici County and Nobuo County (that is, Yonezawa Domain). When Deyu Kingdom is recovered in the future, all of them will be granted the title." To your Majesty."
"I, Kusunoki Masaki, would like to thank His Majesty the Emperor and His Majesty the Regent for their great kindness! The Kusunoki family will be loyal to all generations, and I will serve the country for seven lifetimes!"
"King Takeda!"
The next person to be ennobled was Takeda Shinji. In fact, Takeda Shinji's contribution was not as great as that of Yamada Nagatasu and Suzuki Yoshipu, but he was a descendant of Takeda Shingen (one of Shingen's daughters married Uesugi Kagekatsu, so he died in the Takeda family At that time, Shingen's seventh son, Nobukiyo, fled to Echigo to join his brother-in-law Kagekatsu, and Nobutsuji was Nobukiyo's grandson). Next, he would win over the Sanada family and attack Shinano and Kai Kingdoms, and Nobutsu would be needed.
"I will grant you the position of minister of the left, and when Jia Fei is recovered in the future, I will grant you the title of a vassal!"
Uesugi and Kusugi both had real seals, so Takeda had no choice but to get a false seal first. But Takeda Shinji was still very grateful and was so excited that his eyes filled with tears!
The poor guy with 1,000 shijialu now has a chance to get back the 250,000 shi ancestral property of Jia Fei...and the hope of success is very high!
After sealing Takeda, Yamada Choyasu and Suzuki Yipu also stepped forward to receive the seal. Yamada sealed the right minister and gave him a blank check for 250,000 koku - he didn't say where he would seal it. Let him choose when the territory becomes larger!
Suzuki Yipu, on the other hand, granted the title of Minister of Internal Affairs and gave him a quota of 250,000 shi, but also did not determine the specific fiefdom.
But the two of them were still very happy. After all, Xingwuyuan's territory was only so small, and it was impossible to seal it all off.
After sealing Uesugi and Kusugi, Kobuin's territory in Japan only had 520,000 koku from Echuchu and 1.6 million koku from Sado Island (equivalent to an income of 1.6 million koku), for a total of 2.12 million koku!
This is the real emperor!
In addition, Uesugi has 910,000 koku and Phoebe has 300,000 koku. Counting their fiefdoms, the Xingwuyuan side has a total territory of 3.33 million shi, which is quite powerful!
