Soon, the monk who was running errands ran back dejectedly.
"Master, the leader refused to meet and said that unless we hand over the bandits, there is nothing to communicate with." The envoy who had been rejected reported to Shanruhui in disgrace.
"Hiss..." Shanru frowned upon hearing this, then turned around and walked back to the temple to find those bandits, "What a bad luck. Did those guys really offend the Imagawa family?"
"What, Hatamoto of the Imagawa family came to our door?" The bandit leader turned pale with fright after hearing the news, "Are those horses from the Hatamoto of the Imagawa family?"
"Are you really so blind that you even want to steal the horses of the Imagawa family?" Shan Ruhan scolded him a few times and kept shaking his head.
"Then what should we do?" The bandit leader slumped down in confusion, "Master Shanru wants to hand us over?"
"What nonsense are you talking about?" Shanru's face darkened when he heard this, and he waved his hands vigorously, "The poor monk has already said that even if someone from the Imagawa family comes, they will never even take a step into my temple. This is a tradition from ancient times. Here are the rules. I just want to tell you, don't get into trouble like this in the future."
"Then if the soldiers of the Imagawa family come to the door..." the bandit leader asked tentatively.
"What they don't dare to do is rely on the 1,800 people at the door. Do they really think they can bring us to the temple?" Shanru sneered twice with disdain, "We can't even enter the temple gate."
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then……
On August 23, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Okuhira Yoshimasa led more than 100 Okhirabei people to arrive outside Shanggong Temple.
On August 26, the twelfth year of Tianwen (1543), Makino Yasunari led more than 300 Makino preparations to arrive outside Shanggong Temple.
On August 27, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Kira Yoshiaki led more than 900 Kirabei people to arrive outside Shanggong Temple.
On August 28, the twelfth year of Tenmon (1543), Matsudaira Yoshiharu led more than 300 people from Tojo Matsudaira to arrive outside the Jogiya Temple.
On August 30, the twelfth year of Tianmo (1543), Kannuma Sadamura led more than 200 Kanumabei people to arrive. On the same day, Asai Masatoshi led more than 1,200 people from Imagawa Army Flag Honan Enbei to arrive outside Shanggongji Temple.
The total strength of the Imagawa Army outside Shanggong Temple exceeded 4,000. At this time, the monks in Shanggong Temple began to panic.
"What kind of situation is this? To be able to mobilize the Imagawa Army's headquarters, the two branches stationed in Mikawa and Toe, and to mobilize the people in the Mikawa area. This is definitely not a scale that Obara Hizen and Yamada Ukonoe can mobilize... Zenru gathered the officials and bandits into the main hall of the temple, and asked everyone with a solemn face: "Who was the first person to come to the door? Is it the same as the young man with a Kyoto accent?"
"That's that person." Several monk soldiers guarding the door looked at each other, realizing that they had probably caused a big disaster.
"At this level... they must have offended Imagawa Yoshimoto or the people around Master Xuezhai..." Shanru still did not realize the seriousness of the problem when he speculated, so he was too optimistic, "Then they became angry and went back Report it to Imagawa Yoshimoto or Master Yukisai to send troops to support them. But the battle is too big, so they must be favorites or close associates..."
"Send someone to return the horses to them. It's better to settle the matter." Although Shanru is unruly, he is not an ignorant person. "If the horses are returned, they will have no reason to continue to pester, right? After all, Imagawa I certainly wouldn’t want to have an unprovoked conflict with our Jodo Shinsect, right? Even if this cronies still want to continue the quarrel, Master Imagawa Yoshimoto and Yukisai will not continue to let them do whatever they want."
"No problem, no problem at all!" At this time, the bandits didn't have the air of murdering people and stealing goods. They all nodded and prepared to offer the expensive horses they had snatched without any resistance. "Trouble, please. Master!"
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At the same time, inside the Imagawa family camp outside Shanggong Temple.
That's right, the number of Imagawa troops arriving at this time already requires a "big camp" to accommodate them.
"The Okuhira family came really quickly this time, and it was really hard work." At this time, Imagawa Yoshimoto was holding the first evaluation meeting with all members present in the shogunate, and he took the lead in praising the new governor of the Okuhira family, Yoshimasa Okuhira: "The Okuhira family's castle is nearly a hundred miles away from here. It was really not easy to arrive with the army six days after receiving the order."
"Your Highness, the Governor, is ridiculous. The number of Okuhira is small and the territory is compact, so it is naturally easy to mobilize." Yoshimasa Okuhira did not dare to accept the award happily in front of so many colleagues and senior generals. After all, the Okuhira family had just committed a serious crime of treason and it was not appropriate to make it public. , so he quickly lowered his head and thanked her. But as soon as the words came out of his mouth, he realized something was wrong.
The Okudaira family used to be a powerful family with a huge territory, but they were reduced to this position because of their previous rebellion - so by saying this, didn't he implicitly complain that the Imagawa family's punishment was too harsh? Therefore, Okuhira Yoshimasa leaned deeply and added: "I and the samurai of the Oudaira family are fully aware of the serious sins of the mistakes they made before, and are willing to be shrouded in horse hides to wash away the stigma."
"Work hard." Imagawa Yoshimoto was not so generous as to just forget the blame, so he encouraged him, and then looked at the subordinates present. Just when he was about to open his mouth to lay out his next plan, Hayasaka Nao hurriedly opened the tent door and leaned over to report: "Your Highness, there is an envoy from Kamigong Temple asking for an audience, and he has returned with a few horses."
Hearing this, there was an uproar in the tent:
"Have you sent the horses back?"
"As expected, they robbed it."
"Is this a request for peace?"
Imagawa Yoshimoto also immediately stood up and walked out of the tent. At the same time, he ordered Hayasaka Nao: "Bring him to the side tent to see me."
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Not long after, the monk who was the envoy was brought over by Hayasaka Nao.
"Confirmed, it's our stolen horse." Hayasaka Nao reported to Imagawa Yoshimotohui while closing the door.
"Yes, yes." The monk also knew at this moment that the person in front of him might be a confidant or favorite of Imagawa Yoshimoto. He did not dare to be as arrogant as he was a few days ago, but answered honestly: "That day after the master left, , Master Shanru took us to search the whole temple, and finally found the abandoned horse in the wasteland of the back mountain, and specially brought it back to you."
"You have found nothing for so many days, and you found the army immediately when you saw it coming?" Imagawa Yoshimoto sat down leisurely on his seat, raised his eyes and looked at the monk, "Master Zenru said before that he had already taken the entire upper palace. We searched all over the temple, but we couldn’t find a few living animals?”
"It's because we didn't search carefully enough before, causing you to wait for a long time. I'm really sorry." The monk didn't mean to talk back at all, he bowed his head and apologized, "It turns out that the believers who were responsible for searching the wasteland in the back mountain have been punished. Punish them for neglecting the search."
"Okay, the matter of the horses will be settled once you return them." Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded slightly. The monk in front of him was relieved and immediately leaned over to thank Imagawa Yoshimoto.
However, Imagawa Yoshimoto changed the subject and said, "But, what about those bandits? Why weren't they brought out together?"
"Huh?" The monk was stunned for a moment, "Didn't you mean..."
"The return of the horse is still a matter of the horse, but how could those bandits not pursue it?" Imagawa Yoshimoto didn't know why the monk was in a daze, so he explained patiently.
"But they didn't just steal your horses. Wouldn't it be great if the horses were returned to you?" The monk replied matter-of-factly, and then confidently laid out the sky-high negotiating terms that Master Shanru allowed him to offer, "If Your Excellency is still angry, Han Temple is willing to pay a sum of fodder fees to make up for the cost of this army's labor, no matter how many thousand dan, you can make whatever price you want."
After the monk finished speaking, he showed a confident smile - yes, thousands of kilograms of food will be more than enough after supplementing the food and salary for this army mobilization. This favorite of Imagawa Yoshimoto can put it into his own pocket or Taking it for some benefits is an irresistible reason to refuse. But these few thousand stones are nothing to Shanggong Temple - it occupies so much land, and it can receive so many tributes from believers every year, and the temple does not have to pay taxes, so what is the use of saving some food? Disaster?
But Imagawa Yoshimoto's expression unexpectedly turned worse.
“‘Just’ stole the horses? ” Imagawa Yoshimoto calmly repeated the monk’s words.
"Yes...yes." The monk nodded without knowing why.
"They killed an innocent family of three in a nearby village. Don't you know this?" Imagawa Yoshimoto took a deep breath and kept his tone calm.
"Knowing is knowing... But isn't that just a poor old woman and two children? She shouldn't have anything to do with the Lord and your army, right? If they are really family members of the samurai, how can they live there in such a shabby way?" The monk looked at him carefully. Imagawa Yoshimoto's face didn't understand what made him angry.
"Isn't the loss of three innocent lives even worthy of being mentioned as a matter for you, the Jodo Shinsect?" Imagawa Yoshimoto has already held his hand on the hilt of the katana, "There is a saying: "Building a Hyakubutsuji Temple, It is better to live alone." You Jodo Shinshu believers are not only unwilling to demolish hundreds of Buddhist temples just to save one life, but you regard human life as nothing more than grass. They are stubborn and extremely evil...Don't you understand the principle of murdering people to pay for their lives? Don’t the scriptures you usually recite teach you not that “all living beings are equal and to save the common people”, but that they “kill innocent people indiscriminately and take human life lightly”? "
"This..." The monk of the Ichigo Sect was obviously asked about a blind spot by Imagawa Yoshimoto, and he didn't know how to answer for a while.
"Three lives, do you think that you can turn over the stolen goods and make it a minor issue?" Imagawa Yoshimoto tightly grasped the handle of Ryumaru's knife and scolded the monk in front of him: "Go back! Talk to your abbot! Either you hand it over yourself. The murderer, either our Imagawa army enters the temple and searches for him personally! We want to see him alive, and he wants to see his body dead."
"Does this gentleman know what it means to let your army enter the temple?" Seeing that Imagawa Yoshimoto had said this, the monk who came to envoy finally got tough and retorted angrily: "Break the guard and the envoy will not be able to enter." This is the custom of being an enemy of the whole Sanhe and even the whole world of temples. Can you bear the responsibility of this crime? Aren't you afraid that the master will cut you to pieces when you go back?"
"I am the governor himself." Imagawa Yoshimoto coldly waved his sleeves and walked away, "It is useless to say more, just go back and convey the message."
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