Pillars of the Wu family

Dozens of important officials from the Kanto region gathered in the Edo Castle Changyusuo. They were going to witness the first meeting of the former Kanto overlord Hojo's family. Seeing so many familiar faces appearing in the Changyusuo, Hojo Shizheng always felt a little awkward in his heart. Being surrounded by former enemies and defeated subordinates was probably one of the most painful things.

Wearing a silver-white safari suit with a standing black hat on his head, he walked over slowly as if he was dressed for a leisure trip. The Hojo father and son saw that this man was tall and majestic, with the power to look down upon the world, and they knew that this was Kanto Gong Fang Ashikaga Yoshihiro Shi himself quickly bowed and said respectfully: "Dr. Hojo Sakyo (Sagami Mori), see His Royal Highness."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki walked to the seat and sat down cross-legged, and said with a smile on his face: "There is no need to be too polite! Yu is very happy to see the two Highnesses here, because Yu feels that the background of the warriors of Kyoto must be extraordinary. Today Seeing that the temperament of the two highnesses is uncommon, it is beyond the comparison of common warriors, and it is a great blessing for my Kanto Ashikaga family to be able to persuade the two highnesses to surrender today."

Hojo Shiyasu bowed and replied seriously: "I dare not be a compliment from His Royal Highness."

"Speaking of which, Hojo Kamisosukeden and Hojo Anboshouden should join the two Highnesses." Ashikaga Yoshitoki pulled out his folding fan and rang the desk, and within a moment he saw Hojo Tsunari and Hojo Ujikun led by Xiao surname. Chang Yusuo, father and son brothers meet is a different feeling, Hojo Ujibun looked at Ashikaga Yoshitoki with a face of gratitude and gratitude, as if celebrating this long-lost sense of survival after the catastrophe.

The little reunion was just an appetizer, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki immediately proposed it to Hojo Ujiyasu.I hope to appoint him to take on the important task of acting as the elder of the Ashikaga family tree. This proposal is also in accordance with the rules set by Ashikaga Yoshitoki.Basically, every time a samurai is conquered, a position will be assigned according to his territorial origin ability.In the Kami Ashikaga family whose position is not hereditary.It is not too exaggerated to reward the new powerful warriors who have surrendered.

It's just that Hojo Ujiyasu still seems to have a gap in his heart, and he is not willing to work hard for the Kanto government in front of him, so he declined on the grounds that he is old, fatuous, sick and weak, and Ashikaga Yoshitoki is also very reasonable to appease him. Don't be discouraged. It is also possible to take good care of the body and then work for it.

It always takes a lot of courage to rashly invite an old enemy to be your genealogy family. Of course, the other party also needs a lot of courage to succeed. This refusal is not so unexpected. big secret.The Hojo clan inherited severe hypertension, which was almost impossible to face in ancient times when there was no treatment for chronic diseases such as hypertension.

Cao Cao, Li Shimin, Li Zhi and other famous emperors all died of high blood pressure. It is conceivable that Hojo Shiyasu was helpless in the face of this genetic disease. Once he was over forty, his body would not be as good as before. In the past year, he often could only work for half a day and rest for half a day. Later, after the defeat in the Gaoshan battle, he firmly believed in retiring.

Let him continue to serve as the elder of the Pudai family, not to mention how twisted his heart is, even the heavy work of the Pudai family may not be able to sustain his health. It didn't meet Ashikaga Yoshitoki's expectations, he hoped that Sagami Shishi could live a few more years.At least it can calm the Hojo legacy of Sagami Izu.

"Since the elders of Pu Dai's family can't take on the role, it's better to take the second place and take on the role of Yu's companions!"

The honorary position of accompanying the public.You don't have real power and you don't need to work hard for the family business of the Ashikaga family. You just need to eat and chat with Ashikaga Yoshitoki to exchange some opinions and opinions. It's probably the same thing as an expert evaluation team that doesn't have to take responsibility. This time Hojo Shikang didn't refuse, and happily agreed.

After arranging the position of Hojo Ujiyasu, he turned to the current family governor, Hojo Shizheng. Ashikaga Yoshitoki said to him: "Hojo Sagami Shouden is young, promising and has a bright future. Serving as Yu's genealogy elder can make the samurai at home feel at ease. What I am concerned about is the issue of Miao characters raised by many retainers in charge of Kanto, how does Sagami Shouden think about the issue of Miao characters?"

"Please forgive me, Your Majesty, I really have nothing to say about the Miao characters." The Hojo Clan was a little embarrassed to avoid the ridicule and ridicule from the corner. The Hojo family is obviously not a branch of the Hojo family of the Kamakura shogunate. The self-proclaimed Miao character Hojo can't be counted, so they have been ridiculed by the Kanto warriors all the time.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki knew how deep the contradiction was, and said with a smile: "I have two proposals for Sagami Mamoru to choose from. The first is to restore the name of the Miao family of Ise, and the Ise family comes from the Iseheira family and the The Hojo clan came from the same sect, and it is absolutely no problem to restore the original Miao characters of this sect's Miao characters. Secondly, if you continue to use the current Miao characters of the Hojo clan, I can give you the Hojo clan's high recognition."

The administration of the Hojo clan is very contradictory. The Ise clan is the Miao character of their family. Ise Shinkuro entered the Taoist Sounan Zongzui in his prime. He is the ancestor of the Hojo family, Hojo Soun. Anyway, the Ise clan is also a hereditary samurai family who is the deacon of the shogunate government. , the position in the shogunate is second only to the three leaders, and even stronger than the four positions since the end of the Onin Rebellion.

However, the Hojo Clan can only be counted as the branch of the Bichu Ise Clan, who is not qualified to inherit the main family. It is better to continue to use the previous Miao character. Whether it is from personal psychology or practical interests, continue to use it. Miao character Hojo is the best choice. After decades of hard work, the name of Sagami Hojo has been created, and the brand effect has grown into a towering tree. It is definitely a big tree to suddenly cut down the middle of the tree at this time. unwise.

The Hojo Clan said firmly: "I have decided to continue to retain the name of the Hojo Clan."

"Are you sure you don't regret it?"

"Never regret it!"

The young Kanto government smiled silently, and applauded the Hojo clan’s persistence lightly. The new members of the Kanto family applauded when they saw the government, so we also clapped our hands. The seasoned Xiaoshan Gaochao couldn't figure out the reason for which play he was acting in.

Yuuki Haruto seemed to be thinking of something but was not sure. Fanghe Gaoding and Oseki Takasuke hadn't figured out Kanto's temperament and dared not jump to conclusions. Eye-killing technique.I didn't notice how many invisible things were involved in the small changes in the hall.

"Since that's the case, then how about Yu decides to give the clan government hall a word of worship?"

Hojo Shizheng was stunned for a moment, feeling slightly puzzled.This word worship is not a big deal, why do you have to do it so solemnly, hurriedly bowed and said: "Thank you, Your Highness, for your kindness!"

"Don't be too busy, there is a saying that the character Yu should be used as the common character of the Hojo family. Sagami should think about it." Ashikaga Yoshitoki smiled like a cunning fox.

Hojo Shizheng subconsciously sensed that something was wrong, turned around and saw his father Hojo Shiyasu giving him a sneaky wink, which meant to tell him that he should never agree to the vague refusal, but he didn't dare to play tricks to fool Guandong Gongfang when the matter came to an end.After thinking about it, he still gritted his teeth and said, "Please be kind to Your Royal Highness."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said triumphantly: "Then give the remaining 'time' to the Hojo family! Your future name will be Hojo Sagami Shoushizheng!"

"Ah!" Hojo Shizheng sat down on his buttocks and almost fainted from the fright. At this moment, he understood why his father kept giving him winks to ask him not to agree. The use of "Shi" as a common character did not follow the rules and use "Hojo Tokishi" as a new name, but a peculiar example like Uesugi Terutora, abandoning his own common character "King" and retaining the character "Tiger".

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said disapprovingly, Kojima: "Don't be afraid! I'm not afraid of Shizhengden, what else should I be afraid of? It doesn't matter if it happens to have the same name as a deceased historical figure of the Hojo family. His actions cannot represent the Sagami Hojo family. Words and deeds, aren’t they? So your descendants will carry forward the word ‘time’ and put it in the last word as the name of the descendant!”

"Of course you're not afraid, but I'm really scared to death." The new Hojo Shizheng's legs and feet were frightened and he didn't know what to do.Hojo Shizheng was a powerful minister since the establishment of the Kamakura Shogunate. In his later years, he once wanted to support a puppet general to realize his dream of dictatorship.Abandoned by his daughter Hojo Masako and son Hojo Yoshitoki, he ended up being exiled to Izu Country and died.

The Kamakura Hojo clan, which was powerful hundreds of years ago, has long been wiped out. Today, the Sagami Hojo clan comes from the Ise clan who was born in Kyoto. The same name is changed to Hojo, and the Hojo three-scaled flag is also used. It’s just that Hojo Uzuna never said that he and Kama The relationship between the Cang Hojo family, in the samurai group of the Kanto Eight Kingdoms, made a simple distinction between the two Hojo clans. The Hojo clan who was in power in the Kamakura period was called the former Hojo clan, and now the one in Sagami Odawara Castle is called the Empress Hojo's.

In fact, there is no direct blood relationship between the two Hojo clans. If you insist on how many connections there are, you can get something. The branch created by the family's descendant, Ping Zhensheng, and their descendant is the line of Heike Pillar, Ping Kiyomori.

The Ise family is not well-known as a branch family. It was just an inconspicuous branch during the period of Hera Kiyomi's prosperity and power. At the end of the year, he gradually approached the Ashikaga family and became a confidant by virtue of his status as the guardian of Shangsuo country.

Ashikaga Takashi’s father, Ashikaga Sadaji, and Ise Sadatsugu were black-hat relatives. With this relationship, Ise Sadatsu became the imperial bureaucrat of the Muromachi Shogunate, and thus stood out among several Heira families and became the famous Heira family in the Muromachi era. , Ise Motoki (Hojo Soun) was born as a powerful family member of the Ise family, and became the shogunate Shinji to be responsible for diplomatic affairs.

Ise Sadaka, the former deacon of the government office, is Hojo Soun's grandnephew. Ise Sadaka's father, Ise Sadaka, is Hojo Soun's nephew and Hojo Utsuna's brother. The adoptive son of the housekeeper, Ise Sadataka, is the leader of the family, so it can be seen that the status of the Hojo family is quite good.

In addition, the change of Hojo clan's character to Miaozi to Hojo also has a little relationship with the former Hojo clan. His wife, Hojo Ujiyasu's mother, Yangzhuin has an extraordinary background. Having escaped a turmoil in the last years of Kamakura, the Hojo clan’s family line was successfully preserved, so Hojo clan’s initial change of Miao’s character also had the meaning of son-in-law and adopted son becoming an heir, but this story was never publicized. Hojo's internal knowledge of such a thing.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki suddenly proposed to bestow the former Hojo family's common character "Shi" as the latter Hojo's new common character, which shocked all members of the Hojo family into a cold sweat.I probably feel that the Kanto government has calculated the Hojo family back and forth.The people of the Kanto Kingdom who watched the excitement were all smiling.Excitedly rubbing his palms together, he was happier than New Year's Eve. Whenever he saw the Hojo family in a state of disarray, this good thing happened to them.

Hojo Shiyasu hesitated to speak a few times, and he couldn't help thinking to himself: "His Royal Highness, why does this mean it is worth thinking about! It doesn't seem like simply naming a name that is the same as the ancients, nor is it simply to shock me, Hojo Shi With the current situation where the Kanto government is dominating the Kanto, there should be no need to target my Hojo family!"

It is not a particularly remarkable thing to have the same name. In many families, descendants have deliberately taken the names used by their ancestors. The most famous Yida Cyclops uses his ancestor's name.Umechiyo Wangmaru, who died young, was Ashikaga Yoshishi, the waste wood public, and he also took the name of Ashikaga Kamisaburo Yoshishi, the pillar of the three generations of Ashikaga.

There are also more perverted samurai who love two names and insist on using them. For example, the Iyo Kono family is such an extreme example. The two names of Kono Tsunao and Kono Tsunosuke are used back and forth. The names of the grandfather and grandson are exactly the same, and they can continue It has been used for several generations, and the name is the same. The only way to distinguish it is to look at the age and official position.

Yoshitoki Ashikaga is acting out of bad taste, and of course it’s not as simple as simply trying to scare the Hojo family. His dream is to reshape the samurai demeanor of the Kamakura period, but he can’t imitate the bloody and chaotic Kamakura samurai customs seriously.After all, the times are different, and a more civilized and advanced system must be used to manage the Kanto, and the necessary tactics are an indispensable link.

Using the Hojo family and giving the Hojo family a new character is one of the links in Ashikaga Yoshitoki's plan.Not to mention that the Hojo family has always been at the edge of the shogunate's system of important ministers. More than [-]% of the generation of important officials in the family tree are samurai who followed Hojo Soun from Kyoto, such as the Ise clan from the main family, the Matsuda clan, the Tominaga clan, and the Ogasawara family. The same is true of the Daosi family and Daosi family.

The powerful genealogy generations of Yamato Haruto are also Kyoto samurai who came to Sagami in the past 20 years. They have a natural affection and attraction for Ashikaga Yoshitoki, who was born in the shogunate. They are all from outsiders and settled in Kanto for more than 60 years. Being constantly bullied by the local aboriginal Kanto samurai also made this group of foreigners from Kyoto very close together. The loyalty of the Hojo vassals has always been the most united among the Kanto samurai family and even the samurai family names in the world. The Shimadzu family who relies on blood support is also missing. better.

"His Highness Gongfang means to warn the family not to follow the Kamakura Hojo family's attempt to usurp power! But such a sudden change of the name of the family, is it just to beat the family?" The Hojo Clan looked at him with confusion and confusion, I hope to get an accurate answer from His Royal Highness, so that there will always be a knot in his heart that cannot be solved.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki didn't want to scare the Hojo Clan administration either, so he smiled kindly and said, "I didn't mean to target Sagami Shouden, this is the first time Yu met with Sakyo Daifuden and Sagami Shouden, and I admired the demeanor of the two very much. Respect, the original meaning of the word worship to Sagami Shouden is the same as the meaning of the name itself, I believe that the two Highnesses will get the answer they want after careful consideration."

"There may be many ways, so there is indeed an inside story!" Hojo Shiyasu turned his head, and immediately felt a sense of enlightenment, and said: "I was thinking about His Highness Gongfang's intentions just now. It must not be that simple. Perhaps this is both a spur and an encouragement! Is it to let me, the Hojo family, fully recover the prestige that this Miao character itself bears?"

Ashikaga Yoshitoki nodded and said: "The Kamakura Hojo family was originally a powerful royal family, and even a samurai family relative to the Hanoi Minamoto Pillar family. During the Genpei era, he made great contributions to the shogunate and assisted the general in governing the world. He made a big mistake, and the general lost his heir to fight for the shogunate. The ruling regime has committed heinous crimes, and it is only natural that my Genji samurai family will wipe them out in one fell swoop.

Now I want to license Sagami Shouden to restore the Miao character of the Hojo clan, shoulder the burden of restoring the Hojo clan's family business and take over the crimes they committed. From today on, I will always take out "My Wife Mirror" to read more and reflect on it, and always be vigilant to myself and my surroundings The samurai family can no longer embark on the road of no return of the Kamakura Hojo clan. "

Perhaps it was because he thought it was immoral to scare the hard-working members of the Hojo clan so much, so before the end of the banquet that day, he bestowed Hojo Shizheng long boatman with a famous sword and a pair of armor, which had the blood of Trekena and Kiso horses. One of the mixed-breed war horses, and allowed the Hojo family to live in the house built in the Ninomaru part of Edo Castle.

At the end of the banquet, he summoned Hojo Shizheng alone, and told him that he did not have to bear too much burden on the new Tongji. As the Kanto government, he was definitely not a fatuous ruler who made trouble for no reason. He would choose to give the Hojo family a chance to restore the name of their ancestor Valuing that their family has rare loyalty and bravery, perhaps the Hojo clan, which was famous all over the world in the past, can be revived in his hands.

A heart-to-heart conversation finally erased Hojo Shizheng's knots, allowing him to sit on the family governor with peace of mind. Ashikaga Yoshitoki gave more preferential treatment than expected, including the six counties in the central part of Sagami. To Hojo Shizheng, let the Sagami Hojo clan's territory increase from the originally promised Sagami Hankoku 14 koku to Sagami Dahankoku [-] koku.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki also offered very preferential treatment to the Hojo clan who surrendered. Those who are willing to follow the Hojo clan from the West Sagami Kingdom and the Izu Country are allowed to go to the East Sagami Country, the Izu Country with more than [-] stones, and the Nishi Sagami Country. Fifty thousand stones became the imperial material land of the Ashikaga family, and it was a win-win situation that everyone was happy with. (To be continued..)

ps: This is the third update, and the next update is still at 18:[-] in the evening.