Pillars of the Wu family

It is no secret that the relationship between Ashikaga Yoshiki and Ashikaga Yoshiki is not very harmonious. Since the turmoil in Kyoto, the trend of the shogunate's decline has become more and more obvious. The comparison of one up, one down and one up made some samurai very unhappy. The responsibility for the defeat in Kyoto was also attributed to the unfavorable support of Ashikaga Yoshitoki. The accumulation of many factors made the relationship between Ashikaga Yoshiki and Ashikaga Yoshitoki worse.

Odate Haruki retired to Otsu Castle for the elderly. Ise Sadaka, the son of Ise Sadaka, launched a strong challenge to the deacon of the government office. The authority of Settsu Harumon, the new deacon supported by the general, continued to decline. , Isshiki Tocho, Mibuchi Tohide, Niki Yoshimasa, Hatakeyama Naomao and other genealogy retainers have deep prejudices against the Kanto government, and the voices inside the shogunate far outweigh the checks and balances on the Kanto.

This is not good news. The unfriendly attitude of the shogunate makes the Kanto Ashikaga family a little at a loss. Ashikaga Yoshiki is a right minister who has a considerable say in the court. He chooses to suppress Ashikaga Yoshitoki instead of relying on him. A long time before Konoe and Zhongyuan Tong had a very adverse influence on a series of ministers.

Konoe proposed the promotion of Ashikaga Yoshiki to the second position, but Nijo Haruyoshi and Ashikaga Yoshiki jointly rejected it. It is said that the relationship between Ashikaga Yoshiki and Konoe Yoshiki is also gradually estranged. Yoshitoki Kanto's name, one can imagine what kind of mood it will be when this word reaches Ashikaga Yoshitoki's ears through the ninja crowd.

Hattori Baochang is not a shogunate, he does not feel the need to be responsible for the safety of the shogunate, and the safety of the Nijo Imperial Palace depends on the responsibilities of the princes in the shogunate temple, not the responsibility of a penniless low-level samurai like him.The shogunate didn't give him a reward, so why bother to work hard for him.The attitude of Hattori Baochang just represents the will released by the entire Kanto samurai collective.

Even if he is as strong as Ashikaga Yoshitoki, he must accept the demands of the group of retainers.The Kanto samurai, especially the Mikawa samurai and Echigo samurai who had experienced the early years of war, had great opinions on the government of the shogunate. They were not recognized and rewarded for the shogunate’s birth and death, and they had to point out their actions in the Kanto. Well, those useless shogunate ministers couldn't beat Miyoshi's family, so they blamed the Guandong government for their unfavorable support and made the shogunate ashamed. This bastard's logic made many Kanto warriors roll their eyes.

You must know that this era does not believe in tears, and there is no saying that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the world, and everyone is responsible for the rise and fall.Doesn't it imply that the officials in the hall have no talent or virtue, and they have to bear as much responsibility as they have ability, and they will be ridiculed if they are in a high position and shirk their responsibilities.

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Otsu Castle, Shiga County, Omi Country is located at the southernmost tip of Lake Biwa. The beautiful scenery here is a place for literati and scholars to stop. Princes such as Saienji Gongchao and Hanayamain Jiafu will come here for a few days every season. Years of painstaking efforts have yielded not only a garden city, but also a golden signboard with good reputation.

The prosperity of Omi country does not have to lie in the commercial development of Sakamoto, which prevents Sakai Town, Katada's handicraft industry from gathering a large number of townspeople, and Otsu, a new brand of livable city, just like the prosperity of Kyoto always comes to mind when referring to Kinai.The vitality of Sakai-cho, the city card of Otsu is livability.

Imagine that there is a famous Tiantai sect temple adjacent to religious holy places such as Yanli Temple, Yuancheng Temple, and Xijiao Temple.It is also only a stone’s throw away from Kyoto and Sakamoto. It takes less than half a day to travel to and from Kyoto’s garden city by cruise ship. It will attract many people who yearn for life in Kinai. The so-called three cities of Omi are the three pearls on Lake Biwa. It comes from this.

Haruki Odate lived in seclusion in Otsu Town, and also the Minister of Kuzeyou, Harumichi Kuga, who also lived here. On this day, tea masters Sen Rikyu, Sohisa Imai, and Mune Tsuda from Sakai Town visited the town, and the meeting was held in the house of Haruki Odate. A small tea party, about 30 to [-] people participated in the tea party. They came from various religions and nine streams, but they all had extraordinary skills.

For example, the family of medical officials from Sakaimachi, who is also known as the sage of medicine, wrote [-] volumes of "Healing Heart Prescription", which was bestowed by the emperor for treating the emperor Masamachi. , the Sakai-machi ikebana sage Wen Ami who compiled the "Twenty Kas of Flowers", and the first Tachibana House in Sakai-machi to make a Sakai tube, Matasanro, once lived in the Ryukyu Kingdom and was treated favorably by the King of Ryukyu, the famous musician Kitiyaki Yin talk, as well as Shinya Sanji, Yutianya Zongzhai, Takekuraya Shodi and other cultural figures gathered together.

The tea ceremony masters in Sakai Town are unusual, not as arty as Ashikaga Yoshitoshi thought. They pay attention to tranquility and naturalness in tea tasting, and they live in a semi-closed tea room, arranging a bouquet of flowers, and boiling water in a pot, but this tea party is not casual Living in a secret room, it is inevitable to bend the rules.

Tsuda Zongji stroked his palms and sighed: "Zhuguang Patriarch once said that the way of tea is the most taboo of self-determination and egoism. Those who see the ability will be jealous and those who see it will be contemptuous of the one who sees it. This cannot happen. Those who are amazed at their talents and see others behind them must cooperate with them, and I deeply think so!"

Banjing Ruice nodded and said: "The tea ceremony is based on the harmony of the heaven and the earth. It is a custom of governing the world and the country. Today, people use it as a matchmaker for inviting guests and meeting friends. The joy of eating and drinking and the beauty of the teahouse are the best for collecting treasures. It is not the original intention of the tea ceremony to boast about one's own ingenuity and mock others' stupidity."

Imai Zongjiu said with a smile: "My former teacher Shaoou used to say, build a small room under a bamboo shade tree, store spring water, plant vegetation, hang a kettle for charcoal, insert raw flowers for tea sets, move mountains and rivers and natural water and stones into one room, and enjoy the four seasons, flowers, snow, moon, and vegetation. Treat guests with courtesy, listen to the wind rustling in the cauldron, forget the worries and distractions of the world, and wash away the dust in your heart with a spoonful of trickling Weishui, it is really a fairyland on earth!"

Daguan Qingguang shook his head and said with a smile: ""The Inscription of the Humble Room" says that when talking and laughing, there are great Confucianists, but there are no white people. You can tune the plain qin to read the golden scriptures. Confucius said: "Why is there such a thing?"

Everyone laughed happily, and Qian Lixiu said: "I think the way of tea can be summed up in four words, respect and tranquility."

Zen monk Hachijo Zong Ren said: "How can I explain it?"

Qian Lixiu looked sideways at the quiet, elegant and picturesque landscape in the courtyard, and said lightly: "Respect is the foundation of etiquette, and harmony is the most precious. This is the language of etiquette established by Confucius, and it is the heart of the tea ceremony! Sitting, friendship is indifferent and non-flattering, even if the juniors come to the banquet, they also treat each other with respect and no neglect. This is called something in the sky. It is still respectful if it is harmonious but not long-lasting. Kasyapa’s smile is like Zeng’s son’s promise. The mysterious meaning cannot be said!"

"Wonderful!" Takeno Shoou's senior disciple, Sen Rikyu's younger brother Tsuji Genzai praised: "Building a tea room to prepare tea sets is not complicated and beautiful, although old ones are always new, always remember the scenery of the four seasons, and remember not to flatter nor to be greedy Not extravagant, cautious, simple and upright is for the tea ceremony! In this way, you can enjoy the natural harmony of the world, move mountains, rivers, trees and stones by the fireside, and the five elements are complete! Drain the flowing water of the world and taste the flavor, magnificent! The harmonious atmosphere of the heaven and the earth is the tea ceremony !"

The tea ceremony is both the way of Zen. It is called drinking tea, but it is actually practicing Zen. Therefore, it has another name called the way of Zen tea. Qian Lixiu said: "The utensils of Zen tea are neither beautiful nor treasure nor ancient. A pure heart is the vessel, and this pure heart is the tea of ​​Zen. Regardless of whether the vessel is good or bad, we should cut off good and evil wrong views. Find the pure vessel of truth in your own mind.”

The Zen tea utensils are not ordinary utensils but come from a pure and natural heart. This heart is called Yuanxu, which means that perfection is like the wisdom of the sky, and it fits perfectly with the Buddha's meaning. "Buddha's verse: "The great round mirror is pure in wisdom, equal in wisdom and mind, and disease-free. Wonderful observation, wisdom and seeing are not meritorious deeds, and the wisdom of what you do is the same as the round mirror."

Imai Zongjiu said happily: "The utensils of one heart are not made by human pottery, but the utensils of nature, yin, yang, sun, moon, and all phenomena, and all worlds are like a single principle. Therefore, everything in the world is a tea utensil that is pure in reality. This is the nature of heaven and earth. The weapon is also!"

The sky is high and the earth is thick, so it contains all things. The sky is far and the earth is wide, so birds fly and fish jump, like the sun rising in the east and gradually turning to the west, like the recovery of all things in spring, and the leaves fall in autumn, like the severe cold in winter. This is the avenue of the heaven and earth. The reality of the reality of all dharmas has no phase, which can also be called the Buddha's mind that is not ignorant. It does not know the ultimate truth of heaven and nature, and creates various delusions with superficial understanding of various distinctions, which obscures the real light.

Jiu Woqingtong clasped his hands together and said: "The action of everything does not give birth to the desire to do it. If it is born, the heart will stop at the thing. Therefore, the heart should be born without dwelling. If the mind is stopped at the place where the heart is born, the hands will not work. Just stop where it is, the place where the heart is born at the same time and not only where it is said by famous people in various ways, stop the heart from clinging to reincarnation, stop the heart as a life and death talisman, see the heart of flowers, red leaves and green, see the heart of flowers, red leaves and green But the heart is not limited to flowers, red leaves and green leaves!"

"The World-Honored One said, the world is not the world, it is called the world, and sentient beings are not sentient beings, it is called living beings, and a dust is not a dust, it is called a dust, and all dharmas are not as they are, nor are they empty." Tsuda Sect And it ends with the Buddha's verse in the Diamond Sutra.

A half-day leisure time for a tea party, the guests and the host had a good time, and the guests who attended the party enjoyed tea and Zen meditation. They didn't realize that they had just packed up and left after sunset in the evening. In the tea room, there was no such thing as a free chat and laugh in the afternoon.

Daguan Qingguang was over [-] years old and already an old man, his long snow-white eyebrows slightly moved and asked solemnly: "How is the situation in Gaowudian?"

"The tortoise is fighting with trapped beasts in a corner of Kii." Tsuda Zongji sighed, "Since the death of Yukawa Minbu Shofuden in the battle, and the withdrawal of [-] remnant soldiers into Kii by Ami Misaku Shouden, the situation has become worse and worse. gone."

Daguan Qingguang frowned and said: "If it weren't for the battle of Kumeta, why would this be the case, and the Miyoshi family would not have acted fiercely for a while."

Tsuda Zongji comforted: "Speaking of it, Takayaden cannot be blamed for his bad handling of things. The Battle of Kumeda is directly related to the turmoil in Kyoto. If Miyoshi Xiuden's power had not risen, he would not have acted rashly even if he thought he was a powerful daimyo in Kinai."

"It's very reasonable. The turmoil in Kyoto is really surprising. Just because His Royal Highness's reckless decision to marry a daughter made Miyoshi's family feel humiliated, which led to the disaster that Miyoshi's army raided Kyoto to control the shogunate. As a result, the power of the shogunate has been greatly reduced, disappointing the heroes of the world and making the Miyoshi family increasingly disrespectful." Daguan Qingguang said with a helpless wry smile.

In the four years of Yonglu before the Kyoto turmoil, Odate Qingguang retired from the body of the shogunate due to physical discomfort, and vacated the senior position of the public to give his son Odate Huiguang. With the good relationship between Fang and Fang, he got a quiet and elegant courtyard in Dajin City to spend his quiet old age.

In the past few years, he didn’t have to worry about the trivial matters of the shogunate, and he often interacted with the tea masters in Sakai Town, which also made Odate Haruko feel good. As the Imperial Physician, Mizusaku Hanai personally took his pulse and healed him, which eliminated most of the long-standing illnesses. It looks so old that it is much tougher than ten years ago.

Odate Haruki’s influence on Ashikaga Yoshiki has been reduced to the point of being dispensable, and the entire process of the Kyoto riots was the arbitrary decision of Ashikaga Yoshiki. Even if the riots were caused, they still plausibly stated that this was done to get rid of the control of the Miyoshi family. countermeasures.In order to get rid of the marriage restraint of potential enemies.Instead, he took the initiative to send himself to the enemy's hands to restrain him by force.The so-called lifting a rock to shoot one's own foot is the kind of person he is.

Daguan Qingguang sighed and said: "The shogunate made a mistake, Miyoshi repaired the palace to win the capital by mistake, and the power rose greatly, which led to some changes in the political situation in Kiuchi. The most significant change is that there has been no The prestige leader, Hosokawa Ukyo, died of depression in the secluded city of Yodo for many years, and His Royal Highness Gongfang did not appoint a new leader, which started a new beginning."

The so-called Dr. Hosokawa Ukyo is the puppet leader Hosokawa Tsuna, who was also a proud Shangluo back then.Knocked back to Settsu by Ashikaga Yoshitoki with a stick, Miyoshi Changqing forgot in a corner. This oblivion has been neglected for nearly ten years, and finally survived the battle of Luozhong and took down half of Kyoto, thinking that he could go to Kyoto again Dreaming of his dream of being a leader, Miyoshi Changqing hit him on the head with a stick again, and on the way to Shangluo, turned him to Diancheng, which is on the other side of Shenglongsi City, and was confined in a claustrophobic state.

Slowly, his life behind bars drained Hosokawa's last trace of faith, and the desperate samurai died silently in a palm-sized room in Yodojo. Miyoshi Changqing, the Limin people down to Kinai faced the death of this insignificant leader with indifference.It is not a pity that Guan Ling, who has not spent a day in Kyoto, died.

The death of Hosokawa Utsuna itself is not surprising. What is puzzling is that the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiki had no intention of continuing to appoint a leader.Miyoshi Changqing was also not interested in supporting a puppet doll by acting on the occasion. The two sides agreed not to mention the rule of appointing a supervisor, so the Muromachi shogunate entered the era of no supervisor.

"Would there be such a big impact if there is no management?" Tsuda Zongji seldom went to Kyoto, and his understanding of the political system of the shogunate was very simple. The appointment should not have much impact!"

Daguan Qingguang said: "That's not the case. His Royal Highness doesn't know how much damage this will cause to the shogunate! If there is no leader, the barrier to check and balance the leader will be lost. Breaking the existing balance system will bring unimaginable disasters." Disaster, Miyoshi's family has been in trouble for the past few years because of the negligence of His Royal Highness, the battle of Kumeta and the battle of Jiaoxing Temple are the direct feedback of this hidden danger."

"how do I say this?"

"This is the beginning, just like the beginning of the first half of the generals who started to depose generals, making it the norm to lead and depose generals..." At this point, Daguan Qingguang skipped the embarrassing history with a few vague words, and continued: " Miyoshi repaired the upper Luojing City to abolish the Liguan collar in order to establish the hegemony over Kinai. It is considered to be the beginning of the abolition of the Liguan collar. Containment means the rate of deterioration is accelerating."

Ashikaga Yoshiki didn't realize how much harm the shogunate would cause if there was no management. As long as the traditional inertia is still there, the samurai's natural sense of awe to the shogunate is still there, and there is still a lingering power to deter the young people.

Not setting up a leader means that the tradition of the shogunate is disappearing, the authority of the shogunate is disintegrating quietly, the three managements and four positions can no longer exist today, and whether the shogunate will also cease to exist tomorrow, the world cannot be said to leave If a certain person cannot live, the sun will rise the next day and the day will still be able to live.

Tsuda Zongji is also a person who understands the mystery. It is just a loss of awe. If you lose a leader today, you will lose a general tomorrow. The world will be messed up in the future. In other words, the order and laws of thousands of years collapsed and collapsed. It is hard to say whether the emperor who is known as the line of eternal life will be pulled down.

"This world cannot be chaotic, the morals of the world cannot be chaotic, and the order of my country's thousand-year-old laws cannot be chaotic." Tsuda Zongji said: "The opinions of our Naya people in Sakai Town are consistent, even Settsu, Izumi, and even Awa under the Miyoshi family. The people of Sanuki and Sanuki absolutely dare not do rebellious things. If there is chaos in this world, people will really die."

Jiuwo Qingtong pushed open the door and stepped into the quiet room to sit down. Just now he was busy arranging the rooms for the guests, only to hear this endless sentence and said: "This world has been in chaos for a hundred years, and the people are dying. It’s not just a matter of time.”

Tsuda Zongji also ignored Odate Qingguang's face, and said bluntly: "This is different. The previous chaos was caused by the fall of the authority of the shogunate and was controlled by the administrators of the Ashikaga sect. Now the chaos started in the public. His Royal Highness Fang did not set up a leader, which led to the continuous war in Kinai. Only then did the Miyoshi family have the opportunity to dominate, and the death of Miyoshi Xiudian caused new turmoil. The consequences of going on like this are unimaginable!"

"Is it because of Sanhao's family?" Jiuwo Qingtong raised his eyebrows and said, "Mihao's family has lost its supervisor and is already in disarray." (To be continued...)

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ps: The names of the people seen in this article are all recorded in historical materials. The most prestigious medical officials in Kyoto are the Hanai family first, and the Yamashina family second. The highest, the reason why he is revered as a medical saint is mostly because of the prestige spread all over the world by his disciples and grandchildren.