Warring States Eagle

Just when Nobunaga Oda of Owari ushered in the first test of his life alone, in the western country, the important minister Naito Xingsheng of the Ouchi family almost went to the underworld to report with Nobunaga Ouchi.

Speaking of which, Naito Xingsheng was unlucky enough.Historically, he didn't die of illness until at least the eve of the famous Itsukushima bloody battle between Tao Longfang and Mori Moto.It's just that ever since he was defeated by the Luo family in Chikuzen, and then his appointed daughter-in-law was snatched away by Zhengliang, Naito Xingsheng was so angry that he couldn't afford it.I thought it would be fine to recuperate for a while, but then I ran into a period when the conflict between the "military faction" and the "cultural governance faction" in the family intensified.Seeing that the governor Ouchi Yoshinaka failed to mediate effectively, Naito Xingsheng, who was worried about the situation at home, had to drag his sick body around to visit, trying his best to maintain the stability of the family.

Why does Naito Xingsheng work so hard to maintain the stability of the family?You must know that in history, when Tao Longfang sent troops to attack Ouchi Yoshitaka, not only did he not remind Ouchi Yoshitaka when he knew that Tao Longfang was about to rebel, but even more so when Ouchi Yoshitaka was killed by Tao Longfang. When Longfang chased him down and asked for help, he refused to save him.It can be said that in history, he supported Tao Longfang's rebellion.But now it is different from the situation in history.Because the Roche family appeared.

From Naito Xingsheng's point of view, at this moment, the Ouchi family has the Nizi family who is eyeing it, and the Luo family who is sharpening its knife to the west.Especially Luo Shizhengliang, the governor of the Luo family.From Naito Xingsheng's point of view, Roshi Masara is a vicious and greedy goshawk, who will bite the Ouchi family whenever he has the chance.If the Ouchi family is not united at this time, once they are divided and attacked by the Nizi family and the Luo family, the seemingly giant family of the Ouchi family will collapse.And after the collapse of the Ouchi family, the Naito family will inevitably be threatened.That's why he worked so hard to maintain the stability of his family at this time.

It's just that the "Martial Arts faction" headed by Tao Longfang and the "Wenzhi faction" headed by Sagara Taketo have already reached the stage of incompatibility.What makes Naito Xingsheng feel helpless is that.His son Naito Xinglong, who has just inherited the position of governor and guardian, is also the core backbone of the "Martial Arts School".After some hard work.Not only was he unable to dissuade his in-laws (Tao Longfang's main wife is Naito Xingsheng's granddaughter), he even couldn't dissuade his own legitimate son, so amidst deep helplessness and worries about the future of the family, Naito Xingsheng finally found out in the spring of this year. After dying, he went to the underworld to drink tea with Ksitigarbha Bodhisattva.

Originally, with Naito Xingsheng here, the two factions would maintain a little restraint. Now that Naito Xingsheng is gone, the governor of the family, Ouchi Yoshitaka, is always using some mediation methods such as marriage.Not only did it fail to mediate, but it added fuel to the flames, so the conflict between the two factions became more and more exaggerated.

Not long ago, Tao Longfang and Naito Xinglong jointly carried out an assassination operation against Sagara Takeshi, but accidentally leaked the news, and Sagara Taketo, who was always cautious, knew about it in advance.So he left a letter to Yoshitaka Ouchi, declaring that his life would not be guaranteed, I quit the tmd job, and then hid at Aso's house in Chikuzen, unwilling to go back to Zhou Fang up.After Ouchi Yoshitaka knew the whole story.He scolded Tao Longfang and others severely, and then hurriedly sent people to Chikuzen Kingdom to persuade Sagara Taketo to return to Ouchikan.

Naturally, these things that happened in the Ouchi family were relayed one by one to Zheng Liang in Xuefu City by the secret work of the Luo family.

"Did it still happen?" After reading the information provided by the intelligence cabinet.Zheng Liang breathed a sigh of relief.In fact, according to history, the above-mentioned things should have happened last year.Therefore, when Zheng Liang had not heard about these things that happened to the Ouchi family last year, he once thought that because of his appearance, the historical development of the Ouchi family had been deviated, and some events would not be in the future because of this. happened.Now that these incidents finally happened, Zhengliang's tense mood finally eased down.

Let's take a look at the changes in Ouchi's family during this period. In Zhengliang's view, the root of everything is still in Ouchi Yoshitaka. Maybe many people will think that when they look at the history of Ouchi's family during this period of time in the future It was Yoshitaka Ouchi who was too stupid and caused these incidents to happen.But in Zhengzheng Liang's view, these incidents were actually deliberately created by Ouchi Yoshitaka.

Yes, in the fiasco of the Izumo Expedition in Tianwen 11, this battle was lost badly.Ouchi Yoshitaka and Tao Longfang took their lives and fled back to Zhou Fangchangmen. On the way, Yoshitaka also lost the life of his adopted son Haruchi Ouchi.Ouchi Yoshitaka, who returned to Yamaguchi in disgrace, suffered a double blow from military defeat and loss of his heir, and his spirit began to collapse a bit. Since then, he has become tired of military and government affairs. The Yamaguchi culture didn't know how to extricate themselves, so they simply handed over political affairs to Takeshi Sagara, the head of the family's Wenzhi faction.At the same time, he was also taking the opportunity to weaken the rights of some retainers in the family.

To say why Ouchi Yoshitaka did this, we have to start with the discussion system of the Ouchi family.Since the Onin Rebellion, daimyos from all over Japan have changed to Warring States daimyos (simply understood, they are daimyos who like to expand and annex), and in the process of this transformation, the degree of transformation varies from one family to another.Like the Hojo family and the Oda family in the future, it is currently the fastest transformation. They have concentrated their territorial power through means such as seizing land, and the family governor also has almost the arbitrary power of Chaozuna; while the Kai Takeda family and the Aki Mori family A class of daimyos are a little slower to change. They concentrate their territorial power through the so-called "two mountains system" and "two rivers system". As for the Ouchi family in Xiguo, the Hancang family in Echizen, and the Asai family in Omi, they adopted a more backward system of collegiate ministers.

Among the three, the transformation speed to the Sengoku daimyo was different. Among them, the Asai family in Omi was the slowest, the Hancang family in Echizen was the middle, and the Ouchi family in Xiguo was the best.Why it is so determined can be understood with an example.

Omi’s Asai family needn’t say much. In history, when deciding whether to break the covenant with the Oda family like an egg hitting a stone in order to maintain the alliance with the Hancang family, as the governor of the family, he was also reluctant to tear up the covenant with the Oda family. Asai Nagamasa finally succumbed to the resolution of the high ministers' collegial system, and confronted Oda Nobunaga.Under such a system, at home.As the governor of the family, he must completely obey the decision of the collegiate system of ministers.

And Han Cang's house in Echizen.In history, the eighth-generation family governor Asakura Shikei's mother and younger brother (that is, relatives belonging to the direct line) were watching sumo.Sitting in a better seat to watch the theater because of the relationship of the direct line aroused the jealousy of Mr. Asakura Kei, who was born earlier but sat in a bad seat to watch the theater because he was a bastard.Then he was killed by Asakura King.However, as the governor of the family, Asakura Shijing was unable to pursue the crime of Asakura Jing at this time, because in the collegial system of the same clan's important ministers, his three clan uncles deliberately sang the opposite tune in order to demonstrate their authority. During the vote, Asakura Shike, who had only one vote, had to give up the decision to execute Asakura Keizo, the murderer, and even later had to use the enemy who killed his brother as a retainer.

The collegiate system of important ministers of the same clan like the Han Cang family is better than the Asai family.At least the power is concentrated in the hands of the family members, unlike the Asai family, where different families form an alliance council, and the family governor is just a leader who is pushed out and has little power.At least in Han Cang's family, although the rights of the house governor are restricted, they still have a little bit of power.Only important matters and matters involving the clan need to be voted on by the members of the same clan.

The last big family is also implementing a "assessing public" meeting system similar to the collegiate meeting of important ministers at this time.The Ouchi family was composed of "appraisals", and involved a troika as the main force, namely the Tao family, the Naito family and the Sugi family.The Tao family itself is of the same family as the Ouchi clan, hereditary Zhou defense generation position; what about the Naito family.The family governors have been Ouchi important ministers for generations, among which Naito Xingsheng has held the position of Nagato guardian for half a century; the Sugi family.He is responsible for the offense and defense of Kitakyushu for Ouchi.These three families are collectively known as "the elders of the three big families", and their status is extremely honorable. Externally, each is responsible for commanding a front army, and internally, it has been serving as an assessor. .

Therefore, the Ouchi family, which is extremely beautiful on the surface in the Western Kingdom, also implements the old collegiate system of important ministers, which is not far from the unified power of the Warring States daimyo.In the Izumo Expedition that year, Yoshitaka Ouchi did not necessarily agree with him in his heart. The main reason was that important officials like Tao Longfang nodded, and half agitated and half held Yoshitaka to put Ouchi Yoshitaka on the carriage.After the failure of the expedition, Ouchi Yoshitaka was tired and dissatisfied with such a "democratic life", and it was not easy for him to directly weaken the power of these elders, so he threw out the "Wenzhi faction" card.

Most of the Wenzhi faction are close friends of Ouchi Yoshitaka, with no intertwined relationship, and a pure political background. For example, Sagara Taketoshi is an outsider who came from Kyushu Sagara’s house. It is most appropriate to let these people be villains and carry out reforms. .If Ouchi Yoshitaka can take the opportunity to successfully cut power against those veterans this time, then the Ouchi family will have a chance to catch up with the family management system like the Takeda family.

It's a pity that during this process, Yoshitaka Ouchi handled it really badly.He carried out reforms, which seemed to be something that could be spread out but could not be taken back.On the one hand, Takeshi Sagara was in a turmoil. He first squeezed out the power center of the Arbitrary faction, and then directly confiscated the property of the Arbitrary faction (for example, when the Sagara family occupied the territory of the Tao family before); on the other hand, led by Tao Longfang and Naito Xinglong The arbitrary faction wanted to kill Sagara Takeshi as soon as possible, and he was sharpening his sword all day long.Just when the two factions were having red eyes, it was Yilong's best chance to come forward. He only needed to call the two factions over and his face sank, "What's the trouble, give me fifty slaps each!" Cranes compete for the fisherman's profit, and take the opportunity to strengthen the authority of the family governor. This is what the emperor learns.Good thing Ouchi Yoshitaka, when he asked Takeshi Sagara to go out to offend people, he patted them on the back and said, "Go boldly, it's really useless and I'm the only one left." When he was desperate, he stayed at Lian Gehui, not even expressing his attitude.

It was only at this time that Sagara Taketoshi came forward to mediate after the commotion turned into a miasma, crying, "I won't do this job!" and then fled to Chikuzen.But his level of mediation is not high.Just like the previous incident where the Sagara family occupied the territory of the Tao family, Ouchi Yoshitaka actually came up with a reconciliation method for marriage.Brother, they are already ready to fight with bayonets, but you ran and said, "Don't fight, don't fight, why don't you come and be in-laws?" So the murderous spirit of both sides not only did not decrease, but even suddenly increased by hundreds percent.

Tao Longfang and the others gradually became more and more angry with Yilong's sloppy attitude and unclear rewards and punishments.In addition, Ouchi Yoshitaka holds evening parties every day, and from time to time there is a hunting party or something. The taxes in the country are extremely heavy (seven publics and three people), and the people's grievances are boiling up and down-the arrows of contradictions are quietly approaching Ouchi Yoshitaka.

From Masahiro's point of view, Yoshitaka Ouchi is playing with fire a little bit now.

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