different warring states of japan

Chapter 2071 Hashiba Hideyoshi Became a Laughing Stock

Although the island country is large, the special terrain of the volcanic island has caused the plains to be fragmented. Only the Kanto Plain as the core of the Kanto Plain and the Kinki Basin as the core have the strength to seize the world.

When the Kamakura shogunate was first established, it was based in Kanto and the Eight Islands, and it was out of reach of the Kyoto Basin, making it difficult for it to influence Kinki, especially the economic belts such as Kyoto, Osaka, Omi, and Nobi, which were centered on the Kyoto Basin.

The Ashikaga shogunate learned from the lessons of the Kamakura shogunate. The shogun sat in Kyoto and sent the Kanto shogun to Kanto to support each other.

Who would have known that the Kamakura Ashikaga family, which was divided into ten kingdoms in Kanto, was not satisfied with being the Kanto Shogun and actually wanted to compete with the Ashikaga Shogun family in Kyoto.

  We are all descendants of Ashikaga, so why can't the Kamakura Ashikaga family become shogun?

Starting from the Kanto Shogun, the three governors and four officials successively challenged the Ashikaga Shogunate. The entire Ashikaga Shogunate period was a big fight among family members.

The fighting continued until all of our own people were crippled, and then it was the turn of Miyoshi, Rokkaku, Oda and other foreign vassals. Now we are almost sending the Ashikaga shogunate away.

Today, only a signboard of the Kyoto Shogunate remains. The saint does not want to shed too much blood in the change of dynasties, so he plans to merge the Kyoto Shogunate into the Dai-pan-ri to leave some dignity for the remnants of the previous dynasty.

But those noble families did not cherish it and had to call back Ashikaga Yoshiaki to compete with the saint.

This is really because you don't want to be decent and you force others to help you be decent.

Hosokawa Fujitaka gave birth to Tama for the saint, and the Izumi Hosokawa family is already of divine blood, so it is impossible for her to make trouble with those idiots in Kyoto.

But if all those idiots in Kyoto are screwed, can the Izumi-Hosokawa family make a fortune from it?

After all, the Izumi-Hosokawa family belonged to the core military family of the Ashikaga shogunate. If Kyoto experienced a major chaos, the saint would always need someone to clean up the mess.

Although the political power of the Kyoto shogunate had declined, the geographical location of the Kyoto Basin was there, and the economic benefits of the Kyoto castle towns were enormous.

Hosokawa Fujitaka was appointed by the saint to control the Sakai Port Checkpoint. It would be wonderful if he could also capture the checkpoint in the castle town of Kyoto.

In addition, Ninagawa Yoshiyoko had territory in Tamba Province, and Hatakeyama Takamasa occupied the land of southern Kawachi, both of which were easy pieces of meat for the Izumi Hosokawa family.

Killing these bastards who threaten the Spo Shen clan group and taking over their territory at the same time is a great way to kill two birds with one stone.

With such great benefits, Hosokawa Fujitaka would naturally be happy to see Akechi Mitsuhide follow in the footsteps of Ashikaga Yoshiteru and Oda Nobunaga, using all means to kill people and seize land.

Seeing that Hosokawa Fujitaka was so active in mentioning the movements of the Kyoto shogunate, Akechi Mitsuhide knew in his heart what his good sister was planning. It was nothing more than me taking the blame while she took the benefits.

Akechi Mitsuhide smiled slightly, not wanting to be led by Hosokawa Fujitaka, so he changed the subject.

"I heard that Hashiba Hideyoshi made a big fool of himself in the western part of the country. She sent someone to Tomo to give gifts to the general, hoping to become the adopted daughter of the shogun."

Although Hosokawa Fujitaka was dissatisfied with Akechi Mitsuhide's change of subject, she couldn't help laughing when she heard about the scandal of the Sasaki family's biggest external enemy.

"No matter how badly the Ashikaga Shogunate fell, it was still the direct descendant of the Kawachi Genji clan. How could the shogun allow a servant to inherit the Shogunate, even if she was an adopted daughter?

Hashiba Hideyoshi was bringing humiliation upon himself.

This matter has been reported from the western country. I heard that the Lord was furious and directly kicked out the envoy sent by Hashiba Hideyoshi to deliver gifts. It was really embarrassing. "

Hideyoshi Hashiba's origin is no secret. In order to expand the source of soldiers, Oda Nobunaga upgraded the status of foot soldiers to form a soldier clan, who could serve as grassroots military leaders like female samurai and become the backbone of the army.

Although this was only a small breakthrough, for the Wu family, it was a major event where a thousand-mile dam collapsed due to an ant hole.

When the samurai no longer monopolized military positions, and commoners could also be promoted through military merit, this broke the taboo of the samurai hierarchy. If the lord occasionally promoted one or two lucky commoners, the female samurai group could just laugh it off, but if they formed a system like Oda Nobunaga did, it would uproot the samurai privilege.

Therefore, Oda Nobunaga's death was not unjust at all. He had gone too far and stood on the opposite side of the ruling group.

As a benchmark figure of the Oda clan, Hashiba Hideyoshi was repeatedly promoted by Oda Nobunaga, who also wanted to pay a large sum of money for the horse's bones.

Allowing the soldiers to see Hideyoshi Hashiba's success greatly mobilized their subjective initiative.

On the one hand, Oda Nobunaga concentrated power and squeezed the resources of the territory, and on the other hand, he expanded the source of troops and encouraged the foot soldiers. It was no coincidence that Oda Nobunaga's power grew rapidly like a snowball in a short period of time and became the most powerful clan in the world.

However, Hashiba Hideyoshi, who broke through the ceiling of civilians and successfully became a member of the ruling class, had no intention of becoming a role model for civilians in the hands of Oda Nobunaga.

Like those fortunate commoner samurai who had succeeded him, Hashiba Hideyoshi tried his best to distance himself from his past identity, and his attitude towards commoners was even more cold than that of ordinary samurai.

After Oda Nobunaga's death, Hashiba Hideyoshi, in order to win the favor of the samurai, ordered to limit the size of the soldier clan and no longer promote civilians, thus ending Oda's breakthrough in the military system.

The power of the Shogunate that expanded during the reign of Oda Nobunaga came to an abrupt halt, and will gradually shrink with the passage of time, eventually disappearing into history.

Hashiba Hideyoshi tried hard to distance herself from the class she came from, but in the eyes of the nobles, she was still a lowly servant.

Her marriage to Oda Takao and her policy of suppressing the common people were also seen as an unconscious and ridiculous performance.

Originally everyone was just gossiping, but who knew that Hashiba Hideyoshi lost his mind and went to kneel down and beg Ashikaga Yoshiaki to adopt him as his daughter, but was humiliated instead. This gave everyone an excuse to gossip about him after dinner.

Hosokawa Fujitaka came from a prominent family, so he naturally laughed for a long time. This time, when he heard Akechi Mitsuhide mention it, he couldn't help laughing again and said coldly.

"Untouchables are untouchables. This is really disrespectful."

Akechi Mitsuhide shook his head and sighed.

"Hashiba Hideyoshi will no longer be a pariah soon. She has capable people under her command."

Hosokawa Fujitaka asked with a frown.

"Why did Mitsuhide say that?"

Akechi Mitsuhide chuckled.

“So you didn’t know yet.

After suffering a setback from the Shogun, Hashiba Hideyoshi did not become discouraged, but turned around and contacted the Tosa Ichijo family.

The Tosa Ichijo family was descended from a branch of the Sekkan family. After the fall of the imperial court and the complete decline of the court officials, they became local tycoons without a foothold.

Now, their territory has been invaded by the Chosokabe family of Tosa, and they are on the verge of death and extinction, so they no longer care about their noble dignity.

Although the Ashikaga Shogunate was in decline, there were still some nails in place for a rotten ship.

But if the Tosa Ichijo family did not grab this last straw of life-saving help from Hashiba Hideyoshi, it would probably really be extinct.

So her family had no choice but to agree to Hashiba Hideyoshi's succession."