Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1640 Before the Great War (Part [-])
If you want to ask Gao Wushi what is his first impression of Luo Yuan's whimsical plan, he is probably speechless.I don't know if Luo Yuan had some associations because of the historical status of Yusheng City, so he subconsciously wanted to bring it directly under the rule of Jinghua, and for this reason he even did not hesitate to let his master's unborn bastard play a game in Japan. The traditional surname change inheritance.

Why does Yusheng City make people have "certain associations"?The answer is simple. At this time, Yusheng City actually had a name that was a hundred times louder: Kamakura.

What word is usually associated with the place name of Kamakura?There are probably two: the Kamakura shogunate and the Kamakura government.

Everyone knows that the shogunate refers to an institution that rules Japan. This institution empties the emperor's court, and all of them are controlled by samurai. It is similar to a military government.Japan's second shogunate, the Muromachi shogunate, was the second shogunate after the fall of the Kamakura shogunate.

At the end of the Kamakura shogunate, the power of the shogun's retainers "Go family" weakened, and Emperor Go-Daigo set off a movement to overthrow the curtain. Many samurai joined in and overthrew the Kamakura shogunate.

However, after Emperor Go-Daigo regained his power, the "Jianwu New Deal" was reversed, causing many samurai who were dissatisfied with the imperial court to gather around the former hero Takashi Ashikaga, and finally supported another line of royal family as the emperor, and established The Muromachi shogunate.

Emperor Go-Daigo, who was kicked out of the emperor's throne, had to flee to Yoshino in Yamato, and established a stronghold, declaring that Ashikaga Takaji and others' actions were treason, and that the emperor supported by the samurai was a "pseudo dynasty".When it developed later, this pseudo-dynasty became the Northern Dynasty, and Emperor Go-Daigo was naturally the Southern Dynasty. At this time, it entered the period of the Southern and Northern Dynasties in Japan.

The Southern and Northern Dynasties lasted for decades, and it was not until the death of Emperor Go-Daigo, Ashikaga Takashi and others that they were unified under the hands of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the third-generation shogun of the Muromachi Shogunate.

However, although the Muromachi shogunate unified Japan, the shogunate is essentially a joint regime headed by the shogun, and composed of the Ashikaga clan and powerful guardians from all over the country.Because of the promulgation and implementation of the shogunate laws such as "Jianwu Shimu", later generations cannot deny that the Muromachi shogunate is a unified regime, although most Chinese people find it difficult to understand why the real "feudal" system in Japan and Western Europe It has existed for a long time - China's "feudalism" is actually very different from the original meaning of the word "feudalism", because its centralization is very strong.

Under the hands of the third Muromachi shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the next three shoguns, the autocratic system of the shoguns developed.However, when the sixth-generation shogun Ashikaga Yoshinaka ruled, the Muromachi shogunate flourished and declined. The guardians of various places were divided into many factions and fought endlessly. Finally, the "Cargill Rebellion" was triggered because of the general's improper handling. The shogun Ashikaga Yoshikyo is assassinated by his powerful guardian, Akamatsu Misuke.

After that, the young general succeeded to the throne, which made the Muromachi Shogunate go downhill and entered the Warring States Period, and finally lingered for nearly 100 years and died.

However, there is no need to go into detail about the Japanese Warring States Period here. The topic to be discussed here revolves around "Kamakura".

The founder of the Kamakura Shogunate was the well-known Minamoto Yoritomo. Later, Japanese samurai families talked about their family status. Many famous people had a "gen courtier so-and-so" in their titles. This is related to General Yoritomo.

Minamoto Yoritomo became the number one figure in Japan's political situation after eliminating the Taira family, but he did not take over the Kyoto court, but devoted himself to establishing and consolidating his own regime in Kanto.During the civil war, he identified Kamakura (southeast of Kanagawa Prefecture in later generations) as a base in a dangerous situation.

About 140 years later, the Kamakura Shogunate was replaced by the Muromachi Shogunate.At the beginning of the establishment of the Muromachi shogunate, because the Muromachi shogunate was established in Kyoto, considering the importance of the Kanto, a "Kanto management leader" responsible for managing the ten countries of the Kanto was established in Kamakura, Kanto.

The first Kanto leader was the son of the first shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, and later became the second shogun of the Muromachi shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshinori. After Ashikaga Takashi’s younger brother Ashikaga Naoyoshi lost power in the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshikara replaced Ashikaga Naoyoshi. The position of the shogunate, and the younger brother of Ashikaga Yoshikan, Ashikaga, went to Kanto as the new Kanto governor.This Ashikaga family was later the ancestor of the Kanto Ashikaga family.

During the period of the three generations of shogun Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the powerful Ashikaga Yoshimitsu began to call himself "Kongfang", and the Kanto Ashikaga family followed suit and called themselves "Kongfang". From then on, "Kanto Gongfang" was born.Of course, his official job in the Muromachi Shogunate is still "Kanto management leader".

The meaning of the word "gongfang" has different opinions in later generations. From the perspective of Japan's cultural inheritance from China, the meaning of "gongfang" may be somewhat similar to the "official family" in Zhao and Song Dynasties.The leader of the Ashikaga family called himself "Gongfang", just like some people in China called themselves "Guanjia", basically they didn't pay attention to the imperial court at all.

In the early days of Ashikaga Takashi’s establishment of Kanto Guanling, he also set up a Kanto deacon, similar to the deacon of the shogunate (that is, Guanling), as the adjutant of Kanto Guanling, the Uesugi family’s descendants, the Yamauchi Uesugi family and the common dog Xuan Uesugi’s family took turns. .

Since the Guanling of the Kanto was upgraded to the Guandong Gongfang, the deacon of the Kanto was also naturally upgraded to the "Guild of the Kanto".Kamakura was the base of the Kanto ruler to rule the Kanto region, and here, like the shogunate in Kyoto, there were government offices, servants' offices, inquiry offices and other institutions.

Among them, the head of the waiter was hereditary from the Chiba family of the famous Kanto family, and the Kamakura government also imitated the "three managements and four positions" of the shogunate, and combined the Chiba family with the Koyama family, the Naganuma family, the Yuki family, the Satake family, and the Oda family. , Utsunomiya, and Nasu's eight famous families are collectively called "Bando Hachiyagata"-probably meaning the eight generals of Kanto.

However, in the true sense, the Guanling of the Kanto has only been handed down for four generations. During the period of the fourth Ashikaga clan, the Guanling of the Kanto was attacked by the Muromachi shogunate and was defeated and killed.

On the eve of the Warring States Period, Ashikaga Naruto, the son of Ashikaga Mochi, returned to Kamakura and became the governor of Kanto. However, due to the hatred of killing his father, he had many conflicts with the deacon Uesugi, which eventually led to a great chaos, and Ashikaga Naruto had to flee to supporters. More Furukawa resisted Uesugi.

During the Warring States Period, the stronghold of the Kanto Ashikaga family changed from Kamakura to Furukawa, so they were also called "Furukawa Gongfang".Since then, the status of Kamakura has gradually declined, and people began to call this extremely important former political center with the newly built Yusheng Castle here.

It is precisely because of the glorious history of Kamakura, and it is full of political meanings, Luo Yuan speculates based on some tasks that Gao Wushi gave before, thinking that his master has "big plans" for Japan, so he has a strong feeling for Yusheng City. covetous heart.

Originally, because Narita Kai became the master's concubine, Luo Yuan didn't have any idea about Yusheng City.However, once the situation changed, the future direction of the Narita family seemed to become less certain, so he had a different thought about Yusheng City: Since the members of your Narita family are unreliable, it is better to let Jinghua hold it by himself.

Tamawa Castle in Kamakura Prefecture, although this place is not as sensitive as it was many years ago, it is still the hometown of samurai after all.Jinghua may be able to lease Misaki Castle, but it is obviously impossible to "lease" the former Kamakura Tamawa Castle.So he thought of such a trick of stealing the beam.

When Luo Yuan's report was sent to the capital, although Gao Yushi's first reaction was that he was speechless, Liu Xin, as the secretary-general, thought the idea was very good, at least it could be used as a plan.

She even unceremoniously stated that Gao Pragmatic's speechlessness is essentially an overreaction to the "surname right", in other words, she thinks that her non-existent concubine should not change his surname for Yusheng City—even if it is only a transition Not even once.Liu Xin thinks this is "very impractical", so she puts forward three reasons in order to persuade Gao Pragmatism.

The first reason is that even if Narita Kai gave birth to a son in the future, it would only be a bastard, and a bastard would have no status in Daming.Not to mention Ming Dynasty, which has the most important family background, all dynasties in China have attached great importance to the difference between concubines and concubines. For example, Tang Gaozu Li Yuan actually had 22 sons, but only four of them had the chance to inherit the throne.Since Xuanba died young, only Jiancheng, Shimin, and Yuanji were eligible to fight for the heir apparent, and it was difficult for the rest of the sons to even get a chance to show up in the history books.

Then according to the tradition of Daming, no matter how big Gao Yushi's family business is in the future, in the final analysis, it will be owned by the eldest son alone. Even if Gao Yuan has a younger brother, it will be difficult to get a piece of the pie, let alone a younger brother?
Under such circumstances, this concubine brother sacrificed a little bit in exchange for a politically important Kamakura Yusheng Castle for the Gao family, which in turn would be beneficial to his future status in the family, so why not for what?

The second reason is that Japanese customs and habits fully approve of such an operation, which will prevent the retainers of the Narita family and even the citizens from resisting it, and allow Jinghua to easily use such simple political means to put a sensitive And important regions are in the bag, isn't this your favorite political conquest?
Not only did the Narita family have nothing to say, even the Japanese court and Toyotomi Gongyi couldn't find any reason to object to this.After all, Narita Kai’s lineage is clear, and her son’s change of Miao character to inherit the Narita family’s family name and business belongs to the Narita family’s internal affairs. In Japan, a country where “my vassals are not my vassals”, outsiders have no right to comment on this.

As for the third reason, that is the determination of the relationship between "surname" and "Miao characters".Later generations of Japanese used Miao characters as surnames, based on Emperor Meiji's "Miao characters must be called orders".However, in Japan at the moment, it is not certain whether the Miao character is considered a surname or not.

For example, in the original history, how was Toyotomi Hideyoshi called in the "Pingwa Edict" issued by Bingxu in leap April in the 27th year of Wanli in the original history? "Hideyoshi, the clown of Dongyi" - look clearly, it's Hirai Hideyoshi, not Toyotomi Hideyoshi!
Afterwards, how is the place where the Japanese captured generals are mentioned? "... still sent to Ping Zhengxiu and other 61 people, abandoned the corpse on the manuscript street, and passed it on to the world"——still using "Ping" as the surname. "Ping" is the "Ping family" named after Minamoto Yoritomo's Genji in "Genpei War".It can be seen that the "surname" recognized by Daming is not a Miao character at all.

Of course, at this time, the Japanese's distinction between surnames was not recognized by Daming.Take "Tokugawa Jiro Saburo Yuan courtier Ieyasu" as an example. Tokugawa is a Miao character, and Ieyasu changed it himself. The original Miao character of his family is Matsudaira; His father is also "Jiro Saburo", but in essence "Jiro Saburo" can also be counted as a Miao character; needless to say, "Ieyasu" is just a name.

The key lies in "yuan courtier", these three characters are actually divided into two words: "source" is a family name in Japan, and "court minister" is a surname instead.

The concept of "clan" has long been out of favor in China at this time, so it would be very troublesome for Japan to "convert" it to Daming, and if your "courier" has a surname, Daming might be confused at first glance: how do you catch it? The full surname of all Japanese generals is "Courtier"?Did I stab the courtiers nest?

Therefore, Daming took the Japanese "family name" as their surname, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi became "Hideyoshi". One of the Fujiwara Four Clan nobles.As for Toyotomi, the Japanese emperor originally gave it to Hideyoshi as his surname, but...maybe Daming didn’t recognize it, and if we go back to history, Hideyoshi’s surname is still flat.

All in all, Liu Xin's meaning is very simple: anyway, Daming doesn't recognize Miao characters at all. Even if your bastard in the future gets a Narita Miao character, it will only be useful in Japan, so he doesn't even need to change his surname Gao, you Gao Situ Don't be so obsessed with things like the right to bear a surname, just treat your son as his own number.

It is plausible to say this, but Gao Wushi also has his helplessness, and said with a wry smile: "Why do you seem to be sure that Jia Fei Ji will conceive a son as soon as she is pregnant? Can this matter be accurate? What? Even if it’s Japanese, if a daughter wants to inherit the family business, the Narita family has to die until there are no other males, and there are several males in their family just from the same generation.”

Unexpectedly, Liu Xin didn't care at all, she shook her head and said: "It's best for Jia Fei Ji to have a son, but the Japanese also don't reject adopted sons, and adopted children also have the right to inherit, so if it doesn't work, you can also put another son as Jia Fei Ji's The adopted son will inherit Kamakura."

After a pause, Secretary-General Liu suddenly couldn't help but chuckled, and said half-jokingly: "So from this point of view, the task of giving birth to your son, my boss, is really a bit low in completion. As the Secretary-General of Jinghua, I have Responsibility to seriously advise..."

"What's the use of admonishment?" Gao Wushi rolled his eyes: "Why don't the secretary-general sacrifice himself?"

Liu Xinyu faced Feixia, turned her head away, and quickly got up and said, "Since the boss has no other objections to this matter, I will reply to Luo Yuan first and ask him to arrange for Jia Feiji to come to Beijing as soon as possible." , Fei also fled away.
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