Pillars of the Wu family

() "Oh? Are you so confident that you can expose him?" Kira Manmatsumaru snickered, and couldn't help but feel sorry for Yamaoka Zenjiro. It would be too cruel to fight Honda Masanobu with his brain, so he kindly reminded Said: "Don't underestimate others, Yahachiro's advantage is intelligence, your advantage is the way of bowing horses, you two are destined to take different paths, Zenjiro, you should maintain a friendly relationship with him!"

"As the leader of the sidelines, would you still be afraid of him as a child! So I, Zenjiro, must make Yahachiro obey no matter what!" Yamaoka Zenjiro confidently announced his surrender plan, which of course was full of loopholes It was so horrible that Kira Manmatsumaru sighed in admiration that the idiot's head is just different.

"Okay, since you don't hit the south wall and don't look back, I'll let you suffer first!" Kira Manmatsumaru sent the idiot away, and told Yamaoka Zenjiro before he left that Tami Hachiro had the right to appear in the future. Borrowing books from the Entrance Hall immediately hit Zenjiro Yamaoka, the head of the Xindao Hall was biased, and he bowed his head and stepped back with a sad face.

"I seem to be the guy who fanned the flames again!" Kira Manmatsumaru felt that he had done a good job. Although Yamaoka Zenjiro was a confidant of relatives, Honda Yapachiro obviously had more potential, and it seemed good to fight.

In the blink of an eye, more than ten days passed, and it entered late July. Because the autumn harvest was approaching, the genealogy generations, including Okochi Nobusada, were busy returning to their respective territories to supervise the autumn harvest and pay the annual payment. At ease, he doesn't need to worry about the autumn harvest of the Kira family, and Kansuke Yamamoto, who also has no knowledge and practice, continues to be a direct minister of the Kira family with a high salary of [-] kanwen.

Without Okochi Nobusada's buzzing preaching, his life is very comfortable, reading and writing every day, practicing military art and so on is very pleasant, and the promise of Yamamoto Kansuke has long been thrown out of the sky by him, what is the Imagawa family? It's too far away for military training, it's still more comfortable to be a little lord with peace of mind.

"My lord!" Yamaoka Zenjiro ran to the castle tower again and told about his recent depression with a bitter expression on his face. Kira Manmatsumaru would not break his good mood just to listen to his bitterness. Anyway, he was talking about Yahachiro How to get along with the little surnames, or how Mi Hachiro used the name of the owner of the hall to publicize, "He also complained about other surnames, saying how I treated the surnames harshly..." and other boring topics.

"Speaking of which, you're a guy in Yuanfu who's not as good as a child who is three years younger than you, isn't it embarrassing!" Kira Wansongmaru said with a smile.

"Master, how can you say that about me! I'm all for you!" Zenjiro Yamaoka was indignant, he felt that the master didn't understand him at all, obviously he was the one who disciplined dozens of children very hard It's really sad to be told by the owner of the museum that his skills are not as good as others!

"Okay, okay! Stop yelling, and let the surnames know that Zenjiro came to the main family to complain, and he will definitely be regarded as an incompetent surrender?"

"Ah! Damn Yahachiro! I, Zenjiro, will never admit defeat... But Yahachiro is too cunning! He doesn't have the courage of Mikawa samurai at all!" Yamaoka Zenjiro was still indignant, he felt that Honda Yahachiro was not at all Like Samurai Samurai.

"The courage of the Mikawa warrior? What is that?" Kira Wanmatsumaru asked curiously: "Speaking of which, I don't know much about the so-called Mikawa warrior. What kind of person is the Mikawa warrior?"

"This...is a general statement that has been circulated among lower-level samurai." Yamaoka Zenjiro seemed to feel that he had slipped his tongue, and quickly made up for it: "My lord is a famous samurai family. I heard someone mention it when I was drinking with Warrior Mahui."

"Drinking? You can already drink!" Kira Manmatsumaru smacked his lips, staring at the huddled Yamaoka Zenjiro and said, "Where did you go to drink? A wine shop? It is said that there is a new Whale House in Saijo Castle Town. This family thinks we should talk to your father about this issue."

"My lord, please spare my life! This subject will never dare again! Really never dare again... Woohoo!"

"Okay, okay, go wherever you like! Don't be so disgusted with snot and tears... By the way, your Yuanfu name is Yamaoka Naocho! I haven't called you by your name since Yuanfu at the beginning of the year .”

"Naocho and Zenjiro are both the names of my servants, please continue to call me your servant Zenjiro, Lord Master!"

"Okay! Don't continue to spread dog blood. After all, I am very interested in knowing what the Sanhe Warrior is."

"Yes! Loyalty, bravery, and silence! That's the courage of my Mikawa samurai! It's also the way of our samurai!" Zenjiro Yamaoka said with a serious face.

Kira Manmatsumaru has always disliked samurai who scratched their stomachs with knives, and the kind of samurai who chatted with you one moment and then drew out their swords to fight to the death the next moment is very annoying, so when I heard Zenjiro say this, I maliciously speculated that : "Oh, a silent warrior? He has a restrained personality, and his emotions and anger are hidden. If the master punishes him, besides seppuku, does it mean rebellion?"

"No! Please don't misunderstand, my lord! The way of a warrior is loyalty, and the unfaithful will become evil ghosts and fall into hell after death, and gods and Buddhas will not forgive them!"

"Got it, got it! It's time to get busy with your business, brave warrior of Mikawa!" Chasing Yamaoka Zenjiro away,

The samurai family has risen for more than 500 years. Except for the first nine years of the Ping An Dynasty, Hanoi Minamoto, who came out of the three-year war, became the master of Kanto, but the so-called code of conduct for the samurai family did not appear. The famous Baoyuan Rebellion once happened happened before.

Minamoto Yoshitomo was opposed to his father, Minamoto Yoshitomo, and they belonged to two ends in the Hoyuan Rebellion. In the end, Minamoto Yoshitomo, who was victorious, personally supervised the beheading in Shizuka, Kyoto, and the prisoner executed was his own father, Minamoto Yoshitomi , the fourth brother Yuan Laixian, the fifth brother Yuan Laizhong, the sixth brother Yuan Weizong, the seventh brother Yuan Weicheng and the ninth brother Yuan Weizhong.

Minamoto Yori-chao later followed the tradition of his father's generation, forcing Minamoto and Minamoto Yoshitsune to death one after another, and his descendants were used by his relatives, the Hojo family, to become extinct because of cannibalism, so the Kamakura shogunate was completely controlled by the Hojo family. The code of conduct of the samurai class is only constrained by laws such as "Yu Cheng Bei Shi Mu Chao".

Before this, the Wu family did not have the so-called eldest son inheritance system at all, except that the pillars of the Wu family were inherited by the eldest son, and the division of land and property power was evenly distributed, so the original Wu family was fighting with blood and fire, and father and son were like enemies. There are many cases of brothers swinging knives at each other.

It was not until the war between the Southern and Northern Dynasties that broke out nearly a hundred years ago that the Zhuzi theory spread from the nobles and the five mountain temples in Kinai became popular, so that the Ashikaga shogunate re-established the orthodox inheritance of the samurai family. For special reasons, the eldest son must be the heir. If there is an inheritance dispute, he must go to the shogunate in Kyoto to file a lawsuit. This is also one of the methods for the shogunate to strengthen its ruling authority and strengthen its binding and deterrent power against the nobles of the country.

The way of the samurai said by Yamaoka Zenjiro is completely non-mainstream in this era. Leaving aside the guardianship system of the Muromachi shogunate, the royal family system established by the descendants of the Minamoto family in Hanoi back then, the core idea of ​​which is "respecting the public" These four The word, that is, the reward of the territory in exchange for bravery and loyalty, who would serve the public without a reward, which was confirmed in the two Mongolian expeditions and the subsequent royal family's trip to Kamakura to seek the reward.

But the good times didn’t last long, as the Kamakura shogunate was monopolized by the Hojo family, and arbitrarily placed a family member to control most of the guards and top positions, making it impossible to maintain the rewards. The censorship represented by the samurai family broke up completely, which led to the collapse of the censor family and the collapse of the Kamakura shogunate. The Yuanhong Rebellion, the Jianwu New Deal, and the subsequent outbreak of the Southern and Northern Dynasties, the samurai group once again swarmed to deal a major blow to the authority of the court and the shogunate. With the Muromachi shogunate, it has lasted for 200 years.

After the Muromachi period, the Ashikaga family attached great importance to the development of the family and the family, but it seems a bit too much. The three leaders controlled the puppet generals of the shogunate. In the past century, there have been endless coups. Generals died young, were killed, died early, and exiled, making the shogunate authoritarian Lost, how to use a sect, how to use it has always been a question that samurai think about.

So far the new samurai norms have not been established, but the low-level samurai in Sanhe do have new signs. This is the product of Linji Zen thought mixed with some thoughts of Zhu Zi's Neo-Confucianism. In the next hundred years, there will be more It will be mixed with the shadow of Shintoism, and it will continue forever.

Kira Manmatsumaru didn't like this kind of thinking. The samurai before the Muromachi era were too barbaric. It was very unrestrained to have a nii at all times. After the Warring States period, the authority was established. The samurai group became lifeless, like the setting sun and the setting sun.