Pillars of the Wu family

() Because no one disturbed him, he slept very deeply this time. When he woke up, the sky outside the window was already bright. When he walked out of the house, he found out that he slept until noon. He used vegetarian food in the monastery. His was even better, and Tang Chuan's noodle dish called 饂饭 was even better than rice.

Kansuke Yamamoto returned from Saijo Castle in the afternoon, and the [-] standing ashigaru who came with him were divided into two teams. One team was stationed in Saijo Castle to guard the residence of Kira's family, and the other team sealed off the castle town that was in chaos last night. The people were arrested on the spot, and the old underground people in the town took the initiative to identify and find out these unknown people one by one.

After interrogation, except for the three local residents who took advantage of the fire to loot, the other 28 people were all from Suruga and Enjiang.

Fortunately, their action of setting fires and instigating riots was quickly met with spontaneous resistance from the townspeople. The two sides broke out in conflict and hurt each other. Then they were captured by the standing ashigaru brought by Kansuke Yamamoto. According to preliminary statistics, 33 houses in the castle town collapsed due to the earthquake. 25 buildings were burned down, 18 people died, and hundreds of people were injured and recovered, causing more than a thousand losses, which can be described as heavy losses.

Fortunately, Kira's family rebuilt Saijo Castle a few years ago. The new city was so strong and beautiful that there was no loss. In the middle of the night, Kira Wansongmaru was shaken violently, and he was not injured at all except for being a little frightened. The samurai and family members who lived in Saijo Castle They, except for a few unlucky ones who accidentally fell, were all safe and sound.

Then Yamamoto Kansuke asked Kira Manmatsumaru to deal with the arsonists last night. The handling of this kind of case was just a routine inquiry. Unsurprisingly, people who have committed such crimes have always been merciless. They were all pulled outside the city and beheaded.

I feel that the samurai of this era are really cruel. Under the supervision of Kansuke Yamamoto, more than [-] people all fell to the ground. Kira Manmatsumaru was also invited to watch the beheading. Many townspeople outside the city came to watch the beheading. The look of fear and fear is like watching the excitement on the street. This cold-blooded atmosphere of the times made him very uncomfortable. He went to Mixiang Anguo Zen Temple to chant sutras for half a day before being invited out by Kansuke Yamamoto.

"Isse Nagato Mori, Yamaoka Awaji Mori, Okochi Tajima Mori, Jukai Dansho Tadashi, Takahashi Dewa Mori, Ogasawara Tsutsu Mori, Ogasawara Anyun Mori, and Ehara Tanba Mori have entered the castle."

"Yeah." Kira Wansongmaru nodded, these people are all confidantes of Kira's family, it's not surprising that they rushed over at this time.

"According to rumors that the earthquake occurred in the Kanto and Kai areas, Suruga suffered more damage than our family. The Imagawa family's preparations for the Mikawa country should be released first!" Yamamoto Kansuke said that according to the rumors, it is basically ok. It is determined that it is not far from the actual situation.

Although Kansuke Yamamoto served the Kira family in Mikawa, he has always maintained connections in Suruga. This is very clear to Kira Manmatsumaru and the late former governor Kira Yoshiyao. When he was living in Suruga, he was taken in by Motocho Asahina as a boarding house. In fact, he was a guest and taught Nobuki Asahina.

It is precisely because of the deep relationship with the Suruga Asahina family, especially the Asahina Nobuki who inherited the position of family governor after the Battle of Azumazaka last year was further strengthened. In history, Asahina Nobuki relied on this relationship with Yamamoto Kansuke. It was only after the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto that he quickly fell to the Takeda family. It can be seen that the understanding of interpersonal relationships in Pan-East Asian countries is roughly the same.

Kira Manmatsumaru understands these old things, but he also knows that his master has been in Suruga for six or seven years, and it is not surprising that he has his own connections. The two returned to Saijo surrounded by horseback warriors When he entered the castle town, a group of ashigaru appeared in front of his eyes, wearing donmaru, wearing array hats, with the flags of the Ashikaga Nibiri family pattern on the back, and holding three long handles.

Their actions were uniform, and under the leadership of a well-dressed warrior in red, they quickly blocked the street passages along the road. They reacted quickly and moved neatly. Everyone, including Kira Wansongmaru, was shocked.

"Is this the secret weapon that the master has prepared for five years? Eight hundred are always in stock! What a huge fortune!" Kira Wansongmaru was also a little moved by his interest. Seeing a samurai in black looks very Mighty, he drove his mount slowly and asked condescendingly, "What's the name of this warrior?"

This samurai was tall and strong, holding a scythe gun very mighty. When he saw Kansuke Yamamoto surrounded by a child riding a horse and asked him, he immediately knelt down and said, "My name is Takatsuna Watanabe." , Greetings to Miyagata-sama!"

"Watanabe?" Kira Manmatsumaru was stunned for a moment, carefully sizing up this strong warrior who was less than 30 years old, "Your ancestor was from Saga Genji, Watanabe Tsuna, one of Minamoto Yorimitsu's Four Heavenly Kings?"

"Yes!" Watanabe Takatsuna buried his head much deeper.

"The family crest is written in three stars. Your family's ancestor is Watanabe Michizuna, who served as a public servant in the Ashikaga Yoshimitsu era at Luyuan-in Temple and belonged to the family ancestor Ryumonji Temple Kira Toshishi?"

Kira Manmatsumaru looked up and down the samurai with a slightly surprised tone, making Watanabe Takatsuna even more ashamed and unable to raise his head: "Yes!"

"Why do I, a samurai from the Minamoto clan, want to join the Matsudaira clan from an official family?"

"...The patriarch Fan Gang is the second son of Dao Ganggong. Because he was not qualified to inherit the family business, he moved to live in Pubu Village, Ertian County, Sanhe Country. It happened that Matsudaira Shinko went to Eda County, and the family ancestor took advantage of the opportunity to become an official in Matsudaira It’s time to go home.” Just this short sentence sums up their family’s situation, the Watanabe family is really bad enough, and they can’t even get an account in the Matsudaira family. confrontation.

"So that's the case, then you, Watanabe Takatsuna, will work hard to serve the family in the future! The Watanabe family of the Minamoto clan will raise the family name again!" Kira Manmatsumaru nodded slightly to Watanabe Takatsuna, then turned around and left slowly. Not far away, I heard Takatsuna Watanabe shouting from behind: "I, Takatsuna Watanabe, pledge my allegiance to Miyakata-sama to the death!"

Yamamoto Kansuke, who deliberately dragged behind, also woke up slowly, and said to Kira Manmatsumaru full of relief: "The owner of the museum is getting smarter, and I, Kansuke, will never have to worry about the future of my family from now on."

"Master, don't be joking. I know how much ability I Wansongwan has. Just now, I just borrowed the prestige of my Kira family, and it has nothing to do with me." Kira Wansongwan shook his head and laughed. relation?If it weren't for the tiger skin of Kira's family governor, who would care what a nine-year-old child said? <Festival, there are many wealthy families of the Mikawa Kingdom who visit the city, even the family governor of the Shimo Kira family will also visit the Kira family, and the imperial court and the shogunate will send people to congratulate them. Send a generous gift.

Those country servants who had no chance to meet the Kira family stretched their necks to see the governor of the Kira family, but because the Kami Kira family has always had Shangluo as the head of the shogunate, and the position of the head of the shogunate is served by the public, so many A samurai may never meet his lord in his life, which is one of the reasons why the Matsudaira family can develop like a fish in water in Xisanhe. There are no tigers and monkeys to dominate the mountains.

Later, Kira Manmatsumaru's father, Kira Yoshiyao, served in Gomoto, Kyoto, and served General Ashikaga's family for a few years. The Imagawa family led the Suruga army to attack Hikoma-so, which belonged to the territory of the Kira family in Nishito, and Zhuangtou Dakochi. Many relatives of the family and their relatives, the Jukai clan, were killed in battle. Although Yoshiyao Kira's request to the Imagawa family was preserved, the Kira family's Hikima village was preserved, but with the decline of the Kira family, it was re-established within a few years. The Jinchuan family annexed it.

With the decline of the shogunate, the support for the Kira family is also gradually weakening, and the political situation in Mikawa and abroad is rapidly deteriorating. Kira Yoshiyao changed the long-term visit to Luo Fenggong to go to Luo once every three years to temporarily live for two or three months before returning home. Over the past 30 years, the warriors of Sanhe Kingdom have gradually become accustomed to the governor of Kira's family sitting in Mihe Kingdom all year round.

ps: In the 18th year of Tianwen, the Great Kanto Earthquake happened. It is recorded in detail in "Miaofa Temple". The influence and intensity cannot be compared with that of the Mingyi earthquake, so it is preliminarily estimated that the earthquake is around magnitude [-].