Pillars of the Wu family

In the late autumn of September, the maple trees in the garden are as red as a burning fire. The rustling autumn wind blows into the corridor, and the wind chimes sway and make a crisp sound. In the courtyard, you can faintly hear the bells coming from far away. A person who comes here will taste a similar feeling, that is the wonderful power of peace and tranquility, the power to relax the body and mind.

This is Ashikaga Yoshitoki's favorite season, because he likes red-leaved trees and sees beautiful scenery full of fire. This is very in line with the mentality of the current samurai. , Even if the knife and ax deepen, it will not change a bit. In the eyes of warriors, life and death are sometimes as important as Mount Tai, and sometimes they are lighter than a feather.

Waka often laments that there is not much time for the transition of spring and autumn. The free and easy truth pursued in the tea ceremony, the samurai’s pursuit of believing in gods and Buddhas and eventually becoming gods and Buddhas, and the chic leaving of the death sentence before death, etc., all correspond to this beautiful scenery. Coincidentally, hundreds of years later, a sage wrote: "Life is as gorgeous as summer flowers, and death is as quiet and beautiful as autumn leaves."

Just in line with the samurai spirit of this era, it is not the sick spirit affected by the dross, the pursuit of the samurai is not gorgeous cherry blossoms, not the pursuit of a momentary heroic splendor like a shooting star across the night sky, what they pursue is to bear the burden of humiliation In his life, once his achievements are known to the world, the ancient Ashikaga Takashi and the present Mori Moto are representatives of them. The gorgeous red-leaved trees in late autumn are most suitable for the time when achievements are blooming and bearing fruit.

Just after noon, the father and son sat opposite each other in the spacious study room. Ashikaga Yoshihito filled a cup of clear tea with a purple sand teapot, and said softly, "How is your schoolwork and what have you learned recently? Tell me about it."

Ashikaga Jinwangmaru bowed down.Said: "my son listened to Master Tianhai's story about the Tang Dynasty. Among them, he talked about Emperor Taizong Wen of Tang Dynasty, the wise and powerful emperor known as Tian Khan, the great emperor who created the rule of Zhenguan, but his old age was so miserable. My son can't understand it. , I don’t know if my lord father knows why?”

"Why did Tianhai tell you such a deep story..." Ashikaga Yoshitoki frowned slightly, and instantly understood what the monk was planning, and said secretly: "This is a silent remonstrance through the mouth of Zhenwangmaru. Li Shimin's lesson from the past You have to be careful, you are really a cunning monk..."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said: "The story of Tang Taizong is too complicated for you to understand at the moment. After studying hard, you will gradually understand it."

"Yes! My child has another question."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki raised his cup and sipped lightly, savoring the faint aroma of the tea, and said, "Just tell me if you have any questions."

Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru said: "My child doesn't understand why father is praying devoutly at Tsurugaoka Hachimangu Shrine? With the power and power of my Kanto Ashikaga family, it should not be difficult to go to Luo. Why does father have to live in seclusion at this time? ?”

"Who told you this? Tianhai?"

Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru said without changing his expression: "This is what I came up with myself."

"Hehe... have you learned to play tricks with your father at a young age? It doesn't matter if you don't want to say it." Ashikaga Yoshitoki shook his head and chuckled, "Do you still remember your question just now? Why Tang Taizong's bleak old age lies in the fact that he won the throne at the beginning It is unorthodox to be unrighteous. Then it will be reflected in his children's repeated rebellions, and Yu Wuxin will act at this moment. I just don't want to be an unrighteous general, understand?"

Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru suddenly said: "...My child probably understands! Father, you want to be a justifiable general, and don't be a general who relies on strong authority to force the world's samurai and make them reluctant to recognize it, right?"

Ashikaga Yoshitoki shook his head with a smile: "Not entirely true. It is justifiable for Yu to rule 66 countries today. Why not rule 200 countries in the future? I have to send upright soldiers and have to be fully prepared. After all, today is different from what it was [-] years ago. For the current situation, everything needs to be ready before it can be accomplished overnight. The former has already had the title, and the latter is not ready yet, but it is almost ready..."

Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru saluted respectfully: "I understand, I still have homework to finish, so I will take my leave first."

"Well, Zhen Wang Wan is very interested in Zhu Zixue recently?"

"Yes! I heard that it is the study of saints, so..."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki said slowly: "Don't look at the fake Confucianism, the whole article is full of demagogic words. There is only one sage in the world, Confucius, the sub-sage Mencius, and Zhu Xi was a literati in the Song Dynasty. I annotated the Six Classics, and changed to the popular Six Classics Annotated Me. The meaning is to explain the meaning of the Six Classics in the words of one family. It would be fine if it was not regarded as a standard by Ming Confucians. The door is full of dogmatic nonsense."

"But I read it a little bit, and it seems to make sense..."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki shook his head and said: "There are tens of thousands of ways in the world, how can the Buddha's wisdom be half as bad as him? It is not surprising that Zhu Zixue explained some of the ways. Don't be credulous because of the truths contained in them. Some truths look perfect, but they are actually out of touch. Practically, remember that the more beautiful the event, the more false it is, as is the case with the moon in the water and flowers in the mirror.”

Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru said cautiously: "Father seems to hate Zhu Zixue very much."

"It's very annoying, because Zhu Zixue's emphasis on the three cardinal principles and the five constant rules conflicts with my samurai's system of Yu En Fenggong, which leads to more sensitive issues. Are the samurai loyal to the general or the emperor?" Ashikaga Yoshitoki said solemnly: "Zhenwangmaru believes that , Who should the samurai be loyal to?"

"You should be loyal to the general! The pillar of the martial arts family, the world's number one martial arts family, seems to be the title bestowed on Taro Hachiman by the emperor back then."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki showed a faint smile on his face: "That's right, you can recognize this fact, which shows that your mind is still very clear, but some people can't see through it. They think that they can become famous even if they are loyal to the emperor, such as Nitta Yoshisada. , Nanmu Zhengcheng is one of the examples, Zhu Zixue will also appear such scumbags of the martial arts, if there are Zhu Zixue's remarks about the three cardinal principles and five constant principles, loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, what kind of things does Zhenwangwan think such people will do?"

"My child doesn't know..."

"The ancestor of my Hanoi Genji was King Jingji, and there is a saying in the document: the ancestors were newly issued, first Jingji, then Prince Zhenjun, who was first Qing and Emperor... Zhenwangmaru, how many aliases does my Hanoi Genji have?"

Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru bowed and replied: "Samurai Genji, Kanto Genji, and the Genji."

Ashikaga Yoshitoki laughed and said: "So there was no great general who conquered barbarians in the Genpei era. There was only the pillar of the Genji family. Or the pillar of the Yuan family. During the battle, the ancestor Hachimantaro Hall was named after its roots in Kanto. The samurai all over the world looked up to my Minamoto family. Then in the Genpei era, there was a right general who established the Kamakura shogunate. So what is the significance of advocating loyalty to the emperor and patriotism to my Minamoto family? Let the warriors of the world be loyal to whose family's king and love whose family's country?"

Ashikaga Jinwangmaru was puzzled, and with his wisdom, he couldn't solve such a complicated problem for the time being.Ashikaga Yoshitoki would not tell him how much disaster the introduction of Zhu Zixue would bring to Japan. In another time and space, it could be called a disaster. A once-in-a-century rare flower Tokugawa Mitsuki.

This cultural person with excellent literary talent is not wrong in terms of personal character and actions, and is even far better than his contemporaries. He has devoted his life to summing up the gains and losses of his predecessors. That is to vigorously develop Zhu Zixue and advocate the idea of ​​loyalty to the monarch and patriotism.As a result, the Mito clan, one of the three dignified royal families, became the base camp of the anti-Tokugawa shogunate for various reasons.

It gave birth to generations of loyal emperors who regarded General Tokugawa as an enemy.They are criticizing the Tokugawa family from a standpoint that is completely divorced from their own class. Of course, this is also directly related to the Tokugawa family's "Forbidden China and Public Laws". It is not new to treat the emperor as a puppet. What is new is this Tokugawa. The family doesn't follow the rules, but insists on stipulating what the court can and cannot do. If they don't follow what he does, they will be punished.

Not only that, but also treated the imperial court harshly. A Tsinghua family only gave a few hundred Shi Lugao, which is not as good as a Gao family's banner. To the bone, compared with Minamoto Yoritomo who met Shirakawain eight times in Kyoto, the relationship between the Muromachi generals and the imperial court is really different.

After the end of the Tokugawa shogunate, on the basis of Zhu Zixue, they gradually elaborated another wonderful thing called "The View of the History of the Imperial Kingdom". "The Orthodox Records of the Emperor of God", that book is actually a personal summary made by Beibata's relatives during the period of stubborn resistance in the Changlu Kingdom after the failure of the Jianwu New Deal.

This gentleman firmly believes that the emperor is the master of the line of ten thousand generations, and the world should be in charge of the Shiguan family and their Murakami Genji. As for the samurai, it is better to go back to the previous era of ignorance, but it is a pity that his theory is even useless for the emperor of the Northern Dynasty. Paper is not as good as it is. Without Ashikaga Takashi, there would be no royal family in the Northern Dynasty who would proclaim themselves emperors and completely abolish the embarrassment of the two systems.

And the origin of this Kitabata family is very interesting. The direct ancestor of Ashikaga Yoshiki’s counselor, Kitabata, his son is the famous Kitabata family. Relying on being a close minister of Emperor Go-Daigo, he was promoted to the post of quasi-minister with his background from an underground family. , of course he wants to cheer for Emperor Go-Daigo's policies.

Without the authority of Emperor Go-Daigo, he is obviously nothing as a close minister. The officials in the Southern Dynasty are basically from separate families, such as Konoe Jingzhong, and Kitabata's in-laws are similar. , the Nakain family, a tributary derived from the direct stream, is the Kitabata family, which is not even mixed with the Habayashi family.

The intermittent mania of the emperor and his ministers is not a day or two. The Chengjiu Rebellion ended once. Later Emperor Toba felt that Minamoto Yoritomo's line was extinct, and the confrontation between the Hojo family and the royal family was a good opportunity. The entire family property was lost, [-] manors were confiscated in one breath, and large areas of Kinai and Nishikoku, which were not under the jurisdiction of the Kamakura shogunate, were also brought into the hands of the shogunate. The Hojo family let go of the three emperors in one go.

Going to the Muromachi shogunate Ashikaga General's house was very smart. He reused the Hino family, a close confidant of the Emperor of the Northern Dynasty, and set up a temporary official samurai family to act as a leading party. Since then, almost every generation of generals has become associated with the daughter of the Hino family. The level is getting higher and higher until Ashikaga Yoshimitsu reaches the peak. This is the glory of the Ashikaga family and the glory of the source family.

But at the end of the Tokugawa period in another time and space, there were "people with lofty ideals" who believed that the first three generations of the Ashikaga family were traitors and must be pulled out and beheaded. But what if these three people have been dead for hundreds of years?Then simply pull out the wooden statues enshrined by the Ashikaga General's family in Kyoto, and cut off the heads of Ashikaga Takaji, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and it became a sensational event.

From the side, it reflects the nature of these "spiritual people" who are bullying and fearing hard. They dare not tear down the Toshogu Shrines all over the place. They take revenge on the family of General Ashikaga who has been dead for hundreds of years. They can probably say that Ashikaga Takashi is even worse than Tokugawa Ieyasu with a shy face. Respect the emperor, as if it was Ashikaga Takaji who destroyed the Kenbu New Deal, not the arrogance and arrogance of Emperor Go-Daigo.

This ugly farce and the subsequent distorted social form in Japan originated from Zhuzixue and Yangmingxue. Such as "Ye Yin" distorts the original intention of enforcing grace and serving the public, advocating that it is like the shade of leaves of trees, invisible to others The local ruler sacrificed his life to serve the public, and the combination of the two led to the later absurd Bushido, encouraging death and encouraging loyalty to the emperor and patriotism. Of course, the dross of the general must be kicked away. Minamoto Yoshiya and Minamoto Yoritomo are old antiques, and the samurai family is something out of date also be completely abolished.

The absurd Bushido, the crazy and morbid Samurai society, the stupid and arrogant Tokugawa General, all of these are like pictures, which keep turning like a revolving lantern in Ashikaga Yoshitoki's mind. Neither the interests of one's own class nor years of experience allow such crazy things to happen.

Ashikaga Yoshitoki walked up to Ashikaga Jinomaru and squatted down gently, raised his hand and pressed his immature shoulders, and said softly: "Zhenwangmaru must remember that your future is the pillar of the Minamoto family, and the millions of soldiers under his command , the general who ruled billions of people, don’t betray yourself, everything you own, and everything you are proud of for a book or a set of theories, let alone your ancestors, your shoulders It bears the pride of my Genji!"

"Yes! I remember it!" Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru nodded seriously, and said after a while: "Then how will I face those literati in the future?"

"Don't bother with them, you can communicate freely between cultural people, just remember that the Wu family doesn't get involved, and it won't make waves if you make trouble with them."

Looking at the leaving figure of Ashikaga Zhenwangmaru, Ashikaga Yoshitoki said with a light smile: "At that age, Yu left his hometown with a dream of revitalizing the samurai family. My lord, Yu can no longer restrain him like before, it is good to let him know some things in advance, next year a Yuanfu ceremony should be held for him..." (To be continued...)

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