Pillars of the Wu family

Ashikaga Yoshito got up and left in a rage, and the court meeting naturally broke up unhappy. After the court meeting, Kira Manmatsumaru was stopped by the maid. It turned out that Ashikaga Yoshito was looking for him, and followed the maid's small steps to walk around half of the pool slowly. , Kira Wansongmaru secretly said: "Is this to appease me?"

Entering the Changyu Palace, I saw Yoshito Ashikaga holding Harumoto Hosokawa smartly and criticizing: "That bastard Harumoto Hosokawa dared to expose your scars in front of the shogunate officials! This is simply unreasonable! Even the Hosokawa family You can't manage your own housekeeper well, so what face do you have to say that others are not!"

"Kyozhao Hosokawa is just talking in a moment of anger, His Royal Highness, please calm down! Happy and angry!"

"Hmph! You don't know what kind of person Hosokawa Harumoto is! Yu Ke has been fed up with his capriciousness since he was a child. In his early years, he even took Adashiri Yoshio as a general and treated his father as nothing! This kind of father who has no father and no king His generation should have been defeated by Miyoshi Changqing!" Ashikaga Yoshito was obviously pissed off, and even said such unreasonable words, but he didn't know that this sentence even included himself, and the shogunate did not have a protective company in charge. It's not as good as a molted phoenix, at most it's a molted quail.

Kira Wansongmaru began to be silent**, your general said that I was tired of listening and talking, and I would persuade you a few more words, and then you continued to talk and I continued to listen. It is too easy to be a good person afterwards.

Going straight to Ashikaga Yoshito after drinking the fifth cup of water, the sun was setting towards the west. Seeing that there was no hope of returning to Sakamoto today, Ashikaga Yoshito finally changed the topic to the whole: "Don't worry Saburo! If you have more time, I will definitely seek justice for you .”

"When I said this, I must have said it subconsciously? Or I haven't sobered up yet." Kira Wansongmaru lowered his head, but he was actually trying to hide his lips curling.

"So work hard to defeat Sanzhu, and I will let you take the position of Guanling!"

Kira Wansongmaru continued to lower his head and curl his lips: "It's empty talk again, and I haven't woken up yet!"

"As long as you take back Kyoto for the shogunate, Kitaomi Jiangyu will give it to you!"

Kira Wansongmaru's eyes lit up, and he said respectfully: "I dare not ask extravagantly for the feudal title of the Northern Omi Kingdom, but only ask for a county in Sakamoto!"

"There are too few in one county!" He hadn't sobered up yet.

"Just one county!"

"At least two counties! How about Li Tai County?"

"Uh! Is that the land of the Liujiao family tree?" Kira Wansongmaru said with a bitter face, "Don't cause trouble for me, Rita County is the core area of ​​the Liujiao family. I didn't ask for it if I wanted it Trouble?"

"Huh?" Ashikaga Yoshito seemed to realize that something was wrong, and quickly changed his words: "Then Takashima County!"

"Takashima Seven Heads is a member of the Liujiao family!" Kira Wansongmaru kindly reminded.

"It doesn't matter! Are you a member of the family? Takashima Seven Heads are the retainers of the family? That's it!" Ashikaga Yoshito waved him away, and he didn't forget to ask for a share before leaving. Yujiashu, this thing can’t be used now, but it can be used as a memo in the future. It’s really worth fighting to win the capital and give it to the two counties.

In the next few days, Kira Wansongmaru took Sheng Ji and Aju to visit his uncle's house in Nakain, and stayed at Toji Temple for a few days by the way. Speaking of the last time he came and went in a hurry, he didn't pay much attention to the Toji Temple. Let's go again now. Only then did I realize that the To-ji Temple is indeed extraordinary. Built in the early Heian period, the To-ji Temple is also known as the Jiaowang Gokoku Temple. It is the head temple of Tantric Buddhism built by the master of Buddhism, Kukai, at the order of Emperor Saga.

The status of Master Kobo Kukai is equivalent to that of Saicheng, the master of the Den religion who founded Enryaku-ji Temple on Mt. Today, the status of the elders of Dongji Temple is no less than that of the head of Tiantai. The status is evenly matched.

The Pure Land Sect, Linji Sect, Caodong Sect, and Fahua Sect passed down by Tiantai Sect are very prosperous. For example, the most widely spread Linji Sect, Nichiren Sect, and Ichigo Sect are all born out of the Tiantai Sect. The lineage of Sanuki Zentsuji Temple, the lineage of Koyasan Kongobuji Temple, and the lineage of Neraiji Temple are also very strong, and their roots are all near Kinki and Nankaido. In addition to Kyoto, Shikoku, Kii and other places are also very difficult to mess with.

Of course, these two major factions are not in harmony. For example, Toji Temple once competed with Koyasan for the status of Somoto Mountain. Because Emperor Saga established the status of "the root of Shingon Esoteric Buddhism", Toji Temple has been holding the position of Somoto Mountain until the middle of the Heian period. It remained unchanged until Michiru Fujiwara climbed Koyasan to revive Kongobuji Temple. Since then, the royal family and ministers began to visit the mountain frequently and provide financial support, so Koyasan was revived.

The scale of Toji Temple is not large. Because it is located in the center of Kyoto, its rise and fall has always been related to the rise and fall of the imperial court and the attitude of the shogunate. It is not as good as Enryaku Temple and Kofuku Temple, which still have three to five thousand monks and soldiers even if they decline. Not to mention large groups of monks and soldiers such as Koyasan Kongobuji Temple, Neraiji Temple, and Ichigosan Shishan Honganji Temple.

There are only 800 people in the whole temple of Dongji Temple, including the old monks who guard the gate. There are more than 100 small bald heads, and the youngest is a few years younger than him. Some flower beds in the temple have been opened up as vegetable gardens. There are radishes, soybeans and other crops, and the royal family and ministers originally gave financial assistance, but now they have spare money to donate, so they can only wait for some donations from the shogunate merchants.

In fact, Toji Temple also has a large number of monastery leaders in Yamashiro State, but some people in the country are not too particular and directly occupy the temple leader, saying that it is his family’s vegetable garden. Toji Temple has no monks and soldiers to scare people, so they can only ask the shogunate for help. The shogunate used to work. In the past few decades, it has not been very bright. Those Chinese bullied Toji Temple and occupied it without any armed forces. Up to now, only more than 1000 stones can be really controlled. In addition, from time to time, a local rich man donates a sum of money, and the days are still passable. .

But monks don’t just eat and don’t work. They occasionally have to give lectures on the scriptures, and occasionally hold a debate on the scriptures. Some crooked tricks, such as finding a rich and kind man to canonize you as a Dharma bridge master, and you can also earn some donations.

"It's difficult for anyone in this troubled world!" Seeing that there are few monks with shiny foreheads in Toji Temple, Kira Manmatsumaru also lamented that every family has hard-to-recite scriptures, especially in a busy business area like Kyoto. The competition among many temples is fierce, and even the abbot of a big temple has to have two brushes to make a living safely, which is indeed not easy enough.

Regardless of the epic struggle history of Toji Temple, the scenery here is really good. Although the Golden Hall was burned by Doichi Kui, it was lost and rebuilt, which is a bit regrettable. In addition to the lecture hall, five-storied pagoda, Imperial Shadow Hall, Dainichi Hall, Bishamon Hall, Enlightenment Temple, The treasures, guarding Hachimangu, Taiyuantang, and Bententang are all very good. Among them, the five-storied pagoda was burned down and rebuilt after four lightning strikes is no small miracle.

After visiting the two major pagodas of the Toji Temple, Guanzhi Temple and Baoboti Temple, Kira Wansongmaru took two girls, one big and one small, and set off back to Sakamoto. On the way, he met the Samurai Mahui who reported the letter, "The owner of the hall My lord! It’s bad! Hosokawa Harumoto’s vassal, Nose Inabamori, ran to Sakamoto to make trouble, threatening to overthrow all the samurai of my Kira family!”

Aju covered her mouth with one hand, and Sheng Ji's with the other hand, not daring to intervene. Kira Wansongmaru turned around and smiled at them, then turned back and frowned and asked, "How is the situation now?"

"His Highness Yamamoto suppressed his subordinates and did not take up the challenge, and sent them to contact the owner of the museum before making a decision!"

"Why are you still hesitating? Just ask Watanabe Takatsuna to go! Before the family returns to Sakamoto, end this farce! And tell them to clean up from head to toe, and don't cause trouble for the family!"

"Yes!" The warrior on horseback turned on his horse and rode away.

"Oni sauce! Will you be okay?" Not only did Shengji look nervous, but Aju also looked worried.

"Don't worry, I won't be troubled by this matter!" Kira Wansongmaru said a few words of relief, and then called the accompanying horses to continue their journey.

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