Pillars of the Wu family

Early the next morning, a group of more than 20 people from Kira's family left the island city with Shimazuuchi. Before leaving, remembering the precautions Shimazuuchi had been reminding Shimazuuchi before he left, he finally sent two Daozuo genealogy representatives The children of the family followed him, and the relationship between the father and son was really good, much stronger than many Wu families.

But looking at these two guys who are only fifteen or sixteen years old and looking at him with a silly smile on their faces, Kira Wansongmaru feels that the Shima family is really unreliable. Not to mention the air leaks everywhere, the cottage earth building is not much better, so what kind of enemies can it resist, no wonder Dao Zuojin has been unknown since he was young.

As the actual controller of the Yamato Kingdom, Kofukuji spreads all over the territory, but as a temple, he can manage very limited. In addition to controlling the Kasuga Shrine and the main place, the actual dominance of the neighboring country is called Yamato The Tsutsui clan, Ochi clan, Toichi clan, and Hashio clan of the four families jointly ruled.

During the chaos of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, local samurai from all over the country began to form township parties. Just like the Musashi Seven Clans that existed in the Genpei era, samurai groups in various places formed their own township parties based on clans. Yamato also had its own party members. The attitudes of the Tsutsui family, the Uda generals, and the other families are relatively vague, sometimes swaying from side to side, and sometimes opposing each other, which also reflects the basic attributes of the people of the country.

The party members of the Yamato Kingdom are the Xuhai Waki ​​Party formed by the Tsutsui family, the Hasegawa Party formed by the Toichi family, the Scattered Party formed by the Ochi family, the Nagagawa Party formed by the Hashio family, and the Narahara family. The Geshang Party formed in the center, and the Hirata Party formed by the locals of Hirata Manor, such as the Bansui clan, the Busch clan, and the Takata clan.

Tianxia County to the east of Pingqun County is the homeland of the Tsutsui family. As a powerful official in Kofukuji, the real rise of the Tsutsui family took place in the last 100 years. The Tsutsui family claimed to be a descendant of the Fujiwara or Ogami surname When the Kasuga Shrine was moved from Kunmaioka, Hanoi, Kasuga Shrine enshrined the descendants of Fujiwara Shuntake, one of the four Fujiwara families, who migrated to Tsutsui-sho, Timha County, and then called themselves the Tsutsui clan.

However, their self-proclaiming has not been recognized by the people of the country. The reason is that the place where their family first made a fortune, the existence of the Moriya Tsutsui clan centered on the Moriya Shrine Daisuke Moriya Clan has detailed records, and it appears as the name of the disciples of Kofukuji Temple. Well, among the people of Yamato Kingdom, everyone is a well-informed person, so they naturally know how much his family has.

The Tsutsui clan really became active during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. In the third year of Zhide (1386 in the Western calendar), in the "Xingfu Temple Disciple Pingding Statue", there was a list of all the people who were eliminated by Tsutsui Shunjue, but at that time his family was only one of the many officials. It was not noticeable at first, but it really started to make a fortune in the first year of Yongshang (1429 in the Western calendar), when the sixth shogun Ashikaga Yoshinaka accepted the homage of Tsutsui Junkaku.

I don't know if Tsutsui Junkaku was attracted by Ashikaga Yoshinaka who is a "monster of terror" because of his good looks. In short, in the second year, the shogunate issued an order to lead Kofukuji's Kawasami customs office, and Tsutsui Junkaku served as Xing During this period, the influence of the Tsutsui family began to really expand.

Later, the Tsutsui clan, who was the shogunate, united with the Toichi clan who belonged to Kofukuji, and fought with the Ochi clan and the Hashio clan who belonged to the Southern Dynasty. Although they once had an advantage, they quickly retreated. Because the Sawa clan and the Akiyama clan from the three southern counties, which belonged to the Southern Dynasty, joined successively, the Tsutsui clan and the Toshi clan immediately turned from an advantage to a disadvantage, and further lost their control over the three southern counties.

As the main force appointed by the shogunate in Yamato, the performance of the Tsutsui clan was a tragedy. Even with the assistance of the Toichi clan, he was beaten and disarmed. For 11 years, the Tsutsui clan was beaten and fled in embarrassment. Shunjue's younger brother was begged to die, and the Tsutsui family's residence was occupied by the Ochi clan, it can be said that it was sad to death.

Later, when the shogunate crusade was dispatched, Kitabata Manya, the main leader of the Nanchoo rebellion, died in battle, and the Ochi and Hashio families were completely defeated. Since then, the Yamato Yongyo Rebellion has ended, because the Tsutsui family can be regarded as a tragedy. , and his benefactor Ashikaga Yoshinaka died in the Cargill Rebellion, the Tsutsui family lost the support of the shogunate and was soon provoked to civil strife, and fell into a new war because of the dispute over the Hatakeyama family's family governor.

As the leader of the people in the northern part of the Yamato Kingdom, the issue of the family governor of the Tsutsui family quickly aroused the involvement of many forces in the Yamato Kingdom, and thus fell into a new round of civil strife. By the time the Tsutsui family tried their best to solve the issue of the succession of the family governor, the time has passed In the past 20 years, the Tsutsui family has regained power under the painstaking management of the next two generations of family governors.

Successfully appease the people of the country, and then the daughter of the Ochi family married into the Tsutsui family, marking the peace between the hostile Ochi family, but some people will be happy if they stop fighting. It's good for ruling, if you are all friendly, then I don't care, so I sent Akasawa Asokyo into the Yamato country to fan the flames. The Tsutsui family took the opportunity to eliminate another old enemy, the Furuichi family, and the family business flourished again.

In 20 years, when Tsutsui Junaki, the governor of the Tsutsui family, was in charge, the power of the Tsutsui family was expanded to the extreme. After the death of Hanoi's national power minister Kizawa Nagamasa, he seized the control of Shiguiyama Castle and actually controlled the Yamato Kingdom. The main force of the seven counties in the north became the nominal leader of the Yamato Kingdom, but the governor was not lucky. In April this year, because of acne, he asked the governor to go to Hiei Mountain to live in seclusion, and died of illness before autumn.

"The power of the Yamato Kingdom is very complicated. There are many samurai families like the Shima family who are close to the Tsutsui clan. It is a pity that the generation of hero Tsutsui Junaki died of illness, and his son should be Tsutsui Junkei." Although the Tsutsui family was passed away by the family governor However, it did not fail because of this, because Tsutsui Junzhao’s two younger brothers, Tsutsui Junmasa and Cimeiji Shunguo, had strong support, and relatives Toichi and Ochi clan supported him to maintain Xingfu There is no problem with the status of the temple officials and apprentices acting as officials.

Before leaving Timha County, I heard that there was a joint battle in the three southern counties. The three generals of Uto intensified the confrontation between two of the families, the Akiyama clan and the Sawa clan.

"Aren't the three generals of Yu Tuo an alliance? Why did they suddenly start fighting?"

"It seems that His Highness Kitabata, Ise Kunisa, supported the Akiyama family, and the Sawa family was forced to set off a turmoil."

"Hey! Really! These samurai gentlemen don't know what to think, they call and fight all day long..."

"Shh! Someone is coming!" Seeing more than 20 riders from Kira's family, several villagers quickly closed their mouths and knelt down on the ground.

Upon seeing this, Kira Wansongmaru ordered Yamaoka Zenjiro to go and ask: "Hey, let me ask you, what happened to the three generals you mentioned just now?"

"Master Samurai, are you asking the villain? The villain just say it, say it!" An old man with broken teeth grinned and kept bowing with a flattering smile, then made a gesture of coughing twice, and said: "Say Let’s talk about the three generals of Utuo! Let’s talk about the three southern counties first…”

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