Xia Xun was still very powerful in the intelligence agency of Yuben, and the next morning, some of the information he urgently needed was sent to his desk.
In the center of the Ashikaga shogunate, there were three families from the Ashikaga clan: the Hosokawa clan, the Spo clan, and the Tayama clan, which took turns to serve as the shogun's assistants, that is, the "steward", which was equivalent to the position of the prime minister, and was mainly responsible for government affairs; In addition, there were four clans, Isshiki, Yamana, Kyogoku, and Akamatsu, who took turns serving as the shogunate's "shosho chiefs", also known as "shojishoji", who were the chiefs who handled samurai affairs, and were called "four positions", mainly in charge of military affairs.
This is the core of the public family and the samurai, headed by the "three leaders and four positions", these seven guardian daimyo families, constitute the ruling core of the Ashikaga shogunate, and the Spo Yoshimi is the first leader under the command of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the Spo family has made great efforts to dominate Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and the corresponding Spo family has also obtained huge benefits, Echizen, Wakasa, Echichu, Yamashiro, Noto, Oe, Shinano, Owari, Kaga and other places are now the Spo family as the guardian daimyo.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu admired the culture of the Central Plains and hoped to establish a good relationship with the Ming Dynasty, so he tried his best to resist public opinion, and would rather agree to this prerequisite for being a minister to the Ming; Moreover, he was keen on the collection of Chinese culture and objects, and established a large number of industries related to Chinese culture in the Beishan Temple, which were the corresponding policies that emerged after he unified the country and set his sights on foreign countries.
These ideas were vigorously opposed by the Spoians.
The most powerful general who followed him at the beginning, so the difference with him became bigger and bigger.
Given the strength of the Ming state and the longing for Chinese culture that had always been held by many high-ranking officials, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu preferred to accept the humiliating condition of being a "vassal" in order to associate with the Ming dynasty, while Spomasaki was clearly an extreme nationalist, a policy he strongly opposed.
It's just that although he expressed his attitude, he was unable to make concrete objections to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's decision.
Correspondingly, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu had no way to take him.
At this time, the Sakaga regime was actually a pattern of competing for hegemony, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, the great general, was equivalent to the leader of the martial arts alliance, to a certain extent, he could represent the attitude of the entire Saymoto, but these daimyo under his command had their own territory and army, and the Ashikaga family did not have absolutely strong strength like the Tokugawa family in the Edo period, and he needed to maintain and balance the power of the powerful daimyo under him in order to implement his own ideas.
Therefore, although Spoyi has been contradicting Ashikaga Yoshimitsu over the years, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu can't help it.
Both sides had their own fears, so they had to go their own way, and this was the relationship between Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and one of the most powerful daimyo under his command.
Next is the question of Ashikaga Yoshinori, the heir of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, whom Xia Xun is most concerned about.
Ashikaga Yoshinori is the concubine of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, because Ashikaga Yoshimitsu decided to become a monk in order to control the power of the temple, he and the main room said no Yeko and the step-room said no Yasuko gave birth to a son, so Ashikaga Yoshinori set up this concubine as an heir, and let Yasuko Yuno accept him as an adopted son, let him serve as the general of the expedition.
Who would have thought that not long after Ashikaga Yoshinori became a general, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's wife became pregnant and gave birth to a son called Ashikaga Yoshimitsu.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu was very fond of his youngest son, Yoshitsugu, and sometimes he went to the palace to meet the emperor, and he would also take his younger son with him, the purpose of which was obvious, was to strengthen the intimate relationship between the young son and the imperial family, although the emperor had no real power, but the emperor's recognition would undoubtedly increase his son's political capital.
It is precisely because of these reasons that so far Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has always refused to give him power to be the son of the shogun of Seiyi, Ashikaga Yoshinori has always been in the name of the shogun of Seiyi, and he has been a puppet general in Kyoto, and there have long been rumors in Kyoto that Ashikaga Yoshimitsu intends to depose Yoshinori and inherit his power by Yoshitsu.
However, now Ashikaga Yoshiji is just in his early tens, although he is very smart, after all, he is too young, and Ashikaga Yoshimochi has been a general for ten years, although he has not yet grasped real power, but he has already made friends with a group of daimyo and gained their support.
Ashikaga Yoshinori knew that his position was dangerous and that he would not be favored by his father, so he retreated to the second best place and enlisted the support of various daimyos.
The daimyo who supported his father was bound to obey his father's decision, and he had to win the support of the daimyo by choosing ministers who were disappointed in his father's policies, and from whom he could see hope for the future, he would gain the support and support of these daimyo to resist the pressure exerted by his father.
Among the daimyo who turned to support him, Spo Yoshisho was the main supporter and his most powerful supporter, and because of this relationship, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, who had long wanted to abolish Ashikaga Yoshito, could not help but throw a rat trap and continue to consume it before he was completely sure, so as not to cause political instability.
Xia Xun saw these materials, and vaguely seemed to find a little bit of the key to the problem, he thought about it and asked: "Then, this Ashikaga Yoshiji lives in this mansion now."
He Tianyang said: "Yes, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's lay family is here, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu loves this son very much, and often takes him to live with the North Mountain Temple, and because of this, the relationship between Ashikaga Yoshitsu and his brother has deteriorated even more, and in the Flower Palace, the two brothers are almost old and dead. ” Xia Xun smiled and asked: "Although this Ashikaga Yoshitsu is young, he is a son-in-law and has the favor of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, so is there anyone who supports him among the ministers?"
He Tianyang said: "Yes, Ashikaga Yoshimitsu has three major pipes, Spoyi will support Ashikaga Yoshimo, and Hosokawa will support Ashikaga Yoshiji."
The head of the Hosokawa family's generation is called Hosokawa Mitsumoto, and the Hosokawa family was made the first minister by the Spo family because of the Spo family."
Xia Xun said approvingly: "Okay, the news I want can be transmitted so quickly, and things are done very well." ” He Tianyang couldn't help but smile and said: "That's nature, Guogong has forgotten, Dongfang Liang is now" Xia Xun couldn't help but smile dumbly when he heard this, and said, "Well, help me arrange it, I have to meet this child when I find a chance." ” The opportunity came soon, after breakfast, Xia Xun wandered around the Flower Palace, and after bypassing a clump of flowers and trees, he suddenly saw a woman in a kimono with her hair hanging down, wearing a "forehead" and three "hairpins", holding a boy about ten years old, playing in the garden.
The two of them met in a positive way, Xia Xun was trying to find a topic, and the boy suddenly said: "Excuse me, are you an envoy from the Ming Kingdom?"
His original dialect was more fluent, Xia Xun glanced at him with some surprise, and said, "Yes, you are" The boy bowed respectfully to him and replied, "Your Excellency the Minister of the Ming Dynasty, it is rude.
I am Ashikaga Yoshiji, the son of Ashikaga shogun, and I have heard my father mention His Excellency the Minister from the Ming Dynasty. ” Xia Xun was amused and said, "You're welcome, just call me Your Excellency."
Next to His Highness, this one is" The information Xia Xun got from He Tianyang has confirmed that there is also a "struggle for succession" happening now, and Ashikaga Yoshiji is still a ten-year-old child, since he has fallen into the whirlpool of competition for succession, it is impossible to say that his mother is not involved.
What can a child talk about and what he tries his best to see, it is actually this woman, this is knowingly asked.
The woman next to Ashikaga Yoshitsugu is very delicate, her dress is very formal, the lower corner of the skirt reveals a touch of crimson "long span", wearing "single" and "five clothes", "five clothes" is a "purple thin" spring dress style, and then the outside is the "slender" of the commission, two long coats, dragged behind her, followed by "beating clothes", red-dyed rhombic fabric, with a faint and soft purple red luster, "beating clothes" above is "watching", the bright patterns are very gorgeous, the outermost is "Tang clothes", like a cloak, but there is no dress.
When she saw Xia Xun looking at her, she immediately put her hands on her knees, bowed deeply to him, and smiled shyly.
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu immediately bowed and said, "This is my mother, Your Excellency the Minister of the Ming Dynasty, oh Your Excellency, my father is very fond of Chinese customs, and I am also very interested, can I ask you some questions?"
Xia Xun raised his eyebrows slightly, and said with a smile: "Of course you can." ” Ashikaga Yoshiji's mother let go of her hand and said, "Go ahead, ask His Excellency the Minister of the Ming Dynasty for more things, which can increase your knowledge."
Then he glanced at Xia Xun quickly, bowed to him, and said, "Yoshiji is a curious child, please trouble Your Excellency."
As he spoke, he turned around, and a pair of clogs clattered and swayed.
"Ah, pirates, I've heard of them too, Hosokawa told me about those pirates, they're very powerful, your navy is coming from so far away, can you deal with them?"
The two of them chatted in the garden for a long time, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu was really a curious child, asked many questions, and finally asked Xia Xun's intention, and the two of them mentioned pirates.
Xia Xun smiled: "Of course, it is very powerful to deal with pirates, but our Ming army is even more powerful, they are not our opponents, we don't even have to fight, as long as we touch them with a ship, we can smash their ships to pieces." ” "Is Daming's ship so strong?"
Xia Xun smiled: "It's not only strong, but also huge.
Our largest warship is bigger than a village, like a huge castle, a rudder, more than ten zhang long, we also have bows and crossbows, and there are huge cannons that make a thunderous sound when fired, and the lethality is amazing. ” Ashikaga Yoshitsugu was able to hear this, and said in disbelief: "Your Excellency, if your army is so powerful, why do you ask my father for help, and you have to go so far to hunt down pirates?"
Xia Xun said: "Asking your father for help, out of respect for him, this is the book, it is the territory under your father's rule, if we don't tell us, it will offend Ling Zun's dignity, right?"
"Hmm," Yoshitsugu Ashikaga nodded vigorously.
Xia Xun said again: "The reason why we have to run so far is because the pirates can't beat us and escape."
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No matter how powerful the army is, if the enemy does not fight with you at all, he will flee when you come, and if you leave, he will run to bully the old and weak women and children of your family, can you say that he is a very brave samurai because he has a very good ability to escape?"
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu said excitedly: "No, it's not the work of a samurai, it's a scoundrel."
Xia Xun smiled: "Yes, they are scoundrels.
We have come to shut them up in the den, to force them to fight us openly like a samurai, and not to allow them to escape again."
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu's eyes lit up and said, "Then, this time, if my father's army blocks their back road, so that they have no way to escape, and if Your Excellency's army forces them to fight a decisive battle, they will definitely lose."
Xia Xun cocked his thumb and said, "Your Highness is very smart, what do you think the result will be?"
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu thought for a while, and then asked: "The Great Ming Kingdom is far away from here, I heard that when the pirates come ashore, they will mix with the ordinary people, and they can't find it, no matter how powerful you are, you can't annihilate all the pirates at once, and then they will gather together and go to sea to rob, so what should I do?"
Xia Xun said: "We are not far apart, among the overseas countries, this is the closest country to the Ming Dynasty, and we have also established a fleet in the Ryukyus, which is very close to you, and now your father has established a relationship with the Ming Dynasty on behalf of the monarch and the Ming Kingdom, and they have opened the sea and trade with each other, and if you want to maintain this relationship, you can't be destroyed by the pirates, so as long as the pirates appear again, we will come soon." ” Xia Xun said earnestly: "Your father is the king of my Ming Emperor's imperial seal, you are Ling Zun's son-in-law, and you will become the king of this in the future, at that time, if you encounter difficulties, you can ask my Emperor Ming Emperor for help, and our powerful army can also help you deal with a strong enemy that you can't face alone."
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu was a little surprised, and hurriedly waved his hand and said, "Your Excellency, you have misunderstood that my father has passed on the general of Seiyi to my brother, and it is impossible for me to become the king of Yumoto." ” Xia Xun said in surprise: "Is this the case, I don't know much about the affairs of your country, I only heard that you are the only concubine of His Excellency the General."
And in our country, the son-in-law is the only son who has the right to inherit his father's inheritance, so I'm really sorry."
"It doesn't matter, in fact, in our book, it is also the same rule, but when my father was about to become a monk, I was not born yet."
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu smiled a little reluctantly, no matter how smart the child was, he couldn't hide his feelings, he thought about it, and asked uneasily: "Is it really as Your Excellency said, if we encounter a strong enemy, we can ask Daming for military assistance" Xia Xun said: "Of course, your father has already declared himself a vassal to His Majesty the Emperor of the Ming Dynasty on behalf of Yueben, and when he encounters a powerful enemy that he can't solve, the monarch will of course support him, just like North Korea, you can learn about their history, they have asked China for reinforcements many times, and every time we have helped them, and helped them to achieve victory" "Is that so," Ashikaga Yoshitsugu muttered to himself.
"Kuniko, it turns out that you are here, Ashikaga Shogun and the ministers are waiting to continue negotiations with you" I don't know when, He Tianyang suddenly appeared.
Xia Xun got up from the bamboo bench in the pavilion and smiled at Ashikaga Yoshitsugu: "Okay, I have to continue to discuss the suppression of bandits with your father." ” Ashikaga Yoshitsugu hurriedly bowed again and said, "Yes, it was a great pleasure to talk with His Excellency the Minister of the Ming Dynasty."
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu stood in the small pavilion, looking at Xia Xun's distant back stupidly, his mother suddenly appeared out of nowhere and stood beside him, Ashikaga Yoshitsugu turned his head and said excitedly: "Mother, I think in addition to Hosokawa Guanling, we can also find a powerful help" "What did this minister say?"
Ashikaga Yoshitsugu recounted to his mother from beginning to end, and two blushes of excitement appeared on the young woman's face, like a charming peach blossom makeup: "Great, your brother has foolishly chosen the path of opposition to Daming, I think if Daming knows about this, it is really possible for us to win a strong friend, I will find an opportunity to visit him" To be continued: