When Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and the Ming envoys Yang Xu and Zheng He were about to personally interrogate the leader of the Yajiao pirates, Tayama Kikuni angrily sent him the news that the important criminal he had taken into custody had been assassinated.
This matter immediately caused an uproar in the Beishan Palace, and all the ministers of the three management leaders were involved.
Oda Tsunematsu's people have rushed back from the Owari Starry Night, and have figured out the identity of this pirate leader, his name is Oda Hidetoshi, he is indeed a member of the Oda family, as the son and nephew of the Oda family, Oda Tsunematsu is completely sure that he will not do stupid things that trap the head of the family, and General Spoyi is also relieved after hearing the report.
When he came to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu today, he originally wanted to see the ridiculous faces of His Excellency the General and Hosokawa Manmoto when the testimony of "falsely climbing" himself was retracted in court, but he didn't expect that the prisoner was dead, and this time Spoyoshi would be yellow mud sticking to the crotch of his pants, not but, which made him annoyed.
Hosokawa Manyuan, who didn't know the details, was even more dissatisfied, and decided that this was Tian Shan Kikuni selling to General Si Bo and intentionally giving the other party a chance to kill and destroy his mouth, so he unceremoniously shouted in harsh language in front of Xia Xun and Zheng He, the two envoys of the Ming Kingdom, and attacked General Si Bo Yi and Hosokawa Manyuan for colluding and destroying evidence.
In Tayama Kikuni, the only person who has a reason to assassinate a murderer is General Spo.
The old fellow was enraged by the assassination of General Spo, and to be honest, he did not want to get involved in any dispute between the Sposhi and Hosokawa clans, and now that Spoi was forcibly tying him to the chariot by the most despicable means, Tayama Kikuni was furious about it.
He told Ashikaga Yoshimitsu to his face that General Spoyoshi had led people to the Turtle Temple and forcibly asked to meet with the prisoners who were refused, in order to imply that the Assassins had a great relationship with the Turtle General, and then ordered all the samurai who guarded the Temple that night to commit suicide and apologize, and his violent actions confused Hosokawa Mitsumoto for a while: if Tayama Kikuni really took refuge in the Turtle Temple, it seemed that there was no need to use such drastic means to confess himself.
Immediately afterwards, the news that someone found the corpses of two ninjas was also quickly sent to the North Mountain Temple, and when the bodies arrived, although no one knew these two ninjas, but from all the items they carried, it was already possible to confirm the ninja identities of the two, and hiring ninjas to do some unsightly things, which is what the daimyo and guardians often do, and the discovery of the two ninja corpses, the only effect is that the suspicion of General Spo is a little heavier.
In the face of the chaotic situation in which the three leaders attacked and accused each other, Xia Xun and Zheng He also euphemistically expressed their dissatisfaction and concern to Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, they were worried that the colluding pirates would be able to meddle in the affairs of Kyoto and kill an important witness under close supervision, so it was a question whether the Honto side could effectively implement the strategy of suppressing bandits, and if the Honto side could not do this, then they would immediately return to China, ask the Great Tomorrow, and cancel the trade with the Yamato.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu immediately made a promise to the two envoys of the kingdom that he would urge the daimyo and guardians to strictly implement the measures against piracy, and ordered the pursuit of the pirates who had fled ashore, and immediately issued an order to proclaim the whole nation in the name of the emperor.
By this time, General Spoy had already issued a law to exert his influence and make all kinds of obstacles to the arrest of pirates.
He was already in a situation, and just clearing his grievances and resisting the pressure from His Excellency the General, Hosokawa Mitsumoto, and Tayama Kikuni was enough for him to be anxious.
After getting Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's promise, Xia Xun reluctantly agreed to stay until he saw Ashikaga Yoshimitsu's sincerity in suppressing bandits.
Ashikaga Yoshimitsu breathed a sigh of relief and sent his close retainer Kannon Daifu Ami to accompany the two Celestial Envoys to Edo for sightseeing and relaxation, and Xia Xun and Zheng He patted their butts and visited Mt.
Fuji.
The three lords of the shogunate were divided into a pot of porridge, and the retainers who belonged to the three lords and the daimyo and guardians who were close to the different lords joined different camps, and because of the Kamitome Temple incident, the contradictions that had been accumulated among them for a long time completely exploded.
"It turns out that the envoy of the Ming Kingdom deliberately captured a pirate leader, and his real purpose was not to use this to bite the Si Bo Commander, but to catch him first and then kill him, and provoke the suspicion between the three Rulers, so as to promote the Tianshan Commander to move closer to me?"
Things have come to this point, if the Spring Bureau still doesn't understand what the young and handsome envoy of the Ming Kingdom needs her to do, she is not worthy of participating in such a big thing as seizing the heir.
Chun Yue held his cheeks and sat in front of the makeup mirror and thought secretly: "This is undoubtedly maximizing the use value of a pirate leader, far greater than his identification, which will cause much greater substantial damage to such a powerful prince as Si Boyi." ” Thinking about it, she sighed faintly: "What a fascinating guy" The Spring Bureau was secretly frightened by Yang Xu's calculations.
This young, handsome, and wise envoy of the Ming Dynasty had already conquered her heart, and at this time, a maid came in and reported: "Madam, the leader of Tianshan has arrived."
Chun said that the bureau let out a soft "ah", immediately stood up, and walked out quickly.
She had already taken the opportunity and began to woo the operation.
She began to make frequent contact with Tayama Kikuni to dispel the hostility and distrust between him and Hosokawa Mitsumoto, and to win him over for her own use.
Tayama Kikuni could not bear the situation of being enemies on both sides, and he was resentful of General Spo's trapping him in injustice, and under the skillful mediation of the Haru Yu Bureau, he began to slowly fall to the camp of Hosokawa Manmoto.
Although Hosokawa Manmoto's power was weak, and Tayama Kikuni's power was even weaker, the two leaders joined forces and had a great impact on the authority of General Spo.
When He Tianyang stood on the top of Mt.
Fuji, opened his arms in the direction of the outing, and howled excitedly: "I am coming, I see that I conquer", the political situation in Kyoto has changed greatly, and the two major power groups of the Hosokawa clan and the Yamada clan have joined forces.
Oda Town, Dansei-gun, Kenjin Shrine.
On April 29, the spring festival began, and the inside and outside of the Sword God Palace were crowded with people from all over the world who came to make pilgrimages and worship.
Those who can enter the palace to worship are naturally the people with more respectable status, they are either big merchants or wealthy clans, men, women, old people, children, all dressed in the most solemn crown clothes, and pay the highest etiquette to the main priest, the god who is sacrificed and the sword in the middle.
Suddenly, a samurai suddenly got up, seemed to be in a hurry, and wanted to go out in a hurry, but because he stood up in a hurry, and the hall was full of kneeling people, in order to avoid an old man in front of him, his body was wrong, and he seemed to be unstable on his feet, and he hit the incense case heavily, and the force was very great, and this time he knocked down the sword holder dedicated to the sword on the incense case.
"The bastard blasted him out," an acolyte caught up.
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry" The samurai hurriedly apologized, hurriedly grabbed the sword from the incense case, and hurriedly climbed up to the confession case, trying to put the sword back in the knife holder, but suddenly, he stopped, shook his arm, and screamed: "This fake sword is fake" This sentence stunned the people who worshiped all over the hall, and they all looked up at him, he knelt on the incense table in a ridiculous posture, and pulled out the divine sword in his hand with a "swish", although few people have the opportunity to touch this divine sword, but the style of the divine sword is familiar to every believer, and the bright and dangling divine sword in his hand is no different from the well-known divine sword style.
The samurai stood up on the offering table, shouted angrily, folded the sword in his hand to his knees, and with a "bang", the sword was broken in half, and many wooden thorns appeared at the fracture, he brandished the sword and continued to shout: "The sword of the fake Sword God Palace is fake, where did they hide the sword, and use a fake to perfunctory us, what a bastard" "The Fake Excalibur is a Fake" exclamation quickly reached the ears of every pilgrim from the inside out.
When a priest hurried to the main hall dedicated to the gods, the two priests were already surrounded by an angry crowd, and they only had their two feet exposed, and the priest could only see the beating movements of the angry believers, but could not see the legs of the two priests moving, and couldn't help but exclaim, "What happened" The crowd spotted him, and immediately retreated like a tide, revealing two bloody corpses, and then the tide pounced on him again, and roared angrily: "Hand over the Excalibur Excalibur Excalibur Where are you hiding?"
The samurai who collided with the incense case and discovered the authenticity of the Excalibur was a retainer of the Ishibashi clan, the Ishibashi clan was a clan with an ancient inheritance in Echizen, and when the Hosokawa clan was guarded by Echizen, the Ishibashi clan was a member of the Hosokawa clan, so after Echizen became the territory of the Spo clan, the Spo clan did not reuse the Ishibashi clan, but reused the Oda clan attached to him.
The Ishibashi clan received a letter from an unknown person informing them that the sword of the Sword Shrine had been stolen and that the priests of the Oda family were bluffing believers with fakes, which was a rare opportunity for the declining Ishibashi family, and they had to seize it.
But they also couldn't believe that someone dared to offend Shenwei and steal the divine sword, and the priest who stole the divine artifact not only did not apologize for his crime with death, but also dared to bluff people with fakes, so they were not afraid that the gods would condemn the crime and prolong the descendants of all generations So they first sent a samurai to verify the authenticity.
When the sword turned out to be a fake, their pre-made arrangements began, the angry crowd was stirred, the priests and priests were killed, and those who escaped escaped fled into the mountains and forests.
At that time, the most serious offense was against temples and shrines, and the law on this aspect was the most numerous, and not only the public law of the imperial court listed this part of the law as the first part, but also the most important part, that is, the samurai law of the shogunate, and the law of temples and shrines was also the most important.
As long as you imagine that after Ashikaga Yoshimitsu became the de facto Emperor of the Shomoto, he also needed to become a monk in order to exercise control over the power of the temple and the shrine, and you can know how powerful the power of the temple and shrine was in the entire shrine at that time.
If the alliance of the Hosokawa clan and the Tayama clan only posed some threat to the dominance of the Spo Yoshisho, what happened in the Sword God Palace was a fatal blow to him, and His Excellency Ashikaga Yoshimitsu finally tore off the mask of hypocrisy and showed his fangs in a mouth full of fangs with such a major excuse To be continued: