Honshoji Temple, located near Noji Village in Mikawa Bikai County, is the stronghold of Honganji Temple in Mikawa Province and is one of the "Three Temples of Mikawa", along with Kaminomiya Temple and Katsukuji Temple in Okazaki.

As the largest temple in Nishi-Mikawa, Honshoji Temple is so powerful that even the Mikawa Matsudaira family does not dare to provoke easily. After Matsudaira Hirotada succeeded to the throne of the family, he was given the privilege of "guarding the temple", which basically means that this is an independent territory, and even the Mikawa guardian cannot meddle in the affairs of the temple.

Mingdefang Juexiao served as the presiding officer of the temple at the earliest, and at that time Mingdefang Juexiao was still known as the lotus of the temple, and the current presiding officer of the temple was the nephew of Mingdefang Juexiao.

He is the grandson of the previous head of Honganji Temple, Honganji Renru, and is also the nephew of the current head of Honganji Temple.

Compared to the famous Honganji, the reputation of Hongshoji Temple is not high, and its sphere of influence is limited to the western part of Mikawa Province, while the eastern part of Mikawa is the territory of the Soto sect. However, the temple in history has also made a big news.

Around the 6th year of Eiroku (1563 AD), the Honshoji Temple in Mikawa initiated a large-scale Ichijo to give Matsudaira Motoyasu (i.e., Tokugawa Ieyasu), who had just taken over the power of the Matsudaira family, a head start.

There are probably two theories about the cause of the incident.

The first theory is that in the fifth year of Eiroku, a man who had broken the law in the Matsudaira family had fled to the jurisdiction of the temple. However, the lord of Nishio Castle of the Matsudaira family, Sakai Masaqin, arrested him, and this violated the privilege of "guarding the envoy not to enter" established by the previous generation Matsudaira Hirotada, so the temple directly set off a riot.

The second theory is that in the sixth year of Eiroku, Suganuma Matsudaira, a retainer, ordered the people of the Matsudaira clan to build a castle near the Kaminomiya Temple of the Ichijo sect and occupied part of the grain fields belonging to the Kamigu Temple, which led to the occurrence of the Ichiwa incident.

But whatever the reason, it's just an entanglement of interests between Matsudaira Motoyasu and Ichijozong. After all, Matsudaira Motoyasu wanted to unify Mikawa, and the existence of this temple undoubtedly hindered the Matsudaira family, so the conflict between the two sides would break out sooner or later.

And this time Mikawa has always been the same, and it is also called the "Three Great Crises of Tokugawa Ieyasu" (the other two are the Battle of Mikatahara and the Iga crossing after Honnoji). Because in addition to the monks in Mikawa Province, there are many disciples involved, and among these disciples are many Matsudaira retainers such as Honda Masanobu, Watanabe Moritsuna, Beeya Sadaji, Sakai Tadasho, Naito Kiyonaga, and Honda Masashige. As for the Sakurai Matsudaira family, the Mikawa Kira family, and the Okusa Matsudaira family, there are even more people who have come to reap benefits under the guise of the sect.

Yizong is so terrible, just so unreasonable!

Therefore, this is also the reason why Tsugawa Soji is unwilling to deal with the people of the Ichijo sect, so much so that he would rather support Christian priests like Obani in the collar than have anything to do with the Ichijo sect.

Of course, you can't be xenophobic against the Orthodox, otherwise you will face the hostility of millions of Orthodox Sect followers across the entire RB. Historically, after NB such as Oda Nobunaga was named an enemy of the Buddha, didn't life be just as difficult? Not to mention that the current Tsugawa family is still just jumping in the Ou area, once something unpleasant happens with the Ichijo sect, I'm afraid that the Tsugawa family's road to Shangluo will be even more difficult in the future.

This is also the reason why Soji Tsugawa deliberately made friends with Mingdebo Juexiao.

To be honest, Soji Tsugawa is not a fool, and the little caution that Mingdebo is aware of is that Soji Tsugawa has a number in his heart. However, through this period of understanding, Tsugawa Soji found that Mingdebo Juexiao Pit was a bit of a pit, but his prestige in the Zong was not low.

Therefore, Soji Tsugawa is purely deliberately going to be the boss of this wrong! Anyway, the Jinchuan family has a lot of money, and the court shogunate Lao Tzu has lost one or two thousand, you Mingdefang Jue knows that Lao Tzu will give a few thousand guan casually and don't obey your whole body?

......

Nishiyama Enguang Temple, a large area in the backyard was all allocated to Tsugawa Soji and others to live, and to be honest, Tsugawa Soji was really a little flattered.

However, Mingdefang Juexiao on the side looked like he should eat and drink, and from time to time he would call the host of Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng over and reprimand him. In this regard, Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng could only deal with Mingdefang with tears in his eyes, praying in his heart that this big guy would leave early, and Yuanguang Temple could not afford such a toss.

Yuanguang Temple Shun took over the presiding officer three years ago, before he was a Zen monk in the Benzheng Temple next door, and ten years ago he was fortunate to see the "glorious deeds" of Mingdefang Juexiao, so for this big guy who dared to steal the Buddhist temple to sell it in the end, it can be said that the memory is still fresh.

"This is the dim sum that Master Lianquan wanted, send it over!"

"This rice is too hard, go recook it!"

"What are you doing in the back, who is that, hurry up!"

Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng inserted the cold sweat running down his bald head from time to time, and then sighed and sat down to take a sip of tea, only to realize that the tea was already cold.

"Hey! I can't live this day! Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng scratched his head, staring blankly at the warehouse that was about to be emptied, speechless for a while.

Of course, this warehouse is the private warehouse of Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng, and what is hurriedly stored are some rare things. If it is a large warehouse in the temple, Yuanguang Temple is so good that you don't need to worry too much, and you can't eat empty if you come to ten Mingdefang.

"Host, is there anything you can tell me to do?" At this time, a bare-headed but unordained little novice grinned at Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng and sneered.

Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng turned his head, and after seeing the person who spoke clearly, he instantly showed an impatient expression, "Hiyoshimaru, didn't you leave Yuanguang Temple yesterday?" Why are you still here, is it because you want the poor monk to drive you out? ”

"It's not that the host doesn't know, the villain has no relatives and no reason in this Sanhe country, if I leave this mountain, I will have no land to go!" As he spoke, the little novice named Hiyoshimaru wiped the tears from the corners of his eyes and cried sincerely.

Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng sighed, "Hiyoshimaru, although you have not received ordination, you have been coming to my Yuanguang Temple for nearly 2 years. Two years ago, you came to the temple with Master Shisai of the Bright Temple, but the Zen Master of Shisai sat down the next day, and you have been staying in the temple for two years, so it's time to leave here. ”

"But you are still young, and the poor monk does not want to see you starve to death in the wilderness. Matsushita of Yuanjiang Toutuo Temple has been recruiting monks recently, although you are a little younger, but it should be no problem to be an attendant. Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng obviously didn't want to say anything more to Hiyoshimaru, and being able to show him a clear path was already regarded as Yuanguang Temple Shunzheng's "benevolence and righteousness".

"Toutuo Temple City? It seems that this is the only way to do it first! Looking at the back of Shunmasa of Enkoji Temple, Hiyoshimaru clenched his hands tightly, and secretly swore in his heart that he would get ahead sooner or later.

Hiyoshimaru hurriedly went back to pack up his salute, and then quietly touched two copper coins from under the futon of another novice in the next bunk, and quietly walked out in the night.

Hiyoshimaru ran wildly all the way, not because he was afraid of being found out after stealing two copper coins, but because if he didn't rush to Yuanjiang overnight, he wouldn't be able to afford two meals with two copper coins on his body!

As a result, because I was too anxious, I didn't see much of the road when I ran, and just stepped out of the gate of Yuanguang Temple, I was loaded with a person!