Millions of people will fight for their faith in the small mountain city, such a thing made everyone present gasp, everyone knew that in the Japanese religion could not touch the huge force, but did not expect that it would be so powerful.

According to the deduction and analysis, the population of the entire Wa country is about 7 million to 8 million, which is still the sum of the 66 countries under heaven, and the population of Kinai accounts for the largest, accounting for about 30%, and the Date family now controls 1.23 million people.

Religion is a bottom line for anyone. Most of the samurai were realists, and they had to maintain the bottom line in public, which is why there was no red meat in the banquet, and it was difficult for Masahiro to erase the traces on his body as a daimyo who was born as a monk.

Zhengheng knows very well that using military methods to quell the riots of religious forces is tantamount to raising the soup to stop the boiling and treating the symptoms rather than the root cause, and if we want to completely subdue the religious forces and eliminate them, we must start from the roots, and first of all, we must castrate the religions and eliminate their force.

The current religious war is the result of the political balance being fueled step by step. In fact, he didn't expect that Honganji would be so powerful, that Miyoshi Changqing would be so vulnerable, and that Honganji would be rolling like a snowball under the rolling of interests, and he couldn't stop.

When Honganji first launched the Ichiyi, he didn't expect to easily defeat Miyoshi Chokei, seize the territory left by Miyoshi Chokei, and succeed Miyoshi Chokei as the overlord of Kinai. It would be useless for Honganji to stop the steps of the people and call on the people to remain calm, as if he and his great-ancestor Lian were like the Venerable Master. On the contrary, it will arouse the resentment of the rioters. The Venerable Lotus could not stop the Kaga Kingdom from intensifying. This eventually led to the Kaga Riot. The initiator of the riot and the people of Renru did not know what had happened. The end result was that Rennyo left Hokuriku and returned to Kinai, first establishing the main temple in Yamashina, Kyoto, and then Ishiyama Gobo in the Nambatsu area.

Honganji Xianru is a wise man, but also a layman, the biggest difference between him and the Lotus Master is that the latter carried forward the ancestors of the Zong Sect through suffering, which can be said to be a generation of founding ancestors, compared with his great-grandfather, he did not understand the ambition of Lotus Ru at all. It's really a villain.

Riots will only serve the interests of a small number of people, and the vast majority will be starved and sunk. I am afraid that in the spring, which is the crucial sowing season, the rebellious people will still be obsessed with Amitabha Buddha and will not be able to extricate themselves, and the strife will not stop.

No matter how compassionate Amitabha Buddha is, if he doesn't cultivate the fields, he will never be able to harvest rice. Without rice, we would face starvation. Once millions of people gather in the mountain city to fight for their faith, then Kinai will fall into a desolate situation, hunger will make people despair, they will lose their faith in religion, and they will starve to death for the sake of the Buddha. It's still peaceful to live. Is it the real Buddha who makes people die, or is it the real Buddha who makes people live? It's going to be a question for everyone to think about.

The reason why the Buddha was able to preach. It's because he makes people good and compassionate, not for the benefit of the Buddha and kills and takes land, which the Buddha doesn't need, only the enemies of the Buddha who use the Buddha will need it. This is the real purpose of political balance.

Promoting the true Buddha is really the answer that Zhengheng gave to everyone at the banquet. An equally ambiguous answer, what the real Buddha is, has thousands of explanations, and there are thoughtful people when they leave Okayama Castle.

Zhengheng is not a true Buddhist, although he has spent more than ten years in a small temple in the mountains since he was sensible. His teacher, Meichuan Yuan, did not tell him what sect of Buddhist disciples he respected, which means that he and his normal family were both wild monks.

Today, no one will question the Rinzai identity of Zhengheng. The head of Kenninji Temple, which was founded by Master Eisai Yama, the head of the Rinzai sect, came to Okayama twice in three years, and Umegawa-in Temple officially became the descendant temple of the Rinzai sect, which was naturally a secular force that influenced the power of Buddhism.

The only reason why Zhengheng respects the Rinzai sect is that Zen Buddhism never puts down its body to promote Buddhism among the common people, Zen style from the Tang Dynasty to the Wa Kingdom, from Rongxi into the Song Dynasty to seek the law from the founding of the Rinzai sect, its disciples founded the Soto sect, another major faction Huang Bai was established in the Edo period, and now Zen Buddhism is juxtaposed by the two major factions of the Rinzai sect and the Soto sect.

The Rinzai sect was revered by the shogunate ministers during the Muromachi period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and was considered to be the basic method for cultivating the personality of the samurai.

At the same time, Zen Buddhism was an important link between the Central Plains Dynasty and the Wa Kingdom, and almost every generation of grandmasters would go to the Central Plains Dynasty to practice Buddhism, and many grandmasters traveled east from the Middle Earth Dynasty to promote Buddhism.

In the depths of his heart, he still retains a piece of pure land, and he still has some good feelings for Zen Buddhism, which is why he strongly invites Zen monks to come to Okayama Castle. Of course, Zhengheng also has personal selfish desires at work, otherwise a large number of statues of him would not have been erected in various places.

The rise of the Date family is too fast, and it is impossible for the political balance to exterminate every force, but to include them all in his sphere of influence, as long as he obeys, he will generally not kill them all, but will let his relatives continue to rule the place and share the benefits with the Date family.

The Japanese people are very attached to the family territory, so as long as they can the other party's territory, the willingness to successfully persuade them to surrender will rise in a straight line. Although this kind of practice can quickly divide and persuade the other side, it is extremely unfavorable to the construction of its own stability.

Zheng Heng knew that his policies could not touch the bottom line of their interests, and what he did for the past three years was to build roads so that their lands would no longer become independent kingdoms, and at the same time use his strong military strength to demolish a large number of castles.

Shi Gao is more than 10,000 to be able to own the castle, otherwise you can only have a camp house, of course, the array house is also divided into sizes, in the case of ensuring the safety of the territory, no one will risk the risk of dying to resist the policy of the Date family, maintaining the castle requires the consumption of financial and manpower, after demolishing a large number of castles, a large number of laborers have been liberated, and the steady rise in taxes in the past three years is enough to show the correctness of this policy.

Of course, although a large number of castles were demolished. Liberated labor. But the territories under the control of the Hao clan were like independent kingdoms. Some of them are even monolithic. Zheng Heng thought of influencing the people under the control of the Hao clan on a spiritual level, so that they could identify with the rule of the Date family, and when faced with the conflict between the Date family and the Hao family, they could turn their hearts to the Date family.

Build a large number of statues, and use religious methods to subtly penetrate the image of the Date family into the territory, of course, the wealthy people know the sinister intentions of the Date family, but they dare not force the statues built on both sides of the road.

Engaging in a cult of personality is not the original intention of political balance, but it is also the most direct and effective way. At least in this wave of outflow, few of the retainers from the Date family and the people in the territory minimized the losses. When Ishiyama Honganji Temple and various religious factions were about to fight in Yamashiro Province, devout believers from all over the country gave up their fields and flocked to Yamashiro Province, and even those loyal retainers repaired one more book and gave up Houlu and ran away, which made the heroes anxious.

When Zhengheng was glad to invest more vigorously in the construction of statues and the renovation of Zen monasteries in various places, he engaged in a cult of personality. In the distant Tokaido, a stone monument suddenly appeared, disrupting the normal order. Of course, the place where the stele appeared was not peaceful in the first place.

Trois-Rivières Country. Since Matsudaira Hirotada did not go, it has become a neighbor of Imagawa Yoshimoto's retainers to enter and exit freely, and Okazaki Castle, the main city of the Matsudaira family, has also become the castle of Imagawa Yoshimoto's retainers for nine years, and at the beginning of the year, the old ministers of the Matsudaira Party learned that their little master would soon return to Okazaki Castle. They were ecstatic, but they were disappointed again, Imagawa Yoshimoto apparently had no desire to let Matsudaira Motoyasu return to Okazaki Castle, and after discovering Matsudaira Motoyasu's talent, Imagawa Yoshimoto was even more adamant that Matsudaira Motoyasu was in his own favor of taking the Noo Plain. Controlling Matsudaira Motoyasu and letting the Matsudaira Party test Oda Nobunaga as the vanguard of Owari, this is the wishful thinking of Imagawa Yoshimoto's jingle bell.

The Mikawa domestic sect has developed rapidly, and not long after Matsudaira Motoyasu changed his name to Matsudaira Ieyasu, the outbreak in Mikawa once stirred up the later people of the world to be insane, and it was regarded as the most critical moment in his life. Now, after a few years, Matsudaira Ieyasu was overwhelmed by the fact that the temples of the Ichishu sect in Sazaki were in a hurry, Katsutsuji Temple in Needlezaki, and Honshoji Temple in Noji Temple suddenly issued a decree calling on the people of Mikawa to go to Yamashiro Province to fight for the Buddha. The people of Mikawa were already in a state of confusion, but Imagawa Yoshimoto once again deceived their feelings, and many of the local samurai clans became the leaders of the believers, leading them across the mountains and seas to the mountain city country. These people all have a messy relationship with the Matsudaira family.

The exodus of the Mikawa people in large numbers certainly disturbed Imagawa Yoshimoto's deployment, but he did not spare his energy for this matter, for him, the Matsudaira Party is certainly his murderous knife, but the sharp knife can also hurt himself, and weakening the strength of the Matsudaira Party has always been Imagawa Yoshimoto's strategy. What really bothered him was a stone tablet that Okabe Motoshin had delivered. It is said that on December 26, when the lord of Narumi Castle, Okabe Motonobu, was on his way to Sunfu Castle, a huge stone tablet suddenly appeared in Tianlewa.

The content of the stele made Okabe Motoshin feel deeply malicious, he didn't dare to destroy the stele in private, and ordered his subordinates to dig up the stele and cover it with a sackcloth tie, and then led someone to escort the stone to Junfu Castle, which naturally delayed time. It was not until January 2 that he arrived at Sunpu Castle, and if he had been replaced, he was afraid that he would be immediately punished by Imagawa Yoshimoto, but Okabe Motonobu was not severely punished, but it still gave him a chance to justify his tardiness.

This Okabe Motonobu was a retainer of the Imagawa family who recaptured the head of Imagawa Yoshito, and his father, Okabe Kintsuna, made great contributions to Imagawa Yoshimoto's succession as family governor. Motoshin himself was one of the generals who made a major contribution to the pacification of Enoe and Mikawa. Because of his meritorious service in the Battle of Kodozaka, he was awarded the title of Owari Province Narumi Castle, which was the bridgehead of Imagawa Yoshimoto's attack on Owari Province.

Okabe Motonobu knelt down on the cold corridor, the stone tablet that made him feel deeply malicious had been erected again, and the angry Imagawa Yoshimoto shook off a lot of white powder and didn't know it, he read the content of the stone tablet: "Imagawa is dead, Dechuan should stand; Years in Gengshen, the world is lucky? ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto shouted angrily: "Gorou Guard, what's going on? On the first day of the new year, you sent me such a thing, Imagawa is dead, are you looking forward to my death, ah! "Imagawa Yoshimoto is also angry, he usually tries his best to be the leisure and calm of the ministers, always looks calm and relaxed, and speaks softly and gossips, a little resentful now, and even a little violent.

Okabe Motonobu didn't look timid when he knelt on the ground, he had a clear conscience, and he thought about destroying it when he saw this stone tablet. However, many people saw the contents of the stele that day, and they couldn't hide it, and once it was known by Imagawa Yoshimoto, the consequences would be unimaginable. He replied: "My lord, the minister has always been loyal to you, and never dared to slack off in the slightest, after the minister learned that there was such a stone tablet, he did not dare to make an assertion, and immediately encircled all the villagers within a radius of ten miles, and at the same time arrested several villagers who came to Junfu City to listen to the interrogation of the lord. At the same time, the stele was hidden and transported to Junfu Castle, and the lord was asked to decide. ”

Okabe Motonobu is not bad, Imagawa Yoshimoto is still angry, he will officially launch an army to attack Owari in the next year, that is, in the third year of Yongroku, the matter is still in the process of planning, and only a few cronies and retainers know. Isn't the third year of Yongroku the year of Gengshen, this is what makes Imagawa Yoshimoto care very much, you must know that this matter is still in the planning, and it has not been publicized, and even Okabe Motonobu does not know that Imagawa Yoshimoto will do his best to attack Owari Province in the third year of Yongroku.

Imagawa Yoshimoto scolded Okabe Motoshin not to be angry, if Okabe Motoshin had been quietly hidden and then secretly sent, the stele incident would have only spread in a small area and would not cause an uproar. But now, in order to clear up his relationship, Okabe Motonobu not only banned the villages within a radius of ten miles from Tian Lewa with great fanfare, but also arrested the village elders who were known as the prestige in the local area and came to Junfu Castle together, and at the same time, they were sent during the New Year. Although it is wrapped in layers of linen, in front of everyone's eyes, I am afraid that it will soon spread to the earth.

Anhara Tadayin, who was sitting on the side, suddenly thought of something, glanced at Sekiguchi Kinaga, and then walked to Imagawa Yoshimoto's side in full view of everyone, and said in a low voice: "My lord, the Tokugawa clan is a tributary of the Mikawa Kunikiyo and Genji Nitta clans. ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto's eyes shrank for a moment, he only focused on the latter sentence, and resolutely forgot that in the previous sentence, in addition to Imagawa was dead, there was also Tokugawa Dangli. (To be continued......)