On the night of August 19 in the second year of Eiroku (1559), the outside of the palace was still raging, and the walls were separated by a world like a world away.

Outside the walls, the flames continued day and night, and the Imperial Palace was the only one in Kyoto that was able to remain calm in the midst of the raging fires and smoke that gradually engulfed the sky.

In the middle of the night, the current celebrity Miyake Chao, who was prominent in Honganji, turned his eyes and turned to the queen's hall in the south garden with more than a dozen subordinates, which was the living place of the queen of the middle palace. Miyake asked in a low voice, "Are you sure that Her Royal Highness the Empress did not leave. ”

The cronies nodded and said: "I'm not sure, the villain did see a few luxuriously dressed nobles in this area when he was on guard, and the villain didn't know if it was really the queen, but then asked the little waiter who didn't have time to escape, where was the queen's palace." ”

As the cronies spoke, they pulled out a trembling attendant and said, "Tell the adults!" The waiter nodded in agreement.

Miyake Chaoqin rubbed his hands again and again, with a hint of obscene expression on his face, and quickly recovered his expression, and said righteously: "Good job, even if you are not a queen, you are also a concubine, the night is long, His Majesty the Emperor is alone in the empty room, as a courtier, don't you feel ashamed?" ”

The cronies hurriedly said yes, and whispered obscenely: "His Majesty the Emperor has a female companion, and the adults are also alone in the empty room, isn't it?" As he spoke, he rubbed his hands, and the faces of a dozen of his subordinates nearby all turned red and white, like hideous beasts.

Miyake Asami laughed "hehe".

Queen's Palace. Nosamu Fujiwara was quietly half-lying. The thoughtful appearance seems to be the Kannon who has come down from the picture. The posture is beautiful, and it makes people intoxicated and never wake up. No one could figure out that this waiter was thirty and five, but there was an attraction that people couldn't help but have, perhaps it was a kind of nature, like falling leaves.

Miyake's intrusion was so direct, he squinted slightly at the Fujiwara Wara Warden who was shrunk in horror, and smiled slightly at the corner of his mouth. Said: "Fujiwara Warden, come with us, His Majesty the Emperor will go to the Qingliang Hall to meet you." ”

Fujiwara Warara's warp originally wanted to maintain the reserve and majesty of the concubine, but under the persecution of the sword, he could only obediently obey, but Miyake Asami did not dare to move his hands and feet, you must know that this female emperor may become the pillow person of Honganji Xianru in the future, or maintain a certain respect.

Miyake Asamito left with a few of his subordinates and Fujiwara attendants, and the rest of the people waited for joy to arrest the maids in the palace, but the cronies of Miyake Asami scolded in a low voice: "Leave the two most noble ladies to your lordship." Everyone else has a share, don't make a noise about His Majesty the Emperor's Yaxing. ”

This night. I don't know how many noble women's hands have been led by vulgar men, the only thing that can be verified is that there are many babies born in the palace after more than half a year, which has swept away the majesty of the emperor's family, and even his own women can't be saved.

The next morning, when Honganji woke up, he found that he was lying on a splendid tatami mat and covered with silk strips, and that the imperial family had hidden a lot of good goods in poverty, and the emperor had taken out the silk strips that the emperor could not lie down on several times a year. The mattress is warm as spring, and there is a fine sweet fragrance. There was a jade figure hanging softly on his body, and when he thought of her identity, his face suddenly became gloomy.

Honganji instinctively felt a deep calculation, he actually put Fujiwara Norishi to sleep, once this matter is widely announced, his life will become more exciting, he understands that he has no way back, only one way to go to the dark.

Honganji showed that he had made up his mind, so he no longer resisted Fujiwara Norisho, he hugged the jade in his arms, and said in a low voice: "House, you say, if I were to release the news in Kyoto that I was going to change course and welcome Prince Okura Palace, a descendant of Emperor Kameyama after the Southern Dynasty, what would you do today's reaction?" ”

Fujiwara Waitre's body suddenly trembled when he heard this, you must know that she can have a man and two women for this life, but they came together through weal and woe, to say that there is no emotion is a lie, now there is only patience, just be stung by a wasp.

Instead of continuing, he leaned up and let Fujiwara lie on his shoulder, snuggling up in his arms with his eyes closed.

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Emperor Fangren, who was hiding in Mt. Hiei, didn't realize that he was wearing a big green hat on his head, and it was not just one, but it became the trend for the concubines in the palace to find men, and it was rumored that when the palace was at its poorest, when the emperor was hungry and ate a meal, the concubines in the palace had to laugh in order to make a living.

The experience of Fujiwara and other maids did not make Emperor Fang Ren feel desperate, even if he was insulted, after returning to the palace in the future, he would only be stung by a wasp, and he would not live as usual, he had been a turtle for hundreds of years, and he had not yet lived like this.

But now the news from Kyoto made Emperor Fangren unable to sit still.

Honganji not only wanted to sleep with his woman, but also to abolish his throne and replace a small novice who he did not know where to find him as the new emperor.

Isn't this to dig up his foundations? Emperor Fang Ren didn't know what to do, and the ministers didn't know what to do, so they didn't think about the idea of joining the Southern Dynasty and becoming a minister of the dragon. However, once a son of heaven and a courtier, the family of ministers who have been active for thousands of years, passed down from generation to generation, has already been flooded, and when they go to Kyoto to kneel and lick the new emperor, there have already been countless ministers who have not had time to escape from Kyoto to stand up, and their peers will always hate their peers the most.

Emperor Fang Ren was concerned about his position, so he was confused for a while, grabbed Konoe Qianjiu's arm, and asked, "Zuofu, can you tell me what to do now?" The ministers also looked at Guan Bai, who was the main leader of Mount Hiei.

Konoe pondered for a moment, as if with a heavy heart, and said, "Your Majesty, Honganji Temple is like a self-proclaimed emperor, and he is about to override the emperor system. Your Majesty is a descendant of Amaterasu. The only way to go is to fight to the end. There are no other shortcuts. ”

Anyone can talk about the big truth, and now what Emperor Fangren and many ministers want to hear is not these big truths, but the real way, but Kikutei Gonghiko and Yamashi Kyotsugu heard the meaning of Konoe's words before a long time, and Yamashi Kyotsugu asked: "What does Zuofu mean?" ”

Konoe Maehisa had a hint of sacredness on his face, and he said, "Your Majesty is the emperor of the Wa Kingdom, and he is a descendant of Amaterasu, and Honganji seems to want to go against the grain. It is absolutely impossible to make His Majesty his puppet and stand in opposition to the people of the world. ”

Some people still want to refute it.

Kikutei Kimihiko suddenly jumped out and scolded: "Do you want to make Your Majesty completely the opposite of the people of the world, do you think that Honganji Xianru can really sit firmly in this world?" Not to mention anything else, the Dazai Daer of the Western Kingdom heard that His Majesty was in trouble, and he would inevitably go to King Luoqin. ”

Emperor Fangren heard the official position of Date Masahiro, and his eyes lit up suddenly, it is indeed as Konoe Maehisa, Kikutei Kitohiko and others said, once Date Masahiro became King Luoqin. Honganji Xianru is obviously not an opponent, and if he is too deeply entangled with Honganji Xianru at that time. It's hard not to abdicate.

The bold Yamago Keji suddenly said the taboo of the Northern Dynasty Daotong: "Have you forgotten the Yuanhong Rebellion? The left and right houses, both of them are important ministers of the imperial court, important ministers of His Majesty, please come up with a way to relieve the current predicament. ”

Since the current emperor is a northern dynasty emperor, Emperor Go-Daigo, who is a member of the southern dynasty emperor, has always regarded it as a taboo, and today the situation is critical, and everyone can't care about it. After hearing about the Motohiro Rebellion, everyone remembered that Emperor Daigo had used Mt. Hiei as a stronghold to raise troops to fight against the curtain, and was finally surrounded at Mt. Kasaki. The shogunate captured the castle with an overwhelming superiority in force and arrested the emperor. If he annoyed Honganji Xianru, would he be annoyed and angry and come to besiege Mt. Hiei again.

Konoe glared at Yamashi Jiaoji for a long time, and the people's hearts that had been pacified were suddenly cheered up again, this Yamashi Jiaoji still cares about things, and now he will get through the current crisis first, he thought for a moment and said: "For the time being, Hiei Mountain is still safe, but for a long time, we have to find a new palace for Your Majesty to live in, and then recruit the Quartet to go to King Luoqin." ”

Juting Gonghiko suddenly said: "Your Majesty, the minister knows one person, but he is a great loyal minister. Zuofu, think about it, when His Majesty ascended the throne, in addition to the Dazai Da II Hall of the Western Kingdom, who else sent gifts, not only gave gifts, but also sent soldiers and horses to guard. ”

Konoe couldn't figure out the situation for a long time, and asked, "What are you talking about?" ”

Kikutei Kimihiko replied: "The Omi Genji clan and the Sasaki clan have diverted the Takashima clan's powerful family, and the lord of the Kuchigi Valley in the upper valley of the Yakumo River in Takashima County, Kuchigi Yagoro Mototsuna, this Yagoro Mototsuna's mother is the daughter of a powerful Nayan Asukai Masatsuna, and she is the nephew of His Majesty. "Asukai Masatsuna also has a daughter who became the concubine of Emperor Fangren, so Kikutei Gonghiko said that Kuchiki Mototsuna is the nephew of Emperor Fangren, and it can be justified if he is a relative, which gives the emperor a reason.

Emperor Fangren is a complete otaku, but he also knows that the generals of the Ashikaga family are often driven out of Kyoto, and the place to go is the Kuchigi Museum except for the Sakamoto Building, which is too close to Mt. Hiei, and even Ashikaga Yoshiki knows that the Sakamoto Pavilion can't hold it and escapes to Mt. Hiei. Located in the middle of the mountains and forests, and backed by Echizen Asakura, Kita-Omi Asai, Wakasa Takeda, and even able to escape to Tango through Wakasa, this Kuchigikan is a place to escape from the war.

A minister asked, "I don't know when I'm leaving Mt. Hiei?" ”

Konoe shook his head for a long time and said: "Now that Honganji has not sent troops yet, it is really a loss of Your Majesty's prestige to leave in a panic, and it will take some time to contact the Kuchiki Pavilion, and at the same time, Your Majesty can also ask Prince Ho to ask the Enryakuji Order of Mt. Hiei to send troops to fight against the rebels." ”

The Prince of Ho in Konoe Maehisa is none other than Emperor Kaihito's half-brother Kinren-in, and the last time this Prince appeared was on an envoy to Date House, and although he didn't get any results, he still received the blessing of the Tendai sect after his return.

Of course, Emperor Fangren had to go and cry to his brother, and once Honganji Xian abolished his throne, his brother's status would also plummet, and without the status of Prince Ho, his status in the Tiantai sect would not be guaranteed, so he also ran to the Dharma Hall to cry.

Emperor Hohito and his younger brother ran up and down Mt. Hiei to tell each other, as did Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who ran up from Sakahonkan, but few of the monks of Mt. Hiei responded, and they were all frightened by the strength of Honganji Temple, and they were willing to hide in Mt. Hiei and wait for the world to change.

Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who had been running for three days, was eating breakfast disheartened, and Hosokawa Fujitaka, who was supposed to be guarding the Sakamoto Pavilion, suddenly went up the mountain and reported to Ashikaga Yoshiteru: "General, Honda Masanobu, the first lackey under the command of Honganji Xianru, has led the army towards Mt. Hiei. ”

Ashikaga Yoshiki put down the dishes and chopsticks, his eyes were full of cold light, and said, "You mean that Honganji Xianru is finally going to do it, haha, good, good, finally do it." It seems that Honganji Kinro also knows that before he confronts Date Masahiro, he must press down on Mt. Hiei, the biggest opposition force. ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka leaned closer and asked in a low voice: "General, the situation is in crisis, I'm afraid that Mt. Hiei is not an opponent, is the general looking for a way out." Recently, the minister on the mountain has frequently come down the mountain to contact the person in Minami Omi, and it seems that he intends to choose there as a retreat. ”

Ashikaga Yoshiki glanced at Hosokawa Fujitaka, the emperor was surrounded by a group of wine bags and rice bags, and a little money could be used to sell the emperor's affairs to the bottom, he already knew the emperor's thoughts, and the cold light flashed, and said, "What do you mean?" ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka replied: "Since Mt. Hiei can't stop it, it's better to find a way out." ”

Ashikaga Yoshiki shook his head and said, "I will not leave Mt. Hiei, and neither will the emperor, he will stay at Mt. Hiei with me, and fight together with Mt. Hiei against the enemy Honganji Temple." They only have a few helpless ministers, and I have hundreds of cronies, and I want to protect His Majesty the Emperor. ”

Hosokawa Fujitaka's heart pounded suddenly, and the strong feeling of suffocation made him dizzy. The emperor under house arrest? He never thought of putting the emperor under house arrest, knowing that if this matter was made public, he was afraid that he would be scolded by someone pointing at his backbone, and he would be scolded for hundreds of years.

Ashikaga Yoshiki slowly stood up, looked at Hosokawa Fujitaka, his eyes showed disdain, and said, "Afraid? Scared? After the exile of a certain ancestor, Emperor Daigo, the Emperor of Light who established the Ming Yuan system, today a certain person wants to stand with the Ming Taoist Emperor to resist foreign insults, who can say that such and such is not. (To be continued.) )