The Zen master Xuesai, who was deeply trusted by Imagawa Yoshimoto, was born in the Anhara clan, and Anhara Tadayin was not as old as Zen Master Xuezhai, but in terms of seniority, he was worthy of being the uncle of Zen Master Xuezhai. Since the death of Zen Master Xuezhai three years ago, the status of Anhara Tadayin has risen instead of falling. Anhara Tadayin's military talent is not as good as that of Zen Master Xuesai, and there is a lot of difference in terms of cultural governance, but one word of loyalty is enough for Imagawa Yoshimoto to put him in the position of Zen Master Xuesai. The Anhara clan was also martyred after the fall of the Imagawa clan in history, and of course there were many clans.

Today, Anhara Tadashi whispered in front of everyone to inform the origin of the Tokugawa clan, and Imagawa Yoshimoto's face changed several times and then nodded, knowing that this matter was not suitable for public discussion, he pointed to the stone tablet and said, "Goroubei, erase it and fill it in the Fuji River." ”

Goroubei is the common name of Okabe Motonobu, Okabe Motoshin listened to Imagawa Yoshimoto's orders, knew that he had escaped, and knew that if he said too much, he would lose it, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to use a hammer to erase the font. The people are unaware that their fate is like the stone tablet, and they will shut up forever and work silently.

The ministers retreated after a stern warning, but Anhara Tadayin finally stayed, Sekiguchi Jinei glanced at the figure of Anbara Tadayin, and then glanced at the downed stone tablet, his eyes flashed, and he said in a low voice: "What an eventful season!" ”

Then, Sekiguchi returned to his mansion, was quiet for a moment, turned to his son Sekiguchi Masa, and said, "Call Yashiro." He married his beloved daughter Ah He Xu to Matsudaira Motoyasu, and it was better to notify him after weighing the pros and cons.

Sekiguchi Masanaga called Yashiro. Yashiro is from the public path of Sekiguchi Qinei, with a slender physique and fair skin. Now the pass is old and decrepit. He promoted Yashiro to the rank of general. There was a time in the past when I pursued Atsuru.

After Ah Tsuru was married to Matsudaira Motoyasu, he often went to the Matsudaira Mansion to visit Ah He under the pretext of Sekiguchi Kinei, and now Ah He has just married Matsudaira Motoyasu as his wife, and it is between sweet words, Yashiro can only be affectionate and polite.

Yashiro leaned over at the entrance and saluted, "My lord, something has happened." ”

Sekiguchi Qinyong said: "You go to the Songping Mansion immediately, tell Ah He, and inform the Tibetan Zuo." Be cautious, don't do anything out of the ordinary, you must tell Ah He that this matter is very important, and the lord of the country has taken advantage of the things that have always been done to the country of Mikawa. ”

The Tibetan Sa, of course, is Matsudaira Motoyasu, who changed his name to Matsudaira Tibetan Samotoyasu after last year's autumn festival. Sekiguchi Qinyong is quite attached to this son-in-law, and he has heard more than once that Zen Master Xuezhai said that this son will become a great weapon.

Yashiro got the order and didn't dare to slack off.

At the same time that Sekiguchi Jinyong instructed Yashiro, Imagawa Yoshimoto met with Anhara Tadashi in the hall, and Anbara Tadayin's grand strategy was not comparable to Zen Master Yukisai, only one point. That is loyalty, of course, he also has some petty selfishness. I can't see how good Matsudaira Motoyasu is.

There is also a small story about the time when Matsudaira Motoyasu first came to Sunfu as a hostage. One day he held his pee, so he ran to the back of the high porch, picked up his clothes, and peed casually, because of this incident, he was able to be thought by Zen Master Xuezhai that he would become a great tool in the future, and taught him with all his heart. Imagawa Yoshimoto listened to it as a joke, and Zen Master Xuezhai looked up to him, but Anhara Tadayin, who happened to pass by the corners of his trousers, could only grit his teeth and swallow the bitter fruit, and made a vow not to repay this humiliation.

What seems like a small thing can evolve into a big thing, Matsudaira Motoyasu's youthful nature has brought many benefits to his growth, and at the same time, countless undercurrents have been hidden. Matsudaira Motoyasu had long forgotten about urine spilling on the corners of people's pants, but Anhara Tadashi could not forget.

In the hall, there is Imagawa Yoshimoto sitting in the front, and on the right is Anhara Tadayin, the expressions of the two are calm and serious, the matter of the stele is not big or small but it is enough to kill, who erected the stele, why it should be erected in Tian Lewa, what is the meaning of the words on the stele, all of them must be figured out.

Anhara Tadayin said in a deep voice: "My lord, who erected the stele, it is nothing more than the Oda of Owari, the Takeda of Kai and the Hojo family of Odawara, but the three families of the public view cannot erect such a stele, and they do not have any benefits." ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto nodded slightly, it is true, Kai's Takeda is fighting for Shinano's territory with Echigo's Nagao Keiho, Odawara's Hojo is still struggling for their dream of the Eight Kingdoms of Kanto, Kai's Takeda and Odawara's Hojo are probably expecting Imagawa to send troops to attack Owari, otherwise they will not be at ease Imagawa Yoshimoto's tens of thousands of troops are nested at home. As for the alliance of Seontokuji Temple, if you believe that a paper covenant can bind your hands and feet, I'm afraid that it will make people laugh to death if you say it.

As for Oda Nobunaga of Owari, since the death of the British lord Oda Nobuhide, the brothers were on the wall, Oda Nobunaga killed his younger brother Nobuhide, and his vitality was greatly injured and collapsed, Imagawa Yoshimoto thought of this, and he also couldn't understand who erected this stone monument.

Anhara Tadayin continued: "Who erected the stele, what is the purpose, why it is erected in Tian Lewa, such things can be investigated slowly, and there will always be clues, but the content on the stele is incredible, and I have to pay attention to it? ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto shook his fan, pursed his lips and smiled, and said flatly: "Anfang Mamoru, since the stele was deliberately subordinated by someone, it is obviously to frame the Tokugawa clan, why should we follow their routine?" This is not self-defeating. ”

Anhara Tadayin sneered: "Lord, the stone tablet is a big matter and a small matter, we can take it slowly, but now that there is turmoil in Kinai, as a side of the shogunate, the new general Ashikaga Yoshiaki actually went to Ishiyama Honganji Temple to enter the Taoist monk, and the Kira clan is in decline, which is not exactly in line with the lord's intentions." ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto has always had the desire of Kamiraku to pacify the world, and he actively crusaded against Owari Oda, of course, in order to seize the Nobi Plain, but more importantly, after occupying the Nobi Plain, the power of two million stone in the five countries of Mino, Owari, Mikawa, Enoe, and Suruga was enough to compete for the Genji family in Kamiraku.

After a moment of delay, Anyuan Zhongyin said: "My lord, Fang Jingi has been divided into two major groups, one is the Yixiang Sect, and the other side is the major sects headed by the Tiantai Sect. ”

Yoshimoto Imagawa's tone was slow and low. "It's time to pick sides," he said. Which side should we choose? ”

Anhara Tadayin suddenly smiled and said, "Lord." Do we have a choice? ”

Do you have a choice? Imagawa Yoshimoto also laughed, indeed, although the Tsuyoshi Sect has developed rapidly in the Mikawa Kingdom, but because Yukisai Zen was the ancestor of the Suruga Rinzai Sect before his death, most of the military generals under his command believed in the Rinzai Sect, not to mention that the Tsuyoshi Sect has always competed with the samurai for secular power.

Anhara Tadayin said: "Recently, there have been frequent activities in the Mikawa country, and there are devout believers. There are also many samurai and ronin of Mikawa have diverted to Nagashima to the mountain city, and although the shrinking Mikawa country has lost a lot of combat power, as long as it is integrated like Yuanjiang, it can still recruit a legion that can conquer and fight habitually, and this legion will directly belong to Junfu. ”

Imagawa Yoshimoto listened to Anhara Tadayin's suggestion and nodded slightly, obviously agreeing with Anhara Tadayin's suggestion, Mikawa Province has been active since the Ichijo sect is frequent, and the devout believers have left Mikawa country, just taking this opportunity to eradicate the Ichijo clan forces in Mikawa country. At the same time, he can also beat the Matsudaira Party and form the Mikawa Legion that belongs directly to him, instead of controlling the Matsudaira Party in the same way as Matsudaira Motoyasu is now. Matsudaira Motoyasu will always grow up slowly. The wings will harden, and he knows that Matsudaira Motoyasu's ability is not bad, and he is countless times stronger than his own self-aware and pleasure-loving concubine. It is not advisable to have a strong minister and a weak lord, and only by completely weakening the strong minister to the point of being unable to resist can he serve him.

Imagawa Yoshimoto made up his mind to integrate Mikawa Province, and Yashiro's visit startled Matsudaira Motoyasu, who was holding hands with Azuru, the future Tsukiyama Lady, and was shocked after hearing the content, and the days under the fence were really difficult.

The troubled times completely destroyed the stability of Mikawa, and the untimely death of two generations of the Matsudaira clan threw Matsudaira Motoyasu into an even more tragic and angry wave. Where do we go from here, and what are the fortunes? Matsudaira Motoyasu certainly couldn't predict it, but he tried his best to make sure that he didn't make any mistakes in handling things, and at least survived safely in the world. Only by living can there be a comeback.

At the age of sixteen, Matsudaira Motoyasu had just gotten married, and he had not yet reached adulthood, and he had decades of experience to make the right judgment, and all he could rely on was the wisdom of his grandfather and the old ministers left to him by his father to make a final decision.

Matsudaira Motoyasu sent his cronies back to Mikawa to inform Okubo, Toii, Ishikawa, Amano, Hiraiwa and other Matsudaira party backbones of the incident, asking them to come up with countermeasures to preserve their strength in the subsequent liquidation of Imagawa Yoshimoto's Ichijomune.

While Matsudaira Motoyasu and his father's treasures were discussing what to do, countless Mikawa people rebelled from the main family at the call of the Buddha and led a group of people to turn around Nagashima and march towards Ishiyama Honganji Temple, including Honda Masanobu, who was known as the "Strategist of Mikawa" in history, and Natsume Yoshinobu, who died in the Battle of Mikatahara in place of the main family. Probably more than half of the retainers of the Matsudaira Party chose the Buddha, and a large number of Matsudaira Party members went to Ishiyama Honganji Temple at the Buddha's call.

There was chaos in Okazaki Castle, Matsudaira Motoyasu was helpless, and Imagawa Yoshimoto took advantage of this opportunity to start a targeted deployment of Mikawa Province, but because he had not yet broken the relationship with Ichijozong, Imagawa Yoshimoto did not immediately deal with Ichijozong.

The turmoil in Mikawa Province was not an isolated case, and riots were taking place in more and more places, not to mention the hardest-hit areas of Hokuriku, not to mention Kaga, Echichu, and Noto, Echizen Asakura Yoshikei and Echigo Nagao Keitoro were also facing a large number of people leaving.

The eastern country is in chaos, and the Date family in the west has some small commotion in the Harima area, and the rest of the place is calm, and the Tsuyo sect can be said to be pervasive, and the temple of the Izai sect is not without a temple in the Ida territory, and due to a series of policies of the Date family, the peasants are suppressed in the local area.

Okayama Castle, Masahiro looked at the reports coming from Kinai and Dongkoku, the corners of his mouth turned up slightly, looked at the ministers and said with a smile: "Everyone, you also come to see the recent actions of Ishiyama Honganji, it seems that the time when the spring flowers bloom is the time of the decisive battle in Kinai." ”

Iga Kutaka looked puzzled, raised his eyes and asked, "My lord, Ishiyama Honganji Temple did things without regard for the end of things, and he actually called all his followers and disciples from all over Hokuriku and Tokaido to come and gather at once, didn't this drain all the temples in various places?" ”

Hashimoto Masomatsu shook his head slightly, and said: "The minister has seen Honganji Xianru, although he is young, but his knowledge is quite outstanding, and he still has the knowledge of the people who have the Faqiao after the construction of the bridge, the law eye of the criminal department, etc., and must not do such a thing as drinking to quench his thirst, I am afraid that there will be other accidents." ”

Obviously, everyone has doubts and can't figure out the purpose of Ishiyama Honganji, knowing that the more people there are, the faster and more food will be consumed, and the local believers in Kinai can still rely on their own fields and the food stored by the Miyoshi family, but the believers who came from Hokuriku and Tokaido are all rootless people, and how to settle them is an important issue. If there is an accident and there is a shortage of food, I am afraid that it will immediately collapse the situation, which is the last thing that Ishiyama Honganji Temple wants to see.

Honganji is as young as if it is not a matter of forgiveness, but the Ishiyama Honganji Temple is not without knowledgeable people, why these people would make such a decision, it is really unbelievable, everyone looked at their own lord's expression, a look of seeing.

Zhengheng didn't let his retainers wait, he had already thought twice about this matter, and most of Ishiyama Honganji's strategies were expected by him, and it was not unexpected to gather disciples from all over the country, he suddenly sighed, shook his hand at the curious retainers and said: "The matter is so big, now it's not a matter of Kinai, nor is it a matter between the temple family, it is a matter between the Ishiyama Honganji and the samurai family. Ishiyama Honganji had already seen the sense of crisis, and they knew that the final battle would be a victory or a defeat, and that the conflict with the samurai would become worse dramatically. ”

Everyone's faces changed suddenly. What Zhengheng said made them fall into deep thought, for thousands of years, it was all a battle between the public family and the samurai, after the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the power of the public family declined rapidly and hibernated, and the war between the samurai became the main line, and now the temple family actually opened a killing ring in Kinai and fought a decisive battle in Kyoto. This made the samurai feel threatened, and although the turmoil of the temple family in various places was frequent, it was still mostly scattered and isolated, and the samurai themselves were in the midst of strife and did not work together to deal with the temple family.

Today, Ishiyama Honganji has launched a one-time battle in Kinai, defeating the Miyoshi regime in one fell swoop and embarking on the road to compete with the samurai for the world. Whether they want to or not, the warriors everywhere will tacitly give up disputes and deal with the forces of the Yizong in their territories.

It was precisely because of this that the Ishiyama Honganji Temple took the lead in dispatching disciples from all over the world to gather at the Ishiyama Honganji Temple, and all the people who could respond to the call were devout believers, and the rest could only pray for God's blessing. (To be continued......)