Edo Traveler - Vol 13 Chapter 38

The imperial decree of the Emperor Xiaoming ordering the princes of the world to Shangluo was issued again, and the wording this time was much stricter than the last time. Some princes even thought that this was a final decision to some extent between the Heavenly Emperor and the General’s family.

Inside and outside Edo, people are confused.

However, the rules explained by the shogunate will not change because of this. When the princes arrive in April, they should naturally leave Edo and return to the country to govern the country. Since the shogunate used the world’s more than 200-year-old routine to speak, then the routine explained by Shen Qin must also be maintained.

Moreover, on the Edo side, there was no reason to stop the princes from leaving Edo. It’s the general who died, and everyone wants to show their filial piety? Or is the general about to abdicate and ask everyone to congratulate the new general?

fine? Then I’ll go.

What is the shogunate doing? Of course, the Shogunate was in a “chaos”. You were suddenly deprived of the power to rule the world on your behalf by Emperor Xiaoming, don’t you panic?

It’s a joke, it’s normal for individuals to panic. Chuemon must have appeared flustered, and even seemed to be in a state of emergency, shouting that Emperor Xiaoming would abdicate and give up the country. Then it cooperated with the so-called “combination of public and military” rumors to confuse the public and create a situation where serious differences of opinion began to emerge from the top and bottom of the shogunate.

If I were calm, quickly mobilized my troops and marched to the capital, and tried to persuade me to retreat, which thorn would jump out?

If you don’t shave off all the thorns, you will continue to keep a big bomb behind and wait for him to ambush me in the future?

This time Zhang Si. So now the shogunate is not only chaotic, but also very chaotic, but also chaotic like that. How to reflect the instability of the shogunate center? Very simple, the troops that were mobilized to Sunfu Castle before were withdrawn to Edo Castle.

But after a day off, another unit was changed, and this time it was said to be temporarily stationed in Nagoya. Nagoya is located in the former Nagoya Castle. It was an important place for Oda Nobunaga to control the four counties of Eobari, and it was also the gateway to the Tokaido. Guarding Nagoya is naturally equivalent to guarding the Tokaido.

In addition, Nagoya is closer to Kyoto, and it can be reached by train in three or four hours. You can enter Kyoto at any time, which is convenient for the shogunate to operate.

Strong sacrifice read sacrifice. Because of the mobilization of troops and horses for days at Nihonbashi Railway Station, there was a very big chaos.

All this was seen by the princes, and each had his own plan. Including Maori Jingjin and Maori Yuantoku father and son who were publicly monitored by the shogunate, after a year of Edo’s account, Maori Jingjin was also allowed to return to the Choshu domain.

But if he wanted to do something big, it would be difficult to keep his heirs and hundreds or thousands of retainers in Edo. The retainer’s goal is small, but it is good to say that Maori Yuande has a number in the shogunate, so he will definitely not be able to escape.

How to do?

Letters had been sent from within the domain before, and this time the shogunate made a series of tricks, which was a good time to embrace the emperor to establish a constitution. The troops and horses in the domain are well prepared, and the morale of the troops is high, which is not inferior to the training team of the shogunate. Moreover, if there is no preparation for the battle, and other princes also join in, the battle will be very easy.

Maori’s respect for relatives is not completely a waste snack. He knows the truth that one is weak and two are strong. During the shogunate’s autumn hunting, the strict formation of the training team and the high morale left a deep impression on him.

The weapons of the Changzhou domain should not be inferior to that of the shogunate, but the training is a little worse, mainly because they have never seen blood and have zero battlefield experience, which is not as good as the shogunate.

Then the Edo Castle was on fire!

Where is the fire? In the Hiroshima domain of the Asano clan, the Dingfu daimyo Yoshida domain (Hiroshima Xintian domain, Goyatakata city) domain residence.

When the Yoshida mansion was on fire, Edo Town immediately organized a team to demolish the house, and several surrounding princes were invited out of the mansion. You can’t just sit at home and wait to be burned.

Besides, it was the Yoshida domain mansion that caught fire, a small 30,000-stone daimyo domain mansion, and usually no one cared about it at all. As for a fire? Then in Edo, no one thought there was anything wrong. If there is no fire all year round in Edo, the common people will find it strange.

Coincidentally, next to it are the residences of the Choshu and Hiroshima domains.

The Marquis of Hiroshima, Asano Jushinaga (Hiroshima Asano Nagagumi) ran out first. After all, this is a matter of their Hiroshima domain, so of course he had to ask. Moreover, Asano Asano was the lord of the Yoshida Domain before, and his heart was even more anxious.

There was a chaotic night, and gunpowder smoke was everywhere. Because the fire was extremely fierce, in addition to the town fire extinguishers of the towns being continuously dispatched, the retainers of the left and right princes were also ordered to demolish their own mansions to prevent the fire from spreading.

After dawn, it took another half a day to count the losses. It was only when Edo-cho Fengsong asked the Choshu clan, what was the loss of your clan, and whether the prince Mouri Motoku was in trouble, did he find out that it was broken.

Maori Yuande is missing!

Before, Maori Jingqin had followed the rules and ran all the way to Kyoto by train. Now Mouri Yuantoku is missing again, this guy, the Choshu clan has no hostages in Edo. UU reading www.uukanshu. com

How about asking the retainers in the domain? Most of them were brought back to the domain by Maori Jingjin, because he is a big name in the country, and he must be in the ranks of princes who meet his identity. So this time I returned to the country, and most of the people were transferred.

Now that I have counted it, there are only more than 30 warriors of the Changzhou domain in the huge Changzhou domain. The remaining more than a hundred were all hired laborers in Edo, not samurai at all.

When the news reported to Hitotsubashi Mansion in the afternoon, everyone, including Chuemon, changed their expressions.

Who is the person who left a lot of records in history, although it looks like this, in fact, there are two points of conspiracy.

What was even more unexpected was that the Hiroshima domain and the Changzhou domain also hooked up. You said before that this fire was a natural fire, and Chuemon didn’t doubt it at all. It happened that Maori had been away for two days, and had already arrived in Kyoto. If you caught fire again and ran away with Maori Yuande, then hehe.

Matsudaira Qixuan immediately proposed to Chuemon, and immediately put the lord of Hiroshima, Asano Asano, into custody, so that this kid would not run away, and investigate whether he had colluded with the Choshu domain.

Chuemon pondered for a while before rejecting his proposal.

Anyway, Maori Yuande couldn’t run away by train. When he went back to Changzhou, he didn’t know what year and month it was.

Make a big tyrant. Just as everyone was talking about it, the sky was getting dark, and the Ueno street in the north of Edo and the Shinjuku street in the west of Edo also set off a fire. The whole street was burning, and its flames even covered the setting sun.

Chuemon hurriedly went to the city to check the fire. The fire stretched several towns and burned private shops. I don’t know how many. Blue and black fireworks are rolling in, and the sound of people running and crying can be heard.

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