Chapter 902 Gratitude of the people
Masaraki planned to take the initiative first and attack those temple shrine forces that were obviously conspiring, but on April 3, 1557, the third year of Hongzhi (1557) (in history, this day was also the day when Ouchi Yoshiagata, the last governor of Ouchi Yoshiagata, was forced to commit suicide by Morimoto in Nagatoshima Castle), it was the busy time of spring farming that Ichikki suddenly appeared in the territory occupied by the Luo family in the Xiguo region.
The initiator of Ikki Ikki was Naomi Naomi, and the Jungshima Naomi Naomi and others. They supported Naomi Naomi from Ishiyama Osaka as a general, and said, "It is time for Buddhism to defeat the enemy of the Buddhist family, Masayoro,!" as the slogan, and Masayoro rose up.
According to Masara's original plan, he planned to wait until the spring plowing ended before taking the lead. But he didn't expect that the other party turned against him in advance when the spring plowing farming was busy, which really surprised Masara. But after thinking about it for a while, Masara was calm again. After all, he was not omnipotent. The reason why he achieved so many victories in the past was that Masara had some understanding of the historical process and gained a lot of opportunities from it. This time, Isara Ikki did not happen at all in history, so Masara naturally could not "predict what was like a god", so it was naturally normal for such changes to occur.
Since Ichikki this time is to maintain Buddhism, the believers of the temple and shrine forces in the entire Western Luo family territory will inevitably respond. Fortunately, due to the previous immigration policy of the Luo family, the temple and shrine forces in many areas have lost a large number of believers, which has weakened the power of these forces to a certain extent.
But this time, Isaac Ikki showed two places that attracted Masayoro's attention. One was the Anyi Kingdom, the Beihou Kingdom and the Nagamon Kingdom's border areas. At this critical moment, the refugees in these areas actually had abnormal movements. Some even bullied and incited riots, thus impacting the borders of the Luo family. Fortunately, the Luo family had been prepared for this. Not only did they prepare a large amount of food for these refugees, but they also forcibly ordered these refugees to enter the checkpoints in batches (each batch must not exceed ten people) in the Luo family's border areas. They would shoot and kill all the uncooperative leaders directly. Therefore, they naturally avoided chaos in the border areas.
Another place that attracted Masayoro's attention was that the temple shrine forces in the area near the Luo Family's various teams did not rise up this time and participated in this riot. Instead, it seemed very quiet. This was really strange. In Masayoro's view, these forces seemed to deliberately make such moves to restrain the various teams of the Luo Family's family, thus allowing the temple shrine forces that have already rioted in other areas to expand the scope of the riot.
After all, there are still some temple shrines and shrines at this time, and they even tend to join the Luo family. If the Luo family rashly acts on their temple shrines, it will naturally prompt many neutral forces to participate in this riot.
But the ideas of these temple shrine forces were obviously too naive. After all, Masaruo originally planned to annex all these forces, but it was just a matter of time. Now that both sides have turned against each other, Masaruo will naturally not be restrained by their small means, so he immediately sent envoys to the temple shrines near the various Western teams' stations, asking them to fully cooperate with the pacification of the riots this time. But these temple shrines not only killed the envoys of the Luo family, but even rudely pushed the blame on Masaruo. At this point, Masaruo directly announced that he would purify the riots in the territory with all his might. He himself personally led the army to the battle, and first pointed the target at the temple shrines near Yamaguchi Castle.
At this time, the believers who responded to the call and decided to follow the Buddha were becoming more and more popular within a few days. The rioters hung the Buddha scriptures on long spears or bamboo spears and shouted: "Defeat the enemies of Buddhism. Those who advance will be reborn in the Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss, and those who retreat will fall into the Abyssal Hell!"
At the center of the turmoil eruption, the following Lai Lian, the leader of the monk, was the leader of the monk. The monk and the nearby temples and shrines gathered together, and instantly gathered more than 400 riots. In addition to the people who were striking from all over the country, the total number of mobs exceeded 7 or 8,000 (fortunately, the Luo family had a series of previous policies, otherwise there would be more mobs). They shouted Amitabha, Zhengliang, Pure Land of Ultimate Bliss and the Abyssal Hell, and rushed to the Vangzheng Temple.
Of course, not everyone rushed to the Yuanzheng Temple. Some mobs gathered at the Luo family's border areas in Anyiguo and Beihouguo, in an attempt to attack the Luo family's border areas and united with the believers of Beihouguo who also responded to the call.
But not everyone participated in the riot. The new lords and new officials assigned by the Luo family to various places were commanding the families and ordinary people to take up weapons and confront the mobs. Some people who migrated from the Kyushu area or who had just transformed from slave status to ordinary people of the Luo family even climbed up the roof of the houses provided by the Luo family, knocked on iron pots or blew bamboo flutes, and shouted: "Be with the village!" They called on ordinary people who did not participate in the riot to unite to protect their villages, and at the same time refused to enter the mobs.
On Masara, with the army coming out, especially the newly established Otuna team in Masara's formation, most temple shrines were broken under the attack of the army. Masarara was not ruthless in these temple shrine forces, so she directly slaughtered, leaving only women and children, and then directly burned the temple shrines. For those temple shrines that were built like forts, Masarara directly blasted open the gate with the Otuna, and then carried out the massacre and burned it.
Of course, not all temples and shrines adopt the strategy of cages. If you are bolder, you will directly pull a mob to fight Masayora's army.
When the mob army came, Zhengliang immediately rode out and led the army to massacre with all his might. Faced with such a fierce army of Luo family, the mobs immediately fled in all directions, but soon rushed forward like a tide. They naively believed that Zhengliang was the Buddha's enemy and was happy with the attack, advancing and retreating, day and night, as if tireless.
The riot began in early April and continued to the end of April. As the spring plowing was about to end. If this continues, the leaders who finally settled down will fall into hunger again. I am afraid that spring, the crucial sowing season, will end. The rioters will continue to indulge in Amitabha and cannot extricate themselves, and the dispute will not stop.
Faced with the mob team that could automatically learn to fight guerrilla warfare, Masayoshi finally made a decision. The so-called monks could not escape the temple, so he simply ignored these mobs who fought guerrilla warfare and directly attacked their nests! The first goal was the most important western part of Zhou Fangguo and one of the centers of this riot.
So after destroying the temple shrine along the way, Masara finally came to a village near Honzen Temple on the last day of April. This village originally belonged to the territory of Tao Qingxian's retainer, Hiroshi Yamazaki, but since Yamazaki's family defected to the Luo family during the Battle of Itsuki Island, Masara transferred his territory to Kyushu Chizumaki during this migration, and the territory area was doubled. However, this time, due to the sudden outbreak, the Yamazaki's clan who had no time to transfer had to stay here temporarily. During this period, he had been leading the army to confront the mobs at Honzen Temple.
It was already evening when the army arrived, so Masayoshi was preparing to rest for a night and attack Honzen Temple with all its might tomorrow. In the middle of the night, it seemed that he knew that Masayoshi's army had arrived, and an enemy attacked. At dawn, the sound of flute sounded again. Masayoshi was already ready, but Masayoshi had already set up an ambush and defeated the enemy in an instant. What he never expected was that after the defeat, the thugs actually set fire in another nearby village. Fortunately, when the riots began, Yamazaki Yoshimori gathered all the leaders of this village into the village where the Luo family army was stationed at this time, so the village was just burned.
The fire reflected the frost of dawn. Seeing the people who had finally lived and worked in peace and contentment, their houses were burned in the fire, Zhengliang felt indescribable anger. People who were incited by faith were so stupid that they took the initiative to destroy their lives. If Zhengliang collected taxes that Zhengliang had more harsh than other daimyos, it was understandable, but the opposite was the opposite. Under the rule of other daimyos, people only thought about how to survive every day, and they did not even have the courage to start a riot? Under Zhengliang's benevolent government, every household had a grain of rice, but they repaid their kindness with grievances and used the power and courage given by Zhengliang to riot?
"It's true that we can't indulge them!" Masayoro, who had experienced several riots in Kyushu, thought coldly, and could no longer let them set fire everywhere. He had to take the initiative to attack and turn the temples, shrines, and forts that the other party occupied into scorched earth, otherwise the rebellion would not be able to be quelled. "Notify the soldiers and attack after dawn."
This riot allowed Zhengliang's teams to be well trained. After all, the teams only expanded their troops not long ago and added a lot of soldiers. It just happened to take advantage of this opportunity to conduct integrated training and become a more rigorous whole.
The sky gradually brightened, and the fire gradually dimmed. White morning mist rose from the surrounding woods. The air was filled with the breath of fighting, and war horses were neighing everywhere. At this moment, a man came to serve Masaru with a bowl of soup rice. Masaru's wife, Mrs. Komatsu, the wife of Masaru Yoshimori Yamazaki.
In fact, the retainers of the Luo family seemed to consciously form a rule that whenever Zhengliang came out to his respective territory, they would send their families to serve Zhengliang's daily life and food. After all, they all knew that their lord Zhengliang was not a lustful person, so their families would be safe, and such actions were a sign of loyalty to Zhengliang.
At first, Zhengliang naturally thought that such a move was unnecessary. After all, this would make Zhengliang feel very strange, as if he wanted to occupy the wife and daughter of his retainers. Although the families of these retainers were only responsible for Zhengliang's daily life and did not have to sleep with him at all, Zhengliang was a little unaccustomed. Moreover, in order to prevent problems, it is best to be responsible for the food that he has to worry about. Who knows whether these families would even want their own lives to poison themselves to poison themselves.
But even Masara often refuses such actions, it is sometimes difficult to suppress the intentions of the retainers, especially the newly occupied Xiguo area, which has to be taken care of by the old ministers of the Ouchi family, so Masara had to agree to Yamazaki Hiromori's request to let his wife serve his daily life. Now Yamazaki's wife, Mrs. Komara, is coming with a bowl of soup rice.
Masara took the wooden bowl and ate the soup rice neatly. To be honest, this soup rice tasted very good, and the main ingredients in it were rice. Rice is a precious thing for even families like Yamazaki Hiroshi who just joined the Luo family. Obviously, Mrs. Komara was very attentive to serve Masara. Thinking of this, Masara immediately praised: "Madam, the sauce soup tastes very good."
"It's probably because you're on an empty stomach. It's already dawn." Mrs. Komatsu said with a smile.
"No, no, you are a good housewife to be able to make such delicious sauce soup."
"Thank you for your appreciation, please use another bowl."
"I'm not hungry anymore... so no need. If I eat the rice you have finally accumulated, you will have no rice during this period." Although Masarara could send orders to the Interior Pavilion to send some rice to the entire woman, it is the war period. Due to such troubles, Yamazaki Hirosaki's family did not know when it would start to move to the new territory of Kyushu Chimae Country, which may not avoid unnecessary trouble. Masarara naturally would not issue such orders, and would not eat up all the precious rice from the retainers' homes.
"No. This is all for the sake of preparations. I am afraid that even rice will be happy for the lord. Please use another bowl."
"Hahaha..." Masarara smiled and said, "You can always hear happy lies in poor families. Judging from your face, you will know that you are working hard. Just eat a bowl for me. You also have to raise children!" Mrs. Komatsu recently gave birth to a legitimate son for Yamazaki Kyomori, and it is not yet full moon.
"No, my milk is very rich, so..." Mrs. Komatsu was tearful and refused to give in at a single step: "Lord, this is not a lie. Lord, I have seen such riots. At that time, the fields were abandoned and the people turned into beggars, refugees or thieves, and there was no other way. The elderly, weak, women and children would also die on the roadside. But the lord can bring stability to the people, ask the lord to have a full stomach, drive away the mobs, and bring us a peaceful era."
"A era of peace?" Zhengliang did not expect that the woman in front of him would make such a request. It was obvious that the wife saw hope for peace from some of the previous rules of the Luo family, so this bowl of soup rice was actually her gratitude rice. Thinking of this, Zhengliang took over the second bowl of soup rice from Mrs. Komatsu and slowly started eating it.
"Okay. Don't be tired. You are not alone, you have children and husbands." After Masaliang finished the second bowl of soup and soaked rice, he handed the wooden bowl back to Mrs. Komatsu, while reminding him, he turned around to the army's main formation under the protection of his close servants.
"Is it peaceful? Please wait, I will bring it..."
Chapter completed!