There is no airtight wall in the world, and Kyoto, the capital of Japan, has no walls at all, so it cannot prevent the news that the emperor is probably not a god from spreading wildly in this ancient city.

The rumor that Emperor Jimmu, the first emperor, was Xu Fu, the alchemist who was ordered by the First Emperor to go to sea to seek immortality, has actually existed in Japan for a long time. However, it was just a joke after dinner, and no one took it seriously, and no one wanted to study it in detail.

Who would have thought how serious the consequences would be if this rumor was confirmed!

But in the spring of the third year of Manji, the news suddenly spread in the streets of Kyoto that Emperor Jimmu was really the alchemist Xu Fu of the Qin Dynasty. This legend that had been circulating in Japan for countless years was actually true! In Shaanxi, China

When Wu Sangui, the general who fought against rogue bandits in the province, was building a castle in Lishan, his subordinates dug out a burial pit from the tomb of the First Emperor. There were some bamboo slips in it that recorded Xu Fu's petition to the First Emperor for the title of Shenwu Japanese King.

This is incredible! Emperor Jimmu is not a descendant of God, but a magician who deceived Qin Shihuang!

Moreover, this alchemist who deceived the First Emperor shamelessly asked the First Emperor to be granted the title of Divine Warrior Japanese King. If it is confirmed, then the Yamato court has been a subject of the Emperor of Heaven from the beginning! This nature is completely different from the later "Five Japanese Dynasty Tributes"

The former is equivalent to "franchise" and the latter is equivalent to "subsidiary".

If we look at "Xu Fu seeking the title of Shenwu Japanese King" together with the "Five Japanese Dynasty Tributes" in the Southern and Northern Dynasties of China, then the nature of the "Five Japanese Dynasty Tributes" has become a continuation of Xu Fu's conferment. And Queen Tuigu in

The incident of claiming to be emperor in the early years of the Sui Dynasty was an out-and-out rebellion!

What makes the people of Kyoto even more frightened is that the Kyoto Governor has issued a notice that General Ietsuna will lead 100,000 troops to Luo in the near future to investigate whether Emperor Jimmu is really Xu Fu, the alchemist of Qin!

What does Stupid Gongfang mean? He led 100,000 troops to Luo to find out whether Emperor Jimmu was Xu Fu? This required 100,000 shogunate soldiers? The people of Kyoto are smart, how could they be deceived by Stupid Gongfang? He

If you lead a hundred thousand troops to Luo, you will definitely become a traitor!

So as soon as the news came out, the streets of Kyoto were in an uproar.

"What does the Crown Prince want to do? Why did he bring a hundred thousand troops to find out the true identity of Emperor Jimmu? Is it possible that after confirming that Emperor Jimmu is Xu Fu, he will overthrow His Majesty the Emperor?"

"That's a rebellious traitor! That's an evil deed that even General Rising Sun wouldn't dare to do. General Tokugawa isn't afraid of becoming a person despised by the whole world?"

"The Western Army has not yet been destroyed. If General Tokugawa dares to do anything disobedient, he will be a traitor to the country, and the whole world will be his enemy. By then, the Tokugawa family will be finished!"

"That's right, if the public dares to overstep its bounds, then the Western Army's righteousness lies with them."

"Yes, justice lies with the Western Army!"

I have to say that the people of Kyoto still respect the Imperial family very much, even though the Imperial family is probably a liar and not the descendant of a god. But they have been deceived for so many years. The people of Kyoto are used to being deceived and do not want to change.

Came here to lie.

However, public opinion among the people changed quickly. In early February, the shogunate eldest brother Masayuki Hoshina led his troops to a great victory in the Battle of Bichu Katsuyama, defeating the Maori and Asano coalition forces of 50,000 people. When the news reached Kyoto, the citizens

They began to feel that it was always bad for the Emperor to lie to others!

"It's so shameless. They have lied to us for more than a thousand years and they don't think we are fools anymore!"

"You are indeed the descendant of a magic stick. He only knows how to pretend to be a ghost and deceive everyone."

"Just lie to people. Just be the King of Japan. Why should you call yourself the Emperor? That is transgression!"

"Isn't that right? Queen Tuigu can betray the Celestial Empire, why can't His Highness the Emperor?"

By late February, the news that only 20,000 of the 100,000-strong shogunate army had left Edo and marched towards Kyoto reached the public opinion in Kyoto.

"I've been deceiving you for hundreds of years, it's time for someone else to do the deception!"

"Actually, it's not a complete replacement. The general's family comes from the Qinghe Yuan clan, and they are also descendants of Xu Fu!"

"Yes, yes, they are all descendants of Xu Fu. Why can't you be the king?"

"The world in Japan is originally a public one. The so-called emperor is just a man with thirty thousand koku, not to mention compared to the shogun's family who owns four million koku, even compared to most of the feudal lords!"

The imperial family's 30,000 koku is actually fictitious. It does not own a piece of land that can receive 30,000 koku of brown rice. It only has the right to receive 30,000 koku of brown rice from the shogunate. Moreover, these 30,000 koku of brown rice cannot be spent randomly by the emperor and must be sent by the shogunate.

When the granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu's samurai accountant, entered the palace and married Emperor Gomizuo, he brought some samurai as his companions, so the 30,000 koku of brown rice owned by the Imperial family came under their management.

In addition to the 30,000 koku of the Imperial family, there are also a bunch of begging ministers in Kyoto. Their salaries and salaries are almost 30,000 koku. A total of 60,000 koku of brown rice is the total of the Japanese emperor and ministers. For the Tokugawa shogunate, it is basically

Not worth mentioning.

Therefore, what has always supported the imperial family is not its strength, but that the divine emperor is a descendant of God!

But now, the descendants of God have become the descendants of God’s stick

So when the "hundred-thousand-thousand-strong army" led by the foolish old man Fang Jiagang marched into Kyoto in a mighty manner, the people of Kyoto were already as eager as the people of Beijing during the Jiashen period to welcome the new Lord, and they all put on their best clothes.

Clothes were welcomed in the wide streets of Kyoto.

The entire Kyoto is waiting for the arrival of the new king of Japan, Wang Jiazuna!

Of course, there were also those who were unwilling to let Tokugawa Ietsuna become king, such as Emperor Gonishi, but he did not have the strength to stop Ietsuna. So when Tokugawa Mitsukuni marched into Nijo Castle in Kyoto with Tokugawa Ietsuna in his stead,

, Emperor Gonishi had no choice but to find his father, Emperor Gomizuo, his sister, Emperor Meimasa, and his aunt, Empress Dowager Hōfukumonin, Minamoto Kazuko, to discuss countermeasures.

Both Emperor Meisho and Empress Dowager Minawako of Tofukumonin are of Tokugawa family descent. Minawako is Tokugawa Kazuko, the daughter of the second-generation shogun Hidetada, and she is 53 years old this year.

Emperor Meimasa was Wakko's daughter. She became the female emperor after Emperor Gomizuo abdicated. She was only seven years old at the time and is only 36 years old now.

If there is anyone else in the imperial family who can stop Tokugawa Ietsuna and Tokugawa Mitsukuni, I think they are the only two women.

"We must never admit that Emperor Jinmu is Xu Fu. If we admit it, everything will be over!" After all, Tokugawa Kazuko is the granddaughter of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Politically, she is a little smarter than Emperor Gonishi, and she immediately pointed out the problem.

key.

"Yes, but Ie Tsuna led one hundred thousand troops to Luo." Emperor Gonishi's voice was trembling a little.

Emperor Mingzheng snorted: "So what? As long as you don't admit it, they won't dare to usurp the throne. The most they can do is kill you! It's no big deal!"

kill

"This, this can't be done!" Emperor Gonishi was crying even as he spoke. How could he be killed?

The stepmother and sister were unreliable, so they had no choice but to ask their father for help.

He turned to look at his father, a monk who had been a monk for many years, and said, "Father, please say something."

Emperor Gomizuo just sighed softly. He used the method of passing on the throne to his daughter to exclude the Tokugawa family bloodline from the imperial family, which showed a certain degree of Machiavellian tactics. The female emperor could not get married, so there would be no descendants. If he had not abdicated at that time,

, it is possible to have a son with Kazuko, and then the emperor will become the grandson of the Tokugawa family. But now he is a little helpless!

The crisis facing the Imperial family now is greater than it was then. The Tokugawa family does not want to be the emperor's grandfather, but wants to be the real king of Japan!

Once you admit that Emperor Jimmu is Xu Fu, everything will be over!
Chapter completed!