It was already Qing'an when a copy of the imperial proclamation promulgated by the Kyoto Imperial Court's Emperor Gomizuoin regarding the abolition of the title of Emperor Kobuin Taijo and labeling him as an enemy of the court was delivered to the hands of Kokobuin Koiko.

It’s August 13th in the fourth year, and the Mid-Autumn Festival is just two days away.

At this time, Kobuin Koko and her husband Zhu Jijiong had already lived in the Toyama Imperial Palace (Toyama Castle) in Ezhong, the three countries of Echigo, Etchu, and Sado, as well as the Chichi County and Nobuo County of Dewa Province.

Already completely under the control of Xingwuyuan Xingzi and her ministers.

Retainers of the Tokugawa shogunate such as Masayuki Hoshina, Mitsuki Matsudaira, and Naomi Matsudaira gathered the remaining troops and retreated to Matsushiro Castle (also known as Kaizu Castle) in Kawanakajima belonging to the Sanada family.

Because the weather in Hokuriku was cold at this time, there would be heavy snowfall in October of the lunar calendar, making it impossible to go anywhere. Therefore, the shogunate and the Kobuin side had stopped large-scale military operations in mid-August and began to deploy defenses

, ready for winter.

In the name of celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival, Kobuin summoned all of its loyal ministers to its new home, Etchu Toyama Imperial Palace.

In the Honmaru Hall of Toyama Imperial Palace, which was hastily completed (actually not completely completed), Xingzi, who was dressed as a noblewoman of the Tang Dynasty, and Zhu Cijiong, who was wearing the imperial robe of the Ming Dynasty, sat side by side and accepted the worship of their ministers.

After the ceremony, Xingwuyuan Xingzi took out a copy of the announcement from the imperial court that Emperor Gomizuo had deprived him of his title and accused him of being an enemy. He read it out in front of everyone with a smile. After reading it, he looked at the following with a smile.

Minister.

Of course, a group of ministers understand what Xingwuyuan means, so hurry up and show your loyalty!

Therefore, the ministers of Kobuin are Kusunoki Masayuki, Yamada Choyasu (the guy who surrendered to the Ming Dynasty in the Philippines), Suzuki Gipu (Zagapu), Uesugi Tsunakatsu, Takeda Shinji, Marubashi Tadaya, Masuda Toki

Under the leadership of Zhen, Matsukura Shigetoshi and others, they expressed their loyalty to Kobuin one by one.

"Your Majesty, this is an act of chaos!"

"Your Majesty, the Supreme Patriarch of Housuiweiyuan has no right to issue such a proclamation!"

"Your Majesty, no matter what decree is issued by the court in Kyoto, I will swear allegiance to Your Majesty to the death!"

"I only know that there is Your Majesty, but I don't know that there are other emperors and emperors in Japan..."

"I request your Majesty to restore the throne of the Emperor!"

Later, the show of loyalty turned into persuasion!

Sure enough, they are all loyal ministers!

The Emperor of Xingwuyuan was finally satisfied. Then he turned to look at Zhu Cijiong and said softly: "What do you think, husband?"

Zhu Cijiong smiled and said: "Housuiweiyuan is not the real emperor, and Shao Ren is not the real emperor. There is only one real emperor in Japan today, and it is you, my wife!"

"Why do you say this, husband?" Kobuin asked with a smile, "The three artifacts that symbolize the emperor's legal authority are still in Shao Ren's hands!"

"Hmph," Zhu Cijiong smiled, "How can you be called the emperor without a million dan? Shao Ren is just a puppet of the shogunate, with no power and power. His salary is only 10,000 dan. He can barely be a feudal lord, so how can he be called the emperor? Moreover,

In ancient and modern times, at home and abroad, how can ministers issue decrees to control the king? Therefore, Shao Ren is not the real emperor even if he holds the Tencongyun Sword (Kusanagi Sword), the eight-foot magatama, and the eight-tatami mirror!"

"What do the ministers think of what King Ning said?" Xingwuyuan asked the question to the ministers below.

"What His Highness Prince Ning said is absolutely true, His Highness Shao Ren's position as emperor is not true!"

"Your Majesty, please reset!"

"Your Majesty is the true emperor!"

Xingwuyuan nodded and asked again: "If Goshuiweiyuan and Shao Ren are not the real emperor or the real emperor, then are the five regents and the nine Qinghua princes real and fake?"

"Of course it's false!" Ning Wang Zhu Cijiong said, "Gongqing is the collective name of the Three Gongs and Nine Qings. The Three Gongs and Nine Qings are the assistants to the emperor and the important ministers who govern the world. Nowadays, Japan's Tianxia Guanwu Regent, Jiu Qinghua, etc.

What's wrong? They are just beggars from the shogunate. How dare they call themselves ministers? All the gentlemen here are the real ministers!"

Now all the ministers of Kobuin understood. It turned out that Kobuin's line was not the integration of public and military affairs, nor was it the way of Emperor Go-Daigo to use public ministers to govern the samurai. Instead, it was to kick away the begging ministers in Kyoto and directly establish the samurai court. This

It is much more legitimate than the shogunate governing the country.

Ning Wang Zhu Cijiong went on to say: "From now on, the land of Japan will be divided into heavenly territories directly controlled by the emperor and vassals led by ministers... In addition to vassals, the emperor will also have direct vassals to receive salaries.

The salary of ministers and vassal ministers is not less than 10,000 shi, and they can serve as three ministers and nine ministers. The salary of direct ministers is not more than 5,000 shi, and they can only hold lower official positions."

This is good. All the loyal ministers of Xingwuyuan understand that Xingwuyuan and Prince Ning have directly copied all the Tokugawa shogunate's tactics. From now on, the three ministers and nine ministers will be the shogunate senior middle school and Ruonian.

Kobuyuan took over the topic at this time and continued: "From now on, the imperial court will implement the system of cabinet ministers. The minister of Taizheng, the general who conquered the barbarians, the minister of the left, the minister of the right, and the minister of the interior are the five prime ministers. They will jointly assist the emperor, and the five ministers in front of him will serve as ministers.

The meeting will be in charge of the country's affairs.

The eight ministries are led by the Minister of Central Affairs, the Minister of Shikibu, the Minister of Administration, the Minister of Civil Affairs, the Minister of War, the Minister of Punishment, the Minister of Dazang, and the Minister of the Imperial Palace, and they implement the decisions of the meeting of the five ministers of the imperial court. They are led by the generals of the left Konoe and the right Konoe.

He was assigned to command the army of the Imperial Guard, to protect the imperial court, and to conquer unfaithful ministers. He led the Imperial Household with the Great Nagon and the Zhong Nagon to impeach traitors. He was responsible for guarding the land in charge of the heavenly territory, and the lord of the vassal guarded the lands of the vassals.

All the five ministers, eight ministers, inspectors, guards, guardians and other officials are temporary officials and cannot be appointed for a long time, let alone hereditary. Among them, the five ministers and eight ministers are all served by the lord of the feudal lord. The inspectors, guards, guardians and other officials are

They are all appointed directly by the Emperor.

In addition, there are additional powerful officials who do not hold actual duties and receive no salary. They are only for promotion and are awarded to feudal lords in various places to show the court's favor."

Xingwuyuan paused and then said: "As for the position of regent, from now on it can only be granted to the husband of the emperor, the queen, the queen mother, and the prince. My husband, Prince Ning, will be granted the position of regent, and he will share the power with me! I

The eldest son, He Ren, will be established as the crown prince.

The positions of the Five Prime Ministers will be awarded to Uesugi, Kusugi, Takeda, Yamada and Suzuki..."

Xingwuyuan glanced at the regent Zhu Cijiong, who said: "King Uesugi!"

Uesugi Tsusakatsu responded quickly, walked a few steps on his knees, reached the center of the hall, and knelt down in front of Xingwuyuan and Zhu Cijiong.

Zhu Cijiong said: "King Uesugi has been granted the post of Taizheng Minister! Echigo will be granted a kingdom. When Ueno Kingdom is recovered in the future, half of the kingdom will be granted!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty the Emperor, for your great kindness to His Majesty the Regent, Tsunayoshi Uesugi! The Uesugi family shall be loyal to the Emperor from generation to generation!"

Generations? Zhu Cijiong said in his heart: Do you still have generations? They are already very old... Forget it, I will adopt my second son to you in the future!

"Qing Kusunoki!" Zhu Cijiong called Kusunoki Masaki to him again, "You have granted me the post of general to conquer the barbarians! I will grant the title of Deyu to the Shichi Commandery and Nobuo Commandery (which is the Yonezawa Domain) for 300,000 shi. When the Deyu Kingdom is recovered in the future, all of them will be granted the title."

Give it to your Majesty."

"I, Kusunoki Masaki, would like to thank His Majesty the Emperor for your great kindness as the Regent! The Kusunoki family will be loyal to you from generation to generation, and I will serve the country for seven lifetimes!"

"King Takeda!"

The next person to be ennobled was Takeda Shinji. In fact, Takeda Shinji's contribution was not as great as that of Yamada Nagayasu and Suzuki Yoshipu, but he was a descendant of Takeda Shingen (one of Shingen's daughters married Uesugi Kagekatsu, so he died in the Takeda family

At that time, Shingen's seventh son, Nobukiyo, fled to Echigo to join his brother-in-law Kagekatsu, and Nobuji was Nobukiyo's grandson). Next, he wanted to win over the Sanada family and attack Shinano and Kai's two kingdoms, and Nobuci was needed.

"I will grant you the position of minister of the left, and when Jia Fei is recovered in the future, I will grant you the title of a vassal!"

Both Uesugi and Kusugi had real seals, so Takeda had to get a false seal first. However, Takeda Shinji was still very grateful and was so excited that tears filled his eyes!

The poor guy with 1,000 shijialu now has a chance to get back the 250,000 shi ancestral property of Kai Fei...and the hope of success is very high!

After sealing Takeda, Yamada Chotasu and Suzuki Gipu also stepped forward to receive the seal. Yamada sealed the right minister and wrote a bad check for 250,000 koku - he didn't say where to seal it. He would let him wait until the territory became bigger.

Choose!

Suzuki Yipu, on the other hand, granted the title of Minister of Internal Affairs and gave him a target of 250,000 shi, but also did not determine the specific fiefdom.

But the two of them were still very happy. After all, Xingwuyuan only had a small territory and it was impossible to seal off all of it.

After the sealing of Uesugi and Kusugi, Kobuin's territory in Japan only consisted of 520,000 koku from Echuchu and 1.6 million koku from Sado Island (equivalent to an income of 1.6 million koku), for a total of 2.12 million koku!

This is the real emperor!
Chapter completed!