Chapter 406

The Snowball-like Qiezhidan

Chapter 406 Snowballing Qiezhidan

For the Xiu family, establishing a foreigner like Tachihara Nobuhisa as the heir of the 2-stone Zhixing Land required a lot of pressure from public opinion, which was why the Xiu family hesitated at first.

But as long as the Hide family can see the value of Totachihara Nobuhisa from it, and this value makes the Hide family feel that it is worth bearing part of the public opinion, the Hide family is willing to confirm the identity of his heir.

Xiujia is such a realistic family supervisor.

There are two main reasons why Xiujia decided to accept it as an inheritance under pressure:
One is that Tachihara Nobuhisa, as an Ainu, can be a very good positive teaching material, encouraging the people of Ezo to integrate into the political system of Ukita.

The second is the issue of Tachihara Nobuhisa's own ability. He followed Tachihara Hisuna in Ezo, and learned a lot of experience in handling government affairs from his side. Since Tachihara Hisuna is the guarantor, Xiujia is naturally willing to believe in his internal affairs ability.

In terms of the art of war, he has indeed performed well and is a qualified warrior. Hideka also hopes to use him to form an Ainu guard.

Usually armed with long spears, the guards walk around Xiu's house, and in wartime, forming a spear formation and standing on the front line becomes the key to breaking the formation.

After all, although the price-performance ratio of the gun stick is good, the lethality of the spear stabbing method is still too low. If there is a capable set gun unit mixed in, it can quickly kill and destroy the enemy at the point where the unit is located, and tear the enemy's formation.

So he said to the Seto family, "After you go back, help me send a message to Akashi Sabutou (Zhen Deng), and ask him to recruit about 500 warriors in the Ezo area, including subordinate and friendly tribes. .

It is required to be able to use local short spears proficiently, as well as weapons such as hand axes, and the grade should be around 20-30 years old.

It can be properly over-recruited. After being recruited, each person will be given an objective settling allowance and mercenary money, and they will be transported to Okayama. I plan to train them into an army, and then hand them over to the commander of Gentaibei. "

The Seto family was receiving orders from the Hide family, and replied humbly: "Yes, Your Highness, I will take this matter over."

When Tachihara Nobuhisa heard that Xiujia planned to let him lead the army, he was also very excited to express his gratitude to Xiujia.

Xiujia poured cold water on him and said, "Don't be too happy too early, I will find you a special teacher to train you in guns and battle formation. If you fail the assessment then, I will give you this The Commander-in-Chief fucked him."

Now that Akashi Quanto was talked about, Hideo directly asked Tachihara Hisakuna and Seto Jiazheng, "How is Ezo doing when you sweep the head, can you properly handle the matter of Ezo, and take over your position from Shifan? "

Tachihara Hisakuna heard that the Xiu family had inquired about the policy issues in Ezo, and immediately found a reason to send his adopted son Tachihara Nobuhisa away, and the Hide family also took this opportunity to call in two elders, Akashi Kageko and Osafune Sadakin. listen in.

After the people in the hall were seated again, Li Yuan Jiugang said slowly: "Sau Butou is indeed a leader among the younger generation, and he is excellent in both administration and diplomacy. His Highness must be able to send him to Ezo for inspection." For a long time. If he is not capable, I will not leave Ezo with peace of mind."

Hearing someone praise his son, Ming Shijing kissed a smile on the corner of his mouth.

When he first heard that the Xiu family planned to send their son to Ezo, he was quite resistant.Akashi Quandeng, the old son of the Ukido family, is no longer unable to get along in the Seven Kingdoms of Kibi, and has to go to Ezo to earn hard work.

However, the development of this place in Ezo really needs trustworthy and junior high school people to guard it. The reason why Hideka chose Akashi Zento to go there may not have paid attention to it.

After Akashi Quandeng left, Akashi Jingqin still had some regrets, thinking about his son all the time, and now hearing about his son's situation again from Tachihara Hisakuna, he asked him about his specific situation very excitedly.

Tachihara Hisakuna continued to explain, "Saobutou's handling of the local Ainu people is very effective, better than me. He used religion to assimilate the local Ainu people, making them submit to our feet, and further expanding our territory.

At the same time, according to the map brought by His Highness, he re-divided the territory and sphere of influence, and brought the two fields of Houzhen and Naichuan that originally belonged to the Jiushan Ieshige to the direct control of the Ezo Magistrate.

With Your Majesty Your Highness's land, Osamagawa, as the boundary, to the west is the country of Danshin, and to the east is the country of Hidaka, appoint Shuuyama Ieshige as the envoy of Danshin, and Mr. Ehara Kiji-sama as the envoy of Hidaka, to develop to the left and right respectively.

Of course, Xuanzhu, Yonghong and other cities that were originally in the country of Bilizhen are still under the direct jurisdiction of the Ezo. "

Hearing this, Xiujia took the initiative to interrupt Tachihara Hisakuna's statement, and asked him, "Why, is the sweeping head so capable? The Jiushan family went to Ezo earlier, and they have a deep impression on the hearts of the local Yamato people. influence.

Moreover, his own Zhixing has 1.2 shi. Will he give up the familiar land he has developed so easily and go to remote areas to re-develop it? "

Li Yuan Jiugang shook his head and replied, "Of course not, but he can only choose to transfer the seal."

Hearing this answer, many people in the hall were aroused, and Akashi Jingqin asked directly, "If you don't want to, why would Jiushan Jiazhong obediently choose to give up the territory?"

"That's exactly what I want to say," Tachihara Hisakuna explained, "it is religion that forced Lord Jiushan to give up the territory east of Tomakomai, that is, Kirichidan."

Everyone exclaimed: "Qiezhidan?!"

"Before I said that Sabutou used religion to assimilate the Aizu tribesmen, making them seek refuge or submit to our army. In this way, most of the people in the base camp of the Aizu Enforcement Office are Chechidan people.

The Akashi Sobu also intentionally or unintentionally allocated the fields of the people who believed in Chietchitan around the cities directly under the jurisdiction of the prefecture, which strengthened the main strength of the Ezo prefecture.

However, Lord Jiushan believed in the Yixiang sect, and he refused the missionaries of Qiezhidan to his territory, and conflicts arose because of this.

In the end, Akashi Saobu and I came forward and won the exchange of his territory on the condition that we promised that Qiezhidan would never expand westward, and that he would be brave enough to conquer the west of Tomakomai. "

At this time, Hideyoshi has not yet issued the "Bantian Chasing and Release Order", and the Japanese lords have no special feelings for Kiritan.

Although some areas will cause disturbances due to preaching, most of these situations occur among the people. The daimyo's attitude towards Chietchitan is not to advocate, encourage, or oppose.

Therefore, when everyone heard the news that Akashi Quandeng used Chezhidan to force Jiushan Jiashige to take the initiative to choose to change the territory, they expressed their admiration to Akashi Jingqin for his son.

Only the Xiu family was very serious about this news. Hisakuna Tachihara saw the change in the attitude of the Xiu family, and he also said, "It seems that His Highness, like me, has expressed approval for the ability to sweep the head, but he has expressed disapproval for the situation of Qiezhidan." Worry."

Hideya nodded and said, "That's true. In the 13th year of Tensho (1585), the Seto family brought me back the news that Kirichitan and the various sects of Buddhism were still developing in Ezo. It's only been one year in Ezo, how can Chietchidan have such a big advantage?"

"Hi~" Setoya sighed from the sidelines, he is a devout Buddhist, when Hideka talked about the two religions, he naturally expressed his feelings, "It's not that we are not up to date.

Even though they belong to the same religion, they still say that others are heretics. There are only so many Buddhists, and they are all competing with each other. How much experience do they have in preaching abroad?

Even if you really go out to preach and recruit a group of tribal people who believe in Buddhism, you will be confused by the messy and contradictory teachings.

They see that we haven't figured out the doctrine ourselves, so naturally we don't want to believe in it, but Chechidan is different. The Chechedan believers sent by your highness have only one doctrine, and they believe in their only true god.

And the practice is also simple and clear, as long as you repent and leave the rest to their gods, it will naturally spread quickly. "

The Seto family was explaining on the sidelines, and Tachihara Hisakuna also nodded, "It is precisely because of this that last year Kiritan was widely spread in Ezo, and even caused conflicts between Kiritan and Buddhists. Even, different beliefs There were also fights among the tribes among them.

In the end, the sweeping head suggested that the sphere of influence between the various sects should be cleared up, and the leaders should be re-planned.In the end, under my insistence, the two countries of Danjin and Hidaka were stipulated as Buddhist countries, and Danzhen preached the Ichiko sect, Hidaka preached the Shingon sect, and Ishikari preached Kiritan.

As for the areas directly under the jurisdiction of Tomakomai, Yuhong and other places, they are required to have sectarian freedom and not to impose interference. "

Speaking of this, he suddenly raised his head to look at the Xiu family and said, "Your Highness, my lords, you are no longer in Ezo, and you may not feel the speed and teachings of Qiezhidan, and I didn't think it was a big deal in the past.

But after seeing their spreading speed with my own eyes, I think Chechidan will inevitably be the biggest variable in Ezo, and even our vassal state.

Because their teachings are exclusive, they naturally refuse to integrate with local culture, coupled with their extremely rapid speed of transmission, sectarian conflicts will inevitably recur one day. "

Everyone fell silent when they heard Tachihara Hisakuna's point of view. Only Akashi Jingqin retorted, "Master Liyuan is worrying too much. He also has some ideas about spreading Qiezhidan in Mishima. I don't see any problem. Instead, I will give it back to you." We brought with us the technology and trade of the Southern Barbarians."

Akashi Keiko's point of view is exactly the point of view of many Japanese samurai about Kiritan today.

In fact, Akashi Jing believed in the Luzong, and was not interested in Qiezhidan, but his son was involved. He also heard the reproach in Tachihara Hisakuna's words, so he spoke up to explain to his son.

Who knows that Li Yuan Jiugang said very excitedly, "I am a believer of Yixiang sect, but what I said today does not mean to flatter and frame because of different sects, but to see the real feelings with my own eyes in the land of Ezo. !

According to my observations in Ezo, once Chechidan develops to a certain advantage, it will forcefully occupy the land of the surrounding sectarians and force them to convert to their own beliefs.

Then some newly converted ignorant tribal people heard that as long as they repent, they can go to the so-called kingdom of heaven, and naturally they were happy to convert. This snowball just got bigger and bigger during this year.

But in the past, they only used religious wars against foreign forces, but when the external forces developed to a bottleneck, or they had internal encouragement, they launched the same conflict internally.

In the second half of the year, there were 32 conflicts between Buddhism and Chechitan in the Ezo area under our protection, and 2 wars broke out between tribes.

Leaving aside, let’s talk about the struggle between the Yongwu tribe and the Qingye tribe in Changdu. On the surface, it is because of the problem of hunting and crossing the border caused by the uneven distribution of forest land, but in fact it is a sectarian conflict under the instigation of Pastor Chezhidan Caused.

The banner they raised was also a pretense of sweeping away the heretics, directly burning the captured tribesmen of the Yongwu tribe to death on the cross!
This incident was witnessed by me, Seto-sama, and Sobutou. It also triggered a tribal scuffle in the Chiba area, and even our leaders were implicated. It was also because of this incident that we finally made up our minds to implement it. Sectarian Separation Policy!

But it's not easy to let those tribes who have lived here for thousands of years give up their land. What's wrong with them?

It is true that the Qiezhidan in Yamato Mishima is still relatively safe now, but this is because their power is not strong enough. Once the Qiezhidan in the Mishima develops to a certain level, they will inevitably provoke disputes with Buddhists and force the lord to express his position. "

Hisakuna Tachihara's words caused the hall to fall into silence again, because the story in his mouth was too appalling. After hearing about it, Nasafune Sada and Akashi Keiki whispered to each other.

And the attendants in the hall were afraid to speak because their ranks were too low, and our Xiu family was lost in thought.

Judging from Tachihara Hisakuna's words, he sent Kirichidan to Ezo, which indeed promoted the process of assimilation in the Ezo area. From this point of view, Akashi Zento did a very good job.

But Xiujia was wondering if he had opened Pandora's box in Ezo by doing this.

If this situation is not controlled, perhaps one day Ezodi will not only be unable to provide assistance to himself, but will also become a stumbling block for him because of the commotion.

Moreover, Akashi Quandeng is a believer in Qiezhidan. Judging from his performance in supporting Qiezhidan, it is difficult to guarantee that he is not suspected of using public weapons for private use.

In the past, what to say in Ezo was still a matter of Tachihara Kuzuna. Now that Tachihara Kuzuna has been transferred back, isn't Akashi Quanto the dominant family in Ezo?

It is true that Xiujia spread Qietzhidan to Ezo to assimilate the local tribes, but Xiujia did not want the religion of Ezo and the island to have too much difference.

Nowadays, only a small area in Ezo can lead to conflicts because of religious intolerance. Once the Chichidan in Ezo becomes dominant, and it is different from the new island of the island, wouldn't it become a cross country in the East?

At that time, will there still be a poisonous war with the island?

Now it is the end of the 16th century, and the great voyage has already begun. What a great gimmick the Eastern Crusaders are, it must become a new holy place in the mouths of those greedy missionaries.

At that time, it is really hard to say whether the European powers will intervene in the war between the main island and Ezo.

"Wouldn't that mean making a wedding dress for Qie Zhidan?" Thinking of this, the Xiu family couldn't help shaking their heads, and secretly made up their minds: "No, this situation must change."

(End of this chapter)