Chapter 409 12. I Am Glad to Hear that Jue Personally Accepted His Son

"No need to go, Monk Kakuei is very good!"

Hosokawa Harumiya led Hosokawa Cainu into the hall from the corridor. Although the old man was old, he still spoke with full energy, and the momentum of being a general for decades was there.

"Harumiya brought Monk Kakuei back?" Everyone was overjoyed. If he was brought back, it would be a great success.

"No." Hosokawa Harumiya spread his hands and sat down on his own.

"Then how can you say that Monk Kakuei is very good now?" Xiao Pingtai came to his old father-in-law.

"Kofuku-ji is guarded by more than 2,000 monks and believers day and night. As long as the bronze bell of the main temple rings, 5,000 to 6,000 people will be attracted in an instant. I am afraid that there will be no safer place in Kinmen at this moment."

Hosokawa Harumiya rubbed his calf, which was swollen due to the journey, and said as he rubbed it. Xiao Pingtai also came up to help him rub it.

"So Monk Kakuei has never been in danger?" Yamauchi Shuke wanted to find out the matter clearly and report to his eldest brother.

"It's not that there haven't been any. There was a thief who sneaked into Kofuku-ji Temple at night. Unfortunately, he was not well-trained and was beaten to death by Jingkong, the monk next to Kakuei."

Hosokawa Harumiya had obviously seen that scene. Although his words were extremely simple, they could make people shudder.

And Kobayata suddenly had a tall figure in his mind. Tatsuzo's height of 1.75 meters was already a towering figure in the mountains. But the Jingkong monk he saw when he first entered Beijing was only 1.8 meters tall, and he held the copper-wrapped Zen stick weighing dozens of kilograms in his hand like a toy.

Iwase Motomasa, who was skilled in spears and sticks, did not get any good at all when he challenged him. If the big monk was allowed to wield the Zen stick, even an iron man would be beaten into a pit.

"There is indeed a strong and powerful monk next to Kakuei." Kobayata immediately agreed with Hosokawa Harumiya.

"A dozen people without strong bows and cannons can't get close to Monk Kakuei, let alone the many monks in Kofuku-ji."

"So Monk Kakuei decided to stay in the temple for a while and wait and see the situation in Luojing."

Although Hosokawa Harumiya did not persuade Monk Kakuei to come to the mountain, he also confirmed that no one would be able to harm Monk Kakuei or tie him up for the time being.

"By the way, Monk Kakuei is going to return to secular life and will announce that he will adopt His Highness Taro as his adopted son."

Originally, everyone was a little discouraged. They planned well, betting on both sides, and tricking two heirs to come. Not only will it raise their own prestige, but it will also help stabilize the chaotic situation at home.

But the original happy calculations were made very well, but in the end, it was all in vain. One has been kidnapped, and the other has his own ideas and his subordinates are quite powerful and unwilling to be easily deceived.

But he never expected that he would lose something in the east but gain something in the west. He did not deceive the general, but got an adopted son.

It seems that this trip was not completely useless. Hosokawa Harumiya at least earned a very respectable identity for Yamauchi Taro.

In China, adopted son can be directly understood as like a son, and generally refers to the son of a brother of the same clan. But in Japan, the meaning is different and there is a considerable difference.

Everyone should know the most famous adopted son relationship. Konoe Maehisa adopted Toyotomi Hideyoshi as an adopted son, so that Hideyoshi could serve as the regent.

The Konoe family can definitely be the regent, just like Ichijo, Nijo, and Kujo.

And adopting an adopted son does not require the adopted son to change his surname, does not establish a patriarchal blood relationship, and does not have a substantive father-son relationship.

He is more like a confirmation of political inheritance rights. If I adopt you as an adopted son, it means that you have the right to inherit my political status.

This relationship was generally recognized and accepted by the society at that time. Once you become someone else's adopted son, you can inherit someone else's political status, and you must also maintain the wealth of this family accordingly.

Therefore, as the samurai gradually seized power and the courtiers lost power and income, Konoe Maehisa could at least live a leisurely life at the end of his life. His daughter gave birth to Emperor Go-Mizunoo, which was extremely glorious.

Once Kakuei returned to secular life, he would definitely seek support from various forces to go to Kyoto and Beijing. If he, a monk, finally succeeded in becoming the famous Shogun of the shogunate, then Yamauchi Taro, his adopted son, would directly obtain the right to succeed the shogun.

Although Kakuei is now only the Ichijoinmon of Kofuku-ji, he himself is full of doubts about whether he can become the shogun. Now his adopted son does not have much weight, at most it is just a small matter to enhance the relationship.

But Koyata knew that Kakuei would eventually ascend the throne of the Muromachi shogunate, although he would give birth to two sons in the future. But as the "eldest son", the adopted son Yamauchi Taro has a higher right of succession than the two of them.

To put it bluntly, maybe in the future, Oda Nobunaga exiled Kakuei and destroyed the rule of the Kyoto Muromachi shogunate. Then the Yamanouchi family could directly support Yamanouchi Taro to ascend the throne and declare that he would inherit Kakuei's title and serve as the Shogun.

Although others also had doubts about whether Kakuei could successfully ascend to the throne in the future, no matter what, Yamanouchi Taro became the adopted son of Ashikaga, which meant that he had the right to inherit the shogun.

Although the identity of a shogun's heir is not necessarily precious, the nobility of this identity is beyond doubt. It can be publicized in a big way so that people know about it.

As he said this, Hosokawa Harumiya took out a letter from his arms. The judgment clearly stated that Ichijoin Kakuei adopted Yamanouchi Taromaru as his adopted son, and the seals and seals were all available.

"Let me see." Yamanouchi Shukei took the letter that Hosokawa Harumiya unfolded, and his hand holding the paper trembled slightly.

Isshiki Miyauchi also stretched his head over. The two or three short crosses on the letter, each of which was worth a fortune, were regarded as unparalleled treasures in the eyes of everyone in the Yamauchi family, especially Heita.

"Monk Jueqing is indeed quite wise. Although he did not come to the mountain in person to endorse His Highness Tailang, he used this method to enhance His Highness Tailang's status. He is very careful."

Isshiki Miyauchi lamented that the Yamauchi family also had good deeds and good results, and they had been loyal to the public for generations, letting the Ashikaga family know that the Yamauchi family was indeed a powerful daimyo who had a heart for the shogunate.

This made Monk Jueqing take the lead in making a bet to win over the Yamauchi family before the situation was fully transparent. Only those with vision can afford this kind of venture capital.

"Monk Kakuchichi is not only that, he also has two letters to be submitted to the leader of Kasugayama and Hatakeyama Kingo (Noto is the guardian of the Hatakeyama clan), so he spared no effort."

Naturally, everyone would not and would not dare to open the letters to these two people, but the contents must be similar. It was nothing more than monk Jueqing's appointment to an official position, making a wish, and soliciting support.

"Looking at it this way, Monk Jueqing's cards are quite good. The position in Luozhong is really unpredictable!"