.One hundred and seventy-seven, moved the capital to Kamakura, and the two dynasties confronted each other

One hundred and seventy-seven, the capital was moved to Kamakura, and the two dynasties confronted each other

In 1993, at the end of October of the third year of Toshiko, Oedo Haehachi Town was destroyed by flames and explosions for more than 20 days, Kamakura Castle, an ancient port on Sagami Bay, ushered in a large team of brightly dressed and gorgeously ceremonial guards.

Accompanied by the fluttering colorful flags and the sound of the sky-scattered drums, the team got off the boat and landed on the shore with the roaring waves. Then, along the spacious Wakamura Avenue, heading north, walking through the entire Kamakura market with solemn and tidy steps, and finally slowly walked towards the most famous Tsuruoka Hachimangu, the place.

At the front of the team is a guard of honor holding various flags, and behind them are teams of singing and dancing witches and dancers, who occasionally sell petals and copper coins to the onlookers on both sides of the street, or stuff them with a smile to children's candy and pastries.

In the middle of the team, dozens of followers and guards in bright clothes and horses were tightly surrounded by a luxurious sedan decorated with bright yellow silk and pearls. Inside was an old man wearing a dark purple silk hunting suit and a tall and wide belt.

——This old man with loose muscles and pale hair is the emperor who ruled the entire Japanese island (of course only in name), the great emperor (professed to himself), the descendant of Amaterasu Daijiji, who possessed three magical artifacts of sword, mirror, and jade (god knows whether it is a fake), inherited the noble blood of his ancestors of all generations (his lineage failed to compete for the throne, and had lived in a small grocery store in Edo-cho for three hundred years. No matter how noble it was, it has now depreciated greatly). His Majesty Kumazawa, the "Last Southern Dynasty" who inherited the noble bloodline of his ancestors (his lineage failed to compete for the throne, and had lived in a small grocery store in Edo-cho for three hundred years. No matter how noble it was, it has now depreciated greatly).

Of course, everyone present knew in their hearts that even though His Majesty Kumazawa, who had been doing business in grocery stores all his life, was carried out to provide a title for his own camp, it was still just a gorgeous decoration, roughly equivalent to the fancy mochi (also known as "mirror cake") placed at the door during the New Year, the eggplant horse placed on the stove on the Zhongyuan Festival (note), the dolls and dolls placed in the living room on the Daughter Festival... Anyway, it seems to be quite good to put on, but it basically has no practical purpose.

As for the real protagonists of this ceremony, they were sitting in a carriage behind the team.

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"...This Wakakumiya Avenue runs through the entire Kamakura from south to north, connecting the beach at Yukihamabha on one end, and the other is Tsuruka Hachimangu, located halfway up the mountain, known as Kamakura Suzakura Avenue. The various towns in Kamakura city also extend from both sides of the central axis of the city. During its most prosperous period, the city once crossed the outside of this valley, forming an affiliated market town with thousands or even tens of thousands of people... But now they are all defeated, and the remaining citizens are even dissatisfied with this valley..."

Accompanied by the crisp sound of horse hooves knocking on the bluestone road, Mitsui Ryuki wore a gorgeous Kyoto-chan tung-patterned kimono, pointing at the scenery outside the car window, while diligently introducing the scenery here to Major General Feli Taylor who had just arrived here.

This is the new capital Mitsui Ryuhime chose Kamakura after the destruction of Oedo and Yokohama Concessions.

This ancient port city was once the pioneering place of the country's first shogunate and a famous religious destination in Kanto. It is full of hundreds of shrines and temples. The whole city is located in a valley that leads directly to the sea, surrounded by mountains on three sides and sea on one side. It is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is not a desperate situation, but a retreat, and it is very suitable for a military stronghold during the war. Moreover, the distance between this city and Edo and Yokohama is less than a hundred miles away. There are asphalt roads on land and sea routes for transportation. It is not too difficult to relocate large personnel and materials.

Since it was once a metropolis in ancient times, although Kamakura was now very depressed and basically shrank into an ordinary town, the original large-scale structure was still there, and the large-scale ports were basically maintained, and the water supply, drainage system and city roads were basically preserved. With a little cleaning and repair, the functions of the political center can be easily re-exerted.

The Xiangrui can also be parked on the beach at the southern end of the city to continue repairs, and by the way, it can provide near-shore fire defense for Kamakura.

More importantly, here is the last intact large palace building in the East region - Tsuruoka Hachiman Temple.

However, the new owner of this luxurious palace is about to be obtained and the provider of the new regime's title against the Kyoto court, but it still seems that it is not very satisfied with the place.

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"...I asked my father to reopen the Southern Dynasties in Kamakura Castle, the capital of samurai, and use Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace as the imperial residence... This idea is really weird."

In the slightly bumpy and trembling carriage, Emperor Kumazawa's only daughter and the only heir to the throne, Prince Keiko Nai, were kneeling on the sofa opposite Mitsui Ryuki, pouting and complaining.

——Tzuoka Hachiman Palace is the place where all the guardian gods of Kanto warriors are located and also where the ancestors of the Genji Wumen were worshipped. Their greatest achievements were not to defeat the Kansai Hei family, but to turn the Emperor and the court into puppets.

"... The place in Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace is a holy place for the samurai in the world. It means that the national regime is no longer controlled by the emperor and the ministers, but has been transferred to the samurai. It is a bit too strange to let my father, the emperor of the South Korea ascend the throne and restore the throne in that place and announce it to the world. This is a bit too strange. This strange feeling... Well... it's like..."

Having said that, she suddenly had some clues, so she hummed and didn't know how to continue to express it. So Miss Ryuki Mitsui took it with her "kindness" and teased the little guy.

"…Well…it is like a great devil who ascends the throne in heaven surrounded by a group of angels?"

"...Hey, what's your name? Is my dad so evil and terrifying? At least it should be the other way around, right?"

Prince Huizi, who was criticized by evil genius, was slightly surprised at first, and then became annoyed like a furry kitten. But before she could even speak up, she was suppressed by Mitsui Ryuki using a great principle.

"...Hmph, you said it yourself. As long as you provide a palace for your father and daughter, and then allocate a 100,000 stone territory, you can ask you to do anything at that time? Well, 'Everyone can do whatever you want about the great righteousness and name. I will give you whatever official you want, I will issue any imperial edict, and I will add any imperial edicts to you. All edicts will be drafted by you, and I will stamp them and check them.

If you think it is useful, the three magical artifacts of the Mirror Seal Sword symbolizing the inheritance of our imperial tradition can be used to show off. Even if you want to drag my father to personally encourage morale, it will definitely not be a problem.

Even if you want to take the big mistake of the world, you want to be the first female general in our country from ancient times to the present, it will not be a problem. At that time, my father will give you a knife and preside over the ceremony. I will burn incense and pray to you to dance the God-Rewarding Dance, and pray to Amaterasu's God-Rewarding Dance'...

What? Less than a month later, His Highness Nei wanted to repent again?"

Mitsui Ryuki yawned slightly and said to the stunned Prince Ekono, Prince Ekiko, who said, "... The palace I gave you is right in front. Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace is a luxury palace famous in Kanto, and it will be owned by your Later Southern Dynasty lineage from then on. As for the royal territory of 100,000 stones, we will also measure and distribute it near Kamakura as soon as possible, and it will definitely not be missing one foot or one inch - what else is there to be inconsatisfied with your father and daughter?"

"...But, after all, it's Tsuruoka Hachimangu..."

Although I knew that I was in the wrong and knew that I could not ask too much, the slightest bit of entanglement and awkward feeling in my heart still made Prince Huizinai of Mengdeng unable to help but continue to protest weakly.

"…Oh…Oh…Oh my god, you really don't hurt your back when you stand up and speak."

Mitsui Ryuhime was also a little annoyed, "...Do you think I want to find such a graceful and grand shrine? Is it so easy? The territory of the old shogunate is now this small piece of the Kanto Plain. Although Kanto is still prosperous at the moment, it was remote and backward for a long time in ancient times, and the scenic spots are far less numerous than those in the Gyeonggi. Even if you search through the entire Kanto country, besides this great god palace in Kamakura, there is no more decent palace? So, please don't pick on your choice, your prince."

Speaking of this, she turned slightly and patted His Highness Prince Ekono on the shoulder to show comfort, "...The so-called dynasty must have a new atmosphere. In ancient times, there was the Kamakura Shogunate in Kanto and the Yoshinoyama Nanchou in Kinki. It seemed awkward at that time, but after a long time, it became natural. If that were the case, why can't a Kamakura Nanchou be opened now?"

"... But the problem is that there seems to be a small mistake in this. When the imperial throne was divided, our ancestors fled to Yoshinoyama to establish the Southern Dynasties, and they fought with Kyoto for nearly a hundred years - mainly because Yoshinoyama is located in the south of Kyoto.

But now, based on the latitude on the Western map, it seems that Kamakura is in the north and Kyoto is in the south. Wouldn't that mean we became the Northern Dynasties, and Kyoto is the Southern Dynasties..." Speaking of this, Prince Ekonai of Mengdai couldn't help but raise her hair with a divine sense of raising her hair for a while, slightly raising her small breast that was so flat that it was difficult for people to commit crimes, and sighed to the sky, "...If you want to write some proclamations, you may have chaos and ambiguity..."

But in the eyes of Feili and Mitsui Ryuki, small matters like this in word games are simply not decent issues.

"...Ha~~This is very simple. It's just said that the opposite side is a pseudo-dynasty of Kyoto, or simply directly express it as the East and West dynasties..."

Mitsui Ryuki yawned again boredly, and then said leisurely, "...If it is the East and West Dynasties, then we are the East Army, and there is the West Army... Well, it is better to express this way, both concise and more obvious, and can also get a good reputation - since ancient times, whenever Kanto and Kansai fight for hegemony, the Kanto Warriors finally won the victory of Shangluo..."

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After making this resolution on the name of the new court, the long Wakamura Avenue almost came to an end.

From here, looking to the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace on the mountain, the towering ancient trees are densely shady, and the long stone steps are endless.

Since the road ahead was no longer flat and the carriage could not be allowed to pass. Except for His Majesty Kumazawa, who was still sitting on the yellow silk chariot and being carried up the mountain by the servants, the rest of the people got out of the car and walked through several tall vermilion tori (the "open"-shaped buildings in front of the shrine have barriers that can prevent ghosts from invading. The more prosperous the shrine, the more toris there will be), and then climbed up the stone steps and walked on the mountain path for a long time before they arrived at the solemn temple of Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace.

As a sacred place for Kanto Bujia, which has a long history and a strong incense, the Hachiman Palace is quite large in scale. In addition to the conventional layout of the shrine, there are also gardens, dance halls, book pavilions, weapons exhibition rooms, atriums and ginkgo forests, which are covered with green trees and ancient monuments, which look solemn and quiet... However, the jingling and construction sounds of buildings in the temple from time to time, as well as wood chips and paints flying in the wind, as well as groups of priests carrying large bags and small bags on their shoulders and with extremely gray faces, which makes people feel a little annoying.

——Because the Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace is about to be requisitioned as the imperial residence of the New Dynasty, the priests and witches who originally lived here naturally had to move out to make room for the noble members of the royal family. According to the policy given by Ryuki Mitsui, due to the extremely empty palace (only one emperor and one inner prince), and the severe lack of manpower, the witches can stay all, accept the positions of female officials at all levels in the new court, continue to serve the royal family here, and perform their witches in their free time (there are only two masters who have to serve them, so they are definitely not too busy to go).

But male priests... In order to prevent the new dynasty from causing any scandal of foul court when they were first established, they still do not have to stay anymore. They must pack their luggage and leave before the throne ceremony, otherwise they will be punished seriously...

Such a brutal violent demolition that does not even pay a penny of compensation will naturally make the priests facing displacement furious, but they cannot do it. If it were just the guy Ryuki Mitsui who acted recklessly, they would have prayed to the Kanto Warrior God worshipped in the shrine, and then with his magic and the blessing of the gods, he used force to resist this unreasonable and free demolition.

But the problem is that the one who is about to move into this place is the descendant of the earth of the Emperor, that is, the descendant of Amaterasu Daji... Amaterasu Daji is the master of the gods of the Takaotianyuan, and the other gods are the followers of this sun goddess, so the Emperor family is the master of all the people serving the gods of the Takaotianyuan on earth. According to the customs of this era, how could the master want to stay in the servant's house for a few days, but the servant refuses to obey and drives the master out with swords, guns and sticks? Do you still want your position and job?

Well, although they are not the popular Emperor Renxiao clan in Kyoto, but are just the dilapidated houses of the Later Southern Dynasty who were curled up in grocery stores, they were also recognized and endorsed by the gods of Takahara. If they insisted on leaving and even fought against members of the royal family, their final outcome would be to be fury and killed by the gods of Amaterasu, who have always protected them. Even the Kanto samurai worshipped in the shrine could only draw a clear line with them, and even punish them with their own hands - who told you that you are so unfaithful to the duty of your servants?

Therefore, they had to pack up their parcels and leave in shame. The construction and decoration team of the Osaka Trang Group entered at the same time and began to renovate many buildings in Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace. They planned to transform this palace community originally designed for gods to be suitable for the living emperors and nobles as soon as possible. Although the emperor is the "god of the world", he cannot use the standards of the true god to ask his Majesty to sit in the cold shrine all day long without eating, drinking, sleeping, or even satisfying.

Before the renovation work was initially completed, at least before the main hall as the ceremony venue was decorated, Emperor Kumazawa's reign cannot be held for the time being. Therefore, this Majesty had to find a clean house with Prince Keiko Nei of Moetakui to live in and wait patiently...

However, they would not be very leisurely during this period. Due to the lack of people familiar with the court etiquette, Emperor Kumazawa had to rack his brains to plan and arrange his own reincarnation ceremony and to specific each step. Prince Keiko Nai also had to dance a complete set of complex god dances at the celebration. In order to ensure the joy of the god Amaterasu, she had to hurry up and practice diligently.

Feiri and Mitsui Ryuki also arranged rooms at Tsuruoka Hachiman Palace, but neither of them moved in. Because these two busy people had many tasks to complete - Mitsui Ryuki must work with Minister Zena to direct the relocation matters, and transport all the personnel and materials scattered in Edo, Yokohama and other places into Kamakura Castle as soon as possible, and repair new houses in the city, unblocking canals and wells to accommodate thousands of new residents.

Feili's mission is more practical and urgent - to speed up training of new recruits and prepare for war

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Chapter completed!