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Mikawa Butterfly Chapter 184 Mount Hiei Burning Incident

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    The raging flames in the middle of the night could be seen clearly from Sakamoto Castle at the foot of the mountain. The entire Mount Hiei turned into a sea of ??red fire, like the terrifying Shizuka describing the sea of ????fire in Hell. The faint cry from the mountain woke up the sleeping townspeople, including  This mountain of flames can be seen from Otsu, Katada and even Kyoto in the distance.  People of all faiths were silently praying for the souls who died in vain on the mountain. Not long after, they saw the monks of Enryaku Temple who had narrowly escaped the fire and massacre running down the mountain. As soon as these monks arrived in the town, they  The monks who were quickly controlled and frightened could not tell what happened. They could not say anything except describing the sea of ????fire and killing. This disaster came too fast and too urgent, which was far beyond their expectations.  anticipation.  The Kira family had clearly learned the information before the Ichi-kui army swarmed up. As soon as the I-chi-kui army was on the ground, the Kira family's troops rushed to their base camp, confiscated all the money, food, supplies, weapons and equipment, and left behind.  The family members of the Ichikui family in the old nest and all the people involved in the case were all detained in different places. At the same time, Hoshino was ordered to order the people of Takashima to be alert to the intrusion of the Ichikui army in the direction of Takashima County.  The vicinity of Sakamoto Town was surrounded by Kira's military forces, and even the townspeople voluntarily joined in the defense of the castle town. At the beginning of the third watch, Mount Hiei lit up with a red light, and the soldiers and civilians of the Kira family stared nervously.  The movement on the mountain, as the fire became more and more intense, the shouts of killing became louder and louder. This time, even the business travelers temporarily staying in the port near Sakamoto Town were awakened, including some cultural people who came and went and gathered in the town to discuss what happened in a low voice.  What's up.  After more than an hour of shouting for death, the noise on the mountain was getting closer and closer. Unidentified people appeared one after another on the approach to the mountain from Hiyoshi Taisha Shrine and fled towards Sakamoto. Kira's army immediately captured these unidentified people.  After another half an hour, a team of several hundred people appeared.  They also saw Sakamoto Town, filled with torches, standing ready.  Without saying a word, this group of troops turned around and fled north. Kira's army did not pursue blindly, but still chose to wait in the town.  Until about four o'clock in the morning, a group of broken soldiers escaped from the valley. Some of them were holding flags with the words "We are tired of leaving the filthy land, happy to seek the pure land", "Namo Amitabha" or "Swastika". These broken soldiers seemed to want to march towards Sakamoto.  They moved closer to the city, but before they had gone far, the iron artillery team deployed in the castle town fired a volley to scare them back.  So this group of defeated soldiers also turned around and fled north.  As the defeated troops fled north, a long string of torches appeared at the mouth of the valley one after another. They saw Kira's army outside Sakamoto Castle pause for a moment, and immediately a monk ran over and shouted aggressively: "You see deserters.  Where are you retreating from?" Ji Liang's army seemed very calm about this, and pointed to the disappearing fire in the north and replied: "To the north! You can still see the torches! We still have time to catch many unidentified people!  , I¡¯ll give it to you too!¡± The monk waved his hand and trotted back to deliver the order. However, after a while, the monk soldiers from Mount Hiei chased towards the north. After a while, a pair of monk soldiers came to pick up the unknown person detained by the Kira family.  Kira's army also disbanded on the spot and went back to rest. Kira Yoshitoshi didn't even leave the castle tower at all.  He just rubbed his eyes and watched the fire on Mount Hiei for a while, then lay down and continued to sleep.  It was not until the afternoon of that day that news came one after another that Omi's troops set a fire at the Enryaku Temple on Mount Hiei in the north.  The number of people burned to death has not yet been calculated, but the death toll is expected to exceed 2,000. The First Army also left 800 corpses and fled towards the north Omi. The area burned by the east tower of Enryaku Temple exceeded nearly 100 towns, and the fire continued  The burning was basically put out until noon.  Of course, all this has little to do with Kira Yoshitoki. He just sent people to express condolences, sent medicine and food worth several hundred kilo, and then nothing more happened. The impact of this incident can be said to be huge, and this is regarded as  Tsukuru was an act of provocation against the Five Mountains of Kinki by the Ichiko clan. The burning of Enryaku Temple, the "Mother Mountain of Buddhism", was comparable to the killing of Ashikaga Yoshinori and immediately caused a major earthquake in the Kinki area.  The renunciation of Prince Yao Zunbo, the leader of the Tendai sect, was a great shame. Even the Ashikaga Yoshinori did not dare to burn down the Enryakuji Temple. This group of lawless Ichijun actually dared to risk the disapproval of the world. A group of monks of the Tendai sect  They couldn't sit still any longer. They glanced at the vacant seats in the main hall. The owners of these seats were chatting and laughing with them yesterday, but today they were buried in a sea of ??fire or be killed by the thugs of the Yixiang Sect. This made them want to hurt their own kind.  Feel.  As a result, the fastest decision in the history of the Tiantai Sect was drawn up in only a quarter of an hour. Prince Yao Zunfa issued a decree to attack the Yixiang Sect in the name of the Tiantai Sect Master. All the Yixiang Sect forces in the prefecture were within the attack range. Honganji Temple in Ishiyama Gobo  Zhengru was shot while lying down. This was also the second time that Ichigo Mun was accused of being an "enemy of Buddha" after his great-grandfather Honganji Rennyu.  Not only that, Prince Yao Zunfa also went out to the mountain in person, and brought a group of monk soldiers to carry the shrine with the authority of the mountain king to sue the shogunate, forcefully demanding that the shogunate send troops to destroy Ishiyama Hongan Temple.The entire Kinki area was shaken, and within a few days, the incident of Enryaku-ji Temple being burned down without any reason spread like wings throughout the world.  People from the Tiantai Sect in Kinai also swarmed up. They raised the banner of respecting the law and fighting against rebellion, and raised up the Tiantai Yikui Army. Tens of thousands of troops from Omi Kingdom instantly swarmed up, and nearly 10,000 Yikui natives from Yamashiro Kingdom joined in. The huge Yikui Army gathered in the blink of an eye, and almost  The monks at Honganji Temple were frightened to death. Prince Yao Zunbo's decree was spread throughout the area. Even Miyoshi Chokei and Hatakeyama Takamasa also received the decree. However, these two families were so happy that they had no time to deal with the matter.  Honganji Shogyo wrote a letter to defend himself. He invited his clan member Hino Totodanagon Seimitsu to make peace with him, but the effect didn't seem to be very good. Although the emperor had a good impression of Honganji Shoryo, there was an angry Enryaku.  Temple, as well as the Gozan Daiji Temple, which shares the same hatred, and even the sworn enemy Kofukuji Temple expressed support. Enryakuji Temple is also a world-famous mountain gate after all. Just burn it down. What will happen to these Kyoto Buddhist temples in the future?  All the temples in Kinai suddenly came to the side of Enryakuji Temple, and no one knew what to do at this time.  However, Honganji Temple is not a vegetarian. With the strong network of Honganji Temple, they immediately found out the ins and outs of it. Kaga Ichimumu went to Omi Kenta to do activities. There was so much weirdness in this that they had no time to deal with it, so they could only take advantage of the situation.  The responsibility was passed on to Kaga Ichikazu, who entered the territory without permission and burned the Daigaran, the mother mountain of Japanese Buddhism, which was a heinous crime.  So Honganji Temple immediately issued a general order to break down all the temples of the Kaga Ichiko Sect. At the same time, they also singled out Echizen, Koga, and Echichu Ichikui for repeatedly violating the orders of Honganji Temple and the "Three Ordinances" of Renyo Shonin, and ordered  Some temples in Echizen and Echichu were destroyed together, and the illegal military forces gathered in the above temples were immediately disbanded.  ??This time the nature of the incident changed. The aristocratic and cultural people in Kaga who had always been making trouble in Kyoto could not control it, but they went to Mount Hiei to kill people and set fires in a frenzy. Where is the majesty of the imperial court and the shogunate in the long run?  Anyone can burn it. Today they will burn Mount Hiei, tomorrow they will burn Mount Kuashan, and the day after tomorrow they will burn Kyoto. Where is the dignity of the major mountain gates in Kinki?  Only then did the Kyoto nobles who realized it later became angry and turned over the old record that Kaga had always killed the guardian Togashi clan and established itself as a country controlled by the people, making Kaga country a human Buddhist country independent of the shogunate.  And asked the court and shogunate to severely punish these gangsters.  In the past, who would have cared about what happened between the rich and the peasants of a distant country, whether it was the Ichiku riot in Kaga country or the Kuzuryu River battle fought by the Echizen Asakura family, it might not even be considered as a topic for conversation after dinner.  Where can I talk about the past and present, study singing, tea ceremony, or Chinese poetry, calligraphy and painting?  This time it is different. Whether they are followers of the Tendai Sect or not, everyone is very concerned about the burning of Mount Hiei. Moreover, more than half of the followers of the Tendai Sect in Kyoto come from the ministers and royal family of the imperial court. Once the incident happens to them, these nobles will feel that it is the fault of the Sect.  What they did was so dirty. They repeatedly used the power of the local people to launch attacks. They were a despicable and dirty sect.  In desperation, Ishiyama Honganji Temple has repeatedly stated that it was kept in the dark, but Honganji Temple still bears unshirkable responsibility, especially since their teachings actually encourage people to become a Buddha without reading Buddhist scriptures and chanting the name of the Buddha. This is simply a fallacy.  The fallacy of the emperor had been exiled by the imperial court before. This time the Enryakuji Temple burning incident became the trigger, and the wave of condemnation of Honganji Temple became stronger and stronger.  At this moment, Ichibashi also panicked and began to ask for help but with little success. Some of the officials who were not clear-headed shouted at the top of their lungs: "Why don't you use Ichiku!" Honganji Shojo was almost angered by this bully.  Damn, you are still initiating this shit at this time. If you do it again, it will solidify the reputation of the cult. In the future, let alone mobilizing believers, it will be good if the warriors do not drive them into the sea to feed the fish.  Honganji Shogyu's crisis public relations did indeed play a certain role. Some people in Kyoto sympathized with Ishiyama Honganji. Among them were many ministers who had contacts with Honganji Shogyu, and they also received many gifts from Honganji.  I feel that the character of this temple is quite good, and the Buddhist scriptures say that there is no tendency to be a cult at all. Of course, I cannot say this clearly, and I can only slowly turn the situation around by saying good things to them.  The aftermath of this huge "Hieizan Tribulation" has not dissipated for a period of time. The Ichikazu clan, who was shot for no reason, still received positive responses everywhere when he appealed. After more than half a month of crisis public relations, and the clan of the Otani family of Honganji Temple,  In the midst of Hino Harimitsu's intermediary, the imperial court decided that Ishiyama Honganji should be treated with some leniency, and that the Honganji family should be raised high and put down gently. The danger of the Honganji family being destroyed again was gradually eliminated.  For the sake of the court, Prince Yao Zunfa decided to spare Yi Xiangzong, but the master of Tiantai still did not intend to spare them lightly. Prince Yao Zunfa first demanded compensation from Yi Xiangzong, and then offered him a gift worth 300,000 Guan Yongle money.  Huge fine, and at the same time, the Honganji Temple's certificate is as good as one's ownHe burned the Ishiyama Honganji Temple Garan and immediately withdrew from Kinki. He announced in a high-profile manner that the Ichiko Sect was strictly prohibited from engaging in preaching activities in the Kinki, otherwise the Tendai Sect would be punished.  Honganji Zhengru was innocently shot and died, but what could he do? Beiling Enryakuji was too powerful and he didn't dare to offend him. Back then, Master Rennyu was accused of being an "enemy of the Buddha" by the Tendai Sect, and then he ran away.  He left Kinki to preach in the remote areas of Hokuriku. He did not want to make the same mistake as his great-grandfather and hide in Hokuriku.  (To be continued, please search Piaotian Literature, the novel is better and updated faster! PS: Fifth update! Please subscribe!
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