Chapter 13 second quarter

Yoritomo appointed Yoshitsune as the acting official of Kyoto and stationed in Kyoto, but he did not allow the main army under the command of Fan Lai to stay in Kyoto, and asked them to return to Kamakura immediately.Fan Lai returned to Kamakura triumphantly in early March. Yoritomo even came out to greet them. "Long-term battle, everyone has worked hard." He greeted the generals one by one.There are probably very few men in the world who are as sensitive as Lai Chao, right?Yoritomo is not the absolute person in power now, he is just the "leader" of the Kanto Samurai Alliance, and only by connecting with the hearts of these people can Yoritomo's status as the overlord be guaranteed.

(Yoshitsune or Fan Lai will not understand this hard work.) He often thinks so. For example, when Fan Lai was fighting in Owari, as a general, he actually competed with his subordinates for the lead, which proved that he did not understand this point.Lai Chao was very angry after receiving the report. "Don't you know what a samurai is? Be careful!" He sent messengers to reprimand Fan Lai. The samurai left their hometowns and gathered under the command of Kamakura in order to gain fame.When credit is established, there will be rewards, and because they look forward to this reward, they will work hard.If the credit is taken away by Fan Lai, they will lose the meaning of going to the battlefield.If you don't even understand this bit of human feelings, you can't be a general.

Raichao scolded him like this. Fan Lai was frightened by this, and sent envoys to Kamakura several times to apologize. (Fan Lai is a coward!) Raitomo thought it was ridiculous, but at the same time he was very satisfied that his reprimand had such great effect.The opponent's trembling with fear made Raitomo taste his own authority for the first time. —Poor man! He thought this way because after Fan Lai returned to Kamakura, he didn't look happy, and said to the military supervisor: "Is Wu Wei (Yai Chao) still angry?" Fan Lai regards the mistakes made in Owari as more credit than Ichinoya's contribution, and he is still afraid, just like a child who is afraid of his strict father.

"The matter of Owari has been canceled because of the credit for this battle. Don't take it to heart." Lai Chao said to Fan Lai at the celebration banquet.Only then did the tense skin on Fan Lai's face relax, and then he said: "I am so happy!" He finally had the courage to face Lai Chao's big face. In the next few days, Yoritomo and his subordinates were busy investigating the military exploits of the soldiers. "Don't make a mistake, check it out, and the review must be fair." Lai Chao carefully guided the investigation committee, asking them to correctly investigate every detail of the combat activities.If the reward is not fair, people's hearts will be far away, and Kamakura Prefecture will disappear like fog.

The lighter ones are investigated by the waiter, while the heavier ones are examined by Raitomo himself. Everyone took the trouble to say: "My credit is unrivaled." Then he said that his military exploits as small as a needle were as thick as a stick. Of course, Fan Lai is no exception. The two military inspectors (chiefs of staff) Kajihara Kagetoki and Doi Shihei are also the same. If they have to recall other people's military exploits, they will wholeheartedly describe their own first. Among these people, no one said this: "Jiulang Yucao's contribution is very great."

The Bando samurai of this era do not have this kind of leisure and self-cultivation. They scramble to attack on the battlefield, find the enemy, scramble to fight, scramble to grab merit, and even brag about their achievements. It is also a bit scary to scramble.They didn't have time to state Yoshitsune, an outsider's combat exploits. "What is Yoshitsune doing at this time?" Yoritomo asked back from time to time, but everyone could only answer vaguely, because they couldn't remember Yoshitsune's military achievements. —Did he behead anyone?I haven't heard of it!

Everyone answered in the negative. The Bando people couldn't understand Yoshitsune's military exploits.Their so-called wars are all "individual" fights between enemies, and these individual fights are collectively called "battles". But Yijing is different.He has a completely different concept of battle, and regards the enemy and us as opposing organizations.From the perspective of later generations, this is not surprising at all, and it is a common concept that is taken for granted. However, in Yoshitsune's era, only he had such a concept.Yoshitsune was the first to use this concept to view battles.Since his concept is like this, he will work hard on tactics, use tactics to use his own army, and disintegrate the enemy.

However, can the abstract thinking of "tactics" be evaluated as credit?Credit must still be measured by "the first to arrive", "the first to beheaded"... and other things that can be seen.That being the case, the following perceptions have become common knowledge: ——Kurang Yucao has no military exploits. From the perspective of later generations, this is ridiculous common sense. However, at least one person in Kamakura found this out. (This great victory was all due to Yoshitsune. Compared with his great achievements, the achievements of other soldiers are like children playing with sand.)

This person is Lai Chao. (That alone is scary.) He began to feel a shuddering fear in his body.If he were to direct the crowd to attack Ichinoya, he would definitely not be able to win so easily, and maybe he would be defeated miserably.Raitomo felt this.However, he did not mention Yoshitsune's military exploits at all.
(it's wired!) The person who vaguely felt the atmosphere of Kamakura was Yoshitsune's subordinate, Musashuba Benkei.Benkei came to Kamakura at this time. On the surface, he was escorting the three lieutenant generals Shigehei, the Heike's subjugated generals, but his secret task was to meet Yoritomo and report Yoshitsune's activities in Ichinoya in detail.

"Properly convey it to brother!" Yoshitsune looked forward to Benkei's eloquence.If you don't send Benkei, just let him go, I'm afraid Yoshitsune's evaluation in Kamakura will become zero! After staying for several days, Benkei became more and more surprised. (It's not easy!) He thought so because Yoshitsune's name was hardly heard in Kamakura, and he only heard some sayings that "the people with the most military exploits in the Ichinoya Great Victory are Kajihara, Doi, Hatakeyama and others." However, there are many bad things about Yoshitsune.The person who spread these words everywhere was Keitoki Kajihara, former military inspector of Yoshitsune.Jing Shi said to Lai Chao in front of everyone in Kamakura:

"Although he is your younger brother, I really can't bear his childishness, arrogance, and self-righteousness." Kajihara said that Yoshitsune thought he was Yoshitomo's younger brother and was very proud. He put on a face like a master to everyone, spoke in a tough tone, and didn't discuss with others at all, so all the soldiers hated Yoshitsune. ——Who wants to follow such a crazy man! That's why everyone joined Fan Lai's subordinates.After hearing these words, Yoritomo nodded in agreement with what Kajihara said. He understands Yoshitsune's character better than anyone else, so he can imagine what Kajiwara said as if he witnessed it with his own eyes. "Let me tell you by the way, the owner of Kamakura is me, Raizo, and there is no one else. You don't have to pay attention to what Kuro said." Whenever everyone talked about Yoshitsune, Yoritomo especially reminded this point. —what's the matter? Hearing these rumors, Benkei felt that he must immediately visit Yoritomo and explain to him clearly. He immediately asked the people around Yoritomo to see him, but he got an unexpected answer. "Are you crazy?" Yoritomo believes that Benkei does not have the right to meet him, because he used to be a monk soldier in the West Pagoda of Mount Eizan, but he was just a personal entourage of Yoshitsune, not a retainer of Kamakura. "Sending this kind of servant as an envoy and wanting to enter my hall to pay homage means that he despises me. Is this a manifestation of Yoshitsune's arrogance? If you have something to do, go to the waiter!" The servant is the military affairs department of Kamakura, and Wada Yoshimori is the chief. Benkei came to the waiter and asked to meet Wada Yoshimori. "What? His Highness Jiulang's servant wants to see me?" Yoshinori made an expression of disbelief, then shook his head violently. "Tell him I'm missing. Bastard! Is Your Highness Kuro fooling me?" Wada Yoshimori is actually a very easy-going person, but he has the common problem of Bando samurai: his self-esteem is so strong that it is almost pathological.There must be no harm to his special identity, otherwise he will be so angry that he will not hesitate to swing his knife at each other. Yisheng has his reasons.Yoshitsune, like him, is a retainer of His Highness Kamakura, and the two should be at the same level.If Yoshitsune came by himself, of course he would meet him, but what is it that Yoshitsune's entourage came to see him? "However, it would be too pitiful to drive him back, so send someone (officer) to meet him outside!" Yisheng said. His voice was so loud that Benkei who was waiting outside heard it all. "No need to!" Benkei stood up angrily. "Are you treating me like a beggar?" He originally wanted to yell like this, but he immediately controlled himself and desperately adjusted his breathing.If you shout and shout, you don't know what trouble it will bring to the master Yoshitsune. "I only see that the words sent by others are of no use to us, no need." He said a quiet salute, and tiptoed out the door, secretly thinking that Kamakura is just someone else's world to Yoshitsune and his subordinates.