On May 9, 1147, the Famous Japanese General Genyoshi Dynasty welcomed his third son, Genrai Dynasty, who later became the first shogun to found the Kamakura shogunate.
The familiar Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu both idolized genrai dynasty.
When Toyotomi Hideyoshi finally took power, he said to the wooden statue of Genrai Dynasty, "You and I are fighting the world with our bare hands, but you are the noble prince of Genji, and I am a commoner, so I am better." ”
Tokugawa Ieyasu, who established the Tokugawa shogunate, was more direct, and would emphasize himself as Genieyasu (i.e., Genji Ieyasu), a courtier, who called himself the elder of Genji.
In his time, in order to strengthen their rule or emphasize their identity, many people called themselves descendants of Genji or changed their surnames to Genji, which was similar to the scene of many people calling themselves descendants of the Liu clan at the end of the Han Dynasty.
The shogunate system pioneered by the Genrai Dynasty replaced the power of the nobility, the samurai began to ascend to the court from the bottom of society, and the Genrai Dynasty also became the "samurai god".
Tokugawa Ieyasu (left) and Toyotomi Hideyoshi (right)
The shogunate system lasted for nearly 700 years, and the samurai almost became a symbol of Japanese culture, but the founder of the Genrai Dynasty is rarely heard of, so who is genrai Dynasty?
He is like a suspicious "lawn mower".
What is a lawn mower?
As the saying goes, cutting grass must be rooted, and the source lai dynasty is doing a very good job.
After the YuanLai Dynasty defeated the political enemy Pingshi, he slaughtered the entire Ping clan; he suspected that the meritorious shangzong often wanted to rebel, so he sent someone to murder him.
He and Yuan Yizhong were both relatives and formed an alliance against the Ping clan, thus forming a family of sons and daughters, Yuan Yizhong sent his son as a hostage, but the two broke up in order to compete for power, and Yuan Laichao immediately killed the "son-in-law" Yuan Yigao.
This incident made Genrai Dynasty's daughter Daji depressed and depressed, and she fell ill and died of illness in her teens, because she and Gen Yoshigao grew up together and had a very good relationship.
What makes the Japanese sigh the most is that Genrai Chao also killed his brother Gen Yoshikei.
Genyoshi is a well-known "god of war" in Japan, repeatedly attacking thousands of enemy troops with dozens of people, and finally he was killed by his brother Genrai Chao.
God of War Source Scripture
Another younger brother of Yuan Lai Dynasty, Yuan Fan Lai, was mediocre and honest, but was still suspected. Because Genrai Washi was attacked once, his wife Hojo Masako was very worried and wanted to go to see, but Gen-Fanrai persuaded her to say that the lord would be fine.
Yuan Laichao suspected that he had a different heart: he was not at the scene, how did he know that it was really okay? Stopping Masako from confirming that he did not follow this trip, was he related to the attack?
When he returned, he drove Gen Fan Lai to Izu under house arrest, and the younger brother later "committed suicide" in prison.
Therefore, the loyalty of the samurai was very important to the Genrai Dynasty, and for this reason, he established the imperial family system.
This is somewhat similar to the Western European chivalry system, which gave the samurai land and required absolute loyalty, service, and battle for generations of samurai.
Yuan Laichao's paranoia is related to his juvenile experience.
At that time, the Emperor of Japan was only symbolic, Genji and The Peace Clan were defeated in the struggle for power, his father Genyoshi Washi was killed by the rebellious courtiers, and the 12-year-old Genrai Dynasty was exiled to the Kanto because of the kindness of the hei clan's mother. In kanto, he offended the local chief, the Ito family, and escaped the disaster because someone had sent a message, and finally received the protection of the Hojo family.
All this taught genrai dynasty a lesson, and he started in the Kanto region and embarked on the road of rebelling against the Hei clan and taking over the whole country.
This experience in the Kanto also made him a ruler rooted in the countryside.
Genji holds the white flag and Heishi holds the red flag
Why did genrai dynasty not go to Kyoto, as the previous Hirashi did, but chose Kamakura, a remote southeast corner, as its base?
First, when the Hirai clan fought, Kamakura was close to the sea, which was very convenient for him to escape, and the forces he relied on were in the Kanto region, and it was convenient for him to contact and ask for help in Kamakura.
Second, the nobles of Kyoto were good at power, and the atmosphere was easy to corrode morale, far away from the imperial court, and could maintain the independence of the rule.
Genrai Dynasty had learned the power of the Nobles of Kyoto.
When the Genrai Dynasty fought with the Heisei clan, Emperor Go-Shirakawa (called Emperor Taishang after the abdication of the Emperor, and Emperor Hokage after his ordination) provoked everywhere in order to expand the power of the imperial family, and after Genji's victory, he deliberately befriended Genji and alienated the Genji clique.
Genrai chao hated him so much that he once called him "Japan's largest tengu". In Japanese mythology, the great tengu is a monster that likes to create disputes.
Third, he sent personnel to establish an administrative supervision system to control Japan.
After the liquidation of the Hei clan, a power vacuum was formed in Kyoto, and the Genrai Dynasty took the opportunity to send the land (that is, the subordinate officials who managed the manors and villages) and the guardians (military commanders who oversaw the local domains) to take control of Kyoto.
Later, when he hunted down Genyoshi, he planted a place in the whole country, and even in Kamakura, he actually controlled the whole country.
In this way, genrai sat in Kamakura, defeated the Hira clan and other opponents, unified Japan, and established a samurai rule parallel to the public (that is, the imperial court).
At that time, the situation map, Kamakura is located in the southeast corner
Although Japan formally maintained the dignity of the emperor, in fact power was completely concentrated in the hands of shoguns, which is called the shogunate system.
As a result, genrai became the spokesman of the "shogunate".
After the death of genrai dynasty, the descendants of the genrai dynasty were killed, and three generations of heirs were extinct, and the political power was controlled by the hojo clan of his wife, but still respected the Genji clan and found a genji relative to become a general.
After the Kamakura shogunate, there were Muromachi shogunates (also known as Ashikaga shogunates) and Edo shogunates (also known as Tokugawa shogunates), and successive shogunates were more or less under the banner of genji.
For example, the Ashikaga clan that founded the Muromachi shogunate is also a branch of genji and has always dreamed of restoring the glory of its ancestors, but this ancestor is not his own direct ancestor, but refers to the Genrai dynasty.
It was not until the vigorous rebellion in modern times, when power returned to the hands of Emperor Meiji, that the shogunate system ended.
Both the shogunate and the samurai were pushed onto the stage of history by genrai dynasty, and he also became one of the totems and symbols of Japan, and countless people hoped to unify Japan like him.
Genrai Dynasty on stamps: Because Japanese names are passed down from father to father, it is common to see sons with the same characters as their fathers
Historical Evaluation:
"Yuan Lai Dynasty was a great politician, but there was no popularity; Yuan Yijing was a boring figure, but he was very popular."
- Sima Liaotaro
To get all the power outside of heaven, only Yuan Lai Chao and I did it.
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi