Friends who have a certain understanding of the history of Japan's Warring States should know that the "civil and military dispute" is an internal problem that occurs in many of Japan's larger Warring States daimyos, and the typical example is the "civil and military dispute" of the Toyotomi family. What is little known is that Japan's "civil and military disputes" have a long history, and the Muromachi shogunate was also divided into the "Wenchen faction" and the "military shogun faction" in the early years. What's going on here? This ghost talks about the words of a family.
In the third year of Kenmu (1336), the Ashikaga clan invaded Kyoto and established a separate emperor, establishing the Muromachi shogunate, and Emperor Daigo fled to Yoshino, and Japan entered the period of the Northern and Southern Dynasties in which two emperors stood side by side. From the time he raised his own army to the time he invaded Kyoto and established the Muromachi shogunate, it took less than two years for the Ashikaga clan to stand on its own. Of the three major shogunate regimes in Japan, the Muromachi shogunate was the fastest to establish and the smoothest to establish.
However, the Ashikaga clan made many compromises in the process of establishing the Muromachi shogunate, among which there were three compromises that had a greater impact: first, in order to counter the appeal of the emperor of the Southern Dynasty, the Muromachi shogunate gave preferential treatment to the Northern Dynasty and restricted the samurai from seizing the territory of the Northern Imperial Court; second, to hand over all the central affairs of the shogunate to his younger brother Ashikaga Naoyoshi; Third, preferential treatment for local samurai groups.
As a result of these three compromises, the Muromachi shogunate who fought against the Southern Dynasties were not rewarded for their exploits, as many of the benefits were used by the Shogunate to favor the Northern court and local powers. Because he did not control the supreme military power, Ashikaga Naoyoshi, who was in charge of handling the affairs of the central shogunate, basically did not participate in the war against the southern dynasty, and he naturally supported preferential treatment of the imperial court and some local forces.
As a result, the shogunate led by Ashikaga Naoyoshi and his local supporters suppressed the samurai who had made military achievements in order to maintain the preferential treatment of the Muromachi shogunate to the imperial court and their own rights. Ashikaga Naoyoshi's move naturally aroused strong dissatisfaction among the military generals, hoping to meet their own interests by overthrowing Ashikaga Naoyoshi, and the most dissatisfied person was the shogunate's first general and shogunate deacon (leader) Gao Shizhi.
Because of this, the Muromachi shogunate was divided into the "Bunchen faction" headed by Ashikaga Naoyoshi and the "military shogun faction" headed by Takashi Naoshi, and the Muromachi shogunate's seigneur Ashikaga Sonji could not really resolve the contradictions between the two factions, and could only engage in a muddy political balance. As a result, the conflict between the "Bunsho faction" and the "military shogun faction" intensified, and eventually led to the "Kano Rebellion" that prevented the Ashikaga clan from unifying Japan.