Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 149 What if Yuchai Husong is a fool?
Hideka's mobilization was relatively quick. He received news from Mino on April 4, and the mobilization was completed by the end of April, leading the army out of Okayama.

The entire military banner is unfurled, and even ordinary people who don't know how to do it know that it is an elite army.

Unlike ordinary daimyos who only know to look at the output of the fields and mountains, thanks to Yu Xiujia's insistence that Yu Xiduo took the initiative to intervene in the business, the foreign trade in the past two years has earned a lot of income.

The profits Hideka earned from these trades were all invested in equipment renovation. Osafune happened to be the largest military production base in Japan, and Hideka took advantage of its local advantages to obtain a large number of cheap and high-quality weapons and equipment.

It is also because of this that after 4 years of development, except for the reserve team composed of two Sanuki nobles, the other 8 reserve teams have achieved a 100% armor rate.

Although many of the ashigaru used by the Lang Party a hundred years ago are complete, wearing simple iron hats, but these are provided by the public for free after all. Although the equipment is a bit outdated, it is better than going into battle naked.

For the sake of beauty, Xiujia painted all the furniture with black lacquer. It's not that Xiujia didn't want to paint the blue lacquer that represents Yuxi's family. This thing is expensive.

The main producing area of ​​lacquer is Awa, which is now in the hands of the enemy Nagamune. Although the historical Hachisuka domain only produced 27 koku of land, its income from goods and goods is not even higher than a hundred Wanshi's name is poor, even because the territory is small and the pressure on the retainers is not great, he has always been a well-known rich vassal in the Tokugawa shogunate.

Since Hideyoshi used troops to build the city frequently in the past two years since the main road used to communicate with Japan, Sanyo Avenue has not been properly maintained. Kyoto met Hideyoshi's Kyoto honour, Yoshiharu Horio.

Horio Yoshiharu is now the lord of Tamba Takahama [-] stones, and because he is Hideyoshi's founding minister, he is very highly regarded by Hideyoshi. After Hideyoshi moved the political center to Osaka, he was appointed to manage Tamba on his behalf.

Since Masuda Nagamori accompanied Hideyoshi in this battle, Horio Yoshiharu was handed over to supervise and manage Kyoto.

Hideyoshi's private vigilance against Hideyoshi did not spread. As Hideyoshi's most valued adopted son and retainer, Hashiba Hideka was recruited by Hideyoshi to join the Owari army. As the manager on the only way, Horio Yoshiharu would definitely Do your best to provide convenience for Xiujia.

Before Hideya arrived in Kyoto, he ordered people to bring 3 barrels of sea fish from Sakai Port, and natto and miso from Otsu to prepare meals for the Bizen Hashiba family's army. Each person must have half a fish.

As the lowest combat unit in Japan, ordinary peasants and soldiers have never had such good battlefield meals in a lifetime of fighting. Everyone is very satisfied with Horio Yoshiharu's arrangement.

Perhaps because of the news that Xiujia likes to eat pork and beef, he specially bought a mountain whale (wild boar) from Yamana to cover Xiujia's food, which was very difficult to see in old Japan.

"It's really costly, Lord Horio." At the banquet, Hideo said very politely to Yoshiharu Horio.

"Where is this? Major General Hashiba has really worked hard all the way from Okayama. As the leader of Kyoto, it is my duty to ensure the food supply for His Highness."

Horio Yoshiharu has always been impeccable in everything he does, which is why he was able to become one of Hideyoshi's three elders later.

Hideya also hoped to have more exchanges with the political core in the future, so he ordered someone to give him a new-style Taidao cast by an Osafune craftsman with three casting methods. Horio Yoshiharu couldn't put it down when he saw this sword.

The Hide family saw that they had been drinking for three rounds, so they asked Yoshiharu Horio, "Now that my father is not in Kyoto, and it is rare for me to go to Luoyang from Okayama, I wonder if I can go to Sakamoto to meet my mother and Husong?"

Horio Yoshiharu just received the gift from the Hide family, and said to him with a smile, "My lord is not in Douro, it's not difficult to go to Sakamoto, but you need your wife's permission to enter."

"Can an adult pass it on for me?"

"There's nothing wrong with this."

So under the intermediary of Horio Yoshiharu, and with Ning Ning's consent, the Hide family met their mother and Husong whom they had not seen for many years in the side hall between the inner and outer halls of Sakamoto Castle on the second day.Ning Ning, who was the head of the family at this time, also accompanied them.

"My son Yuchai Hachiro Xiu's family, I have met my lord, my highness Husong, and my lord Xianfadian." As soon as Xiu's family entered the palace, they saluted the three venerables with full respect.

As Hideyoshi's adopted son, he must be the first to salute Ning Ning and call her Mother Mother. In fact, in history, after Hideyoshi took Chacha, he asked all his adopted sons to call Chacha "Mother Lord" and call her Ning Ning. Ning is "Big Mother", which is simple and rude.

The second person from the Xiu family to salute was his half-brother, the future heir of the Yuchai family - Hu Songlao, and it wasn't until the end that he called her by the name of the Xiu family's mother in Hideyoshi's inner palace.

The title of the Xiu family has no sense of human relations between mother and child at all. There is no way to do this. After all, he is Hideyoshi's adopted son in name, and he is named under Ning Ning's name, and Fu Zhifang is just a concubine. In terms of status, she is even lower than the Xiu family, and the Xiu family respectfully called her by the palace name, which is already exceeding the standard treatment.

"Get up quickly, and let mother take a good look at you." Ning Ning helped Xiujia up very lovingly, and looked at his face carefully. The 12-year-old Xiujia was already quite handsome, and after many years, he must be Fascinating girl's appearance.

It's just that the wind and sun in the past few years have made this immature face more capable. Ning Ning looked at Xiu's face and said distressedly, "It's really hard for you, such a young grade, I have to do it for you. Father will help." After saying that, he wiped the corners of his eyes, as if wiping away tears.

Ning Ning, who is the mother in name, is so full of roles, but Xian Fadian, who is the biological mother of the Xiu family, can only look at the Xiu family with loving eyes, but pretends to be indifferent, Japanese style The family ties are ridiculous.

Ning Ning chatted with the Xiu family, and then left with an excuse. After all, the Xianfa Temple is the biological mother of the Xiu family, and the Xiu family came this time to see this mother whom they had not seen for many years.

After Ning Ning left, the Xiu family couldn't hold back their tears any longer, and threw themselves into the arms of Xianfa Hall and wept, "Mother, I haven't seen mother for a long time."

Xian Fadian gently stroked the face of the Xiu family, and said kindly, "It's really hard work for you to support this family these few years."

"The child is not tired, the mother is walking on thin ice in Sakamoto, that is the hard work."

The conversation between mother and son has always been so plain and frank, this is the taste of home.

Even though this mother was just the cheap mother of the Xiu family, after so many years, there was already a little bond between the two of them.

When the Xiu family saw their mother, they seemed to be endlessly chatting, chatting with her about their two years of combat experience, and the mother always listened to him with a smile on her eyes.

When it was close to noon, the Xianfa Temple sent someone to pass on the meal. Since his mother had escaped into Buddhism, the food here would be much lighter. Husong, the heir of the Yushiba family, was fed by a special maid to eat whale meat and whale meat. Fish porridge made from fat.

In fact, the Xiu family has been paying attention to this younger brother. In fact, the Xiu family has heard a little bit about it before. The two-year-old child can't even speak. Now when he sees his real person, not only can't speak, but he can't stop laughing. No matter how you look at it, it gives people a feeling of abnormal intelligence.

Therefore, after lunch, the Xiu family tentatively asked their mother, "Your Highness Husong, this is it."

Talking about his youngest son who was born at the age of 36, Xianfadian suddenly became a little lonely, nodded and said, "You have heard it too, it is very difficult for a 2-year-old child to even say a word about his father. "

According to what the Xiu family heard, combined with the knowledge of later generations, it is generally judged to be a nervous system disorder caused by a gene mutation, or an intellectual defect caused by other reasons.

This kind of problem cannot be solved even in later generations, let alone in the past when medical treatment was underdeveloped.

Judging from the fact that he was born 4 weeks late, it is very likely that the cerebral hypoxic damage caused by staying in the mother's body for too long is an irreversible damage. Destined not to be a normal person.

The Xiu family asked worriedly, "Does Father know about this matter?"

"His Royal Highness still cares about Hu Song very much, and has been comforting him that it doesn't matter if he speaks late, but how could he not know about the gossip?" Speaking of this, Xian Fadian said in a slightly crying voice, as if he was worried about the child feel unfair.

"But no matter how you say it, this is His Highness's blood. Now His Highness only has such a child, and he is very fond of him."

When Xiujia heard this, she looked at her self-satisfied mother with a serious expression.

He is just that after the monkey married Chacha in history, Chacha gave birth to him two children Hesong and Shiwan (historical Hideyoshi) in succession. challenge.

Xiujia originally thought that there would be a younger brother born in 1582 who would inherit the family business, and that as the first relative, he would definitely receive preferential treatment.

In fact, Xiujiadao's plan so far has been to assist Husong, stabilize the court after Hideyoshi's death, and avoid the chance of Tokugawa Ieyasu's rise.

But seeing this poor child now, and thinking of Chacha who was favored by Hideyoshi later, the Hideka knew that this path was no longer feasible, and it was impossible to walk the path of Prime Minister Bizen safely.

As one of the few guys in Japanese history who started from a farmer and became a man of the world, Houzi cares more about his own face than anyone else. He will definitely not allow his heir to be a fool who is laughed at.

Now he has only one bloodline, and he can still bear it. After Hesong and Shiwan are born, this grown-up child will definitely become an eyesore, and there may even be an act of poisoning him to pave the way for Shiwan.

And as Husong's own brother, how could Hideyoshi, who was already feared by Hideyoshi, get any benefit?The worst result would be to change and unseal for unwarranted reasons, and die of an accident during the custody process.

Thinking of this, the Xiu family felt chills down the spine, and he was so passively involved in the struggle for the succession of the Toyotomi family, and became an unavoidable node in it, which was completely inconsistent with his plan.

Seeing his son lost in thought, Xianfa Palace didn't bother Xiu's family, but teased Hu Song, who was still smiling foolishly there.

After about a stick of incense, the Xiu family had already made a decision in their hearts, and after bowing down to their mother, they said in a tearful voice, "Please forgive me for being unfilial, there is something big going on, and I need to borrow something like my mother. "

The Xianfa Temple was a little surprised by the sudden action of the Xiu family, put down Husong and tried to help the Xiu family up, "What are you doing, you and I are one, mother and child, I will not refuse anything you want to borrow."

"My son wants to borrow Husong." Xiujia dared not get up, and continued.

Indeed, for Fu Zhifang who lives in the inner palace, cannot see her eldest son, and has to serve an old man reluctantly for his eldest son, it is indeed a bit inhumane to take Husong away from her at this moment.

"What do you want Husong to do?" Xianfadian asked in surprise, afraid that the Xiu family would do something outrageous, such as kidnapping Husong to rebel or something.

"Master, please hand over Husong to His Royal Highness Ning Ning to raise him." The Xiu family dragged out their plans and their mother.

For Hideyoshi, the stupid son born in the concubine's room may really kill him for the sake of a more beloved child, but for the son named Ning Ning, he really needs to weigh it before he acts. After all, Ning Ning Behind it are many powerful names of the Owari faction!

This was exactly Hideka's plan. Before that, he had always wanted to separate himself from the Owari faction and the Omi faction, so that both sides could please him, but the current situation forced him to stop losses in time and immediately choose to stand in line.

For Ning Ning, the important thing is to have a son. Regardless of whether the son is a fool or not, he has a very important political card. For the Xiu family, Husong and Shiwan naturally have irreconcilable conflicts. It is absolutely impossible to integrate into the Omi School.

After thinking about it, only Ningning and his own interests complement each other, which is why the Xiu family proposed to adopt Husong under Ningning's name.

Although what the Xiu family said was very reasonable and well-founded, the Xianfa Palace still didn't hold back, hugged Husong and refused to let go, cursing at the Xiu family, "You and your old father have the same virtue, and you can use everyone for your own benefit. Make chips."

"Back then your father threatened me with you and forced me to serve Hideyoshi with my body; now you want to use your younger brother as a bargaining chip to exchange with others for your own power. When did you ever consider my feelings!"

"I am a woman in deep court, and Husong is my only consolation. No matter he is good or bad, smart or stupid, I will try my best to protect him, but now you want me to hand him over. Do you have my mother in your heart!"

When Xiujia heard Xianfadian say this about him, he actually felt very uncomfortable. It was undeniable that he was indeed planning for the future of himself and Yuxi's family, but it was really a critical moment of survival.

In fact, Xiujia's heart is not only getting closer to himself, his suggestion is the best solution to keep Husong, Yuxiduo and himself.

If Xianfadian disagrees, even if he walks on thin ice, he may become a stumbling block on the road of Xiu Lai's succession.

So Xiujia hugged his mother and wept together, "Mother misunderstood Hachiro, mother misunderstood Hachiro, Hachiro did this to protect his brother!"

"Father is in his prime, and there will inevitably be no queens in the future. You have been serving him personally for so long, don't you understand his temper? In the end, Hu Song and I will become that stumbling block. There is no good work, Only under the protection of Ningning can Husong have a chance of survival!"

"Even if my father has nothing to do after that, and after Hu Song inherits the family governor, my mother is Hu Song's biological mother after all, and the honor and favor will definitely be with His Royal Highness Ning Ning."

The Xiu family had a lot of chats with the Xianfa Palace, and finally persuaded this strong mother to agree with Jian Husong to adopt Ning Ning's name. However, the routine still needs some planning. Under such circumstances, how could you be willing to have a stupid child?
So the Xiu family taught her mother to get a piece of colorful clothes that Ning Ning often wears, hang them on the shelf, and often point to that dress and say the word "Mom". Husong rewarded him with milk after successfully speaking, and over time he would think that the dress was "mother".

When I have a tea party with Ningning next time, I will take Husong there. If Husong sees Ningning's clothes and says the word "mother", he will definitely sweep away the previous gossip, and Ningning will also because he is the first one. Happy to be a mother.

Then, taking advantage of this time to come forward again, asking Ning Ning to teach Hu Song will become a cohesive process, and Hu Song will just follow Ning Ning's name and become the first son.His inheritance rights became stronger, and his and Husong's lives were preserved.

After hearing such a detailed plan from the Xiu family, Xianfa Palace finally agreed to his request, and promised to do its best so that he should not worry.

The Xiu family also promised their mother that they would become Husong's strong support outside, and would never let this younger brother suffer any grievances.

(End of this chapter)