Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 172 The Last Reward of the Oda Family

On July 12th, the 7th year of Tianzheng, the team that returned to the court to fight against the rebels finally came to the vicinity of Guanyin Temple Mountain on the shore of Lake Biwa in the Omi River.

Due to the impact of the change of Honnoji Temple, Azuchi Castle was burned down by fire. After that, Master Oda Sanshi has been living in Hachiman Mountain Castle, 3km west of Guanyin Mountain Castle.

As one of the elders of the Oda family, Hashiba Hideyoshi was ordered to attack Oda Nobuo and Tokugawa Ieyasu at the beginning of the year. Now that he has returned victorious, he will naturally be welcomed by the three masters of Oda.

The three masters born in 1580 are still just a child now, and the matter of welcoming Hideyoshi is naturally in charge of Niwa Naghide, the old writer of the Oda family.

Niwa Chohide looked at Hashiba Hideyoshi who brought an army of tens of thousands to Hachiman Castle, and was deeply worried about the future of the Oda family.

In his eyes, Hideyoshi's behavior is more like a show of power against the Oda family.

"Ahhhhhhh~ Migoro Zuo, why bother you to come and meet him in person." After Hideyoshi stopped under Hachimanyama Castle with his army, he saw Niwa Nagahide, who was at the front of the welcoming queue, and hurriedly got off his horse and went to meet him. courtesy.

"How is your body recently? Has the abdominal pain eased?" As the chief general who was ordered by the Oda family, the first sentence of the old Niwa Nagahide who saw the writer was from the etiquette point of view. Niwa Changhide, who greeted Hideyoshi on behalf of the three masters, initially reported the results of the war.

But Hideyoshi not only skipped the process of saluting to the three mages under the castle, but also asked Niwa Changhide's health in the first sentence like an old friend.

I don't know if this is Hideyoshi's genuine concern for Niwa Nagahide, or whether he deliberately overstepped the rules of etiquette while testing Niwa Nagahide's bottom line.

As the person concerned, Niwa Changhide should, as the elder of the Oda family's writing family, scold Hideyoshi for his rudeness at this moment. Demise will not be so early.

But at this time, Hideyoshi was much stronger than in the original history. He not only defeated Oda Nobuo, but also suppressed Tokugawa Ieyasu, two daimyos with a total stone of over 200 million shi. From the situation of the Oda family, There is no longer any force that can effectively contain him.

Even though Niwa Chohide wanted to save the Lord's family, more importantly, he had to consider the continuation of his family.

Therefore, Niwa Chohide, who is the head of the Niwa family's writing family, also ignored the problem of Hideyoshi's etiquette, and replied with a smile, "Thank you for your concern. That's it."

The subject used by Niwa Chohide here is not "In the future, the Oda family will depend on Gonchu Nagon", which is enough to reflect Nagahide's attitude towards Hideyoshi.

After hearing Nagahide's meaning, Hideyoshi said with great satisfaction, "Even if I find a famous doctor in the world, I, Hideyoshi, will definitely heal Migoro Zuo's body. The Hashiba family needs your help in the future."

Here Hideyoshi once again used "the future of the Hashiba family" instead of "the future of the Oda family" to test Niwa Nagahide. Niwa Nagahide said very kindly, "Thank you for your concern."

The conversation between the two was naturally heard by the people around them. Those who understood the mystery already understood that the decline of the Oda family was a foregone conclusion, but no one thought that the Oda family would be like this. The future is defined in two sentences.

Hideyoshi stayed in Hachiman Mountain Castle for more than ten days. On the one hand, he communicated with the imperial court in Kyoto through Hideshiba Hideyoshi, and on the other hand, he took advantage of the opportunity of the gathering of daimyo in the Oda family at this time to win each other over and test each other. paving.

In the evaluation room of Hachiman Mountain City, Hideyoshi formally led the officials to salute the three mages who were carried by the nanny on the imperial steps, and said, "My minister, Shiba Hideyoshi, was ordered to crusade against the rebellious minister Oda Nobuo, and now he has returned victorious. Please let me know."

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who surrendered, also participated in this assessment. He sat in the third place under Hashiba Hideyoshi. The old Niwa Nagahide, who wrote the book, was the No. 1 retainer in name despite not having many stones. , while Hideya is still above the fourth person in the Oda family.

It's just that at such an important evaluation meeting, Narumasa Sasas, who was one of the six important ministers of the Oda family, was absent from the meeting, which aroused a lot of discussion.

Of course, the four-year-old three mages could not give any instructions, but instead sat on the edge of the imperial steps, his grandmother Noonghime said, "Quanzhong Nayan, please be flat, when the Oda family is in trouble, there is always Xiaoxiao who takes the opportunity to rebel, If it weren't for the help of Quanzhong Nayan and other important officials, the Oda family's family business would be burned."

"The lady is absurd, these are the things that the ministers should do." Hashiba Hideyoshi said without humility, "Excuse me, my lord, when will the surrender and reward ceremony begin?"

"Let's begin." As Master Nohime Daisan announced the start of the ceremony, Niwa Chohide officially took over the position of host.

"Oda Attendant and Tokugawa Councilor, please come forward." As the first surrender part of the ceremony, Niwa Chohide first called the two of them to come forward.

Although they were the defeated party, both of them were princes under the tent of the Oda Army before, and most of them had some friendship. Niwa Changhide's tone was not as serious as when he surrendered to other foreign daimyos, and was softer in comparison.

"The criminal minister Oda Nobuo (Tokugawa Ieyasu) misunderstood the slander and set off a rebellion, which caused the land of the thick tail to fall into the flames of war. The minister deserves death. Please punish me, my lord."

The surrender agreement between the two had been finalized a long time ago, and now it was just a cutscene. This cutscene was mainly to completely define the identity of the two "rebels".

"Sanjie is also the heir of His Majesty Youfu, and now the Oda family needs the support of a family like you, why are you so ignorant of the importance, and do such things that harm the interests of the Oda family?" Nobuo scolded.

"Yes, my lord mother is right to scold me. My son and minister mistakenly believed in the slander, causing swords and soldiers to fight each other in the family, and the people were displaced. This minister is guilty again. Please punish me, my lord mother."

"Oda's attendant Nobuo, a member of the Oda family, former leader of Owari Qingzhou 90 koku, plotting treason is unforgivable, sentenced to change and seize the title, remember his old achievements, and he is the heir of Lord Youfu , changed the sentence to Ise Kiriyama Castle 15 koku, and ordered to live in seclusion for self-reflection." Niwa Nagahide saw the completion of the mother-child relationship process between the two, and announced the punishment of Oda Nobuo in due course.

Both parties have already known this penalty condition, and Oda Nobuo understands that the current result is already the best result, so he chooses to accept "thank you, Lord Ende."

Originally, the punishment of Nobuo Oda ended here. Although the territory was greatly reduced, he was not deprived of any writings and official titles. Nobuo Oda still has a huge influence in the Oda family.

Who knows that Noonghime said at this time, "Wushan City is poor and remote, and it was originally the residence of the Beibata family. Now that Sanjie is not the head of the Beibata family, should he choose another place as his residence?"

The reason why Hideyoshi chose Kiriyama Castle is precisely because it is located in the deep mountains, which is convenient for him to monitor Oda Nobuo, and it is very clear on the departure that he wants him to live in seclusion and reflect. Who knows that Nohime said that Kiriyama Castle is not good, so he wants to choose A place with convenient transportation is the residence of Oda Nobuo.

As the wife of Oda Nobunaga, Nohime has never been involved in the affairs of the Oda family, but her political prestige is extraordinary. Hashiba Hideyoshi must consider her opinions.

But there is no map in hand right now, so it is really difficult to temporarily find a place to house Oda Nobuo and at the same time be able to monitor him.

When Hideyoshi was in an embarrassing stalemate, Hideo said from the side, "Oda attendant was ordered to attack Iga, why not give the Iga Ueno Castle to His Highness the attendant, and make up 15 shi from Ise, which is adjacent to Iga. Omi Hachiman Mountain City is just right for Oda attendants to get closer to the uncles and nephews of the three mages."

Everyone present didn't know that Hashiba Hideyoshi planned to change the title of Oda Sanshi, and even Nohime was very satisfied with this arrangement. When Oda Nobuo heard that there was such a good thing, he immediately shouted God's grace.

For Hideyoshi, Iga is located in the deep mountains, surrounded by his own generation of daimyo. After the Oda Sanshi was transferred to Mino, Iga became Nobuo's prison, so he agreed.

After Oda Nobuo, Tokugawa Ieyasu was disposed of, and the content of the disposal was as written in the agreement, but some presumptuous clauses were not written. Tokugawa Ieyasu was nominally surrendering to the Oda family at this moment.

After the two surrendered, it was the turn of the much-anticipated awarding of heroes.

Of course, before the reward, Hideyoshi, as the general, had to make a characterization of this battle and make a judgment on everyone's contribution.

Let’s not mention the false official words of Dakong above, Hideyoshi actually declared openly in the hall that “certain daimyos did not obey orders, which resulted in the death of teachers and humiliation of the country, and the situation almost fell into a situation of doom.”

Although there is no specific name, everyone knows that it is Ikeda Hengxing who is talking about. Since the resettlement reward after the war has not been announced, the Ikeda family still ranks behind the Hide family with a territory of 60 koku, plus his status as the elder of the Oda family. fifth place.

Hideka turned her head to look at him, and saw Ikeda Teruma lying beside him with his head on the ground, and couldn't see his expression at the moment, but from his clenched hands, Hideka could clearly see his unwillingness.

And after Hideyoshi finished speaking, Niwa Changhide took over the hosting right again, and announced to the list of rewards that had been notified before.

The first place is naturally Hideyoshi as the general. After the war, he regained the reward of 35 koku from Owari country and 30 koku from Ise country; at the same time, he returned the territory of Omi 30 koku.At present, in name, he owns Harima, Settsu, Tamba, Tajima, Yamashiro, Izumi, Hanoi, Yamato, Omi Kohoku, Owari, Ise and other countries with a total stone height of 278.7 million stone. Huge territory.

The second place is Tokugawa Ieyasu. The Oda family established his status as suzerain, and gave him a total of 104 million koku in Toe, Suruga, Shinano, and Kai, and he was directly promoted to Pu Write on behalf of the public.

The third place is of course our Xiu family, although Xiu Zhang had talked with us before and said that he would temporarily hold down the rewards and wait until the respective crusades are over before rewarding them.

But later, after Hideyoshi submitted the certificate of reward, Niwa Nagahide and Nohime rejected it. They insisted on adding their names on the grounds that Hidecho and Hideka had made great contributions and did not reward them, so how could others be rewarded.

The purpose of this may be to win over the two of them to clamp down on Hideyoshi, so in the last testimonial, it was specifically reiterated that the two of them accepted the reward as servants of the Oda family.

Therefore, the two generals of the partial army also officially appeared on the list of rewards. Xiujia was awarded 8 shi from Zhang Zhiduo County and 75 shi from Aichi, with a total value of [-] shi.

Hidecho was awarded 4 koku from the 12 counties of Echizennan, and the table height reached 68 koku.

（羽柴秀长去年进行了检地，其拥有的加贺北部两郡由15.4万石→23.2万石，越前北部5郡由26.5万石→32.8万石）。

This was originally the territory of Niwa Chohide, so it seems that Niwa Chohide will also be transferred.

Sure enough, Niwa Chohide was given the 36 koku territory of Omi Ehoku Nagahama Castle, and his old Wakasa territory was further rewarded to Yamauchi Kazutoyo and others.

Kazutoyo Yamauchi, who was awarded only 300 koku due to a foot injury in the Battle of Mt.

Hidemasa Hori, who was originally from Omi Nagahama, was relocated to Mino Kinzan Castle for 12 koku, and most of the Omi people including Maeda Genichi were also transferred to Mino. This may be Hideyoshi’s preparation for the subsequent transfer of the Oda family.

No one thought that under Niwa Nagahide, Tsutsui Junkei, who had no sense of existence before, was transferred from 14.5 koku of Yamato-gunyama Castle to 18.8 koku of Mikawa Okazaki Castle.

After coming out of Inuyama, Hideka wrote to Junqing Tsutsui, telling him of his promise with Hideyoshi.

Although Hideyoshi's bottom line for the Hide family is 20 shi, but you can't really give the Tsutsui family a reward for pressing the line. This will not only make Hideyoshi hate the Tsutsui family, but also expose the relationship between Hideo and the Tsutsui family. As a result of the failure of this transfer, the reward promised by the Xiu family was only 17.5 shi.

After receiving the letter from the Hide family, Tsutsui Junqing dragged his sick body to visit Hideyoshi in Hachiman Mountain Castle in person. Firstly, he saw the attitude of the Tsutsui family, and Hideyoshi was indeed ashamed of the Tsutsui family. Under the condition of 1.3 stones and the Tsutsui family, they were granted the five prefectures of Sanhebihai, Higashigamo, Eda, Nishishile, and Baofan.

And Nakagawa Kiyohide owns the territory of Higashi Shitura, Hachina, Atsumi, Toe's Hamana, and Fuchi West totaling 12 koku.

The Mori family quickly moved closer to Hideyoshi after the death of Mori Nagako, and Mori Tadamasa even had Hideyoshi serve as the black hat pro in Gifu City. After the war, he was given a total of 14.3 Wanshi's territory is the result of acknowledging Moricho's attack on the surrounding daimyo's territory after the Honnoji incident.

In this battle, the Ikeda family was the most affected. Because they defeated Oda Nobuo and Tokugawa Ieyasu in the end, the Ikeda family only mentioned him at the beginning, and did not put him on the list of reform and punishment. Among them, it can be regarded as dealing with him in terms of status.

However, in the actual award, it was still changed from 60 koku in Gifu to 13 koku in Isetsu Castle, which was considered a big reduction, which caused a commotion among the people. Such a large reduction was rare even in the Nobunaga era. some.

(Nobunaga directly confiscated all the territories of Sakuma and the Hayashi family, and the elders were exiled directly.)
Hideyoshi seemed to have anticipated the reaction of the crowd, and immediately proposed to the three mages (Nonghime) that Ikeda Hengxing be named as a member of the three counselors in recognition of his achievements, and they both agreed.

And because of the closeness of the Mori family and the reward of the Hide family, Narumi's 8 koku that was originally scheduled to be given to Sakuma Shengzheng eventually became 1.5 koku around the Kagahara collar, and the rewards of other daimyos did not exceed [-] koku. We don't care about the rewards.

Nominally speaking, the new territories obtained after this battle should all be directly under the jurisdiction of the Oda family. Hideyoshi's move is to use these territories to reward meritorious ministers in a false public favor.

Most of the people were very happy to receive the award, and thanked the three masters of Oda in unison, not even aware of the fact that the Oda family's heavenly domain had been divided to less than 10 shi.

Perhaps at this moment, in the eyes of many who don't know the truth, the Oda family has ushered in a sign of revival, and its territory has basically returned to the size before the change of the Honnoji Temple.

After the award was over, Hideyoshi said in place of Oda Sanshi, "Everyone has been rewarded, but the rebellion has not yet been suppressed. The Changzonggabu of Shikoku and Kii's Xiaoxiao are still arrogant. Although the rewards have been issued after the war, they have been transferred. The matter has been postponed."

"The whole army gathered at Izumigishi Wada Castle and Yamato Toshi Castle, with Hidecho Hashiba as the general, gathered 6 troops from Kinki countries to fight against the Kii rebels.

After Major General Hashiba returned to Okayama, he commanded Tamba, Hoki, Inaba, Tajima, Tango, and Awaji Daimyo to assemble an army of 5 to attack the Shikoku Chosoga. Transfer to a new collar. "

"Yes, I would like to follow the orders of the Three Masters Hall and Quan Zhong Nayan."

"Excuse me, Quanzhong Nayan, do you still want to send an envoy to Yuezhong to announce the results of the Oda family's assessment?" Just when everyone thought the assessment was over, a discordant voice suddenly appeared from under the table, and everyone looked for their reputation. , it turned out to be Maeda Genichi himself.

(End of this chapter)