Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 176
Hashiba Hideji's banquet has completely deviated from the original track here. As the host, Hashiba Hideji fell in love with the famous sword presented by Hideka, and he even forgot the purpose of holding the banquet.

After drinking for three rounds, everyone bid farewell and left one after another. The Xiu family finally finished dealing with these adults, and sat on a sedan chair exhaustedly to return to their mansion in Kyoto.

The next day, Hideka's plan for the establishment of the West Country Army was finally released, and he went to meet Hashiba Hideyoshi with the plan in hand.

At this time, Hideyoshi and Hidecho brothers were listening to Ishida Mitsunari's report on the construction progress of Osaka Castle.

It has to be said that manpower is really a peculiar kind of labor force. Some projects that have been tasked with a huge amount of work even in later generations can always be easily solved by the working people in history.

When Hideyoshi Hideyoshi came out in March, the castle tower of Osaka Castle Honmaru had just completed the foundation stone work, and the Honmaru stone wall had not yet been piled up. After half a year of construction, the Osaka Honmaru had been basically completed.

The castle tower of Osaka Castle is also being constructed step by step relying on the masonry pillars. The current progress has reached the fifth floor. Hideyoshi is quite satisfied with the current progress, but still requires Ishida Mitsunari to complete the project before the end of the year.

After Ishida Mitsunari finished his report, it was finally Xiujia's turn to report to the two of them. Xiujia saluted the two very politely and presented the tactical plan he had prepared.

Hideyoshi took the paper with a plan and handed it to Hashiba Hideaga who was next to him, and then he took a sip of tea and asked Hideyoshi nonchalantly, "Did you go to Sun Qi's banquet yesterday?"

Hideya raised his head when he heard Hideyoshi's question, looked at the two people seated above and replied, "Yes."

"Is there anything unusual at the banquet?" Hideyoshi's question seemed calm, but Hideyoshi was extremely nervous.

Hideyoshi expected a long time ago that someone must have told Hideyoshi what happened at Xiuji's banquet. Hideyoshi seemed to be asking Hideyoshi at this moment, but in fact he already knew what happened.

"My son doesn't quite understand what abnormality Father is referring to?" The Xiu family said with some doubts, "Brother Sun Qi was promoted to attendant, so he set up a banquet for everyone, and everyone enjoyed the banquet."

"Really? That's good." Hideyoshi nodded, as if he wanted to end the question. At this time, Hideyoshi had finished reading the plan of Hideyoshi's family and handed the plan to Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi took the paper, but didn't read the content directly, but closed the plan, and said to Hideyoshi, "I'm tired of being a father, please tell me."

"Yes" Fortunately, the Xiu family had written many proposals in later generations, so he was already familiar with this kind of situation, so he sat upright and began to explain his plans.

"My son's four-nation army has a total strength of 5 people. My son is going to divide his troops into two groups to attack Changzong's family. The core Zhang is to stick to the key points and attack the enemy's weakness."

"Let's talk about the First Route Army first, with a total strength of 1 people. The general will be Asano Nagamasa, and his subordinates will be organized as follows:

The first group of Tango Congregation Hosokawa Chuxing Hall 3200 people;
In the second formation, there were 4000 Hoki members, including 1800 from Takayama Ukami, 850 from Nanjo Motosuke, and 1350 from Yamada Nobushige;
The third Inaba group consisted of 3050 people, including 1500 from Miyabe Jijun, 800 from Tanaka Yoshiji, and 750 from Kinoshita Shigeken;
The formation of the third team includes 1300 people from Nagamasa Asano's team and 1000 people from Tamba, including Shigeji Onogi, Shigehisa Tsuda, and Mitsusada Kimura.

The fourth team has 2610 Tajima, 1000 Yamana Toyokuni, 660 Honda Riku, and 950 Koide Hidemasa.

The First Route Army is also the vanguard of the Shikoku Legion. After landing in Sanuki Kannonji Town, Izushiguchi entered winter and Iyo attacked Kawanoe Castle, Budden Castle, and Che Castle, and then went south to attack Awa Country White Castle.

Shirochi Castle is located in the Shikoku, and it is a battleground for military strategists. After attacking Shirochi Castle, the first army continued to attack Oda Castle in the south to threaten Tosa, and then left the Inaba people to stay behind the two castles and attack Awa.

At the same time, I will let Sanuki's Juhe Depository Commander Sanuki 4000 people go out of Toramaru Castle to attack Awa from the east, and use the reputation of the Miyoshi family to arouse the response of the people of the Awa country to evaluate Awa as quickly as possible.

Its organization is as follows: 800 people from Shihe Depository, 1050 people from Samkawa Iemitsu, 1250 people from Xiangxi Jiaqing, 700 people from Kagawa Jingzhi, and 200 people from Shennai Jiaqing. "

Hideyoshi nodded in satisfaction after listening to Hideo's talk about the situation of the first route, "The idea of ​​this route is very good, I will take a picture of Awaji Kingdom Immortal Ishi Hidehisa for you, and ask him to lead 3000 people to support Juhe Depository. I have a question, why did you appoint Yahei as the general, he has never led any soldiers before."

The Yahei that Hideyoshi mentioned was Asano Nagamasa. It was indeed as Hideyoshi said. His previous work was mainly to assist Hideyoshi in managing internal affairs. The general general does have a hint of spoiling the growth of the seedlings.

The Xiu family had already prepared for this question, so they explained calmly, "This army is mainly responsible for the side army. Now the elites of Tosa and Awa are brought to Iyo to confront the Mori family by the head of the Nagamune family. Apoburn is an almost undefended territory.

In addition, Master Shihe Dianbao is also on the east road as support. I believe that with the prestige of Master Shihe Dianbao in Abo, there must be many wealthy families who have passed on the message. Abo's strategy is not very difficult.

Among them, Mr. Miyabe Jijun and Mr. Kimura Joji assisted, Mr. Asano Nagamasa should be able to capture Awa with his hands.

In addition, I ask my father for permission that Shihe Depository inherits the family of Miyoshi Awa, and clearly changes it back to the family name of Miyoshi Miao, and orders Miyoshi Yasunaga and Miyoshi Zhengkang from Hanoi, and Miyoshi Zhengsheng from Settsu to be attached to Shihe With the help and strength of the depository, revitalize the Sanhao family. "

Hideyoshi listened to the Hideka's plan, pondered for a moment, added a few items to the plan, and then said, "Yes, and I will hand over 2500 people from the Awaji Kingdom Immortal Ishi Hidehisa to Shihe Depository. By then, his troops will have more than 8000 people." There are no less than 2 people, and the two sides will join forces to attack Awa with [-] troops, what do you think Hidecho?"

Hideka actually felt that Awa's troops were too large in this way, and even felt like killing chickens with a sledgehammer, but since Hideyoshi was willing, Hideka had nothing to say.

But Hashiba Hidecho, who was sitting on the side, agreed with Hideyoshi's suggestion, he said: "My brother is very thoughtful, if the army is stronger, Awa can make a decision quickly, and then I will have enough energy to help Hachiro and Nagamune's clan to fight. "

"Well~ that's what I thought, so it's decided, Hachiro will go all the way."

The two generals of the Xiu family had already finalized the plan, so they stopped entangled and continued to say, "The second route is for me to be the general, with a total force of 3, and the staffing is as follows:

The first team consisted of 6000 people from Bichu and Bizen from the main family, 3000 from the vanguard general Ukita Kane and his subordinates, 1500 from Tomohiko Nishio, and 1500 from Ryosuke Takahashi;

The second team consists of 3500 people from the main family Misaku, including 800 people from Oka Toshikatsu; 350 people from Yoshioka Dingkatsu, 300 people from Harada Sadasa, 450 people from Takeuchi Kuji, 300 people from Motosaki, and Shinmenzong. There are 680 people from Guan, 420 from Miura Zhensheng, 200 from Emi Xiufang, and 200 from other wealthy families. "

Xiujia said that he paused here, looked at Hideyoshi's expression, and found that he was concentrating on reading Xiujia's military strategy plan, and when he heard Xiujia stopped, he said without raising his head, "Why do you stop?" Alright, keep talking."

Hideyo wanted to explain that the reason why Misaku only mobilized 15 people despite having 3500 koku was because most of the manpower was taken to Osaka to participate in the construction of the city, but thinking about using this reason to explain it might make Hideyoshi feel unhappy.

Hideyoshi has not discovered this problem now, so Hideyoshi continued to say

"The third team consists of 4600 people from Tanba, with Horio Yoshiharu as the general, including 350 people from Taga Hideshige, 500 people from Araki Utsuna, 850 people from Shinjo Nairoi, 750 people from Ogawa Yuchu, 1350 people from Ikoma Kisho, and 500 people from Tsuda Shigehisa. People, Horio Yoshiharu 1500 people, Kushita Shigeharu 300 people."

"The fourth formation is the main formation, with 7500 people under my command, plus 1200 subordinates including Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Wakizaka Yasuji and others, for a total of 8700 horses.

The fifth formation also consisted of 4200 people from the same country, with Togawa Hidean as the general, leading 900 Togawa Hidean, 850 Osafune Sadakins, 500 Mingshi Jingqin, 1000 Hanabang Zhengcheng, 320 Zhuang Zhiqing, and Mu Guo Guoxin has 280 people, and Mu Changliang has 350 people.

In the sixth formation, there were 3000 members of the main family, with Suga Masatoshi, Fujido Takatora and others as generals, and the total number of the whole army was 34000.

I will lead this powerful army to land in Sanuki in Takamatsu, and then attack Higashi Iyo and join His Highness Kobayakawa who supported the Kono family in Tangyao Castle, and together we will repel the Nagamune family.

As for the plan after Changzong's family retreats, we need to plan according to the situation at that time. In short, our road is the main force to crusade against Changzong's family, the above. "

After Hideka finished speaking, he looked at the two of them specifically, and Hideka saw Hashiba Hidecho looking at him with a smile on his face, obviously satisfied with his arrangement, while Hideyoshi was still writing and drawing on the paper.

Hideaga first said, "My brother and I are 10,000 assured that you are marching and fighting. Now that you are in command of more than 3 people, you must be more careful. Don't repeat the mistakes of Oda's servants back then."

The Oda servant that Hidecho is talking about at this moment is not Oda Nobuo, but Oda Nobutaka who led more than 3 people to attack Shikoku, and was driven back to Kishiwada Castle with 1 people.

Xiujia used to serve as a partial army under his tent at that time, and missed Sanuki's strategy mission. It can be said that if he hadn't been so stupid, Sanuki would not have fallen into Xiujia's hands now, and Xiujia should thank him well .

Having said that, Hashiba Hideyoshi finally raised his head, and said with a smile, "I agree with you very much. The reason why I entrust you with the most difficult task of the four countries is because I believe in your ability. You will never let me Disappointed."

When Xiujia heard the Hideyoshi brothers praised him, he immediately saluted and said, "Writing the praise of my father and Uncle Hidejo, I will definitely do my best to evaluate Shikoku."

Facing Xiu's family, Xiuchang looked more and more satisfied, and liked it more and more, and nodded slowly.

Just when Xiuchang and Xiujia thought the report was over, Hideyoshi suddenly said, "2 people."

"Huh?" Hideyoshi and Hideonaga felt overwhelmed by Hideyoshi's sudden report of this number, and they all turned their heads to look at Hideyoshi.

Unexpectedly, Hideyoshi said slowly with a smile on his face, "I didn't expect that the neighboring country under Hachiro's rule would be so rich, and even if there were civilians in Osaka to build Osaka Castle, an army of 2 people could be mobilized. Hachiro, you are really good!" It's amazing."

When Xiujia heard Hideyoshi's words, he didn't realize that he was praising himself, but a feeling of coldness jumped into his heart, and he didn't know how to reply to Hideyoshi for a while.

Although Hideyoshi had a smile on his face when he spoke, but in the ears of the Xiu family, there was always some discomfort. Even Hideyoshi's face drooped, his expression was a little serious, and the atmosphere in the hall was a little serious and embarrassing for a while. .

In the end, Hidetoshi broke the embarrassment and said with a smile, "Is my brother implying that I will rule Echizen and Kaga will be disadvantageous? With a territory of nearly 70 koku, you can only mobilize 2 troops to share your worries?"

"After listening to Hachiro's report on the formation of the Four Kingdoms Legion, now look at my Northern Army Corps, which was replaced by the daimyos of Wakasa, Kita Omi, Mino, and Noto, and only managed to get 4 people. My brother is just partial."

Hideyoshi heard his younger brother complain, and he joked to his younger brother, "Isn't 4 people enough to fight 1 people? Don't forget that you have 3000 reinforcements from the Uesugi family, who are nearly four times the strength of the troops. Kurosuke, isn't that enough?"

Then he continued to talk to Xiu's family, "Bringing so many troops to the four countries, logistics is the most important thing. Have you figured out who will be in charge?"

"Yes, I'm going to let Kamei Fuzuki and Akashi Quandeng be in charge of the logistics and transshipment matters. They are excellent in internal affairs and manage the family in an orderly manner, which is enough to serve as the military commander."

Hearing Hideyoshi's report, Hideyoshi asked in surprise, "Are you talking about Shinjuro? I remember that I gave him to you back then! Oh, oh, this deal is a loss!"

"Yes, I have to thank my father for this matter." Xiujia looked at the face of Hideyoshi's street vendor, and for a while didn't know what to say, so he could only give a brief reply. It was you who didn't appreciate him and gave him to Balang, and now he has done a good job under Balang's command and regretted it?"

It's just that these funny words can only be said between the two brothers, while the Xiu family explained from the side, "Isn't the retainer of the son's minister the same as the retainer of the father?"

"It makes sense." Hidecho affirmed Hideka's answer, and Hideyoshi stopped being entangled.

"Although you have two masters in internal affairs to manage the logistics, you haven't managed the logistics of so many military forces before. Why don't I lend you Sakichi. He just managed the logistics for me in Nobi. The experience will definitely help you.”

Hideyoshi's words used interrogative sentences, but what Hideyoshi heard was definite statements. Ishida Mitsunari is now in the name of a military officer, and more likely to be a military supervisor, responsible for reporting what he sees and hears. Record it and report it to Hideyoshi.

But this proposal was a request that the Xiu family could not refuse, and the Xiu family could only say with a smile on their faces: "Thank you, Father, for letting go."

"Cutting love?" Hideyoshi heard Hideo say these two words, and said to Hideo, "I just lent him to you temporarily, I didn't say I would hand him over to you as a sender, I won't make the same mistake as Shinjuro again." Incorrect."

After finishing speaking, he and Hashiba Hidecho looked at each other and smiled, while Hideka could only smile apologetically.

When the two big brothers settled down, Xiujia asked Hideyoshi solemnly, "May I ask how to deal with the daimyo of the four kingdoms?"

This is also the issue that the Hide family is most concerned about. Fortunately for the Xiaohao family, the problem is that the Kono family and the Nagamune family are the Hide family who dare not be self-reliant, so they specifically asked Hideyoshi for instructions before going out.

Unexpectedly, Hideyoshi said impatiently, "You are the general of the Four Kingdoms Legion, and you have the full power to decide the affairs of the Four Kingdoms. Just report to me afterward."

This is what the Xiu family is afraid of. I have been taught by the leaders countless times in my previous life. Before doing something, I clearly said that you are fully responsible for it. After doing it, if there is something that is not satisfactory, I will seize it and scold me, "Why don't you ask me for instructions?"

It's just that if you do well, the credit goes to the leader, and if you don't do well, the mistakes are left to you. How can you grasp the degree in Hideyoshi's heart?you will never know.

Fortunately, the Xiu family also has a good uncle, Hidecho, who has a very accurate grasp of Hideyoshi's mentality, so he can find time to visit him later and ask him about Hideyoshi's attitude.

"I will convey the letter of cooperation to the relevant daimyo and ask them to join you in Okayama before the end of August, and then I will hand over all the naval forces to your commander to help you transfer the army and supplies. It is no problem to enter Shikoku in mid-September Bar?"

"I promise to live up to my trust." At this point in the topic, it was officially announced that Hideyoshi's report was over. Just when Hideyoshi was about to resign from Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi suddenly stopped Hideyoshi and said.

"I am very satisfied with your conversation in Sun Qi's mansion yesterday. I will also give you full authority over the matter of rewards after the war of the Four Kingdoms. You can arrange the rewards with confidence and boldness."

Hearing Hideyoshi's words, Hideyoshi's forehead dripped with sweat again. Sure enough, as Hideyoshi said before, Hideyoshi arranged a spy at Hashiba Hideji's banquet, and reported everything to Hideyoshi about the banquet.

This can also explain why Hideyoshi incorporated Asano Nagamasa, Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, etc. into his army when submitting this plan, while Hashiba Hideyoshi did not have the slightest strangeness or doubt.

People already knew about it!
He already knew about the agreement between the generals, Xiujia and Xiuci, and knew that they would be transferred to the Four Kingdoms Raiders Corps, so he did not question Xiujia's military strategy plan.

He must have listened to the Xiu family's conversation during the dinner.

Fortunately, Xiujia tried his best to speak for him during the dinner yesterday and maintained his prestige. If he really said that he was kept in the dark like Fukushima Masanori's 250, I am afraid that today will be a different situation.

But having said that, with the brain of Masanori Fukushima, how did he achieve the 24 koku daimyo of Owari Kiyoshu under Hideyoshi's tent?Is this true preference?
(End of this chapter)