Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 177 My life, I manage it myself!
Hideya came out of Sakamoto Castle, where Hideyoshi lived temporarily, and wanted to ask Hideyoshi about Hideyoshi's attitude after Hideyoshi came out, but unexpectedly met Tokugawa Ieyasu who came to say goodbye to Hideyoshi.

It's funny to say that even a month ago, the two were enemies who fought life and death on the battlefield, but now they are working for the same person under the same roof.

At first, Hideka was just waiting for Hideo to grow out in the open space of Honmaru. Nobuo Shimizu also helped Hideka move a Maza to sit in the courtyard, so that Hideka could sit in the yard and read a book, and did not notice Tokugawa Ieyasu's arrival.

It wasn't until a shadow blocked Hideo's reading light that Hideo raised his head, only to realize that it was Ieyasu Tokugawa himself.

"Hashiba Wuweidian is really hardworking. He seized all the time to study, why didn't he go in and report?" Tokugawa Ieyasu asked kindly.

"It turned out to be the Tokugawa Councilor." Hideka closed the book, stood up, and said to Tokugawa Ieyasu, "I'm here waiting for Dr. Sakyo to come out. I don't have anything to do, so you came to see my father, what's the matter?" ?”

Tokugawa Ieyasu laughed and said, "There is nothing wrong, but it has been a long time since I came to Kyoto, and the affairs here are over. I am going to apply to His Highness Nakanogen to return to Hamamatsu. It has been half a year since I came out. Things in the territory are probably in a mess."

Speaking of this, Tokugawa Ieyasu turned his body slightly, and whispered to Xiujia, "Speaking of which, it is all thanks to His Highness's help, so that I can make up my mind to go to Junfu to retire."

"Huh?" Hideka was a little overwhelmed by this sentence, not knowing what Tokugawa Ieyasu meant.

But after thinking about it carefully, I understood the reason. Tokugawa Ieyasu's base city at this time was in Hamamatsu, Yuanjiang. In response to the invasion of the Takeda family, the castle was moved here from Okazaki.

The original goal of building the whole city was to make it an invincible fortress. The whole city was not officially built until 1582. Unexpectedly, not long after the city fell, his original strategic goal collapsed, and replaced by people from the west. enemy.

After the change of Honnoji Temple, Tokugawa Ieyasu began to set the target of the strategy on Koshin. Don’t look at the junction of Enjiang, Mikawa and Shinano from the map, but the mountains and mountains along the way are not suitable for the actions of the large corps.

From ancient times to the present, the road from Tōkaidō to Koshin has been to enter Kai through the Suruga Minobu Line, and then to Kita Shinano and then south to Minami Shinano, making a big circle.

In order to ensure the convenience of his own supplies and the speed of dispatching troops, Tokugawa Ieyasu began to reside in Sumpu Castle as early as 1583, and this is also the city that witnessed his childhood.

Tokugawa Ieyasu has long had the idea of ​​rebuilding the main city, but because Hamamatsu built a new city just after the fall of the city, it will put a certain amount of pressure on the Tokugawa family's economy. Even Tadashi Sakai advised Ieyasu to think carefully. Just put this thought aside for a while.

Now because of the Hide family's capture of Mikawa, Hashiba Hideji has captured the Toe part, so that the Hashiba family's military front is already adjacent to the Hamamatsu castle, almost facing each other across Lake Hamana.

If Hashiba Hideyoshi is dissatisfied, the Hashiba army that came out of Yoshida Castle came to Hamamatsu Castle in two days. How does this make Tokugawa Ieyasu feel a sense of security, so he finally made up his mind to move the main castle to Sumfu go.

It's just that he is no longer an independent daimyo now, and he must get the permission of the master if he wants to change the base city.

So why did Hashiba Hideyoshi agree to his proposal?Could it be that he really didn't see Tokugawa Ieyasu's thoughts?

In fact, this is not the case. As soon as Tokugawa Ieyasu made this proposal, Hashiba Hideyoshi understood his inner thoughts, but Tokugawa Ieyasu gave an impeccable reason to "prevent Hojo."

This is exactly the purpose of Hashiba Hideyoshi to retain the Tokugawa family. It is true that as Tokugawa Ieyasu said, Hamamatsu Castle is too far away from Hokshin. If the Hojo family invaded Hokishin from Ueno, he would not be able to support him. The Tokugawa family can react quickly to repel the Hojo family.

In the end, Hashiba Hideyoshi agreed to Tokugawa Ieyasu's request to relocate the base city. The Hideka knew about these things, so Hideka participated in the meeting together.

Hideka heard that Tokugawa Ieyasu made fun of this matter, and said to him with a contemptuous smile, "I heard that Senator Tokugawa lived in Junfu City when he was young, and he was educated by Master Taiyuan Xuezhai, and now he can finally return to the city again." In Jun Mansion, things are different and people are different, it's really gratifying."

"Based on your highness's familiarity with Suruga, I'm afraid that being able to return to Suruga is more cordial than being in Okazaki. In addition, this time I walked around Mikawa, and found that many of the Mikawa people have been transferred to Suruga and Yuan. Jiang, compared to this group of brawny ministers assisting His Highness, he can quickly get acquainted in Xinling."

Hideka's sentence structure is inexplicable. A second ago, he was saying that the Suruga Kingdom has changed from people to people. It seems to imply that Tokugawa Ieyasu was brought to Suruga as a hostage in his youth, but now he is the hostage. Zi Zi came back here again, congratulating him on the surface.

But the next sentence mentioned Tokugawa Ieyasu's familiarity with Suruga, and then he said worriedly that it was fortunate that this group of old retainers from the Mikawa clan helped him manage Suruga.

The two sentences seem to have no connection, but they actually hide a mystery. The previous sentence implies Tokugawa Ieyasu’s previous identity in Suruga. The current Asahina family and the Okabe family used to guard his existence, but now they have become his. Retainer.

The last sentence is to tell Tokugawa Ieyasu that many of the Mikawas are now entrusted to Suruga. These were all subordinates of the Suruga people in the era of Imagawa Yoshimoto. How many family members of the Mikawas died back then? In the hands of the Suruga people?

Didn't there used to be a proverb that people from Mikawa fought wars, people from Yuane farmed the land, and people from Suruga said happily that it was the Three Kingdoms under the rule of Imagawa Yoshimoto.

Tokugawa Ieyasu didn’t understand what Xiujia meant. He could already feel the contradiction between the Suruga people and the Mikawa people who started his own family. The reason for going to Sunfu.

If you think about it, even Tadashi Sakai opposed the relocation, how much the Mikawa people were afraid of the Suruga people, if Tokugawa Ieyasu came to Suruga, it would definitely cause the Suruga people to rise up.If Tokugawa Ieyasu doesn't make any moves, it will definitely make the old ministers feel alienated.

At the beginning, it was because the Tokugawa family was the number one daimyo in Far and near. Even the Hojo family had to give up three points. Now the Tokugawa family has become a subordinate of the Hashiba family. Tokugawa Ieyasu is no longer a daimyo with absolute power, how do you think these old retainers will react to the rise of Suruga people?
I am afraid that there will be many, many Ishikawa numbers emerging.

And if Tokugawa Ieyasu promoted the Mikawa people again after moving to Suruga, it would inevitably intensify the conflict between the Mikawa people and the Suruga people, making Suruga a powder keg, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's base city would be In Junfu, it's like sitting on a powder keg with one's buttocks. Do you think Ieyasu Tokugawa can sleep?
In fact, when Hideyoshi promised Tokugawa Ieyasu to relocate the main castle, Hideyo didn't immediately why. Hamamatsu is only 60km away from Sumfu, so how much reaction time can be saved?If you really have to deal with the Hojo family, wouldn't it be better to move to Kai?
After Hashiba Hidecho's instructing, Xiujia understood the twists and turns, secretly thought that the two brothers were really good at playing politics, and the twists and turns were really deep and terrifying.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's complexion froze after hearing the conversation of Xiujia's bullhead and horse mouth, but he quickly recovered his smile and said to Xiujia, "Thank you for the compliment from the left gate guard. It's not thanks to you." Thanks, I will definitely guard Suruga well."

The words "praise" and "good" are pronounced particularly emphatically, as if to remind Xiujia to pay special attention.

Hideo didn't argue with Tokugawa Ieyasu on this point, just saw Okabe Minister Mori and Asahina Yasakatsu behind him, and said with a bad stomach, "Isn't this Okabe Uchizen and Asahina Genbo-sama? I haven't seen it again since then, and I hope to see the heroic attitude of the two leaders here next time."

The conversation between Xiu's family confused the two of them. When did I see this Yuchai Zuomen guard?How to make him seem to be very familiar with me.

In fact, Hideo seems to be talking to the two of them. In fact, he is reminding Tokugawa Ieyasu that these two were generals of the Eastern Route Army at the time. Because they delayed the military plane, Sakai Tadaji and Ii Naomasa were unable to support them and eventually escaped and died. .

Tokugawa Ieyasu has a special preference for Ii Naomasa (love ass), which may come from the psychological deformity caused by the same experience he received from Imagawa Yoshimoto when he was a child.

But in any case, Tokugawa Ieyasu loves Naomasa Ii, which can be seen from the fact that he was called the 4 shi daimyo under the Tokugawa family account at a young age.Its stone height even surpassed the two giants Ishikawa Shumasa and Sakai Chuji.

Now that Naomasa Ii died in battle, and Ieyasu Tokugawa lost his lover, how can we not make him feel sad? Hideo deliberately brings up the past here, trying to intensify his and Suruga's writings Asahina Yasakatsu and Oka Minister Mori The relationship between him made it difficult to remove the thorn in his heart.

Perhaps this thorn will not show its effect so quickly, but as long as Tokugawa Ieyasu thinks about it one day, and the two of them quietly angered him, they will definitely be punished by him.

Suruga's pen was punished like a dog, and the people of Mikawa were on top of him and domineering. Do you think the people of Suruga still have any sense of security?As long as there is a little push behind the scenes, after Ichikui is set off, it will be the time when the Tokugawa family will follow in the footsteps of Sasa Chengzheng in history.

But to Hideyoshi's surprise, Tokugawa Ieyasu didn't respond to Hideo's pointing out the two, he didn't even glared at them as expected, but said calmly to Hideo, "There will be a chance." Yes, the brave names of the two adults will surely reach His Highness's ears."

After saying that, he still wore his unique smile, and after saying goodbye to the Xiu family, he stepped into the Honmaru Imperial Palace, and all the generals under his command filed in.

Hideo, on the other hand, savored the previous conversation carefully, especially Tokugawa Ieyasu's definition of Oka Nomorori and Asahina Yasakatsu at the end, and suddenly felt a sense of powerlessness, perhaps his own plan could not be implemented.

Hideka meant that he wanted to see the two fighting again, but Tokugawa Ieyasu replied that Hideo would hear about the bravery of the two. What kind of warrior stories are the most widely spread?It's a dead man's story!
And through Tokugawa Ieyasu's attitude towards the two, perhaps Tokugawa Ieyasu had planned to let the two die in battle a long time ago, so that the Suruga people had no excuse to point at Ieyasu.

And the Suruga people who have lost the two representatives are in a state of disunity. How can they play with this thousand-year-old fox?Tokugawa Ieyasu had already planned how to deal with the conflict between the Mikawa faction and the Suruga faction, but it was pitiful that the two of them didn't know which pawn they were until their death.

Thinking of this, Xiujia turned her head to look at the backs of the two who were walking away, filled with emotion.

Both of them can be regarded as the great names of Wanshi. Since the Imagawa family has been a powerful family in Suruga, they have a very high reputation in Suruga. In the eyes of others, they are masters and adults who can call the wind and rain and respond to everyone. But in the eyes of Tokugawa Ieyasu The two are just pawns with some use value.

In the early stage of Suruga assessment, it was necessary to rely on the strength of the two families to stabilize the situation in Suruga. Therefore, Tokugawa Ieyasu even married Oka Nagamori's younger sister as his concubine for the tolerance of the two families.

But now that the two families have become the center of the conflict between the Suruga faction and the Mikawa faction in the Tokugawa family, Tokugawa Ieyasu resolutely chose to get rid of the two to resolve the conflict.

I have to say that Tokugawa Ieyasu has all the awareness a politician should have, just like he ordered the execution of Matsudaira Nobuyasu, without a trace of emotion, everyone is just a tool and a stepping stone on his way to the top.

If such a person does not become a man of the world, who can become a man of the world?

Hideo asked himself, he couldn't be as pure as Tokugawa Ieyasu, his heart was still warm, and he had personal feelings, that's why he was not as good as Tokugawa Ieyasu.

From time to time, Hideo has always regarded Ieyasu Tokugawa as his greatest enemy. Even though Ieyasu Tokugawa may not be as good as Ieyasu in terms of military strategy, Ieyasu Tokugawa may not be as good as Ieyasu in terms of manipulating people's hearts.

At this moment, Xiujia looked at the Sakamoto Castle Palace behind him, and suddenly felt that his and Tokugawa Ieyasu's personalities were similar to those of Liu Bang and Han Xin.

Could it be that I am really inferior to others and want to be controlled by others?Is there really only one way I can choose to surrender Tokugawa Ieyasu and keep my family name?
The Xiu family is not reconciled, unwilling to be reconciled to being trampled under their feet in exchange for the million-stone territory that they have worked hard for all their lives, using unfounded excuses to divide up the changes. No matter how difficult the road is, no matter how slim the winning rate is Willing to admit defeat ahead of time and leave one's own destiny to others to decide.

The most important thing is that the Hide family, who is familiar with history, knows that even if they bow their knees, they will not get any good results in the end, and they are more likely to be shouted and scolded by the Tokugawa family. This is not the future of Yuxijia that Xiujia wants to see.

Even though there are many difficulties and obstacles ahead, the Xiu family is determined to fight.

Hideka clenched his hands fiercely, facing the direction where Tokugawa Ieyasu was going away, and said firmly and softly to himself, "My life, I manage it myself!"

(End of this chapter)