Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 183 Chaos in Kyoto
From the word "official", it can be seen that this refers to a management organization that oppresses the people. The government of the old era is not a good government that the people are the masters of today, but eats people without bones, and has absolute oppression and authority over the people. organization.

For the government, oppressing the people is the norm, and a small favor is a blessing from heaven. This is also the consensus of the people. The premise of all the operations of government agencies is precisely based on these established authorities.

The reason why the old Japan was able to openly require the people to hand over the six gongs and four peoples was because the daimyo had the authority accumulated over the years, which is why Hideka’s reform of the five gongs and five peoples was called "benevolent government" by the leading people.

It’s like the modern youth, who live 996 years all year round, and suddenly the boss gives you a day off with pay, will you also shout “Long live the boss”?
In fact, they sent you to take away all of this. Now that you are given a little power, it can make you grateful. This is the role of authority.

Japan's official food is the land tax collected by the daimyo from the lords, which is collected by the landowners every year and then sent to the county secretary or the lord's treasury. In exchange, the landholdings can be exempted from tax. (similar to the three elders in China)
And these official rations will be used for the expenditure of the salaries of the Banners and Adherents, the military rations during wars, and the original currency when purchasing other commodities.

Official food is forbidden to the rulers in both Japan and China, and even officials would never dare to dispose of official food without the permission of the ruler.

Even if there are natural disasters in the local area, there are really not a few officials who have been beheaded because of private distribution of official food in history. I did not expect that some people dared to do things that even officials dared not do.

After thousands of years of development, Kinki is already a fertile land. Even if Hideyoshi still insists on the policy of "six lords and four people", the common people will not be unable to survive. Hideyoshi really can't figure out why someone would rob the official food.

So under Zhuang Zhiqing's repeated questioning, the ashigaru general who led the team finally said, "Those prisoners are fugitives from Osaka City. The convoy trying to rob and collect official food near Kyoto was caught. Who will be executed today?" It turns out that he was robbed by Ishikawa Goemon."

As soon as the Xiu family heard this, they understood that at this moment, there were many civilians in Osaka and Kyoto who were building Hideyoshi’s Osaka Castle and the Immortal Cave Palace. Not limited to their food supply.

This batch of more than a hundred fugitive slaves was originally the husband of the Ikeda family in Gifu City. Because of Ikeda Hengxing's death in battle, Ikeda Teruma was transferred from Gifu to Ise, and this group of people was completely managed by each of them.

Originally, the Ikeda family was quite harsh on these folk husbands, and their daily food was only about food and clothing. After all, the Ikeda family was a daimyo of 60 shi in name, but the land directly under it was estimated to be about 18 shi.

With the collapse of the Ikeda family, they completely lost their food supply, and lost their managers. The samurai who could still be used to them lost themselves. Who cares about them.

So they lost their discipline and starved for more than ten days. Under the leadership of the leader, they took the risk and chose to escape. The Yuchai family directly managed it, otherwise tens of thousands of people would collapse and flee, which would inevitably lead to turmoil in Kyoto.

But these dozens of people finally fled to Kyoto, and under extreme hunger, they attracted the attention of the robbery grain collection team. They were captured by local villagers and robbers. He was robbed by Ishikawa Goemon.

When Hideya heard this, he turned his head and glanced at Asma Sarutobi, who was holding Hideka's horse rope, and had a guess in his heart about the visit of Ishikawa Goemon yesterday.

Ishikawa Goemon came here in the middle of the night yesterday, perhaps to ask the Hide family to use their relationship to save this group of "disorderly people". After all, they are disorderly people to the government. For a cross-age thief like Ishikawa Goemon, They are just a group of guys who can't survive and are forced to be helpless.

It's just that Hideyoshi never expected that he would make such an irrational decision to give Hideyoshi eye drops at this juncture.

After understanding the ins and outs, the Xiu family said to him through Zhuang Zhiqing's mouth, "His Royal Highness agrees that you go in and search, but you must go in accompanied by the warriors of the family. Your lord should understand how to do it."

The ashigaru general still didn't understand what the Xiu family meant, and now the Xiu family chose to put them in to show face, and immediately said, "I must restrain the soldiers, but if the soldiers dare to loot, they will definitely kill them. "

In the end, after getting the nod of Xiujia, more than 20 samurai left behind by Uki's family, accompanied by the town people who stayed behind, went to Sanjofang to search and arrest.

Zhuang Zhiqing saw that the matter had been dealt with, but Hideka did not give an order to leave for a long time, so he tentatively asked, "Will your Highness continue to Sakaicho?"

Why is Xiujia in a daze here?Are you worried about Ishikawa Goemon?
Of course not, since Ishikawa Goemon did this kind of thing, he stood on the absolute opposite side of Hideo, and Hideo wanted to help him, and he would not touch Hideyoshi for a ninja out of reason. Mildew.

What Xiujia is thinking about at the moment is the problem of the Ikeda family.

As we all know, Hideyoshi’s Osaka Castle is under the principle that the citizens of the family are responsible, and the daimyo has full authority to manage it. In order to ensure that each family does not shirk their responsibilities, Hideyoshi even clearly stated that the daimyo himself will be directly held accountable for any accidents.

Now that this group of civilian husbands belonging to the Ikeda family have gone wrong, Hideyoshi's fury towards the Ikeda family can still be imagined.

Although I don't know if the same situation happened to the Ikeda family in history after being reduced and changed to Owari, the Hide family can already guess that Hideyoshi may take this opportunity to deal with Ikeda Teruma. This opportunity to favor Ikeda Teruma may be able to create a certain restraint with the Ikeda family.

So when Zhuang Naoqing asked again and again, when it was time to leave for Sakaicho, Hideo suddenly said, "No, I won't go to Sakaicho today, everyone will return to Sanjocho and continue to wait. Yoshihei, you will accompany me to Sakamoto again."

Although I was puzzled by Xiujia's sudden change of itinerary, Xiujia was introverted in the Uki family. With the order of Xiujia, everyone except Xiujia, Zhuang Zhiqing, Shimizu Nobuya and the 30 members of the attendant team who were on duty that day Turning his head back to the inside of the workshop, the Xiu family took the 30 or so people out of the East Square Gate to Sakamoto.

On the way to Sakamoto, Hideka even saw a bannerman with the pattern of Hideyoshi Gosan. The commander of the army was Katagiri Kasumo, who presumably went to Kyoto to help Masuda Nagamori hunt down Ishikawa Goemon's reinforcements.

Seeing this posture, Hideka saw that even Banner's samurai participated. It was obvious that Sakamoto's man was really angry, and this matter could not be resolved.

Seeing this situation, Xiujia suddenly pulled the reins and stopped going to Sakamoto. After all, his goal was too big, like a light bag walking in the dark, his every move was watched by others.

It’s okay if Hideyoshi doesn’t pay attention, even if Hideyoshi licks his face and begs Hideyoshi to incorporate Ikeda Teruma into the Shikoku Legion to avoid disaster, it’s fine now. It’s obvious that Hideyoshi already knows about this matter, and he is particularly concerned, even sending out his bannermen It will be a little different if Xiujia goes to speak for the Ikeda family in person.

As far as the ruler is concerned, what he fears the most is the union of his retainers. The Hideyoshi family loves him, but after all, he is not Hideyoshi's biological son. How about co-authoring Hideyoshi's black face to make a wedding dress for your Hideyoshi family?Tired of living?
After much deliberation, the Xiu family decided not to go, but the Ikeda family was saved.

So Hideka got down from the horse, Zhuang Zhiqing and others paved the paper for Hideka, and Hideka wrote a personal letter to Hashiba Hidecho. At this time, it is even more necessary to show tolerance to the former officials of the Oda family.

In the letter, Hideka also thought of how to deal with Hideyoshi's anger, and asked Hashiba Hidecho to suggest to Hideyoshi that Ikeda Hengxing, who had just been transferred, be incorporated into the Northern Army Corps, and Hashiba Hidecho would take care of him.

After the end of the Nobi battle, due to the needs of the Kii, Shikoku, and Etsuchu battles, although the Oda family has already issued rewards for the major names, except for a few Novo daimyos such as Ikeda Teruma and Oda Nobuo, most of the daimyo Haven't started repackaging yet.

As a newly transferred daimyo, he originally enjoyed two years of immunity from military service. What Xiujia proposed this time was to deprive the Ikeda family of their immunity from military service, and let him take his unfamiliar retainers to Hokuriku to join the battle.

The reason why he was incorporated into Hashiba Hidecho's Hokuriku rather than Hideji's Kii was precisely out of caring for him. After all, the troops he led were the new leaders and their combat effectiveness was extremely weak.

There is no need for him to fight Narumasa Sasaki with the northern army regiment with Hidecho Hashiba, Moromasa Sakuma, and Toshiie Maeda. This group of poorly integrated recruits can do logistics.

But if you let them deal with the people of Jiyi who are haunted by Jiyi, they will fall into the "ocean of rioters", be beaten to pieces, and finally both mistakes and punishments will be cut off directly. Only 13 stones of territory will be cut off .

Hideya handed over the letter to Zhuang Naoqing and asked him to pass it on to Hashiba Hidecho on his behalf, while he went back home and continued to prepare for the trip to Sakaimachi.

Hideka remembered that Hidecho said yesterday that he would return to Hokuriku to prepare for the war in the near future. Hideka could only pray that Hidecho would not leave so soon, and that he would still be able to play a role in Sakamoto.

When the Hide family returned to Kyoto, the defense force that originally guarded the east gate of Kyoto had been significantly strengthened, and the gate guard was no longer Hashiba's ashigaru wearing a half-length armor and wearing a hat with a Sawajiri pattern on the back, but It was replaced by Hashiba Hideyoshi Banner, who was dressed in the clothes of the time, wearing a patch pocket with a five-san paulownia pattern on the back.

This group of bannermen did not give anyone face at all. They strictly guarded the gate of the capital and no one could enter or leave. Many people who wanted to go to Beijing to go to the market sat on the ground around the gate. No one dared to question this decision. They were all waiting for the opening time.

That is to say, when the Xiu family came back from the east gate with a banner, they made an exception and let the third member of Yuchai's family enter the capital.

When Xiu's family entered the capital, they found that the capital at this time and the morning were different. If the capital in the morning was as lively as a frying pan, the capital at this time was as calm as a mirror.

Along the way to Santiaofang, except for the patrolling thieves, none of the townspeople dared to stop on the road. When the Xiu family passed through several gates, they saw a few ragged civilians hanging in front of the archway of the gate. Tiao slapped his back, not knowing what he had committed.

More than 4 people from the Hide family returned to Sanjobo. Affected by the civil unrest in Kyoto, the gate of the gate was closed. Outside the gate stood a garrison composed of 5 Bizen leaders led by a samurai. All [-] of them were in armor. Standing sharply at the door, the tip of the gun that was originally covered with black cloth was also exposed showing a cold light, as if he was facing an enemy.

Seeing Xiu's arrival, the warrior guarding the gate shouted to the left and right arches and behind the gate, "Your Highness is back, open the gate quickly." Only then did the closed gate reopen.

The Xiu family entered through the gate of the square, and saw another scene here. There was a group of people gathered in the square, many of them were commoners who went to the market near Beijing. There was no mansion in Kyoto, and there was nowhere to go after being driven from the street. can go.

Fortunately, I saw that Sanjofang was different from other squares in Kyoto. It was a place where military men dared not come in at will, so they all flocked here after being driven away, and a small market was formed in the square.

When the Xiu family returned to their mansion, there were already several sedan chairs parked at the door. Judging from the family emblems on the sedan chairs, it seemed that the officials of the Santiao family and the Sitiao family had all come to their mansion, and it seemed that they had something to talk to.

Sure enough, not far from the gate of Yuxi's family mansion, crossing the screen wall and walking through the garden of stone landscape, just walked up the corridor, the shoes on the feet of Xiu's feet have not been changed, and the one who was left by Xiu's side to manage the money bag Akashi Quandeng came to report, "San Tiao You Minister and Si Tiao Middle Secretary are waiting for Your Excellency in the hall."

In fact, the most annoying thing for the Xiu family was to meet with the ministers. This group of people had been "above" for a long time, and they even had to speak with a special accent that they thought they were superior to.

But after all, he is a public servant, or Guan She's family, so the only thing left is a decent life. The Xiu family had no choice but to entertain them in person. After a while of talking and making a promise, he would never leave the capital before the matter was resolved, and would protect him personally. Everyone is willing to leave after the interests of the ministers.

The Shijo family was originally in the next door, and they had no choice but to stay in the Sanjo house temporarily due to the impact. Both families have witnessed the importance of Ukido in Hashiba's house today.

After they went back, they exchanged views with each other, and they both wanted to seize the "potential stock" of the Xiu family and reach a marriage with Yu Xi's family, and began to look for suitable women in the clan.

Of course, the Hide family didn't know about this matter. The Hide family was receiving an unexpected visitor in the inner courtyard of the mansion. The chief culprit who caused the riot - Ishikawa Goemon was sitting opposite the Hide family.

(End of this chapter)