Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 229
Doi Qingliang got the answer he wanted from the Xiu family, and happily bid farewell to the Xiu family, preparing to go back and try his best to attract as many Chinese people as possible to join the Xiu family.

And after Hideka left, based on the military loyalty certificate reported by Gunmetsu and the documents submitted by Asano Nagamasa, Miyoshi Hideho, and Kobayakawa Takakage, he came up with the specific ranking situation in the Battle of the Four Kingdoms.

From the daimyo's point of view, Hideka deserved his contribution, after all, he and his Bizen Army fought the two decisive battles in the entire Four Kingdoms battlefield.

In the Battle of Nakanishi City, although the three reserve teams led by Masaru Okari were incorporated into the Asano Nagamasa Army, their meritorious performance was still counted under Hideya's name.This point has been widely recognized by participating daimyo.

Hideya handed No.2 to Asano Nagamasa, who led the army to attack Nagamunebu Yuanqin until the main force of Hideya arrived, and conquered the Awa country, occupying a large territory.

As for his filth in the Battle of Naka-Nishi City, Hideka knew he was lying, and Nagamasa Asano knew that Hideka knew he was talking, but both sides selectively ignored his embarrassment on the battlefield. The only thing left in the world is his "brave name" who returned to the front line to kill the enemy for the second time after restraining the fleeing soldiers.

Sanfangong was handed over to Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa, who were active in the Battle of Zaioka Toyojo, broke through 3 circles of the city wall, and captured Nagamunebe's relatives.

The battle of Okatoyo Castle has become a vivid live broadcast in front of many lords. No matter how the two performed in the past battles, their performance in Okatoyo Castle is beyond doubt.

Out of everyone's expectations, the Xiu family left the position of the Fourth Fangong to Takakage Kobayakawa.At this point, everyone finally found something unusual. After all, Kobayakawa Takakage is a daimyo under the command of the Mori family, not a retainer of the Oda family (Hashiba). Why should the Hide family's evaluation include him?
Hideo was originally because Hideyoshi once said that the merits of the four countries can be decided by him.He thought of Kobayakawa Takakage holding back Changzong Gabu Yuanqin in Iyo for a long time, no credit but hard work.That's why it was suggested to him that he sort out the military loyalty certificates from his self-report.

Xiujia originally thought that his hasty request would be rejected, but Takakage Kobayakawa agreed indifferently, and handed in his military loyalty letter just like Xiujia the next day.

The No. 6 daimyo is Tadake Hosokawa, the lead of the Asano Legion, and No. [-] Miyoshi Hideho. After that, the daimyo's performance is not very eye-catching, so we don't care about it here.

After counting these statistics, Xiujia needed to have a heart-to-heart talk with the top few daimyos.Although Hideyoshi once said that the Hideo family can resolve the affairs of the four countries with one word, but the Hideo family is not a member of the world, and does not have the ability to command the heroes and make a promise.

Xiujia didn't even know whether these daimyos were willing to move from the rich Kinki to the relatively barren Shikoku, so Xiujia needed to ask their opinions as a reference first, and at the same time, it could be considered as a way to communicate with them.

The two most important pieces of fat in the Shikoku resettlement are Awa and Tosa.Tosa National University, with a total knowledge of about 25 shi, and adjacent to the Pacific Ocean, has very rich fishing resources.

Affected by the warm Pacific Current, there is the Yoshino River in the territory, and there are large rivers such as the Shimanto River, the Aki River, and the Monobe River in the south. The basins of these rivers have long been the breadbasket of Tosa.There are mainly the Nakamura Plain in the Shimanto River Basin, the Anyun Plain in the Ayu River Basin, the Kacho Plain in the Monobe River Basin, the Hirooka and Takaoka Plains in the Niyodo River Basin, etc.
Correspondingly, the territory of Awa is small and there are large mountains in the west. Only the plains formed by the alluvial flow of the two rivers, the Yoshino River in the north and the Naga River in the south, are suitable for farming.

But even so, Awa still has a table height of about 18 to 20 shi. More importantly, the two mountainous areas of Naga and Haibu in the west produce high-quality tea and indigo in Japan. The annual income of indigo alone is not high. It will be less than 5 guan, so Awa country's comprehensive knowledge and practice should be more than 40 shi.

The first person Hideka met was Erfan Gong Asano Nagamasa, and Hideka’s initial arrangement for him was Awa Dabanguo, with a knowledge of about 10 shi. Blue Indigo's franchise rights, of course, the profits of which have to be shared.

The reason why Hideyoshi arranged this is because it is closer to Ki, and the transnational Naruto Strait is Izumi and Kii, and the army can board a ship to reach Osaka in 1 day. In Hideyoshi’s original plan, this is a non-kinship or trustworthy genealogy generation. A place not to be guarded.

Historically, Hideyoshi's relatives were sparse, and his brother-in-law Asano Nagamasa hadn't shown up at that time, so he had no choice but to enshrine Hachisuka Masakatsu, who founded the foundation with him, here.

Hachisuka Masakatsu's knowledge gradually expanded from the initial 12 koku to Awa's total 18 koku, but Hideyoshi gave him the exclusive right to indigo, so the actual knowledge and practice of the Tokushima domain should be more than 40 koku.

Now Asano Nagamasa is fully qualified to seize this knowledge by virtue of the second round of the Four Kingdoms Raiders, and the invitation proposed by Hideka will inevitably sell Asano Nagamasa a favor. There is a harvest time.

So the Xiu family was the first to summon Asano Nagamasa, and secured his reward, "Awa country's five counties of Itano, Mingdong, Mingxi, Haibu, Naga, and Mazhi's eastern counties totaled 10.85 shi. In addition, they will help He fought for the Indigo franchise."

When Asano Nagamasa heard the news from Hideka, his emotions went from shock to joy, and he never dreamed of this award. After all, his knowledge and actions at this time were only 3 koku from Otsu, Omi, Omi. .

Otsu is right next to Sakamoto, and it is considered the center of the center at the moment.However, as the Osaka Castle Honmaru is nearing completion, Hideyoshi will eventually move to Osaka, and the place of Otsu will also decline rapidly. Apart from the geographical advantage of being close to Kyoto, there are only farm income and Lake Biwa's catch, which can be described as quite poor.

Now, with meritorious deeds, he can directly cross the gap of 3 koku from a small country daimyo who owns only 5/10 koku, and become a quasi-country daimyo with [-] koku. Excited?
"Your Highness's kindness today, I will never forget it." Asano Nagamasa saluted Hideka excitedly and said.

How could the Xiu family accept his great gift? He is Ning Ning's elder brother and Hashiba Hideyoshi's brother-in-law. The Xiu family immediately stood up from his seat, helped him up himself, and comforted him, "There is no need to be polite at Asano Hall, this is all yours." You deserve it. I still remember His Highness's heroic appearance at the foot of Zhongxi City."

Hideka didn't deliberately demolish Asano Nagamasa's platform here, but told him clearly that I suppressed your matter, but don't forget to thank me.

"There is something that really needs your Highness's help." The Xiu family pretended to be pondering and said.

"Your Highness Wuwei, it's okay to say, as long as I can do it, I will definitely help." After receiving such a big gift from the Hide family, Asano Nagamasa also became proud.

"I've always liked blue. Now that His Highness is obtaining the right to manage blue indigo, can you sell me a batch of blue indigo every year at a low price. I hope to be able to paint all the flags of our army in blue."

Hideka is telling the truth, he likes the blue color very much like Ukita Hideka in history.The demand for cheap blue indigo is not for resale, but simply to imitate the colors of the historical Xiujia unified army.

You must know that the cost of indigo was very high at that time. On average, a can of indigo that could dye 50 steps of cloth cost 50 guan. Therefore, in the past, blue cloth was much more expensive than other colors, even not lower than the price of gold thread. , It really is inch-sized gold.

Although the Xiu family in history had excellent internal affairs and military skills, his vanity was also extremely advanced.As we mentioned above, Tsugaru Yuishin personally went to Luo in 1589 to present the Northeast Falcon to Hashiba Hideyoshi.

According to rumors, this eagle has a strong body with a wingspan of nearly 2 meters. The head feathers are white with brown spots, and the upper body is dark gray; the chest is brownish red with brown spots, and the tail is pure white; Like an iron hook, it is quite handsome.

Judging from the above description, it should be my country's national treasure Haidongqing, also known as the Gyrfalcon.When this eagle was dedicated to Osaka, there was a wave of falcon hunting in Osaka, and falcon hunting among warriors became the most fashionable activity for making friends.

At most, Ukita Hideo’s family kept 100 falcons of different species, which he bought from all over the country at a cost of tens of thousands.In order to raise these big treasures, he couldn't help ordering the hunters in the territory to use the meat they hunted to offset taxes, and he also asked all the collars to hand over the meat dogs to his falcons to eat.

However, there are always differences between the issuance and execution of orders. How to define meat dogs is a difficult problem. In the end, all the dogs of the people in the territory were confiscated, and the once famous Japanese American dogs became extinct.

Today's Xiujia will not be as unwise as in history, but they think it is really necessary to unify the colors of military uniforms and flags.It can boost morale and tell the soldiers that they are a family; the army formation of the same color will give the opponent a great impact and overwhelm the opponent in terms of momentum.

As for why the Xiu family chose the indigo with the highest unit cost, it is because the Xiu family really likes this color, and it is also a tribute to the Xiu family in history. All traces of him should be erased, and he must always be remembered.

Asano Nagamasa was a little surprised at the Hide family's request at the beginning. He obviously didn't believe that the Hide family would use all the indigo for their own use. After all, there are so many indigo, how can you use it all by yourself?

But the Xiu family has given you such a big favor, and he is not willing to investigate it carefully, it's all because the Xiu family has a good face and doesn't want to mention it.

Asano Nagamasa quickly agreed to Hideo's request, saying that he would sell him 1/4 of the indigo at the cost of his own.As for how much the Xiu family uses for its own use and how much it sells out, it is entirely up to the Xiu family to decide.

As for the remaining Awa, Mima, Miyoshi, and Mazhi counties of Awa, which have a contract of 7.5 shi, they will naturally be guarded by Miyoshi Xiubao (Shihe Depository) according to the original agreement.

Here, the Xiu family also specially sealed him with 6000 shi east of Yongfeng Castle, a pass in the northern part of Tosago, and asked him to act as a crossroads of Shikoku, a complete shit-stirring stick. Therefore, the Miyoshi family's final knowledge was 8.1 shi.

The second ones to come in were Masanori Fukushima and Kiyomasa Kato. As the third-ranked meritorious service, Hideka intentionally placed them in the old territory of Nagamune's family, and offered them a security of 8 shi.

Although this knowledge has more than tripled for both of them, they still seem to be a little dissatisfied. Fukushima Masa asked in front of the Hide family, "Isn't the meritorious deeds of capturing Changzong Ibu's relatives worth 10 yuan?" Wan Shi?"

This sentence seems to be asking the Xiu family, but it is actually a question of the fairness of the Xiu family and a challenge to the authority of the Xiu family.Noticing the unhappiness on Hideka's face, Kato Kiyomasa, who was on the side, acted as an intermediary and said, "Ichimatsu is the main contributor to breaking the city, and he was the first to discover Miyauchi Shaosuke. Your Highness, why don't you put all these meritorious deeds on his head?" , I don't care about this tie for third."

Hideka didn't know that Kiyoshi Kato really cared about Masanori Fukushima, or was acting as a green tea there, so he could say such ignorant words.You must know that the ranking of the military loyalty status has been announced, and you changed it just as you said, wouldn't that be admitting that the Xiu family was unfair?

Hideka didn't want everyone to make it too ugly at this festive time, so he finally said to Fukushima Masamori, "Nagaoka, Kami. The three counties of Anyun are 10 shi, and the family of Changzong's family is based on Shirooka Toyojo. , is this arrangement possible?"

Nagaoka.The Kami Plain is the most important production area in Tosa at the moment. It is an endless impact plain. Affected by the Pacific monsoon climate, there are two crops a year. Therefore, although the plain is not too vast, it has a production scale of more than [-] shi.

Although the increase was only 2 koku, Masanori Fukushima was still unsatisfied. He was so stupid that he seemed to have forgotten that he was still confronting Xiujia just now, and expressed his thanks to Xiujia with a playful smile.

As for Kato Kiyomasa, Hideie has always had a good sense of him, and generally speaking, he is one of the few samurai who can persuade Masanori Fukushima.His character is also considered good, both military strategy and internal affairs are handled in an orderly manner.

The show family divided Tosa, Wuchuan, and Takaoka into three counties.Its home city is Bishan Castle not far from Okatoyo Castle, just opposite the later Kochi Castle, with a total of 9 shi.

The Kagawa Kabu Kintai was eventually placed by the Hide family in 3.2 stones in Hata County, Tosakuni. The Shimanto River next to it is the river that witnessed the rise of the Nagasogabe family, and the fate of the Nagasogabe family will also be here. end.

According to estimates, there should be 3/5 shi of land in Tosa that has not been resettled. Hideka did not make arrangements because he did not have an accurate figure, and Hideka planned to leave it to Hideyoshi for distribution.Whether it is split up to Banner, or used as a place to hide, it all depends on Hideyoshi's wishes.

In fact, the Hide family in Tosa originally planned to install Tadakashi Hosokawa, but he rejected Hide's proposal to transfer the title, saying that this matter needs to be reported to Hosokawa Fujitaka for a decision, so the Hide family appointed him a seal of 2 shi in Kinki. Reward.

The Hosokawa family already owns 10 koku of Tango's Zhixing at this moment, and after adding 2 koku, Tango's entire collar should be owned by him, but Kinki's Zhixing arrangement is not within the scope of the Hide family's rights, he can only say that he will act on his behalf Convey to Hashiba Hideyoshi.

After the Hashiba clan's daimyos discussed, the show family ushered in the highlight of the meeting - Takakage Kobayakawa.

(End of this chapter)