Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 231

Takakage Kobayakawa, as the head of the Mori family and Terumoto's uncle, should be top-notch in raising energy.

In addition, the person sitting in front of him was not an ordinary child, but Hashiba Hideyoshi's adopted son, the big name Hashiba Hideyoshi with nearly 75 koku in the four countries of Bizen, Misaku, Bichu, and Sanuki.

Therefore, although his tone was extremely resolute, giving people an irresistible feeling, his attitude was not as serious as this, and of course he expressed his attitude to Xiujia.

The Xiu family also has difficulties. Don't look at the fact that he led the army to assess the territory of the three kingdoms of Awa, Tosa, and Iyo, which totaled about 70 shi, but these were not actually eaten by him.

Miyoshi Hideho is the head of Hashiba's family in the four countries. Hashiba Hideyoshi personally admitted that he would give him no less than 7 koku of security, which is because the dead Hideka cannot move.

Asano Nagamasa received 10.85 koku from Awa Dabanguo, which is the opportunity for Hideka to use the only remaining opportunity to show favor to Ningning and the forces behind him.

As the natal family of Hashiba Hideyoshi's main family, although the Asano family is very popular, the family has never had enough financial strength to provide help for Ning Ning.

With the ability of Asano Nagamasa, only after more than ten years of suffering, as in history, the transfer of 24 koku of Kai with the credit of North Korea can be regarded as a real step into the ranks of national holding daimyos.

But at that time, even the younger Kato Kiyomasa and his like were comparable to him in knowledge and practice, and the gold mines in the territory were exclusively mined by Hideyoshi. There is no way to rely on it.

But Awa is different. Although Awa country has little knowledge and practice, it is adjacent to the Pacific Ocean and the busy waterways of the Seto Inland Sea, which makes it have a blessed trading atmosphere.

The Xiu family specially allocated all the lands near the sea to him as a neighboring country, and let him run the indigo business, and the annual income from related trades will not be less than 5 guan. Is Zhixing's book better than Kaixiang in history?

When the current Hideyoshi is enforcing the territory, he has not included income from trade and other income. That is to say, if the Asano family does not transfer the fiefdom, it is very likely that they will live like the Hachisuka family in history, although they are only 24 in name. Wanshi's knowledge and action, the actual financial resources are no less than 50 shi daimyo's standard.

Ning Ning is outside the palace, with such an elder brother as his arm, his voice in Yuchai's family will be much stronger.When the green tea bitch Chacha came to power, Ningning was suppressed, and when she was enjoying her brother's support, she would still think about the Xiu family's good.

Coupled with the fact that Awa is located on the edge of Osaka, it is impossible for Hideyoshi to give up this land to others. In other words, this land is also dead.

Hideka's original knowledge of Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa is still 8 koku, 1 koku per person, and the two are under the territory of most half of the country.But now Fukushima is directly showing his face in front of the Xiu family, asking for a reward of 7 shi from the Xiu family, which really disrupted the Xiu family's deployment.

If someone else, Xiujia, would not care about his opinion at all, would he dare to bargain with his boss?But the person in front of him is Masanori Fukushima. Aside from his capture of Nagamune and his relatives, this guy is an idiot, so he is really not sure what he will do.Hideyoshi is not Hideyoshi, so I can only pinch my nose to recognize it first, and then describe it in front of Hideyoshi.

So now comes the question, what to do with the Xiu family's own reward?
Don't forget that the Xiu family mobilized 2 people from their own abilities, which accounted for half of the four-nation army. The decisive battles in the battle of Zhongxi City and Okatoyo City were fought by the main force of the Xiu family. .

As a great achievement in the credit book, Asano Nagamasa added a reward of 7 shi, how could the Xiu family be lower than this figure.Moreover, in order to commend the great honor of the first grade of merit, his reward is to widen the gap with the second grade of merit.

So isn't it a basic operation for Xiujia to be awarded 15 shi from Iyo Banguo?
Now that there is a question, why can't the Hide family promise Kobayakawa Takakage the other Iyo Banguo as long as Iyo has 15 shi?Isn't the land enough?
The willingness is very simple, Kobayakawa Takakage is a fourth-ranked artist, and his seals must not be more than Fukushima Masamori, otherwise that fool will not be able to jump up!

This is also the reason why the Hide family accepted the blackmail from Masayoshi Fukushima earlier. Takakage Kobayakawa, as a quasi-nationalist daimyo, really couldn't sell 7 to 5000 koku. Now, Masayoshi Fukushima has sealed [-] koku, which can be regarded as a little bit for Takakage Kobayakawa. Raised the reward.

The second and most important point is that Hideka’s conquest of the four countries was working for Hideyoshi. The Iyo country was divided by Hideka and Kobayakawa Takakage. What Hideka took was handed over to Hideyoshi for arrangement. Tosana’s 2 to 3 Stone to kill the teeth?
Although Hideyoshi said that it was decided by Hideo at the time of the Four Kingdoms, but as a wage earner, you can't really take yourself seriously.Although Hideyoshi will not want the land of Shikoku, he still has to leave 8 to 9 shi for Hideyoshi, the master, to express his grace!

To sum up, when Kobayakawa Takakage asked for Iyo Bankuni, this business really had to be discussed.

Hideka took a sip of the cold tea, refilled it for himself again, and then said, "Second Fangong Asano Nagamasa transferred 3.6 koku from Otsu to Awa Katsuzui for 10.85 koku, and added 7.25 koku;

Sanfan Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa transferred 10 koku and 9 koku to Tosa from Omi and Yamashiro respectively, and they added 7.5 koku and 7 koku.

Is it inappropriate for Daisuke Zhongwu to ask me for a reward of 15 shi because he is a four-time master? "

"Your Highness's words are wrong. The Iyo Kingdom is originally the scope of the power of the Maori family. It is the Maori family who transferred 15 stones to His Highness for reward."

Kobayakawa refused to give up an inch of land, and refused to let go of the reward of 15 stones.It's just that what he said is a bit strange, but it also makes sense.

Unlike in history, the Maori family did not completely withdraw from Iyo. Hideyoshi asked them for reinforcements and asked them to stick to Iyo, delaying the pace of Yan Zonggabu Yuanqin.

Logically speaking, the Iyo country is indeed the bondage state of the Maori family. The current stable situation in Iyo is exactly the situation where Takakage Kobayakawa persuaded him to surrender, and the Hide family's behavior at this moment seems to be taking food from their allies.

The first time Xiujia was stunned, she was speechless. She picked up the hot tea again, trying to make herself think about how to talk next, but her lips were scalded by the hot tea.

The embarrassment on the side of the Xiu family was noticed by Takakage Kobayakawa, and he couldn't help laughing out loud.The Xiu family had already been scorned by him, but now he was ridiculed by him, and he couldn't help cursing in his heart, "Laugh, laugh, what kind of onion are you without the Maoli family?"

It was such a casual sentence that gave Xiujia a flash of inspiration. "The Mori family is gone?" "Takakage Kobayakawa cut off with the Mori family?"

Hideyoshi also had this idea in history. At first, he wanted to exchange Iyo One Country for Takakage Kobayakawa's independence.The reward offered at the beginning was not insignificant, 33 shi was given to Kobayakawa Takakage Iyo, and 3.5 shi was specially given to his adopted son at that time Xiubao Yuhe County Dajin City, and the father and son received Iyo alone.

But even if Hideyoshi issued a reward for this member, Takakage Kobayakawa was unmoved, and handed over all the above territories to the Mori family on the grounds that the Mori family needed him. to manage.

(Takakage Kobayakawa's knowledge at this time has always been 15 koku in Bingo and Binchu.)
The bait is for fishing. If the bait thrown out not only fails to catch the fish, but also makes the fish fat, it will be a loss.

Hideka believes that Takakage Kobayakawa was deeply influenced by his father Motozuru Mori, and he has nostalgia and awe for the Mori family in his bones.

In addition, Hideyoshi's political environment in history is not ideal. Tokugawa Ieyasu on the east side has not yet surrendered to Shangluo, and his situation of dominating the world is not clear.

Whether it is the Mori family or Kobayakawa Takakage, their attitude towards Hashiba Hideyoshi is awe but not fear, goodwill but not kneeling.This is also the fundamental reason why Takakage Kobayakawa refused to be independent from the Maori family.

In fact, after the Battle of Kyushu, Hideyoshi was not ambiguous at all when he asked him to transfer the territory of Chikuzen, Chikugo, and Hizen, a total of 37 koku, to become independent.

You must know that his elder brother Yoshikawa Motoharu and nephew Yoshikawa Motocho died of illness in the army of the Kyushu Raiders at that time. At that time, didn't the Maori family need him as the pillar of the country even more?At that time, he had not accepted Hideyoshi's proposal to become independent.

In the final analysis, politics is just the product of the right time, place and people. Facing Hideyoshi's dominance of the world, even the Mori family can only admit cowardly.

Compared with Hideyoshi, who in history did not know how to break the situation in the encirclement, he could only use the merits of the four countries to rule the major names in name.

The current Hideyoshi can be described as a strong soldier. After Mitsuhide Akechi was killed in the Battle of Yamazaki, Katsuie Shibata and Nobutaka Oda were killed in the Battle of Kidake.The Nobuo decisive battle not long ago threatened Oda Nobuo and Tokugawa Ieyasu to surrender, and the prestige was the same for a while.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that Hideyoshi, who already has two thirds of the world, is already a proper person in the world.

Hideyoshi's situation is much better, and Hideyoshi has never thought of such a big environment before.The current Hideyoshi is not much different from the time of the Kyushu War in history. It makes no sense that Kobayakawa Takakage would reject Hideyoshi's proposal to become an independent daimyo.

But Xiujia knew very well that although he had a strategy in mind, it was not Xiujia's turn to raise this proposal. Xiujia was just a retainer of the Oda family (Hashiba). What qualifications did he have to ask Kobayakawa Takakage to be independent from the Mori family? ?

When Hideyoshi talked about the Four Kingdoms, Hideyoshi could make a decision with one word.In other words, the Xiu family is qualified to make a direct decision on the matter of rewards from the Four Kingdoms alone.But Takakage Kobayakawa is, after all, the elder of the Mori family and a guest general of the Ally family.

As the so-called diplomacy is no small matter, if Hideyoshi's words were taken seriously, there would be no need for Li Hongzhang to ask Empress Dowager Cixi for instructions whenever he encountered foreign consul affairs.

On the contrary, Xiujia can completely write his own ideas on the old rules, and leave it to Hideyoshi to make a decision.After the work is done, the monkey also has a sense of participation, and then can you lose your credit?

Even if the matter is not done, Hideyoshi sees Iyo's land and redistributes it. Can the situation be worse than the number that Kobayakawa Takakage killed now?
You see, the ball was kicked out by the Xiu family just like that, and the Xiu family will be rewarded if things succeed; if the matter fails, the Xiu family will be scolded.Only do what you are supposed to do, and you will never touch anything that is risky.

After thinking about this point clearly, the Xiu family is not in a hurry to award Kobayakawa Takakage, of course, it is necessary to give face to the other party.

Hideka put down the teacup in his hand, coughed dryly, and said to Kobayakawa Takakage who was sitting opposite him earnestly, "I already understand Daisuke Chubu's thoughts. It's just that this matter is indeed beyond the usual logic of military merit awards. As for special cases, I don't dare to be good at it. Or should I ask Da Nayan Dingduo for instructions, what do you think?"

Seeing that Hideka kicked the ball to Hideyoshi, Takakage Kobayakawa was stunned for a moment, and couldn't help thinking, "Is this the Bizen doll who bickered with me just now? Why are you so cowardly?"

Xiujia was also afraid of what he thought, so he offered a proposal that seemed reasonable and gave him an extremely favorable price. My plan."

"I have seen the achievements of Daisuke Chubu in Iyo. But to be honest, you failed to organize effective resistance in the face of Shaosuke Miyauchi's offensive. Facing the aggressive offensive of Nagamune's army, you Retreat again and again, although you have worked hard but have no credit, I just don't know what kind of reward should be given to you for your previous achievements."

When Takakage Kobayakawa heard about it, he wanted to interrupt Hideo from explaining, but was stopped by Hideo, "Chubu Daisuke, please listen to me first."

Xiujia continued, "The only thing I can give to Daisuke Chubu is the Battle of Tangzhu Castle and the meritorious deeds of the Iyo family after that. Can you recognize it as the fourth rank?"

Speaking of meritorious service alone, Kobayakawa Takakage has nothing to deny. He only had one real siege battle, and after that, he used his interpersonal relationship and dressed up a group of grassroots under the guise of tiger skins that the Xiu family's army came to him.

Asano Nagamasa has solid records such as the Battle of Nakanishi Castle and the Battle of the Four Castles of Yukizaki.And compared to Hayakawa Takakage who judged Iyo with his mouth, Asano Nagamasa beat Awa's powerful family with his real fists.

Compared with the adjustment strategy, although the progress in the new territory will be slow, it can deprive the land of the defeated. Compared with Iyo, who is now everywhere with the rich clan he promised, Awa, who is pacified by force, can be used to hand over the allocated territory More, and at the same time Asano Nagamasa's achievements are obviously more solid.

As for Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa, regardless of how messed up he was before, the first battle of Okatoyojo was fought in front of everyone. Mitsucho Zongzong and Kato Motokin alone are worth 10 shi.

To sum up, there is absolutely no problem with Takakage Kobayakawa's fourth round of meritorious service, and he himself admits this fact.

"If you agree, I will judge and award you according to the four merits. I will give you a total of 5 shi from Kita Iyonoma, Kazezao, and Wenquan counties." Before the Xiu family finished speaking, Takakage Kobayakawa wanted to interrupt Hideka's statement, but Hideka could only continue speaking at a higher volume.

"But because of your hard work, I am willing to seal the entire Kume County to you again, so that your knowledge and practice will reach 7 koku, which is now the territory of the Kono family."

The last fief given to him by the Xiu family was the Songshan Plain, the most important grain-producing area in Yiyo.But even so, it doesn't mean that he approves of the Xiu family's award.

Hideka was helpless, after several rounds of trials, the two sides disagreed too much, so they had to temporarily put aside the dispute, and hand it over to Hashiba Hideyoshi to make a decision after returning to Osaka.

At that time, in order to grasp the situation of Iyo as much as possible, the Hide family planned to ask Ishida Mitsunari and Doi Kiyoshi to conduct a preliminary inspection of Iyo after Kobayakawa Takakage left. There was no need for the trouble of conventional channels. It saves Xiu's family to look for them one by one.

With Chang Zong, my family, Yuanqin and Zhuyu in front, the Xiu family would not dare to steal and play tricks with the Xiu family even if they counted them. With a little probing, you can know the real data under the accounts of the big names.

(End of this chapter)