Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 235

The Xiu family had long written their opinions on how to dispose of Changzong's family in the old note, and handed it over to Hideyoshi along with the military records of this battle.Hideyoshi in this matter is not the one who only knows how to enjoy himself later on.

Xiujia believed that the reason why Hideyoshi waited for two days to summon him must be because he had read the contents of the old note, so he must have a certain opinion in his heart on how to deal with Changzong's family.

From Hideo's point of view, the reason why Hideyoshi asked Hideo again was to confirm whether Hideo's true intentions were the same, including whether he was firm in his attitude towards Chang Zonggabu's family.

At this time, rashly giving an answer that is inconsistent with the old rules will cause the superior to distrust your ability.Just ask a guy who doesn't even trust himself, how can he gain the trust of others.

Therefore, Hideo confirmed to Hideyoshi in an unquestionable tone, "The Nagamune family tried to conceal Tosa's real situation with a fake military service certificate, lied about Tosa's real data, and concealed his civilian strength and military service. The behavior of retaining troops is difficult to give people a sense of security."

I don’t understand, it doesn’t matter, the Hide family’s meaning is very simple, I decided that Chang Zong and my family have bad intentions, and they may want to secretly recruit soldiers to plot evil. Tosa is not far from Osaka, and I’m all for your safety.

"Since my father defeated the Tokugawa, I have repeatedly conveyed the emperor's request for a truce to Nagamune's family, but they have not obeyed the order. Now that they have a chance, they still want to steal and play tricks. This is a majestic gesture to you, my father. Provocative. To sum up, I don’t think it’s enough to establish my father’s prestige without severely punishing Changzong and my family. I’m afraid that all the big names in the future will learn from him, but when will the order of the world be settled?”

"But Changzong's family can deal with it. After all, Changzong's family used to be a daimyo who owned more than half of the four countries. If you deal with it too much, it will cause hostility from the hostile daimyo. My son may resist the will in the next strategy. more determined."

Hideya just repeated the arguments in the statement, and Hashiba Hideyoshi, who was seated in the upper seat, nodded, looked at Hidecho, and asked, "Xiaozhu, what do you think?"

Hideyoshi asking Hideonaga for his opinion is vain, not to mention that Hideyoshi doesn't understand the reason, even if he really participates in the topic, he will choose to support Hideyoshi. "What Hachiro said is very reasonable. Changzong and our family must be severely punished, but how to deal with it is a question that needs to be considered."

There is nothing wrong with Xiuchang's words. After listening to it, you feel that it seems very reasonable, and it seems that you didn't say anything. It really interprets what is meant by "listening to what you have to say is like listening to what you have to say.".

Xiujia interjected here and said, "There is one more thing. Before coming down to Osaka, Xiangzong's family, who promised to give Shikoku 3 stones for resettlement, had expressed to me many times that he was willing to use Xiangzong's family's 3 stones are exchanged for the inheritance of Changzong's family."

Hideyoshi listened to Xiujia's supplementary message about Xiangzong's relatives, and said with a cold snort, "He has a deep brotherly love. No matter how you look at it, he didn't think about persuading his elder brother. With his [-] to [-] shi territory, he can Replace it with something?"

Hideyoshi rolled his eyes again, as if he was weighing the pros and cons, and suddenly said to Hideyoshi, "I heard that you accepted Changzong's relatives as righteous brothers under Okatoyo Castle, and you also gave your original The horse seal and array flag were given to him, is there such a thing?"

The Xiu family was a little embarrassed when asked about this matter, but they still said righteously, "I have absolutely not mixed up with you at this time."

Finally, after summarizing the opinions of the two, Hideyoshi combined the account books presented by the Hideo family in his hands, and said to the samurai behind him who was in charge of recording, "Then it is settled like this, and I ordered Nagamune to apologize kindly. "

Hideyoshi paused here for a while, and continued to arrange: "Since that brother named Qintai is so brotherly, let Xinqin inherit the family name of Changzong's family, and give him 3 stones to know. Let their uncles and nephews distribute it. I'm curious how they will distribute the 3 Shi Zhixing. Xiao Zhu, what do you think?"

Hideyoshi asked his younger brother's opinion again here, and Hashiba Hideyoshi said, "My brother's arrangement is very interesting, and I am also curious whether their uncle and nephew can be as harmonious as they said."

Just when Hideyoshi was about to finalize the arrangement, Ishida Mitsunari, who shouldn't have spoken here, suddenly said, "Do you want to supervise the Nagamune family? For example, arrange a daimyo to watch on your behalf?"

What is the meeting today?It was the senior leader of the Hashiba family who asked Ishida Mitsunari to attend the four-nation spoils meeting, but because he was the military commander in charge of the logistics of the four-nation army, and he had the right to keep secret, Hideyoshi asked him to attend to explain some situations.

In this meeting, Ishida Mitsunari's role is to report data, explain, and set up proper tools and people. There is no plan for him to speak to provide suggestions or ask questions.Who would have thought that he, who had been silent just now, would suddenly speak out, throwing out new ideas on the issues that had been negotiated.

"Huh?" After hearing Ishida Mitsunari's proposal, Hideyoshi held back his movements, looked up at Ishida Mitsunari and asked, "If you have any good suggestions, let's talk about it, Sakichi."

"Yes, please forgive me, Meng Lang." After speaking, Ishida Mitsunari noticed several gazes on him, and soon realized that he had violated the rules. Therefore, after being named by Hideyoshi, he apologized to everyone before he began to explain.

"After all, Changzong's family has a previous record. Now the 3 stones originally promised to Xiangzong's family are allocated to Changzong's family for resettlement. I am afraid that there is another secret in it. The lord is a body of ten thousand gold. , How could it be possible to rectify it for a small daimyo of 3 shi, isn't this a disgrace?

Therefore, the minister suggested that he should be placed under the supervision of a daimyo, and the daimyo would supervise and restrain the Changzonggabu family and teach him the correct way to be a minister. If something really happened to the Changzonggabu family Illegal things can naturally be signaled by the lord, and the daimyo will deal with them. "

Ishida Mitsunari said a lot, but even the Hide family who was closest to him didn't understand what he meant. He wanted to make Changzong's retainers Conghua, and he still existed as an independent daimyo, but as a supervisor.

If it exists as a supervisor, it is the same daimyo under the Hashiba family as the Nagamune family, and in what capacity will it supervise the Nagamune family?

Ishida Mitsunari's suggestion was so vague that Xiu Jiaming couldn't understand the key point, and turned his head to ask Xiuchang for advice.

But seeing Xiuchang agreed with the frowning expression, and then raised his eyebrows after noticing Xiujia's gaze, the meaning was clearly "Don't look at me, I don't quite understand."

On the other hand, Hideyoshi seems to have gotten to the point where Ishida Mitsunari was, clapped his hands and said, "Saki, your suggestion is very good, you mean to send Changzong and my family to a daimyo to supervise it on your behalf, in the capacity of a cavalier?" ?”

"Yes, that's what I mean." Hideyoshi's understanding was confirmed by Ishida Mitsunari, and then Hideyoshi asked Ishida Mitsunari again, "Then which daimyo do you think is suitable to supervise the Nagamune family?"

"How's the Maori in the West Country? According to what I've heard, it seems that Wuweidian is planning to use part of Iyo's territory to house His Highness Kobayakawa Chubu Daisuke. The Zhongwu Daisuke is well known, and I think he will be able to restrain the Changzong family well. .”

When Hideyoshi heard that Ishida Mitsunari nominated Kobayakawa Takakage, he began to murmur the name of "Kobayakawa" in his mouth, but quickly shook his head and said, "Chubu Daisuke only has more than a hundred thousand stones to know what to do, and it might be a bit incompetent for him to supervise it. "

After all, Hideyoshi raised his head to look at Hideo here, and asked, "Hachiro, how about placing Changzong's family in Bizen? Don't worry, I will compensate you."

How could Xiujia not understand after hearing this, no wonder Ishida Mitsunari dared to get involved in this kind of situation, it turned out that there was a routine waiting for him here.

Judging by the way the monarchs and ministers were singing together, I am afraid that Mitsunari Ishida had reported the affairs of Shikoku to Hideyoshi in advance last night, and got Hideyoshi's explicit instructions.

At present, the entire Western Kingdom is completely controlled by two giants. Among them, the Maori family is suppressed, like the sun on the west mountain. There is no need to worry at all. On the contrary, the rising Yuxi family needs to pay attention to one or two.

Before the War of the Four Kingdoms, the Biao Gao Zhixing of the Yuxi family had reached the 75 koku mark. After the War of the Four Kingdoms, Zhixing must be sealed by more than [-] koku, which has a tendency to surpass the Maori family.

Compared with the somewhat loose system of monarchs and ministers of the Mori family, the Uki family gradually began to centralize power in the hands of the Hide family, and their ability Bizen was completely uniformed by the Hide family. Beyond Wanshi, the others are direct leaders of the Xiu family, who are used to house Baishi and Qianshi's intermediate warriors.

Now Hideyoshi wants to hand over the Changzong Gabu family to Hideo's supervision in the name of Jiqi, because he wants the Changzong Gabu family to be placed in the hinterland of the daimyo who destroyed himself, as a nail. Before Bizen.

Hideyoshi made it very clear that he was in the capacity of a cavalry, not a retainer.In other words, Changzong's followers obeyed Hideyoshi's dispatch and had the right to participate in Hideyoshi's military evaluation, but he was still Hideyoshi's retainer in terms of law.

Just think about it, for the Chosogabe family, on the one hand, Hideka, who tried to destroy the Chosogabu family, and on the other hand, Hashiba Hideyoshi, who opened the net and gave Zhixing a place, who would they really be loyal to in their hearts?
On the contrary, once Chang Zong's family is placed next to the Xiu family, although the Xiu family supervises them in name, it is not certain who supervises who in reality!

Hideyoshi's arrangement cannot be wronged.Don't look at his tone of discussing with the Xiu family on the surface, but he made such a suggestion after the Xiu family had just eliminated the Changzong family.

What would happen if Xiujia rejected this proposal?Obviously, aside from talking about how evil Hideyoshi will be, there may be messages from the Hide family who are afraid of revenge from the Changzonggabu family, which will lead to rumors that he has treated the Changzonggabu family unfairly.Hideyoshi's move is a proper conspiracy.

Looking at the guy in front of him with a sharp mouth and monkey cheeks smiling at him, Xiujia's heart was really chilled at the moment.It can be said that Hideya has been thinking about the future of Hashiba's family for a long time, and Hideyoshi who is sitting opposite has already begun to feel defensive about it.

Hideyoshi’s attitude toward Hideo became more relaxed before the battle in Shikoku, which made Hideyo feel touched and relaxed. Now let’s look at a famous master with 75 koku knowledge, in a 13-year-old governor’s Hideyoshi still feels uneasy under the guidance of becoming stronger and stronger.

Hideyoshi has actually weakened the strength of the Uki family through many methods. Do you really think that Hideyoshi ordered Hanabang Masayuki to live in seclusion because of overreaching and seeking to take the daughter of a public servant as the main court?
In fact, his real purpose was to cut off one of the Xiu family's arms. It can already be seen that after the loss of Huafang Zhengxing, Yu Xi's family will inevitably go to a certain degree of chaos in the internal affairs in the short term. This is also a conspiracy.

Xiujia turned his head to look at Xiuchang, hoping to get advice from him, but he was able to avoid his sight.

"Could it be that Uncle Xiuchang knew about this plan in advance? Was I the only person in this room who was the last to know about it?" At that moment, such a thought crossed the Xiu family's mind.

The Xiu family couldn't accept that they were treated as a third person in a big family.Although there may have been some conflicts with Hideyoshi in the past.

But firstly, the Xiu family can avoid it, and secondly, with a kind uncle like Xiu Chang by his side, the Xiu family is somewhat fettered.But in today's situation, even the Xiu family admitted that this was the moment when there was a rift with the Hashiba family.

Xiujia pursed her lips, and after a great ideological struggle, she decided to endure it.

Hideyoshi took the fastest time to manage his facial expressions, put on a receptive smile and said to Hideyoshi, "Yes, please rest assured, father, and teach me. I will definitely take good care of the Changzong family for my father."

Xiujia's expression and speech seemed as if he had borrowed such a glorious mission. In fact, only Xiujia knew in his heart how bitter he was.

After being confirmed by the Xiu family, the air pressure in the palace finally returned to normal, and Hideyoshi would not push too much, and said with a smile: "That's really great, it's great that I have a son like you, in this case , How to arrange the Changzong family, I will let you and Sakichi further discuss and bring it up for me to confirm."

This can be regarded as Hideyoshi's concession. Since the Hideka family has agreed to the plan to wedge Nagamune's family into Bizen, in exchange, Hideka will decide which county and city to place in.

So far, regarding the first issue in the War of the Four Kingdoms, the disposition of the leader of the thieves, Zonggabujia, has been agreed upon, and the discussion has entered the next issue, which is the determination of the rewards in the War of the Four Kingdoms.

Like Hideyoshi’s original division of knowledge and practice, Hideyoshi also started the discussion from the most easily determined arrangement. Regarding the arrangement for Miyoshi Hideho and Asano Nagamasa to share Awa equally, it was unanimously approved by Hideyoshi, Hidecho, and Hideka. Including the Indigo franchise that Asano Nagamasa has been thinking about, Hideyoshi did not agree to do more entanglement with a stroke of the pen.

Hideyoshi also commented very excitedly, "When Yahei was out in battle, Ningning kept nagging in my ear, worrying about this brother, now it seems that Yahei has not disgraced me at all, hahaha."

In the end, the two were completely in accordance with Hideka's original arrangement. Asano Nagamasa obtained a total of 5 shi from the 10.85 counties of Awa Rinkai, and Miyoshi Hideho obtained a total of 4 shi from the 8.72 western counties plus the northern part of Tosa Nagaoka County.

After the two confirmed, they did not make arrangements for Fukushima Masanori and Kato Kiyomasa like the Hideka. Maybe these two people were promoted by Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi has absolute control over the two of them, even if they are not placed in Shikoku. I can find a place to set it up, so I choose to put it down first.

And the next person to be brought up for negotiation was Takakage Kobayakawa, who was the last negotiation of the Xiu family.Obviously, Hideyoshi was tempted by Hideyoshi's proposal to persuade Kobayakawa Takakage to become independent.

(End of this chapter)