Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 239 General Shogunate System and Legal Order System

Perhaps because he was afraid that Hideo would not be able to make up his mind, Hideyoshi directly dragged Hideo to the newly completed Osaka castle tower, in this giant five-story seven-tier tower.

Hideyoshi has always regarded the Osaka castle castle tower as his favorite toy in history. When he ascended the throne, Kanbai, and the Kansai famous people came to celebrate, he often took these country bumpkins to the tower tower to look at the entire Muzukawaguchi (Osaka Bay).

Many daimyos, including Tokugawa Ieyasu, were overwhelmed by the majesty of the city after they boarded the city.

Hideyoshi held Hideka's hand all the time and walked up the stairs in the castle tower. The platform got smaller and the stairs got steeper.When we reached the seventh floor at the top of the castle tower, the entire floor could only accommodate a dozen or so people.

Hideyoshi ordered people to open the wooden doors on all sides, and took Xiu's family to the Rochu (balcony) on the top floor of the castle tower, and everyone held on to the railing to look at the scenery below the city.

It is hard for Xiujia to imagine that one day in the old society, he could climb such a tall building and look at the endless plain.It can be said that the view from the top floor of Osaka Castle makes people feel relaxed and happy, and unintentionally gives birth to a desire for power that cannot be concealed.

When Xiujia was intoxicated by this environment, Hideyoshi said from the side, "How about it, does the high place feel different. When Xiaozhu came here for the first time, he was so scared that he didn't dare to look down."

"Brother, you just know how to make fun of me" Hidecho Hashiba said helplessly inside the room, and Hideka noticed that Hidecho Hashiba didn't come out with him, but stood in the room hesitantly.

"How about it, Hachiro, why don't you build a castle too," Hideyoshi's voice sounded like a devil's whisper, constantly tempting Hideyoshi in his ears. "Now that you are finished, when you get married, you can just swear your authority as the overlord of the Western Kingdom."

Xiujia knew how much energy and money it took to build a stone city wall and a castle tower.During the Edo period, the Tokugawa shogunate often used general invitations to consume the software and hardware strength of the world's famous names, and at the same time strictly restricted their own right to build castles. If they were careless, they would be punished by confiscation of skills.

With Yuxi's current financial resources, it is not a big problem to build a city similar to Osaka City, but such a huge project will inevitably involve a lot of Yuxi's energy.

Hideyo thought that what Hideyoshi just said would let the Uki family rest and recuperate. Now it seems that Hideyoshi is really worried about letting a million stone daimyo rest in a place next to the West Country. There may be no war, but the internal engineering may not be. will be less.

The majestic castle tower is indeed very eye-catching, but its practicality is not as good as that of the imperial palace, so Xiujia resisted the temptation and wanted to refuse, "The castle tower is really magnificent, and my children are very envious, but there is no talent in the collar who can build castle towers." , it’s better to put it on hold.”

"It doesn't matter if you don't know how to build a castle tower. I can send Maeda Genichi to Okayama to help you supervise the design of the castle tower. He is an old man from the Azuchi Castle era." Home excuse blocked back.

The Xiu family was stunned for a moment, and quickly asked the second question, "It's great that my father is willing to send someone to supervise the construction, but I don't know how much food the castle building will cost. My family still owes my father the war of the four kingdoms." The arrears will be paid off in 3 years.”

What the Xiu family meant was that the castle tower is good, but this thing is too expensive, and my family can't afford it.

And Hideyoshi, who was beside the Xiu family, seemed to be determined to let the Xiu family build a sky guard. He waved his hand and said, "It's only a few dollars. You have made a lot of contributions in the War of the Four Kingdoms. If you want to build If Tianshou, I can give you all the small money, and it can be regarded as a dowry for Xiao Ju to marry."

"Brother, you can't do this. When Xiaoju gets married, the dowry must not be less." Xiuchang in the room joked to Hideyoshi when he heard it.

"Don't worry, don't worry, Xiaoju is still my half daughter. Don't you know me? I mean it's part of the dowry. When Xiaoju gets married, I won't treat her badly. "Hideyoshi explained to Xiuchang in the house, and Xiuchang just gave up.

When Hideyoshi heard that even Xiaoju's dowry was involved, what reason could he refuse? In addition, from the two trials, Hideyoshi's intention to build the castle tower by himself was obvious. This is to consume Yuxi's strength.

In desperation, the Xiu family could only agree to Hideyoshi, and had to pretend to be very happy, "Then the child wrote about my father here."

"Hahaha, my good boy, this is the right way. Now let me introduce you to the scenery from inside."

Hideyoshi pointed to the Otemon gate where the Hide family came in and said, "Nizhimaru is under construction. From now on, all the famous people in the world will come to live in Osaka Castle. I specially reserved a good place for you, right next to Xiaozhu. On both sides of the main road."

"When the earthen wall of Erzhimaru is built, you can ask your retainers to bring the civilian husbands brought by you to build the mansion in the designated area. This is a land of 3000 square meters in a prime location. Your two families are the closest to each other. My name." Hideyoshi put his arms around Hideka's shoulders and praised.

"In this way, I can go to Honmaru to see my father every day in the future." Xiujia said in cooperation.

"Hahaha, you can do it at any time. You and Xiaozhu are the only daimyos who can directly enter Ote's mouth without prior notification. This is the only honor in the world." Hearing Xiu's compliment, Hideyoshi continued. Falling into narcissism.

Then he pointed south to a bustling city in sight and said, "Look there, there is Sakaimachi. After the completion of Osaka Castle, I will make the castle town of Osaka Castle and Sakaimachi merge into one and become the most prosperous city in the world." , the largest town and city.”

Although this is Hideyoshi's castle, he should have climbed here more than once to look at the land under his feet, but this time he is still like a child who goes out to see the world for the first time, excitedly introduced by Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi The chief also echoed, praising his greatness.

Suddenly, Hideyoshi stopped talking, and the entire castle tower fell into silence, only the sound of the wind passing through the high-altitude buildings.

After a while, Hideyoshi looked up at the sky, pointed at the sun that had already slanted west, and said with pride, "I have been thinking about why the shogunate politics that everyone has been waiting for will continue to cause turmoil. I have watched it from the castle tower these days." To the world, I understand."

"There is a problem with this system. This world was bestowed upon the Emperor by Amaterasu. We are just the emperor's ministers, and we are only acting as trustees for the emperor. Since we are ministers, we should behave like ministers. Generals who conquer barbarians don't have laws at all. How can the legitimacy be guaranteed within the system?"

"Only by becoming the custodian of the world recognized by the emperor, that is, Guan Bai, can manage the world reasonably and legally." Speaking of excitement, Hideyoshi turned and held Hideo's arm, looked directly at Hideo and said, "Hachiro, will you Come with me to stabilize the world, right!"

Perhaps influenced by Hideyoshi's emotions, Hideo could not help but kneel down to him, "The child is the sword in the hands of the father. Wherever the father tells the child to go, the child will go. The father's wish is the child's goal, and the child is willing to fight for it." Father will put an end to this troubled world."

"Hahaha, my good boy." Hideyoshi excitedly lifted Hideka who was kneeling on the ground, patted him on the shoulder solemnly and said, "You can guard the West Country for me with peace of mind. There is my Hashiba family in this world." One day, there will be your Bizen Hashiba's house for one day."

After Hideyoshi said this, he went back to the house from the building, and led everyone down the third floor to a reception room in the castle tower. After everyone sat down, an attendant brought tea for Hideyoshi and the three of them. At this moment, Ishida Mitsunari was gone. Another member of the meeting obediently sat outside the room waiting for Hideyoshi's call.

After Hideyoshi and the three sat down, Hideyoshi took a sip of hot tea to warm himself up before continuing to talk. After all, it is still very cold to climb high and look far in winter. "I have already established a relationship, and it will start to operate in these two days. Hachiro came at the right time. When you come tomorrow, you will go to Kyoto with me to be received by the Emperor."

"Taking advantage of the disbandment of the two armies and the gathering of daimyos in Kinki, I plan to gather daimyos to Kyoto to witness the ceremony of my entry into Guanbai."

"What about Sun Qi?" Xiuchang couldn't help asking when he heard Hideyoshi's arrangement.

Hearing Xiuchang asked about Ji Yi's situation, the Xiu family also became interested.

To be honest, according to the original plan, the Jiyi Army of the three-way army should be the army that ended the war the fastest, but it seems that the war has not ended yet.Hideie has been in Shikoku for a long time, and has just arrived in Osaka, so he doesn't know much about Kii's situation.

"Ji Yi's affairs are a little troublesome. Those mountain monkeys were driven to the mountains, and they only picked their own logistics team to do it. Ji Yi's 5 troops can't withdraw, they can go in, and the officers, soldiers and guards have no good way."

"There are so many troops backlogged in Jiyi, not to mention the waste of money and food, it may cause mutiny after a long time." Xiuchang said worriedly from the side.

"Who says no, I'm also worrying about this." Looking at Xiu's family, remembering that he always had a lot of tricks when marching and fighting, so he asked him, "Hachiro, do you have any suggestions?"

When Xiujia heard this, isn’t this just a guerrilla fight with you? The old army, which has never seen the world and has a very low degree of organization, is bound to be helpless in the face of this situation. It took nearly ten years to start playing before it completely settled down.

But this kind of tactics may be helpless for the current army, but it is indeed easy for the Xiu family who has the experience of later generations.

First of all, you need to know that no matter what kind of army, it needs logistical supplies, and there is no such thing as an iron man with wind, food and dew.Guerrillas also need logistical supplies, so the best way to defeat guerrilla warfare has always been hidden in the history of warfare, but not many people can learn and use it.

Israel's way of dealing with the PLO in Palestine is to continue to build settlements outward, with the settlements as the core, and control the surrounding land.

Since the 20th century, the way the Kingdom of Morocco has dealt with the nomads in the Sahara Desert is to gradually fight for water sources, and build the Great Wall based on water sources.

The walls of the Great Wall are poured with cement to a depth of 3 meters underground, and iron fences are built on top of them to prevent nomadic guerrillas from digging tunnels and other methods to sneak into the settlements within the Great Wall.

Then encourage immigrants through official housing and land distribution. After enriching the new settlements, they will occupy the desert oasis and rebuild the Great Wall of steel and concrete.The repeated operations have made the territory actually controlled by Morocco double the area of ​​the map officially recognized by all countries in the world.

This strategy is called "core maneuver" in modern times, also known as fortress tactics, which is similar to Okamura Neiji's "cage tactics".

Because the source of their tactical ideas, without exception, all came from the watchtower policy of the Japanese invaders during the Anti-Japanese War in our country.

The bunker policy of the Japanese in history is not as vulnerable as shown in the anti-Japanese drama, and it actually caused great trouble for our army commanders and fighters.

However, our national consciousness has been tempered for thousands of years, and we share the same hatred against foreign invasion.Under the wise leadership of our party, relying on the old base areas, we made every effort to encroach on the outside world, which finally prevented the Japanese aggressors' plots from succeeding.

But this does not mean that there is a problem with the Japanese military's method, it just chose the wrong opponent.

But can the family-style army of old Japan have such a high degree of organization so that they can be united and united against each other?Obviously not.

Coupled with the unique terrain environment of the Jiyi Mountains, building bunkers on various mountain roads can completely trap the rebels on the mountain. If there are enough fields on the mountain for their supplies, they don't need to go down the mountain regularly to rob the food transport team.

In addition, Mount Kii is connected to the Southern Yamato Mountains. This blockade requires the cooperation of Ise and Yamato to strictly restrict the transport of various living materials into the mountains.

If the people in the mountain can no longer survive, they can naturally go down the mountain, and the Hashiba family will allocate the fields below the mountain. After many years of war, the wasteland at the bottom of the mountain has not yet been reclaimed. filling ability.

Another point, don't forget that there is a Japanese Buddhist holy place-Koyasan in Mount Kii.

Now the rebels mainly based on Nelai Temple can survive in the mountains. Who would believe that there is no support from the temples in Koyasan?They were just superficially obedient to Hideyoshi.

As long as they are blocked in the mountains, the products of the mountain temple will not even be enough for the monks to eat themselves, so how can they be distributed to thousands of rebels.Once people enter a closed space with limited resources, they will fight for survival, and then it will be time to watch their dogs bite dogs.

Finally, with the completion of the construction of the outer gates, the living space of the rebels can be gradually eroded inward. This is much more fundamental than the so-called mopping up by the devils. The Xiu family also referred to Morocco's method.

Hideka expressed his thoughts, and was praised by Hideyoshi and Hidecho, "You, Hachiro, have a way. Isn't this the one who surrendered to the enemy without a single soldier?"

"My lord father is too famous. There are still hundreds of troops stationed in each city, and the main force can be stationed in the plains. But in order to ensure the communication, an open-air scull can be built inside."

"If there are rebels rushing to the city, on the basis of their garrison and waiting for reinforcements, they can burn black smoke on Baituo Mountain, light the fire at night to rule the outer strongholds, and rule the defenders stationed on the plain one by one. The defenders in the city only need to hold on until the reinforcements arrive. , those wandering soldiers are naturally unable to escape."

"The leaders of the bandit army may be able to persist in the struggle, but the soldiers under them all have family members who need to beg for a way to survive. If their lords can't even guarantee their lives, people will naturally flee down the mountain to beg for work. My child estimates that it will not take a long time." Years, the Jiyi Rebellion will definitely be judged."

Hideyoshi confidently and slowly explained all Wan's ideas. Hideyoshi was very satisfied with his suggestion, and continued to ask Hideyoshi, "You said that this plan needs the efforts of Ise, Kii, and Yamato, right? The people who lived there went to make arrangements.”

Hideyoshi turned his head to look at Hidecho and said, "Let's leave this matter to you, Xiaozhu. Your northern army regiment brought over to be responsible for the siege in the direction of Yamato and Ise, and Sun Qi is still in charge of Kii."

"Me? But this plan was proposed by Hachiro, wouldn't it be better to let Hachiro do it?" Hideaga asked a little surprised by Hideyoshi's arrangement.

"It's not my reluctance, it's just that the Beiqian soldiers have been fighting for me for several years, and now it's time for them to rest." Soon, Hideyoshi also explained the matter.

"But I still don't understand the profound meaning of this plan. Why don't I let Hachiro be my assistant, so that I don't need to prepare former soldiers to go to war." Hidecho was indeed a little bit hesitant about Hideyoshi's arrangement, and asked Hideyoshi for Hideyoshi.

For this younger brother, Hideyoshi wanted to take whatever he asked for, and after thinking about the pros and cons, he agreed.

The Xiu family also understood the meaning of it, that is, to let themselves go to be a consultant for a while, but since there will be no troops from the team to participate in the battle, it is difficult to say how many functions will be recorded in the post-war evaluation.

Seeing Hideyoshi agreeing, Hideyoshi said impatiently, "In that case, I'll go back and prepare."

Instead, Hideyoshi pressed Hidecho and said, "Have you forgotten what I just told you? It's important to go to Kyoto with me first, and there is no need to rush this matter. Didn't Hachiro also say that it will take a year?"

"In addition, it's winter now, and the mountains are blocked by heavy snow. The large troops can't move, and they can gather their troops until the beginning of spring. In order not to delay farming, the Hokuriku Shikoku 180 million shi, with 1 people gathered every six months, will come to the Yamato soon. However, Ise will be in charge of the Omi and Noo-sei legions."

(End of this chapter)