Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 244 Ming Feng Qi Wu, playing the song of the world

Before the Hide family came back, they received a notice from Seijuro Doi that Hidecho Hashiba had visited his mansion.

As the most core bannerman around the Xiu family, it is impossible for him to hide the existence of Hideyoshi from the Xiu family.

In other words, Hideyoshi was like a ghost, coming in and appearing without a sound, which really shocked Hideyoshi.

Although Hideka was sure that he didn't say anything against himself and Hideyoshi in the Sanjo Mansion, but in this era, there were neither tape recorders nor surveillance cameras, so how to prove Hideka's innocence became a problem.

It must be investigated that Xiujia really participated in the "rebellion" meeting.

Perhaps it was because of this nervousness that the Xiu family kneeled down on the ground, "Father, Father"

Hideyoshi's sudden appearance was beyond Hideo's expectation, so that he couldn't point out the effective language in a short time.

It was Hashiba Hidecho who came back from behind the Xiu family and said, "Hachiro dragged me to save you as soon as he came back. This shows that this child still puts family first in his heart."

Hideyoshi bent down to help Hideka up, and before he knew it, the child in front of him was already a head taller than him, and he looked like an adult.

Xiujia took Xiujia's hand and walked out, one hand kept patting the back of Xiujia's hand and comforted him, "Take a breath, speak slowly, who is trying to harm me?"

As his words fell, there was a burst of noise outside, but it returned to calm after a while.

At this moment, Hideka has calmed down her initial emotions and told the whole story about what happened in the Sanjo mansion.

"Father, I have already ordered the Banners to seal off the mansion of the Santiao family. At this moment, I will send someone in to arrest the person responsible for the treason, and I will never let anyone escape." The Xiu family has already decided to confess the public secretary represented by the Santiao family in exchange for Hideyoshi's trust will naturally be presented with a certificate of honor.

But after these words fell, the Xiu family noticed that none of the Banner warriors guarding their mansion were people they knew.Doi Seijuro and others who came back with him were being held in the yard.

Seeing them, Hideka was sure that Hideyoshi had indeed received the news.Being able to control the Xiu family's mansion in such a short period of time, isn't it a kind of bravado?

"It's so risky," Xiu Jia thought in his heart, "I already knew that this group of ministers would not be able to accomplish anything. How could I be so unlucky to be involved in such a thing."

"Hachiro, do you still remember the conversation between you and my father and son in Osaka Castle a few days ago?" Hideyoshi didn't respond immediately after hearing the story relayed by Hideo, but instead asked Hideo another question.

"I naturally remember that I am willing to be the wing of the Yuchai family, and I will never dare to do anything wrong. What happened today is that a treacherous official wanted to trap me in injustice. I refused verbally, and I ask my father to be careful."

I was most afraid of the sudden silence of the world. When Xiujia expressed his attitude and only got Hideyoshi's silent answer, Xiujia's back was already soaked in cold sweat.

At this moment, Xiujia seems to be desperately waiting for the judge's final verdict. The most important thing is that Xiujia really has no intention of getting involved.It would be too desirable to be implicated just because I attended the meeting.

At this moment, two armored warriors came in one by one, the leader was Zaiya Wuze, one of Jianyue's seven guns, and the latter, Xiujia, looked familiar, but he couldn't name it.

"My lord, the Sanjo Mansion has been brought under control. A total of 21 rebels have been arrested. According to the information I heard, one of them seems to have escaped. I'll go and interrogate them right now, and I'll make those bastards confess who that person is." Who, catch him back."

Zaiya Takeshi reported to Hideyoshi in his characteristic loud voice, and Hideyoshi followed his memory to compare and it seems that the 21 people are indeed correct. Where are the 22 people?Could it be that there was a person hidden behind the screen at that time?

wrong!If you count yourself, isn't it 22 people?

Hideyoshi's eyelids twitched when he thought of this, and he kept looking at Hideyoshi who was beside him.Hideyoshi knew exactly who was involved. It seems that the servants of the Luozhong princes have been infiltrated and riddled with holes, and he is really enlightened today.

"Hachiro" Hideyoshi's voice broke the silence at the moment, he turned to look at Hideyoshi and said, "Are the people in that yard the same as you said, trying to conspire against me?"

"Yes, my father's honorable name."

"Now that those people have been caught, what do you think should be done?" Hideyoshi threw the question back to Hideka.

After thinking about it for a while, Xiujia realized that it was Hideyoshi who asked him to accept the vote, so he said cruelly, "Since it is treason, of course it should be dealt with according to the court law, and all three rivers will be executed at the source."

Hideka didn't know if this was the answer Hideyoshi expected, he just wanted to deal with it as seriously and quickly as possible.

After speaking the answer, in order to prove his sincerity, Hideyoshi looked at Hideyoshi with his eyes.

Hideyo saw surprise and puzzlement in Hideyoshi's eyes, Hideyoshi shook his head soon, denied Hideyoshi's answer, and looked at Hashiba Hidecho beside him.

Seeing Hideyoshi's attitude, Xiujia closed his eyes in pain. He understood that he failed the question just now.

In fact, Hideyoshi felt inappropriate at the moment when the words came out of his mouth. Will his doing so give Hideyoshi the illusion that he wants to destroy the body, wipe out the traces, and kill the mouth?

But the situation was really urgent at that time, Hideyoshi stared at you all the time, as if he wanted to see through himself, now that Hideyoshi looked elsewhere, Hideyoshi could finally calm down and think about the problem.

Xiuchang didn't answer this question directly, but instead asked Zaiya Wuze, "Did those ministers explain anything?"

"No, but as long as I work hard, I can definitely pry their mouths open." Zaowu Wu Ze replied confidently.

"Forget it, you're still a nobleman anyway, so let's show some sympathy." Hideonaga rejected the proposal of Wuze Wuze, turned around and suggested to Hideyoshi, "Now that we don't have evidence, why don't we let him go like this? How much is it considered to be a good relationship, to release good intentions?"

Hideyoshi nodded, shook his head again, and said with a sigh, "People are already under control. I can't explain how to release kindness in this matter. I'm still too impulsive."

When Hideyoshi heard what Hideyoshi said, his eyes suddenly lit up, and he suggested to Hideyoshi, "Since I can't explain clearly, let him continue to complicate things."

"Huh? How do you say this?"

"We don't know the attitude of the Gongqing's family across the way. How can the Gongqing's family understand our attitude. The people who participated in the meeting today are not low-level in each family. If there is no signal from the head of the family, I will be the first to not believe it.

Since this is the case, we might as well use our tricks and hold people in our hands like this. Why wouldn't the patriarchs who sent people out be worried that these clansmen would betray themselves?

Now that we don't know how to proceed with the next step, why isn't the other party in a hurry to find out how much information we have?

As long as people are in our hands, we are the ones who have the initiative, and they are the ones who are passive. We might as well use these people as bargaining chips to negotiate with them.

Once the murder of the two ministers broke out, it would be tantamount to breaking their unspoken rules, and it would be of no benefit to them.As long as the operation is done properly, the position of father's lord Guan Bai is at your fingertips. "

This is what Xiujia came up with in a hurry. The specific method has not been figured out yet, but this plan has been approved by Hideyoshi.He looked at Xiujia and said, "Since you proposed this proposal, why don't you and Xiaozhu carry it out together."

That night, even though the curfew was enforced in Kyoto, the entire Luoyang was still brightly lit. Xiujia and Xiuchang went to the homes of the ministers to hint at the terms of the peace talks, and finally completed the return of most of the ministers' homes at dawn. bomb.

Sure enough, as the Xiu family expected, the Gongqing family was still timid.What they did was unreasonable in the first place, and now that they are being exposed openly, they naturally want to do everything possible to cover it up.

From the second day onwards, families of ministers successively wrote to the emperor, requesting the appointment of Fujiwara Hideyoshi Kanbai. In their memorials, they all praised Hideyoshi as if he was the most loyal and capable minister of the emperor.

As for this matter, Nijo Akimi, who is Guanbai, is also quite interesting to ask the emperor to resign at the age of 42.

The Emperor specially summoned Hideyoshi for this matter and asked for his opinion.

The first time Hideyoshi resigned in the name of his lack of ability, and the second time he directly used the reason of "his surname Fujiwara is not correct" as an excuse, and he almost said directly "I want to do Guanbai, but I don't want the name Fujiwara to go." Done.

In fact, Hideyoshi's initial plan was to inherit Guanbai through the normal way under Fujiwara's surname. For this purpose, he spent a lot of money and went around a lot.

Unexpectedly, even after obtaining Fujiwara's surname, Hideyoshi was still not recognized by the public, and even ridiculed him.

As early as that day when he was promoted to the right minister, Hideyoshi had already made up his mind to abandon Fujiwara's surname and ascend the throne to Guanbai, so as to severely slap the Luozhong officials in the face.Now that he has seized the opportunity, it is natural to make a good use of it.

Hideyoshi also politely asked Kikuting Haruki to ask his adoptive father Konoe for his opinion, and invited famous monks in Kyoto to praise him.

In the end, Hideyoshi chose the word "Toyotomi", which was taken from Prince Shotoku's real name "Toyo Conger".

Hideyoshi used "Toyotomi" as the surname to play to the emperor, asking the emperor to officially grant the surname.

As soon as this incident happened, it could be regarded as a direct confrontation with the Gongqing family. You must know that the position of minister was originally the exclusive official position of the Fujiwara family.

Now that they have opened a hole for you to be the right minister, and even made a deal with you to let you be the Guanbai, it is really their biggest step back, but you can't make progress!

The ministers who got the news no longer cared about the life and death of the hostages in Hideyoshi's hands, and no longer cared that some things would tarnish their family's name if some things were leaked.

Coincidentally, at this time, the northern army regiment supporting Kii's operations marched to the mountain city for repairs. Hideyoshi directly ordered Hashiba Hidecho to pull the northern army regiment down to Kyoto and station it in Kyoto.

Forced by Hideyoshi's force deterrence, Emperor Fang Jin could only issue an imperial edict on March 13, 1585th year of Tensho ([-]), bestowing the surname of Hashiba Hideyoshi Toyotomi, appointing him as regent and Kanbai, with a rank of second, and bestowing five The Qitong pattern is a sign of relief.

(Gongqing bestowed Guanbai from the first one, and Hideyoshi gave it to the second one. It can be seen that the emperor still has reservations about Hideyoshi.)
Hideyoshi did not refuse this time, and directly accepted the appointment of Guanbai, and changed his banner from the Sawajiri Etsumon to the Wuqi Tongwen. (There is no Taige Tong at the moment)

Hideyoshi's ceremony of paying homage to Guanbai was prepared hastily, but Hideyoshi still prepared a very grand celebration, and all Kinai daimyo, regardless of their size, attended.

Different from the joy outside, Guan Bai's conferring ceremony was held in the Imperial Palace, and only four people from the lower ranks were allowed to attend, and Xiujia and Xiuzhang happened to be able to observe the whole ceremony in person.

The whole ceremony was not as impassioned as it was in the impression, but it seemed extremely dull under the control of the inner warden.

Because Guanbai's authority was granted by the emperor, the emperor came out from behind the curtain for an unprecedented time, showing his true colors and changing the black hat on Hideyoshi's head at the same time.

Of course, in order to show respect for the emperor, all ministers in the hall must bow their heads to the ground, and must not look up at the emperor's face.

Even though there was a layer of distance between them, Hideo could still feel Hideyoshi's body trembling with excitement. This was the position he had fought for all his life, the position he considered the pinnacle of life.

It's hard to imagine that a farmer's son, in Japan where status is highly valued, could one day be given a surname by the emperor, and be appointed to Guan Bai's position as a non-Fujiwara family.

"It doesn't matter if the shogun is not allowed, so what if the minister doesn't allow it, I, Hideyoshi, have not obtained the status of a man of the world!"

"I want everyone in the world to recognize me, remember me, and know that my name is Hashiba Sekibai Toyotomi Hideyoshi!"

At this point, Hideyoshi's trip to Kyoto came to an end. After three months, Hideyoshi finally got what he wanted, a "treasure" called "Tianxiaren".

Hideyoshi, who returned to Osaka, couldn't wait to summon the world's famous names Shangluo to meet him.

In fact, as early as the end of February, when things were basically confirmed, Hideyoshi couldn't wait to send invitations to Ieyasu Tokugawa in Suruga and Terumoto Mori and others in Hiroshima.

At the end of March, when the spring blossoms, except for Tokugawa Ieyasu who was stuck in Shinano and would come to visit after a while, even Otomo’s family in Kyushu sent envoys to Hideyoshi. Expressing congratulations, Mori Terumoto declined to attend due to physical reasons, and Takakage Kobayakawa took over.

This is the first time that Hideyoshi has publicly shown his identity as Guanbai. For this reason, Hideyoshi called internal and external retainers to participate in the evaluation room of the Imperial Palace of Osaka Castle.

The arrangement of Hideyoshi's seat is very interesting. It is arranged according to the combination of court official position and knowledge and action. Hideyoshi's official position has already ranked among the four upper left guard lieutenant generals. It can be said that he is a rare high-ranking official in the palace. Under the show.

But Hideyoshi gave Hideumaga a detached position, ordering him to sit on the imperial steps on his right, detached from all retainers, and Hideyoshi naturally became the first position on the left.

Hideya noticed the arrangement of this position, Niwa Chohide was ranked behind Hideya and Takakage Kobayakawa because of his official position of Omi Mamoru.But his position was before Oda Nobuo, Hideo clearly saw Oda Nobuo staring at Niwa Nagahide with murderous eyes.

On the other hand, Niwa Chohide kept his head down and kept silent, as if he had made some mistakes and was doing self-reflection.

Looking down along the arrangement of the positions, Xiujia suddenly saw a 5/6-year-old child who was being held in the arms of a young warrior to participate in the meeting. He fixed his eyes, and if it wasn't His Royal Highness the Three Masters, who would it be?

Taking a closer look at the positions of the three mages, they were actually in the middle and lower seats. It is no wonder that Niwa Chohide and Oda Nobuo looked embarrassed.

As the bronze bell outside rang, it was time for rehearsing many times before.

I saw a man with a height of about 1 meters, wearing a loose black court dress, and a black hat on his head that was 35/1 of his height.He put on his hat with difficulty, and walked slowly into the evaluation room, giving people the illusion of wearing a monkey crown.

Following Hashiba Hideonaga's voice of "greeting", Hideka's body fell down mechanically.

This is an important occasion for Hideyoshi, so naturally there cannot be any omissions.

Who would have thought that in this silent hall, the three mages who were hugged in their arms broke free from the shackles of the warrior, saw the monkey who often came to play with him a few days ago, and said excitedly, "Monkey, come and accompany me!" I play, I want to ride..."

If it wasn't for the warrior with sharp eyes and hands, he quickly stepped forward to hug the three mages, and covered the mouth of the three mages, I'm afraid he would say some amazing words.

Hideyoshi did not respond to the exchange of the three mages, looked at Yujie and walked forward indifferently, each step was a strictly calculated distance.

The distance from the gate to the imperial steps is only 30 meters, usually only a few dozen breaths away, Hideyoshi walked for less than a quarter of an hour before reaching his own imperial steps.

After Hideyoshi sat upright, Hashiba Hidecho said "Get up~" again

Everyone followed Hashiba Hideyoshi's tone, and Hideya slowly raised his body from the prostrate state, and then slightly lowered his head again to signal Hideyoshi on the imperial steps.

Hideyoshi said with his trained, unique strong voice: "The imperial court has decreed that a new surname after 'Genping Tengju' - Toyotomi (stealing oil and rice) has been conferred. From today, I The poop is called 'Toyotomi Hideyoshi' (stealing oil and stealing rice to death)!
And I, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, will also be the first person in the world who is not appointed by the Fujiwara family to take charge of the world for the emperor! "

Hideyoshi said the most ruthless words in the most peaceful tone, which attracted the attention of all the officials present.Hideyoshi and Hidecho exchanged glances, and they showed smiles to Hideyoshi on the imperial steps.

At this moment, the Hideo family is also infected by Hideyoshi, and I feel a sense of pride that I have contributed to this Toyotomi family.

What Hideyoshi on the imperial steps is promoting to the world's great names at this moment is just an appointment, but behind it is a chapter of an era.

With Hideyoshi ascending to the position of Guanbai, the most important Momoyama era at the end of the Warring States period in Japan officially opened. Japan, which has been in chaos for more than a hundred years, finally has the dawn of peace.

At this moment, the kingfisher on the sycamore tree outside the hall also chirped, as if singing about his era for the short but powerful man in front of him.

An era in which a hero quells troubled times, sweeps away the world, and brings peace to the people.

(End of this chapter)