Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 250

The tasks of Akashi Quandeng and Kamei Fuzuki were arranged, Hideka turned his attention to the five elders headed by Togawa Hidean, and said

"Returning to the above topic, in the Battle of the Four Kingdoms, our family obtained parts of Hoki, Inaba, and Iyo as rewards. My idea is to still follow the old rules and arrange a veteran guard in each of the three countries. What do you think? "

Among the few present here, Hidean Togawa has been transferred many times in the past few years. Now that he is the head of Sanuki, there is really no need to move him.

Then there are only four people headed by Oka Lisheng, and Hideka's intention is also very clear, that is, to select people from the four of them and assign them to guard the three countries.

It's just that as the landlord class in the Warring States Period, no lord was willing to accept transfer without reason.Therefore, even though the Xiu family's intentions are very clear, they still look at me and you, none of them wants to speak first and become the target of public criticism.

Xiujia saw that there was no idea after being silent for a long time, so he said, "Since you have no idea, then listen to my idea."

"My original idea was that each of the neighboring countries of our family should arrange for an elder of the township. Now that Bichu has Haruka Ryo, Meizuo has Meizuo, and Sanuki has Beizhong, the three of you can just be stationed in Hoki separately. , Inaba, and Iyo."

"Mizuo has guarded Meizuo for a long time and has more experience. This time, it is better to give up the relatively stable Meizuo to guard the new country for me. Let another elder take care of Meizuo."

Originally, Oka Toshikatsu was already in charge of Meizuo, so there was no need to transfer the seal, but Xiujia subjectively wanted him to change places.

After all, letting an important minister stay in one place for management and control, I am afraid that it will affect the Xiu family's influence in the local area, which is why the Xiu family also put Gang Lisheng in the transfer option. .

"As the only big country that the family can take over, the Hoki Kingdom must choose a capable minister to guard it. After removing the 2 koku of the Nanjo family, there are about 11 to 12 koku left."

"Kurashiki is about 8 to 10 koku including trade income, which is just right enough to accommodate you, brother of the Quan family. In this case, the Kurashiki Uki family transferred the title to Hoki Yonago City, and received 11 koku of knowledge and practice."

"Yonago City was originally a territorial country near the mountains. There are many Chechitan churches and people in the territory. The people of Chechitan have an obsessed belief in their god.

Although I respect the personal beliefs of the citizens, the unstable factors must be excluded.

So when you go to Yonago City, you first ease the relationship with the people of Chezhitan, and then build temples and shrines to dilute the original beliefs of the people and try not to cause trouble. "

"Boqi's Yonago Plain is the most important stronghold of our family's Xizue. There is nothing wrong with facing the Izumo of the Yoshikawa family. If necessary, the leaders can be sent to the territory of Satsuma Shou. I think Satsuma Shou will accept it."

Hearing that he was appointed general, Yuxi Duo's family could only stand out and respond, "Yu Yi, I must handle the matter of Yonago City properly."

Don't look at Ukita's tone of voice with a feeling of biting the bullet and taking the hot potato, in fact, he is quite satisfied with this arrangement.

You must know that the Boqi Kingdom has about 13 shi in total. This arrangement of the Xiu family is basically equivalent to giving him the security of the Boqi Kingdom.

Although he had the strength equivalent to 10 shi daimyo in the past, his ranking was not high on the bright side.Now what he got was the officially certified 11 shi. This Zhixing, not to mention an accompanying minister, even Hideyoshi's direct minister is considered to be in the top rank.

When it's time to go to Osaka for a meeting, I can sit in the inner hall majestically as an accompanying minister, I'm afraid I will envy countless samurai.

Compared with Ukita's family, Akashi Jingqin said with some embarrassment, "My family is responsible for guarding the central and western regions. Now there is no land in the territory to house these people."

In fact, in this life, the Xiu family did not support the spread of Qiezhidan like those in history, so there are only a handful of warriors in Yuxi's family who believe in Qiezhidan.

The traditional warriors headed by Gang Lisheng are even more fearful of the Chietchitan leaders, strictly restricting the actions of the Chechitan leaders, and finding various reasons to expel them.

As a veteran warrior, Akashi Quandeng was obviously dazzled by the Xiu family's arrangement. Instead of refusing the Xiu family to place the people in his own territory, he simply refused to allow the Qiezhidan people to enter his territory.

Xiujia and Akashi Jingqin's attitude of being afraid of Qiezhidan Ruhu made Akashi Quandeng full of confusion at the meeting, but after all, this was the highest-level meeting of Yuxi, so he didn't open his mouth to jump in the line, but he still frowned deeply.

"Don't worry, that's exactly what I'm going to say right now." Xiu Jia comforted her. "The Akashi family prepared 2.6 koku of Nakasa Okayama Castle and entrusted 3.5 koku of Iyo-Ochi Kokubun Mountain City, and led the whole county of Ochi. Your son, Akashi all boarded 1000 koku from Sanuki King Yueshan and transferred 3000 koku to Yongna Mountain City of Sangcun County. Father and son totaled 3 shi."

"I thank Your Highness for the reward, but should we consider the transfer of the Qiezhidan leader?" Ming Shi Jingqin said.

"With all due respect, I have seen Chechidan soldiers fighting more than once on the battlefield. They are indeed a fighting force that should not be underestimated. These citizens must find a way to resettle them.

I know that Sobutou has converted to Chechidan, and my idea is to hand them over to Sobu, and let him lead such a Chechidan army into battle.No problem, sweep department? "

After the Xiu family finished speaking, he looked at Akashi Quandeng. Akashi Quandeng didn't expect to be named by the Xiu family again. He was stunned for a moment and then accepted the job. "Please rest assured, I will deal with the believers properly."

Akashi Quandeng responded so quickly that he didn't see the angry look from his father.

Mingshi Jingqin has two sons in total, and the eldest son Quan Deng has now become the right arm of the Xiu family.The second son, Quan Yan, is serving in Xiujia's banner team as the team leader.

It can be seen that the Shi family has been deeply bound with the Xiu family, and Ming Shi Jingqin wants to refuse the request of the Xiu family.

Seeing that his eldest son had accepted an errand, Akashi Jingqin had no choice but to say, "In this case, I will leave this matter to Moriyuki (Akashi Zento's common name) and my subordinates, but please allow my subordinates to deal with them in the collar. Restrictions to prevent the spread of the Chechidan belief.”

"Father?" Akashi Quandeng was a little incredulous about his father's attitude, and at the same time, Xiujia said on the imperial steps, "You are the lord of Kokubun Mountain City, and you naturally make decisions about the affairs of the territory, but I think that in the specific In terms of work, you can communicate with the sweeping department."

The father and son looked at each other, and Akashi Jingqin responded, "I understand."

"It just so happened that the two counties of Sayo and Ako in the Harima country were taken back, and the three of Akikami Hisaya, Kamei Tosaki, and Fujido Takatora lost their land. I originally planned to resettle the three of them to Iyo. You can communicate more by then , after all, they are all of the same generation.”

"Kamei Izumo, you happen to be here, and I am going to place you at 1.5 stone in Kume County, Iyokuni. The original Honjo City Iwakara Castle is in the mountains, and I allow you to choose a new building on the Kume Plain. According to the city.

I think the corner of Xinchuan is very good, just controlling the pass between East Iyo and West Iyo.Why not just build a castle here, and call the new castle Kume Castle. "

"You have to remember that you are the daimyo who are closest to the Fukushima family and the Kato family, so you must pay special attention to every move of the two families. If there is an accident in their territory, you must strictly guard Kume Castle to prevent rogues from entering the east. Yiyu is in chaos."

"Yes, thank you Your Highness for the reward." Kamei Tomoki already had some thoughts when he came to the Xiu family. Not long ago, he had just obtained the identity of Wan Shi daimyo, and now he was being moved by the Xiu family by virtue of the Dongfeng whose ability was recovered. Seal it.

Although the 1.5 stone is only 1.5% of Xiujia Quanling's volume, there are only a handful of people who can have the status of a daimyo at the moment.Kamei Tomoki is also very satisfied with the result of his job-hopping to Xiujia.

In history, Kamei Tomoki was granted 2 koku of Luye Castle directly after the Battle of Inaba, and was not sealed for several years, until it was sealed to 5 koku after the Battle of Keicho Bunroku.

If Kamei Tomoki in this life knew that he might have done better under the monkey's command, I don't know how he would feel.

After dealing with the township daimyo of Iyo and Hoki, we finally came to the last country, Inaba.

Inaba received all 12.8 koku. Except for Higashi Hoki, who was subordinated by Miyabe Jijun and Yamana Yutoyo, the remaining 7 koku was in the hands of Hideka.

Hideka and Miyabe Jijun took Hushanchi as the boundary, and each led half of Takasao County. Among them, the most fertile and flat eastern part was obtained by Miyabe Jijun, and Xiujia only obtained about 1.1 shi in the west of Takaso County.

Hideka is going to use this territory to house Yoshioka Dingkatsu.

Fangjiwei City was originally the home city of the Yoshioka family, but now it is just returned to the original owner.

Secondly, the Yoshioka family has not been awarded a big entrustment for so many years, because when they first recruited him, they overpaid 8000 shi for Zhixing.

With the size of the Yoshioka family at the time, it was definitely not worth the money, so it has been paying off the old debts for so many years.

But it's not good to keep the Yoshioka family up, it will give the other party a feeling that the master's family doesn't take it seriously, and now it's just taking this opportunity to arrange for them.

Now Yoshioka Dingsheng leads Zhitou Atago with 1.1 shi, and Hideka brigadier transfers him to Zhixing with 1.1 shi in Fangjio City, Takaso County + 5000 shi in the west of Yashang County, totaling 1.6 shi.

Then the remaining 4.4 stones are just enough to house the Gangli Sheng family.

The Okali Katsuya family has guarded Meizuo for many years, and now it is time to move them a nest, otherwise, the influence of the Oka family in Meizuo will increase sharply after a long time, which is not conducive to Xiujia's control of Meizuo.

Now Okari Katsuki takes Takata Castle as its home city, and its territory spans Misaku Bichu with a total of 3.1 shi. Hideka plans to transfer it to Luye Castle in Qiduo County, with an additional 2.2 shi. ) 1 stones, wisdom head 1.3 stones, totaling 4.5 stones of knowledge and action.

In order to accommodate Yoshioka Dadakatsu's defense of 1.6 shi, Okali Katsu's territory was forced to be divided into two pieces.However, the Gang family received a seal of 1.4 shi, equivalent to 50% of his original territory, which is already a great reward.

Therefore, after Hideka dragged out his own ideas, Okali Katsuki agreed after thinking for a while, "I will definitely guard Inaba Kingdom for Your Highness."

Gang Lisheng was removed from Meizuo, so another person had to be selected to enter Meizuo.

It just so happened that at this time, the wealthy families in Mizusaka had no idea of ​​moving. With the departure of Okatoshi, Mizusaka had room to move.

"Hitachisuke (Osafune Sadako), I plan to transfer you to the territory of Misaku Katsunan, Hideta, and Kume Nanjo counties totaling 3.1 koku. The base is in Samsung City in Katsunan county."

The Xiu family confided their ideas together, and the long boat family will bring 2.3 stones from the former Stone City to transfer the 3.1 stones of the three stars of the beauty, and get the seal of 8000 stones.

Correspondingly, the other wealthy territories of Meizuo need fine-tuning.

Originally the lord of Xiaocaotian City's 1.15 stone city, Xinmen Sadahiro, as the earliest Tsuyama backup captain of the Hide family, has a lot of prestige in Misaku, and he can just be transferred to the original position of Oka Toshikatsu to lead Takata, Daba County The city is 1.4 stone.

The Takeuchi family can transfer 1.8 shi from Yuanzhuangguan, 2 shi to Youyuan City, Shengbei County, and 1.6 shi to Beifang City, Zhendao County from the Youyuan family.

Harada Zhenzao transferred 1.3 koku from Iwaya Castle to 1.6 koku of Inariyama Castle, Kume Hojo County.

The Miura family originally in Kume Hojo County was considered to be the half-uncle family of the Hide family, no matter how much the Hide family disliked them, they had to give something.

Therefore, the Xiu family planned to transfer 1.35 koku from Inariyama Castle to the 1.5 koku counties of Tohokujo and Nannanjo. The original base city was Koya Castle not far northeast of Tsuyama Castle.

Mu Liangchang transferred 1.2 koku from Ida Castle, Oba County to Chikuyama Castle, Yoshino County, and Mu Guoxin transferred 1.1 koku to Ichinose Castle from Motoyama Castle, Mashima County.

In addition, Jiang Jian's family will also transfer 7000 shi to Xiaocaotian City, Northwest Tiao County from 9000 shi in Wubanshan City, Yingtian County.

So far, the actual height of Mizuo is 17.5 shi, and 14.4 shi has been entrusted. The 3 shi in the Jinshan Plain, which is dominated by Jinshan City in the south of Xibeitiao County, is still in the hands of the Xiu family.

"What do you think of this arrangement?" Due to too many families being transferred, the Xiu family had to write down the specific transfers on paper and pass them on to the elders.

Among them, Akashi Jingqin and Ukita Kanjia were arranged in Hoki and Iyo respectively. The matter of Misaku had nothing to do with them, so they just checked the paper and did not express their opinions.

As for Oka Toshikatsu, the former Misaka town elder, and Osafune Sadakin as the succeeding town elder, the opinions of these two people are undoubtedly very important.

Oka Toshikatsu, who is Misaku Jiuzhen, was the first to express his concern, "Will this large-scale adjustment of the territories of the powerful families cause commotion?"

"His Royal Highness transfers the family that was originally beautiful in the southern kingdom to the northern kingdom, and transfers the family in the northern kingdom to be sad, and there is even a situation where the beauty of the east and the west are exchanged."

"As a rule of thumb, the noble family should not transfer the seal if it is a crime. I'm afraid His Highness's actions will cause dissatisfaction among the local wealthy family?"

Hideka thought about Okatoshi's thoughts, and this point really needs to be paid attention to.The Xiu family knew in their hearts that this might be the last time the Xiu family adjusted their situation in the territory, and they had to take advantage of the big rewards to strengthen their control over the powerful families in the territory.

So Hideka said to Oka Toshikatsu, "Misaku Mamoru's opinion is indeed worthy of consideration, but isn't it enough for me to seal these wealthy families? It is enough to express my condolences."

"Since Misaku Mamoru thinks that such a large-scale transfer will cause unnecessary misunderstanding, then I would like to ask Hitasuke to go to Inaba as soon as possible.

There are two family elders in Meizuo who want to come to the country, and their dissatisfaction caused by the transfer of seals can also be alleviated.Is it okay for me to leave this matter to you two? "

"Yes, please rest assured, Your Highness, this is what a courtier should do." Gang Lisheng replied.

"Well, is there any question?" The Xiu family looked at Changchuan Zhenqin who hadn't spoken yet.

Osafune Sadaaki met Hideka's eyes and said, "Samsung Plain is second only to Tsuyama Plain, and Misaku has a small granary. At the same time, it also controls the road connecting Bizen. Your Highness placed me here with care." Good and bad.

Please rest assured, Your Highness, I will think more about Meizuo Shou and study, and take over the responsibility of Hao Meizuo Shou Meizuo.As for the matter of Meizuo's reseal, I will also take Meizuo's opinion as the main point. "

Seeing that the opinions of the two were unified, Hideka let go of his worries, and turned his attention to the last person, Hidean Togawa, who is the elder of the writing family.

(End of this chapter)