Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 259 Marriage Contract with Todo Takatora
The entire assessment process is relatively complicated and lasts from morning to afternoon.The main reason is that the Xiu family needs to personally issue certificates of appreciation and rewards to every retainer and wealthy family.

This is not just a matter of procedures and ceremonies, the most important thing is that this is an oath of sovereignty.Japanese lords use this ceremony to reaffirm their master-servant relationship with the recipient.

Yuxi's family's territory has increased to a million stones, and there are thousands of samurai retainers under their command.

The testimonials of these people need to be handed out by Xiu family one by one, and at the same time say something like "please keep working hard" or "thank you Fenggong" to him.

At the end of the day, Xiujia's voice was a little hoarse.

It is no wonder that after the expansion of knowledge and practice, many daimyos in the Warring States Period were troubled by this kind of "red tape". For example, Nobunaga Oda would hardly hold this kind of conference in the later period, and generally gave rewards in several small meetings.

But the Xiu family hopes to use such a grand ceremony to publicize the strength of the Yuxi family, and at the same time the Xiu family itself does not have the sense of slack like those daimyos.

On the contrary, Xiujia, who is familiar with history, attaches great importance to this part, and often talks about the words "Yu En Feng Gong" and takes action on it.

In any case, this difficult evaluation was finally over, and Xiujia did not participate in the subsequent banquet as usual.

Japanese evaluation banquets are not always at night, and the samurai who have been hungry for a long time can finally feast on it.

The samurai gathered together to toast each other in pairs of threes and threes. No one noticed that Todo Takatora was called out by the samurai of the Hide family and slipped away through the small door beside him.

The Xiu family received Fujido Takatora in the side hall beside the Dahiro room. Unlike the hustle and bustle of the Da Hiro room, the Xiu family's side seemed extraordinarily quiet.

Fujido Takahu came down to the side hall under the guidance of his attendants, and when he saw the Xiu family sitting in the hall, he hurried forward to salute.

"Anfangshou, get up, the reason why I didn't meet you in Daguangjian is because I don't want to be cautious on this side." Hideka said to Fujido Takahu.

After Fujido Takatora got up and sat down with Hideo, Hideka suddenly asked Todo Takatora, "Are you satisfied with the arrangement of 2.1 shi in Komatsu City, Iyo Shubu County?"

"Yes, I have been awarded the title, and I will continue to fight for His Highness in Xinling." Fujido Takatora's answer was quite satisfactory, and Xiujia was actually not very satisfied with this answer, so he continued to speak.

"As far as the family is concerned, the knowledge and practice of 2 shi is already the only one among the new members. I hope you can not stop there, and one day become a member of the old members of the family."

"Thank you for the reward, Your Highness. I will definitely take this as my goal and serve His Highness."

"Hey, no matter how you speak, you are still restrained like this"

In fact, Xiujia’s words are a bit of Versailles. After all, Xiujia is a monarch and a boss. The boss may want to be close to his subordinates and hope that his subordinates will tell him the truth, but how can his subordinates not hesitate?

"Gao Hu has been with the family for some time, I remember we met in Himeji Castle, and I recruited you with half of my knowledge." The Xiu family continued to be promiscuous.

"Yes, looking back now, the past is still echoing in front of my eyes."

At that time, the two met in Himeji Castle Town. Hideka only had 1500 shi at that time, and Hideka directly took out 1000 shi to recruit Fujido Takatora, and shouted the slogan of equal salary for monarch and minister.

Today, the Xiu family has inherited the Yuxi family for many years, and the Yuxi family is now a big name in the Western Kingdom of Million Stones.

It has been impossible for the emperor and ministers to have the same salary since the Xiu family became the head of the family. Fujido Gaohu also understands that this kind of thinking is unrealistic. Now that he has been awarded 2 shi Zhixing and became a new member of the Yuxi family, it is already the beginning of the Xiu family. The conditions are exceptionally favorable, so I am quite satisfied.

Many people think that Todo Takatora has no principles and is a villain who is not loyal to his lord. The reason is that he has changed 7/8 monarchs in his life.

In fact, every time Fujido Takatora changes the lord is mostly because these lords have never betrayed the lord when they dedicated themselves to the master after they were defeated or died.

Historically, Masasumi, the son of Tsuda Nobusumi, the former master of Fujido Takatora, fought against the Tokugawa family as the Toyotomi side during the Osaka Summer Battle.

Of course, this kind of concept was still regarded as alien when they were encouraged to dedicate themselves to the master, but the Xiu family could accept this kind of talent, and even felt that those who followed the master's family for selfishness were foolish and loyal and not worthy of being reused.

In fact, it can be seen from Fujido Takatora's subsequent performance that he is a samurai who is trustworthy and capable.

Don't look at the fact that Yuxiduo's army has won hundreds of battles for so many years, and Yuxiduo's territory has continued to expand. In fact, there are many problems within Yuxiduo.

The most important thing is that Yuxi's family lacks a commander who can lead the partial army alone, and Xiujia must personally take command every time.

The performance of the Battle of Sekigahara and the subsequent Battle of Osaka tells us that Akashi Zento may be an option, but his own Catholic status makes Hideka very taboo.

Historically, the essential reason for the turmoil in the Yuxi family was the concentrated outbreak of conflicts between the Pure Land Sect and the Qiezhidan faction. It happened that many of the Qiezhidan daimyos held civil positions at home, so they were put on the cloak of fighting civil and imperial struggles.

In fact, when the Ukita turmoil occurred, many Buddhists within the Bunyu faction joined the ranks of forcing the palace. In essence, they drove the Qietzhidan forces out of the Kibi Three Kingdoms by forcing the palace against the monarch Ukitahide's family.

Akashi Quandeng's ability is unquestionable. Being appointed by the Xiu family as the last old writer of the family fully demonstrates his internal affairs power; being able to be granted the full authority of the Xiu family as the commander of the Battle of Sekigahara fully demonstrates his fighting ability .

But even so, the Xiu family in the present world is not as friendly to Qie Zhidan as in history, and even the Xiu family who have experienced the terrifying power of Qie Zhidan are secretive about this.

The Xiu family urgently needs an alternative plan. After they are forced to cut seats with Qiezhidan in the future, someone from the Yuxi family can replace Akashi Quandeng and become the existence of the banner of resistance.

The manager is now the retainer of the Yuxi family, and the Xiu family only sees Todo Takahu alone, which is also a somewhat helpless choice for the Xiu family.

Sometimes, the Hide family really envied Tokugawa Ieyasu very much. Under his leadership, the Tokugawa family could pull out Sakai, Ishikawa, Kanbara, Ii, Honda and other independent samurai successively. available.

"Yeah, even if you officially joined the main family, it has been 3 years, and now you have become a 2 stone daimyo, why haven't you considered the continuation of the Fujido family?"

"In fact, some adults did come to my door and told me about some marriages." Todo Takatora admitted generously, "It's just that I have been busy with business a few days ago and have not responded."

"Since that's the case, how about I suggest a marriage for An Fangshou?" Xiujia asked tentatively.

"It's an honor to be married by Your Highness. I don't know which family's lady it is, so I can go back and prepare the dowry." Fujido Takahu said with a smile.

"For the dowry gift, you really have to prepare well, because you are going to marry the daughter of Yuxi's family."

"The daughter of the Yuxi family?" Fujido Takahu was taken aback when he heard this answer, and then asked the Xiu family, "Which adult is the biological father?"

Takahu Fujido obviously didn't understand what the Xiu family meant by ""Uxi's family of daughters", he also thought that the Xiu family planned to replace his father's Nao family to adopt a retainer's daughter as an adopted daughter to marry him.

This is actually the most common way of marriage in the Warring States Period of Japan. After all, the daughter of the head of the family is mostly used for marriages between other daimyos of the peace level.

Those who can marry their daughters to the family of retainers are some famous names with weak rulers and strong ministers, and the Yuxi Family obviously does not belong to such an existence.

And when such powerful daimyos marry their daughters, they usually choose to marry by adopting the daughters of other retainers as adopted daughters.

In this way, I don't need to give my real daughter in essence, and I can still achieve the role of hooking retainers. After all, my own daughter is really born, and there are so many retainers who need to win over, no matter how much a stallion can't be born.

Such actions in the Warring States Period of Japan are actually very common. Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi often did this during the Azuchi Momoyama period.

For example, Hideyoshi's elder sister is the Yoshikawa Hiroya who was adopted by Hideyoshi as an adopted daughter and married, and Hao Ji is also the daughter of Maeda Toshiie, who was eventually married by Hideyoshi to his adopted son Hideka.

"Is it because I didn't say it clearly enough? I mentioned the daughter of the Yuxi family." The Xiu family repeated again, "Since you asked who the biological father is, let me think about his official name..."

Although Xiujia did have the idea of ​​being weird, he didn't pretend to be contemplative.

He really can't remember the last official position of his father's Zhi family. After all, his official position was often promoted in the last two years.

"He is called Ukita, Dazai and Shaoer, do you still have any impression of Mamoru Anfang?" Hideka said, looking at Takatora Todo with a smirk on his face.

"Dazai Shaoer is the top five high school!" Fujido Takatora said in surprise, and then fell into deep thought. He wondered if there was such a top five high door village among the Hide family's relatives.

But after thinking about it, Izumishou, the patriarch of the Yuxi family, who used to call himself in the past, was just a junior national guard from the sixth rank. If the former master of the Yuxi family had won the official position of the fifth rank, wouldn't it be a big deal?

It's no wonder that Fujido Gaohu didn't understand the reason. After all, when he returned to Yuki's family, the Nao family had passed away for a while, and it is understandable that he didn't know the Nao family.

But Kenjiro, who was beside the Xiu family, stared wide-eyed and couldn't believe it, and looked at the Xiu family in surprise, "Is the lord going to marry the princess to the retainers?"

"I can't figure out which lord it is. As far as I know, the lord who retired doesn't have this official position. Please tell your highness clearly." After thinking for a while, Fujido Takatora finally shook his head, expressing himself Have no idea.

In his cognition, the relatives of the Uki family are weak, even if some adults from the Ukita and Kojima families who were given the Miao characters of Uki family are counted, there seems to be no such top five adults.

"It's my father, Ukita Dazai and Shao Erzhijiadian." Speaking of his father, Xiujia also put away his teasing heart, and introduced Takahu Fujido, who was sitting upright, "I plan to marry my sister Lianzi to you, I don't know What is your intention?"

"His Highness Xianxian?" Fujido Takahu asked in surprise, "You said you plan to marry Xiandian's mother (daughter), your sister to me?"

"Yes, that's exactly what I mean." Hideka's reply was very serious, and he looked at Takatora Fujido with bright eyes.

"But. But what can I do. I'm just a new member, not a family member. I..." Hearing that the Xiu family planned to marry their own sisters to him, Fujido Takahu became a little incoherent for a moment.

For a samurai, being able to marry the adopted daughter of the master's family is already a blessing from heaven. Ordinary people dare not expect to get the daughter of the master's family, but now this big pie is thrown away by the Xiu family. In the hands of Fujido Takatora.

Although Fujido Takatora came from a low background, he knew the meaning of it after so many years of experience in different samurai families. No wonder he couldn't believe it after hearing the Hide family's proposal.

"So, An Fangshou needs to work hard, so that he can be worthy of being a member of his family."

"A family?" Todo Takatora looked at Hideka with dull eyes, as if he wanted to confirm the news with him.

"Well, one family, we will be a family from now on."

The term "family" seemed so strange to Todo Gaohu's ears. The Todo family was passed down to Gaohu's generation, but in fact it faced the same problem as the Uki family-unhappy heirs.

Todo Takatora's elder sister had already married a samurai named Suzuki Yazaemon. In the past, Todo Takatora was just a precarious ronin samurai, so it was naturally impossible to give his sister a good marriage.

Later, Fujido Takahu made a fortune, and his sister took this brother-in-law to defect to him and became his retainer.

But Suzuki Yazaemon's background is not high, he is just an ordinary servant in the Omi country, he can't lead the army to fight and write essays, so naturally he is not reused by Todo Takatora.

Fujido Gaohu just gave him a salary of 600 shi to support him because he was his brother-in-law.

Essentially speaking, the current Fujido Takatora is still a loner, and he hasn't heard the name "relative" for a long time.

"A family?" Fujido Takatora lowered his head and said with tears streaming from the corners of his eyes.

Seeing Fujido Takatora's performance, Hideka was a little overwhelmed, and asked from the imperial steps, "Gaohu, are you okay? If you have something difficult to say, you can tell me. I'm just asking for your opinion, and I don't force you to do it." The meaning of marrying my sister."

"No, my lord." Fujido Takahu heard that Xiu's family seemed to be retreating, quickly restrained his crying, and solemnly bowed to Xiu's family and said, "I'm crying because I'm happy.

Since the collapse of the Asai family, I haven't heard the term "family" for a long time.I never thought that I would hold such a heavy weight in the heart of the lord. "

"I am very grateful for Your Highness's kindness. There is nothing to repay you in this life, but to break up and break your bones to repay your kindness."

Speaking of this, Todo Takatora solemnly knocked his head on the floor, and made a very obvious sound, "Please fulfill my lord."

Seeing that Fujido Takatora agreed to the marriage, the Xiu family also nodded and returned to the imperial steps, and teased him, "Since you are going to marry the noble daughter of the family, Iyo's morale will be in the palace. You can't keep my sister waiting for you."

"Ha Yi, please rest assured, Your Highness, the situation on Yiyu's side will be settled down as soon as possible, and His Royal Highness will definitely marry into our family in a prosperous manner."

"Although it is I who married my sister to you, it is indeed an eyesore for the main family to marry the princess to the retainers. You go to find an old man to act as a matchmaker for you, ask me to marry you, and the matter will be settled."

"Are you the elder? But I'm not very familiar with the elders of the family?" Fujido Takahu, who was excited in his heart, didn't realize that he was in trouble here.

He was originally a new retainer, a newly promoted retainer of the Xiu family. He didn't have much power in the family, and he didn't have any friendship with the original six family members of the genealogical family. What should we do about this matter.

"Did you forget who the chief of Yiyo is? Under his command, he is in charge of guarding the country of Iyo. I will ask Yiyo to be a matchmaker soon." Xiujia couldn't help reminding him when he saw his stupid look.

"Ah! Yes." Takatora Todo, who was instructed by Hideo, was as clear as a cloud and saw the sun. He also secretly made up his mind to perform well in the process of suppressing Iyo's opposition forces. When the time comes, he will ask Akashi Keiki to help him as a matchmaker. .

(End of this chapter)