Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 277 Reaching Osaka
"What are you two talking about?"

At the moment when Hideya and Shimizu Nobuya were communicating, Katagiri Kazumoto had already explained the matter, leaned in, and could vaguely hear the words "Niwa's family", which aroused his interest.

"It's nothing, but on the way, I met Mr. Niwa Nagamasa, who was transferred to Kaga, and communicated with him for a while. I heard that His Highness Kanbai and Uncle Hidecho accepted a samurai from the Niwa family Nobi, and was praised by the people below. .”

Katagiri Kazumoto was sure that what he heard just now was not this sentence, but he was still very smart and did not continue to ask, but brought up a new topic instead.

"Since His Highness returned to Osaka, His Highness Kanbai has ordered the construction of Mae Hashiba's mansion to be overtime.

It's really time for His Highness to come down now, but it was just yesterday, most of the decorations just went up.

The Master of Beizheng Office personally selected the furniture for His Highness, so that His Highness can live in his own house. "

While speaking, the boat had already docked, and Katagiri Kamoto led Hideka off the boat.

Although Osaka Castle is still under construction, the castle town has gradually become the most prosperous city in Japan, and the scope of the castle town extends all the way to both sides of the Yodo River.

As early as when Katagiri Kamoto crossed the river from here to welcome the Hide family, this wharf at the mouth of the Yodogawa River had already been taken over by Toyotomi’s family’s bannermen. a road.

This was the first time Xiujia received such a big ostentation.

Even after Hideyoshi got on his horse, there were more than a dozen equestrian warriors with light-colored female clothes on their backs, yellow battle robes and yellow ropes connected in series, who were Hideyoshi's personal guards in front of Hideyoshi—— Huang Muyi has many clothes.

In order to highlight the visual effect, later generations of film and television and game works often use different colors in large areas to distinguish the armies of different forces.

However, in the past when productivity was extremely low, pigments were very expensive materials, and the most common color for common people to distinguish was the gray stains that were stained on clothing all the year round.

Most of the family military divisions are only distinguished by family crests. Everyone uniformly uses white flags, and most of them will use some common colors to distinguish the colors of the patterns, but most of them are still black patterns on white ground.

Only key troops will be equipped with paints that the owner agrees to purchase.Otherwise, with the meager wages of warriors in the Warring States Period, it would be insufficient to support armored horses, let alone paint them with colorful colors.

Hideyoshi really likes yellow, but regardless of his wealth and wealth, except for his own main formation, the flag pointers and formation flags of all the banners and formations under his command still use black-striped flags on a white background.

Hideyoshi really likes ostentation, but that doesn't mean he's stupid. Such decorative things are still a bit flashy in this troubled time of the Warring States Period. Until now, he has only equipped a team of more than a hundred people with such a gold-armored warrior all over his body.

Echoing the mothers in yellow are the dozens of people around Xiu's family wearing blue prestige ropes in series, and the front is a localized version that is stamped from three whole pieces of iron armor, distributed in the shape of "pin". The banner warriors of the southern barbarians.

Although they didn't hang flags or mother's clothes on their backs, the riding bows on their backs that were as high as people and the arrow pots hanging on both sides of the horses all showed others that they were not easy to mess with.

Looking up one more platform, I found that all these attendants and warriors had a blue goose feather swaying in the wind on top of their heads.

Yellow and blue are the main theme of this team. Two colors with different styles, one cold and one warm, echo each other here, constantly promoting their master status to passers-by around them.

On both sides of the restrained road, a young warrior broke through the crowd and came to the front of the queue to observe the marching queue closely.

Beside him was an extremely burly warrior with a ferocious face.Coupled with the samurai swords hanging from their waists, all the people around them shy away from the three colors.

The obvious target on their side really attracted the attention of the Toyotomi Banner guards around them.

Not long after, two Banner warriors in armor and helmets arrived with more than a dozen ashigaru, stood in front of them, and questioned their identities.I am afraid that they are assassins and will do something wrong to the "nobles" in the queue.

"My lord, I'm a warrior from Kyushu Otomo's family. I came to Luobai with my lord, Otomo Zuo, to meet Guan Bai." Facing the interrogation, the warrior spread his hands helplessly, expressing that he had no wrong thoughts.

Of course, the turmoil here also attracted the attention of the samurai in the queue. Two armored samurai, Masahiro Date, who was in charge of guarding the Xiu family, came here and stared at the "dangerous elements" in front of them, and finally let the As a young man from Kyushu, he observed the armaments of the Ukido Bannermen at close range.

A small episode did not attract Xiujia's attention. In the troubled times of the Warring States Period, both ronin and samurai were the most common existence, and there would be a special person in charge of watching them.

The story here just made Xiujia glance at it. Coincidentally, the young warrior who was surrounded in the middle just raised his head to look at Xiujia, and met Xiujia's gaze.

After Xiu's family left, the Toyotomi family's flag book that watched over them gradually dispersed.

The young samurai surrounded by several people looked at another young man beside him and asked, "Kichiemon, what do you think?"

The samurai who was called responded, "It is indeed a rare and powerful army, especially the blue-armored samurai in the back are more elite than the Toyotomi mothers in the front.

Nowadays, there are not many samurai who can still insist on Yabusame equestrianism. I heard that Bizen left center general has an entire Yabusame team with a size of 500 people. I think this is the key to his constant victory. "

"I just saw that their armor seems to be in a uniform style, which is different from our traditional large armor and small tie armor. It has a bit of a Nanman armor. You must know that a Nanman armor is worth more than a hundred guan. Woolen cloth."

After Jiemon spoke, another person next to him answered.

"If the 500 banners given to him by the left central general are all equipped with such equipment, the equipment alone will cost 5 guan."

"I took a closer look at the horses under their crotch. They all have a waist height of more than 1 meters. They must be good horses from Kanto. There must be hundreds of such horses."

The young man listened to the answers of the partners around him, and the young man named Kichiemon couldn't help but said, "That is to say, this 500-member Yabusame team alone cost more than 10 kan Wen, this amount of money can completely form a strong army of thousands of people. Is Bizen really so rich?"

The reason why the Yabusame horse team was gradually eliminated during the Warring States Period naturally has his reasons. Leaving aside the years of training of these cavalry warriors, the cost of forming and maintaining the horse team is an astronomical figure.

It's no wonder that in the Warring States period, the Ueno is the Kohata Yabusame team with only a hundred people.

"So, this Hashiba Zuo Lieutenant General of Bizen Kingdom, like Guan Baidian, is also a person who likes luxury?" After summarizing the replies from the surrounding companions, the samurai surrounded by everyone was a little puzzled Said.

But as soon as he said this judgment, he shook his head and denied it himself, "The samurai who can defeat Kobayakawa and Nagamune is definitely not a guy who likes flashy things, and I just saw his eyes. Liar."

Naturally, the Xiu family didn't know the judgment of several people on the Xiu family.With such a grand ostentation at the Xiu family, it is certain that it will attract the attention of passers-by on the road.

Fortunately, under the guidance of Huang Muyizhong, Xiu's family came to the city of Daban peacefully.

Although the large force had been placed in Amagasaki by Hideo, the number of samurai/attendants carrying weapons still exceeded 50 when they came to the castle. Class, one group will go to the mansion with His Royal Highness, and one group will I send someone to take the other group to the samurai residence in the castle town?"

Although Katagiri Kazumoto used the questioning sentence, Hideka agreed without even thinking about it. After all, this is Osaka Castle, Hideyoshi's residence.

As Katagiri Kasumi waited along the ramp to the Sannomaru, which was still under construction, Hideka's mansion came into view.The residence of the Bizen Hashiba domain represented by the Hide family was given to the south of the Sannomaru Tamamakou, opposite the residence of Toyotomi Hidecho. (Currently here at Civic Park)
Due to the limitation of the land area, the area of ​​the entire mansion is not large, there are only three courtyards at the front and back, and the land area is more than 3 pings.

When the Xiu family and others came here, the layout inside seemed to be unfinished, servants and maids kept coming in and out, very lively.

Just when the Xiu family was confused about whether to go in, a greeting came from behind, "Hachiro, why don't you come to my place first?"

Xiujia turned his head and saw that it was Toyotomi Hideaga who was waving to him.

"It's Uncle Xiuchang!" The Xiu family dismounted excitedly and walked towards him. "Seeing your healthy and healthy appearance, I feel relieved."

"What are you talking about, your uncle and I are in good health." Xiu Zhang replied inexplicably.

"But I heard on the way that you adopted the adopted son of the Niwa family, which made me worry about your health."

Hearing that Xiujia mentioned the matter of Xianwan, Xiuchang put away the joy on his face slightly, held up Xiujia's little hand and said, "Let's go in first and then talk about it."

"It has already been built overtime, but it is a pity that it still cannot be completed before your arrival. You might as well rest at my house today, and move in after a few days after the construction of the mansion opposite your door is completed."

As soon as he entered the house of Echizen Toyotomi's house, Toyotomi Hideaga greeted Hidea very warmly.

The Hide family followed Hideyoshi into the Taoist residence. As Toyotomi Hideyoshi's closest younger brother, his courtyard area is the largest in the entire Osaka city, which really made it easy for the Hide family.

Xiuchang even dug a small pond in his yard, and repaired a small tea room in the pond that can only accommodate 4 to 5 people. When both of them were seated, Xiuchang personally poured tea for Xiu's family.

"I think you have also guessed that the reason for adopting Xianwan was indeed as you thought, it was for the purpose of appeasing.

But after Xianmaru arrived here, I found out that he is indeed a clever child, and I really wanted to make him my adopted son.

Since you have mentioned this matter today, I also want to ask you something here. "

Seeing Toyotomi Hideumaga's serious appearance, Hideka's heart also tugged, "Uncle invited me, but it doesn't matter."

"I'm 47 years old this year (false age), to tell you the truth, in the past two years I have often felt powerless.

You are the most down-to-earth child I have ever seen. In case I have any accidents in the future, Xianmaru will trouble you, brother-in-law, to look for it a lot. "

"Didn't uncle just say that?"

"These are just talk, do you know that I have gone to Setjin State-owned Matang Mountain twice this year to recuperate."

"The hot springs are treated with serum to prolong your life. Even I often go to the hot springs. Uncle, don't worry too much." Xiujia comforted Xiuchang.

"You are different from me. You go to the hot springs to keep in good health, and I go to the hot springs to cure diseases."

"What's wrong with uncle?" Hearing that Xiuchang was ill, the Xiu family asked eagerly, "Didn't you be fine at the beginning of the year? Have you ever asked the doctor?"

"Keep down, I didn't even tell my elder brother about this." Maybe it was because Xiu's voice was a little louder, so Xiu Chang hastily opened his mouth to lower his volume.

"It's nothing serious, it's just that sometimes I feel weak all over, and my arms can't work hard.

I also sought out some doctors, but they couldn't find any problems. They always talked about the lack of energy and blood, but no matter how much they took medicine, there was no improvement.

It was a master of Kinzo-in who suggested to me to learn the method of Takeda Daizen Tonji.Not to mention that it is really useful, every time you take a bath in the hot spring, you feel much more comfortable.

For this reason, I also sent someone to go to Youmatang Mountain every day to fetch water and come back to cook soup. With this bucket of soup, I can be more active every day. "

When Toyotomi Hidecho stated himself, his tone was very calm, and it was not at all obvious that he was a patient who had been suffering from physical discomfort for many years, but what he said sounded a bit sad in the ears of the Xiu family.

If I remember correctly, Toyotomi Hidecho in history began to frequently enter Settsu State-owned Matang Mountain for recuperation around the 14th year of Tensho (1586). This is regarded as a symbol of the gradual change in Hidecho's health .

After the Kyushu Expedition, although he was still named as the general general, most of Kuroda Takataka and Fujido Takatora commanded the battle, and Hidecho himself spent most of his time in Bungo to recuperate.

It seems that Toyotomi Hidecho's body had problems as early as 14 years before Tianzheng, but he couldn't hold on anymore, because it was recorded in history because of frequent access to hot springs.

"My body can't stand winter. I can't use my hands and feet. I can't bear the winter in Hokuriku. So I have already told my brother that I won't go to Hokuriku this time. It's up to you." Accompanied by Hejibei."

"If you don't go to Hokuriku, let's go. Anyway, your body is the most important thing." Hideka was still immersed in the important information that Toyotomi Hideaga told him that his health was not good, and he didn't care about such trivial matters at all. replied.

Who would have thought that Xiuchang's next sentence really surprised Xiujia.

"I have already asked my brother to change my fiefdom. I can't even go to the Northland area. How can I suppress the place?"

(End of this chapter)