Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 292
The purpose of Hideyoshi's visit to Hokuriku this time is to reconcile the relationship between Uesugi and the Tokugawa family. Now the Uesugi family has expressed surrender and will cooperate with Hideyoshi's attitude of stabilizing Shinano to make Hideyoshi very satisfied.

Hideyoshi was going to give another sweet date to eat, and said to Uesugi Jingsheng, "Major General Zuo Xuan, is there anything else you need to ask me for instructions?"

Uesugi Kagekatsu thought that today's meeting was an ordinary meeting, but who would have thought that his mind would be buzzing after being bombarded by Hideyoshi's bombs, and now Hideyoshi asked him what reward he needed and couldn't come up with it for a while.

It was Naoe Kanesuke who was behind him and said, "Your Highness, please allow the family to obtain the ownership of Sado."

It turns out that although the mining of Sado Gold Mine had to wait until 16 in the 1588th year of Tensho, there were rumors of gold production in Sado Mountain in the Echigo Kingdom.

After all, Sado's territory is less than 1 koku, but in the past, it was able to gather a team of more than 1000 people to rob Echigo. Moreover, Sado's famous names such as Yamada Naoyasu are rumored to be extremely generous. Naoe Kanetsugu has long suspected Sado There are gold mines.

Now that Hideyoshi has issued an order to do nothing in the world, it is fine if he does not submit to Hideyoshi if he joins Sado. He is afraid that the lords in Sado will surrender to Hideyoshi and the Uesugi family will lose the righteousness to attack Sado.

Now that Hideyoshi asked about rewards, Naoe Kanezuri simply opened his mouth and took Sado's conquest rights into his pocket.

Although Sado Island is very large, there are mountains on both sides. Only the limestone-filled plains in the middle are partially agriculturally planted. It is known that the total will exceed 1 shi. How could Hideyoshi care about the ownership of this small 1 shi?

Hideka even felt that Hideyoshi might not even know where Sado was, so he agreed to Naoe Kanetsugu's request in a daze.

The real development of Sado had to wait until the Edo shogunate period. By the time of the Shoho Town Account (1644-1651), the stone height of Sado had reached 13 shi, and it became a proper middle-level leader.

Sure enough, Hideyoshi said indifferently to Naoe Kanetsugu's request, "Sado? It is indeed a good place. If the Uesugi family wants it, then I will give it to you."

"Is Sado still a good place now?" Xiu's forehead couldn't help shedding embarrassing black lines, thinking helplessly in his heart, "Sure enough, this monkey doesn't even know where Sado is."

Although Naoe Kanetsugu who was sitting below felt that Hideyoshi's answer was outrageous, he still hurriedly took Uesugi Kekatsu to salute and thank him, really afraid that he would regret knowing Sado's true value.

Today's meeting has come to an end, Hideyoshi said to Xiujia and Xiukang, "You guys help me see Major General Zuo Xuan and the others."

After finishing speaking, he got up and left first, Xiujia was called over to accompany him for a while, except for watching a few wonderful performances, he had no sense of participation at all.

After Hideyoshi left, Xiukang finally couldn't hold back his joy and collapsed from the cushion, walking towards Xiu's house.

Xiujia saw Xiukang's joy, but reached out to stop him from getting close, and politely sent Uesugi and Jingsheng back to their house to rest.

In fact, Xiukang didn't take Xiujia's suggestion seriously before, but when he and Hideyoshi asked and got permission, Xiukang's attitude towards Xiujia changed greatly, so that the two of them just sat down and praised Xiujia: " Brother Balang, you are really amazing, how do you think your father will agree?"

The Hide family asked Nobuo Shimizu to bring a pot of water into the house from outside, and the two of them boiled water and drank tea in the house of General Maeda's servant.

"My tea is different from other teas. They are all bought from the Ming Dynasty. The taste is sweet and full of aftertaste. You must try it."

Since Xiujia took the lead in promoting Mingcha within Ukiduo, Xiujia began to try every means to promote Mingcha to foreign names, including citing Mingcha when they were in Osaka and Kyoto.

After all, there are only so many ways to import Ming tea, and at this time almost all of them are monopolized by Xiujia. There are more people drinking Ming tea in Japan, and my own trade income with Ming is getting higher and higher.

In fact, when Mingcha was first introduced, many tea ceremony celebrities in Japan said, "Japanese tea is the way to drink tea, and Mingcha is simple and deviant."

Well, since you said that, Xiujia simply introduced the Chinese tea ceremony culture of the later generations, and brought you a whole set of rules to make Mingcha more superior than Japanese tea, and Hashiba Hideyasu was the first guest of Xiujia.

Xiu uses the first scoop of Longjing tea to rinse the body of the white porcelain teacup, and then pours the second scoop of tea into the porcelain cup with a tea clip for Xiukang to drink.

Waiting for the Dragon Well tea to enter, and the fragrance of the tea in his mouth, he returned to Gan Xiu’s house before replying to Xiukang. Of course, he had to confirm one thing with Xiukang first, “You should tell your father that he wants to send some retainers to you to help you manage the territory.” .”

Xiukang nodded and said, "I did say it, can you even guess it?"

Xiujia smiled and replied, "Actually, it's not difficult to guess. If you don't want him to make this proposal, His Highness Guan Bai will not agree so readily to your request to join Ogasawara's family."

Xiukang said in surprise, "You are amazing. At the beginning, my lord father was a little bit offended, but when I asked him for my retainers, he agreed to my request instead and granted me the 2 stones of Dongzhumo. What are you doing?" How did you know, could it be that some of the adults in the palace at that time had someone from you?"

After hearing his nonsensical speculation, the Xiu family cursed in their hearts, "It would be great if there really was such a traitor."

Tucao returned to Tucao, Xiujia also explained, "Do you still remember that you told me that you are the abandoned son of the Tokugawa Councilor?"

"I did."

Xiujia nodded and continued to explain, "Even if other people had this guess in the past, but it was not confirmed by you or Councilor Tokugawa after all, who would dare to criticize you indiscriminately?

Including my lord father, even though he has also heard about this idea, he is still not sure about your attitude. "

Xiukang is not an idiot, he quickly understood under the guidance of Xiu's family: "So you let me ask my father for retainers, you are showing him that I am not of the same mind in the consultation with Tokugawa."

Xiujia nodded and confirmed, "That's right, everyone can say promises and scenes, but if you say it, someone must believe it. And your act of asking for the retainer from your father can't be justified.

And even if you really showed goodwill to the Tokugawa family when you were in Shinano, the elders he sent to your side can still show surveillance of you, and the Ogasawara collar will not fully guide Tokugawa. "

At this moment, Xiukang is really convinced of Xiujia's political manipulation.Who would have thought that a small move could become a key factor in turning the situation around.

Xiukang looked at Xiujia in surprise, and even forgot the empty teacup for a moment.

At this moment, in Xiukang's heart, a seed was faintly planted for a moment, that seed was called admiration, also known as fear, and the target was the Xiu family who was out of sight.

Of course the Xiu family didn't know about Xiukang's mental activities, so he gently raised the teacup and took a sip of the tea, and asked him, "Father said, will you send those adults to Ogasawara to help you?"

He didn’t tell those adults specifically, he said he would prepare it for me when he went back, but he called Mr. Yamauchi, the lord of the Wakasa Obama feudal clan, and said he would give it to me to be my elder, and ordered him to send a letter to Nong Ke 2 shi of Katsuo Castle in the county.

"Katsuo Castle? So His Highness Guanbai intends to cut off the connection between the Sanada family and the Uesugi family. But Gengji County doesn't have so many territories, so it seems that he took some of the territory of Yanke County to make up for it?" Xiu Jia rubbed his chin, thinking over and over again.

Xiukang had never been to Shinano, so he didn't know the location of Katsuo Castle, but he replied pretending to agree, "It should be."

In history, Kazutoyo Yamauchi served as Toyotomi Hideji's retainer, and accompanied Toyotomi Hideji through his short life.

However, judging from the fact that he was not severely punished after Hideji's death, but was awarded 6 koku in Toe Kakegawa Castle, Toyotomi Hideji's death has a lot to do with him. Inform and organize.

But at this moment, Kazutoyo Yamauchi doesn't need to worry. After all, Hideyasu is not like Hideji, and there is no threat to Hideyori's inheritance rights.

Moreover, Kazutoyo Yamauchi's own ability to govern the Hideka is relatively at ease. With him under Hideyasu's command, the Ogasawara family can get a good development.

From this point of view, Hideyoshi originally paid more attention to Hideyasu, and specially selected a capable minister for him as his retainer.

The only thing that Hideka is worried about now is that this rabbit is too smart, whether he will directly transfer to the Tokugawa family as in history, and together with the old man sent by Tokugawa Ieyasu, evade Hideyasu.

However, this unsolved case did not keep the Hideka family waiting too long, and Hideyoshi announced the result not long after, including Yamaguchi Sounaga and Yamauchi Kazutoyo as the elders of the Hashiba Hideyasu family.

Hideyoshi was accompanied by 13 members of Hatakemoto, headed by Hiratsuka Hiroshi.A total of 7 former Niwa family officials including Toda Katsunari and 22 former Niwa family officials forwarded letters to Shinano together with Hideyasu.

Hiratsuka Hiroshi was the samurai who blocked the door when he was threatened by Ishikawa Goemon in Kyoto. Later, Hideka asked him if he had changed his official position but was rejected, and he controlled the samurai of the Shimadzu family in Osaka Castle not long ago. .

In history, during the Battle of Sekigahara, facing the backstabs of Kobayakawa Hideaki and Wakisaka Yasuji, he was still able to kill Yamauchi Kazutoyo's retainer Itahei and Kobayakawa Hideaki's retainer Yokota Kohansuke, which was enough Witness his bravery.

Katsutoshi Toda was a samurai of Niwa Nagahide, and he received a maximum of 4000 shi tochiyoshi. After the Niwa family was changed, he was forced to change his official post to Hideyoshi, and he received 2000 shi tochiyoshi.

In history, he performed well in the Kyushu Conquest, Odawara Conquest, and the Battle of Keicho Bunroku. In addition, he was appointed as one of the generals of Fushimi Castle, which shows that this person is a capable civil and military A samurai with both skills.

However, his ability has not been discovered by Hideyoshi in this matter, so he was packaged and handed over to Hideosuke to fill in the shortage of mid-level samurai.

In the Battle of Sekigahara, he fought together with Yuhiro Hiratsuka as the vanguard of the Otani team, and when attacked by Hideaki Kobayakawa and Yasuji Wakisaka, he was still able to command the troops to withdraw from the battle calmly.

It is also a coincidence, the two partners during the battle of Sekigahara, who would want to gather here and contribute to Xiukang together, what kind of sparks can they create?

After dealing with the affairs of the Uesugi family, everyone was waiting here for the arrival of another heavyweight daimyo, Tokugawa Ieyasu.

After all, Tokugawa Ieyasu had to come from Suruga to Kai, Shinano, and Hida. It can be described as a real journey, and it is reasonable to wait for a while.

Historically, this path was taken by Narumasa Sasaki when he asked Ieyasu Tokugawa for help, but it never turned to this world, and I don't know if it is a kind of reincarnation among Minmin.

Finally, on November 13, Tensho 15, Tokugawa Senator Ieyasu, the ruler of the four kingdoms of Toe, Suruga, Kai, and Shinano, finally came to Toyama Castle to meet Hideyoshi.

However, just before Tokugawa Ieyasu arrived, Toyama Castle suddenly heard a shocking news: Ishikawa Suzuki was surrendering to Hideyoshi with Ogasawara Hidemasa as a hostage beside him.

In fact, the previous article has already done the foreshadowing. Tokugawa Ieyasu's two kings Sakai and Tokugawa in the Matsudaira era have come to an end in the post-Tokugawa era.

The biggest reason is that both of them had the duty of being the guardian of Ieyasu's first son, Xinkang, but it eventually led to Xinkang's killing.Among them, Sakai Zhongji directly supervised Xinkang's seppuku ceremony.

This led to the two being gradually abandoned by the Tokugawa family after Kanhara, Honda, and Ii gradually grew up in the post-Tokugawa era.

As Ishikawa Shumasa said earlier, after Xinkang's seppuku, he was awarded the status of Okazaki Joyo, but Tokugawa Ieyasu had already moved the political center to Hamamatsu, and the so-called first important minister seemed to be driven out. Out of the rights center.

After the battle of Nobi, Ieyasu was defeated, and Hideyoshi cut off the entire territory of Mikawa and 1/5 of the territory of Enjiang Guoyue.After Shuzheng lost the job of Sanhe Qitou, he was left alone by Ieyasu until now, and has not been given any arrangements.

Such strong hostility is probably also the reason why he chose to run away.

In history, the choices of the two people were not the same. Ishikawa, who fled, was rewarded with 10 koku by Matsumoto during his lifetime, but his descendants were changed after Tokugawa Ieyasu took power.

Sakai Tadaji, who insisted on staying in the Tokugawa family, became the first important minister of Tokugawa with a false name. When Tokugawa Ieyasu was transferred to the Kanto, the first important minister Sakai Tadaji only received 3 shi from Usui.

Compared with Naomasa Ueno's 10 koku, this is simply humiliating the Sakai family.Even after experiencing the two battles of Sekigahara and Osaka, the Sakai family was able to reach the level of 10 stone country nominative daimyo.

Historically, Ishikawa was fleeing towards Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi could still understand, after all, the two sides were still hostile at that time.But now Tokugawa Ieyasu is Hideyoshi's vassal, isn't Ishikawa Suzumasa's leaving to create problems for Hideyoshi?
However, what makes Xiujia even more difficult to understand is that Hideyoshi, who had talked with Uesugi Jingsheng and Sanada Masayuki a few days ago about the samurai's loyalty to the emperor, actually accepted Ishikawa Susho's surrender and even sealed him in Hanoi Kingdom 8. Wanshi.

What the hell is this? You are the referee and the athletes, and you have the final say anyway.

(End of this chapter)