Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 295

Hearing Xiujia and Xiuyasu's question, Hideyoshi smiled in relief, "Do you all think so?"

Hideka nodded and said, "That's true. If Father really appreciates Sanada Yasuo, why bother to hand him over to Tokugawaden?"

Hideyoshi looked at the way Hideyasu and Hideka nodded, and explained with a smile, "The Sanada family is just a small daimyo of the Wanshi level in Shinano, so naturally I don't take it seriously. The reason why I said that is because It's just to trick him."

"Cheat Tokugawa-sama? But I still don't quite understand." Xiukang asked curiously.

Hideyoshi nodded and continued to explain, "You still don't know much about this old tortoise. I have worked with him for many years, and I know his temper well. This person has never truly believed in others for a day, and rarely shows others real emotion.

Hachiro, do you still remember when I discussed with you whether Lord Tokugawa is loyal to the lord (Hideyoshi has been calling Nobunaga, which has not changed for many years, even after becoming Taiko) or is he hiding his own story? "

Hideka replied, "Of course I remember. That day I said to my father, 'Master Tokugawa's heart is the one who is as dark as a tiger. I was scolded very much by Mr. Nobunaga."

Because Xiukang among the people present didn't know much about the situation at that time, Xiujia told him again, and Hideyoshi also recalled the past in the story of Xiujia.

After Xiujia's story was finished, Hideyoshi nodded and continued: "Everyone thought that I was scolded by the lord and laughed at me. In fact, it was after that time that the lord really trusted me."

Xiujia: "?"

Hideyoshi: "One day after that day, the lord came to my mansion late at night and said to me, 'I didn't expect this monkey to have such insight. Dare to tell me.'"

"So the Right House has already seen through Tokugawa?" Xiujia said.

Hideyoshi nodded and continued, "Yes, do you know why the lord took the Zhongshan Road when he was destroying Takeda, but did he take the Tōkaidao on the way back?"

Xiujia asked curiously, "Why?"

Hideyoshi pouted, and replied in an unconfident tone, "Because he wants to appreciate his next prey."

Hearing Hideyoshi's answer, Xiukang asked in surprise: "Prey? Lord Youfu wants to attack Lord Tokugawa? But aren't they allies all along?"

Hideyoshi was amused by Hideyasu's innocence, "Silly boy, both the Asai family and the Takeda family were allies of Oda-sama back then."

Xiuyasu couldn't understand the mystery, and argued: "But this is different from Tokugawa-sama. Asai betrayed the Oda family, and Takeda is the core of the Oda siege network, and he is the enemy."

Hideyoshi didn't answer this question directly, his eyes gradually became sharper, and he slowly said, "Hinata Mamoru can't be mistaken, he told me very clearly, that day when he saw the lord skipping Lord Tokugawa's territory along the way, , as if looking at your own territory."

Xiukang was confused by Hideyoshi's frequent reports of human lives, and asked, "Hinata Mamoru? Which adult is it?"

Hideka explained from the side, "Yi Ren Hinata Mori Mitsuhide, also known as Akechi Mitsuhide, was the samurai who caused chaos in the Honnoji Temple and killed You Fu."

Xiukang was even more surprised when he heard Xiujia's explanation. When his father and elder brother were talking about this man's name, why were they so calm? Wasn't this man the one who started the rebellion and the enemy of his father and elder brother?

Especially looking at his father's appearance, he seemed to be inseparable from that rebellious man. If he hadn't known that the two were hostile, just hearing Hideyoshi's tone of reminiscence, he would have thought he was recalling a friend.

Hideyoshi smiled resentfully, "Why do you think that Tokugawa-den didn't leave sooner or later, but why did he propose to go to Sakaimachi the day before Hinata Mamoru launched the mutiny?

You said why in the Tokugawa Temple in Sakaimachi, after hearing about the riots in Kyoto, and before Hinata Mamoru's forces could not extend to Sakai, why didn't you take a more convenient and safer sea boat, why did you travel thousands of miles to Iga and return? ?
Isn't this going to pass through the Yamato and Hanoi parts controlled by Hyuga Mamoru?
Why do you say that everyone with Tokugawa-sama is fine, only Anayama-sama who controls Kai did not come back? "

Xiukang was a little dazed by Hideyoshi's three consecutive questions, so he could only stammer and reluctantly answer the third question, "It's not that it's because Anayama Temple must leave Lord Tokugawa separately, and was hunted down by the laggards." ?"

Seeing that this silly brother still didn't understand Hideyoshi's meaning, the Xiu family could only continue to ask Xiukang: "Then what is the purpose of the stragglers hunting? Where did the treasured swords and famous items from the cave temple that they robbed go? Don't you need to realize these famous things to survive?

Besides, there is obviously Hattori Hanzo, a samurai from Iga, in the Tokugawa-sama's team, and if there are locals leading the way, who would run around in the wilderness?

Xiu Yasu, you are thinking about it, what is the first thing Tokugawa-sama does after returning to Hamamatsu? "

When Xiukang heard Xiujia's question, he fell into memory, and after a while he slowly said, "At that time, Tokugawa-sama said that he wanted to avenge the Youfu, so he wanted Junyuan San to start gathering troops.

But before the army was fully assembled, news came that his father had killed Mitsuhide Akechi to avenge the Youfu.

Lord Tokugawa then marched into Kai on the grounds that the army had gathered and could not be disbanded easily, and that he helped the Oda family trust the leader to stabilize Kai and guard against Hojo. "

Xiujia asked in a mocking tone: "People in the world think that Anayama just lost his way in the mountains. Why does Master Tokugawa think that Anayama will never come back? If only at that time, Master Anayama had more than ten people around him." Samurai guards, it's not easy for ordinary outdated hunting teams to take them down."

Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi's questions are actually the questions raised by later scholars on the official history of the Tokugawa Shogunate, and there are many things that do not conform to common sense and logic.

However, since there is no other evidence to support it, and history has countless uncertainties, scholars can only question it, but choose to accept it.

Scholars can accept Tokugawa Ieyasu's reply, but it does not mean that the three who are doing it choose to accept it.

Rationality told Xiuyasu that what Tokugawa Ieyasu said was unreasonable, but the above views were too appalling for the 11-year-old child to face this fact.

Xiujia looked at Xiukang in a daze, and he also knew that this child still had a long way to go.

Hideyoshi let out a sigh of relief, and said, "Once I talk about this topic, I'm going off track. Even if Tokugawa-sama did make some moves at the time, that's all in the past, and what I want to see is his future.

In today's meeting, I put a lot of pressure on him, the purpose is to provoke him, and I want to see if he really convinces me.

Ordinary people probably would have found it hard to accept Xiukang's 10 shi territory when they heard that he was being given away, but he accepted it until the end.

So I kept throwing out temptations, first Ishikawa and Ogasawara, and then Sora Izu, but he didn't respond.I had no choice but to test him with the Sanada family, and he finally got angry.

But even though he was angry, he still chose to admit the matter, which proves that he has indeed surrendered to me, no matter whether this surrender is out of sincerity or fear.

All I want is his attitude. As for the Sanada family's handling of An Fangshou's life and death, what should I do? "

When Hideyoshi heard Hideyoshi's explanation, the lines at the corners of his mouth and nose frowned slightly. He really couldn't understand what Hideyoshi's brain circuit was thinking, so why couldn't they promise him openly and set off a rebellion after returning to Suruga?

Of course, this is also in line with Hideyoshi's personality. In history, Hideyoshi behaved like this towards his bosses. Before leading them to death, he used words to provoke them many times, and then forced them to write oaths to observe their truth. reaction.

He thought that only in this way can he see people's true reflection, but history slapped him severely.

Hideyoshi wanted to understand, what was Hideyoshi doing in history?But now hearing that Hideyoshi is still indulging in his ideas, Hideyoshi can only secretly give him a thumbs up, "Very good, this is very monkey."

Of course, Xiujia still kept his mouth secret, bowed to Hideyoshi and said, "So that's the case. Thank you, Father, for your teaching, which has benefited my child a lot."

After leaving with Xiukang, Xiujia did not forget to wake up this silly child who just saw Hideyoshi with eyes full of little stars, "What my father did to Tokugawa Temple today is either reasonable or has no objection. There is no way to argue.

But I only know that even if the attitude of Tokugawa-sama can be tested, it will make the monarch and his subjects feel alienated, and it can only be used on specific people, such as Tokugawa-sama.

In the future, when you serve as the governor of the family, you still need to be kind and powerful, but don't bully others like this, I'm afraid it will leave a grudge in the hearts of the retainers. "

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Unlike Toyotomi Hideyoshi's high-spirited and confident talk, Tokugawa Ieyasu locked himself in the house after returning to his temporary mansion and refused to come forward.

It wasn't until Ieyasu's confidant and retainer Honda Masanobu entered in person that this "frustrated" lord was brought out.

But even after coming out to meet his retainers, Ieyasu was still immersed in thinking.

After gnawing the fingernails of the right hand, switch to the left hand until the meat is bitten, and then return to reality.

But the first sentence he spoke surprised everyone, "Friend, shall we marry our daughter to Sanada?"

Friend is Ieyasu's name for Honda Masanobu. Although he was hostile to Ieyasu as a member of Mikawa Kazuki when he was young, after he became an official, Ieyasu found that he was often the person who understood him best, so he gradually began to draw him in. relation.

In the entire Tokugawa family, only Honda Masanobu was allowed to freely enter and leave Ieyasu's bedroom with a knife, which is enough to show Ieyasu's trust in him.

"Huh?" Ieyasu's answer was beyond everyone's expectations. The Sanada family killed so many people in the main family and made the lord lose so much face, but now the lord wants to marry his daughter?

When everyone was puzzled, Honda Masanobu was the first to understand the meaning of "old friend", and said slowly, "An Fangshou has 4 children, the eldest son is 20 years old this year, and the second son is 19 years old, both are suitable for marriage age.

But since the lord is going to marry the princess, it is natural to choose the eldest son to inherit the family business. I happened to meet that child named Nobuyuki, and he is indeed an honest and trustworthy samurai.But there should be no princess of the right age under His Highness' knees. "

Honda believes: "You have to find someone of the right age from the same group."

Tokugawa Ieyasu: "Sanada Nobuyuki must be able to live in the town."

Honda Masanobu: "One that can keep Sanada Nobuyuki from being influenced by his father."

Tokugawa Ieyasu: "It may be very difficult to find candidates who can meet so many conditions at the same time."

Honda Shinshin: "It is indeed difficult, but I happen to know where to find such a woman."

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A few days later, the Tokugawa family sent Hideyoshi his opinion on how to deal with the Sanada family, which was also his final decision after negotiating with the Sanada family.

First of all, accept the surrender of the Sanada family again, but Numata Castle will still be ceded to the Hojo family to show the attitude of not fighting with Hojo again.

This is exactly what Hideyoshi expected to see. He devoted himself wholeheartedly to the conquest of Kyushu, so he naturally hoped that his east side would be as peaceful as possible. There is only a territory of more than 1 shi to the left and right, so it doesn't matter if it is given to Hojo.

Secondly, Masayuki Sanada, head of the Sanada family, abdicated and lived in seclusion, and was sent to Koyasan to become a monk.This proposal was originally rejected by Sanada Nobuyuki who was far away in Shinano, expressing his hope that Masayuki's Sanada family Bodhi Temple would become a monk, and the family supervisor would be succeeded by Sanada Nobuyuki.

But Nobuyuki's request was severely rejected by him, and he threatened to accept Toyotomi and Tokugawa's thunder wrath if he did not accept it.

And Ieyasu also said in the letter, "Mt. Koya is a blessed land. Even the overlord of the four kingdoms, Changzong Gabu Yuanqin, practiced there. Soon, the Patriarch Shimadzu of Kyushu will go there. Can't you accommodate a little Anfangshou? ?” It directly poked the lung tubes of two people.

After that, the Sanada family was required to pay 3% of the tariff and trade income every year in the future.

Don't think that the Sanada family is poor, even if you add Numata Castle, there are only more than 6 Zhixing.But the location of Ueda Castle is good. It is on the Shinano Nakasendo trade road. At the same time, the road connecting Echigo to Suruga also passes through it. The annual customs revenue exceeds [-] kan.

Secondly, the Sanada family will buy and sell wood and lacquer produced in Ueno, and the income of these two items is close to 10.In other words, the comprehensive knowledge and practice of the Sanada family is about 12 to [-] stones.

Now Tokugawa Ieyasu wants the Sanada family to share his pie, which is itself a weakening of the Sanada family.

In the end, in order to express his comfort to the Sanada family, Ieyasu specially adopted Honda Tadakatsu's daughter Inaki as his adopted daughter and married Sanada Nobuyuki as his main wife. From now on, Sanada Nobuyuki can call Ieyasu's father-in-law.

To be honest, not to mention the people inside the Tokugawa family, even Hideyoshi and Hideo were surprised by Tokugawa Ieyasu's decision.

Hideyoshi did not expect Tokugawa Ieyasu to marry his daughter to the Sanada family, but Hideyoshi did not expect this to be the case in this life, and the conditions between the Tokugawa family and the Sanada family could be exactly the same as in the previous life.

However, when communicating with Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi suddenly said a sentence to remind himself, "This old fox, obviously angry, only dared to vent his anger on the Sanada family.

I told him clearly that I was optimistic about An Fangshou, but he still told me his attitude by dealing with An Fangshou, and then married his daughter to stabilize the relationship with the Sanada family. Don't dare to disobey the general direction.

This old fox is really interesting, so let him vent his anger like this. "

Yes, Hideyoshi has already bullied to this extent, even if Tokugawa Ieyasu has a good temper, let's bring it on.

If he really swallowed his humiliation and admitted it, it would make Hideyoshi afraid to trust him.

Now he has expressed his attitude to Hideyoshi through some small actions, but he still accepts Hideyoshi's decision.Only in this way can Hideyoshi be completely relieved of him, which is enough to reflect his brilliance.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's operation also opened Hideo's eyes, letting him know that Hideyoshi's persecution cannot be tolerated blindly, and a proper counterattack will make the monkey feel at ease about you.

Hideyoshi thought back a few days ago, that Hideyoshi's explanation that he thought was outrageous, suddenly had a different feeling.

You said, if Ieyasu's wave is on the third floor, would Hideyoshi be on the fifth floor: Hideyoshi deliberately left a hole for Ieyasu, which can be regarded as a step, let Ieyasu go down the steps?
Regardless of whether the Xiu family thinks about it or not, one has to admit that there are too many "political" masters at the Toyotomi family's table, and I'm afraid it will become more and more unpalatable in the future.

Everyone on the table is an old monster.

(End of this chapter)