Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 296 No.60 Three Days of Zhengda Earthquake

Maybe Hideyoshi really thought too much. On the day after Ieyasu reported the decision of the Sanada family to dispose of it, Hideyoshi took Ishikawa Shumasa to apologize to Tokugawa Ieyasu and asked Tokugawa Ieyasu for forgiveness.

天正13年十一月24日（1586年1月13日），越中的雪下的愈发大了，富山城的土地上已经积起了一层到脚踝深度的积雪。

However, in such a cold winter, in the courtyard outside the evaluation room of Toyama Castle, a man was kneeling and sitting in it with his chest exposed, and then a strong warrior held a rattan whip and whipped him one after another.

Different from the cold and harsh outside the hall, the inside of the evaluation room is extremely warm, even though the door of the evaluation room is always open.But the 8 braziers in the hall really serve the daimyos in the hall as warm as spring.

In the background sound of Ishikawa being beaten by vines and begging for mercy outside the hall, Hideyoshi begged Ieyasu for mercy in a humble tone, "Tokugawa Chunayan, please do me a favor, Hoki Mamoru If you are kind to me, let me wait for him to return this kindness to you."

Hideyoshi gave Ieyasu enough face today, and apologized to Ieyasu in front of Mori Terumoto, Uesugi Kekatsu, Maeda Toshiie and other big bosses.

Naturally, Ieyasu wouldn't push his nose to the face, and actually stepped down from his seat to stop the samurai who was carrying out the execution, and put on clothes for Ishikawa Shusho.

Tokugawa Ieyasu said generously to Ishikawa Suzumasa: "If you have any dissatisfaction with me, you should mention it to me. Look at how much misunderstanding you have caused me and His Highness Kanbai. How will the world misunderstand His Highness Guan Bai?
Fortunately, you also know your way back, even if you have been punished for the injury you suffered from the whip today, you and I will no longer have the righteousness of a monarch and minister, and I hope that we will serve His Highness Guan Bai wholeheartedly in the future. "

After saying that, Tokugawa Ieyasu gestured to support him on the back and lifted him up. The coarse clothes directly touched the wound on his back, which made him grit his teeth in real pain.

Ishikawa Shuzheng was beaten more than a dozen times on the back, but the samurai's strength was quite fine, only the flesh was injured, not the bones.

The samurai who was executed just now didn't hurt himself, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's seemingly random movements made his pain tighter.

However, Ishikawa Suzumasa still gritted his teeth and replied weakly, "Thank you Tokugawa Chunayan for your forgiveness, Your Highness will repay your kindness in the next life."

Hideyoshi also knew that Ieyasu was angry, and it was the right intention to let him calm down with an excuse, so he didn't say anything to stop his "abuse" of Ishikawa Susho.

After the previous and current monarchs and ministers showed a lot of cooperation between the monarchs and ministers here, Ishikawa Suzumasa was finally helped down.Waiting for him will be the painful process of opening the wound and applying medicine again.

And Tokugawa Ieyasu returned to the evaluation room of Toyama Castle with a smile like a normal person, sat opposite Uesugi Jingsheng, and waited for Hideyoshi's order.

Hideyoshi clapped his hands together, pulled everyone's thoughts back with his voice and said, "We gathered here today in such a severe winter, which is enough to witness your enthusiasm.

Just now Tokugawa Nagon and Major General Uesugi.The alliance has been signed under the supervision of me, Mori Kingo, Lieutenant General Hashiba, and Maeda Notomori. From now on, everyone will be allies with the same goal. "

Listening to Hideyoshi's words, Maeda Toshiie, who is Hideyoshi's number one henchman, took the lead, patted Hideyoshi's ass and said, "The ministers are all the retainers of His Highness Kanbai, and now because of the disharmony among the retainers, His Highness Kanbai has to brave the cold winter." It was the minister's fault to come here from Osaka, and I ask His Highness Guan Bai to make amends."

The dog legs took the lead, and the other people sitting in the evaluation room could only salute to Hideyoshi one after another, no matter whether they wanted to or not.

On the other hand, Hideyoshi laughed and said, "The Toyotomi family is like a big family, and I, Hideyoshi, are the patriarch of this family. If the descendants have conflicts, I, as the patriarch, should mediate. "

The Li family took the lead again and said: "I am afraid~"

Hideyoshi: "Fortunately, I have seen good results today, proving that everyone in the Toyotomi family is sincerely loyal to me, so I can rest assured that I will hand over the territory to you for management."

The Li Family "The ministers and others are devoting their minds to serving His Royal Highness Guan Bai loyally~"

The appearance of the person coming to sing and reconcile, not to mention that the two of them had never rehearsed before, the Xiu family would absolutely not believe it.

However, this kind of political show is like this, including the covenant signed by Tokugawa and Uesugi under the witness of Hideyoshi, Hideo, Mori Terumoto, Maeda Toshiie and other daimyo. Today's contract signing ceremony itself is a formality.

Under the watchful eyes of everyone, the two parties signed the monogram on the triplicate document, and promised Hideyoshi that they would not violate the content of it.

Finally, after a whole day of funny and solemn alliance ceremony, Hideyoshi's real mission of coming to Hokuriku this time was announced to be completed.

Hideyoshi originally wanted Ieyasu Tokugawa and Jingsheng Uesugi to return to Kyoto with him, but Ieyasu Tokugawa asked for a little more time on the grounds that Shinano was not stable, and would go to Osaka to meet Hideyoshi in person after the spring of next year.

Hideyoshi allowed.

So early the next morning, Tokugawa Ieyasu bid farewell to Hideyoshi and his master, Maeda Toshiie, and headed for Shinano with his people.

The reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu was anxious was of course not because of Shinano's affairs. In fact, long after Hideyoshi and Ieyasu had reached an agreement, the Sanada family, the biggest thief in Shinano, had already settled down.

After losing the support of the Uesugi family, the other noble families in Beixin are no longer as arrogant and domineering as they seem to be. It can be said that Ieyasu's crisis in Shinano has passed.

But he was still in such a hurry to go back. There was only one real reason—"military system reform."

Since ancient times, each military system has its own organization method. Even if it is a newly conquered country, these new powerful families will not directly organize them according to their own military service status, but will organize them separately into an army. Act as a pioneer.

In this way, the loyalty of the new senators to the family can be tested, and secondly, the new senators will not be mistaken for their own army formation.

Only after the new members have passed the actual combat test and proved that they are reliable, will the main family send special personnel to guide their own army formation and marching flags.

In many film and television works, the method of expressing the Japanese army's communication method is an extremely inefficient way of sending messengers to spread word of mouth.

This is of course one of the methods, mainly used when the main family sends messages to new members who are not familiar with the banner orders of their own family, or when there are more complicated orders to be conveyed.

For some simple instructions, the lord often only needs to inform the flag commander of the formation, and he will send someone to wave the flag, blow the trumpet and ring the bell to inform the respective teams of what needs to be done.

Whether it is advancing or retreating, it is all in the names of various military laws.

And once the name of the military law is leaked, it is very likely that the enemy will understand the meaning of the sound of the flag and the call, and make deployments in advance.

Therefore, the flag orders of each family are kept strictly confidential.In the past, the Tokugawa family's military system and military service certificate were compiled with reference to the "Imagawa Kana Catalog".

Now, this mature system has all revealed its secrets following the departure of Ishikawa Shusho.This is the reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu was really scared, so he hurried back.

Hideyoshi did not force him to stay, but after a few words of encouragement, he was let go.Hideyoshi, on the other hand, plans to leave for Osaka in another day.

But in the end, due to some reasons, the army did not set off from Toyama until November 13, 27.

However, just as the team was about to leave, Toyama City suddenly shook. The magnitude of the earthquake was so large that even Japan, the earthquake kingdom, was relatively rare.

Many houses in Toyama Castle Town have collapsed, and even the earthen wall on the west side of Toyama Castle has collapsed due to the perennial river erosion and earthquakes.

Hideyoshi's military force is relatively complicated. Fortunately, Hideyoshi is preparing to return, and the military force has been gathered. Otherwise, the chaos will really cause the camp to scream,

But seeing the damage to Toyama Castle due to the earthquake, Maeda Toshiie had no choice but to ask Hideyoshi to postpone his trip to Osaka.

Together with Maeda Toshiie, Uesugi Kagekatsu was also a little worried about the situation in the territory due to the severe earthquake, so he made a request to return to Kasugayama Castle.

Hideyoshi saw the worried looks of the daimyos he brought with him, and knew that it would be unreasonable to force them to go to Osaka now, so he granted the request of Maeda Toshiie and Uesugi Jingsheng.

And they are no longer required to meet in Shangluo in the future. They are only required to mobilize an army of no less than 8000 people to go to Osaka to participate in the Kyushu conquest after the early spring, and then they can meet with themselves at that time.

At the same time, Hideyoshi also allowed the daimyos from all over the country who came with the army to return to the territory with the army after passing through their own territory, and they can gather in Osaka in the spring of next year.

Hideyoshi's humane order has been praised by many daimyo, and they have expressed to them that they will organize the army in accordance with the requirements of military service and fight for Hideyoshi in the coming year.

I forgot to mention that just a few days ago, Sadae Ogasawara hurried from Shinano and adopted Hideyasu as his adopted son under the witness of the daimyos of Toyama Castle. Renamed Ogasawara Hidetada.

Ogasawara Sadamaka originally wanted to give Xiuzhen a daughter as a adopted son-in-law. After all, Xiuzhen's heirs can be considered to have the blood of the Ogasawara family. Who would have heard that Xiuzhen has already made an appointment with the overlord of the Western Kingdom, the Uki family? Marriage, he had no choice but to send his daughter to be a concubine.

Since Xiuzhen is still in Takaya Castle with her current ability, and most of the retainers assigned by Hideyoshi are in Osaka and Kinki, he needs to go back to Hanoi to tidy up before going to Shinano.

So even though Xiuzhen was eager to go to the fief first, she was still held back by the Xiu family and did not leave with Tokugawa Ieyasu, but followed Hideyoshi back to Osaka first, but it was the Xiu family who saved him instead. Life.

天正13年十一月29日（1585年1月18日）深夜，秀吉返回大坂的军势在金泽城休息，此处正由丰臣秀长的家老增田长盛管理。

At the same time, Hideyoshi himself is also the former owner of Masuda Changsheng, so Masuda Changsheng showed great kindness to everyone, and put out delicious food to entertain everyone.

Although Kanazawa Castle in this matter has not experienced the construction of the Maeda family in later generations, as a Hirayama castle, you can still vaguely see the sea on the west side.

Xiujia and Xiuzhen stood side by side at the head of Jinze City, looking down at the sky that was dyed red by the sun, and the flying birds startled by the military force, Xiujia couldn't help but exclaimed, "What a beautiful scenery."

Xiujia, who was immersed in the beautiful scenery, had no idea that the danger was approaching. The birds in the sky were not startled by the military force, but fidgeted because of the change of the earth's magnetic field.

This point can be seen from the blindfolded falcon that Hideyoshi carried all the way. Even though he was blindfolded, he was still restless.

When night fell, everyone had already fallen asleep, but the Xiu family tossed and turned and couldn't fall asleep.

It's winter now, but the howling of wild animals outside the city never stops, making it impossible for the Xiu family to sleep peacefully.

Xiujia, who really couldn't sleep, could only sit up, put on a coat, opened the sliding door of the roof and stood in the courtyard, looking at the more restless birds in the sky, a deep uneasiness welled up in his heart.

"What's the matter? Is the sky going to change?" Xiujia asked unconfidently, "But hasn't the earthquake already passed?"

"En? What is your Highness talking about?" Nobuya Shimizu, who was awakened by the movement of the Xiu family, rubbed his eyes with his hand, but did not hear clearly what the Xiu family was saying, so he asked instead.

But just when the Xiu family was puzzled, there was another wave of earthquakes, this time the movement was far more violent than the previous Toyama Castle earthquake.

In the previous life, the Xiu family lived in a coastal province and had never experienced a major earthquake. Even after coming to Japan, there were basically small earthquakes and very few major earthquakes.

However, earthquakes like the last time and today have never been experienced by the Xiu family since their birth.

"Hanbei!" "Your Highness!"

The strong vibration made Hideka's feet unsteady and fell to the ground at once. He directly exclaimed Shimizu Shinya's common name, and Shinya crawled to Hideka's side and hugged Hideka.

It's no wonder that the Hide family doesn't remember this earthquake. The Hide family only remembers that there was a major earthquake in the Tensho year. It's been a day, and it's not clear how many times the earthquake happened.

In fact, there were two Tianzheng earthquakes in two days, one after the other.

Unlike ordinary earthquakes that were violent for the first time and then gradually weakened after the aftershocks, the earthquake on the 27th is expected to be around 7 on the Richter scale, which is a relatively rare major earthquake.

It was precisely because of the earthquake that even the city walls of Toyama collapsed that the Xiu family relaxed their vigilance.

In fact, the earthquake on the evening of the 29th was even more severe. According to the description, it is estimated that the magnitude of the earthquake will reach about 8-8.5 degrees on the Richter scale. This is the largest earthquake in Japan for thousands of years!

For a while, a group of torches specially prepared to welcome Hideyoshi were made in the city. They were originally inserted on the houses in the city, but now they were smashed to the ground due to the earthquake, and some buildings were ignited. There was a fire.

"Dangdangdang~" "The military grain depot is on fire!" After the earthquake stopped for a while, there was a foot tapping the gong and shuttling through Kanazawa City, telling the samurai in the city to avoid the fire and go to Dongmaru to fight the fire.

The Xiu family was dizzy from the earthquake, and looked back at the house where he had just lived, but it had already collapsed in pieces, and there were bursts of gasps and cries for help from the house.

Xiujia didn't have time to think about it, so he ordered the samurai who escaped around him to turn around to save people, and at the same time, let Shimizu Xin also bring a group of ten people from the main family to follow him and go to save people elsewhere.

(End of this chapter)