Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 320
Although the Xiu family boasted, they said that they would provide an extra 20 Wen per person per day on top of the provision of fine grains, to encourage these people to build dams.

But the Xiu family would not pay for it. After all, this is not their own territory, and the Xiu family has no obligation to pay for the welfare of the local lord.

But Hideyoshi has already said this, and Hideyoshi has not provided this budget, so what should we do?

Knock off the local lord's bamboo pole!
On the second day after distributing the victims to various main roads, Hideka convened Mino, Kita Omi Noble Family, and Daimyo Yuhui in Gifu City, and prepared to ask them to bear the cost.

Before attending the meeting, Xiujia had already settled the largest Inaba and Mori families in Mino territory, and asked them to support him at the meeting.

I am also a powerful figure in the Toyotomi family, the agent Hideyoshi personally appointed to manage Mino, the existence of Daimyo Million Rock, no matter how unwilling other people are, they must give themselves a little face.

There are also people who don't want to show face. For example, Seiichiro Ikeda, the old man of Oda Xinbao in the Kamo Domain, always thinks that the master's family is not in the territory, so he can't make a decision and procrastinate.

The Xiu family will not force the daimyo to pay the money, and everyone will not look good if this matter gets up.

But you can see that the most important part of this water conservancy construction is the flood discharge area. You are near Kamo Castle and you are located at the intersection of the Hida River and the Kiso River. chant?

Don't underestimate this flood discharge area. The knowledge and behavior of Mino and Owari change all the year round, because the Kiso River and Nagara River flood every year during the flood season, which in turn affects the fields on both sides.

With this flood discharge area, they can completely bear the excess water of the Kiso River and ensure the safety of the downstream fields.As for this being the territory of Oda Xinbao, it was just a "coincidence".

Anyway, you are just a courtier, so what qualifications do you have to talk to me as a daimyo? The planning of the waterway in Meinong is all done by me. If this plan is released, I have absolutely no problem technically.

The Xiu family wanted to make an example of others, and it just so happened that Oda Xinbao made the Xiu family lose face when he came to Aso City last time, and now he made the Xiu family unhappy about this kind of thing.

Although the Xiu family can't cure you on the surface, it is still possible to make you sick within the scope of their ability.

Of course, when this plan was announced, there was a lot of exclamation among the wealthy Mino family. They didn't know about Shimo Aso, and they were put on little shoes only because Oda Kamo rejected Hide's proposal.

In order to ensure that their territory would not be included in the flood discharge area, the wealthy families who were still hesitating paid up the money one after another.

The strength of the Xiu family has left a bad reputation among Nong and Jiang Haoqiang. They think that the Xiu family is a character who is difficult to get along with and likes to take revenge.

But the Xiu family is also very wishful. He was motivated by reason and affection at the beginning, but unfortunately it didn't work.

The choice of Kamo as the flood discharge site was entirely out of scientific considerations, and there was no private work involved. It was just that he happened to be in a bad position. It's a pity that these explanations are not believed by the rich!

In any case, with the support of these funds and grains, the renovation work of Mino National Waterways and streets can finally be carried out in an orderly manner.

By mid-March of Tensho 14, the waterway repair work of the Omi Ane River had been basically completed, and the works along the Nagara River and the Kiso River were more than halfway done.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Xiujia repaired the roads of Higashiyama Road, expanded the roads of Sekigahara Nagaoji Street and Imasudao, and just used the sand and gravel cracked from the mountain due to the earthquake to pave the road.

The narrowest part of the whole road is still 5 squares wide, with drainage moats dug on both sides, the foundation of the road is laid with sand and stones in the middle, and larger stones are used to limit the sides of the roadbed. It can be regarded as a modern road built for Japan.

At the same time, news also came from Suruga. Ieyasu Tokugawa was sent to Osaka in early February, returned to Suruga in mid-February, and arrived in Suruga around February 2. Stabilize quickly.

Xiuzhen was still too naive. Xiuzhen, who thought Ieyasu would look at her differently by relying on the merits of guarding Tokugawa, was left alone after being praised lightly by Ieyasu.

I don't know what nonsense Ieyasu and Hideyoshi said. At the beginning of March, Takechiyo (Tokugawa Hidetada) was allowed to return to Sunfu from Osaka, and was handed over to Tokugawa Ieyasu to raise him.

On the third day after Takechiyo arrived in Sunfu, Ieyasu blew the horn of counterattack, and directly demanded Hideyoshi Ogasawara to return to his skills with Hideyoshi's edict.

Of course, in name, it means that he has been sealed for a long time, and now that the spring plowing is over, he will be sealed, urging him to return to Beixin.

Xiuzhen, who lost Hideyoshi's support, had no choice but to take Hideyoshi to support her retainers and set foot on the northward journey.

After Hidesada Ogasawara left, Ieyasu began to exchange blood for the retainers in the collar. First, the family elder Tadashi Sakai was dismissed from his post as the guard of Hamamatsu, and his skills were directly transferred from Enjiang to Iwaden Castle in Kairuto County for 15000 shi.

Although in name he was given the seal of 1500 shi because he was needed to guard the eastern line of defense against the Hojo family, but he was not given the post of guard or banner head, and was downgraded to an ordinary retainer.

Honda was dismissed from Suruga's post several times, was transferred to Toe Matsuba Castle for 2000 shi, and became an ordinary mid-level samurai.

Ogasawara Hidetada, who lost the right to inherit the Tokugawa family, seemed to have fallen from heaven to hell. He didn't know what he had done wrong, and was abandoned by his own father and his former adoptive father, but the current adoptive father is a fool who only knows wakabudori.

Fortunately, the Xiu family found time at this time, and wrote a letter of exhortation to Zhishen City, his home city, telling him not to be discouraged, and what he had to do now was to manage his territory well.

At this time, when Tokugawa Ieyasu was cleaning up the organizational structure, Hideo also suggested in the letter that he extend an olive branch to these excluded retainers when they were depressed, and proposed to transfer the title to Tokugawa Ieyasu, so that This is to enrich his retainer group.

In the letter, Hideka directly pointed out that the result of his retainer group was too single, and the superiors were all old officials of Toyotomi's family, and asked them to promote Ogasawara's old officials to contend with it.

Of course, the progress of doing so is too slow now, and it is faster to invite those old ministers directly from the Tokugawa family.

When Xiuzhen and the Xiu family were planning, they thought that Tokugawa Ieyasu would take the initiative to recruit retainers. In order to balance the power in the family, they applied for support from Hideyoshi.

Who knows that the plan can't keep up with the changes, the situation is abnormal now, and the Toyotomi faction dominates, so Xiuzhen naturally needs to invite some Tokugawa factions to balance the situation.

Now these Tokugawa factions are not the same as the guessed ones. The guessed Tokugawa factions were stuffed in by Ieyasu on his own initiative, and they have ties to the Tokugawa family and need to be guarded against.

These people nowadays are all abandoned sons of Ieyasu, marginal figures, Xiuzhen can dispatch them with confidence and integrate them into her trusted retainers.

Hideo wrote a lot in the letter, analyzing the predicament he encountered and the reasons, and directly blamed the political affair between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, sprinkling several sheets of paper.

If the Xiu family hadn't been ordered to govern Meinong and Jin Jiang, they were afraid that they would go to famous families in other countries without orders, which would cause unnecessary misunderstandings, and the Xiu family even went directly to Zhishen to persuade Xiuzhen in person.

Xiuzhen listened to Xiujia's suggestion and wrote several letters to Jiakang one after another. The tone of each letter was softer than the last, giving Jiakang enough face.

In the end, at Ogasawara Hideyoshi's repeated requests, Ieyasu simply sold his son's face and sent the Honda home to Ogasawara Hideyoshi again and again. Along with him, there were more than a dozen samurai who had befriended Hideyoshi at the beginning.

It can be said that Tokugawa Ieyasu took this opportunity to identify the wall grass in the family, and diluted them out of the decision-making team of the Tokugawa family, making the current Tokugawa family more cohesive.

With the encouragement of Xiu's family, Xiuzhen recruited some capable retainers from Jiakang, and regained her confidence. It was a win-win situation.

Xiuzhen, who was supported by Tokugawa retainers headed by Honda, gave the first order to the territory to build the city.

On the grounds that the location of Zhishen City was not good, he chose a new place to build a new city in the north, and named it Matsumoto Castle.Since then, Shinano Zhishen Fan has also been renamed Matsumoto Fan.

Don't think it's strange that the first thing a new lord chooses to do when he takes office is that it's a habit since ancient times.The purpose is to gather the people in the territory and declare to them the authority of the Lord.

The lord, through the general application, found out the actual situation of the people in various places in the territory, including but not limited to the degree of affluence, etc. After all, the general application for this matter requires the people to bring their own dry food.

So no matter how big or small the lord's knowledge and actions are, the first thing to do when he arrives in the new territory is to conduct a general application, but the scale is different and the items of the general application are different.

And after Matsumoto built the castle, Xiujia also suggested that Xiuzhen take charge of the renovation of Zhongshan Road.

At this time, the Zhongshan Road did not pass through Nanshinano, where Iida is located, because the junctions between Nanxin and Yuanjiang, Mino, and Sanhe were high and steep, and it was difficult for people and animals to travel, so the mountains in the direction of Yuanjiang were relatively gentle. march.

The Ina County of Shinano Province in this matter is like a valley surrounded by mountains on three sides. Only the northeast corner is connected to Zouwa and Matsumoto.

In this case, the main road of the Nakasendo starts from Shibuk, passes through the Kiso Valley in Chikuma County, and connects to Naegi Castle in the western part of Mino Province.Under the seedling city, there is also a very famous scenic spot in later generations-Longma Su.

Because of this matter, human beings have not yet had the ability to dig mountains and rocks, and dig tunnels, so they can only open roads along the valley.

Therefore, compared with the more fertile Ina Basin, Kiso Valley also has a very large population and prosperous business, which is not as sparsely populated as it was in the 21st century.

Although there are many places where only one person can pass through the mountain roads of the Nakasendo Road here, it is indeed the most important path connecting Shinano and Mino Kinki.

It is conceivable that after the completion of the Nakasendo Road renovation, Matsumoto Castle will have an excellent geographical location, and it will be able to collect a lot of light trade and tolls every year.

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The matter of Mino made Hideka worry about it until the beginning of May, when the construction of the new dams on both sides of the Nagara River and the Kiso River was basic technology. At this time, it was mid-June in the Gregorian calendar, and summer had already entered.

The sun in the sky was scorching hot, and the health of Japanese civilians was already poor. It was really impossible to continue in such a high-temperature environment. The Xiu family had to reduce the project volume again and again, and the originally planned stone berms were also cancelled. Stones are used in embankments.

While repairing the Kiso River, Hideya repaired the Nakasendo road in the same way as the Higashiyama Road, and slightly widened the road in the Mino section.

Although the roads in the Kiso Valley section cannot be repaired due to jurisdictional issues, when Xiujia and Xiuzhen repaired both sides of the Nakasendo Road, the passenger flow will inevitably increase greatly, and the Kiso family will also benefit from it.

Enjoying the benefits brought by the flow of people, as long as the Kiso family is not an idiot, they will join in the repair process of the Nakasendo, and take the initiative to make up for the last shortcoming of this wooden barrel.

Hideyoshi and the Kiso family can enjoy tangible benefits through the Zhongshan Road, but the Hide family has a secret that is unknown, that is, to deal with what Hideyoshi may encounter in a hundred years.

In a hurry, the various projects of Meinong finally completed all the construction work at the end of May. The continuous construction of more than 5 months has allowed the people of Meinong to earn 4 yuan per household on average. annual profit.

Although when they first welcomed the Xiu family, the public complained about this adult who treated them differently, but after 5 months of getting along, the Xiu family not only helped them repair the road, but also repaired the three rivers that have been flooding all year round.

The most important thing is that there is still money for the officials to provide meals. How can we not make them feel grateful?
Therefore, when the Xiu family was about to leave, the people in many places in Meinong wanted to send the Xiu family off, but the Xiu family refused.After all, this is Hideyoshi's direct leader, what is it called if his people come to send another daimyo?

Hideya sternly rejected this kind of big scene, and took Okubi and Kurashiki Ubi on the way back just after accepting Noo Daimyo's farewell in Gifu Castle.

Speaking of which, the two reserve teams have been assembled for 8 months since they were mobilized at the end of last year.

First, I went to Hokuriku with Xiujia, and then I was sent to Mino after returning to Osaka to help manage and participate in the construction of the project.

Even if it was the reserve team under the direct control of the Xiu family, the soldiers had long been eager to return. If it weren't for the extra allowance provided by the Xiu family beyond the enlistment period and the prestige of the Xiu family, this group of people would have dispersed like birds and beasts.

It is precisely because of the high cohesion of these two backup teams that the nobles in the Noowei area look at them with admiration.

Before returning from Mino, Hideya deliberately came to the Owari side in the name of inspecting the Kiso River, saw Tsutsui Joji, whom he had not seen for a long time, and took Fujihime from his side.

This big sister had already negotiated before the Mikawa surprise attack, because of the military exploits of Hideka and Tsutsui Joji, Hideka also agreed to this marriage.

Originally, they planned to send her over after the Xiu family got married, but then the marriage relationship of the Xiu family changed, from Kiyohime of the Juting family to Juji of the Toyotomi family.

But Ju Ji is still in the younger grades now, and when Xiujia and Ju Ji get married, Fujihime will become an old girl in her 20s.

Xiujia can afford to wait, Fujihime can't afford to wait!
Under Tsutsui Sadaji's repeated urging, Hideka had no choice but to welcome her in early.

Of course, I also agreed with the Tsutsui family. Before Juji married in, all the women around the Xiu family, including Fujihime, were concubines without a status.

　From this chapter on, I'm going to start speeding up the plot.

　　
　
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