Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 324 "Then cut seppuku"

In fact, for the Xiu family, transferring to Kyushu is indeed a good place.

But Xiujia, who is familiar with the history, knows that Zhixing in Kyushu was only 250 million shi during the period of Taige inspection. If he wants to accommodate himself, at least half of Kyushu must be sealed to himself.

In this way, he has become the veritable number one feudal clan in Kyushu, and there is a huge gap in strength between him and other daimyos.

Whether the other daimyos are willing or not, they can only rely on the breath of the Xiu family to survive.

If Hideyoshi is really afraid of the Xiu family and transfers the Xiu family far away, he will naturally put a considerable size beside the Xiu family to restrain each other, and the land of Kyushu can only accommodate one Xiu family.

For Hideyoshi, sealing the Hide family to Kyushu is tantamount to watching a new Kyushu kingdom be born, so what is the significance of evaluating the Shimadzu family in this way?

It can even be said that from the first day when Hideyoshi was transferred to Kyushu, Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi will start preparing for the next battle.

As a daimyo of Kyushu, Hideyoshi had to obey Hideyoshi's order to go to Korea. The limit conscription of 650 men per [-] shi would undoubtedly put a heavy burden on Hideyoshi's back.

And the defeat in the first Korean War will deal a heavy blow to the prestige and national strength of the Xiu family.

Therefore, although Xiu's family is very grateful for Xiuchang's help, he deeply knows that he will never and will not go to the land of Kyushu.

It's just that the reason for this is only known to Xiujia who is familiar with history, and Xiuchang is deeply involved in the play, and he still wants to reconcile the relationship between the two.

Xiujia couldn't bear to interrupt Xiuchang's good intentions, and more importantly, all of the above Xiujia had no actual basis, and if they said it, they might pierce the last window paper and make both sides look bad.

Early the next morning, Hideo followed Hideyoshi's request and entered the city from Oteguchi early, waiting for Hideyoshi's reception.

The mansions where Hideyoshi and Hidecho resided are both located at the Tamamaguchi on the east side. This is usually not the main entrance of Osaka Honmaru, but it can be regarded as a convenient passage for cronies to enter the city.

If it was the past, that's all. The Xiu family entered the city casually under the leadership of Xiu Chang. Now that the status of the Xiu family is a bit embarrassing, it is more appropriate for the Oteguchi who entered the city to go out and enter the city steadily.

It's just that, entering the city from the Xiu family's mansion requires a large circle along Nanshuibori, which is not even as convenient as Tokugawa, Mori and other daimyos.

Hideyoshi usually got up very early, which may have something to do with his humble background in his early years.Hearing that Xiu's family had entered the city, he quickly tidied up his clothes and walked out of the inner hall.

Hideka was arranged in the other courtyard of Nishi Maru. From the perspective of the itinerary, Hideyoshi had to go around a large area from Oumoto Maru to meet Hideka, but Hideka didn't wait long before hearing footsteps on the wall corridor.

"Swipe~" (door opening sound)

Xiujia put his head down on the ground, stared at the tatami, and shouted loudly: "Hail Xiujia sees my father, and wishes my father a prosperous martial arts."

Xiujia waited for the man on the imperial steps to respond to him, but he heard another familiar voice, "Lieutenant General Yu Chai, His Highness Guan Bai asked you to meet Okumoto Maru."

"Hey?" Xiujia suddenly raised his head, who else could it be if it wasn't Ishida Mitsunari?

At this time, Ishida Mitsunari had already begun to grow his signature mustache, and with the shiny shaved Tsukishiro head on top of his head, he looked like a bald mouse.

"His Highness Guanbai asked you to meet at Okumoto Maru." Ishida Mitsunari was afraid that Hideka might not hear clearly, so he repeated it again, then walked down and stretched out his hand to invite, "Let's go, Lieutenant General Hashiba."

To be honest, Hideka was a little bit aggrieved, after all, Ishida Mitsunari came in from a high-ranking person, and Hideka took it for granted that it was Hideyoshi himself.

The Xiu family bowed to him reflexively, and it turned out to be a bald rat whose knowledge, behavior, official position, and ability could not compare with his own.

The most important thing is that he is a member of the Omi faction. Although Xiujia doesn't want to admit it, he is indeed an enemy.

Xiu's family gave him a big gift, but he didn't show any flattered or embarrassed expression, and acted as it should.

But after all, this is Osaka Castle, Hideyoshi's territory, and Sancheng is Hideyoshi's close minister, representing Hideyoshi's face, this dumb loss can only be borne by Hideyoshi himself.

"Then Lord Lao Ishida will lead the way."

Ishida Mitsunari in this matter has not yet been entrusted by the Ministry of Justice. The retainers in Toyotomi’s territory were entrusted on a large scale after the Kyushu War. Performance beyond boundaries.

Because of the battle of Kyushu, Ishida Mitsunari was awarded the title of five subordinates, Jibu Shaofu. From this moment on, Ishida Mitsunari began to step onto the political stage of the end of the Warring States period.

"Ishida-sama should also go with you in this Kyushu crusade."

On the way, in order to ease the embarrassment, Xiujia chatted without saying a word, but Ishida Mitsunari seemed not interested in Xiujia's question, and only responded with short sentences.

Ishida said, "I will go."

"Are you still in charge of food and grass?"

"kindness"

"Ah! Is that so? I'm relieved to have an adult in charge of logistics, and I will have a lot of assistance from Mr. Lao when the time comes."

"There is a quota for the amount of food and grass, and I am also acting according to His Highness Guan Bai's order."

Xiujia didn't expect that after finally waiting for a long sentence, Ishida Mitsucheng replied so indifferently, which made Xiujia lose the mood to continue the chat.

Hideka was led by Ishida Mitsunari to walk further in, and as he walked, he was almost at the gate of the inner and outer halls of the Obon Maru district. Ishida Mitsunari still wanted to take Hideka forward, but stopped Hideka at the door.

Ishida Matsunari, who took a few steps forward, seemed to realize that the Xiu family behind him hadn't kept up. He turned to look at the Xiu family and said, "What's the matter? Left Lieutenant General, His Highness Guan Bai is waiting for you inside."

Xiujia looked at the low door frame. Although it didn't have an exclusive palace name like the Ming Palace, it was indeed the boundary between the inner and outer halls.

Hideka looked at Mitsunari Ishida and confirmed, "This is the inner hall where my father, my mothers, and my young master live."

"Yes, of course I know, Master Guan Bai is inside, do you want Master Guan Bai to wait for you?" Ishida Mitsunari stepped forward and responded, and after speaking, he made a gesture to hold Xiu's hand and walk in.

Xiujia flung his hand away, stepped back a few steps and looked at the door frame again.

At this time, the Xiu family was caught in a dilemma. He was afraid that this was a drama of "entering the White Tiger Hall by mistake", and he would not be able to get out after entering.

But I was afraid that this was indeed Hideyoshi's order, and if I didn't go in, I would be disobeying Hideyoshi's order.

After thinking about going to Xiu's house, he still refused: "I heard that I got a new younger brother, and now my father must share the family relationship with him and Mrs. Dian inside, so I won't go in and disturb their time.

Please also ask Master Ishida to arrange another room for me to wait in Obon Maru. I will wait outside to be summoned when Father is free. After Xiujia said that, he took a few steps back.

Ishida Misunari saw the show's decision, shook his eyebrows and said, "Well, I understand, please wait a moment, Your Highness, I will go in and report."

After finishing speaking, he asked an attendant beside him to take Xiujia to the reception room on the third floor of the Osaka castle tower to wait.

Before the Xiu family had to wait for long, they heard the sound of giggling from below, and a familiar sound of footsteps coming up the stairs of the castle tower.

With another sound of "swipe~", the sliding door of the reception room was opened, and Hideka bowed down towards the throne, praising Hideyoshi's kindness again.

Then a majestic voice came from the upload: "You are really difficult to serve. You can't even go to the Auburn Maru. If you have to let me come out to see you, you can't T-shirt your elderly father so that he will be less tired." How many steps to walk?"

Although it was a problem arranged by Hideyoshi, at this time Hideyoshi could only take the responsibility on himself, "Yes, it is because the child is not thinking well, please father to punish."

Seeing Xiujia's attitude was good, Hideyoshi didn't intend to continue to get angry, and said to Xiujia, "Get up"

Hideyoshi straightened up, looking at the thin figure on the imperial steps, he could only say that Hideyoshi was really old.

His original figure was not big, but his bones began to lock when he was old, his waist was a little bent, and with the skin folds on his face, he looked more like a monkey.

"What, is there something wrong with my face?" Hideyoshi said sullenly seeing Xiujia staring at him.

Xiujia withdrew his eyes from looking at Hideyoshi, began to brew emotions, and replied in a grievance and crying tone, "I haven't seen you for more than half a year since the first parting last year. I didn't expect my father to become so haggard. Father, please don't be too embarrassed." I'm too worried about state affairs, it's important to pay attention to your health."

Hideyoshi was a little embarrassed by Hideo's sudden warmth, and responded to Hideo with "I have a heart." Then he began to ask Hideo, "I heard that you did a good job in Mino, and the merchants and daimyo who came and went all praised you. results."

"Yes" Hideka took out a ledger from the interlayer of the clothes and handed it to Ishida Mitsunari, and especially handed it over to Hideyoshi, "Here are the results and consumption of Mino Kopo's preparations, please have a look at it, Father."

Hideyoshi casually flipped through two pages and closed the account book. Just as he was about to say something to the Hide family, the door of the house was opened again, and it turned out that Toyotomi Hidecho had entered.

"Brother, I'm really sorry, I changed places temporarily and didn't notify me, so I'm late."

Hideyoshi glanced at his younger brother, quickly changed his indifferent expression to a warm attitude and said, "Oh, it's Kotake, you didn't come here to play, I was just about to talk about Mino, the leader of the country after you, but Hachiro I have managed it well for you, so it can be regarded as a gift to your country."

After finishing speaking, he handed the account book to Xiuchang and said, "Do you want to see it?"

Xiuchang took the account book, reviewed some contents, and responded: "Although I had a chat with Hachiro yesterday, I still feel a lot of emotion after seeing the real data today. If I ask myself, I can't do this."

Xiuchang looked at Xiujia and praised, "Hachiro, you did a good job, thank you."

The Xiu family said modestly, "Master Uncle, you are absurd."

At this time, Xiuchang took back the initiative of speaking, looked at Hideyoshi and said, "Brother, it seems that Hachiro's method of providing relief with work is really good. The construction project required to save a lot of expenditure can be said to combine the advantages of both.”

Hideyoshi must have never read the account books of the Hideo family, but he nodded in response to Hideonaga's words, "Well, that's true."

Xiuchang smiled and continued, "In this way, if you encounter a disaster in the future, you can properly promote Hachiro's practice, so that after all, the disaster relief will be relieved, and the people's resources will not be wasted. What do you think?"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi has always been kind to this younger brother, and responded to him, "Just do as you say, and write it into a record after you go back, and act accordingly in the future."

Then he looked at Xiu's family and asked him, "Didn't you want to explain to me about Maeda Xuanyi? I kindly sent him to help you build a residence, but you actually attacked him? Why did you do that?" Do?"

Hideyoshi's sudden anger actually reassured Hideyoshi. What he fears most is that Hideyoshi is laughing and joking with you today, and going back to trip you secretly.

Now that Xiuji is scolding you, it's a kind of showdown, so that the Xiu family doesn't have to worry about the future.

Regarding the explanation of this matter, Xiujia already had an idea in his mind, so he told Xiang Hideyoshi what happened in Okayama.

Hideka particularly emphasized his protection of Maeda Genichi, and in the end he was the one who protected him out of the city.

Hideka believed that as long as Maeda Genichi hadn't made up his mind to confront him, he would have made it clear when reporting to Hideyoshi, and he would never blame himself.

After all, there is a difference between the resistance of the retainers below and the top-down leadership of the family governor to resist the inspection. Maeda Genyi is also a veteran statesman in the Warring States Period, and he will never make such a low-level mistake.

When Hideya made a statement, he looked at Hideyoshi's expression again and again.

Sure enough, as Hideyoshi narrated, his expression gradually eased. It seemed that the facts he said were similar to those expressed by Maeda Genichi, and his statement was recognized by Hideyoshi.

After finishing speaking, the Hide family saluted Hideyoshi again and confessed, "It's all because of the child's lack of control. If you want to punish him, please ask my father to punish me. I will definitely apologize to Maeda-sama in person. "

Hideyoshi lowered her stance so much that she was close to pleading guilty. The purpose was to let Hideyoshi calm down and not punish herself too much.

Even with regard to the situation of the field of ability, the Xiu family reported truthfully. As far as the number of knowledge and actions is concerned, it is not a star and a half more than the number reported by Mao Li.

They are all territories of the West Country, how can there be such a big difference in the number of knowledge and actions, Xiujia believes that as long as Hideyoshi is not blind, he will be able to see the loyalty of Xiujia.

But Hideo waited for a long time but did not get Hideyoshi's response, only he was sitting on the imperial steps, not listening to the sound of tapping the tatami with a folding fan.

Hideo waited for a long time but did not hear Hideyoshi's response, so he raised his head tentatively, wanting to see Hideyoshi's attitude.

But just moved a little, Hideyoshi who was sitting on it suddenly said to Hideo, "Then do seppuku."

(End of this chapter)