Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 326

Before Xiujia set off, she never thought that the meeting would end like this.

After Hideyoshi took over Hideo's severed finger, he no longer wanted to make things difficult for Hideo.

His initial thought was just to continue to squeeze the Xiu family's bottom line. Who would have thought that this child would be so staunch, and he would directly break off his right little finger holding the knife to prove himself.

The development of the situation exceeded Hideyoshi's expectations, and he began to regret a little, whether there was something wrong with the way he treated Hideyoshi.

Perhaps it was Hideyoshi's operation that made Hideyoshi repent, but Hideyoshi did not deal with Hideyoshi in the end, and Hideyoshi strictly prohibited the outside world about what happened in the castle tower.

This time, the gag order was really issued. Even the fast-talking guy knows the seriousness of the matter. There are only a few people in the room. If it really gets out, it won't be good.

Hideyoshi's sudden attack not only frightened Hideyoshi, but also shocked Ishida Mitsunari.

As a political opponent, Sancheng does not believe that a man who can ruthlessly treat his own body will express his feelings with others and be loyal to that oath.

But now that the two big brothers of the Toyotomi family have expressed their guilt towards the Xiu family, and even more so they firmly believe in his loyalty, so why should I touch this brow?

In order to keep the situation secret, after Hideyoshi's doctor Shiyaoyuan Quanzong used medicine to bandage Hideyoshi's hands, Hidecho accompanied Jing Yu to make the stoma and returned to the mansion to rest.

In the afternoon of that day, news came out from Osaka that Xiujia was deeply loved by everyone because of his ability to deal with the Mino and Omi disasters.And these two places are directly under Hideyoshi's jurisdiction, so it was decided to reward him.

Hideyoshi bestowed the Hide family with the surname "Toyotomi courtier", making him the third daimyo with this surname in the world.Moreover, the gift of Toyotomi's surname was added with the words "accurately revealing the original surname, sharing the glory".

What do you mean?

That is to say, the Xiu family is allowed to use only their original surnames to be called, instead of using Miao characters. This is like allowing those descendants of Genji's separated family who use their own Miao characters to use Genji's original surname to be called publicly, which is equivalent to righting them as Genji Diliu.

As we all know, now Toyotomi's courtier's main family is Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi has not yet separated from Hideyoshi. Now he adds a Hideo family who must show his real surname. This is really treating the Hideo family as his own family.

You must know that although later generations of Hideyoshi often bestowed other daimyos with the surname Hashibanae and Toyotomi, they rarely allow them to reveal Toyotomi's real surname to others.

Even Hideyoshi's closest relative, Hideka, was still habitually called Ukita Hideka after gaining Hashiba's face and Toyotomi's surname.

But now Hideyoshi is allowed to publicly use Toyotomi's surname to call himself. Hideyoshi's specification is higher than that given to Hideyoshi in history, so that Hideyoshi can't believe it. This is Hideyoshi who almost got into a fight with him this morning. ?

It's not over yet, when everyone was in the fog and didn't know what happened in Osaka Castle in the morning, the emperor's decree also came.

After the previous pass of the horses, the Emperor Jin granted the Xiu family the title of the four ministers and councilors, and the next day the emperor issued another decree, and added the title of the four ministers and the middle secretary.

This position is equivalent to the Prime Minister of the government, the Chief Executive during the Republic of China period was a high-ranking official in the palace, and even for the first time in the decree, because of the health of the Xiu family, he was exempted from the process of personally entering the palace to pay his respects.

So far, the Xiu family has finally undergone the third name change in their life, and the name from now on will be the Hideo family, the minister of the court.

The emperor's Zhao Ming issued two consecutive cards in two days, and the official position of the Xiu family also rose. This promotion speed was like riding a rocket.

This is a great thing!

The daimyo, who was still in Osaka Castle, wanted to visit the Xiu family's mansion to maintain the relationship with the third child of the Toyotomi family, but was all rejected by the Xiu family, and even the Okayama mansion directly closed the door to thank the guests.

Together with the Okayama clan, there is Toyotomi Hidecho of the Kitanosho clan at the opposite door. This good old man of the Toyotomi family has also closed his door to thank guests these days, and the whole Osaka city reveals a strange joy.

Back at the Xiu family, because Xiu Chang directly brought the people out from Tamamakou, the attendants who followed Xiu family to Oteguchi in the morning did not wait for the Xiu family, and finally the retainers rushed from the mansion to Oteguchi to inform them .

When they returned to the residence, they saw Xiujia who had fallen into a deep sleep, and the white cloth wrapped around Xiujia's right hand had been soaked in blood.

The Xiu family slept for a long time, and they didn't even receive the imperial decree from the Emperor Jin Jin to appoint the Xiu family as a councilor and secretary of state.

Xiujia finally woke up the next night. Xiujia felt extremely unwell and her forehead was burning hot.

Xiujia took advantage of the moonlight to remove the white cloth on his right hand, but it was already swollen, and it was extremely painful to touch even a little. "It's broken, I'm afraid someone's wound has inflammation."

"Hanbei!" The Xiu family suddenly shouted to the outside, and there was a sound of footsteps outside the house.

"Your Highness!" As the sliding door was opened, the retainers who were waiting outside entered the house one after another, and lit the candles inside the house for the Xiu family.

With the light of the candle, Xiujia re-examined her wound, and it was indeed red and swollen. At this moment, Xiujia regretted why she casually used a knife on her body in this era.

You must know that the current knives are not hygienic at all. It is lucky that the wound is infected. If the fortress has tetanus, it will be impossible to save the gods.

"Your Highness, what's wrong with your hand." Several retainers in the room exclaimed when they saw Xiu's severed finger.

Hideka did not immediately respond to the retainer's concerns, but explained to Hanbei, "Hanbei, go boil some boiling water and scoop out some of it. Then tear the newly made white cloth into strips and boil them in boiling water."

Naturally, the Xiu family did this to treat wounds. Due to the limited conditions, there is no high-concentration alcohol or hydrogen peroxide. Regardless of whether Eastern or Western medicine treats wounds, they often use the most primitive herbs or other methods to stop bleeding and promote wound healing.

The most outrageous thing is Egypt. The ancient Egyptian way of dealing with wounds was to take a piece of fresh meat and pour milk on the wound.

It is difficult to prevent the wound from festering with such a treatment method, but it should have been used in ancient Egypt for hundreds of years.

However, Japan, which learned from the medical techniques of the Ming Dynasty, often uses medicinal dressings to treat wounds, but it is difficult to achieve a uniform standard in the treatment of primitive herbal medicines, and it is difficult to extract medicinal ingredients that are really useful for wounds.

Take the well-known secret hemostatic formula of later generations as an example. It is a good medicine for healing in various ancient novels, but you don’t know that in the published formulas in Europe and America, its main ingredient is the chemical extract tranexamic acid.

This is like a bottle of very effective aphrodisiac wine, the advertising reputation is extremely loud, and the rumors are miraculous, but at the last look, there is actually sildenafil in the formula.

The most important thing is that its formula also contains Aconitum aconitum, which is outrageous when added to a hemostatic drug. The main ingredient, aconitine, not only has no effect on hemostasis and wound healing, but is a neurotoxin that stimulates the heart.

Even after concocting benzoylaconitine with a 60% reduction in toxicity, its LD50 in mice is still as high as 10.96mg/kg. What is the concept? Arsenic is 871mg/kg, and potassium cyanide is 4mg/kg. I forgot to say Take a bite, the lower the value of this thing, the more toxic it is.

It is very outrageous, this kind of poison has been used in medicine in an open manner, and it has been used for hundreds of years. In the end, it was advertised and hyped, and it was kept from the people of the country for so many years on the grounds of secrecy.

This example is given here just to illustrate that from a scientific point of view for drug analysis, until the discovery of tranexamic acid in 1962, all hemostatic drugs were farting.

The Xiu family didn't know what kind of medicine the Quanzong of the Shiyaoyuan applied to themselves, but with the knowledge of later generations of the Xiu family, if you were injured by flesh and blood in ancient times, you would rather believe in the healing power of the human body than any outside world. drug.

Shimizu Xin also wanted to prepare for Xiujia himself, but Xiujia indicated that he would assign the task to everyone and wait.

When the others took up the task and left, Xiujia motioned for Nobuo Shimizu to come, and said to him, "Is that thing still hidden in the well? Take a little out to test whether it is still effective, and if it works, bring it to me."

What Xiujia was talking about was naturally the penicillin prepared by the local method.

Since the successful preparation of Xiujia, there have been special personnel preparing new drugs every week to reserve for Xiujia. However, due to the low level of ancient equipment and the very harsh environment, the success rate of penicillin preparation is not high.

Because the success rate is too low and the medicine is really expensive, once a jar is successfully prepared, it will be stored in the Yin Well by the Xiu family for emergency use.

Shimizu Xin also naturally knew what the Xiu family was referring to, he responded with a bang and retreated, and went to personally test whether the medicine left in Osaka City was effective.

During this time, Xiujia continued to rinse his wound with 0.9% cold saline, and wiped off the foreign matter stuck to the wound with gauze.

After a while, everyone finally returned gradually, Shimizu Xin also held an earthen pot and nodded to Xiu's family.After clearing away everyone, only Qing Shuixin was left behind to dispense medicine for Xiu's family.

Xin also dipped Bai Juan into 0.3% penicillin after watering it, and gently wiped it on Xiujia's severed finger. Only now did he realize that Qingxiujia's right hand had lost a finger.

As a samurai, he naturally knew what this meant. He asked in a mournful tone, "Your Highness, what happened to this? Why did you go to Osaka and even broke your finger?"

Xiujia endured the pain and didn't answer. After he applied the medicine evenly, he bandaged Xiujia's wound with a scalded white cloth again, and then Xiujia said slowly, "It's nothing serious. It's because of some ideas and Guan Baidian's rise." conflict."

Shimizu Xin also didn't understand, what kind of conflict between the father and son who seemed to have a harmonious relationship on the outside, made His Royal Highness have to cut off the little finger of the samurai.

But Qing Shuixin is also very smart, since the Xiu family doesn't say anything, he won't ask again, he only knows that he needs to wait by the Xiu family's side now.

In fact, during the previous debridement, Xiujia's wound began to ooze blood again. Because there was no hemostatic medicine, Xiujia could only use the most primitive pressure to stop the bleeding.

Fortunately, the Xiu family now has antibiotics that are ahead of the times, and the really fatal infection after injury should not be a serious problem.

By the fifth day, Xiujia's body had recovered, and the severed finger had begun to scab and flesh. Xiujia specially asked Shimizu Nobu to find the best-paying artisans in Kyoto and Sakaicho to make a pair of one-finger gloves for him. .

Although the Xiu family's status is extremely special, in ancient times the disabled status was not easy to be accepted by people. For the sake of the Toyotomi family's face, the Xiu family also used a fake finger cot to fool the world.

After doing all this, it was mid-August. During this time, Hideyoshi came to Hideyoshi's residence to visit Hideyoshi several times and asked about Hideyoshi's physical condition.

However, he never urged Xiujia to go to Kyushu to join the battle. On the contrary, Toyotomi Hidecho replaced Xiujia and went to Bungo in advance to serve as the general of the East Route Army.

And Hideyoshi himself will lead Kinki, Dongguk, Hokuriku, Saikuni, and Shikoku to Kyushu in mid-September.

The army within the Xiu family was supposed to be gradually mobilized in early August, but because the Xiu family did not return to China and was not assigned a military service certificate, it has been delayed until now.

Finally, one month before Hideyoshi played, Hideyoshi summoned Hideyo again, and asked Hideyo for the first time whether his body supported him to play in Kyushu.

Hideo promised Hideyoshi that he would lead 25 people into the battle. Counting the 000 people who had already been in Kyushu before, Ukido would mobilize more than 18 people to Kyushu to participate in the war.

Hideyoshi's positive attitude won Hideyoshi's approval, and he told Hideyoshi that he only needs to follow the Chinese army and does not need to bear the responsibility of the main attack, and promised to give Hideyoshi full military ration support.

Before leaving, Hideyoshi asked, "Is there anything else I can help you with?"

Hideyoshi originally thought that the Hideo family would ask for more military rations, money, horses, or iron cannons for support, but who would have thought that the Hideo family responded unprecedentedly, "The construction of Okayama Castle has been stalled for a long time because of Master Maeda's affairs, please father send me as soon as possible." It is appropriate for people to come to Okayama to preside over the construction of Okayama Castle.”

Hideyoshi didn't expect Hideo to make such a request, and after reacting for a long time, he returned to the country, and said to Hideo, "I know about this matter, and it happens that you are familiar with Toshihei, so I will assign him to take charge of Okayama Since the construction of the city will take a long time, I will simply leave it to you for the time being, and work for you."

Rihei is the general name of Nagatsu Masakae. He was originally Niwa Nagahide's vassal and was responsible for financial affairs.

Later, after Niwa Changhide's death, the Niwa family was greatly reduced and punished, and he became Hideyoshi's direct minister. Because of Mino and Omi's achievements in disaster relief, he was granted the title of Omi 6000 shi Zhixing.

If Nagatsu Masaka had not been sent to Hideo, his ability would be gradually known by Hideyoshi. During the Kyushu Conquest and the Odawara Conquest in the 18th year of Tensho (1590), Nagatsu Masaka served as the Bingliang implementation, responsible for the transportation of soldiers and rations.

Its excellent working ability made it possible to transport 20 shi of military food without delay, and searched and purchased 3 shi of rice around Odawara, causing Odawara City's military rations to be in distress.

最后因为营建名护屋城的功绩，于文禄4年（1595年）受封近江水口城5万石；庆长2年（1597年）加封12万石，并叙任官位从四位下侍从，正式成为举足轻重的大名。

The Xiu family is very greedy for the ability of Chang Shu Zheng's family, but they can't desire it.Now that Hideyoshi directly sent him to his side to become Yuli, for Hideyoshi, it can barely make up for the loss of his severed finger.

In fact, for Hideo, he never knew how to handle his relationship with Hideyoshi in the past.

Although the Hide family seems to be the same family in the Toyotomi family system, it is indeed the same as the outside, but if you want to say that it is the outside, the Hide family is Hideyoshi's adopted son publicly, and is also the first adopted son bestowed with Yu Chai Miao's name. The existence of Hideyoshi's key promotion.

Hideka believed that this kind of confusion also existed on Hideyoshi's side, otherwise Hideyoshi would not have wavered back and forth in his treatment of Hideyoshi.

Although the finger is broken now, it really made Hideyoshi feel enlightened. He no longer has extravagant hopes for Hideyoshi, and no longer prays for a proper life under Toyotomi's wings.

In the past, the relationship between Hideo and Hideyoshi was constantly cut and messed up. Although Hideyoshi was not Hideyoshi's biological father, he raised the Hideo family and was kind to the Hideo family.

At the very least, Hideyoshi, who was desperately trying to save Hideo in front of Oda Nobunaga, really liked this child.

After Nao's death, when the Yuxi family was on the verge of collapse, Fu Building was about to collapse, and rescued the Yuxi family from the coercion of the Maori family, stabilizing the Yuxi family's regime under Shao Guoxin.

Although later Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi achieved each other, but now the number one overlord of the Western Kingdom, the Uki family with a height of one million stones is indeed a gift from Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi is kind to Hideyoshi.

But from the moment Xiujia cut off his finger, Xiujia had already decided to live for himself in the future. concern.

Just in response to the sentence "If you don't give birth, you will raise it, and if you cut off your fingers, you will repay it."

(End of this chapter)