Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 372

The meaning of seeing the sex house is to ask the Hide family to solve the problem of Ito Yoshiyoshi forever, but for the Hide family, the risk of doing so is much greater. Informed.

According to the experience of later generations, if the Otomo family is changed by Hideyoshi, the Otomo family is likely to use this as a threat to help them restore their country.

In the future, the Xiu family will still need to rely on political influence to unite with other daimyos, and it is better to do as little as possible for this kind of thing.

After all, what they want is to restore the country, this request is a piece of cake for the Xiu family, there is no need to take an extra risk for it.

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On June 15, Tensho Year 6, after half a month of trekking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Hidecho brothers finally arrived at the foot of Shishan Castle as the Chinese army.

In order to make room for the tens of thousands of troops to camp, Xiujia had asked all the ashigaru recruits to be led by their respective captains yesterday, and return to their original collars to be disbanded.

Qinglong Bei was asked to go to Misaku to reorganize, and Bai Hubei was assigned to Iyo to reorganize. Firearms Bei was stationed in Toyama Castle all the year round. At the moment, only Xiujia Banzhong, Gomoto Fanzhong and Suzaku Bei who are rebuilding are still stationed in Okayama. .

Having said that, I have to focus on introducing the Hide family's gomoto fans.

This is a standing force of 1500 men. This reserve team is divided into one battalion of 500 men in Toyama Castle and two battalions of 1000 men in Okayama Castle.

Although this troop is also standing, it will not go out with the army, but will be responsible for the defense of Okayama Castle.

In the past, the Uki family also had Gomoto fans, but they were usually held concurrently by the Banners. After the generals came out, some samurai were temporarily arranged to lead the ashigaru to defend the city.

After the Hideo family came back from the four kingdoms campaign, and the commander-in-chief reached a million shi, he was able to form another standing army, so he made up his mind to recruit heirs from various samurai families as officers.

Unlike Standing Army who likes to recruit proletarians as soldiers, Gomoto Fanzhong only recruits property-bearing Ashgaru from the military service certificates directly under Hideka, and they are recruited as soldiers on the condition that the government helps them cultivate the fields and gives them extra military pay.

After all, this is only the army responsible for the defense of Xiujia's main city, Okayama, and the armament storage city, Toyama. After Yuxi's many troops have entered the battle, it is the most important defense force in the territory. Xiujia must use completely trustworthy people to form it.

As the saying goes, those who have permanent property have perseverance. Their territories are all under the rule of the Xiu family. The Xiu family prospers and loses with them. As long as the territory is still there, they will definitely not betray the Xiu family.

The Xiu family had already learned the news in advance, and after waiting for a long time under Shishan Castle, they saw a yellow dragon slowly coming from the west, which was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's banner army.

After seeing Hideyoshi's horse seal, the officials in charge of welcoming him from the Hideyoshi family knelt down on both sides of the road very actively to welcome the man who was called the man of the world.

Hideya, on the other hand, only bowed to Hideyoshi and Hidecho after confirming that he saw them.

"Really, how could there be such a big battle?" Hideyoshi was riding on a white Misaki horse, which was a gift from Shimadzu Yoshihiro. This time, Hideyoshi has been riding this horse on his return trip from Kyushu. .

Misaki horses with shoulder heights generally reaching 130cm were already considered very majestic war horses in Japan at this time.Misaki horse owners are produced in Hyuga and Osumi, and it is also because of the Misaki horse that the Shimadzu family has a cavalry unit that is feared in southern Japan.

According to Hideo’s knowledge, the Hakata businessman Shimai clan once gave Hideyoshi an Andalusian horse with a shoulder height of 150cm. That horse can be said to exist like a giant horse in Japanese horse breeds.

But Hideyoshi's height is only 130cm, even if he likes that Andalusian war horse, riding on its back seems a bit out of order.

After all, the height of the monkey is not as high as the back of the horse. No matter how you ride on that horse, it looks like a thin and small monkey crowned with a monkey.

Perhaps Hideyoshi himself is definitely a little weird. Although the war horse Hideyoshi was accepted, he never rode it out again.

Hideyoshi parked the horse in front of Hideyoshi's house, and his own attendants took the initiative to lead the horse for Hideyoshi.Because Hideyoshi is too short, it is not very convenient to get on and off the horse, so a high stool was specially prepared for him for him to get on and off the horse.

Hideyoshi, who just got off the horse, adjusted his armor a little bit, looked at the 1.65 tall Hideka, and said in surprise, "My God, I didn't pay much attention when I was in Kyushu, Hachiro, you are already this tall now." Yet?"

Toyotomi Hideaga also teased Hideo from the sidelines, "And she's very pretty, too. I heard that she's abducting little girls everywhere. Brother, you don't know, but Hachiro has already given birth to his eldest son."

"Oh! Really? So our Toyotomi family already has the third generation."

Although Tatsuchiyo, the eldest son of the Hide family, was born close to going to war, he had Sadako Osafune report to Osaka in accordance with the procedures. Hideyoshi was more than a month later than the Hide family, so it is impossible not to know about it.

And Hidecho was informed by Hideka when he was in Kyushu, and now Hideyoshi and Hidecho brothers are singing together, just playing a joke on Hideka.

"It's very good. When your biological father handed you over to me, you were the only heir. At that time, you were in a small grade. I was always worried about your death. Now that you are blooming early, I want to come to Dazai. It must be very gratifying."

Perhaps the Ukita Nao family did tell Hideyoshi about this matter, expressing to Hideyoshi their concerns about the succession relationship of the Uki family, and Hideyoshi just said it casually this time.

But perhaps because of the previous conflicts with Hideyoshi, this sentence was very harsh to Hideyoshi, as if reiterating that Hideyoshi was giving birth to a son for Ukita.

You must know that it is different from the history now. He is an adopted son who has clearly left the adoption relationship, and he has the right to inherit the Toyotomi family in law.

Including the Xiu family's surname and Miao characters, they are all shown as "Toyotomi" and "Hashiba". These are enough to prove that the current father of the Xiu family is Hideyoshi.

The Hideka didn't take the initiative to answer Hideyoshi's words, but took the time to reply, "Father and uncle are in their prime, maybe when Chen Chiyo gets older, he will play with his uncles all day long." .”

Xiujia here wished Hideyoshi and Xiuchang two people's fertility, and when they heard Xiujia's blessing, they both looked at each other and smiled.Hideyoshi patted Hideka on the shoulder and said, "From now on, the future of the Toyotomi family still depends on you juniors."

"Yes, Father, I will do my best to protect the Toyotomi family." After Hideyoshi received Hideyoshi's wish, the Hideo family promised him again.

Then the Xiu family gave up their position and extended their hands to invite the two of them to enter the city, "I have already prepared houses and food for my father and my uncle in Stone Mountain City, please come with me and let me show some kindness as a landlord."

Before the great flood in 1581, Ukido's Honjo was located in this Ishiyama Castle, and its castle town was quite large at that time.

But later, because of the flood, Hideka moved the main castle to Okayama in Shangdo County, and the castle town also experienced relocation, but there are still some castle towns under Ishiyama Castle that have become ancillary buildings of Ishiyama Castle.

Now that Shishan City has become the temporary home of Yuxijia, the towns under Shishan City have naturally developed again, just like Shanghai Pudong and the Bund are developing outward along the Huangpu River.

When Hideyoshi and Hideaga followed Hideo to the foot of Shishan Castle, they were a little surprised to see this rough city, and Hideka also said in embarrassment, "I'm sorry, because Okayama Castle is under construction, so Ishiyama Castle is our Temporary residence in the castle. Naturally, the city construction is not as good as my father's Osaka Castle and my uncle's North Village Castle, please forgive me."

After Hideka finished speaking, he pointed to Mount Cao on the other side of the Asahikawa River. The trees on the top of the mountain had been basically cut down, and the stone wall was being built with stones of different sizes and special adhesives according to the plan of Nagatsu Masakaya. .

There are many types of buildings in Japanese urban construction. Wang Lu Class [-] at Station B has a clear explanation. What Okayama is using now is the most economical rock cut.

To put it simply, it is a method of fortifying the city by embedding stones of different sizes into the gaps and filling the middle with sand or other smaller stones.

This method of building stones is economical and fast. After all, it would take a lot of effort to build stone walls with stones of equal size like Osaka and Edo.

This is also the method that Changshu Zhengjia came up with after thinking about it in many ways to save materials and money.

However, there is a problem with the troubled times, that is, the rammed earth is still used as the filling, and it is easy to collapse after a long period of rain. But it will kill people.

Therefore, the Xiu family used the knowledge of later generations to bring him the method of using glutinous rice mortar as an adhesive when building cities in the Ming Dynasty, helping him build stone walls faster and more constructively.

As for why cement and concrete were not developed directly, this is actually a mistake often made by time travelers in many novels. They always think that these things are very easy to obtain, and they can produce sharp tools for building cities with just a few words, which amazes the ancients.

It is true that Japan has abundant lime and volcanic ash resources, as well as clay and gypsum, which are very suitable for concrete production.

But there was no industrial age at this time. Most of the lime, gypsum and volcanic ash in nature were lumpy and could not be easily crushed.

It takes a lot of manpower and energy to grind these raw materials into a shape that can be mixed with urban concrete. Instead of doing this, it is better to use the soil method of the Ming Dynasty. Anyway, it is just burning glutinous rice and mixing sand and soil, which is much more convenient than crushing stones. .

Of course, it does not mean that the Xiu family has completely given up the production of cement and concrete. The Xiu family has indeed produced some raw materials by relying on manpower in a small area. In about a day, it would be as much as half a bag of cement for later generations.

But this kind of production scale is not enough to meet the construction work of Okayama Castle, and cement and raw gypsum are materials that are not easy to preserve. They are easy to react directly in wet weather and clot, so how much is used is counted as glutinous rice sand. a supplement of.

The two looked in the direction of Xiujia's finger, and they saw the city under construction on Caoshan Mountain on the other side of the Asahi River.

Hideyoshi asked Xiujia, "Actually, I have seen the construction plan of Okayama, but I can't understand why you built it on the mountain. The world will soon be stable. The role of the city has changed from a defensive purpose to a lord. symbol of status.

Why not build on flat ground instead of building on a mountain, which is thankless?In this way, not only the construction period is faster, but also the related costs can be saved a little. "

Hideka didn't believe a single word of Hideyoshi's "nonsense" that the world would soon settle down. Of course, they explained it in this way: "A child can't compare with his father. He can build such a majestic castle tower. Built on the mountain, the original height of the mountain is used to increase the height of my castle tower.

Moreover, Okayama is the only raised mountain in the central part of Bizen. Building the city here allows you to easily view the scenery of the various counties in Bizen and monitor the situation of Okayama Port. It is a suitable city. where.

On the contrary, if I build this castle on the original site of Ishiyama Castle, there are two problems. One is that it is located in Mino County, which is the westernmost county of Bizen and handed over to Bichu. If there is any problem in Bichu My city bears the brunt.

The second is that if the city is built here at Shishan Castle, then the situation in the east will be blocked by Okayama.The left and right are built on the edge of Shanyang Avenue, so naturally choose a land with greater advantages to build the city. "

Hideyoshi listened to what the Xiu family said, and was no longer willing to delve into this issue. Anyway, it was the Xiu family's own money. As the lord, it was really hard for him to delve into this matter.

So he waved his hand and said, "You always have so many reasons, but since you have figured it out, then do it according to your idea."

Hideyoshi and Hidecho followed Hideo to the Ishiyama Castle. As a flat castle, the height of the Sannomaru is already more than ten meters higher than the flat ground, which is equivalent to the height of a 5-story building.

But it is standing in Shishan Castle Honmaru, without the barrier of flat buildings, the situation of Okayama on the east bank blocking the line of sight is indeed more obvious.

Especially the bamboo platform erected on Mt. Cao for the purpose of building the castle tower. Although the face of the castle tower cannot be seen, the whole view of the castle tower can be imagined through the bamboo platform.

At the beginning, I didn't feel it when I was standing under the castle, but when I was standing at the Honmaru of Ishiyama Castle and looked over there, thinking about the appearance of the 4th and 5th floor castle tower on the mountain, Hideyoshi felt a sense of oppression.

He turned his head to look at Xiuchang, and found that he was also frowning, so he asked him for advice.Only after getting the same idea did he understand Xiujia's intention to build the city in Caoshan.

He turned his head to look at the Xiu family behind him, and couldn't help muttering, "Little slick."

The Xiu family is no longer a child, and there are female relatives in their palace, so it is not appropriate for Hideyoshi and Hidecho to stay there.

Therefore, the Xiu family organized the outer hall into a side courtyard for Hideyoshi and Hidecho to live in. This place is not far from the evaluation room of the Imperial Palace of Shishan City, and it is the place where the Xiu family and its elders usually deal with government affairs.

In the past, a lot of materials and documents were piled up here, and the Xiu family had already moved all of them to the warehouse of the inner hall, so they took advantage of the time when Hideyoshi was gone, to give the elders a holiday, and not to write unless it was urgent.

(End of this chapter)