Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 379 The Magpies of Okayama and the Crows of Samkawa

Hideka took great care of her older sister, and allocated 1500 shi from Bizenijima County as makeup for her older sister Renko, and asked her to bring her to Todo's house for marriage.

Cosmetics are no better than Zhixing, and the heirs of Lianzi have no inheritance rights, and they are managed by Todo Takatora, the head of the Todo family, together in normal times, and the military service certificate is incorporated into Todo Takatora's military service certificate.

But the people in the cosmetics are not the people of the Todo family. These people still belong to Hideyoshi's direct jurisdiction in terms of law. Therefore, as the escrow lord, Todo Takatora has no right to punish them at will.

Shimizu Shinya's wife is A Fang, and his father is Matsuda Okyuki, who has 360 shi Zhixing in the Uki family. This is not a lot, but it belongs to the middle-level samurai in the Uki family.

The Matsuda family used to be a rich family gathered in Bizen Tsudaka County and some parts of Ono County. When the Matsuda family crossed the border between Bizen and Bichu, the Ukita Nao family was still fighting to restore the family name.

But after the Nao family defeated the Matsuda family, all the men of the Matsuda clan died in battle, and the branch family was absorbed into the Ukidaka family system, and Matsuda Okyuki was one of them.

When Nobuya Shimizu met Afang, he already owned 1000 shi of Bichu Okada Castle, and his cousin Keiji Shimizu owned 3600 shi of Bichu Takamatsu Castle.

No matter from which point of view, Ah Fang and Shimizu Nobu are not a well-matched combination.

In fact, after Nobuya Shimizu obtained knowledge, his cousin Keiji Shimizu had found a marriage partner for him, but she was a real nobleman, the daughter of Masayuki Hosokawa of the Noshu Hosokawa family.

To say that the Hosokawa family in Yezhou is one of the branches of the Hosokawa family (Kyozhao family), with Hosokawa Mimoto's younger brother Manguo as the ancestor, and was entrusted in Iyo Uma County to supervise Iyo instead of the clan.

There were Chichun, Jiaochun, Zhengchun, Qingguo and others who were in charge in the past dynasties. Because Chichun and Jiaochun both called themselves Shimono Shou, the name of the Yezhou family was fixed.

After Hosokawa Masharu cut off his younger brother Haruju's family lineage, Masharu inherited his responsibility as the guardian of Beichu, and the forces of the Noshu family entered Beizhong.

It's just that the Hosokawa family of Bichu has declined, and the guardian of Bichu is in power on behalf of the Mimura family, and what they control is only the part of Asakuchi County of Beichu.

After Hosokawa Masharu's death, Hosokawa Masatsuki succeeded as the guardian of Beichu, but he was only the guardian of Beichu in name. In fact, Beichu China was a state of separation between the Mimura clan and the Zhuang clan.

Afterwards, the Nizi family expanded their power to Beichu, and the Hosokawa family completely lost the control over Beichu, and Zhengtong fell to Iyo country, and Tong Kaoru also followed this rule in Iyo country.

Because the Hosokawa family in Yezhou had become extinct at that time, Michikaru Hosokawa logically took over the Hosokawa family in Yezhou.

In 1559, he entered Bichu again, built and stationed in Qingzuo Mountain Castle, and was protected by the Mori family.

At that time, the biggest force in Beichu was the Mimura family. Because the Mimura family had an alliance with the Mori family, they still could not restore their authority as a guardian.

Later, the Maoli family was kicked out of the backup by the Xiu family, and the battle was entered into the backup with a thunderous momentum. It was too late to react and could only surrender to the Xiu family.

As a former subordinate of the Mori family, the Hosokawa family had many contacts with the Shimizu family. Hosokawa Michikaru really looked up to the Shimizu family because of Shimizu Soji. Now that the two families are about the same height, he is naturally willing to marry his granddaughter Shinmizu is also his wife.

In fact, the Hosokawa family is a well-known Genji family, and the generals came from a separate family, while the Qingshui family is only a descendant of the Taira family, and they are not as good in the family.

Therefore, Shimizu Xin also faced such a marriage contract and it was really difficult to refuse.

Fortunately, the Xiu family knew about his relationship with Ah Fang, and in the end it was the Xiu family who came forward as a guarantor and terminated the marriage between the two families.

In exchange, Hideya will adopt Hosokawa Mototsu (Hosokawa Michikaoru)'s daughter Sen as an adopted daughter for her father Ukita Nao's family, and marry Anayama Nobutada, who was born in Kawachi Genji.

Sanada Nobushige's wife is the daughter of Ukita Sokatsu brought by the Xiu family. As a branch of the Uki family, she is closer to the Xiu family in blood. She was also adopted by the Xiu family as an adopted daughter for her father's Nao family and married Sanada Nobushige .

Sanada Nobushige's original wife was Otani Yoshitsugu's daughter, so she can be regarded as a good wife, but in this life, he may never have the opportunity to become Otani Yoshitsugu's son-in-law again.

After Shimizu Nobuya got married, the Xiu family had a detailed discussion with him about their future plans one day, and planned to transfer him to the Family Elders Association to take up the post of Akashi Jingqin.

This is different from the vassals sent by the Patriarch Lihe to the vassals as helpers, but it means to help the long boat Zhenqin. Is there usually some work of sorting out documents and conveying orders, similar to the work of Zhongshu Sheren in ancient Ming Dynasty.

The Xiu family had expectations for him, and hoped that he could study hard with the elders, so it might be possible to become an elder in the future.

He is different from Hanchuan Iemitsu and Zhuang Zhiqing. When Hanchuan Iemitsu followed Xiujia, Xiujia didn't have such a complete attendant training system.

Therefore, he was also hastily entered into the Samukawa family as a tool for the Hide family to control Sanuki, which also made Iemitsu Iemitsu incapable of handling the affairs of the Samukawa family.

It was also for this reason that the Xiu family felt indebted to him, and tolerated and even continued to support him when he appeared to be incapable of dealing with the Han Chuan family many times.

This time, it was the same as Shimizu Nobu, who was sent to the old family union, making him Okatoshi's support.

But Zhuang Zhiqing was different, he had already served in Yuanfu before he became an attendant of the Xiu family, and his grade was relatively old (16 years old), so it was more difficult to train.

Therefore, the Xiu family trained him according to the tradition of traditional martial arts. After letting him study with him for two years, he was sent to the standing staff to practice military skills.

Shimizu Xin is different, he was only 13 years old when he followed the Xiu family, and he almost grew up with the Xiu family.

As the Xiu family's personal attendant, under the influence of his ears and eyes, he heard the Xiu family tell a lot of stories and truths that he thought were weird and outlandish, and he had a certain understanding of the advanced economic, political, and military methods in the Xiu family's mind. object.

After following the Xiu family for so long, I have learned a lot of theoretical knowledge, but what I lack is relevant practical experience.

But the Xiu family didn't intend to let him go directly to the front line. After all, the ideas he accepted at the Xiu family might not be suitable for direct application in the current era.

Therefore, the Xiu family planned to wait for him to continue studying with the elders for a few years, and then send him down to the lower department again, as the head of a department (deputy executive), and carry out specific business practice.

Don't think that Fantou's position is too small. He has surpassed many samurai from Hongwenkan by many opportunities. He has directly surpassed Tongxinzhong and Yulizhong.

And Nobushi Shimizu is also an attempt by Hideka to train attendants. If possible, he plans to train Sanada Nobushige and Anayama Nobukun according to this example.

In the Central Plains, there is a saying that if you are not born in the Imperial Academy, you should not be a minister. Maybe it will become the case when you come to the Xiu family: it is difficult to be a minister if you are not born as a servant of the head of the family.

Why do you say "difficult" instead of "no", of course the Xiu family will never allow a fixed class to monopolize power. After all, the "lesson from the past" that the Turkish emperor was arbitrarily abolished by the Janissaries is right in front of us.

And after Shimizu Nobushige also left, Sanada Nobushige became the pen of the Hide family's confidantes, and the confidantes who came in were the sons of Kagawa Nobuke, Kagawa Nagayoshimaru, who was held as a hostage in the Uki family, has now changed his name to Kagawa Kage but.

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While the Xiu family was making future plans for their attendants, a fierce quarrel was taking place in the Sanuki Samkawa family across the sea.

When Samukawa Iemitsu conveyed the order of transfer of the Xiu family to his father-in-law Mitsutoshi Samukawa and his brother-in-law Samukawa Toshimoto, both of them expressed their incomprehension.

"Bastard, why is this happening? Have you conveyed our family's thoughts to Bizen?"

Hearing his uncle insulting his lord, Samukawa Iemitsu frowned, but Ming didn't say anything.

Apparently this is not the first time he has called the Hide family "boy" in an internal family meeting. The easy-going Iemitsu Samukawa is only talking about his uncle's arrogance.

It’s just that Iemitsu Iemitsu, who had just been scolded by the Xiu family this time, had a different attitude towards Jun Yuan Han Chuan. After hearing that he insulted the Xiu family again, he burst out in court, “Please pay attention to your attitude when you speak, Gorobei."

Hearing that his brother-in-law dared to scold him, Han Chuan Junyuan was stunned for a moment, "Is this the only brother-in-law I know?"

But being used to being arrogant, he quickly saw a trace of struggle in Iemitsu's eyes, and thought it was just the boy's resistance, so he said nonsense to Iemitsu, "You bastard, did you forget that you are from Iemitsu's family?" Is your son-in-law gone?

Don't forget that this position of house governor was given to you by my father.If you can't bring benefits to the Hanchuan family, you might as well go back to your Bizen lord. "

Seeing that his brother-in-law was still drifting away on the road to death, Samukawa Iemitsu stopped again and said, "Time is up, Gorobei! You can insult me, but you must not insult His Highness the Secretary of State."

Hearing his obedient brother-in-law scolding him again, Toshimoto Samukawa felt a little ashamed and angry, and ran forward to pick up Iemitsu Samukawa as if to fight
"What? You are the one who should pay attention to the attitude of speaking. If it weren't for your arrival, the position of the house governor would have been mine. Not only are you not grateful, but you dare to talk to me like this!"

The father-in-law Mitsutoshi Samkawa, who saw the situation was about to end, stopped his son, "What are you doing Gorobei, the one in front of you is your brother-in-law!"

Iemitsu Senkawa keenly realized that Mitsutoshi Suzukawa defined himself as Toshimoto Suzukawa's brother-in-law, not as the governor of the Suzukawa family, which made Iemitsu Suzukawa's heart feel a lot colder.

Hearing his father's reprimand, Toshimoto Samukawa pushed his "lord" away, and Iemitsu Samukawa fell to the ground because of the force.

As a father, Mitsutoshi Hankawa just frowned when he saw his child's arrogance, but he didn't say anything. Instead, he asked Iemitsu Samkawa who was sitting in his seat, "I believe you must have conveyed our attitude to Okayama-den." , so what is the attitude of Okayama Temple, is there any room for maneuver?"

Facing his father-in-law's inquiry, Iemitsu Iemitsu Hankawa resolutely refused, "My lord's answer is very strong, and there is no doubt about it. The Hanchuan family must transfer the seal to Izumo, but he promised to give us the security of Izumo Inno County. And the control of Gassan Tomita Castle.

Yineng County is next to Hoki, not the front line of Mori's family. On the front line, Mr. Okali Katsura is blocking it on his behalf. Father, please rest assured.Besides, the Mori family is now an ally, so it doesn't matter if it is transferred to Izumo. "

"Are you going to Izumo? That's the territory of the Mori family. It seems that His Highness Guan Bai has already negotiated with Mori and Okayama about the transfer of the seal in advance."

Hearing that the Xiu family had different reasons for the transfer of the Suzukawa family, and even hearing that he was about to be transferred to Izumo, the old father Mitsutoshi Suzukawa already understood that this was a top-down transfer.

Different from the father's helplessness, the son Hanchuan Toshimoto who was on the side still said arrogantly, "Damn it, that little guy promised us to help us suppress Sanuki, but now he actually wants to move us to Izumo go.

Our foundation is in Sanuki, and our retainers are all from Sanuki. How many retainers are willing to follow us when we move to Izumo? "

Faced with his uncle's complaints, Iemitsu said, "My lord has said that, if the retainers of Hanchuan who do not want to be transferred will be treated as the lowest-level samurai, they will be transferred from accompanying ministers to directly governed, and included in the military service certificate."

"What? How dare he!" Hearing the orders from the Hide family in Iemitsu's mouth, even Mitsutoshi Izumi, who had been silent for a long time, became angry. where?"

After hearing this, Toshimoto Hankawa continued to scold, "If you want me to say, that guy from Okayama is digging the foundation of our Hanchuan family!
Most of the retainers of the Samukawa family are locals from Sanuki, and they are not relatives of our Samukawa family, they just come under the control of my Samukawa family.Now if we want them to follow us and reseal Izumo, how could they be willing?
Izumo is the territory of the Maori family, how can the samurai left there be easy to deal with?There are too many people brought, we can’t give compensation for transfer, and there are fewer people brought, we can’t control the Maori locals at all! "

The second son Toshiaki Sakakawa, who hadn't spoken for a long time, also said at this time, "What my brother said makes sense, not to mention that the two sides say different things and eat different meals. When we arrive in Izumo, we will become foreigners." people."

Until now, Samukawa Iemitsu is still trying his best to stabilize the situation, "It's not as serious as what you said, and Mr. Okadanmasa has also been transferred from Inaba."

But his words were quickly refuted by his second brother-in-law who said, "Okatoshi Katsura is a priest of Bizen, and he was transferred to Waki ​​County within two years before being transferred to Misaku, and within two years to Inaba. He has long been used to it.

The people he leads are all the core team who followed him from Bizen, but can our Samukawa family be the same?Let me ask you how many of Shinomiya, Anfu, Kushida, Anzai, and Nakamura will follow us to Izumo? "

Iemitsu Samkawa tried his best to persuade: "Since Mr. Okadanmasa can gather the cohesion of his retainers during the transfer, so can we. At worst, let's give up those bloated subordinate families."

But his persuasion didn't have any effect, and Toshimoto Hanchuan cursed, "They all belong to the folks in the village, as well as my and Liu Lang's father-in-law's family, how can you just abandon it as soon as you say it.

Not to mention that last year we just dispatched the mission from Okayama to reorganize the army. Now we and the families below have paid the money, and the army training is over.

But let us go without warming up this mighty army?Even if the samurai can walk, can the ashigaru in the backup team walk?What about the paid equipment?How can other families be willing to follow us! "

The two had another quarrel over this, and on this matter, Toshiaki Hanchuan, who had seldom spoken just now, suddenly looked at his father and said, "Most of the generals of the Hanchuan family are unwilling to transfer the title, and the Gangshan Palace is forcing us to reduce knowledge and practice." Transferring the seal will inevitably cause dissatisfaction among many families in the territory.

Since it is death to stay, and it is still death to transfer to the past, if it is really not possible, then remonstrate!Let the high-ranking nobles of Okayama Castle see the determination of our Sanuki countrymen. "

(End of this chapter)