Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 387

Xiujia originally wanted to relax, but became irritable again because of Xiuzhen's reminder.

He originally planned to send someone to the capital to look for Kano Yongde after sending Xiuzhen away, so he hinted that he had something to deal with and was about to excuse me.

But Xiujia, who stood up, looked at Xiuzhen's unmoving buttocks and asked curiously, "Do you have anything else to do with me?"

Asked by Xiu's family, Xiuzhen said with some embarrassment, "Brother, I, Matsumoto Domain, do not have a house in Osaka. I wonder if I can stay in your house temporarily for a while?"

When the Xiu family heard Xiuzhen's request, they said a little amusedly, "You came to Osaka to pick up my sister, but you still want to use my mansion as your in-law's house?"

Xiuzhen scratched her head, she really knew that this matter was outrageous, but she still looked at Xiu's family pleadingly.

The Xiu family had a very good relationship with Xiuzhen, so after his repeated pleadings, they agreed and asked the attendants to bring Xiuzhen and his entourage to live in the side hall.

Early the next morning, Hideyoshi asked Hideyoshi for leave, and planned to go to Kyoto to find Kano Yongde.

It only takes half a day to go from Osaka to Kyoto, usually the Xiu family doesn't need to be in such a hurry, isn't it because her sister's wedding is coming soon, so she hurried to Kyoto with her attendants.

Walking halfway, I suddenly saw an ashigaru clearing the way ahead, and pushed the samurai and civilians on the road to the side of the road, followed by a large-scale queue. Words, who else would it be if it wasn't Xiuchang.

Hidecho is traveling from Kitanosho to Osaka this time, and he is traveling in an official capacity, so his team is very large, with a huge team of 6000 people.

On the other hand, at Xiuzhen's side, it was a light vehicle, and he only took more than 30 people and more than ten people from Xiuzhen's side to travel.

In addition, the Xiu family went to Kyoto in a private capacity, and the traveling queue did not carry the formation flag and flag seal to prove their identity, so the queue was directly stopped by the other side's samurai who restrained the road.

The leading samurai yelled at the knight clearing the way in front of the Xiu family, "Quickly kneel aside, Toyotomi Nagon is going to Osaka, how can you allow such a collision."

Due to walking, Realize was blocked by the knights clearing the way in front of the Xiu family. He didn't realize that all the more than 40 people in the Xiu family were riding horses.

He always thought that it was just one or two middle and low-level knights with horses walking on the pipeline.

It wasn't until after he finished cursing that he walked sideways and found dozens of knights behind him, his eyelids twitched uncontrollably.

You must know that horses are very precious resources in Japan. Even the cheapest draft horse will not be less than 60 kanmon, which is equivalent to several years of salary for a low-level samurai.

Although this samurai did not ride a horse himself, he still knew a little bit about horse hunting. The horses under the crotch of the knights in front of him were quite majestic, and they were by no means ordinary war horses. Each horse was a good horse with more than 150 calibers.

Among them, more than a dozen horses have the obvious characteristics of Kiso horses. They have thick hair and short limbs. The shoulder height of Kiso horses is relatively short. They have very good endurance and tenacity, and they are one of the few in Japan that can carry horses. The horses that moved the heavy armored cavalry.

There are also dozens of horses that look like Iyo's wild Kawama horses and Kyushu's Misaki horses. Compared with Kiso horses, their hair is much sparser, and their legs are more slender, and their shoulder height is higher than that of Kiso horses. Kiso horses are taller.

These two horses, like the Ryukyu Yona horses, cannot bear the burden of long-term raids by heavy armored knights, but because of their height, they look much more majestic than Kiso horses when riding on horses.

Within Ukiya, because of the relationship with Iyo, this kind of horse was imported in large quantities and cheaply to the samurai households for daily use.

During the war, these horses were mostly used by the samurai for short-distance riding, and the latter used fast horses to send messages. When they really arrived on the battlefield, they would not use them whether they were riding or shooting or charging, or they would spend a lot of money from Shinano. Kiso horses bought and horses brought from Ezo.

Compared with the wild horse, these two horses are weaker in explosive power, and henceforth cannot match the speed of the wild horse, but the muscles of the legs are stronger and tighter, which can withstand the full-bodied knight equipped with iron breastplate on the horse. riding and shooting.

Among them, the best ones are Ezo's and stallions. As the closest blood relatives of Mongolian horses, coupled with the icy and snowy climate of Ezo, they have evolved thick hair and degraded in speed, but in terms of sturdiness. even better.

After seeing them, Xiujia lamented that they were simply battlefield tanks. If they were put on horse armor, they could even be directly used as heavy cavalry to break formations.

It's just that Kyushu is too far away from Okayama now, and after so many years, only dozens of horses have been shipped in one after another, which is completely unreasonable.

Then the samurai of Echizen Toyotomi's family suppressed their arrogance a little after seeing such a team of horse-riding samurai. After all, the daimyo who can equip so many horse-riding samurai in Japan is definitely not a small character.

He was still holding the horse rope of the Ukita knight, not allowing him to ride the horse, but he changed his tone and said to the knight leading the way, "Please let the lord over there make way, our lord is Toyotomi." Kanbai's younger brother, His Highness Toyotomi Chunagon, the 85 koku daimyo of the Echizen Kita Village."

The attendant, Sakichi Ogasawara, who was already quite displeased when he was forced to pull the horse rope, was now ordered by his opponent to order him. He pulled the horse rope very impatiently and scolded, "Blind your dog's eyes, Is Matsumoto Domain's line of dried tofu blocking you?"

After finishing speaking, he pointed to the third-order rhombus pattern on his feather weave.

Then the samurai who blocked the way looked up at the badge on his chest, "puchi" laughed and said, "Oh, what's the matter with the third-order diamond pattern, our master still has the Wuqitong pattern. If you let you make way, you will make way , I ran into my lord at that time, be careful to let your highness suffer."

Along the way, the samurai on both sides of the Xiu family and Xiu Zhen knew each other, and the relationship was not bad. Now that the companion was seen clearly, Ukita Kira from the Xiu family said to the samurai, "The third-order water chestnut is not enough. If so, how about the Wusantong pattern?"

The samurai looked up at the article on his chest contemptuously, blinked his eyes, and after confirming again and again that it was Wusan Tongwen, he asked quite respectfully, "Which Highness is it?"

At this time, Hideyoshi's five-san paulownia pattern has not yet been superseded. Only Oda, Toyotomi, Uesugi, Tokugawa, Mori, Hosokawa, Ashikaga, etc. have the five-san pauli pattern alive.

Hosokawa and Ashikaga were issued hundreds of years ago. Now it is the Toyotomi regime, and they dare not take the rewards from the previous dynasty to make it public.

As for Ashikaga Yoshiaki, he used the Wuqitong pattern unscrupulously, but Hideyoshi didn't bother to care about him, he was just jumping for self-entertainment.

In other words, only Toyotomi, Mori, Oda, Uesugi, and Tokugawa are the only ones who dare to openly use the five-san paulownia pattern to the public. Among them, the Oda family is much more low-key than before.

No matter which one of the above, he is not a pawn who dares to provoke him, even if he is behind Toyotomi Hidecho.

Hearing the samurai asking about his affiliation, Ukita Kira said confidently, "My lord is the lord of Kibi Seven Kingdoms, the adopted son of His Highness Kanbai, His Highness Toyotomi Okayama."

"Ah!" The samurai from Hideonaga's family was surprised when he heard that the team he blocked was from Toyotomi Hide's family. Without etiquette, he ran directly to the Xiu family.

His sudden action frightened the attendants who were guarding Xiujia and Xiuzhen, and a few people were separated from the queue to control him and his ashigaru and push them to Xiujia.

Xiujia was having a heart-to-heart conversation with Xiuzhen, and when she saw the team stop, she didn't care. In this day and age, it is common for pipelines to be blocked, and both sides of the road are farmland, so horses can't be trampled on at will.

However, for some reason, his attendant pressed a warrior to report to him, "Your Highness, this person wants to go to the battle."

The samurai heard the accusation given by the servants of the Xiu family for rushing to the battle and exclaimed, "I didn't want to go to the battle. I am a samurai from the Beizhizhuang Clan. I just have an urgent matter and want to talk to the Okayama Palace."

Even if it is normal now, the Xiu family, in their usual capacity, marching in such a formation is regarded as an army. Even if the guards and servants in the formation are not wearing armor, they are still regarded as the same marching army. Anyone who rushes into the formation can It is regarded as a direct beheading.

That's why the samurai was so nervous when he heard that he was about to be ordered to enter the battle.

The Xiu family heard that he was a samurai from the uncle's family, so they motioned to the left and right to release him temporarily, and asked him, "What do you have to talk to me about?"

As soon as the samurai was released, he hurriedly knelt down in front of the Xiu family and said, "His Royal Highness, I am the samurai responsible for opening the way for my lord. Now my lord's team is approaching, and time is running out. Please make way."

"What? Uncle is here?" Hearing that Xiuchang was in front of him, Xiujia said happily, then looked around and spread his hands helplessly, "Look, the pipeline is so wide, we have horses here Where are you going to go? If you give up again, you will go to the field, and riding a horse on the field is a death penalty."

"This" the samurai was also stumped, and he was ordered to clear the way for Xiuchang, but the young man in front of him was not something he could offend.

Just when he was in trouble, another knight straddled his horse from the front and shouted to Xiujia from across the team, "Excuse me, which team of experts is this here? Can you get out of the way? Toyotomi Nagon is about to Go to Osaka."

"It's over. It's over." Hearing someone shouting from his side, the captured warrior said in fear.

After all, he was ordered to open the way, and now that the way has not been opened, he has to bear the responsibility as the one who opened the way.

Seeing his nervous appearance, Xiujia bent down and patted him on the shoulder and said, "Do more things, let me see." After saying that, she put her legs between the horse's belly and led Xiuzhen forward.

In front of the No. 2 samurai, Hideka said playfully to him, "I am Ukita Hachiro of the Bizen Okayama Clan, and this is Ogasawara Yuyoshimatsu of the Shinano Matsumoto Clan. Said we were to him."

"This..." the warrior was surprised by the attitude of the two people in front of him, and had to rein in his horse and return after repeated confirmation with the two.

Not long after, the knight returned again, stopped about 5 steps in front of Xiujia and said to Xiujia, "My lord said he said"

Hearing that samurai's lumps, Xiuzhen next to Xiu's family became anxious first, and ordered to him, "Oh, what is your uncle saying, you can say it quickly."

The samurai seemed to muster up a lot of courage, and quickly conveyed Xiuchang's order, "My lord said: Let those two brats get lost! And let me convey it in my own words."

"Hahaha" Hearing the message that Xiuchang asked that person to bring, Xiujia and Xiuzhen looked at each other and laughed, and immediately rode their horses to follow the person to Xiuchang.

Hideyoshi and Xiuzhen dismounted in five steps in front of Hideonaga, bowed and saluted beside Hideonaga and said, "I met Toyotomi Nagon in person."

Xiuchang looked at the man with a smile and replied, "Where are you two monkeys going? It's been two days since I watched Daban calm down, why are you still acting wild?"

Seeing Hideonaga, Xiujia naturally told him that he wanted to go to Kyoto to find Kano Yongde to draw a screen for Kyoko as a wedding gift.

After hearing this, Hidetoku said rather embarrassingly, "Currently Kano Yongde is in charge of the decoration and art work of the Kyoto mansion for his brother, and I'm afraid he won't be able to spare time to go to Okayama."

Xiu's family had already made a guess before, but considering that the Jule Building is almost finished, Kano Yongde should be ready soon.

But Who Chengxiang Xiuchang replied, "The main body of the mansion has been completed, but the decoration inside is still being finished, and there are still many months to cut and cut, so there is a hurry."

He also told Xiu's family, "You don't have to go, Maeda Xuanyi will never let him go. I just came from Kyoto, and the situation there is as anxious as a war."

Hideka, who heard that Kano Yongde was not available, was a little disappointed, and began to think about what to use as a gift instead, but he heard Hideka say, "Don't worry, I'll introduce you to another famous calligrapher and painter.

Speaking of which, they are also my old friends. Three generations of their family are calligraphers and painters. If you go with my name badge, he will definitely help you. "

After finishing speaking, he asked his attendants to give the Xiu family a copy of Xiu Chang's own gold-plated thorn, and said to the Xiu family, "The man is called Hasegawa and other uncles, and he lives in Qingshuifang. If you go now, he should be there. Just met him."

It should be said that this Hasegawa Tohaku was a famous painter in the Azuchi-Momoyama period, who specialized in painting Buddha statues. In history, after Tsurumatsu passed away, Hideyoshi specially invited him to paint a pair of Jinbi barrier murals for Tsurumatsu in Shouun Temple.

But in fact, because Hasegawa et al. were only good at painting Buddha statues and figure paintings, they were relatively unpopular in this era, so they were not particularly famous, just like Monet and Van Gogh.

He is better than Van Gogh in that when he was 60 years old, he met Hideyoshi's dead son. In memory of Tsurumong, Hidecho recommended him to paint a portrait of Tsurumong and enshrine it in a Buddhist temple.

But this B may be because there are too many Buddha statues, and the final paintings did not have the image of Hesong at all. Hideyoshi asked him why, and he said that only gods and Buddhas can leave their faces after death for future generations to admire.

However, he painted all the scenes of His Highness Hesong's past play on the wall, so as to realize His Highness Hesong's happy life in the past.

Not to mention, the painting is pretty good, Chacha and Hideyoshi like it very much.

Hasegawa and his uncle also became famous in the world because of this incident.

With Xiuchang's recommendation, Xiu's family took Xiuzhen to bid farewell to Xiuchang, and went to Kyoto non-stop, and finally felt Qingshuifang before sunset.

Hideka took Hideonaga's name badge and found Uncle Hasegawa smoothly, and told him that he wanted to paint a screen with the scenery of Okayama, and immediately left a gold sentence of 10 pieces as a deposit. There are 10 pieces.

And there was only one requirement, which was to complete the work within one month.

In order to ensure that he can complete the project smoothly, he is only required to do the paintings on the screen. As for the material selection and production of the screen, it is definitely too late to start now.

I had to ask Tongfangyuan to look for it, remove the painting from the existing screen, and mount the painting by Hasegawa Tobo.

(End of this chapter)