Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 42 Kiyohime and the new Okayama Castle (16)

Hideka was only going back to Bizen via Kyoto, and he didn't intend to stay longer in Kyoto. Who would have thought that Hanabou Masayuki, who was the auxiliary minister, would ask Hideka to stay for an extra day. Hideka didn't suspect him, so he decided to watch the Banner team at Kiyomizu Temple training.

It's just that the flower house went out early in the morning, and didn't even go back to Qingshui Temple to have lunch with Xiu's house at noon, and didn't return until it was close to sunset. The casual team added a sedan chair and a few young and beautiful maids .

Kenjiro saw that the old flower house was returning by luck, and hurriedly informed Hideka who was studying in the Buddhist hall. Hideka came out and saw this situation and was completely overwhelmed by the old man.

When the team came to the temple, the porters put down the sedan chair, and the accompanying nuns opened the sedan chair door, and a young girl came out.I saw this ten-year-old girl with a beautiful face, red lips and white teeth, and a delicate face, wearing a beige kimono, led by the mother and accompanied by the maid, quickly covered her face with a fan and walked to the side hall.

Huafang Zhengxing looked at the somewhat bewildered Xiujia, thinking that her lord was shocked by the noble lady's face, and secretly smiled in her heart, it was indeed a child's heart, she came to Xiujia with a smile on her face and said

"My lord, the most important thing for you to succeed as the governor of the family is to spread the branches and leaves for the family. Before this trip, I discussed with Zuojing Liangdian, Tianshenshandian and Togawa-sama, and I feel that this opportunity can just use this opportunity to win the family. A noble girl marrying into the same family will complete a good marriage."

"Have you discussed it?" The Xiu family never expected that even their own uncle would join forces with these three guys. "I'm only 9 years old! That girl looks similar to me, how could she get married and have children?"

Hideka looked at Hanabang Masayuki's seemingly amiable but wretched smile, and suddenly thought that Baidu Encyclopedia's description of Maeda Keiji's father's 11-year-old birthday might be true. There are such ordinary "eunuchs" around the emperor. Has the woman given birth to a child early?

"You mean His Highness Qing Ji? She is the daughter of Lord Nayan in Juting of the Tsinghua family. She is just 12 years old this year. She is not bad looking." Huafang Zhengxing said to the Xiu family with a fatherly smile.

"His Highness Hanabang really helped the lord to find a great beauty." Kenjiro who was beside the Xiu family said heartlessly.

The Xiu family really didn't expect that they could kidnap a wife back once they came out. If this woman really became the main wife of the Xiu family, what would happen to the historical Haoji?

The Xiu family said to Hanfang Zhengxing in embarrassment, "Miss Cai Nuzheng, you are really competent! I, the Xiu family, thank you for being here."

"Ha Yi, these are what I should do." Huafang Zhengxing accepted the thanks from the Xiu family and continued, "It's just that the lord and His Royal Highness Qingji are still relatively young and cannot get married. Why don't we let them be fostered in Tongfang Courtyard for now."

Tongfangyuan is the daughter of Hanafang Masayuki, the concubine of the Ukita Nao family, and it was called Tongfangyuan after the death of the Nao family. Since it was not the biological mother of the Hide family, she did not need to go to the Oda Army as a hostage like Fukunokata.

The Xiu family didn't want to talk any more with the flower house bustard, so they turned around and went back to the Buddhist hall to continue studying.

On the way back, although Xiujia said that he didn't care about girls, he always took advantage of various opportunities to get close to Qing Ji by offering water and rice balls. Xiujia found that this little girl who was 3 years older than herself looked real. so cute.

It's just that Qingji doesn't seem to have a good impression of this husband who is 3 years younger than her. The Xiu family tried to get closer, but was rejected by Qingji's cold face.

After going out for a month and returning to Hideya in Bizen, I found that Bizen has undergone earth-shaking changes under the governance of the Tadaya family. The most intuitive thing is that the new Okayama-cho Tadanobu moved from the west side of Asahikawa to the east of Asahikawa with the efforts of a large number of victims. Next to Okayama City.

On the east side, Okayama Castle relied on Mt. Pingjing to build a castle of Nichimaru. On the flat ground below the mountain, relying on Asahikawa, Sannomaru was built on the spot. There is a flying bridge connected to Nichimaru on Mt. Between Sannomaru, a 5-meter-wide water hole was excavated around the north and south sides of Sannomaru, drawing water from the Asahi River and the spring of Mt. Bottlei as a shelter.

The original Ishiyama Castle was also rebuilt as Okayama’s Shinomaru, called Ishiyama Maru. Ishiyama Maru itself is Erguo Castle, which owns the castle of Honmaru and Erzhimaru. There is a flying bridge across Asahikawa and Erzhimaru in Ishiyama. It is connected to Okayama Sannomaru on the east side of Asahikawa.

The earthen walls of each castle are built with protruding parts, so that the attacking troops will be killed in many ways. Become a small urn city.

Okayama Castle was designed and built by Hideka and Tadaka. The Higashi Maru and Kyogoku Maru in the back mountain have not been built yet, so it is impossible to enter Okayama directly from the Sanyo Road through the back door. The Mizuhori and Sannomaru that are simply planned Construction started, and Xiujia was able to go directly from Nito to Maruto Castle by a super-short road.

The whole of Okayama has not been completed yet, but the earthen walls of Ishiyama Maru, Niji Maru, and Honmaru have been built roughly, and screen panels have been built on top of them as walls.Samurai and retainers no longer stay in the castle town, but are included in the castle as much as possible.This is also the reason why Xiujia built the Okayama City into a large plane.

Hideka looked at Okayama Castle, which had begun to take shape, and thought that apart from Sannomaru, Mizuhori, Higashimaru, and Kyogoku Maru, which had been planned but not repaired, the only thing left was the castle tower, stone wall, and stone wall. .

Hideka believed that Okayama Castle would surpass Himeji Castle and Yoshida Gunyama Castle in the future and become a strong fortress in the Western Kingdom.

It was the first time for Kiyohime to see the rural environment after leaving Kyoto for the first time, and she thought it was a dilapidated scene.Unexpectedly, when she came to Okayama, she saw the Okayama Castle built on the back of Mt. Pingjing. It was the first time for Kiyohime to leave Beijing to see such a huge building, and she could not stop looking out through the small window of the sedan chair.

The purpose of the Hide family building Okayama was not only to serve as a fortress to defend the Maori family, but the most important thing was to implement the policy of gathering retainers.It is required that the retainers and powerful families in the territory, regardless of whether they are ministers or subordinates, need to stay in Okayama City to serve the public, and as for their own territories, they should be handed over to the retainers to act as officials.Xiujia hopes to increase Yuxijia's control over the bottom farms through this form.

After all, in the event of a war or disaster, the lord is not in the family, and the retainers are unable to preside over the situation, they can only ask for help from the county magistrates of the nearby Yuxi Duo County, so as to achieve the ruling power of the Xiu family's high monarchy.

The newly built Okayama Castle will become a symbol of Hideka's authority standing in Bizen, along the Sanyo Avenue, and among the Western Daimyo.

Sanzhi Cheng, who came back with the Xiu family, saw this majestic giant city, and was shocked by the strength of the Uki family. He and He Zeng knew that Okayama Castle was built by the Uki family through the flood disaster. up.The resources used are all from nearby materials, and there is almost no cost. After all, even if we do not provide relief to the victims, we need to spend about the same amount of money and food.

Seeing the strength of Yuxi's family, Sanzhicheng Zhe Zhi worshiped Xiu's family even more in his heart, and secretly made up his mind to serve Xiu's family well.

On the way back to Bizen, Hideka had ordered Kenjiro to rule over the Bizen lord to come to Okayama for a meeting.On the second day after Hideya arrived in Okayama, the lords of Bizen came to Okayama one by one.

As the most direct witnesses to the construction of Okayama City, the nobles and retainers have also witnessed the strength of the Uki family through the construction of Okayama, and their attitudes are much more submissive than when the Xiu family just took over as the governor a few months ago.

The main purpose of Xiujia's recruitment of them was to arrange the Sanuki crusade army ordered by Nobunaga, and the second purpose was indeed to highlight the prestige of the family through Okayama Castle.

(End of this chapter)