Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 516
After Hideyoshi finished his explanation, he returned to the court with dozens of daimyo 10,000+ troops brought from the central and western countries.

A few days ago, when Hideyoshi came to Utsunomiya, thousands of people surrounded him, but when he left, only a few big names such as Hideyoshi, Utsunomiya Kunizuna, and Yuuki Haruma saw him off. After all, Gamo Clan and others had already gone north to suppress Yuao.

Before leaving, perhaps because he felt sorry, Hideyoshi even whispered an apology to the Hideo family, "You just became a father, so you should have returned to Luoyang with me.

But you also know that the Kanto and the Northeast must be guarded by someone.Now that Xiaozhu is not in good health, you are the person I trust the most. I hope you can understand my difficulties.

In short, after everything is sorted out, let's go back to Kyoto and Osaka first, and come back to see the children and the family. "

The current Xiu family really can't tell which of Hideyoshi's words is true and which is false. If they really trust themselves absolutely, how can they allow themselves, Tokugawa and Uesugi to spy on each other?

Besides, the Gamo, Ogasawara, and Nakagawa families on the north side, while monitoring Satake and Date, dare you say that they are not encircling my Hide family?
Putting aside the troubles, it can be said that sending Hideyoshi away from the entire Kanto and Yu-O area is entirely up to Hideyoshi.

Hideka politely sent away Yuuki Haruto, Utsunomiya Kuntsuna and the others, and began to gather his retainers in Utsunomiya Castle to grant rewards and assign tasks.

It is worth noting that although Utsunomiya Castle has Utsunomiya in its name, it has always been the home city of the Utsunomiya family before, but it is not under the name of the Utsunomiya family at this moment.

Previously, because of the Hojo clan's invasion, Utsunomiya Kunisuna was forced to hide in Duaqi City in the southwest corner of Utsunomiya, and Utsunomiya Castle was occupied by the Hojo family.

Now Hideyoshi is taking over the Utsunomiya Castle from the Hojo family. Referring to Li Yunlong's theory of seized materials, this is the loot stolen from the enemy. Whether to reward the Utsunomiya family depends on Hideyoshi's own ideas.

It is a pity that, at least for now, Hideyoshi has not made a clear statement to the Utsunomiya family, Utsunomiya, but he has not clearly denied it, and he has not even expressed his position on whether the southern part of Hanoi County and Utsunomiya were included in Tibet.

At present, the Zhixing confirmed by the Utsunomiya family is the main county of Shioya County, part of Haga County, and part of Hanoi County.The main castle of the Utsunomiya family is temporarily placed in the Ozenjo Castle in Shioya County. As for when Hideyoshi will return Utsunomiya Castle to the Utsunomiya family, it depends on Hideyoshi's negotiations with them.

This is also the reason why after sending Hideyoshi away, the Utsunomiya family stayed alone to find Hideka, hoping that Hideka could say a few words of beauty on her behalf so that they could return to Utsunomiya Castle.

In their words, "The name of Utsunomiya Castle is Utsunomiya, and the Utsunomiya family came from Utsunomiya. Now Utsunomiya Castle is in front of the shore, but the main family is subjugated to the front (city). It cannot be justified."

Perhaps the words of the Utsunomiya family Kunizun came from the heart. He really felt that Utsunomiya Castle should belong to the Utsunomiya family.

However, in Hideya's opinion, what he valued more was Utsunomiya Castle and its territory, which was the most fertile area of ​​Shimotsuka.

The Xiu family comforted him from the side, "Maybe His Highness Guan Bai forgot, or maybe this place is temporarily used by the guards of the Northeast. You should serve the king with peace of mind. When things in the Northeast are settled, when I return to Luoyang, I will definitely go there on your behalf." Please."

Hearing Hideka's reply, Utsunomiya Kunizuna nodded with a dejected expression, obviously he was not satisfied with the result.

He didn't say a word when Hideyoshi was living in Utsunomiya, so what's the use of complaining to Hideyoshi after Hideyoshi left?
Judging from the fact that he didn't dare to say anything in front of Hideyoshi and found Hideyoshi after Hideyoshi left, the most likely reason is that he hired other big bosses to explain to Hideyoshi on his behalf, hoping to return to Utsunomiya.

But Hideyoshi is not really old and forgetful, who knows what he is doing wrong while holding Utsunomiya.

Which of the big bosses present is not a human being, how could Maeda Toshiya, Tokugawa Ieyasu and his ilk go to the trouble of Hideyoshi for you, a small Utsunomiya family.

It is very likely that Utsunomiya Kunizun had already taken care of the two of them, and was coaxed back by the two laughing, but seeing Hideyoshi and the two leaving one after another, he found Hideyoshi to hug his thigh.

Looking at Utsunomiya Kunizuna who left disappointed, Xiujia really didn't know how to evaluate this person.

You and the Satake family have always been in sync in diplomacy. Yoshishige Satake was connected to Ishida Mitsunari. If you want help, you should go to Ishida Mitsunari, right?

No matter how bad it is, didn't you, Utsunomiya Kunizuna, and my Xiu family carried guns and beat President Shimo together?Can't you come to me directly?
In the end, I was beaten when I went to Toshiie Maeda, and Ieyasu Tokugawa was coaxed back to think of me?Let me touch Hideyoshi's bad luck, you really want to be beautiful!
If you want to take a stand, if you want to seek refuge, you must have sincerity. You look like this, which faction dares to accept you?
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After sending Utsunomiya Kunizun away, Hideka returned to Utsunomiya Castle Honmaru. During the time Hideyoshi was here, he decorated the place for a while, and now it is all cheaper for Hideka.

It took a little time, and now the elders of the Xiu family in Kanto, Nagafune Sadakin, Akashi Keiki, Fujido Takatora, Hanafang Masashiro, are present in front, Zhuang Zhiqing, Baba Shijia and other important officials are present in the back, waiting quietly for the Xiu family s arrangement.

Among them, Akashi Jingqin was originally stationed in Ninja City, and was called by Xiu's family to participate in this evaluation.Coming with him is the current Lord of Ninja City, Mr. Narita.

When everyone got together, the Xiu family stopped delaying and began to say to everyone, "You all know that His Highness Guan Bai set up the daimyo fiefdoms of Kanto and Yuao in Utsunomiya Castle a few days ago. The seven countries of Ueno, Musashi, Shimono, Hitachi, Sagami, Xiazong, and Shangzong were sealed.

Among them, Hitachi and Musashi were asked by His Royal Highness Guanbai to separate countries, Hitachi was split into Hitachi and Ibaraki, and Musashi was split into Musashi and Saitama.

The head family formally seals 8 million koku from the eight countries of Ueno, Musashi, Saitama, Shimono, Hitachi, Sagami, Shimoso, and Shangso, plus the 171 koku reserved by Iyo. The total of Zhixing is 17 million koku, which is the number one in the world. A big fan. "

Although what Xiujia said at this moment is what everyone has already spread before, Hideyoshi has established the sphere of influence of the Kanto and Yuao in Utsunomiya.

But Hideyoshi is a person who pays attention to the process. At this moment, he is Guanbai of the imperial court. He is ordered by the emperor to go to Kanto. After Yu'ao settled down, when everyone went south to Kyoto together, Hideyoshi asked for a canonization.

And this is also the reason why Hideyoshi is ambiguous about the ownership of Utsunomiya Castle, and Utsunomiya Kungang is eager.He didn't know whether Hideyoshi would return Utsu Miyagi in the next canonization.

Although this information had been circulated up and down Utsunomiya Castle a few days ago after Kanto-Uoshiki, getting personal confirmation from Hideka at this moment still made these retainers who accompanied Hideka to the Kanto campaign extremely excited.

Especially when they heard the Xiu family's sentence "We are the number one vassal in the world", all the ministers cheered in response: "~嗤~ha/ha\~"

Seeing that all the retainers surrendered to their feet, the Xiu family was also in a particularly happy mood, and continued to praise everyone, "This time the seal of Guandong is due to the hard work of all of you, and my Xiu family, since the beginning of the Yuxi family, It has always been a reward for meritorious service.

Especially this time, the family that has shown their heart to me before transferring the seal to Kanto, they are really fighting for the family, so I will not be stingy with the rewards, let you enjoy the growth with the family. "

"The ministers dare not take credit for this battle, it all depends on the master's strategic planning"

"Of course, before the official rewards start, I think everyone has heard that His Highness Guan Bai intends to implement the "One Feudal One Country One City Order" in the Kanto and Yuao regions.

Taking into account the actual situation of each family in advance, they will not be strict with the side of control, but they are also required to limit the number of cities in the territory and abolish redundant cities.

In the end, the family approved a total of 40 vassal cities, namely Saitama Iwafu, Ninja Castle, etc. 40, which means that many people will not be able to own the city after this award, but they are allowed to build and own a city in the territory. Encircling the wall, without the fan array of Mizubori and Dobori, that is, an upgraded version of the village with walls and watchtowers.

Except for the 30 or so people who will be named next, they will be clearly sealed off from the castle, or given the post of Jojo, and everyone else must come to Iwashiro Castle Town to gather and center. This is the collection of retainers.

Martial artists who are named and sealed off their cities should not be too happy too early. With the acceleration of the peace process in the world, His Highness Guan Bai is likely to regularly reduce the number of cities in the realm of the world's major names every 10 years. .

At that time, if your city is in the ranks of abandoned cities, then you must also come to Yanfu City to live concentratedly after you leave the feudal formation locally. "

In fact, everyone has heard of "Order of One Feudal One Country, One City" and "Order of the Collection of Retainers", but this topic was mainly concentrated in the mouths of the upper daimyo before, and they only had a rough understanding of it.

At this moment, it was officially heard from the Xiu family that the feudal city, which was regarded as the lifeblood of each family, would be abolished, and they immediately started whispering among themselves.

Ukita Zongsheng, who was born in the main family of the Xiu family, asked the Xiu family, "Excuse me, my lord, do you mean that the city of the feudal domain has been clearly limited to the above 40 cities, and it will be impossible for the minister to build the city of the feudal domain after he takes over the feudal domain, right? "

Although Xiujia wanted to tell them that according to Hideyoshi's temper, he would change his mind and let them go again, but now Xiujia can only respond, "It seems that it is indeed the case at present, and the number has been strictly limited. From now on, we can only see whether it is due to precautions or Economic needs, to make a trade-off among the 40 cities.”

Akashi Jingqin's territory is in Iyo, and he is more concerned about Iyo's situation than Kanto, so he asked Xiujia, "Excuse me, my lord, the 40 cities you reported this time do not have any cities in Iyo's country. Not within the limits of the abandoned city?"

Hideka replied, "The Kanto-Yuao region is the pilot for this abandoned city, followed by the Hokuriku and Tokai regions. The Shikoku region has not received any news that the city needs to be abandoned.

However, based on my inference, after the Kanto-Yuao Abolition City, I believe that the Iyo region’s Abolition of the City will come soon, so you should prepare early in the morning. "

Akashi Jingqin asked again, "The samurai family in the Iyo area, if they encounter an abandoned city, their territory is in Iyo, do they need to come to Kanto Rock to pay their attendance?"

To this Hideka replied, "The Iyo area is quite special. I will leave a main castle in the Iyo area. The samurai in the Iyo area will live in this main city after the castle is abandoned. I will manage it on my behalf. .”

When everyone heard it, the Iyo area was simply a paradise outside the Great Wall within the territory of the Xiu family!
It is close to Kyoto, and has the advantages of sea trade, gold, silver and copper. The samurai family sealed there will not have to come to Kanto even after the city is abandoned.

Especially the town elders there, due to the timeliness of the information at this time, must be granted great authority and independence by the Xiu family. This is simply a general position of leadership.

Xiujia also knew this, so he said to everyone, "Even if His Highness Guanbai does not issue an order to abolish the castle, in principle, only 6 castles will remain in the Iyo area.

They are Matsumae Castle in Iyo County; Matsuyama Castle in Onsen County, which manages the four counties of Onsen, Heki, Kazezao, and Kume; Imabari Castle in Noma County, but governs Ochi County; Tamanoe Castle in the county is located in Shinhama Castle in Nii Prefecture and Enokawa Castle in Uma County.

Since the command of the Iyo area to retain the above 6 cities, I hope that you will not have too much expectations for staying in Iyo. "

After finishing speaking, the Xiu family ignored the whispering, and after letting the retainers below discuss for a while, they called out again to stop the clamor, "Next, the formal canonization will begin. Due to the situation just now, I have made some adjustments to the order of canonization." , starting with Iyo who is the most important to you."

After all, the Xiu family called out the first name: "Akashi Iyoshou Jingqin comes out."

"Akashi Iyomori was officially awarded the territory of 4.4 stones in the three counties of Iyokuni Onsen County, Kume County and Waki ​​County. You are ordered to abandon the Yuzu Castle and build a new Hirayama Castle on the southwestern side of Matsuyama, named Matsuyama Castle."

Historically, the main castle of Iyo Kingdom was Matsuyama Castle located in the southwest of Yuzuki Castle, and the builder was Kato Yoshiaki.

Matsuyama is indeed one of the few treasures in West Iyon. Looking at the satellite map of western Iyo, you can see that Matsuyama is a city standing on the plain like Fukushima Castle.

The most important thing is that compared with other surrounding hills, its height is less than 200 meters, taking into account both city defense and economic attributes.

On the west side there are Hengsheng Mountain City and Yanzi Mountain City, on the north side there is Yuxing Temple Mountain City, and in the northeast there are Tangzhu City and other branch cities. The defense strength is not small.

It can be said that before the emergence of modern artillery with a range of more than 1KM, the defense of Matsuyama Castle was impregnable, so the Xiu family planned to copy the operation and let Akashi Kyokin fall directly here.

Now that Hideyoshi has limited the number of cities, it may not be possible to build as many branch cities as in history, but it is enough to leave a feudal formation on the top of the mountain and rely on the advantage of the mountain to monitor the territory.

It is worth mentioning that although Songshan is already a relatively short city in the surrounding area, the height of the mountain is still nearly 200 meters. We can only use the combination of the mountain city and the Pingcheng in history to build a mountain city that takes into account the defensive power and the economic attributes of Pingcheng. The city is gone.

Fortunately, Akashi Jingqin has experience in building Okayama before, and now it is not too difficult to build Matsuyama Castle in Iyo.

(End of this chapter)