Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 517
In fact, Akashi Jingqin received the title of Iyo and became the elder of the town country, which was not beyond the expectations of most people present. The fief of the Akashi family itself was in Iyo, and now it is just expanded.

Akashi Jingqin, as the second elder of the Uki family, second only to Nasafune Sadakin, is indeed the only one who can afford the management authority of this enclave of Yiyo.

It's just that Akashi Jingqin is still serving as the head of the Duzhi family of Yuxi's family at this time, and is in charge of the money and food affairs of Yuxi's family.

Although Iyo was still a little far away from Okayama before, it was only a day away by boat.Now that Yiyo and Iwafu are separated from each other, Akashi Jingqin has been entrusted to Yiyu to be in charge of Yiyo's affairs. It may be difficult to hold the position of the elder of the Duzhi family.

Those with less quick brains quickly realized that Yuxi's top management would inevitably carry out a new round of power changes.

When their thoughts changed, Hideka did not stop awarding on the stage. He continued to say to the crowd, "The awards for the Iyo region are temporarily over, and the arrangement for the Kanto region will begin next."

"Boom~buzz~"

Everyone didn't expect that Iyo Kingdom obviously has a territory of 17 shi, but the Xiu family stopped after arranging a Mingshi Jingqian.

Who else is Iyo now?That is to say, only Hanabozhihide, who was dismantled from Hanabang’s house, received 5800 koku from Ochi-gun, 1.75 koku from Kamei Izumo of Matsumae Castle in Iyo-gun, 3200 koku from Sho-gun, Kume-gun, and Yokosuihara from Kume-gun. The 4500-stone Jinguang family celebration is here.

Now that Kume County is confirmed to be handed over to Akashi Kei, then Sanada Nobushige and Kanemiko Iakei will inevitably move places, so it seems that there are only 3 relatively large samurai left in the whole Iyo?
The sum of their knowledge and practice does not seem to exceed 7 shi?

In such a remote area, and there are 6 cities, shouldn't they reward all the ministers to guard the distant country?
And now it seems that the Xiu family just sealed off Nishi Iyo, and Dong Yiyo still has a lot of open space?

Xiujia's operation made it difficult for them to understand for a while.

How could they know that because of the appearance of Besshi Copper Mine, the Hide family will definitely hold Xinju and Uma counties firmly in their hands, while the Hide family plans to use the two counties of Zhoubu, Sangcun, and even Ochi and Noma counties. To reward his own son.

It is true that Yiyo is a distant country, and it is precisely because of this that it is necessary to have close relatives to guard it.

Of course, because the child is young, he will temporarily live in Iwafu Castle with him, and go to Iyo when he is almost grown up.

In order to cooperate with this arrangement, Huafang Zhixiu will cooperate with the transfer to Kanto.

As for its original territory, the Hide family intends to hand it over to Asahi Chiyo's uncle Date Masahiro to inherit.Of course, because Hideka only has 3000 stones around Imabari in Noma County, most of Date Masakura's knowledge and practice will still be in Ochi County.

At the same time, the Xiu family will transfer him to the name of Asahi Chiyo, the son of the Xiu family, and become his elder.

He is Asahi Chiyo's uncle, and his younger sister, Anan, is the concubine of the Xiu family. As the closest bloodline, the Xiu family details that he can manage the internal affairs on behalf of Asahi Chiyo before she is sealed.

In order to manage Asahi Chiyo, he had to guard Iyo.It can be regarded as letting him guard Iyo as one of Iyo's representatives, and it can be regarded as fighting against Akashi Jingqin.

The two counties of Iyokuni Sangcun and Zhoubu counties add 3 shi, and if you add Ochi and Noma counties, there are about 6.5 shi.

Naturally, it is impossible for the Xiu family to give so much to this son at once. In the early stage, it will be given to Ochi County and Sangcun County. Counting Noma's 3000 shi, Zhixing is about 5 shi.

Among them, about 7000 stones were pre-planned by the Xiu family to be old for the Date Masahiro family.

5 shi's knowledge and practice are not much, the two sons of the Xiu family are born of concubines, their knowledge and practice naturally cannot be compared with the sons of the legitimate son and the son of Ping's wife.

The knowledge and practice of 5 koku is quite rare. Anyone who has watched "Crossroads of Fame and Fame" knows that Kazutoyo Yamauchi has spent his whole life, and only got to 5 koku under Hideyoshi's command. In the end, he was on the right team before he was named Tosa and became a real The name of the lord of the country.

In this life, he also has a tragic fate, and now he can be regarded as a daimyo of 5 koku in the Kawanakajima clan, and the son of the Xiu family, regardless of his concubine, has reserved the position of a daimyo of more than 5 koku since he was born.

This award is different from the past, because it is a big transfer of the entire territory of the Xiu family, and even the family elder Changchuan Zhenqin is included in the transfer, so the Xiu family personally announced the whole process.

"The assignment of the Ueno leader will start next." The Xiu family ignored the whispers below. He naturally had his own reasons for not continuing to assign Iyo. There is no need to explain to the retainers. He will return to Okayama to complete the transfer and resettlement of the remaining retainers. After that, they will naturally understand Xiujia's thoughts.

"Xiao Banxin decided to take 1 shi of Duohu County and 1 shi of Ganle County, and was accepted as the lord of Baicang. Since the city was not preserved in Ganle County, it was allowed to abolish the remaining two feudal formations in Ganle County."

"Baicang Zhonggao was granted the title of Shiling 5200 South of Ganle County, and allowed to keep a feudal formation after the abolition. In normal times, he needs to come to Yanfu City to participate in the work."

"Xiao Heyuan Nobumori transfers the title to the 6800 Shiling in the south of Lvye County. It is allowed to retain a feudal formation after the abolition. In normal times, you need to come to Yanfu City to participate in the work."

"Yoshigetsu transferred the 1.5 stones of Tongyu, Yamada County, and allowed to keep 3 feudal formations after the abolition. In normal times, you need to come to Iwafu Castle to participate in the work."

"Anzhong Jiufan, granted 2800 stones in Ubing County, and does not keep the feudal formation. In normal times, you need to come to Yanfu City to participate in the work."

"The long tail is long, transfer 1300 shi to Yamada County, do not leave the feudal formation in the collar, and come directly to Yanfu City to participate in the work. Nagao Huijing transfers 1000 shi to Luye County, does not leave the feudal formation in the collar, and directly comes to Iwafu Cheng Shenqin."

Nagao Huijing is the head of the Shirai Nagao family. The original territory was located in Shirai Castle in the central part of Gunma County (now at the confluence of Agatsuma River and Tone River in the south of Shibukawa City).

Because they belonged to the Hojo clan before, they participated in the Odawara Cage Castle. According to Hideyoshi’s request, all the families participating in the Odawara Cage Castle were exiled. received at home.

Of course, it is impossible for them to return to their skills, not only because Baichuan belongs to the Sanada territory now, even if this is the territory of the Xiu family, the Xiu family will definitely relocate them and reduce their seal.

They are rebellious ministers, giving them a certain amount of knowledge and behavior is already based on the face of their aboriginals, hoping that they will work for themselves under their command and help them master the Kanto.

Still want to recover your skills?It's just a fool's dream.

They are indeed Ueno natives, and they are more familiar with Ueno. Sealing them in Ueno is enough to achieve the effect, and transferring them to the new collar is to prevent them from doing things in the old collar by relying on their original relationship.

This is also the reason for Kencho Nagao. His younger brother, Shigeru Yura, participated in the cage city of Odawara with his elder brother Shigeru Yura, and was demoted to a commoner (ronin) after the war.

Yuliang Guofu's son Zhenfan, because of Narita's head and grandma Miao Indonesia, joined Xiujia's command early, and because of this, Yuliangjia was allowed to retain Zhixing.

But her mother still didn't want to see her other son Nagao Xianchang wandering around, so she begged the Hide family to take Nagao Xianchang in. Nagao Xianchang is now the head of the Ashikaga Nagao family, and it is quite bluffing to have this name .

The Hide family originally intended to take in the Kanto samurai family, so they followed suit and sealed it up next to the Yuliang family, which also belonged to Yamada County.

The reason why he retains more knowledge and practice than Nagao Huijing is that his original knowledge and practice are higher than Nagao Huijing, but because he refused to follow, he was arrested and imprisoned in Odawara City, and was forced to participate in the Odawara City Cage the existence of the city.

It’s just that the Shirai Nagao family and the Ashikaga Nagao family no longer exist. They are replaced by the Midori Nagao family and the Yamada Nagao family. Maybe even because they don’t have their own city, they eventually disappear. The name of the sealed village was changed to Miao.

说道妙印尼，这人也是个传奇出生于永正11年（1514年）的她，直到文禄3年11月6日（1594年12月17日）才去世。

He is the wife of Shigeru Yuliang, who witnessed the prosperity of the Yuliang family. Later, because of the Hojo clan's attack, Yu also witnessed the defeat of his two sons, Shigeru Yuliang and Kencho Nagao.

At the moment when only his grandson Yura Sadashige is still young, he takes care of Sadashige and maintains the existence of the Yura family in Ueno just like Shouguini of the current Kawa family.

"Gaoshan Dingsheng will seal 3000 stones in Gaoshan City, Lvye County, and allow the construction of feudal formations in the territory. In ordinary times, you need to go to Yanfu City to participate in the work."

Takayama Dingkatsu is the son of Takayama Mishige, and Takayama Mishige also participated in the battle in Odawara before. When the Hide family arrived in Takayama Castle, it was the Takayama family's old Nakazawa Hisaichi who stayed behind to come out of the castle to surrender.

The Xiu family directly asked Gao Shan Manzhong to retire, and his still young son Yuanfu was named Gao Shan Dingsheng to succeed the family governor, and the original knowledge and behavior were allowed to be retained.

Gao Shan’s original Zhixing was 680 guanwen, converted into Chengcheng’s Zhixing is about 2700~3100 shi, the Xiu family directly rounded up and gave 3000 shiling.

Consistent with his situation is the above-mentioned Anzhong Jiufan, who was eventually retained by the Xiu family for most of his knowledge, and moved from Anzhong City, Ubing County to a remote place. Because he was less than 3000 shi Zhixing line, he was not allowed to live there. Build a fan array in the territory.

There are still many cases like this in the entire Kanto, and I won’t introduce them one by one later. In short, I saw several samurai families in the early 1000s, and the local aboriginals named Uncle, all of which were taken in by the Xiu family.

"Wada Nobuyo transferred the 1.3-stone collar in the northern part of Yamada County and the western part of Seta County from Ueno Jinshan Castle, and kept 2 feudal formations in the collar, and came to Yanfu to participate in normal times."

"Nabo Xianzong received 1000 stones from Ubing County, and no feudal formations were left in the territory, so he came directly to Yan to pay Shenqin."

Hideka said here, and put together the evaluation certificates and said to everyone, "So far, the local wealthy families in Kanto have been awarded a total of 6.91 stone collars in Ueno, and there are 25 other families who are dissatisfied with Qianshi Wujia. .”

The wealthy Ueno clan who received the reward all bowed to the Hide family, praising the kindness of the Hide family.

Immediately afterwards, he took another certificate of evaluation and continued: "In this battle, Fujido Sado defended Takatora and made great contributions. He was transferred to Shangyexiqiao City, led 2 shi from Qunma County, 2 shi from Shita County, and a total of 4 shi from Zhixing. Wan Shi, allow the rebuilding of Qianqiao City on the basis of the ruins of Stable Bridge City."

Sanada Nobuyuki moved from Shinano to Ueno this time, and was granted the title of Tone County and Agatsuma County. These two counties add up to about 3 shi, plus more than 3 shi in the northwest of Gunma County, and Shita County 2.5 Zhixing is about 8.5 shi. After the merger, Zhixing is about [-] shi.

Gunma County is the absolute core of Ueno. Takasaki, Stable Bridge, and Minawa Castle are all in Gunma County. The approximate range is Haruna Mountain, Twelve Mountains, and Zichi Mountain. The western border is along the Tori River from northwest to southeast. Extending, the northern and western borders generally go south along the Tone River, and cross the Tone River at the Stable Bridge, and own part of the territory to the west.

The Sanada family is not a family that can be bullied at will. The previous head of their family, Sanada Masayuki, is not a good person. Sanada Nobuyuki may not be as capable as his father, but he is not a good person either.

Coupled with the fact that he is now married to Tokugawa Ieyasu's adopted daughter, Komatsuhime, the daughter of Honda Tadakatsu, the Xiu family naturally dare not take him lightly.

Therefore, Xiujia moved the most capable young generation Todo Takatora under his command to Ueno, allowing him to face off directly with the Sanada family. At the same time, he was also one of the elders of the Xiujia family, so he could be optimistic about the leader of Ueno for the Xiujia.

When Hideka was about to read the next one, he turned his head and glanced at Nobushige Sanada beside him, and said to him, "Genjiro, it's you next, go down and accept the reward."

"Huh?" Nobushige Sanada didn't expect that he would be in the front of the queue, and after being a little surprised, he got up, went to the imperial steps, knelt down in front of the Hideka, and listened to the Hideka's order.

"Nobushige Sanada transferred 3 shi to Ueno Iraku County with the merits of the Stable Bridge, and was awarded Guanlin City. At the same time, I ordered you to be the captain of the main family Akabe, and select warriors from various Ueno families to form the main family Akabe."

Nobushige Sanada was directly confused by the news thrown by Hideka, and the number "3 shi" kept echoing in his mind.

You must know that his elder brother inherited his father's territory, plus the compensation for military exploits and transfer of title, it is now only 8.5 shi, and he himself is already 1/3 of his elder brother's at this moment.

The most important thing is that he only owned 3000 stone collars in Iyo's country before!This is a full tenfold!
Nobushige Sanada, immersed in astonishment, finally came to his senses after being reminded by Osafune Sadain, and gratefully received the letter of perception and knowledge and action from Hideka, as well as the letter of appointment for his Tatebayashi castellan and Akabe chief.

At this moment, Nobushige Sanada felt that what he was experiencing seemed to be unreal.

Nobushige Sanada's generous reward also stimulated the younger group sitting below, so why didn't they hope to get such attention from Hideka?
"Zhuang Zhiqing was entrusted with 1.5 shi of West Ubing County and 1 shi of West Ganle County, and 2.5 shi of Zongzhixing. The main city is Songjingtian City."

The Zhuang family is a famous family in Beizhong, which has been passed down for hundreds of years.Originally, he didn't intend to transfer the seal with the Xiu family.

But Zhuang Zhiqing was born as an attendant of the Xiu family, and had a deep affection for the Xiu family, so before leaving, another family meeting was held to decide to separate the family.

Zhuang Zhiqing led the retainers who were willing to follow him to Kanto, and his uncle Zhuang Shengzi continued to stay in Beizhong with some retainers.

However, it is foreseeable that after the arrival of the new lord, Zhuang Zisheng, who was left by the dealer in Beizhong, will inevitably not be able to continue to enjoy the high seal of 1.8 shi in the Qing Dynasty.

"Qingshui Xin also transferred the title to Anzhong City, Ubing County, and has 8500 stones in Ubing County and 3000 stones in Fugang Valley, Ganle County. He has a total of 1.15 stones and is the owner of Anzhong City."

"The Takayama Clan transferred 1.3 koku to Ueno Takasaki, including 3000 koku from Kataoka County and 1 koku from Gunma County. They are the lords of Takasaki."

"Jiaonan Zhongyi transferred 3800 shi to Sawa County and 300 shi to the territory, and allowed to build a feudal formation in the territory. Zhiyue Zhongqiu transferred 1500 shi to Sawa County and 250 shi to the title. During the Zhenbi rule, he transferred to Sawa County and Zhixing 1580 shi. Sealed 180 stone.

The three of you don't need to come to Iwafu to participate in the work, and go directly to Isesaki Castle to manage the Sabo County for me.

Isesaki Castle in Sawa County and Enokawa Castle in Iyokuni will be awarded to Asahi Chiyo and Shozaburo respectively, and you will become the earliest retainers of Shosaburo, just like Baba Shike. "

"Nose Raikichi and Shingan Tarobei, both of you, transferred the titles of Iyo Shubu and Kuwamura to 1500 koku and 1680 koku respectively, and together with Imabari Castle Date Masakura, became Asahi Chiyo's retainers.

Before Asahi Chiyo and Sho Saburo grew up, you managed the territory for them. "

In fact, everyone was very puzzled by the arrangement of the Xiu family to divide the family so early. As a son of the Xiu family, it is not impossible to have knowledge, but it is usually granted before and after Yuanfu, and now the two sons of the Xiu family are only 2 years old. , 3-year-old grade ah?
Seeing everyone's doubts, the Xiu family raised their heads and said to them, "There is a happy event that I haven't told you all yet. Today, I will take this opportunity to tell you that my wife, Ju Ji, gave birth to me in Kyoto last month. Son, mother and child are safe.

In other words, I have a son-in-law!Everyone has a young master who needs to swear allegiance to the death! "

"!!!"

The Yuxi family has developed under the leadership of the Xiu family to the present. If there is anything that the retainers are worried about, it may be the issue of inheritance rights.

It's not that Asahi Chiyo and Zhaosaburo are bad, it's just that they were both born in concubines and concubines, and they don't have absolute and complete inheritance rights.

Since ancient times, there have been many disputes in the samurai family because of the issue of inheritance rights. The rebellion of Uesugi Jingsheng and Uesugi Jinghu, who are not far away, is still in sight, and the good Uesugi family was directly disabled.

The samurai families in the Warring States Period were more like shareholders of their superior daimyo's family company. They came to participate in the shares in order to become bigger and stronger and enjoy dividends and profits.

It's not that infighting is impossible, but the premise of infighting is to let them see a more beneficial future.

If internal fighting like the Uesugi family almost destroyed their own family, they would absolutely not want to see it.

Without the protection of the Xiu family, how will this group of wealthy families who have wandered with the Xiu family gain a firm foothold in the Kanto?
Therefore, what they hope most is that the Xiu family and Ju Ji can have a son, an undisputed heir, only in this way can the succession of the Yuxi family be passed smoothly.

And now...he's here.

"Boom~buzz buzz~" The astonishing news from the Xiu family quickly exploded after the short period of silence in the evaluation room, and the retainers below started communicating regardless of appearance, with joyful expressions on their faces.

In the end, it was Changchuan Zhenqin who was on his behalf to calm down again, and he took the lead in saluting to the Xiu family, "This is really the best news in the world. I am waiting here to congratulate the lord on the birth of a son!"

All the ministers followed and said, "Congratulations to the lord Xide Linzi~"

Changchuan Zhenqin continued, "The ministers will definitely pledge their allegiance to His Royal Highness, just as they are loyal to the lord."

All the ministers followed and said: "Swear to die to be loyal to His Royal Highness, Young Master~"

Seeing the ministers expressing their sincere joy for having a son, the Xiu family nodded in satisfaction and expressed their gratitude to everyone.

And continued, "Although I can't return to Kyoto immediately because I need to guard the Kanto, I have already sent someone to send the child's name, and he will be called 'Hachiro'. Yes, it is Ukita's family governor from generation to generation. name."

"Hachiro~"

Hearing this title, Osafune Sadaaki and Akashi Jingqin had tears in their eyes for a moment. They hadn't heard this title for almost 10 years.

It can also be seen from this title that the Hide family officially confirmed Hachiro's right to inherit the Kanto Toyotomi family, which also gave them the determination to follow a young master wholeheartedly.

(End of this chapter)