Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 52 This is the throbbing from the deepest heart of the Xiu family

Hideya, who had completed the suppression of the central part of Ano, continued to move toward the southwest of Sanuki along the direction of Kotohira, preparing to continue to suppress the forces of the Okada and Nagao families who had not yet surrendered.

On January 1582th in the tenth year of Tianwen (29), the Okada family, who received the news that Jiushan Castle fell in one day and Takinomiya surrendered, surrendered to Ukita under the leadership of the head of the family, Keiyoshi Okada. 3000 stones in the city blocked the Okada family.

So far, Hideo has compressed the Kagawa family into the three counties of Tado, Sanno, and Toyota in the west of Sanuki.Faced with a very good situation, the Ukita Tadaka family expected to complete the pacification of Sanuki by the end of the tenth year of Tensho (1582), and further attacked the Nagamune family from behind.

Facing a crowd of optimistic retainers, it was difficult for the Xiu family to tell them the fact that the Oda family was about to collapse within half a year. The elders of the Kagawa family have begun to coerce the reclusive old head of the family to come forward and send Kagawa affinity back to the Nagamune family, so that they can surrender to the Hide family.

Just when Xiujia and Zhongjia were thinking about the next strategy target, Hashiba Hideka, as Ukido's direct superior, sent a coercion order to Ukido, asking Ukido to mobilize no less than 2 soldiers by the end of February. The army converged at Okayama Castle, and followed Hashiba's family to battle Mori.

Hideya, who received the order, knew that his Sanuki campaign came to an end after 3 months.Although the result was not perfect, Ukita's strong performance in Sanuki still left a deep impression on the local wealthy.As a result, the progress of Yuxi Duo will be greatly accelerated the next time he gets involved in Sanuki.

Nobunaga was very satisfied with the Uki family's Sanuki strategy. After ordering the Hide family to hand over the land near Takamatsu to Kobe Konobu, they began to retreat in batches. Filial piety and faith are matched with strength.

At the end of January in Tensho, Hideka arrived at Okayama Castle. After more than half a year of repairs, the main building of Okayama Castle had been declared complete. After Hideka diverted the water from the Asahi River and the Roban River into Mizubori, the only road left for the enemy to attack Okayama Take Ishiyama Maru on the west side of Asahikawa first, and then cross the river to attack Sannomaru.

Xiujia looked at Okayama Castle, which he led the design and construction, and suddenly felt a little regret in his heart. Is there a day when he can really use this huge city that wasted manpower and material resources?

The Hide family ascended the castle from Ishiyama Maru, and then came to Sannomaru on horseback from the 50-meter Asahikawa Bridge. According to the plan of the Hide family, the Hide family planned to gradually move the generals and retainers of the inner banner to live in Okayama Castle. From the beginning of the Maru, many retainers and farmers of wealthy families built feudal mansions in pre-planned areas.

Arriving at the tiger's mouth of the Sannomaru, the retainers headed by Nakabo Masayuki and Iaoka Toshikatsu were already waiting again. Hideo entered the tiger's mouth surrounded by Tadaka, Togawa Hidean, and Hatakemoto, and met several adults who had been away for a long time. .

"You have worked hard." Under the leadership of the chief old flower Fang Zhengxing, the retainers saluted the Xiu family one by one. The Xiu family saluted with these rich retainers one by one like a general returning from victory.

Passing through the 10-meter-wide Mizubori between Sannomaru and Nichimaru, the Hide family came to Ninomaru. As the closest to the Honmaru, Ninomaru and Higashimaru are the most important retainers of the Hide family, such as Ukita Tadaka, The residences of the Miro, Osafune family, Akashi family, Takeuchi family and other families, as well as the warehouse where food and weapons were stored.Huafang Zhengxing led Xiujia all the way to the city and explained.

Hideka entered the Honmaru from Hukou, and so far it has been the exclusive area of ​​Hideka. Although there is no castle tower, the gorgeous palace and large courtyard make the Honmaru in Okayama as beautiful as a sky garden.

The Xiu family also boasted about Huafang's good fortune in building the city, etc., and found that Yuguankou and Fangyuan were waiting here with all the female family members from the inner bureau for a long time, so the Xiu family dismounted here, and ordered the generals to let everyone participate in the evaluation the next day. will disperse.

Since all the generals in Okayama had their residences, they went down from Honmaru to the castle and returned to their respective residences via Erzhimaru to rest.When Hideka shot Okayama, he did not intend to design a mountain road directly connecting Nijimaru and Higashimaru.

However, in order to ensure the privacy of the lord Honmaru when building Okayama, Masayuki Hanaba thoughtfully opened a mountain road under the northern city wall of Okayama Honmaru to connect Nijimaru and Higashimaru.

Of course, in order to prevent this place from becoming a defensive breach like the Kyogoku Maru in Otani Castle, Hanabosho ordered someone to expand the water hole under the Kyogoku Maru mountain to this place, and trim the mountain wall to make it extremely steep and difficult to climb. .

During the Battle of Takata, Hideka felt deeply that he lacked absolute personal protection after the banner team left, so he discussed with Zhongjia to select 100 warriors and nephews from various samurai to establish a entourage team composed of pure samurai, and every 10 people constituted a team. The captain, divided into two chief attendants, manages 1 people.It's just that the position of chief attendant is temporarily vacant, and the captains report directly to the Xiu family.

After Kenjiro inherited the Suzukawa family, Hideka transferred Maeda Keiji, Suga Masatoshi, Ikaruga Heiji, Shonai Isshin and others who performed well in the first battle of Takata to the entourage team as captains of the Hideka entourage team.

At this time, it was these four people who accompanied Hideka. Before Hideka entered the palace, Ikaruga Heiji and Shonai Isshin led their team into the palace and replaced the members of the Banner team in several important positions.

"Congratulations to Your Highness for taking down Zanzhou on behalf of His Highness You Mansion, and to come back victorious. I wish Your Highness a long life of martial arts." As the absolute leader of the women's family in Okayama at this time, Tong Fangdian led the women's family to kneel down on the wooden wall corridor in the Imperial Palace to salute the Xiu family. .Behind her was a girl in a beige kimono, probably Kiyohime who was brought back from Kyoto.

"Well, this trip is quite tiring, but the result is not bad, I need to take a good rest~" Xiujia complained.

At this moment, it is completely the private space of the Xiu family, and the Xiu family no longer needs to put on an aloof appearance like outside, and then hand the sword in his hand to Masatoshi Suga, who is a personal servant on duty, and then walk by the female family members, all the way On the way to the inner hall, he shouted, "I'm exhausted, prepare hot soup, I want to take a bath! And pass on lunch."

Hearing the order from the Xiu family, naturally the envoy in charge ordered the maids of the younger generation to prepare. The Xiu family entered the inner hall through a narrow flower gate. Although the inner hall is just behind the imperial hall, in order to ensure absolute privacy Not only is the courtyard wall higher, but there is only such a small door connected to the front hall.

Masatoshi Suga, who is Hideka's personal attendant, of course has the right to enter the inner hall. When he came to Hideka's room, he put Hideka's dagger on the knife holder and was about to help Hideka remove his armor when suddenly footsteps came from behind.

Xiujia followed the prestige, and there was a beautiful figure in a beige kimono who was bringing his maid and maids to the door of Xiujia's house, and was stopped by the warriors of Xiujia's attendant team. Who else could it be if it wasn't Qingji? ?
Faced with the obstruction of the heavily armed warriors, Qin Ji knelt down on the corridor outside the hall and saluted the Xiu family, "Please allow me to remove your armor for Your Highness."

Masatoshi Suga, who was taking off the sleeve armor for the Xiu family, stopped what he was doing and looked at his lord.

"Rokunosuke, you also go down and take off the armor, and accompany me to the evaluation room later." After confirming Hideo's agreed response, Masatoshi Suga responded, and took off the sleeve armor that was half removed in his hand and put it on the foot stand , exited the room.

Kiyohime was not able to enter until Suga Masari left the room. Kiyohime, who is 3 years older than Xiu's family, is now a 13-year-old girl. About the ups and downs of a woman.

Kiyohime, who was educated by the public family since she was a child, did not have a good impression of the child who was born in the countryside of Bizen when her father decided to marry Ukiya. His attitude toward Xiujia remained unchanged.

In Qing Ji's eyes, this is just a little kid whose father died young, who just inherited his father's huge territory of 50 shi, but has no ability to dominate the country.

Qing Ji, who grew up listening to the stories of the Warring States Period, even had a premonition that the Yuxi family she married into would be punished one day. How could she let this girl who was only 12 years old be "suffered" by her father when she remembered the sufferings of women in the troubled times of the Warring States Period? Betrayed" girl laughed from the bottom of her heart.

However, with Hideka’s appearance in Sanuki, especially the news of the Takata Battle Report, the epic victory of “destroying 4000 Changzong’s army with 8000 people” (that’s what Nobunaga advertised) made Kiyohime care about his younger brother in this market A sense of reverence arose.

Sure enough, the worship of the strong hidden at the bottom of animal genes made this icy girl start to melt towards Xiu's family.

Under the constant Amway of the old lady envoy who brought her from Kyoto to Bizen by her side.Qing Ji gradually fell in love with this younger brother who was not only gentle and considerate to herself, but also excelled in martial arts and martial arts.

Although Xiujia looked in astonishment at this girl who hadn't seen her for half a year and whose attitude towards him had completely changed, Xiujia, who was a virgin at the age of 25 in her previous life, had no idea what kind of attention this girl had in mind.

After helping Xiujia take off the other half of the sleeve armor, Qing Ji came behind Xiujia, and almost stuck to Xiujia and began to untie the upper body of Xiujia.Xiujia could clearly smell the faint fragrance coming from behind, and was a little distracted for a while.

By coincidence, Xiujia suddenly grabbed Qing Ji's hand who stretched out her hands to remove Xiujia's body pill with both hands.

The two quickly let go as if they were electrocuted, and Xiujia came back to reality from the confusion. She was only a 10-year-old child, and Qing Ji was only a 13-year-old child.The similarity in height made Xiujia forget these two prerequisites at that moment.

In her previous life, Xiujia, who was a good-natured young man, hated perverted child molesters from the bottom of her heart, but she didn't expect that she forgot her and Qing Ji's identities for a while, and thought it was her girlfriend who took off her coat for her when she came home from work in her previous life.

Some embarrassing Xiujia, in order to ease the atmosphere, sent out a straight man's soul torture, "What is your smell, it smells good, it smells good." The Xiujia who said it swears when he recollects this sentence. Later generations will definitely be regarded as a pervert and sent to the Public Security Bureau.

But this time is in the Warring States Period of Japan, and Hideka is a master with a territory of 50 shi. In this era when the class gap is like a gap, and there is a girl who has a good impression of him by his side, naturally no one will blame him. Xiujia's transcendence.

Qing Ji blushed and murmured, "Seto House paid some citrus oranges as a tribute, and they smelled very fragrant, so I made them into a sachet with other spices and carried them with me." He took out the citrus from his waist jacket. Show Xiujia a small sachet. ,

Xiujia habitually took the sachet directly from Qing Ji's hands, and asked on his own nose. There was a kind of fragrance of bergamot from later generations, which was very pleasant. The taste is somewhat similar.

After smelling the smell, the Xiu family wanted to hand the sachet back to Qing Ji, who would have thought that Qing Ji's face turned red, and it took a long time before she said a word: "If your highness likes it, I will give you this sachet. I will give it to you later." I will make it and give it to Your Highness."

The silly Xiujia didn't expect such a good thing, so he put the sachet on his body, and asked Qing Ji to continue to remove her armor.But not long after, Hideya realized an important message and asked Kiyohime, "Setoya? Is it Seto Kichizaemon's Setoya? He came back from Ezo?"

"Yeah, I came back at the end of the year, and I have been in Okayama Town for more than a month now, and I said that I will wait until some warm current comes in March before going back to Ezo." Qing Ji replied flatly.

Hearing that Kiyohime said that Seto Yoshizaemon had returned from Ezo, Hideka wanted to hear him report the results of Ezo to Hideo immediately, so he immediately ordered the attendant who was guarding the gate to go down to the castle to see Seto Kichizaemon came to find him.

After the armor removal was completed, Qing Ji bid farewell to the Xiu family in the house, and then other young ladies led the Xiu family to the side room. This is a sunken bathhouse specially ordered by the Xiu family to be built with stones. The wooden door on one side is also the same. You can come and enjoy the beautiful view of the courtyard while taking a bath.

This is a bad habit that Hideka learned from Monkey. Monkey was born as a farmer, and he didn’t have such good conditions to bathe every day when he was a child. The retainers discussed state affairs while taking a bath, just like Zhou Chaoxian in "Black Gold".

Xiujia was also adopted by Hideyoshi as an adopted son at the suggestion of Xiuchang when he took a bath with the monkey.

The conditions of future generations do not allow, and Xiujia, who is used to showering, is out of control after experiencing the capitalist life of taking a bath every day in this life.

Of course, the Xiu family did not need to be accompanied by such a maid when taking a bath, and even needed a maid to accompany the Xiu family to help the Xiu family take a bath. There are many drowned family heads), so a few young maids were sent here to watch the Xiu family take a bath.

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Off topic:
I came back late today and was very tired, so there is only one update today, but it is a 4000-word chapter, I hope you like it.

In addition:

I originally thought that after seeing the bravery of Keiji Maeda in Chapter 14 and the names of Masatoshi Suga, Isshin Shonai, and Heiji Ikaruga in Chapter 17, many friends would discuss it.

After all, these are all powerful generals who still exceed 14 after the 80th generation Nobuno's force has been greatly reduced, but everyone seems to be afraid of the four Ukita ghosts.

Until this chapter is finally revealed, how much do you know about the three people Hideo met in Harima when Hideo was in Kamura, Hayato Sasaka, Masatoshi Suga, Isshin Shonai, and Heiji Ikaruga?
With the continuous increase of Hideka's underlings, here is a spoiler for Hideka. Todo Takatora, whom everyone thinks about day and night, will also return in the near future. I hope everyone will continue to pay attention to "Bizen Prime Minister"

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