Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 520 Even Nails Chew It (5K)

I still remember when Xiujia just took over the Yuki Family, the Uki Family only had Bizen Misaku and the two countries, and the Hideka Hu Xia directly controlled about 7 to 8, accounting for only a dozen points.

What was the difference between the Yuxi family at that time and the Maorimo of Xiguo? It was essentially a union of wealthy families, and the Yuxi family might fall apart at any time.

Without Hideyoshi as a powerful daimyo, there would be chaos in the Ukita family, which is why the Nao family entrusted Ukita to Hideyoshi.

But in just 10 years, the Xiu family established prestige through war, established authority by disposing of internal enemies, and clarified the laws of the monarch and ministers through the establishment of rules.

After transferring the seal over and over again, the knowledge and behavior of the wealthy family in the collar were cleaned.

From less than 20% at the beginning, to 30%, 40%, and now to 50%.

From seeking the help of the elders in a low voice, to taking care of the face of the elders when supporting the new members, step by step, it has expanded to the power that can be resolved with one word within Yuxiduo.

The Xiu family is no longer the little kid who sat on the imperial steps and needed the help of Ukita Tadashi's family to calm down the retainers.

For Feng Shangxiu's family affairs in Kanto, especially those wealthy families in Kanto, in order to show the care from Yuxi's family, even small collars with a few hundred stones are personally announced by the Xiu family.

Following each name of the Xiu family at the beginning of the year, more and more samurai came out of the attendance, received certificates of knowledge and deeds from the Xiu family, and expressed their gratitude to the Xiu family.

However, because too many people participated in this evaluation, many small-collar wealthy families who used to be assisted by their family members were able to attend, which caused the evaluation to be delayed for a long time.

By the time Xiu's family was divided, it was already past 2 o'clock in the afternoon.

You must know that in this era, unless there is a war, the Japanese generally eat two meals, one at 8 am and one at around 3 pm.

Many people couldn't take it anymore, especially some old warriors, seeing them linger until the afternoon without eating breakfast.

Fortunately, Xiu's family made preparations in advance, and asked people to prepare tea fruits and tea in advance, so that they could eat them at any time.

Such a move is epoch-making, and even a bit out of order. After all, what kind of talk is this solemn occasion like a tea party?

However, this is not the most important thing. The important thing is that even if the Xiu family wanted to show favor to the retainers below, those retainers would not dare to eat in front of the Xiu family. They were afraid that such a move would cause displeasure to the Xiu family. .

In fact, the Xiu family also prepared tea fruit and tea for them, but the Xiu family kept saying that now, they didn't even drink a sip of water!

After the evaluation was finally over, Xiujia couldn't take it anymore, glanced at the tea fruit prepared below and saw that no one had touched it, Xiujia said to everyone like self-deprecating, "Perhaps you are not used to my temper, unless It's a ceremony or something, and I don't have too many rules for my retainers.

This time it is precisely because I thought in advance that the evaluation would take too long, so I prepared tea fruit and tea for you.However, it seems that the tea and snacks I prepared for you today did not satisfy your appetite. "

After finishing speaking, he said to Osafune Sadakin, "In this case, Misakushou will take everyone down to eat some pasta, and then help me send you adults back. The evaluation by the elders will be postponed until tomorrow."

"Yes, my lord." Nasafuna Sadaaki responded to the Hideo's territory, and then the Hideo family got up and walked out. Sanada Nobushige, who was originally sitting in the position of the next retainer, followed Hideo's family swiftly. Anyway, he is still Hideo. Captain of the house.

He also came out with Masatoshi Suga, who had been asked by the Xiu family to evaluate him before, and then came to find him. The Xiu family took him to a side hall to sit down, where the attendants had already prepared meals in advance, but it was a pity that there was only one for one person.

Hideka knew that the attendants used to prepare three meals for him to deal with this situation, so he asked them to serve one for Masato Suga to eat together.

Although the Hide family is already the overlord of Kanto and the third in command of the Toyotomi family, his favorite food is ochazuke and barbecued meat.

Seeing Xiujia carrying a bowl of unpretentious chazuke and eating it wholeheartedly, Masatoshi Suga was a little surprised at the simplicity of Xiujia's diet.

"Eat, why don't you eat it? Chazuke is delicious, and some people can't eat it even if they want it." Seeing that he hadn't moved his chopsticks for a long time, Xiujia who had already finished a bowl of tea said to him.

Hideka assured that the person Hideka mentioned was definitely not referring to Hojo Ujimasa in particular. In fact, ochazuke is indeed a delicious and delicious food.

Tea water is rich in various vitamins, which can effectively avoid the effects of beriberi, and tea polyphenols, which are the most simple and unpretentious oral cleaning drugs in this era.

After Xiujia and Suga Masari had a feast, Xiujia said to Suga Masari, "Mabe County is not easy to handle, this was originally the territory of Tagaya and Masabe.

Because of Odawara's participation in the battle, Tagaya was awarded 5000 shi by His Royal Highness Guan Bai, and Zhixing reached 3 shi.

The Zhenbi family was originally a local aborigine, and their knowledge and practice exceeded 1 shi, but the knowledge and practice of the whole army of Zhenbi Group was only 5.6 shi.

Originally, I didn't intend to touch the Makabe family, I planned to allocate all of this sporadic open space to Tibet, but when I was arranging Zhixing, I realized that the location here is too important.

On the east side of him is Satake Territory, and on the north side is Shimogayoshi County. You and I both know that this is the territory of the Utsunomiya family in name. In fact, the forces of Satake Utsunomiya are intertwined, while the south is Tagaya, Yuki, Oda Waiting for home territory.

Only the Tuga County on the west side is the Zhixing of the main family, and the city of Mabe Shitadate is like an enclave in my hands.To go to Xiaguan from Iwafu Castle, one must either detour from Shimono, or pass through Yucheng, Taga Valley, and Zhenbi Clan. "

Speaking here, the Xiu family paused, and sighed helplessly, "Zhenbi County of Changlu Country is really like a tasteless rib, it's a pity to throw it away if it's tasteless."

"But I changed my mind later." Speaking of this, Xiujia stared at Suga Masari with bright eyes and said, "Shimodate Castle is indeed a crappy enclave.

Guan Baidian inserted the three families of Yuki, Tagaya, and Oda between Keji and Xiaguan, and it might be that he did not have the idea of ​​​​inserting nails.But if I just follow his wishes, then I'm not Ukita Hideo's family. "

As Hideya said, he pushed away the tea bank that was used for eating in front of him, asked Nobushige Sanada to bring a map of Hitachi and spread it in front of Masatoshi Suga and said to him, "Look at the Shimono Bankoku that I lead now, although there are 16 Wan Shi's knowledge and action, but the northwest is mountainous.

Duga County is like a long and narrow passage connecting the small hills to the sun, like a long worm, although it is as large as 10 stones, it is a flat plain.Once the south of Tuga is attacked, Kanuma and Nikko on the north side will be abolished.

And if you want to divide Shimono into two from here, the best direction is to go south from Utsunomiya and go west from Zhenbi.

Zhenbi seems to be Duhe's weakness on the east side. If I put Zhenbi County in stock, then Shimono Territory will be the next enclave. "

Xiujia said that the blood is already on the rise here, and pointed to the three big names from Shimo Zong and Chang Lu and said: "His Highness Guan Bai wants to insert nails in my abdomen. He thinks that Yuki, Tagaya, and Oda are nearly 10 The stone collar will choke me, but I want to eat these few nails!"

"In order to ensure my resignation, Maka must not be thrown away. In order to squeeze Yuuki and Tagaya's family, Maka must be used by me!"

Xiujia said that here he looked up at Suga Masatoshi, and said to him, "In my family, I can't find another person who is wise, brave, knowledgeable and suitable except you. The reason why you moved to the next building”

As he spoke, he drew two roads on the map with a brush dipped in ink, one passing through Yuki Castle from Shimodate, and then connecting to Tochigi in Shimono, and the other connecting to Shimoso through Taga Valley of Hitachi Shimozuma Guansu City.

"You said that in the name of commerce, I repaired roads in the Kanto region and passed through Yuki and Xiawi. How will these two families deal with it?"

Xiujia threw the question to Masatoshi Suga, and before Masari Suga could answer, Xiujia answered first, "Haruto Yuki is indecisive, and safety is the most important thing to him, so he definitely doesn't want to get involved in the struggle for power." come.

Even if Guan Bai deliberately provided him with 2 stone collars, but the character of the Patriarch remains unchanged, the attitude of the Yucheng family will not change. "

Masatoshi Suga agreed with Hideka's point of view, "But his son seems to belong to the Utsunomiya family?"

"This is indeed an unknown number." Hideka nodded, agreeing with his worries, but then said, "Hurry up and fix it during the reign of Yuki Haruto, and even if there is an accident, Yuki Hidetomo will not be able to make waves." Come."

"Tagaya is different. I have communicated with Tagaya Shigetsu. This person is a smart person, and I like dealing with smart people the most."

Tagaya Shigetsune is the head of the ZTE of the Tagaya family, otherwise it would not be possible to expand the territory to Shimono and Hitachi to a scale of 10 shi.

To be able to achieve such an achievement under the siege of Hojo and Satake, Tagaya Shigetsune's ability is beyond doubt, and the values ​​given to him by the Shinno series and the Taiko series are definitely lowered.

In fact, the Xiu family did not say a word, and that was the dispute over the successor of the Taga Valley family.

The reason is that the Tagatani family was not low when facing the Hojo clan's attack before, so they were forced to surrender to the Satake family for help, and adopted their adopted son Xuanjia from the Satake family.

But in fact, he has his own son. Not long ago in Utsunomiya, the Xiu family was appointed as the black hat relative of the three times in history. The meaning of getting closer to the Xiu family is already obvious.

The Xiu family bestowed the family character and named it Tagagu Family Classic.

In history, the dispute between Miko and adopted son also broke out during Keicho’s second imperial conquest, and finally, under the intermediary of Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tagaya was allowed to be divided into two families, Shimozuma and Ota.

These two families also stood in different camps in the Battle of Sekigahara. In the end, his wife Tagaya became the elder of Hideyasu Yuuki, and then he was transferred to Echizen, while Ota Tagaya was transferred to Akita with the Satake family.

For Xiujia, it is very easy to play with Tagaya, just follow the script of history.

In this life, there is a black hat relative of the Hide family, which is much more influential than the black hat relative Ishida Mitsunari in history, and he will never let his "good boy" family fortune suffer.

As long as the road is completed, it will be within the scope of the authority of Xiujia to deal with the disputes of the Kanto samurai family as the guardian of the Kanto.

After supporting the family business to the top, isn't the Tagagu family used by the Xiu family?
As for Oda Ujiji, what is the use of the small body of 1.3 shi after Yuki and Tagaya are settled?

He better know how to assess the situation, if he is really as stunned as he was when he resisted Hojo in the past, no matter whether he is a phoenix or not, Xiujia will be killed.

"After the roads are completed, whether it's business or defense, the main family and the military have sufficient reasons to walk on these two roads. Over time, even if Yuki and Tagaya want to resist me, they don't have the guts.

And what you have to do, in addition to building the road on the north side, you also need to add to the northern fortress of Shiotate Castle. "

While talking, Xiujia pointed to Xiaguan Castle and continued: "Although Xiaguan Castle is no longer in the list of 40 cities, when you arrive in Xiaguan, not only can you not demolish the city, but you have to build it further.

Make good use of the terrain to build facilities such as water boroughs, turrets, and curved wheels, and build enough warehouses in the city. You must be able to ensure that Shimodate Castle has enough food for one and a half years when it faces siege. "

Yes, Hideyoshi has already prepared for the worst, which is why Hideyoshi sealed Masatoshi Suga to the next hall. It is not a lie to say that he is the most suitable candidate.

"Liunosuke, do you know that in the valley in the northeast of Zhenbi County, there is actually a road leading to Ibaraki." Hideka pointed to the place marked as mountains and forests on the map.

Looking at the map on the ground, Masatoshi Suga asked Xiujia the question that frightened Xiujia the most, "How did you know, Your Highness?"

There is no way Xiujia can only say half-truth, "Well, you know, I have made a lot of preparations for the conquest of Kanto. This is the information my ninja detected."

Seeing that Suga Masatoshi frowned and didn't seem to believe Hideo's explanation, Hideka changed the subject and said, "In short, you take a little longer to demolish the mountain valley Fengyan Laicheng, anyway, the inspector of the Tokugawa family in that corner may not to see.

As well as the Yanaka, Hashimoto and other branch cities on the east side of him, the demolition will be slower. At the same time, you can send people to Ibaraki to explore and confirm the existence of the road. "

In fact, Masatoshi Suga's frown just now was not questioning Xiujia's explanation, he was thinking about the reason why Xiujia made this move.

If it is said that the purpose of building roads to connect Shimoda is to revitalize the northern border cities, and at the same time exert influence on Yuki, Tagaya and other families, it is understandable.

Then it is a bit unusual to build Shimodate Castle, even to prepare enough food to cage the city for one and a half years, and to keep the east side branch city, and explore the road to Ibaraki.

The Hide family's actions above all targeted the Satake family.But... but the Satake family is not the lord's colleague, is it also under Guan Bai's account?

My lord told us before that the Battle of Kanto was the last battle before the peace of the world, so why bother to do such a thing against the Satake family?

Masatoshi Suga, who couldn't figure out my middle joint, was very distressed, but he still accepted the order from Hideo, and said that he would not meet Hideo's expectations, and then got up and left.

After Masatoshi Suga left, Hideya stopped Nobushige Sanada who was about to get up to give him a step, and let him sit where Masatoshi Suga had been before, facing his eyes.

"Taro followed His Highness Tokugawa to the south of Kai."

Nobushige Sanada was a little puzzled by Hideka's sudden arrival and no words to refer to, so he could only respond with a peaceful "hmm".

"And you will have other tasks starting today, and you will leave my side."

Perhaps out of empathy, Sanada Nobushige saluted Hideka and said, "Genjiro, thank you for your cultivation all these years, my lord."

"I placed you in Guanlin, which is an extremely important position, and it connects Saitama, Shimoso, and Shimono, and it is the thoroughfare of the world.

There is also this independent Sano family next to you, you must pay special attention to them, and if there is any change, you must report it to me immediately. "

"Yes, I understand that."

"My thoughts on the Akabi team are generally the same as those of Takeda, but they are also slightly different. Kohata believes that although there is a name for the Akabi, there is no reality of the Akabi.

If you need help, you can ask Yura Kunimori and Ogawara Nobumori for advice. They were both members of the Takeda Akabi Hon.

The Red Army of the family is all composed of the sons of the Ueno samurai as officers, accompanied by rich peasants and servants with land as soldiers, all the equipment is provided by the family, and they prepare their own weapons.

I hope that the red reserve team is a quick-response force, which is different from the standing reserve. They usually walk in the fields, but they can be assembled within 1 day when they are called up.

In order to achieve this step, even the infantry is equipped with a horse, and the cavalry must have two horses, one for war and one for peacetime riding.

The cavalry's riding horses are provided by themselves, and the insufficient riding horses and cavalry's war horses are provided by the family, which can save them a lot of expenses.

Riding horses will be fed by the Red Army soldiers themselves, which is convenient for quick assembly after the street orders, and the war horses will be raised by the Red Army soldiers.I granted you a few plots of land in Nitta County, Sabo County, and Seta County Hirano, which are specially used to raise war horses.

The establishment of Chibei is temporarily positioned at 2100 people, of which 600 cavalry teams are divided into two left and right cavalry teams, and 1500 infantry are divided into 3 battalions. "

Hideka also told Nobushige Sanada a lot about his thoughts on the red team, and Nobushige Sanada recorded them one by one in front of Hideka with a pen and paper. By the time Hideka finished explaining everything, the sun had already started to set.

Looking at the orange-red sunset outside, Hideka took a deep breath and said to Nobushige Sanada, "Let's just leave it like this for the time being. You should go to the Tatebayashi clan after you get ready in the next few days. If you don't have enough retainers, you can get them from Hajimoto. Choose a few people from the crowd to take away, or choose a few warriors from the reserve team."

Sanada Nobushige is at best a branch of the Sanada family in the Toyotomi system. It is obviously unrealistic for him to recruit people from the Sanada family while Sanada Nobuyuki is still there.

Therefore, Xiujia chose to provide him with some retainers, and Nobushige Sanada also expressed his gratitude to Xiujia.

But facing Xiujia's request to let him quit, he was indifferent, got up and tidied up the messy surroundings for Xiujia, and began to lay a bed for Xiujia.

"Your Highness, please allow me to watch for you again~" Sanada Nobushige said with a sob.

The Xiu family did not refuse his request, but nodded silently, looking at the sunset outside the house without words
(End of this chapter)