Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 537 All the Way Westward

Tadashi Sakai finally agreed to Hideka's request. After all, Hideka took the initiative to come to him because he was talking about Kikuhime and Ujihime.

None of these three people could be offended by him. Anyway, what the Xiu family wanted was only a painting of a city that was about to be destroyed, so he accepted it as a favor.

Farewell to Tadashi Sakai, Hideka's team continued to move eastward, from Odawara Castle to Sumpu Castle, the distance between the two places was nearly 100 kilometers, and at the current speed of Hideka's team, it was impossible to reach it within 4-5 days.

When Xiujia arrived in Junfu City, it was already August 8th.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, as the host, warmly received the Hide family here. Perhaps because he had heard the story in Odawara Castle before, he took the initiative to come to Hideo to explain the offense of the retainers to the Hide family.

In fact, both parties knew very well that it was Ogasawara Xiuzhen who started the provocation, and the Xiu family was also speaking for Xiuzhen.

But as vassals, if they hadn't fought back when the Hide family said the presumptuous words asking them to "continue to work hard for the Tokugawa family", perhaps the situation would not be so ugly.

Tokugawa Ieyasu took the initiative to take the responsibility on himself, first thanked the Hide family, and then apologized to his retainers for their attitude towards the Hide family a few days ago.

Tokugawa's operation was actually completed in private with Hideka, but for some reason, it was circulated in Junfu Castle the next day. The attitude of the retainers in Junfu Castle towards Tokugawa Ieyasu is still unknown, but Some of the big names who sponsored this, such as Date Masamune, said in a grand manner, "The Chuanyan language is really magnanimous".

Co-author Tokugawa Ieyasu made a wave of retreat and directly put the Hide family on the point of being unreasonable, making the Hide family a little out of character.

When he was about to leave, he looked back and saw Tokugawa Ieyasu who was smiling and saying goodbye directly, Hideo couldn't help but feel a chill behind his back, this old tortoise with a smiling face was really not easy to get along with, and just a few words reversed the situation come over.

Everyone continued westward, Xiujia noticed that Ogasawara Xiuzhen was a little unhappy when she left Junfu City, Xiujia thought it was Xiuzhen who was dissatisfied with her biological father's attitude towards different sons, so she didn't say much, just a little comfort A few words.

When everyone arrived at Yoshida Castle in Mikawa Country, Kiyohide Nakagawa bid farewell to Hide's family. He will explain some domestic affairs here before heading to Osaka.

Hideka and others came out from Higashimikawa Yoshida Castle, and continued westward to Okazaki Castle, which was Tsutsui Joji's main castle. As Hideka's earliest ally, the relationship between Hideka and Tsutsui Joji was pretty good.

The two young people were about the same age, and the Hideka helped the Tsutsui family a big favor by giving them a satisfactory understanding.After the Battle of Odawara, the Tsutsui Family Tomoyuki rose to 20 shi, owning Mikawa and Half Country, and the other half of Mikawa was handed over to Mori Tadamasa.

Even the Mizuno family, which originally owned Mikawa Kariya, was moved to Rikuzen by Hideyoshi, and it can be said that the entire Nishi Mikawa was completely managed by him.

The key is that Nishi Mikawa can be said to be one of the few plains in Japan. The fields here are very fertile. The Yahagi River Basin in the west irrigates the fertile Okazaki Plain and Nishio Delta.

Yamato country is good, it does have a huge territory of 44 koku, but Yamato is a basin country, its water resources are not as rich as Sanhe, and it is not as close to the sea as Sanhe.

Since Tsutsui Dingji transferred Mikawa, he experienced the prosperity of maritime trade for the first time. He built a port town in Binan and Nishio, which gradually became an important source of income for his Okazaki clan.

Hearing of Hideka's arrival, Tsutsui Joji gave Hideka a high-standard reception.

Tsutsui received Hideka warmly on a regular basis, and others followed suit.In fact, Tsutsui Joji is so enthusiastic about the relationship with the Hide family, not only because the Hide family gave the Tsutsui family shelter, but more importantly, because the Hide family is his brother-in-law.

Fujihime joined the Uki family as a concubine, which was essentially a reward from the Tsutsui family. Since the establishment of this marriage relationship, the Tsutsui family has been labeled as a faction of the Hide family.

Now that the two have been married for several years, Fujihime only gave birth to a daughter for the Hide family, compared to Juhime, Kiyohime, Anan, and Naoko, who have all given birth to sons for the Hide family.

The Xiu family found out that there was only one main room, Ju Ji, and two side rooms, Qing Ji and Fuji Hime, and Fuji Hime could not be favored by the Xiu family alone.

After the Kanto Expedition, the Hide family married Kaihime as a concubine, and carried out the so-called "hira wives" from the concubine, namely Maeda Toshiie's daughter Yomon and Ashikaga Jihime.

From this point of view, it seems that their identities are all nobler than Fujihime. If Fujihime does not seize the opportunity to give birth to a son for the Xiu family, it is very likely that they will lose power in the harem of the Xiu family in the future.

As Fujihime is the link between the Tsutsui family and the Uki family, the Tsutsui family naturally does not want to see such a thing happen, so they take the opportunity of sending Fujihime two room maids to remind the Hide family to take good care of Fujihime.

How could Xiujia not understand Tsutsui's thoughts, and he was let go after assuring him of his love for Fujihime.

In history, when Tokugawa Ieyasu transferred the seal of Kanto, he left many low-level samurai who were favored by the Tokugawa family in the countries of the East China Sea. This made the newly established daimyo often affected by the previous Tokugawa policy when setting up the formation.

At the same time, Hideyoshi's punishment for changing the daimyo's frequent changes in the riots in the territory made Kazutoyo Yamauchi, Teruma Ikeda and others who were sealed here dare not use force against the subordinates at all.

This makes these daimyos want to let their government orders pass and be in the territory, they must have a good relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and they can only administer them after they are approved by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

This morbid relationship between master and minister, as well as Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wrong judgment on the bureau, eventually made the East China Sea countries still become vassal states under Tokugawa's command even after Tokugawa Ieyasu left.

The same is true for Xiuzhen who was granted the title of Shinano before, which is tantamount to Ogasawara Xiuzhen who took out more than 8 stones from the Shinano Tokugawa collar and 2 stones from the Uesugi collar.

In other words, Ogasawara Hidetada's Matsuzaka clan was actually formed on the basis of Tokugawa's retainers.

Then you have seen the final result. Hideyoshi Ogasawara was bullied by Tokugawa Ieyasu headed by Honda and couldn’t make a sound. Kazutoyo Yamauchi, a 25-year-old boy, was originally sent by Hideyoshi to balance the forces of all parties. In the end, he was the first to vote. enemy.

Fortunately, Ogasawara Hidetada proposed to Hideyoshi to transfer Iwayo to Hideyoshi at the suggestion of Sanada Masaoyuki and Hideo, and finally jumped out of the box of Shinano.

Although Ikeda Teruma replaced him and jumped in, but Ikeda Teruma is not like Ogasawara Hideyoshi, he has his own family and he is also one of Hideyoshi's adopted sons (adopted after Ikeda Hengxing's death), before Kyushu 15 shi is not much different from the current 20 shi in Shinano, so it should not be very difficult to control the territory.

Even if there is a little problem, isn't there Hideya and Hidenaga beside him? Although Hidenaga can't say that he loves Ikeda Teruma, he does give Ikeda Teruma a lot of care instead of Hideyoshi.

If Tokugawa Ieyasu really dared to make trouble in Ikeda's territory, Ikeda Teruma would not have to be as cowardly as in history. He would just rectify the territory generously.

What Xiujia is worried about now is Tsutsui Joji, and his closest relationship with Hideyoshi may be Xiujia's brother-in-law.

Oh, right.There is also the relationship between Hideyoshi and Tsutsui Sadaji when he was drunk before, but this matter is a stain on Hideyoshi and Tsutsui, and it is absolutely impossible to bring it up on the table.

In other words, if the Tokugawa family wanted to make trouble in Sanhe, almost everyone could protect Tsutsui Setji.

Hideka remembered that when Tsutsui Sadaji and Nakagawa Kiyohide were transferred, Hideyoshi offered them a strategy, which was to let this group of "brave" Mikawa warriors die in battle.

Now 5~6 years have passed, and Kii, Kyushu, and Odawara have fought successively. From what Hideka saw, even if he didn't implement it, his control over the territory is pretty good, but he doesn't I know how Tsutsui Sadaji is dealing with it.

Hideka's question was asked in private, and Tsutsui Joji was a little surprised that Hideka suddenly asked this question, he collected his thoughts and said to Hideka with a smile, "I think the right general is worrying too much." Since I was transferred to Sanheyi, Mihe warriors have respected me very much, and I don’t want to deliberately separate Sanhe from Yamato warriors, so let’s not talk about it too much.”

Tsutsui Joji's refusal was out of Hideya's attitude, for a moment he didn't realize whether he was worrying too much or Tokugawa Ieyasu's secrets in Mikawa were too deep.

Seeing that Tsutsui Joji rejected his proposal, Hideka was unwilling to say any more, otherwise he would be suspected of meddling in other countries' internal affairs.

At that time, it will not be Ieyasu Tokugawa who left You Anko to secretly control the situation in Mikawa, but Xiujia who will openly intervene in the affairs of Mikawa Tsutsui's family, and it will damage the reputation of Xiujia if he speaks out.

Hideya nodded, hoping that Tsutsui Sadaji could really handle the matter of Mikawa Samurai well, even though he was worried in every possible way, he could only apologize to him.

It took only 2 days to go north from Okazaki Castle and arrived at Naguno Castle, which is the capital of Oda Hidenobu, governor of the Oda family.

Even though he had already taken Yuanfu in the 16th year of Tensho (1588), Oda Hidenobu was still only an 11-year-old boy at the moment, and the affairs in his collar were in charge of Nagamasa Nagamasa, Tsuda Mototsuna and others.

After Oda Nobuo was changed from Ise, many of his retainers were subordinate to Oda Hidenobu, and even he himself lived in seclusion in Furuno Castle.

It's not that he doesn't want to use the cover to take charge of the Oda family's affairs, it's because it's too close to Osaka, and his every move is monitored by Hideyoshi, so he can only obediently choose to live in seclusion.

The Hide family has no relationship with Oda Hidenobu. If there is, it is that the Hide family used to be a retainer under his father Nobutada when he was a child, and he was valued by Nobutada.

This time I borrowed Nakono Castle, and was received by Tsuda Mototsuna, a branch of the Oda family.

Starting from Naguno Castle, passing through Ogaki Castle, passing through Sekigahara and entering Omi, from here is the core territory of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

In order to avoid misunderstandings, the more than 2000 troops brought by Gamo's Township deliberately took the first step and distanced themselves from Xiujia and others.

As everyone got closer to Kyoto and Osaka, their excitement became more and more uncontrollable.

For those daimyos from Kanto and Yu'ao, they may have never been to Los Angeles before, so naturally they have never seen Kyoto and Osaka.They were extremely shocked to be able to see Odawara Castle in Hideyoshi's face.

But ever since they heard that Kyoto and Osaka under Hideyoshi's rule were more magnificent, they couldn't help but feel a little curiosity.

For the Xiu family, the closer they are to Kyoto, it means that they are about to meet their son-in-law Hachiro and his wife Kikuhime. Although he is already the father of several children, his unique knitting identity still makes the Xiu family Excited.

Hideka's emotions are complicated, including the excitement of seeing his son-in-law Hachiro soon, and the fear of seeing Hidecho and Kikuhime.

Not only did they promise to treat Ju Ji well before, but now they have created a so-called "equal wife" system in Kanto. They want to level the identities of other women with Ju Ji. The Xiu family has not yet figured out how to get along with Ju Ji. Ji and Xiuchang explained.

The Xiu family stops in Dajin City, which is the territory of the Xiu family.

It is said that the territory of the Hide family is not strict. When Kikuhime married the Hide family, Toyotomi Hideyoshi bestowed 3 shi from Sakamoto Castle in Shiga County as cosmetics. This time Hachiro was born, he gave Hachiro Rita County 5 shi as Hachiro's birth. Nurturing material.

Like these two territories, their output will be handed over to Ju Ji and Hachiro, which can be regarded as their territories.

However, because it is adjacent to Kyoto and Osaka, Hide's house was not entrusted to the local lord like other cosmetics sent out, but was handed over to Ishida Mitsunari, whose fief is in Omi.

In other words, the Xiu family only had the right to tax the land, but did not have the actual right to conscription and administration.

Otsu Castle is a new city re-established in Shiga County after Hideyoshi abandoned Sakamoto Castle. Because of its proximity to Lake Biwa, Asano Nagamasa effectively used the water of Lake Biwa to build the water hole of Otsu Castle, making Otsu Castle look like It is a floating island on a lake.

It is also said that Hideyoshi built Otsu Castle to make a model for Osaka Castle and to experiment with the possibility of surrounding the city with water.

This is a bit ridiculous. Dajin Castle was built around 1586~1587 in history, and the architectural plan of Daban Castle was established as early as 1583.

When looking at the map in the previous life, Hideka didn't understand why Torii Motochu would choose to die in Otsu Cage Castle instead of choosing the south side Shansuo Castle or Tangqiao Castle.

After all, these two cities are located at the mouth of the Uji River from Lake Biwa, and Uji River is the border between Shiga County and Rita County.

It wasn’t until Hideyoshi saw it along the way that he realized that, firstly, it was because during the Hideyoshi period that Otsu was established as the Shiga Prefecture’s policy, other cities in Shiga County were more or less abandoned and did not meet the conditions for cage defense.

Secondly, there is no expressway between Yuexing Temple and the mountain city at this time. If you want to enter Omi from the mountain city in this era, you have to go through Xiaoguanyue from the north and enter Omi.

After crossing Xiaoguan Echigo, the first city is next to Otsu City. He controls Zhongshan Street to the south and Hokuriku Street to the south. It is the first throat in the west of Omi.

Another advantage of defending Otsu Castle is that it can control the surrounding waterways and prevent the Western Army from directly bypassing the Uji River defense line and entering the territory near Japan through shipping.

As the largest lake in Japan, Lake Biwa is rich in shipping resources. As early as the Asai family period, there was a story of crossing the river by boat to attack the Kyogoku family.

The power of boatmen on Lake Biwa is not much weaker than that of sea ships. Oda Nobunaga once established a navy on Lake Biwa, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued to use its system.

Regardless of the fact that he is the Neihu Navy but owns 15 closed ships, Xiaozao has 32 ships, and the number of boats is not counted. This number is almost the same as that of Hideka's Okayama Navy before.

If the Uji River was used to guard against the Western Army as the Hide family had expected, they would not take you with them, and they would directly log in at Hachiman Mountain Castle by boat in Otsu, and they would surround you in Kusatsu and capture you without a fight.

Therefore, sometimes the Xiu family is also reflecting on themselves, don't look down on the wisdom of the current people just because they have traveled through hundreds of years, sometimes their handling methods are more realistic.

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