Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 539 Guan Bai of Juledi and Toyotomi of Osaka Castle

Yixin Chongchuan agreed to leave with Xiu's family, but he asked Xiu's family to leave first, and he still needed to discuss with the abbot of Daigo Temple and his master Xuanpu 霊[líng] of Nanchan Temple. (Note that the following is Ya, not Wu)
Xiujia bid farewell to Yixin Chongchuan and continued to Osaka. His conversation with Yixin Chongchuan did not attract the attention of others.

Knowledge in this era is still in the hands of a few people. Warriors may be able to fight wars, but internal affairs and diplomatic talents still depend on monks.

Moreover, in this era, it is too common for monks to serve in the court of the shogunate or daimyo. Let alone say that Tokugawa Ieyasu took a monk with him when he participated in the Battle of Odawara.

At that time, the Xiu family took a second look. According to his understanding of history, if nothing else happened, it should be Nanguangfang Tianhai.

After the demise of the Hojo Clan, Hideyoshi, our man of the world, the first thing he did was to take Banbuoka Jiang Xuesai into his pocket. It seems that his performance in Osaka has won Hideyoshi's approval.

You must know that at this time Hideyoshi was accompanied by a monk who took care of both domestic and foreign affairs. This person was called Xixiao Acceptance.

Hideka started from Okayama, and the monks were mostly used to give lectures at the Hongwenkan. The actual administration and diplomacy were handled by samurai ministers. This was the first time he recruited people from the temple.

If you must find it strange, most of the monks and teachers that daimyo find are quite famous masters, and the grades of this group of people must not be young.

And the little master Xiujia is looking for at the moment is in the same grade as Xiujia, only 3 years older than Xiujia, no matter how you look at it, it looks like he is looking for a servant, not a master.

In fact, Hideka had asked Yi Xin Chongchuan that way before. After all, he was the son of Isshiki Hidekatsu, a shogunate of the Muromachi shogunate. Hideka asked him if he intended to serve him as a samurai.

Yi Xin Chong Chuan was only 4 years old when he became a monk, and the child still couldn't recognize the world. Although he had heard about his life experience from the master, he never thought that he would have the day when he could recover his family name.

Therefore, after hearing Xiu's inquiry, he was obviously stunned for a moment, but he clearly refused.

The reason he used was "The poor monk has been a monk for a long time, and he has not practiced martial arts and the way of a warrior, so why should he serve His Highness as a warrior again. Besides, following His Highness is to continue enlightenment. If he recovers as a warrior at this moment , Didn’t everything turn to dust.”

Regardless of whether his words came from the heart, or whether he wanted to maintain his detached image in front of Xiujia, Xiujia expressed his understanding and said that he would be willing to help him anytime he wanted to return to vulgarity.

In fact, in the eyes of the Xiu family, Yixin Chongchuan is a very smart person. As a monk, he can quickly enter the power center of the Xiu family, but if he is a warrior, with the power system of the Toyotomi family in Kanto, It takes him a long time to climb up from the squire-intermediate warrior to get to that position.

It took two days to arrive at Osaka after starting from Daigoji Temple. It was already August 8rd, and it was almost a month since Xiujia started from Kanto.

To Hideo's surprise, besides Hideyoshi's valet Katagiri Katamoto, Hideyoshi's cousin Ukita Kane greeted him at the gate of Osaka Castle.

"Brother?"

The Xiu family who saw Yuxi's swords from a long distance away was still not convinced, thinking that other samurai were also waiting here. After all, Yuxi's family had changed their surname to Fengchen and used the gentian Wuqitong pattern for several years.

It wasn't until Xiujia got a closer look at what was coming that he realized that it was actually Ukita Kanka himself who greeted him at the entrance of Osaka City.

Seeing Xiujia arrived, Ukita Kanjia wanted to salute Xiujia, but was held up by Xiujia, "In the past, you and I were monarchs and ministers, so it was no problem for you to salute to me.

Now you and I are colleagues, and we are both names under the command of His Highness Guan Bai, so don't salute me at all.Even if it is necessary to perform the ceremony, I should perform the brotherly ceremony to you. "

Hearing this, Yuxi Duo's family choked up and said, "General You is joking, you are the General of the Right Guard of the imperial court, and you are the three ministers of the palace, and I am only the fifth minister, Dazai Shaoer, how can I be on the same level as you? Even if you are performing the ceremony, your servants should perform the ceremony to you."

Xiujia held Quanjia's hand, and gently patted the back of his hand with the other hand to show comfort, then turned to Katagiri Kamoto and said, "Shizhengden, every time I go to Luo, you receive me, it's really hard work You."

"What are you talking about? Being able to receive General You is an honor that Guan Bai's ministers are scrambling for. Thanks to you and Guan Bai's trust, I was able to find me. I thank you before it's too late."

After Katagiri Kazumoto finished speaking, he let out half of his body and made a gesture of invitation and said, "Why don't you go back to the mansion first, Your Highness and His Highness Dazai, the mansion of Dazai Hall is not yet under construction, temporarily living in your mansion, I hope you don't mind .I need to settle down these Kanto and Yu'ao names for His Highness Guan Bai."

The Xiu family pulled Katagiri and Yuan took two steps aside, and asked him, "Does His Highness Guan Bai have any arrangements for us? He didn't say when to meet us?"

Katagiri Kazumoto said in a low voice, "His Highness Kanbai is still in the Jule Building in Kyoto at the moment. Let Your Highness and I wait for you daimyos to play in Osaka first. He will meet you daimyos in Osaka when he finishes his business."

After hearing this, Xiujia turned around and looked at the daimyos who had started to organize the queue behind him, and introduced them one by one to Katagiri Kamoto, and after finishing the work, he brought his retainers, Ukita Kane, and Ogasawara Hidetada, who had her own mansion in Osaka, first. ascend the city.

While walking on the road, the Xiu family told Hideyoshi's arrangement to Ogasawara Hideyoshi, and Ogasawara Hideyoshi asked incomprehensibly after hearing about it:

"Since Guan Bai is in Kyoto, and His Majesty the Emperor is also in Kyoto, why didn't we go directly to Kyoto to meet the two, but let us come to Osaka City first, so that even Guan Bai would have to go back and forth more .”

They had already ascended the castle and entered the Ninomaru. After hearing Ogasawara Hidetada's inquiry, Hideka stopped and looked at the towering Osaka castle tower in the middle and said indifferently, "He is Guan Bai of the imperial court in Juledi. Osaka is the head of the Toyotomi family."

In fact, Hideyoshi has already made it very clear, meaning that Hideyoshi wants everyone to submit to the Toyotomi family, not his Guanbai identity.

After all, Guan Bai is an official position of the imperial court, and one day there will be a transition in the future, but the Toyotomi family's Wu family will continue to be passed on.

Ogasawara Xiuzhen understood the meaning of the Xiu family in seconds, muttered a few words and stopped talking.

Since the Ogasawara Clan belonged to the Xiao Clan before, although it was allowed to set up a feudal mansion in Nijimarunai, the feudal mansion was outside the Kyobashi Exit, just opposite to the Tamazoguchi where the Hideya was located, and the two sides separated after two greetings after ascending the castle.

Going back to the Kanto Toyotomi family mansion where the gentian-five-seven-pattern-patterned lantern is now hanging, someone has already prepared hot water for the Xiu family to wash off their exhaustion.

After cleaning and changing clothes under the service of the maids, Xiujia planned to go to Quanjia to find out about the situation that she had been away from Okayama for nearly a year, but found that Xiuzhen sitting in her room at the moment was chomping on the food that she originally intended for herself. Prepared lunch.

"You're really impolite, why did you come to my house for dinner?" Xiu's family sat opposite Ogasawara Hideyoshi, cursing angrily, and at the same time beckoned the attendant to serve him a portion.

Ogasawara Hidetada swallowed the food in her mouth and replied, "I left two people in the mansion in Osaka. They are both natives of Shinano. After learning that I was going to transfer the title to Iwashiro, they left me a letter that they didn't want to transfer. , It’s been a long time since I arrived at the mansion. It’s not like I can only go to my brother’s place to beg for food.”

Xiujia ignored his joke, and instead asked backhandedly, "Do you really not need to go back to Matsuzaka to deal with the territory?"

Ogasawara Hideyoshi waved her hand and said, "I will leave it to Zhen Zhong and Master Zhen Qing to take care of it, there will be a teacher to help watch over there, so there shouldn't be any problem.

The left and right are just counting the number of people who are willing to transfer with them, and counting the money, food and other things that need to be taken away.The specific transshipment matters are for them to worry about. When the rewards in Osaka and Kyoto are over, I'll just drop by and have a look when I go back. "

"Did your adoptive father, Shinanomori-sama, not respond to the redesignation of Iwashiro?"

"How could it not be possible? I almost jumped up, saying that the foundation of the Ogasawara family is in Shinano. It took him his whole life to come back here. Even if he dies, he will die here or something."

Speaking of this, Xiuzhen chuckled and said out loud, "In the end, I said to give him 2 shi for pension, 1.5 shi for Mr. Zhenzhong's knowledge, and 2 shi for my elder brother Xiuzheng. After that, the two started immediately It's time to organize the mobilization.

In short, Uncle Sadako, Fuden, and elder brother are in charge of Shinano, and Mr. Honda is in charge of Iwashiro. "

While the two were talking, Shigehiro Hojo, one of Hideka's attendants, brought food for Hideka. When he saw the sea urchin on Hideka's plate, Hideke Odawara said in surprise, "Why is there sea urchin in your dish? I just heard that my folding disc is specially prepared for you?"

Shigeko Hojo said, "The sea urchin was bought from the market just now, and I added it to Your Highness as I saw it was very fresh."

Xiujia mixes sea urchin with rice, adds a few slices of kombu and sour bamboo shoots and pours tea on it, and a bowl of sea urchin ochazuke is ready.

Said "I'm starting", quickly finished the bowl of simple light meal under Xiuzhen's envious eyes, handed the dishes to Shigeko Hojo for collection, and said, "By the way, I will give it to you in Iwako People, how did you arrange it, and you didn't see them accompanying you when you went south this time?"

Facing the inquiries from Xiu's family, Xiuzhen, who was full of food and drink, sat casually on the tatami, and even asked Ota Keiko for a chair to lean against.
"I asked them to go back to Matsuzaka first to help my father and my uncle deal with the matter of transfer. I dare not send them directly to Iwashiro. At that time, I don't know how Honda will arrange them."

When Xiujia heard Xiuzhen's arrangement, he couldn't help giving him a thumbs up in his heart. This kind of handling was the most appropriate, as expected, his own ability was not bad.

"You want them to follow Shinano Shou and they handle transfer and transfer matters to accumulate meritorious service, and when the time comes when Iwashiro divides the fiefdom, there will be a special arrangement for them, right?

And it can keep them away from Ben Duo's eyes, preventing them from being exposed prematurely.Brat, I didn't see that he was really decent in handling his personnel affairs. "

Hearing Xiu's compliment, Xiuzhen said indifferently, "Please, I'm also a student taught by Master Qianxue. Well, besides, these three people were recommended by you, but I also want to test their quality. ?"

Hearing that he handled personnel issues well, Xiujia smiled with relief and stopped talking about it, but asked him if he had any plans for the entrustment of Iwashiro in the future.

Xiuzhen replied to the Xiu family in this way: "According to my elder brother's suggestion, if Ishikawa Hoki can be brought under his command, I will entrust most of Tamura County to him. I want to entrust my uncle Zhenzhong and brother Xiuzheng to important positions. , but I haven't figured out how to arrange it yet."

The Xiu family saw what was on his mind, so he took the initiative to ask him: "Do you have any concerns?"

Xiuzhen replied, "I don't know how many Tokugawa samurai in Shinano will follow me. I want to seal them together with Honda again, but I haven't figured out where to put them. I haven't figured out how to deal with them." , naturally cannot accommodate others.”

And Xiujia's suggestion is: "I don't suggest that you get the old Tokugawa ministers together, so that they will soon form a small kingdom of their own within your territory.

It's better to split them up, and some of them can even be put under the command of the two Lord Ogasawara and Lord Ishikawa, and give them the responsibility of dividing and guarding.

As for the two Ogasawara-samas, what do you think about the resettlement of one south and one north, after all, it is your branch family, so it is no problem for them to master the two north and south portals of Nihonmatsu and Shirakawa.As for how many times the Honda should be stuffed in a place with a moderate distance, it will do. "

Xiuzhen did not express her opinion immediately on Xiujia's suggestion. Instead, she stated that she wanted to bring together the former Tokugawa ministers: "In this way, even if they obey my orders, they will only be in a very small range and be independent. What's the matter with the kingdom, let them make trouble first, I don't have time to take care of them at first."

As for Xiuzhen's thoughts, the Xiu family did not give an answer, after all, this was a matter within the family's territory, and it was a crucial personnel arrangement.I can give suggestions, but it would be inappropriate to say more.

Of course, the Xiu family reminded me a little bit: "Now the world is peaceful, I'm afraid that they will create some moths in your own system and be known by Guan Bai."

La Liga's reminder is enough, this matter involves too much, leave it to Xiuzhen and his elders to have a headache.

Xiujia quickly led the topic to the other side: "Your father, Master Zhenqing, is a world-renowned equestrian archer, and the Ogasawara Yabusame team is the signature of Ogasawara's family.

During the Battle of the Kanto, I have always wanted to ask you a question. It has been a few years since you transferred to Shinano. Why didn’t you see a decent cavalry in your army? "

The Xiu family had kept this question in their minds for a long time. At the beginning, he was placed in Doshinano not only because the position was very important to watch the old turtle's back, but also because the Ogasawara family owned the famous cavalry in Japan.

This cavalry team is the prototype of the Takeda Chibei Cavalry Team. It was an important combat force that beat tigers to the ground on the battlefield. Later, the Murakami family took in some samurai from the Ogasawara family, which made Shingen suffer the biggest defeat in his life. .

The Xiu family arranged for Xiuzhen to be the leader of Ogasawara, and it took a lot of trouble to let him master some of the old leaders of Murakami, so that they could master this strategic arm of the Warring States Period.

Although Japan is mountainous, there may not be conditions for the cavalry to penetrate deeply, but the psychological shadow caused by the Yabusame team on the ordinary ashigaru on the battlefield is still very strong.

The first thing Hideka did after the transfer of Kanto was to ask Nobushige Sanada to organize the Ueno samurai to reorganize the Red Army.

For this reason, they did not hesitate to give up power and let them become the main generals of the new Red Army.

Although Japan is already on the cusp of changing from cold weapons to hot weapons, more than [-] people from Nagashino and Takeda were defeated by more than [-] Oda-Tokugawa iron cannons before.

But you can't deny that cavalry is still an important strategic arm in this era to quickly transfer, break through the enemy's formation, and chase down the remnant enemy. Even this thing is still an important part of the army even in the First World War with repeating guns.

If Hideyoshi Ogasawara can have a Yabusame team of 300 to 500 people in her hands, she can cooperate with 3 battalions of cavalry in her hands.At the critical moment, if you can gather a cavalry team of more than 2000 people.
Just thinking about that picture makes my mouth water.
(End of this chapter)