Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 57
As the Mori family gave up Hagoromoishi Castle, Hideka returned to Okayama with an army of 2 Ukitas. When they passed by Takada Castle in Misaku, Hideka finally chose to go to the castle to deal with the affairs of the wealthy Misaka clan here.

Due to Hideka's entry, the Miura family's army that originally guarded Takada Castle was cleared out of Takada Castle by Hideka's Onobi, Michigami, and Hatakemoto.

As usual, the Ukita Tadaka family sat on the side seat above the imperial steps with Hideo, facing all the retainers, and below the imperial steps were the retainers guarded by Oka Togawa and Hidean Togawa.

A few days ago, the Xiu family set fire to the mountain in Saga Mountain City, killing the entire Saga Mountain together with 2000 Maori troops. The frivolousness in the assessment made his attitude towards Xiu's family become respectful.

The first to bring up was Nakamura Family Supervisor Nakamura Yoshimune. After fleeing the courtyard, he wanted to escape back to Iwakura Castle, but was captured by Takeuchi Hisaji who was guarding Iwakura.

For the wealthy family who had clearly rebelled, the Xiu family did not give him a chance to quibble, and ordered Nakamura Yoshimune to cut his belly, and the 1.4 shi territory was confiscated.In order to ensure the spread of blood, the Nakamura family of Misaku was inherited by Ketoshi Nakamura, and as a samurai attached to Tsuyama of Misaku, he was awarded 300 shizhixing.

Misaku Oda Kusashiro Saito was defeated in Lushan by the rebellion of the Kusakari family. Although he finally fled back to Odakusa, he surrendered to the Hide family for the preservation of the family.The Xiu family decided to transfer the 1.8 shi Saito family to 1500 shi in Shengbei County, losing their status as an independent wealthy family, and serving as Ukido Tsuyama's vassals.

The lord of Zhushan City, Xinmen Zhenhong, was awarded 3500 shi for his meritorious service in defending Jinshan City, and was transferred from Zhushan City to the northernmost tip of Mizuo Country, spanning Xixijo County, Xixijo County, and Dongbeijun County. Andu of 1.15 shi , the residence is in Oda Caocheng, the base of Saito's family.

As for the existence of these two clearly rebellious families, it is easier to deal with it, just reduce the seal and change it directly. As for the Kusaka family who turned against the water before the battle, the Xiu family's treatment is intriguing.

The Xiu family called Cao Cao's supervisor, Cao Cao Jingji, and asked, "Why did you turn against me?"

"Maori thief, buying people's hearts. I'm afraid that His Highness doesn't know the situation, so he pretends to serve the enemy. It's really a coincidence. Since His Highness came out of Okayama, I have been in correspondence with Mr. Okaza Matou. Mr. Okaza Matou can help me. Testify." Kagetsu Kusakari cried in the middle of the hall with snot and tears.

"I wanted to turn against the water many times in the battle, hacked and killed the bandit chieftain to thank His Highness, but my family was small and had no way to survive. That day in Lushan, I saw His Highness descended from heaven, so I was able to fight back. The bandit chief is running too fast, so he can't do anything for His Highness!"

Xiujia looked at him beating his chest and stamping his feet, and the performance of crying father and mother, Oscar really owes you a leading actor award.Listening to Kagetsugu Kusakari's performance, Xiujia had an extremely bad impression of him and was filled with contempt.

Although the Ukita Hideo family really wanted to severely punish this kind of guy who was clearly a snake and rat at both ends, and said such a high-sounding guy, after all, the Kusakari family turned against the water and killed more than 200 Maori troops and the rebels of Nakamura and Saito. Small credit.

The Zhong family means that a small deal is enough. After all, it is normal for the wealthy clan in the Warring States Period to repeatedly defect and surrender.

In order to establish "You see, my Yuxi family is still lenient towards the wealthy families who once rebelled against us. Those of you who have not yet surrendered, why not hurry up!" This will make it easier to conquer other families in the future.

Only the Xiu family knew that the troubled times of the Warring States Period were coming to an end. After that, what Yuxi family needed was a highly cohesive group of retainers, not these dragging fellows at both ends of the snake and mouse.

Under the persuasion of the Zhong family, the Xiu family had suppressed the idea of ​​heavy punishment in their hearts, but seeing that the Caojia family was not aware of their mistakes and was still talking nonsense here, he couldn't help being angry, and directly sent the Caojia family from Dongbeitiao County. , 2.3 shi of the Shengbei Army was transferred to Naqidian Mountain City, Inaba Chito County, and 5400 shi.

The Dianshan city lord, Kamei Tomoki, was confiscated to 9000 koku of Yazan Castle, and Yoshioka Dingkatsu of Zhitou Atago Castle was conferred to 1 koku of Atago. The 25-year-old Kusaka family didn't believe he could do anything else.

So far, the five families that really rebelled at the beginning, the Takakura Ugaki family, and the Torakura Matsuda family were destroyed, and the Iwaya Nakamura family and the Odakusaito family became 300 shi and 1500 shi Banner warriors.The Kusakari family in Yashou Castle lost 3/4 of their titles and became the powerful family of Inaba.

Although the Xiu family's treatment of the Kusakari family was beyond everyone's expectations, after all, they did do something against their own family, and it was justified to be treated like this. Although the Hao family did not understand, they did not raise any objections.

Just when everyone thought that the Xiu family was about to enter the rewarding session after dealing with the rebellion, the Xiu family continued to choose to hold the Miura family accountable.

"Uncle Miura, I want to know why Tiani Castle is so useless. The Mori family was able to enter Mizuma smoothly."

Hideo's statement was obviously in a calm tone, but to Miura Teahiro's ears, it was like a talisman, which made people frightened. Beads of sweat began to leave on Miura Teahiro's forehead.

"Your Highness, Your Highness, it was my negligence, because the head of the family was seriously ill and unable to govern, and my subordinates did not dare to be self-sufficient, so they only ordered Tianjing City to guard the cage city, but did not stop the invasion of the Maori family." The old man of the Miura family, Fukui Sheng, followed himself Walked out of the seat, came to Miura Hirosada, and saluted.

"I was asking Miura Sadahiro, but I didn't tell you to talk," Hideka suddenly said angrily, and the whole evaluation period fell silent. "Then why didn't I report to my family that the Maori army had entered Meizuo?"

"Maybe, maybe the envoy was intercepted and killed by the Maori family on the way. The Maori army marched rapidly. Didn't I hear that even Gao Cang and Hu Cang surrendered to the enemy? I am afraid that the envoy I sent was intercepted by these sinister people." Killed, that's right." Miura Sadahiro said struggling.

"My father will help the Miura family restore the country. The reason why you are guarding Nishimisaku is to keep the Mori family in check. Since the Miura family can't achieve the purpose of protecting the family, then there is no point in staying in Takada Castle."

Takada Castle is the residence of the Miura family for generations. Hearing that the Hide family was planning to move the Miura family, Miura Sadhiro suddenly said excitedly, "Your Highness, it's all my fault. Please give me another chance and don't dispose of my family."

Although Miura Sadahiro was crying fiercely, Hideo didn't give him much sympathy, and said coldly, "The Miura family transfers 2.6 koku from Takata Castle, 2 koku to Ichinose Castle and Inariyama Castle, and then we can set off. "

"Lord Zuomatou, the 2.6 koku of Takada Castle and Ida Castle have been handed over to Li, is it all right?" Hideka said to Oka Toshi

"Please feel free to leave it to me," Okatoshi Katsura agreed, and so far, he has transferred 1.8 koku from Bizen Tenjin Mountain to Takada 2.6 koku, guarding the west gate of Misaku for the Hide family.

Miura Sadahiro was entrusted to Ichinose Castle, the southwest is Takakura and Torakura of Togawa Hidean, the northwest is Takada of Oka Toshikatsu, and the northeast is Tsuyama Castle directly under the jurisdiction of Hideka. under the supervision of the home.

Just hearing that the Miura family was transferred to their own territory, Hisaji Takeuchi and Sadasa Harada were a little confused. It seems that they did nothing wrong, right?Why did you take away your territory?
Fortunately, Hideka immediately made an arrangement for the two of them. As the two most obvious contributors in this battle, Harada Sadazuo added 1.1 koku to Iwaya Castle from 1.3 koku of Inariyama Castle, which was originally Nakamura's ability.

The Takeuchi family was arranged by the Xiu family to move 1.8 shi to the Yuanzhuangguan area of ​​the Jinshan Plain, and was also awarded 1000 shi. However, the Hide family asked the Takeuchi family to set up their residence in the Hide family in order to remind the Takeuchi family of the punishment at both ends of the snake. Burned the empty Saga mountain city, and rebuilt the Saga mountain city as a defense.

Calculated in this way, after this battle, the Xiu family gained a net of 37 shi by mobilizing the territories of their retainers.

After disposing of the several wealthy families that have harmed the family in this battle, the Xiu family's rewards are just the beginning.

First of all, the Banner Battalion General Qiu Shangjiu's family made new contributions. Whether it was the night attack on Hucang or the burning of Saga Mountain City, they effectively blocked the Maori army coming down the mountain from the front.

Therefore, he was awarded 2000 stones, led 3600 stones, and was allowed to leave the identity of the banner. At the same time, he could exist as an independent retainer who allowed to establish his own family crest and horse seal.

The Hide family sealed it between Ichinose Castle and Inariyama Castle, and at the same time, it also connected to the three-way intersection of Bizen Jinchuan Castle-Fukudo.

Because of the many mountains in Mizusa and the steepness of the mountains, there are only a few roads to enter the mountain, and the fiefdom of the Akikami Hisa family just cut off the Miura family's territory, directly blocking the traffic arteries connecting the two main cities. superior.

In the future, if the Miura family wanted to rebel, they would either have to capture the Fudu City of the Akikami Hisa family, or they could only cross mountains and ridges to connect with each other, almost directly turning the two cities into enclaves with connected territories but no roads.

Until this time, the retainers who were working finally saw the Hide family's dislike for the Miura family through the Hide family's treatment of the Miura family.The Hide family not only put two old guards on the left side of the Miura house, but also planted a crony inside the Miura house as a nail to control the main road, and the intention is obvious.

Maeda Keiji, Shonai Isshin, Suga Masatoshi, and Ikato Heiji were awarded 300 stones. Maeda Keiji, Shonai Isshin, and Ikato Heiji all became the captains of Hideka Banner Motobi.

And Jian Zhengli became the squadron leader of the first squadron of Xiujia's attendant team, commanding 50 attendant warriors.

In this way, it seems that following the Xiu family's personal promotion is really fast. As the earliest retainer of the Xiu family, the Akikami Hisa family has grown from a small samurai with 1 shi to a tycoon with 800 shi, attracting people's attention.

In this battle, Ukita Hidebei, who had the same origin as Hideo, made his debut. Hideka promoted him to be the captain of the entourage team and bestowed 200 stones on Zhixing, and gave him the name of Ukita Miao, named him Ukita Hidebei, and served him around. .

At the same time, let the Nao family adopt Harada Zhensa's daughter Asen as an adopted daughter, and marry Ukita Hidei. From a legal point of view, Ukita Hidei became the younger brother of the Hideya family and a member of the Ukiya family.

The Ukita family and the Uki family are also from the Miyake family of Erjima, and they are relatives that are extremely distant from the Hide family's blood, but at this moment the Uki family's blood is really too rare, and both the Nao family and the Zhong family have only one seedling.

The Xiu family had no choice but to learn the method of monkeys, starting from distant relatives to promote and enrich the main family, to make up for the lack of the members of the main family.

So far, Xiujia has finally established that the banner team is similar to the teaching team of later generations, and the entourage team is similar to the samurai training situation of military officer schools in later generations.

After deducting the rewards of other samurai who gained knowledge and practice for their meritorious deeds in this battle, the Xiu family still gained 3.1 shi of direct-administered fiefdoms in this battle.

After dealing with all this, the Hide family left Togawa Hidean and Oka Toshikatsu in Takata and Tsuyama to deal with the transfer matters, frightened Xiao Xiao, dismissed the wealthy families who needed to be transferred, and led 1.2 troops back to Okayama.

On February 2th, the tenth year of Tianzheng, Hideo pressed the line and came to Okayama to meet Hideyoshi who had been waiting in Okayama for a long time.

"My son, Xiu's family, is not capable enough, causing the family to seek rebellion overnight, and Yuxi's family is in trouble. I need my father to come and suppress it. I am very sorry." Xiu Zai did not have the momentum to deal with the wealthy family in Gaotian City at this moment, sitting in the imperial hall Next, Hideyoshi saluted first.

"Ah, Hachiro, I did not misunderstand you. You are very capable in handling the rebellion and Xiaoxiao so quickly. You don't know that Takakage Kobayakawa just walked to Shenbian Castle and heard that you have repelled The news of the Yoshikawa Army scared me back. Hahahaha"

Houzi was obviously very happy, and I don't know if he was happy because he saw Longjing Kobayakawa deflated, or because he was happy that he had adopted such a powerful son.Perhaps the latter is the majority.

"I'm afraid it's because I heard that my lord father led an army of 2 people, and I knew that I was invincible, so I retreated. It should be said that I was intimidated by my lord father's reputation."

"Hahaha, you have such a mouth." Hideyoshi was very happy to hear what Hideka said, but he quickly said, "I heard that you attacked Saga Mountain Castle with fire and broke the fighting spirit of Yoshikawa's army overnight. Is it true that the Yoshikawa army was defeated?"

"Ha Yi, it's like this. At that time, Yoshikawa Motoharu was in Yuyi Stone City, and it was coming soon. My minister had no choice but to take Saga Mountain City, and he had to fight quickly, so he had to do this as a last resort."

"Although this plan is good, it hurts the peace of heaven. My lord has been criticized by the emperor for burning Mt. Hiei. I know you admire my lord, but it is better not to learn some things." The monkey said earnestly.
In fact, Houzi was startled when he heard Xiu’s family set fire to Mount Saga. He was unwilling to believe that Hachiro, who used to be harmless to humans and animals, would make such a cold-blooded decision, and he raised some vigilance against this child in his heart.

"Yes, my lord, after I gave the order, I saw the fire all over the sky and the screams of the people trapped on the mountain, I realized that I made a mistake, and I regretted it very much." The Xiu family showed a trace of sadness appropriately, There were also tears in the corners of his eyes.

Houzi looked at Xiu's performance and decided that the child still had a conscience. This time, he did such a cold-blooded thing only because of a whim and wanted to imitate Nobunaga. Xiujia felt remorseful and repented for what she had done wrong, so she also let go of her guard.

Hou Zi looked at Zhong's family behind Xiu's family, and said sternly, "The child doesn't understand things, and you, as an uncle, don't know how to discipline him? Or is it you who gave the order before the battle?"

The Xiu family and the Zhong family were confused by the monkey's question, especially the Xiu family. Before the battle, the Zhong family tried their best to dissuade the Xiu family from doing so. Why did the Zhong family become the mastermind of the Zhong family when they came to Hou Zi?

The Xiu family was still too simple, and had never been a leader in the previous life, but the Zhong family, who had been in the Warring States all the year round, understood what the monkey meant, and saluted the monkey and the Xiu family.

"It's the servant's problem. The servant passed the lord and issued orders to the reserve team privately, which caused the lord to be wronged. These are the servants who should bear the responsibility. The servant will go to Guangzhen Temple to become a monk tomorrow, and pay homage to the Buddha every day. Pray for forgiveness, and chant sutras for the lonely souls burned to death in Saga Mountain, and bless the lord with long-lasting fortune and prosperous martial arts."

The Xiu family looked at the uncle behind them, and understood what the two of them meant. The Xiu family was still too young after all, and it was inappropriate to bear a bad name at such a young age. Therefore, as a loyal family member whom the Xiu family saw later, he took the initiative to come forward to become a monk. way of taking responsibility.

Being a monk in Japan doesn't mean that you don't care about world affairs, otherwise, why can Longhudou fight for so many years after becoming a monk?

Hideka thought that the same should be true of the Zhong family, just like Master Xuanzhu (Tachihara Hisakuna), who is now serving as Ezo to handle the colonial affairs of the Hide family for the Hide family, and the monk who wants to come to the Zhong family is just a change of name That's all, so I didn't refuse.

What I never thought was that the Zhong family became a monk this time, maybe he really wanted to pray for the Xiu family, and chose to retire a few years earlier than in history, and no longer care about world affairs, and the Toyama Uki family was also interpreted by Ukita Successor.

(End of this chapter)