Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 581 Confucian generals sometimes get angry
The current Ishida Mitsunari has not yet grown into a figure in history who can stir up the trend of history. In terms of his character, even if he can really have that status one day, he will not be able to put interests first like a politician.

Since Ishida Mitsunari is unreliable, Xiujia can only change his original arrangement.

In fact, political idiots are not without their benefits, at least they can become pawns for chess players to control the world on the chessboard, and right now there is one person who can just use it.

And the best one to use right now is Toyotomi Hideji, he is Toyotomi Hideji's nephew, the deputy general of this battle, the general of Toyotomi Banner, holds the most important fighting force in this pacification.

It's just that his previous conversations in Azuma Castle exposed himself in advance, and if he really discovered the problem and sued Date Masamune later, it would inevitably be considered framed, and the force was much weaker.

Hideka needs another "smart person" with similar political status and no direct interest relationship with Date Masamune to bring back the problems.

Now, the departure of Ishida Mitsunari and the arrival of Asano Nagamasa just gave Hideka a third choice.Rather than saying it is a choice, it is better to say that it is a gift to this uncle of myself!

What Hideka has to do now is to play the role of a good brother who is close to Date Masamune in front of Date Masamune.

The dinner later that day was not only Date Masamune's welcome banquet for Hideka and Hideji, but also a farewell banquet for Ishida Mitsunari.

Hideka's original plan was to use Ishida Mitsunari to put pressure on Date Masamune at today's dinner, asking him to strengthen his offensive against Osaki and Kasai.

But right now, Ishida Mitsunari can't play this card, and the Xiu family can only die.

Perhaps because he thought Ishida Mitsunari would fall out of favor, Date Masamune changed his humility towards him in the past, and did not look directly at him during the whole banquet.

At the banquet that day, Date Masamune had the obvious intention of expressing his favor to Hideka.After all, the Date family, as a foreign daimyo, was not valued by Hideyoshi. After the Odawara battle was late and greatly reduced, it was even more disgusted by him. If such a daimyo wants to survive politically, it is inevitable to find a backer.

The Hide family is currently the most powerful daimyo besides the Toyotomi clan, and they also take on the post of general guarding Ou, so they will naturally be valued by Date Masamune.

However, in the current situation where Ishida Mitsunari is present, Date Masamune's overtures are more like a reminder, making Hideka dare not accept the move at all.

After the banquet where the two parties had their own ghosts and false ideas, they failed to achieve each other's political goals, so they ended in such an ambiguous manner.

Hideya originally thought that Ishida Mitsunari would leave the next day, but he deliberately stayed. The official statement was that he wanted to bring back the results of the military discussion here to Hideyoshi.

It happened that there was a rumor from the south that Asano Nagamasa would arrive in Lifu City in 1-2 days, and Hideka simply let the army rest here for two days.

When Asano Nagamasa arrived in Tori Prefecture, the first military meeting hosted by Hideka started. As soon as the meeting started, Hideka questioned Date Masamune.

However, before they started the military discussion, Date Masamune's vassal Ieyoshi Tsutsuru reported that some of Osaki's vassals called Tamai Hideyuki wanted to surrender on behalf of Sugiyamakan, and the condition was to allow him to become the lord of Sugiyamakan .

The sudden change caused the Xiu family to temporarily change the content of the military meeting, and was going to meet the person sent by Yujing Hideyuki first.

The person was brought in, and out of expectation, the person was dressed in a decent manner, not at all like a muddy leg from the ground.

He saluted Xiu's family without fear and replied: "Foreign minister, Makotosuke Imura has seen all your lords, and my lord has come to ask you to surrender.

My lord was really forced to participate in Yikui in Jiamei County, and it was really a big thief.Today, when I hear that the heavenly soldiers are coming, I will know my way back when I go astray.

My lord asked me to bring a message to you adults. He is waiting for your highness to lead an army in Sugiyama City. At that time, he is willing to lead his soldiers to be your highness' vanguard to attack famous students. "

Mingsheng City was the home of the Osaki family in the past. It is located in the northwest corner of Osaki City. It is now being occupied by the most powerful bandit, and it will also be the focus of the Pingding Army's next attack.

And Sugiyama Castle was on its way from Lifu City northward to Mingsheng City. This person called Yujing Hideyuki could choose to surrender at this time, and he probably didn't want to save his life.

It's just that Xiujia seemed a little unfamiliar with this name, and then looked at Shijia Jiji, who was temporarily called to attend, and asked, "Do you have such a person under your command? Do you have any impression of him?"

Ji Jia Jiji heard the question, shook his head almost without thinking, and said, "I don't know this person well. Since the Osaki family was reduced, I have been transferred to serve Dr. Zuo Jing. I have little understanding of the situation in the collar."

Ujiie Yoshitsugu naturally wanted to clean up his relationship with the Ichikui Army, so he hastily denied it in the face of Xiujia's inquiry.

However, it was precisely this reason that made Xiujia feel rather strange.Because Ujiie Yoshitsugu's home city is Iwate Sawa Castle, which is even northwester than Mingsheng Castle, and it is the farthest edge of Kami County.

How did Tamai Hideyuki, who claimed to be Ujiie Kichiji's retainer, go so far to control Sugiyama Castle in the south of Mingsei Castle?

Of course, Osaki Kasai Ichikui had such a great influence that the entire territory fell into Ichikui's hands. Perhaps it was because someone fought all the way from the northwest to the south and refused to defend it.

Unable to get an answer from Ujiie Kichitsugu, Hideka could only look at Makotosuke Imura again and ask, "It's a good thing for your lord to know his way back when he lost his way, so what does he want?"

"My lord wants to get a share of knowledge, no less than the current knowledge of Sugiyama Castle." Makotosuke Imura replied.

"How much did the master of the Ni family know? How much does Sugiyama Castle have now?" This time it was Toyotomi Hideji's turn to ask, he was full of interest in this person who wanted to surrender.

"My lord used to be a servant in the Iwade Mountain Hall (Kichitsuji Uji), and he had no knowledge and action." Makotosuke Imura replied, "Now there are 1300 soldiers in Sugiyama Castle, with more than a thousand knowledge and actions."

Hearing Imura Makotosuke's reply, the hall erupted in an instant, and more people were surprised that an ordinary ground attendant could actually occupy more than a thousand knowledge and actions in one stroke.

As mentioned earlier, the ratio of stone exchange is proportional to the increase in the dimension of the territory. In Osaki, 1000 territories are roughly equivalent to 1 stones, which is very scary.

Hideka vaguely remembers that when the astronomical inspection site in Kami County was located, there were 24000 shi in Arita, and about 2701 kanwen in height.

Could it be that this person called Yujing Hideyuki took advantage of the chaos to control half of the territory of Jiamei County?The Xiu family didn't believe it. If so, they might threaten Mingsheng City.

Moreover, he has 1300 soldiers in his hands. I am afraid that they are old, weak, sick, and even women.

It's common for a group of people to have no way to brag, but it's unimaginable for him to grow from a small servant to a small daimyo like he said, no wonder he is laughed at by others.

Yujing Hideyuki sent someone to give the Hide family a very bad signal, that is, a group of people has occupied Kasai and Osaki for a year, and there is still no encirclement and suppression offensive by the government army, and now they have gradually formed their own system there.

If it is not stopped, there will be Yujing Hideyuki today, maybe Ishii Hideyuki tomorrow, and Doi Hideyuki will send people to contact and ask for stability under the safety conditions in the next day.

As for the Xiu family, if they agreed to Yujing Hideyuki's condition for forgiveness today, it would definitely be a very bad start.

This will give people a very bad political signal, that is, no matter how many bad things you have done before, no matter whether you participated in the killing of samurai or even daimyo by Ichikui, you can be recruited as long as you surrender afterwards.

Not to mention paying the price, if you dare to take chestnuts out of the fire, you may be able to improve your knowledge and action.For Mutsu, whose sky is high and the emperor is far away, this is tantamount to encouraging the bottom to rebel.

For the Hideka in the past, the Mutsu chaos was chaos, and it had nothing to do with him anyway, maybe he could still benefit from it, but this must be contrary to Hideyoshi's ideas.

Right now, Hideyoshi has thrown the work of Ou's security to himself, and he has become the first person responsible for Ou's stability, so naturally it is impossible to encourage the emergence of this kind of atmosphere.

The Xiu family took a deep breath and said, "Go back and tell your lord, His Highness Guan Bai is not indifferent to the difficulties of the people. If the people of Ouyu have problems with the land tax law, they can completely argue to the higher officials instead of resorting to armed forces like now. method of protest."

"Yes. Yes. What Your Highness said is true." Xiujia accused them of being in the wrong position, and Makotosuke Imura below naturally nodded and bowed to Xiujia to admit his mistake.

Seeing that he had a good attitude of admitting his mistakes, Xiujia immediately said, "It is inevitable that Osaki and Kasai will be pacified now, but it is up to His Highness Guan Bai to decide which daimyo will be named here in the future.

It is impossible for me to promise you more than 1000 years of knowledge and action here. You take the words back to your adult and give him two choices.

One is to surrender to my family, Kaesong. I will defend it, not to mention punishing it. In the future, it should not be a problem to have a few hundred shi Zhixing.

The second is to resist, let him refuse to defend Sugiyama City and see, when our army arrives, we will not give him another choice, and he will not escape the fate of life and death.

Let him think about it, it is already a huge leap from a land servant without knowledge to a warrior class with knowledge, not to mention that hundreds of stones are already a small and powerful place, this is what I can give the greatest forgiveness. "

"Yes, the foreign minister is awake. The foreign minister will definitely bring the words of Da Nayan." After Makotosuke Imura said, he bid farewell to the Hide family and left the city under the escort of the Date family samurai.

Hideka's attention was all on this man called Makotosuke Imura, so naturally he didn't notice that Date Masamune's face had become ugly.

But it doesn't matter, his face will be even uglier later.

After Makoto Imura left, Xiujia closed his eyes and remained silent for a moment. The conversation with the "mud-legged boy" just now always made Xiujia feel unspeakable doubts, but after thinking hard, Xiujia could only look away. Come back to reality.

Hideka, who returned to reality from the world of thinking, signaled the low-level samurai and attendants standing on the left side to go out, and then Hideka was about to scold him, naturally doing so to save Date Masamune's face.

The Toyotomi family was okay, but the Date family turned their attention to Date Masamune, which made the Hide family who was already upset even more upset, and raised his voice and shouted, "Get out! Wait for me!" Fork you out?"

Hideka's sudden anger frightened many people present, and finally gave Date Masamune a nod to give it a try. Date's low-level samurai then left the stage, but before leaving, Hideka kept Ujiie Kichi .

Taking advantage of this time when the left and right sides were cleared, everyone in the arena could already feel the dignified low pressure emanating from the Xiu family, and they were naturally overwhelmed.

After the clearing was over, Hideka couldn't bear it any longer, stood up, took a deep breath, and yelled at Masamune Date, "His Highness Sekibaku wrote in mid-November asking you to suppress Osaki Kasai Kazuki. There is a grace period for placement and preparation.

At the end of November, before I set off from Kyoto, I will write to you again. I will go to Lifu in mid-December. Later, the messenger reported that you have not sent troops yet!
You didn't take any action until I wrote a letter to Yanfucheng to make arrangements with you. I heard that Kimura Yoshiki and his son were rescued by you at that time, and then there was no movement again.

Date!Doctor Sakyo!Please tell me why you were so slow in dispatching troops, causing the Osaki Kasai leader to become so corrupt?Are you turning a blind eye to the orders of me and His Highness Guan Bai! "

The Xiu family has always given people the impression of Confucian generals. After all, no matter how dangerous the situation is like the Battle of Jianyue, as thrilling as the Battle of Nongwei, or as difficult as the Pingping of the Kwantung, no matter what kind of difficulties the Xiu family encounters, they are seldom promising. When other daimyos or their retainers get angry.

Seeing Hideka spit at Date Masamune today, even Hideji and Ishida Mitsu, who grew up with Hideka, showed incredulous expressions.

There is a reason why the Xiu family is angry. He can accept the risks and difficulties caused by lack of ability, lack of strength, and bad luck. After all, this is determined by destiny.

But he can't accept the situation where the Osaki Kasai collar has been corrupted by showing Masamune Date like this.

Historically, during the Osaki Kasai rebellion, by the end of 1590, Gamo clan had led troops to complete the suppression of the southern part of Osaki. At this time, Shirosuke Sone arrived at Mingsheng Castle to inform Kamo clan with the documents of Date Masamune's upcoming uprising.

Not long after, Suda Bokimori came to report with the so-called evidence that the Date family supported Osaki Kasai Kazuki, which eventually led to Date Masamune Shangluo's self-defense.

Date Masamune returned to the territory in January, and then crazily attacked Osaki Kasai Ichikui to prove his loyalty.

Therefore, Osaki Kasai Ichikui in history was actually initially suppressed at the end of November, and most of it was calmed down in July/August, and the suppression was finally completed at the end of the year.

In this life, Osaki Kasai Ichikui's slow response was greater and the delay was longer, which caused even worse effects, but all of this was actually completely avoidable.

As long as Date Masamune controls important strongholds such as Mingsheng City as soon as it happens, the situation will not be like this.

Ten thousand steps back and said that after receiving the order from the Hide family from Iwafuki Castle, if he can cooperate with the Nanbu family to attack on both sides within a month, at least take down Kami, Shida Nobori, and Osaki Kasai Kazuki There will never be such a comfortable living environment as today, so that there will be a strange situation where the mudlegs have become the lord of the city by taking advantage of the chaos, and then come to ask for knowledge and action.

This incident is like a slap in the face of the Toyotomi regime. It seems to be mocking the Toyotomi regime's inability to govern, and it turned the bottom into the ruling class.

And what made Hideka most angry was that he had sent a letter to Masamune Date no less than three times since Kyoto, urging the progress of dispatching troops, but he was still working on foreign labor in Kurokawa County!

"Master Date, you gave me a good gift for taking office!"

(End of this chapter)