Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 598
Hideyoshi, who did what he said, sat up from Ju Ji's tight thighs, and ordered the left and right to hand over a petition to Juledi, requesting to meet Hideyoshi.

Soon this request was approved by Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi went to the city with a few guards including Baba Shigeru and Hojo Shigeko.

Hideyoshi seemed not surprised that Hideyoshi would invite him at this juncture, the first thing he said when he saw Hideyoshi was "Why can't you stay, do you want to go to North Korea for a while?"

After saluting to Hideyoshi, Hideka said, "Father, you are joking. Now is the most beautiful time in Kyoto, and there are beauties around you. I am a little bit reluctant to leave. I have already sent someone to inform Kawagoe to bring all my childless female relatives here. It's over."

After all, he pretended to be emotional and said, "I didn't know what was going on at the beginning. I was so passionate about fighting for the glory of the warriors. Now I realize that women are the real battlefield for men."

"Hahahaha" Hideyoshi was very touched by the words of the Xiu family, and laughed in conjunction with it, "It's understandable for a man to have several concubines, but you have to be devoted to Xiaoju. He gave birth to a big fat boy for you." .”

Regarding this question, Hideya naturally nodded in agreement, and even assured Hideyoshi that he and Kikuhime would continue to work hard for the Toyotomi family.

In fact, after being placed under house arrest in Kyoto, Xiujia has been thinking about how to show weakness to Hideyoshi. After all, if a person has no weaknesses, then this person will be vigilant.

For the Xiu family, it is already impossible to seek power, and seeking fame will cause others to be jealous. It is okay to seek profit, but the Xiu family holds two trade franchises in Ryukyu and Ezo, and has the advantage of Besko Copper Mountain. How much profit can I ask for?

Therefore, there is only one path for Xiujia to seek sex, and this is also the path that best suits the personality of Xiujia's 20-year-old young people.

And there is another advantage of this path, it can directly use the name of taking concubines to disclose the marriages of famous families with their wives. Although it will damage the reputation of the Xiu family, the actual benefits it can bring are visible.

Of course, right now Hideyoshi strictly forbids private marriages between daimyos, even if he presided over them, he probably wouldn't allow marriages between the Hideo family and too many daimyos.

But Hideyoshi just forbids marriages between daimyo relatives and daimyo relatives. Hideyoshi's "lusty" target can be placed on the female relatives of the daimyo's important minister's family, and the effect may be even better.

"I came here today to ask my lord father for something." Hideka said humblely to Hideyoshi.

"I want to ask for something." Hideyoshi repeated the key words in Hideyoshi's words before responding, "Every time you beg me, it's because of money. Why, isn't the huge feudal kingdom enough for you to spend?"

After hearing this, Xiujia sighed and said: "The people in the Kanto region are suffering, people's livelihood is poor, and the three rivers are flooded year after year. I don't want to spend so much money, but the three rivers must be repaired."

Hideyoshi saw that the Hide family was so concerned about the governance of the territory, so he sighed: "With my son guarding the Kanto for me, I can go to conquer Daming with peace of mind."

"Actually, I came to see my father today for the purpose of Zhengming." The Xiu family had brought the topic to the war against the DPRK, so he took the initiative to speak.

"Two days ago, I wrote to Heyue's Mizuo, asking him to mobilize for military service after the autumn harvest. According to the requirements, 25000 people were mobilized, of which 12500 people were sent to the south. When the time comes, the boy will personally go to North Korea for your father."

"No." After listening to Hideyoshi's words, Hideyoshi stretched out his hand and made a stop gesture and said, "I don't plan to let you go to North Korea."

Although Hideyoshi's decision had been expected for a long time, Hideyoshi still pretended to be surprised and asked, "Am I not going to fight in North Korea?"

"This time I will go to North Korea, and I plan to let General Sun Qiren go to North Korea. At that time, Sun Qi will be in North Korea, I will be in Nagoya, and Xiaozhu's health is not good. Kyoto will always keep people behind.

I have discussed it with Xiaozhu, you are the most suitable candidate, and then you will sit in the capital and manage the world temporarily for me. "

In the understanding of the Hide family, although Hideyoshi said that he would sit in the capital and manage the world temporarily, but all the affairs of the world were finally gathered in Nagoya Castle and handed over to Hideyoshi. He just had the name of a supervisor. In the end, he was trapped in Kyoto.

【Looks like Hideyoshi is still not at ease with me】 Hideyoshi thought so.

Although Hideyoshi had already heard that he would not go, Hideyoshi still stated: "Although I am guarding the capital, please allow my father to allow more than ten thousand soldiers under my command to go to Korea and contribute to my father's dream."

"Oh? Are you so optimistic about Zheng Chao? I remember you tried to persuade me at the beginning." Hideyoshi asked puzzled.

Xiujia replied: "At that time, I didn't know your painstaking efforts, and I didn't know that you had such a great career. It was really my fault. Just like what I said before, I hope to realize my father's dream."

Under Xiujia's repeated pleas, Hideyoshi finally agreed to come down and said to Xiujia, "I understand. I will discuss this matter with the officers and soldiers, but I am afraid that the main attack task will not be given. I will attack Jiangyuan and Xianning Road. Is there any objection to entrusting the task to you?"

The reason why the Xiu family must go to North Korea is that the core purpose does not conflict with the original organization of his conquest of North Korea.

Xiujia doesn't want Xiuji to have a conflict with Ming, but it doesn't mean that Xiujia will give up the opportunity to go to North Korea to rob interests.

The Xiu family has been using the North Korean government to transfer people for several years. They transfer thousands of people a year, and they have never seen a time when they felt sorry for the North Koreans.

However, the speed of population movement is too slow, and it is better to go directly to the Korean peninsula to grab people.

Is it cruel?Compared with Kato Kiyomasa Fukushima's way of massacring the North Koreans, Hideka thinks his treatment is already very gentle.

The Xiu family can do business with the big names of Zhengchao, don't beat and kill the North Koreans, a young woman 500 people, a man 1 penny, children give half more, and old people don't want one.

With such economic benefits, it is unknown how many North Korean lives could be saved and how many layers of pagodas could be built.

The Xiu family should not be able to show the fact that Hideyoshi fought against the DPRK, but he was able to save more lives in his own way. Don't you think that the Xiu family has more and more divinity of the God of [Dong Zhaoquan]?
The Xiu family has no territorial requirements for North Korea, and most of the local cultural relics and trophies are not appreciated, so they can simply exchange these things and the daimyo of the dynasty for captives, and send them to Ezo to be serfs. Ah no, being a farmer is a Good choice.

Moreover, the reputation of Goryeo maidservant, which has been passed down in the Middle Earth for thousands of years, has made the Xiu family salivate.

Now that the Japanese girls have been collected, and the Ryukyu and Daming mixed blood have been collected, how can there be no Korean maidservants.

As for whether this army will be lost in North Korea, the Xiu family is not worried at all. The Xiu family went to North Korea to do business, not to fight the Ming army.

Even if he would go to Pyongyang, he would pass by and take someone with him, then continue to Xianning Road, and then go to do business with the Jurchens.

The main battles of the Ming army’s support to North Korea were basically fought on the relatively flat two roads on the west side of North Korea. At first, the Xiu family also wanted to place troops in Xianning and Jiangyuan in the west. In fact, it was to avoid the Ming army The edge.

But in Hideyoshi's eyes at the moment, entrusting himself with this military task is actually playing into the hands of the Hideyoshi family.

And you don't have to worry about the lack of troops to attack Gangwon Province.

Historically, when Hideyoshi formulated the [Eight Paths] plan, the Fourth Army was in charge here. Its commander was 1 people led by Yoshihisa Shimadzu, plus 2000 people from Mori Yoshinari. Dongyoubing and others totaled 2000 people.

But in fact, Shimadzu Yoshihisa was very slow to respond to sending troops to North Korea in history. In the end, Shimadzu Yoshihiro was afraid that Hideyoshi would blame the Shimadzu family. He brought 2000 people from his headquarters to join the battle, but he did not arrive until May 5rd because he could not find a ship. Busanpo, the Joseon capital has already fallen.

Therefore, in fact, the main force in the battle against Gangwon Province was 2000 people led by Mori Yoshinari, and 2000 people mixed by Kyushu small daimyo, totaling 4000 people.

According to the battle/auxiliary ratio we discussed in the previous chapter, the actual number of professional samurai and standing ashigaru in this unit is only more than 800.

As for the 4000-strong Fourth Corps of miscellaneous troops, North Korea’s "Xuanmiao Zhongxing Zhi" recorded, "The Japanese Fourth Corps is advancing furiously, traveling hundreds of miles a day, like wind and rain. Thousands of miles across the red land, chickens and dogs are not legacy."

According to the records of "Korean Bingzhi", Gangwon Province, as the vicinity of Gongwei Wangji, should have 3000 soldiers in the capital of Wonju, and an additional prison camp of 1000 people.

Pinghai, Gaocheng, Xiangyang and other coastal cities have 600 garrisons, and Jiangling, Xiangyang and Gangwon Suying have 3000 naval troops.As the governor's office of Jiangling, Jiangling still has 3000 soldiers.

Due to the perennial banditry in Hamgyong Province, Jincheng, Cheorwon, and Huaiyang each stationed 2000 soldiers, which means that there should be more than 2 soldiers in the entire Gangwon Province.

Moreover, Gangwon-do and Chungcheong-do were the places with the largest number of North Korean tigers at that time. There are rumors that the North Korean royal family's tiger-catching army has been operating here all year round.

Even if Wang Ji was attacked and the Tiger Army went back, Gangwon Province's defense of Lizhou brought Yuanhao 1 people to support Wang Jing, and there should be more than 1 people in Gangwon Province's hands to mobilize.

But in fact, the entire Gangwon Province was completely overthrown by Mao Lijicheng's 2000 people. They entered Gangwon Province on May 6th and entered Huaiyang on June 5th. The speed is evident.

Yes, although the Fourth Corps had 4000 people in its establishment at the time, all recorded in history were carried out by 2000 people of Maori Yoshinari, and those 2000 people of Yubing Ito followed him to defend.

Since he, Maori Jicheng, was able to win Gangwon-do with 2000 people, Xiujia felt that 12500 people under his command could do the same.

And Hamgyong Doxiu's family is not afraid. As mentioned earlier, civil unrest and banditry have occurred all year round. Historically, both Mori Yoshinari and Kato Kiyomasa have been warmly welcomed by the people.

The scene was completely different from that of Gangwon Province. The people here actually helped the two of them fight against the sergeants of the six towns in Guanbei led by Han Kexian, the Beibing Dao envoy who was stationed here.

You must know that this unit was specially set up to guard against the Jurchens. It has the most elite cavalry unit in North Korea and is very good at riding and shooting.

In the end, Hamgyong-do was taken by Kato Kiyomasa. The most terrible thing is that Hamgyong-do is actually the most submissive place in the whole of Korea, so that the king of Korea angrily declared Hamgyong-do as a "reverse cave".

Relying on the land of Hamkyong Road, Kato Kiyomasa waited leisurely until the first invasion of the dynasty failed, and then retreated under the advice of the Ming army.

Such a submissive site, adjacent to the Jurchen tribe, can be used as a trade fulcrum and bridgehead, and can even go north along the border to expand Vladivostok, as a new fulcrum for the trade route between North Korea and Ezo.

In the past, Hideyoshi did not unify the world. If the Hideyoshi family wanted to transport people from North Korea or do business, they would stop by Hideyoshi's Hoki after leaving Oki Island, and then borrow the ports of Uesugi, Anto, Maeda, and Sakuma. Shipped to Ezo.

But now that Hideyoshi has unified the world, the daimyo and him have only an invisible, undeniable superior-subordinate relationship, and it is difficult to keep what Hideyoshi does in private.

If Xiujia really wanted to continue to trade with North Korea or Jurchen in the future, then Vladivostok, the ice-free port, must not be let go.

The difference is that in the past, the sea-going ships used the southern route, but now they can only use the northern route for communication.

Hideka, the pioneer of the new trade point in Vladivostok, wrote to Seto Jiazheng after returning home, asking him to take advantage of this war against North Korea to establish it.

Thinking of all this, Xiujia's eyes suddenly brightened.It's just that these are too long-term at the moment, and this time we have to solve the issue of the commander in the war against North Korea.

Therefore, he gave Hideyoshi a reply he had prepared a long time ago, "I originally planned to conquer North Korea and the Ming Dynasty for my father, but my father did not allow me to cross the sea in person, which is different from my plan.

To tell you the truth, my father, the subject is now worrying about the commander in charge of the war against the DPRK.The important officials in the family live in seclusion, the older ones are older, and their other abilities are not enough to lead a team of ten thousand people. I really don't feel relieved to let them go. "

Hearing what Hideka said, Hideyoshi applied for Yiling and asked, "What do you mean? Hachiro, don't you plan to send people across the sea?"

In fact, Hideyoshi did not plan to cross the sea with Hideyoshi's troops at the beginning. His idea was that these 12500 people were placed in Nagoya as a reserve team, and their commander Hideka was in Kyoto.

But after Xiujia proposed crossing the sea to fight, he felt that it was indeed a good choice for these 12500 people to cross the sea.

12500 people can completely form a corps independently. There is no need to add other daimyos. Even if you want to compete with two 2000~3000 people, it is enough.

Besides, this is Hideyoshi's army, the troops come from Kanto, and it has always been Hideyoshi's plan to consume the strength of the powerful daimyo.

In history, he wanted to let Tokugawa Ieyasu cross the sea, but was rejected by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Hideyoshi lost to Tokugawa in Komaki Nagashi, and he lacked confidence.

In addition, he didn't even punish Satake and Date before the war, let alone punish Tokugawa for refusing to cross the sea.

Besides, Tokugawa has brought 15000 people to Nagoya, which has already given you Hideyoshi's face on the bright side.

It's just that he didn't know that the majesty of his Toyotomi family was constantly suppressed by Tokugawa and other rebels in this trial and error, and his bottom line was also figured out by them in this trial and error.

(End of this chapter)