Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 649
On the second day after the funeral, Hideyoshi, Xiujia, and Xiuzhen were invited by Hideyoshi, Hideka, and Hideyoshi to have a talk.

Zhiyunyuan announced Xiuchang’s last wish here. The gold stored in one room of Xiuchang’s mansion in Kyoto was handed over to Hideyoshi, and the gold, silver and copper coins stored in another warehouse were divided equally between Xiujia and Xiuzhen.

Toyotomi Hideaga was frugal all his life, and he usually didn't have any exaggerated expenses when he got the huge feudal kingdom, so he saved so much money.

Compared with history, Xiuchang's territory is larger, and the cornucopia of Ubesko Copper Mine provides him with precious metals, and Xiuchang's treasures are naturally more than in history.

From Zhiyunyuan's words, Hideyoshi seems to know that the current financial situation of Toyotomi's family is not ideal, so he handed over a house of gold that he had saved for many years to Hideyoshi, and asked him to improve the financial situation in the territory. Increase taxes on the people in the territory.

As for the treasure in the other house that was handed over to the Xiu family, it was strictly for Ju Ji, and the Xiu family was just collecting it as a daimyo.

As for the part for Xiuzhen, it was because Xiuchang felt that he owed his adopted son too much.Adopting someone as an adopted son, and passing away without bringing any special political benefits to the other party, maybe I feel a little sorry for him.

Zong Zong didn't have much opinion on such an inheritance arrangement, but Xiuchang's money was not for nothing. Xiuchang wanted Hideyoshi to help arrange the families of his three children.

The first is Yangzi Xianwan, who is now 16 years old.He was originally the third son of Niwa Nagahide. When Niwa Nagashige was reduced, he was adopted by Hidecho for the purpose of appeasing the Niwa family.

Xiuchang left in a hurry, maybe he didn't think about how to arrange the adopted son in the end, so he only presided over Xiujiu's Yuanfu ceremony, and the older Xianmaru still didn't have Yuanfu.

For such an adopted son, the best way to deal with it is to exist as the Toyo family of the Gifu family, assisting the still young patriarch Hidehisa.

However, in Hideyoshi's view, with Hidehisa's capacity for civil conduct, the family may be usurped by Senmaru in the future.

Without Senmaru, none of the retainers would have the right to inherit, and it would be no big deal to fight each other with Hideyoshi covering their heads.

After thinking about going to Hideyoshi, he still plans to send him away. Anyway, he is the son of the Niwa family and the adopted son of His Highness Gifu Neifu. It is also a good political card, and there is such a good place right now.

The patriarch of the Utsunomiya family in the Kanto area, Utsunomiya Kunizun, could not have a son. He asked Hideyoshi to let his younger brother Yuki Asaozuna return to succeed the Utsunomiya family, but Yuuki and Hideyoshi both refused.

Perhaps in this life, Xianmaru can be used to let him join the Utsunomiya family.Regardless of the lack of fame of the Utsunomiya family during the Warring States Period in Japan, this is after the authentic Fujiwara Kita family drips, and currently owns the territory of Shimono Utsunomiya with 15 koku, which is not a big force.

As for the adopted daughter Yan, she was born in the 3rd year of Tianzheng (1575), and is now 20 years old, and she will really become a big girl if she doesn't marry again.

But at Iwa's grade, there were really not many big names who hadn't married yet, and Hideyoshi couldn't find a suitable candidate after deliberation.

In the end, it was the Hideka who accidentally said, "Mogami Dewa's son Yoshiyasu seems to be the same age as Iwahime, and he hasn't gotten married until now. I don't know if he has made a marriage contract. Shimadzu Satsumamori's son Zhongheng is one year younger than Iwahime Years old and haven't gotten married yet, maybe it's a good marriage."

How could the Xiu family not know the real situation of these two families? A few days ago, the Xiu family specially visited the two families for the purpose of Hazel's marriage, and they clearly knew the situation of the two families' marriage.

But in front of Hideyoshi, Hideo still pretended to be ignorant. Firstly, it could show that he did not have a name for private outreach, and secondly, he wanted to use the card of Iwahime to form a brother-in-law with Shimadzu or Mogami.

Hideyoshi heard the two candidates mentioned by Hideo, and decided Shimadzu Tadahiro as Iwahime's husband almost without thinking.

There are two main reasons. One is that Shimadzu was hostile to Toyotomi in the past and was severely spanked by Hideyoshi. Now that there is a good opportunity, it is natural to win over appropriately. There is an adopted niece on the left and right.

The second reason is the well-known reason. Based on the relationship between the Xiu family and the Gifu family, there are already Xiu family and Xiu Zhen in the Northeast. At this time, if Iwahime is marrying the Mogami family, everyone in the east of Sagami really wants to listen to the show. It's family talk.

The last daughter is Xiuchang's concubine Sanba, the younger sister who married Xiubao as her son-in-law in history.But fortunately, she is not in the same grade, and she can delay making decisions for a few years.

After Hideyoshi informed Zhiyunyuan of his thoughts, Zhiyunyuan was very satisfied with Hideyoshi's arrangement, and said that Hideyoshi Izumi Yukami would also thank Hideyoshi.

Since the family also felt that such an arrangement was appropriate, the matter was settled.

After all, Hideyoshi was very efficient after taking other people's money, so he called Shimadzu Tadahiro the next day to discuss the matter.

There is no way, it’s true that Yan’s grade is too big, and if it drags on, he will be 21, and he is really an old girl. Both Zhiyun Academy and Ningning are urging him to quickly settle her. marriage.

When he heard that Shimadzu Yoshihiro asked Shimadzu Tadahiro to marry his brother's widow, Hideyoshi only felt that this was an excuse for the Shimadzu family to refuse to marry the Toyotomi family.

How can there be any reason to marry your own sister-in-law before your brother's bones are cold!
In a rage, Hideyoshi refused Shimadzu Tadahiro's request to return to Satsuma, and asked him to wait for his father Shimadzu Yoshihiro to return in Kyoto. Feng Hideyoshi and his father discussed their marriage in person before leaving.

Does Yoshihiro Shimadzu dare to refuse your request from Hideyoshi?From Hideyoshi's attitude, the marriage between Tadahiro Shimadzu and Iwahime was basically a certainty.

Hideyoshi saw that Hideyoshi was so quick in manipulating Iwahime's marriage, and wanted to remind Hideyoshi that Hazel hadn't married yet, but Hideyoshi said, "I have never rested since I was named Guya. , I have never seen Shiwan, if there is nothing important, we will discuss it later" was blocked back.

Since Xiuchang's death, Hideyoshi, Juji and other relatives have not been in a good mood.

If the Hide family keeps asking about Hideyoshi Hazel's marriage at this time, it will inevitably give people the illusion that Hidecho doesn't care about the Gifu family after his death.

Hideka had no choice but to bury the doubts in his heart, and instead asked Hideyoshi to take Kikuhime and other family members out for a walk in the name of Husong Zhiunin returning to Gifu.

For Hideyoshi's request, Hideyoshi readily agreed.

On May 5th in the third year of Wenlu, a mighty team walked out of the capital city.The flag-bearers at the head held up the flag with the five-seven paulownia pattern, which was the flag of the Toyotomi family in Gifu. Since he was entrusted with the five-seven paulownia pattern, Hidecho did not distinguish himself from his elder brother Hideyoshi in the family crest.

It was followed by Xiujia's Gendan Wuqitong pattern, and the Banjia Nei Wuqitong pattern flag that Xiuzhen painted by herself when she was idle in Joseon.

After the Kamon cleared the way, there were 120 ashigaru holding high Hidecho, Hideka, and Hideyoshi horse seals, as well as holding a golden fan and a red umbrella to clear the way.

As the most powerful existence among the three, Xiujia was the first to ride in the front, followed by Xiuzhen and Xianmaru who hadn't taken over yet.

Logically speaking, as the head of the family, the daimyo should ride in the middle, but Xiujiu can't ride a horse, and is even afraid of horses, so he has no choice but to let him follow Zhiyunyuan and others in a sedan chair.

There are not many family members of Xiuchang, only 5 people including Zhiyunyuan and Xingjunni, and Iwahime and Sanbaji are also present as female family members.

After the Xiuchang family is the Xiu family's family in Kyoto.Although there were not many family members brought over from Yanfu before, the Xiu family couldn't hold back the concubine's desperate efforts for the past two years!

Kikuhime, the mistress, goes first in a sedan chair, followed by Yako Ito (Ito Nagami's daughter) in a sedan chair.

Because this time it is mainly to send Xiu Changhui to burial, the Xiu family is also embarrassed to bring a mighty female family, other concubine such as North Korea and Jurchen noble women, such as Changshui Huang, Yangchuan Xu, Yehenala .

Concubines such as Kagawa Naoko, Lin Liangdi and Shenneiji, the mother and daughter of the Yuanzhou Bian family, the Guerjia family (Shuerhaqi's wife), the Jiamu Hujueluo family, the Yiergen Jueluo family, the Yuanzhou Yuan family, etc. What a belt.

Although the woman didn't bring it with her, all the older children of the Xiu family were brought along. After all, the Xiu family seems to be here to promote the unity of knowledge and action, and they want their children to go out and see more.

For example, Asahi Chiyo and Qianqian who are already 7 years old, Zhaojumaru who is 6 years old, Kohachiro who is 5 years old, etc. Of course, Kohachiro brought it with him, and Sojuro, the second son of the Hide family who was born in June 1592, could not ignore.

秀家还特意将刚刚手下的养子如泰松（阿巴泰1589年）、余千代（扎萨克图1589/7/25），以及养女、和柒（嫩折1587年）带上，想要让他们看看自己这边强悍的实力。

The Xiu family intentionally took these children of Jurchen blood away from their mothers and handed them over to their trusted warriors to raise them, in order to quickly change their habits and culture while they were still young.

其他的孩子如景千代（1591）、明裕丸（1593年1月，母清姬）、大吉丸（珲太吉1592/11/28日）、石丸三郎（巴布泰）1592年等孩子年岁太小，被留在京都交给清姬和马似纯照顾。

Looking at the mighty army of children behind him, the Xiu family was filled with emotion. He really is a stallion who has given birth to so many offspring.

The Xiu family once counted roughly, and there are more than 20 adopted children in total, even the old tortoise doesn't have many children.

The key is that my grade is still very young, which is the grade of wolf and tiger. If I continue to work hard, my remaining son may not be able to form a football team.

Hideka has never felt that he is a qualified father. The few children who came to Kyoto with him at the beginning can still be taken care of by him. Children such as Asahi Maru, Senchiyo, and Haruyoshi Maru have been placed in Iwasuke by themselves for 3 years. It's too late, I haven't fulfilled my father's responsibility once.

Now the two children have grown up a little bit, and they can be taken to Kyoto for education in two years.

Coming out of Kyoto all the way to the east, some people's habits were liberated. When they stayed in Hachiman Mountain City, looking at the children who were mingling together, the worries in the Xiu family's heart were really superfluous.

Children at this time don't have any concept of superiority or alienation, Nian Linxiang like-minded is a good friend.

But maybe it was specially instructed by his mother, like Asahi Chiyo was very polite to Hachiro, and always put his younger brother's orders first.

On the other hand, the newly adopted children of the Xiu family might have been used to being Nurhachi's sons in the past, so they didn't care who's status is high here, but they actually fought against Hachiro and Asahi Chiyo, and even got along with them with Zhaoshoumaru.

At this time, the Xiu family had to take action. No matter what, the adopted son would always be the wing of the family, and he must not climb over the head of the Zong family. This was also the first time that the Xiu family took action to discipline the child.

All the sons who attacked Hachiro, whether it was the real Zhaojumaru or the adopted sons Taisong and Yu Chiyo, were all punished by the Hide family with 20 thugs divided by a ruler.

Children at this age still can't distinguish between right and wrong and etiquette. They only know that they will be beaten for attacking Hachiro. This will definitely become the deepest memory in their minds.

When everyone returned to Gifu City, under the witness of Xiujia and Xiuzhen, Xiujiu finally ascended the throne in Gifu City and became the new head of the Gifu family.

Hidehisa met with all the retainers in Japan at the assessment room of Gifu City, including Senmaru, who paid respects to him as a courtier.

Senmaru seems to have been prepared for Xiujiu to inherit the position of the governor of the Gifu family, but the Xiu family can see from his eyes that he is confused about the future.

Especially when he saw Xiujiu sitting on the main seat and looking like he was still in need of being disciplined by Zhiyun Academy, Xiujia noticed the regretful look in Senmaru's eyes.

That's right, it's a look of regret.Of course he was very aware of Husong's background. The moment Husong entered the Gifu family, he had already lost the right to inherit the Gifu family, so he never expected it for so many years.

But when he saw that Hu Song was already 13 years old and still looked so stupid, he still couldn't hold back his inner anger.

His heart was extremely restless: "Is blood really so important that I am not as good as a fool?" '

The following retainers were also quite surprised by the strange words and deeds of their new patriarch. Can such a patriarch really manage the Gifu Domain with a huge territory of 100 to 110 million stones?
Fortunately, Xiujiu was more face-saving this time. It should have been tutored by Zhiyunyuan and Mrs. Ikoma many times. Although the whole process was tortuous, it was finally completed.

It is already remarkable that Xiujiu can sustain the entire ceremony process, you can't expect this child to participate in the next banquet, so Xiujia and Xiuzhen can only host it.

It was also at this banquet that the Xiu family gave up the main seat to Xiuzhen for the first time, the reason was that Xiuzhen was from the Gifu family and she was just an outsider.

Of course, the more important thing for Xiu's family is to get the first position, because there will be Xianwan next to him, so that he can bewitch him.

After drinking for three rounds, the Xiu family took advantage of Xianwan's toast to him to comfort him, "Don't worry, uncle treats me like a parent and son, I will definitely take care of your affairs."

Xianmaru was taken aback when he heard Hideka's reply, and Hideka said, "Instead of sitting in Gifu's house and not being seen by others, why don't you jump out like your elder brother Xiuzhen, inherit the name of another family first, and then find a chance to come back."

Xianmaru's eyes lit up when he heard that, and after toasting Xiu's family, he asked, "Can you help me, brother?"

Hideka confided that he had successfully moved Senmaru's heart, and that Hideyoshi had decided but not announced before, let him inherit the Utsunomiya family's idea, and said that he would do his best for him.

Even the Xiu family believed what Huang Hua said without any hesitation.Anyway, no one will investigate this matter. After Hideyoshi makes an official announcement, Senmaru will only think that this is the result of his "good brother" Hideka's operation, and he is very grateful to Hideka
When he heard that he would inherit the 10 koku name and that even his older brother Niwa Nagege didn't have a territory as big as his own, Hideka saw hope and ambition in Senmaru's eyes.

After hearing this, Xianmaru toasted to the Xiu family again to express his gratitude, "Then I would like to thank my brother for planning. If this matter can be achieved, I, Xianmaru, will definitely look forward to my brother, and the Utsunomiya family is willing to give wings to my brother."

For Xianmaru's loyalty to Hideya, he was pleased to serve, but pointed to Xiuzhen who was on the stage representing Hidehisa and the retainers of the Gifu family, and said, "I will be in the Kanto, your brother Xiuzhen will be in the northeast, and your Utsunomiya will be right in the middle. It is God who wants us, the three of us, to work together."

(End of this chapter)