Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 654 Imjin Wahei
What Xiujia wants to ask is how Xianmaru handles after Xiujiu was transferred to Bizen and Meizuo.

"Senmaru?" Hideyoshi seems to have forgotten the fourth son of Niwa Nagahide, Toyotomi Hidecho's adopted son, let alone the promise that he had promised Zhiyunin and others to adopt him to the Utsunomiya family.

Or maybe in Hideyoshi's view, it is appropriate for the Gifu family's total Zhixing after Hidecho's death to be reduced to 50 to 60 stones.

Today's Xiujiu + Xiuzhen have reached this size, and they are unwilling to let their other heir be the 10 stone daimyo, even if he is an adopted son.

"This." Hideyoshi suddenly felt a little embarrassed when he heard Hideo mention it again.After all, he had already made the promise at the beginning, but now he is unwilling to carry it out, so he doesn't know how to answer the Xiu family.

Don't look at Hideyoshi's decisive appearance in doing certain things, but for the current situation where others give him face and he breaks his promise, Hideyoshi still has some scruples.

Especially the attitude given by the Xiu family today is considered very low. If he breaks his promise again, then the reputation within the Toyotomi family can be said to be almost ruined.

If it really forced the Gifu and Toyoharu families to rebel, even if they could quell the rebellion, the Toyotomi family would be greatly damaged.

From the perspective of the foreign clan, your Toyotomi family can't stand you anymore, and it will deal a great blow to Hideyoshi's prestige.

Therefore, while Hideyoshi suppressed Gifu and Toyoharu, Hideyoshi also had some scruples about these two families.

The Hide family would never agree to this proposal. A person with a Gifu family lineage also has Toyotomi's surname. If something happens to Hidehisa, wouldn't Bizen and Misaka completely lose the Hide family's control?

From Hideyoshi's point of view, Hosokawa Fujitaka, whose prestige is comparable to his own, has really become a monk. After all, the place where he became a monk is no longer within his own territory, so naturally it cannot affect the decision-making of the Hosokawa family.

As for the daimyo and samurai accompanying the Marquis outside the hall, even if some of them could understand and speak Chinese, they would definitely not be able to understand the Wu dialect spoken by Shen Weijing.

You have to know how many times the Niwa, Ikeda and other families have been transferred, but the Hosokawa family can still have the Tango bestowed by Oda. He is indeed a special existence in the situation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

In the end, Fanghe Takatake chose the second path. He chose to find Ishida Mitsunari to inform Hideyoshi that he wanted to become Hideyoshi's direct minister.

The Utsunomiya family did not accomplish an inch in the Korean War, so they must be dealt with.Then after the disposal, there will be no Utsunomiya family, so how can there be a saying that Xianmaru Palace adopts Utsunomiya? "

Utsunomiya Kunizun offered 5000 shi to Haga Takatake, which made Haga Takatake feel that this was a humiliation to himself, and had a quarrel with his brother in Osaka Castle, and soon after returning to the territory, a rebellion against the Toyotomi family A tyrant of tyranny.

Fanghe Gaowu had no choice but to go back to negotiate with his brother Utsunomiya Kunzuna, wanting to retain as much knowledge as possible.

His Highness Kanbai will make arrangements to transfer Hidehisa to Bizen after we leave. At that time, many former officials of the Gifu Domain will be forced to leave the domain.You have to explain it to your elders in advance, and try to resettle part of it in Koriyama.

In the past two days, Hideyoshi will announce the marriage between Utsunomiya and Hazel and Tadataka Hosokawa, and you and I will visit Mogami first and ask him to agree to the marriage between Komahime and Hidehisa.

Hideo, who came down from Osaka Castle, deliberately came out from Oteguchi, went to find Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and told him the ins and outs of what happened between herself and Hideyoshi in the palace.

In addition, there is another point, that is, the Xiu family did not hear a single word of Wanli marrying the imperial daughter to Hideyoshi from the beginning to the end, and even the marriage between the royal daughter of Joseon and Toyotomi Hideji was not mentioned.

Shen Weijing read the imperial decree of Emperor Wanli, and then Muneyoshi's retainer Yanagawa Chonobu translated it into Japanese.

But this time I'm afraid they will be disappointed. The order that was brought to the Utsunomiya family together with Senmaru's successor was Hideyoshi's reprimand for concealing knowledge, and it was directly divided by 2/3 of the seal reduction. disposal.

"This, this, what, Saki, tell me!"

Ishida Mitsunari was taken aback for a moment, seeing Hideyoshi and the Hide family's eyes looking at him, he was silent for a moment, and then said, "It was found out in the previous inspection that the Utsunomiya family concealed knowledge, and according to the law, it should be punished." Divide by the modified disposition.

Since they couldn't agree with Hideyoshi's arrangement, Hideyoshi naturally wanted to fight.

Throughout the entire Toyotomi Dynasty, the Hosokawa family has always stayed in Tango like a transparent person.

However, Hideyoshi was very dissatisfied with his practice of directly abandoning his master's family when he was in trouble, and rejected his request for direct participation, and ordered him to assist the new master, Utsunomiya Hidezuna.

Besides, if it is time to stand in line at the end, someone will make trouble with the name of the Senmaru Gifu family and promise him Hidehisa's territory after the war.

And Xiujia also retorted him: "Have you ever seen Guan Bai who was born as a farmer since ancient times?"

Among the people present, the only one who could really hear the Wu language spoken by Shen Weijing was the Xiu family. The Xiu family sitting in the front heard the imperial decree read out by Shen Weijing and found that it was quite different from what Hideyoshi had said before. Tilt.

After a long time, Xiuzhen reluctantly asked Xiujia, "Then when shall we leave?"

No matter how you say it, Senmaru is the adopted son of my uncle after all, even if he becomes a successor, he can be regarded as the half brother of me, Xiujiu, and Xiuzhen, and he can be taken care of by Xiuzhen and me around Shimano, so that he can stay away from the Hidekumoto clan. Fulfill uncle's wish.

Then he suggested again: "I don't think it's better than this. I gave up 3/5 stones from Apo to install Xianwan. What do you think?"

However, Hideyoshi's ears about the rebellion of Fang He Takatake still reached Hideyoshi's ears. He directly reduced the Utsunomiya family's Zhixing to 3 shi on the pretext that Utsunomiya Kunizun could not rule the territory.

You say trust, there is no record in history that Hideyoshi paid special attention to him.You say that Hideyoshi doesn't trust him, but as a foreign vassal, he can be allowed to stay in Tango, which is adjacent to Kyoto. This is not like a territory that an untrusted foreign vassal can obtain.

It's just that the Korean battle has not yet ended, and His Royal Highness Guan Bai took care of fighting ahead, so he postponed the disposal.

From a historical point of view, the Utsunomiya family was indeed dealt with by Hideyoshi because of concealment of knowledge, but that was since 1597.I don't know if it was because of my butterfly wings that this matter was exposed in advance.

The people sitting in the hall are all super daimyos with more than 20 shi. You expect this group of people to listen to what the imperial decree read by Shen Weijing said, it is really embarrassing for them.

On the contrary, Xianwan, who was between the Xiu family and Xiuzhen, dared not act in the slightest in the face of the two older brothers.

Xiuzhen was very angry at first, "He is Xiujiu's biological father after all, an ethical uncle, how can he treat Xiujiu and the Gifu family so harshly?"

For the Utsunomiya family, it is an exciting thing to welcome the son who they thought was from the Toyotomi family.

Suddenly unable to find an excuse to delay again, Hideyoshi threw the pot to Ishida Mitsunari who was sitting aside.

Xiujia looked at Ishida Mitsunari who was aside and asked: "There are currently five daimyos in Shimono, but apart from the main family and Utsunomiya, the other knowledge involved is not big. His Highness Kanbai still has more than 5 stones in Shimono. into the ground.

"Has the Utsunomiya family concealed Chiyo?" Hideka repeated the reason Ishida Mitsunari just said.

"Family name?" Hideyoshi pondered for a while and said, "How about letting him inherit Toyotomi's surname? After all, he is Xiaozhu's adopted son."

The Utsunomiya family was originally a Zhongfan who had just passed 10 shi. Has the degree of concealment of knowledge and behavior reached the point where it must be changed?Wouldn't it be more appropriate to let Senmaru join the Utsunomiya family and at the same time punish the Utsunomiya family by reducing their seal?

Not long after, news came out from Osaka that the original arrangement was completely changed, or because Utsunomiya Kunizun agreed to Senmaru's succession, this is the knowledge of Bai Liuqi's more than 4 stones.

This may have something to do with Hosokawa Fujitaka's early transfer of the position of family governor and his becoming a monk in Kyoto.

Ishida Mitsunari was about to refute Hideo, but Hideyoshi, who was sitting in the main seat, didn't want to get entangled with Hideo anymore on such trivial matters.

Tadake Hosokawa was very stunned by the news. He never thought that he would suddenly become a relative of Toyotomi's family. He immediately took Tadataka and others to express his gratitude to Hideyoshi.

In the end, it became Awa 3/5 Shi Zhixing in an instant, and you, Hideyoshi, are still good at bargaining.

Didn’t you see that the jewels of the Ogasawara family were in front of them, and as soon as the country was restored, it went directly from the original Wanshi Xiaofan to the 10 Shi Shinano daimyo?

Although the Xiu family comforted Xiuzhen, Xiuzhen still expressed dissatisfaction with Xiuji's handling, "Why would His Highness Guan Bai do such a thing that even his own family members are reduced, so that loved ones are hurt and enemies are happy? something unheard of before.”

"Yes" Hideyoshi, who heard Ishida Mitsunari's reply, seemed to have found a life-saving straw, and said to Hideo, "The Utsunomiya family hides Zhixing, and I will deal with it immediately. After Andu takes it back, how can Senmaru inherit it?" What about a big name without a collar?"

The biggest difference is two points. Emperor Wanli asked Japan to fully withdraw from North Korea. Even if Hamgyong-do and Gangwon-do were canonized to the two North Korean princes, it would not allow Japan to continue its request to garrison troops.

I will collect most of the old ministers and place them in Kanto, Ezo and North Korea.It is also necessary to provide some confidants for Senmaru to control the Utsunomiya family.These things have to start working after we are gone, and we have to plan ahead.

His Royal Highness Guan Bai has already allowed us to go back to mobilizing troops first, but what I mean is that you only need to mobilize 1500 people, and I will mobilize 3500 people to make up 5000, and the rest will be made by other daimyos.

As for Hosokawa Tadake Hideyoshi's only impression of him is Akechi Mitsuhide's son-in-law, perhaps in Hideyoshi's view, the rejuvenated Hosokawa family cannot make big waves, which is why Hideyoshi allowed Hazel and Tadakashi to marry.

Hideyoshi asked Ishida Mitsunari to send Hideka off. When the two were alone, Hideyo asked Ishida Mitsunari abruptly, "Jibu, do you really have evidence that the Utsunomiya family concealed knowledge?"

Ishida Mitsunari paused for a moment and replied, "Maybe there is, but which of the famous names in the world has not concealed the situation of Tianmu? Isn't it all based on the scale of Guan Bai's disposal?"

Believe it or not, this brother, who has no blood relationship with Xiujiu, will probably directly vote for the opposite side of the Xiu family?

After saying this, Ishida Mitsunari saw the unkind look in Hideka's eyes, and hurriedly said, "Of course I know that there will be no such situation between Dainagon and me."

From Xiujia's point of view, Xianwan can't be out of the control of himself and Xiuzhen, otherwise this brand is likely to be used by those who want to.

For Hideyoshi, the reduction of the Utsunomiya title was to make room for himself to hide. Naturally, he would not accept the new Fanghe family who had a 4/5 shi in the old Utsunomiya territory.

Besides, although Shen Weijing's voice was not low, it could not be heard outside the hall, and the warriors outside the hall could not hear what he said. It was all translated by Liu Chuan Tiaoxin, who was sent by the warriors in Huangmuyi arranged by Hideyoshi. Japanese.

The Utsunomiya family has 12 shi, and Haga has half of it.Now that the Utsunomiya family has been reduced to only 1/3 of the original title, the Fanghe family must either spit out a certain percentage of knowledge, or refuse to accept the reduction and seek to become Hideyoshi's retainer.

Although the knowledge of 4.2 shi was still not perfect, Hideka knew very well that this was Hideyoshi's final bottom line, and even this point would not be available after bargaining, so he thanked Hideyoshi and bid farewell to Hideyoshi.

But Hideyoshi's energy-raising skills have long been accomplished, and he was not angry when he faced Hideyoshi's arrangement like beggars. Instead, he asked him, "Then, whose family name should Xianmaru start the world?"

"The children of the Toyotomi family can only have 3/5 koku. Will such an arrangement damage the reputation of our Toyotomi family? Besides, before his death, his uncle told him to adopt Senmaru and let him inherit Gifu Doesn't the family name have no last wish with uncle?"

Xiujia patted Xiuzhen on the shoulder to comfort him and said, "This is already the best ending, it's better than Xiujiu being thrown to Bizen countryside with no one to rely on after we left."

If even the most senior family is not willing to do this, there is nothing to say over there, just treat the most senior family as an enemy, and Xiujiu's marriage will be sent to the Zhiyun Academy to cry with the Beizheng Office and the Dazheng Office, and His Highness Guan Bai will definitely not ignore it . "

"In a few days, it will be the peace ceremony. Within one month after the ceremony, we will complete several major events such as Hazel and the Hosokawa family, Senmaru Motofu entering the Utsunomiya family, and Utsunomiya Kaiyi. After these are completed, we will Just about to go.

The whole negotiation process can be said to be very smooth, with Xiujia, Xiuzhen and even Xiujiu all accompanying them as daimyos.

At the same time, on the other side, Hideyoshi issued an order to let Senmaru join the Shimono Utsunomiya family. Since this was an order from Guanbai, even if it was strongly opposed by Kunizun's younger brother Takatake Fanga as in history, this matter It is also unfairly changed.

If His Highness Guanbai must change the Utsunomiya family, is it okay for Senmaru to inherit Yuki, Ozeki, Nasu and other families? "

Xiujia felt funny when he heard Hideyoshi's face change.The knowledge and practice of the Utsunomiya family is 12 koku. If the hidden knowledge and behavior are true, the real knowledge and practice will cost more than 15 koku.

In this era, daimyo's Sinology literacy is generally not high. Even if they are as knowledgeable as Takakage Kobayakawa, at most they can understand what is written in Han, but they can't say it.

He was very smart, he waited until Xiuzhen and Xiu's family left, before Xiugang was in place, he made a move, wanting to show Xiuji his own strength.

He said directly, "Since the Dainagon family interceded for the Utsunomiya family, the Zhixing of the Utsunomiya family will be reduced to 4.2 shi and transferred to Shimono Otawara, and the adopted son of Toyotomi Neifu, Miko Senmaru repaired by Niwa Entered the Utsunomiya family, named Xiugang. The original lord here, Otawara Qingqing, transferred to Feng Xilianchuan."

Of course, all of this is what happened in Kanto after Hideyoshi left, and now the whole of Osaka is still immersed in a sea of ​​joy because Hideyoshi defeated Daming.

But the Utsunomiya family knew that they only had 4.2 shi, so how dare they put another super retainer with more than 2 shi in their body.

It's a pity that Hideyoshi didn't care about the situation of such a small daimyo at all. Asano Nagamasa, who just returned to Ibaraki, directly contacted the old Toyodo Takatora of the Toyoharu clan and the Lao Ben of the Koriyama clan many times, and they jointly strangled this little shrimp.

Combined with what he saw and heard in Osaka Port before, Xiujia's heart is very sure, the "bitch" that Shen Weijing said is not a princess of Ming Dynasty, it is Shen Weijing who is kind and kind if she is a woman from a good family.

Of course, there is still a small difference, that is, only 2 taels of silver was written in the imperial decree of Emperor Wanli, but it is certain that Xiujia heard that Shen Weijing brought 5 taels of silver, so the remaining 3 taels came from Where it is worth pondering.

However, if you can understand it, you can understand it, but Xiujia has no intention of tearing down Hideyoshi Terrace.

Hideyoshi just glanced at Hideyoshi who was dressed in the crimson official style of the Ming Dynasty and sat on the throne in a majestic manner, but the corners of his mouth were full of mockery.

(End of this chapter)