Prime Minister Bizen

According to the general knowledge of the later generations of the Xiu family, and from Xiuzhen's few words, the Xiu family judged that Hideyoshi was likely to suffer from the "Mei Shi De" disease.

The disease was originally brought back to China by sailors and merchants from Luzon, and further back, it can be traced back to the European colonists who contracted it in America.

Xiujia remembered that during the Korean War, due to the weakening of the navy, Emperor Wanli ordered the conscripting of maritime merchant ships into the army, and even recruited many of the maritime merchant's own sailors.

The incubation period of this disease is actually very short, and skin ulceration will appear in 2 weeks to half a year.Shen Weijing just wanted to deceive Hideyoshi, it was impossible to find a sick woman before Ningbo went to sea, the disease was probably infected by other sailors on the ship.

Thinking of Hideyoshi's festering and festering appearance, Hideyoshi couldn't help but feel nauseous.

The key point is that the disease will also affect the brain in the third stage. The famous writer Van Gogh in later generations had so many unconstrained ideas because of the effect of syphilis. The bottom of the brain hole.

If the Xiu family really got this disease, it would be necessary for the Xiu family to transfer their wife and children to Kanto first.In case Hideyoshi had to operate on his wife and children that day, he didn't have any reason to go.

In fact, Xiujia finally got out of the ghost gate, and originally planned to ask Osaka to question Hideyoshi.

After all, Hideyoshi felt that the time for another conquest of North Korea was too sensitive, and it happened to be when he was with the Ming army.

To put it bluntly, when you Hideyoshi ordered the conquest of North Korea, did you ever think that Xiujia, Xiuqiu and others might be arrested by the Ming Dynasty and cut down the sacrificial flag?

For the sake of you, Hideyoshi, the Xiu family has indeed softened their attitude towards you a lot in the past two years, but it doesn't mean that the Xiu family really has no temper!

Hideyoshi, who escaped from Jianzhou, was already full of anger, and was about to go back to Kyoto to find Hideyoshi to make a statement, but they heard the news that Hideyoshi was suspected of suffering from the "Meishide" disease.

This directly caused the Xiu family to retreat, and the reason was very simple, would you go to fight with the spirit?Don't die!

"Hachiro is five years old too."

Xiuzhen was dumbfounded by Xiujia's sudden question, and didn't understand why Xiujia suddenly mentioned Xiujia's son Balang.

But soon Xiujia gave the answer, "A five-year-old child can start enlightenment. It's time to find a good teacher for him. I heard that the master Yixin Chongchuan of Kamakura Meiyueyuan is good. It's time to send him to Kanto Go to education."

Speaking of this, Xiuzhen also understood what the Xiu family meant, looked at her eyebrows and said, "That's right, your family and mine have been living in Kyoto for a long time since Tianzheng 18 years ago, and it has been 7-8 years now. It is also time for the children to go to the territory to familiarize themselves with the things in the territory."

Xiujia looked at the gradually disbanding army behind him and took up the conversation and said, "Wait here for a while, and we will go back when the wives and daughters return to the collar."

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Time came to the end of the 5th year of Wenlu. Due to the disasters in Japan, frequent visions, and abnormalities in his own body, Hideyoshi asked the emperor to change the era.

The emperor approved and decided to change Yuan Qingchang.

A few days after the change to the Yuan was confirmed, Hideyoshi held a Yuanfu ceremony for Tsurumatsu in Osaka.

Hideyoshi recruited Ashikaga Yoshiaki, a general who had been marginalized under house arrest, as Tsurumatsu Yuanfu, which seemed to mark a formal reconciliation between Hideyoshi and Ashikaga Yoshiaki.

Yoshiaki bestowed his own character, and Tsurumatsu officially changed his name to Toyotomi Hideaki.

A few days later, in the first month of the first year of Qingchang, Hideyoshi formally issued an order to go to Korea to the famous daimyos in Osaka Castle.

He ordered Toyotomi Hideaki to be the commander-in-chief in Osaka, and appointed Toyotomi Hideji as the deputy general to sit in Nagoya to mediate the various names;

Toyotomi Hideka, Toyotomi Hidetada, Kobayakawa Hideaki, and Toyotomi Hidekatsu were appointed as the generals of North Korea, and each general had 2 to 3 legions under his command.

The first to third corps under Hideka's command, the leader of the first corps is Kato Kiyomasa, with 5600 people, 6200 people attached to Shimadzu Yoshihiro, 3200 Kyushu daimyos including Shimadzu Toyohisa, Ito Nagami, and a total of 15000 troops people.

The head of the Second Army Corps is Uesugi Kagekatsu (Zendai Naoe Kanesuke), with 4500 people from the Uesugi family, 1000 people from Sanada Nobuyuki, Yuki Haruto, Utsunomiya Hidetsuna, Tagaya Shigetsu, Oda Ujiji and other Kanto minors. The daimyo have a total of 3000 people, Hori Hideji has a total of 2700 people, and Asano Yukunaga has 4200 Ibaraki people, and the total strength is 15400.

The commander of the Third Army was concurrently held by Xiujia himself, led by the Fengchun family each leading 15800 people, and the total number of the three regiments was 45200. The target was the Pinghuangdao Front Army. Cut off the connection between North Korea and Ming.

Toyotomi Hidetada established the Fourth~Fifth Army Corps under his command. The Fourth Army Corps was headed by himself concurrently. He led 3200 people from the Koriyama Domain, 2500 from the Satake Family Heira Domain, 3600 from the Mogami Domain, and 3000 people from the Nakagawa Family of the Aizu Domain. There are 1200 people from the Date family of the Dewa Ogawa Domain, 800 from the Dewa Akita Domain, 2050 from the Mutsu Nanbu Domain, 2100 from the other Iwaki, Soma, and Nakamura Ko domains, and the total strength of the Fourth Corps is 18450.

The general of the Fifth Army, Tokugawa Hidetada, led 8850 members of the Tokugawa family, 800 members of the Takeda family of the Kai Katsunuma domain, 500 members of the Yamauchi family of the Shinano Matsuzaka domain, 2100 members of the Shinano Matsumoto Castle Ikeda Teruma, and the Mikawa Yoshida domain. There are 1500 people loyal to the government, and 2500 people from the Tsutsui family of Mikawa Okazaki Clan, with a total force of 16250.

The Toyotomi Hidejeong Front Army has a total strength of 34700 and is organized as a North Korean support army. In the early days of the war, it was responsible for going south through Gangwon-do and coordinating with Kobayakawa Hideaki and Toyotomi Hidekatsu to capture Gyeongsang-do. Expand the invasion.

Hideaki Kobayakawa formed the Sixth~Seventh Corps under his command, and he himself served as the general general of the Sixth Corps. He brought 10000 troops from the Chikuzen Fukuoka Domain, 3000 Chikugo Tachibana Munemo, 1200 Harada Tongzuo, and 4500 Higo Konishi Governor The total strength is 18700 people.

Naoshige Nabeshima, the general commander of the Seventh Army, has 6500 members of the Ryuzoji family under his command, 4800 members of the Kuroda family under the leadership of Kuroda Nagamasa, Nobukatsu Mori, Yagen Matsuura Shinnobu, Soyoshi Tomo, and Kizen Omura. The subtotal of 4200 troops is 15500.

Kobayakawa Hideaki's total force was 34300, and he was the Gyeongsangdo Crusade Army.The goal is to crusade against Gyeongsang-do, attack and control Gyeongsang-do.

Toyotomi Hidekatsu led the Eighth~Tenth Army Corps, and the commander of the Eighth Army Corps was Mori Terumoto, who led 21000 people from the Mori Family Headquarters.

Toyotomi Hidekatsu served concurrently as the general general of the Ninth Legion. Under his command, there were 3000 members of Hokage Shojō, 1500 members of Toyotomi Hideho and the Wakayama Domain, 1300 members of the Awa Hachisuka Housekeeper, 4600 members of the Sanuki Ukita Kan family, and Tosa Yoshikawa. Yuanchang 1800 people, Tosa Chomune 1500 relatives, Higo Anguoji Keiqiong, Koide Yutaka and other daimyo troops totaled 3000 people, plus Ishida Mitsunari, Otani Kichitsugu, Takenaka Shigetoshi, Kakimi Nagao, Kumagai Zhisheng has 4400 people, and the Ninth Corps has a subtotal of 17800 troops.

General Commander Fukushima Masanori of the Tenth Corps, with 2500 under his command, Hosokawa Tadake 2000, Niwa Nagahide 1000, Sakuma Yoshimasa 1600, Maeda Toshinaga 4500, and others Otani Yoshitsugu and Ikomakazu There are 4000 daimyos including Masa, Wakisaka Yasuji, Sengoku Hidehisa, and Kato Yoshiaki, with a total of 15600 troops.

Toyotomi Hidekatsu's front army has a total strength of 54400 people. The goal is to retrace the old path that Konishi had walked before, and go northward to defeat Wang Jing Hanyang.

Then according to the situation, Chungcheong-do and Jeolla-do will be cleared, and when appropriate, go north to support the Xiujiaping Zodiac Front Army stationed in Pyongan-do.

Toyotomi Hideji, as the deputy general, sat in Nagoya, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Uesugi Kekatsu and other daimyos waited for orders with the remaining troops that had not been included in the first hand.

Long before Hideyoshi's order was issued, these troops had already assembled at Nagoya and stood by.The situation of Japan's regrouping of the army in Kyushu was quickly reported back to China by North Korea and Ming Dynasty through various methods.

But before they could react, Hideyoshi had already given the order to attack.But it is very difficult to actually run the order after it is issued.

Among them, the most difficult ones were Xiujia and Xiuzhen.There are a large number of daimyos from Kanto and Kyushu in the front army of the two of them, but after the failure of the previous conquest of North Korea, these daimyos have been disbanded and returned to the territory.

Like Kobayakawa, Yoshikawa and his like, the territory is in Kyushu, and it is easy to organize the army in one round trip.

But Xiujia and Xiuzhen's territory is too far away from North Korea. Even if other Northeastern daimyos, even if they start mobilizing immediately after receiving the order in August, and then lead people to Nagoya, they can barely make it in time, let alone Let alone Xiujia and Xiuzhen.

In addition, it has been many years since the two of them left the territory, how can it be said that they have not been in the territory as daimyo?

Just taking advantage of the opportunity to mobilize again to crusade against North Korea, Xiujia and Xiuji asked for leave, hoping to return to the territory to train the territory, and at the same time prepare the army for the battle.

After hearing this, Hideyoshi agreed, and Bing allowed them to board the boat directly at Wuhe and Xiaohama and go directly to Hamgyong Road.

Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi received the news that Hideyoshi was going to organize the Korean Crusade Corps in August of the fifth year of Wenlu. They wrote the memorial to Hideyoshi after their wives and daughters found an excuse to return to the territory. It was already October at this time. By the time Hideyoshi That's why they approved their departure in November.

When the two returned to Japan with their troops, they originally wanted to go to Osaka to visit Hideyoshi after Wuzuru logged in, but Hideyoshi urged the two to return to the territory directly, organize the army as soon as possible, and directly drove the company back.

In this way, the two took the boat again from Maizuru, landed in the territory of Echigo Uesugi’s family, and then returned to Fengchun City (Iwafu Castle) after a long absence via Shinano and Ueno. Go to Koriyama.

It has been 19 full years since Tianzheng’s drawings were formally established in 6 years and the rebuilding of Iwafu Castle began, and the time has also come to the first year of Qingchang (1597). Xiujia finally got to see this Fengfu Castle designed by himself. The whole picture of Spring City.

In fact, the construction of the Honmaru was completed as early as the third year of Wenrok (3). At that time, Kai Fei Ji, Shi Ji and other wives and concubines had moved from Kawagoe to Fengchun City with the children of the Hide family.

And two years later, the Ninomaru structure of Toyoharu City has also been completed, and the construction of the Sannomaru city wall has really begun.

The tower of Fengchun City was built extremely tall. On the Kanto Plain, even if it was more than ten miles away from Fengchun City, his majestic tower could still be seen.

The entire castle building is not as grand and luxurious as the Osaka castle. The entire wall is dominated by white walls and black tiles, which looks extraordinarily majestic.

Toyotomi's retainers, who had long heard that Xiu's family was coming home, stood outside the city to welcome them, led by the family's old Todo Takahu.

Looking at this middle-aged man who is nearly 40 years old, it has been 17 years since he became a retainer of the Xiu family.

He is no longer the handsome young man he used to be. Maybe it's because he's been in Ezo for a long time, or maybe it's because he's been working too hard to take over the position of the boss in the past two years, which has made his temples white.

"It's been a long time, Sado Mamoru." Hideka pulled up Todo Takatora who was kneeling on the ground like a friend he hadn't seen for many years, and comforted him, "You have really worked hard these past few years."

Fujido Takatora was sent by the Hide family to serve as the governor of Ezo after the Hide family transferred to Kanto, after the Ukita Kan family became an independent daimyo, and the Ukita Tadaka family was recalled from Ezo.

After staying in Ezo for 4 years, he was recalled to Kanto after the expiration of his term in the 4th year of Wenlu (1595) to replace the already aging Osafune Sadakin as the elder of the family.

He stayed with Osafune Sadakin for another year to study the government affairs of the Toyoharu family, and became familiar with the Kanto and Kibi retainers, and formally took over the seat of the elder of the writing family in the middle of the fifth year of Wenlu.

Takatora Fujido took over as the elder of the writing family, and the retirement of Masayuki Hanabou and Sadain Osafune officially announced that the era of the Nao family had completely passed away, and the current retainers were promoted by the Hide family over the years.

On the Ezo side, it was Kamei Tomoki who succeeded him as the governor, and he was also officially awarded the status of the elder's alternate.After Osafune Sadain retired, Osafune Tsunao, who was in the formation of the Ezo Road, was recalled together to take over as his father's elder, and of course he was an alternate.

Same as him is Akashi Quandeng, Akashi Jing retired earlier, in the 3rd year of Wenlu, he had already asked to retire, and Akashi Quandeng was called back by the soldiers to take over Iyo's position as the guardian of the old family.

However, Hideo kept an eye out and changed the direction of responsibility when he was appointed. He sent Kosai Kasei, who had made great contributions in North Korea but was getting weaker by the day, to Iyo to serve as the guard of the elders. Deng, the two best retainers of the Mesozoic Era, were all summoned to work in the Kanto, and now they are also welcoming Xiu's family outside Fengchun City.

Xiujia and Xiuzhen traveled all the way from North Korea to Tango by boat, from Echigo to Echigo, and then from Echigo to Shinano and Ueno all the way back to Kanto. not out.

The Xiu family ordered Fujido Takahu to bring all the ministers back, and asked him to sort out the plot of the Fengchun family over the years.

The main purpose of doing this is to allow Xiujia to rest for 2 days. He intends to wait for 2 days to recover and then call Fujido Takahu and the elders of the family to report the situation to him.