Prime Minister Bizen

The big names were quite critical of Ishida Mitsunari's decision to ask for a battle in the cold winter months. It is impossible for Ishida Mitsunari sitting in the banquet not to feel the hostility of everyone.

In fact, when these Kanto daimyos conquered North Korea for the first time, because they followed the Xiu family to Hamgyong and Gangwon provinces, their strength was relatively intact.

Turning around to look at Toyotomi Hidekatsu, President Konishi and others who were beaten into pig heads, how could this group of people under the Xiu family have to get credit for their meritorious service, and then get a seal of knowledge and practice?
But look at my leading elder brother Xiuzhen and Xiujia. After the first Korean War, they were obviously the two best fighters. In the end, they only got a certificate of acceptance. As the following daimyo, they can The gold and silver rewarded by Hideyoshi are indeed very good.

But this is not in line with the thinking logic of the samurai at that time?
As the saying goes: You are kind to the public, and the royal kindness and the public are inseparable.Now that I am honestly serving the public, and I am still opening up territories for you, where is your grace?
Hideyoshi's authority is too strong, and the daimyos dare not give this pot to Hideyoshi.So if there is no problem with Hideyoshi, there must be a problem with him.

"Guan Baiyang, there are courtiers by your side!"

In fact, at the beginning, the Tohoku daimyo didn't know who this pot should be withheld, because there were too many people around Hideyoshi.

But I can't stand the Kansai daimyo who keeps saying that I was slandered by Ishida Mitsunari. The key is that you Ishida Mitsunari did it.

For example: Kato Kiyomasa, as the general of the Second Army, is the colleague who has been with the Kanto daimyo for the longest time. His heroic performance in Hamgyongdo and Jianzhou Jurchen is obvious to all.

Among other things, capturing the two princes of North Korea and allowing Japan to have the name of intervening in North Korea is a great contribution.

But it was such a "loyal minister" who became a big villain who wantonly slaughtered the Korean people in the mouth of the "traitor" Ishida Mitsunari.

Corresponding to this is Xiujia. Although Xiujia tried his best to hide his actions, there are so many ships traveling between North Korea and Japan, and they are full of Koreans. It was told to Hideyoshi that the Hideo family resold people.

The attitude of the Japanese samurai class towards the matter of reselling people is actually very ambiguous, just like Mormont in "A Song of Ice and Fire". Everyone is doing this in private, but if anyone is exposed, it must be It will attract criticism from those around you.

Don't look at the records of later generations that Uesugi's sister is in this business, but there are wealthy merchants who make white gloves. He only takes prisoners on the battlefield and collects the ransom paid by the wealthy merchants.

And even though Takeda and Hojo declared their "notoriety" to the surrounding daimyo many times, Uesugi's sister never admitted it.

Now this matter has come to the Xiu family again.

Has Xiujia ever done it?That must have been done, but Xiujia will never admit it.

Facing the letter of inquiry sent by Hideyoshi, the Hideo family has always taken the population of North Korea away in the name of exiling the disobedient ministers in the migratory territory to Ezo.

This was permitted by you Hideyoshi ("Eizo Development Exemption"), if you insist that these people are not criminals, you, Ishida Mitsunari, have to show evidence!
So Ishida Mitsunari has been suing about this matter, but Hideka doesn't admit it, Mitsunari himself has no evidence, and Hideyoshi is willing to pretend to be confused, so Ishida Mitsunari has become a "sycophant" who falsely accused Dai Nayan in the eyes of outside daimyos.

Among those present, such as Nakagawa Hidemasa, Iwaki Ritaka, and Date Masamune, none of them had been sued by him for various reasons in North Korea.

Now it has only been more than a year since they returned to their skills from North Korea, and they are about to conquer the dynasty again. These big names have already complained a lot.

The arrival of Ishida Mitsunari forced these daimyos to brave the wind and snow in the northeast to travel south, and they naturally passed on all their dissatisfaction with Hideyoshi to him.

For example, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's emotions towards Ishida Mitsunari are more complicated, because Ishida Mitsunari handled the transfer of Hidehisa, and Hideyoshi took advantage of the opportunity before Hidehisa's transfer to Beiqian to re-divide the Toyotomi family.

Today's Toyotomi family has been sealed into 6 families, namely the Zongjia (Hideyoshi + Hideaki), Saitama Toyoharu family (Hideo), Mino Gifu family (Hideji + Hideho), Iwashiro-Koriyama family (Xiuzhen), Bizen Okayama family (Hidehisa), and Echizen North's dealer (Hidekatsu).

原来的岐阜150万家被强行分割为两个30~40万石的大名家，而原来的北之庄家被封为两个分别是30万石和100万石的大大名家。

You said that you won the first Korean war, and it’s fine if you add the title of acting general Xiuji, but Toyotomi Hidekatsu is a mess in North Korea. What can be transferred from 15 in Okayama to 30 in Beizhizhuang?

If his contribution is so great, then neither Xiujia nor Xiuzhen should add a more than 20 yuan.

The same is true of Toyotomi Hideho. No one has ever gone to North Korea. Why should the original Wakayama 5 koku be named a 10 koku daimyo?

Compared with the ebb and flow of family name and strength, Xiuzhen is more concerned about the usurpation of the title belonging to her adoptive father Xiuchang's family [Gifu family].

He didn't dare to lose his temper with Hideyoshi, and he couldn't see Hideji who usurped the family name of the [Gifu family] at this moment, so he naturally took all his anger on Ishida Mitsunari who actually handled the matter.

Ishida Mitsunari naturally knows how the people present have attitudes toward him, but Ishida Mitsunari doesn't care anymore at the moment, he has become a lone minister, only Hideyoshi's lone minister.

So in the middle of the banquet, Ishida Misachi took the initiative to bid farewell to Hideka and the daimyos, and went back to rest in the house arranged by Hideka.

After Ishida Mitsunari left, the daimyos no longer had any scruples about their dissatisfaction with him, and all began to talk about it behind his back.

As the host, Hideka was naturally on the sidelines trying to persuade the relationship with each family, but it was just pointing to the end, and sometimes he would express some dissatisfaction with Sancheng according to what the daimyos said.

It is worth noting that at this banquet, Hideka brought 9-year-old Asahi Chiyo and Zhaojumaru and 6-year-old Kohachiro with him.

At first, the Xiu family just wanted to introduce their sons to the daimyos when they wanted to show their friendship as landlords, but they did not expect that they would become an excuse for the Xiu family to ask the daimyos to pay attention to the scale of speech.

After the banquet was over, the Xiu family and his three eldest sons returned to black and white. He asked the three sons, "How did the banquet go today? Do you have any feelings or doubts?"

As the eldest son, and also the youngest and most pampered among the three, Kohachiro immediately said, "I haven't eaten such delicious food for a long time. I really thank you, Father, for your hospitality. It's just that once again, the uncles seem to be in a different mood." Not very good."

Xiujia looked at Xiao Hachiro and asked, "Then Hachiro thinks, why do they have such emotions?"

"It seems to be dissatisfied with that Ishida Osamu." Kohachiro thought for a moment, then replied in a childish voice.

Hideka said two words of praise to Hachiro, this problem will be over at his age.

Xiujia looked at even a slightly older son and asked, "You have heard some of the stories told by the elders, and you have also seen Ishida Jibu's reaction. Do you think Ishida Jibu is what they say is a courtier?" ?”

Shoujumaru answered first, "Since all the daimyos agree that Ishida Osamu is a courtier, I think you can't be wrong. After all, you adults have met many more people than your son, and you have your own judgments based on people and things."

Xiujia was not very satisfied with Zhaoshouwan's answer, he asked the children because he wanted to hear his own thoughts from their mouths, instead of following others like Zhaoshouwan.

But it can also be seen from his answer that this child is relatively simple, and will already be a qualified guardian daimyo in the future to help Xiao Hachiro guard the world.

He looked at Asahi Chiyo again, wanting to hear the answer from him.

Facing Xiu's gaze, Asahi Chiyo thought for a moment and said, "My son has never been in contact with Osamu Ishida, so it's not easy to make a judgment. If the father wants to get an answer from his son, please give him some time and let him go to verify it." .”

After hearing this answer, Xiujia looked at the oldest child in front of him in surprise. For a 9-year-old child, such an answer is indeed very good.

So the Xiu family asked him again, "Then how would you go for proof?"

Asahi Chiyo replied, "My child will go to his uncle (Masahiro Date) and uncle (Hidetoshi Toyotomi) for verification, and then ask the samurai and civilians below what they think of Ishida Osamu, and listen to his opinion. The story is judging."

After hearing this answer, Hideo nodded, but his expectations for him lowered a bit, and he asked Asahi Chiyo, "Isn't it enough for you to hear the judgments of the daimyos on Ishida Osamu today?
Don't you daimyos have more contact with Osamu Ishida than your uncle had with the samurai below?And how do you make sure what he says is true? "

Hideka's question obviously exceeded the CPU processing capacity of the 9-year-old child, but Shoujumaru said, "I see, that Osamu Ishida should be a big loyalist!"

His answer attracted the eyes of Hideo and the other two children. Under the questioning of Hideo, he replied, "My brother, I, and all the daimyos all say that Ishida Jibu is a courtier. If my father also thinks so You won't come to ask us for your opinion.

So my father thinks that Ishida Osamu is not a courtier, and the child doesn't know anything else, but he must believe in his father's judgment. "

Hearing his answer, Hideka laughed. In fact, this kind of answer still didn't reach the electronic level, but Hideka was relatively satisfied with Zhaojumaru's answer.

Seeing Xiujia couldn't hide his smile to him, Zhaojumaru pursed his mouth a little angrily, and asked Xiujia, "Father only knows how to ask us questions, but doesn't give us answers? Father hasn't Say what you think."

Xiujia stopped his smile, and the expression on his face gradually became serious. He looked at the three children and said, "Ishida Jibu is not a sycophant, he is a great loyal minister. He is loyal to His Highness Guan Bai, who is your Aye. He is indeed a courtier, because he is only loyal to His Highness Guan Bai."

Hearing the answer given by Xiujia, the three children scratched their heads incomprehensibly. Kohachiro even thought that Xiujia was playing charades with them, and guessed the answer behind it.

Xiujia wanted to end here, and the rest sent them to ask their teacher to pass it on.

But under the questioning of the other two children, Hideo said a few more words, "Whether Ishida Jibu is a sycophant or not is not important, as long as the world thinks he is a sycophant, he is a sycophant. Is Ishida Jibu a sycophant?" Important, people in the world need him to be a sycophant, and he is a sycophant."

After finishing speaking, he didn't give any further explanations. Instead, he took it as a homework and sent the three children to ask their teachers. Xiujia said that he would ask them again when he came back next time.

As a result, the next afternoon, after morning class, Yixin Chongchuan ran to Xiu's family and vomited bitterness to him, with the main idea being "Is it really appropriate for children to be exposed to these things so early?"

However, the Xiu family knows that time does not wait for others. Even if the Xiu family can win the final war, they will need their sons who have grown up in the end when distributing the benefits after the war.

Right now they really need to grow seedlings and speed up their daimyo education courses.

To be honest, Yixin Chongchuan already had an answer to this question in his heart, but how to explain it to the monk and his young children is indeed a problem.

Then I don’t know if he was deliberately retaliating. On the third day after the children got out of class, they went to Hideka who was studying the art of war and asked, "Father, Master Takaden asked us why we were with Ji and Daisuke (son of Fujido Takatora) ) and Josuke (the son of Baba Shikan) and they will obey our orders."

And Hachiro on the side also asked, "Shifan also asked me this question. He said, 'Why not only the samurai outside, but also the two elder brothers and younger brothers, and even Sado Mamoru will obey my orders.'"

Hideka didn't answer Asahi Chiyo and Shojumaru's questions, instead he hugged Kohachiro and asked with a smile, "Oh? How did you answer that?"

Xiao Hachiro said angrily, "I said, 'They didn't listen to me, they spanked my ass.'" After speaking, he pointed to the two elder brothers who tried to hide aside.

Seeing the mischievous appearance of the children, Xiujia suddenly felt the loneliness of his two lives as a child, which is not as happy as they are now.

But he also quickly realized that the minds of the two older children had not yet been engraved with the constraints of the clan.

Although in Xiu's opinion, this ancient bondage would stifle children's creativity, it was indeed the most important factor in maintaining the family inheritance.

[Separation is always born to support the clan. 】

This point of view is not something that can be settled with a few words of education. The Hide family needs to find something specifically for Zhaojumaru and Asahi Chiyo to remember for a lifetime, and pass it on to their children and grandchildren.

It's just that time is running out now, and the Xiu family will take people to the capital tomorrow morning, so they can only suppress this matter for the time being.