Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 693 Operation

Why does the Xiu family have to target the Nijo family, because he is the biggest victim of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's superior Kanbai. Originally, Kanbai circulated among the Kanshe three families, but Hideyoshi suddenly found an excuse to push him down.

Since then, Nijo Akira has been very close to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Historically, after Sekigahara, in order to separate the Kansho system from the Toyotomi Securities Department, Tokugawa Ieyasu made Nijo Akira's elder brother Kujo Kaneko the superior position of Kanbaro.

Therefore, the disposal of the Nijo family is not only to improve the family status of the Sanjo family, nor is it to vent their anger for Konoe, but more to weaken Tokugawa's influence in the court.

After seeing the emperor, there are still a few people from the Xiu family who want to meet, that is, the Guan Shewu family who once controlled the appointment of officials and monopolized the succession rights of the upper three.

The Konoe family, an old friend of the Hide family, was the first to say hello, but he was not in Kyoto at the moment. As early as the beginning of 1587, he lived in seclusion with Ashikaga Yoshiaki in Higashiyama Jizhao Temple.

This place is at the foot of Mt. Hiei, and Hideya sent someone to invite him back to Konoe's house in the middle of the night.

Born in the 5th year of Tianwen (1536), Konoe Kuaijiu is still healthy and strong, and looks a little tired after experiencing the wind and rain last night.

However, just as he made friends with Oda Nobunaga of Shangluo back then, the Konoe family has always been relatively friendly to the samurai family, or the samurai family that controls Kyoto, so it is no wonder that it will be said to be a shame to the public minister.

As soon as Xiu's family saw him, they saluted him, making the former Guan Bai who had already retired a little bit at a loss.The Xiu family explained, "You are my father Hideyoshi's adoptive father, and I am Hideyoshi's adopted son. It is only right for a grandson to salute you."

Xiujia's answer made Jinwei exclaimed "I can't do it, I can't do it." He stepped forward to help Xiujia up.Immediately, he asked Xiujia why he was recalled from Dongci Temple overnight.

And Xiujia also confided his thoughts to him at this moment: "I want His Royal Highness Longshan to succeed Guan Bai."

Since we made up our minds from the very beginning, to maintain the balance between Hideji and Shimaru for the time being, we have to let these two stand on the same starting line.

As the de facto ruler of the Japanese court after Hideyoshi implemented the policy of combining public and armed forces, [Sekibaro] has natural dominance over the daimyo under his command.

Whether it is Xiuji or Shiwan who succeeds Guan Bai, it is naturally much higher than others in terms of legal principles, which will undoubtedly break this peace.

But at this moment, this position is a hot potato, no matter how greedy the Xiu family is, they will not rush to do it.

If the Xiu family sat up, it is very likely that the other two sides will jointly hostile.Therefore, after thinking about it, the Xiu family still had to learn from the old tortoise in history and find someone to stand on top of them, temporarily separating Guan Bai's position from Toyotomi's family, in order to continue to carry out their plan.

In the current Japanese court, apart from Toyotomi's courtiers, there are only Guanshe Wujia who can become Guanbai's position.In the past, this position had always been circulated within the Gosho family. It was not until the appearance of Hideyoshi that there was another Toyotomi courtier's surname outside Fujiwara Takamon.

Now if this position is to be temporarily stripped from the Toyotomi regime, it can only be transferred among the five families, and the most suitable one is the Konoe family who has a certain relationship with the Hide family.

Among the current Guanshe five families, the former Guanbai Erjo Haruyo adopted his eldest son to the Kujo family, and the fourth son adopted to the Yingsi family who had been heirless for nearly 30 years, plus his second son inherited the Erjo family. Three of the five Guanshe clans are controlled by the Ertiao family.

A big family like this would definitely not dare to use Xiu Jia, so the candidates for Guan Bai could only be selected from Yi Yi and Jin Wei.It's a pity that Yiyi's family is now headed by Yi Neiji, who can't give birth to a son, and Yiyi's family is half extinct. The Jinwei family has become the only choice for the Xiu family.

"Is it Guanbai?" Konoe was undoubtedly surprised by the suggestion made by the Xiu family a long time ago, and then waved his hand to express his rejection, "I have not been Guanbai for many years, and now the position of Guanbai is in the hands of the Toyotomi family. It deserves it. If Your Highness wishes, I would like to advise the Emperor on your behalf."

However, the Xiu family rejected him very clearly: "The position of Guan Bai is not what I want."

"Then there are His Highness Gifu and Osaka."

Before Jinwei's voice was finished, Xiujiajia replied, "It's not what I want."

If the previous "not what I want" is Xiujia's evaluation of himself, then the evaluation of Xiuji and Shimaru in the latter sentence is a proper overstepping.

These words came out of Xiujia's mouth, and entered Jinwei Qianjiu's ears, and he was dumbfounded and speechless for a long time.

As a loser in past political struggles, after listening to Hideyoshi's words a long time ago, Konoe looked at Hideyoshi's words with a little bit of fear, and couldn't help feeling that the young man in front of him might be harder to deal with than Hideyoshi.

"Your Highness, you really are serious." Jin Wei couldn't come up with a suitable adjective for a long time before, but Xiu Jia added for him, "I am sincere?"

"Ah! Yes yes yes yes."

Xiujia didn't want to go around in circles with Jinwei Qianjiu, he said directly to Jinwei Qianjiu, "Mr. Longshan has been a former Guanbai, so it seems that there is no problem in resuming his post at such an urgent time."

"If Mr. Longshan is willing to take over this position, how about I help you to bring your son His Highness Shinsuke back from Kyushu?

To be honest, His Highness Shinsuke is now in my army. If His Highness agrees to my request, tomorrow he will be able to reunite with his son who has been away for many years. "

A long time ago, Konoe was excluded from Guanbai's succession because of the political failure of the public minister, and even his son Shinsuke Konoe had no possibility of taking the position.

It was not until Hideyoshi's appearance that Shinsuke Konoe won the high position of Minister of the Left. This was Hideyoshi's reward to the Konoe family.

But being squeezed out by the Gongqing family for a long time, and the power of the samurai headed by Oda Nobunaga reached its peak at that time, a seed of samurai power was planted in Konoe Shinsuke's heart.

Later, after Minister Zuo resigned, just as the Korean War started, he took the name of a warrior and secretly went to North Korea to join the army without telling others, hoping to make military achievements and obtain a territory for the Konoe family.

However, such behavior was considered by the ministers as a violation of the etiquette of the ministers, and Kikutei Haruki and Nijo Akimi stabbed him to Emperor Goyojo, and the world directly ordered Hideyoshi to prevent Shinsuke from crossing the sea.

The Konoe family was originally squeezed out by the government headed by Nijo Akimi because they gave the position of Kanbaku to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and cooperated with the Toyotomi family in the integration of public and martial arts, which led to the control of the imperial court by the samurai. It even directly squeezed the family status of Shinsuke Konoe's family and asked him to go to Satsuma to live in seclusion.

The current Nobusuke is named after Botsu, the place of exile, and is serving as a samurai under Yoshihiro Shimadzu's account.

In history, he did not resume his original surname of the Konoe family until the end of his father's life a long time ago, under the pity of the Emperor Goyojo, on the condition that his own son would join the Konoe family and served as Guanbai for a period of time. .

What's interesting is that when this guy was called Shinsuke Bozu, he followed Yoshihiro Shimadzu to participate in the Battle of Sekigahara. Both Tsu and Tokugawa have contributed to the survival of the Shimadzu family.

If there is any unfulfilled wish of Konoe in his later years, it is that the Konoe family has few heirs, the second son has already become a monk, and the only heir son is now deprived of Konoe's surname and can no longer inherit Konoe's house.

What he hates the most is that he wanted his second son to return to secular life and inherit the Konoe family, but was rejected by his old rival Nijo Akimi, together with Kujo, Takaji and other families. He just waited for your Konoe family to die so that another son of the Nijo family would be inserted In the past.

Thinking that not only was he defeated politically by his old opponent's son, but even his family property would be taken away by him in the end, Konoe was so angry.

But what is the solution?If you act better than others, you can only bow your head and admit defeat.

Originally thought that finding a backer like Hideyoshi would help the Konoe family regain some power, but Hideyoshi, a white-eyed wolf, forgot about his old father after becoming Guan Bai, and dismissed his son as a left minister.

It is undoubtedly undeniable for the Konoe family that Xiang Hideyoshi offered him the condition that Fang Jinxinsuke restore the name of the Konoe family.

But in the same way, Konoe also doubted whether your Xiu family has this ability a long time ago, can you really help him restore the family name of Konoe?
I'm afraid that your Xiu family was the only Hinata Mamoru back then, and you lost the world in just 10 days.

Regardless of Konoe's long-term concerns, the Xiu family directly said to him, "Longshan Temple is too worried, in fact, I have just been to the Imperial Palace once and met His Majesty the Emperor of Heaven in person.

I have already obtained an imperial order from him, which is an order of amnesty for His Highness Shinsuke. "

Xiujia said that he took a sealed and framed document from the attendant behind him and handed it to Konoe a long time ago. This is the order that Xiujia just asked the emperor to restore Konoe Shinsuke's family name.

Konoe took over Zhaoming a long time ago and unfolded it, he was very excited, his eyes were filled with tears, he looked at the Xiu family and said, "It's thanks to His Highness Danayan's dismissal, this friendship will never be forgotten by my Konoe family. "

"It's not just about letting your son restore the right to inherit the name of the Konoe family. To be honest, I have already requested His Majesty's permission to punish the arrogant and domineering Nijo clan, and ordered him to return the Kansei Eagle Division to the Konoe family. Restoration of surname, Ertiao family's request to be downgraded to Tsinghua family."

"Ah!?" Konoe couldn't believe what he heard a long time ago. After fighting with Haruyo Nijo for a lifetime, and finally being played around by his three sons, Konoe couldn't believe it. The Ertiao family, which is in full swing among the public officials, will be knocked to the ground one day.

In fact, everyone knows very well that the help of the Gongqing's family only has a face left, and the foundation has already been thrown to nowhere.

But for so many years, the face of Gongqing's family has never been completely torn off by outsiders, because everyone needs to rely on the righteousness of the court to criticize other powerful names.

Although there were disputes within the Gongqing, none of them had the strength to completely suppress the other party. In addition, the Gongqing's family was somewhat related, so there was still some room for retreat.

To give an example, the original operation between the Gongqing family was like the conquest among the countries in the Spring and Autumn Period, focusing on seeking hegemony, and not going back to destroy the country and exterminate heirs.

However, Xiujia's operation directly brought the progress of the dungeon into the Warring States Period, and it can be said that it was a drastic operation to directly lower the Erjojia's family status. No wonder Konoe was very surprised by Xiujia's move a long time ago.

"This matter has been approved by the Emperor." Hideka looked at Konoe Qianjiu confidently and said, "But the Emperor also said that the position of Wushou family cannot be vacant, and wants to find another high school to fill it."

A long time ago, the old man who had spent his entire life in political dungeons thought he had captured the thoughts of the Xiu family, so he spoke first and said: "I will wake up to this matter, and I will contact you as much as possible. Please send Toyotomi courtiers It is listed as one of the five photographs. Please rest assured, His Highness Da Nayan."

"If this is the case, I won't worry about it." The Xiu family retorted to him with a smile, "Since it is Guan She's family status that has declined, either choose another family from among the princes to descend to Guan She's family, or choose from Tsinghua's family to become Guan She's family." Find another family to be promoted to Guan Shejia, there is no reason to find a foreign surname to fill in. Do you think so, Mr. Longshan?"

"Really?" Jin Wei was a little confused by the Xiu family a long time ago, isn't the Xiu family doing this to pave the way for him to get the position of Guan Bai?How did you give up such a good opportunity again?

The previous article has explained the relationship between the Emperor, Fujiwara, Ping, Yuan, and Tachibana more than once.

Simply repeat, the emperor's legal right to rule Japan and his deified personality began to take shape after the Meiji Restoration in modern times.

In the Middle Ages, the official title of the emperor was Renhuang and Shenzi.He is the descendant of Amaterasu, the agent in the world.This should not be confused with the divine right of kings in Europe and America.

In ancient times, the emperor on the island of Japan was the priest with the greatest belief, and Fujiwara's original meaning was also the name of the sacrifice, which is similar to the belief in the supremacy of sacrifice in the Mayan civilization.

The biggest source of Genpei Tachibana's surname is the decline of the emperor's heirs. Why did they not descend to Fujiwara but have another surname? Naturally, it was because when the emperor was in the same Japan, they wanted to win over religious priests from all over the world (Fujiwara Shi) promised that the interests of the Fujiwara family would remain unchanged.

In ancient times, Japan was essentially a polytheistic alliance of priests and powers. The number of Fujiwara clans was fixed, and even the emperor could not change them. Therefore, the extra children of the emperor could only change their surname Genpei Tachibana to the owner of the samurai manor, similar to Kshatriya. .

In the Heian period, the envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty brought back the culture of the Tang Dynasty. For the first time, the emperor had the opportunity to reform the political system and established his supreme dominance over Japan.

But he still did not dare to infringe on the basic plate of other priests (the Fujiwara clan), which is the historical reason why the Fujiwara clan occupied the top rank of officials.

And what the Xiu family has to do now is to break the thousands of years of rules between the emperor and Mr. Fujiwara, and they have to break it themselves, and let them fight for that position.

Therefore, in addition to not providing a rational basis for Shiwan's succession to Guan Baifa and not wanting Toyotomi's courtiers to become Guan Shejia, the Xiu family is more to let the public officials tear off their masks and pave the way for the next reform.

"Your Majesty will issue a decree in the near future to let the families of the princes and ministers choose one of the seven gates of Tsinghua University to take over as a replacement. Mr. Longshan should seize this opportunity."

Jin Wei had been an hermaphrodite for a long time, so he immediately understood what the Xiu family meant.He tentatively said to the Xiu family, "The Idegawa family of the Gongqing family is mostly connected with the Toyotomi family. In the past, they have been serving as the samurai performers, and now they are not in the high position of the left minister. I heard that your wife, Her Highness Kiyohime, is his adopted daughter."

Before he finished introducing Juting Qingji, he already noticed the cold expression on Xiujia's face, and he already understood in his heart that Juting Qingji was the one that Xiujia was willing to choose.

But among the remaining family names, it seems that no one else has any relationship with the Xiu family!
But when he turned his head and glanced at the family crest on the body of the attendants behind the Xiu family, it seemed to be the sword-cut crest. With a flash of inspiration, he immediately understood what the Xiu family meant.

Then he said to the Xiu family, "Among the seven Tsinghua families, the Santiao family is the closest to Guan Sheben's family, and I think it is called the head of Tsinghua University. Since the Ertiao family has declined in family status, the Santiao family should be replaced most of all!" "

The words came out of Jinwei Qianjiu's mouth, and a smile finally appeared on Xiujia's face, Jinwei Qianjiu knew that he was finally right this time.

Xiujia neither admitted nor denied, but stood up from his seat and said to him, "Mr. Longshan is ready to prepare, His Highness Shinsuke will return to Kyoto by tomorrow at the latest.

It's just that the name Shinsuke is really unlucky, I think it's better to change it to Shinyin. [Yin] has the meaning of governing the country, which is very suitable for his identity as a housekeeper. "

"I have something to do, so I'll leave first. His Highness Longshan is also preparing for the court meeting in a few days. Take advantage of this time to think carefully about the final candidate for the replacement of Guan Shejia."

(End of this chapter)