Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 695 Request from the North Political Office

After a round of talks, Juting Haruki took over the order from Hideka in a very sensible manner, and left Kyoto for Harima later that day.

And shortly after Juting Qingji left, the emperor of Luozhong issued a decree: saying that the world has been in turmoil for a long time because of the death of Kanbai Hideyoshi, and no one in the world is in charge of internal affairs.However, in the current eventful autumn, the former Guan Bai Jinwei was appointed to preside over the political affairs for a long time, and the two left ministers were promoted, and Guan Bai's position was weighted.

After all, Emperor Houyangcheng still did not directly give Konoe Maeku the identity of Guanbai, maybe he is also surveying the surrounding situation, if the Hide family's momentum is suppressed, he can take advantage of the trend to push Konoe Maeku and Hideo together go out.

However, Konoe's reaction speed was much faster than that of the emperor a long time ago, and his first order after he took the position of Kanbaro was to ask Nijo Akiyoshi to occupy Takashi's house as an excuse to ask Takaji Shinbo to return his original place of residence.

Nijo Akira and Takashi Shinbo were fooled by Konoe's sudden move a long time ago. He wanted to enter the palace to defend himself to the emperor, but was blocked by the guards sent by Hideka to the emperor.

Nijo Akira thought that the guards guarding the Yumen were guards from the Habayashi family, and in desperation he wanted to attack the Yumen, but was arrested by the retainers of the Hide family outside the Yumen.

Konoe seized the opportunity a long time ago, and participated in Nijo Akiyoshi's book again, saying that he was arrogant and domineering, insulting the emperor and other officials, and he needed to be severely punished.

The emperor directly ordered Erjo Zhaoliang to live in seclusion in Luozhong, and let Erjo Xinfang, who had returned to his hometown, serve as the governor of the Erjo family.

This step is tantamount to blowing up the old nest of Gongqing. The balance between the royal family and Gongqing has been broken for thousands of years. The so-called family status is left by the ancestors thousands of years ago. How can your emperor move at will?

If you want to move, you can only add another one, just like the Kuga family and the Daigo family, how can you move the famous family that was inherited from the previous year!
The ministers gathered outside the Imperial Palace in groups of three and four, wanting to ask the emperor for an explanation, in fact forcing the emperor to take back his order.

Since Nijo Akiyoshi is being detained in the Imperial Palace at the moment, it is actually his elder brother Kujo Kanekyo who presides outside the palace.

Looking at the excited ministers behind him, Kujo Kanekyo had an expression of victory.He secretly decided in his heart not only to let the emperor withdraw his order and apologize, but also to make Konoe pay the price a long time ago.

But he didn't know that all of this was operated by the Xiu family in secret. At this moment, the ministers gathered outside the imperial gate, and it happened that the Xiu family in the province went to inform them one by one.

They waited outside the palace for a long time, and finally saw the waiter came with the order of the emperor, but the order brought by the waiter was not what they thought, but the emperor asked one of the seven families in Tsinghua University to be promoted as Shut down the house and let the ministers propose orders.

As soon as this decree was issued, the attitudes of the Tsinghua family, who had been following behind Kaneko Kujo's buttocks and shouting, were the first to change.You look at me, I look at you.Both saw the desire for superiority in each other's eyes.

After all, the highest official rank of the Tsinghua family is usually no more than the Minister of Internal Affairs, but the Guan She family has a chance to reach the top, and the Toyotomi family's conditions for supporting the Guan She family and the Tsinghua family are different.

Guan She's family has 500 stones for nourishment, while Tsinghua's family only has 300 stones. The annual rewards Guan She's family has are 1000 guan in copper coins, gold and silver discounts, but Tsinghua's family only has 300 guan.The difference of 700 guan is enough to support another Tsinghua family.

So when the emperor's order was issued, the Tsinghua family took the lead in changing their attitude, and found various reasons to say goodbye to Kujo Kaneko.This is their once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to go back to work.

There are two families in the minister's family, namely the Santiao Xi family and the Si Tiao family. The Santiao Xi family is from the Santiao family. When they saw that their elder brothers had left, they followed suit.

The Sitiao family has nothing to do with the Santiao family, and the key point has nothing to do with your Jiutiao family.At present, the Tsinghua family is leaving at random, and most of the Habayashi family below are from the Tsinghua family, and they all left with the Tsinghua family.

The minister who was clamoring outside the imperial gate to see the emperor to make a statement, unexpectedly scattered like a bird and beast following a written order, leaving Kujo Kaneko who had just been instigated there just now.

This is also the reason why the Xiu family must let this replacement spot be selected from the Tsinghua family.

If this quota is foreign, the ministers may protest with the enemy.But when this quota is selected from within, it is like two peaches killing three warriors, causing their originally strong alliance to collapse from within.

There are still 3 days left for the formal court meeting, and the Xiu family doesn't have the time to manage the affairs of the minister. At this moment, he is meeting with the extremely important people in Ertiao City, which he packed up.

"Baby Hachiro, I have met my mother." Hideka saluted the woman sitting on the main seat of the imperial steps, and on his right was a handsome young warrior.

This lady is the nominal mother of the Hideyoshi family, Hideyoshi's first wife Beizheng Suo Ningning.And the handsome samurai who attacked her was her nephew Kobayakawa Hideaki who was specially approved to sit there.

"The child is unfilial, and the mother is frightened." Although the Beizheng Office has asked the Xiu family to get up, the Xiu family still humbly apologized to him and said, "The child is late, but luckily the mother is fine."

In fact, Ning Ning of the Beizheng Institute has indeed been having a bad time in the recent period.

Although nominally going to Yongquan Temple to become a monk, in fact he was kicked out by Hideyoshi.Even when Hideyoshi and Hideaki died suddenly, she only knew about it through Toyotomi Banner, who was in charge of them.

He wanted to go back to Juledi to see Hideyoshi for the last time, but was rejected by Chacha.With Xiuzhao's death, Chacha still has Shiwan in her hand, but Ningning has no chips in her hand.

As the saying goes, a mother is more valuable than a child, as long as you have Shiwan in hand, Chacha can act as the supervisor of the family.

Of course, Ning Ning is the mother of all Hideyoshi's children in legal terms, including Hideji and Hideo's family, both of whom are Ning Ning's children, and so is Shimaru.

Of course, as the mistress, she can supervise the government behind the curtain at the same time, but judging from historical performance, Ning Ning, a woman born in the countryside, can't compete with Chacha, a woman who was born as a famous princess.

Ning Ning, who was sitting on the main seat, responded to the Xiu family: "It's a good thing you're back, otherwise you and I may never see each other again in this lifetime."

"Mother, worry too much." Xiujia comforted Ningning, "Brother Sun Qi is also fighting for Mother in Harima.

"This time I came back mainly to appeal for peace between the two parties. After all, this is the world ruled by my father, and I shouldn't return to the chaos after the Yingren Rebellion because of internal strife."

Ning Ning nodded in satisfaction when she heard Xiujia's answer and said, "These are all things that you men are in charge of, I don't quite understand. But Hachiro, you have never been a worry, and you will definitely deal with it properly. Fujikichiro's I can rest assured that the world is in your hands."

When Xiujia heard Ningning's answer, she suddenly raised her head and wanted to explain that she didn't come here for the world, at least not this time.

But looking at her eager eyes, after all, he couldn't bear to pour a basin of cold water on her at this time.

The most important thing is that the current Xiu family needs Ning Ning to give him a righteous name. At this time, he said to her, "No, I plan to support Shiwan to the top." I'm afraid it will make Ning Ning even more unacceptable.

So the Xiu family responded to her, "Then please ask your mother to write a letter and send it to the Osaka and Himeji defense lines, persuading both sides to turn hostility into friendship."

Ning Ning now has great trust in the Xiu family, and accepts all invitations from the Xiu family, and soon wrote two letters with monograms and handed them over to the Xiu family.

The Xiu family took a look at it after taking it. The tone of the letter to Xiu Ci was relatively soft, and the words were full of appreciation for his performance, and let him come back as soon as possible to rule the world together with the Xiu family.

However, the letter to Daban Chacha was a bit fierce. It was full of accusations that it had broken the etiquette system, and it was the duty of the Toyotomi family to oppose it. Chacha should admit her mistake early, and the next one will be united by her Beizheng Office The two Toyotomi daimyos and the five big bosses discussed Hideyoshi and Hideaki's afterlife and the handling of various affairs in the world together.

No matter how you look at it, you feel that this letter is going up in flames, but the Xiu family is not good at returning this letter. They can only use the reason that the diplomatic words need to be modified, and ask the subordinates to change it before handing it over to Ning Ning. .

Kobayakawa Hideaki is Ningning's nephew, and she was exiled to Yongquan Temple with her before.Now that he was brought back to Kyoto, Ning Ning was naturally concerned about the future of Himeji's brother and his nephew.

Hideka explained to him, "Master Nagon Hashiba has meritorious service in strictly guarding Himeji Castle. I have recorded this matter. If this incident happens here, it will be rewarded together with the meritorious daimyo in North Korea. It is absolutely no problem to double your knowledge and practice."

Don't look at Kinoshita Isada's control of Himeji Castle, his knowledge is actually only 2.5 koku, and this castle is also the Harima Kingdom's Minate Castle.It was only because of his special relationship with Hideyoshi that he was awarded the high position of Nayan among the three and the status of Himeji Joyo.

But just as Hideyoshi only gave him 2.5 shi, the Kinoshita family, who was born as a farmer, had the ability to do so, but his loyalty was not enough.

In the past, he followed Hideyoshi for almost 30 years, and only gradually increased his seal to 2.5 shi. Now the Xiu family directly doubled him to 5 shi, which is really a hard increase.

You must know that he did not have the slightest credit for this matter, and it is really a generous reward to be rewarded with double knowledge and behavior after the war.

But Ning Ning was not very satisfied with the bargaining chip that the Xiu family gave. After deliberating for a while, she still asked the Xiu family, "Is there only 5 shi?"

The Xiu family really couldn't add more, and more importantly, they couldn't figure out Ningning's psychological value, so they simply asked her how much she thought the Kinoshita family should be sealed.

Unexpectedly, he opened his mouth and said directly, "Himeji is an important city of Toyotomi's family. My brother has done a great job in guarding Himeji. Isn't it worth the reward of 10 stones?"

Good guy! 10 stone!

Xiujia couldn't help but gasp when he heard this condition, and dared not respond to Ningning for a long time.

Ning Ning also seemed to realize that the price he offered was a bit high, and she could still use the Xiu family's place at the moment, so she said to the Xiu family, "It's me, Meng Lang, a woman, please don't mind Hachiro. My brother's last reward Exactly how much is still up to you and the ministers to decide."

The Beizheng Institute has told you what is in their hearts, what else can the Xiu family say?He can only promise to Ningning that he will give the Kinoshita family a good treatment.

Ning Ning didn't bother about his brother's award anymore, and turned the topic to Xiuqiu, "I think the handling of North Korea's affairs was biased, Jin Wu is always at fault, and he shouldn't be deprived of all his abilities.

For Fujikichiro to make such a decision, there must be someone bewitching people in Fujikichiro's ear.Driving Jin Wu and me out of Juledi is the best proof. "

The Xiu family had originally planned to take action against some of the Omi faction daimyos, and Ning Ning's words gave the Xiu family the legal right to do so, as if they had a Shang Fang sword.

Look at the widow of Lian Guanbai, the mother of the new governor Shiwan, Beizhengsuo (Chacha is the biological mother, not the legal mother) all said that they want to strictly investigate the traitors in the family, let's see who dares to stop it!

As for how to determine the scope of the final attack, it all depends on the political operation of the Xiu family.

So when Ning Ning said this, the Xiu family immediately responded: "Yes, the boy thinks so too, this matter is on the boy's shoulders, the boy will definitely investigate and deal with this matter, find out the traitor and deal with it. "

Ning Ning was very satisfied with the Xiu family's attitude, nodded her head to express her approval, and then continued, "It's not enough to just investigate and deal with traitors, Jin Wu's grievances should also be washed away."

"That's exactly what I'm going to say." The Xiu family stepped forward and said, "I'm planning to restore Jinwu's territory in Chikuqian. I wonder what my mother thinks?"

The Kobayakawa family was feudalized with 42 shi before the reform, and it is the largest daimyo in Kyushu.

Such a big name will actually affect Xiujia's future operations, but now is the critical moment to win over others. Even if the price offered at the end is not valid, it will be enough to win the closeness of others.

Tokugawa Ieyasu in history is like this. Originally, Kobayakawa’s family and Kobayakawa Takakage’s pension funds totaled only 37 koku. He directly promised 59 koku to Kobayakawa’s family. In the end, 39 koku of Chikuzen was actually implemented after all parties worked together. Only 6.5% of the original promise.

However, the word around still makes Kobayakawa's retainers grateful to him.During the Battle of Sekigahara, when Hideaki Kobayakawa was struggling, it was these elders who made the choice for him.

Hearing that he could recover his skills, Hideaki Kobayakawa happily expressed his gratitude to the Hide family, "Thank you so much, brother."

On the contrary, Ning Ning seemed dissatisfied with this arrangement, he frowned and repeated the answer, "Is it 42 stones before the building?"

"Mother, do you think there is something wrong?" Xiujia asked him tentatively.

"No, it's just that I'm old and like to stay with children. The place in Chikuzen is too far away, and there's no place nearer for Jinwu?"

Xiujia is extremely emo in his heart at the moment, why didn't he realize that Ning Ning had so many things before?What she meant was to let Xiuqiu transfer to Kinki.

But the Kinki area was used to block Xiuji's mouth, so how could there be a land as large as 40 shi to house Xiuqiu?

Besides, if Xiuqiu is placed in Kinki, so close to Shimaru, will Chacha and Ishida Mitsunari agree?

In the end, the Xiu family could only pursed their lips and said, "I will try my best to deal with this matter, but the land of Kinki was previously the hiding place of His Highness Guan Bai, and it was used to reward Jin Wu, and it has to get the approval of many parties."

"No problem, I'll wait for good news from you, Hachiro."

After finally finishing the meeting with the Beizheng Office, Xiujia hurriedly bid her farewell and left, as if she was about to escape from the tiger's mouth, fearing that if she was a step too late, she would make some unbelievable demands again.

(End of this chapter)