Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 698

Katagiri Kazumoto knew that what the companions he had said in this matter was not very appropriate, which made everyone present dissatisfied, and also made him fail in the negotiation.

It's just that he and the person he brought represent the one in Osaka City. Even if his companion makes a mistake, it's a matter behind closed doors, and he can't cause internal strife in front of outsiders.

But he doesn't think he's lost.In his view, the Toyotomi family occupies the natural political commanding heights, only the public can promise rewards for knowledge and deeds, and what Hideka and Hideji have issued is nothing more than a blank check.

So he changed his mind, and said to the Xiu family and the daimyos present, "I understand what your highness means and worries, and it is precisely because of this that I came to your highness!
His Highness has lived in North Korea for a long time, but none of the five big men in the world support His Highness Gifu. Even if the two sides confront each other in Harima, our side still has the upper hand.

If your highnesses can express their hearts as soon as possible and help the government to fight against the disobedient ministers, the land government of the rebellious ministers in Kansai will certainly not hesitate to reward them. "

This move is still a tactic of alienation. Since your Hide family puts a high hat on them and speaks morally, then Katagiri Kazumoto wants to make the daimyos here proceed from reality, use real land seals to fool these daimyos, and poach corners from Hide's side.

"Your Highness also made a decision that morning. His Highness Maeda's Etsuchu army has come to support, Uesugi and Tokugawa two big men followed closely. At that time, the public will have 20 soldiers. Even without your participation, the rebellion in Gifu can be quelled." , everyone, don’t miss this opportunity!”

Not to mention, just listening to Katagiri Kazumoto's words is indeed so tempting. After all, in his words, Osaka occupies the world's righteousness inside, and has a powerful name outside as an Olympic aid. It is only a matter of time before he wins.

Without Xiujia's intervention, the fact seems to be the case.

But all the daimyos here are aware of the existence of Hideka's arrangement, and naturally know that the forces of Maeda, Uesugi, and Tokugawa may not be able to reach Kyoto in a short time, so they just laughed at Katagiri's temptation.

Katagiri Kazumoto didn't understand what went wrong, and why all the daimyos present reacted in this way.

In his understanding, these big names, including Hideka, should have just returned from North Korea. They know little about the current intelligence of Japan, and they may not know the ambiguous attitudes of Uesugi and Tokugawa, so they want to use this to intimidate the unsteady factions present. .

Fortunately, Xiujia answered him very soon, and Xiujia said to him, "It's too much for Shi Zheng to scare me with this. From my point of view, the above three companies you mentioned probably won't come to support me." .”

Katagiri Kazumoto's eyes suddenly shrank when he heard what Xiujia said, and he glanced around to find the answer, and quickly responded to Xiujia: "I said why didn't I see His Highness Koriyama? Your Highness has already made preparations."

"At this moment, His Highness Koriyama may have led the Kanto Daimyo's army to attack from left to right, holding His Highnesses Tokugawa and Uesugi!" He even felt like gnashing his teeth when he said this.

In fact, just as he guessed, the Xiu family did let Xiuzhen make some moves in the Kanto area, but they didn't send troops across the border as he said.

Because once troops are dispatched to cross the border, it is equivalent to a formal full-scale war.What Xiujia said to Xiuzhen and Fujido Gaohu in the letter was always to let their Chen Bing frontier keep the attention of the above two people.

As long as there are no soldiers crossing the border, the Xiu family will occupy the commanding heights morally, so naturally they dare to take Katagiri Kamoto back directly.

"The city is misunderstood. I mean, don't think that we can fool us because we are no longer in Japan. Let alone whether the Maeda army can go to Los Angeles. Any clarification please!
Since they did not express their position clearly in the past, they will not express their position after my letter and the emperor's order are delivered.This is what I said, the reason why the two will definitely not go to Los Angeles. "

Xiujia's explanation is actually very reasonable. Tokugawa and Uesugi really want to intervene, and they have already led troops to kill Shangluo.

The reason why the two sides expressed their support for Osaka on the surface, but did not take actual actions, is not because both sides have their own reasons, and the two sides are evenly matched, making people up for grabs!
Katagiri Kazumoto saw no results with moral persuasion and lure Hideka to join the Osaka camp against Hideji, so he could only give up the idea of ​​continuing to persuade Hideka to end. The emperor asked for the imperial decree to crusade against Xiuji.

Even though the emperor was in the hands of the Xiu family at the moment, the Xiu family had no reason to block other daimyo's requests to meet the emperor, at least on the bright side.

Xiujia could only say, "As long as the city is requesting a performance according to the procedure, it is natural to meet the Emperor after obtaining the emperor's permission." A trial is over.

Katagiri Kazumoto stayed in Kyoto for 2 days, and wanted to meet the emperor with the relationship of the public minister.But at this time, the Tsinghua family is busy with internal investigations about who can be in charge of the Guan family. How can they have the time to take care of you, a big name outside?

Not to mention a daimyo who has a conflict of interest with the Hide family, who is now in charge of Kyoto, so faced with Katagiri Kamoto's request, both the Tsinghua family and the Seki She family rejected it. Qi Yuan threw out an olive branch.

You must know that Erjo and Toyotomi's family had conflicts, and because of Guan Bai's position, the two families had a very ugly quarrel at the beginning.

However, times have changed and the enemy's enemy is a friend, and the Nijo family also took the initiative to move closer to the Toyotomi family.Coupled with the Tokugawa family who have been on the line for a long time, the arms of the Erjo family are really far enough.

But it is a pity that the Nijo family was punished just now, and the current family status is vague, and the emperor did not accept their request to meet.

Fortunately, there is a relationship between Erjo and Kujo's family, and Katagiri Kamoto finally met the Emperor through the Kujo's family.However, before the request was made, the emperor scolded him and asked Osaka to negotiate peace with Gifu as soon as possible to restore stability to the world.

Katagiri Kazumoto failed to get a satisfactory answer in Kyoto on the 2nd day, but before leaving, he saw Maeno Kesada, the son of Maeno Nagayasu, who came to negotiate on behalf of Shuji in Kyoto, and one of Shuji's elders.

His appearance alerted Katagiri Kamoto, but not long after, the Hide family sent someone to send Kyoko Takashi, the daimyo of Hachiman Yamashiro, and Tomita Nobudaka, who went to North Vietnam to deliver the letter.

You must know that in Hideyoshi’s initial conformation, Hideyoshi, Tokugawa, and Uesugi looked at each other, while Hideyoshi was sitting in Gifu as the second line of defense, and Jing Gao, as Chacha’s brother-in-law, was sitting in Hachimanyama Castle was Hideaki’s last line of defense .

Now that he is being sent back together with Tomita Nobudaka, it also represents the fact that Hachiman Mountain Castle has been occupied by the Hide family, and Hachiman Mountain Castle is located on the side of Lake Biwa, which is an extremely important strategic location.

The fall of Hachimanyama Castle means that the Hide family has a very stable base in the Omi area. In addition to the Yamashiro area already controlled by it, it can be said that the Hide family has completely cut off the roads of Maeda, Uesugi, and Tokugawa.

In addition, the fall of Hachimanyama Castle also cut off the rear roads of Otani Yoshitsugu and Shima Sakon, who had been sent to Gifu to block Hideji's reinforcements, and blocked the relevant food transportation routes.

Although this 6000-strong army is not the main force, they shoulder extremely important strategic tasks.

If it is defeated by the Gifu Legion because of this, then the more than 2 Gifu Legion under Hideji may join forces with Hideka in Luozhong to encircle Osaka from the east and west sides before the reinforcements from Maeda, Uesugi, and Tokugawa arrive.

At that time, Osaka will be in danger!

Katagiri, who was in a critical situation, had no time to think about it, and immediately took the two of them back to Osaka to report the situation.

At the same time, at the place where Hideka met Katagiri Kamoto earlier, he saw Maeno Kesada, the envoy sent by Hideji's side.Like Katagiri Kazumoto, he also came to test Hideka's attitude.

It's just that different from Katagiri Kamoto's arrogance, Hideji's side knows some of the situation in Kyoto through Kikutei Haruki, and also knows Hideka's true thoughts, and his attitude towards Hideka is not as high as Katagiri Kamoto.

But the process still has to go, still ask Xiujia to confirm whether he has the idea of ​​becoming a man of the world, and after getting a negative answer, ask Xiujia whether he would like to join hands with Xiuci to attack Osaka.

According to Maeno Kagesada, Hideji admired Hideka very much, and even made a condition that all the people from the east of the thick tail should return to Hide’s family, and the two sides would share the world equally.

Xiujia has never quite understood why someone would offer such a condition to a potential enemy. There are still so many [smart eggs] in history who would choose to trust and accept it.

Don't they all know that power is selfish?

Putting all these aside and discussing the facts, now you Xiuci are at a disadvantage, logically, you should come to win me over, and the conditions should be favorable to our side, even if the world is divided equally, it should be biased towards the Xiu family.

Since you are reluctant to bear children, how can you get the big bad wolf like Xiujia?
Hideka immediately rejected Hideji's proposal relayed by Maeno Kesada, and once again stated his firm position to him, and asked him to let go of his prejudices as soon as possible.

To be honest, this is not what Toyotomi Hideji expected, but the Hide family's attitude now is to maintain a balance between the two sides, and they are not willing to let go, and they are unwilling to join any one.

At the end and at the end, just like Katagiri Kamoto used the information gap to deceive and intimidate Hideka, Hideka still used the information gap to say to Maeno Kesada here, "I am brothers with His Highness Gifu, and I am for His Highness Guanbai out of public interest." I really disagree that the unified world will not fall apart again. Out of selfishness, I don't want him to perish on the wrong path.

His Highness Gifu has been trapped in Akashi for more than a month, and the daimyos in Kanto who have not expressed their views are already ready to move.Now that I'm on the sidelines, maybe I can temporarily deter them.

But it is impossible to drag on like this forever. After Uesugi and Tokugawa's army ascended to Luo, even these daimyos in my hands may occupy the opposite side of the Gifu Temple.

Besides, His Majesty's order to cease fighting has already been issued, if you both stop fighting here, it will be enough to set an example for the world.If you ignore it, you are undoubtedly telling the world's famous names, and you are trying to reproduce the chaos of Yingren.

At that time, people with ulterior motives will spring up like mushrooms after the rain. Even if the three of us work together, it will be difficult to deal with it. In today's world, where can you still see such masters as Ashikaga, Shiba, and Hatakeyama back then?
After you go back, you still have to warn His Highness Gifu, let him make a decision early! "

Maeno Kesada was just a messenger, and he couldn't make a decision for Toyotomi Hideji.But after going through this round of dialogue with Xiujia, he admires Xiujia from the bottom of his heart and is willing to believe what Xiujia said.

After all, whoever possesses such outstanding abilities as the Xiu family, who controls a large army in the world, and also controls the people in Kyoto, does not want to swallow the world and take both sides down, but wants to persuade both sides, It is really not in line with everyone's personality of such a strong name.

Where did they think that what Xiujia thought was farther than what they thought.

Xiujia very much hoped that the two sides could reach an agreement on this, but shortly after the two left, Osaka and Kokubo sent people to ask Xiujia whether they would really not intervene in the war between the two sides.

The answer given by Xiujia is also very clear, since the emperor must have given the imperial order, he will try his best to maintain the peace between the two sides.Unless the two sides can decide the outcome as soon as possible, then they will speak with strength. If this delay continues, then he can only lead troops to maintain peace.

Xiujia knew very well that when both sides sent people to ask him this question, it meant that neither side really wanted to let go of the peace talks. At this time, he could only be hurt by forcing them to make peace talks.

You must know that at this time, the two sides have finished their first Akashi decisive battle, and both sides have lost a lot, but still no one chooses to make concessions.

The Xiu family could only let them fight one last time, and this time it was undoubtedly going to be a real hit.

But for the Xiu family, this is more in the interest of the Xiu family. The harder the two sides are torn apart, the greater the loss they will suffer.

If it is closer, it will increase the initiative of the Xiu family in the negotiation, if it is farther away, it will surprise the power of the Xiu family in this political balance, and the Xiu family even wants to add fire to both sides.

So for this time limit, Xiujia gave a deadline of 15 days.Although both parties hoped that Hideka could extend the time, this was the day when Hideka died. Such an attitude would undoubtedly increase Kinki's tension.

Because time is limited, the winner must be determined as soon as possible, which makes the two sides have to draw their old cards in a decisive battle.

The best result is that Osaka's elite will be exhausted, and then they will all be buried under Akashi Castle, while Hideji's side will end in a bloody defeat.

At that time, Xiujia will be the only new force near Kyoto. Facing Osaka City, which has only a small number of troops stationed, it is reasonable to occupy the world with any promises and martial arts.

(End of this chapter)