Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 701 Negotiations

The Hide family sent Maeda Toshie away, and they had to go to another house, where Toyotomi Hideji's envoy, Maeda Kagesada, had been waiting for a long time.

Xiujia offered him similar conditions to Osaka, that is, to restore peace between the two sides, punish the instigating courtiers, and redistribute the political structure.

Maeno Jingding quickly returned to Arioka Castle with Hideka's attitude, and the two sides returned to a stalemate.

Judging from the information from Xiu's side, the reaction from Osaka's side was extremely intense.Everyone in Osaka Castle was looking forward to the triumphant return of Maeda Toshiie, but he brought back an unacceptable condition.

"That guy Toyoharu must be involved with Gifu. On the surface, he said that in order to maintain peace, he actually wanted to take Mrs. Yodo off, and hold the lord (Xiuri has already taken over) to control the world!"

"He also said that I was a traitor. If it wasn't for Settsu Shou to help me, I would have become the soul of the rebel Hideji long ago!"

Some people said, "But now that the emperor has issued an edict, and all the famous names in the world are standing at the Fengchun Palace, what else can we do besides negotiating peace?"

Under the atmosphere, even Chacha couldn't help holding Xiuli and crying: "Guan Bai! Open your eyes and see! They bullied our orphans and widows right after you left!"

As soon as Chacha's voice fell, the [plop] voices in the hall fell to their knees, and Ishida Mitsunari took the lead in responding, "Your Highness, I will never let you suffer this humiliation!"

Xiuli's close attendant, Nagaji Ono, couldn't bear Chacha's humiliation, so he fell down and asked him, "Ma'am, let me take someone to see His Highness Tokugawa, and I will definitely bring back reinforcements from the Tokugawa family!"

As soon as his words fell, Hayami Shoujiu, one of the Seven Hands, retorted: "Tokugawa has clearly expressed his support for Toyoharu Dainagon! Now they are in the same group! Don't repairs know about this!"

After finishing speaking, he asked Chacha for instructions, "Since Fengchun Palace has guaranteed the legal succession of the lord's family governor, it has already given us a guarantee. As for the matter of punishing courtiers, since Fengchun Palace promised that there will be big bosses, middle-aged elders, and ten people There is room for a turnaround in this matter when all the people discuss it together.

The time of peace negotiation is the hope of the whole world. If we accept the peace negotiation at this moment, everything can still be discussed.If you resist the negotiation, it will be a disobedience to the emperor's order. At that time, it will really be Fengchun and Gifu who will attack us together. "

After Hayami Shoujiu finished speaking, he glanced at Nagaji Ono and continued, "At that time, even if I go to His Highness Tokugawa, Tokugawa will never help me!"

Hayami Shoujiu was an old minister of Asai, and later served as the head of Hideyoshi's valet group and Huang Muyizhong's first position.Later, he was appointed as one of the Seven Hands Group, responsible for the security and etiquette tasks of Toyotomi's family, which can be said to be the absolute core of Chacha at present.

But at this moment, he made a different voice from others. Even if he is the core of Chacha's vassals, he will still cause dissatisfaction among the people around him.

But at this moment, Maeda Toshiie, who is a bystander, really knows that what Hayami Shoujiu said is the right way, and he didn't say he would surrender. He obviously meant to talk about it first, and he will know all the results after talking about it!

But he was still verbally criticized by other retainers.In fact, what these people need is not a suitable solution, they just need an outlet for their emotions.

After a round of verbal criticism and disagreement, the hall fell into a strange tranquility, and everyone's eyes surrendered to Maeda Toshiie, who was sitting at the head, as if waiting for him to make a decision.

Even Chacha said to Toshiie Maeda, "Your Majesty is mature and prudent, what do you think should be done?"

Maeda Toshiie has already obtained a "guarantee" from Hideka, so it is naturally inclined to peace talks.Although he was entrusted by Hideyoshi to take care of Chacha's mother and son, the "son" Hideyoshi mentioned at the beginning was Xiuzhao, not Xiuli!

Thinking of this, Lijia wanted to slap himself, why did he obsessively agree to be Xiuli's black-haired relative at the beginning, and now he wants to drag this sinking broken ship.

Maeda Toshiie shook his head helplessly, and still gave his own suggestion: "Peace talks must be negotiated, as Kai Mamoru (Hayami Morihisa) said, this matter is already the hope of the world.

At this time, if they refuse the peace talks and stick to Osaka, it will be useless except to give them an excuse to attack.Everyone, don't forget that the emperor has already issued a clear order, and those who attack again will be accused of being enemies. "

In various eras of Japan, when the royal family or military generals confront each other, they criticize their political opponents in order to assert their own legitimacy, so they call the opponents the enemy, and the enemy is synonymous with "public enemy, rebel, and bandit army".

In most cases, the party called the enemy by the court will become the target of crusade.

If the party that claims to be the "official army" is strong, no matter what the reason is, the person who is called the enemy of the court will become the absolute "evil" in Japanese history.

Of course, the "challenge enemy" does not necessarily have to be defeated by the "official army"; in the Chengjiu Rebellion, the shogunate, known as the court enemy, knocked down the "official army".

Having said that, other daimyos have always been eyeing the Toyotomi family who are suspicious of the lord Shaoguo. Once the name of the enemy is issued, it is tantamount to giving those people a natural excuse to crusade against the "wicked".

Now that the Zong family, which has the political initiative, can't defeat Xiujia and Xiuci, once they are accused of being enemies of the court, what chance will they have of winning?
After Maeda Toshiie finished speaking, the hall fell into silence again. Chacha looked expectantly at the retainers below, asking for their support, but no one responded!
He looked at his two brothers-in-law, but neither Jing Gaoji nor Toyotomi Hidekatsu dared to face him.

The grievances in her heart surged in Chacha's heart at this moment, she knew that she might really be overthrown this time.

"Negotiate peace!" The silent evaluation room was broken by a weeping and stubborn voice, and everyone in the hall looked at the woman who spoke.

At this moment, Chacha had already wiped away the tears from the corners of her eyes, and said to everyone, "Since everyone thinks that peace should be negotiated, how can I, a woman, object to it.

It's just that everyone must not forget that you are all people who have opposed that Xiuci and the Xiu family. After they took power, how can you have a place for us?

Today you betrayed our mother and son, Konishi Settsumori who is still fighting in Amagasaki, won't you be betrayed by others in the future? "

Chacha's words made sense, but these samurai daimyos present here just wanted to save their own lives and territories, so they didn't care about other people's affairs.Of course, there are also people who are ashamed by Chacha and bow their heads and dare not answer.

Chacha naturally didn't want to just talk about peace like this, but seeing that her aggressive method didn't work, she could only let go of her illusions and turned to look at Maeda Toshika and said, "Then the peace negotiation will be more troublesome."

Unexpectedly, Maeda Toshiya directly refused and said, "Mrs. Dian misunderstood. As one of the five big bosses, I, as one of the five big bosses, acted as an arbitrator. I didn't participate in the negotiation. You should find another expert!"

Maeda Toshiie's refusal stunned Chacha, but she quickly adjusted her attitude and looked at her brother-in-law Jing Gao and asked again: "Is it okay for the Kyogoku Councilor to take up this position?"

As Chacha's brother-in-law, Jing Gao is still a strict wife, so naturally he dare not refuse Chacha's request.

But he knows exactly how many catties and taels he owns. He can go to him for fighting dogs and walking birds, but he really can't go to peace talks!

So he also refused, "I have just been defeated in Hachiman Mountain City, and I really can't take this important position. Madam should find another capable minister."

Chacha was about to explode, and the group of people sitting below didn't even have a fart at the critical moment.In the end, it was her most loyal supporter Ishida Mitsunari who said, "When I was in North Korea, I was involved in the peace talks with Ming. Let me handle this matter."

Everyone looked at Ishida Mitsunari, and suddenly realized that it would be nice to have a hard-working and hard-working teammate in the team, rushing to do all the dirty work, so they all expressed their opinions, "Ishida Jibu is worthy of this job!"

In fact, the reason why Ishida Mitsunari wanted to preside over the peace may be partly because of his personal character, and more because he wanted to recover some losses for the Toyotomi clan.

Especially for President Xiaoxi, who has been a good friend with him for many years, and he hopes to save his life.In addition to President Konishi, he was also afraid that the Hide family would attack Otani Yoshitsugu and Shima Sakon, and he needed to beware of these.

Chacha has absolute trust in Ishida Mitsunari, but she is still somewhat uneasy about the peace negotiation, so she assigns Maeda Geni and Katagiri Katomoto to go to Kyoto with them.

Unlike the retainers sent by Osaka, Toyotomi Hideji's team on Arioka's side does not account for a large number of people, and he is not at ease about the conditions of other daimyos.

So after getting a letter jointly signed by Mori Terumoto, Maeda Toshiie, Toyotomi Hideke, Tokugawa Ieyasu and others to ensure safety, he personally brought Kuroda Josui, Hachisuka Kekeng and others to the meeting.

Although there are many administrative rooms in Nijo Castle, their area is very small. This is because these administrative rooms were not only places for the generals to hold small meetings at the beginning of the construction of Erjo Castle, but also places for the shogunate to work.

For this peace negotiation, the Xiu family specially ordered people to remove the wooden doors between the various compartments, and cleared out a large room. The two armies of the East and the West sat down and faced each other. On the top of the high imperial steps, there are seats to the west.

The three elders and the ten people seated on the two sides below the big bosses, and behind the two sides and the rear on the west side are the big and small big names who participated in the meeting.

It seems that there are a lot of people, but the ten people are not all seated, like Kiyohide Nakagawa (writing) was deprived of his identity because of Hidesei Nakagawa.

Kato Kiyomasa is in North Korea at the moment and has not returned. Hideji Hori cooperated with Sakuma Katsuyuki to block Maeda Toshinaga in Kanazawa. Although he has received a letter of reconciliation and the Maeda family has relaxed their offensive, they still have not rushed back.

Toyotomi Hideho was left by Hideji in Takaoka to supervise the army for him, and Kyoko hid in Osaka City for many times and dared not come over.Xiujiu's health has been poor, and he has been in Okayama and never came to Kyoto.

Although Masanori Fukushima came, he was not allowed by Hideo to sit among the 10 people, but let him sit next to Hideji.

On the contrary, Housekeeper Hachisuka, who belonged to Hideji's camp and was brought over, was invited to take the position by Hideka.

Therefore, among the ten people present today, only Hachisuka Isei, Toyotomi Hidesada, and Ikeda Terumasa were present.

Seeing his younger brother Xiusheng among the 13 people sitting above him and in charge of the arbitration, Xiuci turned his head to the side with some annoyance in his heart.If it weren't for the fact that he had left his northern villager to listen to his command during this time, he would even have felt that his younger brother had surrendered to the enemy.

In fact, why is Toyotomi Hidekatsu helpless?He was called back by Hideyoshi, at least he thought so before he came back.Only after he came back did he find out that Hideyoshi had passed away, and it was his sister-in-law Chacha who called him back.

After hearing that the military forces in his hands were left in North Korea for Xiuci, Chacha kept pushing himself out of the political core.I have been making sandwich biscuits for a while, not to mention how aggrieved I am.

However, the number of people in charge of the arbitration is not 6+3+3=12, but 13 people. The extra one is that Xiujia specially recruited Guan Bai Jinwei, who has officially become a regular, and he is here to represent the emperor.

After everyone sat down, Xiujia said under the signal of Horio Yoshiharu who was sitting below and was in charge of hosting: "Since everyone is sitting here today, it means that there is still a last wish for reconciliation in your heart. Today, all the big bosses are here, Guan Bai Your Highness is here too, so why not just explain any misunderstandings and boredoms here."

As soon as the Xiu family's voice fell, there were chattering voices of discussion below. The Xiu family deliberately raised the volume to suppress them and said, "Before we start, I want to set a big tone for this peace negotiation. Hope, the Emperor is behind us waiting for the news.

Therefore, this negotiation only needs to succeed and not fail. If someone deliberately refuses, delays or proposes unacceptable conditions.13 of us will be in charge of arbitration.

The result of this arbitration is the final award, which is agreed upon by the 13 people based on the majority of the minority.

Because it is the final award, if one party does not accept the arbitration result and expresses its intention to continue the war, it will destroy the existence of peace.

I propose that His Royal Highness Guan Bai should play the Emperor, pointing him as the enemy of the court, and the whole world will punish him! "

After talking about the back, Xiujia stood up unconsciously while talking, not only suppressing the whispers below in terms of voice, but also psychologically suppressing everyone present in terms of body shape.

"After I finished speaking, who agrees? Who opposes?" The Xiu family's voice finally ended with this. After speaking, he glanced at the left and right daimyo below, with an undeniable murderous look in his eyes.

The Xiu family's proposal was beyond everyone's expectations, and it had not been told to anyone before, even the Xiu family's retainers were shocked by the sudden ending of the Xiu family.

The big names present here are still in surprise and suspicion. You look at me and I look at you, thinking that this is what Xiujia said to the other party before, but they leave themselves behind.

At this time, the Xiu family had just summoned the world's great names and had extremely high political prestige. No one dared to touch the Xiu family's bad luck. The great names were also afraid that they would be targeted by the Xiu family and other daimyos, so they did not respond to the Xiu family.

The other little daimyos were just there to make up the numbers and observe, how could they have a place to talk in this room!
Today's protagonists, both of whom are guilty of crimes, are afraid that this is an order from the Emperor Xiujia.

Apart from the invisible pressure that Xiujia's words brought to them, who would dare to explicitly deny the words of Xiujia, the intermediary host?
Hideka glanced around and saw that no one objected, nodded in satisfaction and said, "Very well, thank you for your cooperation." Afterwards, he sat down again and signaled to the dumbfounded host Horio Yoshiharu to continue.

(End of this chapter)