Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 712 The new five big guys, the new three, the old, the new five, and the new ten people.

Although the rewards for the Qingchang Rebellion have been set, the evaluation of the bosses is still not over.

After the Keicho Rebellion, especially after the retirement of big bosses like Maeda Toshiie, the power structure of the Toyotomi family has changed, and it is bound to elect new big bosses, middle elders and ten members.

It's just that all of this has nothing to do with Ishida Mitsunari and other devotees. They have no right to decide the human rights of these big bosses. In addition, because of the tight time of Hideyoshi's funeral, they were all refused to participate in this meeting.

If it was considered harmonious during the discussion and evaluation before, when it comes to the next few years, or even more than ten years, when it comes to the selection of big bosses, Hideka, Chacha, Hideji, and Tokugawa Ieyasu have a lot of tit-for-tat.

In the world, there are only a few people who are qualified to be awarded meritorious service, and it is impossible to seal Xiuci and the others after the evaluation, so they have nothing to fight for.

But this time is different. This time it is about his future right to speak in the Osaka court, and everyone is bound to fight for it.

"If Maeda has gone to the position of big brother, naturally the next daimyo should fill it up, and there are only a handful of daimyos with more than 30 koku in the world.

In addition, this matter is a matter of central discussion, Shimadzu, Mogami, Satake and other names are not suitable, and the only candidate who can replace him is His Highness Koriyama. "

Xiujia firmly supported his old brother Toyotomi Xiuzhen at the beginning of the evaluation, but this candidate was not what Chacha and Tokugawa expected to see.

Chacha doesn't want to see Xiuzhen take the position because Xiuzhen is not from his Omi sect. Tokugawa Ieyasu's refusal of his own son to take the position is indeed unexpected for the Xiu family.

I don’t know if Tokugawa Ieyasu is from the heart or what he thinks. His excuse is: "Although His Highness Koriyama is the son of the late Gifu Dainagon, after all, he comes from the blood of Tokugawa. Among the big brothers, I have already served as the writer, so what Can he be hired?"

"This matter should not be a serious problem. Did His Royal Highness Kobayakawa Jinwu and Maoli Jinwu hold the position of big boss at the same time?" Xiujia asked Xiuzhen to make amends.

No one cares about rights. Toyotomi Xiuzhen has become an important branch of the Toyotomi family from the initial abandoned son who was not valued by the Tokugawa and Toyotomi families, and was thrown out casually as a son of other families. His ambitions are also constantly expanding.

As long as he has the opportunity, he will definitely choose to climb up, not to mention becoming independent from the shadow of the Xiu family, but he will not give up easily any opportunity that can improve his voice.

What surprised him was that his own father would hold him back at this time.

Mori Terumoto never thought that he would suddenly become the protagonist of the topic.He quickly waved his hands and said, "Kobayakawa's family and my Mori family have long been ordered to separate by Guan Bai, why come from the same theory."

Chacha's thoughts can be ignored. After all, among the people who started to evaluate the participants at the moment, only one of the ten people who clearly stood in the Chacha camp was Jing Gaozi.

But Tokugawa Ieyasu, as a big writer, still has some weight when he speaks.The most terrible thing is that as Tokugawa Ieyasu made clear his attitude, Toyotomi Hideji also made a speech and said, "What merit does His Highness Koriyama have to become a big boss?
There are three middle-aged and senior seniors in front of him, so how can it be his turn?Besides, where did the saying that the position of the big brother must be the generation of Toyotomi and the pro-vassal come from? "

Hideka turned his head to look at Toyotomi Hideji, who was sitting opposite him, and responded coldly, "Then, who does Your Highness Gifu think can become the big boss? Could it be that you don't want to take the position you see later, and you want to sit under the seat?"

"Your Highness Fengchun misunderstood." Facing Xiu's irony, Xiuci was not angry at all, but responded with a smile, "Of course I won't sit down, but the people below can sit up."

"What's the meaning?"

Facing the Xiu family's questioning again, Toyotomi Hideji said solemnly: "I think my younger brother Xiusheng is enough to be the boss!"

"Xiu Sheng!?"

"His Royal Highness Beizhizhuang?!"

As the name of this Xiusheng was read from Xiuci's mouth, just like the previous Xiu family proposed that Xiuzhen be the boss, all eyes once again focused on this man who had no sense of existence at ordinary times.

In fact, Xiu Sheng was always a fool in the past, but I don't know why in the past two years, his character has become much "stable", and he no longer sees the rashness of the past.

But now it seems that he is too "stable" again. During the evaluation in the past few days, he has hardly heard Guo express his opinion. Now being named by Xiuci naturally surprised everyone.

Xiujia immediately retorted: "But His Highness Beizhizhuang's knowledge and deeds are less than 30 shi!"

"When His Royal Highness Guan Bai was alive, he never said that there must be 30 stones to become a boss. This is just what everyone has always believed."

Facing Xiu's family's denial of Xiusheng, Xiuci continued to talk without panic, "Besides, even if Xiusheng didn't have 30 shi, now it's only a step away.

Yesterday, during the meritorious service, Kinoshita Senator who was stationed in Himeji was awarded 5 shi without firing a single shot. Couldn't Xiusheng who did not participate in the Keicho Rebellion be awarded the title?

My proposal is to add 5 koku to Echizen directly, making him the daimyo of 30 koku. In this way, it is logical to be the boss. "

I don't know what's going on, after Toyotomi Hideji proposed Hidekatsu to take over, the original situation of Hideka and Tokugawa Ieyasu's arguing turned into a debate between Hideo and Hideji.

"Since there is already the most suitable candidate, why bother to add another person to her? Is the hiding place of the Toyotomi family so arbitrary?
When this matter got out, people who didn't know thought that my position as the boss of the Toyotomi family was specially set up for His Royal Highness Kitanosho. "Xiujia finished speaking and unconsciously glanced at the Beizheng Office next to him.

If the Xiu family thought that Xiuci suggested that Xiusheng be the boss before, they would still think that it was Xiuci's own decision.

After hearing that he planned to seal Xiu Sheng so that Xiu Sheng could become a boss, the Xiu family felt that this matter was definitely not a simple one-sided idea of ​​Xiu Ci.

"I think His Highness Gifu's suggestion is very appropriate. Since the daimyo who contributed to the Keicho Rebellion should be rewarded, as the Kitanosho daimyo, he will not easily intervene in the turmoil after returning to Osaka, which prevents the scope of the turmoil from expanding. Isn't it the work of His Highness Beizhizhuang?"

It was Asano Nagamasa who spoke. If it was just suspicion just now, after Asano Nagamasa's voice fell, Hideka could almost confirm that this was a decision made by the Beizhengsuo Group to bypass him.

"It seems that Counselor Asano and His Highness Gifu spent a long time thinking about my Toyotomi family's affairs last night." Faced with the pressure from the two, Hideka sarcastically said, "Which other adults also agree with this resolution?"

"I didn't meet with Asano Counselor and Gifu Houmi. I just think it's really inappropriate for His Highness Koriyama to be directly promoted from a group of ten people to a big boss. You can promote him to a middle-aged boss first, and wait until the next time the big boss is vacant." promotion."

This time it was Kazushi Nakamura who spoke, and the Hide family knew very well that he was still loyal to the name of the Toyotomi family.

The first sentence he spoke was to explain himself and to participate in the plan between Asano Nagamasa and Hideji.Maybe what he said was true, but at this time, he had already been labeled as standing in line.

As a daimyo of 16 koku in Dewa Okisame County and Nagai County, he and the Hide family can be regarded as neighbors, and there will be many places to deal with in the future, so it is not worthwhile to cause conflicts at this time.

Therefore, Xiujia did not refute Nakamura Kazushi's argument, which may instead make others think that Xiujia retreated.

Mori Terumoto, who just waved his hand to express that he didn't want to get involved, after seeing that Hideka didn't refute Nakamura Kazushi's statement, also surprisingly agreed with him, followed by Uesugi Kagekatsu.

Now the four big bosses don't agree with Toyotomi Xiuzhen becoming a big boss, and the Xiu family doesn't have the authority of Hideyoshi to make a decision with one word, so they can only acquiesce in this matter with their lips pursed.

If it is said that being bypassed by Xiuji and Beizheng Office made Hideka feel uncomfortable, after Uesugi Jingsheng made a clear statement, Beizheng Institute directly announced without even asking Xiujia's opinion, "Since everyone thinks His Royal Highness Kitanosho is suitable. Replacing the boss, let’s do it according to your wishes. The matter of adding 5 shi will be left to His Highness Tokugawa to discuss with the bosses and make a decision.”

The remarks of the Beizheng Office almost concluded the matter, and it was ironic that after she had finished speaking, she turned to ask Xiujia and Chacha for their opinions, "Do you have any comments from His Royal Highness Dianji and Fengchun?"

Seeing the conflict between the Beizheng Office and Xiu's family, it was too late for Cha Cha Le, and since Xiu Sheng was also his brother-in-law, he naturally agreed with both hands, and immediately said, "The opinions of the big brothers and sister are very pertinent, and everything will be fine." Do as you wish."

In this situation, Jingxiu's family only felt a sense of powerlessness. Toyotomi Hidekatsu's list will definitely be recognized by the other two parties.

Because he is Hideji's younger brother, he is considered a core figure of the Novo School, and he is also Chacha's brother-in-law, so he is considered half of the Omi School.

The key is that this person usually has no ambitions, and his performance in recent years has been quite mediocre, which is in the interests of the old bosses headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Therefore, it is also reasonable to get the support of everyone, but just to make Toyotomi Hideo win the big boss, he was directly sealed with 5 shi, which is inevitably too ugly.

Xiujia looked up at Toyotomi Xiuzhen who was sitting at the bottom, and saw him nodding his head to express his approval.The Xiu family could only express their opinion, "Then how about conferring part of Banbei County and Beizhizhuang? In addition, the middle-aged and old position of His Royal Highness Junshan."

Seeing Xiu's retreat, everyone present breathed a sigh of relief.Now that the Xiu family has made concessions on the matter of the boss, the others will reciprocate and no longer worry about Xiuzhen's promotion to the middle-aged and old.

So far, Tokugawa Ieyasu will be the head of the new five, followed by Mori Terumoto, Uesugi Kekatsu, Asano Nagamasa, and Toyotomi Hidekatsu.Kazushi Nakamura was the head of the third middle school, followed by Yoshiharu Horio and Hidetoshi Toyotomi.

With the determination of the candidates for the two most important departments in the Toyotomi power system, the election of the Toyotomi power system has also come to an end.

The next ten-person election will not have the tension just now, and the candidates will be determined quickly.

Hideyoshi initially identified ten people as: Kiyohide Nakagawa (writing), Toyotomi Hidekatsu, Toyotomi Hidehisa, Toyotomi Hidetada, Toyotomi Hideho, Hori Hideharu, Ikeda Teruma, Fukushima Masanori, Kato Kiyomasa, and Hachisuka Iemasa.

With the retirement of Nakagawa Kiyohide and the promotion of Toyotomi Hidekatsu to the middle age, Jing Gao was filled in again.But since then, the ten people have been absent and have no writing.

Now Suzhen has been promoted again, and Masanori Fukushima has been clearly deprived of the identity of the ten people, and now there are only seven people headed by Kazutoyotomi Hidehisa among the ten people, which means that three people need to be filled this time.

The Xiu family had already prepared for this list, and this was the reason why there was no controversy in the by-election of ten people, because the list proposed by the Xiu family did not arouse too much resistance from everyone.

First of all, Hideaki Kobayakawa who was changed after inheriting the position of his father's boss, and has just been restored to 13 koku in Buzen Nakatsu.

Although Terumoto Mori insisted just now that the Kobayakawa family and the Mori family had already separated, he was the first to express his support for Kobayakawa Hideaki's replacement of ten people.

At the same time, as the nephew of the Beizhengsuo, Kobayakawa Hideaki received the support of Hideji, Asano Nagamasa, and the Beizhengsuo.

With so many big bosses agreeing, and others not too directly disagreeing, Hideaki Kobayakawa's replacement suggestion was successfully passed.

The second candidate is Tadakashi Hosokawa. As a condition for the Hosokawa family to split up early, Hideka talked late last night at the candlelight night, and finally agreed to fight for his status in the Toyoharu cabinet.

At this time, the Hosokawa family was forced to separate even though they were rewarded 8.5 shi by the Xiu family for their performance during the Keicho Rebellion.The actual seal of Hosokawa Tadaoki was only about 1.5 shi.

Therefore, even though the Hosokawa family received a lot of rewards for their achievements along with the Hide family, he was not strictly defined as the "Fengchun school".May I ask how can a big boss of his own faction ask his younger brother to separate the family?
What's more, the Xiu family suggested that it was the father Zhongxing, not the son Zhonglong, who proposed to replace the ten people.

Who doesn't know that Zhonglong is the brother-in-law of the Xiu family?The Hide family must let the Hosokawa family split up, and let Zhonglong obtain the knowledge of more than 7 shi in advance, which will inevitably arouse the displeasure of Hosokawa Zhongxing.

So as long as Hideka's proposal is not Hosokawa Tadataka, everyone will not be too entangled in this position.

The third candidate is Tsutsui Setji, who owns 27 koku from Yamato and Iga countries.There is nothing to say about this, the Fengchun Pai can no longer be as hard as it is, even if it is so hard to do it for 25 years, it will not be trusted.

Regarding Tsutsui Joji's status as one of the ten people, there were still some quarrels, but they were dismissed by Hideka one by one.

In the end, the Xiu family even felt that he was messing around. Everyone saw that the Xiu family was going to lift the Tsutsui family to the top. In line with the principle of negotiating things, they stopped arguing with the Xiu family, and the Tsutsui family took the position smoothly. Ten people.

So far, the final candidate of the ten people has been determined, with Ikeda Teruma as the writer, Toyotomi Hidehisa, Toyotomi Hideho, Hori Hideji, Kyokoji, Kato Kiyomasa, Hachisuka Iema, Kobayakawa Hideaki, Hosokawa Tadaka, Tsutsui Setji 9 People follow it.

In fact, there were still three candidates in Hideya's hands. They were Hidemasa Nakagawa, the son of Kiyohide Nakagawa who was the writer of the Ten People, and Hideyuki Utsunomiya, who had just resumed his daimyo status with Hideaki Kobayakawa. Feng Sanhe was forced to transfer the title of Mori Tadomasa of 3 in Ise Matsuzaka.

With the recovery of the Zhongchuan family to 17 shi, Taige also has the capital to join the ten people again.However, due to the fact that Xiuzhen was dismissed before, the identities of the ten members of the Nakagawa family were originally deprived by Hideyoshi, so it must be more difficult to forcibly elect him than Tsutsui Joji.

Not to mention Gamo Hideyuki, he is too young and completely incapable of doing things, so he can't help the Xiu family at all.

He is not like Hidehisa, by virtue of his status as Hideyoshi's own son and Hideyoshi's adopted son, even if he has never attended the meeting, he can still occupy a seat and be an iron rice bowl.

As for Mori Tadomasa, after careful consideration by Hideka, he chose to bring up Hosokawa Tadakashi and crossed out the quota.

The reason is also very simple, he made the same mistake as Ikeda Teruma, and Hideka couldn't have enough trust in him because he jumped on the wall too fast.

It is enough for Ikeda Teruma to be an unknown among the ten people, if two fools come, maybe at some critical moment they will directly backstab Hideka.

Even Teruma Ikeda's writing was a helpless decision by Hideka. Chacha originally wanted to force Kyoko to be the writing for a second time, and the Omi faction wanted to select Hachisuka Housekeeping.

But these two people have too little knowledge and action, and they don't have enough power to speak. After arguing for a long time, they were taken advantage of by the Xiu family.

Hideka also recommended Ikeda Teruma with the idea of ​​taking care of the little brother. Don't look at the teary eyes of the little brother Ikeda who is so moved, Hideka thinks these are crocodile tears.

With the agreement of the ten people, the list of the five ministers also changed. Tomita Kazuhiro was dealt with and could no longer hold the post of the five ministers. Nagatsu Masaka, who had just been granted the title of 5.6 koku by Sagami, was added.

This really wasn't pushed by the Xiu family. It's too late for such a good talent to be secretly used by the Xiu family.

Nagatsu Masaka was proposed by Tokugawa Ieyasu on the grounds that his ability was next to the Kanto, and he saw that Nagatsu Masaka was outstanding when he was under Hideya Yuri, and he was good enough to hold the position of Goho.

In history, Changshu Zhengjia was originally one of the five observances, and this may be another invisible self-repair of history.

(End of this chapter)