Prime Minister Bizen

Don't look at Naoshima Naoshige's servile appearance to the Hide family now, in fact, this person was born in the 7th year of Tianwen (1538), and now he is a full 60-year-old old man.

In the era of early marriage and early childbearing in the Warring States Period of Japan, a grandpa who was a showman at this age was more than enough.

However, during the Warring States period, daimyos with outstanding abilities all had problems with difficult heirs. Naoshima Naoshige didn’t get his first son until he was 42 years old, and Tachibana Munemog next to him changed 3 main rooms in his life, and the side room was even worse. There are too many to count, and I can't even give birth to a daughter.

The point is that Tachibana Muneshige's younger brother didn't get his first son until after the establishment of the Edo Shogunate.In other words, even if their family wanted to give his elder brother an adoptive son, they didn't have any extra sons to send.

"I heard that Nabeshima Kaga has a daughter under her knees. Although she is only 9 years old, she is born with a symbol. She is a well-known beauty. I am very envious."

What Xiujia looked at Naoshima Naoshima for was that he wanted to use his daughter to draw in the relationship between the three of us at the same time, but after mentioning his daughter suddenly, he didn't go any further and changed another one. topic.

"I have an unfeeling request." Xiujia looked at Tachibana Zongshige and said, "There are many dogs under my knees, and it is often difficult to take care of them. My dog ​​Kagechiyo is very stubborn. I hope adults can help take care of one or two."

The Xiu family's words gave the two people a step down, and the Xiu family wanted Tachibana Zongshige to raise and take care of their son on their behalf.Since it is the son of the fortress, it is tantamount to taking hostages for the Tachibana family.

In the Japanese samurai tradition, it is very common to take hostages, but most of them are sent by the inferior or weaker party to the stronger party.

Its purpose is that the strong party holds the key figures of the weak party, so that the other party can easily control them.

Sending hostages from the powerful to the weak is not simply sending hostages. There are many sayings about it.Moreover, in order to ensure the dignity of the powerful party, most of them are carried out in the form of sending adopted children.

In many cases, although the strong side has the advantage, there is no way to take the weak side in a short time. They can only send key figures on their side to the other side as hostages by sending adopted children to stabilize the other side's heart.

For the weaker side, they know in their hearts that if they continue to confront each other, they will suffer a loss sooner or later, but they will lose face by submitting to the other side after getting angry in front of them, and they can't believe whether the stronger side will fight against themselves. After the city, I will shade myself again.

After the weaker party holds the hostage of the stronger party, they don't have to worry about being liquidated when they submit to him. This is essentially a mutual trust mechanism.

For example, when Oda Nobunaga conquered Ise three times at the critical moment of his power development, he did not want to waste time here, so he handed over his second son and third son to the two major families of Ise, the Kobe and Kitabata families. , making them submit by way of adoptive adoption.

As the power of the Oda family continued to grow, the Kobe and Kitabata families were also deeply bound to the Oda family because of the relationship between the two sons of Oda Nobunaga, and were gradually turned into vassals after gaining actual benefits.

But these sons sent out as protons are not necessarily as smooth sailing as the above two. When the strong is strong, they are the bond between the two parties. When the strong is weak, the family that receives this son is very likely Abandon him directly.

But now Tachibana Muneshige Zhixing only has about 15 shi. This volume is not small in the Toyotomi family, and it can even be said to be a key force that can influence one party.

However, the volume of 15 shi is not enough compared to the 300 million shi of the Xiu family. Now that the Xiu family wants to hand over their son to you, it is essentially a way of giving the proton to the Tachibana family in the form of a adopted son. a behavior of.

It's just that the Xiu family's current statement is very cryptic, and they sent it in the name of letting Tachibana Zongshige educate their son for him. This method is even more humble than sending his son to be an adopted son.

But there is no way around this, because the Toyotomi Law stipulates that marriages between daimyos must be approved by the Toyotomi family, let alone directly stuffed with adopted sons.

Hideka didn't want to violate this law so early on. In history, Tokugawa Ieyasu could have forgotten to cover up the past because he was old, so what reason could Hideka use to make fun of it?
So the Hide family didn't mention adoptive son and marriage right now, but they proposed to give their son to Tachibana Muneshige, a childless guy, and mentioned Nabeshima's daughter.

The three people present here are all smart, and they can understand the meaning of Xiu's words at all.

Tachibana Muneshige immediately said, "Thank you for your trust, Mr. Dainagyan. I will make some appearances for Shijing Chiyo."

Then he said, "I have one more thing to ask Your Highness to be a witness."

After finishing speaking, he looked at Naoshima Naoshima and said, "I heard that your love is cute and cute. I have no children under my knees. I am really lonely. I wonder if I can give up my love and let me adopt her as an adopted daughter?"

Naoshige Nabeshima first made two random excuses to refuse, and then Tachibana Muneshige repeatedly asked and finally agreed to the request, "Then Hikoku will trouble Tachibana's attendant and His Highness Kagechiyo to take care of him from now on."

So far, all three parties are happy. The most important thing is that this operation did not violate any law of the Toyotomi family, and there is no need to report it to the Toyotomi family for record.

Tachibana Zongshige came to Xiujia, in essence, he wanted to take the initiative to renew his relationship with Xiujia.But I didn't expect such a big harvest this time, the Xiu family directly sent their son here, this must be how much trust they have in themselves!
The key is that neither I nor my younger brother have any children. Since I must welcome an outsider to be my adoptive son, it would be more face-saving to welcome the young master of Fengchun Fan, the largest feudal clan in the world!
Not to mention that with the help of the Xiu family, a little girl with a yellow flower was abducted from Naomo Naoshima's house on the side, and she was drawn into the relationship with the neighbors on the side. It can be said to be the biggest winner in this meeting.

For the Xiu family themselves, sending their son out has never been a shameful thing.Now that I have so many children under my knees, they all happen to be bargaining chips for me to marry and control other daimyos.

Besides, if so many sons and daughters are not sent out, a large area of ​​knowledge and behavior will have to be allocated to accommodate them in the future.

Now that the son is given to the Lihua family, after the Xiu family gains power, will they dare to return this son?In the end, aren't you using another family's territory to raise your son for your own blood?

After receiving the nomination certificates from the two Kyushu daimyos, the Xiu family politely sent the two Kyushu daimyos away, and not long after, they received invitations from the relatives of Changzong's family.

Hideya still remembers the time when the Chosogabu family was sealed off in Bizen as the head of the Hideka family, the day when the Chosogabu family entrusted their younger brother, the historically famous grandson, as an attendant in order to show their closeness. .

At that time, some people in Shikoku set up a rebellion under the banner of Changzong Gabu's family. Hideyoshi wanted to cut off Yuanqin's sign to make that person lose his legal rationality. Xinqin even cried in front of Hideo's family and asked for help. Serving the Xiu family as a courtier.

However, with the transfer of the Xiu family and the independence of the Changzong family, and the subsequent targeting of the Xiu family by Hideyoshi, the followers of the Changzong family also learned from others and lost contact with the Xiu family.

We must know that when Changzong and our clan returned to the country Tosa, even though there were only two counties and half the country, it was still the Hide family's efforts!
But this time, his participation in the Western Army riots reduced the land in the south of Iyo, and Zhixing only had less than 7 koku left in the two counties of Tosa, and once again eagerly begged in front of the Hide family.

Although he was somewhat dissatisfied with the attitude of Xinqin in his heart, the Xiu family did not show it, and still showed enthusiasm for him: "We haven't seen each other for a while, Palace. Supplementary) During this period of time, I closed the door to thank guests, and you are the second wave of guests I receive."

Different from the Xiu family, the relatives of Changzong's family showed a little panic, and quickly apologized to the Xiu family, "Thanks to His Highness Da Nayan's concern, it is indeed my fault that I have not visited for so many years."

Sheng Qin, who came with him and was already in Yuanfu, also bowed to Xiu's family and said, "I have met His Highness Da Nayan."

Hearing the Miao character of Kira, the Xiu family showed a bit of surprise: "Is it Kira? Did Sheng Qin inherit the family of Kira's family? This is a famous Genji family!"

Although the Kira family is one of the serious Ashikaga clans, the Tosa Kira family has nothing to do with the Ashikaga family.

Although they are all Qinghe Genji righteous family.However, the Tosa Kira family is generally considered to be a descendant of Kiyoshi, the son of Minamoto Yoshitomo in the "Homoto Heiji Rebellion".

The former governor of the Kira family was also a member of the Changzong Gabu family, and he was the cousin of Xinqin, Kishi and Kisho.However, during the previous Shikoku evaluation, Kira Chinshin was begged to death by Hideka's subordinates, and Kira Chinmasa died in the Korean War, so now the name of the Kira family has been left in the hands of Sheng Qin.

Both of these two people in history died in the Battle of Tojigawa, Kyushu with their relatives. Although history has changed, the two still cannot escape the fate of fighting to death.

"Your Highness is absurd. It was only a few days ago that I inherited the name of the Kira family. It's only right that Your Highness didn't know."

Whether Shengqin, the Kira family is a famous family or not, the two people here naturally know better than Xiu's family, this question is not easy to answer.

Xinqin simply opened this topic and took the initiative to express to the Hide family that due to the reduction of the title of the Nagamune family, the lack of knowledge and practice within the family had to abolish some samurai, and hoped that the Hide family could accept Kira Shengqin's request.

Don't look at what Changzong's relatives said seems to be very legitimate. To put it bluntly, it is the same as the hostage of Tachibana Zong Maosai's son before the Xiu family.

At this time, I went back to see Shengqin and said that his operation of inheriting the Kira family name made sense a few days ago.

If it is the family name of Changzong's family, why should the relatives give their son to the Xiu family?The Xiu family was not his trusted lord, so it was impossible for his operations to be approved by the Toyotomi clan.

But now that Shengqin has changed his family to the Kira family, that is the status of the retainer of the Changzong family.As long as the transfer of titles between retainers is not an important minister with a large territory, it only needs to be reported to the government for record.

Sheng Qin was relatively close to the Xiu family, and had been a servant of the Xiu family for a period of time in the past. It is the most suitable person for Sheng Qin to change the Miao characters and send her to the Xiu family.

So don't look at the fact that Hideka played a policy loophole in order to get Tachibana and Nabeshima on board, a small daimyo like Nagamune Gabu's family also has their own showmanship for the survival of the family name.

Looking at the two men with longing looks in their eyes, the Xiu family was not in a hurry to agree, but asked a question to Chang Zong's followers, "According to me, there is no male heir to the family business. And let your most outstanding younger brother inherit another family and then transfer to serve under my family, what about the inheritance of your clan?"

Xinqin said, "Father and son are prosperous. In addition to Uemon Taro (Shengqin), I have three brothers. The youngest fifth brother, Jihei, can still inherit the family business."

Yuanqin has five sons, except for the three mentioned above, the second son, Xiangchuan Qinhe, is the guy whose wife was robbed by the Xiu family and forced to change back to Changzonggabu Miao, and now changed his surname to Xiangzonggabuqinhe, The third son, Tsuno Otada, succeeded the Tosana family Tsuno.

"Chang Yuan Tale" records: "A piece of [-] guan, Tsuno [-] guan, Dabiliang [-] guan, Kira [-] guan, Benshan [-] guan, Anyi [-] guan, Xiangzong my department [-] guan , Chang Zeng I have three thousand guan, among the following eight people, one hall has a unique style, and the remaining seven guard it.".

It can be seen that so far, except for Chang Zong's Ibu Xinqin and the fifth younger brother in his mouth, the other three sons of Yuanqin have been sent out to inherit Tosa Yuli's famous family.

If you count their cousin Xiangzong's family's true relatives, several sons of Changzong's family were sent out to help Changzong's family control the Tosa family.

This is also the reason why Changzong's family was transferred to Beiqian before, and later only got the two counties of West Tosa, but still has a certain right to speak in Tosa.

but! !! !!

Although these sons were separated, most of their common names were XX Lang, but the common name of the fifth younger brother who had already served was Ji Bingwei!This is not in line with the habits of Changzong's family, let alone the conditions for him to inherit the family name.

It is important to know that the general names of the family heirs, maybe even the baby names are common, no matter how bad it is, it is impossible for there to be such a big change from XX Lang to X Bing and Three Guards.

Moreover, the Xiu family remembers that among the five trusting brothers in history, the first four were born to Mrs. Yuanqin and were brothers from the same mother, while the fifth brother was the concubine major general that Yuanqin snatched from Hosokawa Chitaka , and they are not born with the same mother.

It is unreasonable for believers to let the same mother and brother not inherit the family business, but let a half-brother who has a weak relationship inherit the family business.Will the other brothers agree?

It seems that Xinqin is not telling the truth. Since he has no son, the adopted son he is most likely to be interested in is the fourth brother Shengqin who was temporarily sent out by him to inherit the name of Kira's family.

This is to send his heir to the Xiu family. The sincerity of Changzong's family is full.

People who believe in relatives would not say these words directly, but the Xiu family can get confirmation from Sheng relatives afterwards.

As far as the present is concerned, everyone has put their attitude down so low and offered you a hostage, so there is no reason for the Xiu family to refuse.

The Xiu family glanced at Sheng Qin and said, "Since you are a famous family, I will grant you 5000 shi Zhixing in Shangsum City to arrange for you, and you will walk with me from now on."