Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 722

The relatives of Changzong's family came to the Xiu family, so naturally it was impossible to simply send a proton to the Xiu family.Although he wanted to draw in the relationship between himself and the Xiu family, the main purpose was to hope that the Xiu family could act on his behalf and incorporate him into the Kyushu Crusade Army.

Now everyone in Osaka knows that Governor Konishi resisted the king's order and fled back to Kyushu, where he raised the rebellion flag.

Osaka deliberately organizes a crusade to destroy the traitor, and promises that the daimyo who have made meritorious deeds in the war can get rewards or offset previous punishments.

This is also the reason why the Kyushu daimyo rushed back after Hideyoshi's funeral in the recent period.

After all, Chief Xiaonishi is only so big, even if he coerces some wealthy families, natives, and common people around him to participate in the rebellion, it is only a matter of minutes to wipe out President Xiaonishi.

There are only so many credits, and if you go back late, you will lose everything.

Of course, Changzong and my family also want to marry, but their place of knowledge and practice is in Shikoku, and the order is very clear to mobilize Kyushu daimyo to suppress the rebellion, but there is no such thing as Shikoku daimyo.

Changzong's relatives thought of the Xiu family, and wanted the Xiu family to help one or two. In exchange for this opportunity for the Changzong family, as long as they can make contributions in the Kyushu crusade, it would be good to reduce some punishments.

Xiu's family was powerless to ask for a trustworthy relative, and more of it felt that it was a useless effort.

Because the Kyushu daimyo mobilized directly in Kyushu, and then launched an attack on Higo Konishi, it only took a few days for the two sides to fight.

However, from returning to the territory to mobilizing to mobilizing and dispatching ships to cross the sea and marching, it is impossible for the relatives of your long clan and our department to reach the front line in less than half a month to a month.

The Kyushu daimyo now sees Konishi as if seeing ginseng fruit. The ghost knows how fierce the fight is on the front line. Maybe the Toyotomi Banner team led by Hachisuka Kesei on the Osaka side has not even arrived in Kyushu. The war is over.

In order for the members of the Changzong family to participate in the war, the Hide family needs to recruit Tokugawa, Uesugi and other famous names. After spending so much favor, the Changzong family may be at a loss for nothing.

Moreover, the previous decree made it clear that Hideaki Kobayakawa led the Kyushu daimyo to assess the riots.At this time, if people are transferred from other neighboring countries, it is easy to give people the feeling that the riots in Xiaoxi have expanded and the original military strength is not enough to suppress them.

To offend so many big names in the account of mobilizing military service for Changzong, my family is really not worth the candle.

Moreover, the decree has just been issued, and now it is said that other daimyos will be added. Once this kind of head is opened, can those daimyos who were previously reduced in other territories also request to join?
All appeasement belongs to appeasement, and the Xiu family also said that they would help him to run it, but they dare not guarantee whether they can succeed in the end.

Promises belong to promises. I am afraid that the Xiu family will not put this proposal up for discussion at all. At most, they will ask if they need to increase their military strength. Once they are clearly rejected, there will be no further words.

As one of the current dual political leaders of the Toyotomi family, Hideka does not have the legal right to directly manage the politics of the Toyotomi family.

The Xiu family's "Ruo Nian Ji" has the right to manage the world's martial arts for the underage Xiu Li, and the five big brothers are the group responsible for making political decisions.

Generally, the five big bosses would not participate in trivial matters, let alone Xiujia and Xiuci who would only be called for particularly important matters.

The Xiu family was free, and could have used this opportunity to take the initiative to attack the daimyo who hadn't returned yet.But with the end of Hideyoshi's funeral, the daimyos gradually dispersed to reorganize their territories, and Hideka's plan to tie up with the daimyos could only be temporarily slowed down.

Xiujia also thought that he could use this time difference to return to his skills.After all, the previous rewards have been issued, but the internal rewards of the Xiu family have not yet been arranged.

Moreover, Xiu's return to Kanto was very hasty last time, and he never settled down to rectify the affairs in the territory. He planned to take advantage of this time to ask for leave from Osaka to return.

In fact, the Osaka side couldn't wait for Xiu's request.

At this moment, Toyotomi Hideji, who is opposing the Hide family, cannot return to Gifu himself because the Hide family has been in Osaka.

And his Mino is closer to Xiujia's Kanto, and he returns more quickly. He has more time to use Xiujia's departure time to change Xiujia's arrangement in Osaka.

As for Chacha in Daban City, they were already overwhelmed by Xiujia and Xiuci, and they could just take advantage of the time when the two left to adjust.

After going back, Xiuci met Tianhai again. After Tianhai heard Xiujia's proposal to return to Kanto, he thought it was an opportunity to weaken Xiujia.

He suggested that Xiuci go to Tokugawa Ieyasu and ask him to declare that he would take the initiative to withdraw the Tokugawa Army that had been stationed in Osaka Castle to reassure both parties during the previous peace talks, so as to force Xiujia to withdraw his army.

At this time, due to the previous peace talks in Daban City, there were about 5000 troops stationed inside and outside the city.

Among them, 1000 were from the Kwantung Army led by Hideka, and 800 were from Tokugawa Ieyasu's army, and the remaining 3000 were from the Toyotomi Goban under the leadership of the former Seven Hands.

In fact, even if Hideka and Tokugawa's army occupied a few gates of Osaka Castle, they still did not have an absolute advantage, and the main defensive force of Osaka Castle was still the Seven Hands.

But in the eyes of Xiuci and many people, it was the 1000 people that Xiujia brought into the city that gave Xiujia the courage to challenge the evaluation of Osaka Castle. If this army was taken away, Xiujia's attitude would probably not be the same Perseverance.

Toyotomi Hideji followed Amami's suggestion to meet with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and directly challenged at the subsequent meeting, saying, "In Osaka Castle, the Toyotomi family directly governs the headquarters, what does it mean that the daimyo garrisons?
At the beginning, it was justifiable to be in a hurry, but now that the peace talks have been concluded and the world has been settled, I also ask His Royal Highnesses Fengchun and Tokugawa to withdraw the garrison. "

Hideka was unwilling to accept such a condition, but when he was still deliberating on the words, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had brought troops into the city with Hideka to preside over the peace, made a statement first: "This is indeed the case. It has been calmed down, and it is impossible to say that the army of the famous family is stationed in Osaka, and they will all be dismissed after the end of today's evaluation."

Both Hideji and Chacha were very satisfied with Tokugawa Ieyasu's statement, and they directly said, "His Highness Toyotomi is the humerus of Toyotomi who makes the world stable." It is self-evident who is ridiculed in these words.

Tokugawa Ieyasu cooperated with the withdrawal of troops and exchanged the military power of Osaka Castle to the Osaka side. All eyes were on Hideka.

Such a change in the political situation made the Xiu family feel very uncomfortable, and like the previous daimyos who withdrew their troops, they used the actions of other daimyos to force the Xiu family to act.

This is a proper conspiracy. If the Xiu family declares that they will withdraw the army together, then the Osaka side will give the Xiu family some honorary rewards, but take over the city defense of Osaka City into their own hands.

And if the Xiu family expresses their disapproval of such a request, then the reputation of the Xiu family will change from being a loyal minister who defends the Toyotomi family to an ambitious minister who bullies orphans and widows.

There have been so many events in the 150 years of the Warring States Period in Japan, which does not mean that the daimyo and the samurai class are really accustomed to this kind of behavior.

The class itself has a natural self-defense, and they are very afraid of that kind of sudden change.As a superior person, he is also afraid of the subordinates from below.

Before, it was because of the collapse of rituals and music in the Warring States Period, whoever had the power would speak, and other daimyos didn't have much spare power to intervene in other people's internal affairs, at most they took the opportunity to invade some territories.

But now is the Taoshan era of "the world is peaceful", and the era of Toyotomi Guansho where the public and military are combined. Anyone who dares to destroy this "hard-won" peace will inevitably arouse the dissatisfaction of other daimyos.

Although the size of the Xiu family may not necessarily attack the Xiu family together, but just like the daimyos after the Jin and Song dynasties and Yonglezhi in Chinese history, you dare to use the traditional morality of "loyalty" to restrain the following daimyos ?
How much binding power will there be at that time?
Even Sima Zhao, who is well-known for usurping the throne, still went through a 3-year process before formally usurping the Cao Wei court. legal legitimacy.

The political game to the level of the Xiu family is really not the childish game of the Peasant Rebel Army who broke the pot and said, "I won't finish with you", and returned to the Kanto to directly raise troops.

For the sudden attack of the crowd, the Xiu family was caught off guard.

The Xiu family disbanded their tens of thousands of troops in advance, which greatly reduced their power in Daban City. The situation that could have been "taken" has become a "discussion". People withdrew.

The reason is also very simple. As one of the political centers of the Toyotomi family, I will need to participate in the evaluation of many situations in the future in Osaka City. The Hide family is really worried that such a city does not have its own military power.

Thinking about going to Xiu's house, I still plan to use the word "dragging", to muddle through today's meeting first, and then think about countermeasures after I go back.

Xiujia directly expressed his gratitude to Tokugawa for his contribution during this period, and Osaka will bear the military expenses of the 800 flag books of the Tokugawa family.

He also stated that he would ask His Highness Xiuli for instructions, and then act as the emperor on his behalf, and let the general Honda Tadakashi, who was in charge of the banner security task, be promoted to the five lower and middle affairs ministers, and Ieyasu himself would be promoted to the two ministers of the interior.

You must know that both Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu had official positions in the top three ranks before, and now Hideka is willing to recommend Tokugawa Ieyasu to a position higher than their own, which is something no one would have thought of.

Even Tokugawa Ieyasu expressed his gratitude to Hideo in front of everyone for the first time.

But the promotion of the official rank is only the promotion of the official rank. The Xiu family refused to talk about whether to withdraw from Daban, but Wang Gu talked about him.

For Xiuci, the purpose of this political action has been achieved. Since the Xiu family is unwilling to withdraw people, then he has to accept the blowback of his reputation.

At the same time, it also allowed the Omi faction in Osaka City to see through Hideka's ambitions, and he might be able to use this relationship to get the Hide family out of the game first through the short-term alliance with the Omi faction.

Xiuji, who returned to his mansion, was about to tell Tianhai the good news, and asked him for advice on the next step.But he heard the attendant who went to invite Tianhai report back, "The little novice below said that Master Tianhai is no longer in the temple today, and that he has gone out to practice."

In fact, Tianhai was found out by Xiu's family. At the moment, the two of them were looking for a secluded place to fish by the Yodo River in the north of Osaka City.

Tianhai was invited by the Xiu family, and when he saw the Xiu family, he was a little taken aback by the appearance of the Xiu family.

He actually was fishing there with an iron pocket and waited for him. If he didn't know, he thought it was some samurai lying in ambush by the river.

When Xiujia saw Tianhai's bald forehead, he couldn't help but sneered in his heart, "Nowadays there is no one who doesn't wear a helmet when fishing."

In front of Tianhai, Xiujia told him about the problems he was facing now.The core idea is that he is afraid that as he makes concessions, he will lose more right to speak here in Osaka.

But how could Tianhai not know about the problems that the Xiu family encountered?This question was originally proposed by him to Xiuci!
Facing the Xiu family's inquiry, Tianhai said directly, "Is Your Highness more afraid of losing power, or more afraid of his reputation?"

"What do you mean?" Xiujia frowned and asked Tianhai, "Master, you mean, I can only choose one of the two?"

"His Highness Tokugawa has agreed to withdraw troops, which is equivalent to putting His Highness on the fire. If His Highness does not retreat, it is tantamount to a sharp contrast with His Highness Tokugawa's open-mindedness. His Highness's reputation will definitely be lost.

It's good to leave early at this time, I'm afraid that at this time the little people in Osaka and Gifu have already started to spread rumors about His Highness. "

It was impossible for Xiujia to accept this result so recklessly, he threw out an idea of ​​his own to Tianhai.

"I actually have an idea. I want Hideji and the other daimyos to lead their troops into Osaka, so that there are garrisons from various daimyos in Osaka City, and I won't be pushed to the front."

Why did Tianhai propose this strategy to Xiuci? In essence, it was to weaken the Xiu family's power in Osaka.Youxiu's family is in Osaka, and many of his political actions cannot be carried out at all.

So facing Xiujia's questioning, he just kept signaling to Xiujia to accept the reality.

No, he went on to pour cold water on the Xiu family and said: "Your Highness may mention it a few days earlier, but now His Highness's suggestion will not be accepted by other famous names.

Or is it because His Highness Tokugawa has already set an example first, who is willing to lead troops into Luo at this time, to wade through this muddy water? "

"Then I can only retreat?" The Xiu family was very dissatisfied with this answer. He asked Tianhai to come here to solve the problem, not to be denied by him again.

Tianhai looked at the Xiu family with a trace of dissatisfaction on his face, changed the topic and suggested to the Xiu family: "I heard that Your Highness is once again sealed off from the mountain city and half the country, how about building the city within the sealed territory?"

"Build the city in the mountain city?"

"It's not right to say that. As far as I know, the Diancheng that His Highness Guan Bai built for Mrs. Dian is a beautiful place. How about taking this opportunity to ask Osaka for the reward of Diancheng?"

The Xiu family asked puzzledly: "Diancheng is in Jiyi County, and I didn't claim it. How could Dianji grant it to me? Besides, what does asking for Diancheng have to do with my withdrawal from Dasaka?"

"Diancheng is located between the two rivers at the junction of the Three Kingdoms, and the east-west commercial road runs through it. Besides, Diancheng is also close to Osaka, which is very convenient for His Royal Highness to come and go."

Tianhai didn't explain what he said, but the Xiu family already understood the meaning.That is to say, people can withdraw, but a fulcrum must be left behind for support.

Diancheng is very close to Osaka, and reinforcements can be reached in one day.But the problem still exists, that is, Kii County was not included in the original reward.

In fact, when the reward was first negotiated, Jiyi County, where Diancheng was located, was a point of anxiety between the two parties, and Chacha refused to give in one step at a time.The reason is also understandable, after all, her name Dian Ji comes from this city.

"I am afraid that the Osaka side will not take it lightly."

"Then take a step back and implore Osaka to grant the land of Momoyama in the west of Kii, and allow His Highness to build a city in Momoyama!"

Fortification of Momoyama is a good alternative. It is very close to Uji County, where the family is capable. The key location of Momoyama is as important as Yodo Castle.

But where the Xiu family can see it, they can also see it on the Osaka side, and he is also afraid that the Osaka side will disagree with this plan.

Hearing the concerns of the Xiu family, Tianhai persuasively said, "At this time and then at that time, the Zhibu who influences Dianji's thoughts has married Kyushu. Your Highness can discuss with Dianji first. As long as Dianji agrees, Your Highness can go to the Beizheng Office again, and I don't need to say more about the reason."

Xiujia's eyeballs rolled in their sockets, and he instantly understood Tianhai's thoughts.The connection between Beizheng's office in Osaka and the Seven Hands Group is not deep. In fact, the Seven Hands Group has nothing to do with many daimyos.

Now the 1000 people in Xiu's hands are one of the confidence that Beizheng Institute can fight with Chacha.

But now the Xiu family has to evacuate people under pressure. Is she afraid that the Beizheng Office will stay alone in Osaka City?
Of course you can say that he also has Asano Nagamasa, Toyotomi Hideji, and even Hachisuka, Fukushima and other daimyos as guards of honor, but these people can't quench their thirst far away.

Even from Xiujia's point of view, he could just use this opportunity to force the palace to show to the Beizheng Office: "I don't support Xiujia, now that Xiujia has been driven out, where is your good fruit to eat?"

Only when Beizhengsuo sees the importance of Hideka will it tilt the balance of Beizhengsuo to itself again, and the closeness of Beizhengsuo will inevitably bring Asano Nagamasa closer.

(End of this chapter)