Prime Minister Bizen

Xiujia and Tianhai left separately, and Xiujia, who had returned to Osaka City, entered the city uncharacteristically to meet the woman he had avoided before.

Chacha was also very surprised by Xiujia's arrival, but she still received Xiujia very politely.

It's just that as soon as we met, I couldn't help but mocked Xiujia: "Da Nayan hasn't come to see me for some years, I thought Da Nayan deliberately avoided me."

Xiujia still remembered that after the Noongwei battle, Chacha approached him on his own initiative and caused a big commotion by him.

Later, Hideyoshi wanted to force Lalang to marry his third sister Jiang to the Xiu family as a child, but the Xiu family still refused.

Since time travel, the Xiu family has always resisted the three Asai sisters, and after that incident, Chacha naturally felt her own resistance to them.

So since Qingchang's rebellion, Chacha never took the initiative to communicate with Xiu's family.But now I heard that the Xiu family took the initiative to come to him, and it is understandable to say some bitter words.

Xiujia Xiang and Cha Chaxu had some back and forth and then cut to the topic, "I heard that the Tokugawa Tibetan head just became a widow not long ago, and now there are many famous people who want to marry the Tokugawa family."

In history, Tokugawa Hidetada's wife Ohime, Nobuo's daughter, died after the Battle of Odawara when she was only six years old.

After the death of his wife, Hideyoshi immediately married Ajiang. According to the experience of the Tokugawa family who killed Xinkang, it is hard to say how this 6-year-old girl who lost her father's protection died.

But in this life, although the marriage between Ah Jiang and Xiu Sheng was stumbling, Xiu Sheng still survived, Ah Jiang naturally did not become Hideyoshi's political bargaining chip, and Hideyoshi did not give birth to the idea of ​​marrying the woman around him to Xiuzhong. Lived 6 more years.

Not long ago, Xiao Ji died of dystocia because she was too young, and gave birth to a daughter called "One" for Tokugawa Hidetada.And the widowed Tokugawa Hidetada naturally became a favorite in the daimyo marriage market.

Chacha didn't understand the meaning of Xiujia's words, and replied in a regretful and mocking tone: "Why are you telling me these things? Could it be that Da Nayan intended to marry his younger sister? Unfortunately, I remember His Highness My two younger sisters are already family members."

"Of course there are no women of the right age in Fengchun's family, so I came to ask [Mrs. Dian], what do you have here?"

Because of the Asai family's betrayal of Nobunaga, all the males were wiped out, and everyone in the world knows that Asai Nagamasa has only three of their girls alive.

And now that all three of them are married, there are no extra women to marry Tokugawa Hidetaka, so it's not necessary to let her, Hidetaka's elder sister who is 10 years older, marry her!
In ancient times, both Chinese and foreign, mothers, children, sisters, and brothers could all be political tools for marriage.Even the more people you have on your side, the stronger the political capital you can win over.

Didn’t you see that Date Tsukune and Nagano Yezheng had many sons and daughters, and married them into various wealthy families in the Northeast and Ueno, so that they had the capital to compete with the regional tyrants?
With the lessons learned from mocking the Xiu family before, Chacha also thought that the Xiu family was mocking her that she had no one under her command.

"If Your Highness says these meaningless words today, Chacha will be educated. It's just that if you finish drinking the cup of tea in your hand, please leave on your own, and I won't entertain you here."

"I heard that Kyogoku's attendant's family is preparing for the marriage of his youngest sister, Magdalena, and intends to marry him to Kuchiki Notsuna of Omi Kuchiki Valley."

Hearing that the Xiu family mentioned Jingji's family, Chacha's main ally at present, Chacha suddenly stepped up and asked Xiu's family: "My big Nayan, you are really lenient, you won't even touch Omi. You also have to worry about the marriage of the little famous family!"

Hearing Chacha's complaints about her, Xiujia curled her lips speechlessly. She didn't know how this woman's brain grew. She obviously had a keen sense of politics at times, but how did she become so dull at the end.

But it also agrees with her character design, Chacha's political sensitivity is like a nerve knife, sometimes punctual and slow, otherwise there would not be so many moths in history.

I also heard that His Highness Gifu visited His Highness Tokugawa twice a few days ago, and it seems that there is an idea of ​​marriage.It must have been negotiated by now, otherwise De Chuandian would not vote for Li to cooperate with him in yesterday's evaluation.

Hearing Xiujia's answer, Chacha seemed to have a sudden inspiration, but not completely.

She laughed at Xiujia: "Hahaha, don't want to frame me. Where is there a woman of the right age in the Gifu family? Could it be that you want to marry your concubine?"

Xiujia looked at Chacha, who thought he had found a loophole in Xiujia and smiled happily at Xiujia, shook his head helplessly and further explained: "His Highness Gifu may not be around, but he has a son.

Senchiyomaru, Hyakumaru, Jumaru, and Tsuchimaru are all heirs of the right age. If he is willing to spend his money, he can promise that the eldest son Senchiyomaru will marry Kazuhime, and then Nobi and Junyuan will be like a country! "

Hearing that the Xiu family said that Xiu would marry the Tokugawa family, or directly marry the only daughter of Xiuzhong's next generation, the original smile on Chacha's face quickly disappeared, "The Toyotomi family will not allow it."

"Your Highness, don't forget that the affairs of Toyotomi's family are now in the hands of the council of five big bosses. One vote for the Gifu Palace, one vote for the Minister of Internal Affairs, one vote for the Asano Council, and one vote for the Kitanosho Council are enough to make established facts.

Mori and Uesugi won't object, and I'm alone and I have no ability to stop it! "

After listening to Xiujia's explanation, Chacha clenched her fists and showed great anger.

In fact, she has a certain level of insight, and naturally knows how much the situation has changed after Hideji married the Tokugawa family.

And there is one thing that she can't accept now, because the power system of the five big bosses is in place, and the rights of the Toyotomi family are actually stripped from her hands, and she can't even stop it.

At the right time, Xiujia mentioned Kyogoku Magdalena again.Xiujia said that the two of them were childhood sweethearts, and the marriage contract had already been set, and if it wasn't for the commotion before, the wedding would have been held long ago.

He even expressed his envy for the couple.

No matter how stupid Chacha is, she can understand the meaning of Xiujia's words.

But Chacha's arrogance made her not easily bow to Xiujia, and told Xiujia that she would go to Tokugawa Ieyasu to deal with this matter by herself later.

If it weren't for the fact that the Xiu family and Chacha now have a common enemy, the Xiu family would have been blown up by his attitude. She wouldn't have thought that she could persuade so many bigwigs to agree to this marriage with her sharp tongue.

"If Gifu joins forces with the Inner Palace, other bigwigs may not necessarily be involved in this matter. Besides, what effect can the marriage between Kyogoku and Tokugawa play? It's not Toyotomi and Tokugawa. direct marriage.

Hideji can still let his son marry the daughter of the Tibetan head. His Highness Tokugawa is neutral at best. If he wants to make His Highness Tokugawa favor you, Madam, I decided to use both approaches. "

"You mean to let Xiuli enter into a marriage contract with that Ichihime?"

"That's exactly what I mean."

Chacha, who received an affirmative answer from Xiujia, didn't look relaxed. After a long time, Xiujia's opposing attitude made her feel that this was a trap.

She asked Xiujia, "Da Nayan came to me today and told me all these things. What exactly does it mean?"

The Xiu family's answer was very righteous: "I am the son of the Toyotomi family, so naturally I have to consider the Toyotomi family. I have always come here to maintain the power of the Toyotomi family."

At the end of Xiujia's words, he still didn't forget to look at Chacha and add a sentence "not some people's personal power."

Chacha snorted coldly and didn't quite believe what Xiujia said, and Xiujia finally got into the topic and put forward his own thoughts, "The reason I led troops to Osaka with Tokugawa was because Gifu didn't trust you.

Now that Gifu has negotiated privately with the Uchifu, it is my fault that I stay alone in Osaka.I will evacuate the soldiers in Osaka Castle in a short time.

It's just that I beg you to allow me to keep these people in my knowledge and practice in the mountain city, that is, to keep a standing armed force of about 3000 to 4500 people in the mountain city. "

In the end, the Xiu family still didn't ask Chacha directly for the land near Fushimi, because the Xiu family thought that Chacha would not accept such a clear request for such an important piece of land.

The Xiu family settled for the next best thing, and wanted Chacha to allow him to garrison troops in Kyoto. As for the idea of ​​building Fushimi, he could have a private chat with the Beizheng Office.

Chacha listened to the Xiu family's request, and responded coldly with the law: "The Kinki daimyo cannot mobilize or garrison troops without permission. This is the rule written in the "No Incident Order."

The Xiu family responded: "But Daban City is unique to Madam, isn't it? After the inner government and I have withdrawn, will Your Highness Gifu still have the nerve to send people to Osaka?"

Hideka said, looked up and sighed, "I don't know which expert is advising Gifu. Doesn't he know who this soldier is protecting?"

After a round of verbal battles, Chacha finally agreed that Xiujia and Xiujia should station in the mountain city with no more than 3000 permanent staff.Xiujia accepted this, and then bid farewell to him and left.

Leaving from Auburn Maru where Chacha was, he turned a corner and arrived at Xi Maru, which is now carried by Beizheng.

In fact, as the mistress, she should live in the Auburn Maru, but Chacha forced her to live in the Auburn Maru by holding Shiwan in her hands.Beizhengsuo lived with her at the beginning, but after a while, she couldn't stand this woman anymore, so she moved to Ximaru on her own initiative.

Moving from Obon Maru to Nishi Maru's North Administration Office, although the standard of living has not decreased, it can be seen that it is much more vigorous than when it was surrounded by Hideya and Hideji when they just returned to Osaka.

Seeing Xiujia's arrival, Beizheng Institute showed enthusiasm for Xiujia as always. After all, Xiujia and Xiuci are the source of her power.

The reason why he protested against the Xiu family before was because the Xiu family did not agree with her in rewarding their relatives. Under Xiuci's bewitching, he also wanted to integrate the power of the two great names in the world, so he put pressure on the Xiu family.

But judging from the recent results, it seems that it is not obvious that Xiujia has his own ideas, and often contradicts Xiuci.Since the hard ones can only be soft, she wants to use words to persuade the two families to share the same hatred.

But the Xiu family didn't come to her to listen to her preaching. The Xiu family said, "Dian Ji, who is a concubine, has a city, and she will move there in summer to escape the heat. How can you Don't you have a city that belongs to you?"

"I heard that my mother liked Fushimi's peach blossoms very much when I was with my father at the Fushimi tea party. Please allow my son to build a city in Fushimi for my mother that belongs only to my mother."

The Beizheng Office was very moved when he heard the Xiu family's request. Since the peace talks ended that day, he brought Xiuci and the Xiu family up, and after he and Chacha retired behind the scenes, he seemed to be forgotten by the previous court.

Until now, only the Xiu family came to him and said that he would give him a gift, and this gift was a city, not to mention how exciting it was.

But she also said, "Toyotomi's family is in short supply now, and I'm afraid I don't have so much wealth to build another Diancheng."

The Xiu family expressed that it was their son's wish to build the city for Beizheng, and the public only needed to pay 3%, and the remaining 7% was for the Xiu family to raise.

For this proposal, Beijing Institute of Political Science readily agreed, saying that it would present this request in the subsequent evaluation.

It is naturally impossible for Xiujia to contribute 7% of its own capital. The so-called self-raised Xiujia has already thought about it. They will contribute 2% of their own capital, and the remaining 5% will have to be apportioned by the daimyo of the No. [-] school.

Especially Xiuci, the Xiu family has invested 2% of the capital, as another good son of the Beizheng Institute, are you embarrassed not to pay?
Xiuci's surprise attack made the Xiu family so uncomfortable, the Xiu family naturally wanted to counter him.

The most important point is that at this stage, when the stone city is being built, the most important thing is to invest in Beizhong and Mizusa's mountains. When the time comes, Hideka can take the project into his own hands, and Hideka will have an excuse to join the Okayama Domain.

Leaving from the Beizheng Office, Xiujia always felt that someone was following him.

In fact, it is impossible for a team with many people like Xiujia to hide their whereabouts.But the Hide family asked Satomi Yoshiyasu to take the large army to the mansion first, and he took Kira Mori and a few others to stay behind, wanting to see who it was, blatantly following him.

Unexpectedly, the person came to the corner where Xiu's house was ambush, but stopped. It was obvious that they had discovered your ambush here.But Dington took the initiative to show up after a while and said, "I have something to ask your lord."

From behind the attendant's protection, the Xiu family saw that the person who was coming was unfamiliar, and immediately asked, "Who are you and why are you following my lord?"

The person who came did not report the family name, but just said with a cold smile, "I was born in Koga-ryu. If I really want to follow your lord, I dare not say anything else. You will never find out in this Osaka city."

After a while of ridicule, he looked around as if he was afraid of something, "I have something important to see your lord, so don't startle and pay attention."