Prime Minister Bizen

The visitor called Yamanaka Totoshi, claiming to be Yamanaka Changtoshi's second son.

Changtoshi Yamanaka has cards in the games "Taiko" and "Nobuno", but the five-dimensional data is very poor and it is difficult to attract the attention of players.Even the Xiu family only knew who he was, and knew very little about his deeds.

I only know that he was a retainer of the Rokkaku family at first, then became a retainer of the Oda family, and finally became a retainer of the Shibata and Niwa families, and became Hideyoshi's retainer after the Niwa family was changed.Not much is known about the story after that.

In fact, with his background, it is logically difficult for him to be Yubi beside Hideyoshi.In ancient Japan, Yubi was a position that could only be held by extremely trusted people. This was not only a role of polishing orders for Hideyoshi, but also a role of handling a lot of dirty work for daimyo.

Such an important position, how could it be possible for a person with such an innocent background to serve several famous names, including his own rival?

But Hideyoshi really gave him this identity, and even gave him the identity of Wanshi Daimyo, which is enough to show that this person must have transcendental abilities, and he is definitely not a garbage card with such stats in the game.

It wasn't until this life traveled to this world that the Hide family knew that Yamanaka Nagatoshi was the man who took Hideyoshi's place in charge of the Toyotomi family's ninja army after Nakamura Kazushi.

I am not familiar with Yamanaka Toshi Toshi's family, but hearing Yamanaka Nagatoshi's name, the Hide family's heart will change somewhat, which is why the Hide family will bring someone with them in the future.

Unexpectedly, the visitor did not intend to go back to the mansion with the Xiu family, but expressed the hope that the Xiu family would go down to the city with him before discussing.In order to ensure Xiujia's trust in his safety, he said that he could follow Xiujia to Yamatokou, which is controlled by Xiujia's army.

Although he is a stranger, this is the city of Daban, and the Xiu family's status is so special, he doesn't think that anyone will plot against him under the protection of his own people.

And when the Xiu family took him to a samurai house in Yamatokou, the Xiu family directly revealed their identity, saying that the "little attendant" who had been leading the way before was the Toyotomi Hide family.

Hideka seemed to want to see the disbelief on Yamanaka Tomotoshi's face, but the other party just replied indifferently, "I know Your Highness is Toyotomi Hideka."

Now it was Xiu's turn to be stunned, but it was only for a moment.After all, my identity is so special, even if I don't know myself among the daimyo, there are countless people who have met me, and it is only natural to see it.

"I don't know why Master Shanzhong came to see me today?" Xiujia asked him straight to the point.

"I was in Osaka City, and I saw that His Highness first went to Honmaru to meet Mrs. Yodo, and then went to Ximaru to meet Beizhengsuodian. I am really curious. Doesn't Your Highness know that these two Highnesses have conflicts?"

"It doesn't seem to have anything to do with adults." Naturally, the Xiu family would not talk about their plans with a small daimyo, but deliberately changed the topic and said, "As 'Ruo Nian Ji', I regularly report to the two wives about the daimyo's situation. Question?"

"Your Highness misunderstood me." Hearing the change in the tone of Hideka's words, Yamanaka Tomotoshi hastened to explain, "I'm just curious, do all of you great people have both ways?"

Xiujia was keenly aware of the important point in his words, frowned and asked, "Who else is the big man you're talking about?"

Seeing Hideka's bait, Totoshi Yamanaka couldn't help but put on a smile and said, "I have a piece of information that His Highness is definitely interested in, but His Highness wants to know this information and has to exchange it with something equivalent."

The Xiu family didn't immediately ask him "what do you want?", but asked him "You said you are the son of Yamashiro, so are you here today on behalf of Yamashiro, or on behalf of yourself?
Did you obtain the information you mentioned to tell me, or did the guard of Yamashiro ask you to tell me? "

Hideyoshi's question is very important, because Yamanaka Nagatoshi is Hideyoshi's Yubi, and he has been in charge of Toyotomi's ninja army for Hideyoshi before.

Xiujia never doubted the combat effectiveness and intelligence gathering capabilities of the Toyotomi Ninja Army.

With the advent of the post-Warring States era, independent or semi-independent ninja villages gradually disappeared from the history of the Japanese Warring States Period. On the contrary, ninja villages that were integrated by powerful daimyos like Kuki and Murakami pirates attached to daimyo.

Many people's cognition of ninjas still stays at the time when Koga, Iga, Tobo, Togakushi, Fuma and other ninjas shined during the melee of the Warring States Period.

In fact, the ninja at that time was a semi-independent Somura organization, and the daimyo forces did not have an absolute advantage, and the daimyo's own political system did not have the ability to absorb and integrate the ninja, so these independent and well-known in the ninja.

Of course, apart from these ninjas, most of the daimyos also have half-raised Somura organizations in their own territories who become their own ninjas and provide them with information to offset taxes. Ukita’s former ninja army existed like this.

They may not be as famous as the independent Ninja Villages mentioned above, but they have more or less their own unique specialties, so they will be valued by their lords. For example, the Ninja Army of the Uki family has always been good at assassination in the past.

However, with the passage of time and the advent of the post-Warring States era, Momoyama, and the Shogunate era, Daimyo’s control over remote areas within his territory has increased, and the village system has gradually disintegrated. absorb.

In addition, Oda Nobunaga attacked Koga and Iga, which caused a large number of villagers from the two villages to disperse and join various samurai families.

In short, these ninja villages have basically no longer appeared in an independent form, but have directly become intelligence weapons under the command of the daimyo, no longer accepting external commissions, and becoming a ninja organization exclusively for the daimyo.

For example, Hideo's ninjas accepted some of the Iga Sanren, plus Ukido's own Sancun ninjas from the Kibi Five Kingdoms, and then accepted the remnant party who were expelled to Ueno and Musashi by the Tokugawa family's Iga, And Musashi, Sagami's local Fuma remnants are re-bonded.

The Tokugawa family was established with Iga people as the main body, which is also famous in history.

But what many people don't know is that the ninja books of Toyotomi's family come from a small number of families in Koga who joined him in the Hideyoshi Omi era, such as the Nakamura family.

After that, Hideyoshi transferred to Himeji and gained the loyalty of the Awaji people. After inheriting the Oda family, he further integrated the Koga people in the Hideyoshi era, and integrated the Kaga Ishikawa people, Izumo Hachiya people, and Sakuya people in the subsequent crusade against Shibata and Kyushu. Part of the family of He Xiyezhong.

Although Toyotomi ninjas are not well-known in history, Hideyoshi can know the secrets of the big names in their own homes in history. It is all thanks to these ninjas to pass information to him. Who can say that they have no strength?
In Hideyoshi's era, Osaka, Kyoto and Kinki were absolutely forbidden to Hideyoshi. With Hideyoshi's character, he could spy on others at will, but others could never spy on himself.

In this case, the Toyotomi ninja army in the Kinki area has a detached position.

Therefore, although Hideyoshi and Tokugawa ninjas have sent people to these areas, they have not been so obvious that there is no particularly strong source of information for these two areas after Hideyoshi's death.

As for the Toyotomi ninjas in the Kanto area, under the impenetrable intelligence network organized by Tsusue Sanzhicheng, they more or less knew several of them, but it was because Hideyoshi had not cleaned them up before.

This led to the fact that although Hideka's ninja army has a considerable intelligence advantage over the Kanto, Tohoku, even Koshin, Hokuriku, Tokaido, and even the West Country, their intelligence control over the Kinki land is extremely empty.

This is still the case in Kinki, let alone Osaka Castle.Except for the 3~5 ninja guards that the Xiu family brought with them every time they entered the city, there was not even a single ninja left by the Xiu family in Osaka City!
If this information was brought by Changtoshi Yamanaka, it means that Changtoshi Yamanaka is using the Toyotomi Ninja Army as a bargaining chip to get closer to himself. In this way, the Hide family will take over the Toyotomi Ninja Army without bloodshed, and make up for it. On this piece of missing eye.

Yamanaka Tomotoshi replied: "It's what my father meant, and it's what I mean."

The meaning of Totoshi Yamanaka's words is that this is his own meaning, but he asked his father what he thought before, and at least got the acquiescence of Changtoshi Yamanaka.

And the deeper meaning here can be understood as: the opinions of the family are not unified, and Changtoshi Yamanaka allowed his sons to seek refuge with a powerful daimyo to ensure the continuation of the family name.

This is actually the most common way for weak warriors to extend their lives during the Warring States Period.In the history of Guanyuan, there were also many samurai who asked their sons to join the Eastern and Western armies to ensure the leadership of the family.

Anyway, Hideka figured out what Yamanaka Chotoshi meant, and was able to further analyze the credibility of Yamanaka Tomotoshi's information.

Hearing Yamanaka Tomotoshi's answer, Hideka was slightly disappointed, but still asked politely: "You said that you are curious about the kung fu of us big shots, so may I ask if you have seen any big shots like me who have met twice at the same time?" Madam? Tokugawa Uchifu or Gifu Gondai Nagan?"

"These are not what I want to talk to His Highness today." Yamanaka Youjun shook his head and said, "My gift must be in line with His Highness's wishes, and it is a timely gift.

Not only this information, but I am also willing to cooperate with His Highness many times in the future. I only hope that His Highness will treat me and the Yamanaka family well after he gets the world. "

Xiujia nodded and said, "I have been looking forward to getting the effect of the Yamanaka family. Naturally, I will ensure that the family name of the Yamanaka family will survive. As for how much reward the Yamanaka family will receive in the end, it depends on what the Yamanaka family can do for me. How much credit has been made."

After getting the answer from Xiujia, Yamanaka Totoshi opened his mouth to reveal his information and said: "His Highness seems to often find a monk named Tianhai recently, and he just fished by the Yodo River not long ago?"

The Xiu family was not at all surprised that they would be followed by the Fengchun ninja. This is their base camp, and it is almost impossible to make it airtight in such a place.

But Xiujia will never tell him the real reason for looking for Tianhai, and he also believes that Toyotomi Ninja can only see Xiujia's behavior of looking for Tianhai, and will never hear the conversation between them.

Since they couldn't hear the conversation, Xiu's answer was naturally reserved: "There is such a thing, but I just ask for some Buddhist teachings."

"Not only this time, but His Highness has summoned this master twice before. His Highness really thinks he likes to study Buddhism~!" Yamanaka Tomotoshi sighed, "It seems that this master is really a Buddhist master. But Sengzheng's rank can be taken care of by three great figures."

"Three big men?" The Xiu family was a little puzzled, did Tianhai go to meet other people besides himself?
"His Highness Gifu also came to look for this master before, and he went to the city to find him who was reciting the mantra for His Highness Guan Bai, which shows the urgency to learn Buddhism.

It is precisely because of this that the master has attracted our attention.My father specially sent someone to check it out. It seems that this master monk is transcribing and the temple in Kyoto is also operated by this great Nayan. "

"His Highness Gifu has visited this master many times since then, often asking questions for half a day. That's right! Not long after His Highness asked him to go fishing last time, His Highness Gifu's family's servants came to look for him with a sedan chair."

"It's not just His Highness Gifu. Just a few days ago, this master specially visited Tokugawa Dana Yan. I think he also went to study Buddhism. To be valued by the three most powerful people in the world today, this master's Dharma It’s so ingenious, even I want to ask for advice.”

Yamanaka Yutoshi shared important information with Hideka as if he was joking, and added an extra headline: "Oh, yes. The ninja sent by His Highness to the Gifu Domain at that time was revealed by Ribei (Xiaoshan Jingchun) For the Gifu Domain.

Your Highness doesn't think that by relying on those big vassals of the Gifu Clan, you can discover ninjas hidden in the dark! "

Unlike Tomoya Yamanaka who spoke with a molesting smile on his face, Hideka's complexion turned dark after hearing the news.He had doubts about Tianhai's motives.

And Tomotoshi Yamanaka, who is good at observing words and expressions, naturally got the answer he wanted to know from Hideka's face.

After sorting out his emotions for a while, Hideka expressed his thanks to Yamanaka Tomotoshi, and asked him, besides himself, did the Yamanaka family inform anyone else of the news?

This other person could be the Omi faction headed by Chacha, because their ninja army is currently under their control.It could also be the other two parties, Tokugawa and Hideji.

And Xiujia specifically mentioned that the Yamanaka family is the main body, not Yamanaka Tomotoshi himself, and also wanted to know whether the news was notified by the Yamanaka family to all three parties for a price.

This news can be regarded as a timely help for the Xiu family who have relied on Tianhai recently. Why is this Tianhai's behavior so similar to Jiangzuo Meilang in "Langya Bang" before his reincarnation.

It's just that he must have his own purpose in doing so, and it is impossible for the three parties to be the targets of his instigation.

"At present, only Your Highness knows," Yutoshi Yamanaka replied, "It's a gift from the Yamanaka family to His Highness, but whether this news will be told by my father to the other three His Highnesses is not under my control."

Xiujia heard the meaning of Yamanaka Youjun's words, and that was to wait for Xiujia to make an offer.

Hideka also said quite bluntly, "Iga Kogamoto is one, based on this news alone, I dare to give the Yamanaka family name Zhang a reward of 3 shi, and you will receive another 1 shi, my lord.

It's just that this reward is not so easy to get. If I don't get the world in the end, it may be difficult to implement this reward. "

The Yamanaka family currently owns 1 shi, so there will be even less for the second son Yamanaka Tomotoshi.So the Xiu family's 3+1 reward is already an extremely generous reward, and the other party will not believe it if they offer more.

As for the meaning of Xiujia's last sentence, it is natural that they want the Shanzhong family to pay more for themselves. Xiujia means that it is not enough to just pass on news in twos and threes, and they want the Shanzhong family to be used for themselves.

But Tomotoshi Yamanaka obviously took this into consideration, he said, "Although Toyotomi Ninja has the same name, they have factions like the original Koga 21 families, and besides, I can't make decisions for my father.

I know that I have made a promise to His Highness by myself. From now on, if His Highness needs anything in Osaka and Kinki, you can send someone to find me, and I will try my best to cooperate with His Highness. "

Although he didn't get what Hideka wanted, he directly controlled the Toyotomi Ninja Army.But getting Yamanaka Tomotoshi's promise is tantamount to finally setting a nail in the airtight Toyotomi Ninja Army, which is much more convenient than re-infiltrating Kinki and rearranging the intelligence network.

"Sir's words alone are worth another 1 shi!" Hideka accepted Yamanaka Tomotoshi's allegiance and said: "I will let my ninjas pass the message to you on your behalf to ensure safety."

"Now there are two things that need the help of an adult. First, some people under my command want to come to Kinki to do business, and I need an adult to make it easier.

The second is that I hope that my lord can continue to investigate. I also want to see how profound the Buddhist principles of this master are. "

"Both of those things are easy."

This is the benefit of having someone on the other side.Without the help of Tomotoshi Yamanaka, it would take years for the ninjas outside to infiltrate the intelligence network if they want to deploy in Kinki.

Now that there are people inside, these people from the Xiu family can be directly connected to the Fengchun Ninja Army, and they can directly share the intelligence network of the Toyotomi family in Kinki, which is a step faster.

As for the second request, it is to obtain Tianhai's information first, since the Xiujia Kinki intelligence system has not been established.

After hearing those stories from Yamanaka Youjun, the Xiu family was restless at the moment, eager to know what kind of medicine was sold in Tianhai Gourd, so they knew to use the help of the Yamanaka family.

At the same time, it also made Xiujia feel distrustful of Tianhai's suggestion to persuade him to stay in Osaka, which further prompted Xiujia to want to return to Kanto.

"Give this jade pendant to your lord as a token, and I, the Xiu family, hereby promise that I will never forget your lord's kindness to you and the city guard in the mountains."

This chapter was supposed to reappear around chapter 68 or so.

But many people in the recent book review area said that I am mentally retarded.They all said: "The ninjas of the Xiu family are so strong, why don't they send someone to spy on Tianhai's information?" and so on.

Not only in the book review area, but also in the book friend group, there is no intelligence at all, and the Xiu family has no information at all.

I just want to say that this is Kinki, this is Osaka, Hideka's hand cannot reach here, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Ninja Army is not a soft persimmon.

If the history of the Toyotomi Ninja Army was so good, it would be impossible for Hideyoshi to grasp Kuroda Rushui's words so quickly and retreat further than him.

It is also impossible for Hideyoshi to master so many secrets of other daimyos, as long as he wants to change, change or reduce these daimyos, he can use them at any time.

Osaka Castle is Hideyoshi's core, and it is impossible for him to let his core be penetrated like a funnel.

Although I have been complaining that there are no secrets in Osaka Castle, none of these were detected by outsiders, and some were spread by Hideyoshi on his own initiative.

The killing of the ninja sent by Hideo before was also a letter reported by Toyotomi ninja to the Gifu clan.

Since everyone thinks that the Xiu family does not have an intelligence network in Osaka, it is unwise, I can only raise this battle.

My thought is "This book has been completely changed by your writing and your brain, so simply change the outline."

"But Xia starts with a book, and the outline is set and will not change. I will delete all kinds of opinions that disrupt the plan in the book review area when the next book starts."