Prime Minister Bizen

When the Hide family left Kyoto, they finally worried about their son and arranged for his son. The first thing the Hide family did after returning to Kanto was to go to Kamakura to see their son and Ji Ji whom they hadn’t seen for several years.

The purpose of coming to Kamakura, the first stop in Kanto, was not only to arrange his son's affairs, Hideka also planned to ask Yixin Chongchuan, who was the host of Kenchoji Temple, for his opinion on the future political situation.

Although Kamakura (2.5), Daju (6.4) and Gaozanan (2.1) have a total of 10 stone collars, and Kamakura is the land of Longxing, the newly sealed Ashikaga family is not in Kamakura Cang, but Fujisawa Castle at the junction of Gaoza County and Kamakura.

This castle was not among the 40 castles that Hideka was allowed to keep, but because the speed of Sagami Abandoned Castle was not as fast as that of Musashi Ueno and other places, this castle was preserved.

Now it seems that it is just a Kohira mountain castle with Nimaru earthen wall, and it is not worthy of the [-]-goku daimyo's grade in terms of grandeur and defense.

However, the Xiu family did not intend to build on it. It was originally the main city where the Ashikaga family temporarily lived.

Therefore, the Hide family planned to build Fujisawa Castle a little bit. The original wooden screens were replaced with stone walls, and the two circles of earthen walls were embedded by the Hide family with stone walls cut from random stones on the outermost periphery, and then the walls were painted white. , looks stylish on the line.

If you really want to defend Sagami, you will not rely on this Fujisawa Castle.On the west bank of Mairigawa, there is a Hiratsuka Castle built by the Tokugawa family to guard against the Hide family.

His city defense is much stronger than that of Fujisawa, and it is located at the forefront, which is more suitable for stationing heavy troops.The only disadvantage is that they are backed by Ma Ruchuan. Once the waterway is cut off, the support from Kanto is likely to be cut off.

But in the Xiu family's vision, he never thought about a war in his own territory, at least the current Xiu family didn't think about it.

To be honest, from the moment the child was born, the Shi family was taken away, and the Xiu family hadn't really seen their son.

What I saw later in Tianhai's Wuliang Temple was a young novice with a shaved head, which was far less resonant than what I saw now.

Although the Shi family has already taken Yuanfu, but after all, it is only a 6 and a half year old child. Tianhai's education for him has just begun. With Tianhai Luo, the Shi family was left in Kanto, and his education was also handed over by the Xiu family. Worship with heart.

When they came to the unrepaired Fujisawa Castle, in order to show the importance they attached to the Ashikaga family, Hideo first met Noda Homono, who succeeded Noda Hirotomo as the elder of the Ashikaga family, and other retainers in the castle.

He is Noda Hirotomo's nephew. Since Noda Hirotomo is old and has no heirs, his younger brother Noda Jingfan's son Saburo Fan Qing adopted his elder brother Hirotomo's name and changed his name to Fan Chao as the successor.

Even though he was Noda Hirotomo's nephew, he was still almost 10 years older than the Hideo family, and he was already a heroic middle-aged samurai.Before that, he often helped his uncle Hongchao to take charge of Shiji's Furukawa collar.

As the two Furukawa citizen elders, Yantian and Isshiki, were disposed of after Odawara's evaluation, the Noda family took over from the two that had originally dominated.

Although they are still serving under the command of the Ashikaga family today, they are all small lords with one or two thousand stones, and they cannot be compared with the Noda family who has a collar of 5500 stones.

In the past, Noda Hirotomo was always in charge of Furukawa's internal affairs.

This time, the knowledge and practice of the Ashikaga family has doubled due to the light of the Xiu family, but the real arrangement of knowledge and practice in the collar is not something that a family elder can dispose of at will.

Although their patriarch was the Ashikaga family and had no relationship with the Hide family in name, the Ashikaga family's retainers were all waiting for the Hide family to return from Kyoto to make arrangements for them.

In fact, it's not just the reward from the Ashikaga clan, the Fengchun clan's retainers have already gathered in Fengchun City to wait for the Xiu family to share the cake when they heard that the Xiu family returned.

There is actually nothing to say about the award of the Ashikaga family. The fact that the Ashikaga family sealed 10 stone has nothing to do with his own retainers. They did not contribute to the Ashikaga seal.

Therefore, even if the Ashikaga family wants to add a seal, it is only possible to add a seal to Noda Homono. It is already very good for other families to be able to add a hundred stones with this reward.

As for the replenishment of the Ashikaga samurai foundation, it still depends on further blood transfusions from the Toyoharu family.After all, the Xiu family didn't want the Ashikaga clan to escape from their control prematurely, and it was a good thing to have the best of both worlds by taking the Ashikaga clan's land to block their own samurai.

After thanking Noda Hirotomo for his dedication over the years, Hideka announced that he would reward Noda with 2500 stone collars, making Noda's knowledge and behavior reach 8000 stone.

Its territory is in Jinzi Castle, the front line of Dazhu County. This city is not far from the mountain pass on the east side of Mount Takayama and Mount Saga. the westernmost side of .

But this Shanxi territory is not as many as 8000 shi. Their main territory is still on the east side of the mountain, in Qinye City of later generations.

The reason why they set up their own city in Jinzi City is also because the city's geographical location is extremely important, and non-heavy ministers cannot guard it.

The Noda clan has long been bound to the new Ashikaga clan, and the new Ashikaga clan's backing is Hideka.They are the family least likely to betray Ashikaga.

Of course, as the house governor, Noda Noritomo spends most of his time in Fujisawa Castle to handle government affairs for the Ashikaga family, but there are his biological father Noda Jingfan and adoptive father Noda Hirotomo on the front line of Jinzi Castle.It is still reassuring for the two brothers to be stationed in Jinzi City.

In addition to conferring 2500 shi to the Noda clan, there are also 1800 shi for the help of the Noda Sada, 1750 shi for Isshiki Yoshinao and others.The other elders and important ministers under the command of the Ashikaga family were all transferred from other places by the Xiu family.

First of all, the Kojima family and the Ukita family are divided into the Ichiyoki family and the Sanjo Mijia family, and the Ashikaga family is also indispensable.Kojima Tadahiro and Yoshihiro brothers received 3500 shi and 2500 shi respectively; Ukita Naoke received 5000 shi and sealed Hiratsuka Jodai; Ukita Takanobu received 3160 shi and received Qinya and Asama Yamashiro.

The only two ten thousand stone daimyos under the Ashikaga family are Shobayashi Isshin, who was granted by the Hide family, who owns 1.3 koku of Isehara Castle, and 1.2 Ota Keiko, who was transferred by the Hide family just a few times to the Ota Susaka family The old famous city of Wanshi led the sea (formerly Guansu 1 stone).

Others such as Koyama Hidetsuna, Kanda Masataka, Nakajima Ushimori, Mamiya Tsunanobu, etc., who were originally the former ministers of the Ashikaga clan in Kanto, and Ma Zhiyin, Takai Yinyong, and Toki Zhigang, the old party ministers of Odawara, were transferred to serve under the name of the Ashikaga family. .

Their original knowledge and practice were very few, and most of them were Dashen Banner Books in the early 1000s. %.

There are a total of 26 retainers under the command of the Ashikaga clan (including the large body banners above a thousand stones), and Zhixing occupies a total of 7.2 stones in the Ashikaga clan.

It is very dangerous for the patriarch's direct knowledge and practice to account for less than 40%. After several generations, the initial kindness gradually weakens, which can easily lead to the occurrence of inferiority.

When the Onin Rebellion happened, regardless of the mountain name or Hosokawa, they had extremely strong control over the retainers under their command.

But in fact, whether it is Yamana or Hosokawa, their own territories have experienced more than a hundred years of enfeoffment, and the various territories below have long been controlled by their respective guardian generations or branch families.

But this is something that there is currently no way to do it. The Ashikaga family is too young and needs someone to help a little more.

Moreover, people like Zhuang Lin Yixin, Ota Jingzi, etc. who are given to him now are all temporary transfers. After the world is stabilized in the future, they will all return to become independent and directly governed Xiujia daimyo.

The award of the Ashikaga family is over, but the operation of transferring Fengchun's retainers to the Ashikaga family cannot be completed now.

Many of these little lords are waiting for the Xiu family to hold a meeting in Fengchun City at this moment. How could they know that the Xiu family had already "sold" them to the Ashikaga family in Fujisawa Castle.

Let's not talk about the little retainers aside, Ota and Shobayashi were originally Lords of Wanshi, and they were listed in the Toyotomi family's roster.The transfer of the two of them needs to be reported to Toyotomi for permission.

Of course, no one in the current Toyotomi family will touch the Hideo family's bad luck on such a trivial matter, basically it's just a process.

The 6-year-old Ashikaga family was still a little strange and scared when they saw Hideka. It was his mother Shihime who sat on the imperial steps holding him, and Hideka also sat on the right side of the imperial steps like Osaka before and read out the awards.

(The imperial steps and the retainers are opposite. In the evaluation room, the retainers sit facing the imperial steps, respecting the right, that is, the left side of the patriarch. Later, sitting on the imperial steps, his right side is relative to the patriarch. Yes. Above the imperial steps is the monarch, and below the imperial steps are the ministers. The left seat seen later is on the left side for retainers)

This strange coincidence was as if the Xiu family had returned to Daban City and was ordering the officials in the capacity of Xiuli as an afterthought.

However, the difference is that no one objected to Hideka's hindsight as the Ashikaga family, and the following Ashikaga retainers followed the order of the Hideka family to agree with the Ashikaga family.

Unlike when Xiujia was in Osaka, when Xiujia gave an order and Xiuji was delayed, the five big guys below also had to discuss to see if Xiujia's order was appropriate.

After dealing with the matter of rewards for knowing and doing, there is nothing to say about these issues, such as land inspection, civilian inspection, military account preparation, commerce, urban construction, road construction, etc., just copy the Fengchun family's system.

The most important things are urban construction, armaments, military service accounts and road construction.Since Sagami is likely to become the front line, the construction of several key cities must be put on the agenda, among which Kaneko Castle, Hiratsuka Castle, and Asamayama Castle are the top priorities.

As for the construction of the road, it was the homework assigned by the Hideo family when it transferred to Kanto. The main purpose was to widen and repair the main road connecting Suruga and Edo under Fujisawa Castle. Timely transshipment of Kanto materials.

In addition, since Aiko County and Asakutsui County came to Takeda Hidenobu from the hands of the Tokugawa family, the Hide family planned to build roads in these two counties to connect Hachioji and Ebina Castle to the east, and to connect Kai Takeda to the west. Ujimoto Castle Katsuma.

Since this road is mainly built along the valley of the Katsura River, this road has actually existed for a long time. It was this road that Takeda Shingen sent the Hachioji to attack Hojo.

However, due to the limitations of the valley roads and the impact of the earthquake in Japan, the carrying capacity of this road is limited, and it is often blocked due to earthquakes.

Some studies believe that the upper reaches of Sagami Lake and Tsukui Lake were barrier lakes formed by earthquakes before.

The war will not stop because of your earthquake, Xiujia must ensure the smooth flow of this special road.Fortunately, the road was originally used by the Rangers, and it was enough to withstand the march and supply of nearly ten thousand troops.

After dealing with the matters of the Ashikaga family, the Hide family can finally take Ujihime and the Uji family back to Honmaru to rest.Fujisawa Castle is really rudimentary, and the building of the Honmaru is also extremely simple. It takes only three or two steps to reach the apse.

Seeing this situation, Hideka felt that even if he wanted to save money, it was not appropriate for a daimyo of 10 shi and a Kanto leader to do so. The Honmaru had to be properly widened and repaired.

Since Ujihime conceived Matsuchiyowangmaru (Ashikashi's family) and was sent to Tenkai, there has been no intimacy between the Hide family and Ujihime for more than 7 years.

Shi Ji has always had a heart disease, and she has aged a lot in recent years.But as Shi's family returned to his report, Shi Ji, who was in a good mood, regained her radiance.

At that time, 23-year-old Shi Ji was the most beautiful woman, how could the long-absent Xiu family be able to resist the charm of a great beauty.Naturally, Shi Ji, who had regained her son, was no longer resisting the Xiu family.

As Xiujia hugged Shiji from behind, and penetrated through the layers of silk, when the skin touched, Shiji had already knelt down on the tatami.

At this moment, the time outside is only about 2 o'clock in the afternoon. If it weren't for the 6-year-old Shijia in Shi Ji's arms, I'm afraid she would have completely fallen to the ground by now.

"Your Highness, let me leave Matsuchiyo Wangmaru to the care of the maid outside."

Maybe it's because she hasn't farmed with the Xiu family for a long time, and whenever it's time to irrigate the farmland, she just hugs the Xiu family with blank eyes, and the whole person becomes the appearance of the Xiu family.

The Xiu family originally planned to go to Kamakura to find Yixin Chongchuan in the afternoon, and stay overnight at Kenchoji Temple that night.

But because it was too tiring to deal with Shiji's affairs, the Xiu family had no choice but to ask the maid outside to inform her attendant to relay to Xin Chongchuan, "Your Highness is not feeling well today, and the meeting will be postponed for one day."

In the early morning of the next day, the Hide family still hadn't recovered from the rest. The Hide family didn't even ride a horse, so someone prepared an ox cart to transport the Hide family to Kenchoji Temple in Kamakura.

Taking Xin Chongchuan as the confidant of the Xiu family, he had been waiting outside the temple gate for a long time. He deliberately ignored the dark circles on the face of the Xiu family, and first took the Xiu family to look around the classroom where his sons were doing their homework.

Except for Asahi Chiyo and Kohachiro who are older and have some impressions of the "father" of the Xiu family, the other sons may be because they are too young, or because they have not seen the Xiu family for a long time. When I didn't even realize who it was.

But fortunately, the education is good with the heart. Under the leadership of Asahi Chiyo and Kohachiro, the sons saluted the Xiu family one after another.

This also includes Taisong (Abatai), Taijimaru (Huntaiji), Ishimaru Saburo (Babutai), Yu Qiandai (Zhasaktu) and others.

To be honest, if it wasn't for seeing the sons brought back from Jianzhou by the Xiu family here, the Xiu family would have almost forgotten that they still have such adopted sons.

As the eldest among them, Taisong, reached the age of 10, Xiujia also had to think about their life plan.

It is impossible for them to become the pillars of the Fengchun family like the biological sons of the Xiu family. Whether it is in the name of Toyotomi, Ukita, or the name of other families to become the pillar daimyo, the Xiu family has something to consider. .

In Hideka's vision, the best outcome for the few of them would be to serve as a small daimyo of around 5 koku, guarding Sagami Odawara, Nagato Shimonoseki, Mino Ogaki and other important passes in Japan for Hideka.

After all, they bear the identity of the sons of the Xiu family, but they don't have much knowledge and action, which can not only form a deterrent to the surroundings, but also prevent the situation that the tail is too big to lose.

Of course, the Hide family will definitely deprive them of their right to inherit the main family, and even the Hide family will not grant them Ukita's Miao character. Perhaps they can be divided according to the history of Ukita: Ukita, Kojima, Sakazaki, Kamo, Mizusawa, etc. Miao character Lishi.