Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 728 Political Dilemma and Solutions to Break it
After seeing their children, Xiujia and Yixin Chongchuan could finally sit down and have a good talk.

Xiujia didn't tell the story about Tianhai, and simply asked Yixin Chongchuan, but threw the same question to him, asking what he should do in his position.

"At the beginning, I had a meeting with His Highness, and His Highness has the ambition to stabilize the world." Yixin Chongchuan did not answer the Xiu family's question immediately, but asked him a rhetorical question, "Not long ago, His Highness maintained the peace of the world by himself. Does Your Highness have any unfulfilled ambitions?"

"Master Chongchuan, why did you ask the question? Could it be the same at that moment as at this moment? It was precisely because I felt the change in people's hearts that I realized how difficult it is to force everyone back to Toyotomi's account." thing."

"Guan Bai's body is dead, and the Lord Shaoguo is suspicious. His mother, Yoshihime, and Gifu Dai Nayan are already very dirty, and the other five big bosses have their own ghosts. Has the change of people's mind exhausted His Highness?"

Yixin Chongchuan didn't directly answer Xiujia's question and continued to ask, "Or is it that His Royal Highness is like them now, and has other thoughts?"

Xiujia met Yi Xin's eyes, but quickly dodged.After all, what I said at the beginning and Yi Xin Chong's legend were all deceiving others. In fact, I have made up my mind since then that I will take revenge after Hideyoshi's death.

From the dodge of Xiujia's eyes, Xin Chongchuan has already understood the meaning of Xiujia, "His Royal Highness wants to be the man of the world? Then why did he call on the daimyo to discuss peace that day? It is not good to sit and watch Gifu and Yodohime ruin the Toyotomi world." ?"

If it was to someone else, Hideya might say, ""I lost confidence in those daimyos in Osaka in February, and it is not realistic to resolve disputes peacefully and maintain peace in the Toyotomi family under the current circumstances.

I have already figured it out, to maintain the stability of the world, there must be a King of Dingding to wipe out those ambitious people. " and the like.

But now, faced with the question of admiring the truth with his heart, Xiujia revealed to him the deepest thoughts in his heart. "At that time, the general situation of the world was no longer with me. If I participated in the third part of the world, the big names would attack each other and there would be chaos in Yingren.

Even if I want to be a man of the world, I have never forgotten the promise I made with the master at the beginning. My purpose of being a man of the world is to stabilize the world! "

"I always firmly believe that Your Highness can fulfill the original promise." Xin Chongchuan encouraged the Xiu family, "With the power of His Highness who is now the most famous, you only need to recuperate for a few years. Who in the world can stop His Highness?"

"Gifu, Yodohime, and the five big brothers, which one can exist with other daimyos? Master's conclusion today is too early."

"What's so difficult about it? How did Your Highness suppress the arrogant soldiers of Yuxi's family back then, and how to suppress them today. It's nothing more than making good friends and disposing of a group."

Xiujia naturally understands these reasons, but what Xiujia is struggling with now is that he has new ideas about the future political ecology.

He wants to make sure that there will be no extremely large big names in the political circle under his rule in the future. These big names will be the biggest stumbling block on the way of the Xiu family's centralization.

In fact, the current size of the Yixiu family is almost the same as that of Hideyoshi in history. If you really want to force yourself to sit on the position of the world, you can sit on it now with a little work.

As for the price, it is nothing more than referring to the promise made by Hideyoshi to Tokugawa Ieyasu in history, but in this way, there will be another daimyo with a big tail.

After listening to the Xiu family's concerns, Yi Xin Chong Chuan was silent for a moment, then shook his head and said, "If you want to practice domineering, it is not appropriate to use military power to conquer the world.

Now it is no longer the period of the Oda Youfu, and the daimyos are still under the control of the Toyotomi family in name.If His Highness really wants to take the opportunity to reduce the power of the daimyo, the only thing to do is wait for the reappearance of the chaos in the world. "

When he said this, he hesitated to speak, but said, "But His Highness has just ruined such a good opportunity with his own hands."

"I don't think it was wrong for me to negotiate a peace at that time. The Eastern and Western armies were at war with Harima and Settsu. Regardless of the strength of the Western army in the early stage, they were about to be wiped out by the Eastern army in Takaoka Castle.

If I hadn't intervened in time, the authority of the Toyotomi family would be unshakable by virtue of the authority of eliminating the thieves.At that time, my super daimyo with 260 million shi will look particularly intrusive!
Saving the life of the Western Army daimyo is essentially saving my own life. "Xiujia disagrees with Yixin Chongchuan's view of giving up the opportunity, but the current situation is indeed so deadlocked there, this may be a sequela of the peace negotiation.

"Then among the masters, will the chaos in this world reappear?"

"I don't know much about the other daimyos. I only know that it is impossible to maintain the dual rule of the Toyotomi family amicably with His Highness Gifu and your temper."

Yixin Chongchuan also has some headaches about the current deadlock, but he sees it more thoroughly than many people: "Your Highness, you and His Highness Gifu are not people who are easily subdued by others. I am afraid that sooner or later there will be confrontations in this world."

Xiujia agrees with his opinion, but in this way, he will end up as a chess player, which Xiujia doesn't want.

So he asked Chongchuan again, "But I don't want to fight His Highness Gifu so early and lose both. I want to be that fisherman."

"Your Highness, fisherman to the left?" Chongchuan thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "With His Highness's size, neither Yodohime nor His Highness Gifu will easily relax their vigilance against you. Unless His Highness is gone, they may not easily Let's do it."

After several rounds of peripheral probing, the dialogue between the two finally cut into the main body.

Xiujia asked him about his views on whether to be inside or outside: "Then in your opinion, I should stay away from the temple and develop my little Guandong in peace?"

"Your Highness misunderstood what I meant." Yi Xin Chongchuan shook his head and said, "This fear is not just to make them relax their vigilance when His Highness returns to Kanto and doesn't ask about world affairs."

"Besides, His Highness is a well-known warrior in the world. He has rarely lost in battles for many years. He is a prestigious existence in the world. Now he has to be entrusted to Feng Chen's family Ruonianji, and has the authority to take charge of the world's martial arts for the young master.

A person like His Highness who has strength, fame, and righteousness returns to the Kanto without any reason. Everyone will think that Your Highness is accumulating strength, and who would be so stupid to send your head up to chop you off? "

Regarding the answer of admiring the truth with the heart, although the Xiu family partially agreed, they were still unconvinced from the bottom of their hearts.

He complained to Chongchuan: "They didn't dare to move when you were in Osaka, and they still didn't dare to move when I went back to Kanto. Then there's such a stalemate? In this world, these clowns are posing in front of the stage? Don't we? Is the only way to subdue with power and compromise through politics?"

"Then we need to find a suitable excuse so that His Highness has to leave the center. Only in this way can they let go of their hands and feet to play tricks."

Yixin Chongchuan thought for a while, and gave the Xiu family a plan, "I once heard His Highness mention that there are Ainu tribes in the north of the Northeast. Didn't the Nine Kingdoms in the Northeast come from the hands of the Ainu people in the past? If Your Highness can go out Ezo"

But before he finished speaking, he shook his head and denied, "The Korean War launched by His Highness Guanbai exhausted the spirits of the daimyos, but it is said that they did not get the slightest benefit. Offensive is really difficult.”

The Xiu family couldn't get an answer to break the situation from Yixin Chongchuan, so they simply narrowed down the problem and asked him: "Then according to your opinion, I should sit in the center, link up with the world's famous names and finally suppress it with power. Or should I run away?" Will the rivers and lakes just wait for them to finally lose their temper and make things easier for the world?"

To the surprise of the Xiu family, Yi Xin Chong sent the answer that he wanted the Xiu family to return to the center.

His reason is that "they may not necessarily make trouble if they are far away from the rivers and lakes. Instead, they give up the initiative to others. It is better to use the power of the center to suppress opposing opinions."

It seems that the view of adoring the heart with the heart coincides with Tianhai's general direction.

After all, even if you go out and give them the stage, they will be afraid of you, who is both a chess player and a referee.It would be better to fight bayonets with them in the muddy water of the Osaka Center.

Both Xiujia and Yixin Chongchuan knew that bayonet fighting in Daban City was the worst strategy.Chongchuan even told Xiujia about the disadvantages of Xiujia in Dabancheng.

The biggest problem is that the Xiu family's ability is far away in the Kanto, and at this moment, the Fengchun family is also under suspicion by Shaoguo. If something goes wrong in the Xiu family in Osaka, the Fengchun family is likely to disperse immediately.

Even if there is no accident in the political struggle of the Xiu family in Osaka City, the Xiu family will lose their skills for a long time, and their control over Kanto will definitely weaken.

That's all for three to five years. Do you want to repeat the story of how the Warring States Guardian Daixia Katsumi, Hosokawa, and Yamana lost their country after ten or 20 years?

But if you want to gain political benefits, you must bear the risks brought about by political struggles. No matter how stinky or hard the food is, everyone has to eat it.

Unless the Xiu family said that they really don't care about the status of the people in the world, and take the initiative to return to Kanto to retire, hand over all the initiative, and really wait and wait for the opportunity that does not know when it will appear.

After listening to Chong Chuan's analysis, Xiujia is actually rather desperate, but in Chong Chuan's view, being in the center of chaos is a bad idea, but as long as the operation is profitable, it is not impossible to replace it in 5 to 10 years.

However, because the Xiu family is in the center, and others are in Kamakura, it will be difficult to analyze and make suggestions for the Xiu family in time in the future. This road is mainly for the Xiu family to walk by themselves.

After leaving Kenchoji Temple depressed, and returning to Fujisawa Castle for another night with Ujihime, the Hide family continued on their way back to Toyoharu Castle.

It's just that it's different from the high-spirited when they first stepped into the Kanto. The words of admiring the words with the heart made the Xiu family feel extremely depressed, and even the whole team was in a state of low pressure.

The children who were originally fostered at Kenchoji Temple originally thought that their father's return would bring them a period of vacation.

But looking at the stern expression of the Xiu family, even the older Asahi Chiyo and Kohachiro, who is the son-in-law, had to follow the Xiu family back cautiously.

How to take this road, the Xiu family is still undecided.

This kind of performance of the Xiu family has been brought to Fengchun City, and even Ju Ji, Fujido Takahu and others who welcomed the Xiu family happily felt the strangeness of the Xiu family.

Since Xiu's family had just returned, Hideyoshi held a family banquet in Fengchun City, and there were no outsiders except Xiu's family, several wives, concubines and children.

At first, Ju Ji thought it was because the food didn't suit Xiu's family's appetite, or because the fatigue of the journey made Xiu's family feel uncomfortable.

But after asking Xiao Hachiro at night, I found out that Xiujia's behavior was actually a change after seeing Yi Xin Chong Chuan.

As a woman of the Wu family, Ju Ji naturally knows how heavy the burden is on her husband's shoulders. She can't intervene in matters outside the Wu family at will, so she can only send someone to Takatora Fujido, and ask him to talk to the Xiu family on her behalf. .

Fujido Takatora was going to report back to the Xiu family the arrangement he made to return to Kanto in advance during this period. Now that Ju Ji has something to delay, he is not willing to bother the Xiu family when the Xiu family is depressed, so he simply postpones the previous plan. Ask Xiang Xiujia about the reason for the boredom.

From Xiu's mouth, he heard the changes after he left, especially the information about Tianhai, and the answer he asked about Yi Xin Chong Chuan after he returned to Kanto.

After sorting out the information for a while, Fujido Gaohu said succinctly, "So, Your Highness is worried that the overall situation of the world is difficult to break, and the suggestions of Master Tianhai and Master Chongchuan are roughly the same, so you don't know how to make decisions, right?

Your Highness thinks what Master Chong Chuan said is helpless, but it is the best result at the moment. You don't want to give up the initiative to others, but you are afraid that you will fall into Master Tianhai's trap after you go back? "

"That's the truth." Xiujia smiled helplessly.

Fujido Takatora seemed to be thinking about it, the issues that Hideka had considered were indeed too difficult to choose.

The point is that Xiujia said that he was worried that if there were any accidents in Osaka, Kanto's son might reproduce the current situation in Osaka. How would he answer Xiujia?
In addition to constantly expressing that he will serve the young master Kohachiro loyally, he can respond with silence.

Seeing that Takatora Fujido couldn't give him any advice after listening to his troubles, Xiujia wanted to put these troublesome things behind him and listen to Takatora Fujido's recent report first.

But at this moment, Fujido Takatora seemed to have a flash of inspiration, and he clapped his hands together and shouted, "Yes!"

"What's there?" Xiujia asked strangely.

"There is a way to break the situation." A smile reappeared on Fujido Takatora's face, and he explained to Xiujia, "Does your Highness remember that you told me in Osaka Castle that day that the first thing I did after I returned to Kanto was Will the mobilized Ezo army be transferred back to Ezo?"

Xiujia nodded after recalling for a moment: "That's what happened. I also asked you to stay in Lu Bei halfway."

"That's right! That's right." After a moment of joy, Fujido Takatora deliberately approached Hideo and whispered in his ear, "It's one thing that the masters don't want to go on an expedition to Ezo, but if the Ezo people fight back, the When Mutsu attacked the city, the Toyotomi family had to respond."

"You mean" Although Fujido Takahu didn't explain what he said, Xiujia already understood what he meant, "Let Li Gui play Li Kui?"

Fujido Gaohu has never read Water Margin, so naturally he doesn't know the allusion of Li Gui and Li Kui. The sudden metaphor of Xiujia makes Fujido Gaohu at a loss.

He thought that the Xiu family didn't understand what he meant, so he could only clarify clearly, "Let the Eizu regiment left in Lubei cause riots in the Nanbu, Oyezaki and other daimyo territories. Could there be a more serious excuse than that!
Your Highness not only stayed away from Japan, but also the military force of the Kanto Toyoharu family, the Kanto daimyo and the Tohoku daimyo are all far away from Kinki. Are you afraid that they will not make trouble!

Your Highness can also take this opportunity to distinguish between the big names in Northeast and Kanto, who is loyal and who is traitor."

Hideka understood what Todo Takatora said, but after hearing all the plans from him, there was still a different kind of joy.

In the past, Hideka had been thinking and thinking on his own, but now Takatora Fujido's performance has proved that he is capable of handling affairs independently, and he can be sent out to guard one side, and even make decisions for Hideka under special circumstances.

Isn't this the dominant talent that the Xiu family has been longing for for so many years?

Gao Hu's thinking fits so well with his own, even if the army is divided into two in the future, Gao Hu's decision will be indistinguishable from his own.

"I understand what you mean. It's just that the daimyos have just settled down now, and many daimyos have just started the transfer of titles. Shouldn't you take it easy?"

Xiujia has Xiujia's worries, and Gao Hu's plan is undoubtedly the key to his previous dilemma.

But I haven't eaten my conferment and transfer, and I have to mobilize the army to use troops abroad at this time, and I am a little powerless, let alone those big names in the Kanto and Northeast, they were transferred in this reward There are more cases, will it be too difficult for them to fight Ezo?

But Fujido Takatora has his own opinion: "What is needed is the fact that the big names have no time to take care of it. Only in this way can they rely more on you, Your Highness!"

For some reason, Xiujia suddenly felt that Todo Takatora seemed to be more talented in political struggle than Xiujia himself, but he had to admit that the benefits he gained from doing so were indeed greater.

After thinking about it, the Xiu family agreed with his idea, and made the following arrangements, "You must send someone you can trust, and the two sides must be able to communicate stably. Just make noise, and don't let your own people really fight."

"Nothing goes wrong," Todo Takatora comforted Hideo and said, "Will those Mutsu warriors who were exiled to Ezo soon be able to use waste?

Besides, when I was the governor of Ezo, I always suffered from not having enough soldiers to conquer the whole Ezo. Isn’t this a good opportunity?His Highness took the military strength of the daimyos to conquer the whole territory of Ezo by himself! "

The Xiu family smiled and continued to follow his words, "What you said is reasonable. Let me tell you, the longer this battle is fought, the better. The longer we fight, the better it will be for me to integrate Dongguo Daimyo, and I will be able to Let the group of people in Osaka let go of their hands and feet to play around."

(End of this chapter)