Prime Minister Bizen

After finally returning to Fengchun City, his wife and son are all here, and the Xiu family can relax a little and enjoy the family happiness.As a result, this stay lasted until April of the third year of Qingchang (3).

But on a sudden day, when the Xiu family was taking a lunch break, they suddenly felt shaking.

Earthquakes are very common in Japan, as long as you evacuate to an open space in time, there is generally no problem.During the Tianzheng earthquake, people and the whole city were buried in the mountains.

The Xiu family didn't take it seriously at first, it was just because she was woken up from sleep and scolded a few bad words, after the earthquake ended, she went back to her concubine, Chosun Xu's lap, and fell asleep.

If I had to say something strange, I am afraid that the duration of this earthquake is indeed a bit longer than before.

But a few hours later, when the Xiu family woke up from their afternoon nap to prepare for the afternoon archery training, they heard someone running towards them calling "Your Highness" from afar.

Ever since the Xiu family became the governor of the family, the Fengchun family has rarely been so irritable.And this is Ohne, the inner palace of the Xiu family, and ordinary samurai are not allowed to enter.

Moreover, most of the retainers under the Xiu family knew the temper of the Xiu family, and they would not make such a gaffe unless there was a particularly urgent situation.

Xiujia handed the bow in his hand to Kira Mori who was standing beside him, and turned his head to look at the line of defense from which the voice came.Not long after, a young attendant came running from a distance.

The trusted attendant who stood by the side saw Yijia whispering beside Xiu's family and said: "The person here is Xiaofan Zhenxin, the grandson of Xiaofan Dingxin. He is in the servant team, but he just invited his family back home to help the farmer a few days ago." went.

Due to the relative stability of the Kanto in recent years, the samurai landlords usually have nothing to do, and the lords take the lead in opening up wasteland when they are free. This is the reason why the Kanto development is so rapid.

But the land was opened up and expanded, and the population would not grow like leeks in just a few years. Many samurai children had to ask their chiefs to go back to help during busy farming seasons. The Xiu family understood and allowed this.

But the face of the visitor was full of travel and dust at the moment, his whole face was covered in black and gray, and he looked very embarrassed.

When Xiaoban Zhenxin came to Xiu's house, he needed to be searched as usual, but before the search was over, the person excitedly reported to Xiu's house, "My lord, Qianjian Mountain erupted, and the construction team of Ubingyi Mountain Road buried a lot of people. people!"

It was the order of the Xiu family to build the mountain road of Ubingdong, which also made a request to Yuki Haruto on the other side.

The pre-construction of the Ueno section actually started a long time ago, but because the only passage Ubinge was originally located at the junction of Fengchun and Tokugawa, and Hideyoshi was alive at that time, the progress of the project was delayed in order not to cause misunderstandings.

Now that the project has just resumed for half a year, who would have thought that Mount Asama erupted and the mountain road collapsed.

Hideka knows about the Japanese Warring States period, but Hideka himself is not an encyclopedia of the history of the Warring States Period. How can he remember such common things in Japan as earthquakes and volcanic eruptions on a certain day in a certain year?

Tokugawa Ieyasu in history did not want to expand the Nakasendo Road by advancing from the Nakasendo Road. Asama Mountain is located at the junction of Shinano and Ueno, but it will be more biased towards Shinano. The real headaches are also historical Asano Nagamasa and Sanada Masayuki. , It didn't have much influence on Tokugawa Ieyasu.

However, the Xiu family had already decided on a two-pronged approach early in the morning. They invested a lot in building and widening the roads. The eruption of Qianjian Mountain can be said to have wiped out all the previous investments of the Xiu family.

The reason why Xiaoban Zhenxin rushed to Fengchun City to report the news was because the people who were responsible for the construction of Subingdong were mainly the nobles of Nishi Ueno. From Xiaoban Zhenxin, he learned that even his father was buried in the mountain.

The Xiu family in Dubingyi must be saved, not only to save people, but more importantly, to renovate the road.

The most important thing is that Xiujia needs to know the situation of Shinano Yuki's family on the opposite side of the mountain.After all, Xiaozhu City is not far from the foot of Qianma Mountain!

But when Xiujia came to Ueno, he could already feel the fear of the volcanic ash in the northwest covering the sky.The common people ran away from each other, trying to hide in relatively safe houses.

Fortunately, it is now spring, and it is the day when the southeast and northwest winds meet. Ueno is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and the northwest wind is relatively blocked, but it can directly meet the southeast wind from the Pacific Ocean.

Affected by the southeast wind, the volcanic ash from Asama Volcano did not cause too much damage to Ueno, but one can imagine the seriousness of the damage to the Yuki family on the other side of the mountain.

Maybe it's not just the Yuki family, Mount Asama is the junction mountain between Shinano Saku County and Ueno Agatsuma County, and it is not far from the small county.

If the eruption of Mount Asama has an impact on Yuki, it will definitely have an impact on Sanada Nobuyuki.

After all, the Xiu family married their younger sisters, and the Xiu family also hoped to get closer to the relationship with Nobuyuki. At this time, the effect of giving charcoal in the timely manner will definitely be better than all the promises later.

The Hide family turned around and called Nobushige Sanada who came from Tatebayashi Castle, and asked him to go back to Toyoharu City to collect a batch of grain and send it to Minowa Castle, saying that the Toyoharu family supported it for the Sanada family's disaster relief.

Not long after, the attendants sent by the Xiu family to explore the road returned to Suiqiaotong and reported, "My lord, the Zhongshan Road Ubinge Mountain Road has been affected by the earthquake and mountain fire, and the road has been blocked at this moment."

"Why, did it cause a wildfire?"

In ancient times, wildfires were a terrible thing. Due to the lack of large-scale machinery, the only way to control the spread of wildfires was to rely on God to open his eyes and rain down.

At this point, even now, look at the performance of Europe, America and Australia on wildfires. They are unable to extinguish wildfires and let him burn for several months. This has paved the way for the theory that wildfires are natural selection.

Shinano is full of mountains and forests. If there is a real fire, it is not a joke.

Commanded by Hideo at Stable Bridge, he mobilized Qingmen from various countries in the Kanto region to gather in Ueno to try to extinguish the mountain fire.Fortunately, it is now spring, and it may also be affected by the volcanic eruption. In the next two days, there were two consecutive heavy rains in Ueno, and the mountain fire was finally extinguished.

The Xiu family did not rush to dismiss the young and strong laborers, but put them into the construction of the Zhongshan Road, wanting to make up for the progress that was pulled down by the previous earthquake and volcanic eruption.

After Shandao opened a trail, the Xiu family immediately sent support supplies to the Yuki family.

Yuki Qingchao was originally a small wealthy family who had just been transferred this year, and her foundation was already very weak.As soon as the seeds of Xinling were sown, Mount Asama erupted.

In ancient times, volcanic eruptions were considered to be the anger of mountain gods, which would shake the authority of rulers.Even the aboriginal wealthy family that has ruled here for a long time may be shaken, let alone such an outsider as the Yuki family.

Fortunately, Xiujia's support was relatively timely. The road was opened in just half a month, and food and some military forces were sent to help it stabilize the chaos in Shinano.

Both Yuki Haruto and Sanada Nobuyuki expressed their gratitude to Hideka for her help.

Especially Yuuki Qingchao, who almost hugged Xiujia's thigh and called "Daddy" in Stable Bridge City.

Due to the impact of volcanic ash, the land in Yucheng Territory may be completely destroyed this year, and it may not be relieved even next year.This was a fatal blow to the Yuki family who had just experienced the transfer.

Fortunately, the Xiu family made it clear that the Fengchun family would provide relief to the Yucheng family for the next three years, with free food in the first year, half and half in the second year, and full loan in the third year.The relevant fodder can be paid off gradually within 5 years after its recovery.

In fact, the Xiu family can directly support Lumi for three years. The reason why the Yucheng family has to lend money to the Yucheng family in the next two years is not because the Xiu family can't afford it, but because they want to take the opportunity to control the Yucheng family's economy. The Cheng family is even more inseparable from the control of the Xiu family.

In fact, it is not only the Hide family who wants to attack the Yuki family, but Tokugawa Ieyasu has long coveted this place.

You must know that Saku County is the most important place for raising horses in Shinano. It is precisely because Takeda Shingen controls Saku County that he has a large number of cavalry troops and has the confidence to fight against the Shangzhou cavalry.

In this award, Tokugawa Ieyasu was awarded on the surface, but he also lost more than half of the land in Saku County, and the racecourse lost even more, so he was not willing to give up easily.

In fact, this is not the first time Mount Asama erupted. There was a small-scale eruption at the beginning of last year, but at the time it was the territory of the Tokugawa family, so I didn’t hear of any disturbances.

As a result, just after the transfer of the seal, the Tokugawa family had just transferred out of this territory, and there was a riot in the Yuki family. Isn't it a bit like Watarai Fanquan who transferred the seal of Enjiang in history?

He didn't have to die, but because he was the only one among the Three Kingdoms of Tokaido who didn't care about Tokugawa Ieyasu and made drastic reforms in the territory.

When he was implicated in the Toyotomi Hideji case, both Kazutoyo Yamauchi and Ieyasu Nakamura were protected by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and only he was ordered to cut seppuku by Hideyoshi.

Now the riots in the two counties of Shinano, do you want to say that there is no trick of the Tokugawa family behind it?This is absolutely impossible.

Sure enough, within a few days after the territory of the two counties became more stable, the Xiu family received a letter in Fengchun City asking for help from Komoro City, saying that an envoy from Dasaka came to investigate its poor governance of the territory, which caused riots, and the rioters even crossed the border. Responsibility for harassing the Tokugawa Territory.

At this time, Xiuzhen returned from North Korea with the paperwork for the peace talks between Japan and Japan, and Xiu's family also had plans to go to Luoyang again, so they expressed that they would go to Luoyang with her.

For the Yuki family, the Hide family is Baoding. The land is not big. The southern part of Saku County is still the territory of the Tokugawa family. The Yuki family only owns the central, southern and northern parts of the small county, totaling about 6.2 Wanshi's territory.

They already have such a small amount of land, and if they cut down Dubingdong, it will change hands.

Perhaps because of the news that Hideka was standing in line with Yuuki, the envoy who came to see him off and asked Yuuki Haruto to enter the court to defend himself did not make things difficult for him, but returned to Osaka first.

After settling things in the territory at the end of April, the Hide family officially ended the management of their own territory in Kanto, and set off from Toyoharu City to Osaka. One day later, Yuki Haruto also set off from Komoro City to defend himself in Osaka.

Of course, before leaving Fengchun, Xiujia specifically told Todo Takatora to step up preparations for the conquest of Ezo.The most important thing is to take advantage of the rush harvested in this summer to hoard and weave winter straw sandals and windproof capes for use.

Xiujia had already figured it out, he wouldn't come back until the Ezo war lasted for a year, so he had to leave enough time and space for the stage to Xiuci and the others.

Since they were going to spend the winter in Ezo, they had to prepare warm things. If there were too many non-combat attrition, the daimyo who followed the Hideo family would probably complain.

Coincidentally, according to the time, Hideyoshi's depression is approaching. It was originally agreed that Hideyoshi will officially become the governor of Toyotomi's family one year after Hideyoshi's mourning period.

At this moment, Xiuzhen brought the final peace agreement document from North Korea, and it seemed that she was also sending gifts for Xiuli's succession invisibly.

The brigade set off from Fengchun City and arrived in Osaka after 20 days. At this moment, in order to welcome the envoys who read out the imperial decree of peace from the Ming Dynasty, the city of Osaka has been decorated.

Daimyo from all over the country also came from all over the country to participate in the ceremony of Xiuli's official succession to the throne, and the Kyoto side also sent several ministers led by Kanbai Konoe to express his congratulations.

It's just that when they heard that Emperor Wanli granted Xiuli the king of Japan, whether their faces, which were originally painted with white face cream, would show a dead expression.

On the first day Xiujia arrived in Osaka, Xiuzhen couldn't wait to visit Xiujia and told Xiujia what happened during the peace talks in North Korea.

He also specially brought a gift to Xiu's family. It is said that it was a set of exquisite leather armor given to Xiu's family by Liu Ting, the commander-in-chief of the Ming Dynasty.

Don't underestimate the protective power of leather armor. Modern restoration experiments have proved that a piece of hard leather armor that has been hardened through multiple processes, dunked and mixed with ceramic chips and iron filings is no worse than iron armor against chopping.

Moreover, he has a stronger defense against blunt weapons with iron armor, and has a lightness that is far beyond comparison with iron armor.Its only shortcoming is that its defense against sharp weapons is not as good as that of iron armor.

A set of exquisite wallets is only worn by high-ranking generals and emperors when they go out to war. (The fish scale armor of the emperor in Jiangshan picture is etiquette armor)

"Brother, your face is really great. This set of armor was personally given to you by the general soldier of the Ming Dynasty. He said that a big man in the country dragged him to transfer it to you."

Caressing this armor, the Xiu family knew very well that even Liu Ting, who is the commander-in-chief, might not be able to own such a good armor. Their family was just a commander and a colleague.

This kind of top-notch leather armor is probably only the top-level noble family in the Ming Dynasty that still keeps the armor of their ancestors. Otherwise, the big man Liu Ting is talking about is probably the Wanli Emperor who did not want to reveal his name.

"It's quite in line with his historical character." Xiujia muttered endlessly.

"What? Brother, who are you talking about?"

Xiujia didn't give Xiuzhen too many explanations, but asked him if his trip to North Korea went smoothly and if he encountered any difficulties.

When talking about North Korea, Xiuzhen expressed a little depressed: "When I returned, the Japanese troops in the three provinces of Korea had already begun to withdraw their troops, and Naoe Kanesuke in Gangwon Province was the fastest to withdraw!
I still want him to help recover Jingcheng so that the North Korean prince can be settled!As a result, the person who sent the letter said in the past that he had been recalled by Uesugi Jingsheng. "

"There is a big boss behind him, what can you do?" Xiujia comforted him a little, but then said, "Then how do you arrange for Xianjingdao?"

"I can only ask Kato-den to work harder. He has been guarding for a while with the defenders of Hamgyongdo. But you know Kato's temper. He has a lot of complaints about it, and it will only take two months."

After Xiuzhen said this, she made the Xiu family psychologically prepared. If the Japanese army did not send more troops to Hamgyong-do, and only relying on the servants of the original way to defend the army, Hamgyong-do might gain and lose again.

In fact, the best way is to directly seal Kato Kiyomasa there, and let him legally change from Japanese to Korean.But with Kato Kiyomasa's temper, this is obviously impossible.

"It's tasteless."

It's not the Xiu family's temper to give up the land they got so easily, but right now the Xiu family is accumulating strength in the Kanto, so how could it be possible to draw people from the Kanto to immigrate to Hamgyongdo?Isn't that drawing blood from Kanto?
Thinking about going to Hide's house, I planned to write a letter to Todo Takatora, asking him to send 1000 samurai households from Shimono and Hitachi to Hamgyongdo, as a supplement to the two forces.

As for the Governor-General of Hamgyong-do, the Xiu family intends to let Zhuang Zhiqing, who is just showing his talents, be the governor.He himself was also a servant of the Xiu family, but he and Shimizu Shin also took a different path.

Because he was originally from a wealthy family in Beizhong, he returned to his home after graduating from the entourage, and was responsible for reorganizing the army in his territory. Since then, he has been serving the public as a general, and has not followed the line of execution at all.

However, since he was born as a servant and has been the governor of the family for so many years, he is definitely not a muddleheaded man in handling government affairs.

Zhuang Zhiqing is just an emergency, to ensure that the Xiu family's existing land in North Korea will not be lost so soon.If we really want to develop Hamgyongdo, Japan must continue to transfuse blood.

But even if the Xiu family is now in power in Japan, they will not develop the Hamgyongdo so quickly.Because it is really far away from the Japanese mainland.

The purpose of the Xiu family to retain this piece of land is to have a piece of territory bordering Jurchen and North Korea, so that they can take on the responsibility of emigrating in the Ezo Raiders and the subsequent colonization of Jeju.

Since the start of the Korean-Japanese War, the business of Korean refugees has been cut off. It is impossible for North Korean officials to do business with the Japanese, but the future development of Ezo and Jeju cannot be separated from people.

Although North Korea has regained most of its land, there are still many rebel generals who are like warlords in the territory. They each separatist side obeys the order of the king of Joseon in name, but in fact they are all local emperors.

Since the North Korean government cannot do business with the Xiu family, these warlords and local emperors will be the targets of the Xiu family's next attack.

However, it may not be enough to talk in the name of Japan. If it is talked in the name of the two kings of Hamgyong Province in North Korea, then the moral obstacles on the surface will be much smoother.

In addition to the population of North Korea, the Haixi, Jianzhou, and Savage Jurchen tribes attacked each other. The plundered population was an important commodity, which was often sold for tea and ironware.

With the Xianjing Road, the Xiu family has an outpost, which is convenient for these tribes to come and trade with the Xiu family.

Of course, before that, the Xiu family had to think of a way, relying solely on the power of North Korea and the Jurchen tribe to fight back the Chu Ying tribe who had entered Hamgyong-do without transferring troops from Japan.

In the Xiu family's vision, if luck is good, it would be a good idea to send the good adopted sons of the Xiu family, Nurhachi's sons, back to inherit the tribe of the Suke Suhu tribe.