Prime Minister Bizen

Perhaps it was because Xiuci's parents hadn't left Osaka for a long time, which made Xiuji feel that he was very good at it.

Perhaps in his opinion, as a latecomer to the Toyotomi family, he can use the name of righteousness to choose the following daimyo at will.After all, in his opinion, Xiujiu has no civil ability, and their retainers are not likely to resist and disobey his orders.

But as everyone knows, by doing so, he has touched the conflict between Xiujia and Xiuzhen, which is tantamount to declaring war on Xiujia and Xiuzhen.

Maybe he knew, but he just didn't care.In his opinion, Xiujia and Xiuzhen are big names of the Omi School, even if they are offended by him, can they still join forces with Chacha?

However, the situation was beyond Xiuci's expectation, and Xiu's family really got along with Chacha this time.

After sending someone to contact Yamanaka Tomotoshi, Hideka roughly understood what happened in Osaka Castle in the past six months, as well as Tokugawa's current position and attitude.

In the final analysis, it was due to Xiuci's character.He initially wanted to unite with Tokugawa Ieyasu, but under Xiujia's reminder, Chacha married Jing Gao's younger sister to Xiuzhong to continue the house, and expressed that he would make Xiuli Ieyasu's grandson-in-law.

This matter has already spread throughout Osaka Castle, and Tokugawa Ieyasu has been confirmed to be one of the core sects of the Toyotomi family.

Tomotoshi Yamanaka even vaguely mentioned to the Hide family, "At first the Tokugawa family didn't want the Kiritan woman from the Kyogoku family to marry Hidetada, and she was also the daughter of Yi Hideji." Obviously, they wanted to avoid offending both sides.

However, Xiuci explicitly rejected it. He even went directly to Tokugawa Ieyasu, saying that he would arrange for Xiuli's marriage contract to marry his youngest daughter, Aju, and hoped that Tokugawa Ieyasu would not get involved in it.

It seems that Tokugawa Ieyasu rejected Hideji's proposal, which made Hideji very annoyed, and directly stated that even his daughter Luyue would not marry Hidechu.But how the two of them fell apart, Yamanaka Tomotoshi didn't know.

Xiujia simulated Tokugawa Ieyasu's perspective to analyze this matter. If it is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu wanted to take advantage of both sides, and Chacha wanted to completely pull Tokugawa to his side.

So Xiuci's proposal basically made Tokugawa semi-vassal to him.

After all, for Tokugawa, the best result is to marry one/marry the other.But according to Xiuci's thinking, if Xiuli was to be controlled by him, he could only marry him unilaterally, which was somewhat domineering.

Moreover, when the two were communicating, their tone of voice might not be very good, which eventually led to the breakdown of the negotiation.

For Tokugawa, he didn't have to show his help.Now Chacha is the smallest in the world's political circle, and Xiujia is the largest.When you show up to beg me, Tokugawa, you have to show a corresponding attitude.

I, Tokugawa, married a daughter-in-law of your family to give you face, not to see your face, so why do you control my betting on both sides!
And the result now is that Tokugawa Ieyasu is unhappy with Hideji's attitude. It's not like I can't do without Hideji, what is your attitude towards me Hideji?

Now I don’t want to bully you, I’ll vote for Chacha directly, it seems stupid for me to help the weakest third party, but if I can win Chacha to be with Xiu’s family, I’ll kill you this time Don't you want to kill ants?
In this way, Tokugawa Ieyasu's performance yesterday made sense, because he had given up the principle of neutrality and began to consult on issues from the perspective of Chacha.

He first brought out "Xiuci's conditions" to stimulate Xiujia, and deliberately described Chacha as weak.

After hearing the clearly opposed opinions from Xiujia's side, he put forward his own opinions with obvious tendencies, trying to win Xiujia and Xiuzhen over.

Ieyasu Tokugawa understood Hideka's mentality.

Hideka asked Yamanaka Tomotoshi again if he knew about the changes in the Okayama domain, such as whether the Aoki attendant had become independent.

Yamanaka Tomotoshi's answer is very interesting, "It's not the first year that the news that Aoki Attendant wants to be an independent direct participant has been circulated. After so many years, which time has it been verified?
I only know that before the death of Gifu Dainao Yansheng (Toyotomi Hidecho), he seemed to have found Aoki Attendant (Aoki Kazuki) and asked him to take care of the Okayama Councilor (Toyotomi Hidehisa) on his behalf. "

The Hide family knew about what Yutoshi Nakayama said, and later Hideyoshi asked him to participate directly, but was rejected by Kazuki Aoki on the grounds that "everyone in Hideku's family can't take charge of the affairs, and I agreed to Hideo-sama".

Hideka thinks that Yamanaka Tomotoshi's words mean: Even Hideyoshi couldn't persuade Aoki Kazuki back then, let alone Hideji now.

But Xiuzhen interrupted right at this time and said, "But this time and that time, at that time, the Gifu domain had 105 million stones, and the Aoki attendant had 6.8 stones from Komaki Mountain.

Now the general commander of the Okayama domain is less than 40 before the transfer to Beibei, and the knowledge and practice of Aoki's attendants has also been reduced by half to only 3.6 shi.

When His Royal Highness Guan Bai persuaded Aoki's attendant to directly participate in the meeting but was rejected by him, Aoki's attendant would never have thought that one day Guan Bai would make changes to his own son!

You said if you were given a chance, what choice would he make? "

Xiuzhen's words hit the point, and Kazuki Aoki was probably heartbroken by Hideyoshi's reduction of seal, and this condition was negotiated by the Hideyoshi family.

Although Hideyoshi's plan didn't even include Bizen at first, since Hidehisa transferred to Okayama and the feudal government was controlled by Kazuki Aoki, Kazuki Aoki has indeed alienated a little from the two brothers, maybe because of his anger.

If this is provoked by Xiuji, maybe he will really vote there. The most important thing is that Xiujia can't think of Tokugawa Ieyasu's intention to use this trivial matter to deceive Xiujia. Is it just to make Xiujia angry? ?

Just as the two of them were thinking, the attendant outside came to report again, "The envoy from the Gifu Domain is here to invite His Highness to drink tea."

Xiuzhen and Xiu's family looked at each other and smiled, this is Xiu's visit to do the work of Xiu's family.It's just that compared to Tokugawa Ieyasu's sincerity when he came to the door in person, Hideji let the Hide family come to the door instead. This air is a bit big.

But since he was invited, the Xiu family had no reason not to, so after a little tidying up, they brought Xiuzhen to the door.

Xiuci didn't seem to have thought that the Xiu family would bring Xiuzhen to the banquet, but under the shameless greeting of the Xiu family, they could only squeeze out a seat for Xiuzhen.

The tea ceremony in Japan is really a tea ceremony. Several people gather around a stove, and each person cooks tea one by one to compete in the tea ceremony. After a bowl of tea is cooked, they take turns to drink it.

We must know that in this era of lack of sanitation, many people have periodontal disease and bad breath. It is unknown how many people's saliva and bacteria are mixed in this cup of tea.

The Xiu family doesn't like this kind of culture, so in the Xiu family's own home, they follow the Ming system, and each person drinks from a bowl of saucer.The head of the family took the lead in changing the habit, and Fengchun's family gradually changed the habit of drinking tea.

And finally spread to the surrounding area based on Kanto. For example, Xiuzhen is a habit brought out by the Xiu family. Even the big names in the Northeast no longer blindly pursue the original way of making tea.

Nowadays in Japan, this method of one bowl of tea per person is called Kanto tea, mainly relying on the taste of the tea itself, neither grinding the tea leaves nor pounding the tea. It is regarded as unauthentic and tasteless country tea by the nobles in Kyoto. .

Of course, according to the official statement, this is the "Fengchun tea" brought back by the Xiu family from the Ming Dynasty

The Xiu family doesn't drink boiled tea, especially the cups that the predecessors drank. Even when Hideyoshi made the tea himself, the Xiu family only gave face once.

Xiuci invited the Xiu family to drink tea, so many years of colleagues and brothers sat down, it is impossible for Xiu Ci not to know the habits of the Xiu family.

But Xiuci decided to use this method to make tea for everyone, and didn't even prepare tea sets and bowls for Xiujia and Xiuzhen.

In addition to old friend Nagamasa Asano, the attendees this time were Hideaki Kobayakawa, Isada Kinoshita, and Kazuki Aoki mentioned earlier by Hideo.

The person in charge of making tea is Oda Changyi. He has lived in semi-recluse now. He specializes in tea making and is quite famous in Kinki.

Taking advantage of Oda Changyi's time of making tea, Hideji sat in the main seat and started talking.

After the round of mutual teasing among relatives and friends was over, he went straight to the point and said to Xiujia, "I heard that the inner government came to see you yesterday. It must be about the plan for rewarding Jeju Island. How did you discuss it?"

The attitude of Hideyoshi when he speaks is just like the reader's feeling when he reads this, with a lofty appearance, as if he is the second generation of Hideyoshi.

Xiuzhen, who originally had a prejudice against Xiuci, curled her lips in displeasure at this moment, while Xiujia lowered her head and slightly raised the corners of her mouth in disdain, but she still replied, "Not only the ownership of Jeju, but also those who have made great achievements after the Korean War." Award."

Everyone's eyes followed Xiujia's voice to look at Xiujia's side, and Xiujia's head was raised accordingly, looking directly at Xiuci, afraid that Xiuci might not hear clearly, and said word by word, "Talking Quite constructive."

As Hideya's voice fell, the tea room fell into a strange silence. Even Oda Changyi, who had been making noises with his hands just now, stopped his movements, and there was only the sound of firewood boiling water in the entire space.

"Quite. Constructive." Xiuci repeated Xiujia's answer, with a hint of displeasure in his tone, but he did not make any comments on Xiujia's words.

Perhaps seeing that Oda Changyi stopped his movements, he nodded to him to signal him to continue making tea.

By the way, I took this opportunity to introduce Du to Xiujia, "Yurakuzhai (Oda Changyi) was a tea ceremony master as famous as Sen Rikyu back then. Even Guan Bai and His Highness Youfu praised him very much. Today, everyone is really blessed. up.

You must know that Mr. You Lezhai is also in charge of the affairs of the Furuno clan, and that Furuno attendant is Mr. Lezhai's nephew. Perhaps it is because he is too young, so he has a lot of trust in Mr. Youlezhai. "

As soon as his words fell, Oda Changyi handed over a bowl of boiled tea to Toyotomi Hideji, and said modestly: "Danayan is absurd, that Furuno attendant is young and promising, and has been in power for many years now. The affairs of the domain are well managed. I just do some odd jobs."

It wasn't until Hideji introduced Oda Changyi that the Hide family realized that in this life, Oda Changyi did not become Hideyoshi's yellow mother and professional tea head, but became Oda Hidenobu's elder after Oda Nobuo was changed.

That is, in the years before Oda Hidenobu became an adult, he was always in charge of the Oda family's vassal administration.

But to say a thousand words and ten thousand, his Oda family should be regarded as the Chacha faction!Don't look at them as Novo daimyos, but who made Chacha the niece of the Taimen family!

Although Oda Changmashi in history was in the Eastern Army, he has been helping his niece in Osaka Castle after the war.

Now Oda Chosuke What does this mean?Just like in history, he joined the camp of Chacha's opponents, but was he in Cao Ying and his heart was in Han?
"You guys don't know. I just negotiated with that Furuno attendant yesterday. I plan to marry my daughter Luyue to be the main wife of the Furuno family. This matter has not been reported to the five big bosses for approval. Everyone as a family should listen to the happy event first. .”

Oda Hidenobu has an official wife. As mentioned earlier, because he is a descendant of Hideyoshi's previous generation, Hideyoshi, who was afraid that they would be too powerful, only allowed Hidenobu to marry the daughter of his retainer Wada Sun Taifu.

But now Hideji said that he wanted to marry his daughter to be the main wife, which broke the rules set by Hideyoshi, and directly started the marriage of the famous family, and the marriage was still the forbidden Oda family of the Toyotomi family.

And if the Hide family remembers correctly, although Oda Hidenobu's original wife did not give birth to him, she lived a very healthy life with no illness or disaster.

Xiuci now said that he wanted to marry his daughter, so what would happen to Mrs. Tian Sun's daughter?
Xiuci's sudden explanation made Xiujia instantly understand the ins and outs.Oda Hidenobu in history is like this, obviously he should be closer to his aunt, but he insisted on flirting with Tokugawa Ieyasu until Ishida Mitsunari opened Mino Quanling and Owari 80 Andu with nearly [-] shi. That's why Xiuxin put all his strength on his side.

What does Xiuxin mean in this life?Hideji sold one of his daughters, and what kind of conditions did he offer, which made the Oda family abandon the Chacha War and come to the opposing camp?

Hideji's move was very clever. The Oda family's rebellion had a great impact on Chacha's morale.

Because they are considered to be one of the very few pro-fans in Chacha nowadays, and the betrayal of the pro-fans can be said to have played a very bad role model.This move is most likely Tian Haizhi's move.

Everyone congratulated Oda Changmashi and Hideji, and Hideka also said a few good words perfunctorily.During the rumor, the tea bowl that had been touched by many people had also been passed to Xiu's family.

Looking at the grass-like green tea in the bowl is still bubbling, and you can even see the wire drawing left by the predecessors on the side of the bowl, the corners of Xiujia's eyebrows can't help but twitch, this bowl of tea can't be drunk by Xiujia of.

Maybe it was because the spread of tea stopped at the Xiu family, and everyone's eyes turned to the Xiu family again, as if they were waiting for the Xiu family to make a decision.

As I said before, no matter how big Xiuci is, the people under him will remind Xiuci of the tea-drinking habit of Xiuci's family.

It is well known that the Hideyoshi family does not drink Japanese tea, not to mention the fact that such a bowl of tea is handed down from person to person. Even when Hideyoshi made tea back then, he was the first person in the Hideo family to drink it.

Looking at the tea in the bowl, Xiujia's expression gradually turned grim.He has been serving tea for so long, didn't the host, Xiuji, notice the change in Xiujia's expression?It's time to come and change a bowl for Xiu's family.

But Xiuci didn't do that!

At this moment, there was even a hint of murderous look in Xiujia's eyes, he understood what kind of medicine Xiuci was selling in the gourd today.

This is not a simple shaming, the people passing by this bowl of tea are all important names of the thick tail school, and everyone formed a circle, which means that everyone is a member of this circle.

Oda Changyi came to the table on behalf of the Oda family, so making tea for everyone was actually to serve tea to the big boss in front of him.

After drinking this cup of tea from the Xiu family, it means that everyone is still their own.But if you don't drink it, Xiujia will be telling Xiuci clearly that I want to leave the thick tail faction and do it myself.

Xiuci is hinting at the Xiu family, giving an ultimatum to the Xiu family!
I have to say that today's operation is much more delicate than the operation that was forced by Beizheng at the banquet a few months ago. The rough operation at that time was hard to bear to look at.

Moreover, this tea is respected by the Oda family, and the one passing by is also the mouth of the Noo school daimyo. If the Hide family does not drink this bowl of tea now, does it mean that the Oda family despises the tea, or the Noo school daimyo who sits in the same circle?

This is Xiuci knowing that Xiu's family won't drink this cup of tea, and deliberately setting a trap for Xiu's family!Either drink tea and confess, or lift the cup to offend so many big names.

This operation was so beautiful that even Xiujia couldn't help giving him a thumbs up in his heart, "That's amazing! Sun Qi."

In the eyes of everyone, Xiujia calmly held the cup in front of him, looked at it carefully, and then tasted it with his hands waving his breath.

Just when everyone thought that Xiujia would have a sip next, Xiujia passed the cup of tea to the seat below.

The person sitting under Xiuzhen was Xiuzhen, but Xiujia's hand holding the tea bowl directly passed Xiuzhen to the next person.

That was Kobayakawa Hideaki's position, Kobayakawa Hideaki made a gesture to take the tea bowl, but Hideka withdrew the hand holding the tea bowl, which meant that this cup of tea was not for you.

When they were seated, Hidecho said that today was a family tea party, and he sat down based on his family's seniority and status, and because Hideo and Hideo did not attend, Hideaki Kobayakawa was the last one.

After Xiuqiu was Oda Changyi who was in charge of making tea. Oda Changyi was taken aback for a moment, but still took the bowl of tea from Xiujia and drank it all in one go.