Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 735 Counterattack

Hideaki Kobayakawa was very happy to be sealed and moved to Kinki from the remote Kyushu where people's livelihood was in decline due to the Korean War.

But he also has his concerns, "But my Fengqian fief has just been confirmed, and the decree has just been issued, is it just transferred?"

"It's because your fiefdom has just been confirmed and the chief executive has not been implemented, so there is a reason for you to transfer the fiefdom." Xiujia explained, "If you feel sorry for the wheat because the spring plowing is still in progress, then wait for the autumn harvest. Turn around later."

The transfer of Takakage Kobayakawa was an important part of the Xiu family's blockade of Kinki.

In the West Country, Shikoku's own territory, Nagamune Gabe's family and Hidehisa's territory block the west, Hosokawa Tadataka on the north, Tsutsui Joji and Ichiichi Ichiji on the east, Kobayakawa Takakage on the south, Daban City is surrounded by its own allies.

But the current Toyotomi regime is not decided by the Xiu family.Sometimes allies who can be pulled have to be pulled.

It just so happened that Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hideo agreed to have a banquet at his mansion later today, and Hideka simply revealed to him the meaning of Kobayakawa's transfer.

"His Highness Kobayakawa." Tokugawa Ieyasu pretended to be thinking, "But His Highness Kobayakawa was confirmed to be 13 stones in Bungzen before after the review of the five big bosses, and the two His Highnesses approved it. Now there is no merit. How can I seal it?"

"How about sweeping away the chaos in Kyushu Xiaoxi?"

Regardless of the lack of knowledge and action of Governor Konishi, it really took some strength from the Kyushu daimyo.The rebellion, which was originally expected to be assessed in two months, was fought for half a year, and it was not declared to be quelled until the spring of successive years.

It is precisely because the Kyushu Rebellion has been evaluated, and there is no chance to fish in troubled waters, Tokugawa Ieyasu showed embarrassment in the face of Hideka's request: "But the achievements of the Kyushu Battle have already been agreed, and at this time I want to rank Jinwu's achievements. It's a little difficult."

But he didn't bite the bullet, and bargained with Xiu's family, saying: "I think it's better to give Kobayakawa Jinwu a small amount of titles on the grounds of reassignment without fault. It's just that there won't be as many as 20 shi, how about 15 shi? "

但是15万和20万之间差距确实有些大，秀家也露出了有些为难的表情“15万未免少了些吧。怎么说金吾都已经坐镇九州快1年了，就2万石的加封让其动一动属实没必要。”

"His Royal Highness's words are different, there is still a need to make a move.

You may not know that during the suppression of the Kyushu chaos this time, the Mori family was designated as a second-class meritorious service by His Highness Gifu. His Highness Gifu originally planned to use Beizhong as a reward, but I gave it back.

If you don't give Beizhong a country, then you have to find territory from Kyushu.Kingo Kobayakawa was transferred from Fengqian, just in time to free up land to secure the Maori family. "

"Bichu One Country!" The Hideka must be surprised to hear this news, because the Kibei countries have always been his area of ​​interest, but Toyotomi Hideji promised to the Mori family in private without even talking to him.

"Are you giving Kobayakawa's 13 koku to the Mori family? And Kobayakawa just added 2 koku on the grounds that there is no fault of transfer?"

"That's exactly what I think. I know that Beizhong is the place where His Royal Highness misses, and you should not treat others lightly. Fengqian may be a good place, not to mention losing half of Zhixing directly."

For Tokugawa Ieyasu's proposal, Hideo agreed unknowingly. At this time, Hideka suddenly felt that Ieyasu had a caring feeling of a confidant retainer, and he would actually help Hideo think about the problem.

"It's just that there is still one problem to be solved. What about His Royal Highness Xiubao who was originally placed in Kii Wakayama?"

Regarding this matter, the Xiu family already had a plan in mind when the Xiu family planned to resettle Hideaki Kobayakawa.

If your family wants to touch Toyotomi Hideji's plan and his ally Mori Terumoto, then you must give him a certain amount of compensation.

"Transfer it to Himeji Castle's 10 shi'an block." Xiujia replied affirmatively.

In fact, the Hide family originally wanted to place it in Yamato-Koriyama Castle 10 koku. After all, in the original history, Toyotomi Hideho inherited Toyotomi Hideunaga's territory, which was in Yamato-Koriyama Castle.

But after thinking about it, sealing it in Yamato Koriyama Castle was tantamount to blocking the way for Kobayakawa Hideaki, Tsutsui Sadaji and others to go north, and finally decided to move it to Himeji.

Himeji is a good place. This is the place where the Toyotomi family made their fortune, and it has special political significance.Surrounded by endless plains, agricultural development and prosperity, and close to Kinki, Sanyo Avenue at the foot of the city passes directly through and develops commerce.

Xiujia's doing so might be trying to drive a wedge between Maori and Xiuci.After all, Hideji originally promised to give the Mori family Bichu Ichigoku a seal of 25 koku, but in the end he only took half of it, and it was still Buzen's territory, but your brother got the seal for no reason.

It's just that the Hide family wants to move Toyotomi Hideho to Himeji, which doesn't mean that Tokugawa Ieyasu can agree to such a request.

Where is Himeji?The ban of the Toyotomi family!You say that this is guarding Youkon for Toyotomi's family, that's fine~ But it must be a name that Chacha can trust, such as Jing Gaoji, where is your younger brother of Toyotomi Hideji going?

After a round of brainstorming, Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu agreed that Toyotomi Hideho should be relocated to Tanba Hachigami Castle, and given 10 koku security blocks, while the corresponding Kyogoku, who had been ordered to reduce the seal to 7 koku, It will be restored to 10 stones with unwarranted credit.

The meritorious service should be judged according to the person's actual meritorious service, but since the time of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Toyotomi family's rewards have been extremely chaotic.Cronyism is not uncommon, but they don't know that every time they do this, it tramples on the credibility of the Toyotomi family.

For example, this time, if Kobayakawa's addition of 2 shi can still be explained, the multiple additions of Toyotomi Hideho and Kyoko trampled on the prestige of the Toyotomi family's meritorious service evaluation.

In fact, Ieyasu Tokugawa originally said that Chacha wanted Kyoko to go to Himeji again.But such a condition can't even pass the "temporary ally" of the Xiu family, let alone the meeting with Xiuci.

Tokugawa Ieyasu naturally knew this too, so he just expressed his opinion on behalf of Chacha. After Hideka made it clear that it was impossible, he didn't insist and took a step back immediately.

The communication between Hideka and Ieyasu Tokugawa went smoothly, apart from the matter about Kobayakawa, there was also the matter about the conferment of meritorious daimyo in the Kyushu evaluation.

In order to prevent them from being caught off guard by fighting each other at the meeting, and to put pressure on Hideji at the meeting, both Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu went through the content of tomorrow's assessment tonight.

Hideya also talked about the fact that the Tokugawa family had complained to Yuuki Haruto that it was not good for the governance of the territory, which made the rioters cross the border to threaten the Tokugawa Saku leader.

Since everyone is a comrade-in-arms in the same trench, there is no reason to hold on to this trivial matter.

It’s just that Yuki’s place is really intimidating. It’s best to move the Takeda family away, otherwise he won’t make a big fuss about the fact that the Yuki family’s control of the people is unfavorable by the eruption of Mount Asama. .

But now that all the backers behind the family have come out, this face is naturally given to the Xiu family.

Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately said, "I also received a complaint from the people below, so I ordered a thorough investigation of the matter. After all, Yuki Zhongwu Daisuke has just been transferred, and the people in the territory are still not stable. It is indeed a natural disaster. No calamity.

I will confirm this matter with several big bosses. If it is confirmed that it is not the responsibility of Daisuke Yuuki, we will not wrong him. "

Coming out of Tokugawa Ieyasu's residence, Hideie basically got the answer he wanted.He still needs to go to the city early tomorrow morning to explain the results and tasks to his political allies.

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On June 3, 6rd year of Keicho, a very formal small assessment was held again in the Ohiro Room in Osaka Castle after half a year.

The official reason is that the Central North Government Office and Chacha were also present at the evaluation, and Xiuli, the nominal head of the Toyotomi family, was listening to the government in Chacha's arms. , the audience is led by the five big bosses, including the three seniors, the five executives and the participation of ten people.

This kind of evaluation must be more solemn than the previous evaluation that was only presided over by the five big bosses, but the reason why he is called a small evaluation is that only the core rulers of the Toyotomi family participated in the deliberations, and most of the big names were not present.

As soon as the evaluation started, Toyotomi Hideji was sapped by Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

On the issue of rewards for meritorious daimyos after the Joseon War, Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu jointly argued that Jeju Island could not be entrusted to a single daimyo.

Although its location is indeed remote, there is an agreement between Japan and Daming that Daming has troops stationed on the island.After Japan occupied the island, it had to pay 800 war horses every year like the Ming Dynasty. This is not something that an ordinary daimyo can handle.

The two agreed that Jeju Island should be collected and managed by the Toyotomi family.This pursuit has already been chosen, that is, Ichiyanagi Naomori who was reactivated by the Toyotomi family. He was restored to the territory of 5000 shi, and the territory is on Jeju Island.

For this plan, Toyotomi Hideji is naturally unwilling to retreat.War horse resources are one of the most important materials in war. Now your ship has used the Shinano Racecourse, and the Hide family has the Iyo Racecourse, but I have nothing!
At this time, Hideo is still in the game, and the evaluation is still a dispute between Hideji and Tokugawa Ieyasu.In the final debate, it was really difficult to tell the winner. Kazushi Nakamura, one of the elders, proposed to vote.

At this time, it is necessary to count the people attending today and their ticket types.

There are a total of 4 people on Hideya's side who must be able to share votes with Hideka.

There are also 4 people on Hideji's side. They are Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the big boss Mori Terumoto, the big boss Asano Nagamasa, and Toyotomi Hideho among the ten people.

Tokugawa Ieyasu here represents the closest friends of this tea, there are 2 people in total, namely the big boss Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the ten people Zhongjing Gaochi.

The boss Uesugi Jingsheng’s attitude has always been neutral. In his eyes, as long as he thinks the proposal is good, he will vote for it. If he thinks the proposal is bad, he will vote against it. It has nothing to do with any camp .

The boss Toyotomi Hidekatsu's attitude has always been ambiguous. He was originally promoted by the show, but he always abstained from voting every time the five big bosses deliberated, so he had the lowest sense of presence among the five big bosses.

Since Toyotomi Hidekatsu has been abstaining from voting, the current five big bosses have always been called the four big bosses.

Many people don't understand the reason why Toyotomi Hidekatsu did this. Even Hideji has talked to him many times, but he always pushes it away on the grounds that he is mediocre and dare not make rash judgments.

The attitudes of the middle-aged and old Nakamura Kazushi and Horio Yoshiharu are quite ambiguous, and the reasons for their ambiguity are also different.

Nakamura is somewhat similar to Uesugi Kagekatsu, but he is not as "selfless" as Uesugi Kagekatsu, and sometimes he is attracted by the attitudes of various forces and deviated.

Horio Yoshiharu's attitude is very clear, he is just a fool, swinging back and forth between the three parties.

But his swinging range is regular. In the evaluation of Xiujia's attendance, he basically stands on Xiujia's side.

During the six months when Xiu's family was no longer there, he swung back and forth between Xiuci and Chacha, imprisoning his reputation as a fool.

[-]. In this evaluation, only the right to make suggestions, but not the right to vote, is skipped here.

Among the other ten people, Hachisuka's housekeeping is the most difficult. He is a member of the Nobi school, and he personally tends to be more Hideka, but because of the face of the Beizheng Office, he has to take care of Hideji's ideas.

Although Hideji Hori has long been one of the ten people, he has never had much right to speak.Before that, the Hide family treated him kindly and helped him move from the remote Shangzong to Noto.

There was some friendship between the two in the past, but his relationship with Xiu's family was not good enough to wear a pair of pants, let alone Chacha and Xiuci.

So he is a staunch neutral. You will vote round after round. Unless it is a matter of life and death, I will not stand on any of the three sides.

Of course, if there is an absolute majority, Hori Hideji will definitely vote for the "critical" vote in response to the situation.

In this regard, Hosokawa Tadake is somewhat similar to him, but there is also some gap between the two, Hosokawa Tadake is a proper shit stirrer.

Not standing on three sides, standing on all three sides, fully demonstrated the political ecology of the Gao family of the old shogunate, and the Xiu family even regretted bringing him in.

Hideaki Kobayakawa is a daimyo of the Noo-tail school and a branch of the Mori family, so neither side is easy to offend.

So when there was a conflict between Xiujia and Xiuci's camp, he chose to be neutral, and when there was no conflict between the two sides, he stood with them.

During the six months since Xiu's family was gone, he has been standing with Xiuci all the time, but this time his attitude has changed.But it is still difficult for him to keep pace with Xiujia now.

As for Toyotomi Hidehisa and Kato Kiyomasa, they did not participate in this evaluation due to their own reasons.

This is the situation of the small-rated teams in the past. If you calculate the ticket types, you will find that among the 18 votes, Hideka can get 4+1 votes, Tokugawa can get 2 votes, and Hideji can get 4 votes. ticket.

但是若是秀家和德川家康联合起来，那这边的票数就是4+2+3+2=11票。

The three are Horio Yoshiharu, Hori Hideji, and Hosokawa Tadakashi, and the latter two are Uesugi Kagekatsu and Nakamura Kazushi.

On the other hand, on Hideji's side, in addition to his 4 votes, Toyotomi Hidekatsu, Kobayakawa Hideaki, and Hachisuka Isei probably had no choice but to abstain from voting when facing Hideya and Hideji's confrontation.

This is the ticket type calculated by Xiujia, but Xiuci doesn't think so.

Maybe it's the life of the wind and rain for the past six months that made him regain his self-confidence. In his opinion, he can get a full 6 votes here. Except for the previous 4 people, he specially talked to Toyotomi Hidekatsu yesterday and got his support.

Coupled with the vote of Hachisuka's housekeeping, even if Kobayakawa Hideaki is really abducted by the Hideka, he can still suppress Tokugawa Ieyasu.

What?Tokugawa show family unite?
How is this possible!
Such an idea has never appeared in Hideji's mind. There are conflicts between Hideo and Tokugawa, between Kyoko and Chacha.

Besides, he is a child brought up by Beizheng, so there is no reason to surrender to the enemy!
"Most Xiu family is neutral!" Xiuci swore before the evaluation.

(End of this chapter)