Prime Minister Bizen

The marriage of Tokugawa and Toyoharu caused a shock in Japanese political circles, even more so than the marriage between Tokugawa, Osaka's Shuri, and Kyogoko, even more so than before.

The reason is simple. The marriages between Tokugawa Hidetada and the daughter of the Kyogoku family, Hidetaka’s daughter Ichihime and Shuri were all directly ordered by Osaka to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa Ieyasu could only choose to accept or refuse. And under the marriage contract.

However, the marriage between the Xiu family and the Tokugawa family was reported to the Toyotomi family for review after the two big names discussed it in private.

The Toyotomi family's laws and regulations clearly stipulate that all marriage contracts of the world's famous names should be presided over and established by the Toyotomi family.Although Xiujia and Tokugawa Ieyasu did not hide their marriage, this matter is more like a cut first and then a play.

Especially the big names such as Xiang Xiujia and Tokugawa Ieyasu, their every move is watched by the surroundings.

The key point is that the two are still close to each other. The reason why Hideyoshi placed the two close neighbors is because he wants the two families to coerce each other, not to unite the two.

Although the Hide family had already had all sorts of coquettish operations to enter into the Ichijo, Sanjo, and Ashikaga families before this, they even sent their son to Tachibana Muneshige as a student (adopted son) under other guises.

Or marry the Sanada family in the name of a retainer marrying a daughter, but the Hide family has not broken through the legal limit anyway.

But this time it's different, but the real deal between the two powerful feudal clans decided in private, and then reported the issue of the Toyotomi family.

Thus, the famous scene in history appeared again.

Not to mention that Toyotomi Hideji objected to the marriage between the Tokugawa and Toyoharu families, even Ishida Sancheng from the Omi faction personally approached the Hide family and asked him the reason for the marriage with Toyoharu.

Hideka didn't even know in what capacity Ishida Mitsunari came to inquire about Hideka, and the duty of carrying out the public was only the order of the Five Big Bosses.They don't need to know the reason, let alone have the reason and right to question the top 10 people.

But this is Osaka City after all, the Hide family gave Ishida Sancheng some face, but gave him a reason.

The Xiu family's explanation is also very simple and straightforward, "there are too many sons and daughters in the family, and they are almost getting married. He has to find a way to help them find a partner."

Ishida Mitsunari probably didn't expect Hideka to give such a direct answer, without any explanation or excuse.

Ishida Mitsunari had no choice but to take the opportunity to remind Xiujia.Yes, he used the word "reminder".Remind Xiujia that as Ruonianji, he should lead by example and abide by the laws of Toyotomi's family.Regarding the marriage between the children and the daimyo, it should be reported to the Toyotomi family.

To sum up, it is: a warning, not an example.

It is said that Ishida Mitsunari also went to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's answer was much more rascal.

"Really? So this is considered a violation of the law? Didn't I report it to the five big bosses for a review?"

After Ishida Mitsunari explained the purpose of the law again, he made an expression of sudden understanding and said, "So the purpose of the law means that before the marriage between the two families, you can't discuss it in private? It turns out that I have misunderstood it all the time! "

Tokugawa is now the biggest honor guard of the Omi faction, so it is naturally impossible to target such a big backer.Under Tokugawa's lead, Hideya vaguely intended to move closer to Osaka.

Even the Xiu family felt that Chacha would not have much opinion on the marriage between Tokugawa and Toyoharu.And Ishida Mitsunari came to Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu to warn him, and he didn't even inform Chacha in advance.

Ishida Mitsunari did this, probably because of what Hideyoshi said to him before his death, which made him still wary of Tokugawa and Hideo, so he took the initiative to contact both parties.

However, although Ishida Mitsunari wanted to refuse the marriage of the two families, he did not have such strength, so he could only warn the two parties in the name of "reminder".

Perhaps in Ishida Mitsunari's view, the two families are big names who want to face their faces, and they dare not openly violate the law. After reminding them, they can receive their rebellious souls.

But in Xiujia's opinion, he might as well just turn a blind eye and not try to explain Laozi's method.If you don't explain it, you can still fish in troubled waters. Once you explain it, you will set Toyotomi's house on the fire.

He didn't know that his behavior gave a very bad signal to the world's daimyo: the Toyotomi family has no countermeasures against the daimyo's violation of the purpose! ! !

Moreover, it is said that Tokugawa Ieyasu personally found Chacha to protest against Ishida Mitsunari's visit. In order to win over Tokugawa and Toyoharu, Chacha directly called Ishida Mitsunari to reprimand him.

Chacha's ambiguous attitude gave a blow to the people of insight who wanted to cut off the chain of private marriages between daimyos.

Here, Toyotomi Hideji expressed resistance to the marriage between Tokugawa and Toyoharu's family. Over there, the Hideo family put their children's marriage issues on the table, and said directly: Your family will not let me contact you. Then you can help my sons find wives and my daughters find partners.

Not to mention, it coincides with the signing of the imperial edict tomorrow and the official ceremony of Xiuli's succession to the throne, most of the world's famous names gather under the Osaka Castle.

The Toyotomi family’s ineffective feedback on the super daimyo’s private discussion and then reporting, invisibly encouraged the marriage between other daimyos and these super daimyos.

Now when they heard that the Fengchun family was recruiting a son-in-law and a daughter-in-law, they all rushed to the door and almost broke the door frame of the Fengchun family's mansion.

Putting nothing else aside, Xiuzhen was the first to come to the door to ask for a marriage for her eldest son, Xing Matsumaru, the only 4-year-old daughter of the Xiu family, Xiaoju.You must know that Xingmatsumaru is 8 years older than Xiaoju!
Moreover, there is a blood relationship between the two. Xing Matsumaru's mother Xing is the sister of the Xiu family, and Xing Matsumaru and Xiaoju are cousins.

Such a marriage would never be approved in later generations, but in ancient times such a marriage was precisely the best choice for a strong alliance.

It's just that Xiaoju's age is really too young. The Xiu family expressed that they would marry Anan's eldest daughter Qian to Xing Matsumaru, who was about the same age. This proposal was finally approved by Xiuzhen.

Xiuzhen also planned to marry her daughter-in-law to Hachiro, who was 2 years older than herself. It also needs to be considered as a reason to temporarily defer.

Tsutsui Joji came to the door again and asked the Xiu family for a son. Of course, this time he came to ask the Xiu family in the name of his son-in-law and adopted son.

Obviously, I just said it half a year ago, and if Tsutsui Joji still can't give birth to a son in another 5 years, we can discuss this matter again.But because the Hideka family's daughters are so sought-after now, Tsutsui Sadaji was afraid that he would not be able to get one in the end, so he came to him again.

Everyone put their faces in front of the Xiu family, if the Xiu family tried to push back this time, it would be a slap in the face.

But the marriage is fine, the son-in-law and adopted son are related to the succession of the name, the Xiu family really dare not take advantage of this matter at this time.

He can only tell Tsutsui Joji that he will mention it in the five big bosses' review, and if they know that the five big bosses have no objection, then the matter will be finalized.

Date Masamune was also asking the Xiu family for a marriage for his eldest son Xiuzong.

Although his son Xiuzong was born in the 19th year of Tianzheng (1591), in 1596 (the first year of Qingchang), he was in the Yuanfu of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was bestowed by Hideyoshi, named Xiuzong. Lai here as a servant.

But the Xiu family did not have any daughters of the right age at present, and the next step was Xiaoju who was born in the second year of Wenlu.

Don't look at the fact that Date Xiuzong occupies the word "Xiu", because his mother was born as a maidservant, and has not become the inheritance right of the Date family in history.

Because his wife is Tokugawa Ieyasu's adopted daughter, he was finally awarded Iyo Uwajima 10 stone.

Now that Date Masamune's son-in-law has not been born, it doesn't mean that he will not be born in the future. To let his daughter-in-law marry the eldest son of a slave, the Toyoharu family has not dropped to such an extent.

Before the Xiu family let their elder sister Lian marry Fujido Takahu, it was because the Xiu family needed the new senators to be their right-hand men to check and balance the veterans, it was just a means of political balance.

It is not that there is no daughter Xiujia who is of the right age, and her adopted daughter Guji (Mang Guji, daughter of Nurhachi, born in 1590) can be married to the Yida family.

Although she is the daughter of the Jurchen family, she has been learning Japanese etiquette, wearing Japanese clothes, and speaking Japanese language since she was 5 years old. Guji, who is now 8 years old, has already looked like a princess.

It's just that the identity of the Date family is indeed a bit special. Although it is said that it is down and out now, it is still an important figure in the Northeast.

Although it is said that Japan does not pay attention to blood, but pays more attention to legal principles.But Gu Ji is a descendant of the Jurchen, and there is still a gap in the outline of his face.

Besides, a family as big as the Fengchun family has several daughters, and their identities are more or less clear to other names.

It's okay to marry the adopted daughter of one of the important ministers in his own family to the Date family, but marrying an adopted daughter who was plundered outside to the Date family is likely to arouse the resentment of the Date family and other daimyos.

After thinking about it for a while, the Xiu family gave up on this idea. It's fine for these adopted sons and daughters to marry their retainers, or marry a minor daimyo, but it's really not qualified to be in charge of an important political marriage.

It was not because the Xiu family had good intentions in adopting them as adopted sons and daughters, but because the Xiu family was deeply afraid that they would have too few children in the future to adopt as spares. Who would have thought that in the past few years, the children of the Xiu family would fall to the ground one by one like dumplings.

In the end, the show family only stated that they would confirm the marriage between Kaihime's son Asahimaru and Date Masamune's daughter Goro Hachime.

After Nakagawa Hidesei's death, his two sons were adopted by his elder brother Nakagawa Hidemasa, and he also came to ask for a wife for his eldest son Toranosuke. Based on the attitude of the two families, the Hide family agreed to send Jiamuhu, who was the same age, as his adopted son. Jue Luo's daughter Coral Ji married.

Maybe it was the incident of the previous team Hideji that awakened Hideji Hori, who wanted to be an idler, and he also came to ask for a wife for his son Fuchiyo (historical Zhongjun).

But who made Hori Hideji die early?By marrying their daughter early, the Xiu family has the name to directly intervene in the affairs of the Hori family.Therefore, after careful consideration, the Xiu family still married Achao (1595), the daughter of the Bian family in Yuanzhou (Tianxindian) who was born to the Xiu family.

The Xiu family's daughters are all extremely important political bargaining chips, and the marriage partners are all the staunch allies of the Xiu family.For a name like Horie whose team is unclear, Hideka has reservations.

Hachisuka's Housekeeping Qianqian Wanqian finally became the last daimyo who snatched the Hide family's own daughter.

Today's Hachisuka family's internal political environment in Toyotomi's family is not as good as it used to be. Before, because they didn't keep pace with Hideji, they were disgusted by Hideji.

Compared with Xiuji's fickleness, the Xiu family has helped the Hachisuka family many times, and they have long wanted to ask for a woman from the Toyoharu family to be his wife.

In fact, the closest and most suitable person to Zhizhen's age should be Qianji, but unfortunately he was too slow to start, and the good wife has already been snatched away by the Koriyama family.

Even when the Hachisuka family came to the door, the suitable daughters in the Hide family's hands were almost selected. Fortunately, there was Akizuki Hime (daughter of Ito Nagami) who was born with Ito Yako (the daughter of the Seven Hands Group Ito Nagami). 1593) can marry.

To be honest, the age difference between the two was 7 and a half years, but Hachisuka Jiazheng insisted that the two were suitable as if he had found a treasure, and Hideka could only agree to this marriage.

But to be honest, the Date family may really dislike the adopted daughters of the Xiu family, but there are also some small daimyos who are eager for it.

For example, when Prime Minister Ma Yiyin asked the Xiu family for a daughter-in-law, he said, "In any case, they are the daughters of His Royal Highness Ju Ji who has been raising them for many years. They must be ladies of everyone, and they are a model of the Wu family. And they have been the daughters of the Xiu family for so many years. It's better than those adopted daughters who were temporarily adopted from the retainers."

It just so happened that Li Yin, the son of Prime Minister Ma Yiyin, had just lost his wife. Anyway, it was a continuation. Whose wife could be protected by a father-in-law like the Xiu family?

And Heqi (Nenzhe was born in 1587) is also a well-known beauty in Kanto (Nenzhe was a famous Jurchen beauty in history), and now there is a status bonus here, and it is too late for the Soma family to confess !
Mori Tadamasa also had the same idea as the Soma family, perhaps because he felt that the attitude of being alienated from the Hide family before caused the Hide family's dissatisfaction.

Seeing that Ikeda Teruma succeeded in taking the position by licking Hideka's stinky feet, he also wanted to get closer to Hideka.

In fact, Mori Tadomasa didn't come too late. He asked for a wife for his eldest son Xianmaru, and at first he fell in love with the Hide family's biological daughter, Achao or Coral.

It's a pity that the Xiu family refused to let go, and finally these two were promised to the Nakagawa family and the Hori family respectively.Mori Tadomasa is very clear that he is definitely not as good as the two in terms of relationship with the Xiu family, so he can only acquiesce at this time.

But at this time, he no longer cares whether this daughter is the real daughter of the Xiu family, or even the adopted daughter of a foreign race, as long as she has the name of the Fengchun family on her head, he will marry her, which can be said to be a display of refined egoism vividly.

In the end, he obtained Guji (Mang Guji 4) who was 1590 years older than his son Xianwan for his son.

Somewhat unexpectedly, the Toyotomi family seemed to turn a blind eye to the fact that the Hideo family and the major names had directly finalized the marriage contract in Osaka Castle.

Sometimes it is like this, one-on-one quietly finalizing the marriage contract will cause a rebound from the higher-ups, thinking that you are forming a party to resist your own rule.

But once there are too many people who are married at the same time, the superiors will also be afraid, afraid that if they violently obstruct the marriage at this time, it will suddenly cause so many big names to backlash.

Or maybe because of the need to win over the Hide family, Ishida Mitsunari was reprimanded by Chacha for going to Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Hide family. Not only did he not object, but he also came forward to help and recommend it.

But if they don't restrain and organize these marriages, the best result in the end is just to acquiesce that the marriage between the Hide family and the daimyo has formed a fait accompli, and the result of doing so is that the Toyotomi family's legal order is completely destroyed.

Daughters are important political bargaining chips, and so are sons. During this period of time, there are countless big names who come to recommend their daughters.Seeing the Fengchen clan's disregard for the Fengchun family's marriage attitude, all the big names in the world want to be related to the Xiu family.

Just because sons are more special than daughters, Xiujia couldn't help worrying that Osaka would retaliate, and instead canceled the marriages of the daughters that had already been finalized.

In order not to over-stimulate and pierce the bottom line of the Toyotomi family layer by layer, the Xiu family temporarily postponed the marriage of their sons.

In fact, postponing is also beneficial. The sons of the Xiu family will all be famous in the future, and the women they marry must be able to play a supporting role, and they cannot be married casually. good thing.