Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 746 Dealing with the Okayama Domain

Looking at the big brother of the Okayama feudal clan who was kneeling in front of him in awe, Hideka would not give them a good face, turned his head to Satomi Yoshihiro who was behind him and said, "Go and settle the Okayama servants." , and did not call them up, and went straight into the city.

After the Okayama Castle was lost from the Hide family, although it has gone through three masters, the general structure has not changed. The Hide family found the Honmaru with ease. Mountain hermit's Xian Fani.

As the common mother of Hideyoshi, Hidehisa, and Miura Hidemori, Xianfani was forced back to Okayama Castle by Chacha shortly after Hideyoshi's death, which invisibly reduced Hideka's care in Osaka Castle.

In fact, when she wanted to push Xian Fani away, she could have chosen to come to Kanto to find Xiu's family, but because she was worried about her young son Xiu Jiu, she chose to go to Okayama to live in seclusion.

In fact, it has been 8 years since Xiujia last met him in Osaka Castle.And these eight years happened to be the most embarrassing time for the relationship between Hideo and Hideyoshi. Hideo was essentially confined to Kyoto by Hideyoshi, while Xian Fani became a monk in Osaka Castle.

So when the Xiu family found the old nun who was chanting scriptures in the Buddhist hall behind, the eyes of the Xiu family were already wet with tears.

"Mother." After murmuring for a while, Xiujia called out the title.

Xian Fani's hand that was beating the wooden fish stopped, and hesitantly turned to look at Xiujia.At this moment, Xiujia realized that her mother's eyes seemed to have a distorted imagination.

"Is it Hachiro?" Xianfani looked towards the door and asked in disbelief.

Xiujia rushed forward and hugged Xian Fani in his arms, but the two of them were already crying.

After calming down, Xiujia asked Xian Fani, "Mom, what's the matter with your eyes?"

Xian Fani seemed to deliberately avoid Xiujia's question, and just said lightly, "It's an old problem."

Xiujia came back this time not only to rectify the Okayama feudal regime for Xiujiu, but also to meet his mother whom he had not seen for many years, and take her back to live in Kanto if possible.

But it is obvious that Xian Fani is not willing to go with Xiu's family. She is worried about Xiu Jiu and expresses that she wants to continue to take care of Xiu Jiu here.But these two people are now two disabled people, how can they take care of each other?

The Xiu family couldn't hold back the old lady, so they could only ask their elder brother Miura Hidemori, who had already been waiting outside, to take care of Xian Fani in the future.

Hideka bluntly said to Miura Hidemori, "My brother and I share the same mother, so blood is thicker than water. But my brother doesn't contribute much compared to other retainers under my command.

I want to give my brother a good future, and my brother should be a good student and take good care of my mother, so that I can run a country for you in the future. "

In fact, the chat between Hideka and Hidemori Miura hadn't started at this time, and he directly made a condition with Hidekatsu Miura just because of the Chen Fani matter.

How can I say that the Miura family used to be a wealthy family of Bizen and Mizusaka. When the ancestors were rich, there were 10 stone collars, but these Miura Hidekatsu have never experienced it.

In his cognition, the Miura family has become a vassal of the Uki family, his mother was taken away by the Nao family, and his uncle was targeted by the two governors of the Nao family and the Hide family when he was in power.

Previously, the Miura family was reduced by the Hide family because of hiding the land. It was not until the death of Miura Sadakatsu that Miura Hidemori was raised by the Hide family that the Miura family resumed the knowledge of 1.5 shi.

The gap between 1.5 Shi Zhixing and the lord of a country is so great that even Miura Hidemori never thought that he might have the opportunity to become the lord of a country.

But people at the level of Hidetoshi wouldn't make promises easily. Since they promised to get a reward from a country for Miura Hidemori's operation, they would definitely get it.Even if it is calculated according to the smallest territorial country, that is 6 times the sealing!
10 shi, this is the maximum value in the history of the Miura family, and it is the existence that all samurai dream of.So when Hideka made the promise to him, Miura Hidemori, who was cautious and submissive, was instantly awakened.

"One hundred thousand stone?" Hidemori Miura asked in disbelief.

Taking this opportunity, the Xiu family took him to a side room and had a long talk. There was only one core idea, which was to let him take on the responsibility of the elders of the pen. If you go out, the battle array of the Okayama Fan will surely fall into the hands of those who want to.

Of course, Xiujia also told him clearly, "Your knowledge and deeds will not change for the time being, but I will remember the achievements you have made, and I will make up the rewards later."

The Xiu family didn't even tell him about their plans, because to be honest, they didn't even communicate with their elder brother as much as their retainers.Like those private information and plans, Xiujia didn't even disclose them to Xiuzhen, let alone him.

Afterwards, Hideka had a conversation with Miura Hidemori about the elders and powers of the new Okayama Clan. After all, Hideyoshi was the samurai's pen that Hideka left behind in Mizuka, and he knew the situation of Miura after Hideka left. .

After a round of exchanges and comparisons, Hideka finally selected a group of elders assisted by Hidemori Miura, Ieji Nobuhara, Shigeharu Kuwayama, and Toshimasa Honda.

In this intention, Hanabou Masanari was regarded as the elder of the foreign family who parachuted into Bizen with the mistress Reimi, and was the first executor of the Hide family's will.

In fact, Maki Fujisuke, the son of Miura's vassal Mu Liangchang, has already become independent from Miura's family, and has a lot of influence in Miura.

During the period when Miura Sadahiro was the governor of the Miura family and was targeted by Hideo, the Maki family was the actual talker of Nishimisaku instead of Miura's family all the year round.

However, the Mu family and the Miura family are still inextricably linked. With Miura Hidemori already registered as a family elder, whether the Mu family is still necessary to become a family elder is a question worthy of Hideka's consideration.

It is a pity that in order to take care of the emotions of the new Bizen members on the surface, the original family member Shigeharu Kuwayama will still be retained.

Toshimasa Honda was born in the Owari Mizuno clan, and has a deep relationship with the Mizuno clan and the Honda clan of the Tokugawa family, but he has followed Hideyoshi since his father's time as a veteran of Omi, Inaba, and Tajima.

Historically, after Hidecho's death, this person became Hideyoshi's direct minister. The official battle relied on the relationship between his ancestors, Mizuno, and Honda to successfully team up with the Eastern Army, and became the lord of the 2.5 koku feudal domain of the Yamato Kingdom.

Although he was the Eastern Army of the Tokugawa clan in history, it doesn't mean that he will definitely follow Tokugawa in this life. There were too many people who were related to their ancestors in the Warring States Period. Who hasn't had any relatives?

But these ancestors are only icing on the cake when you really want to use them. Otherwise, after his original patriarch Iwakura Castle Oda Nobuan was defeated by Oda Nobunaga, he would go directly to the Matsudaira family. Why bother to become an official monkey?
This person's ability is still quite outstanding. Historically, in the era of Hideyoshi and Hideho, he was appointed as the guardian of the Iki Army when he went out with the army in North Korea, and was responsible for transporting supplies for the Japanese army in North Korea.

Don't look at it as a logistics job, Hideyoshi is willing to hand over the logistics of the 10,000+ Japanese troops on the Korean Peninsula to him, a guy who has just passed Wanshi, to manage, which is enough to show Hideyoshi's affirmation and trust in his ability.

There is another reason why the Xiu family chose him. Since he can be in the hinterland of Kinki in history but fight for the Eastern Army, it shows that he has a strong ability to judge the situation.

Against the background of Hanabou Masanari's entry into the Okayama feudal clan, and against the background of Hideka's strong intervention in the Okayama feudal regime, Toshimasa Honda's clever little mind must be able to figure out what to do.

So don't look at this guy as a member of the Nobo faction who was born in Owari, but this person is likely to become a traitor within the Noowei faction.

After confirming the candidates, Hideka called the above-mentioned people one by one and questioned them one by one. After thinking about it for a while, they decided that Hidemori Miura would be the leader, Toshimasa of the team would be the deputy in charge of the internal affairs of the Okayama domain, and Shigeharu Kuwayama would be the deputy. Masahiro and Nobuhara Ieji were deputy in charge of the military affairs of the Okayama Domain.

There is a deep meaning to the Hideo side, and the weakening of the Noo-tail faction in the Okayama domain must be done step by step. If the handling is too rough and the dissatisfaction of the domain members is aroused under the instigation of someone with a heart, then Xiujiu will really be unable to escape the change fate.

In fact, before Xiujia came to Okayama, the Noowei faction was already mentally prepared to be slashed by Xiujia, otherwise they would not be afraid when facing Xiujia.

However, the Hideka's arrangement only brought up Hidekatsu Miura, who was originally marginalized, empty, famous, and intangible, and did not do much harm to the core interests of the Nobuo faction.

Moreover, let the Meisaku faction and the Noowei faction each occupy a principal and deputy position, which is called maintaining the political balance within the domain.

Looking at it from the side of the Nongwei faction, they will feel that the Xiu family is indeed a benevolent owner, and they are willing to sell the face of the Xiu family, so naturally they will not be entangled in those political interests that have been allocated away.

But is Xiujia really so benevolent and deceitful, doing superficial tricks?

Don't forget that Hideo's analysis of the portraits of the four old assistant politicians was actually a three-on-one situation. Toshimasa Honda was from Nobi, but this person is very good at seeing the direction of the wind.

Moreover, Miura Hidemori is in charge of government affairs, Honda Toshimasa is only his deputy, and above them there is a hothouse who is in charge.

Many people may not even understand that the arrangement of Zhaoxiu's family has not handed over more important military and political affairs to the Nongwei faction?

The teacher told us to "shoot from the barrel of the gun" and hand over the military power to the Nongwei faction. Doesn't the Meizuo faction depend on the face of the Nongwei faction?
It is a fact that the current situation in the Okayama domain is dominated by the family of the Noo-sect samurai who was transferred from Owari before. Due to the reduction of the title, many clansmen have no land and rely entirely on the finances of the clan to pay for Lumi. The Noo-sect Samurai definitely outnumber Misaka in number.

At this time, the Xiu family disregarded the implementation environment and forcibly handed over the upper-level military power to the Meizuo faction, and the Meizuo faction had no ability to intervene in the command power of you, the middle-level and lower-level officers.

So Xiujia plans to come to a wave of "drawing from the bottom of the pot".

Taking advantage of the opportunity of the Northern Expedition to Ezo soon to order the Okayama Domain to send troops, isn't it normal for the elder Kuwayama Shigeharu, who is in charge of military affairs, to lead the army?And the army he took away, under the arrangement of Hanabang Masanari and other elders, will definitely be based on the Nobuo faction samurai.

In this way, the military strength of the two factions in the Okayama Domain will be relatively balanced when the Nobi faction samurai Sui Kuwayama Shigeharu goes on an expedition to Ezo, and after the only one who is really inclined to the Nobi faction, Kuwayama Shigeharu leaves, the remaining four clan elders It's a member of the Xiu family, so it's much easier for the Okayama feudal clan to deal with it.

When Xiujia communicated with Hidemori Miura and the Nobuhara family for the first time, they mostly instilled their own ideas and opinions on the Okayama feudal government in an encouraging way.

And when communicating with Toshimasa Honda and Shigeharu Kuwayama, he raised both carrots and sticks.

The difference is that the radish given to Toshimasa Honda is sweet radish, and the radish given to Shigeharu Kuwayama is sour radish.

In fact, Hideka and Kuwayama Shigeharu had a "friendship" of cooperation on the battlefield.

I don’t know if you still remember when Hideyoshi deliberately showed his flaws to Shibata Katsuie when he was fighting with Jianyake, and transferred the main force back to Mino to deal with Oda Nobutaka first.

When Hideyoshi was setting up the formation, Kuwayama Shigeharu in the Hidecho clan was placed between the Hide family and the Nakagawa family, which was an important force connecting the two families and maintaining the two flanks.

The battle started before dawn, when Takayama Ukon and Kuwayama Shigeharu, who were guarding Nakagawa Kiyohide's left and right flanks, did not provide support to Nakagawa Kiyohide knowing that the friendly forces were under attack.

Even judging from Sakuma Yoyomasa's raid route, Kuwayama Shigeharu did not resist or warn.Even after Sakuma Yoshimasa started to launch a surprise attack on Nakagawa Kiyohide, Nakagawa Kiyohide once sent a messenger to Kuwayama Shigeharu for help, but it was like a stone sinking into the sea.

In history, after Sakuma Shengmasa defeated Nakagawa Kiyohide's team, he didn't even launch an attack on Kuwayama Shigeharu at the tail end of Kidake Mountain. Instead, he went directly down from Oiwa Mountain and attacked Takayama Ukin's team, which was approaching Hashiba Hidenaga.

Hideka once doubted the possibility of Sakuma and Kuwayama Uchidori. After all, it is different from Takayama Ukon who really pulls the hips. Kuwayama Shigeharu can be ordered by Hideyoshi and Hidecho to command 2000 people. Takayama Ukon is trustworthy.

But afterwards, Sakuma clearly told Hideka that the surprise attack that night was completely spontaneous and unprepared, and he was already very satisfied with being able to do so.

Afterwards, Shigeharu Kuwayama explained to Hidecho that "I dare not act rashly in the middle of the night, and it is foggy at dawn, so my subjects dare not act rashly."

You can't blame Shigeharu Kuwayama, after all, he managed to keep the 2000 Tajima crowd belonging to Hidecho.

But even when the Xiu family passed by his formation and personally sent him a request for him to join the battle to support Zhong Chuan, he refused. In the end, the Xiu family had to go through hard work to save Zhong Chuan and his son. It's over.

You must know that the Xiu family had no more than 4500 people at that time, and more than a thousand people were killed or injured in battle. These people were the essence of Ji Bei at that time.

It was also after the Battle of Jianyue that the Hide family saved Zhong Chuan and his son, and they forged a deep friendship with Zhong Chuan Qingxiu and Zhong Chuan Hidemasa.

For so many years, because Kuwayama Shigeharu has been under Xiuchang's command, the Xiu family did not deliberately chase and question him, and even maintained a superficial friendship.But that was all based on Xiuchang's face and Xiujiu's face.

Now you, Shigeharu Kuwayama, have become a stumbling block for the Hide family to clean up the cystic cysts of the Okayama clan, and it happens to settle old and new ones with you.

In fact, letting him lead the team to conquer Ezo is the last chance the Xiu family gave him. If he can really make great achievements with all his heart, there are many people in the Xiu family who must investigate flaws.

After the world is pacified, according to his meritorious service, he may be given 2 stones of knowledge, so that he can spend his old age peacefully, and the Xiu family can still do it.

After dealing with the upper-level issues of the Okayama domain, the issues of the middle-level and lower-level samurai below are handed over to these elders.

In fact, after Kuwayama Shigeharu took away the die-hards in the Nobi faction, those who remained didn't need to be targeted much.Moderates are the ones who are ultimately easy to reconcile.

If under such circumstances, the other four family elders can't manage the Okayama domain well, the Xiu family will not expect them to be alone in the future, and the original promise to them can naturally be withdrawn.

(End of this chapter)