Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 748 News from the North

Xiu's family stayed in Iyo for more than ten days, and then set off from Iyo to return to Osaka.But the route is not to board the ship directly in Komatsu, but to go to Sanuki along the road to inspect the fiefdom of his son Sanjo Shijia, and then board the ship in Awa and return to Osaka.

The whole process was originally expected to go back and forth for less than half a month, but after going through such a big circle, Xiujia spent more than 2 months outside.

Although it bears the Ming Tuo sent by Ruo Nian, as the name of the Toyotomi family, the Hide family is strictly speaking against the rules.

But there is no one who does not have good eyesight to impeach the Xiu family at this time. The people in the temple in Osaka City pretended not to see it, and deliberately avoided the question of the Xiu family.

Hideya, who returned to Osaka, finally learned from the doctor the reason for her mother Facini's blindness.It turned out that it was because of being jealous by Hideyoshi in the past few years, and because Hideyoshi was given to Hideyoshi as his adopted son.

Faxianni, who is in Osaka, recites Buddhist scriptures in front of the Buddha statues every day to pray for two blessings, and at night he has to transcribe Buddhist scriptures.At the moment, Hideyoshi, Chacha and the others have all moved to Kyoto, leaving Facheni in Osaka.

Perhaps it was because of the shortage of Austrian Chinese expenses for such an unfavored woman as Facini, which caused the old lady's eye disease to break out.

As a daimyo in the Warring States Period, Hideyoshi didn't feel that Hideyoshi deliberately deducted Farsiani's expenses, and the little people below didn't need to bully Farsiani.After all, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, and Facianni has two famous sons after all.

So even though there is no clue to defraud Facheni's expenses now, Xiujia still feels that this matter must have been instructed by someone with real power in Austria and China.

As we all know, in the past few years, it was Beizhengsuo Ningning and Dianji Chacha who were in charge of Austria-China affairs.Ning Ning had no conflict of interest with the Xiu family before. On the contrary, Chacha's son had a dispute over the right of succession with Xiu Jiu.

At this moment, the Xiu family already had the answer in their hearts, and sooner or later the account would have to be settled.

The peace on the surface of Osaka Castle did not last long. After Hideya left, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Hideji expressed different opinions on the construction of Yodo Castle and Osaka Castle Sannomaru.

It's just that this time without Hideka's help, the Chacha faction represented by Tokugawa Ieyasu has lost its decision-making power. After all, three of the five big bosses are on Hideji's side.

So Xiuci stopped the construction of Diancheng and Dabancheng on the grounds that the country was exhausted and should recuperate. Finally, under Chacha's argument, the construction of Diancheng continued, but the scale of Diancheng was reduced. a lot of.

Correspondingly, Hideji presided over the construction of Fushimi Castle for Beizheng was required to speed up the progress. In addition to the progress of Fushimi Castle, Hideji also planned to build another "fan array" here at Tsurumi on the east side of Osaka Castle. ".

He said that his mansion in Osaka City was too small to be worthy of his later status, and he did not ask for the construction of a city, as long as a larger mansion was enough.

It’s just that this is a feudal mansion, and the scale of the building is not smaller than that of Osaka Castle. There are three circles of city walls, stone walls and water boroughs. If the only thing without a city logo is that there is no castle tower built inside.

How could Tokugawa Ieyasu and Chacha agree to his condition? After all kinds of delays, they finally waited for the "reinforcement army" to return to Osaka.

Regarding Toyotomi Hideji's routine, Hideka saw it clearly. Isn't this the same routine as Tokugawa Ieyasu in Kyoto after Sekigahara?

Move the political center out of Osaka Castle, and then gradually dilute the influence of Osaka Castle among the daimyos in the world, and win over the daimyos under their own command.

As for why he is so eager to advance the construction progress of Fushimi Castle, firstly, it is to continue to please Beizhengsuo, and secondly, after sending Beizhengsuo and Yodohime away, let himself, the real power faction closest to Osaka Can control the situation in Osaka.

It's just that Xiuci did this too hastily, and now he is indeed a hindsight, but the Xiu family is still there, so which big name would stand in line at will?

In fact, Xiuci couldn't help being in a hurry. Seeing that Xiujia had finally left Osaka City, he certainly wanted to use the opportunity of the vote advantage to push forward his plan as much as possible.

However, all of this came to an end when Xiujia returned from Xiguo.

The first time Xiu’s family came back, they made it clear that they disagreed with Xiuci’s request. He directly stated that if Xiuci felt that Ninomaru’s mansion was too small, he could re-plan a larger open space for Xiuci in Sannomaru, which is still under construction. .

Since the purpose of Xiuji's fortification is to not be far from Osaka, but also to have a larger house.It is obviously much closer inside Osaka Castle than outside Osaka Castle.

When Xiuci saw that Xiujia's return made his plan go to waste, his face was extremely ugly, and the first evaluation that Xiujia came back to participate in was broken up.

In the second day's evaluation, Xiuci said that he was willing to give up unrealistic ideas and postpone the construction of the feudal formation, but he also began to fire at Xiu's family.

"Where did His Highness Fengchun go? Why didn't you report to Osaka? Do you still have the lord and the two wives in your heart?"

Xiuli is a signboard, don't care how Xiuci bullied Xiuli when Xiu's family is no longer, as long as Xiuci needs, "he" can be moved out and become a weapon against Xiu's family.

Didn't Hideji know that in the border of Osaka, when Hideo returned, Hideo, Tokugawa and others joined forces and he had no chance to fight back?
Of course he knew it, and he also knew that unless he possessed absolute strength, then his accusation today would not have any results at all.

The reason why he still wanted to mention the Xiu family's name was simply to disgust the Xiu family.

It can be said that due to factional struggles, the administrative efficiency of the five big bosses in Osaka has become extremely poor. Fortunately, although there has been a delay, things can still be done.

However, the long-term political struggle has made everyone in Osaka City show signs of fatigue. Everyone knows that this situation cannot last for too long. It is very likely that the cold war will turn into a hot war with the behavior of a certain daimyo who flipped the table.

In such an anxious situation, the time came to October of the third year of Qingchang, and it changed with Yiqifan's horse entering Luo.

"Get out of the way, get out of the way! The Northeast Express! The Ezo is coming!"

Osaka Castle is the most prosperous city in Japan at the moment. The castle itself is still under construction, but the prosperity of the castle town has already blocked the roads.

After a lot of exhaustion, he got on his horse and came to the foot of Osaka City to report the situation to the Toyotomi defenders who had a five-seven paulownia flag on the back of the closed city gate.

According to the decree, envoys enjoy the privilege of passing through the city without waiting and passing by on horseback when passing on military information, but such privileges do not seem to be exempt in Osaka City.

"Below is Katsutaro Tominaga, the samurai of Ou's tutelary prefecture, who was ordered to bring an emergency into Luo."

The envoy dismounted from his horse, handed it to the Toyotomi family samurai with great difficulty, and told the general content of the information to that person, and the Toyotomi family samurai reported it, while he was taken down first to rest and wait for the call.

Hideka counted the days and it was almost time for Tohoku to give feedback, so these days he has been "diligently" staying in the Ohonmaru Palace of Osaka Castle, dealing with affairs with Tokugawa Ieyasu and others.

That's why I waited for this report.

"My lords, the Northeast Emergency Report. It is said that there are Yezou going south to commit crimes." The warrior in charge of passing the bamboo tube containing the report held the blackened bamboo tube high above his head, waiting for the big man's attendant to take it and continued, " The person who came to inform the reporter claimed to be a vassal directly under the Ou tutelary government."

"Ou tutelary palace?" This title is not common in Toyotomi's ruling system, because it is not a conventional governing body.

In order to suppress the riots in the Ou area, the Hide family forcibly recruited samurai and vassal soldiers from various neighboring countries to form an armed force, which was under the direct command of the Ou tutelary general. The number of troops was initially 6000, and later reduced to 4500.

Its samurai class is composed of Toyotomi's main faction and the surrounding daimyo's transport, and the ashigaru below are conquered by the Tohoku daimyo according to the number of knowledge and practice.

The military salary is provided by the Toyotomi family, but because this army is not valued by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it has always been accepted from the Toyotomi family.As for the military rations, the big names prepare their own according to the number of troops sent.

Because Ouyu has been relatively peaceful in the past few years, and the Xiu family has money to spend, the number of troops in Ouyu's guard house has been reduced to 3000 again.

However, the reduction in the number of troops for so many years mainly reduces the number of ashigaru recruited every year, and the number of samurai has not decreased on a large scale. of the elite force.

Although the name Ou tutelary fort is not often heard, so much so that the big bosses in the Osaka center have forgotten it.But digging through the information in my mind a little, I knew the origin of the situation.

As the most prestigious existence among those present, the attendant of the Hide family, Satomi Yoshie, took the bamboo tube from the samurai who had notified him, and signaled to the surrounding elders that the bamboo tube beeswax seal was complete before breaking the seal with a knife, and took out the report and handed it over. To show home.

When Hideka heard the news about Ou's tutelary fort, Hideka thought it must be because Todo Takatora had successfully operated there.

Of course, Hideka was also puzzled, why Todo Takatora didn't write a letter to himself before, but the Ou tutelary government directly reported it.

But when he saw the contents of the letter, Xiujia's eyes still widened, and he blurted out in disbelief, "No, there's no need to play this big!"

Hideka was not surprised. What he originally said to Fujido Takatora was to use the army of more than a thousand people who stayed in the Northeast at the beginning, and mobilize some tribesmen from Ezo, who were ordered to exile in Ezo Those dissatisfied elements are making trouble in the Northeast.

The Hide family’s original idea didn’t require much movement, they only needed to hit the Oysterzaki family in the Qingjin area and the Lubei territory of the Nanfang family, and they didn’t even need to attack the city, just use the reason of the autumn wind to sweep the village to get food.

As a result, who would have thought that since this time there seemed to be a lot of commotion, the Namioka Castle of the Yoshihiro Oysterzaki family stationed in Light Tsu, forcing Yoshihiro Oyezaki to flee to the Kakunodate Castle under the Akita family's command to seek refuge.

What's more, they directly launched an attack on the southern clan of Lubei Kingdom. Judging from the reports, the entire Lubei has basically fallen, and the Qihu, Shihu and other families took the opportunity to launch a crusade against the southern clan. The Nanfang family had to Retreat to Sanhu City in the city.

Now that the two executors of the Ou tutelary mansion, Hideka and Xiuzhen, are not in Mutsu, the samurai commanders of the tutelary mansion have jointly signed a letter requesting military guidance from Osaka.

Although the information did not clearly state how the Ao Yu incident became such a big mess, but with the Xiu family's years of experience, manipulating the chaos is like a Pandora's box.

It is obviously impossible to let them continue to mess up one side for you, but also want to separate yourself from the relationship. In this case, it is obviously impossible to control the scale.

To sum it up: the matter of the Ouyi military rebellion may have been out of the control of the Hideka and Todo Takatora, and it is impossible for the Hideka to go now.

The general newspaper was forwarded to Ieyasu Tokugawa, and he was also surprised that he hadn't heard about the Ezo bandits for many years, why did they go south to invade their abilities at this time?And there was such a big commotion.

He passed the general report to the next Uesugi Jingsheng, while he was thinking about the inside story of this matter.

The whole thing revealed an unusual atmosphere. After all, Ezo had been driven to the island for so long, why did he suddenly cross the sea and violate the border?
The only one he thought of was the Hideo family, because the Hideo family had the Zhuyin certificate for the Ezo trade promised by Hideyoshi himself, and could monopolize the Ezo trade.Even the Oysterzaki family became an independent daimyo under the operation of the Hide family.

In other words, Xiujia should be the most powerful daimyo in Ezo in the world, and it is very likely that there is a shadow of Xiujia behind this matter.

But he noticed that Xiujia also showed doubts and distressed expressions, and it didn't seem to be pretending, which meant that this matter should have nothing to do with Xiujia.

Little did they know that the Xiu family was puzzled by how this matter turned out to be uncontrollable, and worried that the current plan was different from his own, how would he control the ending, and finally how would he appease Nanbu and other daimyos?

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty." When Xiujia was thinking, Tokugawa Ieyasu asked Xiujia first: "Your Majesty has a red seal of the Ezo, and he trades with the Ezo all the year round. Before that, there were shrimps. A sign of instability?"

"Signs of instability?" It is naturally impossible for Xiujia to admit that there is an element of Xiujia's operation behind this, but it is even more strange to deny it directly.

After thinking for a while, I could only say to Tokugawa Ieyasu, "Let me go back and write a letter to ask my retainers to tell me the details."

"It's going to be another month if we don't talk about it again and again. I'm afraid it's too late." Tokugawa Ieyasu shook his head and denied, "The northern barbarians have already arrived in the south to serve the city. If we don't respond, I'm afraid this matter will come to an end." It's hard to end."

At this time, Uesugi Jingsheng, who had read the military newspaper, also said, "I don't think it's better to call Koriyama to consult first. After all, he has the right to govern Ou's guarding the government army. How about letting him conquer first?"

Uesugi Jingsheng's proposal is reasonable. Although Hideka really wants to go to Ou in person, the situation there has not yet deteriorated to the point where Hideka, one of the dual oligarchs of the Toyotomi family, needs to go in person.

Of course, the Xiu family had their own way to go to Ezo. For example, as long as they disclosed the news to Xiuci, and then asked Master Tianhai to express their "concerns", Xiuci should soon send an assist.

(End of this chapter)