Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 75 The Dust Settles
The Xiu family is actually very puzzled about Hideyoshi's surrender of the position of general commander under the Shenglong Temple City to Xinxiao. Now that the Shenglong Temple City has been surrendered, Xinxiao is satisfied with the credit and leaves, and the Xiujia finally has the opportunity to discuss this issue with Hideyoshi.

"Father, you have asked His Highness Xinxiao to come over and over again. But he didn't want to come at that time. Now the overall situation has been decided. Instead, he came to take the credit. Why did my father give up the position of the general?"

Hideyoshi heard the Hide family's question and said with a smile, "Who told you that I gave up the position of general general to Sanqimaru?"

"This afternoon, didn't you say that you are in charge of the charge, and Lord Shintaka is commanding in Osaka?" Xiujia asked in confusion.

Hideyoshi laughed when he heard it and said, "I'm talking about guiding my command, not that I follow Sanqi's command. Moreover, in the battle of Yamazaki, I commanded the overall situation in front of tens of thousands of soldiers, while Sanqi was in Osaka until the battle. I came here after the end, and the whole army knows that I am a real general, and I can't let him take it away with just a few words."

Kanbei Kuroda said from the side, "It's not just that, maybe tomorrow, the whole country will know that the rebel Mitsuhide was defeated under the command of the lord, and Nobunaga's stupid son was sleepwalking in Osaka the whole time."

"Could it be... Could it be you?" The Hide family arrived in disbelief. Judging from Kanbei's words, Hideyoshi had already spread his exploits widely through the Ninja Army. At this moment, coaxing Kobe Nobuyoshi with words would not harm the overall situation.

Hideyoshi listened to Hideyoshi's words, and understood in his heart that it was Hideyoshi's cleverness, using word games to make Shintaka think that he had taken the credit of the general from Hideyoshi. In fact, Hideyoshi has firmly grasped this from beginning to end. Righteous name.

Xiujia thought of Xin Xiao, who had just left to prepare a big banquet to celebrate, and wondered how he would lose his temper when he heard stories of monkeys being spread in the countryside after he woke up tomorrow.

"Report~ Report to the lord, someone outside the city presented the head of the wise Hinata guard and asked for credit for the inquest." A samurai ran up to the Honmaru Imperial Pavilion and reported to Hideyoshi.

After the Yuchai army occupied Shenglongji Castle in the afternoon, they did not find any trace of Akechi Mitsuhide. There are rumors that he fled to Sakamoto Castle, and Hideyoshi was planning to take a break before advancing to Sakamoto Castle, but at this moment he heard that his opponent was being accused. dead news.

Don't look at Hideyoshi, who is trusted by Nobunaga and serves as the general of the Western Kingdom's crusade, but his status in the Oda family is not high. Shibata Katsuya, Takigawa Kazuma, Niwa Nagahide, and even the previous Akechi Mitsuhide's status is higher than Hideyoshi.

Of course, there is a reason for Hideyoshi's low status. More importantly, some of these generals have the power to destroy the country (Takigawa Kazuyoshi destroyed Takeda), some have the resources of veterans (Shibada Katsuya), and some have decades of experience. Diligent and conscientious domestic work.

And Hideyoshi, there's nothing to take credit for, do you think it's great to kill Tottori when you starve?The guy who can't beat the city chooses to besiege the city and starve to kill, and it is you, the wild monkey, who chooses to write a book.

How can you compare the credit of the two countries to the name of the mountain compared to the Takeda family who cut across the seven Eastern countries?
Yes, your sneak attack on Jingji Maru caused the Asai family to be unable to care for each other, and it was the first attack to break the city, but this is a matter of the year of the monkey and the month of the horse, right?And Nobunaga has already rewarded you with 20 stone in Jiangbei because of this matter. How dare you use this to sequence Gong?
Therefore, Hideyoshi at this time is really embarrassed. Although he is nominally an equal to Shibata and Takigawa, he is the general of the crusade against Maori West, but there is no credit in his hands!You, Hideyoshi, have been dragged on for 3 months at the Bizhong portal!
It seems that the monkey at this time really needs Guangxiu's head to prove his credit. Only when Guangxiu's head is in hand can he say that you are the first in this battle. What else can be compared to taking revenge for the Lord?

Only when Hideyoshi got Mitsuhide's bald head of Kikyo can he be said to have completed his work in one battle and enjoy the credit for revenge for the Lord alone. With this work, he can turn over and climb to the head of Takigawa Kazuyoshi, and he has the confidence to challenge Shibata Mori's family.

Before Mitsuhide's first rank was obtained, Hideyoshi was relieved on the bright side, but he was still uneasy in his heart. Mitsuhide fled back to Sakamoto Castle, fearing that he would fall into a protracted siege. Finally, after Shibata Katsuya and others felt it, he had to let him go. After a lot of hard work, he was picked by others.

Now that he heard that someone had obtained Mitsuhide's head, he was so excited that he immediately asked the samurai to announce him.

After a while, a samurai wearing a blue-colored black patch came in with a tray in his hand, knelt down in front of Hideyoshi's good generals, and Hideyoshi, who was sitting on the seat, walked away excitedly before he opened his mouth to announce. Down, picked up the head and looked at it carefully.

Mitsuhide's head had been cleaned, and there was not much blood on his face, but Hideyoshi still wiped the head with his sleeve, wanting to look more closely.

The generals in the hall also stretched their heads, trying to see if this head was Mitsuhide's deity.

"Hey hey, it's him, it's him, it's him!" Hideyoshi finally confirmed the identity of the head, and returned the head to face Niwa Nagahide and Yuchai Hideyoshi behind him and said, "Migoro Zuo, Xiaoichiro, come and recognize Let's make sure that this is the head of Hyuga Mori."

Hideyoshi and Mitsuhide have been working together for more than ten years, so how could they not know Mitsuhide's head? At this time, Yuchai Hidetaka and Niwa Changhide are called here to identify together. First, it is to ensure the authenticity of the first class. It is to let the two of them serve as witnesses to confirm their credit.

"That's right, it's the head of Akechi Hinata Mori," Yuchai Hidetaka and Niwa Nagahide said successively.

It is confirmed that Mitsuhide died at the hands of Yuchai Hideyoshi's soldiers. Even if Hideyoshi's revenge for the master is actually obtained, others can no longer take it away.

Hideyoshi, who had worked hard for several days and nights, was in a good mood at the moment, and a smile from the heart finally showed on his face.

"Take off the head and marinate it. After Shibata repairs and others will return, we will jointly hold a funeral for the lord. This head is the best gift to honor the lord."

After Hideyoshi spoke, there were naturally left and right attendants who took the head from the black armored samurai and went down to deal with it and save it.

At this time, the hall returned to calm, and Hideyoshi finally remembered the warrior who killed Akechi Mitsuhide, and asked, "Who are you, and how did you kill Hyuga Mamoru?"

The samurai raised his head, it was Suga Masari, "Yes, the next one is Ukita Bizen's escort team captain Suga Masari, who led the troops to ambush on the road where Nishu Shou might escape in the name of the lord, and the villain happens to be in charge of Ogurisu. …”

Masayoshi Suga and Hideyoshi's answers were naturally [-]% true and [-]% false, and he didn't tell the truth until the Hide family asked about it after he got the reward and retired.

It turned out that Masatori Suga followed the advice of the Hide family and ambush Oguri Su in advance, and happened to meet Mitsuhide who fled in a hurry, and the villagers who were left behind.

How could Masatori Suga watch others come up to grab this big credit, so he led the samurai team to kill the peasants in this group of Wu Zhai, cut off their heads and reported their military exploits to Hideyoshi.

At the beginning of Mitsuhide’s period, when he saw the samurai coming to help, he thought it was his own samurai. It was not until Masaru Suga and others cut off the heads of the rioters and surrounded the battlefield that they realized that it was the warriors of Yuxi who had been waiting here for a long time. It is specially selected for its head.

"The next one is Masatori Suga, a subordinate of His Highness Ukita Bizen. I've been waiting here for a long time in Rizhou." As the commander-in-chief of this team of samurai, Masatori Suga naturally reported his family name.

The last retainer who stayed by Akechi Mitsuhide's side, Yasuda Kuniji, heard that the enemy was the enemy, and immediately put down Mitsuhide, who was shot in the abdomen, and drew his samurai sword to confront everyone.

However, Mitsuhide smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, forget Sabei, today I can die at the hands of the samurai, which is better than dying at the hands of the rioters. You have done your best for me, and you don't need to sacrifice for me any more. "

Yasuda Guoji said with a crying voice, "My lord, don't give up, I, Sabei, will definitely take you out alive."

"What can I do if I go out alive, live on my own and watch that damn monkey step on my military exploits? I don't want to do this, or, instead of this, it's better to use my head for your promotion. "

After saying that, Mitsuhide leaned on a piece of ten and a half and lay down, looked up and saw the moon last night, and mocked: "I thought I would never see you, but I didn't expect to see you in this way, Xizi should be in Sakamoto at this time. What I saw was a bright moon, but unfortunately I won't be able to see you again in this life."

Then he left his own death poem:

There are no two gates in reverse,
Road to the heart.

55 years dream,
Feeling come back to one yuan!
In this death poem of Mitsuhide, we can clearly see that he clearly knew that Mitsuhide, who killed the protagonist, knew that he was walking between "good and bad".

But he believes that killing Nobunaga is the "road" to bring everything back to the original.

For a 55-year-old man, life and death are as normal as sleep.

So, the question is, since he knows that his move is rebellious, why does he feel that what he is doing is for the "Dao"?

Combined with what Nobunaga did in his lifetime, he refused the post of Vice-General of Yoshiaki Ashikaga, and it may be considered that he has ambitions for the position of General.

Then, after forcing the opening of Honnoji Temple, Nobunaga, who was almost appraised by Kinai, used various means to suggest the abdication of the Emperor Mashincho, which is likely to be considered by many royalists as coveting the throne of the Emperor.

Research on later generations found that Nobunaga may have just felt that the Emperor Masakimachi was stubborn and did not meet his own appetite. He wanted to support the young Prince Seihito on the throne, not because he wanted to become the emperor himself.

But can Nobunaga's brain circuit be able to guarantee a ticket?The Gongqing family, who felt that their bottom line had been trampled on, found Akechi Mitsuhide, who was unhappy in the Oda family, and hoped that he would respect the emperor and seek rape.At the beginning of the period, Mitsuhide refused. Perhaps it was Nobunaga's last digging ancestral grave-style transfer order that made him determined to fight hard.

Mitsuhide, who thought he was loyal to the emperor, after killing Nobunaga, was soon abandoned by the royalists who found that the wind was not right.

At the end of the day, Guangxiu was still unwilling to bear the stigma of a traitor, and before his death, he had to justify his actions in the death poem.

Let's go back to the plot!

After reading the poem of death, Mitsuhide reluctantly completed the abdominal incision ceremony with the help of Suga Masahiro, and the head was carefully dressed and sent to Hideyoshi.

Hideyoshi listened to the story of Masari Suga's beautification, and only knew that he led an army of more than a dozen people, slaughtered the army that surrounded Mitsuhide, and beheaded dozens of people including Mitsuhide. Brave as a pig.

Don't think that the Japanese pig is a swearing name. This is a praise that cannot be obtained by a brave general. This may be related to the wildness of the Japanese wild boar.

Hideyoshikaku's Rokunosuke Tong character is too similar to a baby name, so he changed his name to Inobei for Suga Masari on the spot.Suga Boebei Masatori, the name is good or not, anyway, Hideyoshi likes it very much, and Kan Masatori also likes it very much, so the Hide family doesn't matter.

"I once said before the war that whoever captures the head of the traitor Akechi Mitsuhide will be given Wanshi Zhixing, the master of a city, but you are Hachiro's retainer after all, and it is up to him to decide how to award the reward. Your credit I will discuss with your lord."

"Thank you Harima for your reward, and thank you for your lord's reward." Sugabei Zhengri happily saluted Hideyoshi and the Hide family, and then withdrew.

The news of Mitsuhide's death spread all over the camp the next day, and spread all over Japan to the merchants and skilled women who followed the army.Everyone is lamenting Hideyoshi's loyalty.

And Nobuyoshi, who was drunk last night, only heard the news of the lord the next day, and felt incompetent and furious because Hideyoshi did not ask him to inspect the head together, and even more because everyone in the world only knew that Hideyoshi avenged Nobunaga, but did not know about him. loose the temper.

On the 12th, as the news of Mitsuhide's death spread to Azuchi, Akechi Hideman, who was in charge of Omi's suppression, felt that the situation was over, gave up Azuchi Castle, and prepared to return to Sakamoto to protect his family.

Hideman, who is full of respect for cultural relics, will naturally not burn down this famous city and the countless treasures in the city. Instead, Nobunaga's other good son Nobuo, after entering Azu on the 15th, searched the whole city in the name of the wise man. , which eventually sparked a fire that spread to the city.

A fire broke out from the bottom to the top of Azuchi Castle. This glorious fortress that built the first castle tower in Japan collapsed with the fire.

Azuchi Castle is not only a famous cultural city, but also a postcard for Nobunaga to declare his power in the world. As a result, the castle died with his master more than ten days later.

Kitabata Nobuo did not know that what he burned was not just a castle, but also a symbol of the power of the Oda family. Along with the fall of Azuchi Castle, there was also the ruling power of the Oda family over the world.

When the Oda family falls, who will be the next person in the world?

(End of this chapter)