Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 754

Okohira Nobuchang left disappointed, but Hideka still stayed in Katsunuma Castle of the Takeda family for a few days.The main purpose is to supervise the mobilization of the Takeda family for the Northern Expedition.

The knowledge of the Takeda family is 10 shi, Kai belongs to the Tokaido, and needs to provide 1000 soldiers and 1000 civilians.

Hideya originally planned to refer to the operation of the Okayama Clan, and asked Takeda Nobukiyo to bring along the retainers who were pro-Tokugawa faction.

But Takeda Nobukiyo's health has been poor. Historically, he was declared dead three years after Sekigahara.Going to Ezo with such a weak body, in case of any accident, the Tokugawa family may really have to fight the Hide family desperately.

So the Hide family changed their minds. Takeda Nobukiyo and Takeda Hidenobu stayed behind in Kaiken, and let his son Takeda Ienobu lead the pro-Tokugawa samurai to the north for conquest.

Such a combination does sound a little strange. How can he command the pro-Tokugawa faction's retainers?
In fact, the Xiu family didn't intend to let the Takeda family's relatives go to the battlefield at all. In any case, they were the ones whom they favored.

Therefore, Xiujia made it clear that he would join the battle in his own army. As for the accompanying Takeda soldiers, Xiujia would definitely organize them into other daimyo's units to perform tasks.

I was busy in Kai for a few days, and agreed with Yuki Haruto to come to Fengchun Kaihe with the army after the new year. Hideka and Nakagawa Kiyohide went out of Sagami from Koshu Street, but Hideka did not return to Fengchun. I boarded a ship in Yokohama with Kiyohide Nakagawa and went up.

The relationship between the Zhongchuan family and the Fengchun family is very good, but the Xiu family did not go to the boss to go to the Zhongchuan family. He wanted to go to Anfang by way, to meet his brother whom he hadn't seen for many years, and to resolve the previous conflict. misunderstanding.

Yuxi Duo's family is one of the closest living relatives of the Xiu family. When the Xiu family first came to this world, it was the young family who took the Xiu family to play and study.Even in the first battle of the Xiu family, the Quan family was always by the side of the Xiu family.

If there is anyone in this world who owes the Ukita family the most, it must be the Ukitachu family.The Yushita family had a declining heir, and the eldest son of the Zhong family, Ji Jia, adopted him as an adopted son of the Zhi family.

But with the origin of the Xiu family, the identity of the Ji family is extremely embarrassing.When Xiujia was still young, the Zhijia sealed the Jijia in the front line of the Beizhong Football Guard to face Maoli's soldiers. (Volume 6, Chapter [-])

The Ji family was also very cooperative in defending the city in the face of the Maori family's invasion, and paid the price of their lives for this, allowing time for the Zhi family to react.

The death of the Ji family is likely to be the result of mutual acquiescence between the Zhi family and the Zhong family. Only in this way can there be no conflicts over the right of succession under the circumstances of Yuxi's family's internal and external troubles.

Afterwards, the Zhong family still wholeheartedly assisted his elder brother, and even sent the second son, Quan Jia, to accompany the Xiu family to grow up, but it must be impossible for the Zhong family to say that the Zhong family has no complaints against the Zhi family lineage.

It's just because of the external environment that Zhong's family can only help Prime Minister Xiu's parents grow up.If you look at Zhongjia from this perspective, he was attacked and ordered to live in seclusion and fade out of the Ukita political circle, perhaps it was really Hideyoshi's hand of God.

Later, the Uki family, represented by the Ukita family, became independent from Okayama, and the Xiu family no longer used the Miao character Yuxi, and the connection between the two families gradually faded.

In addition, Ukita Kanka himself is a relatively self-righteous person. After becoming the lord of Sanuki, he gradually got lost in the vortex of power. Seeing that Hideka was suppressed by Hideyoshi, as Hideka’s cousin, Kanka wanted to downplay himself. The label of the show family on the body.

On the contrary, Xiujia has always been grateful for the family relationship in childhood, and has helped Quanjia many times.

It’s just that the help over the years didn’t make the Anan family aware of his mistakes. On the contrary, in the disposal and rewards after the Keicho Rebellion, the Hide family could only take Sanuki Ukita’s knife due to the oppression of other daimyos, but he hated him up.

In fact, how could the Quan family understand that by letting him come to An Fang from Sanuki, Zhi Xing cut down the big things, but he returned under the wings of the Xiu family.

From the confirmation of the award to the present one and a half years, the Quan family has been staying in the Anfangguan mountain city, and he didn't even come to the Xiu family's New Year banquet last year.

Now that the Northern Expedition is imminent, it is very likely that the Xiu family will not even have the chance to stay in the Kanto when they go south again.At this time, the Xiu family thought of their brother Quan's family again, and wanted to pull him into the car, and that's why they had this personal visit.

At this time, Shangzong went to Anfang mainly to walk through Muzhigen Pass, and the Tateyama warriors guarding here were also very confused. After all, the Xiu family's team was not small, and there were more than 500 horsemen coming in a mighty way. Let them I thought it was his fan calling.

These country turtle warriors may have never seen such a mighty and prosperous army in their entire lives.

It wasn't until the Xiu family revealed their identities that they realized that their master's family was related to the Super Da Fan next to them.The local samurai who wanted to cling to him directly led the way for Xiu's family, leading them all the way to the gate of Guanshan City.

After turning over Kinone Pass, the land of Anfang is relatively flat, and you can almost reach Tateyama Castle directly along the Hirakuri River all the way south.

No matter how stubborn the Quan family is far away in Guanshan City, no matter how surprised the Xiu family's arrival is, everyone has already arrived on your land, and they can only arrange for their retainers to come forward to greet them.

The vassal who came out to greet him this time, the Hide family still knew, was the eldest son Tsukawa Heishiro Katsuie who had previously entered into the family of his vassals.

Although the little guy is the Xiu family's cousin, he is 8 or 9 years younger than the Xiu family. When he saw a strong guy in his 20s calling him "uncle", the Xiu family suddenly had a feeling that I, too, old feeling.

Unlike his paranoid father, although he has not seen him for many years, this little nephew still has an impression of the Xiu family and is willing to get close to the Xiu family.

Along the way, I kept asking Xiujia the reason for coming to Tateyama Castle, and asking Xiujia if I could join Xiujia in the Northern Expedition to Ezo.

The Xiu family understands what he thinks. As the eldest son of a concubine, he was thrown by his father to the Jinchuan family as an adopted son, which means that he has lost the inheritance rights of the Yuxi family, so he naturally wants to find another way for himself. Bo was born.

Taking advantage of the Northern Expedition to occupy a territory in Ezo is the best way for him to become a daimyo.Everyone knew that the Xiu family was the general of the Northern Expedition, and he was naturally willing to get close to the Xiu family.

When they arrived at the gate of Tateyama Castle, the Ukita Kan family was already waiting outside the city with their vassals and son-in-law Ukido's family. In order to show their closeness to him, the Xiu family asked people to put the Gendan Wuqitong pattern behind them. And raised the flag of the sword piece representing the Ukita sect high.

Looking at the sword piece flag behind Xiujia, Ukita Kanjia suddenly felt a sense of loss. Even his flag had not been seen for many years, as if he had returned to the time when he was fighting in Jibei.

Familiarity is familiarity, the current Xiu family is after all bearing the name of the Toyotomi family, and their status is very distinguished, so he can only salute to him solemnly, "I have met His Royal Highness You Fu."

Xiujia, who came to Quan's side, jumped off the horse, came to Quan's side and supported him, clasped his hands with both hands and sighed: "I haven't seen you for many years, I thought you Will keep avoiding me!"

The Quan family did have complaints about the Hide family, and he also complained about Tokugawa Ieyasu, but how could he say it directly in front of others?He could only cover up his embarrassment with a smile and said: "Your Highness is joking."

"I came to Guanshan rashly because I missed my brother too much. My brother has been declined many times. I came here to see how my brother is doing. I hope he doesn't mind."

"I don't mind."

Xiujia, who received the reply from Quanjia, in order to show his intimacy with Quanjia, held Quanjia's hand and was about to go to the city, as if he was the master of the city.

The entire Guanshan City was a little flustered because of Xiu's arrival, after all, there was no notice before.

Fortunately, the Quan family has always had a good helper. Togawa Hidean's daughter has been helping the Quan family to manage the affairs of the house in an orderly manner. Although the Zhong family has lived in seclusion outside, they still help out in many things.

Hearing that Xiu's family came to visit suddenly, the Zhong family greeted Xiu's family in Honmaru in person.For this nephew, Zhongjia, he still likes it. He has a much longer-term perspective than the paranoid Quanjia, so he naturally knows how many cards Xiujia has in his hand.

"Today I came here to bother my uncle. I hope my uncle will not be offended and allow me to stay in Guanshan City for a day or two."

The Xiu family was very polite to the Zhong family, and even the Zhong family responded cordially: "I heard that His Highness has been promoted to the You Mansion again. This is a high position in the court. I haven't had time to celebrate. Why don't I just stay overnight in Tate Mountain today? Prepare a banquet to celebrate His Highness!"

Putting aside all the politeness, the most important thing for Xiujia to come to Quanjia is to let him send troops to Ezo.This table of wine must be eaten, but it must be done after the serious business is done.

In fact, Ukita’s family has already received Lai’s order in Osaka. As a Kanto daimyo, he needs to mobilize 1500 people to join the conscript, of which 750 are responsible for combat and 750 people are included in logistics.

The standard of 300 people per [-] shi is actually very heavy military service, and this kind of long-distance expedition puts even greater pressure on the daimyo.

So at the very beginning of the meeting, the Quan family complained to the Xiu family, "You said that Ezo was fine, why did it suddenly become chaotic again?"

This time when he came to visit the Quan family, the Xiu family certainly wanted to pull him into the car, but also wanted to investigate the Quan family.If he is worthy of use, there will be no problem in granting the leader to join the cabinet in the future. If he is not even as good as Xiuci, then the upper limit in the future may be 20 shi.

"Before, the Oyezaki family occupied the 12th building at the southernmost tip of Ezo. This time, Oyezaki was transferred to light Tsu, and the southernmost land in Ezo lost its control, so it gave the Ezo people a chance to go south. In the end, I didn't arrange it. Good handover."

Xiujia claimed the mistake himself, which was also what he said when he asked to go out in person in Osaka, and he had to make up for the mistakes he made by himself.

But remember in politics: the mistakes of the leaders are the mistakes of the subordinates, and the mistakes admitted by the leaders are definitely not mistakes.

Xiujia claimed his mistake to himself, and no matter who was on the sidelines, he had to help play sloppy eyes.But the interpreter said very guilty, "Oh, so now let us plug this hole together."

As soon as he said it, the Zhong family realized that something was wrong, and he hurriedly said, "His Royal Highness is busy with everything, and it is normal to not notice these trivial matters. After realizing the seriousness of the situation, the Youfu has the courage to take responsibility. It’s a role model for us to learn from.”

Perhaps because of the family meeting, the Quan family had offensive words to the Xiu family many times during the conversation. Although the Xiu family did not express dissatisfaction in person, they had actually given him a bad evaluation in their hearts.

But after all, the Quan family had good memories with the Xiu family in the past, and the Xiu family was nostalgic, so he wanted to give him a last hand.

Xiujia said: "How is brother in Tateyama Castle? Do you miss the time in Sanuki?"

When "Sanuki" was mentioned, Quanjia's face turned cold. Facts have proved that he was not angry at all just now, it was entirely because of his own speaking habits, and now he has some opinions on Xiujia.

"Sanuki. It's really a good place, but I'm afraid I won't be able to go back." After struggling for a long time, facing the Xiu family, Quan Jia still considered his words and said.

"Even if it's not Sanuki, wouldn't it be a good choice to go to other places to get a fief?" Xiujia looked at him seriously and said, "Ezo is an opportunity right now. As long as you make military exploits, it's not a bad idea to be named the chief of Ezo. Not possible."

"Ezo?" The interpreter thought for a moment and shook his head and said, "Let's forget it. I feel cold even in the winter when I am in the house. Where can I go to Ezo?"

"Ezo is really a good place. If not, you can ask uncle." The Xiu family is still trying to win over him. "Even if you don't go to Ezo, brother should get back on your feet. I can transfer your title to you in the future after you have made great achievements." Go to Kyushu, Hokuriku and other places."

Hearing that he could leave Anfang, Quan's family was quite happy, but he said that he could only go to Kyushu and other rural places, so he was still disappointed: "I can't go back to Jibei?"

"I can't even go back to Jibei, so why should you think so? Besides, where is it really important? How much you receive, whether there is a seal, and whether there are other rich properties in the territory, isn't it the most important thing?" ?”

"Well, that's what you said~"

In a conversation that seemed innocuous, Xiujia had completely figured out what Quan Jia was thinking: he had completely flattened out, his whole person had no fighting spirit, and he was muddling along.

But fortunately, he is also willing to go to Ezo with the Xiu family.As long as the governor can follow the Xiu family away, there will be no problem in continuing to fight with the Xiu family when they return from the south of Ezo.

Perhaps Xiu's move to reduce most of his seals really broke his heart.But Xiujia is not willing to tell him the overall plan right now. After these years of separation, the relationship between Ananjia and Xiujia may not be as close as that of a foreign daimyo like Tsutsui.

Of course, Xiujia also knew what Quanjia thought. If he wanted to go back to Jibei, then it would be fine to seal him to Beizhong or return to Sanuki after the war.

What the Xiu family didn't expect was that after the banquet that night, when the Quan family was drunk, Zhong Jia, his father and uncle of the Xiu family, would come to visit the bedroom of the Xiu family in person, and A request was made to Xiujia.

(End of this chapter)