Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 763 Ezo Raiders and Ishida Disaster

The 4th year of Keicho was a special day. At this time in history, Tokugawa Ieyasu had been established as the person in charge of the center. In March, after Chacha's mother and son moved to Osaka, he sat in Fushimi Castle to handle government affairs, and officially transferred the power of government affairs from The Osaka side was separated.

But in this life, due to the sudden birth of the Xiu family, there is a three-legged situation in Osaka.

Even after Xiu's family left, the political struggle in Daban City has been secretly.Gifu and Osaka, you played tricks on me, and I disgusted you about the play house situation, and no one tore the last face.

Hideji, who plays the third seat among the five big guys, has absolute suppression. Although Tokugawa Ieyasu bears the name of the pen, it is still difficult for him and Uesugi Jingsheng to get cheap.

Uesugi Jingsheng is very dissatisfied with Hideji's arrogance and domineering. He has always had his own justice in his heart, which is to maintain Toyotomi Hidetoshi's rule, which is why he and Tokugawa Ieyasu and Chacha are together.

Who would have thought that the two groups of people who were enemies in history, Ishida Mitsunari, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Naoe Kanetsugu, would come together because of Hideji's existence.

It is strange to say that Uesugi Jingsheng himself is not the mainstay of the Chacha camp, but in many cases his counterattack against Hideji's side is more fierce than that of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

In the first year after the Xiu family left (1599), the two sides could at least maintain the superficial peace. Although the private actions were not interrupted, at least there were no disputes on the table.

But after hearing the news that the Hide family's Northern Expedition to Ezo was invincible for a year, and tens of thousands of troops were deeply trapped in Ezo, Toyotomi Hideji in Osaka Castle became much more courageous.

In fact, it is not accurate to say that it is deeply trapped in Ezo, because Xiujia divided Ezo's plan into three steps from the beginning.

In the first year, the progress was relatively smooth. The tribal people in Hakodate and the Beidou Plain were basically defeated and tamed. The Hideo family specially transported Fengxing, Yuli and Tongxin from the Kanto, and threatened them with the garrison in Hakodate. engaged in agricultural activities.

You must know that the large-scale development of Hakodate did not start until the end of the Tokugawa period. Now there are many small lakes and swamps in the north-central area of ​​the Hokuto Plain due to the flooding of Qingchuan, Onogawa, and Onogawa.

This place faces the same problem as Niigata in Echigo and Goshogawara in Qingjin in later generations, but as long as it is developed properly, it will become a new granary.

The Xiu family in Kanto also faced this problem. The swamps and wild lakes in Kanto basically disappeared after 300 years of rule by the shogunate.

The Xiu family didn't expect to use all the land in the Beidou Plain to its full potential, half of it would be enough to afford a feudal kingdom of tens of thousands of stones.

The Hideo specially negotiated with the Oysterzaki family and the Nanbu family to distribute all the rebels involved in the rebellion to Hakodate and Hokuto, and to keep the Ainu people who invaded the two places as labor force. expressed approval.

However, it was also because of the swamp that the first phase of Xiujia's plan was not fully implemented. Until winter came, Songqian and Huishan were basically wiped out, but many tribes received the news in advance and fled into the mountains to fight guerrilla warfare.

Zhigo is originally a mountainous area, and the work intensity of clearing it is very high. Those who are responsible for the development of Zhigo are Mogami Yoshimitsu, Honjo Shigecho and others.

As usual, it doesn't make sense for an Echigo Nengchen + a feathered fox to suffer such a big loss.The Ainu tribe on Ezo Island has a small population, and an army of 1 people is enough to wipe out a country under the Xiujia system.

However, Mogami Yoshimitsu suffered so frequently in Zhihou that Hideka had to transfer Date Masamune, who had just met his brother in the gallantry, to help him.

Later, because of the coming of winter, the Xiu family had to order to shrink their troops and wait for the next spring.

The time came to the beginning of spring in the fifth year of Qingchang (5), and the second truncation work of Xiujia officially started.

Since Zhigo has not yet opened up, the plan to attack Ishikari (later Sapporo) via Otaru Higashi in the coming year was aborted, and the military forces dominated by Toyotomi Hidemasa, Mori, Gifu and other domains had to divert from Hidaka under the control of Hideya Going north, cooperate with the soldiers of Hideka Ezo Governor's Mansion to attack the Ainu tribe in Ishikari.

It wasn't until this moment that Shigetsu Kimura and Hidemoto Mori discovered that the small one-acre-three-point land in the Hide family's mouth was so vast, and that the Governor's Mansion of Ezo under his command had already conquered more than two countries in the central part of Ezo!

In Hideka's original plan, after taking Ishikari, the army would move eastward to attack Kamikawa, and in the last year they would deal with the tribesmen of Tokachi.

After all, compared with the Ainu people in other regions, the Tokachi tribe is a bit like the Indian tribe in North America. Compared with their compatriots in the central and southern regions, they have good horse training skills and can gallop on horseback. The difficulty of conquest Also much bigger.

However, when the Northern Expedition Ezo Corps launched the second phase of the combat mission to raid and capture the Ainu tribe in the Ishikari area, there was a lot of trouble in Osaka because of the sealing of the Maori family.

The reason is that after Hideaki Kobayakawa moved to Kii, the 13 koku territory that was originally left in Buzen was included in Zara.This time, Xiuji planned to award the 13 stones to Yoshikawa Hiroka and Mori Terumoto for their respective reasons such as the Mori family and Yoshikawa Iebaki's meritorious service to the Southwest.

Isn't this just an excuse?How could Uesugi Jingsheng agree!Directly accusing Toyotomi Hideji of manipulating power and arbitrarily rewarding the land of the master's family in front of Toyotomi Hideji is the contemporary Hojo Yoshitoki.

Accusing the Maori family of being the biggest treacherous sycophant since the founding of the country, how dare they accept Xiuji's reward without making an inch of merit, and so on.

Of course Tokugawa Ieyasu was also angry. Not long after Toyotomi Hideo’s family went north, you rewarded the Mori family’s land like this. Why did you put me, Tokugawa Ieyasu, in your eyes?

The reason why Xiuji wanted to give the Fengzen land to the Mori family was also very simple. He wanted to give the land to Mori before but was rejected by everyone.In particular, Toyotomi Hide's family reacted the most violently. He was also afraid that at this time, if Beizhong was given to Maori, the Hideo family would not even fight Ezo and directly lead troops south to regard themselves as rebellious officials and thieves.

However, as an ally, it also needs to be maintained. The original promise to add 20 shi to the Maori family was only half fulfilled.

Now that the Xiu family in Osaka has finally left, and their own camp controls a relatively large number of votes, it is natural to get back what they lost.

Regarding the division of the Maori family, they quarreled from April to May. Toyotomi Hideji went to Tianhai for help, and Tianhai advised him that he should also share certain interests of other bigwigs.

Hideji initially expressed his reluctance. He was only willing to confer a part of Asano Nagamasa's territory at most. His thinking was still in the era of kinship rule, but he didn't care about the daimyo who were not allies.

But in the end he still went to meet Asano Nagamasa, Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Uesugi Kekatsu, and promised them various benefits in front of them. His words seemed to mean that he would separate the clan from them and win them over to his own camp.

But both Asano Nagamasa and Tokugawa Ieyasu saw how hot this benefit was, and faced the temptation of Toyotomi Hideji, they mostly hid it with haha.

Even if it wasn't an ally, Asano Nagamasa would have planned to scold Toyotomi Hideji directly, and he didn't know it was his guts to dare to discuss such a public and private matter in Osaka openly.

As for Uesugi Jingsheng, he didn't give Xiuci face even more, and the scolding was directly transmitted to the nearby Shimadzu Mansion, and finally it was spread to everyone in Osaka, making it difficult for Xiuci to come to power.

Fortunately, Amami was there to advise him. Hideji said that he felt that it was unfair to be awarded in the Korean War, and wanted to ask for rewards from the famous names who contributed to the Korean War, but was rejected by Uesugi Jingsheng.

Soon after, rumors spread in Osaka City: "Uesugi Nagon said that the Korean War has been defeated, and the defeated generals have no face to ask for rewards".

Uesugi Jingsheng is a person who pays great attention to fame and integrity, but he is also a very proud person.Facing the ferocious public opinion in Osaka City, he had no intention of stopping it. He thought that he didn't need to prove himself if he was doing the right thing.

But society is not like this, otherwise the six sons would not need to have a laparotomy.

Uesugi Jingsheng could not speak out, but Ishida Mitsunari, who was a good friend of the Uesugi family, jumped out and said, "These words are all nonsense, but the Toyotomi family has its own system, and all rewards come according to the system, not others. Say what you say."

In fact, he was insinuating that Hideji Toyotomi messed up the court and wanted to make Osaka his own hall, but in the eyes of many caring people, this is a complete scolding of them!
Coincidentally, Hideyoshi's death day is about to come, and most of Toyotomi's daimyos gathered in Osaka. Ishida Mitsunari's words sounded to them as if they were blaming them for their ineffectiveness in the Korean War and wanting to claim military merit. .

How difficult the Korean War was can only be known by actually fighting on the battlefield. When Ishida Sanben was in Hideyoshi's life, he was disliked by the daimyos because he complained and reported the frontline daimyos many times. Now you are hitting the gun again.

More importantly, most of the daimyos who came to participate in the commemoration of Hideyoshi's death were from the Nobi school, and they usually gathered in Hideyoshi's mansion for talks.

After hearing Ishida Mitsunari's accusation, Xiuci even cried in front of everyone, saying that Ishida Mitsunari used to have Chacha's support behind him, and he often bullied him and the Beizheng Office on weekdays.

Xiuci even said that he was not out of his own selfish desires, but was grateful for the hard work of the old brothers, so he wanted to ask for some compensation for them. Who would have thought that not only would he be rejected by Uesugi Jingsheng, but also be humiliated by Ishida Mitsunari.

Hideji's green tea-like speech aroused everyone's righteous indignation, but Hideji insisted that "I understand Ishida Mitsunari's concerns and are willing to bear these infamy."

Not long after they came out of the Hideji Mansion, everyone was suffocating, and no one knew who said, "Ishida Mitsunari is really a traitor in the dynasty. He knows how to provoke our frontline warriors and Guan Bai even if he doesn't go to war." Relationship."

It was this sentence that directly ignited the anger of Masanori Fukushima, who had always felt aggrieved by the fact that 1/3 of his Zhixing and the identities of the ten people were cut off because of the previous Keicho riots.

He was the one who started the army with Toyotomi Hideji at the beginning, so he cannot be blamed for this crime, and naturally he will not reflect on his mistakes.

But he didn't dare to offend Hideo and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who were trying to deal with him back then, so the scapegoat was naturally placed on Ishida Mitsunari's head.

Sometimes people fall into a strange circle, the more they think about something, the more reasonable their cognition becomes.Just like Masanori Fukushima is like now, the more he feels that Ishida Mitsunari has made him disliked by his superiors, the more he feels that this pot belongs to Ishida Mitsunari.

Looking at Fukushima Masanori who left the team alone, Kuroda Nagamasa asked in some astonishment, "Where are the attendants going?"

Masayoshi Fukushima and his retainers said viciously without looking back, "Go back and get the weapon, I'm going to pick Ishida Nas!"

Masamori Fukushima's answer surprised the other daimyos, but everyone already had resentment in their hearts, and it was just that they lacked a leader before.

Now Fukushima is starting, everyone you look at me and I look at you are waiting for the second crab to stand up.

Kuroda Nagamasa, who just asked Masanori Fukushima, is such a person. He dare not be the leader, but he is greedy for immediate benefits. Now that Masorori Fukushima is taking the lead, he spit on the ground and cursed, "Damn it!" Following in the footsteps of Masanori Fukushima, he headed for his mansion.

With two people taking the lead, others also followed the crowd to their mansion, and some even directly ordered their fast-footed retainers to go back and prepare their own weapons.

There was no plan, no organization, and no notice from the Conch. In the afternoon of this day, dozens of samurai poured out from Ninomaru and several daimyo mansions in Osaka Castle.

Holding long spears or naginata, they poured out from their respective rooms, followed by retainers holding bows and arrows.

Although they didn't wear armor or hold iron cannons, this army of less than [-] people showed extremely high morale, but their combat quality was not even as good as the performance of the Bizen during the Osaka Rebellion last year.

The mob headed by Masanori Fukushima held their weapons and yelled and drank along the way. They kept walking along the way about what they imagined to be the guilt of Ishida Mitsunari, and they unabashedly exposed their thoughts of going to Ishida Mitsunari's mansion to seek rebellion.

Coincidentally, Ishida Mitsunari happened to be taking a rest today, and suddenly heard a retainer come to report that "Fukushima and other daimyos came to me aggressively with weapons, and now it is only 3~5 fangs away."

This news scared Ishida Mitsunari enough, he ran out of the house without even wearing shoes.Standing in the yard, he could already hear the yelling and insulting outside, which showed how fierce the momentum was on the other side.

"Where is the Seven Hands Group? Where is the Ninomaru flag? Why didn't the thieves attack with weapons in Ninomaru?" Ishida Mitsunari questioned his retainers, but these questions were obviously not something his retainers could answer.

He could only order someone to go into the city to report the matter to Chacha, and begged her to allow sending the Seven Hands Team and Yu Fanzhong to protect him.At the same time, he began to make arrangements with the only time he had. At this moment, he wanted to strictly guard his mansion.

Fortunately, Fukushima met Kato Kiyomasa on the way and successfully bought him a lot of time.

Kato Kiyomasa has seen Toyotomi Hideji clearly since the Korean peace talks. Although he is still a member of the Nobi faction, he is no longer as friendly to him as before, and instead takes the initiative to lean towards the Hide family.

His current side is a bit similar to Asano Nagamasa. He is within the faction and attached to the faction itself, but he has his own ideas and team.

After hearing the news that his little Fukushima Masamori wanted to do something in Osaka Castle.He did not participate in it like the ones in history, but took the initiative to stop everyone and said, "Have you forgotten the riots in Osaka last year? At that time, the blood of the Okayama domain had not been washed away, and now you want to fight in Osaka City again." Is it bleeding?"

Kato Kiyomasa's persuasion played a certain role, making some unsteady people hesitate.But you have to know that the team must have mixed with many people who were not in the original team along the way.

I don’t know who murmured, “Last year’s Osaka rebellion, the Okayama Fan didn’t see how to deal with it. At that time they were still serious about rebellion. Today, I’m waiting for justice for myself and His Highness Gifu, and for the Toyotomi family. What is the crime of treachery?"

Another person said, "His Highness Gifu will definitely protect us." Afterwards, these few people who came to talk were probably the shit-stirring sticks that Hideji sneaked into the team.

But in the current environment, Masayoshi Fukushima and the others have already stepped up and left Fadu behind.Now they "received Hideji's guarantee" and directly swept away Kato Kiyomasa's obstruction, and continued to go to Ishida Fanfu's residence.

"Get out of the way, Ichimatsu. Otherwise, I'll beat you too!" Masanori Fukushima yelled at Kiyomasa Kato.

Kato Kiyomasa saw that he couldn't stop Masanori Fukushima, so he had no choice but to go to rescue soldiers.Now who in Osaka Castle has such a great prestige to stop the situation from happening, it is naturally Hideji Toyotomi who is a hindsight or Tokugawa Ieyasu who is written by the five big men.

(End of this chapter)