Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 764 Assassination of Ishida Mitsunari Farce
Ishida Mitsunari, who calmed down after the panic just now, suddenly found that this seemed to be an opportunity.

Using a knife in Osaka City, I am a bitter master. When the Seven Hands and the Royal Fans arrive, I will definitely be able to take those people down and use the situation to punish them. At that time, it will be equivalent to weakening a wing of Toyotomi Hideji. !

So Ishida Mitsunari, who quickly calmed down, began to make arrangements in the mansion of Osaka Castle, instructing the retainers to remove the wooden doors and walls in the mansion to build an outer line of defense, and at the same time ordered people to take out their bows and arrows and other items to distribute to the retainers them.

Since no one can wear armor or carry iron cannons in Osaka City, the armaments of the two parties involved in this battle look as rough as fighting with weapons.In some cases, because the spears were not enough, the handles of ribs and knives were temporarily removed and inserted into wooden sticks to be used as naginata weapons.

"Guard the courtyard gate for me. They don't have a ladder and can only climb over the wall. I took all the people who climbed in from left and right. These are important bargaining chips to reduce the power of Gifu Hall, so they must be taken care of.

You only need to hold on for a while, and the Seven Hands Group and the Yufans will arrive. At that time, they will have no choice but to go. You are all ministers who have contributed to His Royal Highness Xiuli, and I will definitely ask for credit for you. "

Ishida is just a daimyo whose knowledge has just passed 10 shi, and his mansion in Osaka is also very small, just a second-level courtyard.There are no more than a dozen retainers in the entire Ishida Mansion, which is not enough to face the menacing crowd on the opposite side.

However, because Ishida Mitsunari was a member of the Five Obligations, many banner samurai of the Toyotomi family came back to pay a visit to Ishida Mitsunari's mansion, and handed in and received tasks related to internal affairs.

Ishida Mitsunari deliberately used this group of people to help him defend the mansion, and in a short time gathered a scale of 30 people in Dayue.

As Hideyoshi's former vassals, the mansions of Ishida Mitsunari and others are not far from the Toyoharu and Okayama domains, and it is also here at Tamamakou.

Fukushima Masanori and others are mostly on the Oteguchi side, and from there to Ishida Mitsunari's mansion needs to make a big circle around Ninomaru.

Logically speaking, the Oteguchi garrison, Yamatoguchi garrison, and Tamazōkou garrison on one side should have come to intercept them when they saw the momentum, but Masanori Fukushima and the others just walked eastward on the streets of Ninomaru in such a grandiose manner. And go.

Along the way, you will pass the Mori family's mansion. As one of the five big men, Mori Terumoto not only did not go out to stop such absurd behavior, but boarded his two-story building to look at Fukushima Masanori's righteous deeds from the street.

The defenders' refusal to stop the actions of Masanori Fukushima and others was naturally signaled by Osaka. As soon as the news reached Tokugawa Ieyasu's ears, he was keenly aware that this was an opportunity.He had the same idea as Ishida Mitsunari.

Reinforcements will definitely be sent out, but the timing must be after Fukushima Masanori really took action against Ishida Misei's mansion.

At this moment, it seemed that everyone in Osaka City was looking forward to the outbreak of a battle in Osaka City, and tacitly agreed that Fukushima Masamori could attack Ishida Mitsunari.

But there is always someone who is unwilling to make such a move, and that is Jingsheng Uesugi.

Uesugi's mansion is next to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and he went to visit Tokugawa Ieyasu as soon as he heard that Fukushima Masamori was going to make trouble, and wanted him to stop it.

But Tokugawa Ieyasu's deliberate avoidance of Uesugi Jingsheng made him realize that Tokugawa Ieyasu was unwilling to intervene in this matter.But Uesugi Jingsheng didn't want to just stand by and watch like this.

If Masanori Fukushima and others are allowed to cause chaos in Osaka Castle, it may be possible to take the opportunity to weaken the power of the Gifu family, but don't forget that it is the face of the Toyotomi family, and the authority of the Toyotomi family is the most damaged!

Seeing that Tokugawa Ieyasu was unwilling to take care of things, he personally took his retainers and spears to follow the footsteps of Masanori Fukushima and others, and headed towards the residence of Ishida Sannari.

But he was still slow, and by the time he arrived at Ishida's mansion, the two sides had already started fighting.Fukushima Zhengzheng did not know where to tear down a beam as a bumper, and was breaking down the Ishida family's mansion last night.

"Hurry up and break the door open, I'm going to pick Ishida Mitsunari myself!" Fukushima Masanori ordered angrily standing in the middle of the line.

"Wait, what are you doing!" Uesugi Jingsheng appeared behind the crowd with a spear in his hand, and shouted at the daimyo and their retainers who were surrounding the Ishida Mansion, "Who allows you to use weapons here in Osaka Castle! "

The young warriors followed the voice and looked back. It turned out to be Uesugi Denon, one of the five big men.

Uesugi Jingsheng came to Fukushima Zhengzheng and gave him an order: "Servant Fukushima, take your people back first, and the five big bosses will give a referee for today's matter."

What Uesugi Kagekatsu did today is somewhat similar to what Maeda Toshiie Henglan had done before the seven people in history.However, the environment and situation faced, as well as the way to deal with them, are completely different.

There have been two attacks on Ishida Mitsunari in history. The first time was stopped by Maeda Toshiie when Hideyoshi had just died in Fushimi Castle.

In history, Maeda Toshiie stopped the Seven before they made their move, and promised that they would forget the past after returning, and the matter was settled.

The second time was after Tokugawa Ieyasu's private marriage with the daimyo was revealed, seven people headed by Fukushima Masanori gathered again to attack Ishida Mitsunari in Osaka Castle, and finally forced Ishida Mitsunari to flee to Tokugawa Ieyasu in Fushimi Castle to seek shelter.

In the end, under the intermediary of Tokugawa Ieyasu, on the condition that Ishida Mitsunari no longer served as the fifth obongsho and returned to Omi to live in seclusion, he was exchanged for his life.In essence, it is still a compromise to the Seven.

Interestingly, shortly after the group of seven attacked Ishida Mitsunari, Tokugawa Ieyasu found an excuse to add 6 shi to Hosokawa Tadaka Bungo.

But no matter Maeda Toshiie or Tokugawa Ieyasu, when faced with these hot-blooded young daimyos, they still dare not threaten them with decrees to retreat.

But here, Uesugi Jingsheng treats everything with a "fair" attitude, which is tantamount to adding fuel to the fire for Masanori Fukushima and others.

In their eyes, we are the ones suffering!To give you face, I called you Uesugi Nagon, but you ended up with Ishida Mitsunari in the same nest, right?
I don't know if Masanori Fukushima is really on top, or if he got someone's guarantee.Even when Uesugi Jingsheng was right in front of him, he took a step forward without giving in, and his breath almost sprayed on Uesugi Jingsheng's face.

"What Zhong Nayan just meant was that instead of waiting for a righteous man, we are waiting to die?"

It was Tadakashi Hosokawa who spoke. After Kato Kiyomasa did not participate and Fukushima Masanori was stripped of his status as ten members, he is the existence with the highest status among these daimyos today.

The Hide family spent a lot of effort to win over the Hosokawa family, just to let the Hosokawa family stay in Tango well, and cooperate with Tsutsui, Kobayakawa and other daimyos to jointly cut off the east-west roads in Japan.

If Hideka knew that Hosokawa Tadakashi was also involved with Fukushima Masanori, he might faint out of anger.

Hosokawa Tadake first defined himself and others as "righteous men" in his words, as if telling Uesugi Kekatsu that we were wrong.After that, I will tell everyone that I am just a lamb waiting to be slaughtered when I go back, so as to express my determination not to back down.

Hosokawa Tadake's words rekindled the anger in everyone's hearts, and they took another step forward, as if they wanted to continue to attack the Ishida Mansion.

These actions frightened several of Uesugi's retainers who followed Uesugi Jingsheng, and they leveled their spears one after another, pointing their spears at the crowd, as if they were about to fight with them as long as they took one step forward.

Uesugi Jingsheng is here to persuade peace, he certainly does not want to be involved in it.But now that he was put on Liangshan, if he retreated like this, he would not only lose face of Feng Chen's family, but also lose face of his Uesugi family.

But it's not a solution to spend time at the door like this. When he was thinking about how to deal with this matter, the door of the mansion behind him was opened.

I saw Mitsunari Ishida organized another line of defense behind the door with wooden boards and carts, and he stood behind the second line of defense and said to the people outside the door, "Go out of the way, I don't believe these people The reckless man really dares to do something. He has been at my door for so long, but he is just shouting slogans."

Ishida Mitsunari's words are tantamount to adding fuel to the flames. Even Uesugi Jingkatsu looked behind him in panic to prevent Ishida Mitsunari from continuing to stimulate everyone, "Now the situation is still going on. Report and resolve."

"Get rid of your uncle!" Masanori Fukushima had been on fire all along, and was dissatisfied with Jingsheng Uesugi for stopping him, but now he was ridiculed by Mitsunari Ishida for not daring to do anything.

He couldn't bear it anymore, he pushed away Uesugi Jingsheng in front of him, and threw the spear in his hand like Ishida Mitsunari inside the door.

Fukushima's spear-throwing technique was simply not good, and Ishida Mitsunari easily dodged it.Looking at the spear passing over his head, Ishida Mitsunari lightly straightened his clothes and continued to prod, "Thank you Fukushima attendant for giving me the gun, but it's a pity that it's not the famous Japanese gun."

The Japanese number is one of the three guns of later generations in Japan. It was originally held by the imperial family until Emperor Shochincho gave it to the general Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and then passed it on to Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Chiyake Qiben gun One of the hands of Fukushima Masamune.

As a result, Kuroda's vassal Musato Taihei and Fukushima Masamori drank and bet again, and the bet was the Japanese name.After Fukushima Masamori lost, he could only hand over his favorite gun to his mother Tahei.

This incident was widely circulated among the upper class in Japan. Fukushima Masamori was drunk and lost his love gun, which was the pain of his life.Now that Ishida Mitsunari mentions this matter again, it is undoubtedly adding fuel to the fire.

Fukushima was so angry that he rushed into Ishida Misunari's mansion without a weapon in his hands to execute him on the spot, but was stopped by Uesugi Jingsheng who reacted, "Calm down Fukushima attendant!"

In fact, at this time, many spectator warriors and attendants had gathered around the periphery, and all the big names in Beijing were also hiding in the dark, waiting for their retainers to pass on the front-line information.

No one thought that Uesugi Jingsheng would go off to intercept several small daimyos in person, even Tokugawa Ieyasu did not expect that Uesugi Jingsheng would really be at the top.

He couldn't help but sighed: "Uesugi Zhongnagon is high-spirited and honest, I really can't compare to it."

"Since the Uesugi Zhongnayan people have gone to block the situation, don't make the situation too ugly. If you really break through the barrier of the five big bosses, I will lose face." Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered to his retainers " Go and inform the surrounding Yubanzhong and the Seven Hands Group, control the scene, and don't make the situation worse."

At the same time, on the other side, Toyotomi Hideji did not want the situation to spread to the five big bosses, so he sent people to Ishida Fan's residence to persuade both of them to make peace.

In this way, the assassination of the Ishida Mansion began in the tacit understanding of the two parties, and ended anticlimactic in the tacit understanding of the two parties.

In the whole assassination operation, apart from Fukushima Masamori himself throwing a long gun and clearly attacking others with force in the Osaka venue, no one else did anything particularly outrageous.

All the daimyos involved in this matter were called by Hideji and the five big bosses to wait for disposal outside the Honmaru Palace in Osaka Castle, except Fukushima Masanori, who was controlled in a room alone. This is what Uesugi Kagekatsu meant. The surgery was done.

As the main victim, Mitsunari Ishida went to Chacha to cry without teasing, but cooperated with the Seven Hands Group to appease the hearts of the people in Osaka City and the daimyo's family members.

Unlike the restoration of peace outside, in the Imperial Palace of Osaka Castle, Hideji, the five big bosses and others are arguing about the human body disposed of by Masanori Fukushima and others.

Tokugawa Ieyasu and Uesugi Kekatsu insisted on disposing of all the daimyos involved in this matter. The main culprit, Fukushima Masaru, changed his exile and distribution to the front line of Ezo, and the other daimyos were divided by unequal reductions and distribution of Ezo.

But this plan was directly rejected by Xiuji.The driving force behind this incident is Xiuci. If he doesn't protect these people, who will work for him in the future?

He said that everyone used force in Osaka Castle and should not be dealt with. Even Masanori Fukushima did not cause bloody conflicts in Osaka Castle and should be dealt with lightly.

He also cited the attack and killing of Fengchun's mansion by the Okayama vassal at the night of Yihe the year before last as a testimony.

He said that when the Okayama and Toyochun clans killed people in Osaka Castle, more than a dozen people died directly because of this, and dozens of people were implicated and dealt with at that time. Such a big event did not involve the daimyo itself. , Why punish these big names severely this time?
It can be said that if there was no riot in Osaka the year before last, it would be a certainty to deal with Fukushima Masanori and others according to the law today. It is precisely because the Hide family did not enforce the law before the computer that gave Toyotomi Hidetoday a chance.

Uesugi Jingsheng also said, "At that time, the lord of the Okayama domain did not participate, but this time, the daimyos such as Fukushima and Hosokawa participated directly. How can it be confused?"

The two sides were at war and refused to give in to each other. In the end, Nagamasa Asano came forward to propose another neutralization plan.

Asano Nagamasa is a vassal of Toyotomi's family, loyal to Toyotomi's main family, and may be slightly inclined to Toyotomi Hideji because of the faction of the North Political Office, but it can be seen from the previous few times that he stood on the sidelines. die.

Tokugawa Ieyasu held a big knife in his hand and wanted to slash his own people, he would definitely not agree, but Fukushima Masanori and others did not deal with such a serious thing, and he would not be able to get through his inner test.

In the end, the two parties compromised, and Fukushima Zhengzheng reduced the seal by another 5 to the total of 8 shi, and the ability remained the same.Masamori Fukushima himself was dealt with behind closed doors, and he could not be released under the order of Osaka.

The other daimyos are not subject to supervision except for Shen Lao and closed doors for one year.Both parties were struggling to accept such conditions, and the farce came to an end.

But this condition must still be on Hideji's side, the strongest Uesugi Jingsheng thinks so.He sacrificed his life to prevent the escalation of the situation today, but in exchange for such a handling result, he was very dissatisfied.

Although some people in the middle and lower classes teased Toyotomi Hideji for being the contemporary of Hojo Yoshitoki, but there is still some dignity in the upper class.

This time, Uesugi Jingsheng could no longer restrain his inner anger, and directly reprimanded him for manipulating power, manipulating the government, unfair rewards and punishments, etc., directly expressing that he is the contemporary Hojo Yoshitoki.

This is a very serious accusation, Uesugi Jingkatsu didn't even make superficial articles, and Toyotomi Hideji's face turned red when he was so angry, but he still could only smile to appease Uesugi Jingkatsu's emotions.

After this incident, Uesugi Jingsheng completely lost confidence in Osaka. It happened that the summer harvest and autumn harvest were coming soon. He left Osaka under the pretext of needing a supervisor, so he would not go there.

(End of this chapter)