Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 765 Xiuci's brilliant behavior is overstepped, and the world's famous names dare not speak
Uesugi Jingsheng left Osaka with an excuse, because he was completely disappointed with Osaka, and he didn't want to waste any more time here.

He also figured it out, after all, this world still belongs to your Toyotomi family, internal disputes are your own family affairs, why should I, a foreigner, bother with you?
However, Uesugi Jingsheng did not say hello to Tokugawa Ieyasu when he left. Tokugawa and others have always regarded him as their political ally.

At first he didn't take his departure seriously, but when they waited until one year to congratulate Xiuli and the emperor on the new year, they didn't see him in Shangluo for a long time, and everyone realized something was wrong.

In fact, Asano Nagamasa discovered something was wrong afterwards, and felt that this incident had too much damage to the authority of the Toyotomi family.

But the disposition has already been issued, and he can't interfere with the change anymore, so he can only visit Xiuji in private and ask him the ins and outs of this matter.

Hideji naturally dumped his blame completely, but said that he made the decision out of guarantee for his colleagues.

If Fukushima Masanori and others are not protected by today's events, the power of the Beizheng Office will inevitably collapse.

After all, Asano Nagamasa chose the latter between Toyotomi and Beizhengsuo. For him, Shuri lost the position of the Osaka clan.

After all, Xiuli is Chacha's son and has nothing to do with Beizheng.

But if the power of the Beizheng Institute is suppressed by Chacha, then he has finally climbed to the top five, and his existing knowledge and power may become the target of liquidation.

However, he asked Toyotomi Hideji to guarantee that in the future, when dealing with such emergencies, it is necessary to discuss with them before making a decision.For this request, Toyotomi Hideji gave an affirmative answer, but it is really up to the beholder to see what he will do in the end.

Although Toyotomi Hideji holds the reputation of hindsight, he does not participate in making decisions on many internal affairs, and only attends meetings in person on important matters.

On weekdays, Hideji knew that he would bring a group of younger brothers to fight eagles and dogs in Yamato in Omi, and only when Tokugawa Ieyasu had to return to his skills, did he reluctantly rush back from Omi.

In order to make it easier for him to hunt nearby Omi, he ordered people to rebuild the Hachiman Castle that was destroyed in the previous war, and officially moved there after Osaka City congratulated Xiuli for the New Year in the 6th year of Qingchang.

You must know that his ability has not been sealed. Omi Hachiman Mountain City is not his territory, let alone his city. This is the hiding place of the Taige, and it is so grandiosely occupied by him.

Facing Hideji's arrogance and domineering, Tokugawa Ieyasu also had to compromise on the surface after losing Uesugi Jingsheng as a backup, which gave Hideji an illusion of being proud of the world.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's surrender made Hideji very happy, and because Hideka's northern expedition to Ezo has been involved for more than 2 years, he actually sent a letter of reprimand to Hideka in the name of Osaka Toyotomi.

In the letter, he openly expressed his dissatisfaction with the Hide family. At the beginning, he vowed to expand the territory for the emperor and the Toyotomi family, but was dragged by the small Ezo natives for 2 years.

He even stated in the letter that Xiujia concealed his years of development in Ezo with bad intentions, and because the conquest of Ezo had been delayed for a long time, the daimyos everywhere were very tired.

Osaka will provide 5 shi of military rations and 2 kanwen of military funds for this purpose every year.The Northern Expedition to Ezo should not be another Korean campaign.

He directly stated that if the Xiu family could not evaluate Ezo before this year, they would have to withdraw their troops, and the Xiu family, who was the instigator, would need to go to Luo to be interrogated and dealt with.

This is actually Hideji's test of Hideo, he is testing whether Hideo will submit to his feet like Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Facing the inquiry letter sent by Toyotomi Hideji in the name of Hidetoshi Osaka, Hideka could only "admit his mistakes" in a humble tone and report the progress to Osaka.

As I said before, because of the slow attack in the first stage, the two countries of Zhihou and Huishan were not completely captured, and the Xiu family had to make changes to the second stage.

Now after a year of conquest, Hiyama and Kazuhiro still haven't won.Since the Xiu family did not allow them to withdraw, Mogami Yoshimitsu and others who were in charge of the attack here even began to slow down.

They directly built cities and farms in places such as Zhihouyan, relying on the winter wheat given to them by the Xiu family to obtain food that was not much for a year.

Faced with the shortage of Ainu who fled to Mt. Yotei, Yoshimitsu Mogami had no interest in continuing his conquest. Instead, Masamune Date helped Date to transfer a large area of ​​land at the southern foot of Mt. Yotei and the west side of Lake Toya from Ainu The tribe took it over.

In the letter Toyotomi Hideji wrote to the Hide family this time, Mogami Yoshimitsu was referring to the one that caused a great burden on the daimyo.

After Mogami Yoshimitsu's daughter Komahime refused Hidehisa's marriage, she still married her historical husband Hideji and became a child. This is also Mogami Yoshimitsu's political investment.

Xiuci doted on his concubine very much, facing her pleading on behalf of his father, he immediately wrote a letter to Xiu's family, asking him to release the military service mission to Mogami's family alone.

It is impossible to lift it alone. If Mogami Yoshimitsu's military service order is lifted today, tomorrow other daimyo will follow suit.The reason why the Xiu family set up their headquarters in Hakodate is to watch over the rear of these daimyos and not allow them to withdraw at will.

But Xiuji sent Xiujia off to start the waste test, so Xiujia naturally couldn't ignore it.

Faced with Mogami Yoshimitsu's passive sabotage, Hideka summoned him to Hakodate for a private chat, and allowed him to take half of the army back to Dewa in the name of illness and recuperation, but did not recognize his military exploits in this battle.

Being able to be released from military service is the greatest blessing for Mogami Yoshimitsu, and he immediately agreed to Hideka's plan to withdraw troops from Ezo, while Hideka transferred the Gifu Fan army to take over the defense.

In the second year, the war was still in full swing, and the Ainu people on the island were no longer as wild as they used to be under the nearly 15 years of trade and mixed life of the Xiu family.

Some tribes have even begun to produce iron weapons, which were produced by some escapees from the Governor's Mansion of Ezo.

But now it is too late to enter the Iron Age. Faced with the 3-odd army from the Hideka side and the Governor's Mansion, Ishikari and Sorachi were roughly put down.

Now that there are large soldiers in hand, the Xiu family naturally doesn't need to bargain with those tribes.The tribes that are willing to attach themselves to the Governor's Mansion of Yezo must change their obedience and accept comprehensive and peaceful management; for the tribes that are unwilling to accept the governance of the Governor's Mansion of Yezo, they will all drive you to the mountains near Shangchuan.

Japan's large-scale attack on Ezo finally caused panic among the tribes in the east, west, south, and north of Ezo.

The tribes in the Ishikari Plain were originally the larger tribes in Ezo. Now they fled to the east of Kongliu and the mountains in the north to unite with the tribes of Kamikawa, and contacted the tribes of Tokachi to launch a pincer attack on the Hide family.

Taking advantage of their habit of using sleds to run in the winter snow, they attacked several settlements of the Governor's Mansion on the Ishikari Plain and Hidaka in succession in this winter. The Inu are much stronger.

But as spring approaches, the Hideo family's third wave of offensive is about to strike. The Tohoku daimyo led by Toyotomi Hidetada will cooperate with some soldiers from the Ezo Governor's Mansion to launch an attack on Kamikawa, and Toyotomi Hidemasa will Under the guidance of Ikeda Teruma and others, he launched an attack on the Ainu tribe in Tokachi.

Hideka's Ezo attack plan is divided into three steps. Take Kamikawa and Tokachi, so that the land route can be connected with Kitami Hongzhiwu Jinshan and it will be declared over.

At present, it may be possible to occupy the land of Ezo and drive out the inherent tribal people by using soldiers to attack the road, but there must be some people who are not willing to submit under the pretext of being inferior.For this part, it takes a long time to suppress and appease.

The Xiu family didn't have so much time to drill the valleys to wipe out these crippled forces. These tasks will be the responsibility of the daimyo who will be entrusted here in the future.

In the Xiu family's plan, no matter what happened in Osaka, the general strategy of Ezo should be completed by the end of this year, and the army should return next year at the latest.

All the big names stayed with the Xiu family for 2 years in this bitter cold place in Ezo, which is considered as a kindness. As a report, the Xiu family generously gave them potato seedlings to farm in Ezo, which also reduced their cost of transporting food from afar. hard.

In addition, there are Ezo leather goods, Ezo horses and other trophies that are also distributed by Xiujia to the famous names as win-win capital.

It's just that the plan couldn't keep up with the changes. Just when the third phase of the Xiu family plan was about to end, they heard a news from the sea that the extremely famous "Naojiang incident" in history had happened!

In August of the 6th year of Keicho (1601), since Uesugi Kagekatsu was a daimyo, he had not given an account of Uesugi Sanqin for two years. Uesugi Jingsheng sent a formal inquiry letter.

In fact, the conflict between Hideji and Uesugi Jingsheng existed long ago, and the two sides belonged to different camps. Hideji's delay in attacking him until today has already given the Uesugi family a lot of face.

He has been waiting for the formation of the siege network. In the past two years, he has already drawn in Sakuma and other daimyos who took the initiative to approach him at the behest of the show family, plus Asano Nagamasa from Echichu, Toyotomi Hidekatsu from Echizen, and the west side of Uesugi. The blocking has been completed.

Now, with Mogami Yoshimitsu being sent back to Dewa by Hideya, the Hideya of Kanto, Ikeda of Shinano and other big names were all left in Ezo by Hideya, and he felt that the time had come to do something.

Especially after receiving the handwritten letter from Xiujia handed over by Mogami Yoshimitsu, he felt that Xiujia was subduing him, which gave him the confidence to kill chickens and monkeys to build confidence.

In fact, in the past two years, Uesugi and Hideka no longer lived in Osaka, and Tokugawa couldn't stand alone. Hideji has been using the identity of hindsight to win over and dispose of the big names.

During the 5th year of Keicho, because several daimyos who were ordered to live in seclusion and closed their doors in Osaka Castle were released one after another, even Masanori Fukushima was changed to restrict walking in the territory.

Ishida Mitsunari, who was the victim of the incident, was removed from his post with the acquiescence of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Of course, Hideji’s arrangement for Ishida Mitsunari is to rise up and down secretly. Ishida Mitsunari was originally reduced to 7 shi in Settsu Arioka because of his involvement in the Keicho Rebellion, and changed to Settsu Ichinoya 1 shi because of the meritorious service in the Korean War. Stone (original data) + Bungo 10 stone.

Now Hideji has upgraded him, changing him from Settsu to Bungo Oita for 15 koku.In fact, Kuroda Nagamasa's territory was sealed to him.

As for Kuroda Nagamasa, he lived to Buzen, where he had been away for a long time, and was granted the seal of 6 koku from Usa County. Although the previous possession of Nakatsu Castle was still not retrieved, his knowledge and practice doubled anyway.

Mori wanted the entire Buzen before, but was rejected by both Tokugawa and Uesugi. Even Nagamasa Asano within the alliance did not support it, so this proposal could only be temporarily shelved.

The sealing of Kuroda this time is another test of the control of Osaka Chaotang by this show.

In addition to enfeoffing his hands in depth, which only the governor of the Toyotomi family can decide, he also took the initiative to usurp the trading rights of the Toyotomi family in Hakata.He sent his own magistrate to directly replace the mahogany sent by Osaka, and directly managed Hakata's trade with North Korea and daimyo.

They even cut off the income of the Maeda family, such as manpower and fire consumption.The man was still from the Maeda family, but he became the general contractor, and the businessman pumped up a layer of oil and water before handing over the contract to the Maeda family.

Facing Toyotomi Hideji's domineering request, even Tokugawa Ieyasu dared not speak out to stop it, and Uesugi Kekatsu fled back to his skills. Naturally, Maeda Toshinaga could only dare to be angry and dare not speak out.

Against this background, Youdao held the Hideyoshi Memorial Ceremony in mid-June every year, and the ceremony was held at Toyotomi Shrine in Honmaru, Toyokuni.

As an afterthought, Toyotomi Hideji actually directly replaced Toyotomi Hidetoshi as the officiant, and presided over the entire ceremony for Hideyoshi!

You must know that this is not only a memorial ceremony for Hideyoshi, but also a memorial ceremony for the Toyotomi family's ancestors. As usual, it should be the Toyotomi family governor Hideyoshi's sacrifice.But it was arranged behind him by Xiuci.

Later, when the daimyo of Xi Dianyi came to be rewarded, Hideji actually brought an attendant into the palace, and this attendant was sitting next to Ono Nagaji, holding a knife like Toyotomi's servant.

Such actions are a great overreaching performance, but in the face of the powerful Toyotomi Hideji, no one dares to directly reprimand him for his actions.

After finding that no one dared to oppose him, Xiuci felt even more that he was about to succeed, and at this time, he had to kill and stand up.

He thought of Uesugi Jingsheng who had been giving him face.

For the last time, he wrote to Uesugi Kagekatsu in the name of the Osaka Imperial Court and Xiuli, telling him to go to Luo Osaka during the Chinese New Year this year, otherwise he would be punished by the Toyotomi family.

It was against this background that the Naoe Statement written by Naoe Kanetsugu was sent to Osaka, and was made public by Naoe Kanetsugu.

This version of Naoe's case is roughly the same as the original version, but the protagonist of the complaint has changed from Tokugawa Ieyasu in history to Hideji.

Most of the accusations against Tokugawa Ieyasu in history are groundless, and they are all minor matters.

But you must know that although Tokugawa Ieyasu did have the above-mentioned behaviors at that time, as the head of the five big bosses, it was his job to contact the daimyo and manage the government.

You are still the world's number one big name when you accuse him of his work in an ambiguous manner, so how could other big names really want to go with you?This is also the reason why Naoe's effect has been so poor in history.

But this life is different. Hideji Koshizuru paid homage to Hideyoshi on his behalf.

In hindsight, he should be the one who supervises the state affairs, and the state affairs should be handled by the five big bosses, but he arbitrarily controls the state affairs, arbitrarily assigns feudal officials to criminals, and covers criminal names, etc., all of which are empirical evidence.

When this letter from Naoe came out, it was like a slap in the face of Hideji!

"Naoe Kanetsugu's accusation against Zuo Fu is a blatant slander!" Toyotomi Hideji sent an envoy to Kasugayama Castle to say this to Uesugi Kekatsu and Naoe Kanesuke, "Uesugi Nagono must hand over the treacherous minister who deceived the public with lies, Otherwise, you will have to accept the anger of the Toyotomi family!"

Zuofu is Xiuci's latest official rank. Not long ago, he spent 2 kan to apply to the imperial court. He wanted to beat Xiujia and Tokugawa Ieyasu to become No.1 under Guan Bai.In fact, he is already operating off the white.

Yes, Toyotomi Hideji sent an envoy again. Although he wanted to send troops immediately, Tokugawa Ieyasu refused on the grounds that the division was unknown.

The person Naoe Kanesuke scolded was you, and it wasn't for resisting the rule of the Toyotomi family. Why did the Toyotomi family send troops to fight against the Uesugi family?
What?Your Gifu family sent troops by themselves?Could it be that Zuo Fu wants to violate the no-things order?
Hideji had no choice but to beg for the next best thing and send someone to threaten Uesugi Jingsheng again.

Uesugi Jingsheng will not hand over people, and Uesugi Jingsheng, who rarely speaks, said in front of the messenger, "The words of Yamashiro Mamoru are what I want to say."

This is a naked declaration of war against Xiuci!
After the envoy returned from Echigo, he brought news that the Uesugi family was arming themselves, building weapons and iron cannons in violation of regulations, and building more cities such as Uozu, Iiyama, and Kasugayama.

(End of this chapter)