Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 78 Two Odas?
The samurai of the Yuki family have never experienced such a national war. In the past, they usually rewarded immediately after the victory to appease the hearts of the people.

However, since the attack on Maori in March this year, Ukita’s army has been fighting continuously for 3 months. If you count the battle of Sanuki last year and the later battle of Misaka, Ukita’s troops have been fighting super-intensively for nearly 3 months. overwhelmed.

The three-month war has already exhausted these gentlemen physically and mentally. Everyone can only let the strong women farm the fields at home.

They originally thought that after Maori negotiated peace with his family, he could go home and help his family with farm work, but when they arrived in Okayama, they heard the news of Lord Youfu's death and new combat orders.

Although the Ukita Army has been victorious in successive battles since March, and the soldiers have harvested valuable spoils through the war, but whether it is a samurai or a farmer, they salute with their family's fields in mind.

Now that the Youfu's great revenge has been avenged, but the lord's name is still not offering rewards to everyone, it seems that there is still a big war to be fought.

The army began to show signs of instability, so Xiujia had no choice but to come forward in person, rewarding a horse of gold and silver to calm his emotions, and after consulting Hideyoshi, most of the army was disbanded, leaving only 1500 bannermen and 120 after expansion. Ren's entourage continued to follow Hideyoshi to Cheongju.

Owari is the base camp of Oda Nobunaga, and the change of Honnoji Temple was also affected.

The most obvious thing is that after the Honnoji Incident broke out, Mamoru Ando, ​​who had been dormant for more than two years, led a family of more than 500 people to wait for an opportunity to retake the old northern city, along with his son Shang.

However, the rebellion of these 500 people was quickly quelled by Kazutek Inaba who was stationed in Shimizu Castle, and both father and son lived and died.

Until June 6, important ministers such as Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Chohide, Hashiba Hideyoshi, and Ikeda Hengxing came to Cheongju one after another.Prepare for the Cheongju Conference.

After the first round of pre-meetings, the date of the general meeting was determined on June 6;
After setting the date of the meeting, it is necessary to set the topic, which was established after a short discussion:
First, discuss the inheritance of the Oda family;
Second, determine the merits of suppressing the Akechi clan's rebellion, and redistribute the territories of the Oda clan's internal vassals.Two issues.

The third part is to determine the participants, and the participants finally determined after deliberation are:
Katsuie Shibata, head of the Hokuriku Army of the Oda family, Kitanosho Castle 49 stones;

The head of the Oda family's internal affairs, Niwa Nagahide of Wakasa Obama 10 koku;

Oda Nobunaga's breast brother, Settsu 20 shi Ikeda Hengxing;

Commander of the Oda clan's Saigoku Expeditionary Army, Harima and Kita Omi 38 Ishiba Shiba Hideyoshi.

The Oda family is the most powerful name after the two legion commanders. Five people from Bizen and Misaku's 45 Ishi Ukita Hide family attended the meeting.

It is important to state here that at this time, Shibata Katsuya’s Hashiba Hideyoshi’s stone heights are still the official stone heights rewarded by Oda Nobunaga. Hideyoshi completed it in private, and did not obtain Nobunaga's permission to register.

Don't even look at Shibata Katsuie's territory of nearly 4 million koku in the 200 Hokuriku countries. His real fiefdom is only Echizen 49 koku, and the others are subordinate daimyos (Yoriki) temporarily assigned by Nobunaga.

Before the Oda family fell completely, neither Shibata nor Hashiba made these daimyos retainers, and it was the last face of the Oda family at this time.

Shibata Katsuie strongly opposed Ukita's appearance at the meeting, but Ukita at this time was different from what it was in history.

In history, Ukita was Nobunaga's subordinate daimyo, and was not eligible to participate in the internal meetings of the Oda family. However, Ukita in this time and space had surrendered to Nobunaga as early as 1579 and became one of Nobunaga's retainers.

At the same time, Ukita is the fourth big name after Oda Nobutada, Shibata Katsuie, and Takikawa Kazuyoshi above Nobunaga's official list. Although he joined the teacher late, he lacked prestige and the owner was young. And other reasons, was temporarily assigned to Hideyoshi by Nobunaga as a force.

But this cannot deny that Ukita occupies an important position in the territory of the Oda family, and his important position as the gateway to the Western Kingdom cannot be ignored.

Coupled with Ukita's outstanding performance in attacking Sanuki and Mori and avenging Nobunaga's many important battlefields, after Hideyoshi's nomination, he won the approval of Ikeda Hengxing and Niwa Nagahide.

With the addition of the Ukita Hide family, Shibata Katsuie instead used the excuse that Narumasa Sasaka owns 22 shi more than Nagahide Niwa and Hengxing Ikeda, and that Narumasa Sasasa is important in guarding the Hokuriku gateway. Naruma Sasa was added to the meeting.

Oda Nobuo and Oda Nobutaka were rejected by Hideyoshi on the grounds of interest, but they could express their opinions.

In the end, with the addition of Xiujia and Sasao Chengzheng, the Cheongju meeting with four people in history finally became a six-member meeting.It's just that Katsuie Shibata took advantage of the territory of Nagahide Niwa and Hengxing Ikeda to really evil the two of them.

The pre-meeting on the 20th was over, and several participants began to plan the most powerful political plan for themselves. The first to act was Katsuie Shibata. After the pre-meeting, he found Nobutaka Oda to hook up.

Previously, because Hashiba Hideyoshi placed Nobutaka in the Battle of Yamazaki (at least Nobutaka thought so), Oda Nobutaka and Hashiba Hideyoshi completely turned against each other, and Shibata Katsuya, who knew this situation, took the lead in finding Oda Nobutaka to join forces.

At this time, Oda Nobutaka felt depressed because he was excluded from the meeting that decided the fate of the Oda family. When seeing Shibata Katsuie, the first sentence was "Can I succeed?"

What kind of old fritters is Shibata Katsuya, how could he express his heart so quickly, but said ambiguously
"That dead monkey, I'm afraid it was planned from the beginning. After the death of the lord, he didn't come to His Royal Highness Sanqi to be the chief general, but sat on it by himself. I'm afraid he just wanted to use his military exploits against Rizhou guards to do whatever he wanted. .”

"His Royal Highness Sanqi, think about it, that dead monkey could be so contemptuous of you before this, if he seized the initiative in the meeting, would he still look at you in the future?"

Oda Nobutaka said angrily after hearing Shibata Katsuie's words: "That dead monkey may have gone to Sansuke's place by now, damn it, I was obviously on the side back then, why didn't I avenge my father. "

Shibata Katsuie had already heard about Nobutaka's passiveness throughout the battle of Yamazaki, although he looked down on this indecisive master in his heart.

But he does feel that if he has to choose a puppet between Oda Nobutaka and Oda Nobuo, this guy who feels good about himself is easier to fool.

"Xiu, did you see that the father and elder brother had just died, and the bones were not yet cold, that bastard Sanjie hastily changed his Miao character back to Zhitian, what does he mean? He thinks he can inherit the family business, right? "When Oda Nobutaka said this, he gritted his teeth at his biological brother (legal brother).

It turns out that Oda Nobutaka was born 20 days earlier than Nobuo, but his mother was just a humble maid who was born of Nobunaga's drunken sex and had no background. Therefore, Nobunaga put Nobunaga behind Nobunaga during the annual genealogy .

After this incident was known by Nobutaka, it has always affected his life, making him always feel that the cold reception he received was caused by Nobuo, and he is very hostile to Oda Nobuo.

He often calls Nobuo Sanjie behind his back, not only to express contempt, but also to mean that he is the second child in the family.

When he ran into Nobuo at home, he would not salute his legal elder brother, he raised his head and walked over without seeing him, as if he could actually suppress Nobuo by using these low-level tricks.

In fact, Oda Nobutaka is indeed smarter than Oda Nobuo, so Nobutaka looks down on this stupid brother all the year round. When Ise was divided into the north and the south, Kobe Nobutaka ignored anyone who was the titular Ise lord Kitabata Nobuo Order.

If at the present time when his father and elder brother are both dead, there is a stupid Nobuo who succeeds the family governor, this is definitely a shame that Shin Hyo cannot bear.

Shibata Katsuie and Oda Nobutaka had a very pleasant talk, both sides got mutual guarantees and left satisfied.

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On Hashiba Hideyoshi's side, he met Niwa Chohide after the meeting, and hoped to recommend his adopted son Hashiba Hidekatsu, who was adopted from Nobunaga's side, as the governor.

There are probably two main reasons why Hashiba Hideyoshi did not recommend Hidekatsu in history. One is that Hideyoshi has no children. Although Hideyoshi is Nobunaga's blood, after all, he has been trained for many years and has outstanding abilities.

In addition, Hideyoshi is the fourth son of Nobunaga, and it is really difficult to pass the previous two brothers to inherit the family governor, so Hideyoshi simply decided to have such an excellent heir to inherit his family business, instead of pushing it out and falling into the chaos of the Oda family governor in the kang.

But at this time, Hideyoshi already has his own son, Hu Song, and Hashiba Hidekatsu's existence has become extremely embarrassing. It is better to withdraw and actually inherit the Oda family's family governor, and fight for his own interests.

It's just that this proposal was rejected by Niwa Nagahide as soon as it was put forward. Although at the meeting just now, Shibata Katsuie used Niwa Nagahide's territorial issue as an excuse to make use of it, making Niwa Nagahide very embarrassed, but Nagahide's loyalty to the Oda family is unquestionable.

After hearing Hideyoshi's proposal, Niwa Chohide directly refuted Hideyoshi's proposal, saying that Hideyoshi did not really want to choose the governor for the sake of the Oda family, it was all for his own benefit.

He also said that Hideyoshi's proposal would cause the Oda family to break out a succession war like the Onin Rebellion, which he absolutely cannot allow.

Hideyoshi was scolded by Niwa Nagahide pointing at his nose, his face flushed red, and he was speechless for a long time. Although he didn't know whether he felt uncomfortable because of being misunderstood, or was embarrassed because his thoughts were exposed. Soo's visit turns sour.

The speaker was unintentional, but the listener was interested. Niwa Changhide's words seemed to wake up Hachiro at once.

If the situation of the Onin Rebellion reappears, it will not be a bad thing for Ukita, who holds 40 stones.

You can even continue the efforts of the Oda family to separate the eastern and western families to strengthen yourself and realize your dream of the people of the world!
(End of this chapter)