Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 81 The Cheongju Conference

Hideyoshi moved out of Shinchuden's will and directly locked the victory in the first round. Although Shibata Katsuie and Oda Nobutaka were very reluctant, they could only accept the three masters as the governor of the Oda family and salute the three masters.

It's just that Hideyoshi is holding the three mages and sitting on the chief seat of the evaluation room at this moment, while the generals in the palace salute the three mages, Hideyoshi also accepts the salute at the same time.

This is not the first time that Hideyoshi has been worshiped by his retainers, but at this moment, he is like Nobunaga, sitting in the chief seat and looking down upon the others. Even Shibata Katsuie, who is against him, has to salute in his direction, which makes him excited endlessly.

Hideyoshi embraced the three mages, and in the next meeting, he directly presided over the meeting in the name of the three mages, the patriarch of the Oda family, and directly took the initiative.

Nohime, who was a bystander at the meeting, didn't care about the heirs of the Oda family. For her, none of them were her own children, but she was still happy to see the big brothers of the Oda family reach a consensus in the end.

Kobe Nobutaka once again questioned Hideyoshi after surrendering to the three masters, "The three masters are only 3 years old, how can they manage politics, and a guardian should be chosen for him."

"Sanchi, didn't you hear His Royal Highness Nobutada's last order just now? Order Shibata to repair, Hashiba Harima, Niwa Echizen to assist the government." Oda Nobuo said from the side.

"Chashawan, of course I heard the last order, but shouldn't Xiu-sama and Hashiba-sama be in charge of the West Country and Hokuriku respectively? They can't stay with the three mages for a long time, and they should choose a guardian to watch the three mages grow up."

Since it was a public occasion, Nobutaka did not dare to address Nobuo as contemptuous Sansuke, but he still did not want to use honorifics to address Nobuo, but called him by his baby name.

Nobuo, as the elder brother in terms of etiquette, has no problem calling his younger brother by his baby name, but Nobuo's behavior seems a bit unreasonable at this moment.

"What did you call me? Do you want to fight with me first?" Nobuo said angrily when he saw himself being called by his younger brother's baby name in front of so many Oda retainers.

"Heh, do you think you can beat me with your hands?" Shin Hyo also stood up and replied angrily.

"Damn it, you bastard!" Nobuo was about to start his hands when he heard Nobutyo's words.

"What are you two going to do? The spiritual seats of Saburo and Qiqiwan are still placed here. Their bones are not yet cold, and you just fought in front of them? How can you make me feel at ease and hand over the three mages to you?"

Nobuhime, who has been sitting in the hall, silent, like a bystander, finally opened her mouth to reprimand the two of them. Nohime's status is no different from the highest in the audience. Everyone bowed to her and begged to appease their anger.

"Both of you are not qualified to be the hindsight of the three mages." Nong Ji made the final decision, almost depriving them of the opportunity to control the three mages.

Finally, it was established that Niwa Changhide was the hindsight of the three masters, and Maeda Gen and Hori Hidemasa assisted the government. The three masters were placed in Azuchi with 30 stones in Minami Omi, of which 6 were given to Hori Hidemasa as a fief. Wan Shi gave Maeda Xuanyi.

With the finalization of the issue of the Oda family's governor, the meeting entered the next topic, which is also the division of the Oda family's territory after Nobunaga's death that everyone is most concerned about.

In fact, this issue is not valid at all, because as the heirs of the Oda family, Nobunaga and Nobutada's territory should be inherited by the three mages. At most, the generals who avenged Nobunaga and his son should reward part of the territory to show relief.

But at this moment, the six big bosses are lying on the table of the Oda family like greedy tigers, biting the meat of the Oda family, just to insult the young master.

In order to better divide Nobunaga's political legacy, Hideyoshi and Singe have maintained a high degree of agreement at this moment, giving priority to satisfying the ambitions of Nobunaga's three sons.

Because during this battle, Oda Nobuo actually organized the army and launched an attack on the Akechi army's Omi leader. Although Azuchi Castle was burned down, the pot has already been carried by Akechi Hidemi, so naturally it cannot be counted as his on the head
In addition, as Nobunaga's second-eldest son, Nobuo should have been the heir of the Oda family. For the purpose of appeasing Nobuo, he was granted an additional 56 shi of Owari's full collar. So far, Nobuo has owned the southern part of Ise + Owari A territory of 85 shi in total.

In contrast, Oda Nobutaka, who had no meritorious service before and missed the Battle of Yamazaki, could only hand over the 20 territory he owned in Kita Ise and get 44 koku from Mino Gifu. An block.

As for the other 11 stones, they were handed over to Inaba Kazutetsu, the owner of Ogaki Castle, and asked him to serve as an independent daimyo directly to His Royal Highness the Three Masters.

Although Xinxiao was very reluctant to acquire much less territory than Nobuo, but at this time he was recognized by the ministers including Lu and Nohime, Xinxiao could only grit his teeth and accept this result.

Hosokawa Fujitaka obtained Akechi Mitsuhide's 1.2 koku territory in Tango, and Gamo's village received 3000 koku from Iga.Although these did not make any contribution, the Oda family still gave corresponding comfort to the daimyo who remained neutral after Honnoji.

Accidentally appeared here at Yamato's lord Junqing Tsutsui.In the early days of Honnoji Temple, he once helped Mitsuhide attack the Omi country. Although Mitsuhide later claimed that Mitsuhide used Nobunaga's book seal to confuse him, normal people would find it strange, why did Nobunaga let you beat her?

Moreover, during the Battle of Yamazaki, Junkei Tsutsui chose to be neutral after receiving the letter from the monkey. The two did not want to help, and did not make any contribution.

In fact, after the victory in the Battle of Yamazaki, Tsutsui Junkei personally came to the monkey to plead guilty. His posture was extremely low, and he gained the monkey's ability to protect him. Hashiba Hideyoshi led the spearhead behind him.

Hideyoshi accepted Tsutsui Junkei's allegiance at first, and gave him the ability to protect him. Now if you can't even keep Li's younger brother, what will you do with Hashiba Hideyoshi?
In the end, under the mediation of Hideyoshi, the two counties of Uda and Yamabe were cut off, and the commander-in-chief was reduced to the daimyo of 16 shi.

Even Takayama Ukon, who was in the first battle in the Battle of Yamazaki and was about to be defeated by the enemy, was awarded 4000 shi.

Due to his great meritorious service, Nakagawa Hidekiyo directly transferred 4.5 koku from Settsu Ibaraki to Yamato Kizu Castle with 6 koku, and became a daimyo directly under the Oda family independently from the subordinate of Hengxing Ikeda.

So far, after the change of the Honnoji Temple, except for the six big bosses who decide the fate, the rewards of the other retainers have been established.

The award for the six big bosses is the most difficult to establish, and there will inevitably be quarrels among them. Therefore, under Niwa Changhide's suggestion, start with Sasa Naruma, who seems to be the easiest to award.

"Sasa Naruma has always been my right-hand man, and he made a lot of contributions in the battle against the Uesugi family in Hokuriku. I propose to give him An Andu, who received 38 shi in Etsuchu."

Of course, Shibata Katsuie had to take good care of his hard-core allies. At the beginning of the meeting, he proposed to give Etsuchu a reward of 38 koku. Before that, Sasa Naruma only had 25 koku of Etsuchu Toyama's territory.

Hashiba Hideyoshi asked the three mages with doubts, "Naizosuke did make a lot of achievements in the conquest of Hokuriku, but these were rewarded before the lord passed away. This Cheongju meeting is to discuss the crusade against Akechi Mitsuhide. Those who deserve credit have nothing to do with Nei Zangzhu?"

Hashiba Hideyoshi has just been slapped by Narumasa Sasa, so it's better not to want to see him. At the same time, although Hideyoshi is talking about Narumasa Sasa, but the sentence "is discussing the credit for the crusade against Mitsuhide Akechi", in fact It is also implying that Katsuya Shibata should not be rewarded without credit.

"Monkey, what are you talking about?" Narumasa Sasao was irritated and said, "After the Mitsuhide Honnoji Incident, I blocked the invasion of the Uesugi family and defended the territory for the Oda family. Why is there no credit?"

"Isn't guarding the soil what a warrior should do? Since the lord made his fortune, he would not have rewarded the guarding the soil and the queen of the palace without great achievements. Everyone knows this. You just did what you should do as the lord of the country, and you still want to do it?" Bring this to invite credit? I think it will be enough to give you a few thousand stones to know what to do."

Hideyoshi's words were not very hurtful, but extremely insulting. A reward of a few thousand koku was better than nothing for the 25 koku Sasa Naruma, and it was more of an irony that seemed to be a futile effort for him.

Narumasa Sasa, who had a bad temper, wanted to imitate Nobuo and attack Hideyoshi, but was finally stopped by Katsuie Shibata, "Naizosuke, what are you doing? This is Cheongju Castle, and the portrait of the lord is still there."

Then he said to Hashiba Hideyoshi, "Harimamori's words are a bit hurtful. According to you, I, the Sing family, should give a few thousand stones of favor and go back to Hokuriku?"

Seeing that the situation was full of gunpowder again, coupled with Singer's terrifying face, the three mages in Hideyoshi's arms were scared to tears.

The cries of the children finally eased the embarrassment of the scene, and the good old man Niwa Chohide came out to make peace and said, "It's getting late, how about we have a meeting after lunch?"

Both Hideyoshi and Satsuki gave Niwa Naghide face, and took people out of the evaluation room one after another to prepare for the afternoon meeting.

(End of this chapter)