Prime Minister Bizen

Chapter 828 Tokugawa Ieyasu's Speech

Kato Kiyomasa is not happy with Chacha, but he has a heart that wants to protect Toyotomi's family desperately.

When Tachibana Munemo was anxiously preparing to leave to discuss how to get in touch with the Hide family, he had already connected privately with names such as Kuroda Nagamasa, Maeda Toshinaga, and Fukushima Masanori.

"I said a long time ago that Sakichi's (Ishida Mitsunari's nickname) Bagoya Road is unreliable at all." As soon as everyone sat down, Masanori Fukushima couldn't wait to define it.

Fukushima's identity is very embarrassing. He is originally from the Shuji faction, so it is impossible for him to work for Chacha.

The reason why he didn't have the idea of ​​investing in the Xiu family, but instead gathered a group of people to fight against the Xiu family was not because of conflicts with the Xiu family.

With his small mind, he probably has long forgotten how he bullied the Xiu family in Himeji 25 years ago. After all, he was the king of children when he was a child.

The reason why Fukushima Masaru insisted on fighting is because his identity is very embarrassing.

In a short period of time, he has changed back and forth in multiple camps. When Xiuci and the Xiu family were in opposition, he had a bad relationship with the Xiu family.

Unexpectedly, good fortune tricks people, now that Xiuci has fallen, the Xiu family has instead taken up the banner of complaining for Xiuci, but he has already switched to Chacha's sect in Daban.

Although his political vision is not excellent, he is very clear that with his status, he may not get good treatment in front of the Xiu family. Now the troops in Osaka still have an advantage, and the winner on the battlefield is only a split second. In the meantime, as long as you go all out on your side, there is no chance of victory.

In addition to his embarrassing identity forcing him to have no choice, deep down in his heart, he has the same idea as Kato Kiyomasa, wanting to be loyal to the Toyotomi family.

It may be a bit funny to say, but this daimyo who couldn't wait to get involved with Hideji after Hideyoshi's death has the deepest love for the Toyotomi family.

Before, he was only blinded by interests, but on top of this identity, he was a daimyo who was lifted from his mud legs by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he had a different feeling for the Toyotomi family.

Not to mention that "the inner government does not regard ministers as despicable", personally going to intercede with Chacha on his behalf, not only retaining knowledge and practice, but also being trusted and reused.

"Guan Bai and the Neifu have shown kindness to us, and now it's time for me to repay my kindness with loyalty." Kuroda Nagamasa, who was about the same status as him, said to the crowd.

He became the laughing stock of the daimyo after he separated from Torahee of the Hachisuka family and married Torahee into the Sakuma family.

But Tokugawa Ieyasu accepted him and married his niece to him as a sequel. This is why he was able to participate in the crusade against Uesugi in the Hideji camp but was able to retreat unscathed.

He followed Xiuji before, and now he is too deeply bound with Tokugawa, and the reality has no chance for him to turn back.

He said that there is nothing wrong with Tokugawa Ieyasu's kindness to him, and the Guan Bai Hideyoshi he said did not have much affection for him.The reason why Hideyoshi is included in this sentence is just to increase the legitimacy of his own side, and to persuade Kato Kiyomasa and other daimyos to continue to stick to their words.

The identity of Maeda Toshinaga is also very embarrassing. Their Maeda family was originally selected by Hideyoshi to take care of Hideyoshi's mother and son, but they were excluded from the center of power in a series of political events.

But even if she went to Chikuzen and lost her status as the top five, Chacha would not forget to take care of the Maeda family every year. After all, the lord's name "Li" came from here.

Logically speaking, the Maeda family should be Chacha's diehard loyalists, but after the cunning Toshika discovered signs of political risk in Osaka, he kept telling Toshina not to take the lead in the next political struggle.

"My family has already contributed a lot to Dianji, and we will be rewarded if Dianji wins after the war; but if the Youfu wins, where is the Maeda clan?"

It can be said that Maeda Toshinaga is the most distinctive existence among this group of "core".

The last Kato Kiyomasa, he joined this group of people not because he was looking for Chacha, in fact he looked down on Chacha and Xiusheng and others very much.At the previous banquet in Osaka, he uttered a word to reprimand Yodohime for being unfavorable, which made the Toyotomi family come to this point.

The scene was very lively at that time, and the Seven Hands Group even wanted to arrest people. It was Tokugawa Ieyasu who persuaded Chacha to deal with it as appropriate on the grounds that the war was imminent.

The reason why Kato Kiyomasa is here is because he still believes in Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Most importantly, it was Xiuli who gave him the call-up order, the governor of the Toyotomi family, and his lord!
Among these people, he is the daimyo who is most loyal to the Toyotomi family.

Hosokawa Tadakashi is the most out of place among this group of people. He used to belong to the neutral faction of the Hideki family, but after Hideji came to power, he fell to Tokugawa Ieyasu's side.

Chacha regards him as Kinki's confidant daimyo, but he knows very well that he is following the Tokugawa Ieyasu who is a million stones in the Tokaido.

Now that the skills of the Tokugawa family have been broken by the Hide family, Tokugawa Ieyasu has only 4000 banners left, not even as many troops as the Hosokawa family mobilized from Tango and Tango. In addition, the news of Ishida Mitsunari's defeat came from the front line. It already made him feel like retreating.

"Why didn't you continue to get closer with the Youfu?" Hosokawa Tadakashi was a little annoyed, but he quickly dumped the blame on the Hide family. , support Yoichiro (Tadataka Hosokawa), and even want to evade me, otherwise it would not cause my Hosokawa family to be divided into two factions."

During the previous Keicho riots, the Hide family meddled in the internal affairs of the Hosokawa family.Mainly for the sake of supporting his brother-in-law Tadakashi Hosokawa, he named his ally the Hosokawa family in name, which even raised the political status of Tadakashi Hosokawa (joining the ten members).

But in fact, the 21 koku of the Hosokawa family was divided into four parts. Among them, the total of 7.6 koku in Amada County, Tango Country, and Jiazuo County of Tamba Country was designated as the territory of Tadakashi Hosokawa; The second son and Qiu; Kumano County was distributed to the third son, who was also called Mitsuchiyo's Tadori at that time.

Although Tadake Hosokawa still leads the territory of nearly 3 counties and 10 koku, the strong decentralization behavior of the Toyotomi Hide family is unacceptable to him.He is still in the prime of life, if you want to sugar coat the bullets, please come to me!
It was also the operation of the Hide family that made him fall to Tokugawa Ieyasu in the end, and laid the groundwork for the final split of the Hosokawa family.

When the Hosokawa family was in harmony with Tokugawa Ieyasu's strangulation of Hideyoshi before, under the leadership of Hosokawa Tadakashi, the Hosokawa family suddenly divided into two factions after the Hide family announced the rebellion.

One is the Miyazu faction led by Hosokawa Tadakashi, and the other is the Maizuru faction led by Hosokawa Tadakashi.

With the support of his retainers, Hosokawa Tadataka chose to raise troops in Crane Dance and refused to accept his father's command.

Generally speaking, when his son rebelled against Laozi happened in his own territory, Hosokawa Tadakashi should immediately ask Tokugawa Ieyasu for leave and bring someone back to kill him.

But because Zhonglong had also been recruited by Zhongxing for a round of soldiers during the show before, although Zhonglong raised troops in name, in fact there were not many people in the territory, and he couldn't get any limelight at all.In addition, Tokugawa Ieyasu asked him to put the big things first, so he temporarily put down his unfilial son.

Before, he was very disdainful of his unfilial son's doing things, but now that the Xiu family broke into the thick tail news, he was once again grateful. With the relationship between his son and the Xiu family, and the behavior of his son Zhonglong, it can be regarded as a blessing for Hosokawa. There is a way out
It's just, why wasn't this escape route given to me!

Hosokawa Tadakashi is a very selfish person, his father, son and retainers all know this, when his son Zhonglong is on the Hide family's side, it is equivalent to blocking his escape route.

In addition to these people, there are also big names such as Ishikawa Yasunaga and Kyokochi from the Osaka faction. Their family lives have already been tied to Chacha, and they must launch their full strength in this battle.

"The Neifu must have a final decision in mind, I will join hands with the Neifu after a while!" It was Kuroda Nagamasa who took the initiative to stir up everyone's emotions.

Infected by his emotions, everyone went to the house where they stayed in the inner government, but they saw two unexpected guests here, Yoshikawa Hiroka and Anguoji Huiqiong.

The Mori family accepted Tokugawa Ieyasu's condition of surrender, and joined the crusade against the Hideo family on the condition of temporarily retaining their skills. If they perform well after the war, they can retain their skills.

The Mori family experienced a double-sided attack by the Kyushu daimyo led by Maeda Toshinaga and the Western country daimyo led by Tokugawa Ieyasu. However, for this opportunity, they did their best to mobilize 2.5 people to participate in the battle.

Among them, 1 people were led by Mori Terumoto to surround Okayama Castle, and the remaining 1.5 people were led by Yoshikawa Hiroka, Mori Motoyasu, and Anguoji Huiqiong to follow Tokugawa Ieyasu to Noo.

The Hiroshi Yoshikawa family gradually replaced their frail elder brother as the generation of the Yoshikawa family last year. He and Huiqiong Anguoji were also the main pushers who persuaded Mori Terumoto to surrender to Tokugawa this time.

Unlike in history, he married Kunihime, Tokugawa Ieyasu's adopted daughter and Honda Tadomasa's daughter.

He sold himself to Tokugawa Ieyasu long ago, and he tried his best to assure Mori Terumoto that following Tokugawa Ieyasu would ensure that the past would not be blamed.

As a result, the situation on the front line showed signs of collapse, so he was naturally the most anxious one.He holds the most elite 1.5 people of the Maori family in his hands.

These people are the capital that Mori Terumoto entrusted to him to perform on the battlefield to ensure that the Mori family's ability will not decrease after the war. At the same time, they are also the basis for the Mori family to ensure their own strength. Take these 1.5 people back to the West Country, and then use this capital to negotiate a price with Youfu.

Even though the Maori family is such a special family, the people below like to make contact with outsiders behind their lord's back, but these people are still thinking about the Maori family, at least they think they are thinking about the main family.

This habit was brought by them 300 years later, and was successfully brought into the red deer of the Japanese Army.

Tokugawa Ieyasu had just calmed Yoshikawa Hiroe's emotions, when he saw the big names led by Fukushima Masanori coming here in mighty force.

These are the cores of his battle. He made a rough calculation. In addition to the soldiers that Toyotomi hid in the ground, there are still more than 10 people who will listen to him. These will be his capital.

Just borrowing Fukushima Masanori and others, he continued to give the Yoshikawa family a reassurance, "What's the matter, attendant Fukushima, did you come here to express your determination to me?"

As I said before, Masanori Fukushima and others came here to ask Tokugawa Ieyasu for his ideas, but Tokugawa Ieyasu took the initiative and directly brought the topic to express his determination.

As Tokugawa Ieyasu's henchman, Kuroda Nagamasa immediately said, "It seems that the inner government has a final decision in mind. I came here today to tell the inner government that we are waiting for the Toyotomi Toyotomi family business to support the determination of the inner government." .”

When Tokugawa Ieyasu heard about it, he turned his head and glanced at Yoshikawa Hiroka and Anguoji Huiqiong. The meaning in his eyes was "Look, so many big names have expressed their determination, why don't you worry about it?"

Then he said to the daimyos, "I have received your determination. It is a coincidence that Minbu Shaosuke has just come over, and he also came to express his determination to me. The Mori family will be the main attacker in this battle. "

With that said, Ieyasu Tokugawa glanced at Hiroe Yoshikawa and asked, "Is that right, Minbu?"

Yoshikawa Hiroka dare to say "I don't, I'm not, don't talk nonsense!"?The eyes of so many big names are all looking at him.

He could only nod his head dully and said, "That's right, the Maoli family will work with the Neifu to defeat the enemy."

"Everyone~!" As soon as Yoshikawa Hiroe gave the satisfactory answer he wanted, Tokugawa Ieyasu immediately grabbed the right to speak, fearing that he would make a "but" turning point, "I will definitely record your determination and report it to the lord , in the future, you will definitely not miss out on post-war rewards!"

"I still remember the promise I made to you," Tokugawa Ieyasu said, pointing to a few of them, "Fukushima servants will get Andu with a thick tail of no less than 20, Tango Council will get Tamba Ichikuni, Kuroda servants You will get Fengqian One Country and so on.”

Tokugawa Ieyasu's words are very contagious. Reintroducing the award at this time can calm down the restless hearts of the daimyos. Many people have even forgotten the purpose of following Fukushima Masanori to find Tokugawa Ieyasu.

His eagle-like eyes scanned all the daimyos present. He even saw Tachibana, Nabeshima, Shimadzu, and Nagamunebe behind the group of daimyos who came late. He didn't name or blame them. Why didn't you come along, he continued in his infectious voice

"Everyone, everyone. The battle has not yet started, and our advantage is still obvious.

Ishida Jibu Owari suffered a small defeat, but Nooo's main force is still under the control of Aoki Sensei, and we still have 18 soldiers!
18~18!Back then, there were only so many Guanbai crusades against Hojo!

What's more, what I have now is you who are stronger than back then!You are the cornerstone of the Toyotomi family and the key to my victory in this battle! "

As Tokugawa Ieyasu's last syllable fell, the Tokugawa attendants who followed him raised their hands and shouted "We must win!", and the excitement infected everyone present.

The daimyos temporarily forgot their unease and the purpose of this trip, and all followed suit shouting "We must win!"

　Tomorrow will be suspended for 1 day

　　
　
(End of this chapter)