Prime Minister Bizen

Now that the lord Hideyoshi has pro-government, it means that there is no legal basis for the existence of the five big brothers. He himself is the temporary rights of Hideyoshi who split it into five people in order to prevent one person from having too much power and his son being too young. mechanism.

The first person to bear the brunt should be Asano Nagamasa, who is the chief of the five big guys.

He was already old, and he had offered to resign to Xiujia several times in the past three years, but Xiujia kept him all the time.

But Xiujia is a person who loves talents, so such a good cook should stay in this position and play the role of the scapegoat.

Before Hidetoshi took charge, when the Hide family used Osaka's public treasury and the Toyotomi family's private treasury, they always asked the Teru family to obtain money in the name of Asano Nagamasa.Then use the Toyotomi family's money to appease people's hearts, and earn the Hide family's own reputation.

Now that the Hide family is preparing to move behind the scenes, and even the Teru family has to step back to protect the Teru family, you Asano Nagamasa still want to run away?

Xiujia said directly, "Although I am dedicated to serving the public, my status is too embarrassing. If the lord had not been young at that time, I would never have taken control of the government. Now that the lord has become an adult, he has taken charge of his own affairs. In order to prevent conflicts between the master and his ministers, I You should resign.

However, my lord is young and since I have resigned, the affairs of the court must be controlled by senior ministers.Dai Nagon (Asano Nagamasa has been promoted) is the lord's uncle and a writer for the five big guys, so how can he leave so easily? "

Sometimes Xiujia even suspects that his family used to be a tailor. This tall hat is really beautiful and square.

Xiujia had clearly expressed his intention to reorganize the organizational structure to Ningning, the five big brothers and Xiuli.

Xiujia's plan is that the structure of the five bosses, the three middle-aged men, the five leaders, and the ten people will still be retained, but the content of the responsibility will be completely different.

The five big brothers lost the right to co-sign, and they only served as a suggestion body before Lord Xiuli approved the order. Matters in various places were first reported to the five big brothers for discussion and preliminary approval, and then submitted to Xiuli. Only Xiuli's monogram would have legal effect.

This knife truly weakened the power of the five big brothers, and also provided a basis for Xiujia to continue to restrain the five big brothers after he retired from behind the scenes.

The third elder no longer has the power of supervision, but serves as a mediator between the daimyo, responsible for the Toyotomi family's status as a diplomat to the subordinate daimyo, the Toyotomi family to foreign countries, and the Toyotomi family to the imperial court.At the same time, he assumes the responsibility of the magistrate for conflicts between subordinate daimyo.

The five members have been expanded to eight, and they are responsible for finance, civil affairs, commerce, cities and towns, mines, general invitations, monk societies, and ceremonial diplomacy.

The person in charge of diplomacy here does not overlap with the powers of the three middle-aged and elders. In fact, the liaison with the daimyo is all handled by Fengxing. Only when someone with a higher status is needed to make a decision, the middle-aged and older people need to be dispatched. figure.

The ten people are not usually stationed in Osaka, but they have become the Hide family's biggest trump card in restraining Hideyoshi and the five big brothers, because they have the power to admonish the lord, impeach daimyo, and powerful ministers.

Once it is time to hold a meeting, they will organize a meeting first, and more than 9 people must attend the meeting. When more than 2/3 are unanimous, it will form a legally binding suggestion, and Xiu Li, as the lord, must respond.

It sounds like a curse has been placed on the head of the Toyotomi family and the five elders. Why would Shuri and the five elders agree?
Because the reason given by Hideie is also very simple: "Although the lord Hidetoshi is now in charge, he is still too young after all. Throughout the ages, there have been countless cases where the lord has been led astray by the traitors around him. Since the death of Taikakusen, I, the Toyotomi clan, have successively Riots and wars broke out twice because there were traitors in the court who could not be eliminated.

In order to prevent the Toyotomi family from fighting each other again, we specially request the establishment of this uncommon organization. It is not to restrain future lords, but to restrain and warn those traitors with ulterior motives. "

The Hide family members said it was no longer permanent. What else could Hidetoshi and Asano Nagamasa say?

The final five candidates were: Asano Nagamasa, Toyotomi Hidesada, Nakagawa Hidemasa, Ashikaga clan and Todo Takatora.

The oldest of the three middle schools are: Toyotomi Teruie, Ikeda Terumasa and Hachisuka Kasei

Hachimono: Nagasuke Masaie, Akashi Zennobo, Nagabune Tsunao, Kagawa Keinori, Shimizu Nobuya, Hanafusa Masashige, Miyachobusa and Horio Tadashi

The ten people are: Ukita Kanie, Toyotomi Hidehisa, Toyotomi Togaie, Toyotomi Nobuie, Takeda Hidenobu, Toyotomi Akiie, Uesugi Iatera, Sanada Nobutoshi, Sakuma Katsuyuki and Hori Hidetoshi.

It can be seen from this power structure that although the Xiu family has chosen to retire, the Xiu family's power is firmly under the control of everyone from the top five to the ten.

Especially among the ten people, all the names of the relatives were named, which also laid the foundation for the ten people to influence the court at critical times in the future.

Starting from the fourth year of Kangyou, the Xiu family officially retired.

However, before retiring, Hideie arranged Hidetoshi to the position of right minister through a series of operations and recommended him to the emperor as Kanpaku.

After the performance of Xiujia before, the current Damingmen seem to have accepted Xiujia's identity as a loyal minister who assists Xiu Li, so they did not feel suppressed by their move to recommend Xiu Li as Guan Bai.

In return, with the help of Asano Nagamasa, in the name of Osaka Toyotomi's court, he recommended Hideie to the emperor to succeed him as a general to conquer barbarians and take charge of the power of conquest in the world.

In fact, it was said that it was in return, but it was essentially the result of manipulation behind the scenes by the Hide family, because the proposal itself was made by the Ashikaga family.

Regarding this recommendation, Hideie repeatedly declined, and finally gave in and aimed to conquer Ezo. After Ezo was pacified, he would step down as general.

On the twelfth day of February in the fourth year of Kangyou's reign, Toyotomi Hideie and Toyotomi Hidetoshi appeared together in the Kyoto Imperial Palace. Witnessed by ministers and daimyo, the Emperor granted Hidetoshi the power of regency and Hidetoshi in Fushimi. The right to conquer Ezo was opened.

Although Hideie repeatedly stated that he only wanted to better mobilize the daimyo's crusade against Ezo and continue to expand territory for the Toyotomi family.

But how can there be two suns in the sky at the same time?
In the past few years, Hideie has been indulging Hideyoshi. He bought him whatever he wanted. He whipped the maid in Osaka Castle because he was in a bad mood, and Hideie did not stop him from serving Hideyoshi. To a certain extent, Hideyoshi even encouraged him to do all kinds of "perversions". "habit.

The 15-year-old Xiuli fell in love with a maid, and the maid also wanted to get close to the future "man of the world".But after several fiddles, Xiuli, who had experienced childhood shadows when she was a child, was stunned and couldn't get up.

Perhaps the maid's impatience angered Xiuli, so Xiuli picked up the burning candle and directly inserted it into the maid's body, causing her death.

The painful screams in the middle of the night woke up Osaka Castle, and even Hideie, who stayed overnight in Ninomaru, went to the castle overnight to deal with it.

Ning Ning saw Xiuli covered in blood as if he had seen an evil spirit and did not dare to approach. However, he was more afraid that the Xiu family would severely discipline Xiuli when he came up, so he ordered someone to take Xiuli down to take a bath and dispose of the body.

But unexpectedly, the Hide family did not punish Hideyoshi for Hideyoshi's actions. He only said that "the lord, as a citizen of the world, naturally has the right to deal with anyone, but he should take care of the law and human ethics" and other innocuous nonsense. .

Such admonishment naturally fostered Xiuli's temper. Although killing people was not the norm, shocking and horrifying behaviors such as caesarean section and pregnant female cats were common.

So much so that after Xiuri came of age, Tokugawa Hidetada's daughter, who was married to him, was afraid of him and did not dare to let her get close to him.Xiuli's method of dealing with such a disobedient woman is to beat and scold her.

Perhaps it was the influence of his mother being hanged in front of him. During this process, he accidentally discovered that binding and suffocation could actually bring him pleasure, allowing him to feel like a man again.

So he used this method to find pleasure, but he couldn't control the strength. Several maids in Osaka City died from this every year.For a time, both the daimyo and the samurai family were as afraid of Matsuo girl entering Osaka Onuchi.

If the above is just a shortcoming in Hidetoshi's personal ethics, the burning of Osaka Castle Town occurred in his first year as the ruler of the country.

As usual, Osaka Castle will provide money to provide compensation and rebuild the houses of the townspeople.The five big guys also put forward this suggestion as usual, but Xiuli said that he wanted to build a forest palace and planned to take the opportunity to forcibly relocate the refugees' houses and land titles.

Not only that, there was an earthquake in Aso, Kyushu, and his Higo was affected by the disaster. Asano Nagamasa requested that the taxes for that year be exempted, but he still demanded that they be collected as usual.If these are minor issues, his decision to overturn Hidetada's case and ask Hui to release him from detention was a hornet's nest.

Which daimyo here didn't start his career in the name of Qingnan's rebellion in the past? Now you want to restore the reputation of criminals who have been beaten to death on the chopping board?You say Tokugawa Hidetada is not guilty, but who is guilty?Are they our "loyal ministers"?

Now even Asano Nagamasa couldn't sit still, and the five big guys joined together to advise Xiuri.In the end, Hidetoshi gave in. He did not need to restore Tokugawa Hidetada's reputation, but he asked the Toyoharu family to release him from Muliangji Temple outside the city and let his father-in-law come to Osaka to recuperate.

Asano Nagamasa had no choice but to go to the Hide family to discuss. The Hide family sent him to the Hui family on the grounds that Toyoharu City was now under the rule of the Hui family.The Hui family themselves were sent to Hankan by the Hide family early to supervise the battle against Ezo.

In the end, Tokugawa Hidetada was released. The father-in-law and son-in-law had a good time crying in Osaka Castle. It is not known whether Hidetada noticed the scars on his daughter's body.

In July of the fifth year of Kangyou, Xiuli shot and killed a pregnant woman who came out to deliver food to her husband during summer hunting in Hanoi. Although he later claimed that it was accidental, the location was a farm village and there were no wild animals at all.

The terrible thing is that that area is not the land of Zongjiji, but the fiefdom of the Yanyuan family.

The Bizen samurai could not handle the public protests at all, so he could only report it to Osaka.But how can such a trivial matter be appreciated by the big bosses in Osaka City who are busy with everything?

Toyotomi Hidetoshi even felt that since Nobuhara Kaji was an old minister of the Hide family, this must be the benefit of the Hide family and the common people started to cause trouble and gave him eye drops.

So he sent Ikeda Terumasa and Toyotomi Hatamoto to suppress the "civil unrest" in Hanoi.

Yes, he characterized the incident as civil unrest.He also asked Terumasa Ikeda to send a petition rebuking the Nobuhara family, depriving him of the territory of four and a half counties in Hanoi, totaling 4 koku.

What Nobuhara Kaji received was only a reprimand, and no accusations were made against him. Logically speaking, a slight punishment would be enough, and it would not lead to a reduction in seal or a change in employment.

But now that the territory has been taken away, there are no arrangements to transfer it to another place. This is obviously to disgust the Nobuhara family and Hideie himself.

The Nobuhara family came to Hideie to complain. Hideie had no choice but to take him under his command again and allocated 4 koku to temporarily house him in Omi country.

Hideie's indulgence towards Hideyoshi seemed to have made Hideyoshi see the bug that restricted Hideie's disgusting behavior. Maybe he could continue to make trouble in the surrounding daimyo's territory, and use the excuse to change them and let them go to Hideie's Zhixing to find out.

This can increase the number of places to hide, break the Xiu family's initial blockade, and at the same time weaken the Xiu family's power.

Hidetoshi did what he said. In the next two years, he successively tricked and deceived Zhuang Naoqing, who was granted the title of Hanoi, and the racecourse of Tsu Arioka, who was granted the title of regent, and deprived them of their knowledge and deeds on the pretext that it was not good for the people.

In fact, the famous names of your Xiuli's thoughts are very clear, but your Xiuli's movements are too rough.

Asano Nagamasa may have turned a blind eye to you once or twice, but when you were about to take action against Shimizu Nobuya, one of the disciples who was granted the title of Settsu Takatsuki, Asano Nagamasa stopped him again.

At this time, it was already the 6th year of Kangyou (1612), Toyotomi Hidetoshi was 18 years old, and Asano Nagamasa also came to the end of his life.

Under the persuasion of Asano Nagamasa, Hideyoshi changed his mind and just changed the title of Shimizu Letter to Northeast China.

In order to satisfy his extravagant life, he continued to increase taxes on the people in his territory, and increased the mining tax and town tax.Finally, he asked the daimyo of the world to collect statistics on the mines and important ports and towns within their territory. He wanted to imitate Hideyoshi and directly take them back from the daimyo and put them under the direct management of Osaka.

Even the economic lifeline of the Hide family, Hidetoshi Tongshan, who had long been negotiated with Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Hidetaka, would be taken back.

Just when the daimyo were preparing to watch Hideyoshi's show and waiting for Hideyoshi to take the lead in resisting, Hideyoshi said, "Betsuko Copper Mountain was a thing that he had negotiated with Taiko and Gifu Daina back then. It was moved from Osaka and Okayama." , the descendants of the three Gifu families will share the profits together. However, Osaka is financially strapped today, so I am willing to temporarily contribute this to my lord to relieve my lord’s urgent need.”

Hideie deliberately bit off the temporary bite very hard, and it was finally decided by Asano Nagamasa that Osaka would temporarily borrow Besko Copper Mountain for 5 years and return it intact after 5 years.

Even the Hide family gave way, and the other daimyo had nothing to say. For example, Terumasa Ikeda had just developed the Jinshan in his territory, and before it was even hot, Hidetoshi asked for it.

For a while, the daimyo complained about this.I wanted to cry to Xiujia, but Xiujia refused to comment on the matter because ministers cannot discuss the emperor.

In October of the 6th year of Kangyou's reign, Asano Nagamasa died of illness at the foot of Osaka Castle.

When there are vacancies among the five chief ministers, they should be filled. As usual, Xiuzhen, who is second in rank, should fill in the writing, and then find someone from among the important ministers to fill the five chief ministers.

However, Shuri recruited Ikoma Masatoshi, who performed well in the Battle of Ezo, to replace the boss.This is the grandson of Ikoma Chimasa. Before Chimasayo, Ishida Mitsunari was implicated and was reduced to the Northeast with a small collar of 1 koku.

In order to revive the family name, the Hide family opened up the opportunity to conquer Ezo. Three generations of their family performed very well in Ezo.Even in order to defeat Shimokawa and Tokachi, Okamasa and Issei and his son died in battle one after another.

Junzheng himself was Xiuli's personal attendant, and Xiuli desperately wanted someone close and trustworthy to help him.

As for the problem of insufficient knowledge and practice, it is not a problem at all. Hideie has agreed before that the best samurai in Ezo can be sealed on the main island.Hidetoshi directly gave Iwashiro Shirakawa 12 stones and asked him to assist in the administration of Osaka.

It happened that because of the great victory in Ezo, Shuri and Hideie needed to go to the palace to meet the emperor to announce the good news.

When Xiujia was beside Xiuli, Xiuli didn't even dare to let go of her skin.However, when the Hide family was away, Hideyoshi would often say wildly to his attendants, "When the general dies in the future and no one in the world can control me, I will definitely wipe out the entire Toyoharu clan!"

In fact, these words have long been an undisclosed secret of the upper class. The Xiu family's son and Xiu Zhen have gone to the Xiu family many times to persuade the Xiu family to make preparations, but the Xiu family ignored it.

In the 7th year of Kangyou's reign (1613), Xiuzhen, the five big bosses and the left minister, died of illness. Xiuzhen directly promoted Ikoma Toshimasa to the five big bosses and promoted Ikeda Terumasa, the middle-aged elder, to the big boss.Xiujia still did not express his position.

Perhaps it was because Xiujia once mentioned it to Xiuli, and Xiuli had the idea of ​​​​extending favor and reducing vassal status.

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Then you will find that Owari Kaisei County and Nakajima County were inexplicably included in the hiding place. Even if the Owari Toyotomi family was divided into five, 11 koku was actually stolen. It was like reducing the seal to nothing. different.

This kind of distribution method made Toyotomi Iesada, who was already angry because of the separation of the family, very dissatisfied. From his name, it can be seen that his black hat relative is Hideie himself.

But this is not over yet. The fourth son, Tadomasa, complained about his brother Iesada to Osaka. Toyotomi Hidetoshi can comment on Hideya unscrupulously, but how can he bear the lordship below to comment on him?

He directly took advantage of the situation and brought the Ie Sada Suo in Osaka Castle to justice, even intending to make him commit seppuku.In the end, Hideie and Ningning came forward and punished him by changing Echigo's 10 koku.

Hideie's repeated concessions made Hideie think that Hideie was an old man who was foolishly loyal to the Toyotomi family. Especially this time, Hideie did not dare to deal with Hideie's legitimate son and Hideie's Yuko. After the slightest resistance, he felt a little complacent.

Although Tokugawa Hidetada repeatedly advised him to be cautious, Hideya's repeated weakness made him forgetful.

It was under such circumstances that the drunken Toyotomi Hidetoshi violated Prince Hidekouchi after a banquet at the Imperial Palace.The prince refused and Xiuli was so excited that she accidentally strangled the prince to death.