Wanli 1592

Chapter 1178 What a Vicious Conspiracy
When the news of Daqin's decision to return Iwami Ginzan to Tokugawa Ieyasu reached Kyoto, it was two days before Daqin's withdrawal began.

When the news came, Toyotomi's power immediately exploded.

A large group of retainers and daimyos rushed to Toyotomi Hideji's mansion, strongly demanding that Toyotomi Hideji send troops to deter Daqin and Tokugawa.

Daqin cannot let Daqin hand over Iwami Ginzan to Tokugawa Ieyasu. They must get Iwami Ginzan's silver to strengthen their armaments and expand their army, otherwise Tokugawa will become stronger and stronger until it loses control.

Since Japan was forcibly divided from east to west, Toyotomi Hideji has always been concerned about the development of Tokugawa. Whenever he heard some stronger news about Tokugawa, he was always worried.

He really wanted to launch a war three years ago to eliminate the Tokugawa forces, not only to avenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but also to unify Japan and redevelop himself, hoping to recover the blood debt from Xiao Ruxun in the future and restore the glory of Toyotomi.

However, Toyotomi Hideji's idea was strongly opposed by Maeda Toshiie and Ishida Mitsunari.

Maeda Toshiie and Ishida Mitsunari are people whom Toyotomi Hideyoshi trusts very much. Among them, Maeda Toshiie is a big man with equal prestige and strength, a figure that even old foxes like Tokugawa Ieyasu would shy away from.

It can be said that after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, only he can stabilize Toyotomi's power, allow himself to ascend the throne safely, and stabilize the situation.

The contribution of Maeda Toshiie is really great, so big that Toyotomi Hideji himself knows that without Maeda Toshiie, he should be dead by now, either at the hands of Tokugawa Ieyasu or at the hands of some other ambitious man. Anyway, he must die.

But Maeda Toshiie stepped forward and stopped the collapse of Toyotomi's forces that were about to fall apart for him, stabilized the situation, established a foothold in Kyoto, enshrined the emperor, and after getting the righteous name, he declared orthodoxy to the world and forced Tokugawa Ieyasu into embarrassing situation.

It is precisely because of such a series of political actions that the Toyotomi family was able to regain a foothold and develop again politically, and passed the most difficult period of time smoothly. Except for Maeda Toshiie, the Toyotomi power after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi None of them had that prestige.

Tokugawa Ieyasu obviously has no way to deal with this situation, so he can only retreat and develop himself in West Japan.

However, Tokugawa Ieyasu's internal affairs ability is beyond doubt. Even if he got a dilapidated place, he forcibly used commercial means to increase income, and internally used clean government means to reduce expenditures, and obtained enough funds to develop himself, step by step to force Toyotomi's forces.

Maeda Toshiie responded freely, using various means to stabilize Toyotomi, suppress Tokugawa, persuade farming and mulberry, and develop agriculture and handicrafts, so that Toyotomi's family foundation gradually became stronger. After all, Toyotomi's population and land are both On top of Tokugawa.

With the great god Maeda Toshiie in charge, the Tokugawa family has nothing to do with Toyotomi, but it is not without danger. Tokugawa Ieyasu is very keenly aware of the fate of the Toyotomi family, which is the health of Maeda Toshiie question.

In fact, when the news of Daqin’s return of Iwami Ginzan to Tokugawa Ieyasu spread to Kyoto, Maeda Toshiie had been sick for more than ten days and had not recovered from his illness. He was still recuperating in bed. Auxiliary Toyotomi Hideji caught it himself.

Maeda Toshiie's serious illness is undoubtedly an opportunity for Owari to send generals. Most of them are the main combat faction. They were frightened by Daqin before, but after learning that Daqin is going to withdraw the army and return Iwami Ginzan, the long-lost courage Bring it up again.

Almost all of them rushed to Toyotomi Hideji's mansion to speak to Toyotomi Hideji, asking Toyotomi Hideji to allow troops to fight against the Tokugawa clan, kill the Tokugawa clan, take back Iwami Ginzan, reunify Japan, and divide the world.

To be honest, it is impossible for Toyotomi Hideji not to act, but like most people, he has deep fear and fear of Daqin's overly powerful military power, and because of Daqin's effective deterrence, he does not dare to act rashly.

"The news from the Qin army cannot be proved to be true or false. If it is a false news, it is the news that the Qin army is trying to lure us to attack, then who is willing to send troops to attack Shi Jian?"

Toyotomi Hideji didn't speak, but looked at Ishida Mitsunari, Ishida Mitsunari understood, and said something that choked the generals speechless.

Who is not afraid that Qin Jun's deceit was just to kill a few more of them. The sudden battle before that caused heavy losses to the name of Izumo, but they only dared to cry and dared not act rashly.

It's really a little scary, not fake.

So no one dared to talk too much, but the generals of the Owari faction were more dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari.

In the next few days, Toyotomi Hideji has been paying attention to this matter. Five days later, the latest news came.

About 2000 people from the Qin army left Shijian by boat and headed towards the mainland of Daqin. This is absolutely true news. Dozens of spies witnessed it together, and it is absolutely impossible to be wrong.

Now the riots of the generals of the Owari faction are unstoppable, because this news has a solid hammer, it is absolutely true, even Toyotomi Hideji and Ishida Mitsunari are dumbfounded and can't believe it, but this thing really happened.

"Impossible. The Qin State is powerful. Shi Jian Yinshan produces millions of taels of silver every year. Why do they give up this million taels of silver? There must be monsters when things go wrong. Your Highness can't act rashly anyway. You must be careful about this matter." You can only treat it with caution, and you must not send troops rashly!"

Ishida Mitsunari sincerely suggested Toyotomi Hideji.

Toyotomi Hideji remained calm on the surface. After being silent for a while, he asked: "Could it be because of some sudden incident in Qin State that Qin State had to send overseas troops to return to China to quell the incident?"

Ishida Mitsunari was taken aback, and had to think that this statement was indeed reasonable and possible.

But it is too abnormal to deploy troops to go back to normal, and return Iwami to Tokugawa Ieyasu. This must be a conspiracy.

"It's normal to send troops back, but it's definitely not normal to return Shi Jian. If you don't want so much silver, you don't want it. Qin is too generous, and since you want to return it, you don't want to return it to His Majesty the Emperor, but you have to give it to Germany." Kawane Yasuna is rebellious, so His Highness doesn't think there is a problem here?"

Although Toyotomi Hideji doesn't like Ishida Mitsunari's frequent use of Toyotomi Hideyoshi to suppress him, but he has to admit that Ishida Mitsunari is relatively wise, and he quickly thought of the most critical problem here.

What do you mean by not giving back to the supreme ruler of Japan whom Daqin himself recognized, but giving back to a rebel?
"So, why do you think this is?"

Toyotomi Hideji asked Ishida Mitsunari.

Ishida Mitsunari touched his beard and thought for a while.

"Probably because we want to use this to make the two of us go to war. Fortunately, when Qin State quells the civil strife, we are powerless to pose a threat to Qin State, and we have to fight ourselves."

Saying that, Ishida Misachi couldn't help sighing, "It's such a vicious conspiracy."

Ishida Mitsunari is of course reasonable in saying this. Daqin did not return the silver mountain to the Toyotomi clan, but returned the silver mountain to the Tokugawa clan. Obviously, it was to provoke the dissatisfaction and war of the Toyotomi clan. The Toyotomi clan would never Letting Yinshan fall into the hands of the Tokugawa family, even if they knew it was a trick, they had no choice but to get in.

This is not a conspiracy anymore, this is a conspiracy.

What a vicious conspiracy.

(End of this chapter)