Chapter 434
Oysterzaki Visits
Chapter 434 Oysterzaki Visits
"Ms. Oysterzaki?" Hideo was stunned when he heard this familiar yet unfamiliar name. The Seto family sitting below thought that Hideo didn't know about Oysterzaki's situation, so he began to introduce it to Hideo.
The predecessor of the Oysterzaki family was a descendant of the Wakasa Takeda family. The ancestor was called Takeda Nobuhiro. Because of the problem of the family heir, he fled to the southern home in the northeast and was granted the Oysterzaki Castle. This is also the origin of the Oysterzaki family.
Later, Takeda Nobuhiro switched to the Ando clan due to discord with the Nanbu family. Because the Ando clan was defeated by the Nanbu, Ando Masaki fled to the Toshima Peninsula in Ezo, and Takeda Nobuhiro accompanied him.
Due to the needs of trade with the Ezo people, there are many Japanese settlements. After Anto Masaki came to Ezo, he subdivided the island peninsula into 12 pavilions in the south of the island. Takeda Nobuhiro was in the northwest of the twelve pavilions at that time. The life of Hanazawa Pavilion.
Later, due to trade disputes, a war broke out between the Donan Ainu people and the Donan No. 12 people, that is, the Battle of Koshaman. Except for Hanazawakan and Mobetsukan, other settlements quickly fell.
However, Takeda Nobuhiro was very empty during this period, and led the remaining Kazuto warriors to take advantage of the conflicts among the Ezo tribes to defeat the Ezo coalition forces, recover the 12 halls one by one, and won the support of Kazuto on the Toshima Peninsula.
Because of this, he was valued by the owner of the Hanazawa Museum, Jishige Oyezaki, and adopted him as his son-in-law, officially receiving the Miao character of Oysteraki.
Due to the Battle of Koshaman, there was an irreconcilable conflict between the Ezo people and the Wato people. In the next hundred years, the Oysterzaki clan fought against the Ezo people through three generations of family governors.
It wasn't until Kihiro Osakizaki adjusted his strategy after he succeeded to the throne that he stopped the armed confrontation with the Ainu people and resumed trade with the Ainu people.
By 1582, the 75-year-old Oyezaki Kihiro gave up the position of family governor to his third son Oyezaki Keihiro.The reason why he gave up to the third son was because his first two sons were poisoned to death by his eldest daughter.
Speaking of this, it is actually not much different from the records of the Oysterzaki family in history. Youjia still knows about this, but now it is just a replay through the mouth of the Seto family.
He opened his mouth and asked the Seto family, "What do the Oysterzaki family want me to do?"
"The governor of the Oyezaki family sent an important minister Kodaira Jiyuan, who is the uncle of the current governor Yoshihiro Oyezaki. When we first discussed with us, he said that he wanted to discuss with us the matter of sharing Ezo with us, but the specific situation did not agree with the situation. we say."
Seeing that there was no answer from the Seto family, Xiujia could only ask him to arrange a time to meet this person from Ezo.
The Seto family was working very quickly, and the next day Xiaoping Jiyuan was brought in front of the Xiu family, and the Xiu family specially called Tachihara Hisakuna and Tachihara Nobuhisa to accompany them.
Xiaoping Jiyuan's skin color is lighter than most Katoren's, and the hair on his body is thicker. These may be the characteristics of body-specific evolution after living in the Northland for generations.
He is wearing a court dress with red-colored carvings on his body, and a warrior Mou Mianjianxiu on his head.
It is not accurate to say that his clothes are crimson, because the color of the clothes is not uniform, and it seems that the color of a red dress has undergone many years of precipitation.
And judging from the style of the clothes, it didn't quite match Xiaoping Jiyuan's figure.
Xiaoping Jiyuan prepared a lot of gifts for the meeting with Hideka this time, but most of them were leather goods and wool and other special products of Ezo, which were specially prepared by Oysteraki Kihiro.
If these things were placed in other daimyos, they would be worth a thousand gold, but they seemed a bit commonplace in the Xiu family, because the Xiu family itself also controlled the trade of Ezo, so naturally they had channels to obtain these things.
Xiaoping Jiyuan met Hideo in person, and after paying respects to Hideo, he looked up and saw Tachihara Nobuhisa sitting behind Tachihara Hisakuna, he was stunned for a moment, obviously he was very pleased with the person who saw a person who looked like an Einu in the southern country Japanese samurai uniforms are a bit strange.
It's just that this place is in front of the Xiu family now, and he can only bury his inner doubts in his heart and wait for the Xiu family's inquiry in consideration of his bad image.
"I heard from the Seto family that you are a vassal of the Oysterzaki family from the southern tip of Ezo. The jungle Ezo has traveled farther than thousands of miles to the south. Thank you for your hard work. You came all the way from Ezo and sent such an exquisite gift. There are all requests.
Therefore, before accepting your gifts, please state Oysteraki's request. If I can do it, I will accept these gifts. If I can't, please take these gifts back. "
Xiujia first expressed his condolences for Xiaoping Jiyuan's long journey, and praised the exquisiteness of these gifts.
In fact, Xiaoping Jiguang knew very well that the gifts he had prepared did not impress Xiujia's heart, because Xiujia also had a trading base in Ezo, so they could naturally get these things.
But this is indeed the best gift for the Oysterzaki family, whose barren land depends entirely on Ezo and Tohoku as a middleman.
Therefore, in the face of Hideo's inquiry, although he was a little restrained and embarrassed, he still mustered up the courage to say to Hideo, "The Oysterzaki family has lived in Ezo for a long time, and rarely intervenes in Japan's domestic wars.
But even if we have no news about the Oysterzaki family, we also know the prestige of Toyotomi Kanbai. The so-called sweeping Shimadzu in the west and towning Hojo in the east, all the chaos in the world has been put down for a hundred years.
Now my lord Oyezaki Izumori admires the prestige of Toyotomi Kanbai, and wants to surrender to Kanbai's command. The Oysterzaki family is willing to lead the horse and whip for His Royal Highness Kanbai, and I hope that General You Konoe will recommend it on his behalf. "
In Xiaoping Jiyuan's words, Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi were highly praised. If it was Hideyoshi who didn't understand the actual situation, he might have been fooled by him.
But Hideka is very clear about this matter and the Oysterzaki family does have a lot of say in Ezo, but it is not the only family in Ezo.
The southern tip of the Toshima Peninsula in the south of Ezo was divided into the three kingdoms of Kamikoku, Shimokuni, and Matsumae when Ando Masaki fled.
The country here seems to be very large, but due to the unique geographical environment of Ezo, the real land defense of the country is only about ten thousand stones, and it is the size of a small county on Honshu Island.
However, the Oysterzaki family has gone through five generations of family governors, and they still do not fully control the Toshima Peninsula. There are still many castle buildings in the Shimokuni area, such as the Shimokan, which are directly under the Andong family.
The core requirement of Xiaoping Jiyuan's remarks today is to meet Hideyoshi directly.
But as we all know, Hideyoshi’s current status is not what it used to be, and he only accepts big names with independent diplomatic power, and the Oysterzaki family does have a lot of influence in Ezo, but legally it is a subject of the Anto family. The entire Northeast knows this.
And because many people think that there is no way to grow food in Ezo, they look down on the strength of the Oysterzaki family. For example, when Oyezaki Jihiro put down the Hakodate Rebellion, he mobilized the troops of Matsumae and Kamigoku. 480 people.
However, the words used by Xiaoping Jiyuan today are very flattering. From inside and outside the words, the Oysterzaki family is said to be a heavy-handed daimyo with great influence in Ezo, and he wants to subdue Hideyoshi to give a kind of independent daimyo. Feel.
But in fact he is just a retainer of the Anton family.
Xiujia keenly noticed the problem in his topic, smiled contemptuously and said to him, "Last year, the lord of Hiyama City, Anton Aiji, just died of illness in the Battle of Xianbei Yodogawa. Oysterzaki Keihiro can't sit still and wants to be independent?"
"."
Xiaoping Jiyuan didn't expect that the Hide family would easily point out the true thoughts of the Oysterzaki family, and they knew the situation in the Northeast very well.
The Anto family has a deep kindness to the Oysterzaki family, and the former governor, Anto Aiki, even gave many supports to the Oysteraki Kihiro's Ezo operation.
Now the head of the family, Anton Aiji, died of illness. It was the time when the head of the family was suspicious of the country, and met his cousins from the same clan colluding with foreign thieves to set off a rebellion. Instead, they want to go out independently. This kind of value is very despicable in the three views of samurai.
Therefore, when the Xiu family told the story of the future, people such as Sanada Nobushige and Anayama Nobutada sitting in the hall cast contemptuous glances at him, and Xiaoping Jiyuan himself knew that he was unreasonable, so he was rejected by the Xiu family. His face choked and he couldn't speak for a moment.
Of course, Xiujia didn't say anything to death, because with the development of the Ezo Governor's Mansion, it became more and more difficult to hide the fact that Xiujia developed in Ezo.
But after hearing the Oysteraki clan's envoy, Hideka thought of a wonderful idea of Zhang Guan Li Dai, so he said to Xiaoping Jiyuan, "I can understand the difficulty of surviving as a wealthy family in the troubled times of the Warring States Period.
In particular, the Ezo land is far away from Hiyama, where Anton is headed, and is blocked by the south. The Andong family wants to find a backer to rely on for the name of the family.
However, His Highness Guan Bai has already ordered the Northeast to have nothing to do with the world.You can tell the governor of the Oysterzaki family that if the Nanfang family wants to invade Ezo, he can send someone to Kyoto to appeal. "
In fact, what Hideka said was all nonsense. Hideyoshi did issue an order to do nothing to the Kanto and Tohoku, but such daimyos as Date and Nanbu never settled down. It didn't stop either.
You must know that the Oysterzaki family mobilized only about 500 troops, and they couldn't stop the Nanbu family's army at all. At that time, what's the use of suing the imperial court when the country is ruined and the family is destroyed.
In Xiaoping Jiyuan's eyes, what Hideka said was a resignation, perhaps just like what Hideka said just now, because of the shamelessness of the Oysteraki family who abandoned the Anton family when the Anton family was in danger, they were unwilling to help.
Seeing that he could not get a satisfactory answer from Xiujia, Xiaoping Jiyuan could only bid farewell to Xiujia, but Xiujia did not return the gift presented by the Oysteraki family as he said, which made Xiaoping Jiyuan very upset. distressed.
These things are not too much or too little, and they are also a considerable fortune for the Oysterzaki family, but now they are embezzled by the "rogues" of the southern country.
If he didn't want to return these gifts, he would feel ashamed to go back to meet his monarch.
However, at this time, the Seto family was looking for him again, and asked him what he thought about Ukita's colonization in Ezo.
Xiaoping Jiyuan has been to Xuanzhu City in person, so he is naturally aware of the progress of the Ushita Clan's development in the Eastern Ezo Land.
The Ukita family integrated the local Ainu village further than Daonan Kazuto, and controlled a large area of land and population in Daodong in a short period of time, becoming the largest force in Ezo.
When he was in Xuanzhu City, he witnessed with his own eyes the troops trained by Ushita Clan, including but not limited to farmers, soldiers and vassals directly under the jurisdiction. Configuration, but under the account of the Ezo Governor's Mansion, it is just an ordinary ashigaru.
He doesn't know how many people there are in Ashgaru like the Ezo Governor's Mansion, but there are definitely no less than 1 people, because he has seen a standing army wearing metal plate armor with more than a thousand people.
To put it bluntly, the Xiu family's armed forces in Eizu can already control the forces in the Northeast, that is to say, the Xiu family Zangzhuo focuses on the local area of Ezo. If you want to say that the south is going to conquer the southern family, perhaps the southern part has changed hands now.
Keiki Oysteraki couldn't figure out how his Ukita Hide family could support tens of thousands of people in a place like Ezo.
Of course, he didn't know about the use of winter wheat by the Xiu family, nor about the mining of the Hongzhiwu gold mine by the Xiu family, or the existence of sugar beets.
What's more, he didn't know that the Xiu family provided tax incentives for the development of local fields in Ezo, and even exempted the civilians who participated in the armed forces from their taxes, so that many people in Ezo equipped themselves with armor and participated in training at their own expense.
And all this is because the Xiu family has a huge skill as a basis, not only Japan, but also Ryukyu, Ming Kingdom, and Nanban are the distribution centers of Ezo products, and they resell the Ezo specialties in exchange for food to feed the people of Ezo .
Kodaira Jiyuan didn't know how Ukita did it in Ezo, but it was precisely because he saw the strength of Ukita in Ezo that prompted Oysterzaki's longing for him and sent people to accompany the Seto family. Zhengnan returned to pay homage to Xiu's family.
Therefore, when the Seto family was asking about Ukita's situation in Ezo, he said bluntly, "The manager is in charge of the entire Ezo, no, it is the entire Northeast, and the Ukita clan is second to none. The most important thing is that Ezo It was originally a barren land, how did you open up fields in Ezo?"
Facing Xiaoping Jiyuan's question, the Seto family just laughed and did not give a positive answer. He just replied, "This is a secret that is not passed on by the family. Naturally, the ministers of the non-family will not teach it."
Speaking of this, he whispered to Xiaoping Jiyuan, "The most important thing for the Wu family to live is the inheritance of the family name, and if the family name is not to be lost, the most important thing is to choose a trustworthy master. Master Xiaoping thinks whether the Ushita family is enough?" How about becoming the Oysterzaki family's backer?"
Kodaira Jiyuan thought he understood what Seto Jiazheng meant, and thought that the Hide family was wooing the Oysterzaki family, so he took the initiative to say, "General Toyotomi is the son of Kanbai, who is sitting on a land of millions of stones in Jibei. His Highness Bai has contributed a lot to Dingding Tianxia, and he is actually the minister of His Highness Guan Bai's brawn.
Oysterzaki's Ezo is just a remote and small country, but wherever Toyotomi is useful, Oysterzaki is willing to help. "
The Seto family was not satisfied with Xiaoping Jiyuan's answer. He shook his head and said again, "My question is: Is "Ukita" enough to be the backer of the Oysterzaki family, and he didn't say anything else."
On this side, he specially pronounced "Ukita's family" very emphatically, if Xiaoping Jiyuan didn't understand what he meant, then don't be the elder of the Oysterzaki family.
Seto's family clearly meant that he wanted Oysterzaki to be loyal to Hideo himself, which was contrary to Oysteraki's desire to become a daimyo.
But as Xiaoping Jiyuan said, the Hide family has a lot of voice in Toyotomi's regime, and a few words can kill the dream of Oysteraki's independent daimyo.
In fact, for a small family like the Oysterzaki family, it might be a good choice to seek refuge with the Ukita family and become a retainer of the Hide family.
As the saying goes, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and with the Hide family as support, the Oysterzaki family will not be bullied no matter what in the northeast. After all, attacking the Oysterzaki family is tantamount to declaring war on the Hide family.
However, Yoshihiro Osakizaki sent Xiaoping Jiyuan to the south to explore the way to become an independent daimyo. Although Xiaoping Jiyuan himself may think that becoming a retainer of the Hide family is a good choice, he is only a retainer after all and has no decision-making power. Able to decline hints from Seto Yamasa.
Unexpectedly, the Seto family was not angry at his refusal, but said with a smile, "Who said that the Oysterzaki family cannot become an independent daimyo if they join His Highness?
The fact is just the opposite. If the Oysterzaki family did not take refuge in my highness, it would be absolutely impossible to rely on Ezo to become an independent daimyo. "
(End of this chapter)
"Ms. Oysterzaki?" Hideo was stunned when he heard this familiar yet unfamiliar name. The Seto family sitting below thought that Hideo didn't know about Oysterzaki's situation, so he began to introduce it to Hideo.
The predecessor of the Oysterzaki family was a descendant of the Wakasa Takeda family. The ancestor was called Takeda Nobuhiro. Because of the problem of the family heir, he fled to the southern home in the northeast and was granted the Oysterzaki Castle. This is also the origin of the Oysterzaki family.
Later, Takeda Nobuhiro switched to the Ando clan due to discord with the Nanbu family. Because the Ando clan was defeated by the Nanbu, Ando Masaki fled to the Toshima Peninsula in Ezo, and Takeda Nobuhiro accompanied him.
Due to the needs of trade with the Ezo people, there are many Japanese settlements. After Anto Masaki came to Ezo, he subdivided the island peninsula into 12 pavilions in the south of the island. Takeda Nobuhiro was in the northwest of the twelve pavilions at that time. The life of Hanazawa Pavilion.
Later, due to trade disputes, a war broke out between the Donan Ainu people and the Donan No. 12 people, that is, the Battle of Koshaman. Except for Hanazawakan and Mobetsukan, other settlements quickly fell.
However, Takeda Nobuhiro was very empty during this period, and led the remaining Kazuto warriors to take advantage of the conflicts among the Ezo tribes to defeat the Ezo coalition forces, recover the 12 halls one by one, and won the support of Kazuto on the Toshima Peninsula.
Because of this, he was valued by the owner of the Hanazawa Museum, Jishige Oyezaki, and adopted him as his son-in-law, officially receiving the Miao character of Oysteraki.
Due to the Battle of Koshaman, there was an irreconcilable conflict between the Ezo people and the Wato people. In the next hundred years, the Oysterzaki clan fought against the Ezo people through three generations of family governors.
It wasn't until Kihiro Osakizaki adjusted his strategy after he succeeded to the throne that he stopped the armed confrontation with the Ainu people and resumed trade with the Ainu people.
By 1582, the 75-year-old Oyezaki Kihiro gave up the position of family governor to his third son Oyezaki Keihiro.The reason why he gave up to the third son was because his first two sons were poisoned to death by his eldest daughter.
Speaking of this, it is actually not much different from the records of the Oysterzaki family in history. Youjia still knows about this, but now it is just a replay through the mouth of the Seto family.
He opened his mouth and asked the Seto family, "What do the Oysterzaki family want me to do?"
"The governor of the Oyezaki family sent an important minister Kodaira Jiyuan, who is the uncle of the current governor Yoshihiro Oyezaki. When we first discussed with us, he said that he wanted to discuss with us the matter of sharing Ezo with us, but the specific situation did not agree with the situation. we say."
Seeing that there was no answer from the Seto family, Xiujia could only ask him to arrange a time to meet this person from Ezo.
The Seto family was working very quickly, and the next day Xiaoping Jiyuan was brought in front of the Xiu family, and the Xiu family specially called Tachihara Hisakuna and Tachihara Nobuhisa to accompany them.
Xiaoping Jiyuan's skin color is lighter than most Katoren's, and the hair on his body is thicker. These may be the characteristics of body-specific evolution after living in the Northland for generations.
He is wearing a court dress with red-colored carvings on his body, and a warrior Mou Mianjianxiu on his head.
It is not accurate to say that his clothes are crimson, because the color of the clothes is not uniform, and it seems that the color of a red dress has undergone many years of precipitation.
And judging from the style of the clothes, it didn't quite match Xiaoping Jiyuan's figure.
Xiaoping Jiyuan prepared a lot of gifts for the meeting with Hideka this time, but most of them were leather goods and wool and other special products of Ezo, which were specially prepared by Oysteraki Kihiro.
If these things were placed in other daimyos, they would be worth a thousand gold, but they seemed a bit commonplace in the Xiu family, because the Xiu family itself also controlled the trade of Ezo, so naturally they had channels to obtain these things.
Xiaoping Jiyuan met Hideo in person, and after paying respects to Hideo, he looked up and saw Tachihara Nobuhisa sitting behind Tachihara Hisakuna, he was stunned for a moment, obviously he was very pleased with the person who saw a person who looked like an Einu in the southern country Japanese samurai uniforms are a bit strange.
It's just that this place is in front of the Xiu family now, and he can only bury his inner doubts in his heart and wait for the Xiu family's inquiry in consideration of his bad image.
"I heard from the Seto family that you are a vassal of the Oysterzaki family from the southern tip of Ezo. The jungle Ezo has traveled farther than thousands of miles to the south. Thank you for your hard work. You came all the way from Ezo and sent such an exquisite gift. There are all requests.
Therefore, before accepting your gifts, please state Oysteraki's request. If I can do it, I will accept these gifts. If I can't, please take these gifts back. "
Xiujia first expressed his condolences for Xiaoping Jiyuan's long journey, and praised the exquisiteness of these gifts.
In fact, Xiaoping Jiguang knew very well that the gifts he had prepared did not impress Xiujia's heart, because Xiujia also had a trading base in Ezo, so they could naturally get these things.
But this is indeed the best gift for the Oysterzaki family, whose barren land depends entirely on Ezo and Tohoku as a middleman.
Therefore, in the face of Hideo's inquiry, although he was a little restrained and embarrassed, he still mustered up the courage to say to Hideo, "The Oysterzaki family has lived in Ezo for a long time, and rarely intervenes in Japan's domestic wars.
But even if we have no news about the Oysterzaki family, we also know the prestige of Toyotomi Kanbai. The so-called sweeping Shimadzu in the west and towning Hojo in the east, all the chaos in the world has been put down for a hundred years.
Now my lord Oyezaki Izumori admires the prestige of Toyotomi Kanbai, and wants to surrender to Kanbai's command. The Oysterzaki family is willing to lead the horse and whip for His Royal Highness Kanbai, and I hope that General You Konoe will recommend it on his behalf. "
In Xiaoping Jiyuan's words, Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi were highly praised. If it was Hideyoshi who didn't understand the actual situation, he might have been fooled by him.
But Hideka is very clear about this matter and the Oysterzaki family does have a lot of say in Ezo, but it is not the only family in Ezo.
The southern tip of the Toshima Peninsula in the south of Ezo was divided into the three kingdoms of Kamikoku, Shimokuni, and Matsumae when Ando Masaki fled.
The country here seems to be very large, but due to the unique geographical environment of Ezo, the real land defense of the country is only about ten thousand stones, and it is the size of a small county on Honshu Island.
However, the Oysterzaki family has gone through five generations of family governors, and they still do not fully control the Toshima Peninsula. There are still many castle buildings in the Shimokuni area, such as the Shimokan, which are directly under the Andong family.
The core requirement of Xiaoping Jiyuan's remarks today is to meet Hideyoshi directly.
But as we all know, Hideyoshi’s current status is not what it used to be, and he only accepts big names with independent diplomatic power, and the Oysterzaki family does have a lot of influence in Ezo, but legally it is a subject of the Anto family. The entire Northeast knows this.
And because many people think that there is no way to grow food in Ezo, they look down on the strength of the Oysterzaki family. For example, when Oyezaki Jihiro put down the Hakodate Rebellion, he mobilized the troops of Matsumae and Kamigoku. 480 people.
However, the words used by Xiaoping Jiyuan today are very flattering. From inside and outside the words, the Oysterzaki family is said to be a heavy-handed daimyo with great influence in Ezo, and he wants to subdue Hideyoshi to give a kind of independent daimyo. Feel.
But in fact he is just a retainer of the Anton family.
Xiujia keenly noticed the problem in his topic, smiled contemptuously and said to him, "Last year, the lord of Hiyama City, Anton Aiji, just died of illness in the Battle of Xianbei Yodogawa. Oysterzaki Keihiro can't sit still and wants to be independent?"
"."
Xiaoping Jiyuan didn't expect that the Hide family would easily point out the true thoughts of the Oysterzaki family, and they knew the situation in the Northeast very well.
The Anto family has a deep kindness to the Oysterzaki family, and the former governor, Anto Aiki, even gave many supports to the Oysteraki Kihiro's Ezo operation.
Now the head of the family, Anton Aiji, died of illness. It was the time when the head of the family was suspicious of the country, and met his cousins from the same clan colluding with foreign thieves to set off a rebellion. Instead, they want to go out independently. This kind of value is very despicable in the three views of samurai.
Therefore, when the Xiu family told the story of the future, people such as Sanada Nobushige and Anayama Nobutada sitting in the hall cast contemptuous glances at him, and Xiaoping Jiyuan himself knew that he was unreasonable, so he was rejected by the Xiu family. His face choked and he couldn't speak for a moment.
Of course, Xiujia didn't say anything to death, because with the development of the Ezo Governor's Mansion, it became more and more difficult to hide the fact that Xiujia developed in Ezo.
But after hearing the Oysteraki clan's envoy, Hideka thought of a wonderful idea of Zhang Guan Li Dai, so he said to Xiaoping Jiyuan, "I can understand the difficulty of surviving as a wealthy family in the troubled times of the Warring States Period.
In particular, the Ezo land is far away from Hiyama, where Anton is headed, and is blocked by the south. The Andong family wants to find a backer to rely on for the name of the family.
However, His Highness Guan Bai has already ordered the Northeast to have nothing to do with the world.You can tell the governor of the Oysterzaki family that if the Nanfang family wants to invade Ezo, he can send someone to Kyoto to appeal. "
In fact, what Hideka said was all nonsense. Hideyoshi did issue an order to do nothing to the Kanto and Tohoku, but such daimyos as Date and Nanbu never settled down. It didn't stop either.
You must know that the Oysterzaki family mobilized only about 500 troops, and they couldn't stop the Nanbu family's army at all. At that time, what's the use of suing the imperial court when the country is ruined and the family is destroyed.
In Xiaoping Jiyuan's eyes, what Hideka said was a resignation, perhaps just like what Hideka said just now, because of the shamelessness of the Oysteraki family who abandoned the Anton family when the Anton family was in danger, they were unwilling to help.
Seeing that he could not get a satisfactory answer from Xiujia, Xiaoping Jiyuan could only bid farewell to Xiujia, but Xiujia did not return the gift presented by the Oysteraki family as he said, which made Xiaoping Jiyuan very upset. distressed.
These things are not too much or too little, and they are also a considerable fortune for the Oysterzaki family, but now they are embezzled by the "rogues" of the southern country.
If he didn't want to return these gifts, he would feel ashamed to go back to meet his monarch.
However, at this time, the Seto family was looking for him again, and asked him what he thought about Ukita's colonization in Ezo.
Xiaoping Jiyuan has been to Xuanzhu City in person, so he is naturally aware of the progress of the Ushita Clan's development in the Eastern Ezo Land.
The Ukita family integrated the local Ainu village further than Daonan Kazuto, and controlled a large area of land and population in Daodong in a short period of time, becoming the largest force in Ezo.
When he was in Xuanzhu City, he witnessed with his own eyes the troops trained by Ushita Clan, including but not limited to farmers, soldiers and vassals directly under the jurisdiction. Configuration, but under the account of the Ezo Governor's Mansion, it is just an ordinary ashigaru.
He doesn't know how many people there are in Ashgaru like the Ezo Governor's Mansion, but there are definitely no less than 1 people, because he has seen a standing army wearing metal plate armor with more than a thousand people.
To put it bluntly, the Xiu family's armed forces in Eizu can already control the forces in the Northeast, that is to say, the Xiu family Zangzhuo focuses on the local area of Ezo. If you want to say that the south is going to conquer the southern family, perhaps the southern part has changed hands now.
Keiki Oysteraki couldn't figure out how his Ukita Hide family could support tens of thousands of people in a place like Ezo.
Of course, he didn't know about the use of winter wheat by the Xiu family, nor about the mining of the Hongzhiwu gold mine by the Xiu family, or the existence of sugar beets.
What's more, he didn't know that the Xiu family provided tax incentives for the development of local fields in Ezo, and even exempted the civilians who participated in the armed forces from their taxes, so that many people in Ezo equipped themselves with armor and participated in training at their own expense.
And all this is because the Xiu family has a huge skill as a basis, not only Japan, but also Ryukyu, Ming Kingdom, and Nanban are the distribution centers of Ezo products, and they resell the Ezo specialties in exchange for food to feed the people of Ezo .
Kodaira Jiyuan didn't know how Ukita did it in Ezo, but it was precisely because he saw the strength of Ukita in Ezo that prompted Oysterzaki's longing for him and sent people to accompany the Seto family. Zhengnan returned to pay homage to Xiu's family.
Therefore, when the Seto family was asking about Ukita's situation in Ezo, he said bluntly, "The manager is in charge of the entire Ezo, no, it is the entire Northeast, and the Ukita clan is second to none. The most important thing is that Ezo It was originally a barren land, how did you open up fields in Ezo?"
Facing Xiaoping Jiyuan's question, the Seto family just laughed and did not give a positive answer. He just replied, "This is a secret that is not passed on by the family. Naturally, the ministers of the non-family will not teach it."
Speaking of this, he whispered to Xiaoping Jiyuan, "The most important thing for the Wu family to live is the inheritance of the family name, and if the family name is not to be lost, the most important thing is to choose a trustworthy master. Master Xiaoping thinks whether the Ushita family is enough?" How about becoming the Oysterzaki family's backer?"
Kodaira Jiyuan thought he understood what Seto Jiazheng meant, and thought that the Hide family was wooing the Oysterzaki family, so he took the initiative to say, "General Toyotomi is the son of Kanbai, who is sitting on a land of millions of stones in Jibei. His Highness Bai has contributed a lot to Dingding Tianxia, and he is actually the minister of His Highness Guan Bai's brawn.
Oysterzaki's Ezo is just a remote and small country, but wherever Toyotomi is useful, Oysterzaki is willing to help. "
The Seto family was not satisfied with Xiaoping Jiyuan's answer. He shook his head and said again, "My question is: Is "Ukita" enough to be the backer of the Oysterzaki family, and he didn't say anything else."
On this side, he specially pronounced "Ukita's family" very emphatically, if Xiaoping Jiyuan didn't understand what he meant, then don't be the elder of the Oysterzaki family.
Seto's family clearly meant that he wanted Oysterzaki to be loyal to Hideo himself, which was contrary to Oysteraki's desire to become a daimyo.
But as Xiaoping Jiyuan said, the Hide family has a lot of voice in Toyotomi's regime, and a few words can kill the dream of Oysteraki's independent daimyo.
In fact, for a small family like the Oysterzaki family, it might be a good choice to seek refuge with the Ukita family and become a retainer of the Hide family.
As the saying goes, it is good to enjoy the shade under the big tree, and with the Hide family as support, the Oysterzaki family will not be bullied no matter what in the northeast. After all, attacking the Oysterzaki family is tantamount to declaring war on the Hide family.
However, Yoshihiro Osakizaki sent Xiaoping Jiyuan to the south to explore the way to become an independent daimyo. Although Xiaoping Jiyuan himself may think that becoming a retainer of the Hide family is a good choice, he is only a retainer after all and has no decision-making power. Able to decline hints from Seto Yamasa.
Unexpectedly, the Seto family was not angry at his refusal, but said with a smile, "Who said that the Oysterzaki family cannot become an independent daimyo if they join His Highness?
The fact is just the opposite. If the Oysterzaki family did not take refuge in my highness, it would be absolutely impossible to rely on Ezo to become an independent daimyo. "
(End of this chapter)