Chapter 440

Chapter 440

Chapter 440

After Xiu's family left, the closed door next to him slowly opened, and Hideyoshi walked into Xiuchang's room with his hands behind him.

After dismissing the many maids serving by the bed with his hand, he sat down beside Xiuchang, looked at the skinny younger brother in front of him, and showed a satisfied smile.

Behind the door are more than a dozen warriors in yellow mother clothes wearing warrior battle jackets and samurai swords across their waists, and an old monk wearing a monk's hat. Looking carefully, it is Sen Rikyu.

Xiuchang lay on the bed, met Hideyoshi's eyes, pursed his lips and said, "I said that Hachiro is the clearest mind, brother, don't worry at all, are you satisfied with what he said now? "

Facing Hideunaga's accusatory question, Hideyoshi smiled helplessly, "I trust Hachiro from the bottom of my heart. It's not that the old man insisted on hearing Hachiro's promise with his own ears, so I came here ahead of time."

After that, he glanced at Sen Rikyu, who was still in the cubicle, with a look of resentment, then turned his head and continued to say to Xiuchang, "It's rare that Hachiro still has you in his heart, and he found a good doctor and ginseng for you.

Now that Xiaoju is pregnant again, you should take good care of her.In the future, both the Husong family and the Toyotomi family will need your care, so we can't just leave our elder brother and go ahead. "

Hideonaga is Hideyoshi's most caring person in this world. Facing Hideyoshi's joke, Hideonaga also counterattacked, "Brother, you are really, if you don't have so many things, your brother and I must live longer.

It's all because of your bad ideas that your brother and I will work hard, and we won't live long if we consume energy.

Let's take today's matter as an example, if you don't make the relationship with the Xiu family so tense, it will make me feel better and my illness will recover faster.

Don't give up, don't keep me in this medicine jar, let me breathe and I can live more comfortably. "

Facing Hideonaga's questioning, Hideyoshi felt a little embarrassed, "Isn't it because there are so many people to hide and the smell needs to be hidden? Thanks to you, I can finally feel at ease."

"I told you at the beginning that Hachiro is a pure-hearted child, unlike those daimyo who would disregard family affection for land and knowledge, but you don't believe that you have to test him like this. Now the reaction to Hachiro is not good. satisfied?"

Facing Toyotomi Hideaga's questioning, although Hideyoshi thought so in his heart, he still denied it shamelessly: "I don't distrust you or Hideo, I just want to Just to confirm a result. I want to see if he attaches great importance to the land, and if he will turn against me because of Sagami."

"Then now that the result is out, will Sagami give it to him as usual when the reward is finalized?"

"That's natural. Sagami is so important! If he asked for Sagami just now, I would not give it to him. Now that I have confirmed his attitude, I not only want to give him Sagami, but I can also safely give him the right to appease him in the Kanto region. "

Xiuchang has long been used to Hideyoshi's self-righteousness, but at this critical moment he still advised him, "It's not because I'm partial to my son-in-law, it's because the land in the Kanto region is barren and flooded, it's really not a good place to settle. land.

Coupled with the fact that Hachiro is also tasked with guarding the Kanto, monitoring the Northeast, and hijacking Uesugi and Tokugawa, it is too difficult for him to only give this knowledge. "

Hideyoshi smiled awkwardly and replied to Hideonaga's persuasion, "I know what you said, his knowledge and practice are only 135 million shi, and it is not bad to transfer 160 million shi.

But since you are here to speak for him, then Sagami will just give it to him, and give him Zhixing with 180 million shi, and the reward for this battle will be calculated separately.As for Tokugawa, let me think of a way to make up for it. "

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After some testing, Hideyoshi confirmed the loyalty of the Hideo family and could finally sleep with peace of mind, but our Hideo family couldn't fall asleep after tossing and turning back to the mansion.

He didn't know that it was Hideyoshi's temptation this time, and his mind was full of Hideyoshi's transfer of Kanto to himself but not to Sagami, Izu, and Hu Song being asked to adopt Hidecho.

Recalling today's past, he always felt that there was something wrong in it, but he couldn't say it.

Xiuchang gave the reasons for transferring the seal of Kanto and allowing Husong to succeed the Gifu feudal clan. It is reasonable to look at it apart, but when the two things are together, if they say that the two are not related, the Xiu family will not believe it. of.

It happened so suddenly at that time, and the smell of medicine around was too pungent, so the Xiu family had no time to think about it.

It wasn't until Xiujia came out of Xiuchang's mansion and was woken up by the draft that the Xiujia realized the political flavor behind it, and the cold sweat of Xiujia couldn't help streaming down his back.

Lying on the couch now, thinking back to the king this afternoon, the combination of these two events may have the meaning of alienating herself in the eyes of the Xiu family.

If Husong succeeds to the throne normally, then as his blood brother, I will definitely help him a lot. It doesn't matter how close Okayama is to Osaka.

You must know that in history, Toyotomi Hidecho's home city was in Yamato Koriyama, only one day away from Osaka.

However, if Husong's inheritance rights were taken away and another son was chosen to succeed him, the location of the Xiu family in Okayama would be limited and embarrassing.

Even in later generations, Okayama belongs to the Osaka Economic Zone, and it takes about an hour to drive by the Japanese MRT express train. In later generations of Shanghai, it will take you 1 hours to take the subway from Songjiang to Lujiazui.

In this era, if there is a change in Osaka, soldiers and horses from the Okayama land can arrive at the head of Osaka Castle within 5 days at the fastest, without giving the Kinki daimyo any time to react.

However, if the Toyotomi clan's family governor is replaced by Tsurumong, it will be very embarrassing for the Hide family, who is related to Husong, to continue to stay in Okayama.

Hideka believes that this is why Hideyoshi wants to transfer himself to Kanto.

Don't look at the fertile and wild plains of Kanto today, and the benefits of strong rivers, it is the best area for economic development.

But at that time when the productivity was not developed, although Bazhou in the Kanto region was a plain, it often suffered from river troubles. Whether the crops planted by the people in the fields could be harvested depended entirely on the face of heaven.

You can ask why the daimyos in Kanto haven't thought about building water conservancy projects for so many years?After the water conservancy is repaired, isn't Kanto a land of abundance?

The big names you mentioned all understand, but the intricate relationship between the warriors of the Kanto is stronger than that of the Western Kingdom.

In the history of the Warring States Period, it is not unreasonable for Noo, Kinki, and Saikuni daimyo to become the protagonists.

This is a land that has been developed for thousands of years, and it is the political and economic center of Japan. Since the Onin Rebellion, all the famous names in the east and west have become their ultimate goal.

This is also the reason why Xiguo daimyo has stronger cohesion than Kanto daimyo.

Regardless of the fact that in the later period of the Warring States period, Kantokujo had six other countries, and it invaded Shimono and Hitachi, his base has never left Izu and Sagami. This is the eternal core of the Hojo family.

The most critical reason is that Ise Soun took advantage of the economic collapse of the Kanto manor to invade Sagami from Izu, took control of Sagami's manor that originally belonged to the nobles, and distributed it to his subordinates.

Even after four generations of management, including Ujitsuna, Ujiyasu, Ujimasa, and Ujizhi, the Hojo family’s basic business gradually extended to the vicinity of Edo Bay in later generations. At that time, because it was a tidal flat formed by the erosion of rivers, it belonged to an unclearly defined unowned area. The Hojo clan can control it.

Speaking of whether you have noticed it here, it is better than the Hojo family who dare not touch the cake of the Kanto Wu family. Naturally, he has no ability to mobilize all the peasants to build water conservancy projects.

It is well known that the construction of water conservancy projects requires both blocking and dredging, especially the construction of flood discharge areas in the upper reaches of rivers is particularly important.

But in this way, the fields of the samurai families along the way will inevitably be invaded, especially the upstream samurai families are the most unwilling.

Because even if there is a flood in the Kanto River, the greatest impact must be on the downstream, and the impact is not too great. But if you want to occupy my fields to build water conservancy projects, that is blatantly embezzling my property!
Do you think those powerful samurai families in the upper reaches will agree to generously benefit the entire Hojo clan?

Many records say that Musashi has experienced the governance of Tokugawa Ieyasu and has a stone height of one million stones, but according to records, until the third year of Keicho (3) when Hideyoshi compiled the rural account for the last time, Musashi's stone height was still only 1598 The number of ten thousand stones.

It wasn't until the tenth year of Qingchang that the land was seized again that the stone height of Musashi changed to 84 stone.The most important reason for this is that Tokugawa Ieyasu had a high prestige by virtue of his victory in the Battle of Sekigahara, and he used his power to force the local nobles to make concessions and built water conservancy projects in Musashi and Ueno.

To put it another way, even a master of political micromanagement like Tokugawa Ieyasu has not completely settled the local wealthy family nearly 10 years after he was transferred to Musashi. If he wants to build water conservancy projects, he can only build them in sections.

To sum up, Kanto in this era is definitely not a fertile land. Due to floods, the local swamps are full of roads and roads are difficult. This is why the Hojo family always likes to launch offensives in winter.

Hideyoshi's transfer of Hideka to the Kanto may not be the same as the transfer of Tokugawa Ieyasu to the Kanto in history, because he wanted to let him spend a lot of energy on governing the Kanto.

He might think that as long as the Xiu family spends their energy in Guandong, he will naturally not have the energy to get involved in the court. After Hesong grows up, his prestige will gradually rise, and the assistance of Feng Chenpu's retainers at home will naturally be able to suppress the Xiu family.

But to be honest, the transfer of Hideka this time is much more dangerous than the transfer of Tokugawa Ieyasu to Kanto in history.

Tokugawa's transfer of Kanto was the transfer of the entire Hojo old collar, controlling Odawara, the most important gateway of the Tokaido.

In addition, both Sagami and Izu have been developed for a long time, and because it is the core territory of Hojo, all the samurai on it have been wiped out.

However, the Xiu family’s reseal of the famous Kanto family is in the hands of others, and the territory they can obtain is all infiltrated by the Kanto warriors. The road to the transfer of the Kanto this time is much more dangerous than Tokugawa Ieyasu. .

Moreover, after Tokugawa Ieyasu transferred to Kanto in history, his main enemies were Gamo and Uesugi, with a clear goal and a single direction. If he wanted to go to Luo, he would be a small name along the way.

But this time the Xiu family transferred to Kanto, Uesugi to the west, and Tokugawa to the south are all daimyos with power comparable to their own. Behind the Xiu family is the existence of the Kanto Koda Gundam Satake Yoshishige. No matter how you look at it, you think it is a Cage.

But what if you don't accept the transfer?Run back and set off the anti-flag?

The current Osaka is not the original Honnoji Temple. Tokugawa Ieyasu's 25 army besieged him for half a year, and Hideka was not sure that he could win Osaka before the arrival of reinforcements from the world's great names.

At this time, Hideyoshi's rising momentum has become settled, and if the Hideyoshi family wants to rebel at this time, it is to block the Hojo clan's gun.

Lying on the bed, Xiujia wiped his face with his hands, trying to clear away the unrealistic thoughts in his mind, "It seems that we really need to plan carefully for the subsequent transfer."

Xiujia didn't sleep well all night, and came to Juledi early the next morning with heavy bags under his eyes. After entering the city, he was led to Hideyoshi by his attendants.

Coincidentally, it was Ishida Mitsunari who introduced Hideka this time, he walked half a step ahead of Hideka, and would involuntarily glance at Hideka along the way.

Along the way, an attendant with a knife whispered a few words in his ear, and Nengmin's attendant turned and ran quickly.When Hideka was guided by him and approached Hideyoshi, Ishida Mitsunari's footsteps froze, almost causing Hideo to fall.

Ishida Mitsunari quickly supported Xiujia, took a wet towel from the attendant just now and handed it to Xiujia, and said, "General Toyotomi should wash his face and wake up before going to see His Highness Guan Bai. Disgrace."

Hideka took the towel from Ishida Mitsunari, looked up at this cold-faced man in disbelief, when did he care so much about himself.

But Xiujia didn't have time to think about it, after washing his face with cold water in front of Ishida Mitsunari, he felt refreshed and then led him to escort Xiujia.

Hideka was the last one to arrive. At this moment, Hideyoshi was chatting with Mori Terumoto and Maeda Toshiie. Hideka noticed that Kuroda Kanbei, Asano Nagakatsu, and Toyotomi Hideji were also present at the meeting.

Hideka's gaze stayed on Toyotomi Hideji for a long time. If Hideka remembered correctly, this was the first time Hideji participated in such a high-level meeting.

Hideyoshi's administrative habits are somewhat similar to that of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty. He has an internal administrative organization similar to the inner government. Generally speaking, it is used to hold small meetings to decide affairs.

After the results of small-scale discussions in the circle are reached, the outside executives will implement them.

The members of this circle are not fixed. In the early days when Hideyoshi first made a fortune, it was Hachisuka Masakatsu, Hidecho, Takenaka Hanbei and others.

Later, he joined Kanbei Kuroda to be in charge of military deployment. When Xiuchang was still healthy, Xiuchang was the leader of the monks outside, and he came out of Hideyoshi's small circle. His power was a bit like that of the Ming Dynasty. of Shoufu.

After the Hideyoshi incident in history, even though Hideyoshi established a cabinet-like system of five elders, their main decision-making was only ordinary administrative affairs, and it was still Hideyoshi who held a small meeting to determine the direction of Toyotomi's regime.

At this time, the members of the small meeting included two elders, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Maeda Toshiie, Ishida Mitsunari, Masuda Nagamori, and others.

In other words, even Ukita Hideka, Mori Terumoto, and Uesugi Kekatsu, who are also elders, may not have as much voice as Ishida Mitsunari when it comes to deciding major events in the world.

This is why after the death of Hideyoshi and Maeda Toshiie, there will be a dual politics between Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu, which will cause conflicts and lead to the Battle of Sekigahara.

Not long ago, Hachisuka Masakatsu officially retired, and he no longer took care of Hideyoshi's staff. In addition, Hideyoshi's body is not in good shape. The Hide family already expected a replacement, but the Hide family did not expect that the replacement would be Toyotomi Hideji.

As for Mori Teru Won Hide's family, there is also attention. I don't know if it is because of his butterfly effect that he entered this circle, or maybe it is just a temporary appearance of him.

Hideyoshi, who saw Hideo entering the room, stopped chatting with Toshiie Maeda, looked at Hideo and said, "Oh, is Hachiro here? Sit down quickly, our meeting is about to start."

Hearing that the meeting was about to start, Xiujia, who knew he was late, quickly apologized, "I'm really sorry, I got up a little late today."

Hideyoshi, who heard Hideo's answer, also took a look at Hideo, and said, "It can be seen that you seem a little uncomfortable, because you haven't slept in Kyoto for a long time, and you are not used to it.

But don't worry, this meeting will end soon, and I will let you go back to Okayama to prepare, and will not disturb the happy time of you and Xiaoju. "

"Yes~" Facing Hideyoshi's half-joking answer, the Hideyoshi family and everyone in the hall apologized.

It's just that the smile on Hideyoshi's face suddenly stopped halfway through the smile, and he suddenly felt something unusual in Hideyoshi's words just now.

"Three people? Me and Xiaoju, three people?" Xiujia was stunned for a moment, his eyelids blinked uncontrollably, and his eyes rolled in their sockets, and he couldn't help muttering in his heart, "Could it be that he is talking about Xiaoju's pregnancy again? But how did he know?"

(End of this chapter)