Chapter 444

Chapter 444

Chapter 444
After Yan Wa Jiuhu finished speaking his thoughts, he was silent for a moment and continued to warn the Xiu family suddenly, "Actually, His Highness has been in the capital for so many days, and it is precisely the most appropriate time to ask His Highness Guan Bai to express his dissatisfaction directly.

Now that you have come back, expressing your concerns and disobedience to the arrangement may greatly reduce His Highness Guan Bai's image of you. I am afraid that you will be given the image of being incapable of controlling your retainers and being intimidated by your retainers.

I have followed His Highness the shortest time, but I can also see that His Highness respects His Highness Guan Bai very much, and sometimes even loses the degree of a monarch and a minister.

Your Highness is indeed a minister of His Highness Guan Bai, but His Highness also has a sense of devotion to His Highness Guan Bai. Isn’t it the intention of His Highness to be admonishing us all the time?
How come you and Guan Bai have forgotten this sentence?
Your Highness is doing his best in honor of the Duke, and it is his duty to bestow favors on you by His Highness Guan Bai. If there is something wrong with his handling that hurts your feelings, you should directly bring it up.

Your Highness should not forget the way of monarch and minister just because of the father-son relationship between you and His Highness Guan Bai. If you didn’t bring it up at the time, you were not taking his kindness into consideration. On the contrary, you were harming Guan Bai at the expense of your own interests. His Majesty's prestige.

What Your Highness should not forget is that you are not only His Highness Guan Bai's adopted son, but also his retainer, and more importantly, our lord, the co-lord of the 7 million stone territory of the Seven Kingdoms of Jibei.

These knowledge and actions are not benevolent to you from Guan Baidian, but you and all the adults here have fought so hard for so many years, and they are the military exploits you deserve!

You really shouldn't influence your judgment on the situation because of your personal relationship with His Highness Guan Bai. In fact, you don't owe Lord Guan Bai anything. "

The Xiu family sat on the imperial steps and stared blankly at Jiwa Jiuhu. He hadn't heard anyone's warning to him for many years, let alone it came from a retainer.

However, the words in Yingwa Jiuhu's mouth did not stop. After explaining the whole truth, he went out on his knees and made a big ceremony to the Xiu family and said, "I came from a humble background. Your Highness promoted me regardless of past suspicions, and gave me a beautiful house and a knowledgeable behavior." , authority, and great kindness to his ministers.

As a new retainer, although he joined the family not long ago, he is often taught by His Highness and other adults. He doesn't know how to repay His Highness's kindness. responsibility.

Although I am crazy about how old the lord is, but I have been hanging out among low-level warriors in the past, said some things that are not worth thinking about, and disturbed His Highness, and asked His Highness to blame me. "

After Yanwa Jiuhu finished speaking, he thought of the Xiu family and kowtowed fiercely to the ground, waiting for the Xiu family's fate.

Looking at Yingwa Jiuhu who was kneeling in the hall, the Xiu family was silent for a long time, with mixed emotions in their hearts.

It can be seen from what Yuwa Jiuhu said today that he mustered up a lot of courage to be honest with Hideka. In Japanese culture, courtiers should absolutely obey the monarch.

Especially after the Warring States period, the monarch resisted the minister's direct remonstrance even more, thinking it was a challenge to his own authority, even ordering him to cut seppuku was not an exaggeration.

It is even said that at the end of Yingwa Jiuhu's words, he directly slandered the relationship between himself and Hideyoshi. In a big way, it was to separate the relationship between Guanbai Hideyoshi and You Jinwei General Xiujia. Can't be overemphasized.

But even in the face of so many serious problems, Ying Wa Jiuhu still chooses to speak up and advise, how can the Xiu family not know what he thinks?
Over the years, as his prestige has grown day by day, and because Changchuan Zhenqin is a family elder who belongs to the genus of loach, the Xiu family has hardly heard anyone in the country correct him for his mistakes in these years.

Now that I heard Yan Wa Jiuhu pointing out his mistake, isn't it the purpose of poaching him from Shimadzu's house?
As a time traveler, I may indeed have many ideas that are more enlightened than people in the real era, but people in this era also have experiences that Xiujia does not understand.

In addition, the Xiu family is also human, and the various operating tools of the Yuxi family are made by myself, so it is inevitable that I will make mistakes.

But my old retainers have a team that I trust very much, even if I am wrong, I will obey unconditionally, which makes no one in Yuxijia can control the left and right deflection limit of this rudder.

And now, Yingwa Jiuhu took the initiative to ask his own question, which is exactly what the Xiu family is happy to see.

Therefore, instead of blaming him, the Xiu family walked down the imperial steps and helped him up and said, "In the ancient Ming Dynasty, there was a pair of monarchs and ministers called Tang Taizong and Wei Zheng.

Whenever Tang Taizong made a mistake, Wei Zheng would correct him, even if it would make Taizong angry.

Tang Taizong valued his quality and said to him, "You are my mirror, help me correct my problems." Now I give this sentence to you, hoping that you can become my Wei Zheng and my mirror.

If there is something inappropriate for me in the future, I hope you will make a sound in time to check and fill in the gaps for me. "

Yingwa Jiuhu didn't expect that the Xiu family would give him such a high evaluation, and was surprised by what he said: "Your Highness has praised me absurdly, I am ashamed to take it!"

Most of the daimyos in the Warring States Period were hereditary, and there was a feeling in my heart that the rights given to me by God meant that I was superior to others. Therefore, I was ready to be exiled when Iwa Jiuhu advised the Xiu family.

Even so, he had already carefully considered the words and sentences he used when admonishing the Xiu family.

It's just that he didn't expect that the Xiu family was not angry with his duties, and even gave him extremely courteous treatment.

In fact, when Yuwa Jiuhu reminded himself, Xiujia was also thinking about whether he was really too cowardly towards Hideyoshi.

Maybe it's because I admire Hideyoshi too much in my previous life; maybe I'm too constrained by my obsession with history; or maybe I'm afraid of Hideyoshi's brutal image in the future, which makes me weak in the face of Hideyoshi's persecution.

Although he insisted once or twice when Hideyoshi forced him, it also allowed Hideyoshi to grasp his bottom line accordingly.

Today's words by Yingwa Jiuhu have awakened me. Hideyoshi and I have a father-son relationship in legal terms, and there is no problem with being a little partial, but Japan is not popular with the "father's order, the son must obey, otherwise it is unfilial".

The most important thing is that the Hideka is not Hideyoshi's son in the full sense. The foundation of the Hideka is the four Ukita and three elders left to him by his biological father, the Ukita Nao family. The territory of 40 shi left for oneself and its corresponding people.

After these years of fighting, in order to consolidate his rule over the new territory, he kept promoting Misaku and Bizen by leapfrogging.

For example, many ashigaru people from the Ukita Nao family era have always been named as ashigaru in other countries, but they were specially granted the status of samurai in the Hide family and were entrusted to other neighboring countries to act as their own defense against other countries. Grassroots ruling power.

It can be said that they are grateful to the Xiu family, and highly respect the rule of the Xiu family. If one day they really want to do something rebellious, the Xiu family doesn't need to learn how to deceive them. Even if they tell them frankly, they will Follow the military service certificate to organize troops to participate in the war.

This is the biggest difference between the Seven Kingdoms of Kibi under the Hideka rule and the territories of other daimyos.

Hideka may have been influenced by Hideyoshi's handling of Toyotomi Hideji in history, and as Hideyoshi continued to rise to power, he became more respectful and cautious in front of him.

But don't forget, the most essential difference between Xiujia and Xiuci is that Xiujia's 135 million stones are actually made by himself, whether it is a samurai in the territory or a daimyo from another country, he absolutely agrees with him.

In history, Hideyoshi's one-hundred-thousand stone Zhixing was bestowed on him by Hideyoshi, and his retainers such as Tanaka Yoshimasa and Fukushima Masanori were all sent to him by Hideyoshi.

They are either the ministers of Hideyoshi's hidden residence, or the people who were promoted by Hideyoshi along with Hideyoshi. It is Hideyoshi who really favors them, not Hideyoshi. This is also the reason why they decisively chose to help Hideyoshi to overthrow their lord after receiving Hideyoshi's hint. reason.

From the point of view of Japanese jurisprudence, since Hideyoshi assigned them to Hideji as his retainers, Hideyoshi was their only lord, but after Hideyoshi gave an order, he became the person who pushed his lord to be his lord, and was rewarded for it, which is a bit ironic.

Hideyoshi has been committed to restoring the combination of public and martial arts under the old legal system at first, and the essence is to restore the old ritual and music system.But it's just that he himself is the biggest destroyer of old rituals and music, which is really ironic.

It is not surprising that Xiuci was overthrown by Hideyoshi with a single sentence, but Xiujia is fundamentally different from him, and there is also an obvious difference in personality.

The muscles and bones of Xiuji's house are obviously not strong, but he is extraordinarily tough when facing the outside world; while the muscles and bones of Xiujia's family are extraordinarily strong, but they are always so weak when facing Hideyoshi.

The Xiu family in the past was not aware of this problem, but now they have discovered their own shortcomings after Yang Wa Jiuhu's point.He knew very well that this reseal of Guandong was the most suitable opportunity for him to re-establish his image.

Therefore, after a little thought, I made up my mind and said to the officials in the audience, "As Zuoma Jie said, our family chooses to accept His Highness Guan Bai's request to transfer the seal of Guandong in principle, but in terms of subtle conditions I still need to fight for it.

The first point is that the main family must obtain the ownership of Sagami, and the second point is that Dazai-sama’s issue of Sanuki’s independence needs to be postponed appropriately, at least until the main family is transferred to Kanto before independence.

These two points are the bottom line of our family, and I will exchange opinions with Guan Baidian after I return to Kyoto.

Therefore, in the subsequent big evaluation, I need you to do a good job in guiding the warriors to prevent the occurrence of such fierce opposition as Oka Danzheng today.

In addition to these accidents, I ask all of you family elders to be responsible for the questions of asking the noble warriors to accompany them to transfer their seals.

Since we have received the notification from His Royal Highness Guan Bai in advance for this transfer, we can also make preparations in advance. This time, we will give priority to bringing warriors who are willing to transfer the transfer to the battle, and Misaku will be responsible for the transportation of their relatives and family property. . "

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In fact, just as Yan Wa Jiuhu expected, in the big evaluation a few days later, when the Xiu family announced that they would transfer the seal of Guandong, the wealthy warriors in the audience had already started whispering.

However, it was a very common thing to transfer the title in the Warring States Period. The Jibei Seven Kingdoms under the rule of the Xiu family often used the transfer to strengthen the family's dominance over the territory.

For these aristocratic families, there are two options for the transfer of the patriarch, either to go with the patriarch, or to stay in the original territory and wait for the arrival of the new patriarch of this territory.

They have already experienced this situation of changing the king's flag a lot in their lives, so their reaction to the situation that Yuxi's house will be transferred to Kanto is not too violent.

For these wealthy martial arts families, the Yuxi family's trade income was not a share of the pie, so they didn't care at all whether the trade of the Xiu family would be compromised after the transfer of the seal, what they cared about was whether their territory would be be guaranteed.

In this big evaluation, Xiujia deliberately concealed the fact that Ukita's family would participate directly, so what they heard was only the fact that Xiujia was awarded 25 shi from the western country Jibei to Kanto.

25 shi seems to be a lot, and it seems to be enough to make up for the loss of the Xiu family's transfer to Kanto, but don't forget that there are still wealthy families in Kanto, and they will share the Runxiu family with the group of warriors who followed the Xiu family. Know and do.

So after removing the seals that the Xiu family must get, how much more can the old brothers get?

Not to mention that in everyone's perception, the West Country is a well-known land, taking into account the benefits of trade, and its development is very prosperous, while the Kanto East is a bad land. Is there a business atmosphere? Businessmen from North Korea, Ming Kingdom, etc. are too lazy to go so far It is not an exaggeration to say that it is the countryside to do business in.

The core of Kanto’s trade in this era was Sagami’s Miura Peninsula. Losing Sagami not only lost the gateway to guard the Kanto, but also lost the possibility of communicating with the outside world.

Although they can't get much profit from Yuxi's business share now, but they can more or less use the strong business atmosphere in the West Country to buy and sell goods conveniently, but what is left in the Kanto?
So after hearing that only 25 shi was sealed and Sagami was lost, the original whispers continued to amplify, and the entire evaluation room was as lively as a market.

Even though everyone's voices were mixed among them, the Xiu family could still hear some people envious of the samurai family who had been sealed in Iyo before, thinking that they didn't have to leave their hometown too far, and they were so happy. The whole meeting here was quite harmonious .

But I don't know who yelled in it, "Transferring us from the prosperous place of Jibei to Kanto is like exile." It was like dropping a stone again in the boiling oil pan, and the noise exploded in the entire assessment room in an instant. .

Hearing this sentence, the Xiu family shrank their heads suddenly, and looked at the 7 elders sitting in the front. I had told them to hold a small meeting to say hello to the rich family in the neighboring country in advance. The purpose was to To prevent this from happening, why are there still troubles today?
Especially looking at Ying Wa Jiuhu, after all, he was the one who said before that he could use this evaluation to once again unite the loyalty of his retainers to him. This sudden sentence made the Xiu family think that it was arranged by Ying Wa Jiuhu.

But Xiujia could tell from Yingwa Jiuhu's puzzled expression that this matter had nothing to do with him.

(End of this chapter)