At this time, Hokuriku Province, in addition to the Echizen country's small feudal domain, Kaga Noto's Echichigo Sado situation is relatively clear, especially the 600,000 stone of Echigo, three-quarters of which is in the hands of Hori Hideji, and the rest of the territory is divided by Hidekatsu Murakami, an old minister of the Niwa clan

Speaking of the Niwa clan, I have to mention the current governor of the Niwa clan, Niwa Nagashige, this young man known as the "Prime Minister Komatsu", who was supposed to inherit his father Niwa Nagahide's Echizen Wakasa Kaga Prefecture 123 stone Zhixing and Hokuriku Sou Ling, but because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's suspicion and intentional suppression, it was directly reduced to Kaga Matsuren 40,000 stone, thanks to the military exploits achieved during the Odawara expedition, he was able to obtain the transfer of Kaga Komatsu 120,000 stone, barely maintaining the family name, Today's territory can't even reach a fraction of the time of Changxiu

Despite being deprived of the territory, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still not at ease with the Niwa clan, and in the next two years, many important ministers, including Nagashu Masaka Murakami Yoshiaki Mizoguchi Hidekatsu Toda Katsunari were all recruited by Hideyoshi to bring the Toyotomi clan under his command. For example, the Omi Mizuguchi 50,000 Ishiaki of the Nagabune family, the Echigo Honjo 70,000 Ishigo, Mizoguchi Hidekatsu's Echigo Hata, the 50,000 Shishi Aoyama Munekatsu, the Echizen Maruoka Castle 46,000 Shishi, the Echizen Ashiwa 20,000 stone of Toda Katsusei, and even Aoki Kazushige, who rebelled in Osaka, was once a young general under Niwa Nagahide

Toyotomi Hideyoshi used a heavy gift on the surface, but in fact, he divided the territory of the Niwa clan to these Niwa clan retainers who originally only had a few thousand stones, and his Toyotomi family did not take out any territory, but gained a good reputation, Hideyoshi's trick to borrow flowers to offer Buddha is really beautiful

Although the Niwa clan collapsed, most of the daimyo in Hokuriku Province were still from the Niwa lineage, and they still had a deep respect for the Kaga Niwa family. But the help of the old ministers was indispensable

It can be seen from this that the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and although it was suppressed, the Niwa family still played a pivotal role in Hokuriku, and it was precisely because of this that the relationship between him and the successor Hokuriku leader Maeda family was quite tense, so much so that Niwa Nagashige wrote to Tokugawa Ieyasu many times, willing to be his pawn, and reported to him every move of the Maeda family

In addition to the Maeda clan's Niwa clan, among the seven kingdoms of Hokuriku, the third most powerful daimyo is Hori Hideji of Kasuga Mountain 450,000 stones, the rise of the Horiki family in Hokuriku is completely caused by Hideyoshi's suppression of the Niwa clan Horihiro Hideji's father Hori Hidemasa was originally a small daimyo of Omi Sawayama Kumangoku, with the death of Niwa Nagahide, considering that the Maeda Toshiya family alone is not enough to deter Hokuriku, so Hideyoshi sealed it to the birthplace of the Niwa clan - Echizen Hokusho 180,000 stone to know that Hokusho Castle was originally the main city of the Niwa family, He did this to obviously provoke the relationship between the two families, Nai Niwa Nagashige was just a teenager at the time, and he fundamentally tried to change the fate of his family, although he could only watch the Hori family Hato, occupy the magpie's nest, but the Niwa clan, from the lord to the retainers, all had a grudge against this, especially after discovering that the Niwa family was sandwiched between the Maeda family and the Hori family, and they were resentful of the two foreign daimyos, living next to each other but strangers

Of course, this is exactly what Hideyoshi wants to see, just imagine, if these daimyo get along and form an alliance, then wouldn't his Toyotomi family face a great threat? Therefore, the more they were incompatible, the more relieved and relieved Hideyoshi felt

Although Hokuriku was torn apart, Hideyoshi was still not at ease, because at that time, Echigo Sado and Sado were still in the hands of the Uesugi family as a native daimyō, Uesugi Keikatsu's voice in Hokuriku was far stronger than the later two leaders and the newcomer Horiki, it was precisely because of the existence of the Uesugi family that the rest of the families did not dare to have too much conflict, for fear that they would force a certain family into the camp of Uesugi Katsu if they were not careful, which made Hideyoshi very disappointed, but when he was worried and tried to provoke the conflict in Hokuriku, The civil strife in the Gamo family gave him a golden opportunity

Gamo Hideyuki was reduced to a total of 220,000 koku in Shinano Kaizu, Shimono Mibu, and the vacated Aizu 900,000 koku gave Hideyoshi an excuse to transfer the title to Uesugi Keikatsu, and he exchanged a total of 1,140,000 koku for Echigo 900,000 in Keikatsu's hands with a total of 1,140,000 koku in the two prefectures of Shonai, the six prefectures of Senhoku in the Aizu region, and the island of Sado

After driving out the last "native" of Hokuriku, Hideyoshi was full of firepower, and by transferring the old Niwa retainers of Horiku Echizen to Echigo, he completely disrupted Hokuriku but disappointed him, Hori Hideji was only a twenty-year-old boy at that time, and he couldn't control the retainers well, and the structure of the retainers was complex, and the retainers were huge, and it is said that 450,000 stone Chiyuki Hori Hideji actually mastered only about 100,000 stones; Not only that, in order to take revenge on Hideharu Hori, the Uesugi family transported more than half of the annual tribute rice to Aizu before leaving, which directly caused a shortage of food in Echigo; When Uesugi Keikatsu was resealed, he followed the example of Tokugawa Ieyasu, leaving a considerable number of retainers lurking in various places and waiting for an opportunity to rebel; During the Uesugi Kenshin period, he believed in Buddhism, and there were many Buddhist temples and shrines in the territory, and these monks and priests were also treated very well during the Uesugi Keikatsu period, but when Hideji Hori took charge of Echigo, due to the lack of food and the incomprehension of the people's customs, their dissatisfaction became increasingly serious

These intentional actions of the Uesugi family directly led to Hori Hideharu resentment, and he cut off the road from Uesugi Keikatsu to the seaside, so that he had to take a long detour through Tagawa County to Sado Island, which directly led to the two families becoming inseparable, and before the later Sekigahara War, it was Hori Hideharu who sent someone to tell Tokugawa Ieyasu that Uesugi Keikatsu built a castle with the intention of rebelling, which gave Tokugawa Ieyasu a mouth and sent troops to attack Aizu

It can be said that Hideyoshi's series of actions did make the daimyo of the Seven Kingdoms of Hokuriku fall apart, thus stabilizing the rule of the Toyotomi clan, but he didn't expect that he would go so early, providence made people, the so-called predecessors planted trees and later people enjoyed the coolness, Hideyoshi worked hard for more than ten years to create the "chaos", but inadvertently lifted the threat of Hokuriku to Tokugawa Ieyasu to dominate the world Just imagine, if the Niwa family controls the northwest continent and the Uesugi family controls the northeast continent, can Tokugawa Ieyasu still find a reason to go to Aizu? Of course, history is not allowed to be assumed, in the face of the mess in Hokuriku, Hideho has a lot to do, if it can unite the Maeda Niwa Hori family is certainly a great achievement, but how can these three families be reconciled in a few months after more than ten years of grievances?

"Youbei, this time I went to Wajima to make sure that I monitored the movements of the Hokuriku daimyo for me, and if there was a strange taste, report it to me, and you must not incite the sword soldiers to give people the truth, it really can't work, you can ask for troops from the Dainayan"

(6) Qiang inhibits Xing Su Xianyun and sends Huang Rui Horn "Qiang TDanger and As for Goto Kiji's suggestion that "the army is too small to hold onto", Hideho only said one sentence: "If you can keep the rules, if you can't drive the ship to Sakata Minami, at the beginning of the war, how can you care about the gains and losses of one city and one place?"

After the deliberations, in order to avoid repeating the mistakes of the past, Hidebo moved the administrative center from Fushimi to Osaka, and a month later, unable to resist the persuasion of Kato Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori, etc., the Hokamassho "took the initiative" to give Nishinomaru to Hideho, and he moved to the castle in Kyoto (after Hideyoshi took office as Kanhaku, the Kanhaku Mansion built in Kyoto basically did not earn a generation of "female Sekihaku", so it gradually slipped to the peak of power?). No, it's far from that simple

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