The morning dawn dews, and the east is white. Hideho travels alone to Honmaru to meet Hideyori and Yodohime with trepidation. It is said that it is alone, but in fact, there are nearly 100 Imperial Horse Houses escorting from the side, on the one hand, considering that the city is still unstable, and on the other hand, it is also time to show the strength of the best name in the world.

Along the way, Hideho saw through the sedan curtain the samurai on both sides of the road, and the civilians kneeling and kowtowing, and his heart was both proud and a little worried: "How many people will be afraid and framed by such power?" ”

The team marched to the mouth of Honmaru Ote, and the samurai who defended the city immediately let him go without saying a word - it is no wonder that after this commotion, the defense of Osaka Castle was taken over by Hidebo, and at this time the general of the castle defense was the samurai who was close to Hidebo, and the heir of the Kida Yinryu swordsmanship, and his senior brother Kamizumi Yasutsuna guarded the Otemaru Oteguchi and the chase gate respectively, and the troops led were more than 2,000.

Hideho lifted the sedan curtain and Kisada Keiyoshi nodded, the latter was in armor and could only bow in return, Hideho understood this, smiled and said "hard work", and went straight into Honmaru.

At this moment, a shout broke the silence of the morning light.

"In front, is His Highness the Right Mansion?" Not far behind Xiubao, a middle-aged man sitting on his shoulder shouted loudly.

Hideho immediately ordered the sedan car to stop, and Aoki Hisashi came to the sedan window and said softly: "Lord Kaiyu, it's Major General Wakasa." ”

"Oh?" Hideho pondered for a moment and said to Aoki Hisaku, "I want to get off the sedan chair." ”

Aoki immediately beckoned the sedan chair man to put down the sedan chair, and Hideho walked out of the bamboo sedan chair, turned around and bowed to Kinoshita Katsutoshi.

Kinoshita Katsutoshi was flattered when he saw this, almost jumped off his shoulder, took three steps and made two steps to Xiubao, and before Xiubao could speak, he fell to the ground with a "poof" and kowtowed: "The criminal originally wanted to go to the right mansion to ask for guilt, but now it is also the will of heaven to meet here, and please punish the right mansion severely." ”

"Punishment?" Xiubao is a bit like the second monk who is confused, "I don't know what the major general is referring to?" ”

"What the minister did in Fushimi Castle, I know that I can't escape it......" Katsutoshi Kinoshita replied.

Hidebo suddenly realized that when the Maori clan attacked Fushimi Castle, at the critical moment, it was the major general Wakasa in front of him who blew up the city wall, causing the defenders to be defeated, Fushimi was lost, and many old ministers of the Yamato Toyotomi clan died in this battle.

For this matter, Hidebo's previous character would never give up, but he couldn't hate Kinoshita Katsutoshi, after all, this guy was able to successfully quell the Osaka commotion this time, and this guy was meritorious.

Moreover, he is also the nephew of Kodaiin Nene Ning, the eldest son of the Kinoshita family, as the so-called does not look at the face of the monk to see the face of the Buddha, considering that the Kodaiin still has a certain influence, out of the consideration of the Owari faction, the punishment of Kinoshita Katsutoshi naturally cannot be executed, not only that, but in this plan, Hidebo also gave him Wakasa Takahama to seal - the 20,000 stone Zhiyuki was originally Kinoshita Katsutoshi's younger brother Kinoshita Ribo, but the latter secretly communicated with Tokugawa Ieyasu during Hideho's trip to Aizu, and the letter was seized by Hidebo, so it was changed.

With Takahama Castle, Kinoshita Katsutoshi became the lord of the 85,000-stone Chiyuki of Wakasa One Country, and it can be regarded as stepping into the ranks of the lord of the country.

However, Kinoshita Katsutoshi did not know the content of the plan at the moment, and although Hideho had promised him that he could use Osaka's merits to redeem his guilt, he was still worried and could not be sure if Hideho would actually fulfill his promise. After all, with Xiubao's power at this moment, he is not qualified to bargain.

Therefore, Kinoshita Katsutoshi is also fully mentally prepared: even if the merits cannot be compensated, as long as one life can be spared, it is acceptable for all the territory to be reduced.

"Major General, I heard that Brother Ling has not been idle during this time." Xiubao squatted down, brought his face closer to Katsutoshi Kinoshita, who was prostrating on the ground, and said with a smile.

"This ......" Kinoshita Katsutoshi was shocked in his heart, and couldn't help but tremble: "Lifang did have a correspondence with Tokugawa and Uesugi, and the criminal minister has reported the matter to his father and Gaodaiyuan, and now Lifang has been grounded in Takahama and listened to His Highness to deal with it." ”

"The major general did a good job of 'killing relatives with righteousness'." Hideho patted Kinoshita Katsutoshi on the shoulder and smiled meaningfully.

Actually, Hideho has compassion for Katsutoshi Kinoshita. Everyone knows that Katsutoshi Kinoshita and Ribo Kinoshita are the eldest and second sons of Kinoshita Ieding, but there is one thing that is rarely mentioned, that is, these two are not Kinoshita Ieding's biological flesh and blood.

Among the seven sons of the Kinoshita family, in addition to Kobayakawa Hideaki, who is famous all over the world, the brothers Katsutoshi Kinoshita and Ribo Kinoshita are also legendary.

The Wakasa Takeda clan, as a branch of the Kai Takeda clan, became the guardian of Wakasa because of his meritorious service in the crusade against the Isshiki clan, and began to rule over Wakasa and Tango. However, like many traditional daimyos, after the Onin War, the Wakasa Takeda clan continued to suffer from internal and external troubles, and their family was in the middle of the road, and their power eventually shrank to Wakasa Province, and they were challenged by the powerful clans in the country. After that, the Echizen Asakura clan sent troops to Wakasa in the name of allies to assist the Takeda clan in quelling the rebellion. The end result was that the Wakasa Takeda clan was almost reduced to a vassal of the Asakura clan, and the country of Wakasa was also occupied by the Asakura clan.

During the Motogame period, Oda Nobunaga officially went to war with Echizen Asakura, and Takeda Motoaki, the last head of the Wakasa Takeda clan, took the opportunity to move closer to Oda Nobunaga, and after the fall of the Asakura clan, he obtained 3,000 stone Chiyuki and took the name "Wakasa People"

In the name of Niwa Nagahide, as Niwa Nagahide's with the power to return to Wakasa.

However, out of dissatisfaction with Niwa Nagahide's contempt for him, Takeda Motoaki sided with Akechi Mitsuhide after the outbreak of the "Honnoji Rebellion" and launched an attack on the Niwa clan's castle. It is known that Akechi Mitsuhide was eventually defeated, and as his ally, Takeda Motoaki also suffered a counterattack from Niwa Nagahide and finally chose to commit suicide.

At this point, the point comes: after the death of Takeda Motoaki, his wife Kyogoku Ryuko was used by Hideyoshi as a side room, called Matsumaru Temple. Among the two sons and one daughter left behind, except for the early death of the daughter, the two sons were adopted as the adopted sons of the Kinoshita family, they are Kinoshita Katsutoshi and Kinoshita Lifang.

As the saying goes, "the son is more precious than the mother", with Hideyoshi's affection for his mother, Kinoshita Katsutoshi received 60,000 koku from Wakasa Kohama in the third year of Fumiroku, and Kinoshita Ribo received 25,000 koku from Wakasa Takahama, dramatically fulfilling the wish of their biological father Takeda Motoaki to restore his rule over Wakasa Ichikoku. It's a pity that at this time they can only claim to be the Kinoshita clan, and the Wakasa Takeda clan will never appear in the land of Wakasa again.

Although he has no impression of Toyotomi Hidecho, let alone feelings, Hideho has indeed felt the difficulty of being an adopted son in the past few years, which also makes him sympathetic to the Kinoshita brothers, Yuki Hideyasu, Ukita Hideya, and even Kobayakawa Hideaki to varying degrees.

"Get up," Hideho helped Kinoshita Katsutoshi up with both hands, patted the dust on his body, and said kindly: "I always talk about it, and the major general just rest assured, don't think nonsense." ”