Chapter 178: The King's Land is Returned
On September 12, Tsutsui Shunsada officially led a group of people and retainers from Iga Fukuji Castle to Yamato-gunyama, which caused an uproar among the daimyos, and for the small daimyos, instead of relying on borrowing from the surrounding daimyo to barely maintain the so-called dignity, it was better to follow the example of the Tsutsui family, and handed over the unworthy Zhixing land to Hideho for management, and had obtained real tax revenues, in fact, many small daimyo have the problem of table height greater than real height, such as Nomura Naotaka of Omi Kuniyu Village, although on the surface it is a daimyo of 20,000 koku, However, in fact, the annual offering is only 8,000 koku, and the number of orders is not as good as before, and even then it has to support hundreds of craftsmen, so in recent years, it has been difficult to make ends meet, and it is almost difficult to make ends meet by borrowing money from the family of Nagasumaki Masa, the lord of the neighboring Mizukou Castle. Under these circumstances, Tsutsui Shunta's approach inspired him, and on September 15, he submitted the "Letter of Return of Zhixing" to Hideho, handing over the village of Kuniyu to Hideho in exchange for a salary equivalent to 20,000 kokushi high every year, and he could build a house in Koriyama Castle and receive Hideho's favor.
The domino effect unfolded, and in the next two months, nearly 100 letters of "Zhixing Bonghuishu" from Kyushu, China,, Kanto and even Ou flocked to it, including both Nakamura Kazushi, who had 150,000 Zhixing, was really tamed by Hideho, and Hirano Nagawei, who had few Zhixing, was only 200 stone, and the total stone height could reach more than 700,000, but Hidebo did not accept these daimyo in its entirety, but included the daimyo who held strategic places in his hands under his command, as for those small daimyo who were in the border and had little use value, Most of them were rejected by Xiubao. Even so, the territory annexed by Hideho reached a considerable amount of more than 300,000 koku, and also harvested several strategically located castles such as Shimono Otawara, becoming the world's largest daimyo of 2.3 million koku in one fell swoop, and the entire RI Ben was eyed by it.
Faced with Hideho's sudden growth of Ishitaka, Ishida Mitsunari gritted his teeth and repeatedly convened the secret meetings of the five commissioners and the daimyo who were good friends with him, at which he bluntly compared Hideho to Cao Cāo, saying that he had the heart of "Quwo Daiyi", and that Yu took Hideyori and replaced him, and it was not enough to entrust him with important tasks, and threatened to convene a daimyo meeting to remove Hideho from his post of hindsight.
Quwo Daiyi refers to the fact that in the early Chunqiu period, there was a bloody case of cannibalism in the Jin Kingdom. After 67 years of struggle, the small sect that was sealed in Wenxi County, Quwo in present-day Shanxi, completely destroyed the great sect of the Jin State entrenched in the southeast of the capital city of present-day Yicheng, Shanxi, and became the master of the Jin State.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, on the other hand, was surprisingly calm, as if all this was expected by him, and it was not worth making a fuss, and those daimyo who were dissatisfied and hoped that Ieyasu would do something were turned away by him and refused to receive them, and only Honda Masanobu and his son were allowed to enter the Honmaru audience.
"My lord, Harukiyo Otawara has already submitted the "Zhixing Bong Return Letter" to Fushimi in accordance with your instructions, and your plan seems to have succeeded." Honda sat respectfully on his knees in the main hall, while Honda sat beside Ieyasu, laughing at the success of the scheme. To be continued......
ps: I'm in a hurry to do the experiment today, so I wrote a thousand words, which can be regarded as the end of this part, don't mind.
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