Seeing this scene, Mabe's hanging heart relaxed slightly, and he sighed softly, but was noticed by Shuho with the afterglow of his eyes.

"An Yishou led the 3,000 Satake troops out of Aizu this time, and he made a great contribution, and to put it bluntly, he played a greater role than the Totachi attendants who were far away in Mito." Hideho said casually as he fiddled with the firewood in the campfire.

"Your Royal Highness has won the award, the minister is just an ordinary retainer under the command of the attendant, and he has not made any achievements before, this time he is trusted by His Royal Highness, and he is fortunate to make a small contribution, but this is also the credit of the Satake clan, and the minister will never dare to take it alone." Listening to Hidebo's words, Mabe was extremely sensitive, and he immediately euphemistically expressed his loyalty to the Satake clan.

"An Yishou is too nervous," Xiu Bao smiled and said soothingly: "I'm not provoking the relationship between you and the attendants, but your True Wall Clan used to be a major force in Changlu, and Ling Zun even had the title of 'Ghost True Wall' before his death, I just said that, it was also out of respect for the True Wall Clan, please don't worry about it." ”

Hearing this, the Makabe clan hesitated a little, he knew that Xiubao was deliberately testing himself just now, but when he heard him mention his father's name, his heart was still sour: "I didn't expect His Highness to remember the deeds of the Mabi's clan and his father, the foreign minister is really excited, but the Makabe clan has been subservient to the Satake clan for more than 20 years, and he will not and should not have other ideas, please forgive your Highness." ”

"What are you talking about," Hideho asked rhetorically, pretending to be surprised, "I've heard of the Makabe clan's loyalty to the Satake clan for a long time, so how could they do such a thing of secretly provoking trouble?" Okay, if the conversation just now made An Yishou misunderstand, Xiubao apologizes here. ”

"Your Highness is tormenting the foreign minister," the real wall clan hurriedly bowed and saluted: "It is the foreign minister who spends the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, and I ask Your Highness to forgive your sins." ”

Xiubao waved his hand, then helped him up, and said with a smile: "Since it was a misunderstanding, then you and I should not take it to heart, everything you did for the Satake clan today, I will definitely tell the attendant the truth at that time." It's not too early, and you have to prepare for the inner house, so you go down first. ”

"Yes." The Mabe clan immediately got up and exited the tea room after giving the salute, looking at his back, Hideho sighed slightly.

"Come out," Hideho said calmly. At this time, I saw a middle-aged man slowly walking out from behind the screen.

"Lord Yigan, you also heard the conversation I had with your brother just now." Hideho asked.

The middle-aged man nodded: "I heard it very clearly, it seems that my brother is unwilling to turn his back on the Satake clan and restore the glory of his ancestors." ”

In fact, the middle-aged man in front of Hideho is Magabe Yoshigan, the younger brother of the Mabe clan. The Mabe clan had no heirs, so they adopted Yoshigan's eldest son, Mabifanggan, as an adopted son in order to inherit the position of family governor in the future. This is very common among the Sengoku daimyo, and Magabe Yoshigan doesn't have any ideas, but Makabe Clan's attitude towards the Satake clan makes Yoshigan very disgusted.

The Mabi, from the Huanwuhei clan - the Da Peng clan - the Ryu Mabi clan, is also a side branch of the Da Peng clan, and since the Heian period, it has been a powerful country in the area of Mabi County in Hitachi Province. In the Makabe Kugan period, known as the "Oni Makabi", Makabe Kugan was divided between the Oda clan, the Go-Hojo clan, and the Satake clan, so that the Makabe clan's sphere of influence reached a peak, with control of the two counties of Magaki and Tsukuba, and there was a trend towards independent daimyo.

Not only that, although the Makabe clan is close to the Satake clan on the surface, as a collateral of the Dapeng clan, he married his daughter to the Dapeng clan's head Dapeng Qinggan, and actively used his advantages in the western part of Hitachiku to cooperate with the "Southern Thirty-three Pavilions" headed by the Dapeng clan to fight against the Tokichi hegemony of the Satake clan, on the one hand, it is the responsibility of the side branch of the Dapeng clan, and on the other hand, he also wants to buy time and opportunity for himself to expand his sphere of influence by delaying the southern invasion of the Satake clan.

Unfortunately, however, the hero of the Makabe clan died of illness in the seventeenth year of Tensho, the year before Odawara's expedition. His death had a huge impact on the situation in Hitachi.

After the Odawara conquest, although Hideyoshi gave Hitachi Ichigoku to the Satake clan, this was equivalent to a blank check, and nearly half of the territory of Tokoro was still in the hands of the Daisho clan and its side branches. Hideyoshi did this, on the one hand, to give Satake Yoshishige a favor to his father and son, but on the other hand, he did not want to see the Satake clan really unify Hitachi, but hoped to nominally obtain the submission of the Daisho clan and maintain the unity of the surface, but in fact the government still did not reach the south, which was also a method commonly used by Hideyoshi to maintain control over the local daimyos.

But to Hideyoshi's surprise, Satake Yoshishige and Satake Yoshinobu were not ordinary people, and they actively took advantage of such a righteous name to start the war against the Dapeng clan. But at such a critical moment, the newly succeeded Makabe clan governor Makabe clan changed the policy of his father Mabe Hisaka, gave up the opportunity to become an independent daimyo, and turned to fully support the Satake clan.

The Satake clan saw the opportunity and defeated the resistance of the Dapeng clan and the "Southern Thirty-three Pavilions" in less than a year, and completed the unification of Hitachi, and the last head of the Dapeng clan and his main room, that is, the sister of the Mabe clan, also committed suicide, and the famous Dapeng clan in the Kanto region was completely wiped out.

Although because of this incident, the Mabe clan obtained the Wanxing form of the Satake clan and retained the knowledge of about 6,000 koku in the two counties of Magaki and Tsukuba, but in the eyes of outsiders, this is just a reward from the seller for glory, and the prestige of the Mabe clan has also greatly declined. Not only that, but the Mabe clan also lost the opportunity to become an independent daimyo, which made the efforts of several generations of his ancestors in vain, I have to say, what the Mabe clan did was a lack of strategic vision, but his mentality of seeking stability, in that era, it seems that he can't be too harsh.

Makabe's approach caused dissatisfaction among many old ministers, including his younger brother Magabe Yoshigan. Although his son is regarded as the next governor, Magabe Yoshigan still feels that his brother has deviated from the wishes of the previous masters of the Makabe family, especially Magabe Jiugan, and his betrayal of the Dapeng clan is also unforgivable.

Therefore, he and many old ministers asked the Mabe clan to retire, and everyone came to live in seclusion in the area of the lower hall of Mabi-gun, which was five years in a flash. The Mabe clan, which has lost many of his retainers, has been greatly weakened, and the Dapeng clan has been wiped out, and the Mabe clan has also lost its use value, Satake Yoshishige decided to find a reason to take back Tsukuba County from the Mabe clan, but Satake Yoshinobu couldn't see this happen, and fought for the Mabe clan, and finally retained the existing knowledge and action.

However, after the Mabe clan was killed, he was stranded in Mito Castle for a long time, and many of the Satake clan's commissioners were installed in the territory, and the independence of the Mabe clan was greatly weakened.

With Hideho sending troops to Aizu, Mabe Yoshigan and other old ministers seem to have found a turning point, especially after learning that the Satake clan made way for the Tokugawa army, Mabe Yoshikan caught up with Hideho on the way to Numata Castle by the Toyotomi coalition army, reported the Satake clan to Hidebo, and begged Hideho to help the Mabe clan restore its former glory.

Helping the Mabe clan break away from the Satake clan is undoubtedly a good strategy to weaken the Satake clan, but Hideho considers that the Mabe clan is the current head of the Mabe clan after all, and he was not at fault when he went to Aizu, so he decided to give him a chance to test whether he intends to break away from the Satake clan, and if he doesn't want to, then transfer this opportunity to Mabe Yoshikan, which leads to the conversation between him and the Mabe clan before.

"That way, things are clear." Hideho said to Magabe Yoshigan: "You go back to Changlu first, contact the retainers of the Magami Gate, incite riots, and demand the removal of An Yimori's position as the governor, and after I get the news here, I will immediately remove An Yishou from the military and take him into custody, as for the crime, I think in addition to the riots at home, sending people to attack the inner government can also be listed as a ......"