Things developed as Hideho envisioned, and Kikutei Jiji's filial piety really touched Hideyoshi, and Hideyoshi immediately ordered the **** Kikutei Sunny Season, and asked Ji Ji to take the Clear Season back to Beijing before the end of the year to celebrate Chinese New Year's Eve. Ji Ji hurried to Kasugayama Castle, but finally returned to Kyoto with the sunny season on the third day of the first month.

At this time, Hideho had just married Ajiang and Sakurahime, and the family suddenly became lively. Ah Jiang is twenty-three years old this year, she was Xiubao's sister-in-law, and because of Yodohime's mixing, she became Xiubao's side room, although she married into the family, Xiubao didn't dare to think about anything wrong, and always treated each other politely, which made Ajiang a little embarrassed. In fact, there is another reason why Hideho did this, after all, Ajiang is a means for the Omi faction to win him over, in order to completely fall into the Owari faction, he must not be too close to Ajiang, let alone have children, as for her and Hidekatsu's daughter Toyotomi Wanko, Hideho is very fond of her, and allows Ajiang to take her to Koriyama to raise, after all, children can't be victims of politics.

Asano Nagamasa married Sakurahime to Hideho on a whim, although the marriage events are all at the behest of her parents, the words of the matchmaker, but she just spent her sixteenth birthday but she can't understand her father's approach, why marry her to a person she has never met, and from the mouths of the maids, this Toyotomi Hideho is completely an unlearned, stubborn, cold-blooded, ruthless, talentless and virtuous second ancestor, relying on Hidenaga's foundation and selling his brother to seek glory to climb to such a high position, how can such a person be qualified to marry her? Therefore, on the wedding night, Sakurahime slept in a kimono, which made Hideho quite embarrassed, and left the new house in the early morning to find Kikuhime. Since then, the two have respected each other and do not interfere with each other, Hideho is busy with government affairs, and Sakurahime often summons Confucian scholars to talk about the wind and bones, write poems and paintings, but for practical reasons, most of her friends are women from the princess's family, so it did not bring any negative impact to Hideho.

At the beginning of the new year, Hideho convened a council of retainers in Koriyama Castle, saying that it was a council, but it was actually a means to enhance feelings with these retainers who had worked hard for their families for a year, and to put it bluntly, it was similar to the current party. In the early morning of the first day of the Lunar New Year, nearly 500 powerful retainers and wealthy families from Yamato, Omi, Kii, and Ise gathered in Koriyama Castle.

After a while, Hideho and Kikuhime entered the main hall together, and when they saw the lord seated, the retainers instantly quieted down, bowed respectfully, and waited for Hideho to make a New Year's speech.

Seeing such a lively scene, Xiubao was also in a good mood, motioned for everyone to get up, looked around, and said with a little excitement: "It has been more than five years since I inherited the family business in the 19th year of Tensho, during which I have been able to keep my father's inheritance thanks to all of you who have never given up, and I have been able to keep my father's inheritance with me. Seeing that the lord was so humble, the retainers did not dare to slack off, and they bowed down one after another.

Fujitang Gaohu said with a little excitement: "Why should the lord be so humble, the family business you have created today is better than the previous lord, all of this depends on the lord's own strength, how dare we rashly take the credit." ”

Xiubao waved his hand and said: "What Gao Hu said is wrong, dare to ask you, how can I manage this fiefdom of more than a million stones alone, isn't it the credit of everyone working together and serving the public wholeheartedly?" Therefore, I ask you to be humble, and this time you have been summoned to evaluate your merits. ”

Hearing that the merits were to be evaluated, the hall was in a commotion again, except for Gao Hu and Qingxing and other close ministers of Xiubao, almost all of them were gearing up and excited, waiting for Xiubao's reward.

Seeing everyone's excited expressions, Hideho smiled slightly, nodded to the side near Aoki Jiuju, and Jiuju took out a stack of documents from the inner room, he picked up the top one, looked at everyone and said: "First of all, it is to issue a Wanxing certificate, and from now on, it will seal Fujido Gaohu Isetsu Castle 80,000 stones." "Thank you, the lord, the minister will definitely bow to death in the future!" Fujido Gaohu stepped forward excitedly and respectfully received the Wanxing form.

"Move the sealed island, Kiyoko, Ise, Nagashima, 60,000 stones." Jiuju continued, and Dao Qingxing strode forward to bow to Wan Xing, in fact, to him, these 60,000 stones are nothing, as long as he can continue to serve Xiubao, he will be content.

Immediately afterwards, Hideho gave 40,000 stone to Fukushima Takayoshi Bunzan Castle and appointed him as the acting official of Wae Castle and the five surrounding fortresses built in Iga;

Since Horio Yoshiharu had confiscated his holdings by Hideyoshi, Hideho also symbolically gave him 60,000 koku from Matsuzaka Castle this time, and arranged for him to go to Ise to seize the Rakuchi Rakuza to stabilize the stability of the new territory;

As for the Nagashu family, since he is still the 50,000-stone daimyo of Shuikou Castle under Hideyoshi, in order to avoid suspicion, he did not accept the Zhixing that Hideho added to him.

Nasuzaemon, who fought bravely during the Battle of Nagayoshi and led his troops to resist several charges of the Tokugawa army, was the concubine of Nasu Shiharu, the head of the Nasu clan of Shimono Namoto, and the Nasu family was changed because he did not obey Hideyoshi's call during the Odawara expedition, and then Shiharu's son-in-law Shikei reluctantly obtained 5,000 stone Chiyuki under Hideyoshi's sympathy, and Saemon had to leave Shimono as a concubine to become a ronin, and later met Fukushima Takayoshi in Kyoto, so far he became a fierce general under his command, and served 500 kan at the age. This time, Hideho took charge and allowed Saemon to use the Nasu family's common character, officially changed his name to Nasu Shikichi, and was promoted to the head of the Hideho Madaku group, leading Kii Iwamuro Castle with 12,000 koku, completing the revival of the family name.

In addition, the more special is the Kirigakushi Caizo, because Asai Hidemasa obtained the knowledge of Asai County and did not have the experience to continue to form a ninja army, so he handed over the position of the ninja leader (Kamishinobi) to Caizo, in order to give him an identity, Hideho gave him 15,000 stone of Sangname, and asked him to cooperate with Shima Kiyoko to monitor the movements of the Noo area, and rushed to Koga and Iga to gather ninjas to form a ninja army.

After the issuance of the Wan Xing certificate, it is the issuance of the ability to block the certificate, this type of people are generally without merit and fault, the issuance of this kind of certificate is just a guarantee of their existing interests, and does not have much practical significance, the main personnel are as follows:

Kuwasan Shigemharu, Kii Wakayama 30,000 stones;

Haneda Masa's relatives Yamato Oda Castle 48,000 stones;

Suzuki Shige Kii Saga 14,000 stones;

Tadashi Kishida's Yamato Kishida Castle 10,000 stones;

Aoki one moment Yamato into the mountain castle 10,000 stone;

Heisuke Yoshikawa (Ship Commissioner) Ise Daiminto 7,000 stones.

The most special is Uta Yoritada, the lord of the castle with the ability of Yamato Koizumi 5,500 koku, because of the relationship between Ishida Mitsunari's father-in-law, he "specially" transferred the 5,500 koku of Ise Matsushima, sandwiched between Tsu Castle in Takatora and Matsuzaka Castle in Horio, presumably it is also a special care for this old man.

Most of the others received a certificate of appreciation from Hideho and received a variable amount of monetary rewards.

In addition, since Nagayoshiguan and Gotoyama Castle were only "temporarily ruled" by Hideho, they could not be divided as territories, so Fujido Takatora was appointed as the castle representative of the two places, responsible for overseeing the construction of the two places.

As for the retainers, Yi Xin Chongchuan appeared for the first time as a military advisor of his family at this meeting, and served as the abbot of his own Bodhi Temple; Horio Yoshiharu continued to serve as the chief patriarch of the family, and Fujido Takatora, Shima Kiyoko, Nagashu Masaka, Fukushima Takayoshi, Kuwayama Shigeharu, and Haneda Masaharu were appointed as family elders, and the seven people led the establishment of the "Elder Council", the decision-making body of the retainers' group.

In fact, the choice of these people to serve as the elders of the family is also the result of Xiubao's hard thinking.

The first is Horio Yoshiharu, who is an old minister who served Hideyoshi, Hideji and Hideho, has a relatively high status in the Toyotomi regime, and has a kind temperament and is good at reconciling relations (no wonder people give the nickname "Buddha Shigesuke"), as an old man can be said to be deserved;

Fujido Takatora, Shima Kiyoshi and Fukushima Takaki were included in the family veteran group because of their merits on the surface, but in fact they were not only that, the most important thing is that they were all pulled up by Hideho, and they were naturally absolutely obedient to Hideho, and they accounted for three of the six seats of the elders, which provided a guarantee for the implementation of Hidebo's new policy in the future;

Sangshan Chongqing was the elder of the family for a long time, and with him, he could win the support of the old ministers of the family, and at the same time, he could also ensure the rights and interests of the old ministers, so as to alleviate internal contradictions;

Haneda Masakin's family is the most powerful of the Yamato family, and letting him join the family group is actually to take care of the emotions of the family, so that the family can also participate in the construction of the family, and then slowly integrate it, and finally realize its retainalization.

After announcing the candidates for the assessment of the elders, Xiubao was about to start the appointment of the generals of the various armies of the family, at this time, a burly figure stood up from the crowd, and said in a voice like a flood but with a very respectful voice: "Please forgive the lord, your subordinates still have some opinions on the selection of the elders, please let the ministers report." ”

"Hmm, you're..."Xiubao frowned, and beat a drum silently in his heart: "Who is this person?" Did he see something wrong? ”