Through Nakato Nobutomo Hideho, I learned that a few days ago, the lord of Kanai Castle of the Ikeda family captured a ninja and searched from him for letters exchanged between Tohime and Ieyasu, which described in detail Terumasa's recent developments, and even listed who he had met, Terumasa was greatly dissatisfied when he learned about it, thinking that Tokugawa Ieyasu did not trust him as a son-in-law, which made him lose face, so he asked Ieyasu to give him an explanation

Tokugawa Ieyasu quibbled that the ninja was not appointed by himself, and that the letter was not written by Zhenhime, but that someone intended to frame him, and asked Terumasa to hand over the ninja to him for interrogation Terumasa was not a fool, and of course refused to hand over the ninja, so Ieyasu took the opportunity to question the Ikeda family's lack of trust in him, and sent an interrogator to Tatebayashi Castle to ask Terumasa to give an explanation

However, at this time, under the strong pressure of Teimasa, Zhenji finally admitted that he was ordered by Ieyasu to spy on him, and also revealed that there was a hidden Tokugawa family in the house, which made Teruma furious, and ordered someone to drive the interrogator out of Ueno When the envoy passed through Kanai Castle, he was attacked by the samurai under the gate of Ikeda Nagamasa (the fourth brother of Teimasa), the lord of Kanai Castle who was disguised as a farmer, and almost died. Terumasa again refused, and Honda Masanobu personally went to Tatebayashi to persuade Terumasa to replace the murderer with two death row inmates, which calmed Ieyasu's anger

Although there has been no similar conflict between the two families since then, it is difficult to repair the rift once it occurs, especially with the addition of external forces, it is impossible to reconcile Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ikeda Terumasa as before, because just before Honda Masanobu left Tatebayashi Castle, Gamo Hideyuki personally visited, with only one purpose, that is, to strive for an alliance with the Ikeda family in accordance with the plan sent by Komiyayama Harukatsu to form a three-sided encirclement of Musashi

Generally speaking, the Gamo family and the Ikeda family have many similarities: both are married to the daughters of Tokugawa Ieyasu, both are young and vigorous, and both do not want to be oppressed by Ieyasu, but they are both helpless and powerless to resist, but Gamo Hideyuki got rid of this situation earlier, and he chose to form an alliance with Hideho in and thus turned his back on Tokugawa Ieyasu, in his opinion, this alliance was not equal, but it was quite fair compared to Edo, and this alliance gave him a taste of sweetness (the sealing of the territory) before it was established, made him full of confidence in Hidebo, so that he was willing to risk his face with Ieyasu to join the team of the Toyotomi family

Of course, fighting alone is a bit frightening after all, especially around Tokugawa Ieyasu, who dominated the Kanto region, so as soon as he got Komiyayama's plan, Gamo Hideyuki hurried to Tatebayashi Castle, determined to use his own personal experience to plot against Ikeda Terumasa

Coupled with Gamo Hideyuki's bitter persuasion and dissatisfaction and disappointment with Tokugawa Ieyasu's arrogant attitude, Ikeda Terumasa hesitated for a while, but at this moment, the important ministers in the family, including his most important brother Ikeda Nagamasa, expressed their willingness to submit to Kinki, which made Ikeda Terumasa finally make up his mind to form an alliance with Gamo Hideyuki, and in the following months, according to Komiyama's plan before his departure, Gamo Hideyuki pulled Utsunomiya Kunitsuna Fukushima Masanori to join. In addition, the Aoki brothers, who were stationed in Otawara after that, completed the alliance between the entire Ueno and most of the Shimono, and this alliance was historically called the "Noshu Alliance" and the "Junyuan Three Alliances" of the three families of Nishio Arimashiarai, and later the "Koshin Alliance" established by Gamo (Shinano Kawanakajima Leader) and Asano Nagamasa, which was called the "Three Pillars of the Eastern Kingdom" by Hideho, and was the vanguard and bridgehead of Hideho's march into Higashimoto, which had an extraordinary and important role

Speaking of the "Three Pillars of the Eastern Kingdom", we have to mention the "only Great Wall in the West Sea", saying that in order to facilitate management and let the Korean garrison enjoy the same treatment as the mainland, Xiubian asked the five elders and the five commissioners to discuss and approve the establishment of "Rena Kingdom" (referred to as "Renju") in the nine cities and three islands and adjacent areas garrisoned by the Japanese army, so that it would be on an equal footing with other domestic reido states

According to the estimation of the stone height system of the "Japan", the stone height of the current territory of Renna can reach 260,000 stones, which is roughly equivalent to the Chikugo country, and it was divided into four counties at the beginning of its establishment, namely Incheon County (County Incheon), Jeolla County (County Governor Suncheon), Namhae County (County Governance Guseong) and Gyeongsang County (County Governance Busan), the national capital was Sacheon After the signing of the "Incheon Peace Treaty" with the Ming Dynasty, the scope of cultivation was expanded, and two counties of Ulsan and Jinju were added, which are collectively called "Ren Na Six Counties"

According to the discussion of the five elders, Shimazu Yoshihiro was appointed as the first "Ren Na Mamoru" to hold the position of "Ren Na Mamoru General Charge Officer", which was still held by Ogasawara Tadashi, as a semi-military order system, Ren Na also had the post of "Ren Na Executive", and the responsibilities were similar to that of "Military Administration", which was held by the original Fukushima Masahru who stayed in Busan

From the above, it can be seen that although the nominal appointment was in a state of joint management of the five elders and the five elders, but the actual mountain, the most important force of Ren - 20,000 troops stationed in Korea, was firmly in the hands of Hidebo, and the reason for this result was naturally inseparable from Hideyoshi's appointment of Hideho as the "General General of the Japanese Army in Korea" before his death, which was also the most important chess piece for Hideho to control the western country

Although there were already 20,000 troops in the western country, Hidebo still managed to pull out the Matsuura town of Matsuura on the Matsuura Peninsula to Soyoshitomo of Tsushima Island and Mori Hidemoto of Chofu Castle to make it the so-called "Nishihanai" to control the Kanmon Strait of the Korean Strait and the Nishi-Seto Inland Sea

To sum up, it can be seen that the so-called "Xihanhe" is an alliance that is not actively requested between the members during the Xiubi period, and in addition to Ren Nachangfu, the rest of the daimyo in the "union" are all small names that are not worth mentioning purely for filling, in addition, the Maori Xiuyuan of Changfu City is not an independent daimyo, but a force subordinate to Maori Huiyuan, and does not have a strong independent xìng, therefore, this "Xihanhe" is only a loose organization and cannot effectively unify the resources of the West Sea

Of course, after a period of investigation, Hidebo also understood this, and although he was very reluctant, he announced the dissolution of the "union" less than half a year after its establishment, and replaced it with a new "Saikai Bibian Division" formed by the Toyotomi garrison on the Toyotomi Islands of Renna, Tsushimagoji, this institution was the "only Great Wall in the West Sea" that Hideho had placed great hopes on, and strengthened the military presence in addition to the trade monopoly, which on the one hand made the pockets of the daimyo of Nishikuni bulge, and on the other hand, it also aroused the vigilance of Daimyo such as Kuroda Mori Shimazu. made them unconsciously throw an olive branch at Ishida Mitsunari and Tokugawa Ieyasu (to be continued!). (Go read read .) cm