Under Fushimi Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu's residence.

Honda Masanobu listened to Tokugawa Ieyasu talk about what happened to him at Hideyoshi, and there was an imperceptible smile on his face throughout. When Ieyasu was unhappy to confide in the whole thing, Honda Masanobu put down the teacup and slowly analyzed: "This bitter meat trick is really brilliant enough, sacrificing his nephew to weaken the family, ordinary people must be fooled, but His Royal Highness must have seen that something was wrong, confiscated his nephew's territory, even if it was more, the money in his left hand was put in his right hand, and there was no half reduction in the strength of the Toyotomi family; But it's different to cut your territory, no matter how little it is, it's still earned, not to mention the huge Ueno Ichikoku and the total 100,000 koku? ”

Tokugawa Ieyasu nodded, and said complainingly: "I really didn't expect Heihachi to make such a mistake, it seems that he relied too much on him, but it made him more and more arrogant, why didn't he understand, this is different from Kanto, but it is not a place for him to spread wild, and there must be a price to pay for using force here, but I didn't expect that this price is too great." ”

Honda Masanobu looked at Ieyasu who cared so much about his territory of 500,000 stones, and said disapprerovingly: "This is not your style of doing things, Your Highness, if you don't save Honda and his son because of this fiefdom, the damage caused is really difficult to measure with land." But then again, this His Royal Highness Toyotomi Hideho can perform so realistically with Taiko at a young age, it seems that it really can't be underestimated. ”

Seeing that the tea was cold, Ieyasu got up and respectfully poured hot tea for his first strategist, frowning, as if talking to himself, and as if asking Honda Masanobu's opinion: "You said this is also strange, I heard that the adopted son of His Royal Highness Yamato Nayan is an unlearned, naughty and naughty person, although he has not talked too much today, but from his words and deeds tonight, it can be determined that this son must not be an idle person, at least he has some talent." I didn't expect to kill Guan Bai and go into the wilderness, and such an unfathomable big man came up, and the days I waited for in the future will be really difficult. ”

Seeing that Ieyasu cared so much about Hidebo's performance tonight, Honda Masanobu rolled his eyes, and immediately thought about it, motioned for Ieyasu to lean his head over, and whispered to him about his plan......

Omi had to hand it over again in less than half a year, and Hidebo was also unhappy in his heart, seeing that his stone height was cut by one-third, and he was muttering in his heart, whether the chips he opened were too high, Fukushima Takayoshi was a small lord of 30,000 stones, and he actually used more than ten times the territory in exchange, I really don't know how he got it in the first place.

Although Nagashu Masaya hadn't personally experienced the important meeting of cutting millions of stones tonight, he could still hear some eyebrows from Hideho's mouth. When Hideho said that he must continue to build Yudong Mountain Castle and Nagayoshi Pass, the Masa family finally said his thoughts: "Can't Your Highness see that this is a bitter trick used by Taiko? ”

"Bitter Meat Trick?" Hideho repeats the words of the Masaya like a monk who is confused, in his opinion, there is something wrong with Nagayoshi's first battle, and it is normal for Hideyoshi to kick himself, as for the confiscation of the territory, it was proposed by himself, what does this have to do with the bitter meat plan?

When the Nagashu family heard Xiubao's questioning, they couldn't help laughing: "Your Highness is really too shallow to understand Taige's good intentions." Your Highness, where is the most important place in Minami-Omi? ”

Hideho replied without hesitation: "Of course, it's Yudong Mountain Castle and Nagayoshi Pass, these two places have been built by me with half a year's energy and huge financial resources, hey, it's a pity that they will eventually be handed over to others..." "Not really, but so what?" Hideho still didn't understand.

The Zhengjia looked helplessly at the seventeen-year-old Da Nayan, and finally revealed the mystery: "Since Taige didn't say when you will build the city, then we can extend the construction period, or even build some more fortifications, before we 'finally' finish, aren't these two places still ours?" ”

Hearing this, Xiubao suddenly realized, and slapped his head: "Why didn't I think of this trick, presumably Taige finally ordered me to imply that I would not confiscate these two important places for the time being." ”

"Since you can understand this matter, then Your Highness the so-called Bitter Meat Trick will also understand." The Masaka family breathed a sigh of relief.

"It should be Taiko who wants to use this to weaken the strength of the Tokugawa family, right?" Xiubao asked tentatively. Masajia nodded; "That's right, Taige will return your fief to you after all, but what you get from His Royal Highness Tokugawa will never be given to him again, but this is also thanks to His Highness, fortunately, you dare to put such a big bargaining chip to make the family achieve great success, presumably Taiko is laughing heartily in his dream at this moment."

After listening to the Masa's tirade, Hideho suddenly felt that he was still too naïve politically, but fortunately he made a good move this time, otherwise Hideyoshi's hard work would have been in vain.

The announcement of the disposition of the territory was issued with great speed, and the next morning it spread among the major names, mainly involving four people: Fukushima Masanori was transferred from Owari Kiyosu 240,000 koku to Kitaueno Keitanjo Castle 280,000 koku, Ikeda Terumasa was transferred from Mikawa Yoshida 150,000 koku to Kainodate Rin 180,000 koku, and Kamiso Daikita 100,000 koku was acquired by Hosokawa Tadashiko, and his father took charge of his 120,000 koku of Tango; As for the 370,000 koku of Minami Omi, in addition to the 80,000 koku of Goto Mountain Castle and the 30,000 koku of Nagayoshiguan, 120,000 koku of the remaining territory were sealed to Masuda Masamori, and 140,000 koku were sealed to Kyogoku Takaji.

For such a distribution, anyone with a discerning eye can see Hideyoshi's intentions, Fukushima Masanori, Ikeda Terumasa, and Hosokawa Tadashi are not Hideyoshi's descendants, and the intention of placing them in the Kanto region is self-evident; Kyogoku Takaji originally had a fief of 70,000 koku in Otsu, but now it has inexplicably sealed 140,000 koku and become a daimyo with 210,000 koku high, which makes people feel that it is just a numbers game played by Hideyoshi, and it has no real impact on the Toyotomi regime; However, Masuda Masamori's 120,000 koku is generally believed to be Hideyoshi's reward for his outstanding performance in the follow-up work of the exiled hideji, so although he has gained a large territory, his reputation has become infamous and despised by the world.

Thinking that he now only had two countries and less than 900,000 Shi Gao, Xiubao suddenly felt that the lofty ambition he had promised at the beginning had become far away, and he did not expect that a bigger conspiracy was approaching him step by step.