Japan, Kyoto, Toyotomi Hideji's residence.

Toyotomi Hideji looked at Ishida Mitsunari whose eyes were swollen, and his eyes were a little unbearable.

"Are the injuries alright?"

Toyotomi Hideji asked like this just to make a gesture, although he himself could see that Ishida Mitsunari's eyes were badly swollen, in fact, if it wasn't for Ishida Mitsunari dodging in time, Asano Yukinaga's iron fist was enough to blind his eyes.

And there are Hosokawa Tadashi and Ikeda Terumasa behind Asano Yukinaga, which is enough to kill Ishida Mitsunari, they are both extremely dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari, if it weren't for the mediation of the Maeda Toshiya, they would have been unable to help but take action.

At the beginning, Xiao Ruxun made the decision to divide Japan into three parts and after careful consideration, he used the privilege of the chief general to secretly release the three Toyotomi supporters who were captured alive, Ishida Mitsunari, Ukita Hideie and Asano Yukinaga, and replaced the prince with a tanuki.

Xiao Ruxun decided to let them return to the Toyotomi clan to stabilize the situation of the Toyotomi clan, and not let Tokugawa Ieyasu's power surpass the Toyotomi clan, so as not to let Wu Weizhong's 10,000 horses lose control of the situation, thus affecting the situation that he has worked hard to manage.

This strategy did work, judging from the information he had received based on the confession of Monk Gensu and his vague memory, the Ukita Hideya was the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and was extremely loyal to the Toyotomi clan and would not betray.

Ishida Mitsunari is the person who was promoted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he is also very loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Xiao Ruxun still vaguely remembers that the battle of Sekigahara and Tokugawa Ieyasu was against Ishida Mitsunari, which is also Tokugawa Ieyasu's sworn enemy.

Asano Yukinaga has been working with Toyotomi Hideyoshi since he was a child, and his loyalty to the Toyotomi clan will not be less, when Tokugawa Ieyasu killed Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Asano Yukinaga gritted his teeth and vowed to avenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi if he could escape.

So Xiao Ruxun chose these three people to be released secretly.

What happened after these three people went back, Xiao Ruxun also paid more attention to the situation in Japan in Burma, and learned that all three of them were reactivated by Toyotomi Shuji to stabilize the situation, so he knew that his plan had worked, and the power of the Toyotomi clan was re-stabilized, and the Tokugawa clan missed the best opportunity to destroy the Toyotomi clan, and since then it has fallen into a situation of confrontation between the east and the west.

Coupled with the suppression and deterrence of Wu Weizhong's 10,000 southern soldiers, Japan entered a strange period of peace.

And this period of peace can be maintained until now, which is indispensable for the long-standing open and covert struggle between the east and the west and the deterrence of the Ming court.

Now, the Maeda Toshiya died just right, and although there is no Tokugawa Ieyasu to make trouble externally, the internal contradictions of the Toyotomi clan continue.

After being reappointed, Ishida Mitsunari summed up the failure of the Korean campaign and criticized himself, but at the same time criticized some daimyo who died in Korea or were escorted to Beijing to be executed.

The result was achieved, and at the same time it sparked public outrage.

Moreover, after the war, Toyotomi Hideji and Maeda Toshiie urgently needed their subordinates to stabilize their situation, so they promoted these three as heroes who "led troops to break through and return to their homeland", and successfully made them become daimyo again and seize power.

In fact, they also figured it out that Xiao Ruxun asked them to come back, nothing more than to strengthen Toyotomi's power, not to let the situation of the division of the east and the west be broken, and not to let Japan reunify, although it was very insidious, but this was undoubtedly in their interests.

At that time, although the Tokugawa army was wiped out by tens of thousands of people by the Ming army, and also lost the military advisor Kuroda Kanwei who betrayed Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Honda Tadakatsu, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, the strength still existed, and it was much better than the Toyotomi army that was basically wiped out by the Ming army.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's supporters, such as Kato Kiyomasa Konishi, were basically all killed, and the army was also killed and wounded, and most of them failed to come back in the past, either being killed or being captured by the Ming army and brought back to China to work as coolies and then died in China.

The Toyotomi clan only had a group of retainers under Toyotomi Hideji and a small number of troops, if it weren't for the timely action of the Maeda Toshiya to help Toyotomi Hideji stabilize Kyoto and recruit men, it is estimated that before the Ming army came, Tokugawa Ieyasu would have attacked Kyoto.

Without Kyoto, the gathering point of righteousness, the Toyotomi clan will really become a rootless duckweed.

Xiao Ruxun simply knew how to balance the forces of the two sides, and sent back the three key people who had not had time to kill, although they were very annoyed, but for the survival of the Toyotomi clan, Tokugawa Ieyasu was also a mortal enemy.

In order, they decided to make Tokugawa Ieyasu pay the price of blood first, and then let Xiao Ruxun know the consequences of arrogance.

As a result, seven years later, they still haven't been able to fulfill their dreams.

On the contrary, they are going further and further down the path of political enemies.

Ishida Mitsunari is talented, but his methods are radical, his emotional intelligence is not high, and he has no ability to control, so he can't let the ministers of the Bunchen faction and the military generals coexist peacefully and peacefully, but a series of policy announcements are not friendly to the daimyo of the military shogun faction, which makes even the Ukita Hideya, who has never paid attention to the contradictions between the military generals of the civil and military generals, feel dissatisfied.

In the concentrated outbreak of this conflict, the Ukita Hideya did not play any role, and if it weren't for Toyotomi Hideji's timely intervention, I don't know what would happen.

But as the lord, Toyotomi Hideji couldn't really punish those three people, and after reprimanding them, he quickly released them, in fact, Toyotomi Hideji was also very dissatisfied with the sudden explosion of the military commander card to attack Ishida Mitsunari.

In his opinion, as soon as the Maeda Toshiya died, these generals rioted en masse and attacked Ishida Mitsunari in front of him, at least this is completely not giving him face, and at the worst, this is not putting the lord in his eyes, is the status of the Maeda Toshiya higher than him?

Maeda Toshiya was also very respectful to him when he was alive, and gave him enough face, but those generals didn't give him face at all, and didn't take him in their eyes at all, which made him start to have a different mind when Maeda Toshiya was still alive.

He began to realize that the balance that Maeda Toshiya could maintain could not be maintained without some means, at least without the prestige of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Maeda Toshiie, and his position was unstable.

Despite this, he was able to determine Ishida Mitsunari's loyalty, so he decided to use Ishida Mitsunari to balance the forces of the Shogun faction, and never let the Shogun faction become too arrogant, thus losing control of them and threatening his position.

There was no problem with his strategy, as any regal figure would do.

Seeing the uncontrollable situation of the generals under his command, he will be even more worried.

Even a country like the Ming Dynasty that has no fiefs will guard against military generals, let alone these daimyo who have a large number of fiefs?

Really, it's a big problem.