Chapter 150: The Clouds Move with the Wind (Part II)

Kobayakawa Takakei's protest was obviously because he had figured out my way of doing things, thinking that I had always sought stability, valued reputation, and knew how to make trade-offs and trade-offs, so that the family would completely subvert the style of my previous administration, and persuade them to give in purely and rigid ways. This book is from:

In the original history, Hideyoshi only had 20,000 troops and 10,000 reinforcements from the Uki family, and he was able to force the Maori family to give up the five countries, and make Shimizu Soji seppuku thanks, could it be that the 140,000 troops and more than 20,000 sailors of the four countries, Kyushu, and Beizen couldn't do that to that extent? Their situation of attacking from all sides was more advantageous than Hideyoshi's flooding of Takamatsu Castle, and it was entirely possible to quickly capture the outer cities of Shubo and Iwami, take the Mori family's Yoshida-gun Yamajo Castle, and then divide their forces to dismantle their defense and ruling system.

At this time, the name of Xinjing is very useful. He seized land in Kyushu, uncompromisingly forced several wealthy families, and completely eliminated them. This style of acting will always make the Maori family a little jealous, right?

I summoned Maeda Toshinaga, Honda Masasumi, and Satake Keinao (Yukiwakamaru, Satake Yoshihide's sister-in-law, Satake Nobuhide's younger brother, and the historical son-in-law of the Motokin, Satake Konao), and asked them to go to Nagato Province, Utatsu Port, and Awaji Kuni, respectively, to convey my new orders:

"The Northern Kyushu army is attacking Iwami Province with all its might, and the Central Kyushu army and the Nagato people are attacking Zhou Defense Province with all their might, and the two sides must take out their greatest strength and quickly break the enemy in front of them at any cost, and then converge in the territory of the Mori clan's Anyu Province! The southern Kyushu army of Utatsu Port ended its wait-and-see situation and attacked the preparation of Hoida Motokiyoshi and Shimizu Soharu in China, and conveyed to His Highness Hosokawa Misaku to strengthen the offensive and drive the Yoshikawa family out of the country as soon as possible! On the naval side, Yoshikei and Iwamatsu went to Azumi Province to attack Hiroshima (the residence of the million-stone Mori family in the Hideyoshi era) and contain the main force of the Mori family; He also ordered Futami Mitsunari to attack Iwami Ginzan and other coastal points, and forced Yoshikawa Motoharu to divide his troops...... In addition, Inuchiyo took my Chijie Golden Horse Seal to the head of the house, and asked him to personally go down to the front of the battle with the horse seal and return Kobayakawa Keigen to the Kobayakawa family; All the battles after that were also decided by him and Kamisuke (Takenaka) and Uenosuke (Wasuka)! ”

"Yes!" And they all took their commands.

That should be pretty much the case...... I walked out of the study satisfied.

At the same time, Keimasa from the East China Sea also sent a letter to report to me on the progress of Takeda's conquest of the coalition forces.

"Takeda Katsuyori has escaped from Xinfu Castle with his family governor Takeda Nobukatsu, and is currently missing, and the coalition forces are conducting a large-scale search around Xinfu Castle; Mori Naga Ke led the army with the reinforcements of the Tokugawa family's Mikawa Province into Kita-Shinano and surrounded the Sanada family in Kita-Shinano; Because the general situation has been decided, Yura Keihide left the front line with his own army, and is currently on his way back to Kita-Omi. ”

Regarding Yura Keixiu, he also talked about another piece of information. The last time Keihide attacked Oshima Castle with Takeda Nobuta, Takeda Shingen's concubine and Oda Nobutada's fiancée Matsuhime was in the castle and later became Keihide's captive. For this Oda family's Lady Godaisho (Nobunaga and Shingen did not cancel the marriage contract, Oda Nobutada's position in the main room has been reserved for Matsuhime, so she is the mother of the little family governor; Historically, before Honnoji Temple, Nobutada had sent someone to marry Matsuhime, but unfortunately he was killed in the incident, and then Matsuhime became a monk and prayed for the perished Takeda Ichimonochi and the deceased husband Nobutada), Jingxiu did not dare to slack off, and left her and the maid in the main camp to take care of her, and later captured Nishina Morinobu's two-year-old daughter Xiao Duji (whose mother was the daughter of Takeda Noburui), and handed it over to her to take care of.

As a result, rumors spread throughout Tokaido that Hideyoshi had passed down an order for Keihide to marry Matsuhime and then inherit the family name of the Takeda family. In view of Jingxiu's bloodline of the Xiangzong family (Xiujing's father is the heir of the Xiangzong family, who was murdered by the Changzong family, and inherited the family name and family business with the younger brother of the Yuan family, Qintai), and the Xiangzong family is a branch of the Takeda family (has always used Takeda Ling as the family crest), combined with the previous statement that Jingxiu inherited another family, this rumor has deceived many people. Even Tokugawa Ieyasu was a little suspicious, and specially sent someone to Fushimi Castle to meet Hideyoshi, apologize and say that he had made his own decision to let the children of Anayama Nobuyan inherit the name of the Takeda family, and if His Royal Highness Chikuzen Mamoru made other arrangements, he would try to remedy Yunyun in order to test Hideyoshi's mind.

"Yura Keixiu must be very depressed now!" Jing Zheng wrote in the letter, there is no lack of schadenfreude between the lines, "There are such rumors, and His Royal Highness Chikuzen Mamoru has not clarified, presumably he will understand that it is impossible to inherit the family business of the Yuliang family, so he will definitely throw himself into this family!" ”

I know very well that this rumor must have been spread by Jing Zheng. Last time, in order to expose Hideyoshi's intention to make Hideji his heir, I asked Keimasa to participate in the Tsuya intelligence system to replace Ishiya Yorichen, who is currently in Kyushu. And such a large-scale rumor can only be spread by the combination of Tsuya's intelligence network and the Koga group he is assigned to.

However, I disagree with his optimistic statement. The reason why a rumor is a rumor is a rumor is because it can only win the trust of the masses who are not interested in it, and neither the parties concerned nor those in the know will believe it, so naturally they cannot talk about changing their attitude because of this. For example, the last time I said that Hideyoshi wanted to set up Hideji, this is exactly what Hideyoshi really thought, so it is inconvenient for him to make a statement to clarify; However, the rumor that Kyung-su was going to marry Matsuhime to inherit the name of the Takeda family, Kyung-su himself would definitely not believe it, and he would definitely be able to guess that the rumor was spread by his own family. With this realization, and the fact that I had promised him a marriage contract to Senjuhime, not only would he not be more inclined to his own family, but he would be disgusted by the rumors, and even doubt the sincerity of my promise.

If the last time I forced Hideyoshi to make a statement, so that he could either officially establish Kyungsu as his heir (which is obviously impossible), or give up Kyung-so's idea to the world by default, then this rumor is forcing Kyung-su to make a statement. If Kyung-su still has an idea about the position of the heir of the Yura family (which is almost certain), he must clear up the rumors or do something to win Hideyoshi's approval. Therefore, in addition to interfering with the Yuliang family, this rumor may make Jingxiu make a choice that is not conducive to his family.

I don't know if Jing Zheng didn't think it through when he did this, or did it intentionally to prevent Jing Xiu from throwing himself into his own family? It's not impossible. I once revealed to him that he was going to make Jingxiu the Lianzhi family, and this was very harmful to him, and he definitely had the motive to reject Jingxiu.

According to the "Provisional Laws of the Kira Family", only one member of each of the four types of clans, namely the Imperial Family, the Renzhi Family, the Commander Family, and the Followers, can govern in order to prevent the influence of one type of family from becoming too great, leading to an imbalance between the clans and the lineage, or a crisis of power struggle between the Ruling and Arbitrary factions. If it is about to be pacified today, everything must be on the right track soon, and the law will definitely be strictly enforced, that is to say, if he wants to be the center of the government, he must first compete with the rest of the Lianzhi family, and if Jingxiu also becomes the Lianzhi family, with his ability, prestige, the forces of the Yura family he represents, and the importance I show to him, he is obviously another powerful opponent besides Ii Xuanzhi.

I sighed. If this is really the case, it will be the second time that Keimasu has used himself for his own sake, and coupled with his initial actions in Iga Province, it is already close to my bottom line. Yes, I can think of ways to solve similar problems, and I may even use them to make an article to fight for more benefits. But I can't always clean up the aftermath for him and keep pampering him like this, otherwise it will not give him a chance to grow, but to appease and nurture adultery. The stronger his ability and the more powerful he is, the greater the hindrance will be in the future.

Of course, I am not worried that he will endanger Xinkei's position, after the Nagato expedition and the Kyushu land seizure, Xinkei's position has been completely stabilized, and Jingzheng, as the most trusted brother of the Renzhi family and Xinjing (because of his natural non-threat), can only be respectful and obedient to assist him in mastering and governing his own family. Therefore, I will repeatedly teach carefully, arrange for him to rescue Xinjing, ** in charge of Tokaido, and also set him as the second generation of assistants, for this reason even suppressed the second son Yoshijing (so far only Awaji one country), Xue hid the highly respected Zhou Jing, just to let him be at home. However, he took matters into his own hands twice and changed my established policy, which made me wonder if he would break the laws I had set by him and even put the shogunate and shogun in the air, as the Hosokawa family in the late Muromachi period had done.

Really, I told Hidejing a while ago that there would be no problem with the shogunate, and that he had given me such a hand now, thinking that he was secretly ambushing his future position...... How can this be reassuring?

Fortunately, in addition to this, he has done a good job of explaining the affairs, so that he still has the energy to make trouble with those moths. Whether it is Tokaido or Tsuya's intelligence, he is inseparable at present. Then, wait until this war is over, and then teach him a good lesson for a while.

Thinking like this, I quickly drafted a reply to Jing Zheng: "In terms of Jing Xiu, it is not appropriate to have more complications; At this point, I hope to strengthen the defense forces of Ise and strengthen the control of the two families of Tsutsui and Ikoma in order to prevent accidents that may affect the overall policy of the family. In addition, the head of the family already has the hope of having children, and you are the same age as the head of the family, so you should also pay attention to this matter, and if you have any wishes, you can tell me as soon as possible. ”

- Since he has time to make some trouble, let him worry about his own marriage!

……，……

I didn't expect it, so I sent a letter to Keimasa, and there was a problem on the Tokaido side.

At the end of May, when he learned that I was launching an all-out attack on the Mori family, Hideyoshi accepted Takataka Kuroda's suggestion and attacked me with the card Nobuo Oda.

After the last crusade against Oda Nobutaka, Nobuo successfully became the aftermath of Yoshi-shi's doll, and was able to enter the Oda family's Azuchi Castle and manage the territory directly under Minami-Omi 100,000-stone owned by Yoshi-ji. However, in the old system of the Oda family at this time, Hideyoshi was already the only one and had received the loyalty of the vast majority of the former ministers, and the name of the Oda family was the main family, but it had actually been demoted to an ordinary daimyo, but it was not loyal to Hideyoshi. Even if Oda Nobuo no longer has vision, he can feel the attitude of everyone towards Azuchi Castle, so he is very dissatisfied. In order to appease Nobuo's emotions, Hideyoshi gave him the two counties of Kuwana and Yen Ben in Northern Ise, and asked Keimasa to cooperate with him to take over the territory.

Legally, there was nothing wrong with this separation, because Nobunaga never gave me a division between the two prefectures. However, these two counties were pacified by me more than ten years ago, and since then they have been managed in the name of Kita-Ise, and Nobunaga has not divided them, just because these two counties are one of the sources of Nagashima Ichijomune, and no one in the family is willing to take over the mess, only I can't shirk it, and I have been helping the people's livelihood in the two counties; Later, when Nobunaga died, everyone acquiesced to my status when they were sentenced, so they didn't mention it at all. Now Hideyoshi ignored the tacit agreement and sealed these two counties to Nobuo, apparently taking advantage of my lack of time to look east, and using Nobuo as a gun to cause trouble for me.

Although I am the elder of the Genji clan, and it is known to the world that the Kira family has broken away from Oda, after all, Nobuo represents the name of the former master's family, and if we reject him, we will not only face the military power of Owari Province, but also bear the infamy of bullying the old master; But the family can't give in easily, otherwise it will destroy their own prestige, and now at the juncture when the two sides are about to fight a decisive battle, it will obviously weaken the momentum, and even affect the back-to-back choices of some wealthy families.

Immediately afterwards, Jingxiu also made a move. When he returned from the withdrawal of the army from Jiafei, he immediately won over the brother of the Ikoma family, the old Ikoma of the Bitou family, and then put the Ikoma parents under house arrest, and led the Northern Omi army into the control of Ruojiang Castle.

Ikoma kinmasa once succeeded Nakagawa Shigemasa from the expatriate and served as Nobunaga's black mother, and because of this, he was favored by Nobunaga in history and became an important minister in the family, replacing the position of the head of the family, Ikoma's patriarch, and later attached to Hideyoshi, and finally became the lord of Sanuki Province. However, because I raised the Ikoma family and made him quickly grow from a small land servant of a thousand stones to a wealthy family of ten thousand stones, Ikoma Kinmasa did not raise his head as in history, but had to serve under the head of the family, Ikoma Patriarch, according to the custom of the samurai family. In his heart, he probably will inevitably have some regrets! Last time, he was ordered to support Jingxiu, and under Jingxiu's command, he pacified Kita Omi, and maybe he had already established a relationship with the Yuliang family. This official entry into service is obviously a great opportunity for him to replace Ikoma's parents, and Jingxiu has also made another great contribution to the Yuliang family.

At this point, I knew in my heart that at least until I defeated the Yura family, I didn't have to count on Jingxiu and Hideyoshi to get separated. Perhaps, he was because Jing Zheng released that kind of rumors, doubting my sincerity in marrying a thousand hands before; Perhaps he was too ambitious and unwilling to accept the position of son-in-law I promised, but wanted to assist the Yura family to defeat the Kira family and take over the authority of the world, and then fight for the inheritance; It is even possible that as Xiujing said, he has an extremely strong and extreme personality, and he is not willing to return to his home at all.

According to the saying of this era, twins are destined to be unable to escape the fate of fighting each other. The so-called fate, I am naturally not

I believe it, but there is a saying that I agree with, that is, "character determines fate". So, if Jing Xiu is really the character that Xiu Jing said,! ~！