Although as the head of the Nijo family, who is one of the public regents, Nijo Yasudo does not want to have another family name in the regent family, which was originally occupied by the Fujiwara clan, but he also knows that this is an extraordinary time, and he has to do something extraordinary. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

The Imperial Ministers are the apex of the Imperial Court Decree Bureaucracy in Japan, and since the Heian period, even the Imperial Court has often not set it up, and on weekdays, the Left Minister is respected, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was only given the official position of the Imperial Minister a year before his death.

Mori Hidemasa, the current governor of the Mori family and the lord of the Choshu Domain, is now less than forty years old, and the promise he made to the Minister of Taisei at this age was an indescribable honor, and even Nijo Yasudo himself felt a little jealous.

However, back then, his ancestors were able to recognize the Toyotomi Hideyoshi for the gold and silver offerings he offered, and make him the head of the Imperial Minister, so now he can naturally eliminate all unhappiness and recognize a Mao Taiko as the Imperial Minister.

The Mori clan was a powerful feudal clan, and although it had been greatly weakened by the Tokugawa clan compared to the past era, it still had enough strength to serve as an aid to the imperial court and increase the prestige of the imperial court, which was also a good thing that it was treated harshly by the Tokugawa family, because then they would have a grudge and would be more likely to join in opposing the shogunate.

Today, when the Han Dynasty called, the Maori family must have been shaken in their hearts, and they wanted to take refuge in the Han, but they were worried that they would not get good treatment and that they would be infamous in the world. And now, these people are just in the right place to give them a justifiable excuse to do things.

This kind of mutual benefit must be necessary for the Maori family, who is good at calculating the benefits.

In order to prevent the Maori family from falling directly to the Han before he reached the letter, Nijo Kangdo also accelerated his journey, and with a few retinues, regardless of the fatigue and risks along the way, he passed through the already chaotic southern territory, and came to the Maori family's territory day and night for a few days.

However, the Emperor and Ichijo Kaneya and others traveled west to avoid the flow of refugees along the way, and went to the mountains of Iwami to temporarily take refuge, thinking that they would have to live a period of bitter life again.

When he came to the territory of the Mori family, Nijo Yasudo immediately found that it was already under martial law, and although the samurai of the other feudal clans were now mobilized as if they were facing the enemy, the atmosphere in the Maori family was particularly solemn, and the northern border was full of heavily armed feudal troops patrolling, cutting off the connection with the northern feudal clans and the way for the refugees in the domain to flee north.

Seeing this situation, Nijo Yasudo believed in Ichikanya's judgment even more - if it wasn't for the ill-intentioned, why did the Maori family need to deploy so many feudal troops on the northern border when the Han in the south was already a great enemy? Even to isolate refugees, there is no need to flee.

As soon as Nijo Yasudo and his party set foot in the Choshu Domain, they were quickly discovered by the feudal army that was patrolling and searching everywhere, but Nijo Yasudo didn't need to hide himself anymore, he didn't flee as before, but stood in front of this group of people generously, and then revealed his identity.

His actions unsurprisingly caused a commotion among the feudal troops, and then the group immediately detained him and escorted him to the castle of the Choshu domain.

When Mori Shu heard the news reported by his subordinates that the lord of the Imperial Court had actually come to the domain in person, he was also shocked like everyone else.

He knew about the escape of the Emperor and the Emperor and the people of the imperial court from Kyoto, but he just didn't expect that they would find his door so quickly.

He was originally quite young, and because of the power struggle with his uncle Mori Hidemoto, he didn't have much experience in managing the feudal government, so when he encountered major events, he inevitably felt a little shaken in his heart. And since the Han landed and entered Kyushu, he found that he was suddenly facing the cusp of the storm, like a flat boat in the stormy waves, fluctuating in the turbulent times, and I am afraid that there will be a risk of capsizing if he is not careful.

Fortunately, the Maori family has a deep heritage, and a large number of retainers and generals have been left behind in the Maori Huiyuan era, they are experienced and united, so everyone can work together to finally formulate a strategy, which also makes Maori Xiu a little more at ease.

Not only were these retainers experienced in governance, but they also had one other thing in common—they were full of resentment towards the shogunate. This resentment comes not only from the generational hatred of the Mori and Tokugawa families, but also from their own interests.

In the glorious days when the Mori family had 1.2 million koku domains, most of these retainers were well paid, and some even had their own domains, but in the era of decline when the shogunate reduced their fiefdoms to 370,000 koku domains, their salaries were cut by half due to the financial difficulties of the domain, and their lives were miserable.

However, many of the low-level samurai in the domain had even degenerated into armed peasants who were half-soldiers and half-peasants under the persecution of survival, and the military strength of the domain could no longer be compared with that of the Warring States period.

Faced with such a situation, they were naturally indignant against the shogunate. If you don't have a chance, this kind of resentment can still be hidden deep in your heart, but today, when the big Han is coming and the world is about to be in chaos, most people have started to think.

On the first day of the Han attack, the Mori family received the news and began to mobilize the troops of the feudal clan while waiting to see the situation and assess the future development.

To their surprise, the Han attack in Kyushu went smoothly beyond their imagination, and they defeated the military forces of the shogunate in Kyushu in just a few days, and swept the entire territory of Kyushu in ten days. What was even more surprising to them was that the feudal lords on the island surrendered to the Han so quickly, especially the Shimazu family, who seemed to have reached a tacit understanding with them before the Han came.

The rapid development of the situation made Maori Xiu and his retainers both frightened and happy, and they were afraid that the Han would regard themselves as enemies and that they would not be able to stop the attack of the Han army; Happily, the Great Han seems to be only targeting the Shogunate, and as long as the Hon-feudal clan and the Great Han cooperate, they can survive the disaster, and at the same time, they can breathe a sigh of relief to the Shogunate by the way.

No one in the clan wanted to fight to the death with the Han in order to keep the Tokugawa family's world, and the consensus was that even if the Han did not accept the peace agreement with the domain, he would never make a move to burn the jade, and he would flee north if it was a big deal.

Mori Shu and his retainers made a series of decisions after several days of emergency meetings, ordering one of the family's important ministers, Mori Motonobu, to go to Kyushu, and establish contact with the Han through him, and find out the attitude of the Han towards the Mori family; At the same time, it was ordered that martial law should begin in the domain, and no one would be allowed to flee north for the time being, so as to wait and see the situation and make a final choice as soon as possible.

Maori Yuanxin lived up to expectations, and soon got in touch with the Han army, and also met with the envoys of the Han, and the news he brought back was very exciting-as long as the Maori family could cooperate with the Han and submit to the Han Emperor, then after the war, the Han would be willing to confirm the Maori family's territory decades ago, that is, restore the 1.2 million stone territory.

This news has to be said to make Mao Li Xiu and the important ministers of the domain all cheer, they immediately gave up the plan to flee north, ready to think about the Han as soon as possible - anyway, according to the information provided by Mao Li Motonobu, the Shimazu family and the Tachibana family have surrendered to the Han and accepted the deployment of the Han army, even if they want to bear the name, they don't have to carry it.

However, in order not to arouse the suspicion and vigilance of the pro-shogunate feudal clans, the Mori clan's decision was circulated only at the highest decision-making level within the clan, and the clan began to urgently deploy troops, but it was kept secret, and they planned to directly raise the anti-flag after everything was ready.

At the same time, Morihide began to order the feudal domain to purge his uncle Mori Hidemoto's cronies - after the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate, Mori Hidemoto abandoned his previous position and went to the shogunate, and now he is very favored by Tokugawa Iemitsu, and he has been trying to interfere in the feudal government for many years with this favor, which made the feudal lord Morihide very dissatisfied, and he also took this opportunity to purge the domain and establish his absolute authority.

At this time, the edict of the shogun, Tokugawa Iemitsu, also came - Tokugawa Iemitsu said in the edict that he was grateful for the hard work of the Mori family for many years to defend the Nagato and the two countries, and hoped that the Mori family would be able to fight bravely against the Han Kou in this difficult autumn, and said that the shogunate army was already gathering, and the army would soon gather to the south to assist the Mori family in defending the territory and recovering Kyushu.

At the same time, he said that as long as the Mori family could use the bravery of the past to fight against the Han Kor, then in order to reward the Mori family, the shogunate would return all the territories that had been reduced to the Mori family after the war—that is, basically on the same terms as the Great Han.

The words of the edict were written in a very powerful and majestic manner, as if the shogunate army could gather in an instant, crushing the Han army to dust, and it only took the courage of the Maori family to resist desperately for a period of time before they could be rewarded by the shogunate.

However, despite the eloquent words, Mori Hideto and his important ministers did not believe it at all, and could even say that they sneered at it - they knew Tokugawa Iemitsu's character and the shogunate's way of doing things, and with their ordinary arrogance, how could they suddenly be so generous if they were not facing a very embarrassing and even life-and-death situation?

The shogunate's offer of such a condition, in the eyes of Mori Shusa and others, can only show that the shogunate is at a loss, at least there is no way to deal with it now, and only wants to coax the Mori family to send them to death and delay them for time.

Besides, this promise to restore the territory of the year is also very doubtful, the shogunate has always been very stingy on the issue of territory, and usually every effort is to reduce the territory of each domain, how can it suddenly become so generous and restore the territory to the Mori family? You know, this is not a minority.

Besides, if this is done, what will happen to the Ikeda family, who are known as the 'Shoguns of the Western Kingdom', who have multiple ties to the shogunate? Was the shogunate really willing to let the Ikeda family give up all of their family domains for the benefit of the Mori family? At least Mori Shu and his vassals didn't believe it.

They judged that this was just a delaying tactic by the shogunate, deceiving them to fight to the death with the Han, and when they ran out of strength, and if the shogunate really expelled the Han after the war, then whether they would fulfill their promise at that time was very obvious, I am afraid that they would take the opportunity to directly wipe out the Maori family.

Therefore, they immediately sidestepped the shogunate's edict and strengthened their determination to betray the shogunate. However, after their deliberations, they felt that the shogunate's wooing could also be used as a bargaining chip, so that they could try to bargain with the Han in order to obtain a higher asking price.

Just when they had already made up their minds, the envoys of the imperial court came again, which was another piece of good news for the Maori family, because Maori Xiu seemed to allow them to further raise their worth when they were in a relationship with the Han, and seek more benefits from the Han to give them.

With this in mind, he ordered Nijo Kangdo to be brought into the domain, and at the same time discussed the matter with the important ministers of the domain, and soon reached a consensus - continue to wait and see what the imperial court can do, see what the imperial court can offer, and then make an offer with the Han.

Now the imperial court is isolated, but the emperor and the emperor are in their hands, and the ministers and others are also in their hands, and the righteous name of the imperial court is completely in their hands, and it can be used as a tool.

On the orders of the feudal lord, the next day, Nijo Yasudo was quickly invited to the council hall in the middle of the domain.

Although the Mori family did not have much respect for the royal family and the imperial court, they still retained the necessary respect on the surface, and as soon as Nijo Yasudo arrived in the hall, Mori Shu and his vassals let the lord of the right house sit on the upper seat, and then he and the vassals sat on the lower seat.

After all, in theory, Mao Lixiu, whose official position is Major General of the Right Guard, is also an official in the imperial court, and he is also a subordinate of the right minister, and the superficial respect still has to be given.

Because he had a great responsibility, Nijo Yasudo did not say a lot of twists and turns like the ministers usually did, but told Mori Shuji and others all about the current situation of the imperial court, His Majesty's determination to overthrow the shogunate, the tacit understanding between the imperial court and the Han Dynasty, and the imperial court's intention to rely on the Choshu domain as an Austrian aid.

Although they had been mentally prepared for a long time, when they heard what Nijo Yasudo said, Mori Shu and his vassals were still shocked - in order to restore power, the emperor and the ministers directly sent people to borrow troops from the Han Dynasty, which was unprecedented in Japan.

However, the Maori family was not a good man or a woman, and they themselves planned to cooperate with the Han Dynasty, so they did not want to morally refute the imperial court.

Next, Nijo Yasudo stated the price that the imperial court intended to give to the Mori family: as long as the Mori family supported the imperial court and contributed to the imperial court, then after the war, the imperial court would confirm the former territory of the Mori family, and confirm their right to rule the western country, and was also willing to appoint the governor of the Mori family as the minister.

The first condition was not surprising, as both the Dahan and the shogunate had already made such an offer for the Mori family, but the latter was a surprise to the Mori Hide.

Taisei Minister is a fictitious title, and in today's monopoly of the imperial court for the various branches of the Fujiwara family, it will not have any direct influence on the imperial government, but after all, this is the highest official position within the imperial court, and the Mori family can use it to exert significant influence, plus the original territory can make the Mori family one of the most powerful daimyo in Japan after the war.

At the same time, it is also a kind of declaration.

The Maori family started from the Maori Yuan, several generations worked hard to establish a foundation in the troubled times, and expanded the foundation little by little, and finally became a huge force that could compete for the world, but after reaching the peak, the next fortune of the Maori family fell into a dilemma, and was defeated again and again in the hands of the strongmen in the East, and finally had to swallow the bitter fruit and surrender to these strongmen, watching Toyotomi Hideyoshi finally become Taiko-sama, and watching Tokugawa Ieyasu become the shogun.

If he took this opportunity to become the minister of the imperial court, it would undoubtedly announce the final victory of the Mori family in the decades-long indomitable struggle with Oda Nobunaga, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Mori Hidemasa will become one of the most admired ancestors in the history of the Mori family.

For this reason, even if it is a cooperation with Dahan, what is it?

After sending Nijo Yasudo to rest, Mao Lixiu and his vassal elders immediately began to discuss secretly, and soon reached a consensus and decided to accept the conditions offered by the imperial court - anyway, they were all cooperating with the Han Dynasty, wouldn't it be a pleasure to have an additional title of Taizheng minister? And you can also use the power of the court to add glory to your own family.

As a result, the Mori family immediately agreed to Nijo Yasudo's conditions, and helped the imperial court to raise the banner, and at the same time helped the imperial court to spread the imperial court's edict to refer to the shogun Tokugawa Iemitsu as the enemy of the court, and called on all the daimyo in the world to discuss it.

However, even at this time, the Maori family still did not directly raise the banner and break with the shogunate, not because they still wanted to repeat, but because they wanted to take advantage of the situation that the shogunate and the imperial court were pulling together at the same time, and then seek more favorable conditions with the Han Dynasty.

As a result, the envoy of the Maori family soon came to Kyushu again, and then conveyed this series of news to the Han Dynasty, especially the news of the imperial court.

After receiving the news, Zhao Song, the Han general of Nagasaki, immediately informed Zhou Pu, and Zhou Pu immediately rushed back to Nagasaki Castle from Shimabara to discuss with Zhao Song.

The two of them quickly understood the Maori family's inner thoughts.

"They are not just the two ends of the first rat, but also the three holes of the cunning rabbit......" Zhou Pu sneered.

"Yes, at this time, they are still thinking about asking us for a price, what a coincidence." Zhao Song also had a cold face. "This wind must not last."

"Now that Kyushu has been pacified, it's time to start cleaning them up." Zhou Pu still smiled, "Zhao Shuai, leave it to me." ”