Kansai, Osaka Castle.

After Oda Nobunaga was killed in the "Honnoji Incident", Toyotomi Hideyoshi took over his baton and spent several years unifying Japan. He also built a castle in Osaka and used it as his base camp.

With the rise of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Osaka Castle naturally became the center of the whole of Kansai and even the whole of Japan. Whether it is in terms of the size of the city or even the number of people, it can be regarded as the top.

At this moment, rumors were everywhere in Osaka Castle, and a wave of panic spread among the people.

"Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead, he died in Korea."

This is the hottest topic in Osaka Castle recently, and although some of the Toyotomi family's retainers deliberately suppressed it, the more they suppressed it, the more real it became felt by the common people.

Zhang Yun attacked Kyushu Island and swept Kyushu, which was a few points weaker than it.

Many people had a premonition that there would be chaos, so they sold their real estate one after another, preparing to exchange their property for gold and find a place to bury it.

As the saying goes: "Land in prosperous times, gold in troubled times." "Exactly.

In the center of Osaka Castle, there is a huge palace where the Toyotomi family lived. Compared with the breezy wind and clouds in the past, at this moment, even the guards guarding in front of the palace showed a little sorrow on their faces.

Walking through the door, in a hall in the deepest part of the palace, a young man sat on the first seat, and the hall was filled with retainers with anxious faces.

In the crowd, an old man with a mustache was the first to speak: "Guan Bai, now the news outside is flying all over the sky, saying that the general is ...... in North Korea."

This old man is a member of the Toyotomi family, and unlike ordinary retainers, he is naturally more concerned about the safety of Toyotomi Hideyoshi than others.

The young man waved his hand and said with a smile: "The old man of the family is too worried, my father is a god of heaven, how can there be any accidents." This is all a conspiracy of the Ming army and Tokugawa Ieyasu. ”

"However, someone saw that guy Fujido Takatora, shouldn't he be by the general's side? ...... this," the old man continued to ask rhetorically.

"Bang!" The young man slapped the table, and then his face was terrifyingly cold, and he said: "I said it all, my father is still alive and well, and whoever says that he dares to talk about it will be punished as rebellious." ”

As soon as these words came out, the rest of the people were silent, and they covered their mouths and didn't dare to say any more, for fear of annoying the young man in front of them.

He could have done it.

The young man's name is Toyotomi Hideji, and he also has a well-known nickname "Murder Guan Bai", which is because of his violent personality and his penchant for killing people indiscriminately.

He was originally the son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's sister, but because Toyotomi Hideyoshi's first two sons all died young, he was adopted as an adopted son.

For him, it was a big pie. If the uncle could not give birth to a son, he could only inherit this huge family inheritance.

Since becoming the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he has also exerted a lot of strength, which made Toyotomi Hideyoshi trust him more and more, and appointed him as Sekihaku before going abroad to conquer.

Guan Bai is an official position on the same level as the general of Zhengyi in Japan, but Guan Bai is a name and has no real power, and the general of Zhengyi is the actual commander.

However, this is enough to see the importance that Toyotomi Hideyoshi attaches to this adopted son.

After the retainers dispersed, a beautiful woman walked out from behind her, sat straight into Toyotomi Hideji's arms, and said, "Sekihaku, nothing really happened to the general, right?" ”

Toyotomi Shuji frowned slightly after hearing this, and the woman knew that she had said the wrong thing, so she hurriedly covered her mouth.

Toyotomi Hideji Wen Yu was in his arms, and his snort couldn't help but get worse, and then in the woman's exclamation, he picked up the woman and walked to his bedroom.

In a courtyard in Osaka Castle, several men with mustaches gather and plot something.

If you look closely, you will find that these people are actually retainers of the Toyotomi family.

At this moment, they all moved their eyes to the first middle-aged man who was about forty-six or seventeen years old, and vaguely respected this person.

The man noticed the eyes of several people, smiled slightly, and said, "Everyone, I know all your worries, but now that the general's life and death are unknown, you have begun to prepare for the back road, isn't it a bit early." ”

A short family elder immediately persuaded: "Kuroda-kun, are you willing?" Even the Shimazu family has more fools than your fiefdom, you ......"

Before he could finish speaking, he was rudely interrupted: "Enough! ”

His name is Kuroda Rusui, known as the first strategist of Japan's Warring States Period, that is, Kuroda Nagamasa's father. Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ability to unify Japan so quickly can be said to be indispensable.

He participated in almost all of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's great battles, but when it came time to reward meritorious deeds, he was only awarded a fief of less than 100,000 koku.

What is this number? Tokugawa Ieyasu, a defeated daimyo and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, were rewarded with a fief of 500,000 koku.

How can he endure this, it's just that because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's obscenity, Kuroda is like water and hides it.

After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in history, Tokugawa Ieyasu encroached on Toyotomi territory, and the Kuroda family was the first to betray the Toyotomi family.

Of course, he dreamed that Toyotomi Hideyoshi would taste the bitter fruit, but his intuition told him that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not dead.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi went from a commoner to the de facto ruler of Japan, how could he die so easily.

Only these fools in front of them believe these rumors, but thanks to these fools, now in the entire Toyotomi family's territory, all the daimyo are excited.

As soon as he thought of this, Kuroda Rumatsu couldn't help but feel refreshed, he sorted out his mood and replied: "Everyone, please go back, just talk to me about these things, don't go out and spread the word."

If you let Guan Bai know, you will feel better. ”

After that, Kuroda waved his hand, and soon a servant sent a few people out.

After seeing off a few elders, Kuroda walked into the room quickly and walked to a secret room next to him. The room was lit up, and a man dressed as a samurai was waiting.

When the man saw Kuroda Rushui coming, he immediately got up: "Kuroda-kun, our family governor said that if you are willing to help him create chaos, after he unifies Japan, he will give you the southern part of Kyushu Island." ”

Kuroda shook his head: "Why do you make me believe in you?

Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a liar, promised me this at the beginning, but in the end? It's not the same that deceived me, liars, all liars!! ”

In the end, Kuroda Rusui almost roared out through gritted teeth.

The warrior smiled and said, "You have no choice, and I can't guarantee anything. I'm just trying to say that if you want to turn over, you only have this one chance. ”

The samurai said as he walked outside the house.

Kuroda's face changed uncertainly, and he gritted his teeth at the end: "Wait! ”

The samurai stopped and said, "Kuroda-kun is really a smart person, don't worry, our family governor will never be as shameless as Toyotomi Hideyoshi." After saying that, the samurai head would not leave.

Kuroda Rusui stared intently in the direction the samurai had left until he disappeared at the end, then withdrew his gaze and muttered, "I hope so." ”

Zhang Yun camp.

In the past few days, Zhang Yun asked Changning Jun to go around to call the city with the tiger of Fujitang Gaohu, which had a good effect.

Now, except for the Shimazu family on Kyushu Island, who are still resisting, the rest of the families have already thought that Zhang Yun handed over the letter of surrender and sent the treasure.

Seeing that they knew each other like this, Zhang Yun sent troops and did not go to attack, after all, his original intention of coming to Japan was to make money. If you cannibalize half of the land in Kyushu by yourself, you can't help but divide your troops to garrison it, and now, the army in your hands is worth more than 10,000.

Just after noon on this day, Xu Xi was sitting in Zhang Yun's arms and playing with all kinds of treasures sent by the daimyos, when suddenly there was movement outside, which scared the two.

Xu Xi hurriedly stood up from Zhang Yun's arms, and then stood behind him.

Xu Xi is a woman, and only a few senior generals know about it, if people see him hugging and hugging a personal soldier, Zhang Yun feels scared when he thinks about it.

"Ahem...... Come on in. After the two of them straightened out their armor, Zhang Yun shouted outside.

As soon as the words fell, the man outside walked in and said, "Master Hou, that little lady of the widow is not honest in the tent, I really don't know what to do?" ”

Zhang Yun asked with a full mind: "What woman?" ”

"It's just that three old men and a girl came last time, and then you let those three old men go back, and the women stayed in our camp."

"What?!" Zhang Yun exclaimed. "Who told you to keep him?"

The guard replied aggrievedly: "Master Hou, those three old men were too cunning, and they sneaked away in the middle of the night, and we saw that the girl was too young, so we stayed in the tent."

Thinking about the next time they come, let them bring it back. ”

Zhang Yun waved his hand, and then got up with Xu Xi and walked towards Kobayakawa Hexiang's big tent.

"Smack!"

"You, go out, you guys, go out, I want Ernie sauce, woo woo......" As soon as he arrived outside the tent, Zhang Yun heard the sound of broken dishes and chopsticks inside, followed by a burst of crying.

She said a lot, Zhang Yun only understood one sentence, Ernie sauce.

Zhang Yun and Xu Xi lifted the curtain and leaned in, and they saw a girl in a kimono, looking at the Japanese women around them with a wary face.

"Let's go down." Zhang Yun waved his hand to the Japanese woman in the room.

The translator immediately translated Zhang Yun's words. Suddenly, there were only four people left in the tent.

"You go down too."

The translator immediately became anxious: "Master Hou, I'll go first, who will pass on to you?" ”

"Huh?" Zhang Yun didn't speak, just glared at the translator, and the translator immediately ran out of the tent.

As soon as the translator walked out of the tent, Kobayakawa Aika threw herself at Xu Xi, buried her head in Xu Xi's arms and began to cry. Zhang Yun saw that someone dared to hug his wife in front of him, and this was okay.

"Baga, you drop, let go of my wife's work."

Hexiang didn't seem to hear it, but hugged Xu Xi tighter, for fear that she would run away.

After a long time, Kobayakawa finally stopped crying, Xu Xi looked at the little girl with a distressed face, and kept comforting her so that she could feel at ease. Gradually, Zhang Yun found that this guy's gaze at Xu Xi was wrong.

"Lady, he won't treat you as a man and take a fancy to you."