Ishida Mitsunari's brows immediately frowned. He did not expect that Ieyasu was still winning hearts in Kyushu, which was far away from his Kanto territory. Although Mitsunari also knows that there have been rumors that the Shimadzu family has been secretly colluding with the "Guan Bai" of the Ming Dynasty for a long time, but judging from his performance in Japan, the Shimazu family is considered by Mitsunari to be an ally, or at least has a chance. Winning over forces to become allies. However, judging from today's situation, they may also turn to Ieyasu.
Mitsunari was very aware of the death of Ijuin Tadashi, and he was the one who issued the disciplinary order against Shimazu Tadashi on behalf of the Toyotomi court afterwards.
To put it simply, Shimazu Tadashi, who had just been approved by the Toyotomi family to be the next generation head of the Shimadzu family a month ago, beheaded the old Ijuin Tadashi of the Shimazu family in his home in Fushimi Castle on the spot. Building.
Here are a few keywords: approval, next generation head of the family, pen head family elder, beheading.
The so-called pen-tou family elder is the head of the family elders. If we make a hypothesis or make an analogy, Ijuin Tadō's position in the Shimadzu family is like Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Toyotomi regime at the moment - the head of the five elders. Then, while Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still alive, Hideyori beheaded Ieyasu in his palace.
What's even more paradoxical is that the reason why Shimazu Taduhashi ordered the execution of Ijuin Tadō was just that Tadō was arrogant towards him.
This is really off the mark. Ijuin Tadong is the patriarch of the family, if you insist on saying that he is a bit arrogant towards you, the next governor, then that is indeed possible. But first of all, as a veteran of Shimazu who has been working hard for decades, Zhongtong cannot be so stupid that he has no sense of propriety; secondly, no matter how arrogant he is, you are not serving as the governor of the family now. He is so willful that he kills this veteran who has the status of chief minister at any time!
This incident made Ishida Mitsunari very puzzled at the time, but he really couldn't think of a reason. He could only think that Zhongheng had a bad temper after fighting in Korea for several years, and it was said that Zhongdong was transporting people to the rear at that time. The supplies were not very hard, so there may have been a rift between the two. This time Zhongheng may have lost his temper and killed Zhongdong for any reason.
Therefore, in the end, Mitsunari, the head of the Five Houses as the actual chief, reprimanded Tadashi on behalf of the Toyotomi clan. However, as mentioned just now, Mitsunari regarded the Shimazu family as a quasi-ally, so the rebuke was not a rebuke. Didn't delve into it.
But this matter is actually far from as simple as Sancheng thought. After all, there are reasons for being pragmatic here.
The matter goes back to Gao Pragmatic's "economic guidance" to the Shimadzu family. At the beginning, in addition to digging sulfur for the Shimadzu family, Gao Pragmatic also gave the Shimadzu family a new financial source, which was to develop the glass processing industry with the help of Jinghua.
Gao Pragmatic did not provide the Shimadzu family with the process of manufacturing high-end glass. The main focus was on controlling raw materials. However, due to Jinghua's efforts over the years, glass has been widely used in almost all of East and Southeast Asia, so glass processing has become an extremely important task. Profitable industry.
The Japanese are good at working hard in a certain detailed field. Although the fundamental reason is the solidification of class in their society since ancient times, in any case, the Shimadzu family has made rapid progress as a result. In just a few years, they have trained a group of glass processing talents, and their income has greatly increased.
As the elder of the writing family, Ijuin Zhongdong is naturally directly responsible for the up and down of the glass processing industry, and thus has a greater say in the family. This reason is very simple. Whoever is in charge means who has the power, and the person with power must be powerful, which will lead to More people move closer to it.
As a result, brothers Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro soon discovered that the Ijuin Tadashi family was too powerful and even dared to delay and neglect the supplies that Yoshihiro personally ordered during the Korean War. , there is a great rebellious attitude of "I can't accomplish anything if I don't cooperate with you."
In other words, the Ijuin family has begun to have the momentum to threaten the Shimadzu family's rule. In this case, brothers Yoshihisa and Yoshihiro naturally did not dare to neglect. After the Shimazu family withdrew from Korea, the two brothers called the heir, Tadashi, together to discuss how to deal with the Ijuin family.
However, they did not come to the conclusion that "they wanted to kill Zhongdong" at that time. Because although the Ijuin family is called "Ijuin", in terms of blood, Ijuin is a branch of the Shimazu family, and they are actually from the same ancestor.
Therefore, the matter discussed this time was actually "how to prevent other retainers from defecting to the Ijuin family", and the conclusion was to "recover the rights of glass processing, sulfur mining and monopoly from Ijuin Tadō as soon as possible" and other matters.
According to Shimazu Yoshihisa's decision at that time, he was going to do two things in the next period of time: First, win the approval of Kyoto for this matter, especially Narita Kai who secretly sat in Sakai Town on behalf of Gao Pragmatic Approval, let her agree or at least acquiesce to the Shimadzu family's internal takeover of power.
Second, secretly investigate as soon as possible whether Ijuin Tadong used power for personal gain during his tenure in charge of these economic affairs, especially embezzlement of public interests. If there is, it will be easy to handle, and he can be taken down without anyone having anything to say; if not, then some means must be used, even if he is framed, he must be allowed to have it.
However, brothers Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro did not expect that Tadashi thought it was too tedious to do so. When they saw Tadō in Fushimi Castle, they suddenly took the initiative and charged Tadō with "disrespect" on the spot. Its beheading.
This may seem like "cutting the knot with a quick knife", but in fact it left many hidden dangers, which later led to the Shimadzu family's "Shōnai Rebellion" that also happened in history... But let's not talk about this for now. At least for now, Shimazu Tadashi was severely reprimanded by Ishida Mitsunari.
Then another surprise occurred. Although Ishida Mitsunari regards the Shimazu family as a quasi-ally in his heart, Mitsunari's palace is too deep, and he only thinks that the Shimazu family must also understand that his reprimand is to stop the world from talking, so this scolding belongs to "high-level promotion" Get up, put it down gently." After the scolding is over, the matter is over.
However, Mitsunari did not expect that although Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro must understand this truth, the young and energetic Shimazu Tadashi may not be able to.
Shimazu Tadahashi was furious after being scolded, and concluded that Ishida Mitsunari's scolding was just an "opening", and there must be more practical punishment methods waiting for him in the future.
He didn't have many people in Fushimi or the entire Kinai who could be classified as allies. Now that he was facing danger, his first reaction was to contact Narita Kai of Sakai Town to see if there was any way Kyoka could help him. .
Kafihime responded quickly and directly asked him to go to Tokugawa Ieyasu, and said that as long as Tadashi told Ieyasu that she asked him to ask for help, Ieyasu would spare no effort to save him. At this time, Tadashi knew that the Tokugawa family had actually defected to Jinghua - well, considering Ieyasu's current status, maybe we can't say that we have defected, but formed an alliance? Anyway, no matter what, it can be seen that Kyouka and Ieyasu are on the same side now.
That's okay. No matter how favored Sancheng is, it's still a thing of the past when Taige was still alive. Now that Taige and Great Nayan have passed away one after another, and the young master has just learned to walk, it is impossible to manage the government. The real power naturally lies in the hands of Zuofu. Since Zuofu will definitely help him, what else does he have to worry about? Therefore, Zhongheng soon came to Tokugawa Prefecture.
Thirty percent of these things are unknown, hence the misunderstanding. However, Sancheng didn't have the energy to think about the reason at this time. His most critical issue now was how to return to his own territory.
"So I have to ask: Sanchengming has already recognized and reprimanded Shimazu Tadahashi for his wrongdoing. How can the Zuofu recall him just based on his own opinion? Of course, Lord Honda must not be very clear about these things. I It’s better to ask Zuofu in person.”
"Oh?" Honda Masanobu said calmly with a nonchalant look on his face: "Let's ignore these other matters for the time being, but now the seven generals have followed Lord Jibu and chased him out of Osaka Castle. Could it be that Jibu doesn't know about it?"
Sanguo was actually slightly surprised and asked: "Have they chased out of Osaka City?"
"Exactly. It seems that they have already expected it. They know very well that the only place that can hide Lord Jibu at this moment is here in Zuofu." Honda Masanobu said calmly, leaned forward and smiled suddenly. : "Regarding this matter, I have just inquired about my lord's opinion. It seems to be very difficult, Mr. Zhibu... I guess they will chase here with murderous intent soon."
Upon hearing this, Sancheng's expression suddenly changed. Although he had expected that they would come, he did not expect that they would move so quickly. They were chasing after him even before he saw Ieyasu.
"Sir, these words may go beyond my duty. Just think of it as an old man's worry. There is a saying in the Tang Dynasty: If a tree is as beautiful as a forest, the wind will destroy it. Your Majesty, it seems that you have not considered this aspect properly. ah."
Ishida Mitsunari remained silent.
"What on earth should my lord do? If we protect Lord Zhibu, the other party will have seven brave generals! If these arrogant generals rise up and don't even sell my lord's face, then things will be really bad. It's out of control." Honda Sado Mamoru shrugged his shoulders, showing a look of helplessness.
This old fox! Sancheng suddenly became furious, but he remained silent. Honda Masanobu, as Ieyasu's mastermind, has already treated him in this way, so isn't it self-evident how Ieyasu will treat him? This is really just coming out of the wolf's den and into the tiger's mouth.
"Things in this world are really unpredictable... The seven generals have long known that the administration is at odds with my lord, so at this moment, I guess they must be overjoyed and think that the overall situation today has been decided."
"Well, yes." Mitsunari calmed down and seemed to have an idea. He smiled and said: "Sado is absolutely right. They must have thought that Mitsunari was frightened and confused, and actually put it to the tiger's mouth. At this moment, they must They are eager to come and laugh at me."
This sounds ironic, especially when Ishida Mitsunari appears not to be in any hurry. But in fact, 30% is thinking quickly in his mind at the moment.
It seems that there is indeed a big gap between the facts and my expectations, and the situation is already very serious. There seemed to be no other option but to persuade Ieyasu to negotiate with the Seven Generals. But in this case, my fate is completely left to Ieyasu. If Ieyasu could really convince the seven generals with his eloquent tongue, then that would be fine. Once he cannot be persuaded, handing himself over to the hands of the Seven Generals is tantamount to sending a sheep into a tiger's mouth.
Considering the attitude of these seven generals towards me, and the fact that almost no one except Ieyasu can control the situation under their alliance, even if these guys are murderous together and really kill me, this kind of thing may not happen. will happen.
"Master Zhibu, the matter has come to this, I think it is best not to mention the Shimazu family to my lord. The people of the Tang Dynasty said it well, if you keep the green hills, you will not be afraid of running out of firewood. They also say that those who understand the current affairs are heroes. , so it’s more important to save your life. Even if a poor bird flies into the hunter’s arms, the hunter may not be able to bear the thought of killing, right? I think the most important thing for you, sir, is to ask my lord to help you..."
"shut up!"
Honda Masanobu was obviously stunned for a moment. Unexpectedly, Mitsunari suddenly became angry. He couldn't help but subconsciously asked: "What did you say, sir?"
"Sado-sama, by poor bird, do you mean 30%?"
"Oh, this is something that everyone knows. Are you still so concerned about your choice of words now?"
"Hmph, rude! Thirty percent came here this time to discuss with Zuofu how to punish the seven generals..."
"Your Excellency, you are so polite." Honda Sado Mamoru's expression remained calm, but he interrupted: "In this case, there is no need for Lord Jibu to come here all the time. The matter happened in Osaka, and you can just deal with it as you please in Osaka. , why do you need to discuss it with my lord? I think my lord will have no objection to this."
Sancheng was immediately speechless. In fact, he himself also knew that when he was angry at Honda Masanobu just now, he had already been defeated... He knew this very well, but at this moment, there was nothing he could do except to be stubborn.
"Then, when the Seventh General arrives, I will bring them here, and you can talk to each other here, so as not to implicate my lord."
Sancheng was immediately stunned. First he felt hot all over his body, and then he felt as if a basin of cold water had been poured on him, and he felt filled with regret.
"Wait! Please wait a moment, Sado-sama."
"Do you have any other orders from the Governor?"
"Sigh... It's all Sancheng's fault. Actually, I don't want to meet the Seventh General here."
"So, you still want to ask my lord? Oh, actually, even if you succeed in begging my lord, I can't predict whether the Governor will be able to survive this crisis safely... Sir, you have caused such a big trouble, alas!"
Sancheng bit her lip and closed her eyes. Just now, he wished he could grab Honda Masanobu and tear him to pieces, but now, Sado Mamoru in front of him seemed to have turned into an invulnerable boulder. He understood that Honda Masanobu was teasing him, but should he go up and fight for it, or should he swallow his anger for the time being?
But Mitsunari held back his anger for a moment: Why did he have to deal with the Tokugawa retainers when he finally arrived? At this moment, I am so angry that I only know that showing off my bravery will only make the world laugh at me... I must be patient! What is needed now is patience! Even if he had to fight tooth and nail, his opponent should be Tokugawa Ieyasu, not Honda Masanobu, a mere retainer. Only in this way will the death of I, Ishida Mitsunari, be meaningful.
Having made up his mind, Sancheng bowed to Zhengxin and said: "My lord, what you said makes sense. It seems that Sancheng didn't think well. I didn't expect that the seven generals would catch up so quickly."
"My lord, have you figured it out?"
"Yes, the first priority is to evacuate first. What do you think, Sado-sama?"
"Yes, yes. Although I don't know if I can escape...but in short, let's discuss it with my lord first. Now that you have figured it out, let's go to my lord's room and take a look. Maybe the guests have already left. That's it." Honda Masanobu's face still showed no expression, he gave a gentle salute to Mitsunari and left immediately.
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