Chapter 245 Northland, it's really chaotic
At this time, the Hokkido, except for the small vassals of Echizen, Kaga, Naito, Echizen, Echizen, and Sado were all more clear, especially Echizen's 600,000 stones, three-quarters of which were in the hands of Hori Hideji, and the remaining territory was the old minister of the Tanba clan, Yoshiaki Murakami, and Hidekazu Mitsuguchi.
Speaking of the Nishiyu family, we have to mention the current Nishiyu family governor, Nishiyu Nagashi. This young man, known as the "Prime Minister Komatsu", should have inherited his father Nishiyu Nagahide, Echizen, Wakasa and Kaga counties, 123 Ishi, and the positions of Hokuriku Sora, because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's suspicion and intentional suppression, directly shrank to 40,000 Ishiyu. Thanks to his hard work during the Odawara war, he received a transfer of 120,000 Ishiyu, Kaga Komatsu, which barely maintained his family name. Even so, the current territory company commander Hinata's period was not even as small as possible.
Despite depriving the territory, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was still worried about the Danba clan. In the next two years, many important officials, including Nagasso Masato family, Murakami Yoshiaki, Mirgueki Hidekatsu, and Toda Katsunari Katsunari were all taken under Hideyoshi. Toyotomi was rich and powerful. In order to prevent these important officials from loving their old masters, Hideyoshi gave them a lot of knowledge and practice, such as Nagasso Masato family's Omeguchi Mizunoki, Echigo Honjokoro's Echigo Honjo's 70,000 stones, Hideaki Hideaki's Echigo Shinda 50,000 stones, Echigo Maruoka Castle, Aoyama Sakatsu, Echigo Masato's Echigo's 46,000 stones, Echigo's Echigo's 20,000 stones, and even Aoki Ichietsuki who was plotting against Osaka was once a young player under Niba Nagasso's command.
On the surface, Hideyoshi Toyotomi used heavy gifts, but in fact he distributed the territory of the Danyu family to these Danyu retainers who originally had only a few thousand stones. However, his Toyotomi family did not take out any territory, but instead gained a good reputation. Hideyoshi's trick of borrowing flowers to offer Buddha was indeed beautiful.
Although the Nishiyu family collapsed, most of the Damen of Hokuriku still came from the Nishiyu family, and they still had deep respect for the Kaga Danwu family. To put it bluntly, Nishiyu again joined the Western Army and was changed after the war. Thanks to the pleading of Maeda Tatsuma and many old ministers, he made a comeback three years later and obtained the territory of the Ancient Ferry of Changlu. This was just the beginning. As time went by, 20,000 to 50,000, and finally obtained 100,000 shi of knowledge and action, completely restored the Damen status. Although there were factors in his own efforts, the help of the old ministers was indispensable.
From this we can see that the lean camel is bigger than a horse. Although it was suppressed, the Danwu family still plays an important role in Hokuriku. It is precisely because of this that his relationship with the successor Hokuriku leader Maeda family was quite tense, so that Niba Nagashi wrote letters to Tokugawa Ieyasu many times, willing to be his pawn and report to him the Maeda family's every move.
In addition to the Maeda clan, the Danwu clan, and the seven countries of the Horikuri, the third-strong daimyo is Horikuri Hideji, who is 450,000 stones in Kasugayama. The rise of the Horikuri family in Horiku was entirely caused by Hideyoshi's suppression of the Tanyu clan. Horikuri Hidemasa Hori was originally a little daimyo of Omesa and Yama. With the death of Niba Nagahide, considering that the Maeda Takashi family was not enough to shock Horiku, Hideyoshi added him to the hometown of the Tanyu clan, Echizen Kitagozo, 180,000 stones. You must know
Kitago Castle was originally the main cast of the Nishiba family. He did this to sow relations between the two families. However, Tanyu Nagaki was just a teenager at that time and was unable to change the fate of the family. Although he could only watch the Hori family occupy the magpie's nest, the Tanyu family, from the lord to the retainers, all of them were resentful to this. Especially after discovering that the Nishiba family, who had been sealed between the Maeda family and the Hori family, was even more resentful to these two foreign daimyos, and they lived next to each other but were strangers.
Of course, this is exactly what Hideyoshi wants to see. Just imagine, if these daimyos get along well and reach an alliance, wouldn’t his Toyotomi family face a great threat? Therefore, the more they are incompatible, the more comfort and peace of mind Hideyoshi will feel.
Although the Hokuriku had a shattering, Hideyoshi was still worried because Echizen and Sado were still in the hands of the Uesugi family. As a native daimyo, Uesugi Keikaku's voice in Hokuriku was much stronger than the two later Sagittarius and the Hori family who had just arrived. It was precisely because of the Uesugi family that the other families dared not have too much conflict, for fear of forcing one of them to Uesugi Keikaku's camp if he was not careful. This disappointed Hideyoshi, but when he was frowning and tried every means to provoke conflicts in Horiku, the civil strife of the Pusheng family gave him an excellent opportunity.
Pu Sheng Hideyuki was reduced to Shinomio Kizu, and Shino Nori totaled 220,000 stones. The 900,000 stones of Aizu gave Hideyoshi the excuse of being transferred to Uesugi Keika. He used the two counties of Schounai, Aizu area, the six counties of Senkiki and Sado Island to exchange for the 900,000 Echigo in Keika's hands.
After driving away the last "indigenous" of Hokuriku, Hideyoshi was in full force and transferred the Hokuriku family, Echigo's old minister, to Echigo, and completely disrupted Hokuriku. However, something that disappointed him happened. Hokuriku was just a teenager in his twenties at that time and could not control his retainers well. Moreover, the retainers' group structure was complex and the salary was huge. It is said that Hokuriku's Hideji actually had only about 100,000 shi. Not only that, in order to revenge Hokurik, the Uesugi family took more than half of them before leaving.
The tribute rice was transported to Aizu in 2008, which directly caused the food shortage of Echigo. When Uesugi Keika was transferred to the seal, he imitated Tokugawa Ieyasu and left a considerable number of retainers lurking everywhere and waiting for an opportunity to rebel. During the Kenshin period of Uesugi, he believed in Buddhism and had many Buddhist temples and shrines. These monks and priests were also treated well during the Keikatsu period. However, when Hori Hideo took over Echigo, due to the lack of food and the confusion of the people, their dissatisfaction became increasingly serious. They often joined forces with the old ministers of Uesugi to launch Ikki, which seriously attacked the rule of the Hori family.
These intentional or unintentional actions of the Uesugi family directly led to resentment from Hori Hidejima. He cut off the road from Aizu to the seaside, forcing him to go around the distance through Takawa County to Sado Island. This directly led to the two families becoming more powerful. Before the later Battle of Sekihara, Hori Hideji sent someone to inform Tokugawa Ieyasu that Uesugi Keitaki was building a new city and intending to rebel, which gave Tokugawa Ieyasu Mitsuki and sent troops to attack Aizu.
It can be said that Hideyoshi's series of actions did make the daimyos of the seven countries of the Hokuriku countries disagree and fall apart, thus stabilizing the rule of the Toyotomi clan. But he did not expect that he would leave so early, and God was willing to make people. As the saying goes, the "chaos" that predecessors planted trees and later generations enjoyed the cool air, Hideyoshi had worked hard for more than ten years inadvertently lifted the threat of Hokuriku to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Just imagine, if the Tanyu family controlled the Tokugawa Ieyasu family controlled the Tokugawa Ieyasu, could Tokugawa Ieyasu find a reason to go to Aizu? Of course, history cannot be assumed. Faced with the mess in Hokuriku, Hideomoto has to do a lot. If the Maeda, Tanyu and Hori family were able to unite together, it would be a great achievement, but how could the grievances of these three families be reconciled in a few months?
"There is another military guard. When you go to Marindao this time, you must monitor the movements of the Daming of the Northland. If there is any abnormality, you will report to me immediately. You must not incite weapons to give people a verbal excuse. If it is not possible, you can ask the Dana for a request."
Since Flying to the county is isolated from the Hokuriku, there must be one person who can control the overall situation. Fujido Takato is the old man at home, so he cannot go. Komiyayama Haruka is still following Fujido's training and cannot act without permission. He can only look at his wise and brave retainers, but only Goto Kiji can bear the heavy responsibility. Therefore, Hideopo took out two thousand troops to take him to Neng. Although not many, it was enough to shock the local wealthy families. Moreover, the Maeda family has been in harmony with the family, so there is no need to worry about issues such as Ikki. The only thing he has to do is to build Flying to the front line outpost, looking at the six directions, listening to all directions, and sending important information about the exchanges between the east and the west back to Fushimi. As for Goto Kiji's proposal, "The army is too small and not enough to defend", Hideopo only said one sentence: "If you can guard it, you cannot control it, drive the boat to Sakai. At the beginning of the war, don't care about the gains and losses of a city and a place."
Chapter completed!