Beiyang new warlord

Mao Liying's eyes hurriedly turned to Chiyohime, but Kaiden didn't seem to see it, and pondered for more than a minute, and then he had a plan, and looked at Mao Jue seriously. nodded.

"How about this, General Mao, you worship Kunimatsumaru as your adoptive father, and you will directly lead the Toyotomi family's family governor, and you will control the military and political encyclopedia of the Toyotomi family!"

Mao Jue almost choked to death with a sip of tea. This kind of thing is indeed common in the Wa country. For the sake of power, what is the name? Adoptive father, but they are traveling in the Japanese country, but he, Mao Jue, can't do it, and worship this little kid in front of him as a foster father?Regardless of whether he was ashamed or not, Mao Wenlong had to tease him to clean up the house first.

Holding the book at the other end, Yuan Chonghuan obviously laughed mockingly, his old face twitched, Mao Jue said a little annoyed under the surprised eyes of Jia Feidian.

"It's the other way around! It's almost the same if I take this little guy as a foster son!"

Unexpectedly, this sentence made Kai's old eyes suddenly light up.

"That's fine too! General Mao can take over the military and political power of the Toyotomi family as the governor and regent of the foster father! Your Highness Kunimatsumaru, why don't you meet the foster father?"

Seeing that the kid from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's family thumped and knelt on the ground after being pushed by her, Mao Jue suddenly felt like he was being fooled.

No wonder she was excited, this upside-down, knowledge is great, you must know that only the son inherits the father's position, no father inherits the son, if Mao Jue worships Guo Matsumaru as a adoptive father, then he has the right to inherit the Toyotomi family, in the future Seizing the throne is justified, but he is Kunimatsumaru's adoptive father. Indeed, he can still hold great power, but only his generation, the next generation is not qualified to inherit.

Of course, the current Toyotomi family is just an empty shell. It is too early to think about the power struggle in the future. Now it is just a blank check. Whether they can make a career depends on Mao Jue.

Then, several people discussed some details. In the hands of Jia Feiji, let alone a lot of contacts, she has contacts at Mori's house, Shimadzu's house, and even Date's house in the northeast. This meeting, which decided the fate of the Wa Kingdom, was discussed in two pots of tea all morning.

Still not used to being the wild father of this little boy, he glanced at the dazed Kunimatsu Maru, put down his teacup, and Mao Jue said again.

"Since he is the young master of the Toyotomi family, it would be a loss of status to live here again. When I go back, I will order a house for the Toyotomi family in Yizhou. Before that, you might as well come to Baima City and visit the general's residence. How about staying for a while?"

Now it's no different than half a year ago, when Mao Jue's two-story building was really hard to come by, but now, the three people enter the big courtyard, live in the back, and give them a yard in front, so as to prevent embarrassment and not see each other for a month or two OK.

The speaker has no intention, but the listener has the intention. Chiyohime immediately got a muscle in her nose and put her hands on her hips angrily.

"Whoever wants to go to you stinky robber, I won't go!"

Governor Yuan's expression seemed to have changed slightly, but he was still flipping through the book.

Mao Jue's proposal was thought to be sure, and after saying this, he stretched out his hand to greet the carriage, but who knew that the expert old lady waved her hand slightly at this time, and declined politely.

"The general's good intentions, the old man's body and mind are taken care of, but Fengchen's family is in great trouble, just like the humiliation of Goujian, the king of Yue in China, the young master should also let the young master suffer. Now this life is very good, do it yourself, support yourself, let the young master experience more To experience the lives of ordinary people, if one is lucky enough to return to Osaka one day, one will become a good king.”

It was really a surprise, but it would be better if she didn't come, since it was clean, Mao Jue readily agreed.

"In that case, the general will not force it. I will order that if there is any need for the Kai Temple, just talk to the local garrison officer."

"Thank you General!"

This time the talks between the two countries went very smoothly. Looking at the sky, Mao Jue didn't delay any longer, and left with fists folded. stopped him.

"General Mao!"

2 Chapter Fifty

It's really novel that the leisurely Governor Yuan can call himself to stop talking, but Mao Jue's face turned down, and he even guessed that what this old guy wants to say is nothing more than a loyal minister and filial son, He opened his mouth to despise himself as a selfish ghost.

But when Lao Yuan opened his mouth, Mao Jue still gave him the face. With a bitter face, he simply clasped his fists.

"Master Yuan, what advice do you have?"

"General Mao, Yuan does not comment on what you have done, but just remind you to pay attention to the court!"

"Court?"

This really confuses Mao Jue. Dongjiang is different from any military town in Ming Dynasty. It was built by escapees from Liaodong, refugees, defeated soldiers, and even many barbarians from outside the customs. In short, they were all established by outlaws. The control power is unusually small. If other military towns sent troops privately like Mao Jue, they would have been taken down by the Ministry of War long ago. However, Mao Jue fought Japan twice and made an expedition to Jiangnan once. I don't know.

At most, they knew that he opened a border market privately to do business with Houjin, but these days there are too many border towns doing business with northern barbarians, and the court can't control it.

Regarding the matter of the Japanese kingdom, Mao Jue planned to throw off the imperial court and do it alone, but Yuan Chonghuan suddenly said that he should pay attention to the imperial court, which made him baffled.

"To be a general, one should not only focus on military affairs, but should also study extensively in mountains and rivers, geography, customs, and historical origins, so that one can see six directions with one's eyes and listen to all directions with one's ears! Victory is decisive on the battlefield."

"When I first served as the Ningqian Taoist soldier, I studied the Battle of Imjin. I won't talk about the strengths and weaknesses of the Japanese soldiers. I believe that General Mao himself knows better than I do, but one of their characteristics , I'm afraid General Mao didn't notice."

It's not a secret either, Yuan Chonghuan said in a particularly dignified manner.

"These Japanese people are especially good at combining vertical and horizontal!"

"In the Battle of Imchen, although the two sides fought endlessly, envoys kept coming and going. There were more than a dozen times. General Xiao Mao harassed the Japanese country twice. General, you are so swaying, if I predict correctly, the Japanese envoys to Korea and Daming, the envoys to mediate collusion are already ready to go, if you let the Japanese bring the matter to the court, you will not be able to eat General Xiao Mao Let's go around!"

"So, if you really decide to do this, you have to hurry up and get rid of the canonized edict of the Toyotomi family, and first define this righteousness, imitating Annan's example, the imperial court has to take care of it, and when the time comes, you will have your name in hand, and you will also send troops to the Wa Kingdom Righteousness!"

"That's all."

Seeing Dushi Yuan strolling back to his room with a book on his back, Chiyoji made a face at him and followed in the same way, Mao Jue felt a little dazed.

Indeed, the art of combining vertical and horizontal!

The Japanese country is a bit bigger, and it is divided into 66 commanding countries, with hundreds of samurai families. It is impossible to do anything big by relying on only one family with thousands of troops. Since the Yingren Rebellion, which big battle is not a few More than a dozen families form gangs, take the Sekigahara War as an example, the real strength of the Tokugawa family is only tens of thousands, and the rest are composed of Fukushima family, Kuroda family, Hosokawa Kato family and other famous names. Many people, the experience of the Japanese in diplomacy is far more than that of the unified Ming Dynasty.

It is not impossible for the Tokugawa family to go to the capital to sue if they cannot fight on the battlefield.

It’s just that Yuan Chonghuan’s suggestion has both advantages and disadvantages. The first is the cost of going to Beijing. In the Ming court, if you want to do something, you need money to open the way. Fuwen Tiren is greedy for power and not money, which doesn't mean that Mao Jue saves money, but instead means that Mao Jue has to find more precious treasures as a door opener when he asks him to do something.

Moreover, once the name of Toyotomi's family was given by the imperial court, it would be much more difficult for Mao Jue and Li to replace Tao, and it could only be controlled indirectly through proxy methods.

The pros and cons of this were all in his mind, pinching his chin, Mao Jue walked out with great difficulty.

While he was contemplating, Mao Liying sneaked up to Kaidian and asked hurriedly in a low voice.

"Kai Palace, His Highness Chiyohime was sent out together at the beginning, wasn't it just for the promise of marriage? Now that the Mori family has been cut off by half, its strength has declined, and Motoki Mori did not have the courage to compete with Tokugawa Ieyasu back then. Now he It is even more hopeless, why not let His Royal Highness Qiandaiji marry General Mao, it is better than some verbal agreement of adoptive father and adopted son! Besides, the Lord worships General Mao as the adoptive father, so how should the world's famous names treat the Lord? "

Mori Sakura really couldn't figure it out. At the critical moment, why was Kaiden so reluctant to pay for it?

Who knew that at this moment, Kai's dim old eyes were full of indifference, and he said coldly.

"The marriage of the Toyotomi family belongs to the Toyotomi family to worry about, and the name of the master, Ying Ji, you should stop calling, don't forget, you are now Mao Jue's retainer, not my Toyotomi family's retainer Already!"

"I"

Full of disbelief, Mori Sakura stared at Kaiden's cold old face in astonishment. She had stood by the Toyotomi family for so many years, and in an instant, she was treated as an outsider.

After being dazed for a few seconds, Mao Liying restrained her expression and became expressionless. She gave a slight salute to Kai Temple, and then hurriedly returned to Mao Jue's team of attendants with the knife in her arms.

As expected of Superintendent Yuan, Mao Jue spoke only a few words with a sad face. After returning to Baima City, he called Adelaine, and the two locked themselves in the study for a whole afternoon without any visitors. Jue went to the Hot Spring Valley first, and then took Mao Wenlong to the Dongjiang Academy in the back mountain, tossing Shen Guangzuo out.

After all, Jiang is still old and hot. With these two seniors analyzing the pros and cons, Mao Jue finally made up his mind.

Back this time, Mao Jue brought back more than a hundred survivors of the Kumano navy of the Toyotomi family. People formed the Fengchen mission, not to mention, this place is really called a relative's home, the old master Shen Guangzuo left all his classrooms, and specially found an empty classroom to train these missions on etiquette and precautions.

For example, which yamen should I worship when I arrive in the capital, how to submit the letter of credence when I go to Honglu Temple, and how to go to meet if the emperor of Ming Dynasty summons me. The Ming Dynasty is a state of etiquette. , but on the contrary, if everything is in accordance with etiquette and respect, you will definitely win points in the hearts of those bastard ministers who are more close to their vassals than their own sons.