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Now, let's give you a little time back to find out where the other two letters are going.
Keio, around October 20, 5, it had come to my ear that the Hot Island Army had also begun marching towards Tachibana on Satsuma, far from the Yanagawa River.
At this time, the Shimazu family treated a group of ninjas known as "mountain people" like hands and feet and stretched their own information networks.
For them far from above, the freshness of the information was so important that it was life-threatening, and especially important information was organized so that it could be communicated to the owner at least a little sooner.
For this reason, the Shimazu family, in addition to the movement around Yanagawa Castle, continued to grasp the movements of Kato and Kuroda before that, and carefully pondered the impact on them.
Fukuma Castle one day in late October like that.
Yoshiku Shimazu is staying at Tomikuma Castle after he leaves the main city. One young man there rushed in with his face bright blue.
"Uncle! Hey, listen to me! Uncle!!
and the young man, among the castle owners of that castle, is desperately spitting to try to get the attention of a man who was sitting quietly reading his books.
The man finally took his eyes off the book and looked at the young man, wondering if the voice, which he called upon many times, had gone mad.
My eyes are too thin to describe it as a cleavage length, and I no longer even know if it's open.
But with a slight black eye peek, it seems certain to be looking at the youth.
I am ten years older than Tokugawa Jiayang, but I feel so tense on my skin that I don't feel my age, and the colour is white, but the blood colour is good.
There was no waste of meat, the cheeks were so thin that they were slightly spilled, but the atmosphere he emitted, including that, was the sharp cleavage blade itself.
The man's name is Yoshiku Shimazu
He is the brother and predecessor of Yoshihiro Shimazu, the current Shimazu family owner. But the entity, completely different, was not allowed to move on if it all disapproved him about the Shimazu politics.
In other words, Yoshiku continued to hold the Shimazu family's real rights even after they hid away.
"Noisy... Zhongheng..."
and a short, bittersweet young man...
His name is Tadahiro Shimazu.
He is the son of Yoshihiro Shimazu and his stepdaughter… that is, with his own cousin to his wife, he has become an authentic successor to the Shimazu family.
Unlike my father Yoshihiro, who is a tough face and body, those of Zhongheng feel somewhere sloppy and have no tightness.
It was difficult to describe the mid twenties because the skin was shallow and lustrous.
Even though he seemed accustomed to complaining and being told that it was "noisy", he started talking without showing the bare gestures he cared about.
"That idiot father started collecting soldiers to the castle for what he had lost!
So you don't have a choice if I get noisy!?
That stupid father... "Who are you going to fight this time," he said back, "I don't know what I'm talking about," so it didn't just happen!
What is it?
Are you going to shoot a cannon at Hideyoshi Toyotomi next for Jiakang Tokugawa?
Otherwise, I'm done!
The Shimazu family is over!!
How can you do this situation!!? Uncle! "
When you speak through a pepper with one breath, Zhongheng begins to hold his head and smother.
Did you find that boring, and Yoshiku turned his gaze back to the book again?
"Whoa, whoa! Uncle! How can you read books so long when Shimazu is important!?
I'm worried about me, I can only drink in the daytime!
Against Zhongheng, who can get word after word with a golden voice, Yoshiku said in a low voice, keeping his gaze down on the book.
"Alcohol from daytime... you say?
Zhongheng, who felt something cold in his spine in that tone, hurriedly explains.
"No, no, no! That's a word. Oh, come on!
It's not strange when Tokugawa Jiayang attacked you. If anyone is drinking during the day, this Zhongheng will punish you severely!
Not at all. Your uncle is too early!
"Alcohol is the head of a hundred pills... not to punish"
"So, you are! The boulder is my uncle!
You're just twice as concerned about your health!
But I'm not losing, either!
Earlier, I said that, but in fact, I've been drinking today to the 'degree of sogginess'!
Drinking is kind of temperamental! Ha ha!
When that dry laugh was over, Shizuku told him in short words, remaining in a low voice.
"If you walk outside drunk, it fits the 'accident'... be careful"
The moment I heard the word 'accident', Zhongheng's body temperature, which was rising with excitement and drunkenness, fell all at once, still frozen, like a puddle exposed to mid-winter air.
"Ha ha... just kidding. I don't go outside drunk, so I'm not in an accident."
"We have a lot of 'accidents' in our house these days, so... I'm worried"
"Accident" …
If, of course, what this word, which I have spoken of for a long time, meant was' that people are hurt by accidental events', I would not have stuck Zhongheng to the bottom of my fear.
And around this time, the Shimazu family was followed by "exalted discussion" by the minister's untimely demise.
But for some reason, they were all about loyalty.
It was the "untimely end" that Yoshiku described as an 'accident'.
As a result of this' accident ', the Ikaido family, who was particularly vocal in the Shimazu family, went completely down.
Not only that, but the speech of both Shimazu families, the drooling water and Hideyoshi, weakened day by day, in the stifling succession struggle since it became the unnatural inheritance of the Lord by the life of Hideyoshi Tai.
In other words, even though those 'accidents' occurred around Zhongheng, it seems that none other than Yoshimazu Shimazu benefited most from them.
What this means…
If those 'accidents' had been cleverly orchestrated by someone…
The instinct of Zhongheng was to pause his thoughts diligently, considering that there was a danger to him if he thought any further.
"By the way... when you're done, go home"
Once again, a cold, short, protracted word is uttered to Zhongheng, nephew and stepson.
"No, no, wait! Uncle!
Do you mind if I keep letting my father gather his soldiers?
If we don't do something soon, it could be an important part of the Shimazu family!!
"Your home will already be in the middle of something..."
"No, no, no! If things get any worse than this, you could really piss off Tokugawa Jiayang!!
If you fall into such a situation, what happens… I just imagined, I can't stop chilling!
"Do you have time for crappy imagination? Lord."
"Crappy imagination!? Even if Tokugawa Jiayang attacked you with all his might, you say it's crap!?
Yoshiku finally raised his gaze against Zhongheng, who stuffed his nose roughly.
"It's impossible, so I said," No shit. "
"How can you say all that!?
Show me proof! Proof of that!
As a matter of fact, Tokugawa has forgiven me for the main relief... or something. "
"There's nothing like that..."
Zhongheng, who looked like he somehow won the word,
"Ha! Your uncle's overly optimistic imagination sometimes drives the Shimazu family into distress!
Let us support you brilliantly so that this Zhongheng, your uncle like that, does not have the wrong idea!
and proclaimed it exalted.
… and it was then.
"Knock it off... HI HA HA HA!!
Shizuku laughed out loud so that what he was enjoying would explode.
Zhongheng, staring at the creepy laugh as he pulled his back, could not close his half-opened mouth.
"This is delightful. Ha ha!
"What makes you so happy?
"Azuma in front of me, with Azuma's mistake, is treading back and forth. I've never been happier."
"Hey, hey, what are you talking about!!?
How dare you, Uncle, treat this Zhongheng like an insult!
That's all you said, I guess you have some basis!?
I finally finished laughing, Yoshiku said, putting it back to its original serene tone.
"Imagine being overly optimistic... don't take this as an abalone mistake and do something about it"
"So why does Lord Uncle say Tokugawa shouldn't attack with all his might!?
"It is more evidence than theory"
"... I don't know what that means... let me know what your heart is"
For the inquiry, Yoshiku took a breath.
And I said to Zhongheng.
"Tomorrow… two ships will pass south of Satsuma towards Mingguo"
"Huh? What's wrong with that?
"The ship is boarded by a messenger to Mingguo offered by the Tokugawachi Prefecture and a merchant entrusted with trade by the Tokugawa Prefecture"
"Whoa, whoa... no way..."
"I hope we get to Mingguo safely...
I hear the sea near Sama is rough these days.
I hope it doesn't fit the 'accident'... "
Shizuku, who said so in an unchallenged voice, shut his mouth firmly, as he also said that when he turned his gaze to the book again, he would have nothing more to talk about.
Zhongheng, on the other hand, became scared to talk to Shizuku any longer, and when he arrived, he left his face blue and hurried back to his castle.
And the next day...
When two ships encountered and sunk "unlucky" pirates off the coast of Satsuma, the crew were rescued by the Shimazu family and returned to Osaka for their lives.
But even though they were helped by the Shimazu family, they reported verbally…
"Shimazu hit me"
and…
………
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Thus we celebrated October 27.
Zhongheng visited Tomikuma Castle again and met Yoshiku face to face.
"Uncle... it still seems that Uncle was right then. Even if Tokugawa's two ships sink, Jiayang won't move his army.
I mean, I don't move soldiers now, so...
It was my mistake, forgive me. "
And I don't know if Zhongheng bowed his head to the special victory because he was honestly apologizing for what he was mistaken for, or if he took care of it for fear of an 'accident'.
"Ha...? I hear the ship sank because of an 'accident'... but no?
Zhongheng keeps his eyes open, not saying "what now".
And Shizuku, who was watching how it was, seemed to be in a good mood, even though he even narrowed his thin eyes even more and smiled calmly.
"Is that all you got to do, by the way? If so, go home as soon as you can."
and the expression was backwards, and the word was a feeling of cold.
But Zhongheng ignored the words and now reported them with a bounced voice.
"By the way, Uncle!
This morning, my father's army left Satsuma!
That number is roughly 10,000.
Apparently he's headed for the Willow River!
That's my father!
Looking at the current situation, by joining Lord Hot Island, you have the soul nerve to sell your melancholy against Tokugawa!
Hey, now the Shimazu family is cheap too! Ha ha!
In response to the words, Yoshiku returned with a gentle smile as usual.
"Yoshihiro's part is Tachibana."
The shock that the short word had had was large enough to take away the same words of loyalty that had come from his mouth.
"Hey, what the heck!!?
That voice, which finally came out, is so inverted that it is likely to fall.
"Kuku... isn't it getting interesting"
"No, no, no! Oh, my God, that's not funny! It's over! Now the Shimazu family and I are done!
I look forward to seeing Zhongheng with a blue face and a head.
"And... there's another one."
"That would be a good reward!? Uncle!"
"Today I received a letter from Lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi"
"Ha... I don't care what the sunset Toyotomi says now, I don't know"
"Give Izakan Tadashi to Osaka..."
That word...
Yoshihiro took sides with Tachibana, which was an even greater shock than that.
To put it, it was as if a big bullet from a cannon called a national collapse had struck directly around the chest.
Zhongheng was so surprised that he fell on his back.
So why was it so shocking…
To know why, you need to know about the Shimazu family and the Ikaido family.
The head of the Ikaido family at this time, Ikaido Tadashi, was ostensibly a minister of the Shimazu family, but his loyalty was significantly lower.
No, loyalty, etc. was no longer lacking, and all that was there was just 'hate'.
As a testament to this, near the beginning of the battle of Sekigahara, he rebelled against Shimazu Zhongheng and his righteous opponent, and stood in a cage in the castle and fought against him completely. And that was something that managed to be resolved by the arbitration of Tokugawa Jiayang, but remained a great lump.
In other words, Ikegami Tadashi was like a bomb to the Shimazu family that wasn't strange whenever it erupted.
So why did Ikaido Tadashi hate the Shimazu family so much, the main one...
It's...
The past in which Tadahiro Shimazu slaughtered Tadashi Ikegami, the loyal father of Ikegami, in deception.
Originally Tadao Ikegami was a warlord much adored by Hideyoshi Tai, the head of the Shimazu family, but was given direct knowledge by the Toyotomi family.
According to the Toyotomi family, they were treated as equivalent to the Shimazu family.
Sometimes, Zhongdong Ikegami was certain that he had a great influence among the Shimazu family.
If he could have caught his eye on Zhongdong, it would have meant that he had fallen prey to Hideyoshi Tai.
In the meantime, Hideyoshi made Yoshiku take refuge, and Yoshihiro became the dominant ruler in the rush of the house.
When that happens, the presence of Zhongjiang becomes more and more.
In that fold, Shimazu Kubo, Yoshihiro's second son, who had been entrenched in the next term, left the world young because of his illness.
This was unexpected even for Mandarin, and as a measure of bitterness, he decided Zhongheng, Kubo's brother, to become the next Lord.
However, due to Zhongheng's instrumentality, there were many objections in the house, especially from the elders, starting with Zhongjiang.
After Hideyoshi's death, it finally surfaced and the Shimazu family fell into chaos.
It was Tokugawa Jiayang who arbitrated it.
But even though the arbitration, so to speak, was formal and appeared to have subsided, behind it, the once dull fire still remained feverish.
In the meantime, an 'accident' occurred and developed into an 'incident' …
That was when Zhongheng Shimazu invited Tadashi Ikegami to a banquet as a token of his rapprochement after the arbitration by Jiayang.
During that feast, Zhongdong had some sort of 'accident', and Zhongheng's unhappiness led him to slaughter and kill him on the spot.
Thus, as mentioned above, Tadashi Ikami, the son of Tadao Ikaido, started resenting Tadahiro Shimazu, and the year after his father was murdered, he waged a revolt.
And again, there is arbitration by Jiayang,
"Ikaido Tadashi is forbidden to communicate with Shimazu ministers."
As, things subsided in the form of picked rebel buds.
It seemed to me that even though Tokugawa Jiayang, such as arbitration from distant lands, was unable to go beyond the formal realm.
He was loyal to his lord, Yoshihiro Shimazu, but as Yoshihiro went to the battle of Sekigahara, there were constant rumors that there were some disturbing moves…
Of course, this rumor seems like something was set up to induce an 'accident'.
In the first place, there are many puzzling points about the slaughter of Zhongdong, and we cannot abandon the possibility that the 'accident' that Zhongheng led to the murder was orchestrated by someone...
What is that 'who'...
Now, there are such circumstances, and the fact that Ikegami Tadashi leaves Satsuma, if you take it to the Shimazu family, will erase the worries in the house, which was a very big thing.
"Hey, hey, hey!!!?
No longer speechless, Zhongheng had a stunned look on his face just blowing bubbles.
But Yoshiku, whose expression had not changed at all since earlier, snapped with such a small voice that he did not sound like Zhongheng.
"Now there won't be an 'accident' preventing Yoshihiro from marching...
Interesting...
It's getting really interesting. "
His eyes were carrying a demonic light, worthy of being described as a 'fox' …