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The late years of a warlord named Hidekang Nobushiro, who is left as a historical fact in future generations, have not been conveyed very well.
that you suffer from "syphilis," which is an STD, as if to imply that you like women, and that it is the cause of death.
And that, by virtue of the disease, he was put down in the service of the castle number of Fushimi Castle.
That my nose was missing due to illness and I was reprimanded by my father, Jiayang Tokugawa, for trying to hide it...
It should be noted that the fact that Hidekang Noboru was "syphilis" is conveyed by the "contemporary" book supposedly compiled by Tadaaki Matsuhei, the son of Tadashi Okipei and Princess Kaoru, that is, the grandson of Jiayang Tokugawa, during the year of Konagawa.
"Contemporary", as its name implies, is a history book written about a generation of Tokugawa Jiayang, or a lifetime.
Regardless, this book must have been seen by General Tokugawa as well, and it goes without saying that their intentions were much reflected.
What I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, see now is, of course, what is happening in this world where I am.
That may be different from 'true historical facts'.
But...
If you return the back, maybe this world is the 'true historical fact' -
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Celebrating 11 Years (1606) September 16th -
The Echimae Mansion is the largest mansion in Fushimi. In other words, it was Hidekang's mansion.
Upon arriving at the mansion, I and Zhonghui Matsuhei welcomed the line, what a Nobujo Hidekang the man was.
"Well done! Well done! Ha ha! You've grown so much! Chen Chiyo (about Chung-hye Matsuhei)!!
Who can imagine seeing this figure of him with a luxurious laugh, such as he being attacked by a demon? However, in the historical facts that have been passed down to future generations of my knowledge, Hidekang's medical condition should already be difficult to progress by this time.
But the nose, which was supposed to have been missing, made its muscles stand firm, and the bloody face was so healthy itself that it might not have coughed one in the last few years.
"Mmmm!? What's the matter, Lord Hideyoshi!? You look at me like you're surprised?
I stared at Hidekang, who was completely different from Hidekang Noboru in the history I knew, but Hidekang frowned and asked me.
"Yay! Brother! Be, nothing has changed!
Thank you for taking the time to pick up Sen Chiyo!
"Ha ha! Don't bother to thank me for something like that!
My two brothers are only here to welcome you as my brother!
Come on! That's enough talking and relax in your room quickly!
I'll take your hand!
"This! Ison! Don't treat me like an old man!
"Yay! This is tough! That's why you treat me like a child."
"Hmm! I don't know who your mouthpiece looks like."
"Ha ha! Now who is it! Ha ha!
I looked out for Rushui Kuroda, whom he admired as "my uncle", on the side of his smiling face. At the same time, I wonder why it hurt like my chest was only a little squeezed.
Whether it was in a time of warring turmoil where people's lives and deaths were closer than those of future generations, or my father, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, when he realized that great figures were still rooted in a variety of people and cultures even when he died, he was kind of immersed in a sentimental mood.
That's apparently not just me, and the high school leaking a novel to Hidekang also has a nostalgic eye for him like that. In her case, was she projecting the same person as me as Hidekang?
Or is it someone else...
Either way, that gaze of the High Court was full of charity, and the clear colors like today's fall sky were impressive.
Taking Hidekang and loyalty as the lead in moving through the wide mansion, approaching me with my thoughts that way.
And "healthy" Hidekang Kōjo took me through to the guest room.
Jideo Ono and the others, my offerings were put on standby in the adjacent room, where only five of us were in the room: me, Hidekang Noboru Noboru, Tadashi Matsuhei, Tadashi Matsuhei and Tadashi Tadashi Takashi.
Then Hidekang said to his son's loyalty.
"Senchiyo. I'll wait here with Lord Hideyoshi, so show Tatsuhiyoshi and his servants to the room where they're staying tonight."
"Ha! Father! So, Dear Zhonghui! Please come this way!
I guess the familiar Zhonghui is anxious to leave me in his first visit to the mansion. He glanced at me with a blue look on his face, but when I smiled and nodded, he also smiled.
If he made contact with various people in this way one by one, maybe his life would also be better if he were supposedly "freaked out," or, more importantly, something like that kind of affection I held to him and dropped off his back leaving the room.
And the three of them left in the room.
Hidekang now glanced at the high court and asked Hidekang, as he perceived something.
"Does Tsuruko do it without a breath?
Tsuruko is Hidekang's wife and married Hidekang as the adopted daughter of the Sorokai family. Of course, she was familiar with the high court, and she casually asked questions about the crane.
"Yeah, I'm doing fine. Looking forward to seeing you today."
The face of the High Court dusted with joy at the words.
"Tiger Pine, how are the Kunimaru people?
This Tiger Pine, Kunimaru, is about Hidekang Nobushiro's child. Including them and loyalty, Hidekang has eight children. It was easy to imagine that all of them were children born within the last decade, and that alone would make the back of this Echimae Mansion busy.
"Yeah, I can't help it anymore. Who does he look exactly like..."
"Kakaka! If you're a boy, you can't get your hands on it. Just enough. Yes! Which, about today, I want you to see this freak."
"Yay! Let's all rejoice that the ghost child can also be seen by the silent devil!
Whoa, whoa!
Lead him to the back!
To that voice, when a maid of honor appeared with her last name, the High Court was taken by them to leave the room behind.
Thus, as if Hidekang had measured, there were two people in the room: me and Hidekang Nobushiki.
His face, which was still lit by the sunshine of summer shadows, is also completely chilled in the cool mansion and clear in his head.
Hidekang probably left me and him with some intent, but it's obvious why not even think about it.
And Hidekang did not hesitate to talk about it.
"Lord Hideyoshi. How was Edo?
I decided to answer whatever intentions were hidden in this question without judgment.
"Yeah, it was a very lively and wonderful place"
"Well, that's good. It's better than the fire. It's a rebuilt one."
That being said, Hidekang is narrowing his eyes and smiling.
It should also be noted that Hidekang's reference to the "Great Fire Ahead" refers to the Great Fire, which occurred in the sixth year of Keio (1601), and which caused almost all of Edo's city to burn down.
In just five years, there is a strong will to "make Edo the best city in Japan" for General Tokugawa, who has rebuilt the city without causing a sense of the fire or any other fine dust.
With that in mind, Hidekang has made a step-by-step inquiry as if this conversation had been a prerequisite.
"By the way, I think I went to see your father, but how have you been?
This question...
- I haven't seen my father, Jiayang Tokugawa, face to face these days while he's in the same capital.
It just seems to indicate that.
That seemed to obscure one end of Hidekang Nojo's feelings for Jiayang Tokugawa, and my expression unwittingly tightened.
It should be noted that the relationship between the two of us these days, however, never seems to be accepted as "good" by the public.
Rumor has it that the boulders aren't even allowed to be "dangerous", but at least far from friendly parents and children.
It was clear that the cause was due to one incident earlier in the Battle of the Second Willow River.
As you know, in this battle, Tokugawa's army could hardly enter Kyushu.
Still, only Hideyoshi Tokugawa's army surrendered one powerful enemy after another, such as Shimazu and Tachibana, which in turn resulted in a strong impression of the Tokugawa family's Yasutai, but it was nevertheless a theory of results, and it was certain that Jiakang's voice of anxiety and surprise about his failure to enter Kyushu had risen from the public and generals.
And it was Hidekang Nobushiro and the world that made the cause of it.
It's
- Sir Echimae (about Hidekang Nobujo) stopped his lord at Echimae Mansion.
That's what it is.
Indeed, Jiayang, who led the army from Edo, after entering Kyo, without moving from its mansion for a few days when he was invited to respond to Hidekang, finally turned back to the Mansion of Two Articles to keep all the army waiting.
In the first battle involving the prestige of the Tokugawa family if it were bad, what the hell was it that made Jiayang stop at two articles?
Speculation about it flew across a variety of things.
One of them was "Hidekang stopped Jia Kang".
So much so that some of them even asked me the radical phrase, "If Jiayang left Kyo, the Echimae soldiers were supposed to attack behind him".
Actually, I don't know why Jiayang didn't go to Kyushu then either.
Still, I know Jiayang and Hidekang. As far as I'm concerned, I'm wondering if there was anything like those rumors.
And in order to foil Hideyoshi Tokugawa as the next general, I also supported Yukimura Maida's assumption that Jiayang had left everything to him after only the lower preparations had been well prepared.
Just...
Apparently, as a Tokugawa family, he makes good use of the rumors.
That is, "Hidekang Nojo is dangerous", so to speak, affixed a rettel, and although he gave a great territory before Echizen, it seems to me that he is thoroughly distancing himself from the framework of the new shogunate.
Of course, the children of Jiayang, other than Hidekang, are not directly involved in politics by the Shogun. Still, it became known later as the "Mitsuya", like Yoshiaki Tokugawa, Ashikan Tokugawa, and Ashikan Tokugawa, it was the truth that they had not been treated as a one-way crowd, such as the use of the Tokugawa surname and the family crest of Aoi Mitsuba.
The second general, Hideyoshi Tokugawa's brother, but not even treated as Ichimen Tokugawa -
I wonder how Hidekang himself feels about that...
I have to feel a dull pain like myself just to guess through his chest, but the person in front of me does not show such pain or hatred, but turns a merciful smile to me and asks about his own father.
I still couldn't measure Hidekang's mood and said what I thought.
"Yeah, I was fine. Recently, when I had trouble mixing white things with my hair, I was laughing bitterly..."
"Well... that's good"
The look on Hidekang's face, which tickles and laughs, just seems to show his feelings for Jiayang. It was the kind-hearted son himself who cared about his old father.
And...
"How was Hideyoshi?
"Yes, my father-in-law, thanks to the birth of Takechiyo, was more and more energetic."
"Yeah, yeah, that's good"
It was also the face of my brother, Hideyoshi Tokugawa.
The warmth of Hidekang caring about his family changes with the air in the room as it is.
And I asked what was most strange at this time.
"Has your brother changed anything to your body?
Maybe you just don't show it to others and have a serious illness within...
Even now, such a little anxiety remained in my head. Because it was documented in the inheritance of future generations that he had already been afflicted with the disease.
But Hidekang answered with a smile without knowing such a thing about me.
"Ha! If you think you're going to look at me earlier, you care about something like that!
As you can see, I'm not lurking in my body with a disease. I know you've lost some strength lately, but once it's still a battle, let it run endlessly across the battlefield!
I was relieved by the words and accidentally leaked the truth.
"I'm relieved to hear that. But, brother. It's not as big a battle as my brother has to fight in today's world. Rest assured."
It was the moment the word came out...
With the feeling that the sharp, dry sound of Piscilli stuck inside the room...
Clearly, the air's frozen.
"Lord Hideyoshi... do you sincerely think 'there is no greater battle'?
"What...!?
The gentle expression remained the same, but I unwittingly solidified into that inquiry, which was painful enough to make me feel the winter air.
Hidekang overlaps words so as to poke and move me like that. That was as if he were hunching a war over the survival of future ministers of abundance that he could not possibly have known.
"No more fighting and the Shogun will end his manners against Toyotomi… I'm asking if that's what you think"
"What does that mean..."
"Lord Hideyoshi... don't you know it thinly? Isn't that why you visited Edo or responded to Chen Chiyo in the past year?
I'm confused by that suddenly changed air, I can't even feel the fear and get the word out.
I guess Hidekang cares about me like that. He continued as his own words, as if to speak in my chest.
"The Shogun... the Tokugawa... no, more importantly, Father... i.e., the Tokugawa family is prepared to crush the Toyotomi family..."
Rin's words pierced my heart that I should know about.
If what I know of future generations is true, it will be going solemnly as Hidekang put it. Still, in the past year, all the Tokugawa family members I've dealt with and the ministers of Tokugawa Spectrum were friendly enough for me to forgive.
That was something that could be said equally to Tokugawa Jiayang the person.
By doing so, I could not deny that I had been under the illusion that through my visit to Edo and Zhonghui's response, "the formation of Osaka would no longer happen".
But the destination of the course of history will be obvious from the point of view of those who can see the world with the right eyes, like Hidekang Nojo.
Yes...
Tokugawa Jiayang wants to crush the Toyotomi family... Osaka Castle...
Hidekang's gaze continued to shake my mind, even making the face that was turning away feel like it had been put back a long time with some big hand.
"As for the Toyotomi, like other outsiders, it would not translate into territorial confiscation with one letter...
In that case, it is imperative that it be a battle.
Don't run away from it. "
Hidekang throws harsh words. But still, the color of those eyes filled with love for me remains unchanged.
Right...
This guy is my "brother"...
He's on my side everywhere, he's family...
That is not in the form of a provisional early family created by a political marriage.
I feel such an unbroken bond, firmly intertwined in the depths of my heart.
I mean, Hidekang Nojo...
- I will always be a member of the Toyotomi family!
And he spoke to me forcefully with those eyes.
When I finally calmed down, I exhaled one loud and tightened my mouth.
"Brother. My 'dream' lies in everyone in the world living in abundance and with a smile.
If anyone tries to disturb it in vain, they are prepared to face it, even if they are more powerful opponents than themselves. "
This was my heart.
Of course, I know that the Toyotomi family is an obstacle to the Tokugawa family, and that it is a house that must not be left behind in the Tokugawa world, which will last for two hundred years.
Still, I want to live for the sake of the Japanese people as the son of the heavenly people while living as a human being in this world… Hideyoshi Toyotomi. Even if there is an inevitable war called "The Great Slope Formation," it can be called "The Iron Will as Successor to the Heavenly Man".
"But if you try to be a father, the Toyotomi will be more disturbing to the world.
It can be twisted by the winner, such as the world and the history of the world to come. "
"I mean, what is your brother trying to say?
Of course I know the answer and I ask. Then Hidekang answered clearly, loosening his mouth.
"You don't think Hideyoshi's going to bend his knee to your father to see Hideyoshi move this past year, do you?
Even if it's a battle...
That's what I wanted to hear. "
I closed my eyes quietly.
And...
He nodded quietly...
What if...
If I surrender to Tokugawa Jiayang and remove Osaka Castle, will Osaka's formation be avoided...
Will the war that makes people unhappy disappear from Japanese history...
My answer to this was no longer decided.
- Whether I bend this knee or not, the Osaka formation is bound to happen...
That's what I meant.
That's if you dig in and say...
- Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Midori, in any form, are cut off by Tokugawa Jiayang
That is.
Hidekang Nobushi understood that.
And while he had the blood fate of being the son of the Tokugawa family and the general's brother, he enveloped me with his big wings.
"Rest assured. At the end of my spear on the battlefield, there will be a family crest of sunflowers."
I keep my eyes wide open and stare at Hidekang.
To me, knowing the fate of the Toyotomi tragedy, living as Toyotomi Hideyoshi was the same as wanting light in the dark but suffering.
In that, Hidekang is pointing his "Be the Light" love at me without even looking at his position...
Why...
It didn't have to be said, Hidekang smiled and spoke to me.
"I am the son of His Highness Tai and the brother of His Highness Hideyoshi."
"But... isn't Lord Jia Kang a bloody connected father to his brother...!?
"If they ask me which way to connect the blood or the heart, I will answer immediately…"
Hidekang puts his hands around his chest.
And I told him with all my strength in my eyes.
"Hidekang Nobushiro is a man with a heart connection..."
This passionate determination...
create a tragedy in him, and...
I can't believe you're setting my heart on fire.