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Celebration 11 (1606) December 22 -

On this day, two people from Osakaka Castle, Yukimura Maida and Fujimura Oda, are set to leave for Nakajima, Shinanagawa.

Regardless of the purpose, I, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, would like to participate in the wedding of Chung-hye Matsuhei. But I waited a long time for "something".

And now that the time is finally approaching, I think there is no choice but to keep the heartbeat of my loud chest from ringing. Still, ostensibly, he managed to remain calm and summoned them among the castle lords of Osaka Castle before leaving.

Nice to meet you.

And against me in a formal tone, the two voiced together and said, "Ha ha," and after lowering their heads, they quickly left the room.

At this moment...

Finally...

The time has finally come!!

I jumped right off the top seat, which is getting a little high!

"Ha ha! No - Yikes!!

The feeling of your body dancing lightly into the universe, as if feathers had grown, is most comfortable.

And he screamed with a bounced voice as he jumped up in the middle of a large room where no one was.

"It's winter break, hey!!

Yes… from this moment on, I finally entered the "winter break"!

And how much I've been waiting for this time...

Even if I just think about it, I'm saddened that what glows at my eyes seeps is irresistible.

That is because it is no exaggeration to say that since I began to take full responsibility for Osaka Castle, there have been no holidays.

Ever since the sun showed its face off the horizon, there's always been a look of Yukimura Maida next to me. In the caged room with him, a pile of letters awaiting my verdict...

He was a Toyotomi who had greatly reduced his territory and would have been better if he had concentrated solely on the politics of Kiuchi, but there was no longer the figure of the masters of government once called the "five services". Therefore, their duties have to be shared in the face of Osaka Castle...

That amount...

It was far beyond my imagination.

Perhaps we should still consider the greatness of Hideyoshi Taisho's ability to "serve the five" as "good" even if we were able to understand it in advance.

Implementation and budget rulings on each policy, people's petitions, operation of the Temple Buddha's Cabinet, exchanges with other countries and public houses…

Literally, from morning to evening, the days of confronting the pile of letters were repeated.

Besides, it's only natural that my job as the Lord can't stay just that...

Meetings with the nobles who come to visit from time to time, tea parties with leading merchants and townspeople, participation in the divine affairs held by the temple…

It's not a hoarding thing because they're coming in from the mouth of a single Kiryu, as if they had finally figured out when to "take a breath"!

He must be constantly asking me how I am far-sighted. And that moment when I sighed "Phew" would be what I envision as a great opportunity to speak up.

But if you try it on me, it's as if I was "insidious" in anticipation of the moment and pouring water on my face against someone who had finally opened his face from the sea and desperately opened his mouth, simply because I was too tired and humbled?

Anyway, he wanted "rest" from the bottom of his heart.

And now, from the moment my sidekick, Yukimura Maida, left Osaka Castle, it was clear that I decided to stay away from my official duties for a while.

That period ends Chung-hye Matsuhei's wedding, and Yukimura returns to Osaka Castle, just five days until December 26. What's more, at the end of those five days, it will be clearer than watching the fire that more intense duties await me from the end of the year to the beginning of the year.

Still, I was so ecstatic that I accidentally danced "Toyota Dance" by myself.

Well... I was just finishing my little leap and I decided to leave this room first.

I can't tell whether the sweat seeping through my forehead is due to a small leap or to my chest dancing to excitement.

But now it was certain that his chest was pulsating with dope and excitement that he had never tasted in recent times.

As soon as you leave among the castle owners, you can see the courtyard. The winter morning sun shines over there.

Until yesterday, I'd already be sitting down in front of a pile of paperwork.

What about that now?

- Standing on two legs, in the eyelid sun!

I can't believe that's all this is happier...

With what is passed down in future generations, some lords have had "mental illness," but now I know exactly how that feels.

I'm pretty exhausted myself in just the last six months.

Especially if you were a young man and became a lord, you wouldn't even have been able to grasp the talent of "who is good at what" without the art of using people like "who should be entrusted with what".

If you were pursued by so much government that you couldn't turn your neck in it, there would be something hard and incalculable about it.

In my original world of "historical simulation games," I could do a city with one click, but when it comes to doing it in real life, I have to worry about budget management, staffing, procurement of materials, scheduling… all sorts of things.

Of course, many of them are good translations if they are left to good men, but in a reality where the talent's abilities are not "quantified" as in the game, I don't even know who to leave them to.

It is also a nod that many of those who became clan lords at an early age were doing politics in the form of trampling the institutions that worked for their predecessors.

But what about me now?

In the days of his predecessors, Hideyoshi Toyotomi, most of the people who encouraged him to do his job were not left in Osaka Castle.

And Hideyoshi Toyotomi, before he was even ten years old, became a lord, taking on the heavy responsibility of partitioning Kiuchi's politics.

In the discourse passed down to future generations, it is assumed that starch, my mother, had done most of it, but how accurately could she have done "politics" by fulfilling...

Maybe it's something I can say now, but let's be clear: "Impossible to do the right politics, etc! All I can say is,"

I mean, where does this situation end up...

- The Toyotomi will perish.

The funny and irrelevant "sense of reality" that has never been written in the historical novels I've seen, but for me... no, it's terribly heavy for the Toyotomi.

Let's just say this is a hard part even if it has the advantage of "knowing the future".

Because it doesn't do anything for the future. That is, it can be said to be a challenge that follows a fate that has already been held in front of us and ends up not looking at a solution.

- At least one...

If only one of you had a "rigid arm" on your side that could surround Osaka Castle politics...

How helpful would it have been if someone had been able to grasp the kitchen situation and talent in the castle and make accurate budget, staffing and political decisions.

More importantly, the presence of that person may even create an incentive for the Toyotomi to resurface on the tabular stage.

When I put my head around it, the face of one person came up all the time.

Who is that person...

- Soyo Ishida...

"You can't do that!!

I accidentally raised my voice against my thoughts, "Shit!" It seemed too late by the time I reflected. At the same time that I raised my voice, people in the castle are staring at me like they were surprised.

"Sorry! I'm sorry! It's nothing! Ha ha..."

I was so embarrassed, I felt myself blushing, I went back to my room early on. And when he entered the room without hesitation, he breathed out loud, "Phew."

Sitting "boffled" on a big western bed, he defeats his body backwards as it is and leans back.

When wrapped in a soft feel, the blushing face goes back to normal. At the same time, nature and in my head depicted what I had denied earlier.

In the first place, Soyo Ishida is ordered to stay as a "sinner".

Since its distribution area happens to be the capital of Kyoto, compared to Masuda Chanyuki and others who are distributed to Takano Mountain, it's just easy to say that it's easy to meet each other, and let's just say it's the person who should even speak up if it's supposed to be.

Still, it is allowed only because now the person Toyotomi Hideyoshi is rated the same as Tokugawa Jiayang and Hideyoshi, and yet a child.

But now it's time to get close to Zongyang, but if the Toyotomi family finally becomes a "disturbing presence" for the Tokugawa family, rather, getting close to Zongyang could give the Tokugawa family the "cause of conversion" of their outfits.

In other words, if you make a mistake, it's not surprising to think that Osaka's formation also has the potential to be fanged before it breaks out.

But while I am aware of that, I must say that the rare political qualities he possesses, given what is now inside Osaka Castle, shine out of the group, to the best of my knowledge, without any doubt or dust.

And as disturbing as it is, there is no place to take advantage of the advantages of "knowing the future" if it stays this way, and the Toyotomi are visible to follow the path of destruction.

That would be no different with a hero named Yukimura Maida in one of my arms. Instead, he and I both find that he has too little political and military experience and that it is difficult to make a big deal or develop human resources.

Can't we get Soyo Ishida back to Osaka Castle somehow...

Or replacing Souyoshi Ishida, something his equivalent hasn't slept in the world yet...

I spin my head full circle and I can think about it, but nothing comes to mind...

... and that was then.

When something like an electric shock runs around my body,

"Ha! Am I an idiot!!

And I raised my voice again.

Because I realized it.

"Winter off today!! And what are you gonna do about wearing your head off about politics!!

So...

So I decided to take a break that was a memorial.

Either way, there's nothing I can do to haunt my head alone. When Yukimura returns, let's talk to him.

I switched my head so lightly that I started practicing certain things.

It's...

- I'm going to bed in the morning!

That is.

What laziness... no! What a luxury to say!

In the original world, I didn't feel any guilt or gratitude for being gobbled up until evening, such as Sunday, but I even feel a sort of disloyalty to fall asleep on a fuzzy bed without doing anything with this Toyotomi Hideyoshi I am now.

Still sounds like a allowed "winter break"...!

"Ha ha! Wonderful! That's so wonderful! Winter break!"

I fluttered my legs on the bed and closed my eyes quietly.