Eighth year of Chongzhen

Chapter 850 Infighting
Although the Songpan family is not very popular, but as the saying goes, Qin Hui has a close friend. The new Hirado clan daimyo has a relationship with his father's old retainer, Mi Cangdai, who is in charge of the Hirado clan inspector. The situation is not bad, but Yonekura ranks fourth among the retainers of the Hirado Clan, and the power of speech and sense of presence are extremely low, which makes him feel aggrieved by his conceit.

Because it involves such a major event as the change of the head of the family, none of the retainers who will assume important positions in Tianchuan Yuhuang will convene the meeting, and the signs of private friendship between Mi Cang and the Songpan family are usually not obvious, so the others Without noticing this detail, Yicang led his people to attend the secret meeting, and followed the crowd to express support for Tianchuan Yuhuang and others' proposal for the replacement of the head of the family.

Unwilling to be let down by others, Micang took the people back to his residence and thought about it calmly, thinking that this was an opportunity for him to stand up.

Because even though Songpan Jiamu behaved extremely unbearably after his father's death, he was after all the legitimate heir of the Hirado domain name.

The conspiracy of Tianchuan Yuhuang and others is equivalent to committing the following offenses, no matter which country's laws it is, it is absolutely not allowed.

As the elder of the Songpan family, Ikeda Shi Huizheng is very dissatisfied with his unbearable words and deeds, but he will never allow his old friend's retainers to abolish the patriarch at will. This kind of behavior may be imitated by others, and may even endanger oneself, so, no matter what, Ikeda will support the Songpan family.

Among the daimyos who participated in the downfall, the Ikeda clan is the strongest clan after the Hirado clan in terms of strength in all aspects. The Ikeda clan also got a lot of armaments aided by Daming this time, which made their strength even more powerful. Greatly enhanced.

If he went to the Songpan family to report on Tianchuan Yuhuang and others, and persuaded Chi Tian to side with the Songpan family, then Tianchuan Yuhuang and others were doomed to fail. As long as these people were removed, from now on In the future, I will become the number one retainer of the Hirado Clan, and after I stabilize, I will be able to deal with the Songpan family's wine bags and rice bags with ease.

What's more, the Songpan family had been at odds with Emperor Tianchuan Yuhuang in normal times, and once he was drunk, he even let out rumors that after he succeeded the daimyo, he would be the first to get rid of this "relict thief of the Ming Dynasty". Although this matter has not been widely spread, Mi Cang leads people to believe that Tianchuan Yuhuang must have heard about it, and this may be one of the important reasons why he is eager to abolish the Patriarch this time.

After much deliberation, Mi Cang took people to the temporary residence of the Songpan family overnight, and asked the head of the family to drive away the people who served him, and then informed him of the plot of Tianchuan Yuhuang and others, and pretended to be loyal. The attitude of the master urged Songpanjiamu to find ways to deal with this matter as soon as possible.

Songpan Jiamu, who was always stern and soft-hearted, was suddenly terrified.

He usually spends most of his thoughts on wine and women. The Hirado domain has been very stable for many years. He is used to living a peaceful life, how can he have the brains to deal with such emergencies?
After taking over the Hirado domain by accident, he who has no ambitions first thinks about how to enjoy good wine and beautiful women. He has long put aside Matsupan Jiro's great career, and now his biggest wish is to use the power and victory of the coalition forces. Separating the island of Kyushu and becoming the lord of a country, I didn't expect that before the dream started, I would face the danger of being abolished. What should I do?

Songpan Jiamu knew in his heart that he was only a daimyo of the Hirado domain in name, but the real power was in the hands of those old retainers promoted by his late father. Facing the current crisis, the power he could rely on was too weak. Ruthless, I can say that I have no resistance.

Just when he was in deep despair, Yonekura, who saw that the fire was coming, pretended to mention Ikeda Teruma cautiously. This proposal made the Songpan family like a drowning man seeing the straw, but the first thing he thought of was Go to the Ikeda family instead of using the other party's power to solve the big trouble in front of you.

Seeing that the Songpan family is such an idiot, Yicang led his people to secretly despise him, and at the same time, he directly proposed his own plan: Immediately contact Terumasa Ikeda in secret, and inform the elder of the following crimes committed by Yuhuang Tianchuan and others, and then from Ikeda Borrowing troops, he summoned Tianchuan Yuhuang and others to attend the meeting under the pretext of discussing the expansion of the army against the Tokugawa shogunate, and then took the opportunity to capture and kill them on the spot.

Songpanjiamu struggled a little when he heard the words, and then fully accepted the suggestion of Mi Cang to lead people.

To be on the safe side, Songpan Jiamu changed into women's clothes, sneaked out of the house with Yonekura who also changed into women's clothes, and went to the nearby residence of Ikeda Teruma overnight to meet him.

Ikeda Teruma, who has not yet slept, is most worried about the current situation.

Since his old friend Matsupan Jiro was brutally murdered by the shogunate assassins, the successor Matsupan family was obviously difficult to convince the public in terms of ability, vision, strategy, and character. Suggestion, which annoyed Ikeda Teruma.

On the whole, with Songpan Jiamu's prestige, it is difficult to continue to be the leader of the coalition forces. If the current momentum continues, it won't take long for this already loose alliance to fall into a state of disintegration.

If it really came to that situation, in the future the shogunate army would take advantage of the situation to attack with heavy troops, and the so-called coalition forces would be hard to resist. In the end, one can imagine the ending of the foreign daimyo who participated in the downfall.

But after all, the Hirado Clan was the first to initiate the collapse this time. To achieve the current results, the Hirado Clan contributed the most, and the main target of Ming’s assistance was the Hirado Clan. Confrontation, other daimyos including Ikeda obviously do not have such qualifications.

Could it be that the good situation is seeing an end?After thinking about it left and right, there is still no result, which makes Ikeda Teruma very worried.

The current situation has become difficult to ride a tiger. Is it really necessary to separate Kyushu Island as Songpan Jiamu proposed?
If it doesn't work, that's the only way to go.

The main force of the coalition forces is deployed on the south bank of the Kanmon Strait. As long as the narrowest part of the strait is only a few hundred feet long, the shogunate army will not be able to land on Kyushu Island on a large scale.

Since the Tokugawa shogunate closed the country, there have been few decent large sea ships in Japan. If the shogunate wanted to attack the coalition forces, they could only come from the Kanmon Strait.

It's not the right time for my best friend to die.

The Hirado clan fell into the hands of waste like Songpanjiamu, and its decline was inevitable.

Even if the island of Kyushu is successfully separatist in the end, with Songpan Jiamu's method, it will be difficult to control other ambitious foreign daimyos after a long time, and his dream of becoming the lord of Kyushu will soon be shattered.

Just as Ikeda Teruma was thinking about it, his samurai came to report, and the Patriarch of the Hirado clan came to see him.

(End of this chapter)