Chapter 12 The sixth story Mrs. Suruga -2

Hideyoshi, who wiped out Mitsuhide Akechi in a battle on the outskirts of Nanshan City, continued to march north.In the Hokuriku region, Shibata Katsuya was defeated again, thus establishing the status of the heir to the Oda regime. But Nobunaga's second son, Oda Nobuo, believed that this was not an inheritance but a usurpation.From this standpoint, he raised his troops in the Owari country to fight against Japan, and at the same time appealed to Tokugawa Ieyasu of the Tokai country for support, and got in touch with him. In the twelfth year of Tianzheng, the two sides fought in Xiaomu and Nagakute.

At that time, Hideyoshi had already conquered the capital, and with Osaka as his base, his sphere of influence had reached 24 countries, and the area of ​​his territory had exceeded 6.2 million shi, which was larger than the original Oda regime. Compared with this, Oda Nobuo has only 1.07 million shi, Tokugawa Ieyasu has 1.38 million shi, and the strength of the two sides is very different.However, Hideyoshi spoke highly of Ieyasu's talents and the bravery of his generals.He believes that caution must be exercised in this general battle. It could even be said that Hideyoshi was overly cautious.From the 150,000 people who could be mobilized, he drew all the troops that could be mobilized and put them into the battle of Mino and Owari Plains.But Hideyoshi warned the whole army not to let them attack first, but to build castles for field battles everywhere, establish a fortress line covering a large area, and adopt the combat method of facing each other in positions.The same goes for Ieyasu.Since both sides could not hold on to their carefully constructed positions, in this case, whoever strikes first will suffer.The two armies went to war in March.In April, one of Hideyoshi's troops acted rashly.They wanted to drive straight in, and rushed to Sanhe, Ieyasu's base, in one fell swoop.Discovered by Ieyasu during the secret march, he was attacked by his main force and fled.

Ieyasu was victorious in this partial war.Since then, he has stayed in the position and stood still.No matter how Hideyoshi challenges, he will not come out to fight.He wanted to do his best to let the world know that he had defeated Hideyoshi in a local war.Hideyoshi became anxious.He hopes to fight to the death with Ieyasu, and annihilate Ieyasu in one fell swoop through a decisive battle.However, Ieyasu refused to challenge like a salamander closing the lid.He just wants to keep the record of this victory, and wait for the situation to improve while continuing to maintain this record. Seeing Ieyasu's reluctance to fight, Hideyoshi decided to break the deadlock by using what he knew best - diplomacy.He first lured Ieyasu's ally Oda Nobuo to win over him.Nobuo was tempted by profit, and he negotiated peace with Hideyoshi alone without telling his ally Ieyasu.Therefore, Ieyasu also withdrew from the battlefield in order to preserve his strength and returned to his homeland.

Hideyoshi then sent envoys to Ieyasu to propose peace.Ieyasu also saw that it was the general trend for the world to belong to Hideyoshi, so he accepted the proposal.Although he was the winner of the local war, he had to take the position of the loser formally and sent hostages to Hideyoshi. Of course, Hideyoshi took care of Ieyasu's situation, not as a hostage on the surface: "I would like to accept the next son as an adopted son." Regardless of the substance, calling this adoption as an adopted son gave Ieyasu a lot of face. Ieyasu agreed to Hideyoshi's request and decided to give him his second son Yugimaru, so he sent his retainer Ishikawa Suzumasa to escort him to Osaka.After Hideyoshi received Yoshimaru in Osaka Castle, he held a ceremony to accept him as an adopted son, and immediately held a crown ceremony for him.Hideyoshi gave him the word "Xiu" and named him Hashiba Hideyasu, and he has since become a member of Hashiba's family.This person is the future Yuki Hideyasu.

However, Ieyasu still refused to step down from the throne of the victor, and he did not take a single step to his base in the East China Sea.According to common sense, Ieyasu should go out of the city to meet Hideyoshi in Kyoto and Osaka.But in this way, he seemed to be a submissive person, but Ieyasu didn't do this.This is his political strategy.As long as he guards the East China Sea, he and Hideyoshi are equal. Although the second son Yuyimaru was given to Hideyoshi, it is just that the Tokugawa family and the Hashiba family have become relatives. Hideyoshi felt very troubled by Ieyasu's attitude.

This is a matter of course.Because as long as Ieyasu defends the five countries of the East China Sea (Mikawa, Toe, Suruga, Kai, and Shinano), the tyrants from Shikoku, Kyushu, Kanto, and Tohoku will contact Ieyasu and continue to resist Hideyoshi’s regime. It is said that even if Hideyoshi wants to send troops to conquer the four countries, as long as Ieyasu is behind him, he cannot use the army. It is true that if Hideyoshi uses his 150,000-strong army to launch a crusade against the East China Sea, Ieyasu will be wiped out sooner or later, but it will take a long time.During this period, if the world is in chaos, the newly established Hideyoshi regime will collapse.He must achieve the great cause of unifying the world in a short period of time.Therefore, he believes that instead of launching a protracted war, it is better to choose a diplomatic route that can make rapid progress.He was trying to get Ieyasu into his hands diplomatically.In other words, let Ieyasu become his servant.Specifically, let Ieyasu go to Beijing once.As long as Ieyasu goes to Beijing to meet Hideyoshi, as long as the two of them meet each other in this form, then the relationship between the two will become a master-slave relationship.

"Can't you think of a way to ask him to come to Beijing once?" Hideyoshi has long believed that among the heroes in the world today, apart from Nobunaga, only Ieyasu is formidable.After dealing with him this time, I realized that this is a more intimidating figure than expected.Ieyasu is an extraordinary person. He is neither deceived nor afraid of threats.It is true that Hideyoshi has already taken hostages, but from Ieyasu's political decisiveness, he has already abandoned Yuyi Maru.If he had any attachment to the hostage second son, he might come to Beijing to meet him, but so far there has been no movement.The hostage plan failed.

The needs of the situation forced Hideyoshi to make a decision.It is politics not to hesitate to take any leap forward in the face of the demands of the situation.Hideyoshi even felt that if Ieyasu agreed to be his servant, he would kneel in front of him and kiss his feet. Out of this need, Hideyoshi thought of Miss Asahi's question. At this juncture, Hideyoshi said in a pleading tone to his younger brother Hidecho, "Koichiro, please help me!" Now he had to make sacrifices on his family. "If you say no, then the great cause of reunification will be hopeless. The world of the Yuchai family that has just been established will collapse, the power of the Yuchai family will be wiped out, and our whole family will die. Such an important matter can be seen in full Can you agree? Do you say you can promise?"

What he wants to ask his younger brother to do is: let Miss Asahi divorce her husband, and then marry her to Ieyasu, so that Hideyoshi and Ieyasu become the relationship between brother-in-law and brother-in-law, so as to bring Ieyasu under the Hideyoshi regime.There is no other way.But mother Azhong—will the current Dazheng Institute agree?I'm afraid she will not allow her daughter to suffer such misfortune.Then convince her.To convince the mother, instead of Hideyoshi going out in person, it is better to ask the younger brother Hidecho to act as a lobbyist, because the mother likes Hidecho more than Hideyoshi.Besides, Asahi is Hideyoshi's half-sister.His elder brother is half of the reason. Instead of letting him come forward, it is better to let Xiuchang, who has the same father and mother as A Xu, talk, and things will go smoothly.So, Hideyoshi said to his younger brother: "I also entrust you with the work of persuading A Xu."

After hearing what his brother said, Xiuchang was at a loss.He thought, since ancient times, how can there be such strange things?A Xu obviously has her husband, and the relationship between husband and wife is reasonable. They are living a smooth and calm life, but now they suddenly want to break up their husband and wife relationship. After breaking up, A Xu must marry another man A man, in the history of the relationship between husband and wife in this country, I'm afraid there has never been such a thing.Xiuchang almost screamed and said, "I can't do this." "I know! I expected you to answer me like that."

After speaking, Hideyoshi suddenly burst into tears.Hideyoshi is a person who always laughs, but when he is emotional, he will cry at any time.At this moment, while crying loudly, he counted the necessity and reasons of having to do this; while counting, he cried loudly.Seeing her brother crying like this, Xiuchang fell silent.In the end, he had to agree to his brother's request. "But, what do you plan to do with Deputy Tian Jinhei?" "I will do my best to help him. I plan to promote him to a prince and give him fifty thousand stone fief." Let people sell their wives to become princes?At that time, Xiuchang didn't realize this.In this regard, Xiuchang is too honest.At this moment, he just thought that since the higher-ups had arranged this way, Jinbei could always solve the problem.So, he never thought about it further.What he thought was that compared to Jinbei, his mother Azhong and younger sister Axu were more difficult to deal with. "Can you convince them?" Xiuchang talked to his mother first.As expected, Ah Zhong was so angry that he almost went crazy, he said to Xiuchang: "Xiao Yilang, listen carefully! That monkey boy has made me suffer all the time since I was a child. I don't want to live like this Life. The monkey boy became a warrior, so I have to live in this mansion. If I still live in the house in Owari Nakamura, where the moonlight can leak through the roof, there will be no such misfortune. Son." Xiuchang persuaded and coaxed her repeatedly, but finally got her mother to agree.The next step is to convince the sister. Xiuchang called Axu to Daban City, persuaded her with Axu's eldest sister, and told a big lie to Axu: "Jinbingwei has already agreed." This sentence made A Xu's hands and feet feel cold.She fell down on the spot and seemed to be out of breath for a while.Doctors revived her.The fact that she was abandoned by Jinbei seemed to be a bigger blow than asking her to remarry.After waking up, A Xu still didn't say a word.When Xiuchang finally asked her repeatedly if she was going to Hamamatsu, she nodded blankly. Deputy Tajinhei was then the local governor of the territory directly under the Hashiba family in central Omi.When Xiuchang talked to Axu, Jinbei was also called to his mansion by Sugihara Hoki from Osaka.After the two sat down relative to each other, Boqi straight to the point talked about the divorce between him and A Xu, and finally said: "This is Shangfeng's order." Jinbingwei was furious when he heard this, and stretched out his hand to hold the dagger. "Jinbei, what are you doing?" Probably Boqi had expected it a long time ago, and it was too late to say it, but he saw Boqi kicking the bed with his foot, and he quickly retreated and hid to the side.Thus, there was a gap between him and Jinbei.Ding, a ten-odd well-known member of the Sugihara family who was standing on both sides, immediately inserted between the two of them, separating the two of them at once. "You, you want to kill me?" Jinbei seemed extremely panicked.At this time, he didn't realize that it was his unconscious action of putting his hand on the sword that caused the uproar. At this time, he was just afraid that others would kill him. "Haha, misunderstanding, this is a misunderstanding!" An old servant of the Sugihara family deliberately used a very relaxed and happy voice, and came out with a smile on his face to smooth things over.Then he said: "Your hand made a dangerous movement, so we stepped in. First, please hand..." He raised his hand quickly and pointed to Jinbei's right hand, until then Only then did Jinbei realize that his right hand was holding the hilt of the dagger. "...I, don't do anything..." Jinbei dropped his right hand feebly.Even he himself didn't understand why he was holding the hilt of the sword in his hand. Did he want to draw the sword to commit seppuku or kill Boqi with a single blow? However, I'm afraid it's neither.It seemed that he could no longer control his body and mind because of the great shame and the merciless teasing of fate. For a moment, he lost his mind and unconsciously put his right hand on the dagger.He didn't have the courage to kill Hoki.Even if Boqi is killed, it may not help the matter. "I don't do anything." Jinbei repeated again.He thought, even if he wanted to kill him, he would have to kill Hideyoshi, but how could he kill someone who commanded over two hundred daimyos and owned more than sixty prefectures? "I reject!" After a while, Jinbei shouted.Apart from refusing, he couldn't save his face as a man. Having said that, he didn't mean to reject his wife A Xu being snatched away.This event is irresistible, just as floods and earthquakes are irresistible.He said: he can refuse to agree to the price, that is, to be a prince with 50,000 stone fiefs, which is his freedom, and he refuses to do so. "I refuse. How can there be such a bastard in the world who sells his wife to become a prince of 50,000 shi?" Jinbingwei shouted. "There is no price. Please take it for free. Please report the truth to the master, and say that I, Shibei, said it. Don't forget!" Jinbei stood up and ran towards the door. At the door, he turned around again and shouted repeatedly into the dark room: "No price. I will give it to him. Boqigong, please tell the truth to the master. Please tell me this sentence, otherwise, I will have no soldiers and guards." I am ashamed to face others, and even Amitabha and Maitreya can't save me. Please be sure to tell this sentence to the master." After finishing speaking, he jumped down the steps.When he was about to walk out of the gate, he turned around again, opening his mouth to shout something again.People can't help but think that this person is probably a little crazy. "Maybe he will commit seppuku in shame." Everyone inside the door thought so. Even Jinbei, who was running on the road, had thought of committing suicide.But after returning to the residence, he realized that suicide is stupid.There is nothing more boring than cutting seppuku at this time.It will only make the world gossip that I died after being humiliated.Seppuku is always the highest way to boast of oneself, and one should be passionate and generous, but if one commits suicide secretly on this occasion, it may only win a little sympathy from others.He thought, instead of committing suicide by harakiri, it would be better to survive and resign and return to his hometown.Yes, you should leave without saying goodbye.In the form of abandoning the master and leaving, the world may think that this is a silent protest and criticism of the master.According to the usual practice, leaving without saying goodbye is a kind of rebellion against the main family. The main family will send thugs to inquire about the crime, but since the opponent is the imperial court, it is worth fighting with it to the end.At that time, Ke will resolutely resist with the high walls of a pile of houses until he dies in battle.In addition, such a shameful shame cannot be washed away. It was still dark the next day, and Jinbei left his residence and escaped from Osaka Castle.On the way, he stopped by Omi's mansion to clean up, and then went straight back to his hometown of Owari, where he became a monk in a monastery in Wusen, Aichi County, and took the name Yinzhai, and lived in seclusion. Of course, it is reasonable to send people to crusade.But Hoki Sugihara handled the matter very well.Early the next morning, when he found out that Jinbei had left, he entered the palace city of Osaka to pay homage to Hideyoshi, reported the result, and said that Jinbei returned to Owari not because he fled privately but because of illness. He expressed this wish to me.After covering up like this, he mysteriously asked for instructions: "I don't know if you can grant me permission." Needless to say, Hideyoshi can fully imagine the hidden truth behind what Sugihara said.However, at this time, if you mobilize the army and send people to question the crime, it will only be detrimental to the court. "Ok!" Hideyoshi agreed to Sugihara's request.He still has more important things to plan: he must immediately send an envoy to Hamamatsu to persuade Ieyasu to agree to marry A Xu. "How should this be done?" Although Hideyoshi has always been resourceful and decisive, but this time even he is not confident.It is true that although Ieyasu has many concubines, since his wife Mrs. Tsukiyama died five years ago due to an unlucky incident, he has not continued.On the one hand, it is also because Ieyasu has suffered enough from the disputes with Mrs. Tsukiyama in the past, and he probably thinks that the current free life without his wife is more ideal.However, in a word, he is considered celibate now. In terms of age, Ieyasu is forty-four years old.The bride, A Xu, who is scheduled to marry in the past, is already forty-three years old. Not only is she not a beautiful beauty at all, but also because she often worked in the fields when she was young, her skin was very rough, and the wrinkles on her face were very rough. Deep, it is difficult to cover up with paint.Coupled with her humble background, she was the wife of an unofficial samurai not long ago.Would Ieyasu be willing to marry such a woman?Hideyoshi finally thought: "Regardless of success or failure, the problem now is to send someone to build a bridge." As a result, it was decided to use Oda Nobuo as the introducer, and send Hijikata Kanhei and Tomita Sakon as envoys to Hamamatsu.They used to be important ministers of the Nobuo family, but now they are the staff of the Hashiba family's cronies.Hijikata Kanbei is a good eloquent person.He said to Ieyasu that for the peace of the world and the two families, there is nothing more gratifying than this.Ieyasu just nodded and remained silent.At last he said, "Let me think about it for one night, but I won't let you lose face." That was all he said. Afterwards, when he retreated to the inner hall and convened important ministers to discuss this matter, Ieyasu had already made up his mind. However, most of the important ministers objected, their faces turned blue with scorn.They said that a lord of such noble blood should not be married to a man of such low birth as a peasant.They didn't want to admit that Hideyoshi was a high-ranking official like the three Dai Nayan. "Stop it." Ieyasu said unhappily. What is the use of listening to this kind of sentimental rhetoric even if you listen to it for a hundred nights?It was Ieyasu himself who was going to share the bed with this forty-three-year-old woman of peasant origin.If you want to say what you like or not, he should first say it.Ieyasu has completely restrained his emotions, and he wants to deal with this matter as a purely political issue.He couldn't help it.From this incident it can be seen that the future bridegroom was a very patient man.When he was young, in order not to lose the favor of the neighboring Imagawa family, he had to marry an older woman from the Imagawa family.Twenty years later, under the coercion of Oda Nobunaga, he killed his wife, Mrs. Tsukiyama, together with his own son Nobuyasu.Because if you don't obey Oda Nobunaga's order, the Tokugawa family, as his subordinates, will not be able to survive for a day.As mentioned above, all of this has political reasons.Ieyasu is very clear about marrying Hideyoshi's younger sister, a widow who is over forty years old and has returned to her natal family after her husband died, as a wife.Regardless of his origin, the power of the Hashiba family today has greatly surpassed that of the Imagawa and Oda clans in the past.Since the situation is like this, this marriage has to be agreed. "Think about it, please." Ieyasu had to maintain his retainers' self-esteem as Tokugawa retainers from another angle.He said: Miss Xu is a very good hostage! Ieyasu told his vassals that Hideyoshi had conquered most of the world, but he actively and humbly planned to give his sister to me as a hostage in Donghai, and even took back the sister who had already married his vassal. Give me.Isn't Hideyoshi's unspeakable secrets very clear?Ieyasu went on to say that looking at the general situation today, the world will sooner or later be owned by the Hashiba family.Once this happens, then one day we will have to submit to him.Now that we have seen the end of the future, it is in our interest to submit to him in as honorable a manner as possible.He said he hoped not to argue with him on such matters.The "things of this kind" he mentioned refers to the matter of his marriage to Miss Xu. Dingkang agreed.He told the envoy sent by Hideyoshi of this meaning, and at the same time asked his retainer Honda Tadakatsu to take the bride price and hurried to the capital. "I'm so happy, the matter has finally been resolved smoothly." Hideyoshi slapped his hands and made a gesture of extreme joy, but deep down in his heart, he felt a greater fear than ever of Ieyasu who agreed to the marriage so easily.He thought to himself, could this kind of keen sense and quick handling be another strategy of this big fat man! Things went well, and the wedding was celebrated with great pomp.Miss Xu just let the situation develop and was at the mercy of others.She had no choice but to be manipulated.Her body was loaded into a sedan chair from the mansion in Osaka City.Soon, he changed to a boat in Tianma.Needless to say, she was later transported to Kyoto and placed in Jule Dili.This most magnificent palace in history was used as a place for Miss Xu to dress up before her marriage.In addition to opening her mouth to eat and getting up to relieve her hands, she only needs to breathe, and others will take care of everything else.Three months after the engagement, at the beginning of summer, she sat in a sedan chair and set off from the capital.This sending off team was led by Hideyoshi's relatives, Asano Nagamasa, Kanju Tansho Sobee, Tsuda Nobukatsu, Kanju Hayato, and Oda's relatives, Takikawa and others.They led more than a thousand cavalry and served as guards before and after the team.Miss Guangxu has more than 150 trusted maids and accompanying warriors, eleven sedan chairs for women, fishing sedan chairs (there are two kinds of sedan chairs in ancient Japan, one is the sedan chair resting on the pole, and the other is The sedan chair is caught under the rod. In Japanese, the former is called Yu, and the latter is called Diaoyu. The former is more luxurious, and the latter is slightly less.) Fifteen units.A gorgeous and colorful send-off team like a picture scroll headed towards the East China Sea. On May 14th, the procession of seeing off relatives entered Hamamatsu Castle, and the wedding ceremony was held in the city that day.Afterwards, Yasomasa Sakakihara, a veteran of the Tokugawa family, left Hamamatsu in order to go to Beijing to report to Hideyoshi how the wedding was successfully completed with joy.Needless to say, Ieyasu and Miss Xu shared the same bed that night.By the way, Ieyasu has many concubines: Xijunju, Awan, Aai, Dumo, Chaa, Agui, Akaji and so on.His harem is really colorful and colorful.Under such circumstances, how could he have such curiosity, wanting to share the bed with this woman like an old woman, and make a fuss to taste the fun between men and women? What is surprising about this character, however, is that, despite appearances, he spends his first night with his bride so earnestly, so scrupulously.The attitude towards the bride is also very gentle.In order to soothe her seemingly worn-out nerves, he made the necessary personal remarks to the bride, just as they should be. After hearing this, A Xu just nodded slightly from time to time, still appearing unresponsive, but his heart was filled with a feeling of freshness and surprise.Speaking of Tokugawa Ieyasu, I heard that he was the leading general in the East China Sea.Even Master Oda wanted to give up three points, but who would have known such tenderness.Even her first husband, a poor farmer, and her later husband, Jinbei, who came from a local samurai family in Owari, had never treated her with such tenderness. When A Xu's eyes showed the emotion in her heart, Ieyasu saw it at a glance.He was now a little relieved to know that this somewhat difficult task had been successful.As far as Ieyasu is concerned, he must treat Axu gently.He knew that this night of weddings and candles in the bridal chamber must not be taken lightly and perfunctorily, rather, he must take a more serious attitude than treating concubines.He thought that tomorrow the old maid who came with Axu would ask Axu about Ieyasu's attitude towards her, and might immediately write a long letter and send it to the old maid next to Hideyoshi.Hideyoshi must also want to know Ieyasu's attitude towards Miss Asahi, perhaps he is anxiously waiting for such a letter reporting the news.For Ieyasu, this wedding night is politics, and stroking Axu's tarnished body—although some patience is required—is an important task. Later, however, Hideyoshi had to be disappointed. Hideyoshi originally had great hopes, thinking that after this marriage, Ieyasu would probably come to Beijing.Unexpectedly, after Ieyasu married Axu, he still didn't move at all, he was enthusiastic about managing the East China Sea, and he didn't pay any attention to Hideyoshi.He had been pretending not to be interested in Hideyoshi, to say the least. Hideyoshi became more and more restless.In this way, if he did not make a greater sacrifice than this marriage, I am afraid Ieyasu would not leave for Beijing.Hideyoshi's thinking prompted him to make a major decision: he planned to send Axu's mother to Hamamatsu as a hostage, so as to ask Ieyasu to make a promise that he would come to Beijing when his mother arrived.That is to say, even if your Jiakang comes to Beijing, I will never kill you, and send my mother to you now.When your Jiakang came to Beijing, you could kill my mother just in case. "Koichiro, go talk to your mother." Hideyoshi ordered his younger brother. Koichiro Hidetoshi was taken aback.If you want to talk about Guanbai Hideyoshi, he is already a figure who dominates the world.At best, Ieyasu was a local vassal who managed several countries in the East China Sea. In order to ask him to come to Beijing, he not only gave him his own sister for free, but also paid his mother as a collateral. How decent is this?Xiuchang objected to this, he thought it was a disgrace to Wumen. "In my opinion, there is no need to give in to that master Hamamatsu. If he refuses to follow the advice and come to Beijing to have an audience, we can only send troops to attack and eliminate him in one fell swoop." Xiuchang said. That may be true.If it was the late Oda Nobunaga, he probably would have done this long ago.Hideyoshi is now in Guanbai, and Kishu and Shikoku have been added to the original territory. To conquer Ieyasu, in terms of strength, it is already more than enough. "That's what happened," Hideyoshi said. He told his younger brother that in his opinion, because of this, doing so is not a disgrace to Wumen.The powerful forces in the center bow their knees to the weak and remote forces. This is called humility, not shame, and the world will naturally see it that way.Rather, people will regard such an action as a beautiful move.Our unified policy is to focus on thorough digestion, save time as much as possible, avoid the use of force, and strive to avoid future troubles.The purpose is here.To this end, any means will be used.At that time, Hideyoshi had given the army an order to conquer Kyushu, and was preparing to lead the army on an expedition himself.He hopes that during this period, the threat from the east will be eliminated and the stability of the world will be maintained.Hideyoshi went on to tell his younger brother that the one in Hamamatsu was an ally of the late Oda-san, whose prestige was known all over the world.If he walks out of Hamamatsu Castle and becomes our subordinate, then the people of the world will be at peace in an instant.The world will think that my world, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, is indestructible.That's the purpose.The benefits obtained are far greater than sending troops to attack Ieyasu. Hideyoshi took office as Kanbai last year.At the same time, most people in the court and in the society called his mother Azhong the Dazhengsuo. "Okay!" This time it was a surprise, and the Dazheng Office fully agreed.Because Xiuchang thought to himself that even if he told his old mother about the political situation, it would only bring her ideological confusion.Therefore, he only said to his mother: "Well, Ah Xu has been married for a long time, do you want to go and see her?" Of course Ah Zhong would not have any objections to such a proposal. When this matter was made public, this reason was also used: "To comfort Miss Xu's loneliness, the Dazheng Office will visit Donghai." Ieyasu also succumbed to Hideyoshi's request and sent a letter saying that he planned to go to Beijing for an audience and made preparations for this. Soon, the Dazheng Office set off from Osaka to the east.Ieyasu originally planned to go all the way from Hamamatsu to Okazaki to meet them, and personally welcome them into Hamamatsu Castle.At this time, an aide, like a country bumpkin who had never seen the world, spoke to Ieyasu.He said, "Maybe it's a fake." The reason is entirely speculative.According to him, there are quite a few old women of this age among the female officials in the inner court of the capital.In order to deceive the master, Hideyoshi may have dressed up an old woman whom he found from nowhere as a Dazhengsuo. "That makes sense!" Ieyasu nodded again and again.At that time he had come to Okazaki.Hearing what the staff said, he immediately made a plan, changed the original plan, and hurriedly sent someone to Hamamatsu to pick up Miss Xu. The purpose was to observe the scene when Miss Xu met with the Dazheng Office to judge whether it was true or not.Ieyasu and his staff all kept the attempt a secret. "However, this lady has always been insensitive, what will happen?" There are also people who worry about this.Because Miss Xu has always been unresponsive, with a numb expression, it is difficult to guess what is on her mind. Due to a change in the original plan, the day Miss Asahi left Hamamatsu in a hurry was October 17th.It is a two-day trip from Hamamatsu to Okazaki.The next day was the eighteenth.At dusk, Miss Asahi's group entered Okazaki Castle. At this time, as if it had been properly arranged in advance, the guard of honor of the Grand Political Office entered Okazaki Castle from the west.The guards of honor of the two met at the crossroads leading to the main gate of the city. "Isn't that the guard of honor of the Dazheng Office?" Miss Xu opened the sedan chair curtain and said to her maids. For her who has always been insensitive, this can be said to be a rare sensitivity. The Dazheng Office felt it too.Both sides found each other by human instinct and reacted immediately.The Dazheng Office also ordered the bearers to stop the sedan chair.She opened the car curtain, only to see a gray-haired head protruding from the car curtain. "Ah yo!" Ms. Xu first let out a scream that was almost like a scream. She quickly stumbled and rolled out of the sedan chair, because she stepped on the hem of her clothes and fell down.When she got up from the ground, the Dazheng Office also hurriedly stumbled down from the sedan chair.The mother and daughter hugged each other tightly on the road.Miss Xu cried like a little girl despite her clothes being covered in dust. "That's right!" Ieyasu's aide, Honda, stood aside and saw this scene again and again, nodding his head and nodding with the cold gaze of an experimenter. This is a brilliant experiment.But on the other hand, it also reflects Tokugawa's ruthless attitude.And this can probably be said to be the unique family tradition of the Tokugawa family that has been maintained in the future. Seeing this scene, Ieyasu was relieved.On the third day, he set off for Beijing.During the twenty-five days that Ieyasu stayed in the capital, Dazhengsuo and Miss Asahi lived together in the mansion in Okazaki Castle.During this period, the generals of the Tokugawa family, Ii Naomasa, Okubo Tadayo, and the above-mentioned Honda multiple times led their own soldiers to strictly monitor the mansion.Honda also deliberately piled dry firewood around the building where Dazheng lived, and sent troops to guard it day and night, preparing to burn the mother and daughter to death as soon as they heard the news that Ieyasu had been killed in the capital. "Ah, so you married into such a family to be the wife!" Da Zhengsuo said to his daughter. She was also very surprised. She felt that the misfortune of this little girl was just like that depicted in the colorful hell map.During these twenty-five days, there were no tears on the cheeks of the mother and daughter from morning till night.Eight miles west of Okazaki Castle is the hometown where they lived for a long time - Owari Nakamura.What a joy it was to spend the days and nights there as a poor peasant, and all this has now become a topic of tireless conversation between the mother and daughter. After Ieyasu returned safely from the capital, the Taisho Office left Okazaki and went back.Ieyasu then moved his capital from Hamamatsu to Sumpu (now Shizuoka City), and Asahi followed suit, and has lived in Sunpu Castle ever since.Therefore, she is called Mrs. Suruga. However, the time she lived here was not long. Three years later, in July of the seventeenth year of Tianzheng (1589), when she received news that Dazheng was ill in Beijing, she immediately rushed to the capital to take care of her mother. Rest in the capital.Not wanting to go back to the Jun Mansion, feeling depressed, probably the real reason for her illness.Since then, her body has become weaker and weaker, and she finally died in Juledi on the fourteenth day of the first lunar month of the second year.I was forty-eight years old. Hideyoshi did not return Ms. Asahi's remains to the Tokugawa family, because she was unwilling to go back during her lifetime, and even fell ill due to depression.Hideyoshi buried her in Tofuku-ji Temple next to Toba Street on the outskirts of Kyoto, and bestowed on her the posthumous title of Sister Asahi, the head of the temple of the Nanming Temple, and immediately led an army to crusade against Hojo in Kanto.During this Eastern Expedition, when he passed Junfu, he heard an anecdote about Miss Xu's frequent visits to Ruilong Temple in Abe County to pay homage.Hideyoshi took pity on her miserable life, and in order to save the next life, he specially built a Buddhist offering pagoda for her in the temple. Strangely, about her deeds, there is not even a waka left after her death.Of course, it's not just that there are no waka left. In this era, inside and outside the Toyotomi family and the Tokugawa family, there were many memorizers.They left various records for later generations.But there is not a single word of her left in any record.I don't know if it's because she is really reticent, or because she doesn't like interacting with people. Regardless of the reason, she has remained eternally silent in history.