Prince of Chaos

Chapter 605 The Crown Prince's Love

The main island of Waguo.

After half a month of wandering at sea, Ieyasu Tokugawa finally returned to the main island of Wa Country.

Breathing the air of the Japanese country, Tokugawa Ieyasu was in a great mood.

It seemed that at this moment, he had forgotten that he had come back to attend the funeral for Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

At this time, there was not even a trace of sadness on his face, but an unconcealable excitement in his eyes.

"Homeowner."

Tadashi Sakai kneeled respectfully in front of the pier, welcoming Ieyasu Tokugawa's return from North Korea. He looked at Ieyasu Tokugawa with excitement and obedience.

Sakai Chuji is Tokugawa Ieyasu's number one retainer and his most dependent confidant.

Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at his loyal dog, Sakai Chuji, who he relied on the most, with a smile on his face, blowing over Sakai Chuji's excited heart like a spring breeze.

"Thank you Sakai-san."

Tokugawa Ieyasu said to Sakai Chuji in a kind tone.

Tadashi Sakai immediately replied: "For the sake of the patriarch, it is not hard to be humble."

Tokugawa Ieyasu lifted Sakai Chuji up, patted him on the shoulder, and said, "Sakai-kun is still as serious."

Sakai Chuji bowed humbly, expressing that he did not dare.

Tokugawa Ieyasu walked in front, Sakai Chuji followed, and the two walked slowly on the familiar stone road.

Tokugawa Ieyasu asked, "How is Kyoto?"

Tadashi Sakai knew that Tokugawa Ieyasu was asking Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the orphan of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

At this time, Toyotomi Hideyori was only a child, and only six years old, so there was nothing to worry about.

However, this does not mean that Tokugawa Ieyasu can belittle the young master because of this.

Although Toyotomi Hideyori is small, the power of his mother Yododen and his favorites should not be underestimated!
Especially Diandian, she is not an ordinary woman, she is also a scheming woman, and under her skirt, there are also a group of retainers who are loyal to her life.

Among them, the most representative is her number one favorite minister Ishida Mitsunari.

This person is a die-hard supporter of Diandian, and his strength is powerful, and it is not easy to handle.

However, these are not problems for Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Because, Toyotomi Hideyoshi still has a living wife, and his wife is not a fuel-efficient lamp.

Now, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead, and Toyotomi Hideyori inherits the position of head of the family.

However, Toyotomi Hideyori is too old.

According to Daming's words, that is the Lord Shaoguoyi, and the Empress Dowager wants to listen to the government behind the curtain.

So now, the power of the Toyotomi family has begun to show signs of splitting.

On the one hand, it is headed by Toyotomi Hideyori's mother, Yododen, and on the other hand, it is headed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main wife.

Now, both sides have the ambition to get involved in the supreme power of the Toyotomi clan.

And precisely because of this, Tokugawa Ieyasu saw the opportunity for the rise of the Tokugawa family.

He wants to add fuel to the flames and make the conflict between the two sides materialize, and then he will reap the benefits.

However, what Sakai Tadashi said next made Tokugawa Ieyasu flustered in the wind.

Sakai Chuji said: "Patriarch, there have been rumors recently that you poisoned Master Taiko to death."

After hearing the news, Tokugawa Ieyasu's originally smiling face froze instantly.

He turned to look at Sakai Chuji and said, "When did this rumor spread?"

Sakai Chuji said: "About after you went to North Korea, this rumor began to spread. At the beginning, whether it was Taiko-sama or other daimyos, they all laughed off this rumor."

"However, Lord Taiko passed away suddenly some time ago. This rumor spread throughout Japan immediately, and everyone was discussing it. Some people think that this matter was done by the Patriarch."

Tokugawa Ieyasu's face turned green after hearing Sakai Chuji's words.

Although he has a bit of Sima Zhao's heart, he thinks he hides it very well.

Moreover, now is not the time to expose.

After all, he hasn't had time to integrate his forces to replace Toyotomi's.

Now, as soon as such rumors come out, whether it is the Toyotomi family who is about to fight among themselves, or other famous names in Wa, they will all be on guard against him.

This kind of vigilance will make Tokugawa Ieyasu's plan to replace Toyotomi's plan a lot more difficult.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's face twitched, and he said: "It's nonsense, I am the most loyal retainer of Lord Taiko, how could I hurt Lord Taiko? Besides, I have been in North Korea for more than a year, how can there be such dirty water? splashed on me?"

Sakai Tadashi did not say a word, quietly listening to Tokugawa Ieyasu's anger.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu vented his emotions, he finally calmed down again.

Tokugawa Ieyasu asked: "How is the situation now?"

Tadashi Sakai said: "Mrs. Yododen and Mrs. Beizhengsuo sent us an order not to go to Kyoto to pay homage to Taiko-sama's coffin."

When Tokugawa Ieyasu heard this, his blood surged suddenly, feeling that he had been greatly insulted!
"Why did the two ladies give such an order? I traveled thousands of miles across the ocean and returned to Japan, just to pray for the Lord Taige in front of his spirit."

Tadashi Sakai stopped talking again, he couldn't take this sentence anymore.

Tokugawa Ieyasu asked with a cold face: "Who gave the two ladies the idea?"

Sakai Tadashi said, "It's Ishida Mitsunari, Fukushima Masanori, and Kato Kiyomasa."

Hearing the names of these three people, Tokugawa Ieyasu was really angry.

These three treacherous villains who made their fortunes by wooing women dared to provoke the relationship between him and the Toyotomi family, what a heinous crime!

Then Sakai Chuji told Tokugawa Ieyasu another even more explosive news.

Tadashi Sakai said: "Patriarch, I heard that Taiko-sama left a will ordering you to act as the representative of the state affairs in the capacity of the five old chiefs."

Tokugawa Ieyasu is really going to be blown up now.

He really didn't expect that he would receive so many exciting news just after he arrived in Japan, which made him feel like he was on a roller coaster.

Tokugawa Ieyasu said, "What about Taiko-sama's will?"

Sakai Chuji said: "It hasn't been announced yet."

Tokugawa Ieyasu said coldly: "I want to see this will!"

Sakai Chuji heard Tokugawa Ieyasu's firm voice, and he immediately said: "Yes!"

Tokugawa Ieyasu looked at the road ahead, and his eyes gradually became resolute. Now as long as he can get this will, he can clear up the malicious slander against him by the rumors, and he can justifiably enter Kyoto and act as an agent of state affairs.

However, if he can't find this will, he may really be blamed for killing the master.

In the end, it may even become the target of crusade by careerists from all walks of life.

It can be said that Tokugawa Ieyasu is in a very critical situation at this moment.

If he is not careful, he may fall into the abyss and become a stepping stone for others to succeed!

Therefore, now Tokugawa Ieyasu must adjust his plan.

Otherwise, in the next struggle, he might really fall into a passive and embarrassing situation.

Tokugawa Ieyasu took a deep breath, stepped on clogs, and walked on the seemingly endless stone road in front of him.

At this moment, Tokugawa Ieyasu also thought of a solution that was not a solution.

In order to reverse his current dangerous situation, Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to continue dormant for the time being, and continue to regard himself as a loyal retainer of the Toyotomi family. He wants to establish himself as the successor of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's legacy!
And the best way to establish this character is to continue to support Toyotomi Hideyoshi with the greatest enthusiasm and strength to occupy North Korea and pursue the great ideal of the mainland!
Only in this way can he find a way out in the dangerous environment!
And this is exactly in Zhu Changluo's arms.

Zhu Changluo is now wishing that the Wa country can continue to invest its power in North Korea. If they really receded like a tide after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi as in the original history.

Then Zhu Changluo still has to think about continuing to instigate Daming's public opinion and continue to fight against the Japanese.

Although Zhu Changluo has also produced a lot of news about the wealth and silver of the Japanese country in the past year or so, after all, the Japanese country is separated by an endless ocean, and the mainstream culture of Ming Dynasty is still the mainland culture that mainly focuses on farming, and it is not Unlike Taixi, a group of countries that rely on the ocean to rise, what is popular is ocean civilization.

Therefore, the temptation of Japan's rich silver to Daming was not as great as imagined.

However, as long as this war can last.

Zhu Changluo has a reason to continue to develop the Zhili Navy. When the scale of the Zhili Navy reaches a certain level, then Zhu Changluo will directly send his troops to the east to occupy a rich silver mine in the Japanese country, and let the local tyrants of Ming Dynasty see it.

There is no need for Zhu Changluo to say much about the rest, these people will be like sharks that smell fishy, ​​and follow the Zhili navy to the main island of Wa Kingdom to carve up these "virgin lands".

Therefore, no matter what kind of social form, as long as the core issue of interests is grasped, there is nothing that cannot be done.

If there is, then the benefits are not big enough!

As long as the benefits are large enough, and people can see the hope of gaining benefits and the huge benefits after gaining benefits, let them go east, they will never go west, let them catch chickens, they will never chase dogs!

And this is where the charm of interests lies. Even Zhu Changluo, a time traveler, is not exempt, and he will still do anything for interests!

Fire flows in July, and clothes are granted in September.

The weather in Beidaihe is gradually getting cooler.

Although the idiom "Liuhuo in July" is easy to be understood as meaning that July is very hot in its literal sense.

But in fact, this is not the meaning of "Liuhuo in July". The meaning of "Liuhuo in July" means that when the weather turns cold in July of the lunar calendar, when the sky is just getting dark, you can see the big Mars (that is, the α star in Scorpio) set from the west. That's why it's called July Fire.

I came to Beidaihe for more than two months. Although there was a little accident, overall, this trip to Beidaihe was definitely full of surprises.

First of all, the first surprise is the beautiful Dong Ge.

For Brother Dong's arrangement, Zhu Changluo did not intend to bring her back to the capital.

She is a person with a different personality. If she is brought to the Forbidden City where the rules are too high and people are difficult to get along with, it will not only pollute her.

Moreover, it will destroy Zhu Changluo's sense of expectation.

Therefore, in the final arrangement, Zhu Changluo asked Dong Ge to stay in Beidaihe and travel as a free person, and, in accordance with the past harem practice, rewarded Dong Ge Zhaoyi's concubine.

As for why he wasn't a concubine or concubine, it was because Zhu Changluo was still the crown prince.

Therefore, the women in his harem are naturally shorter than the emperor's concubines, and naturally there will be no concubine rewards that are too high.

However, Brother Dong was able to obtain a concubine of Zhaoyi in such a short period of time. After Zhu Changluo was in power, she was very likely to be promoted to one of the four concubines. If she was lucky, she might still be a noble concubine!

As for the imperial concubine's concubine, as Dong Ge's foreign woman, she would never be able to obtain it in her life, unless she died early, and then Zhu Changluo missed the old love again, and she might be chased as imperial concubine.

Otherwise, it is absolutely impossible for her to become the imperial concubine!

Although the rewards of concubines are all due to the kindness of the emperor, political factors must be considered for important concubines, and they must not be canonized arbitrarily just because of the emperor's personal likes and dislikes.

Of course, forcible canonization can also be done.

However, the consequences can be severe.

Those concubines whose backgrounds do not conform to normal logic, if they can't gain righteousness in the hurdle of giving birth to sons, and want to win the position of imperial concubine by virtue of their favor, their reputation will be surprisingly bad in the Ariake generation.

Among them, the most representative ones are Concubine Wan Gui of Emperor Chenghua and Concubine Zheng of Emperor Wanli.

Although these two people were the favorites in the harem in history, they failed to give birth to a "qualified" heir for the emperor because of their unsatisfactory stomachs.

Therefore, no matter what they do, in the end, in the evaluation of the society and the comments of later generations, they are all models of "demon concubines" who harm the country and reflect the people.

If they are lucky enough to give birth to a qualified heir to the emperor, then their fate will be as lucky as that of Emperor Xuande's grandson imperial concubine.

The emperor will abolish the queen under the banner of imperial succession and make her his successor.

Otherwise, the higher their status in the harem and the more likely they are to have children, the worse their reputation will be!
And that's politics.

Politics doesn't care if you are male or female, beautiful or ugly.

Politics only looks at interests, as long as your child is in line with political interests, even if it is like Queen Mother Li and Concubine Wang Gongfei who were born as court ladies, they will still praise these two as unique models of virtue.

Therefore, as an emperor, as a son of heaven, you must maintain political sobriety at all times, and you must not destroy the overall situation of unity because of the love of one person.

This is definitely not a good thing for the emperor and the country!
Regarding this point, Zhu Changluo sees it very clearly, he really doesn't care about the so-called "love".

In Zhu Changluo's perception, love is an irrational impulse, and if he regards this impulse as his standard of doing things, it will definitely cause endless harm.

As the saying goes: Heavenly family is ruthless.

This sentence is not just words. The emperor can be greedy for a person's beauty, and he can also be greedy for another person's body, but the emperor must not give this woman what should not be done just for the sake of hot-headed love. status.

Once the name is not worthy of the name, it will not have good results for the emperor and his loved ones.

Therefore, being a ruthless emperor is the greatest love for the women in the harem.

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