"Your Majesty, this person is a woman, the nurse of Tokugawa Iemitsu, originally, although she has a pivotal position with the power of the Tokugawa family, but, after all, she is a woman, and she can't have a name.

However, Tokugawa Iemitsu promoted her and gave her the honor of meeting the king of the Wa Kingdom, and after a series of games, she was rewarded by the three and had the right to inherit the family name. ”

"Women?" Chen Xin's voice was filled with extreme surprise.

It's not that Chen Xin underestimated women, he came from later generations, and he was very aware of the huge role played by women in the establishment and growth of the flower planters in later generations, and after he became the monarch of the United Kingdom of China, he also vigorously promoted women, hoping to reproduce the grand occasion when the people of the whole country worked together to build in the early days of the founding of the country in the history of later generations.

However, in this era, in the 17th century, not to mention the extremely stubborn feudal system, even in those so-called democracies that paid great attention to human rights in later generations, women were still only appendages of men and did not have any power.

At such a time, it is extremely incredible that there is a woman who can represent a country, even if it is only as a private representative.

Chen Xin was very curious about what kind of person this so-called Ah Fu was.

When the subordinates saw that Chen Xin was interested in this, of course, they immediately found relevant information, documents, and intelligence.

In less than a day, the so-called Ah Fu of the Kasuga Bureau, all the information that could be found in public, was placed in front of Chen Xin.

Kasuga's real name is Fuku, and his father is Saito Toshizo, a retainer of Akechi Mitsuhide, who betrayed the lord Oda Nobunaga in the "Honnoji Rebellion" and put Oda to death.

After the death of the father of the Kasuga Bureau, the Japanese people, who were deeply influenced by Chinese thought, naturally looked down on the family of the traitor, so the Afu family could not raise their heads at all and lived in poverty. Ah Fu's youth was spent in the dark, and when she reached the age of marriage, she couldn't find a suitable marriage partner.

Of course, it is not only for this reason that he can't find a partner, but also because Ah Fu had smallpox when he was a child, like Fu Lin of the Jueluo family, and he had pockmarks on his face.

The reputation of the traitor's daughter, combined with the double misfortune of being ugly, did not crush the woman, and Ah Fu grew into a strong woman in the face of adversity.

Later, she married the adopted son of her relative Inaba Masanari, but this marriage was far from happiness for her. Inaba Masanari remarried, and after his first wife died of illness, he left two children, and Ah Fu and Masanari gave birth to three more children. And this Inaba is very lustful, and he has an affair with several women, and Ah Fu is very troubled by this.

One day, a turn of fate that he never even dreamed of suddenly befell Ah Fu, who followed her merry husband and five children to live in trivial life affairs.

Not long after Afuku gave birth to his third child, Tokugawa Hidetada, the second shogun of Edo Castle, also gave birth to a son and Ae Masamuro, and they were looking for a nursing mother. When Ah Fu heard the news, he volunteered to be a nurse.

After a tortuous process of contest and conspiracy, in the end, Afuku was recommended by Katsushige Itakura, the representative of the company, and won the honor of being a nurse for the Tokugawa family's sister-in-law, Iemitsu.

Ah Fu's background is not good, his father is a retainer of the rebel minister Wise Guangxiu, and she can't even catch up with the average in terms of appearance, and she is a "defective product". Therefore, the reason why she was able to win this important position was not only due to luck, but related to her positive and thoughtful self-recommendation and extraordinary scheming.

After deciding to make Fukumi a nurse, Tokugawa Hidetada ordered Fuku's husband, Inaba, to be a shogunate. Of course, Inaba Masasari, who was not on good terms with Afuku, did not have the face to accept this gift, and shamefully rejected Tokugawa Hidetada's promotion and reconciled with Afuku.

Afuku left the child at her husband's house and moved into Edo Castle alone, and then put all her energy on Tokugawa Iemitsu and raised Tokugawa Iemitsu wholeheartedly.

She poured the love that should have been given to her children into Jia Guang like crazy. It is also recorded in the information that once Tokugawa Iemitsu contracted smallpox, and Afuku prayed to the gods and vowed that he would not use medicine for the rest of his life in exchange for Tokugawa Iemitsu's recovery. After Tokugawa Iemitsu recovered from his illness, she kept her oath and never took medicine again.

Iemitsu's biological mother, Ae, was very sad because she was forced to separate from her son, so when she gave birth to her second son, Tokugawa Tadanaga, she insisted on raising her herself. Because Xiuzhong and his wife are relatively close to their second son, they both feel that the second son is cute, and they also hope that Zhongchang will inherit the position of general in the future.

Jiaguang's personality is unstable, so excited, and his behavior is a little weird, which makes the people around him feel uneasy. And Tadashi is intelligent and has a steady personality, so there is a trend to support him as the next general.

Ah Fu was very uneasy about this. Even if Jiaguang trusts her again, she is just a nurse. Ajiang is the biological mother of the second generation of shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, Iemitsu and Tadacho, and Afuku is far from her opponent in terms of authority, but Afu wants to let his beloved Iemitsu ascend the throne of the general no matter what.

She thought about it and came up with a plan, and in order to get out of this predicament, she had to get the support and promise of someone who was a higher level of authority than the general and Ajiang, and nothing else.

This tough woman who dared to kill burglars who broke into her home before becoming a nurse was simply bold, ignoring the dissatisfaction of Tokugawa Hidetada and Ae, and secretly visited Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa shogunate, who lived in Sunfu after retirement, in the name of visiting Ise Jingu, and begged Tokugawa Iemitsu to be the shogun's heir.

After listening to her story, Tokugawa Ieyasu abandoned Seishu and set off for Edo Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu's words decided that Iemitsu would inherit the post of shogun. This episode is known as "Kasuga Afuku's Secret Visit" and has been widely circulated. The reason why Jiaguang was able to become the third generation of generals later was all due to Ah Fu.

With the abdication of Xiuzhong and the death of Ah Jiang, Ah Fu, who is almost the same as Jiaguang's parents, is taken care of by Ah Fu, from trivial matters such as Jiaguang's health, education, cultivation, and contact with women, to how to deal with political opponents.

In short, everything that is unfavorable to Jiaguang is handled and eliminated by Ah Fu. For Iemitsu, the biggest threat is his younger brother Tadacho. Later, Tadacho was forced to commit suicide by caesarean section for the crime of treason. Behind this incident, Ah Fu's intervention played an important role.

Iemitsu's trust in Afuku grew deeper and deeper, and after he became a shogun, Afuku was in charge of the residences of the ministers and the shogun's wives, the women of the Tokugawa family, including their wives and concubines, and the children of the princes who lived in the Edo Castle mansions as hostages.

In 1629, on her way to Ise Jingu, she entered the palace in the name of Shogun Iemitsu and the title of nobleman Sanjo Nishishijo Yoshimei, and met Emperor Gomizuo and his Nakanomiya Tokugawa Kazuko, who gave her the title of "Kasuga Bureau", and the rank was reduced from three.

However, because she actually did not have any rank, she was just a nurse at the shogun's side, but she came to the palace to see the emperor, which the emperor and many ministers considered humiliating, and the shogunate did not take their authority seriously.

She visited the Imperial Court on the orders of the shogunate, with the purpose of persuading Emperor Go-Mizuo to abdicate in favor of Prince Uchi, who was related to the Tokugawa family, and the daughter of Emperor Go-Mizuo and his concubine Kazuko (the daughter of the second shogun Hidetada), and Empress Meisho was born.

It can be seen that Ah Fu is not only Jiaguang's nurse, but as a politician, her strength far exceeds that of men. Soon she took her three sons, who remained with her husband, and arranged a certain place for them.

From the wife of an unknown local samurai to the nurse of a shogun, Kasuga Bureau, who eventually became the real power of Edo Castle, is undoubtedly a veritable woman.

Chen Xin flipped through this woman's information, and couldn't help but sigh in his heart, the reality is even more bizarre, the little country of Wa, there is such a character, it is really amazing.