He took part in the wars for Hideyoshi's campaign to suppress the whole of Japan as a chief vassal of the Toyotomi family, and he was given Kaga and Ecchu Provinces and set the foundation of the so-called Kaga Hyaku-man koku (the Kaga domain with one million koku [about five million bushels] of rice produced annually).
豊臣家の宿老として秀吉の天下平定事業に従軍し、秀吉より加賀、越中国を与えられ加賀百万石の礎を築く。