Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1510 New Trends in Japan (Part [-])
Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to buy a ship, but is it a pure transport ship that doesn't need to carry guns?
No matter how you think about it, Gao Wushi feels that this matter is weird.It is only the 16th year of Wanli, that is, AD 1588. At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi began to plan to conquer China first if he wanted to conquer the world; if he wanted to conquer China, he had to conquer Manchuria first... Oh, should he conquer Korea first? ?Even started preparing so early?
Gao Yushi thought about it for a while, and rejected this assumption in his heart.Although a politician must have a long-term plan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is also a hero in Japanese history, but since he is a politician, there is still one thing that cannot be avoided: assessing the situation and tailoring clothes according to the circumstances.

The current situation in Japan, to be precise, is called "Toyotomi Hideyoshi basically unifies Japan". There is a key word here, which is "basic".Basically, that is roughly, in other words, 99 prayers, only the last shiver.

Tokugawa Ieyasu's surrender does mean "basic unity", but Ieyasu's surrender itself is not a sincere submission, let alone bowing down, and it is actually not firm at all.

To a large extent, he was just tricked by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's political means, so he couldn't step down for a while and put on an appearance of submission.Whether there will be other variables in the future, Gao Yushi thinks that Toyotomi Hideyoshi may not be sure at this time.

Besides, even if Ieyasu surrendered, it would not be considered the unification of Japan. At least some big names in Kanto still did not regard Toyotomi Hideyoshi as the "chief executive".Before resolving the Kanto issue, Gao Wushi believed that Toyotomi Hideyoshi should be unlikely to start preparing for the westward invasion.

However, according to Gao Pragmatism’s memory, Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s idea of ​​solving the Kanto issue at the beginning seemed to be a political solution, but later it seemed that it was because of an accident that he temporarily changed his decision and replaced it with military means.It's a pity that Gao Yushi couldn't remember what kind of accident it was because of.

But having said that, Gao Yushi didn't think that Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't have Da Ming's idea at this time.Regarding this question, he had the impression that Toyotomi Hideyoshi had already had the intention of aggressing against Ming Dynasty a few years before he invaded North Korea.

As we all know, Toyotomi Hideyoshi inherited the cause of Oda Nobunaga's unification of Japan, but did not follow his line, but changed his strategy, first reconciled with his opponent Tokugawa Ieyasu, and approached the imperial court to fight against the "rebels" in the name of the imperial court. "-Obviously this is an imitation of Cao Cao's "holding the emperor to order the princes", of course, this approach is also very much in line with the actual situation in Japan.

After "basically" completing the unification of Japan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambitions for external expansion have rapidly expanded.Occupying North Korea became Toyotomi Hideyoshi's most basic policy at that time, and a series of domestic and foreign policies promulgated at that time were actually launched around this policy.

Of course, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's invasion of Korea was only a means, and the ultimate goal was to occupy Tang (Toyotomi Hideyoshi's language, that is, the Ming Dynasty) and dominate Asia.On this point, Gao Wushi has read a series of historical materials back then, all of which can provide evidence.

According to Gao Yushi's memory, Toyotomi Hideyoshi clearly revealed his ambition to conquer the Ming Dynasty for the first time in the Zhuyin letter to his retainer Yiliu Moan, saying that he not only wanted to unify Japan, but also conquered the Tang Dynasty (Ming Dynasty).

The Zhuyin certificate is only signed with the date "September 13rd", but not the year.Later, according to Iwasawa Ganyan's textual research, it was the 13th year of Tensho in Japan—that is, the 1585th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty, that is, September 9rd in 3.Since the Zhuyin certificate is an official document rather than a private letter in Japan, it means that the invasion of China had already been put on the agenda by Toyotomi Hideyoshi at that time.

In the 14th year of Wanli, that is, in 1586, when he was preparing to conquer Kyushu and attack the Shimadzu clan, Toyotomi Hideyoshi told Kuroda Takataka and other cronies that the next goal after the conquest of Kyushu was the Tang Dynasty (Ming Dynasty).

On August [-]th of that year, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi issued the "Kyushu Mobilization Order" to the daimyos against the "Kyushu Mobilization Order" that violated the "Nothing to Do" order, he clearly stated: "The plan to conquer the Tang Kingdom was already under consideration. We should make full use of the beating rebellion Shimadzu's good opportunity to build an aggressive posture." (Note: This is the original text. And the word "aggression" was not a derogatory term in Japanese at that time.)
In 1589 in the original history, Toyotomi Hideyoshi wrote to the Portuguese governor of India, saying that he had formulated a plan to conquer the Ming Dynasty after realizing the national unification of Japan.At the same time, he also sent a letter to the governor of Spain and the Philippines in Luzon, saying that he had already had Chery who ruled the world when he was born.

Since he determined to unify Japan, he realized his long-cherished wish after ten years.After that, it was Hideyoshi's gifted mission to subjugate Korea and Ryukyu, and then conquer the Ming Dynasty, so Luzon was required to pay tribute.

In the following year, that is, in November of 1590, the Korean envoy Huang Yunji went to Japan and submitted the letter of credence to Toyotomi Hideyoshi.In his reply letter, Toyotomi Hideyoshi informed North Korea: first, to unify the world and foreign lands is the mission entrusted to him by God; second, to ask North Korea and Japan to jointly conquer the Ming Dynasty and serve as a "conquest guide"; third , Ask North Korea to serve and pay tribute.

In the next year, that is, in June of 1591, North Korea, which accepted the canonization of the Ming emperor and regarded Daming as its suzerain, officially rejected Japan's proposal or request to "enter the Ming Dynasty through false ways", and did not agree with Japan's request to invade China through North Korea.

As a result, Japan under the control of Toyotomi Hideyoshi began to accelerate the process of preparing for war, and launched two wars of aggression against Korea from 1592 to 1598.These two wars are called the "Battle of Wenlu and Qingchang" in Japanese history, the Wanli Korean War in Chinese history, and the "Imjin Japanese Rebellion and Dingyou Rebellion" in North Korea.

At this time, Gao Yushi thought of the following points: firstly, Toyotomi Hideyoshi already had the intention of aggression against Daming, that’s for sure; secondly, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seemed to really think he could win this battle; thirdly However, the prerequisite for attacking Ming Dynasty is still to completely unify Japan first.

There is a key time point in this, which is 1589.Gao Yushi clearly remembered that Toyotomi Hideyoshi wrote letters to the Governors of Portugal and Spain in this year, stating that he had "unified Japan".

In other words, the resolution of the Kanto issue will be completed in the next year or so.

Gao Yushi thought to himself: Could it be that Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked the Maritime Trade Alliance to buy ships for the purpose of conquering the Kanto?But he didn't need to cross the sea to conquer the Kanto, and in fact it wasn't too far away. No matter how you look at it, he only needed to send troops on land. Why did he need a ship?
Zhu Yingzhen is satisfied as long as Toyotomi Hideyoshi buys ships and does not buy guns, and he doesn't care what the latter buys these ships for.But Gao Yushi certainly couldn't be like him, so he twisted his own conclusions separately, and decided that Toyotomi Hideyoshi's move was to deal with Kanto, but he also raised questions about the relationship between fighting Kanto and buying ships.

This question was obviously beyond the scope of Zhu Yingzhen's question. He was stunned for a moment, with a frown on his face, and said slowly: "Perhaps...he wants to send troops by sea?"

Liu Xin held back her laughter, and pretended to be calm and said: "Speaking of sending troops by sea to attack Huanglong, I have done this once in Siam. However, according to Yinu's family, since Toyotomi Hideyoshi still needs to buy a boat temporarily, I am afraid it will be with Nu's family. The conditions at hand were not the same.”

As soon as Gao Wushi heard it, he knew that Liu Xin had a different opinion, but he was only concerned about the face of Zhu Yingzhen, the "Great Governor", so he said it so tactfully.Naturally, he had much less scruples in this regard than Liu Xin, so he immediately asked: "I forgot, Miss Liu, you also played this hand in the Battle of Siam, since that's the case, what do you think about this matter?" opinion?"

Liu Xin was waiting for the words of Gao Pragmatism, and immediately nodded to him and Zhu Yingzhen, and then said: "In my humble opinion, it seems that there are two crucial factors for such a cross-sea attack. First, this Fang Lu's total force is small but fine; second, its sea strength is large and strong.

I can cite three examples in a row. During the Battle of Jinghua Dingannan, the fleet attacked Shenglong City by surprise.

During the Yunnan-Burma War, Huang Dutong made a cross-sea expedition to Burma, attacked Bago in World War I, and defeated the main force of the Burmese army in World War II.This time it is more in line with the above two points of the slave family: thousands of sails cross the sea, and the fleet is strong; the land division is only more than [-], but all of them are elite, and one is worth ten.

Finally, the Battle of Luzon, the expedition of our Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, is also extremely powerful at sea, and the land division has only more than [-] people. In the end, it forced Spain to dare not resist on land. "

Gao Wushi thought that she would give an example of the time she suppressed the rebellion, but unexpectedly she only mentioned the other three times. He couldn't help smiling slightly, and secretly said: No matter what era people are in, they can only speak and act according to the habits of this era. , self-confidence may be mistaken for arrogance, but humility can never go wrong.

Seeing that Gao Wushi had no other reaction, Liu Xin continued: "From this point to this point, we can find that Toyotomi Hideyoshi does not possess the above two elements. He even needs to find us to buy the required ships temporarily, which can be seen here Before, the navy... or the navy in his hand was weak and not worth mentioning.

The two of you may think that since he can quell the troubled times in Japan, there must be elite Lu masters.It may not be wrong to think this way, but there are two problems here: First, in recent years, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has become accustomed to the coercion of large armies, rather than elite breakthroughs.

For example, in the previous "Kyushu Expedition", the equipment level of the Satsuma Army was not good. In theory, if the elite of Toyotomi Hideyoshi wanted to break through with the elite, it was not without a chance of winning, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi would rather mobilize a full 20 Wan Dajun won the battle with the momentum of Mount Tai, and did not fight a battle between elites and elites that might cost much less.

The slave family is not saying that the elites of the Toyotomi family are no longer able to fight, but that in the mind of Toyotomi Hideyoshi at this moment, "the overwhelming momentum of Mount Tai" meets his needs. ",

At this time, Gao Wushi finally nodded and said: "Yes, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is representing the Japanese imperial court at this time, and what the imperial court wants to suppress the rebellion is to destroy the weak and the weak. Don't procrastinate. Otherwise, not only will the night be long and dreamy, it will be prone to variables, and it may even lead to If the authority of the imperial court is damaged, the impact will be even greater."

Zhu Yingzhen had always been skeptical when he heard Liu Xin's words, but when Gao Yushi affirmed, he immediately agreed: "That's right, that's right. Rixin's words are reasonable. Before that, I was watching Rixin calm down the northwest. When the main force went straight to Ordos, I was still frightened and restless, thinking that this was too dangerous.

Later, I saw that Rixin’s battle was like peeling off cocoons on the one hand, deciphering Burihatu’s tricks layer by layer, and on the other hand, he fought successively and victoriously, and even forced the Ordos Department to fight subordination. In the chaos, Ningxia Jiancheng was taken almost without a single soldier.

To tell you the truth, when the military report came out, all the princes from all over the court were celebrating with each other, and I admired Rixin even more.It was not until Nisshin himself arrived in Beijing that he explained in detail the various strategies and purposes of this battle that I realized that there were so many sayings in this battle, which is really amazing. I am sincerely convinced. "

Alright, alright, I know you're exaggerating.

"The Duke of the state praised it. The risky battle in that battle was actually due to limited conditions and tight time. It was really a last resort. If there is a better way, I don't want to take the risk and go straight to the hinterland of the Hetao." Gao Yushi chuckled and turned the topic After turning around, he asked Liu Xin, "Miss Liu, please continue."

Liu Xin nodded, and continued her previous words: "No matter what the current situation in Japan is, at least what Toyotomi Hideyoshi needs to fight now is still a war against the rebellion. In other words, even if the Kanto princes are not traitors , he will definitely use various means to turn this battle into a 'counter-insurgency war', with his political skills, I think this should not be difficult."

Gao Wushi nodded and said: "This statement is reasonable, so what then?"

"Don't be in a hurry, Chief Farmer, don't rush to say 'then', I have to add something." Liu Xin said: "According to various information from the Maritime Trade Alliance, I believe that the other side of this battle should be Kanto in all likelihood. The most powerful Hojo clan in the region.

Today, Japan has all surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi from the west of the Hojo clan, and there are still some who are only nominally surrendered in the east and northeast of the Hojo clan.However, as expected by the Nu family, Toyotomi Hideyoshi will probably use various methods before attacking the Hojo clan, including intimidating these big names with the scale of sending troops, so that they will either defect or at least dare not help Hojo.

In this way, this battle is actually almost the whole of Japan's crusade against the Hojo clan.However, although the Hojo Clan is far from Toyotomi Hideyoshi in strength, they also have a strong point in themselves, and that is Odawara Castle, which is known as Japan's "most strong city in the world". "

"Oh, Odawara Castle..." Gao Yushi nodded, and Liu Xin's words finally brought out Gao Yushi's memory.

This Odawara Castle is indeed quite famous, not to mention reading various historical materials, even when playing games back then, Gao Yushi had a lot of impressions of this city.

Gao Wushi remembered, let’s not talk about the historical record of this Odawara Castle, let’s just say that “this time” Toyotomi Hideyoshi captured Hojo, and the only way to attack Odawara Castle is to engage in a long-term siege—more than 20 troops surrounded, Did not dare to attack by force.The two sides stared at each other for a long time, and then under the political offensive of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the Hojo clan was forced to sacrifice seppuku in exchange for the "safety" of his retainers and ended.

In other words, the city was not "beaten" in the end, it was more like a trick.

Of course, although Odawara Castle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, it does not mean that its defense can be compared with that of Constantinople. Willing to waste troops on such a fortified city.

Now all the reasons are connected: Toyotomi Hideyoshi has begun to consider attacking Daming, so he regards domestic power as his future strength.

At this time Liu Xin saw that Gao Wushi didn't continue to say anything, so she went on to say: "Since Odawara Castle is easy to defend and difficult to attack, known as Japan's most fortified city, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi needs to put on an air of world respect, then he can only You can choose to besiege the city with a large army. What is the biggest trouble for your own side in such a thing as a siege with a large army? It is the supply of military food.

According to the report of the Maritime Trade Alliance, the road conditions from the Gyeonggi region of Japan to Kanto do not seem to be very good.Grandpa, you are familiar with the Japanese trade, I wonder if the slave's deduction is accurate? "

Zhu Yingzhen praised: "It's completely accurate, so if our fleet is going to trade in the Gyeonggi area, it will go to Osaka (at this time it was "ban", and it was changed to "ban" later), but because the business road between Gyeonggi and Kanto is not smooth. , so we would rather sail east to Odawara Castle (this city is about 70 kilometers southwest of Tokyo in later generations, not in Tokyo Bay, but also by the sea)."

"Thank you, Mr. Guo, for your advice." Liu Xin nodded slightly at Zhu Yingzhen, then looked at Gao Yushi, and said, "Da Si Nong, it can be seen that Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to buy a ship from Jinghua, at least for now, mainly for the purpose of transporting grain by sea." .”
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