Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1512 Doubt
After explaining why "the end of the war depends on Beiyang", Zhu Yingzhen finally felt at ease, and Gao Wushi explained to him some related matters on how to support the Beitiao family.Zhu Yingzhen gulped down some of the supper prepared by Gao Mo before the Duke left.

Gao Wushi usually doesn't eat at night, but tonight there are many things to do, he managed to eat a few slices of stewed beef, and then asked Liu Xin why he didn't move his chopsticks.

Liu Xin shook her head as if she would rather die than surrender: "Fat is a woman's greatest natural enemy."

Gao Wushi laughed, put down his chopsticks and said, "You said you didn't want to marry, and you were afraid that you might gain weight, so what?"

"What does this have to do with being married or not?" Liu Xin glared at Gao Wushi: "I can't tolerate losing my figure, can I?"

"Yes, of course." Gao Wushi didn't intend to argue about this kind of matter, so he changed the subject and asked, "Well, it seems that you didn't finish what you said before. Now that Cheng Guogong is gone, do you want to add something?"

Liu Xin glanced at him and said, "Are you talking about the unification of Japan or something?"

Gao Wushi shook his head slightly, and said seriously: "I'm talking about the whole related incident."

"Oh." Liu Xin thought for a while, and did not answer. Instead, she asked: "You said that after Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he would send troops to North Korea in at most two or three years. Is this your judgment based on history, or do you think Is this inevitable?"

"It's all." Gao Wushi replied quickly: "The reason for such a history is itself a kind of necessity. It is based on Toyotomi Hideyoshi's physical and psychological conditions, as well as the fact that Japan's domestic conflicts cannot be internalized after the unification of Japan. An inevitability formed by dissolution."

Liu Xin asked: "The so-called internal conflict is that there are too many warrior classes as you said before?"

"More than that." Gao Wushi said lightly: "Too many samurai is actually a problem at the national level of Japan as a whole, but to a certain extent, too many samurai is a problem for Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself or his direct power group. It's not as serious as you think."

"Oh? How do you say that?" Liu Xin was a little surprised.

Gao Wushi said: "How should I say... Well, you can roughly compare Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification with Jiang's 'unification'. In fact, the biggest difference between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga is that Nobunaga sees Anyone who is unhappy can be destroyed, and Hideyoshi almost destroys Hojo, and Shibata can only be regarded as a part of Oda's original power.

In essence, Nobunaga favored military unification, while Hideyoshi, his de facto heir, favored political unification.However, there will be an inevitable problem in political unification, that is, Hideyoshi did not break the original enfeoffment pattern, and he launched almost two relatively large conquests: the Kyushu conquest and the Kanto conquest.

The result of the Kyushu Conquest was that Shimadzu was fined and spit out the results of the previous battles. The basic game itself did not have much loss.After the Shimadzu family surrendered, Hideyoshi did not forcefully fight to the end, but recognized this softness and was content to be the leader of a prince.

The Hojo Clan was a bit miserable, basically wiped out.However, an important reason for the destruction of Hojo was that they offended Tokugawa Ieyasu. It happened that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was very worried about Ieyasu whose territory was too close to him, so he took the opportunity of Hojo's destruction to change Ieyasu to the past.This approach is more or less a shadow of "governing all nations in China". "

Liu Xin frowned and said, "Does this have something to do with his sending troops to North Korea?"

"It does matter, it has a lot to do with it." Gao Yushi smiled and said: "You think, since Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification mainly relied on political means under the deterrence of force, then those under his hands who cooperated with his deterrence of force Do the generals need to be rewarded?
But the problem is that since it is not unified by force, it is naturally impossible to deprive the territories of those daimyos who surrendered to him and distribute them to their own people, so where does this reward come from?Since he acquiesced to the system of enfeoffment, the remuneration must still be enfeoffed, but he has no land in his hands, how can he entrust it?
What's more, judging from the situation of his "Taiko Prosecutor", Toyotomi Hideyoshi's own strength is actually not very strong, at least compared to the later Tokugawa shogunate, the Toyotomi family's own strength is relatively weak . "

"This is the first time I've heard of it, can you elaborate?"

Gao Wushi said: "It's unnecessary to go into too much detail. Let me give you a rough overview. The number of Ishitaka in Japan in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's era was about 1900 million, while that in Tokugawa Ieyasu's era was 2200 million. The difference is limited.

But if you want to talk about the number of high stones of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has 220 million stones, and Tokugawa Ieyasu after the Kanto transfer has 250 million stones.The number of stone heights of these two people is more than 200 million, not much difference.But in fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's control over Japan in his era was actually not as good as Tokugawa Ieyasu's in the Edo Shogunate era.

First of all, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu have about the same number of stone heights, and compared with their era, their proportions to the total number of stone heights in Japan are also similar, but the difference between the two is not small.

In addition to the 65 koku in Osaka, Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s territory also has more than 100 million koku that is hidden, that is, the part that Toyotomi Hideyoshi set aside from the daimyo’s territory when he entrusted the daimyo, which is scattered all over Japan.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is different, his territory is concentrated in Kanto.Not only that, but he also has branches of Yusanjia and Yusanqing. In terms of Shi Gaoshu, he has a lot more than Toyotomi's family.

Secondly, as I said just now, what is the nature of Toyotomi's regime?It seems that they have been unified on the surface, but in fact it is just a loose alliance of daimyos.Most of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's power comes from his prestige. Once he himself dies, it is only a matter of time before the collapse of Toyotomi's regime.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is different. His power comes from the Tokugawa family's prestige, strength, family name and his status as the co-lord of the samurai family.In theory, even if Tokugawa Ieyasu died early, he would not be broken and collapsed as quickly as the Toyotomi family.

Another critical point is the lack of generational daimyos in the Toyotomi regime.This can be said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi committed suicide by himself, not only suppressing the genealogy daimyo, but also mutilating his own relatives. For example, we all know the ending of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. This approach seriously weakened the support of the entire regime.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attempt to maintain the balance and stability of the regime by wooing local forces, namely the five elders, is actually simply stupid.I don't say that Tokugawa Ieyasu was strong enough to threaten the Toyotomi family at that time, but can those local forces really be loyal to the Toyotomi family?

There is a saying that we have all heard: 'Tianzi Ning has kindness?For those who are strong in soldiers and strong in horses! 'For their own benefit, they will defect to the Toyotomi family sooner or later, especially when the core strength of the Toyotomi family is not strong enough to suppress the world.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is different. He has a whole set of hierarchical system of pro-vassal, genealogical generation, and external.The pro-vassals occupy a wealthy place, and the genealogical generations monitor the foreign officials, and most of the foreign officials are transferred to remote places, where they are provoked and exploited in various ways-such as the Shimadzu family.Therefore, the strength of the foreign daimyo cannot be compared with the Tokugawa shogunate at all, and of course they dare not challenge the shogunate.

In the end, Toyotomi Hideyoshi suppressed the daimyo through the Taiko inspection and transfer of titles, which caused him and his direct descendants to offend many people, but the local powerful faction is the guarantee of the stability of Toyotomi's regime, so this approach is actually a self-importance. The way to die is to force these local daimyos to abandon the Toyotomi family at a critical moment.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is different. He excludes foreign daimyos from the center of power. Many of these foreign daimyos have left their original territories, and they lack control over new territories. Can't get over the waves.

Although doing so will also lead to the hostility of the foreign daimyo towards him, there is no essential difference from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's approach, but these are all established under the hierarchical system of pro-vassal, genealogy, and foreign. Based on strong prestige and strength, instead of relying solely on personal prestige and political means like Toyotomi Hideyoshi. "

Liu Xin understood a little now, nodded and said: "Generally speaking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's real core strength is seriously insufficient, and even adding his so-called direct descendants can only guarantee that he can barely keep his foreign daimyo in the center. Surrendering to him in name is not enough to form an overwhelming advantage, is that what you mean?"

"That's right, that's why once I set up a garrison in the southern border countries, I will gradually reduce the original army until it is finally withdrawn. The so-called garrison is very expensive and has advanced armaments, so there is no need to keep so many other troops. In fact, it is just to find a reason to disarm.”

Liu Xin blinked: "The Cen and Huang families..."

Gao Wushi shrugged his shoulders and said: "I can only say that it is caused by objective facts, and we can't act too hastily right now. But having said that, even if they are added together, the Cen and Huang families and even all the Guangxi chieftains who moved to Nanjiang will not be able to overthrow it." sky."

Liu Xin frowned suddenly and said, "You married Huang Zhiting, did you also... have some kind of intention?"

Gao Wushi raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this: "I guess you want to ask, did I deliberately use this kind of marriage to divide the Huang family, and then use it to divide the Guangxi chieftain headed by the Cen and Huang families, and finally made the Guangxi chieftain Is it impossible for a group of forces to unite and threaten me?"

"Uh..." Liu Xin laughed dryly: "Well, at least in hindsight, it does have such an effect."

Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "I didn't think so at the time." After a pause, he added: "Actually, Zhiting is more active than me in this matter."

"Hmm." Liu Xin shrugged, then pursed her mouth, and said, "I don't know whether to say that she is smart, or that the concept of marriage in this era is very inertial. As you said, in the division of Guangxi chieftains In this matter, she seems to be much more active than you."

Gao Wushi smiled, and stopped talking about this issue, but changed the subject and continued to talk about Japan, saying: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi's core strength is not strong enough, and the so-called direct line generals are hard to credit, so he only Able to focus on external expansion.

In addition, he is not young anymore, let me do the math...well, he is 51 years old this year (actual age), which is quite old for Japan.In the original history, when he launched the war against North Korea, it was four years later, that is, when he was 55 years old.

Considering that this guy's physical condition has always been relatively average, maybe the reason why he launched the war was more eager, because he was worried that he would not be able to handle this matter in front of him... Wait, no. "

Liu Xin was taken aback: "Why is it wrong?"

Gao Yushi frowned, and said hesitantly, "If I remember correctly, Hideyoshi's successor, Toyotomi Hideyori, was born in 1593, the year after the war broke out."

Liu Xin still didn't understand Gao Yushi's meaning, and asked inexplicably, "Is there any problem?"

"No, no." Gao Wushi stood up suddenly, paced back and forth for a while, and then said in a serious manner: "I'll take a look at the matter of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's successor, listen and see if I made any mistakes .”

In fact, Liu Xin didn't know much about the current situation in Japan, let alone what problems happened to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's heirs, but Gao Wushi didn't give her a chance to tell the difference, so she had no choice but to listen.

Gao Wushi pondered and said: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi was in the middle age, the eldest son Ishimatsumaru Hidekatsu was born by his concubine Nandian, and this son died when he was six years old, so Hideyoshi misses this first child very much. Maybe that's why he named his later adoptive sons 'Xiu Sheng'.

But Toyotomi Hideyoshi's second son, Toyotomi Hesong, was born very late, in 1589-that is, he will not be born until next year.Hideyoshi placed high hopes on this son and attached great importance to him, but the weather was not good, and this son died in 1591. "

"Ah? It seems that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is at least unlucky to be an heir." Liu Xin shook her head when she heard that.

Gao Wushi ignored this emotion, but continued: "But two years later, that is, in 1593, Hideyoshi's third son Hideyori was born, this time there was no accident, and he lived to adulthood - at that time Hideyoshi was already died."

Liu Xin asked: "So... what did you mean when you said 'wrong'?"

"It means that when Hideyoshi launched the war of invasion of Korea, he actually had no heirs of his own." Gao Wushi still frowned: "During the time when Toyotomi Hesong was born and died early, that is, when Hideyoshi had no heirs, He adopted Toyotomi Hideji, the son of his own sister Tomoko (Toyotomi Nishide, also known as Zuiryuin), as his adopted son, and raised him as his heir. Hideyoshi."

Liu Xin thought about it and said, "Do you want to say that Toyotomi Hideyoshi dared to launch such a big foreign war, and there may be a reason why he has no heirs-I mean, his mentality at that time may have a kind of 'Anyway, I have no heirs'." Dear son, it doesn’t matter if you win or lose, that’s all there is to it’?”

"It's possible, but I'm afraid it's only a secondary factor." Gao Wushi analyzed: "After all, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had this plan long ago, and the influence of not having his own son should only aggravate his determination to put all his eggs in one basket, not the main one. reason."

"Then he had his own son, Xiu Lai, the year after he started the war..." Liu Xin frowned and said, "How did he handle this matter?"

"Hey, I thought you knew. Just now I said 'We all know the ending of Toyotomi Hideji'. So you don't know?"

Liu Xin rolled his eyes at him: "You still don't know my level of history?"

Gao Wushi laughed dumbly, shook his head, and said: "Then let me tell you briefly: Toyotomi Hideji should be 20 years old this year, and his biological father is Miyoshi Yoshifusa. Hideji was originally named Miyoshi Nobukichi, but later changed his name to Hideji.

Since Hideyoshi became powerful after Nobunaga's death, he also promoted a large number of his relatives at the beginning, so Hideyoshi participated in the war between Kita Ise and Kidake in 1583. In 1584, he led troops to participate in the Battle of Komaki Nagakute. Not only was he defeated in the battle with Tokugawa Ieyasu, but he also killed General Ikeda Hengxing on the battlefield, which made Hideyoshi extremely angry.

However, in 1585, Hideyoshi was awarded the territory of Omi 43 koku because of his meritorious service in conquering the four countries. It can be seen that Hideyoshi still has high hopes for him.In the original history, in the next year or the year after, because of his contribution to conquer Odawara, he was also sealed off the territory of Owari, with a total of more than 100 million shi. "

Liu Xin was surprised and said: "Toyotomi Hesong was born in 1589, and around 1590, Hideji was granted the title again? No, what exactly did Toyotomi Hideyoshi think? Does he have some fiefdoms as compensation? Or, does he hope that Xiuci can assist his own son in the future?"

"No, you made a mistake with a time difference." Gao Wushi explained: "Hideji was not the legitimate heir of Hideyoshi when Toyotomi Tsurumatsu was born, but Hideyoshi was designated as Hideyoshi's heir after Tsurumatsu died young, because At that time, Hideyoshi estimated that it would be difficult for him to have a son."

"Oh, well, what about after Hideyoshi is born?"

"From Hideyori's birth, Hideyoshi's feelings for Hideji began to change. Here I would like to say one more thing: Hideyoshi already gave up the position of 'Kanbai' to Hideji in 1591, and he called himself 'Taiko'. After Hideyoshi's attitude changed, Hideji also felt that something was wrong. Since then, he has given up on himself and committed many inhuman behaviors, so he was nicknamed "Killing Guanbai".

In 1595, Hideyori was about two or three years old, and his health was much better than that of his elder brother Songhe. Therefore, Hideyoshi exiled Hideji to Mount Koya and ordered him to commit seppuku on suspicion of treason. "

"Ah?" Liu Xin's eyes widened: "Just kill like this?"

Gao Wushi shrugged his shoulders: "Yes, just killed it like this." Then he paused and added: "Not long after Hideyoshi committed suicide, Hideyoshi gathered 38 of his wives, concubines and children together in Sanjo Heyuan, Kyoto. execute.

However, according to Japanese folklore, it is believed that some of Hideji’s children survived, and one of the daughters later became Sanada Yukimura’s concubine, but there seems to be no detailed evidence to prove these claims. "

Liu Xin didn't care about the issue of Xiuci's descendants, she just wondered: "Such an elderly adopted son not only has a lot of military achievements, but also has a fief of a million stones, and wears a 'Guan Bai' on his head. ' Big hat, but Toyotomi Hideyoshi just killed him without saying a word? Is there...is there no problem in Japan?"

"Maybe Toyotomi Hideyoshi's prestige is high enough, or maybe Tokugawa Ieyasu is too calm, anyway, in my impression, Japan was quite peaceful at that time." Gao Yushi frowned: "Of course, it may be After Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to North Korea, the big cakes painted by domestic famous people are too attractive, and everyone does not want civil strife while the Korean War is still in a state of anxiety."

"Oh, I understand. This is the so-called benefit of transferring conflicts to foreign wars." Liu Xin nodded, and then asked: "But I remember you once said that after half of the Korean War, the Japanese army was at a disadvantage. , and it was difficult for the Ming army to wipe out the last batch of coastal Japanese troops due to supply difficulties, so the two sides had a peace talk.

But then Japan’s conditions were too harsh, so the peace talks failed, and the two sides started the second phase of the war... I’m surprised that if Hideyoshi dared to fight North Korea at the beginning because he didn’t have a son, it’s no good to go all out and fight Worry.

However, the second war started in 1597. At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was 60 years old, and it was only one year before his death. It stands to reason that his body should also collapse—or is he about to collapse?Then why did he insist on waging a second war? "

"This is what I'm confused about." Gao Wushi frowned and said, "If you rule out the possibility that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is already demented at this time, I always feel that his second stage of the war seems to be more of a kind of riding a tiger."
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