Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1528 Offshore Balancer (Part [-])
After listening to Gao Wushi's words, Liu Xin obviously understood, and by the way, her understanding of that period of history has deepened a lot.But after thinking about it, she suddenly had doubts, and asked in a deep voice: "The reasons you said are certainly true, but if this is the case, shouldn't Toyotomi Hideyoshi be more wary of Tokugawa Ieyasu?
Think about Ieyasu's strength and ability, it has been completely proved in the battle of Komaki Nagakute, he is someone who can beat Hideyoshi himself.Then Hideyoshi didn't think about it, if he died, who would be able to suppress Ieyasu in the future?Under such a situation, why did he only come up with a bad idea that the five elders and the five pursued? "

"I did say before that the system of the five chief elders and the five ministers was a failed system, but that was said at the 'historical height' after all. Hideyoshi is not a god, and he didn't know that Maeda Toshiie would follow him Hang up, the other three big bosses can't play much restraint on Ieyasu.

As for the Five Obligations, this system is actually equivalent to our Great Ming’s cabinet to a certain extent-what is the key to whether the cabinet has power or not?It depends on how strong the emperor's support is, and how many officials obey, among which the emperor's support is the most important.

How did the five pursuits fail?First of all, Hideyoshi himself died. This support from the central power core actually cut off the source.Secondly, are the 'Hundred Officials' obedient?Obviously disobedient!The conflicts between the Omi Enforcement faction and the Owari Samurai faction were extremely fierce, and Tokugawa Ieyasu provoked them again, and the Sekigahara War broke out immediately-is this called obedience? "

Liu Xin shook her head and said, "Since this system is so unstable, can't Toyotomi Hideyoshi not notice it at all, so don't use other means?"

"Who says it's useless? He has used a lot of means." Gao Wushi said: "For example, he transferred Feng Jiakang to Guanbazhou. There are 250 million shi in the pretense of the name, but in fact there are only more than 100 million shi in the directly-administered area. , which is far lower than the 220 million koku of Hideyoshi's direct jurisdiction. Even if Ieyasu can get all 250 million koku, then Hideyoshi still has a 'hiding place'.

Not to mention that Hideyoshi also has the highest proportion of share in the Iwami Silver Mine and Sado Gold Mine, and also owns the largest trade centers in Osaka, Sakai, Kiyoshu Town, etc., and his financial resources completely crush Ieyasu.And Ieyasu's tax rate in Kanbashu is still very low-I mean it is very low in Japan, it is four public and six people (that is, the tax rate is 40%, which is already very low in Japan).In other words, no matter from the perspective of agriculture or business, the Toyotomi family has enough power to crush the Tokugawa family.

And in addition to financial resources, Hideyoshi also used a lot of political means.For example, Hideyasu, who was Hideyoshi's adopted son, was given to the Yuki family to prevent Ieyasu from using him to interfere with the succession of Toyotomi's family governor.

Hideyoshi densely placed a bunch of 10,000+ stone daimyos of Hideyoshi's direct line on Tokaido. This is the military encirclement of Ieyasu, so that Ieyasu dare not move around at will.

He also dispatched powerful daimyo to supervise, first Kamo clan from Omi, and then Uesugi Kekatsu, both of whom had never had any friendship with Ieyasu, so they would not have somehow turned to Ieyasu.

Besides, the matter of moving the closure of the eight states was originally to kick Ieyasu from the Tokaido, which is closer to Kyoto, to the Kanto, because Ieyasu is deeply rooted in Mikawa, and he was also very influential in Owari Mino during the Cheongju League, so It must be kicked away, lest he should make a move, because the Toyotomi family may lack reaction time because it is too close to the center.

The last point is that the Hojo clan has ruled Kanto for a long time, and the locals are also very convinced. Toyotomi Hideyoshi just pacified Kanto and immediately transferred Ieyasu to it. This approach is a bit like Sasa Naruma's death. "

"Who is Zuo Zuo Chengzheng, and what's the problem with his death?" Liu Xin asked.

"Well...he is Nobunaga's confidant general. When the battle of Komaki Nagakute was about to end, he ventured across the snow mountain to persuade Ieyasu not to negotiate a peace, but to fight to the end with Hideyoshi. However, Hideyoshi did not pursue it on the spot afterwards. Together with him, he fought the Kyushu Conquest, and then changed him to Feihou, with a stone height of 54 stone, which seems to be quite popular.

But that was just Hideyoshi's conspiracy, because Hideyoshi immediately launched a district inspection, which offended a group of big names and powerful people in Kyushu.So not long after, Kumabe Tajima Shouqin, the lord of the Kuma Prefecture, raised his troops.Although Sasa Naruma quickly quelled the rebellion, Hideyoshi still identified him as the main person responsible for the incident and ordered him to be seppuku. "

"So that's the case." Liu Xin nodded: "You mean the change of title. Originally, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also planned to let Ieyasu busy with the opposition forces in the territory. It's better to cause some trouble so that he can take advantage of it." It should be justified to punish Ieyasu—not to mention harakiri, but at least cut the seal, right?"

Gao Wushi smiled: "Very likely, it's just that he underestimated Ieyasu's means. Even Ieyasu used this excuse to never send troops to North Korea to open up new land in Kanto and develop his strength. Hehe, you really have a good plan, I There is a wall ladder, let's see who has the last laugh."

Liu Xin finally affirmed Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and said: "I said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi shouldn't be defenseless, it seems that he is still prepared, but people are not as good as God, and the development of things is not as he imagined. Like."

After a pause, seeing that Gao Wushi had nothing to add, she couldn't help asking: "But you have deduced the cause and effect so clearly, what is the practical significance?"

"Of course it makes sense." Gao Wushi cocked his legs and said, "I often say that the so-called predicting things like a god, in the final analysis, is predicting people like a god. If you want to know what a person will do, you must first know what his needs are. , Secondly, we need to know how capable he is and what cards he has in his hand, and finally we can plan and plan according to these."

Liu Xin tilted her head slightly, and asked, "So what exactly are you going to plan, and what are you planning?"

Gao Wushi pondered for a while, and said slowly: "Let's not talk about the long-term, the short-to-medium term is naturally the situation after Bu Xiuji's death."

"You didn't pay attention to the war to aid Korea?" Liu Xin frowned and said, "I know you have the advantage in the sea and can control when this battle will end, but I don't know why you have to sit and watch this war break out... ...how does it do you any good?"

"For me? Of course it's good for me, but that's not the main thing." Gao Yushi replied lightly.

"Oh? Then to whom does the main benefit go, and what exactly is it?"

Gao Yushi leaned back slightly, and said comfortably: "Of course the main benefit belongs to the Ming court. As for the specifics, there are two points: one is to train troops, and the other is to plot North Korea."

"Training?" Liu Xin asked in surprise, "Didn't you say that in the next few years we may have to fight year after year? This is not enough for training, and we have to fight in North Korea?"

"It is possible to fight for several years in a row, but you have to know that fighting in North Korea is completely different from fighting in Mongolia." Gao Yushi's hand on the armrest began to restless, and his fingers tapped the armrest rhythmically. : "I predict that Ming and the Mongols won't be able to fight much positional warfare, after all, Brihatu has already tried enough the previous few times.

The current Brihatu should already know very well that Daming has a method of riding with steps. If he still tries to save his Great Mongolian Kingdom or Great Yuan under such circumstances, he will definitely choose to fight in sports.

He can even learn how his predecessors dealt with Cheng Zu's five expeditions to Mobei, simply swimming without attacking, and if there is a chance, he will come and harass the enemy. "

Liu Xin frowned: "Do you have a way to deal with it?"

"Don't you think I planned this battle so many years in advance, and waited until the war started to figure out a solution?" Gao Wushi shook his head and said, "You don't have to worry about the battle with Mongolia, it's just... our Ming's infantry in that battle Maybe it won't play a big role, and it won't have any effect of training soldiers."

"You emphasized that 'infantry may not play a big role, and it will not have any effect of training', which means...you plan to let infantry go to North Korea to train with the Japanese?"

"That's right." Gao Wushi nodded frankly.

"Is it necessary?" Liu Xin still frowned: "I remember that you never wanted the Han people to sacrifice meaninglessly."

"Yes, but this military training is meaningful." Gao Wushi said: "I will not allow this war to become a unilateral bloodletting of the Li family army. I will let the Ming army—at least the imperial guards And the main force of the nine sides—all go to North Korea for rounds of military training.”

"why?"

"Because..." Gao Wushi frowned, and suddenly asked a seemingly irrelevant question: "Did you know that the so-called Qing army conquered the world in history, but in fact, the later battles were basically fought by the troops of Ming Dynasty who surrendered. In other words, Nanming’s destruction was not mainly defeated by the Eight Banners of Manchuria and Mongolia, but by the original Ming army, and it was defeated by itself.”

"I've heard of it, it seems like you said it, but so what? I mean, what does it have to do with North Korea's military training?"

Gao Wushi said: "The relationship is that there is no exact data to measure the impact of the Little Ice River, and I don't know how much damage my series of measures can recover, so I have to make more preparations. .

For example, let the main force of the imperial army come to an actual combat training. Given that the Japanese army does not have many cavalry units, the Korean battlefield must be dominated by infantry positional warfare, which is similar to the possible uprising in the late Ming Dynasty.

If the fighting power of the main force of the imperial court is higher, the speed of suppressing the uprising will be accelerated, and there is no need to recruit rebels at every turn, and then recruit rebels, and then recruit after rebellion... Such an approach is a waste of precious time. If you fight too slowly, it will increase the burden on the court. In the end, the more you suppress, the more you suppress, and you will drag yourself to death sooner or later. "

Liu Xin was surprised and said, "Are you still afraid of the peasant uprising? Those troops had no fighting power at all in the early days. I remember that in the early days of the bandit suppression at the end of Ming Dynasty, some famous generals often chased the peasant army with ten times the strength. You would be afraid of this kind of army. Rogues?"

"I may not be afraid, but the Little Ice Age lasted for nearly a hundred years. If you calculate the so-called 'late Ming' period, even if I was still alive at that time, I would be 70 or [-] years old. Besides, who knows how long I will live What if I am already dead and the direction of the court starts to go wrong again, what should I do?
If the imperial court had more war experience before then, and kept this experience gained in actual combat as a troop tradition, wouldn't it be of great benefit to the future?I am not immortal, I can only prepare as much as possible while I am alive, but after all, there is only so much I can do. "

Liu Xin was silent for a while, and said with a wry smile: "It's really exhausting... If you don't get a 'Wenzheng' after you die, I suspect that the emperor is blind."

Gao Wushi laughed, waved his hands and said, "I don't really care about posthumous fame. I do this purely because of an indescribable sense of responsibility—you may find it ridiculous."

"It's ridiculous." Liu Xin shook her head and said, "To be honest, although I can't say I feel the same way, I can understand it. You men, you always feel that the rise and fall of the world is related to you."

Gao Wushi laughed, and said, "There aren't many recreational activities I'm interested in these days, so why don't we find something to do?"

Liu Xin shook her head, waved her hand and said, "Come back to business, you haven't finished talking about the topic just now, go on."

"Uh, where did I go?"

Liu Xin rolled his eyes at him, and said: "The training is over, now it's time to talk about plotting North Korea."

"Oh, yes." Gao Wushi nodded: "But there is nothing to say about this point. After spending such a high price to rescue North Korea from the brink of death, you won't get any money?
What kind of internationalist spirit is this... I don't have this kind of spirit. My attitude is very commercial: I will get paid back as much as I put in.I won't take a penny more, but they can't take a penny less from me.Since North Korea was rescued by me, Da Ming, then its life belongs to me, Da Ming. "

Liu Xin said suspiciously: "I'm afraid this is a little difficult, right? Not to mention that there must be many people who are accustomed to being generous to others in the DPRK will oppose it, and DPRK itself will definitely fight."

"That's why I need a layout." Gao Wushi raised his eyebrows: "Do you think that I am doing things in Japan just for Japan? Ha, let me put it this way, make a hypothesis: If Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, Japan did not Fully withdraw troops from North Korea... Do you think North Korea dares to oppose my Ming Dynasty's garrison? If I have been stationed for a long time, will North Korea dare to disobey my Ming's orders?"

Liu Xin was stunned, and said in amazement, "You are... wait, if Japan does not withdraw its troops after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, will the Sekigahara War still be fought?"

"Doesn't it depend on how I operate?" Gao Wushi smiled: "How to keep the strength of the eastern and western armies in Japan close to each other, this is where I will test my ability to operate an offshore balancer.

Not only do I need the Japanese troops in North Korea to maintain pressure on North Korea, but I also need these Japanese troops to be used for me; I not only need to maintain conflicts in Japan and the war between the East and West armies, but also need to maintain their strengths. After the war, both sides have to count on me to be their savior... It's not like that, so what's the deal? "

Liu Xin frowned, looked at Gao Yushi carefully for a while, then shook her head and said, "Are you a cat?"

"No, I'm a tiger."

Liu Xin rolled her eyes at him, and said: "Let's talk about the big things first, and now there is a small thing, do you want to listen?"

"what's up?"

Liu Xin raised the letter paper in her hand, and said, "Longze Shiyang reported that Toyotomi Hideyoshi has quietly ordered Kuki Yoshitaka to add iron armor to the gunless transport ship bought from you."
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