Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1537 A Game of Chess in the Far East ([-])
The reason why Liu Xin was surprised was mainly because Gao Wushi had never made up his mind after the Guanyuan War before. His idea all along was to ensure that the Guanyuan Battle between the Eastern and Western armies must be fought. As for his and Jinghua's specific positions, a decision will depend on the situation after the Guanyuan battle is over.

Although Gao Yushi didn't elaborate on this "redecision" at the time, after Liu Xin served as his confidential secretary for a period of time, her understanding of Gao Yushi obviously deepened a lot.She has thought about this issue from a highly pragmatic standpoint and has come up with several conjectures.

The so-called "depending on the situation", since it is looking at the outcome of a war, there are only three situations: East wins and West loses, West wins and East loses, and a draw ends.

Of course, if you have to be more detailed, you can also divide them into small victories, big victories, miserable victories, complete victories, etc., and even a draw can have different situations, such as the end of the battle due to the exhaustion of the two sides, and the lack of food and grass. They had to withdraw their troops and so on. In this way, there are many possible situations.

Liu Xin had almost no memory of the history of the Guanyuan War. Her understanding of this battle was actually heard from Gao Yushi during this period of time.Fortunately, Gao Yushi was not only a history buff but also a game fan in the past. He is quite familiar with this period of history—whether political history or military history and war history, so he explained it in detail.

According to the situation he described, Liu Xin felt that he had a point of view that was quite reasonable, that is, Tokugawa Ieyasu's victory in the Battle of Sekigahara was not "natural", and there were actually many variables in that battle.

Many people say that Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection was the biggest winner in the Sekigahara War. This may be true, but in fact the Sekigahara War was not an isolated battle, which is a narrow sense.In fact, the Battle of Sekigahara in a broad sense should be a series of wars intertwined with a series of battles, conspiracies, and counter-conspiracy plans.

In this series of wars, many things are actually accidental, and some of them are even outrageous. If there is "one more time", I am afraid that no one can guarantee that it will develop and end exactly as it did in the original history.

For example, the direct fuse of this war, if Naoe Kanesu's "The Naoe State" did not refute Tokugawa Ieyasu's accusations against Uesugi Kagekatsu one by one as in the original history, and even Piri Yangqiu mocked Ieyasu. Is there any reason to call for the crusade against Uesugi Jingsheng, who is also one of the five elders?
If there was no such call, then how could the group of so-called "arbitrary daimyos" who were actually Toyotomi Hideyoshi's retainers go to the Kanto side in large numbers?
Moreover, this group of people did not necessarily abandon Toyotomi and serve Tokugawa. Some of them even did not look forward to Ieyasu at all. The main reason why they were willing to obey Ieyasu's dispatch is simply ridiculous:
What?Opposite is Ishida Mitsunari?Baga, then I'll hang out with the Neifu first.

This Neifu is because Ieyasu's official position in the Japanese court at that time was the Minister of the Interior, and it was called the Neifu according to the customs of the Tang Dynasty in China.By the way, most of the civil and military official positions in Japan were copied from the Tang Dynasty, but there were some changes in the names, but even if the Japanese public ministers were commonly known internally, they could directly use Tang names to refer to those positions.

Moreover, this "Tang name" is not just a custom, it can even be called an elegant name stipulated by the law. "Tang name" itself is some official titles and department names directly corresponding to the Tang Dynasty under the Japanese law system.

In the early eighth century AD, the "Law of the Great Treasure" and the "Law of the Old Age" were promulgated, and the job system of two officials and eight provinces was reorganized, and the job titles of hundreds of officials were formulated, using Tang-style job titles as an elegant name for deployment names.

At that time, Fujiwara Nakamaro (Hui Mei Yasheng), who was infatuated with the culture of the Tang Dynasty, took power. In the second year of Tianping Baozi (758), Japan forcibly changed all official positions to Tang names—such as Ziwei, which was newly established by Nakamaro himself. Zhongtai is equivalent to the palace position of the Empress Dowager, called Ziwei Ling.

Although Zhongmalu regained its old name after losing power in the eighth year of Tianping Baozi, it was still used as an alias and elegant name for official positions.From the second half of the Nara period to the Heian period, due to the emergence of various foreign officials, Tang names were used again.

Civil servants such as the left minister and the right minister correspond to the left and right servants of the Tang Dynasty, Da Nayan corresponds to the servant under the door, Zhong Nayan corresponds to the servant under the door or the servant of the Huangmen, Shibuqing corresponds to the official secretary, Tanzheng corresponds to the censor, and so on.There are too many military generals, such as the gate governor of the left and right guards, corresponding to the generals of the left and right Jinwu guards in the Tang Dynasty.

For example, the Zuobing Weidu in Japan, whose Tang name is Wuwei Dashogun, this is the official position held by the famous Sixth Heavenly Demon King Oda Nobunaga and the previous head of the Oda family and the former three-man leader of the Shiba family.

The Shiba family originally had a very special status. At the end of the Kamakura shogunate, they were of the same rank as the Ashikaga shogunate. Later, they were reduced to ministers and served as deacons of the shogunate.

Except for the Patriarch of the Shiba family, no one in the Muromachi period held the position of Zuobingweidu.So in Japan in this era, when it comes to the Takee family and Lord Takee, it must refer to the Shiba family and the head of the Shiba family, and there is no semicolon in the world.

For members of the Shiba family, the Miao character is Shiba, but if there is a member of the Shiba family standing in front of you with the common character A and the taboo B, and you call him "Wu Wei Jia B", he must know that you are shouting he.

Not only these people, but even the shoguns are no exception.In addition to the special position of the general who conquered barbarians, which was originally a temporary position, they also had positions within the legal system.

Throughout the Muromachi shogunate period, only the Ashikaga generals, who were the pillars of the samurai family, were able to obtain the post of left and right guard generals, and these two positions were equivalent to the left and right habayashi generals of the Tang Dynasty.

The wide spread and deep branding of Tang names in Japan can be seen from this.

Closer to home, Liu Xin had imagined at the time that if there had been no "Naoe State", if there hadn't been Tokugawa's call for a crusade against Uesugi to gather momentum, if Ishida Mitsunari hadn't jumped out immediately after that to organize a crusade against Ieyasu and intercept another group of leaders who hadn't gone to the east Daimyo, if the large number of arbitrary daimyos who have gone to the east have not already come to Ieyasu's command, if...

In short, there are countless possibilities at each stage that may cause the "configuration" of the Eastern and Western Armies to be different from the original history. Just like the Shimadzu family planned to mix with Ieyasu at the beginning, but what they didn't expect was that after they went to Gifu, Germany Chuan Veteran Torii Mototada said that he had not received Ieyasu's notice, so the Shimadzu family was not allowed to enter the city, and the Shimadzu family was so angry that they simply mixed with the Western Army.

All of these are different. In short, the East and West armies were formed by chance. Many parties did not expect that one day they would fight under the command of Ieyasu, or under the name of Ishida Mitsunari. .

Liu Xin speculated that Gao Yushi might have been more inclined to side with the Western Army, because the actual leader of the Western Army was Ishida Mitsunari.

Ishida Mitsunari, this guy is a civil servant who is not very good at uniting powerful daimyos. Gao Yushi should be confident that he can join in strongly after the end of the Sekigahara War, and then replace Ishida Mitsunari's leadership.

With the addition of Jinghua, even if Sekihara loses, the Western Army is fully capable of recovering its strength and morale, going back to fight the battle of revenge, and win the final victory of the war.

Of course, the generals of the Western Army also understand the truth that "it is easy to make icing on the cake, but it is difficult to give charcoal in the snow". It is self-evident what is the significance of Gao Pragmatic's joining, coupled with the strong strength of Jinghua itself, how will the Warring States daimyo who are accustomed to obey the strong choose, That is no need to ask.

In this way, Gao Yushi can indeed obtain its unique status in Japan through this method, but it is hard to say how unique this status is now.

The Japanese are deeply influenced by the Tang style, and the Tang style is Sinicization in the final analysis. When the Sinicization has deepened, they also pay attention to "rectification of names" in everything, and the special status that Jinghua wants is not an independent business like the Sakai merchants before the unification of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Ting, what he wants is to control Japan...How can this name be justified?

What's more, even if it helps the Eastern Army, it is not unreasonable. The key lies in Tokugawa Ieyasu.

The strength of Tokugawa Ieyasu was already analyzed to her by Gao Yushi last time. Not only did he have few opponents in military level at the time, but also in political level after Hideyoshi's death, he beat all the sand sculptures on the wall.

However, Liu Xin believes that Gao Yushi’s hesitation at the time was mainly due to two characteristics of Ieyasu’s personality:
The first major feature is that he is a person with a very vicious vision, and he will never be ambiguous in doing things after he decides.He has almost made no mistakes in judging the overall situation, and believes that the Zhide League has been Oda Nobunaga's right-hand man since then. Nobunaga, Asai, and Asakura almost lost their lives at the beginning of the war, and Ieyasu never left.

Until Nobunaga's death, in order to persist in the alliance with the "Oda family" instead of the "Hashiba family", he fought with Hideyoshi against the weak and strong Komaki long hand, which bankrupted Hideyoshi's military pacification plan and was forced to take Diplomacy does the trick.

This wise and confident vision means that when Jinghua appears in Japan after the Sekigahara War with overwhelming momentum, he will be able to accurately judge who is strong and who is weak.As long as he feels that the opponent, like Oda Nobunaga, is someone he can't beat, he should easily choose to join rather than fight.

The second major feature is Ieyasu's nickname that Gao Yushi mentioned to her: "Turtle".Although tortoise largely means that he has lived a long time and is an old tortoise, but it also has other meanings, such as "a turtle with a shrinking head".

Shrinking tortoise is not a good word, but it fully embodies Ieyasu's "realistic spirit", which means that he is very good at judging the situation and usually does not mess around when he is not sure.Just as Gao Wushi mentioned to her: "...so only Nobunaga can play 'Okazama', and Ieyasu can only dare to stand up for independence when the general situation of the Imagawa family collapses."

This means that when Jinghua "helps" strongly, once Ieyasu weighs the gap in strength between the two sides, he will probably choose to continue to lie down. Although being the second child may not be happy, it is much happier than losing his head.

Therefore, supporting the Tokugawa family to open a new shogunate was once one of the highly pragmatic choices.

But having said that, of course, Gao Yushi still thinks that it is much more difficult to deal with Tokugawa Ieyasu than to deal with Yododen and Toyotomi Hideyori's mother and son, and Tokugawa Ieyasu is full of conspiracies and schemes, who knows what tricks he will play?
Uh... Well, Liu Xin doesn't think that Tokugawa Ieyasu can be more ruthless in playing tricks than Gao Yushi, but in politics, it is better to have one thing less. If you can't play Ieyasu well, then it's hard to say.

Don't be afraid of thieves' patronage, but be afraid of thieves' concern!
Therefore, apart from the Eastern Army and the Western Army, Gao Yushi has always been the most inclined to support Toyotomi Hideyori directly, because he thinks it is the easiest and safest to control a pair of orphans and widows.

However, Gao Yushi also had his entanglements before - not because "controlling orphans and widowed mothers" had any moral pressure on him, but from the standpoint of Toyotomi Hideyori at the time "Toyotomi's family" , I can't find a position on the matter of the Battle of Sekigahara.

Originally, Liu Xin didn't understand this sentence. What does it mean that "the Toyotomi family can't find a position", isn't the Toyotomi family the so-called "people of the world"?His position of Toyotomi Hideyori is a position of justice! [Note: The so-called "Tianxiaren" in Japan generally refers to those who control the world. ]
So when Liu Xin asked, "What were Toyotomi Hideyori's mother and son doing during the Sekigahara War? When the Toyotomi family was 'what are you doing', it would be better to ask what else the Toyotomi family could do at that time?"

Gao Wushi told her that the Toyotomi family originally included the main family (Hideyoshi, Tsurumatsu, Hidetoshi, Hideho), the Yamato family (Hidecho), the Hideji family (Xiuji) and the Hideo family (Xiusheng).

However, when Tsurumong died in 1591, Hideyoshi adopted Hideyoshi as his adopted son and heir.

In 1592, Hidekatsu died without an heir, and the Hidetomi family was cut off; in 1594, Hidetoshi was succeeded by Takakage Kobayakawa, who was renamed Hideaki Kobayakawa;

Hideyoshi died in 1598, and Hideyori inherited the clan.

It can be seen that after 1595, only the main family remained in the Toyotomi family, and the side branches had been completely wiped out.After Hideyoshi's death in 1598, only Toyotomi Hideyori was left in the Toyotomi family until Hideyoshi became the father in 1608.

In other words, Hideyori was just a child at the time of the Battle of Sekigahara, what could he do?As for his mother, Diandian, she couldn't really control the situation.

According to Hideyoshi's arrangement, before Hideyori came of age, the power structure will be followed by the five big bosses plus five, no one else's business!
Hideyori, Chacha (Yododian), and others in Osaka Castle have no right to speak or make decisions.Moreover, the Western Army announced that Tokugawa was rebellious through the joint document signed by Mori and Ukita together with the executives.And Tokugawa's previous Uesugi conquest was the pinnacle of procedural justice.

What the hell is Uesugi Conquest?It was Ieyasu who said that Uesugi Kagekatsu, who was also one of the five elders, was reorganizing the army in the territory, and was reported by Hori Hideji.The central government (the actual person in charge, Tokugawa) immediately sent people to investigate. Of course, it could be Masuda and others who came forward. They also asked or suggested that Jing Sheng go to Kyoto and Osaka to explain in order to prove his innocence.

As a result, Uesugi's old Naoe Kensuke's "Naoe State" sneered at Ieyasu, scolded Hori Hideji for being a villain and a coward, said that building castles and roads should not be suspected, and that collecting weapons was "a hobby of country samurai", in short, he did not admit anything.

Why did Horie report it?On the one hand, you have to reorganize your military equipment, and people will only report it when you have a problem (violation of the general order);When the title was transferred back then, it was Uesugi who collected annual tribute for a full year and made the Hori family pitted.

Open your mouth and shut up, you're not the Uesugi's who went to collect annual tribute?Yes, Uesugi Jingsheng has become a big boss. The Hori family's father, Hori Hidemasa, has been dead for many years, which means that his family has fallen and he can't afford to mess with Uesugi.He couldn't survive without food, so he had to borrow food from Uesugi with a low eyebrow.

Uesugi still borrowed it, but in the second year he rushed to collect the debt, forcing people to increase the levy and causing public resentment.The Hori family's report is not only to avenge Uesugi's old grievances, but the most important thing is to save his life--Uesugi's troubles, the first danger is the Hori family in Uesugi's old territory.

It is said that after Toyotomi's old minister Hori Hidemasa died of illness, his son was bullied by a foreigner who survived by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Does Toyotomi's old minister feel chilled?Although the motive for the report was hatred, the report has already been accepted.

Uesugi Jingsheng insisted that building bridges and roads should be done, that the city was built because of its small size, that the Echigo Ronin Rebellion was not instigated by me, and that I would not go to Luo. Rectifying roads, collecting weapons and other things are just sophistry and diversion.

That is to say, people far away in Osaka, even if they believe that "Uesugi rebellion" is indisputable.

It can be said that although they are all procedural justice, the procedural justice of Uesugi's conquest is more deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.On the contrary, it was Ishida Mitsunari, a "sinner", who suddenly jumped out and dragged Moori and Ukita, together with Feng Xingzhong, signed a document to engage in Ieyasu, which looked even more, special, and very suspicious.

Be careful here, it looks suspicious.After all, the armed forces of the Toyotomi family were all out.Tokugawa is Hideyoshi's brother-in-law, and many generals of the Eastern Army are Hideyoshi's direct descendants.At least in the eyes of those who don't know Tokugawa's ambitions...it's nothing more than the Toyotomi army going to seek rebellion, and then another group of Toyotomi army is stabbing in the back.

The Western Army used procedural justice to completely negate Tokugawa, but what Tokugawa did before was also procedural justice.Since both of you are engaged in tandem and procedural justice.As for the orphans and widows, what else can they do besides maintaining neutrality and the "retainer struggle" with gold on their faces?
Do you want to stand in Tokugawa?Announcing the malicious connection of the Western Army?no kidding!The Western Army even took away the armed forces in Osaka City.Against the Western Army?Reiterate every minute, little friend Xiulai, you have no right to speak or make decisions...

Do you want to stand in the West Army?Confirm that "Tokugawa is a traitor"?no kidding!The generals of the Eastern Army are all your family's retainers, so all of them must be stunned all of a sudden.

Lao Tzu came out to fight for you, you say Lao Tzu is rebellious?
Then Tokugawa said calmly, "Look! Ishida, Fengxingzhong, Mori, and Ukita seized power and took the young master hostage!"

The Eastern Army nodded unanimously, and then came to "Qing Jun's side" even more determinedly!Anyway, the generals felt that Hideyori was really held hostage, and Tokugawa knew that when Hideyori was held in his arms, he would definitely admit that it was a fact that he was "held hostage".

Therefore, staying neutral is already the most correct choice between life and death! ——
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