Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1541 A Game of Chess in the Far East ([-])
When Gao Wushi shared this analysis, Huang Zhiting was surprised that she didn't express much. Originally, Gao Wushi thought she would be very angry, but she miscalculated.

Liu Xin thought about it and said: "This is really... This matter is difficult in ancient times. You don't want to expose too strong military strength, especially the strength of the army, and you hope that the Shimadzu family can stand up. Say no to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hey, if I were the governor of the Shimadzu family, I would also think that you are embarrassing me."

Gao Yushi was about to answer, but suddenly found that Meng Gu Zhezhe, who had been standing obediently by the side, hesitated to speak, so he couldn't help but feel moved, and asked, "Meng Gu, what's your opinion?"

Seeing Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin looking at her at the same time, Meng Gu Zhezhe seemed taken aback, and quickly lowered his head and said, "I'm not from a barbarian family, so how can I have any insight."

Before Gao Wushi had time to say anything, Huang Zhiting actually spoke first: "Why can't the barbarians of the countryside have some insights? I am also from the barbarians of the countryside."

Gao Wushi was quite surprised, and heard Huang Zhiting continue: "Since the master has asked you, if you have any thoughts, just say it."

Meng Gu Zhezhe also seemed to be surprised, but she didn't dare to show it. She glanced at Huang Zhiting quietly, seeing that this "sister" was smiling at the moment, looking like she was really encouraging herself, she finally felt a little relieved, and said in a low voice : "Actually, I just think that the Shimadzu family's style of doing things is quite similar to our Jurchen."

"Oh?" This time it was Huang Zhiting's turn to be surprised, and asked, "Where is the image?"

Meng Gu Zhezhe glanced at Gao Yushi again, Gao Yushi nodded slightly, signaling her to go ahead and talk.So she said: "Let's talk about our Yehe. My Ama... Oh, my late father and my uncle hadn't gathered together in the early years. Yehe was not as powerful as Wan Khan in the Jurchen, and not far to the west was the Mongolian Khan's. The grassland can be described as a wolf in the south and a tiger in the west.

At that time, Ye He could only carefully deal with Wan Khan and Tumen Khan. He wanted to regard Wan Khan as the lord of Manchuria and obey his orders, and he also wanted to rely on Tumen Khan to get horses and cattle from him. The sheep changed hands to do business, and some cloth pots and pans obtained from the Beiguan trade were also sold to the Mongols.

If he doesn't listen to Wan Khan's orders, Ye He may perish at any time; but if he doesn't listen to Tumen Khan's orders, Ye He may also starve to death.I just heard what the master said, and I feel that the Shimadzu family is very similar to Ye He at that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is Wanhan, and the Maritime Trade Alliance is like Mongolia..."

The three of Gao Wushi looked at each other, and they didn't bother with her obviously politically incorrect statement that the Maritime Trade Alliance was compared to Mongolia. Instead, Huang Zhiting asked with great interest: "How did Ye He manage to be the first in Manchuria today?" A strong chief?"

"Wan Khan loves face very much, especially when he gets older, he always has to show off a lot."

Meng Gu Zhezhe recalled: "At that time, my father and brother were looking for opportunities to give Wan Khan face. Even if we took in the leaders who fled from Hada, we obediently paid tribute to Wan Khan. Sometimes the leaders received more After a while, we will also deliberately pay more tribute to Wan Khan with rare but ineffective things. Once Wan Khan is happy, he will not bother to ask about the affairs of the people.

After a few years like this, Hada began to decline, but our Yehe gradually became stronger. Not only did we have more people than Hada, but we also had more horses, pastures, and farms.

At this time, the late father and brothers began to look for opportunities to snatch hada's edicts. As the number of edicts gradually increased, Beiguan's trade gradually surpassed that of hada.About two or three years before Wan Khan's death, Ye He had developed to the point where he could go to Hada's village to rob for any reason. "

Meng Gu Zhezhe's remarks were only about Ye He's own affairs, but the three present here are not fools, and they all know what she wants to express.

The Shimadzu family is really not convinced by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and they are doing what the two Baylors Yehe and Baylor did.It's just that the situation in Japan is still somewhat different from Jurchen's, so Shimadzu Yoshihisa and Shimadzu Yoshihiro brothers can't show that they are advancing together and retreating together, but pretend to be restricted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's means. The independence of the Tsu family has become vacillating, and there is a tendency to seek refuge with the Toyotomi family at any time.

Yoshihiro Shimadzu later had the evil name of "Ghost Shimadzu", and this ghost character is not only the horror of combat power, but also has the meaning of cunning.In other words, he's a smart guy who can pull off tricks.

Perhaps, this is the reason why he gathered troops to prepare for the "Kanto Expedition" according to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's intention, and at the same time came to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance for assistance under the banner of preventing Toyotomi Hideyoshi from another "Kyushu Expedition".

But even so, Gao Yushi did not intend to take back the aid he had ordered to give them.

It is nothing more than [-] old guns, or Longqing Type [-] and Wanli Type [-]. For Jinghua, they are all obsolete products. If they are placed in southern Xinjiang, they will only be allocated to the second-line troops, and they will not be used by the garrison at all.

But it is very important to sell these muskets to the Shimadzu family, because the Shimadzu family has only more than 5000 troops after being "removed".

Moreover, their Shimadzu family can’t compare with Oda Nobunaga who separated soldiers from peasants. This 5000-strong army is not completely full-time soldiers, which is the so-called standing ashigaru in Japan.In fact, most of the fifteen thousand ashigaru of the Shimadzu family were farmers and soldiers, and only the backbone part was samurai scattered in Satsuma and Osumi.

Two thousand advanced muskets are enough to directly improve the combat effectiveness of the Shimadzu family's army.If it is combined with their famous "fishing wild ambush" tactic, the two thousand musketeers (known as iron guns in Japan) find an opportunity to shoot down three rounds of volley, and even an army of tens of thousands of opponents may be defeated on the spot.

After all, the Japanese army in this era was not the army that was later commanded by the "Japanese military god" Nogi Noki, who sent heads to the Russian fortress, and the battle damage ratio that could withstand was far less than that of the latter.

In Japan in this day and age, it is definitely not a shame to have [-]% casualties lead to collapse; if it can persist until [-]% casualties before collapsing, then the commander can basically be called a famous general; as for those who can persist until [-]% casualties, maybe It's time to compete with Echigo's Dragon and Kai's Tiger.

Such a great gift, of course, is not given in vain.Selling cheap is also selling, and Jinghua's things are not cheap at all, but for the Shimadzu family, good quality is the top priority. They are of course indebted to them for being able to buy this batch of muskets.

The Shimadzu family doesn't have many ways to repay favors at the moment, and Gao Yushi doesn't plan to ask for it now.However, Gao Wushi had considered the matter proposed by Long Ze Shiyang before—Toyotomi Hideyoshi hoped that the headquarters of the Maritime Trade Alliance in Japan would be located in the castle town of Osaka. Sakagi shows his worth.

Of course, it is not really moving the headquarters there, but it does intend to give Toyotomi Hideyoshi a face and actively establish a Kinki center in Osaka.There are two purposes for doing this, one is to prove his worth to Long Ze Shiyang, and the other is to further follow Toyotomi Hideyoshi's hair.

The former doesn't need much explanation. Now that it's almost 1590, if Ryuzawa Miyo wants to get close to the future Toyotomi Hideyori, there is not much time left for meritorious service, so he must hurry up.

To a large extent, the latter is also deliberately catering to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's increasingly inflated psychology at this time, and actively encouraging him to continue to do according to his own ideas.The reason is not very complicated, because the current Longze Shiyang belongs to the "Practice School".

Previously, Gao Wushi and Liu Xin discussed the struggle for Japanese power after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and concluded that with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's shrewdness, it was impossible not to limit the power of the big names headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu during his lifetime and after his death. .But Hideyoshi is not a god, of course there will be unexpected things, and it is impossible to predict and deal with the changing and complicated situation after death.

The samurai official position system created by Hideyoshi during his lifetime, with himself as the apex, tried to bind all daimyo within the framework of his own regime.Moreover, when Hideyoshi was dying and after his death, the so-called "five elders and five enforcement systems" were established.

According to the past, the five elders were the highest decision-making organs of the Toyotomi regime after Hideyoshi's death, and the five chief executives were the practical agencies that implemented the five elders' decrees. Both sides supported the Toyotomi regime before Hideyoshi came of age.

The accusations made by the Japanese scholar Osamu Wakita of later generations have two key elements that caused the impression of the five elders as the decision-making organs of state affairs. One is that the order to withdraw troops from North Korea was jointly signed by the five elders. The power to know and act is in the hands of the five veterans.

Regarding the first point, the Japanese scholar Yuji Sone pointed out that in addition to the five elders, the Five Monarchs also had their signatures (Note: see the paper "Instructions for the Withdrawal of Troops from North Korea" by Yuji Sone), so it was not the exclusive authority of the five elders.

Regarding the second key point, the five elders did jointly sign (or several elders jointly signed, or even Jiakang signed alone) a lot of Zhixing Wanxing certificates. There are several kinds of safety plug and transfer seal.

Among the 1598 Chihsing Wan Xing certificates issued by the elder from December of the third year of Qingcho (62) to May of the fifth year of Qingchou sorted out by the Japanese scholar Yuichi Horikoshi, only four were additions of knowledge and practice.

Kobayakawa Hideaki once reduced the title of Echizen before. After Hideyoshi's death, on February 1599th in the fourth year of Keicho (20), the feudal title was transferred to Chikuzen and Chikugo again. From [-] to [-] shi.

However, the increase of knowledge and action of these two people is special. First, both of them are relatives of Hideyoshi. Second, it is clearly mentioned in the Wanxing letter that increasing knowledge and action is the purpose of the Taiko, that is, the practice of Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s established plan before his death. This is obviously also to strengthen the power of "One Sect".

One month before that, on the ninth day of the first lunar month, Shimadzu Tadahiro of Satsuma added [-] stones to reward his military exploits in the battle of Sacheon in North Korea (Note: Shimadzu Tadahiro is the son of Yoshihiro, he did not go to North Korea, and his military exploits were actually It was his father Yoshihiro who called), and on October [-]st of the same year, Yoshiharu Horio was awarded [-] koku, which was used as a general fee for his general purchase of Echizen Fuchu Castle.

It can be seen that the increase in knowledge and action signed by the elders, except for Kobayakawa Hideaki and Aoki Shigekichi who fulfilled Hideyoshi's last will, accounted for an extremely small proportion.As for the settlement of the son and stepfather's legacy, the re-settlement of Dang Zhixing, and the transfer of the title, it is just a reconfirmation of almost the same knowledge and practice.

Therefore, it can be seen from the above ratios that although the five elders have the right to know and act, the examples of new knowledge and practice in the actual operation process are extremely limited.

On February 1600st of the fifth year of Qingcho (13), Tokugawa Ieyasu arbitrarily issued a Wanxing certificate, increasing Mori Tadamasa from Mino [-] koku to Shinano [-] koku; Military service; on February [-]th, add [-] shi to the enclave of Hosokawa Chuxing Fenghou.

The reason why Ieyasu was able to do this happened to be that after the death of Maeda Toshiie, the other three elders were in their home country.After Terumoto Mori and Hideo Ukita came back to the house in April of the same year, no other daimyo added Chiyo.

Moreover, judging from the above-mentioned many Wan Xing certificates, all of them are "been executed by Wan Xing". It can be seen that the implementing subject of Zhi Xing is not the five elders, but the five elders are only in name. rely.

Not only that, thirteen days before the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, that is, on August 1598th in the third year of Qingchang ([-]), in the petitions exchanged between the five elders and the five Fengxing, they promised each other to abide by the law and not to form a party. The requirements are the same.

Before Toyotomi Hideyori became an adult, all matters of knowledge and action had to be investigated in detail first, and then discussed by Ieyasu and other elders plus the five ministers, and finally implemented according to the principle of the minority obeying the majority.

As we all know, only Asano Nagamasa is a little closer to Ieyasu among the five honours, and Ishida Mitsunari is a strong anti-Ieyasu faction. Therefore, in most cases, the five honours are superior in number.

In addition, other elders do not necessarily want to see Jiakang become bigger or sell well alone, so although Jiakang is placed in the extremely respected position of the first of the five elders, the most important authority of increasing knowledge and action is still Will be constrained by other elders and adherents.

It can be seen that Hideyoshi's arrangement is very ingenious from his own perspective before his death. He used the prestige of the five elders to maintain the authority of the Toyotomi regime, but also used the five elders to limit the expansion of the power of the five elders.

This is like using official positions to customize the order and prohibiting daimyos from intermarrying privately. The system of five elders and five executions is also a way for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to check and balance the daimyos.

As we all know, the Toyotomi family’s hiding place is about 220 million koku, which is why the Toyotomi family’s strength far exceeds that of other daimyos (Note: Ieyasu’s so-called 250 million koku later actually included a large number of retainers).If any increase is made in the name of the Toyotomi family, it will definitely reduce the Toyotomi family's own hiding places and weaken the strength of the Toyotomi family.

It is precisely because of this that Tokugawa Ieyasu's mind and goal are to increase, and at the same time sell his own favor at the cost of the Toyotomi family hiding in the land, which can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

The existence of the five obediences is precisely to avoid this kind of situation, which is why there are very few examples of the actual increase of knowledge and practice just now—for example, in the previous document of Tadahiro Shimadzu, it is directly said that in the Sazhou (north of Satsuma, one of the three major factions within the Shimadzu family, the home of the Sazhou faction) is his Zhixing, that is, the Shimadzu family got [-] shi, while the Toyotomi family’s hiding place was [-] shi less.

The reason why the five elders are an important existence is that the failure of the invasion of the court and the death of Hideyoshi made the dream of the daimyos to occupy the land of knowledge and practice through foreign invasion come to naught.However, the price paid by the big names in North Korea must be compensated, otherwise there will be troubles, and the five elders are precisely trying to suppress and mediate these big names.

Having said that, there is no knowledge and practice in Japan that can absorb the military achievements and expenditures of the various daimyos who invaded the dynasty. If the Toyotomi family's possessions are used to increase these daimyos, it will have a serious impact on the Toyotomi family's economic foundation and its own strength. It was a huge blow, so this sharp contradiction was just taken advantage of by Ieyasu Tokugawa.

For example, while the other elders were away, Ieyasu's knowledge of Mori Tadamasa and others increased, causing Toyotomi's family to lose the hiding place of 10,000+ stones.And what Hideyoshi did not expect was that after his own death, the death of Maeda Toshiie and the submission of his heir Maeda Toshinaga; crusade.

The original delicate balance was broken, and Mori Terumoto and Ukita Hideie, who felt a sense of crisis, might feel that they would be the next one in their hearts, while Masuda Nagamori, Maeda Genichi, and Nagatsu Masaka tried to fight hard to restore the original state. The checks and balances of the big boss situation.

Therefore, the two elders and San Fengxing finally joined forces, and this was their last chance to bring down Ieyasu.

After the victory of the Sekigahara Battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to use the name of the Toyotomi family to arbitrarily seal the generals who joined his own side in the Sekigahara Battle, and finally reduced the Toyotomi family to the level of a mere 65 koku daimyo (although the Toyotomi family’s The public instrument is still there, but the place of hiding, which is one of the pillars of the public instrument, has been greatly reduced), and the previous goal has been achieved.

From the point of view of Zhuge Liang in hindsight, regardless of whether the rules and regulations are established through the official position system, or the Toyotomi regime is fragile through the rapid push and surrender and the so-called lack of power in the generation, in fact, the balance of the five big and five old and five implementation systems has been broken and cannot be digested. After returning from the invasion, the dissatisfaction of the daimyo, and the control of the most important place of possession was gradually seized by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Under such unfavorable circumstances, the demise of the Toyotomi family is only a matter of time.

It can be seen that the measures to check and balance the daimyo arranged by Hideyoshi before his death are not without or without implementation, but there are too many unexpected and uncertain factors.In the final analysis, the trouble still lies in the huge losses in the North Korean war and the lack of gains.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troubles are what Gao Yushi wants, so now it is necessary to ensure that Toyotomi Hideyoshi will not give up the invasion of North Korea because of Jinghua's relationship with the butterfly wings.

Therefore, Jinghua not only can't bombard Osaka, but also gives him some sweetness according to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wishes from time to time, so as to maintain his false affirmation of his own strength.

At the same time, every time you give him sweetness, it is best to let your own spokesperson handle it. The best spokesperson is of course the group he sent out, followed by the Shimadzu family.

Although the current position of the Shimadzu family is not [-]% on the side of Jinghua—or the Maritime Trade Alliance, it is because the Shimadzu family now has the same illusion as Toyotomi Hideyoshi.When it is needed in the future, when the Maritime Trade Alliance shows its strength, Gao Pragmatism is not afraid that the Shimadzu family will be dishonest.
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