Chapter 45 Qingzhou Alliance

In January of the fifth year of Echonro, when the Takeda family took the battle to get closer and closer.

But at this moment, an incident that seemed inconspicuous at the time, but had an extremely far-reaching impact on the entire Warring States history. Tokugawa Ieyasu (now Naoname Matsuhei Ieyasu), the Nishisan River Matsuhei family, relied on the relationship between his uncle Mizuno Nobumoto and joined the Onaga Oda family. The two families formed an alliance in Qingzhou, known in history as the Qingzhou Alliance.

To this end, Tokugawa Ieyasu officially cut off his affiliation with the Imakawa family and concluded an agreement with Oda Nobunaga's Oda family, starting a back-to-back offensive and defensive alliance between the two families for 20 years.

It is said that as early as Tokugawa Ieyasu was still hostage in the Oda family, Ieyasu and Nobunaga became friends.

At that time, Oda Nobunaga, as described by later generations, his eyes were full of ambition and domineeringly held Tokugawa Ieyasu's hand. He waved his hand to the horizon and said, "Take Chiyo (the previous name of Tokugawa Ieyasu Motofu), in the future, you and I will compete for the world together. I will guide the west, and you will guide the east."

This began the lifelong friendship between the two.

However, 99% of this story is nonsense, because Tokugawa Ieyasu was only six or seven years old at that time, and almost a preschooler, while Oda Nobunaga was already a teenager of fifteen or sixteen years old. At this age, he was already a high school student. Can you believe that a high school student would tell a little kid who couldn't even twist his nose, "We will dominate the world together in the future."

The rumors are rumored. Later generations often call the first two heroes of the Warring States Period. Another one is still Oda Nobunaga's subordinate, and the one who has not yet made a name for himself, is the future Toyotomi Hideyoshita who will be in Toyotomi.

In addition to all of these three people approaching or completing the goal of Japanese unification in different ways, they are also fellow villagers from Aichi Prefecture, Japan today.

There is a famous story in Japan, and the title says, "How to make the cuckoo sing if it doesn't sing? The following is a quote from the three heroes. Oda Nobunaga said: Killing is not worthy of sacrificing. Hideyoshi said: lure it and make it sound. Ieyasu said: Don't wait for it to sound quickly.

Japanese people often use these three sentences to reflect the different personalities, methods of dealing with things, and their later destiny.

Oda Nobunaga was rebellious since childhood and was a bad boy. Later, he became a daimyo and changed his mind. He dreamt about defeating more than the kumagami and killed the daimyo Imakawa Yoshimoto, and then seized Mino Ken Castle Inabayama Castle.

He changed the name of Inabayama Castle to Gifu, imitated the story of King Wen of Zhou, issued the world military order to all Japan, and began to unify Japan by using martial arts or military seizure (two statements).

He acted and killed countless times throughout his life, called himself the Sixth Heaven Demon King, and trampled on universal values ​​and morality, and had the attitude of those who followed me and those who defied me. At the same time, he was keen on new things. As long as he thought it was worth doing something, he would actively try it. He was a thorough action faction.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born in poverty and had no ready-made environment to rely on. Compared with many warring state names such as Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu, his starting point was the lowest. Toyotomi Hideyoshi ran around at a young age, and became an official in the Iinoi clan and the Matsushita clan, and finally officially obtained the qualification of a samurai under Oda Nobunaga.

As the first person who was popular in the Warring States Period, he made his mark with his versatile eloquence and unconsisting imagination, and gained great trust from his master Oda Nobunaga, and was promoted from a soldier to a famous name in a country. After Nobunaga's death, he won the world with the storm of storm.

Of course, this world does not include it. Later, he overestimated his ability and wanted to conquer the world by conquering North Korea.

As for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the last of the three heroes (in order to unify Japan), many people can only evaluate him.

Well, if you have to add one sentence, it is the number one in "nin" technique in Japan, and the three heroes of "virility" are the first.

He used the Japanese historical novelist Simma Ryotaro (a complete right-winger who is said to be well written in his historical novels, but his character is not very good). He once commented on the status of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the minds of the Japanese.

For example, if you tell a Japanese that he is like Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he will look modest on the surface, but he cannot hide the joy in his heart.

But if you tell him that he is like Tokugawa Ieyasu, ha, even if he doesn't quarrel with you in person, he will definitely scold you in his heart. You are like Tokugawa Ieyasu, and your mother are like Tokugawa Ieyasu... The whole family is like Tokugawa Ieyasu.

What a tragic Tokugawa Ieyasu!

Unlike most countries' habit of worshiping the founding Taizu, such as Washington, the United States, the Japanese would rather express deep sympathy for the losers.

Among the opponents of the same era, such as in the Battle of Genhei, the Japanese would remember Yoshizuka Kiso, known as the Japanese Xiang Yu, and not the winner's first shogun, Genlai Chao.

During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the Japanese would regard Kumaki Masazen, who was shouting for Qisheng to serve the country and kill himself as the war god, and disdain for Ashikagashi, who founded the Muromachi shogunate.

When they arrived at Sekihara, they attacked Yukimura Sanada, who defeated the Tokugawa Army's main formation with a decisive death, had a much higher position in the Japanese than Ieyasu Tokugawa.

Actually, it’s not complicated. Just like the Japanese like Dunshengli, the fifty years of the world, compared with the world, is just a small thing. Looking at the world, dreams are like water, let life be once, and then the present will come.

It is precisely because the Japanese have become accustomed to themselves and their sympathy for losers that are more close to their usual experiences of depression and depression in reality, so they like to appreciate the beautiful but short-lived cherry blossoms, but no one cares about the tenacious vitality, and the heavy snow presses against the straight green pine with shoulders.

Therefore, I also have the spiritual realm advocated in Bushido, reaching the peak of my life in a moment of dazzling beauty to play my greatest value, and then ending my life without any nostalgia.

Yes, since you cannot wither at the most glorious time, the old turtles who live the longest are the ones left, so you have to take a slap in Tokugawa Ieyasu.

In "Tokugawa Ieyasu" written by Yamaoka Sakayasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu secretly visited his father on the eve of his eldest son Matsuhei Nobuyasu being sentenced to death by Oda Nobunaga, which was considered a death-long separation. Nobuyasu cried a lot, but at this moment Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was already the famous name of the five countries, had the only reaction: silence. After Nobuyasu finally saw no hope to avoid death, he cried, and then left.

The only painful defeat in Tokugawa Ieyasu's life was a battle against the Takeda family's three-party Hara. After the defeat of the Tokugawa army, he was frightened to pull the feces on the horse. He asked someone to paint his sad look on the spot and hang it in the room so that he could see it at all times. The portrait is called "Feng Si" and still exists now.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was thrifty all his life. Even if he unified the Warring States Period and became a "people in the world", he ate frugality and even seldom fish. He ate pickled radish every day and had white rice.

Tokugawa Ieyasu is not only stingy with himself, but also with others. Once he was wandering around at home and heard a maid complaining privately, saying that the food is too bad now, and the only side dishes are pickled radishes. After hearing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu smiled and said, "Okay, since you don't like it, don't eat it."

From then on, even the maids of the Tokugawa family even had pickled radish as side dishes, and they ate white rice every day.

It was Tokugawa Ieyasu. Someone asked him once: "What is the treasure of the Tokugawa family?" Ieyasu replied: "Five hundred riders, Sanhe Samurai."

In Tokaido, there are folk songs where Tomje people grow food, Sankawa people go to war, Suruga people sing all day long. It can be seen that the Sankawa samurai is brave and good at fighting, which is famous in Japan.

After the Sanfanghara War, the Nobuya Matsubashi inspected the battlefield and said to Takeda Shingen: "After seeing the bodies of the Sankawa Army, those who fell head to our army were all face down, and those who fell head to Hamamatsu were all face up. This shows that these soldiers were killed in battle when they rushed forward, and none of them were executed because they wanted to escape."

During the Nagashino War, the Oda Tokugawa coalition army had 38,000 troops, of which 30,000 troops were Oda and only 8,000 troops. After the war, the two armies harvested the same number of troops.
Chapter completed!