"Don't fight unprepared battles" is Gao Pragmatic's consistent style. Since the current situation in Japan can even affect the top nobles of the Ming Dynasty, even if this impact is mostly just for economic purposes, Gao Pragmatic also feels that he
It’s time to start paying more attention to Japan.
He quickly ordered Gao Mo to compile all the information about Japan that Heiding had collected in the past two or three years and send it to him.
This matter is not difficult to handle. Black Top has the cover of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, and in addition, in Japan, from the imperial court to the various big names, there is almost no idea of secrecy - they do have it among themselves, but to the Ming Dynasty
On the contrary, the businessmen did not have it - so they had already collected a lot of information, specially compiled and analyzed it, and would only submit it to the master for review when Gao Pragmatic needed it. Therefore, Gao Mo quickly handed over a large stack of books and documents.
Send it.
It took Gao pragmatism and conscientiousness more than an hour to read through these things, and then I had a relatively clear understanding of Japan's situation in the past two or three years.
In 1585 AD, which was the autumn of the thirteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Hideyoshi issued the Sowushi Order as Guan Bai. The so-called Sowushi Order was actually the Peace Regulations. The meaning of the order was not complicated, but it referred to the
Guan Bai allows it, but prohibits personal fights between daimyo. If you violate it, the result will of course be that Guan Bai will teach you a lesson.
In a famous Japanese game from later generations, playing the "Nothing Order" means that you can pass the level. But real history is not about playing games after all, and there is not really anyone who disobeys this order.
Not long after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's order was issued, someone challenged him.
You must know that it was not long before Toyotomi Hideyoshi established his dominance. It was just when he needed to establish his authority. As a result, someone blatantly violated it as soon as he issued it. He couldn't help but be angry, so he decided to use them as negative examples and give them a lesson.
It was the Shimazu family of Satsuma who dared to look down on Hideyoshi at such a sensitive moment.
Satsuma is located in the southwest of Kyushu, in the later Kagoshima Prefecture. Satsuma has always been known for its extremely tough folk customs. It is known as the Sparta of Asia on the Internet in later generations. It is said that any man randomly pulled from this place will always be...
The existence of three enemies.
However, there are historical reasons why they are so tough. First of all, one very important point is that the Satsuma people are not actually the "Wa clan" at all, but the Hayato clan, a minority group in Japan (of course, they are now the same as the original Chinese people).
Like Wuhu, it has already been completely assimilated).
As early as the fifth century AD, the Hayabusa tribe submitted to the central government of Japan. Of course, the name Japan did not exist at that time, and the so-called Satsuma country was far from even appearing.
At that time, because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, although Hayato claimed to be submissive in name, he basically ignored the existence of the imperial center and often failed to pay taxes and tributes. This is easy to understand. The land in Satsuma is barren, so he had to make some food by himself.
It’s not easy anymore. Where can I find extra food to hand over to the government?
However, the court will naturally not care whether you can afford to eat or not. You must pay what you are required to pay. If you don't pay, you are a traitor, and you will have to use force to force you to pay.
As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance. Under such oppression, Hayato of Satsuma rose up without any suspense. As the saying goes, poor mountains and harsh waters bring out unruly people, and the Satsuma people are all brave and tough. The imperial army tried it and found that
I really can't take them down. As time goes by, I don't bother to take care of them. If I don't pull them down, there are only a few grains of rice anyway, so it's not worth it.
During the Tang Dynasty, Japan and the Tang Dynasty fought a war called the Battle of Baijiangkou. In this battle, the Tang Dynasty navy gave full play to its own advantages and defeated the Japanese navy, whose strength and ships were several times that of its own.
The characteristics of the Japanese are well known. When they are not beaten, they think they are the best in the world. After losing, they immediately obey like a dead dog. So after this battle, Japan became honest and felt that they could only be considered the second best in the world.
, the Tang Dynasty was the best in the world, so they took the initiative to send envoys to the Tang Dynasty to learn from the Tang Dynasty in all aspects.
At first, the Japanese envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty entered the Tang Dynasty through the Korean Peninsula. However, civil strife broke out in Korea and this route could not be taken. So the Japanese felt that they had to develop a new route, and the starting point was the Hayabusa gathering place in Osumi Province.
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But unexpectedly, trouble arose. The inspection officials sent by the imperial court were too arrogant and angered the angry young men of Hayato who had a bad temper. So they picked up the weapons and surrounded the imperial officials.
Of course, the officials of the imperial court were very smart. They immediately showed what it means to be a man who can bend and stretch - they immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to beg for mercy. When Hayato saw it, that's it? You gave in before I even took action?
However, they probably rarely encountered such accidents, and they didn't know how to deal with it for a while. Looking at her pitiful appearance, they just said to go back and don't show off in front of the elders next time.
You don’t even need to guess what happened next. These officials filed a complaint as soon as they returned. So for the sake of domestic stability, the most important thing for the imperial court was probably international harmony - just in case these barbarians give envoys from the Tang Dynasty to
If you're offended, why is Japan such a jerk? So it's very necessary to take good care of Hayato.
Just as they said, the Japanese court first separated part of the Hyuga Kingdom as a singing country (later renamed Sama Kingdom and finally Satsuma Kingdom), which was equivalent to setting up a Hayato Special Zone. From then on, it strengthened control and implemented it locally.
A new tax system was introduced.
In the words of later generations, the characteristic of this new tax system is that there is no threshold. This means that if you collect ten shi of grain, you must pay three shi. If you only collect ten grains of rice, sorry, you also have to pay three grains.
The Hayabusa people were used to being bosses, and they couldn't bear this tone, so they immediately became angry. So they killed the administrators sent by the imperial court and raised the flag of rebellion. This time, the imperial court responded very quickly, and immediately mobilized more than 10,000 people.
Crossing the sea to attack Hayato. Hayato showed amazing fighting power with only a thousand men. He persisted for a year and a half before surrendering due to lack of food.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! For the Japanese court, although this battle was won, it was painful to win, and it was probably a loss-making business. So the court also felt it was necessary.
To change the method, you can't just do it forcefully. You should try the Huairou method learned from China.
The strategy was quickly decided. Specifically, the first was population relocation, sending the Hayabusa people from Osumi Province to the capital so that they could be assimilated; the second was that the stupid tax system had to be changed, so it was postponed indefinitely.
Since all the Hayabusa people from Osumi Province were sent away, Satsuma became the last concentration place for Hayabusa people, and gradually the Satsuma people became equated with Hayabusa people.
During the Heian period, the imperial court sent a local official to Satsuma, named Tadahisa Yui. Since the central and southern parts of Hyuga Province and Ohsumi of Satsuma were also called Shimazu-so, Tadahisa Yui simply changed their name to Tadahisa Shimazu. This is how the famous Shimazu family became.
Come.
The Shimazu family has been in southern Kyushu for five hundred years. It has a long history, comparable to that of the Takeda family. Not only has it been a long time, the Shimazu family also has a very cool and handsome aura.
This momentum is embodied in four words: never go to Luo.
The so-called "Shangluo" does not mean that during the Warring States Period in China, Shangluo held the emperor hostage to order the princes. In Japan, this term simply means going to Beijing to report on work. But such a routine report on work has almost never been done by the Shimadzu family in the past 500 years.
It's simple and clear: I'm not happy, sir.
It is such a combination of local snakes and foreign nationalities. For hundreds of years, the Japanese court has really been unable to do anything about them. Later, during the war, they had no time to take care of themselves. Who has nothing to do and is in the mood to care about the southwest border? So this
The crowd became even more unscrupulous, and a considerable number of them chose to work for Boss Wang Zhiwang, resulting in the deaths of Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang.
In the past few years, the fighting blood of the Shimazu family finally reawakened. The fifteenth generation leader Shimazu Takahisa and his four sons were all fierce generals, and the four sons were very united, so it only took about ten years.
, the Shimazu family defeated Osumi Hyuga's Ito, Ganfu and other forces, and then sent their army north to attack the daimyo of Hizen, Ryuzoji Takanobu, known as the bear of Hizen.
Takanobu was originally a very capable general, but because he was usually strict with his subordinates and his style was probably similar to Zhang Fei's, during the battle, his bearer ran away as soon as he saw something was wrong, so Takanobu was killed by Shimazu
The family members surrounded and beat him to death, and the Ryuzouji family was in ruins ever since.
As a result, the only people in Kyushu who could compete with the Shimadzu family were the Otomo family, but they were only trying to resist, and the disadvantage was still obvious. When Hideyoshi gave the order, they were being encroached on their territory by the Shimadzu family.
Of course, the Shimazu family also received a peace order, but as I mentioned about their family's history, I haven't been to the imperial court for five hundred years, and now you say you won't fight me if you don't want to? Who do you think you are?
So he continued to beat up Dayou's family.
Hideyoshi was about to establish his power at this time. There was no room for disobedience, so he quickly decided: fuck him! Hideyoshi obviously planned to set a negative example to scare others. Who knew that when he was about to start a fight, something happened behind the scenes: Ishikawa number of the Tokugawa family
He was running away and came to him.
Under countless verbal and behavioral threats from the angry youths of Mikawa, Shuzheng finally couldn't bear it. I have worked hard for many years and contributed to the Tokugawa family's diplomacy without complaint. It's just that you are a hawk and I am a dove. Why?
Are you yelling at me like this?
When he thought that he had worked hard for many years and had worked hard even if he had no credit, but the result was not good at all, and that one day he might be dragged out by radicals and beheaded in public, Sumasa felt that he could no longer stay in the Tokugawa family, so he took
A group of gangsters came to Hideyoshi in Osaka Castle.
Of course Tokugawa Ieyasu was very nervous. Although he could understand Sumasa's thoughts and knew that he was not a disloyal person, since Sumasa was an important member of the family and a person in possession of core secrets, once he leaked any secret to Hideyoshi, he would
Quite passive.
So Ieyasu immediately started military reforms and replaced all the military systems in the family with those of the original Takeda family. But what he didn't know was that Hideyoshi was also very nervous. Originally, Ieyasu had sent hostages to surrender before, but if something happened again because of this,
Falling out would be very difficult for him.
Therefore, Hideyoshi decided to have a thorough talk with Ieyasu after the New Year. The request was not high, he just hoped that Ieyasu would come to Osaka in person to express his surrender face to face.
The person specifically responsible for the negotiations was tea-making expert Oda Nagamasu. After Nobuo reconciled with Hideyoshi, he came to the more prosperous Osaka and learned tea-making from the tea ceremony master Senso-yi. Although Nagasaki actually only knew how to make tea, he was very fond of himself.
I am very confident and believe that my diplomatic skills are outstanding.
However, it turns out that history is really not a game, and whether you are good at tea ceremony has nothing to do with your diplomatic ability.
After Nagamasu saw Ieyasu, he said with a silly smile on his face: "Ah, what happened last year (Ishikawa Sumasa's escape) was really surprising!" Tokugawa Ieyasu's level of skill was even greater than Tokugawa Ieyasu's.
Fa opened his mouth. So Ieyasu replied expressionlessly: "I heard that Lord Guanbai took in Lord Boqi. Is he in good health?"
When Chang Yi heard this, he was actually stunned. He smiled brightly and said that Shu Zheng was in good health. A few days ago, we made tea together and chatted. I still remembered the tea utensil I used. After a lot of chatting, he finally realized
When I got carried away, I began to think about the reasons for Ieyasu to go to Osaka.
After thinking for a while, he felt that it was okay to use the topic of son. There is no father in the world who does not love his son. "Speaking of Master Yu Yiwan..."
"As long as he is in good health, it's fine! Lord Changyi, it's getting late, so I'm sorry that Ieyasu won't accompany me." After saying this, Ieyasu stood up and signaled to see off the guest.
This is really speechless. A person who can send his son as a hostage, how much do you expect him to love that son?
This chapter is not finished yet. Please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Of course, Changyi was completely unaware of his stupid behavior. He felt that he had to be as patient as visiting the thatched cottage three times, so he kept looking for Ieyasu. Obviously, Ieyasu became more and more mature.
Lai became increasingly impatient, and finally someone directly told Chang Yi that he was very busy and should not come here all the time. Chang Yi was very embarrassed, so he had to go back to Osaka and wait to be scolded.
However, after returning to Osaka, Hideyoshi was very talkative and said that there was no need to worry. He did not expect Ieyasu to come so easily. Yamato had a clever plan to ensure that he would definitely come.
Chang Yi was very confused: "Your Highness, what is your clever plan?"
Hideyoshi was very direct: "Give him a beautiful woman to be his wife!"
Since Tsukiyama was executed, although Ieyasu had many women, there was always a vacancy in the main wife. However, Nagaik became even more confused: "Whose daughter is this?"
Hideyoshi chuckled: "My sister!" Nagaik was dumbfounded.
What must be explained here is that Hideyoshi’s sister is called Asahime (half-father). She is neither Kasugano Sora, nor Kousaka Kirino, nor even Ichinose Himezuki.
In fact, first of all, his sister doesn't look very good - this may be nonsense. Since Hideyoshi looks like a monkey, how good can his sister be?
Secondly, his sister is already forty-five years old. In an era when hyaluronic acid is not available, not everyone can be a "Ye He old girl" and be able to win over all the heroes in her thirties.
But the most important thing is that his sister is now married to his retainer Tomita Yoshinari.
No wonder Chang Yi was so confused that he married a married middle-aged woman to Ieyasu? If you can come up with such a good idea, I can only say... As expected of you.
But Hideyoshi had already made up his mind. He sent Nagamasu to go to Ieyasu again to propose marriage, and at the same time ordered his sister and her husband to divorce. Because she was too immoral, Mrs. Azaka became angry again and prepared to slap him twice.
Hideyoshi also knew that his mother was very angry, so he simply hid away from her. After all, it was too important for him to ensure that Ieyasu surrendered. To put it bluntly, the essence of marrying his sister was to send her as a hostage, so even if he offended
Mom also had to do it, so in the end his sister was "divorced".
Ieyasu also knew what Hideyoshi meant, so he agreed to the marriage. He married Asahi in April of that year, but he still had no intention of coming to Osaka.
When Hideyoshi saw that Ieyasu was not coming, he felt that he had not given enough benefits to you. How about giving you another hostage? If so, give him a high-level hostage - this time Hideyoshi planned to give it to my mother.
In May, under the pretext that his sister was far away from home and needed to be taken care of, Hideyoshi sent his mother, Ossōsho (the name given to Guan Bai's mother by the Japanese court), A-Naka, to the Tokugawa family.
At this time, the Tokugawa family was in an uproar, and the angry youths (now only the angry youths were left) were shocked and said that this product must be fake! Why? Because Hideyoshi is known to be filial to his mother, why would he be willing to send him as a hostage?
Ieyasu said, comrades, don't mess up. Let's go and take a look, don't make any hasty decisions. The angry youths, led by the fifty-cent National Master Honda Masanobu, praised their leadership for being wise, and then said murderously that if it was false, they would be punished on the spot.
Hack her to death.
Ieyasu brought his retainers and Asahi to the gate of Hamamatsu Castle to greet the old lady. After the sedan stopped, the curtain of the sedan was just opened. Before Ieyasu and the others could see the old lady's face clearly, Asahi had already shouted: "Mom!
"Then he rushed over, hugged the old lady and burst into tears: "Mom! Thank you for your hard work all the way here!"
The old lady also hugged her daughter with tears streaming down her face: "Daughter, you are wronged by marrying someone from a place you are not familiar with!"
Now everyone present believed it - we are all born to mothers. No matter how deceitful the world is, some things cannot be faked. Ieyasu also wiped his tears and took the opportunity to think about it, but he really couldn't find a suitable excuse.
When I came, I had to decide with tears in my eyes: In this case, I will go to Osaka!
In October of this year, Ieyasu and his retainers came to Osaka and stayed at the home of Hideyoshi's younger brother, Hideyoshi Hashiba. In the evening Naomasa Ii suddenly walked in and said: "Hideyoshi is here." Although Tokugawa Ieyasu actually didn't want to see Hideyoshi, things happened.
At this point, we can only see it once.
Hideyoshi was very familiar with him. He laughed and patted Ieyasu on the shoulder as soon as he arrived: "Brother! I finally expected you to come!" Ieyasu agreed with an unnatural smile.
But Hideyoshi suddenly said to Ieyasu seriously: "Brother, I want to ask you something." Ieyasu said, then you can say it, as long as it doesn't go too far.
Hideyoshi said very seriously: "Can you kowtow to me in front of everyone tomorrow?"
Kowtow is the etiquette of surrender, and Japanese kowtow is different from that in China. In China, you lower your head to touch the floor and then lift it up. In Japan, after you lower your head and kowtow to the floor, you are not allowed to lift it if the other party does not let you lift it.
stand up.
Tokugawa Ieyasu looked embarrassed. He didn't want to express his surrender to Hideyoshi in front of all the famous figures in the country. But Hideyoshi began to beg: "Good brother, just one moment, just one moment, you can lift it up as long as you knock it down."
This etiquette is quite special. Ieyasu thought about it, and since he asked in a low voice, let's give him some face. So on the 27th, Ieyasu and Hideyoshi formally met. After the meeting, they exchanged a few words, and then Ieyasu followed yesterday's agreement
Knocked his head down.
Unexpectedly, the moment he just touched the floor and before he could raise his head, Hideyoshi suddenly said loudly: "Mikawa-kun! Thank you for coming all the way here to seek refuge with me!" At this time, the monkey's aura was overwhelming, and he was completely different from yesterday's grandson.
Two people.
Ieyasu's heart skipped a beat, and he secretly screamed that something was wrong, I've fallen into a trap!
At this moment, in the eyes of everyone present, what they saw was Ieyasu surrendering to Hideyoshi.
Tokugawa Ieyasu originally wanted to refute immediately, but he suddenly came to his senses. He had taken the initiative to knock down the head just now. Even if he refuted it, others might not believe it, and they might think that he was careless. In this case, let's just do it
I just let the situation go, so Ieyasu expressed his surrender to the Hashiba family on the spot (he was not Toyotomi at this moment).
Hideyoshi was very happy to host a banquet in honor of Ieyasu. After eating and drinking, he officially gave the order: to attack the Shimazu family!
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