In fact, when Hideyoshi and Ieyasu were competing, the Shimazu family had already pushed into the core area of the Otomo family. It was no exaggeration to say that they were on the verge of attacking the city. Therefore, the leader, Otomo Yoshitomi, and his father, Otomo Sorin, personally went to Osaka to ask for help.
This was certain to be saved, so Hideyoshi ordered Choso Gabu Motouchin to lead eight thousand troops, with his own retainer Sengoku Gonbei Hidehisa acting as a supervisor to support the Otomo family.
Chosogabe Motochin, nicknamed Ji Wakako, Oniwako, a native of Tosa, the bat on the Tori Island (Nobunaga's language), is the name of Tosa. It is said that when Chosogabe Motochin was born, in addition to
Apart from wearing a handle, he was just like a girl, so the people from the Changzong Division privately nicknamed him "Ji Ruozi".
If it were in later generations, a boy would be praised for his good looks, but obviously it was not popular in this era, and he did not need to be a rabbit boy, so the Chosong Gabe Yuanqin was killed in an honorable manner and became one of the four
One of the great pretenders.
In the 39th year of Jiajing, that is, 1560 AD, the 22-year-old Chang Zong Gabu Yuanqin went to the battlefield to kill people for the first time. The scene was very satisfying.
Motochin picked up the spear, took a stance, and then asked a question that shocked everyone present: "Who can tell me how to use this?"
Although the retainer next to him was taken aback, he reacted quickly and immediately replied: "Pick up the spear and rush over to it and that's it."
This seems to be the end, but it turns out that sometimes strong generals can be born. In this war, Chosong Gabu Motochin killed two enemy generals, and even his nickname became a ghost.
Ruozi.
After that, he gradually showed his talents and destroyed the daimyo Motoyama family in Tosa. Then he kicked the great master Kanesada Ichijo to Kyushu and destroyed the Ichijo family.
Then he came into contact with Oda Nobunaga and asked Nobunaga to be his son's black hat prostitute (a witness to the coming-of-age ceremony). However, Nobunaga obviously did not want to coexist peacefully with Motochika. In the tenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1582 AD
, he ordered Oda Nobutaka to lead people to clean up the Chosoga Division.
In fact, the commander-in-chief of this army was originally Mitsuhide Akechi, but in order to prevent Mitsuhide's territory from becoming too large, Hideyoshi wrote a letter of report to Nobunaga, stating that Nana Ishitani, the adopted daughter of Rizo Saito, who was under Mitsuhide Akechi, was the elder.
It is possible that Saito Rizo, the concubine of Gabu Motochin, has an internal connection with Chosogabu.
As expected, Nobunaga was furious and dismissed Mitsuhide Akechi. However, before the army set off, Nobunaga was grilled by Mitsuhide Akechi. Motochin then began to confront Hideyoshi. Although he surrendered later, he saved the Tosa country. This time Nobunaga
Sogabe Motochin took his eldest son Nobuchika out to fight in order to gain favor in front of Hideyoshi.
When the army arrived at Totsugawa in Kyushu, Sengoku Hidehisa felt that he had a great advantage, and made a strategy similar to Gao Pragmatic's strategy when he continued his southern expedition after occupying Hanoi: push all the way.
Chosougabu Motochin felt that this style of play was too stupid and very unreliable, so he proposed a vote and the minority should obey the majority. Sengoku Hidehisa agreed: "Okay, there happens to be one person in the camp."
Unfortunately, this person was none other than Tokawa who had been beaten by Motochika not long ago. Tokawa immediately said, don’t be a coward, just do it. Now it was over, the vote was two to one, and the Hashiba army set off.
Cross the river.
The army moved forward for a while, but there were only dozens of Shimazu's old and weak soldiers along the road. As soon as they saw the Hashiba army, they retreated hurriedly. Sengoku Hidekushin said, "That's it?" and gave the order: Chase!
After chasing for a while, only one cannon shot was heard, and then iron cannons (muskets) rang out in all directions. I don't know how many Hashiba troops were shot down, and then tens of thousands of Shimazu troops suddenly emerged from the forest. The Hashiba troops fled in all directions, and Motochin's legitimate son
Nobuyomi died in battle.
And this time the Shimazu family's strategy was their favorite strategy of fishing for Yefu - which was actually the strategy used by Zhuge Liang to burn Bowang Po in the Romance of the Three Kingdoms.
A battle to establish his authority actually suffered a huge defeat at the very beginning. Hideyoshi couldn't help but be angry, so he directly fired Hidehisa Sengoku, and then personally led an army of 200,000 to attack the Shimazu family.
Before the attack, Hideyoshi felt that it was too unreliable to just recognize his godfather, so he simply asked the court to give me a new noble surname. The Japanese court at this time was very talkative. Simply put, it only took money to do things, so he immediately issued an edict to grant him a noble surname.
The surname Toyotomi became the fifth noble family after the Minamoto, Taira, Fujiwara, and Tachibana families, and "Toyotomi Hideyoshi" officially appeared on the scene.
So in March of this year, when Gao Jingshi was dealing with the Northwest Rebellion, Hideyoshi's army began to march and once again conquered Shimazu with great fanfare.
Although the Satsuma people can fight, they are not monsters after all, and there is no Qi Jiguang in the Satsuma family, so there is no way to fight with ten thousand people and two hundred thousand people.
Furthermore, because the people's hearts in the previously conquered territories were not stable, and the Satsuma people believed that "people who are not from our race will have different hearts," they threatened all the local wealthy people. So in front of Hideyoshi's army, the lords from various places switched sides one after another.
Before the war officially started, the territory that the Shimadzu family had previously swallowed up was basically vomited away.
In Neshirasaka, the coalition forces fought another battle with the Shimadzu family. This time Hideyoshi Shizuo Hato also used all his strength to crush the weak Shimadzu family without any pressure.
However, unlike Nobunaga, Hideyoshi did not like to drive people away, so he sent someone to negotiate with the Shimadzu family. The demands were not high, as long as they returned the other family's original territory and surrendered to him.
The person sent this time was a very high-ranking man, Ashikaga Yoshiaki. This man had been idle for many years and had finally found something serious to do. Yoshiaki met the head of the Shimazu family, Shimazu Tadayoshi (the eldest son of Shimazu Takahisa).
), conveyed Hideyoshi’s meaning.
Zhongliang thought for a while and felt that the opponent's force was indeed too large. In addition, the conditions seemed reasonable, so he agreed. However, Zhongliang's younger brother Zhongping was very angry and clamored that he wanted to fight Hideyoshi to the fullest.
A magical thing happened. Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's negotiator, was actually infected by this angry youth temperament. He recalled the glorious days when he and Nobunaga were at odds, so he made a great decision: help them.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Under Yoshiaki's lobbying, Hideyoshi and the Shimadzu family reached a reconciliation. The Shimadzu family handed over the hostages to express their surrender, and the territory remained unchanged after the war.
Shimazu Tadayoshi accepted the blame and abdicated in seclusion, and Tadayei succeeded him as the family governor.
Ashikaga Yoshiaki was also a good friend and gave his "Yi" worth fifty gold to the two Shimazu brothers, and they changed their names to Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro respectively.
It has to be said that the Shimazu family made a lot of money this time. Although they gained nothing, they lost nothing despite being defeated. As someone who was prepared to be beaten up as a bad example, they should be overjoyed.
There is obviously a reason for this, that is, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent out a large army, he still worried about many things, such as Tokugawa Ieyasu behind him, and the warlike bloodline of Hayato in Satsuma.
This battle has nothing to do with the Ming Dynasty. Whether it is the Toyotomi family or the Shimazu family, for the Ming Dynasty, or to be more precise, for the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, they are nothing more than "business partners". No matter
No matter how you fight, I will still sell what I should sell and buy what I should buy.
However, this time is unusual, and there is a little surprise in the situation: Although the Shimadzu family lost the battle, they are still not convinced. What to do if you are not convinced? Of course, you have to continue fighting, but the Shimadzu family is not stupid enough not to look at the balance of power.
After fighting for a while, they began to think of a solution.
After some internal discussions, someone came up with an idea that was not very constructive: it is more important to have elite troops than to have many, so Satsuma should use elite troops to defeat Toyotomi's army.
Speaking of elite soldiers, they quickly remembered that in the past, when Boss Wang was here, he often sold European weapons sold by the Portuguese to Japan. From then on, the so-called iron artillery unit appeared in Japan. This army was obviously elite.
But later, Boss Wang was taken over by the Ming Dynasty, and most of this supply route for arms was cut off. Although the Portuguese came occasionally, the volume of goods brought by Boss Wang was far less than that of Boss Wang during that period.
As for Japan itself, the muskets produced by Japan (for the sake of convenience, I won’t always talk about iron cannons) are actually pretty good. At the time, the quality of the muskets was even more reliable than that of the Ming Dynasty, and it was even recognized by Qi Jiguang.
However, after Gao Pragmatic promoted the private military industry, Japan's muskets became increasingly ineffective in the face of the Ming Dynasty's Longqing Type 2, Wanli Type 1, and Wanli Type 2, and began to lag behind significantly.
The specific information I learned about this situation from the Shimadzu family was last year. At that time, the Shimadzu family's attack on Kyushu Island went extremely smoothly, and it was so successful that everyone was inflated.
An army of the Shimazu family passed by the small town that originally belonged to Ryuzoji Temple, located in Miike County. This army heard that Miike Port here was quite prosperous, so they went to fight the autumn wind.
The Shimazu family's attitude towards the conquered areas has been stated before. As a victor, of course they were proud, so they went to Miike Port to ask for a batch of money, food and materials from the local area. However, the local officials who originally belonged to Ryuzoji Temple said that they were very poor.
, the rich people are all in Miike Port, but there are "more than a hundred elite soldiers" there, so they can't control it. If the Shimazu family wants supplies, please go get them yourself.
The Shimazu family's army consisted of five hundred people, and they had just defeated Ryuzouji Temple. They were very high-spirited and thought that there was no use for more than a hundred elite soldiers. I, the Shimadzu elite, could definitely make a decision at once and even make a profit.
Wave of military exploits.
They didn't know it was a scam, so they rushed to Miike Port without hesitation, and had a fierce battle with the "more than a hundred elite soldiers" at the port.
The Shimadzu army suffered a big loss in this battle, because not only were the opponent's guns extremely sharp, but more importantly, their large ships anchored in the port also fired cannons.
The cannons on the sea ship were really amazing. With just one shot, the "Shimadzu Elites" who were attacking intensively were immediately stunned. Not only were more than 40 people killed and injured by the huge solid shells on the spot, but the rest were also
They were so frightened that their livers and gallbladders were shattered, and the rats fled in all directions with their heads in their hands.
At this time, the generals leading the Shimazu family realized something was wrong. The flag hanging on the ship in the other side's port was too familiar. It was the Ming Dynasty's sword flag on the other side of the sea.
Hanging the Shujian flag means that they belong to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance. The current status of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance in Japan is not much worse than that of Boss Wang back then - if there is anything inferior to Boss Wang, it is probably them.
Basically we don't do arms business.
Having suffered heavy losses, the Shimadzu family's side troops did not dare to be reckless again and reported the war situation to the Shimadzu senior officials. At this time, the Shimadzu senior officials did not focus on the rear. They were intensively planning to attack the Otomo family in one fell swoop. Therefore,
There was little response to the incident, and they just asked the local Longzao Temple officials to continue guarding, but nothing more happened, and the reckless army was also transferred back.
Afterwards, Shimazu Tadayei - later Shimazu Yoshihiro - remembered this incident and sent someone to find out more. Only then did he learn that the fleet of the Ming Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance had been based on Miike Port in the past few years.
At the temporary anchorage, various goods from the Ming Dynasty were sold locally. At the same time, a market was opened in the port to conduct trade with various large merchants in the Longzao Temple territory.
This fleet has several long-term large-scale purchases in the local area, namely the purchase of sulfur and camphor. According to the investigation of Shimazu Yoshihiro (I will use this name for convenience), this fleet is also divided into two owners, one with the surname
Gao, his family name is Zhu.
The Shimazu family also does business with the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, so Shimazu Yoshihiro guessed the origins of these two families as soon as he heard it. The Gao family is Jinghua, the leader of the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, and the Shujian flag belongs to their family; the Zhu family is
Not the Zhu of the Ming Dynasty, but the Zhu family of Duke Cheng.
The Gao family mainly bought sulfur at Sanchi Port, while the Zhu family mainly bought camphor. During that unexpected battle, the "more than a hundred elite soldiers" guarding the port were part of the sailors of these two families (single refers to those who were ordered to disembark from the ship and fight on foot).
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Shimazu Yoshihiro originally only knew that the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance's fleet was powerful, but this time he gained more knowledge and discovered that they were far stronger than the "Shimadzu Elite" in foot combat.
But he didn't have time to think about it carefully at the time. Anyway, they were just here to do business. With Boss Wang's good example, the daimyo from all over Japan did not regard Akito as a threat. They thought that Akito's purpose was very simple.
It’s just here to make a fortune. This is a good thing for you, me and everyone. Of course Shimazu Yoshihiro also thinks that just let nature take its course.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! The Shimadzu family is used to being awesome in Japan, and they did not take this kind of fighting seriously. They did not even think of contacting the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance afterwards to clarify the misunderstanding.
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But they didn't contact each other, and the Maritime Trade Alliance couldn't help it. The deputy commander of the fleet in Sanchi Port was one of Zhu Yingzhen's chief servants. He couldn't bear the birdiness sent by the Japanese, and it didn't take long for him to
He sent someone to contact the Shimadzu family and demanded that the Shimadzu family be responsible for the death of two sailors under his command and pay a fixed price of 4,000 taels of silver.
Although the Shimadzu family is used to being awesome, through this battle, they have learned that the other party is not easy to mess with. In addition, almost no Ming Dynasty merchants in Japan are willing to offend maritime merchants, so the Shimadzu family is not willing to antagonize the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance.
Of course, compensation of four thousand taels of silver was impossible. Although the Shimadzu family was powerful, they were not wealthy at this time, so the negotiation fell into a stalemate.
It wasn't until the Shimadzu family was forced to surrender by Toyotomi Hideyoshi that I looked back and remembered this incident. Shimazu Yoshihiro made it clear that if the elite of the Shimadzu family had the combat effectiveness of the soldiers of the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance, even if there were only more than ten thousand
The army is enough to sweep away Otomo and force Toyotomi to retreat!
As a result, Shimazu Yoshihiro once again contacted the chief servant of Seikuni Dukefu in Miike Port, who was also the deputy commander of the fleet, and proposed that the money could be compensated, but he also needed to purchase "premium equipment for your army."
After reading these reports, Gao Pragmatic finally understood where Zhu Yingzhen's abnormality came from.
There are millions of businesses in the world, but there is nothing more cost-effective than selling arms to an army that is trying to fight. Unfortunately, there is a big problem here: as a top military minister, Zhu Yingzhen has never dared to intervene in the private military industry, so in his heart
Although it was itching like thousands of ants scratching my heart, I had nothing to offer and could only worry.
Who has the goods? Of course it is Jinghua, which is highly pragmatic.
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PS: Yesterday, some readers said they didn’t know the meaning of yesterday’s chapter. You should be able to understand it a little bit now, right?
Let me remind you of a few clues that have been revealed: 1. The Shimadzu family was an outlier in Japan at this time; 2. The Satsuma domain of the Shimadzu family was located in the southwest corner of Japan, heading west to the sea to reach the Ming Dynasty; 3. Later, the famous Sasebo in Japan
The military port is located on Kyushu Island, not far from Miike Port that appears in this chapter.