"It's hard to get off the tiger?" Liu Xin frowned slightly and asked: "You mean the war has already reached that level, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi has boasted too much before, and the results of the negotiations cannot be made by all Japanese forces, including his own forces.
Satisfied, so even if my body can no longer hold on, I still have to continue the war?"
"I think these are all what you said, and I'm afraid there are other reasons besides that." Gao Pingshi said that there were other reasons, but he didn't seem to have completely sorted it out. He slowly muttered: "I think about it when I look back.
I think, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a legend in his life, he had at least three major failures in his life."
Liu Xin smiled slightly: "Three major failures? Let me guess first...killing Toyotomi Hideji is probably one of them, right?"
"Of course." Gao pragmatically said: "In my opinion, killing Toyotomi Hideji was his third major failure. But there are two points before that, which we have just talked about: first, to seek peace instead of seeking peace.
; The second is to conquer Korea. But in my opinion, these two actually have something in common, that is, they all stem from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's own military deficiencies."
"Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who unified Japan, seems to you to have insufficient military skills?" Liu Xin seemed somewhat surprised.
"Yes, especially the series of recruitments. I originally thought that recruitment was a choice made because Toyotomi Hideyoshi was better at political strategy, but now that I think about it carefully, I feel that these methods may not be a 'choice'.
He was actually just forced."
Liu Xin said: "I would like to hear some high-level opinions."
Gao pragmatically said: "First of all, from Toyotomi Hideyoshi's point of view, the recruitment was done really well and caused endless disasters. Three of the five elders were outsiders.
The stone height of these five people is 2.56 million stone for Tokugawa, 1.8 million stone for Mori and Ryogawa, and 1.2 million stone for Uesugi. Except for Uesugi, the stone height of any big boss's fiefdom is not less than that of Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself.
No matter what, even Tokugawa Ieyasu was nominally taller than his Ishigao.
The remaining Ukita and Maeda are relatively close to the Toyotomi family, so I will count them as the generation generation. But what about the strength of these two people? One is 600,000 koku, and the other is 830,000 koku. In terms of size, they are comparable to the five elders.
It's not on the same level at all.
And Hideyoshi handled this matter... well, he was actually very kind. As long as the other party was willing to recruit troops and all the territory remained unchanged, Toyotomi Hideyoshi only needed nominal obedience.
In other words, if Shimazu and the Hojo family do not provoke him to death, and the Date family does not stand on the fence, then there will be three more foreign powerful vassals worth more than 1 million koku [Note: Gao Pragmatic here refers to the Shimazu family
The territory of Kyushu that had been conquered at that time was taken into account. The reason for this calculation is that if the Shimazu family accepted Hideyoshi's request and did not continue to attack, then according to Hideyoshi's style of doing things, the previous results of the Shimazu family could be retained.]
Among them, the Tokugawa family was also a big name in the five kingdoms of Mikawa, Toe, Suruga, Kai and Shinano before it was reorganized. It is estimated that the territory is about 1.5 million koku.
This means that even if the Toyotomi family lineage is preserved without any problems, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be no problems in the future. But if one or two such foreign powerful sects join forces, the Toyotomi family may not be guaranteed to be able to withstand it [Note:
The entire Toyotomi family had about 6 million koku before Hideyoshi's death, including Hidetsu's fiefdom, and Hideyoshi's hiding place should be less than 2 million koku], and with the strength of one million koku, being a local snake is not a problem at all.
See the situation of Oshu Fujiwara clan.
When I watched some related Dahe dramas back then, I regretted that the Western Army lost the Battle of Sekihara, but now that I think about it, I find it a bit ridiculous. Not to mention that the Western Army had little chance of victory during the Battle of Sekihara.
Ten thousand steps said, even if Sekigahara wins, what are you going to do next? Go to Nagato to open a new Maori shogunate?
Ieyasu was able to perform various operations later on, wasn't it because Hideyoshi entrusted him with a ghost? But was this because Hideyoshi trusted Ieyasu? Obviously not, it was just because the two largest outside daimyo at that time were Mori and Tokugawa.
Comparatively speaking, Tokugawa is more trustworthy than Mori. Hideyoshi's actions were simply the lesser of two evils.
Hideyoshi is not unaware of this problem. He may also want to support more feudal lords and daimyos to defend the Toyotomi family. However, as I have mentioned before, the Toyotomi family is already sparsely populated and cannot send out a few.
, and most of other people’s territories are blocked.
At the same time, this guy Mitsunari is also a good fighter. During Hojo's conquest, he can besiege a ninja city for a long time. As long as he can achieve some military merit, he can ask Hideyoshi to grant him more territories and become famous. After Hideyoshi's death,
The weight of speech can also be greater.
What was the result? In the end, Hideyoshi came up with a way to confer military merit and fiefdom on his own people, which was to attack North Korea. The result of this bad idea is obvious: those are dogs with owners. How can you, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, beat them casually?
Woolen cloth?
So the final analysis of these things is that Hideyoshi and his core ruling team are not good at military. If he had military capabilities at the level of Nobunaga, he would not need to recruit people, just bulldoze all non-direct relatives and establish a central government
The structure of a centralized government will definitely be very different.
Although Ieyasu still practiced feudalism, he was much more prudent than him in this regard. Of course, Ieyasu was not able to completely eradicate it, and in the end it became a scourge that led to the collapse of the empire."
Liu Xin spread her hands: "I'm a little curious. Judging from your introduction, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's military strategy does not seem to be very... outstanding. But at the same time, you said that the five old systems he instituted were also a failure, and the conquest of Korea was a failure.
It can be said that he only saw the benefits of success and did not see the consequences of failure. In addition, the last one was to rashly kill Toyotomi Hideyoshi - doesn't this mean that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was not even good at politics?
By analogy, our China ended the Warring States Period and achieved unification. This was an achievement at the level of Qin Shihuang! Considering Toyotomi Hideyoshi's background, he can almost be regarded as the Qin Shihuang of Japan. How can it be a failure according to your analysis?
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This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! "Well, good question." Gao Pragmatic smiled bitterly: "From a national level, giving Hideji his death is definitely a big failure, but as a 'human being'
In fact, this matter cannot be completely blamed on Hideyoshi. But everyone has selfish motives, and Hideyoshi was also old at the time. Who among us can guarantee that in Hideyoshi's position, we can resist our selfish motives and prevent our own son from inheriting it?
?
But this brings us back to the old problem, the Toyotomi family has too few children. If Toyotomi Hideyoshi could be like Tokugawa Ieyasu and have more than a dozen sons in his lifetime, then this would not be a problem at all. I
It can only be said that ensuring that one has a healthy body and has a stable or even sufficient selection of successors is also an important ability for a Sengoku daimyo. At this point, Hideyoshi was really blown away by Ieyasu."
Liu Xin tilted her head and asked: "Then how do you explain Toyotomi Hideyoshi's success?"
Gao pragmatic curled his lips and asked: "What does Jinghua rely on to win southern Xinjiang?"
Liu Xin was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Gao pragmatic smiled and said: "Then let me ask this, what did Jinghua rely on to win Annan?"
Liu Xin said inexplicably: "It relies on the support of Jinghua's wealthy and elite servants and Chieftain Cen Huang."
"The prerequisite for elite servants is actually strong financial resources." Gao Pragmatic corrected him slightly, and then said: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ability performance is similar to that before Jinghua captured Annan. It relies on controlling strong commercial financial resources, and then using
This serves as a basis to win over some allies and form a strength advantage over its hostile forces.
Gao Pingshi smiled and said: "The reason why he has been based in Osaka for a long time is precisely because Osaka is currently the largest commercial city in Japan. And after you mentioned this, I suddenly remembered another thing, which further illustrates Toyotomi Hideyoshi's
Power' perception."
Liu Xin asked: "What is it?"
"Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan after conquering the Ming Dynasty." Gao Jingshi suddenly couldn't help laughing and said: "He thought that after conquering the Ming Dynasty, the emperor could stay in Beijing. He himself...guess where he plans to stay?"
Liu Xin thought for a while and said hesitantly: "Nanjing?"
"No, he plans to stay in Ningbo."
Liu Xin's eyes suddenly widened and she said with a surprised look on her face: "Ningbo? Why?"
"Because in his understanding, Ningbo has long been an important trade port in China (especially trade with Japan), so he believed that by sitting in Ningbo, he could control the trade of the Ming Dynasty, then control the wealth, and finally control the world - just like
The same thing he did in Japan."
"I..." Liu Xin put her hand on her forehead and shook her head: "I don't know how to evaluate it for a moment. This plan is really too absurd and out-of-the-box. Are you sure this is true?"
"This statement does not come from any folklore, it has a real origin." Gao pragmatically said: "It was recorded in the "HDB Documents" by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's close servant Yamanaka Nagatoshi." [Note: This source is
"Hideyoshi and Bunroku? Keicho's Battle", Nagoya Castle Museum, Saga Prefecture, Japan, 2007, 43 pages]
Gao Pragmatic smiled again and continued: "Yamanaka Nagatoshi, as the official penholder of Hideyoshi's era, was responsible for the work of continuing to write the second chapter of "Taipingki", "Record of the Rebellion of Medieval Japan", which can be said to be the closest to the national level.
The existence of historians.
At the same time, in the last few years when Yamanaka Nagatoshi was supplementing and revising his works, Hideyoshi was already dead, so I personally think that Yamanaka's records of Hideyoshi are relatively credible and objective. Therefore, I think that 'Hideyoshi had planned to move his base camp to Ningbo
'This rumor is also basically credible."
"Does he really think that Ningbo is China's main trade city?" Liu Xin still seemed a little unbelievable.
"Ningbo has an extremely important position in China's maritime field, especially in terms of tomorrow's maritime relations. Since the Song Dynasty, Ningbo has been a key port that has dominated Sino-Japanese trade.
But I guess there is another reason why Ningbo is an unavoidable sore spot in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's mind, and that is an incident that affected the two countries' views on maritime issues, and even ultimately affected their respective national destiny: Ningbo
chaos."
"Ningbo Rebellion?" Liu Xin frowned: "I don't seem to have heard of it at all."
"Our history textbooks at that time didn't seem to take this matter seriously, and it seems that I didn't learn it at that time." Gao Pragmatic coughed lightly and said: "But the Ningbo Rebellion was indeed the most serious diplomatic incident in the entire Ming Dynasty.
One. It was February of the fourth year of Jiajing (1524), and Song Suqing, deputy envoy of the Japanese Hosokawa fleet, was executed.
This incident directly led to the Ming Dynasty abolishing the Fujian and Zhejiang Shipping Departments five years later, leaving only the Guangdong Shipping Department. Since then, the trade route between the Ming Dynasty and Japan was cut off, and Japanese pirates breed, which also laid the foundation for the later Southeast
The Japanese disaster laid the foundation for this.
In 1536, Yoshitaka Ouchi, who controlled northern Kyushu and China, began to send Ming ships again. In 1551, Yoshitaka was destroyed by his retainer Tao Qingxian (Daningji Incident). His successor, Yoshinaga Ouchi, sent Ming ships to the Ming Dynasty in 1556.
An envoy was sent to request the reopening of trade, but the Ming Dynasty regarded Yoshinaga as a usurper and refused.
In 1557, Yoshinaga was destroyed by Motonari Mouri, and the Ouchi clan was completely destroyed. Therefore, the hope of reopening trade was completely cut off. Tomorrow's trade will be transferred to Shuangyu off the coast of Ningbo - you must have heard this name from your father-in-law.
——Or private trade and smuggling trade were carried out in the Zhoushan Islands, and coastal wealthy families, officials and businessmen colluded with each other, gradually evolving into a large-scale smuggling group, and thus launched the later era of Japanese pirates.
I have seen a map of East Asia drawn by the Japanese before. The general outline of this map is still there, but the size of the country is greatly distorted. In general, the Ming Dynasty has become smaller, while North Korea and Japan have become smaller.
Much bigger.
On this map, whether starting from Sakai Port (near Osaka) controlled by the Hosokawa family or Hakata Port (later in Fukuoka) controlled by the Ouchi family, the three major ports of the Ming Dynasty at that time: Guangzhou, Fuzhou, Ningbo, and Ningbo Port
It’s the latest.”
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! "Oh, I understand, I understand." Liu Xin finally realized it, stretched out her green jade finger and made a few gestures in the void, and said: "
At this time in Japan, with the exception of the Shimazu family of the Satsuma clan and the two families of the Chosōgabu family on Shikoku Island, which were far away from the center of Japan's power, senior Japanese officials including Toyotomi Hideyoshi knew almost nothing about the ocean.
These people want to cross the ocean to conquer Korea and even the Ming Dynasty. The only thing they can inherit is the sailing experience of the Japanese pirates and merchants who carried out smuggling trade and plunder during the 70 years of maritime isolation. In such a situation, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi thought
When I need to establish a base camp with Japan’s supply lifeline behind it, how could I not choose Ningbo?”
Gao Pragmatic laughed: "You understand when it comes to military affairs?"
"No, I think I understood it when it came to geography - this is called professionalism." Liu Xin blinked and joked to herself. Then she paused and asked again: "Okay, I think now we are right
We have already speculated about Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s situation, so the question becomes: What useful information can we capture from these speculations?”
"Is there any useful information? I think there are a few points." Gao pragmatically said: "First, Toyotomi Hideyoshi controlled Japan to a large extent by relying on financial resources rather than combat effectiveness.
Secondly, a large part of the reason why Toyotomi Hideyoshi launched the war was that his subordinates had no reward, and he had no way to deal with Tokugawa and others, so he had to find a way through invasion.
Thirdly, after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, if Hidetsu was not around, Tokugawa Ieyasu would inevitably rise, and the Western Army would not be able to defeat him."
Liu Xin thought for a while, frowned and said: "With Toyotomi Hideji, can the Western Army defeat the Eastern Army? I remember you just said that Toyotomi Hideji had been defeated by Tokugawa Ieyasu before, and even fought against him
Got a famous general."
"I didn't say that you will definitely win if you show off. What I said is that you will lose if you don't show off."
Gao Pragmatic snorted softly and said: "During the Sekigahara War, the Western Army had two biggest problems: First, the well-known disunity of people. If Hidetsu was around, this would at least be better than in history;
Second, Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother in Osaka City did not intervene in the war between the two armies, which led to the Toyotomi family's 'court' voluntarily giving up control of Japan - both in name and in fact."
"Well...then what do you want to do?"
Gao pragmatic touched his chin, which had no beard at all, and smiled: "Me... I want to give it a try to see if I can play the game of borrowing corpses to bring back souls, and occupying magpie's nests."
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