The "spy group" of fifty people seemed huge, but when it spread to the entire Japan, it was actually just that. For many less important forces, Gao Mo didn't even arrange a single spy.
If we say how many of these forces are considered "key attention targets", then obviously, in addition to the Toyotomi family, the five later elders, Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Ukita Hideie, Mori Terumoto, and Kobayakawa Takakage, must be among them.
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In addition, the forces of "Sekigahara God of War" Kobayakawa Hideaki and Kyoka Bridgehead Shimazu Yoshihiro must also be sent to infiltrate. Even the figures who played a more or less role in the Sekigahara war were all arranged by Gao Mo to infiltrate
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And specifically within the Toyotomi family, Gao Pragmatic even divided into factions to carry out "parallel infiltration". What faction? Madam's faction.
This is not a joke, but a very critical situation within the Toyotomi family at present or in a few years.
Nene Asano of the Hokusei Institute was the wife of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he followed Hideyoshi when he was an infantryman. After Hideyoshi ascended to a high position, he did not dislike his wife, who often visited him when he was fighting abroad.
He missed Ning Ning and wrote to ask about his daily life. The two had a very good relationship and became a role model for the Toyotomi family samurai.
Because Mrs. Homasa Sho was born in Owari Asahi Village, she took special care of the samurai who were born in Owari. After Hideyoshi's death or even during his lifetime, the Owari Samurai Group gradually formed within the Toyotomi Group with Mrs. Hokage Sho as the core.
Among the more famous names are Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori and others.
Because Hokusei never gave birth to a son for Hideyoshi, but Hideyoshi's side chamber Asai Chacha finally gave birth to Hideyori, so in the last few years of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life, the status gap between Chacha and Ningning was
Gradually shrink.
After Hideyori was born, the Omi Samurai Group was gradually formed with Chacha who was born in the Omi area as the center. The most famous daimyo among them was Ishida Mitsunari.
Since then, the Owari Samurai Group has been in a confrontation with the Owari Samurai Group in the Hokizhengsho. It was also from this time that Chacha's status gradually became higher than that of Ningning, and the Owari Samurai Group began to be at a disadvantage.
However, most of the Owari samurai around Ning Ning followed Hideyoshi before he rose to prominence, fighting for Hideyoshi in all directions, somewhat like the military meritorious aristocracy in the early Ming Dynasty. However, after Hideyoshi gained power,
However, he soon began to reuse civil servants from the Omi area, such as Ishida Mitsunari, Ohno Harinaga and others.
As for the reason why Hideyoshi did this, it is of course because there were fewer and fewer wars at that time, and the role of generals was gradually declining. Ishida Mitsunari and others were better at managing internal affairs, which was more in line with Hideyoshi's needs at that time.
But no matter what the reason was, Hideyoshi's move had already made the Owari samurai dissatisfied, but they dared to be angry but dared not speak out. After Hideyoshi's death, the centripetal force of these Owari samurai towards the Toyotomi family further weakened, and joining Tokugawa Ieyasu was considered
Within reason.
For example, in the subsequent battle between the Eastern Army and the Western Army, Hideyoshi's former general Fukushima Masanori actually took the initiative to serve as the vanguard of the Eastern Army, which shows how resentful he was towards the Omi samurai group of Ishida Mitsunari's faction.
Here we should pay special attention to: Hideaki Kobayakawa, who defected to the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, was also born in Owari, and he was even the nephew of Mrs. Homasa. As we all know, it was his defection that brought the Eastern Army back to life in one fell swoop.
Defeated the Western Army and won victory.
Another factor that contributed to the defeat of the Western Army in the Sekigahara War was Ishida Mitsunari's personal reasons. Although Terumoto Mori was elected as the general leader of the Western Army at the time, the actual controller and commander of the Western Army was Ishida Mitsunari.
Due to the Sanxian tea incident in 1574, Hideyoshi valued Mitsunari particularly and regarded him as a confidant. Mitsunari did not disappoint Hideyoshi. Even after Hideyoshi's death, he was completely loyal to his young master Toyotomi Hideyori.
Without Ishida Mitsunari's efforts, Tokugawa Ieyasu's process of conquering the world would have been easier.
However, this statement is based on the level of Japan as a whole. If the pattern is narrowed and only talked about within the Toyotomi Group, the performance of Ishida Mitsunari to some extent has led to more serious internal divisions and more irreconcilable conflicts.
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Why do you say this? Because Toyotomi Hideyoshi was too fond of Ishida Mitsunari, which led to many Toyotomi family daimyo and military commanders being dissatisfied with him. In addition, Ishida Mitsunari himself did not know how to hide one's strength and bide one's time, and did not understand the principle of "a strong dragon has regrets", so that he usually
He is domineering and shows his sharp edge, so he attracts the disgust of many people.
At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu was completely opposite to him. In order to hide his ambitions, Tokugawa Ieyasu was usually cautious and generous towards other daimyo and generals. In comparison, he easily won the majority
People's favor.
People's support determines success or failure. After the Sekigahara War began, many daimyo simply refused to accept Ishida Mitsunari's dispatch. Originally, the reason why some of them joined the Western Army was just because they had been retainers of the Toyotomi family and were worried about defecting.
Going to the Eastern Army will bear the name of disloyalty.
In this case, coupled with the lack of reputation of Ishida Mitsunari, it is of course very easy to find it difficult to mobilize these daimyo. For example, two hours after the start of the Sekigahara War, Ishida Mitsunari once issued an order to Shimazu Yoshihiro
, asking him to quickly dispatch reinforcements to support the front line, but was flatly rejected by Shimazu Yoshihiro.
After Kobayakawa Hideaki defected, an unstoppable chain reaction occurred in the Western Army camp. Many daimyo led their troops to surrender to the Eastern Army, either surrendering or directly turning to attack the Western Army, resulting in a disastrous defeat for the Western Army.
It is mentioned in "Alliance with Nobunaga and Submission of Hideyoshi, Joining Takeda to Defeat Sekigahara - Tokugawa Ieyasu's Way of Struggle for Hegemony": "Anguoji Temple Keqiong at the eastern foot of Nangong Mountain, Nagasuke Masaie, Mouri Hidemoto, and Yoshikawa Hirie
Defeated and fled. The Eastern Army won a complete victory and ended."
Let's make a hypothesis: If Ishida Mitsunari had asked Mouri Terumoto to take charge, or at least issue orders in Terumoto's name, the defeat might not have been so disastrous, at least there wouldn't have been too many people defecting in the face of the battle.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Moreover, judging from the situation at the time, the Mouri Terumoto family sent as many as 15,000 troops, and the combined forces of the entire Maori Group (including Mouri Terumoto, Terumoto's adopted son)
Hidemoto Mouri, Hiroie Yoshikawa, etc.) were the most powerful force in the Western Army, but in the end, because he had no command authority, they almost collectively took advantage of each other, which in itself was also a fatal waste.
As for Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection, it is not an inexplicable behavior. There are very clear internal factors. His father is a member of the Kinoshita family and is the brother of Ning Ning, the wife of the Northern Government. In other words, Kobayakawa Hideaki is Ning Ning's nephew.
, plus he was born in Owari, so he has a very close relationship with Ning Ning.
At the same time, he was once the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi - it stands to reason that it is for this reason that theoretically he should never betray the Toyotomi family. However, in fact, it was precisely because of Hideaki's defection that Toyotomi was defeated.
The Chen family perished.
The topic finally returned to the issue of "factions within the Toyotomi Group" mentioned at the beginning: the main reason for Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection was his disagreement with Ishida Mitsunari, and it can even be said that the conflict was extremely sharp.
Let me talk about one thing first: During the Battle of Korea, Hideaki Kobayakawa and Governor Konishi led reinforcements to Ulsan City to support the city that was besieged by the Ming army. Although Hideaki performed very bravely in the Battle of Ulsan, he was killed because of the massacre of the city.
Women and children were disliked by Hideyoshi, and their territory was even confiscated because of this.
Hideyoshi's behavior is obviously extremely abnormal. The general is fighting bravely and loyally, but you confiscate all his fiefdoms because he killed enemy civilians?
This is not the 21st century, and there is no such requirement in Japanese tradition at this time, not to mention that Hideaki is still a typical "one of our own". Toyotomi Hideyoshi's treatment is very un-Japanese. On the contrary, it is a kind of Ming Dynasty's internal peace.
The scope of rebellion warfare.
Therefore, Hideaki insisted that Ishida Mitsunari must have been the one who caused the obstruction and instigated Hideyoshi to some fallacies such as "which will cause the Korean people to intensify their resistance." Therefore, he was extremely resentful of Ishida Mitsunari.
This matter even reached 1599, because Tokugawa Ieyasu interceded for Hideaki (Hideyoshi was dead at that time), so that he could restore the confiscated territory.
There is no doubt that from then on, Kobayakawa Hideaki felt great gratitude to Tokugawa Ieyasu, so it was completely reasonable and reasonable for him to abandon Ishida and fall to Tokugawa during the Sekigahara War.
There is a record in "Ii Family Keicho Chronicles": "During the joint battle, the Todo team, in order to urge Kingo Chunagon to join the Kamilord side, fired iron cannons in Kingo's direction, but there was no response."
The reason why Ieyasu fired artillery at Hideaki's position on the battlefield was probably because he guessed that Hideaki was in the midst of a difficult decision at the time, so he used this to urge him to quickly send troops to support the disadvantaged Eastern Army.
However, as Hideyoshi's adopted son, Hideaki's current power is largely due to Hideyoshi's gifts. If he defected in battle, he might be ridiculed by the world. After being urged by Ieyasu's bombardment, Hideaki thought for a long time and finally made a decision.
, commanding his own warriors to kill down the mountain, breaking Hase Yoshitsugi's military formation, and the Western Army collapsed immediately.
From this, looking at the situation before the outbreak of the Sekigahara War, it is not difficult to see that the Western Army completely occupied the favorable terrain. Not only did the Eastern Army have no danger, but it also faced difficulties due to the delay in the arrival of the main force of the Tokugawa Army led by Tokugawa Hidetada.
There was a problem of insufficient troops, but the final outcome was that the Eastern Army won a complete victory in this decisive battle.
The fundamental reason why the Western Army was defeated was that Hideyoshi did not properly handle the conflict between the Owari Samurai Group and the Omi Samurai Group.
After Hideyoshi took the position of Sekihaku, he re-employed Omi civil servants to focus on internal affairs, but ignored the Owari samurai who had fought bloody battles with him. In addition, the Battle of Korea suffered huge losses but did not gain much, which made many famous names
They all had serious dissatisfaction with Hideyoshi, which eventually led to the separation of the Toyotomi family.
Under such a premise, how could Gao Pragmatic, a person who always likes to make arrangements in advance, not make good use of the contradiction between the two factions?
However, using this kind of thing has always been a technical job. Especially now that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not dead and the Korean War has not started, this kind of use obviously cannot be exposed at all, and can only be buried secretly first.
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No matter who you want to take advantage of, you must first clarify two points: the first is what the other party has, and the second is what the other party wants.
What does the Owari Samurai Group have? It has the main force of the Toyotomi family, and is also stronger than the Omi Samurai Group in terms of fiefdom.
What does the Omi Samurai Group have? It has actual control over the "Toyotomi Court" and the ability to dominate Japanese business forces. Of course, to a certain extent, they will still have theoretical "great justice" after Hideyoshi's death——
Because Toyotomi Hideyori was actually under their influence (but it didn't play a big role in the end).
So, what does the Owari Samurai Group want? Of course they want status, political power, and not to be suppressed by "civilian officials."
On the other hand, what does the Omi samurai group want? Naturally, it wants to continue to control the government after Hideyoshi's death and overpower the Owari samurai group and other factions - such as the daimyō daimyō represented by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
After understanding this, Gao Pragmatic has to make his own choice, because he cannot think of himself as Toyotomi Hideyoshi and hope to unite the two factions.
The attitude of the Owari samurai group in the Sekigahara War was inconsistent. Some of them directly joined Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army, while others who were worried about their reputation being damaged reluctantly joined the Western Army.
From this point of view, the Owari Samurai Group cannot be said to be a gangster, which affects its original strength.
The Omi Samurai Group is essentially a civilian group that controls the government - but after the outbreak of the war, this does not mean much. Apart from the government, their main strength is only two points: financial resources and justice.
But there is another problem here: both financial resources and righteousness are inseparable from Osaka, Toyotomi's first city, because Osaka was the commercial center of Japan at that time. It was built by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to suppress Oda Nobunaga's Azuchi Castle.
The largest city in Japan. Without Osaka Castle, the actual financial resources controlled by the Omi Samurai Group have been greatly reduced.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click the next page to continue reading the exciting content! The issue of justice is also related to Osaka, because after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, his legal heir was undoubtedly Toyotomi Hideyori, but Toyotomi Hideyori until
After the failure of the Osaka Summer Formation, he and his mother Yodono, also known as Asai Chacha, committed suicide and never left Osaka Castle.
Therefore, it can also be said that the strength of the Omi Samurai Group is also incomplete.
In this case, Gao Pragmatic decided to put aside "helping the weak to defeat the strong" or "helping the strong to defeat the weak" and think about which side would be more beneficial.
The first thing that can be eliminated is Tokugawa Ieyasu. This guy is a good person, and one of his characteristics is that he can endure thieves, which is very similar to Sima Yi. Although there is a saying that "in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are in vain."
"But it's better to do less than to do more. Why bother to act with Tokugawa Ieyasu? Naturally, the hidden dangers that can be dealt with should be dealt with as early as possible.
What about the Owari Samurai Group? They have more fiefdoms on hand, and the basis of their status is the army, which is very bad. Because this means that if Gao Pragmatic wants to disarm and establish a garrison according to the tradition of southern Xinjiang in the future, they will inevitably
This will create a lot of resistance, so supporting them should not be considered unless absolutely necessary.
From this point of view, it seems that the Omi Samurai Group should be supported?
Gao Pragmatic thought about it, but felt that this may not necessarily be the case. This group of people, such as Ishida Mitsunari, have a very obvious characteristic, that is, they are loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Toyotomi clan - although his actions actually ruined the Toyotomi family.
Jiangshan, but from his subjective consciousness, he should think that everything he does is for the Toyotomi clan.
So from this point of view, not only is it difficult to control the Omi Samurai Group, but the actual effect may not be very good.
Who is the best person to control? Countless usurpers in Chinese history would raise their arms and shout: "Of course they are orphans and widows!"
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