When Gao Jingshi explained this analysis, Huang Zhiting was surprised that she didn't say much. Gao Jingshi originally thought she would be very angry, but he miscalculated.
Liu Xin thought about it and said: "This is really... this matter has never been solved in ancient times. You don't want to expose too much military strength now, especially the strength of the army, and you hope that the Shimadzu family can stand up.
Say no to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Hey, if I were the governor of the Shimazu family, I would think you are making things difficult for me."
Gao Pragmatic was about to answer, but suddenly he found that Meng Guzhezhe, who had been standing aside obediently, was hesitant to speak. He couldn't help but feel moved in his heart and asked: "Menggu, what do you think?"
When Meng Guzhezhe saw Huang Zhiting and Liu Xin looking at her at the same time, she seemed startled, and quickly lowered her head and said: "I am not from a native barbarian, so how can I have any opinions."
Before Gao Pragmatic could say anything, Huang Zhiting actually spoke first: "Why can't a rural barbarian have some opinions? I am also a rural barbarian."
Gao Pingshi was quite surprised when he heard Huang Zhiting continue: "Now that I have asked you, if you have any ideas, just say it."
Meng Guzhezhe seemed to be surprised, but she didn't dare to show it. She glanced at Huang Zhiting quietly and saw that this "sister" was smiling at the moment and seemed to be encouraging her. She finally felt a little relieved and whispered.
: "Actually, I just think that the Shimazu family's style of doing things is quite similar to that of our Jurchens."
"Oh?" This time it was Huang Zhiting's turn to be surprised and asked: "Where is the image?"
Meng Guzhezhe glanced at Gao Jingshi again, and Gao Jingshi nodded slightly, indicating that she could just say it. Then she said: "Let's talk about our Ye He. My Ama... Oh, my father and uncle had not gathered strength in the early years, Ye He
The Jurchens are not as powerful as the Wanhan Khans, and not far to the west is the pasture of the Mongolian Khans. They can be said to be wolves in the south and tigers in the west.
At that time, Ye He could only carefully deal with Wan Khan and Tumen Khan. He should not only respect Wan Khan as the lord of Manchuria and obey his orders, but also rely on Tumen Khan to obtain horses and cattle from him.
The sheep were transferred to trade, and some of the cloth pots and pans obtained from the Beiguan trade were sold to the Mongols.
If he doesn't listen to Wan Khan's orders, Ye He may perish at any time; but if he doesn't listen to Tumen Khan's orders, Ye He may also starve to death. Just after I heard what the master said, I felt that the Shimazu family and the people at that time
Ye He is very similar, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is like Wan Khan, and the Maritime Trade Alliance is like Mongolia..."
Gao Pangshi and the other three looked at each other, and none of them cared about her obviously politically incorrect statement of comparing the Sea Trade Alliance to Mongolia. Instead, Huang Zhiting asked with great interest: "Then how did Ye He become the first man in Manchuria today?"
From a powerful chieftain?"
"Wan Khan loves to save face, especially when he gets older, and he always wants to make a big show."
Meng Guzhezhe recalled: "At that time, my father and brother were looking for opportunities to show respect to Wan Khan. Even if we took in the people who had fled from Hada, we would also obediently pay tribute to Wan Khan. Sometimes we took in more people.
After a while, we will also deliberately pay tribute to Wan Khan with some rare but insignificant things. Once Wan Khan is happy, he will not bother to ask more questions about his subjects.
After a few years of this, Hada began to decline, and we Yehe gradually became stronger. Not only did we have more people than Hada, but we also had more horses, pastures, and farms.
At this time, my father's brothers began to look for opportunities to snatch Hada's edicts. As the edicts gradually increased, Beiguan's trade gradually surpassed Hada's. By about two or three years before Wan Khan's death, Ye He had developed to the point where he could
It’s so easy to find any excuse to go to Hada’s village and rob it.”
Meng Guzhezhe's words were only about Ye He's own affairs, but none of the three people here were stupid, and they all knew what she wanted to express.
The Shimadzu family is indeed unconvinced by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and is doing what Ye He and Baylor did back then. However, the situation in Japan is still somewhat different from that of the Jurchens, so brothers Shimazu Yoshihisa and Shimazu Yoshihiro cannot express themselves.
Instead of advancing together and retreating together, they pretended to be restricted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi's methods. One insisted on the independence of the Shimazu family, but the other became wavering and tended to seek refuge with the Toyotomi family at any time.
Yoshihiro Shimazu later became known as "Oni Shimazu", and this ghost character not only meant terrifying combat power, but also meant cunning. In other words, he was a smart man who could act well.
Perhaps, this was his thinking behind gathering troops to prepare for the "Kwantung Expedition" in accordance with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wishes, and at the same time seeking assistance from the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance under the pretext of preparing for another "Kyushu Expedition" by Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
But even so, Gao Pragmatic had no intention of taking back the assistance he had previously ordered to give them.
They are nothing more than two thousand old guns, including Longqing II and Wanli I. They are all obsolete for Jinghua. If they are placed in southern Xinjiang, they will only be distributed to the second-line troops and will not be used by the police at all.
But it was a big deal that these muskets were sold to the Shimadzu family, because after the Shimadzu family was "reduced", they already had only more than 15,000 troops.
Moreover, the Shimadzu family is not comparable to Oda Nobunaga who separated the army from peasants back then. This 15,000-strong army is not completely free of charge soldiers, which is what Japan calls standing ashigaru. The 10,000-strong Shimadzu family
Most of the five thousand ashigaru are actually farmers and soldiers, and only the backbone are samurai scattered in Satsuma and Osumi.
Two thousand advanced muskets are enough to directly raise the level of Shimadzu's army to a higher level of combat effectiveness. If used in conjunction with their famous "fishing for wild ambush" tactic, these two thousand musketeers (Japanese called iron cannons) will find an opportunity to fire three rounds
If you fire a volley, the opponent's army of tens of thousands may be defeated on the spot.
After all, the Japanese army of this era was not the army that later commanded the "Japanese Military God" Nogi Nogi Nogi to kill the Russian fortress, and the battle damage ratio it could withstand was far less than the latter.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In this era of Japan, it is definitely not a shame to have 10% of casualties leading to collapse; if you can persist until 20% of casualties before collapse, then the commander can basically say
He must be a famous general; as for those who can persist until 30% casualties, they may be able to compete with the Dragon of Echigo and the Tiger of Kai.
Such a great gift, of course, is not given to Gao Jingjing for nothing. It is sold cheaply, and Jinghua's things are not cheap at all, but for the Shimadzu family, good goods are the top priority, and they can buy this batch
Muskets, of course they also owe a favor.
The Shimadzu family currently does not have many ways to repay favors, and Gao Jingshi does not intend to settle the accounts now. However, Gao Jingshi had previously considered the matter raised by Miyo Ryusawa - Toyotomi Hideyoshi hoped that the Sea Trade Alliance would be stationed in
The Japanese headquarters is located in the castle town of Osaka. Now we can take the opportunity to do something to let Ryuzawa Miyo show his value in Osaka Castle.
Of course, we are not really moving our headquarters there, but we do plan to give Toyotomi Hideyoshi a face and actively establish a Kinki center in Osaka. There are two purposes for doing this. One is to prove his worth to Ryuzawa Miyo, and the other
It is to further follow Toyotomi Hideyoshi's hair.
The former does not need much explanation. It is now almost 1590. If Ryuzawa Sanyo wants to get close to the future Toyotomi Hideyori, there is not much time left to make meritorious deeds, so he must hurry up.
To a large extent, the latter is also deliberately catering to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's increasingly arrogant psychology at this time, and actively encouraging him to continue doing things according to his own ideas. The reason is not very complicated, because the current Tatsuzawa Sanyo himself belongs to "
Adherence faction".
Gao Pragmatic and Liu Xin had previously discussed the struggle for Japanese power after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, and concluded that with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's shrewdness, it was impossible not to restrict the major names headed by Tokugawa Ieyasu during his lifetime and after his death.
.But Hideyoshi is not a god, so of course there will be unexpected things, let alone the unpredictable and complex situation after death.
The official position system of the samurai family created by Hideyoshi during his lifetime, with himself as the apex, tried to bind all daimyo within the framework of the regime he established. Moreover, when Hideyoshi was dying and after his death, he established the so-called "Five Elders and Five Principles"
system".
According to previous sayings, the Five Elders were the highest decision-making body of the Toyotomi regime after Hideyoshi's death, while the Fifth Elder was the practical organization that implemented the orders of the Five Elders. Together, they supported the Toyotomi regime before Hideyoshi became an adult.
Later Japanese scholar Osamu Wakada pointed out that two key factors contributed to the impression that the Five Elders were the decision-making body of national affairs. One was that the order to withdraw troops from Korea was signed by the Five Elders, and the more critical second point was that it was led by the samurai family and temples.
The right to know and act lies in the hands of the five veterans.
Regarding the first point, Japanese scholar Sone Yuji pointed out that in addition to the five great foreigners, the five great foreigners also had their signatures (Note: See Sone Yuji’s article "The Withdrawal Order of Korean Troops"), so it was not the exclusive authority of the five great elders.
Regarding the second key point, the five elders did jointly sign (or some elders jointly signed, or even Ieyasu signed alone) a lot of "knowing and doing".
There are several types of sealing and sealing.
Japanese scholar Horikoshi Yuichi combed out 62 letters of knowledge and practice issued by the elders from December of the third year of Keicho (1598) to May of the fifth year of Keicho, and only four of them showed an increase in knowledge and practice.
Kobayakawa Hideaki had previously reduced the title of Echizen. On February 5, the fourth year of Keicho (1599) after Hideyoshi's death, the title of Echizen was transferred to the front and back of Echizen again. The old territory of Echizen was inherited by Shigeyoshi Aoki, who was also a relative of Hideyoshi.
Increased from 80,000 to 200,000 stone.
However, there are special characteristics in the increase in knowledge and conduct of these two people. First, they are both related to Hideyoshi. Second, in the Wan Xingzhi, it is clearly mentioned that the increase in knowledge and conduct is the purpose of Taikaku, that is, the implementation of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's plan during his lifetime.
This is obviously also to strengthen the power of "One Sect".
One month before that, on the 9th of the first lunar month, Shimazu Tadashi of Satsuma was awarded fifty thousand koku as a reward for his military exploits in the Battle of Sichuan in Korea (Note: Shimazu Tadashi was the son of Yoshihiro. He did not go to Korea, and his military merits were actually
It was his father Yoshihiro who called). On October 1 of the same year, Horio Yoshiharu was awarded fifty thousand koku as the fee for his general invitation to Echizen Fu Naka Castle.
It can be seen from this that the proportion of the increase in tomoyo jointly signed by the elders, except for Kobayakawa Hideaki and Aoki Shigeyoshi, who fulfilled Hideyoshi's lifetime wishes, is extremely small. As for the settlement of the son's stepfather's inheritance, it should be re-secured and transferred to the tomoyo.
, it is just a re-confirmation of almost the same knowledge and actions.
Therefore, it can be seen from the above ratio that although the five elders have the right to know and practice, the number of new examples of knowledge and practice in the actual operation process is extremely limited.
On February 1, the fifth year of Keicho (1600), Tokugawa Ieyasu issued a unilateral decree, increasing Mori Tadamasa from Mino's seventy thousand koku to Shinano's 137,000 koku; on the same day, Tamaru Naomasa was exempted from five thousand koku
military service; on February 7, an additional 60,000 koku were added to the Bungo enclave of Hosokawa Tadaki.
The reason why Ieyasu was able to do this happened to be that after the death of Maeda Toshiie, the other three elders were in their own countries. After the return of Mori Terumoto and Ukita Hideie in April of the same year, there was no longer any new daimyo.
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Moreover, judging from the above-mentioned actions, all of them are "acted by". It can be seen that the implementation subject of the award of knowledge and practice is not the five elders, but the five elders only perform it in name. The grantor is still Toyotomi Hide, who is the apex of power.
rely.
Not only that, thirteen days before the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, that is, August 5, the third year of Keicho (1598), the five elders and the fifth elders exchanged petitions, promising each other to abide by the law and not to form factions.
The requirements are the same.
Before Toyotomi Hideyori came of age, everything he knew and did must first be investigated in detail, and then discussed by Ieyasu and other elders plus five, and finally implemented in accordance with the principle of the minority obeying the majority.
As we all know, among the five practices, only Asano Nagamasa is slightly closer to Ieyasu, while Ishida Mitsunari is a strong anti-Ieyasu faction. Therefore, in most cases, the five practices have the numerical advantage.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In addition, the other elders do not necessarily want to see Ieyasu become big or sell well alone, so although Ieyasu is placed in the extremely respected position of the top five elders
, but the most important authority, the actual increase in knowledge and action, will still be restricted by other elders and pursuits.
It can be seen that Hideyoshi's arrangement was very clever from the perspective of his own death. He used the prestige of the five elders to maintain the authority of the Toyotomi regime, but also limited the expansion of the power of the five elders through the five virtues.
This is just like using official positions to customize the sequence and prohibiting private intermarriage among daimyo. The five elders and five monks system is also a way for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to check and balance the daimyo.
As we all know, the Toyotomi family's hiding place is about 2.2 million koku, which is why the Toyotomi family's strength far exceeds that of other daimyo (note: Ieyasu's later so-called 2.5 million koku actually included a large number of retainers). If
Wanton expansion in the name of the Toyotomi family will definitely reduce the hiding places of the Toyotomi family itself and weaken the strength of the Toyotomi family.
It is precisely because of this that Tokugawa Ieyasu's intention and goal was to increase the number of people and at the same time sell his own favors at the expense of the Toyotomi family's possession of the land, which could be said to kill two birds with one stone.
The existence of the Five Practices is precisely to avoid the occurrence of this kind of situation, which is why there are very few examples of actual increases in knowledge and practice just mentioned - for example, in the previous document on the increase of Shimazu Tadahashi, it is directly stated that in
The hiding place of Sashu (north of Satsuma, the home base of the Sashu sect, one of the three major sects within the Shimazu clan) was for Tomoyo, that is, the Shimazu family received 50,000 koku, while the hiding place of the Toyotomi family was 50,000 koku less.
The reason why the Five Elders are an important existence is that the failure of the invasion of Korea and the death of Hideyoshi made the dream of the daimyo to occupy Zhixingji through foreign invasion come to naught. However, the price paid by the daimyo in Korea must be compensated, otherwise
There will be trouble, and the five elders want to suppress and mediate the thoughts of these famous people.
Having said that, there is no knowledge in Japan that can absorb the military achievements and expenditures of the daimyo who invaded Korea. If the Toyotomi family's hiding place is used to enclose these daimyo, it will cause damage to the Toyotomi family's economic foundation and its own strength.
It was a huge blow, so this sharp contradiction was exploited by Tokugawa Ieyasu.
For example, while the other elders were away, Ieyasu's knowledge of Mori Tamasa and others increased, causing the Toyotomi family to lose hundreds of thousands of koku of hiding places. Moreover, what Hideyoshi did not expect was the death of Maeda Toshiie after his own death.
and the submission of his successor Maeda Toshinaga; Ishida Mitsunari lost power due to the attack by seven generals; Uesugi Kagekatsu was attacked by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the name of justice.
The original delicate balance has been broken. Mouri Terumoto and Ukita Hideie, who have a sense of crisis, may feel that they are next, while Masuda Nagamori, Maeda Genyi and Nagasuke Masaie try to fight hard and restore the original situation.
A situation of checking and balancing the big boss.
Therefore, the two elders and the third brother finally unite. This is also their final chance to overthrow Ieyasu. The Sekigahara War is the general liquidation under this situation.
After the victory of the Sekigahara War, Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to use the name of the Toyotomi family to lavishly grant titles to the generals who joined his side in the Sekigahara War, which eventually reduced the Toyotomi family to a daimyo level of only 650,000 koku (although the Toyotomi family's
Gongyi is still there, but the hiding place as one of the pillars of Gongyi has been greatly reduced), achieving the previous purpose.
From the perspective of hindsight, whether it is through the establishment of regulations through the official position system or the fragility of Toyotomi's regime through quick promotion and so-called incompetence of generations, in fact, the balance of the system pursued by the five big and old five has been broken and cannot be digested.
After returning from the invasion, the daimyo were dissatisfied, and the most important control over Tibet was gradually seized by Tokugawa Ieyasu. Under these many unfavorable circumstances, the demise of the Toyotomi family was only a matter of time.
It can be seen that the methods to check and balance the daimyo arranged by Hideyoshi before his death were not absent, nor were they not implemented, but there were too many unexpected and uncertain factors. In the final analysis, the trouble still stemmed from the huge losses in the Korean War and the lack of results.
Get on.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's troubles are what Gao Pragmatic wants, so now we must ensure that Toyotomi Hideyoshi will not give up invading North Korea because of the butterfly wings of Kyoka.
Therefore, Kyoka not only could not bombard Osaka, but also had to follow Toyotomi Hideyoshi's wishes and give him a taste of sweetness from time to time to maintain his affirmation of the illusion that he was powerful.
At the same time, every time you give him a sweetener, it is best to let his own spokesperson handle it. The best spokesperson is of course the group of people he sends out, followed by the people from the Shimadzu family.
Although the current position of the Shimadzu family is not 100% on the side of Kyoka - or the Sea Trade Alliance, that is because the Shimazu family now has the same illusion as Toyotomi Hideyoshi. When needed in the future, the Sea Trade Alliance
When showing strength, Gao is pragmatic and has no fear of dishonesty from the Shimadzu family.
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