Gao Pingshi remembered that there are three major copper mountains in Japan, namely Besshi Copper Mountain, Akazawa Copper Mountain and Ashio Copper Mountain. He had also specifically asked Liu Xin before to confirm that these memories were correct.
In the original history, Besshi Copper Mountain was discovered in 1690. The Sumitomo family obtained the hereditary mining qualification of "Eternal Request" from the Tokugawa Shogunate, and then continued to mine until the Showa era, supporting a huge Sumitomo Zaibatsu;
Akasawa Copper Mountain was purchased by Kuhara Fusanosuke (this person was the Minister of Communications in the Tanaka Cabinet) during the Meiji period, and was renamed Hitachi Copper Mountain, establishing the Kuhara Zaibatsu (which was the foundation of Hitachi Manufacturing). Later, it was purchased by Kuhara's brother-in-law and Meiji veteran
Inoue Kaoru's grandnephew Ayukawa Yoshisuke (he was the Minister of Foreign Affairs in the Konoe Cabinet) took over and renamed it Nippon Industrial, or Nissan for short, thus laying the foundation for the two major companies of Hitachi and Nissan.
Ashio Copper Mountain is also called Orizawa Copper Mountain. Although it ranks third, it is the earliest mined. The "Watong" in the name "Watong Kaiju" refers to Ashio Copper Mountain. This copper mountain has been mined intermittently.
From the mining to the Meiji period, Yataro Iwasaki of Tosa took over the management, and Iwasaki's company, called Mitsubishi Trading Company, was formerly the Tosa Sakamoto Ryoma's sea rescue team.
The power of the three major copper mountains can already be seen from this. However, mining copper mines in Japan is currently a bit troublesome.
Among the three major copper mountains, Besshi Copper Mountain should be the largest in terms of scale and reserves, but Besshi Copper Mountain is located almost in the middle of the northern part of Shikoku Island, right on the Seto Inland Sea.
The Seto Inland Sea is the place that the Keihua fleet is least willing to go to. Firstly, there are many islands there, and secondly, it is an area where land winds and sea breezes frequently switch. In view of the fact that it may affect the fleet's mobility and cause the fleet's strength to decrease, Keihua is very reluctant to go there.
Send less fleet to the Seto Inland Sea.
Specifically, that area is now the territory of Kato Yoshiaki. Kato Yoshiaki, also known as "Mosheng" and his childhood name "Morioku", is one of the so-called "Seven Guns of Shiyue" and was born in Mikawa.
He became an official Hideyoshi at the age of thirteen. He had a calm and calm personality, did not like to talk much, and never panicked when encountering difficulties. He was known as the "Shen Yongshi". As the main force of Toyotomi's navy, he fought in the Shikoku and Kyushu expeditions.
All have outstanding performances.
In the Korean War, he also led the naval forces as a "Funa Moshi". Later he participated in the attack on Ishida Mitsunari. In the Battle of Sekigahara, he belonged to the Eastern Army and successfully besieged Ishida Mitsunari's headquarters. After the war, the territory was sealed
to 200,000 koku. After the Battle of Osaka, Mutsu Aizu Wakamatsu Castle was sealed again with 400,000 koku.
It can be said that during the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he was Hideyoshi's loyal supporter. After Hideyoshi's death, he became Tokugawa Ieyasu's loyal supporter perhaps because he was born in Mikawa. Ieyasu's hometown was Mikawa Kingdom, and he had been a loyal supporter of Hideyoshi before moving to Kanto.
Take the Mikawa Samurai as the basis of rule.
Therefore, considering these two points, it is very dangerous to develop the Beszi copper mine now. Although Gao Pragmatic is not worried about his final victory, he will probably lose control of the copper mine for a period of time.
However, the locations of Ashio Copper Mountain and Hitachi Copper Mountain are not very friendly to Gao Pragmatism. These two major copper mountains are both in Kanto, among which Ashio Copper Mountain is located in the Ashio area of later Nikko City, and Hitachi Copper Mountain is located in Ibaraki Prefecture.
The distance between the two is not very far, only about 90 kilometers, which is a distance of 180 miles. However, the Ashio Copper Mountain among them is coincidentally located in the location of three great names: Date Masamune, Shirakawa Yoshinori, and Nasu Shiharu.
The intersection of spheres of influence.
Theoretically speaking, among the three daimyo, Date Masamune was obviously the strongest. As long as he had his support, he should be able to secure possession of the copper mine.
However, let alone how to convince this one-eyed dragon who is said to be quite handsome, at least the timing is unfortunate.
Three years ago, in October of the 14th year of Japan's Tensho period (1586), Date Masamune's father-in-law, Tamura Kiyaki, suddenly died suddenly before he could designate an heir, and the family was divided. Tamura Tsukisai and others supported Kiyonoyori, and Tamura Umeyukisai and others supported him.
Xian Ji, the new leader has been debated for a long time.
Date Masamune then took advantage of this opportunity to win over Tsukusai and suppress Ume Setsusai and his backstage, Mrs. Soma (Kiyoaki's second wife). The final result was that Mrs. Soma retired to Funakoshi Castle and Date Masamune entered Miharu, the main city of the Tamura clan.
, appointed Qingxian’s nephew Zongxian as the new family governor.
As a result, the original independent daimyo Tamura clan lost its independence and became a vassal of the Date clan. At this time, the Date clan's jurisdiction bordered on the strong feudal Ashina clan in the south.
Here we need to go back a little bit to the history of the Ashina family for a period of time: As early as the third year of Tianzheng (1575), Ashina Shengxing of the Ashina family died of illness. Since his son was still young, the Sheng family who was still old and not dead took the decision.
He remarried Shengxing's wife Ida Gozen to his adopted son Shenglong, and Shenglong succeeded him as the family governor.
His original intention was to take the opportunity to continue to maintain peaceful and friendly relations with the two major princes, one was the Date clan, and the other was the Nikaido clan who was born in Shengtaka. However, he left a large number of relatives in the family without taking care of him (like Inaashiro and Arai of the clan,
Tomita, Acupuncture, etc.), but passed the throne to outsiders, which sowed the bitter fruit of internal strife in the family.
So five years later, the 60-year-old Ashina Mori passed away, and the final turmoil of the Ashina family began.
Immediately after Ashina Mori's death, the head of the Ashina family, Moritaka, and his son, Kamewakamaru, who was only three years old, were assassinated by retainers, thus severing the clan line.
As a result, the family began to split in response to different choices of successors. The Satake faction recommended Yoshihiro, the second son of Satake Yoshishige, and the Date faction elected Kojiro Tamaru, the younger brother of Date Masamune. The two factions fought endlessly.
In the end, the Satake faction gained the upper hand, and Satake Yoshihiro became the head of the Ashina clan and changed his name to Ashina Morishige at the age of thirteen.
Of course, Date Masamune was not satisfied with this result, so he incited the Ashina retainers to rebel. The panicked Ashina Morishige hurriedly went to visit Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which was quite smart to find a solid backer for himself. However, once he left, he
He left all the family affairs to the important minister Jin Shang Shengbei.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! However, at this time, Hideyoshi had just defeated Shibata Katsuie, his biggest internal rival after the death of Oda Nobunaga, and could not reach the distant East Country at all.
The backing was completely ineffective, but the one-eyed dragon Date Masamune, who was right in front of him, had already begun his fierce battle to unify Oshu.
At that time, Masamune marched straight in and reached the edge of the Abu Kuma River. Ashina's army stepped forward to fight, but naturally they received a huge defeat. Morishige had no choice but to ask for help from his own father, Satake Yishige.
Satake Yoshige was also a famous general at the time, known as "Oni Yoshige". He took the opportunity to reach out to Mutsu and join forces with the Ashina clan with 30,000 troops to surround the Date clan's Koriyama Castle. Toyotomi Hideyoshi also had the demeanor of being a big brother.
Hundreds of iron cannons were sent from thousands of miles away as support. The offensive and defensive battle was very fierce, and the outcome was difficult to determine for a long time. Finally, due to the mediation of the Daimyo Iwaki clan, the war was temporarily suspended.
Okay, since I mentioned it, let me talk about the Iwaki clan by the way. The Iwaki clan, who are both descendants of the Taira clan, had been swinging between the Date clan and the Ashina clan before. After the war, they completely fell to the side of Ashina and Satake, so later
Suffering a fierce attack from Date Masamune. Fortunately, an opportunity fell from the sky. When Tsunetaka of Iwajo hurried to Odawara to join the war to support Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he barely managed to save his family line - this is a story later.
Talking back to the Ashina family, this year was the seventeenth year of Tensho in Japan (1589). Ashina Morishige felt that his rule had been stable, so he sent troops to the Suga River again, hoping to establish a true seal with Date Masamune. During the fierce battle, the important ministers of the family
Inanodai Mori suddenly rebelled and led the Date army to invade the main city of Kurokawa.
Morishige hurriedly sent his troops back, and on June 5, he ran into Date's army at Oriagehara on Bandai Mountain, and the two sides launched a battle, which was the famous Oriagehara Battle.
This battle was the second key battle in Date Masamune's life after taking the bridge. About 7,000 Ashina troops participated in the Origamihara battle, and 5,000 Date troops participated. The battle began on the Ashina side.
A battle unfolds between General Tomita Shokan and Inaashiro Morikuni, who has just surrendered to Date.
The battle lasted for a long time, because Ashina's army rushed forward with the west wind on its back, and Inaashiro Morikuni retreated after being defeated. Date's second division, and also Date Masamune's most trusted man, Katakura Keizuna, hurriedly led his troops to support, but
Still at a disadvantage.
At the critical moment, the wind direction suddenly reversed, blowing a strong east wind. This strong wind made it difficult for Ashina's soldiers to open their eyes. Seizing the opportunity, Date Masamune immediately led the iron artillery team to shoot from the side, finally saving the day.
situation and began to slowly gain the upper hand.
At this time, some of Ashina's troops who were dissatisfied with their master's defection to the Hitachi Satake clan were defeated first, which finally led to the complete collapse of the entire front. In this battle, the Ashina clan suffered 2,500 casualties, and the leader Morishige only led 13 cavalry.
He fled back to his hometown, Aizu Kurokawa Castle, and on the night of the 10th, escaped from Kurokawa Castle and escaped to Hitachi Kingdom controlled by the Satake clan.
The next day, Date Masamune entered Kurokawa Castle and won the final victory in the battle. The Ashina clan, a century-old powerful feudal lord in Minamimutsu, was declared destroyed.
The reason why this time is embarrassing is that it is less than a year away from the Battle of Odawara initiated by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. If Ashina Mori resists for a while longer, or simply does not take the initiative to send troops, he may still be able to use it.
The family name lives on.
After all, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was a Kanbai, had always been very concerned about the daimyo who took the initiative to express their surrender to him. After the Battle of Odawara, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had no apparent opponents. At that time, Date Masamune naturally
I don't dare to take action against the Ashina family.
At this moment, when Gao Pragmatic and Huang Zhiting were taking a walk after dinner, Toyotomi Hideyoshi should have issued the Odawara Expedition Order (1589.11), but Date Masamune couldn't decide what stance he should take in this war.
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The Ashina clan had surrendered to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and was considered his younger brother, so Date Masamune knew that he had offended Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Therefore, should he obey Toyotomi Hideyoshi and hope that he would be more generous and let him go, or should he not?
Unable to do anything else, he decided to join forces with Hojo to fight against Hideyoshi and unify Japan. Date Masamune, who was very ambitious but also rational, was hesitant now.
On the one hand, he knew that under the current situation, Hideyoshi was already in power, and it would be difficult to resist him. On the other hand, he did not want Hideyoshi to really complete the unification of Japan, so that his ambition could only lie dormant forever.
And he very much hopes to join forces with Hojo to completely wipe out the rival Satake family (the power of the Satake family is located between Date and Hojo).
In history, Date Masamune was first ordered to be punished by Hideyoshi. Later, after a series of operations and changes such as submission and tug-of-war, Hideyoshi finally made a decision that greatly affected the Ashio Copper Mountain area, that is, in 1591, Hideyoshi
It was decided to transfer the title of Masamune to Iwadeyama Castle with 580,000 koku (since Yonezawa and other places were confiscated, the transfer was actually a reduction of the transfer).
After Date Masamune transferred the title, the land where the vacated Copper Mountain belonged belonged to the Uesugi clan who transferred the title from Echigo, and later became Uesugi Kagekatsu, one of the five elders.
The transfer of the daimyo's seal had a great impact on the stable mining of Copper Mountain. What was even worse was that the Uesugi family later became the reason for Tokugawa Ieyasu to provoke the Battle of Sekigahara (that is, it was said that Uesugi had an evil plot and sent troops to conquer this area).
Always in turmoil.
Even though Gao Qingshi couldn't remember whether that area had ever been a battlefield, at least if a large copper mine was developed there, it would definitely become a key area of contention, which would be too bad.
The two major copper mountains in Besko and Ashio were not easy to deal with, so the target had to fall on Hitachi Copper Mountain. However, there is another coincidence here: Hitachi Copper Mountain happens to be located in the territory of the Satake family mentioned just now.
As mentioned earlier, the head of the Satake family at this time was Satake Yoshige, known as "Oni Yoshige". In Japan during the Warring States Period, any nickname with the word "Oni" in it generally meant that it was more complimentary and meant more.
This person is very powerful and possesses the "power of ghosts and gods" - you can see the Japanese habit when you see that Japanese people like to refer to Lu Bu as a ghost and god even in games.
For this reason, even those who have never played a game with a Japanese Warring States background, as long as they see words such as "Oni Shimazu", "Oni Sakon", "Oni Shibata", "Oni Yoshikawa", "Oni Mino", "Onimu" in the game
If a person's name or skill name begins with the word "ghost" such as "hide", you can basically be sure that this is an extraordinary character or skill, and nine times out of ten, it will be very awesome.
In this case, Oni Yoshige was of course very good. His father, Yoshiaki Satake, was frail and sick, so he gave up the throne to the sixteen-year-old Yoshigege early at the age of thirty-two. He himself died of illness three years later.
Satake Yoshitaka ushered in his first battle in the same year as the governor of the family, and fought against Souma Moriin in Ongnohara.
Yoshitaka, who was only sixteen years old, won a complete victory in this battle and took the heads of seven enemy generals in the battle formation, which shocked Hitachi.
It can be seen from this that there are no less outstanding figures among military generals than talented young men among scholars. Satake Yoshige's performance is similar to that of Liu Wei who served as his father's vanguard when he first entered the battle at the age of thirteen and defeated the terrain in one fell swoop.
The extremely dangerous Jiusi Man also killed the barbarian chiefs A Er and A San on the spot, and his record of capturing A Da alive was quite similar.
At that time, the Hojo family was already the overlord of Kanto. Satake Yoshishige relied on the not-so-strong Satake family to not only rely on its horizontal alliances but also rely on its own military capabilities to compete with it and avoid being defeated by Hojo.
He annexed the family, and even expanded his sphere of influence through various means in the Nanao region - for example, pushing his son to the position of head of the Ashina family as mentioned just now is one of them.
If this were the case, it stands to reason that a daimyo who is not too strong but whose head is quite capable should be a good partner. However, Gao Pragmatic knew that the situation of the Satake family would also change.
After the Ashina family was destroyed by Date Masamune, Yoshitaka also used this opportunity to accuse Date of violating the "Soshishi Order" with his biological son Ashina Morishige, who inherited the Ashina family name, in an attempt to restore the Ashina territory. Therefore, the Satake family participated in the Odawara War.
The expedition and Ou's expedition, and with the support of Ishida Mitsunari, focused on Ueno and Musashi's Hatagata Castle.
Unfortunately, although Hojo was successfully destroyed, Hideyoshi ignored his request to restore Ashina's old territory, and instead transferred the Kamao clan to Aizu, thus dashing Yoshishige's hopes.
After the Hojo expedition, Yoshitaka seized the opportunity to attack the pro-Hojo daimyo Edo clan and seize Mito Castle. At the same time, Hideyoshi used a petition of "Freedom to seize the Hitachi Kingdom" as a war reward. In addition to the previously captured territory, Satake claimed
The total of Hitachi, Shimono and part of Mutsu was 550,000 koku, and Satake reached the peak of his power.
After receiving Hideyoshi's petition, Yoshitaka and his son Yoshinaga (who had succeeded to the throne, but Yoshitaka still held the most power) began to govern Minamihitachi, but they were hampered by the locals of Minamihitachi Sansankan.
The resolute resistance of powerful forces.
In view of this, Yoshitaka planned and commissioned Yi Xuan to invite the major figures of the Sanjusankan to attend the famous "Umemi Banquet". At that time, the Sanjusankan thought that Satake had nothing to do with them, so they held a banquet and peace talks.
During the plum banquet, Satake showed his hospitality to everyone in the Thirty-three Hall, and when everyone was drunk, Yoshinobu and Yoshitsune immediately sent out the musketeers to kill everyone one by one. From then on, the Thirty-three
The power of the Imperial House completely collapsed, and Satake successfully took over Minami Hitachi, thus unifying Hitachi.
However, Hideyoshi used the excuse that Satake had not received the order to attack the Sanjusankan, and in the fourth year of Bunroku (1595), he reduced the Satake family's 540,000 koku to 100,000 koku. For this reason, Hideyoshi
Feeling very angry and losing respect for the Toyotomi regime, he handed over real power to Yoshinori, officially lived in seclusion, and later moved to Mito Castle.
Later, his son Yoshinobu Fushimijo became friends with Ishida Mitsunari. In the same year, the Utsunomiya family was changed because they falsely reported the total amount of stone in the Taiko inspection. And because Satake and Utsunomiya were related by marriage, they needed to be jointly seated, but because
Ishida Mitsunari's mediation and intercession with Hideyoshi finally prevented the Satake family from being implicated, and from then on, Mitsunari's relationship with Satake became closer.
After Tokugawa Ieyasu launched the Uesugi Crusade, the Battle of Sekigahara (a series of wars) broke out. Satake Yoshinobu clearly declared to join the Western Army. However, due to extremely inconsistent opinions within the family, he was unable to actually send troops in the end.
But at that time, the Satake family made such a declaration, and Ieyasu could not ignore it. Therefore, the Satake family was criticized by Ieyasu after the war. Faced with the huge danger that the fiefdom might be confiscated, Yoshige had to step forward again.
, personally went to Edo to plead guilty and intercede with Ieyasu.
Considering that Satake's military strength should not be underestimated, Ieyasu was eventually persuaded to give up the penalty of confiscating the fiefdom, and only reduced Satake's fiefdom to Dewa Akita for 205,000 koku. The Satake family was once again exempted from the punishment due to Yoshige's efforts.
Suffering a devastating disaster.
But here’s the problem. After his family’s seal was reduced to Dewa Akita, Tongshan and Tongshan also said goodbye. If Gao pragmatically cooperates with his family, what will happen then?
Who controlled the area where Copper Mountain was located at this time? It was Tokugawa Yorifusa, the eleventh and youngest son of Tokugawa Ieyasu, whose nickname was Chiyo Tsuru, the first generation of the Mito Tokugawa family, one of the three imperial families of the Tokugawa shogunate.
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