These adjustments in the capital were not completed within three to five days. In fact, it took more than a month. After the dust settled, Huang Zhiting even proposed to return to Dingnan first, but Gao Pragmatic vetoed it.
Gao Pragmatic hopes she will stay for a while longer.
Huang Zhiting was worried that staying in the capital for a long time would make Portugal's peaceful handover of Malacca have long nights and dreams, but Gao Pragmatic believed that it was precisely at this time that she should stay for a while, which would make Portugal feel more psychological pressure - Jinghua is not in a hurry, that is
Because Jinghua believed that even taking Malacca by force would be a piece of cake.
Huang Zhiting was finally convinced. Of course, she didn't want to return to southern Xinjiang so soon. At this moment, Luo Yuan, who was responsible for conquering Japan's Kanto region, had already received his marines from Taiwan and was taking advantage of the wind.
Arriving in Japan, we landed in Misaki on the seventh day of February, or the Castle Island of Misaki to be precise.
This is the eighteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1590 AD, which happens to be the eighteenth year of Tensho of Emperor Yosei of Japan. In this year, the Hojo clan - to be precise, the "Later Hojo clan" is under dark clouds.
Under the crisis that the city was about to be destroyed [Note: The backtracking is more complicated, I will not explain the details. For the sake of convenience, I will describe it in terms of the Hojo clan from now on], and the head of the Hojo family is Naojo, but because of some Japanese traditions
, the actual person in power of the Hojo family is actually the Hojo clan.
At the end of the Warring States Period, there was talk about the Three Heroes of Higashi, namely the "Dragon of Echigo" Uesugi Kenshin, the "Tiger of Kai" Takeda Shingen, and the "Lion of Sagami" Hojo Ujiyasu. At this time, the ancients had passed away, and the three heroes had died one after another.
Their successors and later generations also have some evaluations.
Although Uesugi Kenshin's successor, Uesugi Kagekatsu, suffered a tumble in the Sekigahara War and was greatly reduced in title, at least he still preserved the name of the Uesugi family for hundreds of years.
In comparison, Takeda Shingen's successor Takeda Katsuyori and Hojo Ujiyasu's successor Hojo Ushimasa - regardless of the fact that the actual governor of the family when the Hojo family fell was Naojo Uji - were not so lucky, because the family names both died in
In their hands, the evaluation of these two people in later generations cannot be said to be high for hundreds of years, and they are even very negative. Although some scholars in Japan and China have gained a lot of new understanding of the two of them in recent years, overall
Generally speaking, once the blame is placed, it is not so easy to take it off.
When it comes to Takeda Katsuyori, many people feel that compared with his father who has a brilliant record, his overall performance is very bleak. Although he is also a brave general, his skills are too far behind. Of course, some people say that the Takeda family is
Katsuyori perished at his hands because Shingen didn't leave anything good for him.
This is probably just one aspect. Before Luo Yuan left, when Gao Jingshi gave him a brief summary of that period of history, he said that the biggest blame that Takeda Shingen left for Takeda Katsuyori was that he suddenly stabbed Oda Nobunaga. Even if the two heroes
Confrontation is a matter of time.
From October to November of the first year of Gengame, after Oda Nobunaga learned that Shingen had raided Toe, he scolded Takeda Shingen in his letter to Uesugi Kenshin as an unprecedentedly unjust person with no sense of justice.
Completely ignoring the ridicule of the world, I (Nobunaga) will make an eternal righteous decision with him, and will never communicate with him again even if he undergoes disaster (from "Ancient Cases of the Ancients");
After the Takeda family was destroyed in the Battle of Nagashino, Oda Nobunaga wrote to Hosokawa Fujitaka and recalled the past, cursing Takeda Shingen as an ungrateful person who should have received this retribution long ago (from "Hosokawa Family Documents").
It can be seen how much Oda Nobunaga hated Takeda Shingen's behavior at that time, and it still did not change after Takeda Katsuyori succeeded. So even if Takeda Katsuyori wanted to return Nobunaga's son Oda Nobbo and appoint Satake Yoshi
Shige intervened to mediate peace between the Takeda and Oda families, but was rejected by Nobunaga; and when the Takeda family requested surrender in Gaotianjin Castle, a major town in the distant river, Nobunaga refused again, causing the Takeda family to be greatly discredited in the world.
Losing face, the Takeda family was eventually uprooted.
In this case, Takeda Shingen, Katsuyori and his son should be jointly responsible for the demise of the Takeda family, and it cannot just be said that Takeda Katsuyori's methods were too poor.
When Gao Jingshi talked about the Hojo Ushimasa who was actually in charge of the Hojo family at the moment, his evaluation was relatively fair. It is said that after the Hojo Ujimasa succeeded the family governor and before the Odawara expedition, the overall performance was pretty decent: he was able to withstand the pressure of Uesugi and Takeda.
, dedicated to eradicating those psoriasis-afflicted citizens in Kanto.
Although he was briefly taken advantage of by Takeda Katsuyori and Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was able to regain the situation later. Unfortunately, he hesitated about going to Luo before the Odawara expedition, which not only led to the demise of the Hojo family, but also suffered
It was criticized by later generations and left behind the allusive Japanese term "Odawara Assessment".
However, Gao Pragmatic himself did not just want to evaluate the Hojo clan politics. He talked about history with Luo Yuan so that Luo Yuan could understand the situation in Kanto. So what kind of situation did the Hojo clan clan face before the Odawara expedition?
In fact, as early as the beginning of the 16th year of Tensho, news had spread that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was going to conquer Odawara, so the Hojo side was actively preparing for war.
However, in the same year, it was a critical time for Emperor Goyosei's visit to Juletei, and the Higo Ikaku broke out in Kyushu. According to normal thinking, he believed that it was reasonable and reasonable for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to temporarily not bother to send out large troops for conquest.
Normally, Toyotomi Hideyoshi mainly persuaded the Hojo clan to submit softly through Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was related to the Hojo family by marriage, and with Tokugawa Ieyasu's hard and soft tactics, it really worked. In the end, the younger brother of the Hojo clan, Ukigami Raku,
, it can be regarded as a temporary explanation to Hideyoshi.
At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was indeed convinced, and announced to the Kanto generals his intention to pardon the Hojo family, and at the same time delineate the territorial boundaries between the Hojo family and the daimyo, especially the Numata issue.
However, just when the Numata incident was resolved, and when everything seemed to be easing, the incident of seizing the famous Walnut Castle broke out. Regardless of whether this incident was a bitter trick of Sanada Masayuki, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's celestial jump, or whether it was
The risky decision-making of the top group of Hojo, or the personal behavior of Inomata Kuniken. In short, this incident made the early efforts of Toyotomi, Hojo, and Tokugawa in vain. The Hojo family blatantly violated the general peace order, which made Toyotomi Hideyoshi extremely
Angry.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! And more importantly, although the Hojo clan's rule of going to Luo is used as a preliminary foreshadowing, the Hojo clan has not yet gone to Luo, after all, and the Hojo family's ministers have not actually been able to implement it.
In addition, Hojo's reply was that he knew nothing about the capture of the famous Walnut Castle, and he continued to delay the time limit for going to Luo. It was really not completely convincing, and eventually his family was conquered.
In this way, except for the historical evaluation of the Hojo Ujisato, that is, the inability to accurately estimate the situation on both sides, indecisiveness, and other foolish behaviors that led to the demise of the Hojo family, there seems to be no direct historical data that clearly proves the real reason why the Ujisato did not go to Luo, but high pragmatic analysis
It is believed that the factors that may have affected the Hojo clan's failure to go to Luo and submit in time are roughly as follows:
The first is the economic situation in the Hojo territory. Starting from the first month of the 15th year of Tensho, the Hojo family began to recruit husbands from the rural areas of Sagami and Musashi to Odawara Castle (from the "Shogun Documents"), and then successively recruited Ueno Matsui.
Tiancheng, Kanayama Castle, Musashi Iwafu Castle, Shimotsou Ribashi Castle and Izuyamazaka Castle, etc.
In addition, the Hojo family also carried out large-scale military mobilization within their territory (from "The Documents Collected by Ozawa Keiji"), arresting all the men between the ages of fifteen and seventy, and even pulled out the Buddhist bells in the temples.
Knocked on crafting weapons.
All of the above actions require a large amount of money. Moreover, frequent expropriations have led to many problems. For example, in the Sagami state-owned villages, there are plenty of fields but no one is cultivating them (from the "Nagashima Documents"), and there is even the case of Odawara Castle.
The situation in which the retainer Kageyama Ujihiro sold his mansion in Kamakura in exchange for thirty-three tatos for military rations.
Later, when it was decided that the Hojo clan would go to Luo first, the Hojo clan's third brother, the Hojo clan, mentioned in a document to his retainers that in the process of Odawara's general request, he spent hundreds of Yongle coins and 500 taels of military rations, and even asked the retainers to bear the burden.
part of it.
When the Hojo clan regulated Kamikawa, the Hojo territory had to raise 20,000 guan, and the territory of the Hojo clan was allocated 300 to 400 guan, so it was necessary to try its best to raise this amount (from "Wushu Documents").
It can be seen from this that while developing armaments, the economic pressure and production and living pressure brought by the cost of going to Luo are great. It can also be seen that the agriculture in the Hojo Territory has declined, and how exhausted the retainers and people are. What's more, this is just the Hojo clan's rule.
Going to Luoyang, if Hojo Ujimasa went to Luoyang himself, the expenditure would probably be even greater.
Therefore, it can be seen that raising a larger amount of funds in a short period of time to support the clan's political affairs in Luo, can be imagined to be a great pressure for the Hojo family. Maybe before they set off, someone in the territory will start to make trouble.
Secondly, there are expectations for Tokugawa Ieyasu and the huge role he played. The Hojo and Tokugawa families actually knew each other without fighting. Since the alliance and marriage during the Tensho-Jinwu Rebellion, the two parties have maintained a relatively close relationship. Ujimasa and Ieyasu
We met many times and exchanged gifts.
In this way, when Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was already a stronghold of the Toyotomi regime, learned of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's decision to conquer Odawara, he immediately tried his best to dissuade him, hoping to put forward some conditions to avoid attacking the Hojo clan (from "Sanada Documents").
At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu also actively mediated, and through his status as allies and relatives, he asked Hojo Ushimasa and his son to go to Luo as soon as possible, otherwise the Hojo family would send his daughter back (from "The Documents of Gakubuji Temple"). No matter how you look at it, this has already happened
This is a very obvious reminder to the Hojo family.
Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu wrote to his old acquaintance Hojo Clan, asking him to come to Luo as soon as possible while he was in Kyoto (from "Books and Ancient Documents"). This is probably because he thought he could help the Hojo family to talk and smooth things over.
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It can be seen that Tokugawa Ieyasu really tried his best to mediate the relationship between the Hojo family and Hideyoshi. However, the Hojo clan probably still wants to be more secure and even more profitable. For example, he hopes to be like Ieyasuomi before from Hideyoshi.
As before, asking Hideyoshi to send his mother here and so on - this is nonsense. Hideyoshi's father has long been gone, how can I conjure up another one?
Finally, Gao Pragmatic believes that the situation's out-of-control development may also be related to the chaos and asymmetry of information. Because at that time, no one could figure out whether Toyotomi Hideyoshi really wanted to attack the Hojo family, and the news changed all of a sudden.
For example, during the mobilization of Odawara Castle, it is said that it was because they received news that Toyotomi Hideyoshi planned to send troops (from "Daidoji Documents"), so the Hojo family actively made preparations;
However, on March 13, the 16th year of Tensho, Date Masamune mentioned in a letter that "Kanpaku-sama will not attack Odawara" (from "Endo Documents");
And in the entry on May 6th of the same year in "Ie Tadashi's Diary", it is said that "I heard that the negotiations between the Hojo family and Hideyoshikata have broken down";
The most important thing is that in September of the 16th year of Tensho's reign, after the Hojo clan's rule came to Luo, Hideyoshi issued a document to the Kanto generals saying that because the Hojo clan's rule had gone to Luo, he planned to pardon the Hojo family (from "Satake Document", etc.). This may also be
Hojo Ujimasa breathed a sigh of relief.
In this way, the situation of conquest and relaxation at one time was obviously not conducive to the Hojo family making a correct judgment. Even after the capture of the famous Kurumi Castle, Toyotomi's approach was very strange, coercing and actively urging at the same time.
The Hojo clan's administration of Kamikawa still did not block the road to Kamikaze, which may have made it even more difficult for the Hojo family to determine the situation.
In addition to these reasons, Gao Pragmatic believes that there are other factors: For example, the Hojo family seems to have failed to accurately predict the strength comparison between the two sides. This may have something to do with Hojo Ujimasa's overestimation of his family's wealth.
In view of the fact that the Shimazu and Nagasune tribes of the former Toyotomi regime had fought against the Toyotomi army. In particular, the Shimazu family defeated the powerful enemy with a small number of troops and defeated the first army of the Toyotomi family to land. Hojo
Some people may think that the combat effectiveness of the Toyotomi Army is only average.
According to this idea, the Hojo family, which is obviously stronger than the Shimazu family, should be able to give it a try given the favorable location, not to mention the two so-called "allies" Tokugawa Ieyasu and Date Masamune who are not weak in strength - this
Of course it was a misjudgment, Date Masamune hesitated, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had no intention of joining forces with the Hojo family to fight Toyotomi.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Moreover, although the Uesugi and Mori families were directly subordinate to Hideyoshi, they also fought head-on with the Oda regime, the predecessor of the Toyotomi regime, so Hojo Ushimasa's ideas may be too optimistic.
, thinking that as long as their family can hold on, the Toyotomi regime may split - well, in Gao Pragmatic's view, this misjudgment is mainly because the Hojo family has never faced off against the Toyotomi army, so it is somewhat taken for granted.
Furthermore, since Togoku is the birthplace of samurai society since Minamoto Yoritomo, the antagonism between the Kanto region and the central government may have had a certain impact on the decision-making of the Hojo clan.
After all, the confrontation between the Kanto regime and the central government has happened not once or twice, and not all of them ended in failure. For example, during the Xiangde Rebellion in Kanto, the confrontation between the Kanto government and the central government lasted for decades before it was resolved.
In addition, Gao Pragmatic believes that the disagreement among the Hojo family may also be the reason for the delay in decision-making. In hindsight, Hojo Uteru, Shigetomi Daidoji Masashige, etc. are all warring factions; the Hojo family rules due to Ieyasu.
He had met Hideyoshi, so he was leaning toward peace; while the then leader, Hojo Uji Nao, seemed to be leaning toward both sides, or was indecisive.
Therefore, it is really difficult for Hojo Ushimasa, who is the final decision-maker, to accurately evaluate the reasoning of both sides. After all, the weight of both sides is almost the same, and this matter is related to the life and death of the family. You must be cautious - being too cautious will delay the opportunity.
In the end, Gao pragmatically believed that the Hojo family might be worried about their status after surrender. You must know that the Tokugawa, Mori, Uesugi and other daimyo have been subordinated to Toyotomi Hideyoshi for many years. The last and strongest daimyo of the traditional Warring States Period is the Hojo family.
.If I obey, I wonder if I will be ranked lower than the above-mentioned daimyo. Can the Hojo family, which considers itself the overlord of Kanto, accept this result?
What's more, in the Toyotomi regime, there was already an old enemy of his own, Uesugi Kagekatsu. Therefore, I am afraid that the Hojo clan will have to think clearly about how Toyotomi Hideyoshi will deal with the Jojo Raku Empress, whether he will be detained or transferred.
It is not only an issue of strength, but also an issue of reputation. In order to force the Tokugawa family to submit, Hideyoshi not only gave away his sister, but also his mother, but he did not show such a high level of expression to the Hojo family. If the Hojo family cannot be allowed to
Omi Hideyoshi will copy the previous approach. How can the Hojo family, as the overlord of Kanto, lower their noble heads so easily?
To put it bluntly, it was still a game between the Hojo family and the Toyotomi regime, but the Hojo family overestimated the bargaining chip in their hands.
It was under such circumstances that the Kanto Squadron of the Keihua Beiyang Fleet landed on Castle Island and immediately sent an envoy to the Hojo family.
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