Chapter 280 The Sword Points at Japan (Enzo) Todo Takatora
Gao Pragmatic originally did not intend to interrogate the prisoners. After all, in his view, the Japanese invaders had no way out under his overall plan. They would be destroyed sooner or later, and whether or not they saw the prisoners would have no impact at all.
However, an accident happened. Takatora Toudo strongly requested to meet Gao Jingshi through the guarding soldiers, claiming that he had important information to report to Gao Jingshi face to face.
When Gao Fangshi learned the news, his first reaction was "Toudo Takatora is selling Hideyoshi." It's no wonder that Gao Pingshi thought too much. After all, Toudo Takatora's reputation in history is really not very good, especially since he seems to have
Crucified to death on the opposite side of "loyalty".
But in any case, he is also a general of the Japanese army, so it would be nice to report something serious. Of course, according to Gao's pragmatic style, you cannot fight an unprepared battle, so you need to report the matter about Takatora Toudo.
Go through it in your mind and think about this person first, so that you can "predict people like gods".
[Note: Takatora Toudo’s life is available on Baidu Encyclopedia, so I won’t repeat it here. By default, readers already know it.]
Gao Pingshi carefully recalled it and discovered that Todo Takatora's infamy was not actually caused by the backlash at that time, but more than two hundred years after his death, he was infamed because of the defection of his descendants. At that time, people directly accused Jin Fan of having ancestors.
His "style", Takatora Toudo was plucked from the pile of old papers and put on trial.
In fact, although Toudo changed jobs many times, it is reasonable to say that it was a daily "two-way choice" between the Warring States military commanders and his lord. He actually had no record of defecting on the battlefield. From this perspective, he was probably more infamous than others in the future.
To fabricate and throw dirty water is to at least use the moral standards of later generations to demand the ancients, which obviously cannot be called objective.
And due to the network effect in later generations, his image was portrayed more deeply. In fact, what is the most criticized thing about him on the Internet? It should be that he finally took refuge with Tokugawa Ieyasu instead of being buried for the Toyotomi family.
Therefore, Gao Pragmatic must first consider the relationship between Takatora Toudo, Toyotomi and Tokugawa.
First of all, there is the most practical reason: after Hideyoshi died, Hideyori was young, had a baby, and Asai Chacha had a harem woman, and both mother and son were powerless people in the system arranged before Hideyoshi's death. In theory, they
Regardless of the power of speech, administrative power, personnel power, military power, financial power... they all have no power.
Hideyoshi, Ishida and others created a system of five elders and five elders. Anyone with a discerning eye knows that the elders are the direct internal affairs team of Toyotomi, but the elders are all in their own way, and the future will definitely be unstable.
The most powerful person at this time was Tokugawa Ieyasu, so in the eyes of many people, Ieyasu was most likely the next "Tenkaren". In this way, Takatora Toudo was just taking sides.
Toyotomi has no genealogical generation, and these retainers are all the first generation. Todo Takatora is essentially a retainer of the Yamato Toyotomi family who was abolished by Hideyoshi. Therefore, he stood in line with Tokugawa outside Toyotomi, and there was actually no burden.
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As for what happened before Ieyasu's death, the Tokugawa world was already stable at that time. At that time, Todo Takatora was just trying to flatter Tokugawa Ieyasu, but in exchange for the two hundred years of stability for the family.
Just take a look at how many changes, surveillance, and expenditures were made by the Tokugawa shogunate later, and you will know that Todo Takatora really made the shogunate feel comfortable by photographing Ieyasu. How many "commotions" and changes were there outside? But the Todo clan Tsu clan was safe and sound.
Things come to an end.
Besides, is it okay if you don’t take pictures? If you don’t take pictures, how can you say, “The tall tiger in the Fuji Hall is my first battle”?
Of course, if that's all it is, it only proves that Todo's high-ranking people are weak and weak, but there are other things.
The so-called other things, the first thing that bears the brunt is the relationship between the Toyotomi family and him. Todo Takatora changed jobs many times, but in fact there was only one boss he recognized, not Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but Toyotomi Hidenaga!
His affection for the Toyotomi family, or what the Japanese call "bond", has always been with Hideuchi. A person who once killed his colleagues when he disagreed with him will never kill his colleagues again after he became acquainted with Hideuchi.
Instead, try to have a good relationship with everyone.
A man who originally only relied on martial arts to fight and kill people, in order to serve as the boss of Hideucha, he did a lot of tasks such as city construction, city and town construction, official negotiations and even intelligence reconnaissance. If he hadn't been for Hideucha,
Why is he working so hard? Logically speaking, isn't it enough for him to just fight well?
But a problem arose. There was a conflict between the Yamato Toyotomi family (i.e. Hideucha's line) to which he was loyal and the Toyotomi family! This is about the Toyotaka Takayoshi incident.
At first, Hideyoshi wanted to adopt a child from the Niwa family as an adopted son, but Hideyoshi was very unhappy. The two brothers quarreled for a long time. Finally, Takatora Toudo stepped forward and adopted the child, which relieved the ongoing conflict between Hideyoshi and Hideyoshi.
Afterwards, Hidenaga adopted Toyotomi Hideho, but a few years after Hidenaga passed away, Hideho also passed away. At this time, as the chief retainer of the Yamato Toyotomi family and the elder of the Toyotomi family, Todo Takatora had been making plans for a long time to let Todo (Niwa)
Takayoshi inherited the Yamato Toyotomi family in order to prevent Hidecho from extermination, but Hideyoshi did not allow it.
As a result, Todo Takatora became sad and angry, and ran away to become a monk. Later, Hideyoshi named him a nobleman, but he was actually forced to come back.
How should I put it? After all, he is the head of the Toyotomi branch family. He has good abilities and good popularity. Such a loss of talent is indeed a bit shameful for the Toyotomi family.
Although Hideyoshi really had a hard time talking to his retainers, Toudo Takatora could not be completely ignorant of Hideyoshi's employment style. So there is a very practical question: If Hideyoshi was really annoyed and asked Toudo Takatora to commit seppuku, could he refuse?
Three months after Hideho's death, the Hidetsu Incident also broke out. Gao Mingshi saw in the documentary that year that Todo Takatora parted ways with the Toyotomi system because "it used to be the central government, but now it is the local daimyo who leads the country." Therefore, their positions are different.
Thought changes.
This may make sense, but it can be understood in reverse: he used to be a retainer of the "Toyotomi branch family, Yamato Toyotomi family", so of course he had to do his best for Toyotomi. But later this branch family was canceled by the main family, and the heirs were extinct.
What to do?
Sorry, then I will naturally become a free man, and I should be busy with my own life. Why should I be loyal to "Toyotomi"? My master's family is the Yamato Toyotomi family, and the master is Hideuchi.
It's not you, Hideyoshi. Hideyoshi has lost his heir, and if you refuse to let Takayoshi adopt you, then of course I have no one to be loyal to.
Finally, Gao Pingshi thought about the relationship between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toudo Takatora.
It is almost impossible for a foreigner to be trusted by three generations of Tokugawa throughout his life. Not to mention that Masamune Yin and he are the "twins of foreigners", this is a joke.
Did Masamune Intatsu make any small moves against Hideyoshi? Of course he did, Kasai and Osaki Ikku were the same ones! Did Masamune Yin make any small moves against Ieyasu? Of course he did, and so was Ikkui in the Nanbu clan! There were even rumors that "Yin Tatsu"
Allied with Okubo Changan, borrowed the power of Spain, and supported Taduki"... So Ieyasu has been keeping a close eye on Masamune.
And Toudo Takatora is so trusted, which means that this person at least has no record of "disloyalty" in the first place, otherwise it would be strange that Ieyasu could not guard against him.
It is said that Takatora Toudo is a "maniac who changes his masters", but Tokugawa Ieyasu really has no grudges or worries in this regard. Even Takatora Toudo, as an outsider, actually mastered the power of ninja in the later period. This is enough to show Ieyasu's loyalty to him.
Characters are recognized.
As the actual ruler, the loyalty and character that Ieyasu can recognize are definitely not the irony of the "owner-changing maniacs" on the Internet, nor are they "the old turtle who bullies orphans and widowed mothers recognizes traitors. This is just the same thing."
If Takatora Toudo was like this, Ieyasu would have to consider whether Hidetada or even Iemitsu would be able to control him in the future. Then he would definitely have to use commotion and change one-stop measures to kill him. But Ieyasu recognized him and gave him an extraordinary gift.
of trust and power.
After thinking about Todo Takatora's relationship with important figures in the main factions, Gao Pragmatic also thought about the issue of interests.
Takatora Toudo was originally the patriarch of the family with 20,000 koku. Later, after Hideyoshi's lineage was eliminated, he was granted an additional 50,000 koku by Hideyoshi, bringing him to a fief of 70,000 koku. But this was subject to the precondition that his lord Toyotomi Hide was kind to him.
Nagahara originally owned a million-koku territory from Yamato, Kiyin, and Izumi—so if Toudo Takatora didn't object to this incident, he would have exchanged the million-koku territory and family name for himself with a 50,000-koku seal.
But Takatora Toudo objected. He first wanted Takayoshi to change his position. After Hideyoshi objected, he even ran to become a monk.
Even if we have to look at him from a "mercenary" perspective, after the death of his old master, as the family elder who assisted the young master Zuo, his influence and actual power were much greater than that of the Seven Thousand Stone Daimyo.
You must know that the chief daimyo of a million koku, the elder of the pentou family, is no less generous than the daimyo of less than 100,000 koku. For example, the Tohoku daimyo Tsugaru Nobubu was humiliated by the elder of the Maeda family, the pentou family Nagafuku Okumura.
So no matter how you calculate it, whether it's feelings or interests, Takatora Toudo will suffer a loss. Hideyoshi suffered such a big loss for him, and still wants him to be loyal and let him die for the Toyotomi family. How is this possible?
You must know that during the Warring States Period in Japan, no one desperately promoted the idea of loyalty to the master - that was something that was promoted during the Edo period of the Tokugawa shogunate.
Thinking of this, Gao Pingshi began to vaguely guess what Todo Takatora wanted to do.
He had no loyalty to Toyotomi Hideyoshi at all! Not to mention loyalty, he might even hate Hideyoshi, thinking that Hideyoshi was extremely mean and unkind for taking away the territory and family name that originally belonged to Hideyoshi.
This was interesting. Gao Pangshi immediately became interested and ordered Takatora Toudo to be brought. Not long after, Takatora Toudo, who was tightly tied up, was brought to Gao Pingshi's tent.
Gao Jingshi was stunned when he first saw this man - not because he was tied up like a rice dumpling, but because this man seemed to be a little taller than Gao Ge Lao.
This is an exaggeration. Measured by the standards of later generations, Gao Pingming's height was just over 1.8 meters. What was the average height of the Japanese at this time? However, Takatora Toudo actually looked like he might be 1.9 meters. Isn't this completely the case in Japan?
Is he a giant? No wonder this guy is always taken in. His height alone makes people have to take a high look.
It seemed that Todo Takatora might recognize the red silk python robe worn by Gao Jingshi. When he saw the latter, his eyes lit up and he said loudly: "Is this how the dignified prime minister treats guests?"
Gao Pragmatic was happy when he heard this. Takatora Toudo's Chinese could only be barely understood. His accent was very strong and he had to slow down his speaking speed. Compared with the previous Shimazu Toku, it was much worse.
Too much. And what he said is somewhat interesting. It seems to be following the style of some Chinese novels in the past dynasties, using "rituals" to compete with high pragmatism.
"How to treat guests?" Gao Pingshi smiled slightly and replied calmly: "Todo Gaohu, are you a guest?"
Todo Takatora was startled, as if he didn't expect Gao Pingshi's reaction, but he quickly realized it and added: "It may not have been the case originally, but it may not be the case in the future."
It seems that Takatora Toudo is still a samurai at heart. He is not particularly good at beating around the bush. He wants to get things out of the way as soon as he opens his mouth and does not like to do "useless work".
Gao Pingshi felt confident, raised his eyebrows slightly, and asked: "After our cabinet regains Busan and crosses the sea to defeat Toyotomi, you will be captured by the capital, and maybe you will become a corner of the capital. This is you.
Are you talking about the future?"
Todo Takatora smiled and said: "Xiangguo can naturally do this, but this is by no means the best solution. Prime Minister, I, Todo Takatora, am confident that I can be of great use to you - especially if you really want to defeat Toyotomi."
"Oh?" Gao Pragmatic smiled indifferently: "Why do you see that?"
Todo Takatora raised his chin slightly and said, "Osaka Castle was built by me."
Gao Pragmatic was slightly startled: "Are you talking about the Toyotomi family's Osaka Castle?"
"Exactly. Is there a second Osaka Castle in the world?"
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! This surprised Gao Pingshi a bit, because in his impression, although Todo Takatora did build Osaka Castle, it seemed that he was talking about his work in Germany.
Osaka Castle was rebuilt during the Shogunate era! Was he also responsible for the first construction of Osaka Castle during the Toyotomi era?
But after thinking about it, Gao Pragmatic started to believe it again, because just a little inquiry would tell that Todo Takatora would not lie about such a thing.
Besides, Toudo Takatora was indeed Japan's leading city-building expert in this era, and he was already a retainer of Toyotomi Hidenaga at that time. It is not surprising that Hideyoshi ordered him to preside over the construction of Osaka Castle.
Gao Pragmatism This is a manifestation of the emphasis on politics, military and economy in studying history at that time, rather than other parts, so that it is difficult to remember exactly which cities Takatora Todo built.
In fact, Todo Takatora successively built his own castle, including Saruoka Castle, Uwajima Castle, Osu Castle, Imabari Castle, Omishima Agasaki Castle, Yinga Ueno Castle, Tsu Castle, etc.; under the Toyotomi regime, Yamato Koyama was built
Castle, Osaka Castle, Wakayama Castle; under the Tokugawa regime, Edo Castle, Sasayama Castle, Zensho Castle were built; and Fushimi Castle, Tanba Kameyama Castle, Yodo Castle, Osaka Castle, etc. were built.
Judging from these achievements, it is probably not an exaggeration to say that he is the number one fortification master in Japan today.
"It seems that you are indeed of some use." Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly: "But this is not enough - you have also seen the artillery fire of our Heavenly Soldiers. No matter how strong Osaka City is, the Heavenly Soldiers will eventually collapse.
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Todo Takatora smiled and said: "I am not only useful for this, but..." He said and looked down at the rope on his body.
Gao Pragmatic also laughed and waved his hand: "Come here, please loosen the bonds of General Todo."
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