Chapter 281 The soldiers from the first town of Japan returned to Japan
The so-called "Ming army" stationed in Jiegang is of course not the imperial court's economic and political army, but the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance - or simply a highly pragmatic private army, the "armed servants" of Beijing.
The matter of garrisoning troops at the border port was discussed by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Luo Yuan at that time. At first, Toyotomi Hideyoshi requested that the Maritime Trade Alliance must establish a Japanese headquarters in Osaka so that the Kyushu Crystal Tower and the Kanto (Misaki Castle) Crystal
The building's card was suppressed. Due to the high pragmatic authorization, Luo Yuan agreed to this condition, but he said that the Sea Trade Alliance had its own rules. The Sea Trade Alliance must be responsible for the defense of the location of the Crystal Building, so it required the garrison of troops.
Since troops were to be stationed, it was obvious that the Japanese headquarters of the Maritime Trade Alliance could not be located in Osaka Castle, so Toyotomi Hidenaga proposed to locate it in Kaimachi, which is very close to Osaka Castle.
Although Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked all the major merchants in Kai-machi to move to Osaka, in the end the big merchants in Kai-machi generally chose to "add to the population", and the population loss was not huge. The so-called "add to the list" means that they
Although he was ordered to build a commercial building in Osaka, he was unwilling to give up the "fundamental place" of Kai-machi.
Therefore, with the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance, once they settle in Kai Town, the local situation that has been slightly declining due to being separated from a force will immediately change, and prosperity is just around the corner, so Luo Yuan also agreed to this.
But then, the two sides argued over the garrison issue for a while. At the beginning, Luo Yuan said that the garrison would be controlled to "less than 10,000", but Toyotomi Hidenaga was shocked and decisively refused.
He believed that 10,000 troops were too much - Akito might not think that 10,000 troops were too many, but 10,000 troops in Japan were really a lot. This can be used as an analogy: Although Japan's invasion of Korea sent troops to major
The requirements vary, but if we take an average, it is roughly calculated based on each territory sending 300 troops for every 10,000 shi.
So, taking the Shimazu family as an example, they should send 13,470 troops. However, after the Shimazu family announced that they would surrender to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi always wanted to decentralize power to Shimazu Yoshihiro by wooing him. This was especially true for the Shimazu family.
tolerant.
Therefore, Hideyoshi initially relaxed the policy for the Shimadzu family to send 250 troops per 10,000 koku, which meant that a total of 11,450 troops should be sent. Later, he also approved the Shimazu family to stay in Nagoya with more than 1,000 troops, so that only one troop was actually needed.
Wan. In the end, he himself filled the gap for Shimazu Yoshihiro, who "firmly followed Taiko". As a result, the Shimadzu family actually only dispatched more than 3,000 people to meet the requirements.
Of course, some families were not so lucky, such as the Chosogabe family. His family originally almost unified the entire Shikoku. However, because of their opposition to Hideyoshi, they were deprived of all the territories they conquered in the later period after Hideyoshi's "Shikoku Expedition", leaving only
Xiatuzuo Yiguo, the stone height is 98,000.
However, when the troops were sent to Korea, the Chosogabu family, which originally only needed to send 2,940 troops, was asked by Hideyoshi to gather all the troops, and finally sent 3,000 troops, not even one less.
What can I say about this kind of thing? I can only say that the treatment is earned by oneself. Hayato Satsuma is particularly good at fighting. The Shimadzu family has been producing famous generals for two or three consecutive generations.
It was a twist on the "Shimadzu Twin Palace System" of the Yoshihiro brothers, so several reasons were combined to create the special case of the Shimadzu family actually only sending 3,000 troops.
Oh, a special note needs to be made here. Although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not send a single soldier to Korea, he actually sent 25,000 troops to stay in Nagoya, the base camp for the imperial conquest.
Some people may ask, Tokugawa Ieyasu has a territory of 2.5 million koku in Kanto, why does he only need to send 25,000 people? The reason is simple, Tokugawa Ieyasu's direct leader is only one million koku, and the Kanto daimyo is far away.
According to Hideyoshi's regulations, 250 troops were sent for every 10,000 koku.
As for the remaining 1.5 million koku of Ieyasu, they were actually all divided among retainers. Here are only examples of the enfeoffment of Ueno country: Minawa 120,000 koku, Iyin Naomasa; Tatebayashi 100,000 koku, Kanbaru Yasumasa; Ubashi 33,000 koku,
The head office received 12,000 koku, Suwa Yomizu; Naha, 10,000 koku, went to the Matsudaira family; Numata, 27,000 koku, went to Sanada Nobuyuki.
The enfeoffment of other countries such as the Lower Sovereign, the Upper Sovereign, Musashi, Sagami, and Yotozu were also done according to this model. In short, Ieyasu's 2.5 million koku was real, but the Tokugawa head directly received one million koku.
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Closer to home, an army of 10,000 people is by no means a small number in the eyes of the Japanese, especially since the border port is so close to Osaka Castle. The garrison of this army of 10,000 people is not acceptable to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Toyotomi Hideyoshi thinks that at most it is not possible.
More than three thousand people.
Luo Yuan said at the time that with the Sea Trade Alliance's land division establishment, it would be difficult to arrange 3,000 people. Because the sea trade alliance's land division generally uses towns as the basic unit, and the number of people in a town is 12,512. He said that he had previously promised to
It is actually very difficult to control the number of people within 10,000, because only two infantry corps can be stationed, and the town's horse emblems and artillery emblems cannot be carried.
The two sides argued over each other, but in the end, the strong dragon prevailed over the local weakling, and the agreement reached was still based on the compromise proposal proposed by Toyotomi Hidenaga: the Maritime Trade Alliance's garrison in Kai Town would not exceed 5,000, and only one infantry alliance would be stationed.
He also said "very considerately" that 4,038 of the 5,000 people were planned to be a standard infantry corps of the Sea Trade Alliance, and the remaining about 1,000 people could be the homes of the officers of this corps.
Volume, Jia Ding, etc.
However, although the conditions were met, in fact, the troops at Jie Port were not actually deployed until Gao Pangshi personally went to North Korea. For one thing, the Sea Trade Alliance itself did not have that many land divisions (Jinghua’s domestic land divisions mainly belonged to Jinghua Trading Company)
and major industries and mines, which are not directly under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Trade Alliance); secondly, Gao Pragmatic has been busy with the war against Mongolia since the agreement was reached, and has not decided where to allocate manpower.
Therefore, until he went to North Korea in person, although the Sea Trade Alliance had built the so-called "Japan Headquarters" in Kai Town - the Kai Port Crystal Building, the defense force was not a regular land division, but was cobbled together by Jinghua and various companies in the alliance fleet.
Some musketeers came out to serve. The number of these people was not fixed. Sometimes there were thousands of people, and sometimes there were only six or seven hundred.
From a highly pragmatic point of view, because Jie Port is too close to Osaka Castle, it is naturally very convenient for doing business in peacetime, but it is too difficult to hold it during war.
In terms of Jinghua's strength, it would not be impossible if Kaicho was to be used as a fortress, but it would not be cost-effective, and secondly it would not be in line with the highly pragmatic plan and implementation steps for Japan at that time.
Gao Pragmatic does not want to solve Japan's problems in the Siamese way, which means that he cannot solve the problem by himself, otherwise the cost-effectiveness ratio will be too ugly.
In his opinion at the time, the best way was to let Japan have a civil war first, and try to let them form a situation similar to the one in the original history where the Eastern and Western armies fought fiercely. Of course, the strength between the Eastern and Western armies may require his intervention to fine-tune it.
Let's make their power balance more balanced.
At the same time, the process of the civil war may also require a certain degree of intervention to prevent the war from entering a decisive battle too quickly, and then deciding the outcome at once. It is best to turn it into a long-term tug-of-war consisting of many small and medium-sized battles, so that both
The forces on all sides are constantly bleeding blood to reduce the cost of future governance, and they can also use the war to make money.
However, this idea later changed due to changes in actual circumstances. The most critical point was that Tokugawa Ieyasu suddenly proposed to adopt Takashi as his adopted son and made a clear promise to make Takashi the governor of the Tokugawa family.
Tokugawa Ieyasu put forward such a seemingly bizarre condition, and when Gao Pragmatic heard it, he knew that Ieyasu had seen his plan, or at least that he had seen his intention to intervene forcefully in Japan after Hideyoshi's death.
Ieyasu has always been wily and calculating, and he is very calm and will not make any moves easily. But on the other hand, once he makes a move, it must be clearly calculated and certain.
Therefore, when he put forward such a condition, he made it clear that he had already calculated that with the degree of division in Japan, as long as the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the recognized "man of the world", would definitely not be able to resist Gao Pragmatic's interference, he would definitely be
Defeat each one.
In this process, the Tokugawa family, as the most powerful name after the Toyotomi family, and happened to be not far from Misaki Castle, the fulcrum of the Kanto fleet, would definitely suffer a thunderous blow.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to adopt Gao Yan as an adopted son. This way he can preserve his strength and even have a chance to preserve his family name.
Here, it is easier to understand that the Tokugawa family keeps their name. After all, as long as Gao Yan becomes his adopted son, if there is no accident in the future, he should be named Tokugawa Miao, and the Tokugawa family name will be preserved.
Preserving strength may not be easy to understand, but Ieyasu does have his scheming. In Ieyasu's view, if Gao Pragmatic wants to conquer Japan, and he has already surrendered, he will still have a lot of people to deal with - at least abundant
The Chen family will definitely be destroyed.
Destroying the Toyotomi family, forcing the surrender of some daimyo, and killing other daimyo who refuse to obey, these are all things that will definitely happen. And during this period, many major events such as territorial confiscation and territorial relocation will definitely occur.
The final result is that there will be many more "unclaimed lands" in the world.
No matter how cunning Ieyasu is, he cannot break away from the conventional thinking of the Japanese, so he believes that even if he is pragmatic, he will take away half or even more than half of these unclaimed lands - of course, it should be taken away in the capacity of the Tokugawa family governor with high performance -
—But what about the rest?
He, the Tokugawa family, followed Gao Pragmatic's "Tianxia deployment", so he had to grant a group of people no matter what? In Ieyasu's view, he himself should have given up the family governor to Gao Yan at that time, so there would definitely not be any division of land, but Tokugawa
Can’t Chuan Xiuzhong and his brothers get a share of the pie?
Especially Hidetada, he was the successor of the Tokugawa family's original governor, and when the time came, all the governors had to give up. As the most important "pro-lord daimyo", it was completely unreasonable not to enclose more territories. As for Yuki Hideyasu, Matsudaira Tadayoshi and others
(They are both sons of Ieyasu. Readers who are interested in the issue of different Miao characters can search it on their own.) Of course, they will also be able to get a share of the pie, so "preserving strength" can also be achieved.
Because of the changes caused by this incident, Gao pragmatically adjusted his future plans against Japan, and one of them was to send additional troops to Jie Hong.
Of course, this also has a premise, that is, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's health deteriorated day by day, Gao pragmatically judged that he should not have any military action against Jiegang, and his focus of thinking would definitely shift to the issue of successors.
At that time, as long as no one jumped out to rebel, Hideyoshi basically wouldn't care.
As a result, Jie Port's military strength was quickly strengthened. Not only did it complete the "five thousand garrison" stipulated in the previous agreement in just two months, but it also had many hidden forces.
Kaiko is a unique place. Although the big businessmen here now have business houses in Osaka, their impression of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and even the entire Toyotomi family is very bad.
At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seemed to have gone crazy. He first forced Sen no Rikyu, one of the leaders of Japan's largest commercial port, to commit suicide, which offended a large number of businessmen. What's more terrible is that in order to amass wealth in Osaka Castle, Hideyoshi
Forcing wealthy households from Hong Kong to move to Osaka caused even more complaints.
However, at that time, forced by the despotic power of the Toyotomi family, the merchants of Kai Port dared not speak out. In the original history, it was not until Tokugawa Ieyasu's power rose that they couldn't wait to join him. For example, during the Battle of Sekigahara, Kai Port
They sent more than 100 mercenaries to join the Eastern Army, and even more secret economic support.
Therefore, in order to thank the merchants of Kai Port, in 1604, the Tokugawa shogunate, which had opened in Edo, ordered that only the merchants of Kai Port, Kyoto and Nagasaki had the exclusive right to buy and sell raw silk trade in Japan, and no one else could interfere.
.This made the businessmen of Jiegang make a lot of money, and they were even more grateful to the shogunate, thinking that they were reborn parents.
Kaimin had a high degree of independence during the Muromachi shogunate period. The rules and regulations were completely managed by the residents themselves. There was an organization among the residents called the "Ten People" that specialized in litigation. It later developed into the Thirty-six People's Association.
Represent the interests of residents.
In terms of urban construction, there are trenches filled with water around the boundary port, and the two ends of each town are separated from each other by wooden boards, which are locked at night to protect the safety of the city. In the commercial field, ordinary businessmen in the same industry also have their own
"seat" to regulate each other's business behavior.
After the Sea Trade Alliance built the Crystal Tower in the original boundary port, due to its strong commercial capabilities, it controlled countless goods from the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang and other places. Even the cargo ships of the "Southern Barbarians" (Western, Portuguese, etc.) had to obtain its approval.
After arriving, almost as soon as he settled in, he was dominated by the business community in Jie Hong.
Merchants in Jiegang did not dare to be hostile to the Sea Trade Alliance. They could only compete with each other to see who was more clever in order to obtain trade franchise rights for certain goods. Soon another Japanese alliance with the Sea Trade Alliance as its core was actually formed.
Business alliance.
Since this is the situation, there is no need to elaborate on the position of these big businessmen. Gao Pragmatic wants to break it up into pieces and deploy more military forces to Jie Hong. No blind businessman will refuse, let alone reveal anything.
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When Maeda Toshiie remembered that there was a "Ming Army" in Jie Port, in fact there was already a town-wide army sent by Gao Pragmatism in Jie Port, totaling more than 11,000 people.
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