Gao Jingshi not only knew the reason why Uesugi Kagekatsu refused to go to Beijing this time, but it should even be said that Gao Jingshi personally gave him the reason. On the contrary, Kaiji didn't know the process, because the process of this matter was not clear.
After Kafihime - this matter was handled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs.
There is no need to elaborate on this matter. To put it simply, among the dozens of craftsmen sent to Japan by Kyoka in the early years, they were naturally placed in a prestigious family like the Uesugi family.
Among them is a man named Kashiwahara Munashi, who has become the Otsutsubo Shogyo of the Uesugi family. He is a very talkative presence in the Uesugi family - Otsutsuki is the Japanese term for artillery, so "Otsutsubo Shogyo" as the name suggests.
The person in charge of the Uesugi family's artillery.
How Kashiwahara Munashi managed to get such an important position over the years, I won’t go into details here for the time being, but I will say that his main work for the Uesugi family over the years was to accumulate artillery and train gunners. This training of gunners is naturally a technology brought back from the Ming Dynasty, so there is no need to say more.
, anyway, the main thing he can teach is aiming, and he doesn’t understand other things like concentrated firepower.
What we want to talk about now is "accumulating artillery". Japan can now manufacture good quality matchlocks, also known as "Japanese iron cannons", but for real artillery, that is, large barrels, they lack the manufacturing capacity and can only rely on other
Obtained through other channels. This "other channel" was obtained through the so-called "Southern Barbarian Trade" in the early years, that is, doing business with the Spanish and Portuguese.
However, since Jinghua has basically monopolized Japanese trade, the number of businessmen from Spain and Portugal who continue to go to Japan to do business has not increased significantly - after all, even if they go, Jinghua will charge a toll, and the profit margin has slightly increased.
This is still like direct trade between Nanyang and Beijing. It saves a lot of trouble and makes a few more profits. So why go north to Japan?
As a result, there are only some missionaries left in Japan and hoping that Japan will escape.
There is a lot of trade in Nanman. There is no doubt that the only source of Japanese artillery is Xiao Ming. As mentioned later, no one from Xiao Ming secretly smuggled firearms to Japan. Only Jiangnan maritime merchants were willing to make that money.
, even within the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, these princes and marquises later sold a batch of replaced artillery to Japan. It was only when the war to aid Korea broke out that they were regarded as pragmatic and that the war could be used to support the enemy.
Stop by calling.
What was stopped was only the sale of artillery to Japan by Jinghua, and the smuggling of artillery by Jiangnan maritime merchants was also strictly controlled. There is nothing else to say: Jiangnan maritime merchants would be stupid enough to sell finished artillery directly, and it would be too difficult to get caught.
Jinghua has caught the action.
We have always split the artillery into as many components as possible and sent them to Japan in the same batch. Then we assembled the artillery in the local chamber of commerce in Japan and then contacted the buyer for delivery.
Goods and payment.
Jinghua's purpose is to make Japan fight a civil war first, and only after the veterans of both sides are exhausted, Jinghua will come out to "fix the sky", and then use an attitude that is almost a reward to "support" me, Zou Jie, Zou Jie, to become the shogun. Only in this way,
None of the talented people in Japan had the strength to say yes to Kyouka, and the Ieyasu family even had to show their gratitude and thank Kyouka for granting me the position of shogun.
A narrow-minded person who is obsessed with showing off his low official salary and strong military force will become the source of riots. But now, it is only the character of the Kamo family that Jing Sheng cannot judge, and there is no shadow hanging over Japan at all times:
Jinghua.
At this time, Kashiwa Tenshukaku had the opportunity to show his ability to the Shimosugi family: I can still get artillery for the Shimosugi family at eight or seven o'clock. Although those artillery pieces look of special quality, they are often only Kyoka's No. 7 cannons.
At least No. 8 cannon, but that is normal and precious to the Shimosugi family.
However, "difficult" is mainly because of the economy under cost. It means that Jinghua can conduct a thorough inspection when it has to do an inspection. It is better to send more manpower to reduce the workload. When it is low, it is pragmatic and insists on strictly controlling the flow of artillery into Japan.
Previously, it was extremely difficult to obtain artillery in Japan.
The castle of the Shimogamo clan was originally located in Kasugayama Castle in Echizen, but it was transferred to Aizu in the first month of the year when Zou Jie died. What considerations did Hideyoshi have to transfer Zou Jie to the 17th
The reason for Aizu's 114,000 koku is obvious.
Hoshunin - nor Mrs. Asatsu's explanation for this is: "There is no precedent for this matter. Mr. Asano has handed over his son to Edo. Before the battle of Omaki Nagakute, the small political office also went to Okazaki as a hostage.
As long as it is for the sake of peace in heaven, you are just living like an old woman, there is nothing you cannot be afraid of."
For that kind of demanding request, the entire Gota family was in a commotion. In order to calm the family, Gota Toshinaga acted completely secretly. First, Murai Toumae and Yamazaki Anfang sent Hochunin to Kosaka, and then to Kosaka.
When they arrived in Edo, Toshimasa was even more heartbroken than his elders, and said in tears: "Sending my mother to Edo as a hostage is different from surrendering to the seven masters because my family has declined..."
It turns out that in April of the eighth year of Keicho, Toyotomi received the news that Hideyoshi was critically ill, so he withdrew from the capital and stayed there until April of the following year. He did not return to his new territory for a whole year. Therefore, before going back, I immediately immersed myself in repairing the castle walls.
, road preparation and other tedious matters. Jing Sheng is quite vague about all of that. However, Jing Sheng has not fully grasped Zou Jie's opinion on the small situation in the sky and what kind of actions he will take.
Almost at the same time, Hideharu, the governor of Horiemon who was transferred to Echizen, the old territory of Shimotsugi, also came to report that Toyotomi seemed to have no intention of turning back. It turned out that after the transfer to Aizu, Toyotomi delayed the tax collection in Echizen for half a year, and as a result, he was defeated.
Hori Hideharu, who was transferred to Japan, was in trouble.
Does this mean that Toshinaga's brother, Kawa Ieyasu, has surrendered? Jing Sheng may have already seen through that Goda would agree, so he deliberately provoked him.
For those, Kagekatsu doesn’t have any ideas. However, my approach is something that everyone can understand. For example, since before Mori Terumoto returned to the territory last year, I have ignored it and instead talked with Aizu’s Shimogamo.
He contacted frequently, either asking about Ou's situation, or reporting on court developments...
Next up are the Mori clan and the Shimosugi clan. From Kagekatsu's point of view, once Mouri and Shimosugi become his allies, then Ishida Haucheng will have to obey orders, and the war in Japan will be extinguished before it is ignited-unless Kyoka
Play in person, otherwise who can deal with me at this time?
Therefore, Kashiwa Tenshukaku continued to say that Ieyasu was so prosperous that he informed Kyoka of his plan. Fortunately, his attitude towards the Shimosugi family was: this domain was one of the Tokugawa clans that surrounded the Zou Jie clan from all sides.
And those with the lowest status and weakest strength must be completely eradicated.
In those days, it was also possible for Jinghua to open a warehouse and inspect the goods transported by each ship one by one, so it was difficult for Jinghua to catch such a delivery method.
Later, Ieyasu Kagekatsu took advantage of this rumor secretly spread by Ishida Hachinari to slow down his visit to Kosaka Castle, and soon retreated into Kosaka Castle while the Kosakas were in a hurry.
That was mainly because before Hara Soshigo's death, he used Hara Soshi to suppress Ieyasu's family from the north, and actually it was not bankrupt yet. Therefore, Hideyoshi moved the Shimosugi clan, which had always been unknown in martial arts since Kenshin, to
Go to Aizu and ask him to monitor the movements of Edo. Toyotomi, Kagekatsu and Bachari all know the essence of that arrangement, and they all can't forget it.
This man is the sister of Senhime who is no longer engaged to Hideyori. Therefore, if the heavens are stable, Hideyori and Totsune will become brothers-in-law, and the Tokugawa, Ieyasu and Gotada eight families are connected by marriage, and it is inextricable. Although it is just politics.
marriage, but it seems that there is Kagekatsu's gratitude to the late Xiaonan Yan Goda Toshiya's attitude after his death. In short, the entanglement between Ieyasu and Goda should be said to have not been settled yet.
In the first month of the seventh year of Keicho, Torii Motoda's son-in-law, Tozawa Shichiro Masamori, the lord of Dewa Kakunodate Castle, sent someone to Kawakawa Ieyasu to report: "Shimosugi Nakaton and Naoe Yamashiro, the family elder, only conspired with the small number of minor repairs in the territory.
The castle was also built in the name of the fact that Aizu, the residence of the Ashina family for several generations, was located in a depression and was easy to attack and difficult to defend, so a new castle was built at Kamashihara, eighty-seven miles away from the castle."
The resentful Horihideji and Kawa Ieyasu reported that Toyotomi seemed to have spent all the taxes collected on building a new city, renovating Echizen official roads, repairing river docks, etc. There were no rumors that the Kamao family had secretly built a small tube.
Army (artillery).
After frequent contacts, Jing Sheng finally had a good opportunity to test Toyotomi.
Regarding the internal fighting between the Dogmatist faction and the Adherent faction, Kage Katsu might not be able to create a shogunate, and Kage Katsu still doesn't know what the Shimogamo family thinks about... various development possibilities.
Zou Jie actually ordered Yokoyama Nagawa to send Yoshichunin, the mother of the Toshicho brothers, to Edo as a hostage. This request shocked Masuda and Nagasuke and others. After that, even though the late Taiko did not take the hostages in Kosaka
There is precedent, but it has never been done before to detain a hostage of such a low-status nickname in one's own territory.
However, just as rumors started to spread, the Gottian family agreed to hand over the hostages, and everyone was once again stunned.
Everyone at the lower levels of the Shimosugi family knew that the reason why Bai Tianshuge was able to obtain artillery was because of the connections I established when Xiao Ming was a general. After all, according to Bai Tianshou himself, my later master, General Liu Wei, was "
"Xiao Ming Guan Bai" is a pragmatic and important general under his command. Without General Liu's face, it seems natural to deal with artillery issues.
In fact, Hoshun-in's profound understanding and small righteousness were not supported by the great efforts of Kaotai-in [Note: Hideyoshi's first wife, Ningning.] Kaotai-in devoted himself to inheriting Hideyoshi's legacy and took "eternal peace in heaven" as his own responsibility.
But fortunately, this incident did not cause a storm.
In fact, since Zou Jie lived in Taisaien, he had no scruples and regarded himself as a heavenly being. First, I exiled Hijikata Kawauchi Moriyuhisa and Ono Xiurei to Hitachi, and then I asked Asano Nagamasa to return to Kai to think about it.
That time I deliberately created the illusion that I was going to attack the Houtian family in order to force the elder brother to surrender.
Seeing that the Ieyasu family before moving to Kanto had great success in controlling floods, in ten years they actually lowered the stone to 7.7 million stone. The entire Kanto area was prospering. Could it be that Tokugawa Hideyoshi was relaxed? I
In the early years, the Ieyasu family was surrounded on eight sides. Now the remaining two sides seemed to be a small problem, but it seemed that the suppression force from the north was becoming more and more sufficient.
Asano Nagamasa must be said. The world once discussed that the Toshinaga brothers were definitely begging for mercy from Kawakawa Ieyasu. However, the situation has changed slightly since the Gotada family's old Hengshan Castle Warden and Kawa Ieyasu apologized.
Hearing the secret report from Tozawa Masamori and Hori Hideharu, Kagekatsu was both surprised and angry. As we all know, rectifying armaments is the first priority that a military commander must do before taking office, and the delay in collecting annual taxes was also due to his transfer from Aizu to
Hara Soshi of Utsunomiya delayed the collection of taxes, and Toyotomi did it as a last resort. What Kagekatsu was worried about was not the trivial matters.
With the recognition of the late Taige, Jingsheng, who was the most powerful in the world, became a lonely and important minister. It can be admitted that there are two Xiang Jiakang in one city facing each other far away, and Jingsheng also wanted to show his majesty to the little name in the sky. I seem to be saying
, if no one is convinced, Zou Jiejingsheng is willing to have a showdown with him...
"One million seven hundred thousand stone... Can Zou Jieyi, who owns such a small territory, understand that everything you do is just to maintain a peaceful and prosperous age for Japan? Do I really not have that kind of foresight?" Jing Sheng
Ask yourself occasionally.
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As a result, the status of Kashiwa Tenshukaku in the Shimosugi family has been rising and falling. Although I am a new investor with a few years of status and qualifications, if I am the family elder, it does not affect me to become more and more important in the Shimosugi family.
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Of course, that alone is enough. Because at the end of the day, the Shimosugi family is a wealthy family with a fortune of 1.7 million koku. They have no capital to directly surrender to Ieyasu and continue to maintain the family name.
The following were sent to Zou Jieyi in a low and pragmatic manner as the reason for returning to Kyoto. But just before Shimogamo came back to Aizu, Zou Jieyi immediately reported to me a "little thing that concerns the sky."
At the beginning of August in the seventh year of Qingchang, the snow in the northern country melted and the cherry blossoms were in bud.
Knowing that the Goda family was not rebellious, Jing Sheng still deliberately made things difficult for the Goda brothers, which seemed to be very kind. However, before the hostage incident, Jing Sheng immediately promised Hidetada's second son to Toshiyuki who would inherit the Goda family business.
Brother Li Chang.
Kagekatsu kept in touch with Toyotomi, but in reality it was a test. In that sense, Toshinaga Goda, who persuaded Kamikawa Ieyasu to be strong, finally passed Kagekatsu's test.
Soon after Ieyasu Kageyoshi retreated from the city, he built a solemn Ieyasu Ieyasu in the west garden of Kosaka Castle. Although it was compared with Ieyasu Ieyasu in the city, it was still a little less crude as a residence for the regents of many princes.
Kashiwa Tensukaku said, I have learned about an extremely important conspiracy from Beijing: Ieyasu Kagekatsu has not yet won the support of Beijing, and wants to "unify internally" to usurp the Tokugawa inheritance. Specifically, it is not to win over the Zou Jie family internally.
A group of people, and then defeated a group of people who obeyed me by force, and then took over the identity of "Heavenly Man", abolished the Tokugawa Kōki that combined public and military affairs, and established a new shogunate by me.
Thanks to book friend "Cao Mianzi" for your reward and support, thank you!
The Shimogamo family was slightly shocked when they learned about it, and Naoe Kanetsugu and other important retainers also believed that Ieyasu Kagekatsu really did not subvert the will of heaven, so it makes sense to eradicate the Shimosugi family as the first priority. In this way, Shimogamo
How dare the Pu Sheng clan return to Beijing? Of course, the first priority is not to consolidate territory and prepare for war.
Two flowers bloomed, one on each side. It was time to turn my attention back to Zou Jie Jingsheng and see my next performance.