Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1392 Toyotomi and Shimadzu (Part [-])
"Don't fight unprepared battles" is Gao Pragmatic's consistent style. Since the current situation in Japan can even affect the top nobles of Ming Dynasty, even if this influence is mostly for economic purposes, Gao Pragmatic also feels that he You should start paying more attention to Japan.

He quickly ordered Gao Mo to collect all the information about Japan collected by Heiding in the past two or three years and send it to him.

This matter is not difficult to handle, the black top is covered under the guise of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, and in addition, there is almost no secrecy in Japan from the imperial court to the famous names from all walks of life-they do have it among themselves, but for Daming On the contrary, the businessman did not—so he had already collected a lot of information, summarized and analyzed it specially, and only presented it to the master when Gao Pragmatically needed it, so Gao Mo quickly sent a large stack of books and papers send it.

It took Gao Wushi more than an hour to read these things carefully, and then he had a clearer understanding of the situation in Japan in the past two or three years.

In 1585 A.D., that is, in the autumn of the 13th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, Hideyoshi issued an order of nothing to do in the capacity of Guan Bai.The so-called Do Nothing Order is actually a peace law.The meaning of the order is not complicated, but it refers to the prohibition of private fighting among daimyo without Guan Bai's permission.If you violate it, the result will of course be that Guan Bai will come to teach you a lesson.

In a famous Japanese game in later generations, playing the "Nothing to Do" order means that the level can be cleared.But real history is not playing games after all, and it is not true that there are no one who refuses to obey this order.

Not long after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's order was issued, someone challenged him.

You must know that Toyotomi Hideyoshi has not established his dominant position for a long time, just when he needs to establish his authority, but as soon as he posted it, someone blatantly violated it.

It was Satsuma's Shimadzu family who dared to despise Hideyoshi at such a sensitive moment.

Satsuma, located in the southwestern part of Kyushu, later Kagoshima Prefecture.This place of Satsuma has always been known for its extremely tough folk customs. It is known as the Sparta of Asia on the Internet in later generations.

But the reason why they are so tough, there are historical reasons.First of all, it is very important that the Satsuma people are not actually "Hezu" at all, but the Hayato ethnic minority in Japan (of course, they are now completely assimilated like the Wuhu in China).

As early as the fifth century AD, the Hayato tribe submitted to the central government of Japan. Of course, the name Japan did not exist at that time, and the so-called Satsuma country was far from appearing.

At that time, because the sky was high and the emperor was far away, although Hayato nominally said he obeyed, he basically ignored the existence of the imperial center, and often refused to pay taxes and tributes.This is easy to understand. The land in this bird shit place in Satsuma is barren, and it is not easy to get some food for yourself. Where can I have extra food to hand over to the public?
But the imperial court naturally doesn't care whether you can afford to eat or not, you have to pay what you should pay, if you don't pay, you are a traitor, and you have to use force to force you to pay.

As the saying goes, where there is oppression, there is resistance, and Satsuma's Hayato rose up and resisted without any suspense under such oppression.The so-called troublemakers come out of poor mountains and rivers, and the Satsuma people are all brave and sturdy. The imperial army tried it and found that they really couldn't take them down.Over time, I don't bother to care about it.If you don't hand it over, you don't have a few grains of rice anyway, so it's not worth it.

In the Tang Dynasty, Japan and the Tang Dynasty fought a war called the Battle of Baijiangkou.In this battle, the navy of the Tang Dynasty gave full play to its own advantages and defeated the Japanese navy, whose strength and ships were several times its own.

The characteristics of the Japanese are well known. When they are not beaten, they think that I am the best in the world. After the defeat, they immediately obey like a dead dog.So after this battle, Japan became honest, and felt that it could only be regarded as the second in the world, and Datang was the number one in the world, so it took the initiative to send Tang envoys to learn from Datang in all aspects.

At the earliest time, the Japanese envoys sent to the Tang Dynasty went to the Korean Peninsula to enter the Tang Dynasty, but then civil strife broke out in North Korea, and this road could not be followed, so the Japanese felt that they had to develop a new route, and the starting point was the Hayato gathering place in the Osumi country. .

But I never expected that this would cause trouble. The inspection officials sent by the imperial court were too arrogant, which offended the very bad-tempered Hayato cynics, so they picked up their stuff and surrounded the imperial officials.

The officials of the imperial court were of course very smart, and they immediately showed what it means to be able to bend and stretch a man - immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed for mercy.Hayato saw it, and this is it?Did you guys give up before you even made a move?

However, they may rarely encounter this kind of accident, and they don't know how to deal with it for a while. Looking at his pitiful appearance, they just say go back, and don't pretend to be aggressive in front of the old men next time.

There is no need to guess the next story, these officials filed a complaint as soon as they returned.Therefore, for the sake of domestic stability, of course, the imperial court may be more important for international harmony—in case these barbarians offend the envoys from the Tang Dynasty next time, what kind of shit will Japan be?So it is very necessary to rectify Hayato.

Just do what you say, the Japanese imperial court first divided a part of Hyuga country as Changgen country (later renamed Sama country and finally named Satsuma country), which is equivalent to setting up a special zone for Hayato, and since then strengthened control and implemented it locally new tax system.

In the words of later generations, this new tax system is characterized by the fact that there is no threshold.It means that if you receive ten shi of grain, you will pay three shi. If you only receive ten grains of rice, sorry, you have to pay three.

The falcons are used to being the masters, so where can they bear this tone, they immediately became angry.So they killed the administrators sent by the court and raised the banner of rebellion.This time the imperial court responded quickly, and immediately pulled more than 1 people across the sea to fight against Hayato.Hayato showed amazing fighting power with only more than a thousand people, and he persisted for a year and a half before surrendering because of lack of food.

For the Japanese imperial court, although this battle was won, it was more painful to win, and it was likely to be a loss-making business.So the imperial court also felt that it was necessary to change the method, not to force it blindly, but to try the Huairou Dafa learned from China.

The strategy was quickly finalized. Specifically, the first was population migration, sending the Hayato from Osumi to the capital so that they could be assimilated;

Since all the Hayato of Osumi were sent away, Satsuma became the last concentration of Hayato, and gradually Satsuma and Hayato were equated.

In the Heian period, the imperial court sent a magistrate to Satsuma, named Wei Zong Tadahisa.Since the central and southern part of Hyuga Country and Satsuma Osumi were also called Shimadzu Village, Yoshimune Tadahisa simply changed his name to Shimadzu Tadahisa, and this is how the famous Shimadzu family came about.

The Shimadzu family has been in southern Kyushu for 500 years. It has a long history and is comparable to the Takeda family.And not only did they stay for a long time, the Shimadzu family also had a very cool and handsome aura.This momentum is embodied in four words: never go to Luo.

The so-called "Shangluo" does not refer to Shangluo during the Warring States Period in China, where the emperor was held hostage to order the princes. In Japan, the term simply means going to Beijing to report on his duties.However, the Shimadzu family has hardly done such a routine debriefing in the past 500 years. The reason is simple and clear: I am not happy, sir.

It is such a combination of local snakes and foreign nationalities. For hundreds of years, the Japanese imperial court has really had nothing to do with them. Later, in the period of war, it is even more overwhelming. Who has nothing to do and has the mood to manage the southwestern border?As a result, this group of people became even more unscrupulous, and a considerable number of people chose to work for Boss Wang Zhiwang because of this, and ended up giving Hu Zongxian and Qi Jiguang their heads.

In the past few years, the fighting blood of the Shimadzu family has finally awakened again. The No.15 generation leader Shimadzu Takahisa and his four sons are all fierce generals, and the four sons are very united, so it only took ten years. , The Shimadzu family wiped out Osumi Hinata's Ito, Gantsu and other forces, and then moved northward to attack Hizen's daimyo, Ryuzoji Takanobu known as the bear of Hizen.

Long Xin was originally a very capable general, but because he was usually strict with his opponents, his style was probably similar to Zhang Fei. As a result, when he was fighting, his bearer saw that something was wrong and ran away, so Long Xin was killed by Shimadzu. The members of the family were besieged and beaten to death, and the Longzhaosi family never recovered.

In this way, only the Otomo family in Kyushu can compete with the Shimadzu family, but they are only trying to resist, and the disadvantages are still relatively obvious.When Hideyoshi gave the order, they were being encroached upon by the Shimadzu family.

Of course, the Shimadzu family also received an order to do nothing, but I just mentioned their family's history, sir, I haven't been a bird in the court for 500 years, now you say I won't fight if you don't want to fight?Which onion do you think you are?So he continued to beat up Oyou's house.

Hideyoshi was about to show his prestige at this time, there was no room for someone who was disobedient, so he quickly decided: Fuck him!Hideyoshi obviously intends to set a negative example to make an example to others.Unexpectedly, just as the fight was about to start, something happened behind the scenes: Ishikawa Shuzheng of the Tokugawa family ran away, and came to him.

Under the countless verbal and action threats from Sanhe angry youths, Shuzheng finally couldn't bear it.I have worked hard for many years and contributed to the Tokugawa family's diplomacy without complaint. It is nothing more than that you are hawks and I am doves. Why do you yell at me so much?

Thinking that he had worked hard for many years, even if he had no credit, he had worked hard, but the result was not good at all, and he might have to be dragged out and beheaded by radicals one day to show the public. The Yi clan ran to Hideyoshi in Osaka Castle.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was of course very nervous. Although he could understand Shuzheng's thoughts and knew that he was not a disloyal person, but since Shuzheng was an important minister in the family and belonged to the person who held the core secrets, once he leaked any secret to Hideyoshi, he would Quite passive.

So Ieyasu immediately started military reforms, replacing all the military systems in the family with those of the Takeda family.But what he didn't know was that Hideyoshi was nervous too.Originally, Ieyasu had given hostages to subdue him before, and if he turned his face again because of this matter, it would be very difficult for him.

So Hideyoshi decided to have a thorough talk with Ieyasu after the new year.The requirements are not high, I just hope that Ieyasu will come to Osaka to express his surrender face to face.

The person in charge of the negotiations was Oda Changyi, a tea-making expert. After Nobuo and Hideyoshi reconciled, he came to the more prosperous Osaka to learn how to make tea with the tea ceremony master Qian Zongyi.Although Chang Yi can only make tea, he is very confident in himself and believes that his diplomatic skills are very outstanding.

However, it turns out that history is really not a game, and being good at the tea ceremony has nothing to do with diplomatic ability.

After Changyi saw Ieyasu, he said with a smirk on his face: "Ah, what happened last year (Ishikawa Suzuma was running away) was really surprising!" As far as the level of whether to open any pot or raise any pot, Tokugawa Ieyasu couldn't even handle it. Law to speak.So Jiakang replied blankly: "I heard that Master Guan Bai has taken in Lord Boqi. Is he in good health?"

When Changyi heard it, he was shocked. He smiled and said that he was in good health. We made tea and chatted together a few days ago. I still remember the tea set I used.After a lot of talk, he finally realized that he was far away, so he began to think about what reason to let Ieyasu go to Osaka.

After thinking about it for a while, he felt that it is okay to use the topic of son, there is no father in the world who does not love his son. "Speaking of Master Yu Yimaru..."

"It's enough for him to be in good health! Master Changyi, it's getting late, so I'm sorry for not being with you." After speaking, Jiakang got up and signaled to see off the guests.

This is really speechless, a person who can send his son as a hostage, how much do you expect him to love his son?

Of course, Changyi was completely unaware of his brain-dead behavior. He felt that he had to be as patient as visiting a thatched cottage, so he kept looking for Ieyasu.Apparently, Ieyasu became more and more impatient, and finally someone directly told Changyi that he was very busy, so don't come too late.Chang Yi was so embarrassed that he had to go back to Osaka and wait to be scolded.

But after returning to Osaka, Hideyoshi was very talkative, saying that there was no need to worry, he didn't expect Ieyasu to come so easily, and Yamato had his own clever plan to make him come.

Chang Yi was puzzled: "Your Highness, what is the plan?"

Hideyoshi was straightforward: "Give him a beautiful woman as his wife!"

Because of Tsukiyama's execution, although Ieyasu has many women, the main room has been vacant.But Changyi was even more puzzled: "Whose family's daughter?"

Hideyoshi chuckled: "My sister!" Changyi was stunned.

What must be explained here is that Hideyoshi's younger sister is called Asahihime (same mother and half father). She is neither Kasugano Dome, Kosaka Kirino, or even Ichinose Himezuki.

In fact, first of all, his sister is not very good - this may be nonsense, since Hideyoshi looks like a monkey, how can his sister be better?

Secondly, his younger sister is already 45 years old. In the era when there was no hyaluronic acid to fight, not everyone can be an "old woman of Ye He".

But the most important point is that his sister is now married to his retainer Tomita Yoshinari.

No wonder Chang Yi was so confused and married a married middle-aged woman to Jia Kang?To be able to come up with such a good idea, I can only say... you are indeed worthy.

But Hideyoshi has already made up his mind. While sending Chang Yi to Ieyasu to talk about marriage again, he ordered his sister to divorce her husband.Because he was too wicked, the old lady Ah Zhong got angry again and was going to give him two slaps again.

Hideyoshi also knew that his mother was very angry, so he simply hid to see his mother.After all, it is too important for him to ensure Ieyasu’s surrender. To put it bluntly, the essence of marrying his sister is to send his sister as a hostage, so even if he offends his mother, he has to do it, so his sister was "divorced" in the end .

Ieyasu also knew what Hideyoshi meant, so he agreed to the marriage.He married Asahihime in April of that year, but he still had no intention of coming to Osaka.

When Hideyoshi saw that Ieyasu was not coming, he felt that he hadn't given enough benefits, so why don't he give you more hostages?Send high-level hostages if you want - this time Hideyoshi is going to send his wife.

In May, Hideyoshi sent his mother Oshosho (the Japanese imperial court's name for Kanbai's mother) Ah Zhong to Tokugawa's house on the pretext that his sister was far away from home and needed care.

Now the Tokugawa family was in an uproar, and the cynics (now only cynics were left) said in amazement that this product must be fake!Why?Because Hideyoshi's filial piety is known all over the world, how could he be willing to send him as a hostage?
Ieyasu said, comrades, don't mess up, let's go and have a look, and don't make rash decisions.The angry youths headed by Wumao Guoshi Honda Zhengxin all praised the leader for being wise, and then said murderously that if it was fake, they would hack her to death on the spot.

Ieyasu brought his retainers and Xu Ji to the gate of Hamamatsu Castle to meet the old lady, after the sedan chair stopped, the curtain of the sedan chair was pulled open, before Ieyasu and the others could see the old lady's face clearly, Xu Ji had already shouted: "Mom! " Then he rushed over, holding the old lady in his arms and crying: "Mother! Thank you for your hard work all the way here!"

The old lady also hugged her daughter in tears: "Daughter, I don't know the place where I live, and you have been wronged by marrying here!"

Now everyone present believed it—everyone was born by mother, no matter how intriguing the world is, some things cannot be pretended.Ieyasu also wiped away his tears, and took the opportunity to think about it, but he couldn't find a suitable excuse, so he decided with tears in his eyes: If this is the case, then I will go to Osaka!

In October of this year, Ieyasu led his retainers to Osaka and stayed at the home of Hideyoshi's younger brother Hashiba Hidecho.In the evening, Naomasa Ii suddenly walked in and said, "Hideyoshi is here." Although Tokugawa Ieyasu really didn't want to see Hideyoshi, but the matter had come to an end, and he could only see him once.

Hideyoshi was familiar with him, and he laughed and patted Ieyasu on the shoulder as soon as he came: "My brother! I finally hoped for you!" Ieyasu agreed with an unnatural smile.

But Hideyoshi suddenly said to Ieyasu seriously: "Brother, I beg you to do something." Ieyasu said, then you can say it, just don't overdo it.

Hideyoshi said very seriously: "Can you kowtow to me in front of everyone tomorrow?"

Kowtow is the etiquette of surrender, and the kowtow in Japan is different from that in China. In China, you kowtow to touch the floor and then lift it up, but in Japan, after you kowtow to the floor, you are not allowed to lift up if the other party does not let you stand up.

Tokugawa Ieyasu showed embarrassment, he didn't want to show his surrender to Hideyoshi in front of the famous people all over the country.But Hideyoshi began to beg: "My good brother, just one stroke, one stroke is enough, it will be fine if you knock it down and lift it up."

This etiquette is rather special. Ieyasu thought about it, and since they begged humbly, let's save face.So on the 27th, Ieyasu and Hideyoshi officially met.After meeting, Ieyasu exchanged a few pleasantries, and then Ieyasu kowtowed his head according to yesterday's agreement.

Unexpectedly, the moment he just touched the floor, before he could raise his head, Hideyoshi suddenly said loudly: "Mr. Mikawa! I have come all the way to seek refuge, thank you for your hard work!" At this moment, the monkey's imposing manner is very different from that of yesterday's grandson. two people.

Jiakang's heart skipped a beat, secretly screaming that something is wrong, I've been tricked!
At this moment, in the eyes of everyone present, Ieyasu surrendered to Hideyoshi.

Tokugawa Ieyasu originally wanted to refute immediately, but he suddenly came to his senses, just now he knocked down the head on his own initiative, even if he refuted, I am afraid that others would not believe it, and maybe they would think that he was messing around.That being the case, let's just push the boat along, so Ieyasu expressed his surrender to the Hashiba family on the spot (it's not Toyotomi at the moment).

Hideyoshi was very happy to host a banquet in honor of Ieyasu. After eating and drinking well, he officially ordered: Crusade the Shimadzu family!
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