Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1394 Leading the Way Party Plan

Regarding the fact that the Shimadzu family wanted to buy weapons, Gao Yushi was a little surprised at first, but after thinking about it, he felt that it was reasonable.

The Shimadzu family of the Satsuma domain, this place and this family have always been not easy to save money, especially like to have trouble with the imperial court representing the center.In the original history, Japan’s Meiji Restoration began with the collapse of the Satsuma and Changzhou domains.

Of course, most of the cabinet members in the later Meiji government also came from these two domains, and at that time Japan had the saying "Choshu Army, Satsuma Navy", which shows the strength of the two domains.At the same time, it also illustrates another problem: the ultimate goal of these two powerful feudal clans, in fact, is to put it bluntly, that instead of you ordering us, it is better for us to order you.

The Changzhou clan will not talk about it for the time being, only that the Satsuma clan will turn their attention to the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance for help, which is really in line with their historical style.

The Satsuma clan in the original history is more than the history mentioned before. They will invade and actually control Ryukyu more than ten years later. However, the main purpose of this invasion is not the invasion itself, but for the convenience of doing business with Daming— —Of course, it refers to the smuggling business.

The curtain-down movement in the future is too far away, so I won’t talk about it.Just mentioning that Shimadzu F4 (the four brothers) invaded Ryukyu in order to do smuggling with Ming Dynasty, it is enough to see that the Shimadzu family is completely "ruthless".

Such a family was beaten up by Toyotomi Hideyoshi and expressed their submission in a "humiliated" way. It is completely understandable to feel upset, and it is also reasonable to want revenge.

But in this case, Gao Yushi had to re-examine his "arrangements" for Japan's future.

Originally, Gao Wushi felt that he had too many things at hand, and he didn't have too many plans to interfere with Japan for the time being.Compared with Japan, strengthening Ming Dynasty is his top priority, and keeping the back road in southern Xinjiang is his basic guarantee. As for Japan... all his previous plans were planned after the war of aiding Korea and resisting Japan.

Why wait until the battle is over before making detailed arrangements?Because although this battle took a lot of effort for Ming, and even almost emptied Wanli's internal funds, if you look at Japan in turn, it was also a waste.As for North Korea, needless to say, it is simply scorched earth.

At such a time, it is more convenient for a high-level pragmatist to make a big difference instead of spending money and efforts to settle Japan.After all, there are also great variables in what to do after Japan is settled. At least from a highly pragmatic and current view, it is still quite difficult to rule Japan in the way of southern Xinjiang.

Not to mention that if Japan is really treated according to the southern Xinjiang model, it may cause trouble whether it focuses on southern Xinjiang or Japan.In the current era, it is really difficult to rule two disjointed lands across thousands of miles of sea.

From the perspective of resource advantages, southern Xinjiang is definitely the first choice for high pragmatism. In addition, mastering southern Xinjiang can better resist Western colonial invasion, and it is more in line with the "bottom logic" of high pragmatism thinking.

But Japan is not useless, especially if you want to talk about the "back road", then if Gao Yushi hides in Japan with the powerful Jinghua two-ocean fleet, even if one day really angers the emperor, he can rest easy.

But there is a problem here. According to the estimates of later Japanese historians, the population of Japan in the late Azuchi-Momoyama period and the eve of the Sekigahara War was about 1000 to [-] million.So, how can the Jinghua family ensure that they can maintain their rule?
Southern Xinjiang is different from Japan. Many desperate Han people escaped there. For hundreds of thousands of years, there are actually not many people with Han blood in their bodies. Although many of them actually have thin blood, as long as they With the policy guidance in place, these people will soon become "Han Chinese" - the household registration naturalization system is being promoted very well now.

Japan does not have the conditions of southern Xinjiang. Although there are very few Han people who left their blood in Japan, especially during the period of Boss Wang, many Han pirates with the name of Japanese pirates left their seeds in Japan.But throwing those few people among the more than 1000 million Japanese people is really invisible.

In this case, if Gao Yushi intends to rule Japan by himself, it may be worse than the situation when the Manchu Qing entered the Central Plains.Of course, Japan has its own special system, and maybe the imperial court can think of a way, but those are all things that have no shadow, and now Gao Yushi is too lazy to think about it.

Gao Yushi did not plan to intervene in Japan prematurely before. Another reason is that after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, there will be further civil wars in Japan, the so-called battle between the Western Army and the Eastern Army, the most famous of which is the Sekigahara Battle.

The Battle of Sekigahara was a battle that took place in the Sekigahara area of ​​Mino on September 1600th of the fifth year of Qingchang (October 10, 21). A series of battles and a series of battles in other regions.The two warring parties were the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Western Army composed of Ishida Mitsunari and others.

Both sides in this war used more than 10 troops, and it was finally decided that the real ruling center of Japan would be the Tokugawa Shogunate.

Gao Yushi's previous plan was to wait until before the Sekihara War before suddenly intervening in Japan. At that time, his joining will be decisive, and no matter which side he leans on, he can determine the direction of Japan.

However, the actions of the Shimadzu family this time have shaken Gao Wushi a little: It is of course very labor-saving to wait until before the Sekihara War to intervene, but in fact he also knows that it will definitely leave a lot of trouble, but if from now on Just start to infiltrate?

For example, by supporting the Shimadzu family and cultivating Satsuma, a Japanese alien, as his leading party, is there a chance of success and less hidden dangers?
Cultivating the Satsuma clan is definitely a good choice in terms of geographical location. After all, as a strong clan in the southwest of Japan, they are the closest to Ming Dynasty. Hideyoshi found out and was furious, Gao Yushi had nothing to fear.

I don't want to kill too many servants in a land battle, but if you only need to protect Satsuma, it's different. If you have the ability, you can have a decisive battle with me, Jinghua, at sea.

Considering Toyotomi Hideyoshi's current behavior and habits, Gao Yushi felt that this possibility was very small-as long as Satsuma maintained his nominal surrender, Toyotomi Hideyoshi would probably not choose to use force.Speaking of it, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is somewhat similar to him in this point, that is, things that can be resolved by political means should not be resolved by force.

After the death of Oda Nobunaga earlier, Toyotomi Hideyoshi resolved the internal problems of the Oda family, controlled the real power of the Oda family's old retainers, and intended to unify Japan.At the beginning, he also wanted to use force to submit to Tokugawa Ieyasu, but he was defeated in the battle of Komaki and Nagakute, so he immediately turned to the means of diplomatic submission to negotiate a peace with Tokugawa Ieyasu.After Ishikawa Shuzheng suddenly took refuge, he immediately negotiated peace with Tokugawa Ieyasu, and accepted Tokugawa Ieyasu's second son Yuyi Maru as his adopted son, and then used marriage to make Tokugawa Ieyasu surrender.

Then Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued to use political means to launch a war of aggression against Korea with the bait of invading North Korea and looking forward to Ming Dynasty, and bewitched a large number of powerful daimyos to join the war.

This battle was of course defeated, but it also seriously weakened the military strength and funds of the main daimyo at the time.However, there are some accidents here: For example, because Tokugawa Ieyasu was approved by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, he was allowed to stay in Nagoya Castle for defense work in the name of crusade against the remnants of the Hojo Clan. The influence of Tokugawa is less, so the influence is gradually increasing. Only Maeda Toshiie, who is also one of the five elders, has the strength to check and balance Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness in Fushimi Castle on August 1598 (September 9) in the third year of Qingchang (18), and his successor was Toyotomi Hideyoshi who was less than six years old. Appropriate, so the Toyotomi family immediately transferred the generals who sent troops to North Korea back to China.

Before Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, he still did not forget his political means, and asked the "Five Elders" and the "Five Bongsho" to exchange pleadings so that they would be loyal to Toyotomi's family.Among them, the five elders were the five most powerful daimyos at that time, namely Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Ukita Hideke, Mori Terumoto, Kobayakawa Takakage, and later added Uesugi Kekatsu.

The fundamental purpose of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in doing so is to use the collegiate system to restrain the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu, so as to ensure that the Toyotomi regime can be passed on from generation to generation.

Due to the sudden death of the No. [-] figure Maeda Toshiie, Tokugawa Ieyasu violated the covenant many times without restraint, thus making the "five elders" in name only.Another political method is that Toyotomi Hideyoshi mentioned the marriage of Tokugawa Ieyasu's granddaughter Chihime and Toyotomi Hideyori before his death, which was also for the purpose of wooing the Tokugawa family.

Of course, things changed a lot later, but most of them were caused by the remnants of Japan's old system, and the fact that the heir Toyotomi Hideyori was too young and "the master was less suspicious".In general, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's preference for using political means to solve problems is undeniable.

That being the case, Gao Wushi feels that a little "investment" in the Shimadzu family will not stimulate Toyotomi Hideyoshi too much, at least it will not cause Toyotomi Hideyoshi to change his main strategic position and cause unpredictable changes.

However, Gao Wushi felt that it was very necessary to control the intensity of this investment, lest the Shimadzu family really think that they could challenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi and launch another rebellion, which might implicate Gao and others.Although he is not afraid of troubles from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, if Toyotomi Hideyoshi cuts off the trade, he will not be able to explain to the nobles.

The Shimadzu family is relatively inflated now. Even if they were taught a lesson by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they have not been discouraged, so they should not be supported too much.

The Battle of Miike Port was very small, so small that it was not even a battle in the eyes of Gao Yushi who was used to seeing the big world, at most it was an armed conflict.However, the stimulation of this battle to the Shimadzu family may not be small, at least it must have aroused the high attention of Shimadzu Yoshihiro, and thus the Shimadzu family's proposal to purchase arms.

Yoshihiro Shimadzu has always been a militant faction of the Shimadzu family, and of course his level is worthy of recognition. For example, Yoshihiro Shimadzu's famous battle in the Kizakihara battle was that he defeated ten times the ended up with his own army.

As a classic battle of winning more with less, this battle was compared with Oda Nobunaga's Battle of Ozama, and was called "Ozazama of Kyushu".Yoshihiro Shimadzu also became famous in Kyushu because of this battle, and stepped into the ranks of famous generals in the Warring States Period.

In the original history, his performance on the Korean battlefield was also excellent. The biggest defeat of the Ming army in North Korea, the "Battle of Sizhou", was fought by Yoshihiro Shimadzu's perfect performance.

However, this one also makes Gao Wushi particularly taboo. If after strengthening the strength of the Shimadzu family, this power is fooled by Toyotomi Hideyoshi to North Korea like the original history, will Shimadzu Yoshihiro play more than history? Come to greater victories?You know, the greater his victory in North Korea, the greater the loss for Ming.

Although there is a saying in later generations that an arms dealer who dare not sell weapons to an enemy country is not a qualified arms dealer, Gao Pragmatism does not position himself as an arms dealer. sin.

After thinking about it, he felt that if he wanted to support the Shimadzu family as a leading party, there must be a prerequisite first, that is, to ensure that the Shimadzu family can be controlled, or at least restrained.

This is a bit troublesome.No matter what, the Shimadzu family has more than ten thousand elite soldiers. At the moment when it is impossible to send the main combat power to Japan, Gao Yushi feels that it is quite difficult for him to suppress them.

Although Jinghua achieved a record of "one to five wins" in the battle of Miike Port, the account is not so simple.At that time, although there were only more than 100 armed servants participating in the battle at Miike Port, that did not take into account the artillery power on the sea ships in the port. In fact, the defeat of the Shimadzu family's [-] or so people was precisely because of a blow that they had never seen before. The powerful naval artillery bombardment.

naval gun?

Gao Wushi's eyes suddenly brightened: Yes, although I can't mobilize many troops to land and threaten the Shimadzu's obedience, I have a fleet.

The inner city of the Shimadzu family (which can be understood as the government office) is Kagoshima Castle, which has not yet been built into the appearance of Kagoshima Castle in later generations (because the Shimadzu family was very poor, it was not until 1601 that they decided to overhaul it), But the inner city of the Shimadzu family was nearby at this time.

To put it simply, the characteristics are very consistent: facing the sea.

The soldiers are good, the generals are strong, the poor are poor, and they are near the sea.These eight characters can roughly sum up the situation of the Shimadzu family at this stage. Among them, the first four characters Gao Wuzhen can be ignored for now, while the latter four characters are of great use value.

Poverty can be restrained by economic means, and the sea can be deterred by fleet force.

Fleet matters are relatively easy to handle, and you don’t have to be too deliberate. Just gather the fleet going to Japan for trade, find an opportunity to weave it together, and drive it to the seaside outside Kagoshima City to show it. Hiroshi's military acumen, he must be able to see the power contained in it.

Think about the matter of economic constraints, and see what entry point to find...
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