Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1515: Bad Water
The "spy group" of 50 people seems to be huge in scale, but it is spread to the whole of Japan, which is actually the case.For many unimportant forces, Gao Mo didn't even arrange a single spy.

If we say how many of these forces are considered "focused attention objects", then obviously, in addition to the Toyotomi family, the five later elders of Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, Ukita Hideke, Mori Terumoto, and Kobayakawa Takakage must be among them .

In addition, the forces of "Sekigahara God of War" Kobayakawa Hideaki and Jinghua Bridgehead Shimadzu Yoshihiro will definitely send people to infiltrate.Even the more or less useful characters in the Guanyuan battle were infiltrated by Gao Mo.

Specifically, within the Toyotomi family, Gao Yushi even divided into factions to carry out "parallel infiltration" against them.What faction?Lady faction.

This is not a joke, but a very critical situation within the Toyotomi family at present or in a few years' time.

Asano Ningning of the Northern Political Bureau is Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main wife, and he followed Hideyoshi when he was a pawn.And Hideyoshi didn't dislike his wife after he took a high position. He often missed Ningning when he was fighting abroad, and wrote to ask how his daily life was. .

Mrs. Beizhengsuo was born in Owari Asahi Village, so she took special care of the samurai from Owari.After Hideyoshi's death—or even before his death, the Toyotomi Group gradually formed the Owari Samurai Group with Mrs. Beizhengsuo as the core. Among them, the more famous daimyos include Kato Kiyomasa and Fukushima Masanori.

Because the Beizhengsuo has not been able to give birth to a son for Hideyoshi, but Hideyoshi's concubine Asai Chacha finally gave birth to Hideyoshi, so in the last few years of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's life, the status gap between Chacha and Ning Ning Gradually shrink.

After Hideyori was born, the Omi Samurai Group gradually formed centered on Chacha who was born in the Omi area, and the most famous daimyo was Ishida Mitsunari.

Since then, the Omi Samurai Group and the Owari Samurai Group of the Beizheng Institute have become confrontational.It was also from this time that Chacha's status was gradually higher than that of Ningning, and the Owari Samurai Group began to be in a weak position.

However, most of the Owari samurai around Ning Ning followed Hideyoshi when he was still in his prime.However, after Hideyoshi gained power, he quickly began to reuse civil servants from the Omi area, such as Ishida Mitsunari and Ono Zhichang.

As for the reason why Hideyoshi did this, of course, it was because there were fewer and fewer wars at that time, and the role of generals was gradually declining, while Ishida Mitsunari and others were better at managing internal affairs, which was more in line with Hideyoshi's needs at that time.

But no matter what the reason is, Hideyoshi's move has long made the Owari samurai dissatisfied, but they dare not speak out.After Hideyoshi's death, the centripetal force of these Owari samurai towards the Toyotomi family further weakened, and it was reasonable to seek refuge with Tokugawa Ieyasu.

For example, in the subsequent battle between the Eastern Army and the Western Army, Hideyoshi's former general Fukushima Masanori took the initiative to serve as the vanguard of the Eastern Army, which shows how much he resented the Omi Samurai group of Ishida Sannari's faction.

Special attention should be paid here: Hideaki Kobayakawa, who fell to the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, was also from Owari, and he was even the nephew of the wife of the Beizheng Office.As we all know, it was because of his defection that the Eastern Army was brought back to life, defeated the Western Army in one fell swoop, and won the victory.

Another factor that contributed to the defeat of the Western Army in the Sekigahara Battle was Ishida Mitsunari's personal reasons.Although Mori Terumoto was elected as the general leader of the Western Army at that time, the actual controller and commander of the Western Army were both Ishida Mitsunari.

Because of the Sancheng tea incident in 1574, Hideyoshi valued Sancheng very much and regarded him as a confidant.Sancheng did not disappoint Hideyoshi, even after Hideyoshi's death, he was completely loyal to the young master Toyotomi Hideyori.Without Ishida Mitsunari's efforts, Tokugawa Ieyasu's process of conquering the world would have been easier.

However, this statement is based on the level of Japan as a whole. If the structure is narrowed and only the Toyotomi Group is considered, Ishida Mitsunari’s performance has to some extent led to more serious internal divisions and more irreconcilable conflicts. .

Why do you say that?Because Toyotomi Hideyoshi favored Ishida Mitsunari too much, many Toyotomi family daimyos and generals were dissatisfied with him.In addition, Ishida Sancheng himself does not know how to hide his strength and bide his time, and he does not know the truth of "the dragon has regrets", so that he is usually domineering and shows his sharpness, so he attracts the disgust of many people.

At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu was the exact opposite of him.In order to hide his ambitions, Tokugawa Ieyasu is cautious on weekdays and treats other daimyos and generals more generously. Compared with the two, he easily won the favor of most people.

People's hearts determine success or failure. After the start of the Sekigahara War, many daimyos did not accept Ishida Mitsunari's dispatch at all.Originally, the reason why some of them joined the Western Army was simply because they had been retainers of the Toyotomi family, and they were worried that they would be stigmatized as disloyal if they joined the Eastern Army.

In this case, coupled with the lack of prestige of Ishida Mitsunari, of course it is easy to find it difficult to mobilize these daimyos.For example, two hours after the start of the Sekigahara Battle, Ishida Misachi once issued an order to Shimadzu Yoshihiro, asking him to dispatch reinforcements to support the front line, but Shimadzu Yoshihiro flatly refused.

And after Hideaki Kobayakawa defected, an unstoppable chain reaction took place in the Western Army camp. Many daimyos led their troops to surrender to the Eastern Army, or surrendered, or directly turned to attack the Western Army, resulting in a disastrous defeat for the Western Army.

It is mentioned in "Alliance Nobunaga and Hideyoshi, and Takeda's decisive victory over Sekihara-Tokugawa Ieyasu's Way of Hegemony" mentioned: "Anguo Temple Huiqiong at the eastern foot of Nangong Mountain, Nagatsu Masaka, Mori Hidemoto, Yoshikawa Hiroe Defeated and fled. The Eastern Army has won a complete victory."

Make a hypothesis: If Ishida Mitsunari had invited Mori Terumoto to sit in charge at that time, or at least issued orders in the name of Terumoto, perhaps the defeat would not have been so disastrous, at least there should not be too many people defecting.

Moreover, judging from the situation at the time, Mori Terumoto’s family dispatched as many as [-] troops, and the combined army of the entire Mori Group (including Mori Terumoto, Terumoto’s adopted son Mori Hidemoto, Yoshikawa Hiroka, etc.) The most powerful force in the world, but because he has no command power, he almost fights soy sauce collectively, which in itself is also a fatal waste.

As for Kobayakawa Hideaki's defection, it was not an inexplicable behavior, there were very clear internal factors.His father was appointed by the Kinoshita family, and he was the elder brother of Ning Ning, the wife of the Beizheng Office. That is to say, Hideaki Kobayakawa was Ning Ning's nephew. In addition, he was born in Owari, so he had a very close relationship with Ning Ning.

At the same time, he was once the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi - it is for this reason that he should never betray the Toyotomi family in theory.However, in fact, it was precisely because of Xiuqiu's defection that the Toyotomi family perished.

The topic finally returned to the "inner faction of the Toyotomi Group" mentioned at the beginning: the main reason for Hideaki Kobayakawa's defection was the discord with Ishida Mitsunari, and it can even be said that the conflict was extremely sharp.

Here is one thing to say first: During the Korean War, Kobayakawa Hideaki and Konishi Yukio-chan led reinforcements to Ulsan City, which was besieged by the Ming army.Although Xiuqiu was very brave in the Battle of Ulsan, he was disgusted by Xiuji for massacring women and children in the city, and even confiscated his territory.

Hideyoshi's behavior is obviously extremely abnormal. The general was fighting abroad, he was brave and loyal, but you confiscated all his fiefs because he killed the civilians of the enemy country?

This is not the 21st century, and there is no such requirement in the Japanese tradition at this time, not to mention Xiuqiu is a typical "insider".Toyotomi Hideyoshi's handling is very un-Japanese, on the contrary, it has the style of Ming Dynasty's internal counter-insurgency operations.

Therefore, Xiuqiu insisted that Ishida Mitsunari must have been a hindrance, instigating Hideyoshi to some fallacies such as "will cause the Korean people to intensify their resistance", so he was extremely resentful towards Ishida Mitsunari.

This incident even took place in 1599, because Tokugawa Ieyasu interceded for Hideaki (Hideyoshi was dead at the time), so that he restored the confiscated territory.

There is no doubt that Hideaki Kobayakawa has since then had great gratitude to Tokugawa Ieyasu, so it is completely reasonable for him to abandon Ishida and fall to Tokugawa during the Battle of Sekihara.

There is a record in "Ii Jiaqing Changji": "During the battle, the Fujido team fired iron cannons in Jinwu's direction in order to urge Jinwu Zhong Nayan to join the Shenjun side, but there was no response."

The reason why Ieyasu fired at Xiuqiu's position on the battlefield should be that he guessed that Xiuqiu was making a difficult decision at that time, so he urged him to quickly send troops to support the disadvantaged Eastern Army.

However, Xiuqiu, as Hideyoshi's adopted son, owes most of his power to today's power through Hideyoshi's gifts. If he turns against him, he may be ridiculed by the people of the world.After being urged by Ieyasu's bombardment, Xiuqiu thought for a long time, and finally made a decision, commanding the samurai from the headquarters to kill down the mountain, smashing Hase Kichitsugu's army formation, and the Western Army collapsed immediately.

From this, looking at the situation before the outbreak of the Sekigahara Battle, it is not difficult to see that the Western Army has completely occupied the favorable terrain, and the Eastern Army is not only unsafe, but also faced with the main force of the Tokugawa Army led by Tokugawa Hidetada. The problem of insufficient troops, but the final outcome is that the Eastern Army won a complete victory in this decisive battle.

The fundamental reason why the Western Army was defeated was that Hideyoshi did not properly handle the conflict between the Owari Samurai Group and the Omi Samurai Group.

After Hideyoshi took the position of Guanbai, he reused the Omi civil servant to govern the internal affairs with all his heart, but ignored the Owari samurai who had fought bloody battles with him.Coupled with the huge losses in the Korean War but no benefits, many big names were seriously dissatisfied with Hideyoshi, which eventually led to the separation of Toyotomi's family.

Under such a premise, Gao Yushi, who always likes to plan ahead, can't make good use of the contradiction between these two factions?
However, using this kind of thing has always been a technical job.Especially now that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not dead and the Korean War has not yet started, this kind of use obviously cannot be exposed, and we can only bury some "threads" in the dark.

No matter who you want to use, you must first clarify two points: the first point is what the other party has, and the second point is what the other party wants.

What does the Owari Samurai Group own?Possesses the main force of the Toyotomi family, and is also stronger than the Omi Samurai Group in terms of fiefdom.

What does the Omi Samurai Group own?It has actual control over the "Toyotomi court" and the ability to dominate Japan's commercial power.Of course, to some extent, they will still have a theoretical "big righteousness" after Hideyoshi's death-because Toyotomi Hideyori was actually under their influence (but it didn't play much role in the end).

So, what does the Owari Samurai Group want?Of course they want status, political power, and not to be suppressed by "civilian officials."

In turn, what does the Omi Samurai Group want?Naturally, they want to continue to control the government after Hideyoshi's death, and overwhelm the Owari Samurai Group and other factions-such as the foreign daimyo represented by Tokugawa Ieyasu.

After figuring this out, Gao Yushi has to make his own choice, because he can't regard himself as Toyotomi Hideyoshi and hope to unite the two factions.

The attitude of the Owari Samurai Group in the Sekigahara Battle was inconsistent. Some of them directly joined Tokugawa Ieyasu's Eastern Army, while others who were worried about their reputation being damaged reluctantly joined the Western Army.

From this point of view, the Owari Samurai Group is not a river crab, which affects its original strength.

The Omi Samurai Group is essentially a civil servant group that controls the government - but after the outbreak of the war, this article does not have much meaning.In addition to government affairs, there are only two main strengths left for them: financial resources and righteousness.

But there is another problem here: financial resources and righteousness are inseparable from Osaka, the first city of Toyotomi, because Osaka is the commercial center of Japan at this time. The largest city in Japan.Without Osaka Castle, the financial resources actually controlled by the Omi Samurai Group will be greatly reduced.

The issue of righteousness is also related to Osaka, because after Toyotomi Hideyoshi died, his legal heir was undoubtedly Toyotomi Hideyori, but Toyotomi Hideyori and his mother Yododen—that is, Asai Chacha—until the failure of the Osaka Summer Battle He committed suicide and never left Osaka Castle.

Therefore, it can also be said that the strength of the Omi Samurai Group is also incomplete.

That being the case, Gao Yushi decided to let go of "helping the weak against the strong" or "helping the strong against the weak" first, and think about which side is more beneficial to help.

The first thing that can be ruled out is Tokugawa Ieyasu.This guy is a fine individual, and one of his characteristics is that he can tolerate thieves, which is quite similar to Sima Yi.Although there is a saying that "in the face of absolute strength, all conspiracies and tricks are futile", but one thing more is worse than one thing less, why bother to act with Tokugawa Ieyasu?Naturally, the hidden dangers that can be dealt with should be dealt with earlier.

What about the Owari Samurai Group?They have more fiefdoms at hand, and the basis of their status is the army, which is very bad.Because this means that if Gao Yushi wants to disarm and establish a garrison in accordance with the traditions of southern Xinjiang in the future, they will inevitably form a lot of resistance, so they should not consider supporting them unless it is a last resort.

From this point of view, it seems that the Omi Samurai Group should be supported?

Gao Yushi thought about it, but felt that it might not be the case.This group of people, such as Ishida Mitsunari, has an obvious characteristic, that is, they are loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the Toyotomi family-although his behavior actually ruined the Toyotomi family, from his subjective consciousness, they It should be that he thinks that everything he does is for Toyotomi.

So looking at it this way, it is not only difficult to control the Omi Samurai Group, but the actual effect may not be very good.

Who is the best control object?Countless usurpers in Chinese history would raise their arms and shout: "Of course they are orphans and widows!"
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