Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1581 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire ([-]) In This Mountain

Outside Shinobi City, Toyotomi Army's pre-battle assessment was being held, but the entire assessment room was suffocatingly silent, including Ishida Misato himself, everyone was ashen-faced and said nothing.

This suffocation comes from the Monojian Fantou Military News just received: Toyotomi Hidekatsu’s headquarters fell into ambush in a storm, and lost 1 giant large cylinders, 340 large large cylinders, and almost lost more than 320 catties of gunpowder. At the same time, [-] seven people were killed or seriously injured, [-] six people were slightly injured, and there were also some losses in food, grass, and clothing.

Although Monokenban's words are very tactful, most of you present here are veterans of the war, including Ishida Mitsunari. Although he is the first time to lead troops in person, he has rich experience in following Toyotomi Hideyoshi, "How do you listen? Information about the defeated army" It's not like he doesn't understand.

According to their judgment, it was basically tacit that Hidekatsube had part of the gunpowder soaked by the storm, so he dried it urgently after setting up camp. Scattered piles of gunpowder.

The giant canisters may have been the main target of the Ninja City sneak attack team, and they were blown up one by one, and by the way, some large canisters were also blown up (the quality of the Japanese guns was not bad at this time, but the artillery level was very poor, and the No. [-] gun was considered big in Japan ), and because they were unprepared for the sneak attack, and the sneak attack team of Ninja City should be all elites, the casualties were not small.

However, Toyotomi Hidekatsu's reaction couldn't be considered slow. He even judged that the opponent's troops were weak when his troops were almost destroyed in one fell swoop. The raiding team was forced back, and even six NO.70 people were killed.

It's just that Toyotomi Hidekatsu himself was also injured. He was stabbed to death by a female general, and fell off the horse on the spot and almost died.Afterwards, a military medical officer checked and found that Lord Guan Bai's adopted son had four broken ribs, a fractured left forearm, more than a dozen lacerations on the upper and lower skin of his body, and his face was almost disfigured.

Although he himself was seriously injured, he immediately ordered to continue the pursuit after being rescued. This time, more than 1000 people were sent to chase and kill.From the comparison of the strength of the troops at that time, there was no problem with his order at all. After all, the sneak attack team in Ninja City only had about 200 people in total, and lost sixty to seventy on the spot. The remaining ones who can continue to fight are at most in their early [-]s.

The pursuit of ten times the troops is a sure win no matter how you look at it.Who knew that even this kind of "steady win" would cause accidents.

After chasing for more than ten miles, this pursuer was about to catch up, but was "ambushed" again—they ran into an "iron cannon reserve team" of more than 1000 people.

This "iron cannon reserve team" that came from nowhere is not only well-trained, but the key is that the equipment is simply too good. They are all equipped with long-range iron cannons, and their loading speed is ridiculously fast.Toyotomi's pursuers didn't think too much about it at first, they just wanted to disperse the matter in one go, but who knew that they were directly smashed by the opponent's fierce and abnormal firepower just after meeting each other.As an example, a waiter general and two ashigaru generals who charged in front of the battle were killed on the spot. The thick armor on their bodies was completely pierced by the opponent's iron cannon bullets.

The final result was that even though the thousand or so pursuers were not hunted down by the mysterious enemy army, by the time they ran back to Toyotomi Hidekatsu's team, the loss had already exceeded half.This news made Toyotomi Hidekatsu who had just received simple treatment so angry that he fainted directly, so the so-called recovery of the situation naturally became an extravagant hope.

Since the raid team is led by a female general, it must be under the command of Jiafei Ji from Ninja Castle.Although Ishida Sancheng's army can be regarded as a gathering of big bosses, no matter what big bosses, they have all suffered defeats in Ninja City before.

Therefore, in all fairness, Toyotomi Hidekatsu was attacked by Kai Ji's army under such unfavorable circumstances, and he was able to think of a way to fight back. This is already an outstanding performance.Although the final loss was indeed huge, everyone really didn't want to blame Guan Bai's adopted son for being incompetent, and they could only say that time is fate.Everyone didn't want to add insult to injury, and even made up their minds to give Guan Bai a credit guarantee for Toyotomi Hidekatsu.

However, Ishida's army has different opinions about the mysterious and powerful iron cannon reserve team.

Some people think that most of this army was sent by Date Masamune to rescue Ninja Castle. The reason is that Date Masamune has not yet gone to Odawara Castle to express his surrender to Lord Kanbai, and he does have an army of no less than 1000 people Iron Cannons.

Some people think that Odawara Castle may have discovered the support army sent by Lord Kanbai, so they sent reinforcements through some unknown means. The support army finally joined hands with Shinobi City to give Toyotomi Hidekatsu a "poor bandit" Don't Chase" experience class.

But at this moment, Sanada Masayuki, who is known as a wise general, suddenly expressed a different opinion. He put forward a new guess, thinking that this army was not the Japanese army at all, but the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance private army that should have been stationed in Misaki City. military.

In fact, he is not the only one who thinks this way. Ishida Mitsunari, as the head of the Pursuing Faction, knows the strength of the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance far better than other people. He also had such doubts in his heart at the time, but he dared not say it—by the way not understand.

He couldn't understand why the Sea Trade Alliance would directly intervene in Japan's domestic war.

The Maritime Trade Alliance rented Misaki Castle from the Hojo family, and Ishida Mitsunari already knew the news.Not only did he know, he even thought he understood the reason why the Sea Trade Alliance did this, that is, what the Sea Trade Alliance itself said was to have trade bases in the east and west of Japan.

Ishida Mitsunari believes in this reason, because once Shimizu City and Misaki City become the trading bases of the Maritime Trade Alliance, then Shimizu City can radiate Kyushu, Shikoku and Sanin Sanyo, and Misaki City can radiate Kanto, Northeast and other places, which is equivalent to being in the nearest Japan's two wings conduct trade, and the overall trade efficiency will be greatly improved.

As for the core of Japan, Gyeonggi and the central region, Ishida Mitsunari has always believed that the Maritime Trade Alliance does not want to set up a stronghold, but they are worried that Mr. Guanbai will not be able to speak, so they have to settle the two ends first, and then go back to talk to Mr. Guanbai—this It's for the good of the situation, and for the convenience of "bargaining" with Master Guan Bai.

In other words, Ishida Mitsunari is very sure that the Sea Trade Alliance has no covetousness on the Japanese territory, and only wants to make money.But today's news can't help but make Ishida Mitsunari doubt his own judgment - if it's just for making money, Ninja City is not a seaport city, and the Sea Trade Alliance is full to support Ninja City?What's more, they are fighting Lord Guan Bai!

Ishida Mitsunari suddenly had an idea: Could it be that the Maritime Trade Alliance is planning to rule Japan if it has a chance in the future?
When this idea came up, he couldn't help but shivered, and suddenly thought: Lord Nobunaga was so unscrupulous back then, and he never thought of replacing the emperor. He just wanted to follow the example of some powerful officials in the history of the Tang Dynasty and abolish the establishment once. , Push the crown prince to succeed.Not to mention the lord Toyotomi Guanbai, he was not born enough, because of his blood relationship, he couldn't even be a general who conquered Yi, so he had to establish a public instrument of Toyotomi Guanbai, let alone want to replace the emperor.

But if the Maritime Trade Alliance has the idea of ​​invading Japan, who can guarantee that Ming Dynasty is not behind it to annex Japan?The Tang Dynasty claimed to be the emperor in all dynasties. If they invaded Japan, would Japan have any reason to keep the emperor?

As Japan's real top civil servant, Ishida Mitsunari and Gao Yushi have different understandings of the Emperor's system.In fact, Gao Yushi is not Japanese, so he is a little bit guilty about the "eternal lineage" of the Japanese emperor. He has always worried that "if the emperor system is abolished in the future, Japan will turn against the flag everywhere", but Ishida Mitsunari does not think so at all.

In fact, this is also a manifestation of the high-practical "human beings are not gods". In fact, he has a bit of superficial research on Japanese history, but he has never really summarized some "Japanese characteristics".

If he counts, he will find that there are not many emperors who are really political participants: Tenchi, Hirofumi, Tenmu, Shengwu, Xiaoqian, Huanwu, Saga, Hitomi, Uta, Daigo, Murakami, Shirakawa, Toba, Go Shirakawa, Go Toba, Go Daigo, Meiji, Showa, a total of eighteen.

Among the eighteen emperors with real power, Hongwen was defeated; Shengwu was fooled by Fujiwara's four sons and wiped out Wang Manmen, the pillar of the royal family, and the royal family's power has never recovered; Huanwu Saga spent all the money bags of the royal family; After struggling for a lifetime, he still failed in the end; Daigo was deceived by Fujiwara Tokihei and exiled Sugawara Michizane; Resisted for a while, and was exiled to Yinqi Island; Hou Daigo tossed all his life, and took a small half of the country, and then shrank rapidly, and disappeared after 60 years.

The situation of Meiji and Showa is actually very special. To some extent, they can only be regarded as having "very huge influence" rather than actual political power.

As a result, there are only a few emperors who have truly mastered powerful power in Japanese history: Tenchi, Tenmu, Huanwu, Saga, Murakami (for a short period of time in the later period), Shirakawa (as the emperor instead of the emperor), Toba (same as above) ), there are only seven digits in total.

By the time of Gao Yushi's crossing, there were 126 emperors in total, excluding the first 28 prehistoric emperors, there were 98 emperors in total.It can be seen that 80.00% of the emperors have no access to politics at all, while only [-]% of the emperors have sufficient political power.

In fact, due to the mountains and scattered fields in Japan, the manor economy was prevalent in the agricultural era, with lords everywhere, a high degree of feudal autonomy, and a low degree of centralization.The old system of the Warring States period was greatly overturned, and several outstanding military and political geniuses emerged, but it was still impossible to unify Japan by force and achieve centralization.

If Gao Yushi seriously examines the several "reign changes" in Japan, he should find that the Kamakura shogunate only appealed to the court to recognize the shogunate's control of Kanto and Ou before the Jokyu Rebellion. Set up the north and south Liuboluo research topic in Kyoto to manage the affairs of the Western Kingdom.

And Liuboluo itself has considerable autonomy, more like a subsidiary company than a branch company, and Liuboluo's rule over the Western Kingdom is not solid, the imperial court and local tyrants in Kinai keep doing things under the nose of Liubo .

In just 100 years, the Kamakura shogunate was riddled with holes. The main force of the 1000 shogunate could not take down Chihaya Castle with more than [-] people in three months. The main force actually just scattered like birds and beasts.This fully exposed the nature of the loose alliance of the shogunate, which would collapse if there was a slight headwind.

The Muromachi shogunate is even more speechless.It can be said that Ashikaga Takashi (Zunji) does not have the qualities that the founding monarch should possess at all. He can lead the samurai to the opening basically by the blood of Genji.

Yoshino Nanchao was alive and well, his own brother and younger brother blew up first, making you die. After the younger brother killed the younger brother, Zunshi and his younger brother and the eldest son began to fight to the death.It was not until his grandson Ashikaga Yoshimitsu coaxed and deceived that he unified the whole of Japan in name, and at this time, 34 years have passed since Takashi went west.

The Muromachi shogunate also adopted the model of dividing the western country and the eastern country. In the eastern country, there is the Kamakura government. The independence of the Kamakura government is even worse than that of Liuboluo. With a small move, the Kamakura government dared to directly rebel and grab the general position, so they created the Yongxiang chaos.

After the Yongxiang Rebellion, the influence of the shogunate on the Kanto gradually declined, not to mention Ou. For ten years, the Minami Mutsu giants besieged Inamura Gongfang, and Ashikaga Mansada committed suicide.

Twenty years later, the Onin Rebellion broke out. A group of daimyos with intertwined interests formed two gangs in Kyoto, and took the emperor from the palace to the general's Hana Palace, and then put the emperor and the general under house arrest to watch the daimyos fight each other. He was beaten for ten years.

After that, General Ashikaga's family was completely evacuated by the Hosokawa family, who was in charge, and then the Hosokawa family was completely evacuated by the retainer Miyoshi's family, and the Miyoshi family was evacuated by the retainer Matsunaga family.Song Yongxiu felt that the general Ashikaga Yoshiki was not honest enough, so he took two younger brothers from Miyoshi's family to do the general, which was the notorious Yonglu rebellion.This kind of strange event is probably the only one in the history of the world.

The century-old chaos of the Warring States Period wiped out many nobles and nobles, and countless talented local tyrants entered the house. It is difficult for fakes such as Ashikaga Takaji to make contributions to the society.

However, among this group of truly capable and skilled players in troubled times, there is still no one who can completely unify Japan.The Oda Nobunaga Group has reached Harima Sanuki in the west and Shinano in Kai in the east, and it is already known as the world's people.The Oda Group is also not monolithic, and its reliability is very worrying. The six major legions all have their own territories and pro-armies directly under them. Therefore, once Nobunaga himself dies violently, the Oda family will immediately fall apart. Nobunaga's "successor".

It can be seen that there is no soil for the development of a strong imperial power in this environment and system.The symbolic meaning of the emperor itself is far greater than the actual meaning, and even Shiguan and the general have only symbolic meaning for a long time.

Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu promulgated the "Forbidden and Public Laws", which legalized the fact that the entire imperial court, including the emperor, was used as a mascot.

Although there is no "Forbidden China and Public Laws" at this time, Ishida Mitsunari "knows his own family affairs". He is not like Gao Yushi who has not yet figured out the truth. The reason why the shogunate and the current "Toyotomi Gongyi" cannot abolish the emperor is in the final analysis that the strength of their own lineage is insufficient, and they must use the name of the emperor to "hold the emperor to order the princes". It is not how sacred the emperor system is.

Ishida Mitsunari waited for a long time, but no one spoke first.He couldn't help himself, coughed lightly, and said: "The matter has come to this point, it is useless to talk too much, in my opinion, this defeat is not a crime of war."

After the tone settled, he paused and continued: "However, if the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance interferes in this matter, it will be of great importance. I have decided to go to Odawara Castle to meet Guan Bai in person. Your Highnesses, please give your full support. Shu Dazang Daisuke conquered Ninja City, Sancheng is very grateful, please."
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