Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1754 Aiding Korea and Fighting the Japanese ([-]) The Importance of Business
From a high-practical point of view, because Sakai Town is too close to Osaka Castle, it is very convenient to do business in peacetime, but it is too difficult to defend it during war.

In terms of Jinghua's strength, it is not impossible to forcibly use Sakaimachi as a fortress, but this is first of all not cost-effective, and secondly it does not conform to the highly pragmatic plan for Japan.

Gao Pragmatism does not want to solve the problems in Japan in the Siamese way, that is to say, he cannot cover the entire audience by himself, otherwise the cost-effectiveness ratio will be too ugly.

In his opinion, the best way is to let Japan have a wave of civil war first, and try to let them form a situation like the original history of the two armies fighting each other-of course, the strength between the east and west armies may require him to intervene and fine-tune , so that their power balance is more balanced.

At the same time, the progress of the civil war may also require a certain degree of intervention, so that the war will not enter the decisive battle too quickly, and then the winner will be determined at one time.It is best to fight a long-term tug-of-war consisting of many small and medium-sized battles, so that the forces of all parties can continue to bleed, reduce the cost of governance in the future, and use the war to make money... Eh?

Gao Yushi was suddenly taken aback as he thought about it, and thought: Good guy, the imperialist is actually myself.

However, Liu Xin didn't seem to agree with Gao Yushi's statement, and pondered: "You mean, Sakai Town will not be kept? I mean, let Toyotomi Hideyoshi take it away?"

Gao Wushi shook his head slightly, and said: "I judge that Toyotomi Hideyoshi has a certain probability that he will not use force against Sakai-cho, or that he will not personally take back Sakai-cho at the current stage."

"Why?" Liu Xin frowned and said, "As the saying goes, you should be strict with the enemy. Are you being too optimistic?"

Gao Wushi said: "I look at it from this point of view: At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideyoshi insisted on setting up the Japanese headquarters of the Maritime Trade Alliance near Osaka, in order to show that he is the lord of Japan. But now, he is targeting Misaki Castle and The action of Yusheng City is to kill people with a knife, forcing Tokugawa Ieyasu to be the first rafter. It can be seen that he actually does not want to immediately turn his face against the Maritime Trade Alliance, but hopes to use this to cut off the potential alliance between Tokugawa Ieyasu and the Maritime Trade Alliance possible."

"He's worried about us joining forces with Ieyasu Tokugawa?" Liu Xin wondered, "Why would he have such an idea?"

"One mountain cannot accommodate two tigers, so the strongest strike against the second strongest is one of the eternal truths in the law of the jungle. Only by beating up the second child to be honest, or scaring the second child to be honest, can the position of the boss be stabilized." Gao Wushi curled his lips and said: "De Kawaie Yasushi is undoubtedly the second child among the major forces in Japan, and it would be hell if Toyotomi Hideyoshi didn't suppress him."

"But if there is a third-party powerful force at this time, shouldn't this third-party force just help the weak and eliminate the strong? But why do I feel that you are always hostile to Tokugawa Ieyasu? Still want to use him, delay his plan to develop the Kanto, and even..." Liu Xin considered the words, and said: "Even trying to provoke a fight between him and Toyotomi Hideyoshi now?"

Gao Wushi smiled: "Although Cao Cao is powerful, he is about to die after all, and Sima Yi is not only powerful, but also very able to survive. Since I know the original ending, why do I have to wait until things get too difficult to deal with before I deal with them?"

Liu Xin frowned: "To be honest, I don't really think Tokugawa Ieyasu is so powerful except for being able to endure it. According to the history you told me before, the battles that Tokugawa Ieyasu commanded in the later period, Including the Battle of Sekigahara, it’s actually not that subtle.”

"My command is not exquisite, but until now I have still been 'victorious in all battles'." Gao Yushi spread his hands: "So you see, the crux of the problem is not here."

"Not in the military, could it be in internal affairs?" Liu Xin was a little skeptical.

"Yes, the premise of all military affairs is politics, and the foundation of politics is economics. Economics, of course, is internal affairs." Gao Wushi smiled: "Now the Ming Dynasty is victorious in all battles. It was the soldiers of Ming Dynasty who were suddenly reborn. In the final analysis, it was nothing more than being rich. They could ensure that there was no shortage of food and salaries, that the firearms would not explode, that the armor was enough to keep out the cold, and that the horses were sufficient. It's usually hard to lose."

"That's not necessarily true." Liu Xin shook her head and said, "You can command so many generals under your command. This condition cannot be ignored. But since you said that internal affairs are the key, let's say so. Then, Where is Tokugawa Ieyasu's internal affairs strong?"

Gao Yushi said: "When we look at historical figures, we must look at them from the perspective of his era. This is true for Tokugawa Ieyasu, and it is also true for Toyotomi Hideyoshi."

He smiled and said: "Looking back from the era of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, for him, 100 years ago, it was Yamana Chifeng and Ouchi Hiroshi who led the troops of Sanin Sanyo to burn Gyeonggi to ruins; and then It was the Mingying coup, and Hosokawa Masamoto relied on Shikoku, Tanba, and Harima's feudal states to abolish the general; after the Hosokawa family's internal strife, Miyoshi Changqing relied on Awa, Settsu overhead management leader and general.

Do you see the commonality here?It can be said that, more than 100 years before Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the turmoil in the Gyeonggi region of Japan started from the West Country-until the rise of Nobunaga. "

Liu Xin frowned and said, "Yes, but so what?"

"Be safe and don't be impatient." Gao Wushi waved his hand and continued: "At the same time, what is Kanto doing? Kanto is enjoying the chaos of virtue, and then the Hojo family has spent 100 years and has not completely resolved the Kanto wealthy family. .

You see, here lies the problem: In Toyotomi Hideyoshi's view, the issue of the wealthy clan in the Kanto region that the Hojo family could not solve for 100 years, can your Tokugawa family, an outsider, solve it quickly?
Therefore, if we look at history from a more distant perspective, we will naturally feel that Ieyasu's line has reproduced Minamoto Yoritomo, but what about looking at it from the 18th year of Wanli (the year of the Battle of Odawara)?The more touching history is of course Uesugi Constitution and Ashikaga Chengji.

There is no geographical reason to explain why Ieyasu did not become another Furukawa government, and why the wealthy Kanto clan that Hojo could not subdue in the next 100 years could be resolved by Ieyasu.So it can only be said that it is man-made, and Tokugawa Ieyasu's ability to handle internal affairs is so high. "

"So Toyotomi Hideyoshi lost in internal affairs? Oh, or did he lose in underestimating Tokugawa Ieyasu's internal affairs?" Liu Xin asked.

"It's not Toyotomi Hideyoshi who lost, but Chacha and Hideyoshi's mother and son." Gao Wushi said seriously, "Hideyoshi didn't lose in this aspect. What he lost to Ieyasu was actually his heirs and longevity."

"But I remember you said before that Hideyoshi's strength is scheming, such as diplomacy and strategy."

"That's right, but I didn't mention his internal affairs. I've always said that Hideyoshi's weakness is eagerness for quick success, and the generals under the Toyotomi family at that time were relatively inferior to the Tokugawa family. This does not affect his internal affairs. the ability."

Gao Wushi got up to find the enfeoffment map in the Japanese map and hung it on the easel. He pointed to the picture and said, "If you look carefully at Hideyoshi's entrustment to domestic forces, you can clearly find that the territory of the Toyotomi family is not rich in products, nor can it be The area is huge. In fact, Hideyoshi is not stingy with land not only for Ieyasu, but also for other daimyos who can use it.”

Liu Xin immediately interjected: "Speaking of this, I have always had some doubts. In the feudal era, land was everything. Along with the enfeoffment of land, there are also population, taxes, soldiers, products, etc. So I wonder, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is so generous with rewards, isn't he afraid that these people who have been sealed will grow stronger and then rebel?"

"It's not that he's not worried, but he has better resources in his hands: business routes." Gao Wushi laughed, stretched out his fingers and drew lines on the map, and said, "Look, because of the Japanese Restricted by the shape of the country, from Kitakyushu to the Seto Inland Sea, from Sakai Port to the Hokuriku and Kanto Plains, and finally to the far northeast of Japan, a commercial route from southwest to northeast was formed. The closer to Ming Dynasty, the more upstream the commercial route. The greater the profit.

why?Because at this time the economic center of the entire Asia was in the hands of the Ming Dynasty.Although Hideyoshi gave generous rewards to other daimyos, the trade route from Kitakyushu via the Seto Inland Sea to Lake Biwa was firmly controlled by the Toyotomi family.Looking at Hideyoshi's rewards from this perspective, it is easy to find that the other daimyos are basically in the lower reaches of the trade route, and only the Toyotomi family is firmly in the upper reaches and has become the core.

Hideyoshi accumulated a lot of wealth by controlling business routes. Even after the failed war of aggression against Korea, when Tokugawa Ieyasu was about to attack Toyotomi Hideyori, the Toyotomi family still had huge gold reserves.Therefore, by the time of Hideyoshi, the power balance of the major names had shifted from the competition for land output (Shi Gao) in the early Warring States period to the competition for the control of trade lines. "

Liu Xin's heart moved, and she suddenly recalled Gao Wushi's judgment on Sakai Town just now.But Gao Wushi didn't wait for her to think about it, and continued: "Looking at the Kanto Plain, although the terrain is flat, the water source is abundant, and the products are rich, it is located in the lower reaches of the Japanese trade line.

If Ieyasu revolted against Hideyoshi, he would cut off the trade line and lead to a decline in his own economic strength.At the same time, Hideyoshi can use powerful capital forces, deploy a large number of weapons and logistics, and hire more soldiers. At that time, the Tokugawa family will be captured like the Hojo family.

Therefore, Hideyoshi transferred the Tokugawa family from the Tokaido trade line to the wider Kanto Plain. Rather than rewarding Ieyasu and adding a nominal 100 million shi to him, it is better to say that he was imprisoned in the Kanto. "

Liu Xin thought for a while, but she didn't seem to agree, and said, "In this case, even if Toyotomi Hideyoshi is dead, these trade lines are still in the hands of the Toyotomi family, and the strength of the Toyotomi family should still surpass the Tokugawa family. Yes, but why did the later Toyotomi family not seem to be very powerful, and even felt that they were just a medium-to-large force?"

"I have told you about the sharp conflict between the generals faction and the pursuit faction, so there is no need to talk about it." Gao Wushi said: "Besides this, there is another crucial reason: the war of invasion of Korea was defeated. gone."

Liu Xin was stunned, and hesitated, "You mean that the prestige of the Toyotomi family has plummeted because of the defeat in the war of invasion? But this is just a matter of appeal, and it has nothing to do with the strength of the Toyotomi family's direct control, right?"

"Prestige is of course mainly related to appeal, but what I want to talk about here is not that, what I want to talk about is the issue of business." Gao Wushi snorted softly: "The war of aggression against North Korea cut off the sea trade route between Ming Dynasty and Japan. , and the defeat of the war directly led to Japan's return from the initial era of capital competition to the era of land production competition.

Losing the dominant position in the upper reaches of the trade line, the economic strength of the Toyotomi family will naturally be greatly weakened, and the economy of the originally important trading port will decline.At the same time, due to the great loss of the midwestern daimyo in the war of aggression against Korea, the balance of power in Japan reversed: the relative strength of the eastern daimyo who stayed in Japan rose instantly, and the one who gained the most profit was naturally Ieyasu Tokugawa. "

Liu Xin suddenly realized, and said: "No wonder you said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi dreamed of moving to Ningbo after conquering Ming Dynasty. It turns out that trade income is so important to Toyotomi's family, so it's no wonder."

At this time, Gao Yushi was finally able to return to the topic, and said with a chuckle: "So now you think about it again, I just said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is unlikely to personally attack our Japanese headquarters in Sakaimachi, isn't it a little bit reason?"

"Well, yes." Liu Xin had to nod to admit that these political and economic issues are still highly pragmatic, but she can draw inferences, and said: "When you said this before, you deliberately added 'current stage' This attributive, thinking about it now, you should mean... the day when our Sea Trade Alliance voluntarily cut off trade is the day when Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to Sakaimachi, right?"

"Totally correct." Gao Wushi laughed and said, "So, not only can we influence Tokugawa Ieyasu through negotiations, but we can actually influence his actions on Toyotomi Hideyoshi's side. However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi must Forcing Tokugawa Ieyasu to be hostile to us, the contradictions in this are the starting point for us to intervene in Japan's internal structure."

What Gao Wushi said seemed to be very clear, but there seemed to be some things she didn't understand. Liu Xin thought about it and asked, "I can understand what you said about interfering. It's probably because the two of them wanted to fight but didn't dare to say so. , a person who doesn't want to fight but has to make a gesture of fighting, and you are trying to use their contradictions to control the timing of their outbreak of fighting, right?"

"Yes." Gao Wushi nodded in confirmation.

"But what I don't understand is, when do you think is the most appropriate time? Now that the court war has broken out, wouldn't it be good to let them fight now?" Liu Xin asked.

"Not good." Gao Wushi shook his head and said: "First, Daming still has several things to deal with first, and we can't mess up the order, otherwise it will overdraw the national power; second, Jinghua spent too much money in the past few years. However, if Japan's trade is interrupted now, our resources will not be abundant enough, and it will be difficult to concentrate enough power to obtain the maximum profit.

Therefore, I still need the two of them to slowly accumulate conflicts, and we must quickly accumulate strength, and then easily steal the head in the end. "
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