Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1950 Returning to Japan (卌八) A Town of Soldiers

The so-called "Ming Army" stationed in Sakai Port is of course not the imperial court's economically controlled army, but the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance—or simply put, it is a highly pragmatic private army, which is Jinghua's "armed servants."

The matter of the garrison in Sakai Port was discussed by Toyotomi Hidecho and Luo Yuan at the time.At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideyoshi asked the Maritime Trade Alliance to establish a Japanese headquarters in Osaka, so as to suppress the cards of the Kyushu Crystal Building and the Kanto (Misaki Castle) Crystal Building.Due to the highly pragmatic authorization, Luo Yuan agreed to this condition, but he said that the Sea Trade Alliance has its own rules, and the Sea Trade Alliance must be responsible for the defense of the location of the crystal building, so it is required to garrison troops.

Since it is necessary to garrison troops, it is obvious that the Japanese headquarters of the Maritime Trade Alliance cannot be located in Osaka Castle, so Toyotomi Hidecho proposed to set it in Sakai Town, which is very close to Osaka Castle.

Although Sakai-cho asked all major merchants to relocate to Osaka because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in the end, the big merchants in Sakai-cho generally chose to "do addition", and the population loss was not too great.The so-called "addition" means that while they were ordered to build a commercial house in Osaka, they were unwilling to give up the "fundamental place" of Sakaimachi.

Therefore, with the strength of the Maritime Trade Alliance, once settled in Sakaimachi, the situation where the local area has been slightly declining due to the separation of a force will immediately change, and prosperity is still just around the corner, so Luo Yuan also agreed to this one.

But then, the two sides wrangled for a while on the issue of the garrison.At the beginning, Luo Yuan said that he would control the garrison to "less than [-]", but Toyotomi Hideo was surprised and decisively refused.

He thinks 300 troops are too many—maybe Ming people think [-] is not too much, but [-] troops is really a lot in Japan.This can be used as an analogy: Although the Japanese invasion of Korea required different troops from all major names, if an average is taken, it is roughly calculated based on the fact that each family sent [-] troops for every [-] shi.

So, taking the Shimadzu family as an example, they should send 13470 troops.However, after the Shimadzu family announced that the subject was from Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi has always wanted to decentralize Shimadzu Yoshihisa by wooing Shimadzu Yoshihiro, and he is very tolerant of the Shimadzu family.

Therefore, Hideyoshi first gave the Shimadzu family a relaxation of 250 troops per 11450 shi, which means that a total of 3000 troops should be dispatched. Later, he approved the Shimadzu family to stay with more than [-] troops at the Nagoya, so that only one actual dispatch of troops is required. Ten thousand.In the end, he made up for Yoshihiro Shimadzu, who "firmly followed Taiko", to make up for the gap. As a result, the Shimadzu family actually only dispatched more than [-] people to meet the requirements.

Of course, some families were not so lucky, such as Changzong's Gabu family.His family originally almost unified the entire Shikoku, but because of their resistance to Hideyoshi, they were deprived of all the territories they conquered in the later period after Hideyoshi's "Shikoku Conquest", leaving only Tosa with a stone height of 9.8.

However, when sending troops to North Korea, Hideyoshi asked Changzong Gabu's family, who originally only needed to send 2940 troops, to make up the whole, and finally sent [-] troops, and even one less would not work.

How to put this kind of thing, it can only be said that the treatment is obtained by oneself.Satsuma Hayato is especially good at fighting. The Shimadzu family has been producing famous generals for two or three generations in a row. The combination of these reasons led to the exception that the Shimadzu family actually only sent [-] troops.

Oh, I need to make a special note here, although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not send a single soldier to North Korea, but in fact he also sent 5000 people to stay in Nagoya, the base camp of the imperial conquest.

Some people may ask, Tokugawa Ieyasu has a territory of 250 million shi in Kanto, why only need to send 5000 people?The reason is very simple. Tokugawa Ieyasu's direct leader is 100 million shi, while the Kanto daimyo is far away. According to Hideyoshi's regulations, 250 troops are sent for every [-] shi.

As for the remaining 150 million stones left by Ieyasu, they were actually all entrusted to the retainers.Here is an example of enfeoffment of Ueno Ichigoku: Minowa 12 shi, Ii Naomasa; Tatebayashi 10 shi, Sakakibara Yasomasa; Stable Bridge 33000 shi, Hiraiwa Omikichi; Shirai 33000 shi, Honda Hiroko; Xiaoban 3 shi , Nobuhisa Okuheira; 3 koku for Fujioka, Yassada Matsudaira; 2 koku for Dahu, Yasunari Makino; 2 koku for Yoshii, Tadari Suganuma; 12000 koku for Sosha, Raisui Suwa; 1 koku for Nawa, Matsudaira ; Numata 27000 stone, Sanada Nobuyuki.

The enfeoffment of other countries such as Xiazong, Shangzong, Musashi, Sagami, Izu, etc. is also done according to this model.In short, Ieyasu's 250 million koku is real, but the Tokugawa Honke directly received 100 million koku.

Closer to home, a 1-strong army is by no means a small number in the eyes of the Japanese, especially since Sakai Port is so close to Osaka Castle. The garrison of this 3000-strong army is not acceptable to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. More than [-] people.

Luo Yuan said at the time that it would be difficult to arrange 3000 people based on the land division of the Maritime Trade Alliance.Because the land division of the Sea Trade Alliance generally uses towns as the basic unit, the number of people in a town is 12512.He said that it was already very embarrassing to promise to limit the number of people to less than [-], because only two infantry associations could be stationed there, and the town's horse marks and gun marks could not be carried.

The two sides quarreled, and in the end, the strong dragon did not overwhelm the local leader. The agreement reached was still based on the compromise proposal proposed by Toyotomi Hideaga: the Maritime Trade Alliance's garrison in Sakaicho would not exceed [-] troops, and only one infantry association would be sent.

He also said "very caringly" that 38 of the 1000 people are planned to be a standard infantry association of the Maritime Trade Alliance, and the remaining about [-] people can be the family members and servants of the officers of the alliance. .

However, although the conditions were fulfilled, in fact, until Gao Wushi personally went to North Korea, the troops in Sakai Port were not actually deployed.First, the Maritime Trade Alliance itself does not have so many Lu divisions (Jinghua’s domestic Lu divisions mainly belong to Jinghua Trading Company and major factories and mines, and are not directly under the jurisdiction of the Maritime Trade Union); secondly, after the agreement was reached, Gao Wu has been Busy with the affairs of the war against Mongolia, I haven't decided where to deploy the manpower.

Therefore, until he went to North Korea in person, although the Maritime Trade Alliance had built the so-called "Japanese Headquarters" in Sakai-cho, the Sakai Port Crystal Building, the defense force was not a regular land division, but was composed of Jinghua and various families in the alliance fleet. Some musketeers came out to act.The number of these people is not fixed. Sometimes there are thousands of people, and sometimes there are only six or seven hundred.

From a high-pragmatic point of view, because Sakai Port 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 it is not cost-effective, and secondly, it does not conform to the highly pragmatic plan and implementation steps for Japan at that time.

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 at the time, the best way was to let Japan have a 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 eastern and western armies may require his intervention to fine-tune Let's make their power balance 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 a fortune.

However, this idea was later changed due to changes in the actual situation.The most critical point is that Tokugawa Ieyasu suddenly proposed to accept Gao Yan as an adopted son, and made a clear promise that Gao Yan would be appointed as the governor of the Tokugawa family.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu put forward such a seemingly bizarre condition, Gao Wushi knew that Ieyasu had seen his plan, or at least he had seen his intention to forcefully intervene in Japan after Hideyoshi's death.

Ieyasu has always been scheming, and he is very calm, and will not take any action easily.But on the other hand, once he makes a move, it must be clearly calculated and certain.

Therefore, he put forward such a condition, making it clear that it is already calculated. Given the degree of division in Japan, as long as it is in name—but once the recognized "man of the world" Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies, he will definitely not be able to resist high-level interference and will definitely be punished. Break each one.

In this process, the Tokugawa family, as the most powerful name after the Toyotomi family, happened to be not far from Misaki Castle, the fulcrum of the Kanto Fleet, and would definitely be hit like a thunderbolt.

Instead of this, it would be better to accept Gao Yan as an adopted son, which can not only preserve his strength, but also have a chance to preserve his family name.

Here, it is more understandable for the Tokugawa family to preserve the family name. After all, as long as Gao Yan becomes his adopted son, he should be named Tokugawa Miao in the future if there is no accident, and the Tokugawa family name will be preserved.

Preserving strength may not be so easy to understand, but Ieyasu does have his wily plans.In Ieyasu's view, if Gao Yushi wants to conquer Japan, and he has already taken refuge in it, he still has a lot of people to deal with-at least the Toyotomi family will definitely be destroyed.

The destruction of Toyotomi's family, the forced landing of some daimyos, and the destruction of other daimyos who refused to obey are all things that will definitely happen.During this period, there will definitely be many major events such as confiscation of territories and changes of territories, and the final result will be that there will be many more "lands without owners" in the world.

No matter how cunning Ieyasu is, he can’t break away from the Japanese’s habitual thinking, so he believes that even if he is highly pragmatic, he will take away half or more of these unclaimed lands—of course, he should take it away as the highly-acted Tokugawa Governor— — but what about the rest?

He, the Tokugawa family, followed Gao Yushi to "buy martial arts in the world", no matter what, he had to seal a group of people, right?In Ieyasu's view, he himself should have given up the governor of the family to Gao Yan at that time, so he would definitely not divide the land, but couldn't Tokugawa Hidetada and his brothers get a share of it?

Especially Hidetada, he was the original heir of the Tokugawa family's governor, and the governor would give up at that time. As the most important "pro-vassal daimyo", it would be completely unreasonable not to seal more territories.And Yuuki Hideyasu, Matsudaira Tadakashi and others (all sons of Ieyasu, readers who are interested in different Miao characters can Baidu themselves) will of course have a share of the pie, so "preserving strength" can also be done.

Because of the changes caused by this incident, Gao Wushi adjusted his future plans against Japan, and one of them was to send more troops to Sakai Port.

Of course, there is also a premise for this, that is, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's health is getting worse day by day, Gao Pragmatically judges that he should not have any military actions against Sakai Port, and his focus of thinking will definitely shift to the issue of heirs. superior.At that time, as long as no one jumped out to rebel, Hideyoshi basically didn't care.

As a result, the strength of Sakai Port was rapidly strengthened. Not only did it complete the "garrison of five thousand" stipulated in the previous agreement in just two months, but it also had a lot of hidden forces.

Sakai Port is a unique place. Although the big merchants here have already established commercial houses in Osaka, they have a very bad impression of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and the entire Toyotomi family.

At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seemed to have lost his mind. First, he forced Sen Rikyu, one of the leaders of Sakai Port, the largest commercial port in Japan, to commit suicide, which has already offended a large number of businessmen.What's more terrible is that Hideyoshi forced the wealthy households from Sakai Port to move to Osaka in order to accumulate wealth in Osaka City, which caused even more complaints.

However, at that time, due to the power of the Toyotomi family, the merchants in Sakai Port dared not speak out.In the original history, it was not until Tokugawa Ieyasu's power rose that they couldn't wait to join the past.For example, during the Battle of Sekigahara, Sakai Port sent more than 100 mercenaries to participate in the Eastern Army, and there were even more secret support in the rest of the economy.

Therefore, in order to thank the merchants in Sakai Port, in 1604, the Tokugawa shogunate, which had opened in Edo, ordered that only merchants in Sakai Port, Kyoto, and Nagasaki have the exclusive right to buy and sell raw silk in Japan, and no one else can intervene. .This made the merchants in Sakai Port earn a lot of money, and they were even more grateful to the shogunate, thinking that they would be reborn parents.

Sakai Port had a high degree of independence during the period of the Muromachi Shogunate. The rules and regulations were completely managed by the residents themselves, and there was a specialized litigation trial organization called "Ten People" among the residents.Later, it developed into a 36-member congregation, representing the interests of the residents.

In terms of urban construction, there are moats filled with water around Sakai Port, and the two ends of the towns are also separated from each other by wooden boards, which are locked at night to protect the safety of the city.In the commercial field, ordinary businessmen in the same industry also have their own "seats" to regulate each other's business behavior.

After the Maritime Trade Alliance built the Crystal Building in the original Sakai Port, due to its strong commercial capabilities, it controlled countless goods from Daming, Nanyang and other places, and even the cargo ships of "Nanban" (West, Portugal, etc.) Arrived, so almost as soon as I settled in, I was the only one in the business circle of Sakai Port.

The merchants in Sakai Port did not dare to be hostile to the Maritime Trade Alliance at all. They could only compete with who was more well-behaved in order to obtain trade franchise rights for certain goods. Soon, another Japan with the Maritime Trade Alliance as the core was actually formed. business alliance.

Since this is the situation, there is no need to say much about the positions of these big businessmen.Gao Pragmatically wants to break up the whole into parts and deploy more military forces to Sakai Port. No businessman who is not open-eyed will refuse, let alone reveal the slightest bit.

When Maeda Toshiie remembered that there was a "Ming Army" in Sakai Port, in fact, Sakai Port already had an army sent by Gao Yushi, totaling more than 1000 people.
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