Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1951 Returning to Japan (卌九) Enduring Humiliation
In the 27th year of Wanli in Ming Dynasty and the [-]th year of Keicho in Japan, in the first month, Toyotomi Hideyori moved into Osaka as scheduled.

The Beizheng Office, who had been living in the city before, moved to Xiyuan, and Mrs. Yodo lived in the inner courtyard of the city with Hideyori, who was seven years old, and became the veritable master of Osaka Castle.Maeda Toshiie, as the auxiliary minister, naturally moved into the castle.Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was in charge of government affairs, returned to Fushimi on his own after sending Hideyori to Osaka.

All of this has been uneventful and appears to be going very smoothly.However, after the relocation, there were suddenly unusual rumors in the world, saying that those who were devoted to Ieyasu and those who followed the Five Obediences, headed by the Three Leaders, had completely divided into two factions, and they frequently interacted with each other.

As if to confirm these rumors, on the nineteenth day of the first lunar month, as the special envoys of the elders, middle elders, and Gobushin, Ikoma Gagaku Touqinzheng, the head of the tower of Sangkokji Temple—the acceptance of Toyokoji Temple, etc., went to Fushimi Denounce Jiakang.

That's right, it's a reprimand.

In fact, one afternoon before that, Ieyasu and Ii Naomasa were talking and laughing happily in the bright and clean academy.

"You just said that Horio Yoshiharu came, and now you're back?"

"Going back. He said that he will not visit His Highness today, and he will go back after talking with His Majesty."

"The special envoys who came to reprimand me are coming soon, right?"

"I heard it's coming tomorrow."

"Who do you think they'll send?"

"Ikoma Gagaku head and monk acceptance."

Ieyasu chuckled, and said, "Heh, it seems that even Kaga Danayan can't resist [-]% of the incitement. He's really eloquent."

"Your Highness, should we just sit and wait for death?"

"Even if we stop them, they will still come. Is there any way we can stop them? No. So let them come."

"No, I'm not talking about the envoy. I heard that the army of Da Nayan and the young master's soldiers have already entered Daban Castle."

"There is no need to worry about this at all. There is Ma Xuanfan in Huancheng, and Sakakibara Yasumasa is also coming with his own soldiers. As long as the troops are not seriously out of balance, Maeda will not be so confused as to confront me.

Moreover, even if an accident does happen... I should tell you about this: In the past few months, Sakai Port has secretly stationed more than [-] of the most elite Ming troops. "

Jingyi Naomasa was taken aback: "More than ten thousand? How elite?"

From the fact that Naomasa Ii was not surprised by the word "Mingjun", it can be seen that he knows some inside information, but he doesn't know the recent changes.Judging from his question, he cared more about the combat effectiveness of this Ming army.

"Using our Tokugawa family as a comparison, you can understand that this Ming army is equivalent to the 'banner first' of His Royal Highness 'Daming Guanbai'."

Ii Naomasa took a deep breath, as if he couldn't believe it: "Are they the same as those elites in Misaki Castle?"

"As far as I know, there's nothing worse than that." Ieyasu replied earnestly.

"Then, we must not let the matter develop to the point where they have an excuse to take action!" Naomasa Ii immediately stated: "Otherwise the matter will definitely become uncontrollable."

Ieyasu nodded, and said, "Of course I know, so isn't Sakakibara Yasomasa just rushing here?"

"However, if something happens before Kang Zheng arrives..."

"I won't allow anything to happen."

"So, tomorrow's messenger, how should we deal with it?"

"Don't worry, I've already figured out how to deal with it." Ieyasu said with a loud smile, "Horio Yoshiharu and Nakamura Kazushi are not the kind of young people. As long as we don't take the initiative to provoke trouble, it is not difficult to deal with them."

Hearing Ieyasu's words, Ii Naomasa smiled and said, "I am ashamed of your highness's courage. But I don't know what your highness will say when the envoy arrives?"

"Haha, before they come, we'd better not make unnecessary guesses. The more sharp-edged they are, the less capable they will appear. What I have been really worried about these days is actually the issue of withdrawing troops.

No matter how much it costs, we must let the big names withdraw smoothly, otherwise it will be a great shame to His Royal Highness Taige, and also a great shame to the five elders and five ministers, not to mention that it will be extremely detrimental to the future development of the situation.

Today, although the withdrawal of troops has suffered a considerable loss of troops, the daimyo did not make any major mistakes, and it can be regarded as a successful conclusion.As for Hideyori's mother and son, they also moved into Osaka Castle safely, and the matter is over. "

Seeing that Naomasa Ii was still a bit worried, Ieyasu smiled again, and said, "Leave Hideyori mother and son aside, and challenge me, Daisuke Warbu, do you think there are such stupid people in the world?"

Naomasa also laughed, "Of course not. But just in case someone...

"With you and the Torii father and son here, Komasa will also come. If something really happens, Yuuki Hideyasu will never stand by. And..." Ieyasu lowered his voice: "In case something really happens, Hosokawa Tadako will definitely dissuade Maeda. So you don't have to worry, the Sakai Minato Ming Army will not find a chance to do it."

"Yes, and His Highness Hosokawa." Naomasa nodded vigorously.

Senshihime, the sixth daughter of Maeda Toshiie, married Tadataka Ichiro, the first son of Tadakashi Hosokawa.Senshiji and her elder brother Toshicho were born to the same mother. Toshicho and Hosokawa Tadauki are about the same age and are still best friends.With this relationship, the chance of accidents is almost zero.

Jiayasu smiled suddenly at this moment, and said: "Actually, I didn't feel any kindness to him, but Hosokawa always felt that he owed me a lot of favor in Guan Baixiu's case. He didn't take any precautions, but he had already promised secretly that if something happened, he would definitely help."

When Xiuci was in trouble, the Hosokawa family was urged to return the [-] ingots of gold they had borrowed, but the Hosokawa family was financially strapped and unable to repay for a while.At that time, Matsui Sado, the elder of the Hosokawa family, rushed to Honda Masanobu for help with a pale face.

The trouble with this matter is that once the deep friendship between the Hosokawa family and Sekibaku Hideji is revealed, Hosokawa Tadakashi will be executed by the already crazy Hideyoshi as Hideyoshi's accomplices, so the two hundred ingots of gold itself are not the key, the key is that this is It is a matter of the ups and downs of Hosokawa's fate.

After Masanobu Honda heard the truth told by Matsui Sado, he immediately reported to Ieyasu.At that time, Ieyasu sent everyone away, and said with a relaxed expression: "Everyone has a time when they don't have a lot of money. Zhengxin, you pick a heavy box for my armor."

After the box was lifted, it was opened in front of Matsui Sado, and there were exactly [-] ingots of gold under the armor.

"Look at the date the box was sealed."

"Ah, it was 21 years ago?" Matsui said in surprise.

"Haha, this is my private money that I hid just in case, and I didn't even tell the gold and silver authorities at home. Alright, hurry up and take it to the emergency!"

So Matsui Sado went back with red eyes.And Tadake Hosokawa seems to have never forgotten the grace of saving his life that day, and he is still in close contact with Ieyasu.

Naomasa Ii felt relieved, but he still reminded Ieyasu that it was best to send a special envoy to urge Sakakibara Yasumasa to go to Beijing as soon as possible, so as not to have long nights and dreams, and then retreated.

Ieyasu didn't take Naomasa's words very seriously.In his eyes, he is already invincible at present, it is nothing more than winning more and winning less.Although [-]% is a little worrying, it is not harmful to the overall situation.From the moment Gao Yushi agreed to send Gao Yan to Japan to be his adopted son, Tokugawa Ieyasu was already sure of winning.

Although from Ieyasu's point of view, there are indeed many doubts about the withdrawal of troops from North Korea.For example, how did Fujido Takatora and Wakisaka Yasuji escape from the camp of the Ming army?
Kuroda Rushui and his son apparently parted ways with the main force, how did they disappear inexplicably on the battlefield, and finally found the ship and went straight back to Kyushu?
Yoshihiro Shimadzu fought a big battle when he withdrew, but when he finally returned to Japan to check, he found that no one in his Shimadzu family headquarters died in that battle. Is this a coincidence or intentional?If it was done on purpose, then why didn't any of the Taige's direct descendants under his command feel that there was something wrong with his command?

Ieyasu always felt that although he couldn't understand the reason for this series of doubts, there was only one answer anyway: Gao Yu deliberately did it behind the scenes.In other words, there is a game set up by Gao Pragmatism.

However, Ieyasu also knew that Gao Wushi had no control over what he wanted to do, and he couldn't stop him. Instead of worrying about these things, he should think more about Japan's internal troubles.

Once the entanglements left over on the battlefield turn the generals against each other and further develop into disputes, the situation will be difficult to deal with, and it may even lead the Ming army directly to Japan... This is what Ieyasu is most worried about.

Why is this important?Because the Japanese army who went to fight in North Korea is already the most elite part of Japan.Almost except for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the rest of the daimyo had to send their most elite combat forces to North Korea to fight. Those Japanese troops in North Korea may account for three-quarters of the elite troops in Japan.

However, even so, they were still ruthlessly beaten by the Wanming Army within a few months, leaving only a corner near Busan, and the gap in combat effectiveness between the two sides was undoubtedly huge.

The Iron Artillery Squadron, which became the "stunt" of the Japanese army after the rise of Lord Nobunaga, was beaten almost powerless when facing the Ming army, and the Ming army cavalry was even more of a nightmare for the Japanese army.

People who came back from the Korean battlefield said that they knew that the so-called first Japanese cavalry "Takeda Chibei" was simply a child cavalry after seeing the cavalry of the Ming army.In front of the tens of thousands of armored cavalry of the Ming army, what is the use of more than a thousand cavalry that can only be assembled together?One charge and it's all gone.

[Note: The total number of Takeda Chibei is not conclusive, but according to "Jiayang Junjian", a history book dedicated to the Takeda family, it should be "Thousand Horses". It is enough to add the word "Yu" to them here .In the so-called long war, Jingchang, Zhongshan County, led 3000 Chibei to launch the charge first... [-] cavalry regiments do not mean [-] Chibei, Gao Yushi still has many mounted infantry under his command. ]
Ieyasu sighed and thought, fortunately, the troubling withdrawal of troops was over smoothly, and everyone returned to their respective territories.After fighting for seven consecutive years, the hardships of the big names can be imagined, and they are naturally extremely war-weary.

All the generals became victims of Taige's ambition.The most ridiculous thing is that Taige's goal is not only North Korea, he also wants to invade the Ming Dynasty and wantonly plunder the land.How dare he... So his dream finally came to naught.

Judging from Gao Yushi's willingness to let Gao Yan be his adopted son, what Ieyasu is worried about now is not that the Ming court will continue the war and spread the war to Japan, but that the disputes among the daimyo will make Gao Yushi give up soft political methods Force instead—his own private force.

Among the great masters of the martial arts, in the face of this difficult situation, disputes between those who returned from the expedition and those who stayed behind are unavoidable.Therefore, after Ieyasu left the matter of withdrawing troops to Sancheng, he deliberately visited Shimadzu, Arima, Nagasogabe, and Hosokawa Yusai.

The exhaustion in the territory and the disputes after the withdrawal of troops will undoubtedly cause chaos, and there will also be friction with neighboring countries, so countermeasures must be devised to prevent conflicts from happening.

After the dream of making a fortune through war is shattered, the generals must be extremely depressed, so I must try my best to cheer them up and encourage them to rely on their own efforts to revive the territory.These are the responsibilities of being a ruler.Of course, if Taige is still alive, he should do the same.

But in [-]%'s eyes, Ieyasu's doing so was another attempt, or something wrong.He believes that Ieyasu regards Hideyoshi's death as a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, and taking the opportunity to win over the big names and challenge the Toyotomi family is an extremely dangerous generation of traitors.

Of course, Ieyasu is also aware of Sancheng's dissatisfaction, but Sancheng's view is too superficial, and he doesn't know where the biggest danger in Japan is at the moment—the "Daming Guanbai" who has already put his hand into Japan's arms is the real one. The one who can subvert everything.

If compared with him, his greatness is to subvert a Toyotomi public instrument, and it will never destroy the national system of Japan's Wanshi line.But that "Guan Bai" may not be. If he doesn't use the current method to restrain him, will he care about Japan's national system?Obviously not.Guan Bai and generals are probably worthless in his eyes, and even the emperor is nothing more than a plaything that he can set up as soon as he says it, and waste it as soon as he says it.

For the sake of Japan's national system, I can even abandon the Tokugawa family, but the "Tokugawa" that will be truly inherited in the future is just a separate family. How would Ishida Mitsunari know about such a big sacrifice, and how does he know how to endure humiliation!
In fact, the proposal of marriage to Fukushima and Hachisuka is not without the intention of testing [-]%.

As for the desire to welcome Date Masamune's daughter as Tadaki's wife, Ieyasu has two considerations: first, of course, to seek Antai in Edo; Look at your contact with Hideyoshi's elders.

If Sancheng can realize that it is meaningless to be hostile to my Ieyasu, then he should feel relieved whether it is for himself or for the Toyotomi clan; never ending.If he is narrow-minded and has been obsessed with obsession...

Ieyasu wanted to test Sancheng's fools with this.Unexpectedly, Maeda Toshiie was also involved.But even so, no matter what happens, Ieyasu is prepared to deal with it.
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