Wanli 1592

Chapter 1186 The Crisis of Toyotomi Hideji
Japan, Kyoto, the residence of Toyotomi Hideji.

Toyotomi Hideji looked at Ishida Mitsunari whose eyes were swollen from the beating, with a little unbearable in his eyes.

"Is the injury okay?"

Toyotomi Hideji's question was just a gesture, although he could see that Ishida Mitsunari's eyes were severely swollen. In fact, if Ishida Mitsunari hadn't dodged in time, Asano Yukinaga's iron fist would have knocked out his eyes. .

Moreover, there are Hosokawa Tadake and Ikeda Teruma behind Asano Yukunaga, who are enough to kill Ishida Mitsunari, and they are extremely dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari. shot.

At the beginning, Xiao Ruxun made the decision to divide Japan into three parts and after careful consideration, he used the privilege of the admiral to secretly release three supporters of the Toyotomi family, Ishida Mitsunari, Ukita Hideke and Asano Yukunaga, who were captured alive after the war. A civet cat came to replace the prince.

Xiao Ruxun decided to let them return to the Toyotomi clan to stabilize the situation of the Toyotomi clan, and prevent Tokugawa Ieyasu from surpassing the Toyotomi clan, so that Wu Weizhong's 1 horses could not control the situation, which would affect the situation he managed with painstaking efforts.

This strategy is indeed effective. Judging from his judgment based on the information he received from Monk Xuansu and his vague memory, the Ukita Hide family is the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and they are extremely loyal to the Toyotomi family. will betray.

Ishida Mitsunari was single-handedly promoted by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and he was also very loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Xiao Ruxun still vaguely remembered that it was Ishida Mitsunari who opposed Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara, and this was also Tokugawa Ieyasu's mortal enemy.

Asano Yukunaga worked with Toyotomi Hideyoshi since he was a child, and his loyalty to the Toyotomi family would not be less. At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu killed Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Asano Yukunaga gritted his teeth and vowed that if he could escape, We must avenge Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

So Xiao Ruxun chose these three people to release secretly.

What happened after these three people went back, Xiao Ruxun also paid more attention to the situation in Japan in Myanmar, and when he learned that these three people were reactivated by Toyotomi Hideji to stabilize the situation, he knew that his plan had worked, and the power of the Toyotomi clan Re-stabilized, the Tokugawa Clan missed the best opportunity to destroy the Toyotomi Clan, and have since fallen into a confrontation between East and West.

Coupled with the suppression and deterrence of Wu Weizhong's [-] southern soldiers, Japan entered a strange period of peace.

And this period of peace can be maintained until now, without the long-term open and secret struggles between the east and the west and the deterrence of the Ming court.

Now, Maeda Toshiie died just right. Although there is no Tokugawa Ieyasu to cause trouble outside, the internal contradictions of the Toyotomi family have continued.

After Ishida Mitsunari was re-appointed, he summarized the failure of the Korean War and criticized himself, but at the same time he also criticized some daimyos who died in North Korea or were escorted to Beijing for execution. The successors and family members of those daimyos punished Xu Tu in order to remember the meaning of revenge for humiliating Xu Tu.

As a result, the effect was achieved, but it also aroused public outrage.

Moreover, after the war, Toyotomi Hideji and Maeda Toshiie urgently needed effective subordinates to stabilize their situation, so they promoted these three as heroes who "lead troops to break through and return to their homeland", and they became daimyos again and took power smoothly.

In fact, they also wanted to understand that Xiao Ruxun asked them to come back only to strengthen Toyotomi's power, to prevent the situation of dividing the East and the West from being broken, and to prevent the unification of Japan. Although it is very insidious, it is undoubtedly in their interests.

At that time, although the Tokugawa Army was wiped out by the Ming Army by tens of thousands of people, and lost Kuroda Kanbei, the military adviser who betrayed Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Honda Tadakatsu, one of the Four Heavenly Kings, the strength still remained. It is much better for the destroyed Toyotomi army.

Kato Kiyomasa Konishi and other supporters of Toyotomi Hideyoshi were basically all killed, and the army was also killed and wounded. The past basically failed to come back. Either they were killed or they were captured by the Ming army and brought back to China to do coolies. died in China.

The Toyotomi family only had a group of retainers under Toyotomi Hideji and a small number of troops. If it weren't for Maeda Toshiie's timely actions to help Toyotomi Hideji stabilize Kyoto and recruit troops, it is estimated that Tokugawa has not waited for the Ming army to come. Ieyasu is about to storm Kyoto.

Losing the gathering point of righteousness in Kyoto, the Toyotomi family will really become a rootless duckweed.

Xiao Ruxun simply knew how to balance the forces of both sides, and sent back the three key people who had not had time to kill. Although they were very annoyed, for the survival of the Toyotomi family, Tokugawa Ieyasu was also a mortal enemy.

In order of priority, they decided to let Tokugawa Ieyasu pay the price in blood first, and then let Xiao Ruxun know the consequences of arrogance.

As a result, seven years later, they still failed to realize their dreams.

On the contrary, he went further and further on the road of political enemies.

Ishida Mitsunari is talented, but his methods are radical, his emotional intelligence is not high, and he has no commanding ability. He cannot allow the civil servants and generals to coexist peacefully. The Ukita Hide family, who did not pay attention to the conflicts between civil servants and generals, were dissatisfied.

In the concentrated outbreak of conflicts this time, the Ukita Hide family did not play any role. If it was not for Toyotomi Hideji's timely intervention, it is not known what would happen.

But as the lord, Toyotomi Hideji couldn't really convict the three of them, and soon released them after reprimanding them. In fact, Toyotomi Hideji was also very dissatisfied with the sudden explosion of generals' cards to attack Ishida Mitsunari.

In his opinion, once Maeda Toshiie died, these military generals rioted collectively and attacked Ishida Mitsunari in front of him. At a small scale, this is not giving him face at all, and at a large scale, this is just not taking the lord seriously. Could it be that Maeda Is Lijia's status higher than his?
Maeda Toshiie was also very respectful to him when he was alive, and gave him enough face, but those generals didn't give him face at all, and didn't take him seriously at all, which made Maeda Toshiie close to the generals when he was still alive. He began to have a different idea.

He began to realize that the balance that Maeda Toshiie could maintain could not be maintained without some means. At least without the prestige of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Maeda Toshiie, his status became unstable.

Even so, he was sure of Ishida Mitsunari's loyalty, so he decided to use Ishida Mitsunari to balance the power of the generals, and absolutely not let the generals be too arrogant, thus losing control over them and threatening his own status.

There is nothing wrong with his strategy, as any regal figure would do.

Seeing that the generals under his command are out of control, he will be even more worried.

Even a country like the Ming Dynasty, which has no military generals, will guard against military generals, let alone these daimyos with a large number of fiefdoms?
Really, the problem is very big.

(End of this chapter)