After explaining why "the war is over and looking at Beiyang", Zhu Yingzhen finally felt at ease. Gao Pragmatic explained to him some related matters on how to support the Hojo clan. The late-night snack prepared by Gao Mo was eaten by Zhu Yingzhen.

Then I said goodbye and left.

Gao Pragmatic usually didn't eat at night, but tonight he had a lot of things to do, so he managed to eat a few slices of braised beef, and asked Liu Xin why he didn't move his chopsticks.

Liu Xin looked like she would rather die than surrender, shaking her head: "Fat is a woman's biggest natural enemy."

Gao Pingshi laughed, put down his chopsticks and said, "You said you don't want to get married, and you're afraid of getting a little bit fat. Is that the case?"

"What does this have to do with whether or not to marry?" Liu Xin glared at Gao Pragmatic: "I can't tolerate being out of shape, can't I?"

"Yes, of course." Gao Pragmatic didn't intend to argue about this kind of thing. He changed the topic and asked: "Well, it seems that you haven't finished what you said before. Now that Duke Cheng Guo has left, do you want to add something?"

Liu Xin glanced at him and said, "Are you talking about Japan's unification or something?"

Gao pragmatic shook his head slightly and said seriously: "I'm talking about the entire related incident."

"Oh." Liu Xin thought for a moment and did not answer, but asked: "You said before that after Toyotomi Hideyoshi unified Japan, he would send troops to Korea in at most two or three years. Is this your judgment based on history, or do you think it is

Is this inevitable?"

"It's all." Gao Pragmatic answered quickly: "The reason why there is such a history is also inevitable. It is based on Toyotomi Hideyoshi's physical and psychological conditions, and after Japan's unification, its domestic conflicts could not be internalized.

A kind of necessity formed by dissolution.”

Liu Xin asked: "The so-called internal contradictions are the too many warrior classes you mentioned before?"

"More than that." Gao Pragmatic said calmly: "Too many samurai is actually a national problem in Japan, but to some extent, too many samurai is a problem for Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself or his direct power group.

It’s not as serious as imagined.”

"Oh? How do you say this?" Liu Xin was slightly surprised.

Gao pragmatically said: "How to put it... Well, you can roughly compare Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification with Chiang's 'unification'. In fact, the biggest difference between Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Oda Nobunaga is that Nobunaga sees

Anyone who is dissatisfied will be destroyed, and Hideyoshi just destroyed Hojo, and Shibata can only be regarded as part of Oda's original power.

In essence, Nobunaga preferred military unification, while Hideyoshi, his de facto successor, preferred political unification. However, political unification would have an inevitable problem, that is, Hideyoshi did not break the original enfeoffment pattern.

There were almost two conquests: the Kyushu Conquest and the Kanto Conquest.

The result of the Kyushu expedition was that the Shimazu clan was punished and had to regurgitate the previous results. It did not suffer much loss to its own basic base. After the Shimazu clan surrendered, Hideyoshi did not force the fight to the end, but recognized this kind of submission.

, contented with being the leader of the princes.

The Hojo clan was a bit more miserable, and they were basically wiped out. However, an important reason why Hojo was wiped out was that they offended Tokugawa Ieyasu. It happened that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was worried about Ieyasu whose territory was too close to him, so he used Hojo to be wiped out.

Ieyasu had the opportunity to change the seal. This approach has a bit of the shadow of 'governing all nations from China'."

Liu Xin frowned and said, "Does this have anything to do with him sending troops to North Korea?"

"It does matter. It matters a lot." Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "You think, since Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification mainly relied on political means under the deterrence of force, then those under his command who cooperated with his deterrence of force

Do our generals need to be rewarded for their merits?

But the problem is that since it is not unified by force, it is naturally impossible to deprive the daimyo territories that surrendered to him and distribute them to his own people. So where does this reward come from? Since he has acquiesced to the feudal system, the reward must still be

He wants to enfeoff, but he has no land, how can he do so?

What's more, judging from his "Taiko Inspection" situation, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's own strength is not actually very strong. At least compared to the later Tokugawa Shogunate, the strength of the Toyotomi family itself is weak.

.”

"This is the first time I've heard of this. Can you give me more details?"

Gao pragmatically said: "There is no need to be too detailed. Let me give you a rough outline. The Japanese stone height during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's era was about 19 million, and it was said to be 22 million during Tokugawa Ieyasu's era. The gap is limited.

But when it comes to the number of stone heights of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi has 2.2 million stone, while Tokugawa Ieyasu after transferring to Kanto has 2.5 million stone. The number of stone heights of these two people is more than 2 million.

, not much different. But in fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's control over Japan in his era was actually not as good as Tokugawa Ieyasu's in the Edo shogunate era.

First of all, although Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu had almost the same number of stone heights, and compared to their eras, they accounted for similar proportions of Japan's total stone heights, the difference between them was actually not small.

In addition to the 650,000 koku in Toyotomi Hideyoshi's territory in Osaka, there are also more than 1 million koku in the hidden land, which is the part of the daimyo territory that Toyotomi Hideyoshi carved out when he enfeoffed the daimyo. This is scattered throughout Japan.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was different. His territory was concentrated in Kanto. Not only that, he also had separate families of the Gosan family and the Gosanqing family. In terms of stone count, he had many more families than the Toyotomi family.

Secondly, as I just said, what is the nature of Toyotomi's regime? It appears to be unified on the surface, but in fact it is just a loose alliance of daimyo. Most of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's power comes from his prestige. Once he dies, Toyotomi will

The collapse of Chen's regime is only a matter of time.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was different. His power came from the prestige, strength, name of the Tokugawa family and his status as co-head of the martial arts family. Theoretically, even if Tokugawa Ieyasu died early, it would not be broken and collapsed as quickly as the Toyotomi family.

This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Another key point is that there is a lack of Daimyo in the Toyotomi regime. This can be said to be Toyotomi Hideyoshi's own suicide. He not only suppressed Daimyo, but also killed

We all know the fate of our own relatives, such as Toyotomi Hideji. This approach seriously weakened the support of the entire regime.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attempt to maintain the balance and stability of the regime by wooing local forces, namely the Five Elders, was actually a fool's errand. Not to mention that Tokugawa Ieyasu was already powerful enough to threaten the Toyotomi family.

Can those local forces really be loyal to the Toyotomi family?

We have all heard the saying: "The emperor would rather have a son? He will be the one with strong soldiers and horses!" For their own interests, sooner or later they will betray the Toyotomi family, especially since the core strength of the Toyotomi family is not enough to dominate the world.

time.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was different. He had a complete hierarchical system of kin-han, gendai, and gaibei. The kin-han occupies wealthy areas, and the daidai monitors gaibei. Most of the gaijin lords are transferred to remote places, and

They were picked on and exploited in various ways - just like the Shimazu family. Therefore, the strength of the foreign daimyo could not be compared with that of the Tokugawa shogunate, and of course they did not dare to challenge the shogunate.

In the end, Toyotomi Hideyoshi suppressed the daimyo by inspecting the territory and transferring seals from the Taikaku. This caused him and his direct lineage to offend many people. However, the local powerful faction was the guarantee for the stability of Toyotomi's regime, so this approach was actually a self-improvement.

Seeking death was to force these local daimyo to abandon the Toyotomi family at a critical moment.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was different. He excluded the outside daimyo from the center of power. Many of these outside daimyo left their original territories and lacked control over the new territories. Coupled with the oppression and suppression of the generational daimyo, it was basically

Can't afford to make waves.

Although doing so will also lead to the hatred of the gaibei daimyo towards him, and there is actually no essential difference between the approach of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, but these are all based on the hierarchical system of kin, genealogy, and gaibei. The Tokugawa family

Strong prestige and strength serve as the foundation, rather than relying solely on personal prestige and political means like Toyotomi Hideyoshi."

Liu Xin understood a little now and nodded: "In general, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's real core strength is seriously insufficient, and even adding his so-called direct lineage can only guarantee that he can barely make the outside world famous.

Submitting to him in name is not enough to form an overwhelming advantage, is this what you mean?"

"Yes, this is why once I establish garrison armies in various countries in southern Xinjiang, I will gradually reduce their original armies until they are finally abolished. The so-called garrison army consumes a lot of money and has advanced ordnance, so there is no need to retain so many other armies.

In fact, it’s just a matter of finding a reason to disarmament.”

Liu Xin blinked: "The Cen and Huang families..."

Gao pragmatic shrugged his shoulders and said: "I can only say that the objective facts have caused it, and we can't act too hastily at the moment. But having said that, the Cen and Huang families and even all the Guangxi chieftains who moved to southern Xinjiang, even if they were added together, would not be able to defeat them.

sky."

Liu Xin suddenly frowned and said, "Did you marry Huang Zhiting for some reason?"

Gao pragmatic raised his eyebrows slightly when he heard this: "I guess you want to ask whether I deliberately used this marriage method to divide the Huang family, and then used it to divide the Guangxi chieftains headed by the Cen and Huang families, and finally made the Guangxi chieftains

It’s impossible for all the forces to unite to threaten me?”

"Uh..." Liu Xin laughed dryly: "Well, at least in hindsight, it does have such an effect."

Gao pragmatic shook his head and said: "I didn't think so at the time." After a pause, he added: "Actually, Zhiting was more active in this matter than me."

"Uh-huh." Liu Xin shrugged, pursed her lips, and said, "I don't know whether I should say she is smart, or whether I should say that the concept of marriage in this era has huge inertia. As you said, Guangxi Tusi are dividing themselves.

In this matter, she seems to be much more active than you."

Gao pragmatic smiled and stopped mentioning this issue, but changed the subject and continued to talk about Japan, saying: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi's core strength is not strong enough, and the so-called direct generals have made great contributions but are hard to win, so he only

Can make plans for external expansion.

In addition, he is not young anymore. I did the math... Well, he is already fifty-one years old this year (actual age), which is quite old for Japan. In the original history, when he launched the war against Korea

It was four years later, when he was fifty-five years old.

Considering that this guy's physical condition has always been relatively average, maybe the reason why he was so eager to start a war was because he was worried that he wouldn't be able to resolve the matter in front of him... Wait, that's not right."

Liu Xin was stunned: "What's wrong?"

Gao Pragmatic frowned and said hesitantly: "If I remember correctly, Hideyoshi's successor Toyotomi Hideyori was born in 1593, the year after the war broke out."

Liu Xin still didn't understand what Gao Pragmatic meant, and asked inexplicably: "Is there any problem with this?"

"No, no." Gao Pingshi suddenly stood up, paced back and forth for a while, and then said in a serious tone: "I've gone over the matter of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's successor. Please listen and see if I've made any mistakes.

.”

Liu Xin actually didn't know much about the current situation in Japan, let alone what problems Toyotomi Hideyoshi's heirs had, but Gao Pragmatic didn't give her a chance to tell, so she had to listen.

Gao Pragmatic pondered: "When Toyotomi Hideyoshi was in middle age, his eldest son Ishimatsumaru Hidekatsu was born in his side room Nanden. This son died at the age of six, so Hideyoshi missed this first child very much. This

This may be the reason why he named his subsequent adopted sons "Xiusheng".

But Toyotomi Hideyoshi's second son, Toyotomi Tsurumatsu, was born very late, in 1589 - that is, he will not be born until next year. Hideyoshi had high hopes for this son and paid great attention to it. However, God was not kind to him, and this son

He died in infancy in 1591."

"Ah? It seems that Toyotomi Hideyoshi is unlucky enough to have an heir at least." Liu Xin shook her head after hearing this.

This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Gao Pingshi ignored this sigh and continued: "But two years later, in 1593, Hideyoshi's third son Hideyori was born. This time there was no

He had an accident and lived until adulthood - Hideyoshi was already dead by then."
To be continued...