These adjustments in the capital were not completed within three to five days. In fact, it took more than a month. After the dust settled, Huang Zhiting even proposed to return to Dingnan first, but Gao Pragmatic vetoed it. Gao pragmatically hoped that she would stay for a while longer.
Huang Zhiting was worried that staying in the capital for a long time would make Portugal's peaceful handover of Malacca have long nights and dreams, but Gao Pragmatic believed that it was precisely at this time that she should stay for a while, which would make Portugal feel more psychological pressure - Jinghua is not in a hurry, that is Because Jinghua believed that even taking Malacca by force would be a piece of cake.
Huang Zhiting was finally convinced. Of course, she didn't want to return to southern Xinjiang so soon. At this moment, Luo Yuan, who was in charge of conquering Kanto, Japan, had already received his marines from Taiwan, and took advantage of the wind to rush to Japan, and landed on Misaki on the seventh day of February. To be precise, it was Misaki's Castle Island.
This was the eighteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, that is, 1590 AD, which happened to be the eighteenth year of Tensho of Emperor Yosei of Japan. In this year, the Hojo clan - to be precise, the "Later Hojo clan" was under dark clouds. Under the crisis of the city being destroyed [Note: The backtracking is more complicated, I will not explain the details. For the sake of convenience, I will describe it in terms of the Hojo clan from now on], and the head of the Hojo family is Naojo, but because of some Japanese traditions , the actual person in power of the Hojo family is actually the Hojo clan.
At the end of the Warring States Period, there was talk about the Three Heroes of Higashi, namely the "Dragon of Echigo" Uesugi Kenshin, the "Tiger of Kai" Takeda Shingen, and the "Lion of Sagami" Ujiyasu Hojo. At this time, the ancients have passed away, and the three heroes have died one after another, and their successors are also commented upon by later generations.
Although Uesugi Kenshin's successor, Uesugi Kagekatsu, suffered a stumble in the Sekigahara War and was greatly reduced in title, at least he still preserved the name of the Uesugi family for hundreds of years.
In comparison, Takeda Shingen's successor Takeda Katsuyori and Hojo Ujiyasu's successor Hojo Ushimasa - regardless of the fact that the actual governor of the family when the Hojo family fell was Naojo Uji - were not so lucky, because the family names both died in They have it in their hands, so the evaluation of these two people by later generations for hundreds of years cannot be said to be high, or even quite negative. Although some scholars in Japan and China have gained a lot of new understanding of the two of them in recent years, overall, once the blame is placed on them, it is not so easy to take them off.
When it comes to Takeda Katsuyori, many people feel that compared with his father who has a brilliant record, his overall performance is very bleak. Although he is also a brave general, his skills are too far behind. Of course, some people say that the Takeda family perished at the hands of Katsuyori because Shingen did not leave any good business for him.
This is probably just one aspect. Before Luo Yuan left, when Gao Jingshi gave him a brief summary of that period of history, he said that the biggest blame that Takeda Shingen left for Takeda Katsuyori was that he suddenly stabbed Oda Nobunaga. Even if the two heroes Confrontation is a matter of time.
From October to November of the first year of Gengame, after Oda Nobunaga learned that Shingen had raided Toe, he cursed Takeda Shingen in his letter to Uesugi Kenshin as an unprecedentedly unprincipled person with no sense of justice. Completely ignoring the ridicule of the world, I (Nobunaga) will make an eternal righteous decision with him, and will never communicate with him again even if he undergoes disaster (from "Ancient Cases of the Ancients");
After the Takeda family was destroyed in the Battle of Nagashino, Oda Nobunaga wrote to Hosokawa Fujitaka and recalled the past, cursing Takeda Shingen as an ungrateful person who should have received such retribution long ago (from "Hosokawa Family Documents").
This shows how much Oda Nobunaga hated Takeda Shingen's behavior at that time, and it remained unchanged after Takeda Katsuyori succeeded. Therefore, even though Takeda Katsuyori wanted to bring peace between the Takeda and Oda families by returning Nobunaga's son Oda Nobbo and Satake Yoshige came to mediate, Nobunaga refused; When Shiro requested to surrender, Nobunaga refused, causing the Takeda family to lose face in the world, and the Takeda family was eventually uprooted.
In this case, Takeda Shingen and Katsuyori and his son should be jointly responsible for the demise of the Takeda family, and it cannot just be said that Takeda Katsuyori's methods were too poor.
And when Gao pragmatically talked about the Hojo Ujimasa, the actual leader of the Hojo family at the moment, his evaluation was relatively fair. Ordinarily, after the Hojo Ujimasa succeeded the family governor and before the Odawara expedition, the overall performance was pretty good: he was able to withstand the pressure from Uesugi and Takeda, and was committed to wiping out the psoriasis people in Kanto.
Although he was briefly taken advantage of by Takeda Katsuyori and Tokugawa Ieyasu, he was able to regain the situation later. Unfortunately, he was hesitant about going to Luo before the Odawara expedition, which not only led to the demise of the Hojo family, but also was criticized by later generations, and left behind the allusive Japanese term "Odawara Judgment".
However, Gao Pragmatic himself did not only want to evaluate the Hojo clan politics. He talked about history with Luo Yuan to let Luo Yuan understand the situation in Kanto. So what kind of situation did the Hojo clan clan face before the Odawara expedition?
In fact, as early as the beginning of the 16th year of Tensho, news had spread that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was going to conquer Odawara, so Hojo was actively preparing for war.
However, the same year was the critical time for Emperor Goyōsei's visit to Juletei, and the Higo Ikaku broke out in Kyushu. According to normal thinking, he believed that it was reasonable and reasonable for Toyotomi Hideyoshi to temporarily not be able to send out troops for conquest.
Normally speaking, Toyotomi Hideyoshi mainly used Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was related to the Hojo family, to persuade the Hojo clan to submit softly, and with Tokugawa Ieyasu's hard and soft tactics, it did work. In the end, Hojo Ujimasa's younger brother, Ukigami Raku, , which can be regarded as a temporary explanation for Hideyoshi.
At this time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was indeed convinced, and announced to the Kanto generals his intention to pardon the Hojo family, and at the same time delineate the territorial boundaries between the Hojo family and the daimyo, especially the Numata issue.
However, just when the Numata incident was resolved, and when everything seemed to be relaxing, the famous Walnut Castle seizure incident broke out. Regardless of whether this incident was a bitter trick by Sanada Masayuki, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's celestial dance, or the risky decision of Hojo's top group, or the personal behavior of Inomata Kuninori, in short, this incident made Toyotomi, Hojo, and Tokugawa's many efforts came to nothing, and the Hojo family blatantly violated the general peace order, which made Toyotomi Hideyoshi extremely angry.
And more importantly, although the Hojo clan's rule of going to Luoyang was used as a preliminary foreshadowing at this moment, the Hojo clan's political affairs have not yet gone to Luoyang after all, and the Hojo family's ministers have not actually been able to implement it. In addition, Hojo's reply was that he knew nothing about the capture of the famous Walnut Castle, and he continued to delay the time limit for going to Luo. It was really not completely convincing, and eventually his family was conquered.
In this way, except for the historical evaluation of the Hojo Ujisato, that is, the inability to accurately estimate the situation on both sides, indecisiveness, and other foolish behaviors that led to the demise of the Hojo family, there seems to be no direct historical data that clearly proves the real reason why the Ujisato did not go to Luo, but high pragmatic analysis It is believed that the factors that may have affected the Hojo clan's failure to go to Luo and submit in time are roughly as follows:
The first is the economic situation in the Hojo Territory. Beginning in the first month of the fifteenth year of Tensho, the Hojo family began to conscript Odawara Castle (from the "Shoghu Documents") in the rural areas of Sagami and Musashi, and then successively recruited Ueno Matsuida Castle, Kanayama Castle, and Musashi Iwatsuke Castle. , Shimosouribashi Castle and Izuyamazaka Castle, etc.
In addition, the Hojo family also carried out large-scale military mobilization within the territory (from "The Documents Collected by Ozawa Keiji"), captured all the men aged fifteen to seventy, and even pulled out the bells in the temples. Knocked on Crafting Weapons.
All of the above behaviors require a large expenditure of money. Moreover, frequent expropriations have led to many problems. For example, in the Sagami state-owned villages, there are plenty of fields but no one is cultivating them (from the "Nagashima Documents"). In addition, the retainer of Odawara Castle, Ameyama Clan Hiroshi, was in Kamakura. His mansion was sold in exchange for thirty-three taels of military rations.
Later, when it was decided that the Hojo clan would go to Luo first, the Hojo clan's third brother, the Hojo clan, mentioned in a document to his retainers that in the process of Odawara's general request, he spent a hundred kan of Yongle money and 500 taels of military rations, and even asked the retainers to bear the burden. part of it.
When the Hojo clan regulated Kamikawa, the Hojo territory had to raise 20,000 guan, and the territory of the Hojo clan was allocated 300 to 400 guan, so it was necessary to try its best to raise this amount (from "Wushu Documents").
It can be seen from this that while developing armaments, the economic pressure and production and living pressure brought by the cost of going to Luo are great. It can also be seen that the agriculture in the Hojo Territory has declined, and how exhausted the retainers and people are. What's more, this is just the Hojo Ujimasa's campaign to go to Luo. If the Hojo Ujimasa goes to Luo in person, the expenditure will probably be even greater.
Therefore, it can be seen that raising a larger amount of funds in a short period of time to support the clan's political affairs in Luo can be imagined to be a great pressure for the Hojo family. Maybe before they set off, someone in the area will start to make trouble.
The second is the expectation for Tokugawa Ieyasu and the huge role he played. The Hojo and Tokugawa families actually knew each other without fighting. Since the alliance and marriage during the Tensho-Jinwu Rebellion, the two parties have maintained a relatively close relationship. Ushimasa and Ieyasu have met many times and exchanged gifts.
In this way, when Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was already a stronghold of the Toyotomi regime, learned of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's decision to conquer Odawara, he immediately tried his best to dissuade him, hoping to put forward some conditions to avoid attacking the Hojo clan (from "Sanada Documents").
At the same time, Tokugawa Ieyasu also actively mediated, and through his status as allies and relatives, he asked Hojo Ushimasa and his son to go to Luo as soon as possible, otherwise the Hojo family would send his daughter back (from "The Documents of Gakubuji Temple"). No matter how you look at it, this is already true. This is a very obvious reminder to the Hojo family.
Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu wrote to his old acquaintance Hojo Clan, asking him to come to Luo as soon as possible while he was in Kyoto (from "Book of Ancient Documents"). This is probably because he thought he could help the Hojo family to speak and smooth things over. .
It can be seen that Tokugawa Ieyasu really tried his best to mediate the relationship between the Hojo family and Hideyoshi. But I am afraid that the Hojo clan still wants to be more secure and even more profitable. For example, it hopes to ask Hideyoshi to send his mother to him like Yasuomi did when he came from Hideyoshi. This is nonsense. Father Hideyoshi has long been gone. Can I conjure up another one?
Finally, Gao Pragmatic believes that the out-of-control development of the situation may also be related to the chaos and asymmetry of information. Because at that time, no one could figure out whether Toyotomi Hideyoshi really wanted to attack the Hojo family, and the news changed all of a sudden.
For example, during the mobilization of Odawara Castle, it is said that the Hojo family actively made preparations because they received news that Toyotomi Hideyoshi planned to send troops (from "Daidoji Documents");
However, on March 13, the 16th year of Tensho, Date Masamune mentioned in a letter that "Swan Shiro-sama will not attack Odawara" (from "Endo Documents");
In the entry on May 6th of the same year in "Ie Tadashi's Diary", it is said that "I heard that the negotiations between the Hojo family and Hideyoshikata have broken down";
The most important thing is that in September of the 16th year of Tensho's reign, after the Hojo clan's rule came to Luo, Hideyoshi issued a document to the Kanto generals saying that because the Hojo clan's rule had gone to Luo, he planned to pardon the Hojo family (from "Satake Document", etc.). This may also be Hojo Ujimasa breathed a sigh of relief.
In this way, the situation of conquest and relaxation at one time is obviously not conducive to the Hojo family making correct judgments. Even after the capture of Naikuri Castle, Toyotomi's approach was very strange. While he was coercing, he actively urged the Hojo clan to go to Luo. They still did not block the road to Luo. This may have made it even more difficult for the Hojo family to judge the situation.
In addition to these reasons, Gao Pragmatic believes that there are other factors: For example, the Hojo family seems to have failed to accurately predict the strength comparison between the two sides. This may have something to do with Hojo Ujimasa's overestimation of his family's wealth.
In view of the fact that the Shimazu and Chosoga tribes of the Toyotomi regime had previously fought against the Toyotomi army. In particular, the Shimazu family defeated the powerful enemy with a small number of troops and defeated the first army of the Toyotomi family to land. Hojo Experts may think that the combat effectiveness of the Toyotomi Army is average.
According to this idea, the Hojo family, which is obviously stronger than the Shimazu family, should be able to give it a try if they occupy a favorable location, not to mention there are two so-called "allies" Tokugawa Ieyasu and Date Masamune who are not weak in strength - this Of course it was a misjudgment, Date Masamune hesitated, and Tokugawa Ieyasu had no intention of joining forces with the Hojo family to fight Toyotomi.
Moreover, although the Uesugi and Mori families were directly subordinate to Hideyoshi, they also fought head-on with the Oda regime, the predecessor of the Toyotomi regime. Therefore, Hojo Ushimasa's ideas may be too optimistic, believing that as long as they can hold on, the Toyotomi regime will be able to Split - well, in Gao Pragmatic's opinion, this misjudgment is mainly because the Hojo family has never faced the Toyotomi army head-on, so it is somewhat taken for granted.
Furthermore, since Togoku is the birthplace of samurai society since Minamoto Yoritomo, the antagonism between the Kanto region and the central government may have a certain impact on the decision-making of the Hojo clan.
After all, the Kanto regime has opposed the Central Government not once or twice, and not all of them ended in failure. For example, during the Xiangde Rebellion in Kanto, the confrontation between Kanto and the central government lasted for decades before it was resolved.
In addition, Gao Pragmatic believes that the disunity of opinions in the Hojo family may also be the reason for the delay in decision-making. Looking back in hindsight, Hojo Uteru, Shigetomi Daidoji Masashige, etc. were all warring factions; Hojo Ujiru was biased towards Ieyasu because of his relationship with Hideyoshi and had met Hideyoshi; while the then leader, Hojo Uji Naonori seemed to be leaning toward both sides. , or indecision.
Therefore, it is really difficult for Hojo Ushimasa, who is the final decision-maker, to accurately judge the reasoning of both sides. After all, the weight of both sides is almost the same, and this matter is related to the life and death of the family. You must be cautious - being too cautious will delay the opportunity.
In the end, Gao pragmatically believed that the Hojo family might be worried about their status after surrender. You must know that Tokugawa, Mori, Uesugi and other daimyo have been subordinated to Toyotomi Hideyoshi for many years. The last and strongest daimyo of the traditional Warring States Period is the Hojo family. . If I obey, I wonder if I will be ranked lower than the above-mentioned daimyo. Can the Hojo family, which considers itself the overlord of Kanto, accept this result?
What's more, in the Toyotomi regime, there was already an old enemy of his own, Uesugi Kagekatsu. Therefore, I am afraid that the Hojo clan will have to think clearly about how Toyotomi Hideyoshi will deal with the queen of the Hojo clan, whether it will be detained or transferred.
It is not only a matter of strength, but also an issue of reputation. In order to force the Tokugawa family to obey, Hideyoshi not only gave away his sister, but also his mother, but he did not show such a high level of expression to the Hojo family. If Toyotomi Hideyoshi cannot be allowed to copy the previous approach to the Hojo family, how can the Hojo family, as the overlord of Kanto, lower their noble heads so easily?
To put it bluntly, it was still a game between the Hojo family and the Toyotomi regime, but the Hojo family overestimated the bargaining chip in their hands.
It was under such circumstances that the Kanto Squadron of the Keihua Beiyang Fleet landed on Castle Island and immediately sent an envoy to the Hojo family.
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