For some reason, Narita Kai was very surprised when he heard this and said quickly: "Ah, no, no, I...I have no such plan, I will stay in the capital obediently."
Well, being good is quite good. I tried it just now...but that's not the key.
Gao Pragmatic chuckled and said, "No, it's not. Why are you so nervous?"
This time Narita Kai answered very honestly, and said obediently: "I am afraid that I will misunderstand you. Japan is attacking the Ming Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty has already made the decision to aid Korea. The two countries are actually at war.
At this time, the position of the Narita family is unclear. I should stay with the master. I am not only a self-certified wife, but also a hostage of the Narita family. How can I leave for a moment, let alone return to Jade Rope City? "
Her answer was so straightforward, which surprised Gao Pragmatic. Liu Xin was even more surprised that she claimed to be a hostage of the Narita family, and couldn't help but said: "Third Madam, we don't regard you as a hostage."
Narita Kai was open-minded and said with a slightly disappointed smile: "Thank you, Secretary-General."
Gao Jingshi also spoke at the right time and said: "I don't regard you as a hostage. Besides... I don't need a hostage. From the moment you step into Gao Mansion, your status in Gao Mansion is very simple. Then She is the 'Third Lady', you must remember this in the future."
His words seemed domineering, but Narita Kai could hear the warmth in them, and his heart warmed up. He nodded vigorously and said gratefully: "I thank you, sir."
Liu Xin coughed lightly and said, "So, can we discuss what should be done with Jade Rope City now?"
Gao Pragmatic nodded lightly and asked, "Does Longze Shiyang and Shingong Yisheng have any new news?"
Miyo Tatsuzawa is currently the general secretary of Osaka Town of the Toyotomi family, and Shingu Yoshikatsu is already an ashigaru general of the Tokugawa family. These two are currently sent abroad to serve under the major feudal lords in Japan. The two people with the most important positions were responsible for many Japanese intelligence in the past.
However, it turned out that the names of the two of them and other intelligence personnel in Japan were highly confidential. Apart from Gao Pragmatic and Liu Xin, only a few people such as Gao Mo and the "Black Top" supervisors knew about it. Even three The core figures of the sea trade alliance, such as Grand Duke, are only known to exist, but not who they are.
But Gao Pragmatic's question meant that he allowed Jia Feiji and Meng Guzhezhe to learn the inside story. Meng Guzhezhe didn't care. Her mother-in-law, Ye He, was currently at odds with Japan, so she probably had no idea about this information. However, revealing this news to Ji Fei made Liu Xin think it was a bit risky.
If only in terms of personal relationships, Liu Xin has a good relationship with Meng Guzhezhe and Ji Fei Ji, but this personal relationship does not affect her reservations about them, and Gao's pragmatic attitude now shows that he only regards Ji Fei Ji as " "Third Madam" is not just talk, it is actually put into practice.
Liu Xin felt a little unhappy, and even thought to herself: Does a man really think that as long as he "sleeps" with someone, the other person will definitely stand by you with all his heart and soul?
However, no matter what, Gao Pragmatic is the one who really has the right to make decisions, and Liu Xin will not really insist on opposing his opinions, so she just replied with a straight face: "Some."
There was some resistance in the tone of this answer. Of course Gao Pragmatic could hear it, but he neither cared about it nor cared about it. He just said in a very calm tone: "Let's talk about it." Obviously, he insisted that Kai would be allowed to Ji knows the inside story.
Liu Xin had no choice but to say: "Tatsuzawa Sanyo's main work direction is the Toyotomi family or the military and financial affairs of Japan as a whole. He didn't say much about the Narita family. He just said that Toyotomi Hideyoshi will solve the Narita family's problems." The matter was left to Tokugawa Ieyasu.”
This news was not too unexpected. Gao Pragmatic nodded and said: "So what is the situation on Tokugawa Ieyasu's side, and what is Shingu Yoshikatsu's judgment?"
"It is in line with one of the expected inferences." Liu Xin said: "Tokugawa Ieyasu should have made two preparations. One is military, that is, using force to directly fight with us. For this reason, he also made land and The sea is prepared with both hands;
The other hand is political preparation. He may not be sure whether the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance is a pure commercial organization, so he still hopes to reach an agreement directly with Beiyang and hopes to peacefully redeem the cities of Misaki and Yusheng from the Sea Trade Alliance. At present, they have different opinions on this, mainly because the redemption conditions are too controversial. "
It was no surprise that Gao Jingshi was in military preparations, but Tokugawa Ieyasu wanted to redeem two cities, which made Gao Jingshi a little interested and asked: "Is there such a thing? What is the current focus of controversy in the Tokugawa family?"
Liu Xin said: "To put it simply, there are three groups of people arguing. The first group of people believe that they have a huge home field advantage. They don't need any political means for these two cities and can just send troops to occupy them.
The second group of people believe that the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance is powerful. It not only has powerful maritime armed forces, but also has land forces. Judging from the encounter that occurred during the previous rescue of Ninja City, with the same military strength, it is probably better than the combat power of various Japanese companies. All must be strong.
Considering this premise, if the two sides meet in arms, the entire thousand-mile sea area of Kanto may turn into a battlefield, and Beiyang can land from any place. However, the Tokugawa family is famous for its elite military administration. Faced with such a situation, I am afraid that they will be exhausted. By then, the various places under their rule may be beaten into a mess, which is extremely unsightly.
At the same time, the Tokugawa family's navy was based on the original Suruga navy. It was already limited in strength. Now it has been transferred to Toyotomi Hideyoshi to contribute to the conquest of Korea. Therefore, it is even less likely to be at sea. Form a counterattack against the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance. Therefore, this group of people is willing to use a higher bargaining chip in exchange for the Sea Trade Alliance to peacefully exchange the two cities of Misaki and Yusheng.
The third group also admitted that the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance was strong, but their thoughts on trading with Beiyang were different from the former. They believe that the Tokugawa family was forced to move to Kanto itself because Toyotomi Hideyoshi suppressed Tokugawa Ieyasu. Therefore, although Beiyang may not be a friend, Toyotomi must be an enemy, so..."
Gao Pragmatic interjected: "So they are politically more inclined to unite with the Maritime Trade Alliance and violate Toyotomi Hideyoshi?"
"Of course." Liu Xin nodded and admitted.
Kafihime couldn't help but said: "Isn't that a great good thing? Lord Zuofu (after the start of the conquest, Tokugawa Ieyasu was promoted) used 30,000 troops to defeat Taiko's 120,000 troops in the Battle of Komaki Nagakute. Come on, if it weren't for the unscrupulous and useless son of the Oda family, Lord Taige would have lost all his face, and it's hard to say what the outcome would be.
Now Master Zuofu is sitting in Kanto, with a height of more than two million stones. If he is willing to join forces with our Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance, Toyotomi Taikaku will not only conquer Korea and invade the Ming Dynasty, but also whether his Toyotomi Gongyi can be maintained. Not necessarily! "
However, Gao Pragmatic just smiled, stretched out his hand to make a calm gesture, and asked Liu Xin: "I expected that this third group would not be so generous. Are they thinking about fighting Toyotomi with the Beiyang Alliance? You don’t want to be exposed right away, and you’re even still dreaming about it, hoping to achieve this alliance at the lowest cost?”
Liu Xin covered her mouth with a smile and said in a half-joking tone: "Master Hou is still so good at predicting things." Then she turned her beautiful eyes and asked: "Then what kind of minimum do you think they want to use, Master Hou?" What's the price' to achieve an alliance?"
Gao Jingshi said calmly: "With the example of Kaiji here, what other new ideas can the generals and staff of the Tokugawa family come up with? It's probably just the idea of marriage."
"Hey, the Marquis understands his...situation very clearly." Liu Xin raised her eyebrows and teased, then glanced at Kaiji again, and said without knowing whether it was true or not: "Speaking of which, the Tokugawa family also has It seems that the Marquis can consider such a beautiful princess, right? After all, Madam has always been happy to see this kind of thing happen, right?"
Gao Jingshi was well aware of Liu Xin's temper and knew that what she said was basically just a joke, but he couldn't help but defend himself, so he said, "I'm not running a shelter here, so whoever wants to come can come?"
Unexpectedly, Jia Feiji was thinking about everything at this time: "When it comes to the princess of Zuofu, I think of one person, and that is Zhenji, the third daughter of Zuofu. She is from Liangyun Academy. She is thirteen this year. We met in Odawara Castle two years ago. The little princess is pretty and lovely, and has a very docile personality. If she can enter a high official, she will be a good match."
Tokugawa Jinki? I only know a little bit about the third Tokugawa princess Gao Pingshi, but my general impression is that she is very filial. Tokugawa Ieyasu loved her very much. Historically, she first married Kamao Hideyuki four years later and gave birth to her legitimate son Tadago. However, Hideyuki Hamo died early, when Tadashi was only ten years old, so Jinhee acted as the mother's regent for the Hamo family.
However, Jinhee had a serious conflict with Oka Shigemasa, an important minister of the Kamao family. In order to ensure that her son's status was not threatened, he asked his father Ieyasu to punish him. Ieyasu summoned Shigemasa to Sunfu Castle and immediately executed him after an investigation. This was a landmark incident of Jinki's involvement in politics.
Later, there were very few documents left behind by Shigemasa, but what is certain is that the execution of Shigemasa by the Kamao family did not reduce their disputes. In 1616, Zhenji was arranged by her father to remarry Asano Nagasaki. This was probably a political marriage, but even though she was not young at the time, Zhenji was still favored, and gave birth to her legitimate son Asano Mitsuaki the next year. Unfortunately, due to postpartum disorders (some say dystocia), she died soon after at the age of thirty-seven.
There is no more or less information that can be gleaned from these impressions. First of all, it is certain that Jinki is favored by her father. Otherwise, given Ieyasu’s character, he would not have directly ordered the execution of a famous minister after an investigation. It is necessary to add one sentence here: Kamano clan fiefdom former Gundam More than 900,000 koku, but after the Kamao family passed away in Kamao clan village, his widow Aoiin refused to become Toyotomi Hideyoshi's concubine, so the territory was greatly reduced from Aizu 920,000 koku to Utsunomiya 180,000 koku.
After the Battle of Sekigahara, because Jinki was the daughter of Ieyasu, the Kamao family returned to the Aizu territory again and increased it to 600,000 koku. Although it failed to regain its peak, it was at least because of Jinki that it rose again. After all, Six hundred thousand stones is quite a lot.
Secondly, Zhenji’s appearance is not as good as Ji Feiji said, but it should not be too bad. After all, she got pregnant quickly and gave birth to children twice when she got married. Although her husband’s family may not be concerned about her “virtue”. The word "Chuan" means she has to "work hard", but after all, there are many opposite things in Japan, so she probably won't be ugly.
The third is Zhenji's interest in political affairs. Judging from the only records, her biggest intervention in politics was to have her father execute Oka Shigemasa, but there are not many other records.
If we only make general inferences, then she should have been forced by the situation and had to let Oka Shigemasa die to ensure the stability of the Kamao family at that time - as for whether the effect was not achieved later, that is another matter. After all, the Kamao family originally There are so many contradictions.
As for whether Zhen Ji's political ability is insufficient, or whether her interest in politics is simply limited, it is difficult to judge at the moment. Besides, Zhen Ji is only thirteen years old now. Unless she is also a time traveler, her political talents are probably not worth mentioning.
However, Gao Pragmatic was not interested in marrying another concubine from Japan, not to mention that she was from the Tokugawa family. Tokugawa Ieyasu's threat level is not low in Gao Pangshi's mind. In a few years, when Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies, he will become the big BOSS in the Japanese strategy. Join him? This operation is really unreasonable.
But this is from a long-term perspective. If only from the current perspective, uniting Tokugawa against Toyotomi is actually a good move, but the subsequent impact is not very good.
Japan is not that big. Tokugawa Ieyasu occupied 2.5 million koku in Kanto. However, although Kanto is a bit awkward now, as long as the floods are effectively controlled, it will become the core area of Japan in the future. How can this area be tolerated by the Tokugawa family in a pragmatic manner?
Looking at it this way, since sooner or later he will fall out, in order to ensure that he will not be thought of as a fool, it is obviously best not to be tied to Tokugawa Ieyasu.
The Tokugawa family was not the Narita family. Although the Narita family's family status was not low, the family owned a city. Their original political status was average and they were just vassals of the Hojo family. In this case, it is easy to support the Narita family. Just give them three melons and two dates to make the Narita family grateful. Why not?
Well, of course "the most beautiful woman in the Eastern Kingdom" is also a plus.
In short, the Narita family is just one of the horse bones that the pragmatic daughter bought, so the smaller the better. This is because the smaller the strength of his family, the easier it is for him to show a strong contrast in his rise after receiving high pragmatic support, which will then encourage the rest of Japan's daimyo to take the initiative to embrace Gao pragmatism when conditions permit in the future. Lord.
The Tokugawa family is too big for Japan. It is not easy to raise this little brother. The investment is too little and there will be no movement. The investment is too much and it is not cost-effective. In the end, one day they will turn against each other.
But, since there are people in the Tokugawa family who hold such an attitude, it would be a shame not to take advantage of them. At least, we should take advantage of this situation to delay the Beiyang Sea Trade Alliance's support to Kanto, right?
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PS: I fell asleep not long after dinner last night. I woke up at 1 a.m. and finished typing at 5 o'clock...the biological clock was completely messed up by the holidays. I thought about it and realized that I might not be able to adjust it right at the moment, so I planned to take some time this morning to code it out and post it in the morning or at noon. This way I won’t be in debt, and I hope nothing happens.
