Kuroda Nagamasa actually did not mention laying down his arms and truce and returning home. Instead, he bowed to the ground when he saw Gao Pragmatism and said directly: "Kuroda Nagamasa, the little barbarian chieftain, is here to pay homage to Tang Dynasty Prime Minister Nanning Hou Gaogong. Nagamasa is here for no other reason. I just want to worship Ming Gong as my master, lead the horse to the saddle, hold the reins and whip for Ming Gong. I hope Ming Gong will take him in."
Rao was very pragmatic and always believed that if a rule was established beforehand, it would be ruined. He did not expect Kuroda Nagamasa to recognize his master when he came up, so that he temporarily doubted that the so-called Japanese people are loyal to their masters in history books. It’s not all the author’s dreams.
Fortunately, Gao Pingshi was now the "Tang Prime Minister" who was used to seeing big storms. Although he was shocked for a moment, he quickly replied: "My father is a minister of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. It is said that he has great merit and unparalleled loyalty. It’s really unbelievable that you say you worship me as your Lord right now.”
"My father is a minister of the Taige, but what does he have to do with Nagamasa?" Kuroda Nagamasa said matter-of-factly, without changing his expression and his heart not beating: "Besides, my father has been ordered to become a monk by the Taige for a long time, and he has no official position when he comes to the court again this time. The mission was just to give advice to the two chief generals Ukita and Mouri as a foreigner. Whether they listened or not was entirely up to them. This clearly shows that Taige and my father have already severed their ties of friendship.
Ming Gong, even my father is no longer considered a minister of Taige, let alone Changzheng? Ming Gong is extremely wise in the world, and Changzheng does not dare to act smart and say something that is not trustworthy. Therefore, my father has repeatedly warned me and ordered Changzheng to speak frankly about what I want. "
"Oh?" Gao Pingshi raised his eyebrows slightly: "Haha, is that so? Then tell me, what do you... or your father, do you want?"
"Yes, thank you very much, Mr. Meimei." Kuroda Nagamasa said: "My father said that the wisdom of the world can be divided into four categories: the wisdom above people, knowing the general trend of the world and following it; the wisdom among people, not knowing the general trend and following it; the wisdom below people. Wisdom means not knowing the general trend but going against it.”
Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly: "Your Majesty, this summary is somewhat interesting, but since it is the fourth level, why is it still missing the first level?"
"It's not that there is a lack of a first class, but that this class has been rare since ancient times, and it's rare to see one or two in hundreds of years." Kuroda Nagamasa suddenly imitated Han etiquette and bowed his hands in a pragmatic manner, and said: "But my father said that Duke Meimei will be here soon. For this reason—people’s ingenious wisdom can create great trends and carry out great trends.”
Gao Pragmatic laughed loudly and waved his hand: "Your Majesty, your words are serious. Even though our cabinet has a small reputation, it is just a lucky success due to the emperor's great fortune, the help of colleagues, and the dedication of the soldiers. How dare you take such an exaggerated praise? I don't want to mention this, no. Just mention it.”
Kuroda Nagamasa didn't care about that and continued: "Now the new general trend of the world has been formed in the hands of Meigong. My father said that although he did not have perfect wisdom, he was barely wise. He should have known the trend and followed it, so there was Nagamasa is on his way today. I hope you will learn from it."
Gao Pragmatic was silent for a moment, and suddenly asked: "As your Lordship said, the supreme wisdom is to follow the trend, and the middle wisdom is to follow the trend, so what is the difference between the two?"
Kuroda Nagamasa replied: "My father said that although the two are ultimately the same, they are different in succession. However, the affairs of the world are like a stingy master hosting a banquet and many hungry people attending the banquet. In this way, the first eats meat and the latter drinks soup. After a long time, Those who don't come... will just starve to death."
Gao Pragmatic smiled slightly: "In other words, your Majesty wants to be the first person to attend the banquet?"
Kuroda Nagamasa sighed softly and said with regret: "My father said that the Kuroda family is not strong enough and has lost its main dish. If you can't even eat the cold dishes, how can you keep the name of the whole family?"
After Gao Pingshi heard these words, he looked at Kuroda Nagamasa's calm expression, and felt a bit unreal for a moment. Could it be that the effect of his butterfly wings is so strong that even Kuroda Nagamasa, one of the famous second-generation cheaters, has become so obedient to his father?
In the original history, as Kuroda Rusui's biological son, Kuroda Nagamasa had a silver spoon in his mouth from birth. However, Kuroda Nagamasa's gene tree seems to be a little distorted. As Toyotomi Hideyoshi's top military advisor, Kuroda Asui has always been known for his resourcefulness, but unexpectedly, the Kuroda Nagamasa he gave birth to was more like a military commander like Fukushima Masanori.
Kuroda Nagamasa actually fought fiercely. Anyone who has studied the history of Japan's late Warring States period knows this, so there is no need to say more. But correspondingly, his brain was somewhat difficult to use during the political struggle, and his growth was actually based on cheating his father.
In the process of conquering Kyushu, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took a fancy to the family treasures occupied by the Utsunomiya town house in order to become Kanbai. However, the town house refused to comply, and Hideyoshi was unable to come to power.
Later, under the mediation of Kuroda Rusui, Hideyoshi also gave up this idea, and the matter was settled anyway.
However, what was unexpected was that Kuroda Nagamasa, who was on the sidelines at the time, did not think so. He thought that his father was too weak, and he was deeply favored by Beizhengsuo. How could he succumb to these people?
So this kid actually took advantage of his father's absence to launch an attack on the Utsunomiya family who were ready to surrender and even visited his home in person. However, it was later said that this naughty kid who was trying to save the house was haunted by the ghosts of Utsunomiya, so that he could not sleep at night. It was Kuroda Rusui who invited a mage to resolve these ghosts.
Putting this aside, Kuroda Nagamasa's reckless and treacherous behavior suddenly ruined the reputation of the Kuroda family and was despised by the samurai. The benevolent image that his father had cultivated for half his life was completely destroyed by him.
Of course, if you don't care about your father, you will continue to cheat him. Kuroda Nagamasa's cheating path continues. However, this time the separation was longer. During the Battle of Sekigahara, Kuroda Nagamasa accidentally broke his father's three-point world structure.
When the lord Toyotomi Hideyoshi passed away and the conflict between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ishida Mitsunari became irreconcilable and a fight had to begin, the Kuroda family faced the choice of side.
Considering that most of the military generals of the Arbitrator faction had joined the powerful Eastern Army, and that Kuroda Nagamasa had some conflicts with Ishida Mitsunari when fighting in Korea, Kuroda Nagamasa, the governor of the family at the time, went straight to the fight without saying a word and stood with a clear-cut stand. The Tokugawa side even served as the vanguard of the Eastern Army.
But compared to his son, Kuroda Rusui thought further. After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, he concluded that Japan would enter the Warring States Period again, so he needed to save more capital for the Kuroda family.
His strategy is to use his prestige and the troops at hand to take three steps: the first step is to take Kyushu first; the second step is to go north to attack the Maori family in Sanyo Sanin; the third step is to join forces with Sekigahara The winners compete for the right to control the world.
It can be said that to realize this idea, what Kuroda Rushui needs most is time. In other words, he needs the Eastern Army and the Western Army to spend more troops and time in Sekigahara so that he can capture Kyushu and the Chinese region - Shimadzu and Mori are both powerful vassals, but Kuroda Rusui is Japan's top Military strategist, he may really think that the Kuroda family can defeat these two powers as long as they operate correctly.
However, a series of dirty tricks by Kuroda Nagamasa disrupted his father's ambition. First of all, he brought the main force of the Kuroda family to the Sekigahara front line without consulting his father. When the main force was transferred, Kuroda was furious.
But things have already happened. Kuroda Rusui can only recruit 9,000 more people to prepare for the expedition to Kyushu. At the same time, he hopes that his son will understand his intentions, sit on the wall in the Sekigahara battle, and find a way to allow the eastern and western armies to consume more of both sides.
Obviously, his hopes were dashed again, and the protagonist happened to be his good son Nagamasa.
On the one hand, the Kuroda Army and the Fukushima Army were very desperate from the beginning of the battle, and soon the two armies were anxious on the battlefield. Just when the situation might be heading toward a confrontation between the Eastern and Western armies, Kuroda Nagamasa suddenly had an "open mind" and ran to persuade Kobayakawa Hideaki of the Western Army.
Sure enough, the two cheating second-generations hit it off immediately - betrayal, Kobayakawa's betrayal, and the operations of the three gods of Mori, so that this battle that looked like it might last a year was actually ended in one day.
The most cruel thing is the post-war result. Not only did the Eastern Army suffer no major damage, but even the Maori Army, which withdrew from the battlefield early, suffered little damage. This completely failed Kuroda Rusui's plan to dominate one side, and the initiator of this was himself. His good son Kuroda Nagamasa.
It is precisely because of these things that when Gao Pingshi was reading the history of Japan's Warring States Period in his previous life, he always thought that Kuroda Nagamasa must be a second-generation man who did not listen to his father's words. His labels were basically "Zhizhizi" and "Brother of the Fierce General". But after looking at Kuroda Nagamasa's performance today, why doesn't he seem to be that bad?
However, after thinking about it for a while, Gao Pragmatic thought, and it seemed to be no problem. After all, since the murder of the Utsunomiya town house became a big issue, there was no record of Kuroda Nagamasa not listening to his father's good advice. As for the Battle of Sekigahara, I'm afraid it would be a big deal. The probability is that because the father and son were not in the same place and had no contact with each other, Kuroda Nagamasa had no guidance and went alone to cause trouble.
It's different now. Both father and son are together. Although Kuroda Nagamasa himself is reckless, he probably still listens to his father's instructions, so this is what happened today.
After wanting to understand this, Gao Pragmatic stopped analyzing Kuroda Nagamasa and began to think about Kuroda Rushui's approach.
He very much doubted that what Kuroda Nagamasa said just now was actually taught by Kuroda Yoshizu in advance, because this kid first expressed his stance when he came up, and after expressing his position, he started to explain the reasons why Kuroda Yoshizu did what he did. After the explanation, he echoed the beginning - all of this It has become a simplified eight-legged essay writing idea. How can a straight-minded and fierce general like Kuroda Nagamasa have such a level of thinking?
What's more, if we look back carefully, Kuroda Nagamasa just said "what my father said" when he spoke and shut up. It can be seen that Kuroda and his son know that he is very pragmatic and only cares about what Kuroda Rushui thinks.
So, is Kuroda Rushui's statement sincere or false? The five fingers of Gao Pangshi's right hand tapped gently and rhythmically on the huanghuali wood armrest.
The strength of the Kuroda family is not very strong, and the current territory is only Bunzen 140,000 koku. How should I describe this level? It ranks second to last among the nine countries of Kyushu in Japan, only higher than the 120,000 koku of Hyuga country.
By comparison, the Shimazu family's territory is generally considered to be low in stone height, but Satsuma has more than 280,000 stone, Okuma has more than 170,000 stone, and their family still has about half of Hinata's.
If the Shimazu family's territory is ancestral property, it is better to compare it with Kato Kiyomasa and Konishi Yukinaga, who were also entrusted in Kyushu after the Kyushu conquest.
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi quelled the riot by the minister of state, he ordered Sasaki Narimasa to commit suicide. Then he redivided the territory of Higo Kingdom. Except for Kuma County, which was given to Sagara Nagame, the rest of the land was given to Kato Kiyomasa and Kato Kiyomasa. Konishi Yukinaga divides it. Specifically: Kato takes 250,000 shi in the north, and Konishi takes 240,000 shi in the south.
After thinking about it carefully, Gao Jingshi suddenly discovered that there was a reason why the Kuroda family suddenly chose to betray Toyotomi Hideyoshi and join him at this time.
Kuroda Asui was Toyotomi Hideyoshi's first military advisor. The "Great Return of China", which was crucial to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's ambition to become the world's leader, was his proud work. If such a huge contribution is placed in China, it should be regarded as the contribution of Dingding. No matter what, it should not be suppressed by a few generals.
But what about reality? Kato Kiyomasa, who is also sealed in Kyushu, has 250,000 koku, and Konishi Yukinaga has 240,000 koku - why!
To give an inappropriate example, this is like after the victory of the Yuan Dynasty, Qi Jiguang was granted the title of Marquis and Gao Pragmatic was granted the title of Uncle. If the emperor really made such an order, it would be better to ask Qi Jiguang if he dared to accept it.
However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi did this, so you can imagine what Kuroda Ruishui felt in his heart.
It’s hard to avoid feeling unsatisfied if your merits are high but you are not rewarded. The lack of expression in the past may not mean that he has no grudges in his heart. It may be that he, as a smart person, knows that it is useless to express himself and may harm himself and future generations, so he has to adopt a willing attitude.
But things are different now. As Kuroda Nagamasa quoted him just now, a new world trend has taken shape. As the "wisdom above all people", Kuroda Rusui must of course plan for the future of the Kuroda family.
Historically, Kuroda Rushui's plan was to conquer one-third of the world first, and then naturally fight for the world. However, after Kuroda Nagamasa ruined his plan, Kuroda Ruishui knew that the situation was irreversible and did not choose to go against the will. Instead, he accepted the title and eventually lived in seclusion until his death.
That is to say, Kuroda Rushui is indeed ambitious, but as long as the situation is irreversible, he will not be stubborn to the end. When he has the chance, he dares to be bold, but when he doesn't have the chance, he can stop in time. From this, it seems that Kuroda Ruishui can indeed be called a wise man.
"I am fully aware of your father's wishes. The name of the Kuroda family will be preserved. As long as the Kuroda family can obey orders in the future, it will naturally not be limited to a mere 140,000 koku. As for the Shimazu family, they will be the members of the Kuroda family. Allies and comrades...that's all, you can convey my words to my father."
Gao pragmatic finally agreed.
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