Kafihime said: "If we let them go back, we will take the opposite 'trend'. Once these Daimyos of the Western Kingdom and the direct lineage of Toyotomi return to Japan, the forces of the Eastern and Western Kingdoms will be roughly similar, and the Toyotomi clan also has a backbone army, and the three parties will roughly Showing a tripartite momentum.
However, I thought it was a tripod, but it was not. In the past, the reason why Taige was able to dominate the world was not that its territory was vast, but that its financial resources were powerful enough..."
At this time, Gao Pragmatic suddenly interjected: "I only know a rough idea about Toyotomi Hideyoshi's territory. Since you were raised by the Narita family as a Hime Samurai, you should know more about it in detail. You might as well tell me about it." .”
In fact, Jinghua has established an intelligence system in Japan. This information is not difficult to obtain, but their tasks are more focused on the current situation and they don't pay much attention to past changes, so Gao Yingshi said that he only had a general understanding.
Kaiji didn't have any special reaction. When Gao pragmatically asked her to speak, she explained honestly: "Yes, sir. Regarding the Taikaku territory, I think we can't just look at the Taikaku himself, but should look at the entire Toyotomi clan. Come and see.”
Gao pragmatically said "hmm" and motioned for her to continue.
Kafihime then continued: "Taikou... Oh, the changes in Hideyoshi's territory are roughly as follows: in the first year of Tensho, he was granted the title of Asai's old territory of Omi Nagahama for 120,000 koku; in the fifth year of Tensho, he was granted the title of Harima 300 Fifty-nine thousand koku; during the Qingzhou Conference in the 10th year of Tensho, most of the old Oda territory of Harima, Tanba, Settsu, Tajima, Inaba, Boqi, Danlu and other countries were allocated, about 1.6 million koku To 1.7 million koku. Its directly administered territory is roughly the eastern part of Harima, Tamba Kingdom, and part of Settsu, which is about 700,000 koku.
Thereafter, from Ikeda Gakihiro to Mino Ogaki until his death, Hideyoshi's direct jurisdiction included 567,000 stone territories in Settsu and Kawachi. In addition, there is a Tai Pavilion hidden in the ground of about 1.6 million stones.
The Toyotomi family's hiding places were carved out from the daimyo territories that were subject to the Toyotomi family in the name of the dedicated lord. Most of the hiding places were managed by nearby daimyo. For example, Otani Yoshitsugi, who has a territory of 50,000 koku, is responsible for managing the storage of tens of thousands of koku, and actually controls the territory of about 100,000 koku.
Therefore, based on this calculation, Hideyoshi had about 600,000 koku directly and 1.6 million koku hidden in the ground, for a total of about 2.2 million koku.
Let's talk about Toyotomi Hidenaga's territorial changes: In the fifth year of Tensho, Tajima was pacified, and Tajima Takeno was granted the title of 65,000 koku, officially becoming a daimyo. In the eleventh year of Tensho, he was granted the title of one kingdom of Tajima and two counties of Harima, and was granted the title of Harima Himeji with 150,000 stones.
In the thirteenth year of Tianzheng's reign, Ji Yingen came to the temple to pacify the temple and obtained 368,000 stones from Hequan and Ji Yin. In the same year, after the four countries were pacified, Yamato and I were added to the security blockade with 445,000 koku, for a total of 913,000 koku. From then until his death, he was succeeded by Toyotomi Hideho.
Let's talk about Toyotomi Hidetsu: In the tenth year of Tianzheng, he was granted the title of twenty thousand koku from the northern mountain of Hanoi. In the thirteenth year of Tianzheng's reign, he was granted the title of Omi Hachimanyama with 430,000 stones. In the eighteenth year of Tianzheng's reign, the five counties of East Owari and the four counties of Beiyinshi were granted 470,000 shi, totaling 900,000 shi.
However, after his death in the 14th year of Bunroku, the territory was taken over as Toyotomi's hiding place - Oh, just now I said that Hideyoshi's hiding place is 1.6 million koku, which already includes Hidetsu's 900,000 koku. stone.
Finally, there is the current Toyotomi Hideyori. He should inherit his father's direct control of Hanoi and Settsu, which is about 580,000 koku and the hidden land of 1.64 million koku. In this case, the current territory of the direct line of the Toyotomi family is 2.22 million koku. As for the 913,000 koku in Hideho's hands, it stands to reason that Hideyori cannot use it. "
After Kaiji said this, Gao Pragmatic was able to combine the current situation with what he had learned in the original history.
He used to wonder about one thing, that is, later generations recorded that Hideyoshi had a territory of 2.2 million koku when he was alive, but after the Battle of Sekigahara, Hideyoshi inexplicably had less than 600,000 koku left. Even after passing the Keicho Township account (that is, Tokugawa Ieyasu's inspection area), the actual increase was only 650,000 koku - so where did the remaining territory go?
The Battle of Sekigahara was strange to some extent. Both the East and West families used force in the name of respecting the Toyotomi clan, but the Toyotomi clan did not participate in the war and became a neutral outsider. But no matter how weird the performance of Toyotomi's family was, Hideyori was still the nominal master at the end of the Battle of Sekigahara. With Ieyasu's conduct, it was impossible to cut off the direct leader of Toyotomi's family.
Because of this, Gao Pingshi had been wondering how the remaining 1.6 million stone territory disappeared. Now it makes sense: the 1.6 million stone was never the direct property of the Toyotomi family. lead, but hide into the ground. Since the hidden land was given by the subordinate daimyo to the master, of course they did not have to do so, so so many territories were used by Ieyasu to reshuffle them.
Of course, to a large extent, the disappearance of Tibetan Buddhism also means that no one "serves the public", that is, the daimyo no longer regards Hideyori as their lord. It can be said that when these hidden lands were taken and redistributed by Ieyasu, Hideyori was no longer a member of the world - either in name or in reality.
Finally, I would like to add that Tokugawa Ieyasu, as the Toyotomi clan elder (the head of the five elders), dealt with the hidden people in the name of rewarding meritorious officials. Therefore, Hideyori, who has not yet "taken charge", has nothing to do. Toyotomi Jia Ze could only watch helplessly but could not resist.
Hey, wait a minute... Hideno's territory was inherited by Hideho. This is true, but Hideho died two or three years ago! He is an extinct heir, so where is the more than 900,000 stone territory in his name?
Gao Pragmatic hurriedly asked another question, and Kaiji said: "I was just about to say this... Generally speaking, these territories were divided up after Hideho's death, but the process is more complicated and there is still a lot of wrangling. .
The most notable among them are that the 200,000 koku of Yamato-gunyama Castle was obtained by Masuda Nagamori, and the 190,000 koku of Zuwayama Castle was obtained by Ishida Mitsunari. In addition, many small daimyo fiefdoms have undergone slight changes... By the way, Ieyasu has also been divided. A big chunk. "
I see, this makes sense... I said that when I was playing games back then, when I came to the Battle of Sekigahara scenario, Tokugawa Ieyasu still had such a large piece of land in Kinki. It turned out that he came here.
To say that Hideuchi was quite unlucky, Hideho was originally an adopted son, but he died at an early age when he was only 17 years old. He lost his uncle and adoptive father's nearly one million koku territory in vain. Otherwise, the Toyotomi family might not have been able to rise again. capital.
But... Gao Pragmatic just casually lamented that the Toyotomi family's misfortune was none of his business! Regarding Hideyoshi's ambition, Gao Qingshi felt that even if the Toyotomi family was more unlucky, it would not be an exaggeration.
What's more, Kafei didn't make it clear what she just said. After Hideho's death, the division of the nearly one million koku territory left by Hideno seemed to be a mess. At least judging from the games played by the Japanese in later generations, Ieyasu gained at least the entire Jiyin and Yamato countries. .
However, the question is, was this division also nominally assigned to Ieyasu, or did Ieyasu only actually control the two countries? You must know that these two countries are not small countries. Jiyin has 244,000 koku and Yamato has 449,000 koku. The total territory is almost 700,000 koku, accounting for most of Hidecho and Hideho's territory.
But now there is still a problem. Kaiji also said that the 200,000 koku of Yamato Koriyama Castle was obtained by Masuda Nagamori, and the 190,000 koku of Zuwayama Castle was obtained by Ishida Mitsunari. Just like this, this account cannot be reconciled... It seems that there should be a dispute at present, and in fact there is no clear distinction.
Forget it, let’s not think about these things for now. Anyway, as long as we have a clear grasp of the general situation, these small problems will not be a problem by then. Gao pragmatic then waved his hand, indicating that Kafeiji should continue the previous topic.
At this moment, Kaiji almost forgot what she had said before, and thought for a moment before continuing: "I just mentioned Tai... Hideyoshi has strong financial resources. This is mainly due to inheriting Nobunaga's approach.
The Oda family's first priority was commerce, and they implemented the separation of entertainment and entertainment, military and peasants, so that they could rise rapidly from a small place in Owari, and fight in both the south and the north without paying more than military pay... This fact is actually easily equaled by Kyoka in southern Xinjiang. The local kingdoms are quite similar.
After that, Hideyoshi also continued Nobunaga's approach. He did not pay special attention to the nominal size of the territory and the food output of the territory. Instead, he paid more attention to impregnable cities such as Osaka and the gold and silver mines directly under the Toyotomi family. There are also various castle towns controlled by the Toyotomi family, etc. "
Gao Pragmatic smiled and nodded: "Yes, if you include the income from gold and silver mines, trade taxes, etc., the actual income of the Toyotomi family's direct jurisdiction may be several times higher than that of the Tokugawa family. This does not include other people loyal to the Toyotomi family." The actual income of the daimyo of the Omi family. This strong economic strength was enough to make Tokugawa Ieyasu submit to the Toyotomi family."
Ji Feiji said: "My master is wise. I didn't know how to look at problems from this perspective in the past. It wasn't until I served my master that I had these insights."
Gao Pragmatic smiled and said: "The major events in the world are complex to say the least, but they are also simple to say simple. In the final analysis, there are three things, but all three things are related to money."
Ji Feiji asked in surprise: "Is that so?" It was obvious that she was very curious about these three things, but because Gao Pragmatic said "big things in the world", she did not dare to ask rashly.
Gao pragmatic knew why she was so cautious, but he didn't think there was anything unreasonable about it. He said casually: "Yes, just three things: where the money comes from, where it is spent, and who manages the money."
In fact, these three things Gao Pragmatic said are the basic views of political economics in later generations, and there is nothing surprising at all. It's just that such a view is a bit shocking for the current era. Fortunately, Kafihime is Japanese and not from the Ming Dynasty where ethics and ethics are more strict, so she accepted it faster.
"Where does the money come from, where does it go, and who manages the money..." Kaiji suddenly realized it, and thought for a moment: "If you put it like this, no wonder Hideyoshi can become a man in the world. Ah, it's not just that, no wonder the master is in the court I understand that I can have such prestige!"
Where does the money come from? Now the largest source of cash flow for the Ming Dynasty is no longer agricultural taxes, but has gradually shifted to commercial taxes. Of course, including Jinghua’s mines in various places, they now fall under the category of commercial tax. And who developed this largest source of cash? Of course it is highly pragmatic.
Where do the flowers go? This is very complicated, but after all, this era is no different than later generations. Generally speaking, it is still mainly spent on military expenditures, raising officials, imperial examinations, flood control, etc., which can be generally regarded as "maintaining rule." As for whether Gao Pragmatic plans to make some improvements in the future, that will all happen later.
Who manages the money? This question is a scoring question. Since Gao Pragmatic completed the reform of the Ministry of Household Affairs, the responsibility for managing money has basically fallen on the shoulders of Gao Nanning, who has always been the Secretary of the Ministry of Household Affairs. Of course, internal funds also manage money, but just like the improvement of the Ming Dynasty's financial system, although internal funds are not as bad as before in history, they are not the same as those of large households.
It can be said that 90% of the financial power in the world today is in the hands of Gao Pragmatic.
Gao Pragmatic had a relatively good understanding of the current financial situation of various forces in Japan, so he did not intend to say more and signaled Kaiji to continue.
Kafihime said: "Then as long as the direct lineage of the Toyotomi family can return to the homeland, and no one dares to break Toyotomi's official etiquette, the Toyotomi family's financial resources will still be strong. In this case, although the Toyotomi family's military force is relatively It has actually dropped quite a bit from before, but as long as it is managed properly, it is not difficult to replenish these strengths.
However, there is a problem here. As I have said before, Mitsunari's hostility towards Ieyasu cannot be concealed at all. Once he thinks that the power he can mobilize is enough to overwhelm Ieyasu, I believe that he will definitely jump out and cause trouble.
Since Mitsubamoto himself is the de facto leader of Gogoshi, and controls the nominal center of the Toyotomi family, both he and Ieyasu will actually have a certain degree of legitimacy - both parties can come under the banner of Toyotomi. Do something.
As long as Ieyasu can't find a way to suppress Mitsunari, a fierce conflict will break out between the two men sooner or later. In this case, since most of the Togoku daimyo received favors from Ieyasu in the murder of Hidesugu, Ieyasu is likely to use Togoku's power to fight against Mitsunari.
If Sancheng can find a way to unite the Daimyos of the Western Kingdom at this time and get the main Daimyos of the Western Kingdom to side with him, then a war will definitely break out between the two sides! If the master wants to let them fight like snipes and clams, then it would not be a bad idea to let the Japanese troops in North Korea go back. "
"You are cautious and call both approaches feasible, but I think you must have guessed something, right?" Gao Pragmatic smiled.
Kafei Ji leaned over and said: "I'm joking, how dare I speculate on such a thing. In fact, I also know that no matter whether we let the Japanese troops in North Korea be released or not, I think Yan'er will play some role in Japan.
In this case, from my point of view, whether to let go or not is not really important. If you let them go back, after the Japanese civil war is exhausted, the master will definitely take action to clean up the situation; if you don't let them go, Tokugawa Ieyasu will adopt the son as his adopted son. After the establishment of the shogunate, the master will also take over the son. The master only needs to make Ieyasu unable to do any small things. . "
"There is a big difference between the two, you should be able to see it." Gao Pragmatic shook his head slightly.
"Yes. The former requires me to use troops, but as long as I send troops to wipe out the remaining forces of each family, it will be relatively easy to rule in the future; the latter may rely on the general situation to force Ieyasu to be used by me, but in this case, the original strength of each daimyo will be Still, Yan'er may face some troubles in the future, so I have some worries, so I can work hard instead of working hard."
Gao Pragmatic nodded and said, "So in your heart you still hope that Yan'er can be more relaxed in the future, right?"
"This... is, please forgive me for my selfishness." Kafei Ji leaned over again.
"You are his mother, so this idea is understandable." Gao Pragmatic nodded: "Similarly, I am his father, so naturally I am willing to pave a more open road for him."
Kaiji felt relieved, but she unexpectedly said pragmatically: "However, there is no need to wipe out all the Japanese troops in Korea. The identity of Ieyasu's adopted son will also be of some use to Yan'er in the future. It's just that Ieyasu is lucky now, but I We can’t help pouring cold water on him to wake him up.”
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