The so-called "Ming army" stationed in Jiegang is of course not the imperial court's economic army, but the Beiyang Maritime Trade Alliance - or simply a highly pragmatic private army, the "armed servants" of Beijing.
The matter of garrisoning troops at Jie Port was discussed between Toyotomi Hidenaga and Luo Yuan at that time. At the beginning, Toyotomi Hideyoshi demanded that the Maritime Trade Alliance establish a Japanese headquarters in Osaka, so that the Kyushu Crystal Tower and the Kanto (Misaki Castle) Crystal Tower could be suppressed. Due to the high pragmatic authorization, Luo Yuan agreed to this condition, but he said that the Sea Trade Alliance had its own rules. The Sea Trade Alliance must be responsible for the defense of the location of the Crystal Tower, so he requested to garrison troops.
Since troops were to be stationed, it was obvious that the Japanese headquarters of the Sea Trade Alliance could not be located in Osaka Castle, so Toyotomi Hidenaga proposed to locate it in Kaicho, which is very close to Osaka Castle.
Although Kai-machi requested all major merchants to move to Osaka because of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, in the end the big merchants in Kai-machi generally chose to "make additions", and the population loss was not huge. The so-called "addition" means that while they were ordered to build commercial houses in Osaka, they were unwilling to give up the "fundamental place" of Kai-machi.
Therefore, with the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance, once they settle in Kai Town, the slight decline in the local area due to being separated from a force will immediately change, and prosperity is just around the corner, so Luo Yuan also agreed to this.
But then, the two sides argued over the issue of garrisoning troops for a period of time. At the beginning, Luo Yuan said that the garrison would be controlled to "less than 10,000", but Toyotomi Hidenaga was shocked and decisively refused.
He thought that 10,000 troops was too much - Akito might think that 10,000 troops were not too many, but 10,000 troops were really a lot in Japan. This can be used as an analogy: Although Japan's invasion of Korea had different requirements for the various major names to send troops, if we take an average, it would be calculated based on each family's territory sending 300 troops for every 10,000 shi.
So, taking the Shimazu family as an example, they should send 13,470 troops. However, after the Shimazu family announced that they would surrender to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hideyoshi always wanted to decentralize power to Shimazu Yoshihiro by winning over Shimazu Yoshihiro, and he was particularly tolerant of the Shimazu family.
Therefore, Hideyoshi initially relaxed the policy for the Shimadzu family to send 250 troops for every 10,000 koku, which meant that a total of 11,450 troops should be sent. Later, he also approved the Shimazu family to stay in Nagoya with more than 1,000 troops, so that only one troop actually needed to be sent. Ten thousand. In the end, he himself filled the gap for Shimazu Yoshihiro, who "firmly followed Taiko". As a result, the Shimazu family actually only dispatched more than 3,000 people to meet the requirements.
Of course, some families are not so lucky, such as the Changzonggabu family. His family originally almost unified the entire Shikoku, but due to their resistance to Hideyoshi, they were deprived of all the territories they conquered later after Hideyoshi's "Shikoku Expedition", leaving only the Tozuo Kingdom with a stone height of 98,000.
However, when sending troops to Korea, the Chosogabe family, which originally only needed to send 2,940 troops, was asked by Hideyoshi to gather all the troops. In the end, it sent 3,000 troops, not even one less.
What can I say about this kind of thing? I can only say that the treatment is earned by myself. Satsuma Hayato is particularly good at fighting. The Shimadzu family has been producing famous generals for two or three generations in a row. "Diaoyobushi" became famous in the Western Kingdom. Hideyoshi also thought that he could use the "Shimadzu two-house system" of brothers Yoshihisa and Yoshihiro to do some tricks, so several The combination of these reasons led to the special case of the Shimazu family actually sending only three thousand troops.
Oh, a special note needs to be made here. Although Tokugawa Ieyasu did not send a single soldier to North Korea, he actually sent 25,000 people to stay in Nagoya, the base camp for the imperial conquest.
Some people may ask, Tokugawa Ieyasu had 2.5 million koku territory in Kanto, why did he only need to send 25,000 people? The reason is simple. Tokugawa Ieyasu's direct leader was one million koku, while the Kanto daimyo was far away. According to Hideyoshi's regulations, 250 troops were sent for every ten thousand koku.
As for Ieyasu's remaining 1.5 million koku, they were actually all divided among his retainers. Here are just some examples of the enfeoffment of Ueno country: Minawa 120,000 koku, Iyin Naomasa; Tatebayashi 100,000 koku, Kambara Yasumasa; Ubashi 33,000 koku, Hiraiwa Oikayoshi; Shirai 33,000 koku, Honda Hirotaka; Obata 30,000 koku. Stone, Okuhira Nobumasa; Fujioka, 30,000 stone, Matsudaira Yasada; Oku, 20,000 stone, Makino Yasunari; Yoshii, 20,000 stone, Kannuma Sadari; Headquarters, 12,000 stone, Suwa Yomizu; Naha, 10,000 stone, Matsudaira. Family ride; Numata 27,000 koku, Nobuyuki Sanada.
The enfeoffment of other countries such as Xiazong, Shangsong, Musashi, Sagami, and Yindu also followed this model. In short, Ieyasu's 2.5 million koku is real, but the Tokugawa family directly received one million koku.
Closer to home, an army of 10,000 people is by no means a small number in the eyes of the Japanese, especially since Kaiko is so close to Osaka Castle. The garrison of this army of 10,000 people is not acceptable to Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Toyotomi Hideyoshi thinks that at most it is not possible. More than three thousand people.
Luo Yuan said at the time that with the Sea Trade Alliance's land division establishment, it would be difficult to arrange for 3,000 people. Because the Sea Trade Alliance land division generally uses towns as its basic unit, the number of people in a town is 12,512. He said that the previous promise to control the number of people within 10,000 was already very difficult, because only two infantry corps could be stationed, and the town's horse and artillery emblems were not allowed.
The two sides argued for a while, but in the end, the strong dragon did not overpower the local snake. The agreement reached was still based on the compromise proposal proposed by Toyotomi Hidenaga: the Maritime Trade Alliance's garrison in Kai Town would not exceed 5,000, and only one infantry alliance would be stationed.
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He also said "very considerately" that 4,038 of the 5,000 people were planned to be a standard infantry corps of the Sea Trade Alliance, and the remaining about 1,000 people could be the homes of the officers of this corps. Volume, Jia Ding, etc.
However, although the conditions were met, in fact, the troops in Jie Gang were not actually deployed until Gao Pragmatic personally went to North Korea. First, the Sea Trade Alliance itself does not have that many land divisions (Jinghua’s domestic land divisions mainly belong to Jinghua Trading Company and major industries and mines, and are not directly under the jurisdiction of the Sea Trade Alliance); secondly, Gao Jingjing has been since the agreement was reached. Busy with the war against Mongolia, I have not decided where to allocate manpower.
Therefore, until he went to North Korea in person, although the Maritime Trade Alliance had built the so-called "Japan Headquarters" - Jiegang Crystal Building in Kai Town, the defense force was not a regular land division, but was cobbled together by Jinghua and various companies in the alliance fleet. Some musketeers came out to serve. The number of these people is not fixed. Sometimes there are thousands of people, and sometimes there are only six or seven hundred.
According to Gao's pragmatic point of view, because Jie Port is too close to Osaka Castle, it is naturally very convenient to do business in peacetime, but it is too difficult to hold it during war.
In terms of Jinghua's strength, it is not impossible to use Kai-machi as a fortress forcibly, but it is not cost-effective first, and secondly it is not in line with the highly pragmatic plan and implementation steps for Japan at that time.
Gao pragmatically does not want to solve Japan's problems in the Siamese way, which means that he cannot do it all by himself, otherwise the cost-effectiveness ratio will be too ugly.
In his opinion at the time, the best way was to let Japan have a civil war first, and try to let them form a situation similar to the original historical situation in which the Eastern and Western armies fought fiercely. Of course, the strength between the Eastern and Western armies may require his intervention to fine-tune to make their power balance more balanced.
At the same time, the process of the civil war may also require a certain degree of intervention, so that the war will not enter a decisive battle too quickly, and then the winner will be decided at once. It is best to fight a long-term tug-of-war consisting of many small and medium-sized battles, which can not only allow all parties to continue to bleed, reduce future governance costs, but also use the war to make money.
However, this idea later changed due to changes in the actual situation. The most critical point is that Tokugawa Ieyasu suddenly proposed to adopt Gao Yan as his adopted son and made a clear promise to make Gao Yan the governor of the Tokugawa family.
Tokugawa Ieyasu put forward such a seemingly bizarre condition. When Gao Pragmatic heard it, he knew that Ieyasu had seen his plan, or at least, he had seen his intention to intervene forcefully in Japan after Hideyoshi's death.
Ieyasu has always been wily and calculating, and he is very calm and will not act easily. But on the other hand, once he makes a move, it must be clearly calculated and certain.
Therefore, when he put forward such a condition, he made it clear that he had already calculated it. With the degree of division in Japan, as long as it is in name only - but the recognized "man of the world" Toyotomi Hideyoshi dies, he will never be able to resist Gao Pragmatic's interference, and will definitely be Defeat each one.
In this process, the Tokugawa family, as the most powerful name after the Toyotomi family, and happened to be not far from Misaki Castle, the fulcrum of the Kanto fleet, would definitely suffer a thunderous blow.
Instead of doing this, it would be better to accept Gao Yan as an adopted son. This way he can preserve his strength and even have a chance to preserve his family name.
Here, it is easier to understand that the Tokugawa family keeps their family name. After all, as long as Gao Yan becomes his adopted son, if there is no accident in the future, he should be named Tokugawa Miao, and the Tokugawa family name will be preserved.
Preserving strength may not be easy to understand, but Ieyasu does have his cunning and cunning. From Ieyasu's point of view, if Gao Pragmatic wants to conquer Japan, and he has already surrendered, he will still have a lot of people to deal with - at least the Toyotomi family will definitely be destroyed.
Destroying the Toyotomi family, forcing the surrender of some daimyo, and killing other daimyo who refused to obey, these are all things that will definitely happen. During this period, many major events such as territorial confiscation and territorial relocation will definitely occur. The final result will be that there will be many more "ownerless lands" in the world.
No matter how cunning Ieyasu is, he can't break away from the conventional thinking of the Japanese, so he believes that even if he is pragmatic, he will take away half or even more than half of these unclaimed lands - of course, it should be taken away in the capacity of the Tokugawa family governor who is highly skilled - —But what about the rest?
He, the Tokugawa family, followed Gao Pragmatic and "distributed military force all over the world". He had to seal a group of people no matter what, right? From Ieyasu's point of view, he himself should have given up his family governor to Gao Yan at that time, so the land would definitely not be divided, but couldn't Tokugawa Hidetada and his brothers get a share of it?
Especially Hidetada, he was the original heir of the Tokugawa family governor, and when the time came, all the family governors had to give up. As the most important "famous daimyo", it was completely unreasonable not to enclose more territories. Of course Yuuki Hideyasu, Matsudaira Tadayoshi and others (all sons of Ieyasu, readers with different Miao characters can search on their own Baidu if interested) will also be able to get a share of the pie, so "preserving strength" can also be achieved.
Because of the changes caused by this incident, Gao pragmatically adjusted his future plans for Japan, and one of them was to send additional troops to Jie Hong.
Of course, this also has a premise, that is, after Toyotomi Hideyoshi's health deteriorated day by day, Gao pragmatically judged that he should not have any military action against Jie Hong, and his focus of thinking would definitely shift to the issue of successors. superior. At that time, as long as no one jumped out to rebel, Hideyoshi basically didn't care.
As a result, Jiegang's military strength was quickly strengthened. Not only did it complete the "five thousand garrison" stipulated in the previous agreement in just two months, but it also had many hidden forces.
Jiegang is a unique place. Although the big businessmen here now have commercial houses in Osaka, their impression of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and even the entire Toyotomi family is very bad.
At that time, Toyotomi Hideyoshi seemed to have gone crazy. He first forced Sen no Rikyu, one of the leaders of Japan's largest commercial port, to commit suicide, which had already offended a large number of businessmen. What's even more terrible is that in order to gather wealth in Osaka Castle, Hideyoshi forced wealthy households from the border areas to move to Osaka, which caused even more complaints.
However, at that time, due to the excessive power of the Toyotomi family, the merchants in Jie Hong did not dare to speak out. In the original history, it was not until Tokugawa Ieyasu's power rose that they couldn't wait to join him. For example, during the Battle of Sekihara, Jiegang sent more than 100 mercenaries to join the Eastern Army, and there were even more secret financial aids.
Therefore, in order to thank the merchants of Kaimin, in 1604, the Tokugawa shogunate, which had already opened in Edo, ordered that only the merchants of Kaimin, Kyoto and Nagasaki had the exclusive right to buy and sell raw silk trade in Japan, and others were not allowed to interfere. . This made the businessmen of Jiegang make a lot of money, and they were even more grateful to the shogunate, thinking that they were reborn parents.
During the Muromachi shogunate period, Kaiminato had a high degree of independence. The rules and regulations were completely managed by the residents themselves. There was an organization called the "Ten People" among the residents that specialized in litigation trials. Later it developed into a thirty-six-member association, representing the interests of residents.
In terms of urban construction, there are trenches filled with water around the boundary port, and the two ends of each town are also separated from each other by wooden boards, which are locked at night to protect the safety of the city. In the commercial field, ordinary businessmen in the same industry also have their own "seats" to regulate each other's business behaviors.
After the Sea Trade Alliance built the Crystal Tower in the original boundary port, due to its strong commercial capabilities, it controlled countless goods from the Ming Dynasty, Nanyang and other places. Even the cargo ships of the "Southern Barbarians" (Western, Portuguese, etc.) had to obtain its approval. After arriving, he became dominant in the business community of Jie Hong almost as soon as he settled in.
Merchants in Jiegang did not dare to be hostile to the Sea Trade Alliance. They could only compete with each other to see who was more clever in order to obtain trade franchise rights for certain goods. Soon, another Japan with the Sea Trade Alliance as the core was actually formed. Business alliance.
Since this is the situation, the stance of these big businessmen naturally goes without saying. Gao Pragmatic wants to break it up into pieces and deploy more military forces to Jie Hong. No blind businessman will refuse, let alone reveal anything.
When Maeda Toshiie remembered that there was a "Ming Army" in Jie Port, in fact there was already a town-wide army sent by Gao Pragmatism in Jie Port, totaling more than 11,000 people.
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