Chapter 276 [Shogunate Dispute]

Due to the swiftness of the action, it greatly shocked the Shibei and Tanba guardian who was still in the Kyoto Division: Akechi Mitsuhide, and when he returned to the division, Harima Lord: Hashiba Hideyoshi, in order to replace the Daimyo Taisei Minister: Oda Nobunaga, the call for revenge successfully absorbed the old Oda clan who were wandering around the country.

Jubei, who was besieged on July 2, fled after being defeated by Harima in the Yamazaki Valley, and was indirectly killed by the Fallen Warrior (a peasant who specialized in killing down-and-out samurai).

Later, the lord of Harima was supported by most of the Oda clan and retainers at the meeting of the important ministers of Cheongju Castle, and supported the infant daimyo: Oda Nobutada, and his son Sanmage: Oda Hidenobu, succeeded as the family governor, but for this offended the daimyo Shibata Katsuie, who also belonged to the important ministers of the Oda family, and led him to support the daimyo Taisei minister: Oda Nobunaga, and the third son: Oda Nobutaka, to deal with the heir of the Oda clan hegemony to deal with the lord of Harima.

In the eleventh year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty in 1583 A.D., the Shibata clan and the Yushiba clan broke up, the daimyo: Shibata Katsuie, sent troops to attack the Harima country lord Left Guard General: Yushiba Hideyoshi, at first the Shibata army had a slight advantage, but because the left guard general gathered the Shibata army camp of Chikuzen Mori: Maeda Toshika, so that it defected in the rear and defeated the Shibata army in one fell swoop, this war Daimyo: Shibata Katsuie, suicide!

Another important minister, Iyomori: Takigawa Kazuyi, and Kitada clan governor: Oda Nobuo, forced and defeated Shimoyo Mamoru by force to let him live in seclusion, resulting in a complete overthrow of the Oda clan's support: Oda Nobutaka, and the left guard general let the Kitada clan continue to pursue and attack Gifu Castle with victory.

At that time, Oda Nobutaka's retainers were all gone, and only the right emon in the city was left: Ota Shin, and some other close ministers could barely fight in the city, but under the persuasion of the governor of the Kitada clan, he thought about it carefully, and it was expected that the left guard general would not dare to use the sword against the descendants of the daimyo Taisei minister: Oda Nobunaga, so he obediently opened the city gate according to the request, and said to the messenger: Nakagawa Kanzaemon, and chatted privately, "Yamato: The troublesome messenger told the lieutenant general, and said that Nobutaka begged him to open the net, and I am not an ordinary person after all." ”

After that, he rushed to the Inland Sea in Owari Province, because Oda Nobutaka always believed that the governor of the Kitada clan and he were brothers of flesh and blood, and he would definitely go to ask the general of the left guard, and at least reward him with a small town to spend the rest of his life safely.

However, what I never expected was that as soon as Oda Nobutaka arrived in the Inland Sea of Chita County, General Left Konoe was merciless, and directly asked the Kitada clan governor to send an envoy to force Oda Nobutaka to commit suicide in the Inland Sea. But he was helpless, forced by the suppression of troops, and could only agree.

Therefore, the envoy replied, "Yamato: Nobutao is an elder brother who has been disobedient to the decision of the Seongsu Conference and has colluded with Shibata Katsuya to deceive people's minds. ”

After hearing this, the desperate Oda Nobutaka thought that his brother must have listened to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's provocation, and said angrily, "Yamato: The lieutenant general is my own brother!" Why is the sky not as good as people.... ”

Subsequently, Oda Nobutaka wrote a poem in the Great Godo Temple; In the past, the achievements were high, and now the great cause is like a star. Where are the orphans of the ancestors, how can I expect to cut off the kindness before the construction!

Committed suicide by seppuku while looking up at the sky.

Then he further forced Echizen Mamoru to submit to the two Oda ministers, Niwa Nagahide, and Mino Kuni's Ogaki Castle Lord: Ikeda Tsunekoko, and thus Shogun Sakonoe completed the unification of the old Oda Department and established "Osaka Castle" on the site of Ishiyama Honganji.

Matteo Leech (Matteo Ricci), a 25-year-old Catholic of the Holy Roman Empire who was also in the West, received the blessings of Pope Gregory XIII and King of the Kingdom of Francisco (Kingdom of Portugal): San Sebastian and took part in the oath of service.

After that, Matteo Ricci was sent to the East to promote Catholic culture and attract followers to join the Catholic camp, after all, under the impact of the wave of Protestantism (Christianity), the Holy Pope can no longer wave the world as before! He also needed more followers to join in order to compete with Christianity.

Therefore, Matteo Ricci set his sights on the richest area, the most populous Ming Empire, on September 10, he first arrived in Xiangshan County, Guangzhou Prefecture, Guangdong Province by boat, and began to learn from the West to the east, but was resisted by the Ming people and local officials, so Matteo Ricci had to establish the Catholic Diocese of Hao Jing O and the establishment of the Council of Hao Jing O in the area of Ho Kiang O leased by the Francis.

John Davis, the navigator of Dartmouth Harbour Devon, Kingdom of Scotzia (Dordor Dynasty), proposed a new exploration program to Queen Elizabeth I of the Dordor Dynasty, and Walsingham, chief secretary of the Dordor dynasty, and also contributed to opening up the East and West.

In 1584, the twelfth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the Daimyo Taisei Minister Oda Nobunaga, who cooperated with the Left Konoe Shogunate in the Azuchi-Momoyama Shogunate, the second son of the Kitada clan Governor Zuo Konoe, Lieutenant General Zuo Konoe, and the Saemon Governor: Tokugawa Ieyasu, openly opposed the rule of the Left Konoe General: Hashiba Hideyoshi, which led to the war between the Hashiba Army and the two coalition forces in the war known as the "Battle of Komaki and Nagakute".

At the beginning of the battle, the Hashiba army, which had the advantage of troops, went straight to the territory of the Tokugawa army, but was ambushed by the Tokugawa army on the way, and the lord of Kaizu Castle of Mino Province, known as [Oni Musashi], Mori Nagaka, and the lord of Ogaki Castle of Mino Province: Ikeda Tsuneko, the two generals died one after another.

In the case of the defeat in the dangerous battle situation, the Left Guard Commander, with his amazing diplomatic skills, drew the enemy army to subdue the Kitada clan Governor Left Guard's Lieutenant General Oda Nobuo, forcing the Left Guard Governor: Tokugawa Ieyasu to retreat.

Then during the negotiations, General Left Konoe surrendered the Tokugawa clan by incredible means, he let his married sister: Hashiba Asahihime, and her husband Shibei: Vice Tian Yoshinari, divorce and promised to give 50,000 koku fiefdom, and then let Hashiba Asahi marry Saemon Governor: Tokugawa Ieyasu, and sent his mother Daimasa: Azhong, to the Tokugawa clan as a hostage, it was completely a begging posture, so that the Tokugawa army completely surrendered to the Yushiba army, so that the Tokugawa army completely surrendered to the Yushiba army, so far the left Konoe General officially launched the daimyo Taisei minister: Oda Nobunaga, the unfinished unification of the great cause.

Later, in 1585, the thirteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, General Left Konoe led a coalition army to attack Dazai Marshal who had just unified Shikoku: Nagamune's first family, forcing him to surrender and return to his original hometown of Tosa, becoming the biggest overlord in the Azuchi-Momoyama shogunate period, but this was far from enough! Shogun Left Konoe also hoped to become the shogunate's "Seiyi Shogun" who could manage the military affairs of the whole country, but he had to turn to the imperial court to ask Emperor Goyosei for the title of "Shoichi: Regent Sekihaku".

For this reason, General Left Konoe also planned to recognize the former regent Guan Bai for a while: Konoe Qianjiu, as a father-in-law? This was due to the fact that the shogunate's regent, Sekihaku, could only be inherited from the [Fujiwara clan] such as Konoe, Takaji, Ichijo, Nijo, Kujo, and other {five regents}, and it also forced the Shogun Sakonoe to finally abandon this plan and ask the imperial court to give him a new surname.

So Emperor Goyosei gave him the surname "Toyotomi", and assumed the post of [regent Sekihaku] so the regent Sekihaku: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, also became the successor; Fujiwara, Gen, Taira, Tachibana, etc., the fifth largest surname after the four major surnames.

In 1587, the fifteenth year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the regent of the Azuchi Momoyama shogunate, Sekihaku: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, began to unite with the Mori clan who had been surrendered to conquer the Shimazu clan in Kyushu, and the vanguard army of the Toyotomi clan was Nayan: Toyotomi Hidenaga, and led the military department to be a junior assistant: Mori Terumoto, Senatorial Nayanaka: Kobayakawa Takakei, and Lieutenant General Left Konoe: Ukita Hideya, and the coalition army of 150,000 people landed in Toyozen Province.

Subsequently, the regent Sekihaku himself led a large army of 100,000 to land at Ogura Castle, and under the suppression of the troops, the Daimyo and the people of the Daimyo and the countrymen surrendered to the regent Sekihaku to join the Toyotomi Army under the banner, and the left Konoe Major General: Shimazu Yoshihiro, the lord of Satsuma Province: Shimazu Iehisa, after the two were defeated in the "Ne-Shirasaka Battle", the Toyotomi coalition army took advantage of the situation to march to Satsuma Province.

Under the pressure of the coalition forces, Shimazu Yoshihisa, the governor of the Zuoemon family, decided to shave his family in Kagoshima, and the governor of the Michiho (Ryubo) family was succeeded by his younger brother Major General Zuo Konoe: Shimazu Yoshihiro, and sent the right emon doctor: Ijiin Tadato, to meet with the regent Sekihaku at Taiheiji Temple in Kawauchi, and officially surrendered to the Toyotomi regime.

On the 1st day of March 1590, the 18th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the regent Sekihaku launched the forces of the Shikoku and Kyushu Island armies to attack Oidawara Castle.

When the regent Kantohiro issued the Kanto Nothing to Affair order, he asked the head of the Hojo family, Dr. Sakyo: Hojo Clan Masa, who was very dissatisfied with him, and he thought that Toyotomi Hideyoshi was from a humble background, and the Maori clan, Uesugi clan and other famous clans that he had conquered before were determined to rebel, so he generally never ignored or even disobeyed the order of the regent Kanbai, and even this time there were not many people in the war.

In order to avoid the rebellion of his generals, he asked them to hand over his wife and family as hostages, and store enough grain and grass in the city for three years.

But who knew that as soon as he went out into battle, he surrounded Oidawara Castle and defeated the Hojo Army, so that the head of the Hojo family, Dr. Sakyo: Hojo Clan Masa, reluctantly pulled out his sword and committed suicide, so that the Daimyo of Mutsu Province: Date Masamune, and other daimyo in the Tohoku region were subjugated, so that the regent Sekihaku completed the national unification of the Azuchi-Momoyama shogunate.

On March 8, 1591, the 19th year of Wanli in the Ming Dynasty, the regent Sekibai: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, gave up his official position to his nephew Qingzhou City Lord: Toyotomi Hideji, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi himself called himself "Taiko", but the heads of the conquered tribes and the lords of the country complained more or less about Taiko: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and Taiko decided to send troops to obtain more land in order to calm the uneven division of feudal feuds among the domestic samurai and weaken the power of each daimyo.

On the 9th day of the first month of June, Taiko sent an envoy to Tsushima Shou: Zong Yizhi, informing the King of Zhaojing County: Li Hao, the Emperor of the Joseon Dynasty of the Li family, indicating that the Azuchi Momoyama Shogunate intended to attack the Ming Empire in the spring of the following year (1592) by using the road to come to the Li family's Korean diplomatic relations, and asked the Li family Joseon to have more forgiveness and assistance, and also wrote to the king of the Zhao Jing County of the Li family, "I want to pretend to be your country, go beyond the mountains and seas and go straight to the Ming Dynasty, so that the four hundred states of the Ming Dynasty will dissolve our customs, and the king will govern in the year of billions of years." ”

After reading the letter, the king of Zhaojing County of the Li family of Joseon replied to the letter because of the long-term affairs of the Ming Dynasty, rejecting the plan of the Japanese barbarians.

However, at that time, the armament of the Eight Provinces of the Lee Korean Army was slack, coupled with the fact that the king of Zhaojing County of the Lee Dynasty emphasized literature and light military force, and there was fierce party infighting in the court, so that the soldiers and civilians of the Lee Korean army did not know the army for more than 200 years, and most of the more than 300 counties and counties in the country were not fortified!

Angry Taiko: Toyotomi Hideyoshi, did not hesitate to mobilize a total of 300,000 troops from various states and counties, divided into nine armies and 150,000 people to cross the sea to fight in the eight provinces of Lee's Korea, 100,000 as the reserve of the navy, and the remaining 50,000 were logistics troops.