Chapter 005: The Death of a Son

After the Battle of Nagajo, the whole of Japan tended to be unified, Oda Nobunaga became the most powerful man, it stands to reason that Ieyasu at this time as the brother of the most powerful man always had a little benefit, but the reality is that Nobunaga continued to expand the territory, and every war required Ieyasu to contribute money and food. However, Ieyasu wanted to take charge of the Takeda family's territory, but he did not receive the slightest practical support. This hurts, unfairness will always produce disharmony, and disharmony will bring trouble.

We know that Ieyasu was a man of forbearance, and in those days everything needed a reason (but it didn't seem to be needed). It's always hard to find trouble with such a person. In this way, the alliance became, Oda Nobunaga, who wanted to find fault, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who could not give you a chance to find fault. Of course, many people will say that I am talking nonsense. That's right, I'm just! But I'll give the reason for my nonsense. I think all alliances are based on equality. If one side is stronger than the other too much, this alliance will not be maintained, and it will naturally break down, just like the tiger will want to do Ieyasu, Oda estimates that he should also want to do Ieyasu, or to put it another way, even if Oda Nobunaga himself does not want to do Ieyasu, the group of retainers of the Oda family also want to do Ieyasu. This is the inevitable path of strength expansion, and there is no way to change it. At this time, some people will definitely say that these two brothers had such a good relationship when they were children, how could they fight each other, and besides, they worked together on Takeda...... There is a deep camaraderie. I think people who say this can go and see if Yuan Shao and Cao Cao were brothers when they were children in "Three Kingdoms"? Did they fight Dong Zhuo together? Later, he still fought hard, Cao Cao was even more ruthless, and he won. Oda Nobunaga waited like this, waited, and was tired of finding faults. Until 1579, I was sure that this was definitely a very bad reason, but a very bad reason was also a reason, so Oda Nobunaga showed a knife to Ieyasu.

As mentioned earlier, Ieyasu is good at forbearance and is not very good at giving others the opportunity to find fault, but it doesn't mean that others won't, this time he and Seaki's baby son Tokugawa Nobuyasu, we should remember that when Oda and Tokugawa were allied, Ieyasu's son married Nobunaga's daughter. That's right, Nobuyasu married Nobunaga's daughter Deki, and the problem is with this Deji, as the daughter of the most awesome man, she is inevitably a little rude in her bones, so she has a bad relationship with her mother-in-law Seaki, and the relationship with her husband doesn't seem to be very good, and she doesn't have children. This gave Nobunaga a chance, though it didn't look like an opportunity at all.

"Daddy, Nobuyasu and Mother-in-law are not good to me," Tokuki said coquettishly to Nobunaga, "Huh? Why did Xinkang's little bastard bully my daughter? Somebody write to me to educate this little ghost."

"Dad, Nobuyasu and mother-in-law seem to have fornicated with the Takeda family"

“!!!! Someone came to bring a letter to my younger brother, saying that Nobuyasu had rebelled, let Nobuyasu seppuku, and let Tsukiyamaden (the official name of Semei) seppuku! ”

I think this reason is very bad, but it is very clever, at least on the surface I am for your good, your son rebelled, I will inform you. But if you do drive your son to death, you won't be able to convince your retainers. And the image of cowardice will be deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and no one wants to follow a cowardly person. What's more critical is whether Nobuyasu has fornicated with the Takeda family? This should be a very critical issue no longer matters, Oda Nobunaga just wants to find an opportunity to force Ieyasu to hurry and then find fault with Ieyasu, Ieyasu, who knows all this, also knows that it is pointless to investigate whether his son has rebelled at this time, so when he saw Oda's letter, he immediately convened a meeting of people "whether to execute Nobuyasu" became the theme of the meeting.

Here are the following situations in which Japanese historians' research on this matter (nonsense) is concerned:

1 Tokugawa Nobuyasu has ambitions and really wants to kill his father, and he has the support of the senior Ishikawa Shumasa

2 Oda Nobunaga thinks that Nobuyasu has an extraordinary appearance and the appearance of a king, so he wants to find an excuse to kill potential enemies (I think this reason is too nonsense, killing Nobuyasu is a fart, and having the appearance of a king is not a real king, Nobunaga's purpose is obviously to force Ieyasu to rebel)

3 As a result of the wars that supported the Oda clan for many years, the Tokugawa clan's economy began to show signs of collapse...... So Nobuyasu wanted to clear the monarch's side, and he received military support from the Takeda family.

I think Ieyasu was very helpless at this meeting, and I was fucking forced to hold a meeting to decide whether to force my son to death? However, anger does not solve the problem. Or back to the point, to kill or not? This is the helplessness of politics, and there is a saying that you may have heard that "politics is like a prostitute, no matter what, someone has to do it." When the meeting ends...... Ieyasu should have announced it with tears

"Tokugawa Nobuyasu, fornicated with the Takeda family, the evidence is still being collected, but in order to maintain it, our friendship with the Oda family allows our alliance to continue, Nobuyasu, I order you to apologize!"

"No, you can't do that, you can't kill our children!" Seaki shouted hysterically

"As Nobuyasu's mother, you didn't handle the relationship with your daughter-in-law well, angered Brother Oda, and caused the instability of our alliance, and you also apologize!"

"Old thief Oda, if you kill my uncle and force my son to death, I won't let you go!" Seaki roared.

Okay, Nobuyasu is dead, Seaki is dead, Brother Nobunaga, you don't have an excuse to come to me for trouble with Tokugawa Ieyasu, right? Personally, I think Ieyasu's tears should not be due to the loss of his wife (there are still many wives) and the loss of children (there are also many sons), but humiliation! Some people may think that it is cool to engage in politics (after all, it is cool to engage in prostitution), but at this time, Ieyasu is definitely very unhappy and unhappy, because the prostitute in front of him may be a shemale...... This also strengthened Ieyasu's determination to improve its strength.

Well, so far, I haven't answered whether Xinkang has rebelled or not. Now I look at it from a different perspective, and the sutsutsuku of Nobuyasu (who is responsible for cutting off the head of the seppuku when the seppuku person can't bear the pain) Hattori Hanzo. This person is a very awesome ninja, how awesome is it? Known as "Ghost Hanzo", having such a title must be very ruthless. But it's such a person who is crying on the ground during the entire seppuku process, I can wonder if a politician's behavior is a show, (such as Tokugawa Ieyasu) but a hero-level ninja shouldn't, he should be showing his true feelings, why is he crying like this? There is only one answer, that is, Xinkang has suffered a great grievance! So I don't think Nobuyasu betrayed Ieyasu at all! All this was fabricated by Oda Nobunaga, and he just wanted to find fault.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu forced his wife and children to death, what was Oda Nobunaga's reaction? There are not many records in the history books, but we can guess. The silent Oda Nobunaga received the news that Ieyasu forced his wife and children to death in his office, hey, this didn't force you again, Nobunaga sighed, maybe as long as you don't die, I won't be able to annex the Tokugawa family in my life. After this incident, we will still be allies, we will still be childhood partners. I think that perhaps Oda Nobunaga also thinks that he is inferior to Ieyasu in terms of insight into human nature and political manipulation.

The two people of each bad ghost will definitely make this alliance very unstable in the future, and if it takes a long time, it will definitely break, but one thing happened that made this alliance not break, and it killed Oda Nobunaga, and he didn't even give the alliance a chance to break. This is the change of Honnoji Temple, which is one of the great books in Japanese history. In the next period of time, I will introduce the protagonist of the Honnoji Incident, Oda Nobunaga...... (I've wanted to pull this guy for a long time)