Recently, I have developed a strong interest in the history of Japan's Warring States period, and after watching "Tokugawa Ieyasu", "Toyotomi Hideyoshi", and "Oda Nobunaga" by Yamaoka Shohachi...... I suddenly wanted to write something about these people in Japan's Warring States.

First of all, let's look at Tokugawa, that is, the first shogun of Edo, this guy became the last man to unify Japan, it is really incredible, I personally think that in terms of personal ability, Toyotomi and Oda are stronger than him, even if the older giant Uesugi Kenshin, Takeda Shingen is also much stronger than Ieyasu. But history chose Ieyasu, and at this time it was useless to say anything, becoming a king and losing. At this time, even Tokugawa's biggest weakness became an advantage, that is, patience, and the life of Ieyasu, a giant of the same era, was very long. He waited for Takeda, Oda for death, and Toyotomi for death.

Some people say that Ieyasu is lucky, and yes, I think the same way, but luck is also a kind of strength. History does not allow if, what would history have been like if the Battle of Barrel Sasama (the battle in which the Oda family defeated 25,000 people of the Imagawa family with 2,000 men) Imagawa Yoshimoto had not pretended to be forced to open the party and had not been broken into the main camp by the Oda family...... What would have happened to Japan if Takeda had not died suddenly after the Battle of Mikatahara (the battle in which Takeda Shingen defeated the Tokugawa-Oda coalition and basically defeated the Tokugawa family...... What would have happened to Japan if Akechi Mitsuhide hadn't launched the Honnoji Rebellion (killing Oda Nobunaga...... What would history have been like if Toyotomi's army had succeeded in Korea? However, history has no ifs, and Tokugawa's luck is so good, but at the same time, his forbearance is also very crucial, and sometimes it can even be said to be a bag. In 1579, his sworn brother Oda Nobunaga asked his son (to fornicate with the enemy) to seppuku, but Tokugawa forced his son to death without even thinking about it, and even his wife Seaki was also forced to die. Nobunaga's strength made him probably no longer need this brother, and he found an excuse to annex the Tokugawa family, and Ieyasu's performance of forcing his son to death without even thinking about it was really ...... How to say it, I felt so weak at first, but then I felt that it was an extremely powerful decision, and I believed that Ieyasu's anger when he ordered Hattori Hanzo to be his son's fault could destroy everything! Yes, maybe it was at that time that he decided that he could no longer just be a daimyo who ruled Mikawa and Enoe, but that he wanted to become the one who ruled the entire East China Sea, the entire Kanto region, the entire East Country, and even the whole of Japan, and only then would his eldest brother treat him as an equal, and he would have the ability to protect his family! This is Ieyasu, an awakened Ieyasu, a Ieyasu who knows how to bow to the strong.

Ieyasu's childhood had a profound impact on the character he shaped, and he was a hostage from an early age, first at the Oda family and later at the Imagawa family...... It's really humiliating, especially when the Imagawa family's first love little girlfriend, Little Lori Kamehime, was forced by the rich second generation of the Imagawa family, he didn't say a word, and he was beaten up...... It can be said that the days of the Imagawa family were humiliated! But it was in these two places that he met two of the most important people of his life. One is Oda Nobunaga, the youngest son of the Oda family, who is known as Owari (place name) and big fool (fool in Japanese means the same as fool in Chinese).

There is such a passage in historical records

One day, Oda Nobunaga came to the place where Ieyasu was imprisoned to play nonsense.

"Hey, the people outside are saying you're a hostage," Nobunaga said

"Oh," Ieyasu replied, still playing with the caged bird

\"You know what, people outside call me Owari Big Fool" Nobunaga blackened himself "Oh" Tokugawa opened the cage and released the birds

"But I don't think you're a hostage, and I'm not stupid."

"Oh......

"Grass, your uncle should give me a reaction!"

"I'll wait until the day the cage opens," Ieyasu said

"I don't think you're going to be a hostage all the time"

"What do you think I'm going to be"

"General!"

"Huh"

"Actually, I think I'm also a general, a big, big one, I'm watching Tang Tu's "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" now, I think I'm Cao Cao, you are Guan Yu under my command, you are my little brother, we are all generals. But I'm bigger than you."

“……”

"Oh, no, you're not Guan Yu, Guan Yu later became Liu Bei's younger brother...... No, my little brother can only be my little brother, how can I do it for others! ”

“……”

"......" stared dryly for a long time

"We're going to be generals"

"Yes, definitely!"

At that time, the future shogun Tokugawa Ieyasu was 6 years old, and the future sixth day demon king Oda Nobunaga was 14 years old.

Whether this historical material is true or not. It conveys a few messages:

Oda Nobunaga is not a fool, Tokugawa Ieyasu does not like to talk, and the most important dream! That's what attracted me the most about Japan's Sengoku period, which was a collection of countless romantic things, individualism, faith, bushido, dreams, innovation, and change. This is all lacking in Chinese history, or there are too few romantic elements in Chinese history, too impersonal. Maybe my vision is too small......

Let's now look at the second person who had a great influence on Ieyasu, the Imagawa family's military advisor Taiyuan Yukisai. Japan's Buddhist culture is not the same as China's, I don't comment on the merits here, Japanese monks can marry wives and have children, and they can also have territories, and some temples are similar to the daimyo during the Warring States Period, and even the daimyo is still very strong, and the monk can also have an official position, what is it called a monk, a great monk...... In short, except for a shaved head, there is not much difference from ordinary people. And Taiyuan Xuezhai is a monk, and Xuezhai is his number. Although this monk is not a top awesome and does not become a big name, he is the teacher of the Warring States magnate Imagawa Yoshimoto, as well as the chief family elder, and he is also successful.

I have always felt that whether a teacher is good or not depends on whether his students are good or not, and I am fortunate that through his own training and his own diplomatic efforts, he has seen the rise of Imagawa Yoshimoto with his own eyes. However, his other disciple, Tokugawa Ieyasu, is so awesome that he has never been seen before, and it is said that the famous sentence that commented on Ieyasu's "thirty-year-old can win the world" was said by Taiyuan Xuezhai. I believe that with these two students, Taiyuan Xuezhai is enough for this life.

Young Ieyasu knew very well that this obscene bald uncle was very knowledgeable, and had excellent diplomatic and military talents. When Imagawa Yoshimoto took Ieyasu and his son (the one who raped Kamehime) Imagawa Shin to see Taiyuan Xuezhai, it was obvious that Imagawa Shin was not that material.

Let's talk about something else for the time being, I believe there are several kinds of awesome people in the world:

I like **, and I also like to fight, such as Xiang Yu, Oda Nobunaga...... It's all awesome

I don't like **, I like to fight, such as Uesugi Kenshin, Akiyama Shinyuki (this person is quite awesome, if you don't understand, you can look at the Russo-Japanese War...... It's also awesome

I like **, I don't like to fight, and Zhu Xi is the one who succeeds...... Of course, it was people like Imagawa who failed...... Feel the gap for yourself......

I don't like **, I don't like to fight, such as the Sixth Ancestor Huineng.

However, although our Ieyasu doesn't like to talk, he is a man who likes to do war, and at the same time he also clearly knows that although this bald uncle can't teach himself, but he can teach himself to fight, so he studied hard, at that time Imagawa Yoshimoto also felt that the Matsudaira family (Tokugawa had not changed its name at that time, Ieyasu's surname was Matsudaira) could not have a chance to turn over, so when talking to the big bald head, he hoped that the big bald head would teach all what he had learned all his life to Ieyasu, and hoped that Ieyasu would become his son's "Taiyuan Xuezhai...... Of course, this is just wishful thinking on his part.

Perhaps without the defeat of the Battle of Tsubasasa, Imagawa Yoshimoto's wishful thinking might have really come true...... However, history has told us countless times that pretending to be forced has to pay a price, and you deserve it for a party! (Regarding this battle, I will focus on nonsense when talking about Oda Nobunaga)

At the end of this battle, Taiyuan Yukisai had been dead for 5 years, and it is difficult to imagine Ieyasu's life in the Imagawa family, and we have reason to believe that Ieyasu very much wanted the Imagawa family to perish...... Damn's hatred of taking his wife (girlfriend), no one can bear it if he changes, Lao Tzu is already very powerful, and he has endured it for so many years. I believe this was what Ieyasu had in mind when he captured Okazaki Castle after confirming the death of Imagawa Yoshimoto.

Here we will talk about Ieyasu's little girlfriend Kamehime...... Lori is good.,Everyone wants it.,At that time, the hostage Ieyasu and the rich second generation Imagawa really pursued Kamehime at the same time.,Of course, I'll gossip.,Maybe Ieyasu really likes Kamehime.,Shizhen just wants **.。 But Turtle Ji thinks ** is very evil, after all, she is a little Lori. Then the evil thing is better to talk about later, so she alienated Shizhen, who wanted to **, and began to approach Ieyasu. The Imagawa clan really can't bear it, Lao Tzu Tang Tang is a rich second generation, can't he compare to a hostage? Soft doesn't work, hard ...... So use the strong! Anyway, this guy does have a problem with his girlfriend, and he also gathered a group of people to beat Ieyasu,, your father finally found a person at the level of Taiyuan Xuezhai (at least Imagawa Yoshimoto thinks so, it turns out that this evaluation is too low) to assist you in the future, you better rape someone's girlfriend, and beat someone up, this is**naked slap in the face, a man must not give birth to the destruction of his heart**, especially this man will endure it...... Unfortunately, Ieyasu must have wanted to destroy the Imagawa family at this time. Of course, the rich second generation is the rich second generation, what will the rich second generation do? Not responsible! That's right, the Imagawa clan really married her to the future old Iio Renlong of the Imagawa family after playing with Kamehime (don't do it, the young master gives you the woman he played with, it's to give you face), I believe that there are 10,000 grass and mud horses running through Iio Renlong's heart...... And for a successful man or a man who wants to succeed, there are too few things that are pure in his heart, and unfortunately the Imagawa clan really ruined Ieyasu's heart that was not very pure.

One way or another.

When Ieyasu returned to Okazaki (in Mikawa), he saw the people of his nominal precinct in rags and the equipment of the Ashigaru samurai in tatters. But when he returned to the land, when he shouted "When I'm back", the cheers of the whole day. When Tadayoshi, the elder of the Matsudaira family, opened the storeroom, Ieyasu was shocked by the gold in the storehouse and asked why, and Tadayoshi said that it was all voluntary donations from the people for the Matsudaira family...... That's right, as early as the time when the Imagawa family was hegemonic (with Mikawa, Toe, and Suruga), there was a saying that the people of Suruga had Mikawa's money to sing and entertain, to dance with Enoe's money, and to fight Owari in Oda with Mikawa's soldiers. Hey, this kind of squeezing may be feasible in other places, but Mikawa can't, remember that when playing the Warring States History game, each daimyo has his own special skills: such as Oda Nobunaga's three-stage attack, Takeda Shingen's Wind Forest Volcano, the three-stage attack is military technology, and the Wind Forest Volcano is the general outline of the art of war. Tokugawa Ieyasu alone is the Mikawa Soul, the Mikawa Soul, as the name suggests, a spiritual belief. Therefore, every time the Sichuan family squeezes one point of the three rivers, the people of the three rivers save two points for Ieyasu. The source of all this is the people's belief in the Matsudaira family!

Military technology may be updated, and there may be times when the art of war does not apply, but the soul will not dissipate.

The spirit of Mikawa, the samurai spirit unique to the Tokugawa family, began to appear on the stage of history.

Okazaki Castle, the starting point of the royal hegemony! I said I wouldn't be in a cage forever, I'm a general!