Edo Nishinomaru, the young Tokugawa family walked with two samurai to the residence of the Great Imperial Palace, Tokugawa Hidetada, both of whom combed the general hair that was popular in the Wa Kingdom.

(After the general of Zhengyi voluntarily abdicated, it became the great palace.) ）

One of them was about forty or so, and his face was full of coldness, and he obviously had an expression that no one would approach.

The other is a teenager with a black blindfold on his face, and with his serious expression and immature countenance, he has a very unique temperament.

These two samurai were the famous Yanagi father and son of the Wa Kingdom - Yagyu Tajima Mori Soju and Yagyu Shibei Sanyan.

Needless to say, Yagyu Jubei is a very famous one-eyed swordsman in Japanese history, and he has a very high appearance rate in various comics, games, and film and television works.

Since he was a child, he was a kendo genius, and his swordsmanship has surpassed that of his grandfather Ishishusai and his father Soju, and he has served as Tokugawa Iemitsu's personal attendant since he was thirteen years old.

He and Amakusa Shiro and Miyamoto Musashi of this era were the most famous figures in Japan in later generations.

His father and grandfather were also very famous swordsmanship masters, and his grandfather, Yanagi Shizhou Zhai Zongyan, was revered by later generations as a sword saint and was the orthodox heir to the new Yinliu swordsmanship.

When Tokugawa Ieyasu learned of his superb swordsmanship, he personally wrote a letter to summon him as his subordinate.

Yanagi Zongju is not much more worried than his father, he is a real master of the art of war.

Of course, the Japanese art of war and the Chinese have different meanings.

During the Edo period in Japan, the art of war referred exclusively to the technique of swordsmanship.

The Japanese refer to the Art of War as the Art of War and the Way of the Sword as the Art of War.

This refers to his superb swordsmanship, and the swordsmanship of Yagyu Shibei was taught by him, which shows the high level of his swordsmanship.

In addition to this, he also served as the swordsmanship teacher of Tokugawa Iemitsu, the current shogun of the Seiyi. and the third-generation general Tokugawa Iemitsu can almost be called father and son.

After Tokugawa Iemitsu took over as the shogun, he immediately handed over the official position of Daime to him.

(Damufu is mainly to supervise hundreds of officials, which is probably equivalent to the brocade guards of the Ming Dynasty.) ）

The samurai and maids of Nishinomaru saluted when they saw them.

Tokugawa Iemitsu ignored them and walked directly past them in a hurry.

Before and after coming to the door of Tokugawa Hidetada, some maids had already gone to report. Then Tokugawa Hidetada pushed the door open and walked in.

After seeing Tokugawa Iemitsu walk in, Tokugawa Hidetada sat up from the tatami mat.

"Father, I have something to do this time...... I want to ask you for advice. ”

Tokugawa Iemitsu said with a bit of a stutter.

Tokugawa Iemitsu has had a stutter since he was a child, and sometimes because he can't speak, his personality is extremely irritable.

Regarding Tokugawa Iemitsu's intention, Tokugawa Hidetada had already guessed that he would not be far from ten. So he nodded and let him continue.

Tokugawa Iemitsu hurriedly sat upright, sorted out his mood, and then said, "Father, I don't know if you have heard of rumors outside. ”

"What's the matter?"

Tokugawa Hidetada said lightly.

"King Wu of the Ming Dynasty...... Lu Yan kills ...... harm to the people of our country living in Nanyang. He also blockaded the Taiwan Strait and wantonly arrested Chinese businessmen. And he deployed a fleet on Jeju Island, where he hoarded supplies, and it was rumored everywhere in our country that he intended to capture our Japan. ”

Speaking of this, Tokugawa Iemitsu's eyes almost burst into flames.

Not long after Tokugawa Hidetada passed on the position of the general of the Seiyi to him, this kind of thing happened, which was simply a naked slap in the face.

And Lu Yan covets the territory of Japan, how can this be acceptable to him.

Listen to him. Tokugawa Hidetada couldn't help but sigh.

Recently, Lu Yan was like a dog in the South Seas, and it would not be surprising to say that he planned to attack Japan.

After all, the relationship between Japan and the Ming Dynasty is very bad. Throughout the Ming Dynasty, there were Japanese pirates who constantly harassed the Ming Dynasty, and twenty years ago there was a large-scale war between the Ming and Japan in Korea.

"So what are you going to do? Like Toyotomi Hideyoshi back then, he took the initiative to attack the Ming Dynasty? ”

Speaking of this, Tokugawa Hidetada's face showed a look of dissatisfaction.

"What a heroic figure Toyotomi Hideyoshi was back then, and his fierce generals were like clouds, and they attacked North Korea, Konishi Yukinaga, Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, and Kobayakawa Keitaka, which were not famous generals who had experienced a hundred battles, and even so they still lost"

Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but snort. Although he was a little arrogant, he still didn't dare to compare with Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi was able to unify all of Japan as a commoner. How can Tokugawa Iemitsu be compared?

And none of those generals are experienced in a hundred battles, the commander of the Second Army, Kato Kiyomasa, and the commander of the Fifth Army, Fukushima Masanori, are known as world-famous generals in Japan. During the Warring States Period, he made outstanding military exploits and was known for his bravery and good fighting.

The commander of the Sixth Army, Takakei Kobayakawa, was known in Japan as "China's No. 1 Wise General" (China was a place name in Japan at the time, including present-day Okayama Prefecture, Hiroshima, Yamaguchi Prefecture, Shimane Prefecture, and Utori Prefecture. ）

The commander of the Seventh Army, Yoshihiro Shimazu, was one of the most powerful generals, and Kisakihara fought in one battle, defeating an enemy ten times his size, which was compared to the battle of Oda Nobunaga's barrel Sasama.

As for the others, they are by no means generic.

Being able to stand out from the war-torn Japanese Warring States has fully demonstrated their ability.

But even so, they were defeated at the hands of the Ming Dynasty.

Tokugawa Iemitsu knew that he had a point, but he still said very angrily, "Are we just allowing the Ming Dynasty to capture the people of the Kingdom of God?" ”

He felt that his father had always been a timid and fearful person, although he was born in the Warring States, but he had never led troops to fight, and he had never paid for the taste of victory.

All his life, he followed the rules and did nothing.

Before Tokugawa Ieyasu died, he was horrified that the world would be in turmoil, because he thought that with his ability, he would not be able to control the heroes of the Warring States, and those heroes everywhere would not be willing to let a man like him become their general of conquest.

Although he didn't say it, Tokugawa Iemitsu still had some contempt for his father.

Tokumitsu Hidetada was silent for a while, and then said, "Do you know how difficult it was for your grandfather to unify Japan? At that time, Mrs. Tsukiyama colluded with the Takeda family. I want to betray your grandfather and Oda Nobunaga. What did your grandfather do after it was revealed? In order to prevent Oda Nobunaga from attacking, he sent Hattori Hanzo to kill his favorite son Nobuyasu, and sent someone to kill Lady Tsukiyama. For the sake of this world, your grandfather can sacrifice even his favorite son. Can't you even bear the lives of some of your people? ”

Mrs. Tsukiyama was the first lady of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

At that time, the Mikawa Okazaki Matsudaira clan (i.e., Tokugawa Ieyasu's family) was very weak, and he was once exiled to the Owari Imagawa clan as a hostage.

After his father's death, the Imagawa family not only sent someone to take over Tokugawa Ieyasu's domain, but also married the daughter of their subordinate Sekiguchi family to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Since Tokugawa Ieyasu was only a hostage, Mrs. Tsukiyama had no personal respect for Tokugawa Ieyasu and was always arrogant to him.

Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu tried his best to regain his territory. Then he formed an alliance with Oda Nobunaga, the great enemy of the Imagawa family.

After learning the news, the Imagawa family couldn't help but be furious, and later forced Mrs. Tsukiyama's father to commit suicide.

Therefore, Mrs. Tsukiyama held a grudge against Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Later, Tokugawa Ieyasu left Hamamatsu Castle and left Mrs. Tsukiyama alone in Okazaki.

Because she couldn't bear the loneliness, she secretly reconciled with a Lang Zhongming Jing from China.

This matter spread widely in Okazaki. Therefore, she was very worried that Tokugawa Ieyasu would kill her in a fit of rage.

Coupled with the conflict between Lady Tsukiyama and her daughter-in-law Tokuhime, the daughter of Oda Nobunaga, she finally decided to betray Tokugawa Ieyasu and find a way to kill Oda Nobunaga and Tokugawa Ieyasu.

So she wrote a letter to Oda Nobunaga's sworn enemies, the Takeda clan, telling them her thoughts, hoping that killing Tokugawa Ieyasu would allow her to marry a retainer of the Takeda family, but the matter was leaked to Oda Nobunaga by Tokuhime.

When Oda Nobunaga learned about it, he went with Tokugawa Ieyasu's cronies. Tadaji Sakai, known as one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's Four Heavenly Kings, murdered Tsukiyama and her son Nobuyasu.

Because at that time, Mrs. Tsukiyama married the daughter of the Hyuga clan, a retainer of the Takeda family, to Nobuyasu, and Mrs. Tsukiyama and her son Nobuyasu had always been in deep affection, so Oda Nobunaga thought that Nobuyasu was also involved in this matter.

And although Xinkang is brave and strategic. This battle is very powerful, and it is claimed that it can be compared with Oda Nobunaga militarily, and Oda Nobunaga is still quite afraid of this.

However, Nobuyasu had an extremely tyrannical temperament, not only liked to kill civilians and monks, but also had an extremely bad relationship with Tokugawa Ieyasu's important ministers, treating them as lackeys of the Tokugawa family.

On one occasion, he used an arrow to shoot one of Tokugawa Ieyasu's important ministers. Yasumasa Kamihara, who is also one of the Four Heavenly Kings.

Therefore, Sakai Tadaji decided to betray Tokugawa Ieyasu in this matter, and he believed that Nobuyasu would not be removed. They of Okazaki's wealthy family will not end well in the future.

In this matter, Sakai Tadaji even contributed to the trouble.

At first, Oda Nobunaga just wanted to imprison Nobuyasu. But at the suggestion of Tadaji Sakai, he finally decided to force Tokugawa Ieyasu to kill Nobuyasu.

After learning the news, Tokugawa Ieyasu thought about it for three days.

At that time, although his power was getting stronger and stronger, he was no match for Oda Nobunaga.

And if he does not die, it will definitely provoke the dissatisfaction of his subordinates, and he also knows that there is almost no compatibility between his subordinates and Shinyasu.

If Oda Nobunaga came to attack, his subordinates would inevitably rebel, and they would definitely not fight to the death for the sake of Nobuyasu, whom they hated, and the powerful Oda Nobunaga.

And the situation in Okazaki at that time was a little different from the rest of Japan, that is, Okazaki at that time was somewhat similar to the Japanese Middle Ages.

Although the Matsudaira clan is the boss of all the wealthy clans in the vicinity of Mikawa, their relationship with those noble clans is not that of a monarch and his subordinates, but a relationship similar to that of an alliance leader and an ally.

The Sakai clan was the most powerful clan in the area outside of the Matsudaira clan, and at the beginning of the Matsudaira clan, they were even stronger than the Matsudaira clan.

And this is also where Sakai Tadaji dared to betray Tokugawa Ieyasu in this matter.

After much deliberation, Tokugawa Ieyasu finally made a decision to execute his beloved son, Nobuyasu, and his Madame Tsukiyama.

Hearing this, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but be dumbfounded.

The one he admired most in his life was his grandfather Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had an extremely rough life.

To be able to lead the ruined Matsudaira clan to unify the whole of Japan is the essence of the word ninja.

When he was weak, he was able to endure all the contempt of others, and he was still outwardly loyal to the Imagawa family when they occupied his territory.

Later, he formed an alliance with Oda Nobunaga, but Oda Nobunaga called him around like a dog, without the slightest respect for his allies.

He was even asked to kill his own son, and Tokugawa Ieyasu endured all of this.

And Tokugawa Ieyasu had the last laugh, relying on his patience and relying on his disguise, he deceived one person after another.

Oda Nobunaga died, Toyotomi Hideyoshi also died, and only he, Tokugawa Ieyasu, finally unified Japan.

Thinking that his grandfather could kill his dearest son for the sake of the great cause of unification, Tokugawa Iemitsu couldn't help but feel a little strange in his heart.

"It was not easy for your grandfather to unify the whole of Japan, and you must cherish this inheritance. You must know that we are not stable internally, and those ronin samurai are very dissatisfied with the peaceful life, and they always want to provoke war to gain status. ”

Tokugawa Hidetada said earnestly. (To be continued)

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Actually, I wanted to cut down the Japanese scroll, but after thinking about it, I thought about it and wrote it