Chapter 758: Each with His Own Thoughts

"The Ming Kingdom has sent such a huge sailor to crusade against our country, how should we deal with it?" Tokugawa Ieyasu was a little worried and a little happy, because his territory was in the Kanto generation, even if the Ming Kingdom invaded the Japanese mainland from Tsushima Island, the first unlucky ones were Kobayakawa Hideaki, Konishi Yukinaga, Kato Kiyomasa, Shimazu Yoshihisa and others, and it had nothing to do with him, but he could take this opportunity to weaken the power of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's side and strengthen himself, after surviving Oda Nobunaga and Toyotomi Hideyoshi successively, the turtle felt that it seemed that it was time for him to ascend to the throne of the world. Pen × fun × Pavilion www. biquge。 info

Kobayakawa Takakei had died, and his adopted son, Kobayakawa Hideaki, returned to Okayama to become the lord of the domain; Konishi Yukicho has been killed by Li You off the coast of Busan; So although they were the two most important ministers facing the threat of the Ming army, they could not stand up to defend their interests at this time, but fortunately, Kato Kiyomasa is still in Osaka, and his territory is also facing the threat of the Ming army, and he and Fukushima Masanori, Hosokawa Tadashiko, Ikeda Terumasa, Kato Yoshiaki, Kuroda Nagamasa, and Asano Yukinaga, one of the five commissioners, have formed an alliance against Ishida Mitsunari.

So at this time, Asano Yukinaga had to stand up and defend his comrades, "Tokugawa Inner Palace, now that the Ming Kingdom has come from afar to attack, our country should work together to deal with it, and in my humble opinion, I should order the daimyo from all over the country to jointly send troops to resist the attack of the Ming army." He didn't want Kato Kiyomasa and others to face Li You's attack alone, because the Kansai daimyo had already suffered heavy losses in the previous Korean War, and if they fought a decisive battle with the Ming army now, I was afraid that even if they could repel the enemy, it would be even worse, and in the end, wouldn't it be cheaper Tokugawa Ieyasu, a group of Kanto daimyos?

"Previously, Taiko launched the Battle of Wenlu Keicho (Wenlu Keicho is the name of the emperor, and Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to attack Korea twice during the reign of these two emperors, so the people of the Japanese country called these two wars the Battle of Wenlu Keichang), and countless soldiers, horses, grains and grass were consumed, and the daimyo in various places were already overwhelmed, and now it is not easy for them to send troops again." Tokugawa Ieyasu said leisurely, two attacks on Korea and both defeated, these daimyo lost soldiers, horses, grain and grass are all in vain, coupled with Toyotomi Hideyoshi's weakening policy in his later years The process of weakening the daimyo in his later years has already caused a lot of dissatisfaction among the daimyo in various places, and I am afraid that not many people are willing to agree to the plan proposed by Asano Yukinaga now.

"Taige has entrusted the country to me and others, and we should do our best to serve our lives, if these daimyo do not obey, it will be a betrayal of Lord Taiko!" Ishida Mitsunari, who was the most loyal to the Toyotomi family in this group, immediately couldn't bear it anymore, and immediately came out to refute Tokugawa Ieyasu's words regardless of his dignity.

And Ishida Mitsunari's speech held back Asano Yukinaga, who was about to get up to refute Tokugawa Ieyasu, he has always been at odds with Ishida Mitsunari, if he echoes his words, then what will it become? So I hated Ishida Sancheng more and more.

"If the Ming Kingdom wants to rely on an army of 30,000, hundreds of warships will make our country bow its head, so it's too much to underestimate me." Seeing that the two sides were about to quarrel again, the seriously ill Maeda Toshiya had to come out to bridge the relationship between the two groups, and after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it was precisely because of him such a powerful and excellent minister here that he was able to temporarily maintain the rule of Toyotomi Hideyori and suppress Tokugawa Ieyasu's ambitions.

However, no matter how good the Maeda Toshiya is, there is no way to change the reality that the power of the Toyotomi family has been greatly damaged, and Tokugawa Ieyasu, who has become big, is naturally unwilling to use his own strength to resist the attack of the Ming Kingdom on the forces of his cronies Toyotomi, so this negotiation did not reach any result after all; On the contrary, because of the many problems exposed in this meeting, the contradictions between the five elders left by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, the five commissioners, and the forces dependent on them have expanded more and more.

As a force on the side of the Toyotomi family, they wanted the Kwantung princes, who had not suffered losses before, to act as the main force to deal with the attack of the Ming Kingdom, but the Kwantung princes thought that it was Toyotomi Hideyoshi and those daimyo who were eager to expand their territory that provoked the Ming army.

The most important thing is that neither Tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiie, nor Asano Yukinaga nor Yukinaga think that the 30,000-strong army of the Ming Kingdom can pose a mortal threat to the Wa Kingdom, so they can still quarrel here without hurrying, and want to use this opportunity to weaken the enemy and strengthen themselves, so this debate will not end in a short time.

With the passage of time, several daimyo close to the Tsushima domain did not send the news of the Ming army attacking, so they became more and more convinced of this view, three hundred years ago, Kublai Khan mobilized nearly 5,000 ships and 200,000 soldiers to attack the Wa State, but did not win, this time the Ming State only sent 30,000 troops What can they do?

Therefore, the disputes between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Maeda Toshiie, Asano Yukinaga, and Ishida Mitsunari became more and more intense, and Tokugawa Ieyasu took this opportunity to win over many daimyo who had already accumulated a lot of dissatisfaction with the Toyotomi family, as well as the martial arts faction who held a grudge against Ishida Mitsunari.

Of course, this aroused the vigilance of Maeda Toshiya and Asano Nagamasa and others, in addition, Asano Yukinaga and Kato Kiyomasa and others also became more and more dissatisfied with Ishida Mitsunari, and the contradictions between these people became increasingly intensified, and the conspiracies hidden under the water began to ferment and swell, gradually revealing clues.

At this critical juncture, a foreshadowed event happened, Maeda Toshiie died of a serious illness, and the strings that barely maintained the balance of Osaka's political situation were finally broken, Asano Nagamasa and others were shocked, but Tokugawa Ieyasu laughed in the house, and now no one can suppress himself.

After the death of Maeda Toshiie, Osaka Castle became more and more chaotic, first Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, Kuroda Nagamasa, Fujido Takatora, Kato Yoshiaki, Asano Yukinaga and Hosokawa Tadashi prepared to assassinate Ishida Mitsunari at the Maeda Mansion in Fushimi Castle, because of Tokugawa Ieyasu's help, Ishida Mitsunari escaped.

Then it was revealed that Maeda Toshinaga, Asano Nagamasa, Osamu Ohno, and Yuhisa Hijikata had conspired to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu, and the contradictions between the various forces had accumulated to the verge of eruption.

These things seem to have happened a little earlier than they were in history! On Tsushima Island, Li You and the others had already exhausted the accumulation of Zong Yizhi, and they had waited until now with the grain and grass delivered by North Korea across the sea.

In view of the fact that the situation has developed to this point, Li You finally gave the order to send troops to the island, and Zong Yizhi can finally take a breath.