After Megumi Ishihara and the others left, Fujiwara Miki said with a sense of gratitude: "Brother Hideki, thank you for helping me out of the siege." ”

Hideki Ishihara took a sip of the whiskey in the glass and said, "No thanks." Even if I don't speak, Kentaro of your family will do it. It's all temporary, and when you marry Kentaro, everything will be fine. ”

Fujiwara Miki said with a lot of emotion: "I always feel that this place is like the Warring States period in Japan. Each one is like a different daimyō. ”

Kentaro Miyamoto blurted out: "This is a good metaphor. In the past, Japan was ruled by the daimyos, but now Japan is ruled by the chaebols.

I still vaguely remember that there were more than 200 daimyo in Japan's Warring States period. The so-called daimyo is a territory with more than 10,000 koku. Many of the daimyo belonged to families that have been passed down for hundreds of years. ”

Hideki Ishihara answered: "Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was born in the common people, only nominally unified Japan. At the beginning, Tokugawa Ieyasu had no intention of meeting Toyotomi Hideyoshi to show his submission.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not unclear in his heart that if he really wants to go to war with Tokugawa Ieyasu, he may not be able to get anything good. In the event of a bad war, other daimyo will be ready to move.

It's not out of the question that he's been backstabbed. The root of all this is that he came from a humble background and was despised by too many hereditary rulers in his heart.

Even if some daimyo submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they were forced by their military power and feared being cut off. As for Tokugawa Ieyasu, the area he centered on Edo was a land of 2.55 million koku.

In comparison, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's territory was only 2.22 million koku. However, this is not all he has.

Toyotomi Hideyoshi also controlled the gold and silver mines, trade taxes, and so on. Economically, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is far superior to Tokugawa Ieyasu. Edo was not a good place in the first place, and it was often flooded.

Through Tokugawa Ieyasu's long-term effective governance and management, he has done quite well in all aspects, and he is still united, and he is not too afraid of Toyotomi Hideyoshi directly going to war against him. ”

Kentaro Miyamoto replied again: "So, in order to let Tokugawa Ieyasu come here to express his surrender with peace of mind, Toyotomi Hideyoshi handed over his mother to the Tokugawa family as a hostage, and married his sister into the Tokugawa family.

It seems that the marriage is to build mutual trust between the two families, but in fact, it is not like it at all. During the Warring States period in Japan, there was a marriage between the two families, and it was still inevitable that there were many instances of war between the two sides.

It is very rare to send the mother to the other party as a hostage. From a certain point of view, it proves the genius of the Tokugawa family.

Tokugawa Ieyasu would accept such a plan, or to avoid a confrontation between the two sides, after all, it would not be beneficial to himself, but would easily weaken his own strength.

Another important reason why the rule of the Toyotomi clan collapsed so quickly was the lack of genealogical retainers. As for the origin of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's common people, it is impossible to exist at all.

In addition, the infighting between the Bunji faction and the martial arts faction within the Toyotomi clan was provoked and used by Tokugawa Ieyasu, even if Ishida Mitsunari was a rare talent, he lacked skills. ”

Fujiwara Miki naturally knew about this period of Japan's Warring States history, and blinked her eyes twice and said, "What is the purpose of you saying this?" ”

Kentaro Miyamoto said with a hippie smile: "We're just chatting casually." ”

Fujiwara Miki clearly felt that there was something else in this: "I don't believe it. ”

Hideki Ishihara laughed and praised without hesitation: "Miki-chan's perception is really good. ”

Kentaro Miyamoto became serious and said: "Nowadays, it is also a change of soup and not a change of medicine in the Warring States period of Japan. There are quite a few families that have married here.

Don't look at the current state of hello, me, and everyone. If there is a serious difference in the interests of the two sides and they cannot be reconciled, then the in-law relationship will also be thrown aside and a direct war will be started. Often at this time, the woman who marries into his family will be in a dilemma.

The husband's family will inevitably suspect that she is the other party's spy, and the mother's family will not trust her either, and will also suspect that she has already fallen to the husband's family. ”

Fujiwara Miki frowned and said, "Don't you miss family affection at all?" ”

Hideki Ishihara pointed out sharply: "What is family affection in the face of interests? ”

Kentaro Miyamoto said slowly: "Money is to look at the demon mirror, and it can completely reflect all the demons and monsters, and the ghosts and ghosts." It is not only the most able to test human nature, but also to make people's hearts transparent. ”

Fujiwara Miki couldn't help but feel and said, "Why do I think you people are very cold-blooded? ”

Kentaro Miyamoto smiled and said, "You're right to have this kind of cognition. ”

Hideki Ishihara has his own words: "It is not easy for people to live in this world. Both the lower middle class and the upper middle class have their own difficulties.

If you shoulder the fate of other people, then you really don't play a game. How many people, how many families still have to rely on you to eat? If you lose, there will be a series of tragedies. ”

Kentaro Miyamoto said: "During the Warring States period of Japan, once a war broke out between the daimyos, not only the common people would suffer, but also the samurai.

Success or failure, common people or common people. The only difference is that it's just a different lord. However, the samurai were different.

If one side is defeated, the samurai under his command will become ronin, not only losing their former social identity and status, but also losing a stable monthly income and a job to support their families.

Or, because of a crime. Or maybe it's because it's politically on the wrong side. Essentially, it's all the same, no different.

Isn't the movie "Seppuku" directed by Masaki Kobayashi talking about this? Even during the Meiji Restoration in Japan, not all samurai were unlucky!

In fact, the movie "The Last Samurai" made by Hollywood in the United States is not objective. The part of people who really lost their samurai status and became down, judging from the source, is not the original master who has lost power.

As long as his past lord does not fall and does not stand in the wrong line, that is, he has changed his identity and changed from the samurai class in the past to the officer class, which is completely a change of soup and not a change of medicine. ”

Hideki Ishihara concluded, "If you follow the right person and the wrong person, you will have two completely different lives. Different choices will also present different results. ”

Kentaro Miyamoto adds, "It will not only affect the future of the individual, but also the future of the individual's descendants. ”

(End of chapter)