Personally, I think the Toyotomi family still has a good chance of unifying Japan in the long term. To be honest, since the unification of Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Japan, the world has actually been stable for many years. To be honest, under normal circumstances, it would be impossible to replace the Toyotomi family with The strength of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Tokugawa Ieyasu had already been transferred to kanto at that time, his life was not familiar, his foundation was actually not stable at all, and Hideyoshi also sent daimyo such as The Kabuo clan and Uesugi Keikatsu to restrain Tokugawa Ieyasu. At the same time, Ieyasu and he are still relatives, and he takes hostages. To tell the truth, before Hideyoshi died, he also thought that Ieyasu would not rebel.
However, people are not as good as heaven, and the Toyotomi family has its own problems. A significant reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to finally replace Toyotomi Hideyoshi was that he successfully exploited the internal contradictions of the Toyotomi family. To be honest, even without Tokugawa Ieyasu, the Toyotomi family would have fought on their own. At this time, Tokugawa Ieyasu only needed to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.
Even so, Tokugawa Ieyasu waited for many years and slowly consolidated his strength before replacing the Toyotomi family. If Toyotomi Hideji is still there, to be honest, it is estimated that the infighting in the Toyotomi family will be difficult to break out. On the one hand, Xiu Lai is still very young, and when he grows up, it is estimated that the two sides may really fight. On the other hand, Xiuji was originally Guan Bai, the elder Xiu Lai was a lot, his own strength was actually very strong, and his prestige was able to maintain his rule. If it weren't for Hideyoshi getting rid of him, Hideyoshi wouldn't have dared to argue with him. To be honest, if that's the case, there's nothing wrong with Tokugawa Ieyasu at all.
The demise of the Toyotomi family actually had luck on it, after all, no one could have imagined that Tokugawa Ieyasu would live that long, and Maeda Toshiyasu and others had died one after another, making Tokugawa Ieyasu's prestige too high.
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