In fact, I think history has given the Toyotomi family many opportunities, even in the final Battle of Tennozan in the Osaka Natsunoe, Maori Katsunaga and Sanada Nobuharu (Sanada Yukimura) have beaten the Tokugawa army back one after another, Sanada Yukimura finally all the way into tokugawa Ieyasu's home front, Ieyasu's flag samurai scattered and fled, I almost cut my stomach, but because the Tokugawa army was put in Main in advance, the Sanada army could not find Tokugawa Ieyasu himself for a while, nor could he get the support of Osaka Castle. As a result, a force of just over 3,000 men was overwhelmed by the Tokugawa Army.
Tokugawa Hidetada.
Imagine how much to attack the newly established Edo shogunate by Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had great prestige and military ability sufficient to suppress the various princes, would be a blow to the newly established Edo shogunate, and would Tokugawa Hidetada, who was far inferior to his father, still be able to suppress the various princes? Not to mention that at this time, Matsudaira Tadashi, the son-in-law of the one-eyed dragon Date Masamune, had not yet been demoted, and if Ieyasu was really taken to the first rank on the spot, or captured by the Sanada army and returned to Osaka Castle, the pair did not take the opportunity to toss it, then I would not believe it.
Tokugawa Ieyasu.
But even if the Edo shogunate collapsed, it was unlikely that the Toyotomi family would regain the throne of the people of the world, and this opportunity was stolen as early as the Sekigahara War in 1600. Although the Sekigahara War was nominally an infighting among the Toyotomi family's vassals, if you think about it, as early as this time, the toyotomi family's top brass should have understood the Tokugawa family's threat to the Toyotomi regime, although at this time Tokugawa Ieyasu was nominally a Toyotomi family vassal, but it was already a super daimyō of 2.56 million stones, and the Toyotomi family's domain was only 2.22 million stones, even from the perspective of pure strength, Tokugawa Ieyasu was the biggest threat to the Toyotomi family.
Piece of Tong and Yuan.
And from the identity of Ieyasu, this person himself is a foreign name, originally Komaki. The defeat of Toyotomi Hideyoshi (also known as Hashiba Hideyoshi at the time) in the Battle of Nagakute was later submitted to Hideyoshi by his ally Oda Nobuo (Nobunaga's son), and Tokugawa Ieyasu submitted.
So from this point of view, tokugawa Ieyasu, who was powerful and did not have much closeness with the Toyotomi family (Hideyoshi's sister Asahime, although married to Ieyasu, did not give birth to a son and a half daughter, and had already died at this time), had every reason to be judged to be the biggest threat to the Toyotomi family, not to mention the subsequent private association with various daimyōs, and after the Battle of Sekigahara, Tokugawa Ieyasu hid the Toyotomi family in various places and rewarded the daimyōs with military achievements, and the Toyotomi family suddenly fell from 2.22 million stones to 650,000 stones. This level is only a little higher than the Ukita Hideya (570,000 stones) before the Battle of Sekigahara.
Therefore, the lord of Hachijo Island can explode 17,000 soldiers.
Therefore, after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Dainagan Maeda Toshiyasu, before the death of Sekigahara and later before the opening of the Edo shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu relied on his own great strength and could be said to do whatever he wanted, and after Tokugawa Ieyasu passed the throne to Tokugawa Hidetada, the legitimacy of the Edo shogunate had been established, and the Toyotomi family either bowed their heads and became vassals, or fought a battle, or perished, or directly returned Japan to the chaotic world, and nothing more.
Therefore, the only chance for the Toyotomi family to defend their political power was at the Battle of Sekigahara. We know that in the Battle of Sekigahara, there were 90,000 people in the name of the Western Army, but in fact the real desperate ones were only 8,000 people of Ishida Sansei, 4,100 people of Otaniyoshi, more than 17,000 people of the Ukita Hideya family of Hachijo Island Lord (crossed out), and 4,000 people of Konishi Commander, the Shimazu Army sent a threat to fight the Tokugawa Honjin, that was a later matter, more than 15,000 people of Maori Keigen did not move at all, and the Eastern Army of more than 80,000 people on the opposite side could be said to be full of firepower, so this battle was actually Ishida Mitsunari. Ukita Hideka and others fought against more than 80,000 eastern troops with more than 36,000 troops.
So the forces of the two sides are asymmetrical.
The generals who fought hard against the Eastern Army included Masanori Fukushima, Kiyomasa Kato, Kato Yoshiaki, Takaho Fujido, and later a Hayakawa Hideaki. It was an absolute Toyotomi lineage, and Hideaki Hayakawa was previously the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and before Hideyoshi was born, he had the right to inherit the Toyotomi family. Therefore, this battle can also be said to be the internecine killing of the Toyotomi family, but on the other hand, the reason why these people participated in the Battle of Sekigahara was also under the banner of exterminating the toyotomi family (referring to 30%), that is to say, if the Osaka Toyotomi family expressed support for ishida Sansei's Western Army, then Tokugawa Ieyasu's situation is very dangerous, on the one hand, the 30,000 people in the main battle of the main line are not strong, and the 30,000 main forces led by Tokugawa Hidetada failed to arrive in time, as long as the Osaka Toyotomi family supported the Western Army, the Western Army played the Thousand Multiplied Gourd Banner. What reason did Masanori Fukushima have to remain in the Eastern Army camp?
Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu still wanted to retreat completely, I am afraid it is impossible, the Tokugawa family's strength will inevitably be greatly damaged, even if it does not perish in the end, it will lose the opportunity to compete for the world, so that the Toyotomi family will be able to continue to rule Japan, and although the Maori Huiyuan and the like are powerful, but their insight and ability are like that, Sekihara turtles shrink Osaka, and the people in the world who come to the door do not want it, this is the clear evidence, after the decline of the Tokugawa family, even if the Tokugawa family has a rebellious heart, the Toyotomi family to deal with him is much easier.
So in summary, from 1600 to 1615, the Toyotomi family abandoned one opportunity after another, and finally walked off the stage of history in the fire of the Osaka Castle warehouse.