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In 1588, the second year of the Ming Dynasty's Wanli ascension to the throne, after the Longqing switch and the high arch reform, the national strength of daming gradually became stronger, and the people also lived and worked in peace and contentment, and then Japan in the east was indeed a different scene.
This year, Japan issued the "Pirate Prohibition Order"
All those who dare to disobey orders and continue to be pirates and go out to sea trade are beheaded! This was the first time in hundreds of years that wokou had invaded the mainland that a japanese official had imposed a strict order. The person who gave the order was Ichitomo Hideyoshi, an ancient Japanese figure that Chinese most familiar with and hated.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a "rogue" Sengoku warrior, unified the chaotic world with force and extraordinary ability to seize opportunities. But as soon as the sea calmed down, Toyotomi Hideyoshi brazenly launched a war to invade Korea, becoming the largest Wokou in history.
So how did Toyotomi Hideyoshi rise, and how did he seize the opportunity to unify Japan? Let's step into the 16th century and learn about the greatest Wokou in history.
A man from a humble background
Japanese men chatted together, and if they talked about Toyotomi Hideyoshi, they would lick their lips: "Lord Taikaku, that lucky scoundrel!" "Don't get me wrong, calling Hideyoshi a "rogue" is not to despise him, in fact, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's popularity in Japan is surprisingly good.
Born from poverty, starting from scratch, accumulating strength and seizing the world, the story of Toyotomi Hideyoshi is the classic grassroots history of struggle, and he has fulfilled the most secret dreams in the hearts of countless Japanese people. Although Hideyoshi is famous, in the eyes of the Japanese, he is a great figure who is good at seizing opportunities.
In the era of the poor boy who did not appear, his name was Kinoshita Fujiyoshiro;
During the era of Oda Nobunaga's time as a general, he changed his name to Hideyoshi Hashiba;
After unifying Japan and becoming "Sekibai", the emperor personally gave him the surname "Toyotomi", and since then he has had the name we know: Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
Oh, and he's also known by his nickname: Monkey.
Start with slaves
Hideyoshi was born in Nakamura, Aichi-gun, Owari Kingdom, Japan (present-day Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture), and his father, like countless Japanese farmers, planted seedlings and planted land, and served as a "footlight" to follow the lords on their expeditions during the war. Foot light is the lowest level soldier in japan's ancient army, light foot light, as the name suggests, there is no horse to ride, relying on the "foot" to walk, wearing a simple breastplate, holding a bamboo spear, charging in front of the reward in the back, the official called foot light, commonly known as cannon fodder. According to Japanese historical records, Hideyoshi looked ugly and looked like a monkey, and his lord Oda Nobunaga called him an "ape". Hideyoshi suffered hardships as a child, he lost his father at the age of eight, remarried with his mother to a tea artist, and lived a very poor life. He worked as a little monk and as a street trader. At the age of seventeen, Hideyoshi, who was not willing to live a mediocre life, defected to the account of Oda Nobunaga, the daimyō of Owari Domain, and served as a miscellaneous servant.
Oda Nobunaga was a generation of overlords in the history of Japan's Sengoku period, with the desire to unify the world in his life, and his subordinates gathered stars, but Hideyoshi really had extraordinary ability, from miscellaneous servants to foot light captains to generals to family elders, rising as fast as a rocket.
The wit and sleekness honed in the years of suffering make this unassuming young man look different. He was able to do what others despised: in order to please the Lord, he put his straw shoes in his arms and warmed them for Nobunaga to wear; He could do what no one else could: Nobunaga wanted to build a frontier castle, and both of his ministers failed, but Hideyoshi built it overnight. Nobunaga, who has a hot-tempered personality but cherishes talents, appreciates Hideyoshi's talents. Hideyoshi soon became more and more prominent in the Nobunaga family, and later, Nobunaga took the initiative and married Ning Ning, the adopted daughter of the heavy minister Asano Nagakatsu, to Hideyoshi, who was able to get rid of his lowly peasant status and officially entered the ranks of the shinobi. During the more than twenty years he had followed Nobunaga, Hideyoshi was resourceful and brave in battle, and by the time Nobunaga's "Kami-Rakor" marched into Kyoto, Hideyoshi had become one of Nobunaga's most closest generals. Nobunaga was an unusually harsh lord of his subordinates, but in terms of fate, he always obeyed and favored this ugly-looking "ape", and Hideyoshi also repaid it with repeated military achievements.
3. Grasp the opportunities and unify Japan.
After Oda Nobunaga entered The capital, he took control of the region centered on Kyoto, not only controlling the richest place in Japan, but also using the name of the great general to blackmail the son of heaven to order the princes, and his prestige reached the peak of the Warring States period. At that time, half of the sixty-six kingdoms in Japan had already surrendered, and it was only a matter of time before the Oda clan unified the world. But it was at this time that history made a big joke to Nobunaga.
Honnoji Incident! Nobunaga was killed by mitsuhide, a courtier.
On June 2, 1582, Nobunaga's right-hand man, Mitsuhide Mitsuhide, suddenly staged a mutiny and attacked Oda Nobunaga, who had stayed at Honnoji Temple in Kyoto, and after the death of a small number of guards, Nobunaga was forced to set himself on fire, and Zi Nobunaga committed suicide by cutting his abdomen at the same time. This is the famous "Honnoji Temple Change" in Japanese history.
Why Mitsuhide launched the mutiny is one of the greatest mysteries in Japanese Sengoku history, and most Japanese scholars tend to believe that it was Nobunaga's wanton insult to him that led to betrayal. What we do know exactly is that before the dawn of that bloody awakening, the wise Mitsuhide, who was ordered to march west, ordered the soldiers to "turn around and say the famous sentence, the enemy is at Honnō-ji Temple!"
After the shocking incident in which the lord was killed was learned by Hideyoshi, who was then conquest of the Maori clan, Hideyoshi quickly negotiated peace and withdrew, and within five days he marched 200 kilometers back to Kyoto to suppress the rebellion, killing Mitsuhide In the first battle. The cleverness of Xiuyan is that he was the first to raise the banner of Nobunaga against the traitors before The Generals of Nobunaga.
After killing Mitsuhide, Hideyoshi became Nobunaga's heir. Hideyoshi then defeated and killed Nobunaga's sons who rebelled against him
In 1586, he was given the imperial surname "Toyotomi" and was appointed as Guan Bai, the head of the Wen Palace, equivalent to the regent prime minister. The following year, Hideyoshi irresistibly unified Japan and became a worldman. (Tianxia people mean the overlord of the world in Japanese)
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's journey from a slave to a Taikaku who controlled Japan is indeed a history of struggle. It is a pity that in his later years, he fainted, actually attacked Daming, in the face of the disparity in strength of all parties, the consequences are self-evident, for this tyrant, Wen Shijun finally ended with a comment from Lai Shanyang of Japan. "So that Tai Ge was born in the Jurchen Realm, and if he was falsely aged, then the one who knew the kingdom of Zhu Ming would not wait to realize Luo Shiya, and gai qi was a man, cool Xiao Qin Emperor Han Wu, and Xiongcai was slightly far beyond his right." Fu Han Wu rides on the abundance of Yu Yu, regardless of whether it is also. The Qin Emperor threatened the sixth emperor's accumulated power, the six kingdoms of mourning and cruelty, and the taige rose up with their bare hands to subdue the crowd"?