Since the opposition was ready to take the life of Naohiro Inoue, the elder elder naturally did not have to be merciful to his subordinates.
The Emperor's direct decree to the Daimyo was in itself a violation of the laws laid down by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and on this pretext, Ii Naohiro set off the "Ansei Prison" that shook all of Japan.
Although the emperor cannot be punished, the people around the emperor can. The secret edict was taken out of the palace by the Great Nayan Wanli Path, and he was naturally the first to be punished. Naturally, the people of Mito Domain could not run away, Tokugawa Kisaki was grounded for life, Ichibashi Keiki was also ordered to be grounded, and the person responsible for passing on the secret edict was directly beheaded. Among the other clans who opposed the shogunate was Yoshida Shoin, the first of the generation to propose the fall of the shogunate, who was sentenced to death, and Saigo Takamori, one of the three masters of the Meiji Restoration, who was forced to commit suicide by jumping into the sea, but did not die.
The Three Masters of the Meiji Restoration – Saigo Takamori, Kido Takayoshi, and Okubo Ritsu
The prison lasted from 1858 to 1859, with more than 100 people implicated.
Naohiro I used dozens of heads to tell all his political enemies that as long as he was there, japan was still the shogunate' decision!
So, there are people who want him to not exist.
On March 24, 1869, at about 9:00 a.m., Ii Naohiro came out of his house in a sedan surrounded by a convoy of about 60 people to pay respects to the shogunate. When the group reached the Sakurada Gate not far away, a man from the crowd came to stop the car and shout injustice. While entangling with the guards, suddenly the shouting men drew their swords and slashed at the guards, and the rest of the guards rushed forward to fight.
Japanese Film "The Incident Outside the Sakurada Gate"
The nearby assassin, Kurosawa Tadasaburo, drew his musket and fired a shot at the palanquin where Ii Naohiro was sitting, which was a general attack signal to the other assassins, and also hit the thigh of Inui Naobuki in the car. Several assassins then rushed to the side of the palanquin and quickly slashed and killed several guards while the guards were panicking. The only one of the assassination squad, Arimura, who was from satsuma domain, rushed into the palanquin, dragged the badly injured Ii Naohiro out of the palanquin, and then beheaded him with a knife in his hand, and the generation of elders ended tragically.
The curtain call of the elderly - Naohiro I in the movie
Arimura's left guard quickly broke through with his companions, but he was severely injured halfway through and then committed suicide by cutting himself, and three other people in the assassination team were seriously injured and cut their abdomen.
A total of 18 people were involved in the assassination, known as the "EighteenThiruts of Sakurada", of whom 17 were from the Mito Domain, and only 1 from the Muramita Left Gate was from the Satsuma Domain.
The Satsuma Domain was a very special domain during the Tokugawa period, and the special thing is that they are particularly capable of fighting. Satsuma's main family was the Shimazu family, who had unified the island of Kyushu during the Sengoku period, and later joined toyotomi Hideyoshi's clique and invaded Korea with Toyotomi Hideyoshi. At that time, the lord of the clan was called Shimazu Yoshihiro, and he once defeated nearly 30,000 troops led by Dong Yiyuan of the Ming Dynasty (known as 50,000 to the outside world) with only 7,000 troops on the Korean battlefield, and incidentally killed the "Korean god of war" Li Shunchen in the Battle of Luliang.
Battle of Luliang
Later, in the Battle of Sekigahara, the key battle of Tokugawa Ieyasu's unification of the world, Shimazu Yoshihiro was Ieyasu's opponent, the Toyotomi clique. He took only 1,000 men with him in the battle, and when his side was already defeated, he rushed to Ieyasu and calmly retreated, and Ieyasu sent Iyomasa and his fourth son Matsudaira Tadayoshi to pursue and kill. However, the result was that not only was Shimazu Yoshihiro unable to be killed, but the two were also seriously injured, and both of them later died of their injuries. Therefore, the Satsuma clan and the Nehiko clan of the Ii family thus formed a feud.
Statue of Yoshihiro Shimazu
Since it was a feud, it was reasonable for someone from the Satsuma domain to participate in the assassination of Naohiro Ii. In addition to the 4 people who committed suicide by cutting their abdomen, 1 of the "Sakurada Eighteen-Shi" was killed on the spot by the guards of the Ikai family, and the rest fled. Later, 8 people surrendered to the shogunate, 2 were arrested during the escape, 1 committed suicide after two years of escape, and only 2 were able to die.
Sakurada was dissatisfied with the shogunate's treaty of mourning and humiliation, with the shogunate placing the emperor in a puppet position, and with the decay of the shogunate, and their actions were not wrong in terms of national and national justice.
And Naohiro I? He was in order to maintain the rule of the shogunate, which had been benevolent to the Ii family for generations, and although he was forced to open the country by the situation, he also avoided the opening of the country by the strong ships and cannons of the great powers, as in the late Qing Dynasty of China, so he was not wrong.
So who is wrong with the successive occurrences of "Ansei Prison" and "Sakurada Gate Incident"? Must the change of the times be baptized with blood and fire? In the era of rapid capitalist expansion, how Japan's history was chosen, we will talk slowly.