Kuroda Rumizu's real name is Kuroda Takataka, commonly known as the Officers and Soldiers Guard, Rushui is the abbreviation of his posthumous retirement name Ryuko Rumizu Yuanqing, whether he is the greatest hero of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's unification of Japan remains to be discussed, but he is the most outstanding military master around Toyotomi Hideyoshi, there is no doubt.
(Poster of the Big River Drama "Officers and Soldiers of the Military Division")
Kuroda Rumizu was the son of Kuroda Nobutaka, the lord of Harima Domain Himeji Castle (today Himeyama, Himeji City, Hon hyogo Prefecture), and when he was a teenager, he served as the head of the family, Koji, the head of the family. At that time, the Kodera family was right between the two forces of Maori Huiyuan and Oda Nobunaga, and they did not know where to go, Koji himself believed that they should go to the Maori side, and the other courtiers basically agreed with him, only Kuroda Rumizu alone supported the Oda side, and finally Rumizu persuaded everyone, and the Kodera family decided to throw themselves to Oda Nobunaga.
This was the first time that Kuroda Rumizu had shown an accurate judgment of the general situation in the world, and he himself became the perfect candidate to negotiate with the Oda family.
Kuroda Rumizu wants to negotiate with the Oda side, and the first step is to ask Oda Nobunaga's general, the then Nagahama Castle, Toshiba Hideyoshi (later Toyotomi Hideyoshi, for the sake of simplification, this article is called Toyotomi Hideyoshi) as an intermediary to introduce, Toyotomi Hideyoshi agreed, and under his mediation, Rumizu and Nobunaga formally met.
(Kuroda Rushui, 1546.11.29-1604.3.20, Sengoku First Army Division and famous daimyo)
Nobunaga and Rumizu were happy to see each other, and Nobunaga gave Rumizu a treasure sword called "Press", which was later treasured by the Kuroda family.
(Nobunaga once wielded this sword and cut off the entire shed, so the knife was named "crushing".)
At that time, Oda Nobunaga's general who fought against the Maori family was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and since then, rumizu has become one of the most powerful military staff officers around Toyotomi Hideyoshi.
At this time, according to the usual practice of Oda, Kuroda Rumizu's concubine Matsushimaru, later Kuroda Nagamasa, was sent to Toyotomi Hideyoshi as a hostage, although it was a hostage, in a sense, the relationship between the two sides was closer.
(Compared to Takeaka Hanbei, Kuroda was actually a colleague of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, so his relationship with Hideyoshi was not close at first.)
In the sixth year of Tenshō (1578), there was a rebellion in Arakimura, and the former lord of Theoji Temple, Rumizu, also responded to Arakimura's betrayal of Nobunaga, and Rumizu desperately tried to persuade the government not to act so stubbornly, and finally the government promised that if Arakimura could surrender, he himself would submit to Nobunaga again.
Hearing this, Kuroda, with the attitude of being loyal to the Kodera family for the last time, went to Arikaga Castle to meet Araki Murashige with the realization of mortality, and persuaded him to surrender.
However, there is also a theory that this is actually a conspiracy of Kodera Masamune, who wants to kill people with a knife and remove rushui through Arakimura's hand. Later, the rebel failed Koji politician died in a foreign land, and his son Koji clan later became a vassal of the Kuroda family.
At this time, Kuroda's identity was more diverse, on the one hand, he was the head of the Kodera family, on the other hand, he was the military staff officer of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and in fact he was also a subordinate of Oda Nobunaga, so when he rushed to Arioka Castle to lobby, Arakimura Shigeru may be more concerned about his last two identities, so he directly imprisoned Rumi.
This imprisonment is one year, and this year's imprisonment has brought several effects to Rushui.
First, the cave where Kuroda Rushui was imprisoned in Araki Village was very damp and it was difficult to see sunlight all day long, and a year of imprisonment made Rushui seriously ill, his right leg became lame, and his hair fell out.
(The game shows Araki Rebelling, Kuroda Rumizu going to lobby to be put under house arrest, but in fact it is completely "hard" forbidden)
Second, in such a harsh environment, the rattan that looked like it had withered actually sprouted new shoots and bloomed purple flowers, and Rushui thought that this was a good omen for the future, so he created the Kuroda family's new family pattern "Fujiba Pattern" to commemorate this difficult and difficult time.
(The wilted cane actually sprouted new shoots and bloomed purple flowers.)
(Kuroda family new family pattern "fujiba pattern")
Third, after Kuroda Rumizu was imprisoned, Oda Nobunaga mistakenly believed that Rumizu had defected to the desert village, and originally intended to execute his son Matsushimaru (i.e., Kuroda Nagamasa) as a hostage, and the young Kuroda Nagamasa escaped under the protection of another of Toyotomi Hideyoshi's military divisions, Takenaka Hanbei.
(Kuroda Nagamasa was the son of Kuroda Rumizu and the first lord of the Fukuoka Domain.)
Fourth, Arakimura Shigeshige's Kikimoto Katoshi and Saoemon Shigetoku often took care of Kuroda Rumizu in prison during the year, and Kuroda Rumizu was grateful to him: "This kind of warmth will never be forgotten in the next step." If you want to return to China in the future, please be ordered to be alone in return for this favor. Later, when Rushui was freed, he adopted the son of Uzumaki as his adopted son, kuroda Nagamasa's righteous brother Kuroda Misaku Shouichisei. And the warmth of the left guard gate that Rushui never forgets, in turn, shows how difficult the prison life of this year was.
In November of the seventh year of Tenshō (1579), Arioka Castle was captured, and Rushui was rescued. But as mentioned earlier, the prison life has made his appearance unbearable, Toyotomi Hideyoshi saw kuroda Rushui suffered such torture and still did not betray himself, very touched, so he gave a big reward, saw that Rushui was struggling, and specially prepared a palanquin for him - on the other hand, Toyotomi Hideyoshi often called him a cripple behind his back, and Nyima monkey was enough.
Since then, Kuroda Rumizu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi have established a formal master-slave relationship, and the actual relationship has become more and more intimate.
(Kuroda Rumizu called it the "First Army Division" in Japan at that time))
(Mizumuku Takamatsu Castle)
Later, Kuroda Rushui played a major role in the flooding of Takamatsu Castle, the Great Return of China and the elimination of Mitsuhide, the Shikoku Expedition, the Kyushu Expedition, and the Battle of Odawara Cage Castle, and made great contributions to the unification of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which have been represented in various historical books introducing the history of Japan's Sengoku period, and are omitted here.
At that time, some people thought:
I am afraid that half of the great deeds of His Highness The Great Pavilion were due to the schemes of the crippled man.
(Toyotomi Hideyoshi's conquest)
Supposedly, as a distinguished first army division, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's no amount of fiefdom and reward to this zhuge liang pang tong was too much, but Kuroda Rumizu actually only received 120,000 stones of territory from Toyozen Domain Nakatsu (in the area of Nakatsu City, Oita Prefecture, northeast of Honkyushu), barely a medium-sized daimyō.
(Toyomane's position in Japan)
(Kuroda Rumizu built Nakatsu Castle when he received the 120,000-stone domain of Toyozen))
It is said that at that time, someone did ask Toyotomi Hideyoshi why the fiefdom that Kuroda Rumizu gave was so small. Toyotomi Hideyoshi replied with a smile:
Don't be kidding, if you give the lame man a million stones of fiefdom, he will take the whole world.
There is also a theory that Toyotomi Hideyoshi once said that the only thing that could win the world after his death was Kuroda Rumizu.
Of course, these two statements are from no shi, but judging from the size of Kuroda's fiefdom, Toyotomi Hideyoshi is very jealous of his own think tank, known as the First Army Division, and every precaution should not be out of thin air.
After the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Kuroda Rumizu once again showed his strategy and talents.
(Kuroda Rumizu imitated the Seven Guns of The Seven Guns of The Nobles, and selected 24 elite people among the courtiers, known as kuroda Twenty-Four Horses)
At the time of the Battle of Sekigahara, the main strength of the Kuroda family was brought to the battlefield by Kuroda Nagamasa, Kuroda Rushui actually did not have many troops, but he used the gold, silver and rice grain he had accumulated in peacetime to gather ronin from all over the world, and the number of his army soon reached 9,000 people, and it was learned that Kuroda Rusumi recruited so many soldiers, whether it was tokugawa Ieyasu, the head of the Eastern Army, or Ishida Sansei, the head of the Western Army, was confused for a while, and it was impossible to judge the purpose of Rumizu's actions that had been indifferent for a long time.
It turned out that at this time, the garrison troops from all over Kyushu had basically rushed to the battlefield of Sekigahara, and there was no longer a powerful force that could confront Rushui, and Kuroda Rushui wanted to take advantage of the delicate situation of the stalemate between the eastern and western armies and the open struggle and secret struggle, to take advantage of the opportunity to attack Kyushu, to peek into Honshu, and to become the victor of the Battle of Sekigahara who could drive out the deer world side by side.
(In his later years, Kuroda Rumizu had already plotted a blueprint for the three points of the world in his heart)
After defeating Ōtomo Yoshitomo, who had returned to Kyushu on the orders of Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Ishida Sansei, Rushui continued to conquer the castles of Ishida Sansei's side in Kyushu with great momentum, and in fact, he completely pacified the two countries in toyozen and Toyogen in just two months.
(The territory of Toyomae Province covers roughly the eastern part of present-day Fukuoka Prefecture and the northern part of Oita Prefecture.)
(The territory of Bungo Kingdom is about the majority of the areas other than usa city and Nakatsu city in the northern part of Oita Prefecture.)
However, on September 15, 1600 (October 21, 1600), Kuroda's ambitions came to an abrupt end on this day, and it turned out that the Eastern Army led by Tokugawa Ieyasu in the Battle of Sekigahara defeated the Western Army led by Ishida Mitsunei in just one day.
The original meaning of the law number of the water is to say that the heart is as clear as water, and Kuroda, who originally planned to touch the fish in muddy water, was like water with the clarity of the water, and there was no chance again.
(Tokugawa Ieyasu's quick victory brought Kuroda's watery Domination of Kitakyushu to an abrupt end.)
Wakamizu's concubine Kuroda Nagamasa received a fief of 523,000 stones from Chikuzen (present-day Fukuoka Prefecture, Honkyushu) for his military exploits on the battlefield of Sekigahara, and because Nagamasa's military exploits and the Kyushu raiders of Rushui fought against Ishida Sansei's forces, Tokugawa Ieyasu, although he was also very suspicious of Kuroda Rumizu, did not punish him.
Kuroda Moved from Nakatsu Castle in Toyomae to chikuzen, his son's fiefdom, and in addition to building a new Fukuoka Castle (present-day Fukuoka City, Honfukuoka Prefecture), Kuroda lived in seclusion, singing songs, immersing himself in tea ceremonies, and spending a peaceful and quiet old age.
(The Kuroda family's collection of Jianzhan sold for $11 million in hyundai.)
(Kuroda Rumizu Cemetery in Sofuku-ji Temple, Hakata-ku, Fukuoka Prefecture)
On March 20, 1604, Kuroda Rumizu died of illness at the Fushimi Domain at the age of 59, and he was finally buried in Hakata, Fukuoka, Kuroi Rumizu watched the Kuroda family control the entire northeastern part of Kyushu throughout the Edo period, including Chikuzen, Toyomae, and Bungo, although he did not achieve his ultimate ambitions, he should probably be glad to have achieved a small goal.