Also as heroes in the post-Nobunaga era, Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu followed a clear and distinct way of governing the country, "Shangluo". Although the Toyotomi family was strong, it died in the second generation, while the Shogunate of Tokugawa Ieyasu lasted for nearly 250 years, and the reason for the large gap between the Toyotomi and Tokugawa regimes is different in Japanese historians and folk scholars.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi in the TV series, looks a little anxious
Many people blame this on Toyotomi Hideyoshi's lack of lineage. Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who staged the myth of civilian counterattack, established the Toyotomi regime by means of constant compromise and various means of co-optation, and in addition to the Seven Guns of Mt. Takatake, tokugawa Ieyasu, Maeda Toshiyasu, and Uesugi Keikatsu, who were attached, were either friends or had a higher status than him.
Therefore, hideyoshi, who started from scratch, died before he could complete the transfer of power to the second generation, causing civil unrest in the Toyotomi family and the outbreak of the Sekigahara War, which led to the collapse of the Toyotomi family. On the contrary, Tokugawa Ieyasu's lineage of courtiers was much more reliable, coming from the Tokugawa family of the Miwa clan, and his ancestors were still genji nobles, so tokugawa Ieyasu, who had a stable foundation, finally won the world by "boiling".
Stills from the TV series Sanada Maru toKugawa Ieyasu
However, in The view of Yuda Jun, there is another important reason why Tokugawa Ieyasu was able to replace the Toyotomi regime, that is, the problem of heirs. Whether in ancient China or Japan, the bloodline was a key factor in the continuation of dynastic regimes.
At this point, Hideyoshi was clearly not as capable as Tokugawa Ieyasu in this regard.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="35" > sons of Toyotomi Hideyoshi</h1>
Although there were a large number of adopted sons, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's own sons had a bad fate, and the first three sons died for different reasons during their own battles. As a result, Toyotomi Hideyoshi had a very negative attitude towards his heirs for a long time. He even appointed his nephew Toyotomi Hideji as Sekibai and prepared to take over his own class and succeed the Toyotomi family. However, when he was almost 60 years old, the unexpected birth of his youngest son, Toyotomi Hideyoshi, made waves within the Toyotomi family, because of the birth of his eldest son, Toyotomi Hideji and a large number of adopted sons such as Xiuqiu, Hideya and even Hideyasu had a feeling of sitting on a needle felt.
One moment they are heirs, and the next they may be a stumbling block for their brother.
Stills of Hideyoshi Toyotomi, who entered Osaka at the age of 7
After Toyotomi Hideyoshi was born, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's attitude toward his adopted sons continued to change, especially the first heir, Toyotomi Hideji, who was seated on the charge of treason by Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and none of the family survived. The other adopted sons were also worried about their own safety, which was actually the reason why Hideaki Kohayakawa directly defected to the Eastern Army in the Battle of Sekigahara. Therefore, Toyotomi Hideyoshi's practice of eradicating his adopted son in his later years because of the problem of heir succession made the toyotomi family's arbitrary faction also quite critical, which also led to the arbitrary faction directly to the tokugawa Ieyasu's side of the Eastern Army.
Toyotomi Hideyoshi's nephew, who killed Shuji Toyotomi Seki
And the problem of the toyotomi family's inheritance in the heir issue, in addition to Hideyoshi's reasons, there is also the problem of Hideyoshi's lineage, to know that when Hideyoshi was born at that time, he was already 57 years old, and the men at this stage understood, in fact, Hideyoshi and Toyotomi Hideyoshi were really not like each other, and the 1.5m Toyotomi Hideyoshi gave birth to 100,.8m Hideyoshi, which anyone doubted, and coupled with ishida Mitsunari, Ono Noosa and even Sanada Yukimura and other people's meticulous care for Hideyoshi, as well as Lady Yodo's extravagant personality, It's hard to think about it without association. Even during the Tokugawa shogunate period, the issue of Hideyoshi's own son in noshi novels dominated.
As an adult, Toyotomi Shuji was also a handsome man
All in all, the toyotomi family was broken up because of the unkind handling of the issue of sons and heirs in his later years, as well as toyotomi Hiderai's bloodline problems, which eventually led to the decline of the Toyotomi family after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. Therefore, it can be assumed that if Toyotomi Hideyoshi's main chamber Ning Ning had many heirs, it would be difficult for the Toyotomi family to break up.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="41" > Ieyasu's sons</h1>
Unlike Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who came from the bottom, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was born in the nobility, obviously needed to pay more attention to his body. As the longest-lived (74-year-old) of the three Haojie, he naturally pays attention to health maintenance, and the advantage of good health is that he has 11 sons in this life, and most of them have lived to more than adults.
The eldest son, Matsudaira Nobuyasu, was born to masamune of the Imakawa family and was initially trained as an heir, but because of the "mother-in-law contradiction", under the threat of Oda Nobunaga, the mother and son were given death. Although the second son, Hideyasu, is a little more likely to be the next door king, the unit is loyal and honest, and he is also the adopted son of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. The third son Hidetada was held back by 30,000 men in the Battle of Sekigahara by 2,000 sons of Sanada Masayuki and was known as Hidetatsu... In this way, it seems that the sons of the Tokugawa family do not have many instruments.
Tokugawa Ieyasu's second son, Hideyoshi's adopted son, formed Hideyasu
However, even if there were few second-generation sons, the advantage of having many heirs was that under the family system of Ieyasu's "Imperial Three Families", the sons of the Tokugawa family achieved 250 years of shogunate rule over Japan by relying on the separation of the family and the honka system (the separation of the family unconditionally obeyed the family and had the responsibility of supervising the family). Moreover, although Tokugawa Hidetada's abilities were average, compared to Hideyoshi, he was the second generation of Ne masanoe, and the Tokugawa family itself was stronger than the Toyotomi family (after all, nobles) in terms of education.
Tokugawa Hidetada, who suffered a loss under Masayuki Sanada
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" data-track="45" > Yutianjun said</h1>
Many people often forget the issue of heirs when studying Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu, but in fact, in The view of Yuda Jun, the heir problem happens to be the root cause of the collapse of the Toyotomi Hideyoshi regime. If the sons of the Toyotomi family could be like Tokugawa, even if Ning Ning had only one son, the arbitrary faction and the Bunji faction would not break up, and there was even a possibility of continuing the Toyotomi regime...
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