The reason why Japan's Sengoku has been studied and sought after is that everything is possible in this era. In the chaotic Warring States era, everyone could become a king, of course, those in high positions would also be kicked off the altar. In the Warring States, there is such a group of people, they have no background, their early years are lonely and miserable, they are civilians or ronin samurai, but they rely on their own efforts to become the daimyo of the hegemonic side.
For example, the peasant-born Toyotomi Hideyoshi, Hojo Hayun, Ukita Naoko, saito Michizo and so on are all the same.
The average-looking Toyotomi Hideyoshi counterattacked
Unlike Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who relied on force and fought hard, Saito Michizo and Ukita Naoya and other tyrants were more "strategists", to put it bluntly, "conspiracy to start", and even Saito Michizo was called "the first conspirator of the Sengoku" by many people.
So what kind of poisonous means and unknown history did the historical Saito Michizo have, so that many people call it "Schemer の最"?
Stills of Michi Saito
Saito Michizo's ancestors were a junior samurai, and when it came to the Onin Rebellion, that is, his father's generation, because of the defeat, Saito Michizo's father, Matsubo Kimune, was expelled from the title of samurai and became a ronin. Ronin's life means that there is no land and no source of income, and Saito Michizo lives with his family "hungry and full". Unable to do so, Matsuboki sent the 11-year-old Michizo Saito to a temple in Kyoto to make a living.
However, The clever Andei Saito Michizo, who was not willing to become a sinking in the temple, bent on becoming a human being, chose to leave the temple after surviving in the chaotic world.
Saito Michizo at the time of Ronin
With high martial arts and good looks, Saito Michizo entered a merchant's house selling oil.
Because of this origin, many people later called it "Selling Oil Lang Michizo", after entering mino's merchant family, as a merchant, he was often harassed by the lord because of tariffs and trade transactions, just like Jimmy in "Peace is Precious", in order to sell CDs without being bullied and chose to join the society, Kuroto Michizo was also because he was not bullied and could free trade and chose to re-enter the ronin to become a samurai. From this time on, Saito Michizo's ambitions also began to grow.
Jimmy and Michizo Saito are very similar
Saito Michizo also does things very similar to Jimmy, belongs to the type of person who does not talk harshly, is not in a hurry, everything is decided, every step is constantly calculated, and it is these calculations that make him full of power, he curry favor with Nagahiro Nagai through means, become his courtier, and successfully become a courtier after Saito Michizo.
First to see the benefits of iron cannons (arquebusiers), he advocated equipping iron cannons for the army, and after passing both soft and hard, he took a batch of muskets from merchants, and helped Toki Raiyi win in the subsequent Toki family firefight (Nagai Nagahiro supported Raiyoshi at that time), which is like Jimmy helping Ah Le to become the speaker. Not content with being a small lord, Michizo Saito assassinated his boss Nagai Nagahiro in Inabayama Castle and became an important family elder under the guardian and Toki Raiyoshi. In 1538, Saito Michizo, who was already in his 40s, succeeded Saito Riryo, a loyal vassal of the Toki family, and succeeded to the Saito family. Become the first person under the toki Raiyoshi.
Toki Rai arts stills
Next, he seized power step by step, step by step, and Saito Michizo, who was already under Mino, first poisoned Toki Raiman, the heir of Toki Raiyoshi. After gradually eliminating the clan power of the Toki clan, he then engaged in a firefight with Toki Raiki, and eventually expelled Mino. After this battle, Saito Michizo's reputation was completely launched. The transformation from a "oil seller" to a "Mino talker", a daimyo who relies on the lower keshang and has always come up to the lord.
After sitting firmly in Mino, Saito Michizo married his daughter Guidi to Oda Nobunaga and Owari Nobunaga's family, and seemed to be the overlord of the region, but in his later years, although Michizo calculated everyone, he was still rebelled by his son Saito Yoshitaka, and the father and son fought each other. After being besieged, although his son-in-law Oda Nobunaga desperately tried to save him, the Michizo army was too small to wait for his son-in-law in Nagaragawa.
In the end, the generation of tyrants died in the Warring States in the way he was best at others (Xia Kashang).
Saito Yoshiryu
In fact, the history of Saito Michizo's fortune was actually full of assassination, revenge and other conspiracies, and at that time, the actions that Michizo did were indeed despised by the samurai. So much so that many Japanese historians do not recognize his exploits and abilities, and in many novels and even in the genealogies of daimyo, he is evaluated as a "thief" and a "oil seller" with contempt. What was the reason for Saito Michizo being despised by so many Warring States daimyōs?
Enter the merchant's house
The first is his style of putting "profit" first.
Saito Michizo, a bit like the "crow brother" in Hong Kong movies, he said a sentence "every good xx that comes out of the mix", this sentence is very suitable for Saito Michizo, a businessman who makes him and his heavy profits, everything is based on self-interest first. When others meet his needs, they can get saito Michizo's kindness of being saved at the expense of his own life, and do everything he can to be doubly kind to him, but saito Michizo values Oda Nobunaga and says, "My son is only worthy of being a slave to Uetosusuke (Oda Nobunaga) Rama." In fact, I also want to make "Owari big xx" for my own use.
Oda Nobunaga and Saito Michizo meet (through the stills)
Of course, once they cannot be used as a tool for their own use, and do not meet the needs of interests, they are either ruthlessly sacrificed or left to the sidelines. Although this person is his own son, such as Saito Yoshiryu, because of doubts about his blood relationship, and want to abolish Nagatachi, and finally was removed by Saito Yoshiryu first, it is said that the most ruthless is the imperial family, but some of our emperors' means are far worse than Saito Yoshiryu's, and John (Governor Konishi), who is also a merchant & son-in-law, is more benevolent.
Saito Yoshiryu and Dozo fight each other, saying that Yoshiryu is Lai's son
In fact, it is his poisonous means.
In Sima Liaotaro's novel, Fuji Michizo is described as a simple "wicked man" and an ambitious "thief who steals the country". He is like a cold-blooded snake, and all those who stand in his way will be eliminated.
In terms of the main family, he is not loyal to the lord at all, the merchant is not as foolish as a samurai, in his opinion all the stumbling blocks must be kicked off, Nagai Nagahiro is like this, Toki Raiyoshi is also like this, it is not clear, then through the means of assassination to get rid of it, in saito Michizo's eyes there is no master-apprentice, master-servant feelings, there is only you weaker than me, you should be eliminated the robber logic. This kind of ambitious person also made him a pit viper that people fear.
Saito Michizo expelled the Toki family
And in addition to the main family, the means of the family are also very vicious, guidi, as her most valued daughter, is actually a pawn of his. When he met With Nobunaga, he also wanted his daughter to assassinate Nobunaga, "If Nobunaga is really as his name (Owari Daixx), Ru can kill it", this kind of words are completely used as his daughter as Deadpool, you must know that nobunaga, Guidi is also nine deaths, but Saito Yoshiryu's eyes only have interests and no affection.
Saito Returns to butterfly
At the last moment of his life, Saito Michizo, who was still vicious and feared that Nobunaga would not avenge himself, wrote to Oda Nobunaga, saying that he would give him the land of Mino, and that he wanted Nobunaga to fight for his life and Yoshiryu to avenge him. It turns out that after his death, Nobunaga really attacked Mino and took it, which is also Saito's final calculation.
Finally, bad times were created.
The label of Mino Viper's life is also closely related to a word, that is, "Shimokami", the Warring States at that time were still very pure, all of which were in the village war era, and the rank between the daimyo and the samurai was still very pure, but the appearance of Saito Yoshiryu broke this tradition, and the samurai felt that "Wow, everyone can be a daimyo, or everyone is a daimyō", and from then on, the promotion of the samurai can also get rid of their own daimyo in addition to the other daimyo.
Samurai wars during the Warring States period
Moreover, various "great rebellions" techniques such as assassination, assassination, marriage, and father-son cannibalism in the late Warring States period were used several times by Saito Michi. It also set a tone for the subsequent Warring States Wars.
The "Mino Viper" Saito Michizo was indeed notorious in the Sengoku and Edo periods, and even now in mainstream Japanese society, he is still regarded as a traitorous figure such as Dong Zhuo and Sima Yi, and his unscrupulous way of seizing power and his disgraceful history of making a fortune are indeed despised.
But even those who belittle him have to admire this legendary adulterer who has gone from being an "oil seller" to a "daimyo". Ronin was born, but relied on his own fierceness to fight in the fierce warring states. In fact, don't look at Saito Michizo's style of not being alarmed, but in fact, every step of his choice was a big gamble, and this kind of superiority, as well as the determination to want to unify the Japanese Warring States, was not available to many tyrants at that time. Moreover, he was very accurate in his view, and when they first met, they felt that Oda Nobunaga in Owari was not a thing in the pool.
Of course, Saito Michizo is also lonely, such a person has only interests, no friends, or even family. All relations and people are pawns of his domination of Japan, and such a person is destined to be only a tragic character of history...
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