Chapter 400 The Great Mobilization of the Expedition to the Ming Dynasty

The initial mobilization order for sending troops to North Korea this time should be officially called the "Zhengming Mobilization Order."Because it is not to crusade against North Korea, but to use North Korea as a guide to attack Ming and even occupy it, which is the real purpose. If you ask why?On the occasion of this campaign, there is no basis.Before Hideyoshi, there appeared such an interesting figure as Oda Nobunaga, who formulated a plan to unify Japan.But then there appeared a man whose survivability surpassed Nobunaga's. It is not unreasonable to say that this is the reason.

After Nobunaga became the Minister of the Right, he collapsed at Honnoji Temple.However, the desperate man Toyotomi Hideyoshi who appeared next occupied the position of Kanbai Taizheng, who was incomparable to Nobunaga and others. He was able to rule the whole of Japan as he wanted, and he was still healthy. People, when they are healthy, they always struggle to do something.However, he didn't do it himself, but became a person who can do it, so it must be a kind of past life retribution. As long as there is still energy in health, he will go to women if he is lustful, kill those who resent him, and defeat those who resist.

However, for Hideyoshi, it was a bit different either way. The reason why he is so brave is not because he particularly hates Koreans or Ming people. The strange irony of attacking because there is neither hatred nor resentment seems to hold. If I had to use reason to explain it, it should probably be said to be a very noble hobby of the energy of life! If this hobby is regarded as a human hobby, then man will become a troublesome variety of strange eaters. People who love running are immersed in marathons; people who like yachts will go to the ocean regardless of the obstacles of others; mountaineering enthusiasts will climb as long as there are mountains, and they will inevitably die in the mountains.The revolutionaries, the organization of strange partisans who deliberately kill their comrades, and the deputies who want to turn the parliamentary hall into a state-run quarrel, etc., they are not completely ignorant of this, but they are down-to-earth fools .

This kind of foolish energy divergence, in Hideyoshi's case, there is no other way but to use the form of "war". He knows nothing but war.No!The fact that he was the winner in the war became the biggest reason why Mitsuhide, who was the loser, took the exact opposite path. It is true that today's sense of humanitarianism was impossible for people at that time.When it comes to the question of aggression from war, peace from war, and happiness from war, simply think of war as nothing more than an ordinary adventure involving the desire to get closer to oneself. Chance. In this way, war and mountaineering, yachting and marathon will become the same act.Perhaps adding horse racing and pinball games is also unknown.At least for Hideyoshi, it was neither a crusade out of hatred nor revenge out of resentment.

The first thing he considers is the heroic spirit of a man, the vigorous energy that is not afraid of anyone and dares to go all out. (What can a guy who doesn't even have this kind of energy do?) The effect of exuberant energy will be the most precious legacy for this nation to future generations.This is the first reason. The second reason, compared with the first reason, indeed arises from actual gains and losses. Strict measurement of land was strictly implemented, and the real feeling that this commoner Guan Bai felt was "Japan's narrowness", which is a sigh for the lack of territory.In addition, I don't understand the functions of things like currency and capital.Labor is war, and war is victory.And the territory will also expand.

How small and weak this country is compared to its territory and population! Desperate efforts to expand the territory... Isn't this related to the joy of the country for a hundred years? Oda Nobunaga only thought of the great cause in his imagination, and Hideyoshi thought he could make it come true.While thinking this way, sending troops to North Korea became an unshakable dream. Therefore, what happened in the first year of Wenlu was not an extremely cruel aggressive war from the perspective of mood, but just the behavior of an innocent romanticist who concealed a dream of adventure, and a boyish desire to do it. sports.

Hideyoshi, who gradually pushed Guanbai to Hideji and became His Royal Highness Taihe himself, felt the narrowness of Japan's territory, and then brought up the change of the Japanese land division system as an example. Before the Hideyoshi era, the cultivated land in Japan was 360 ping.Taking the harvest of one tsubo as a person's daily food intake, it is 360 days a year, so Ichitanda is set at 360 tsubos. Hideyoshi, on the other hand, set one anti-field at 300 pings, which reduced sixty pings from each anti-field, which is equivalent to increasing the total number of anti-lands.In today's terms, it is equivalent to 20% of the land "inflation".

As the son of the common people, why did Hideyoshi take the method of increasing the total number of land counters? Here we can also see another secret in Hideyoshi's heart.That is to say, Hideyoshi wanted to distribute as much land as possible to the princes who helped him. Of course, farming methods have also improved. In the past, the paddy fields of 360 pings could produce rice, and 300 pings could be harvested.In this way, the salary for his subordinates can be increased to some extent. Hideyoshi's feelings towards his subordinates should not be ignored.Needless to say, this is also an important reason linked to the determination to expand overseas.

"If it's like now, I won't even have the territory of a rewarding retainer..." This, until the very end, was closely related to his life like a nightmare.Being as hearty as him is loved by others... Even so, we don't want to defend Hideyoshi too much.You must also never imitate the kind of stupid politicians who say that they will increase the wages of the employees, but close their eyes to inflation. There are also men like the handsome monk at Kofuku-ji Tamon-in in Nara Prefecture, who recorded a sad critique of Hideyoshi's overseas expansion dreams as another Japanese conscience.

No, only Yingjun's worry is the mood of ordinary people. Immediately after hearing the news of the start of mobilization, Yeongjun said, "This is a great job. Can it really be successful?" First of all, he cast a shadow of anxiety about whether it will be successful or not.He went on to say: "The Nanman, Goryeo, Datang, etc., their high and low hindered very seriously." Simply stand by the other side and express sympathy.So one month after the start of the war, Yingjun narrated: "Koryo occupied six counties, measured land, and built cities. Countless local utensils, women, and children were looted. The people are so pitiful. I am very sad and sympathetic. up to..."

Probably since then, the country has implemented a wartime system, strengthened the measurement of acres of land, increased annual tribute, and continued to expropriate manpower in the name of tax and labor. People's hearts were very shaken, so it is undoubtedly a kind of sympathy to compare them naturally .Thus, war itself, which is not based on resentment or hatred, is all the more evil.

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