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Volume 3: A blow of destiny, the king appears Chapter 55: Lord of the great region, famous lord

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    One of the Demon Guardians - Tokugawa Ieyasu

    Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543©¤1616) was a daimyo during Japan's Warring States Period. Daimyo was the title given to a larger regional lord during Japan's feudal era, and was transformed from the word "name master".

    In ancient Japan, before the establishment of a unified national force, land or manor lords mostly had their own force, with samurai as the backbone, in order to protect their own property.

    The so-called famous lord is the lord of land or manor in the east, called a village in the west, and Ganjian in Kyushu - a lord with strong military force, a large territory of more than ten villages, and even jurisdiction over an entire country.  It is Daimyo Lord or Daizhuangwu, Daiganjian), referred to as Daimyo.

    Some daimyo whose sphere of influence extends to several kingdoms are also called daimyo, otherwise they are called minor names. All lords, big and small, can be collectively called big and small names.

    The qualifications of daimyo are defined differently in different eras in Japan, but they all refer to the lord of a larger area.  )

    Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first general of the Edo shogunate to conquer barbarians, his full name is Tokugawa Jiro Saburogen court official Ieyasu.

    Tokugawa Ieyasu was the actual leader of Japan from 1598 to 1616.  In the history of Japan, Tokugawa Ieyasu established the shogunate system. The Edo shogunate he established ruled for 264 years, and was known as the Edo period in history.

    Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu successively inherited the cause of unifying Japan and the world started by Oda Nobunaga. Tokugawa Ieyasu died the year after the Toyotomi clan was eliminated. He was granted the title of Tosho Daig¨­gen by the Japanese court and became the god of the Edo shogunate.  Enshrined in Nit¨­shogu Shrine.

    Tokugawa Ieyasu¡¯s original name was Matsudaira Motoyasu, and his childhood name was Takechiyo.  Born in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province.  At the age of three.  As the leader of the matrilineal family, Mizuno Tamasa, died of illness and was succeeded by Mizuno Nobumoto, Nobumoto then turned to Owari's daimyo Oda Nobuhide.

    In 1560, in order to go to Luo, Imagawa Yoshimoto led his army into Owari to fight the Oda army that bore the brunt. Tokugawa Ieyasu participated in the battle and served as the vanguard, responsible for the raid on Marune Castle, and obtained the head of Sakuma University, the defender of Marune Castle.  .

    However, during the battle, Imagawa Yoshimoto was attacked by Oda Nobunaga's surprise attack due to his carelessness during the battle (the Battle of Okehazama) and was defeated by his subordinates, Mori Shinsuke and Hattori Kodaira.  Motoyasu then returned to Okazaki Castle.

    The military alliance signed by Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, the Seisu Alliance, also known as the Oroku Alliance and the Osan Alliance, was an important alliance that influenced the development of future history. It was the best alliance between the two parties in the Warring States Period to keep their promises.  The longest lasting alliance.  After the Seishima Alliance, Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Mikawa Kingdom.  And extended its power to Yuanjiang Country.

    When Ashikaga Yoshiaki surrounded Oda Nobunaga with Nobunaga's diplomacy and strategy, he tried to persuade Ieyasu with the position of deputy general. However, Ieyasu rejected Ashikaga Yoshiaki and continued to assist Oda Nobunaga.

    The two armies of Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ashikaga Yoshiaki's Takeda Shingen fought in the Mikatahara Battle. The Tokugawa army broke out and fled back to Hamamatsu Castle after being defeated, while the Takeda Shingen army returned after taking Noda Castle because Takeda Shingen died of illness.

    After the Nohji Incident, Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who replaced Oda Nobunaga, faced off several times.  After the two parties reconciled after a political marriage, Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued his expedition to Kyushu, while Ieyasu ran his territory.  Ieyasu exempted himself from corvee labor such as workmanship, opened inns, and conducted land surveying and other infrastructure construction measures.

    In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi forced Tokugawa Ieyasu to move his territory to Edo (now Tokyo).  Instead, Tokugawa Ieyasu took the opportunity to transform from a local vassal to a national vassal, and refused to send troops when Toyotomi Hideyoshi went on an expedition to Korea.

    In 1598 (the third year of Keicho), Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness.  The heir was Toyotomi Hideyori, who was only six years old.  Toyotomi Hideyoshi established the Five Elders and the Five Elders before his death, and Ieyasu was the chief of the Five Elders.

    Ieyasu before Hideyoshi died of illness.  He arranged marriages with some daimyo, and after Hideyoshi's death, he secretly divided the territory among himself.  This began to cause dissatisfaction among other middle-aged and senior leaders, especially Ishida Mitsunari. Ishida Mitsunari's actions caused Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori and others to attack the rule and fight against the martial arts faction).

    Under Ieyasu¡¯s arrangement, Ishida Mitsunari lived in seclusion in Sawayama Castle.  Ieyasu continued to perform government affairs in Fushimi Castle and Osaka Castle.

    In 1599, when congratulating Hideyori at Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu discovered the assassination plan against him. The masterminds were Maeda Toshinaga, Asano Nagamasa, Ohno Haram and Hijikata Yuhisa.

    The clamor in Osaka Castle for the crusade against Maeda Toshinaga was high.  When Tokugawa Ieyasu was preparing to send troops, Maeda Toshinaga sent his biological mother, Yoshunin, to Edo Castle as a hostage, and the incident was calmed down.

    However, the voice of dissatisfaction with Tokugawa Ieyasu did not subside. Tozawa Masamori reported that the northeastern daimyo Uesugi Kagekatsu was actively carrying out armaments. The action was extremely unusual. Tokugawa Ieyasu sent an envoy to ask Kagekatsu to report and even forced Uesugi to report.

      Uesugi Kagekatsu ignored the warning, and his retainer Naoe Kane continued to write the "Naoe Statement" to accuse Tokugawa Ieyasu. After reading it, Tokugawa Ieyasu became furious and finally issued a declaration of crusade against Uesugi on May 3.

    Although Maeda Genai, Nagasuke Masaie and Masuda Nagamori among the five members, as well as Nakamura Kazuji and Ikoma Oikasasa, the senior members of the third middle school, requested to suspend the expedition, Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to act and set out from Osaka Castle on June 16, 7  Arrive at Edo Castle on the 2nd.

    In mid-July, Ishida Mitsunari and some daimyo who supported the Toyotomi family began to take action, with the goal of overthrowing Tokugawa Ieyasu. On July 18, they surrounded Fushimi Castle and began to attack.

    On August 1, the Western Army captured Fushimi Castle. On July 24, when Tokugawa Ieyasu was at the hill, the scouts reported Ishida Mitsunari's move to raise troops.  Tokugawa Ieyasu conducted the hill assessment on July 25. Most of the accompanying daimyo supported Tokugawa Ieyasu's actions and immediately returned to Edo Castle.

    Tokugawa Ieyasu returned to Edo Castle and sent vanguard troops to fight in the Tokai area and Higashi Kinki area.  Tokugawa Ieyasu departed on September 1st and arrived at Mino on September 14th.  The two sides fought in Sekigahara on September 15. The initial situation was not favorable for the Eastern Army, and the Western Army gradually advanced into the battle. However, around noon, Hideaki Kobayakawa of the Western Army rebelled and supported the Eastern Army after being threatened and shot by the Tokugawa Army.  .  In the end, the Eastern Army won the war, and power fell into the hands of the Tokugawa family.

    After the war, Tokugawa Ieyasu actively handled government affairs, allocated territory among the daimyo, and was often active in Kyoto.  In order to become a shogun, he tried to change the genealogy of the Tokugawa family (in fact, it had already been changed when it was changed from Matsudaira to Tokugawa).

    In 1603, envoys from the imperial court arrived at Fushimi Castle. Tokugawa Ieyasu became the general to conquer the barbarians and founded the Edo shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa shogunate. In the same year, Chiki was married to Toyotomi Hideyori as a sign of friendship.

    In 1605, Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicated the throne to Hidetada, the third son, who was generally known as the Grand Imperial Palace.  Tokugawa Ieyasu ostensibly lived in seclusion in Sunfu Castle, but in fact Tokugawa Ieyasu still held power. In both the Oka Daihachi incident and the Okubo Changan incident, Tokugawa Ieyasu took the lead.

    In the 1614 Hokoji Temple Bell Incident, Tokugawa Ieyasu used the pretext that there were unfavorable sentences in the bell to try to force Hideyori to surrender completely.  However, the Toyotomi side put on a posture of preparing for war. The Toyotomi army actively recruited ronin and strengthened its armaments, but no daimyo joined the Osaka side (except for Awa's Hachisuka housekeeper, but he was persuaded by the house governor to give up raising troops), causing Tokugawa to  Ieyasu ordered the daimyo to prepare to attack Osaka Castle.

    The Tokugawa Army began to attack on November 15th and advanced step by step, forcing Toyotomi's army to withdraw to Osaka Castle. On December 4th, the Maeda Army and the Matsudaira Army attacked the Sanada Maru without permission, but were met with fierce resistance by Sanada Nobushige, resulting in a major disaster.  defeat.
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