In addition, in many alliances and campaigns, he felt the importance of staff operations and planning staff, and began to carefully cultivate think tanks.

People such as political staff officer Honda Masanobu, intelligence staff officer Hattori Hanzo, strategic staff officer Nobunari Naito, Takagi Kiyohide, and others were all cultivated during this period.

These cadres enabled the Tokugawa Corps to form a steady, planned, organized, and efficient "Tsukiyama Snake", which contributed greatly to his later defeat of Ishida Mitsunari and his seizure of power by sweeping away the opposition.

Judging from the process of Tokugawa Ieyasu's transformation from weak to strong, he is equivalent to the prelude to the rebirth of small and medium-sized enterprises and squeezing into large enterprises. That is to say, after the third place in the market position, the enterprise is ready to rise to the second place, and this process of transformation and transformation is a very difficult and painful project.

The most important key lies in the "willpower", "judgment" and "organizational power" of the manager. The constitution and structure of the far-reaching enterprises must be thoroughly rectified and changed, and the trappings and stumbling blocks of the family enterprises must be shaken off.

For the future development of the enterprise, the formulation of long-term business policies and strategies requires keen and resolute judgment. Therefore, the planning of the system, the recruitment of qualified personnel, the security of property, the establishment of staff, and so on must all be well arranged and prepared at this stage.

Stage 3, the status of the strong

The key battle that made Tokugawa Ieyasu truly a strong man was the Battle of Komaki Nagakute. After these two battles, he was given the opportunity to stand up to his greatest rival, Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

However, in the long and bitter battle between the Takeda and Oda armies. He has begun to shift from "strategy" to "strategy", and has also discovered the importance of "command" from organizational warfare.

"Strategy" means wisdom, that is, instead of being able to fight and being good at fighting as a way to solve problems between friends and enemies, but instead using the highest level of "victory without fighting" in the art of war to achieve one's goals.

Even if war is necessary, it is necessary to let the enemy take the initiative to go to war in order to gain a reputation for morality and righteousness, and to serve as a foundation for winning the hearts and minds of the people. Like the Battle of Sekigahara and the Battle of Osaka, he had to fight as a last resort, and each battle must be won by political strategy.

As for the strengthening of "commanding power", it is to know people and be good at their duties. Make full use of the professional skills of staff and staff. It is the organization's combat power to be fully exerted, and through the personality of the commander, the cohesion and centripetal of the subordinates inspired by the personality of the commander, and the ideal goal of synergy. This is the main reason why he was able to defeat the Toyotomi clan as a vassal.

Enterprises that have gone through the three stages of "weak", "from weak to strong" to "strong" are equivalent to achieving the status of industry leaders.

This stage of business management. You can also learn the strong art of war of Tokugawa Ieyasu. Committed to the use of "strategy". and the strengthening of "Command".

Because the scale of a strong or No. 1 brand is bound to be quite large. The variety of products is also increasing, and in fact, it is impossible for operators to take care of everything in their own hands.

Therefore, it is necessary to understand the professional division of labor between delegation and hierarchical responsibility, and give full play to the functions of the organization. In terms of business warfare, it is necessary to carry out the strategy of combining vertical and horizontal, long-distance friendship and close attack, and devote itself to the expansion of the market; for competitors, we can use the strategy of eating big and small or taking all the big and small, or merging or exterminating, in order to consolidate the No. 1 market position and maintain the situation of hegemony.

After analyzing the three stages of Tokugawa Ieyasu's art of war and its application in corporate management, we cannot ignore one of Ieyasu's most important characteristics for success: "what people cannot endure".

This character is manifested at any stage, which makes people feel that he is extraordinary: from the time when he was the weak, he served as the vanguard of Kanegawa Yoshimoto, to being used by Oda Nobunaga to attack Echizen, being ordered to kill his son and wife, and proclaiming himself a vassal to Toyosei Hideyoshi, etc., all of which exerted his "ninjutsu", and because he could "endure what others can't endure", it is no wonder that he can "do what adults can't".

In addition, we can't help but recognize his ability to imitate. He immersed himself in the study of Koshu military science and Takeda's knowledge of employment, and also learned new tactics and strategies and methods of managing finances and economics from Oda. His ability to imitate was a great influence on the traditional Japanese spirit and national character.

Of course, Tokugawa Ieyasu was not a perfect man without flaws or mistakes, but he made mistakes and did not make them again, and learned from them and became a gift of wisdom. Like the Battle of Sanfangyuan, he was defeated because of arrogance and disrespect for the art of war, however, after this defeat, he never repeated the mistakes of the past in his life, but turned from weak to strong because of it.

In the book, you can appreciate the deceit and deceit between the princes of Japan during the Warring States Period, as well as all kinds of conspiracies and tricks of the strong and the weak, and the tyranny of the people, such as the bitter meat trick and the divisive plot in the "Thirty-six Strategies", and the important concepts and strategic laws in the "Art of War", etc., which will be used in commercial warfare and can have a certain use.

Therefore, reading this book will not only provide an overview of the important historical facts and battles of Japan's Sengoku period, but also understand the process of Tokugawa Ieyasu's struggle and how to succeed, and apply his important principles to business management and business warfare.

Reading a book can be rewarding in so many ways. It's worth it anyway. - "Commercial Tokugawa Ieyasu's Art of War"

Toyotomi Hideyoshi's farewell poem: "Born with the morning dew, gone with the morning dew, my short life, even if the wind and clouds are surging, is just a dream of prosperity. 」

Asakura Yoshijing's farewell poem: "Seven turns and eight falls, in forty years, there is no self and no other, and the four essences are empty. 」

Shibata Katsuie's farewell words: "The dream of a summer night is slim, the name of a desolate and impermanent, and the message is better than returning in the clouds. 」

Wise Mitsuhide's farewell poem "Obedience and rebellion are not separated, the road is through the heart, fifty-five years of dreams wake up, return to one." 」

Yoshitsugu Ohtani's famous words before seppuku were "Sansei, see you again in hell." 」

Tokugawa Hidetada: "The lies of the Great Imperial Palace, even if other people know that the Tao may not be true, they will believe it, but no one will believe me in the lies I tell, no matter how hard I try to tell them!"

Sanada Yukimura shouted during the Osaka Winter Battle, "The Kwantung Army is a million, and not one of them is a man."

A cuckoo doesn't sing. Toyotomi Hideyoshi said, "If the cuckoos don't sing, I'll find a way to make them sing," and Oda Nobunaga said, "If the cuckoos don't sing, I'll kill them." Tokugawa Ieyasu said, "If the cuckoos don't sing, I'll wait for them to sing."

Tokugawa Ieyasu: "The world is waiting for it"

Date Masamune: "May I be born twenty years early, and achieve the hegemony of Nobunaga"

Shigeharu Hanbei Takenaka: "Dying on the battlefield is the true nature of being a samurai"

Takeda Shingen (1521-1573, formerly known as Takeda Harunobu, commonly known as Taro) was a daimyo of Japan's Sengoku period. A famous general of Japan's Warring States Period, known as the "Kai Tiger", he is as famous as the "Dragon of Echigo" Kenshin Uesugi and the "Lion of Sagami" Hojo Shiyasu.

It was quite influential in the history of Japan's Warring States period. The military flag of "Wind Forest Volcano" (its swiftness is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, and the immobility is like a mountain) is a reference to the Art of War and has become a symbol of the Takeda Army.

His strategy of employing troops and his way of governing the country left an influential mark in the history of Japan's Warring States period. The military flag of "Wind Forest Volcano" (its swiftness is like the wind, its speed is like a forest, the invasion is like fire, and the immobility is like a mountain) is a reference to the Art of War and has become a symbol of the Takeda Army.

Shingen actively developed farmland and overcame the problem of insufficient arable land in Koshu, especially the Shingen Causeway, which he had spent half his life building, is still in play today.

Shingen took advantage of the large number of gold mines in the Koshu territory to actively develop gold mining business, introduced advanced gold mining techniques, and issued the first fixed amount gold coin in Japan, Koshu Gold.

Shingen attached great importance to civil affairs, and the "Koshu Law" formulated by him was one of the famous national laws of the Warring States Period.

Shingen was once infatuated with Gensuke Kasuga (i.e., Masanobu Takasaka), and now he has left a letter written by Shingen to Haruga.

Formerly known as Takeda Harunobu, Shin Xuan is the name of the Dharma after becoming a monk, according to the record of "Jiayang Military Review", the word Xuan is taken from the founder of the Linji sect of the famous monk Linji sect in the Tang Dynasty of China. (To be continued......)