Today, for the first time, I went to a rented bookstore to borrow online books to read, and I was busy fanciing. The owner of the shop said that reading 100 books in 10 days is cheap for me. Well, since it is an online document, I will agree to it right away.

One of the guardians of the Demon Hero, Tokugawa Ieyasu

Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616) was a daimyo of Japan's Sengoku period, (Daimyo was a name given to a large regional lord in feudal Japan, which was changed from the word "name lord".)

In ancient Japan, before the establishment of a unified national armed force, most of the lords of land or manors had their own armed forces in order to protect their own industries, and samurai were the backbone.

The so-called "lord of the name" is the lord of the land or manor in eastern Japan, the name is Shoya in western Japan, and the lord in Kyushu is called liver decoction - the lord who is more powerful, has a large territory of more than a dozen villages, and even governs an entire reiki country is the "daimyo lord" (or 大庄屋, 大liver 醫), or "daimyo for short".

Some daimyo with a wide range of power over several kingdoms are also called "daimyō", otherwise they are "daimyō", and all lords and lords can be collectively called "daimyō".

The definition of "daimyo" varies from era to era in Japan, but all of them all refer to a lord of a larger area. )

Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo shogunate, full name Tokugawa Jiro Saburogen courtier Ieyasu.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was the de facto leader of Japan from 1598 to 1616. In Japanese history, Tokugawa Ieyasu founded the Shogunate system, and the Edo Shogunate established by Tokugawa ruled Japan for 264 years, known as the "Edo Period".

Toyotomi Hideyoshi and Tokugawa Ieyasu succeeded Oda Nobunaga in the unification of Japan, and Tokugawa Ieyasu died the year after the elimination of the Toyotomi clan. He was given the title of "Tosho Daisenken" by the Japanese Imperial Court, became the god of the Edo shogunate, and was enshrined in Toshogu Palace in Japan.

Tokugawa Ieyasu was originally known as Matsudaira Motoyasu, and his young name was Takechiyo. Born in Okazaki Castle in Mikawa Province. At the age of three, the head of the matrilineal family, Mizuno Tadamasa, died of illness and was succeeded by Mizuno Nobumoto, who then turned to Oda Nobuhide, a daimyo who took refuge in Owari.

In 1560, Imagawa Yoshimoto led his army into Owari to engage the Oda army, which bore the brunt of the battle, in order to fight Kamiraku, and Tokugawa Ieyasu participated in the battle. and served as a pioneer. He was responsible for the raid on Marone Castle and obtained the first rank of Sakuma University, the defender of Marone Castle.

However, during the battle, Imagawa Yoshimoto was attacked by Oda Nobunaga (i.e., the Battle of Barrel Sama) due to his carelessness, and was beheaded by his subordinates Mori Shinsuke and Hattori Kodaira Taiko, after which Motoyasu returned to Okazaki Castle.

The Kiyosu Alliance, a military alliance concluded between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga, is also known as the Oritoku Alliance and the Ozo Alliance. It was an important alliance that would shape the future development of Japanese history. It was the longest and longest of the many covenants made during the Warring States period. After the Cheongju Alliance. Tokugawa Ieyasu unified the Mikawa Province and extended his power to Enoe Province.

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

Tokugawa Ieyasu and Ashikaga Yoshiaki's Takeda Shingen Army fought at the Battle of Mikatahara, and after the defeat of the Tokugawa army, they broke through the siege and fled back to Hamamatsu Castle, while the Takeda Shingen army died of Takeda Shingen illness and returned to Noda Castle.

After several confrontations between Tokugawa Ieyasu and Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who had replaced Oda Nobunaga, after several confrontations between the two sides after a political marriage, Toyotomi Hideyoshi continued his expedition to Kyushu while Ieyasu ran his domain. Ieyasu was exempted from forced labor by ironsmiths, opened post stations, surveyed land, and other infrastructure measures.

In 1590, Toyotomi Hideyoshi forced Tokugawa Ieyasu to move his fiefdom to Edo (present-day Tokyo), which instead led Tokugawa Ieyasu to transform from a local prince to a national prince, and refused to send troops during Toyotomi Hideyoshi's expedition to Korea.

In 1598 (Keicho 3), Toyotomi Hideyoshi died of illness, and his heir was Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was only six years old. Before his death, Toyotomi Hideyoshi established the Five Elders and the Five Commissioners, with Ieyasu as the chief of the Five Elders.

Before Hideyoshi's death, Ieyasu arranged marriages with some daimyos, and after Hideyoshi's death, he privately divided the territory. As a result, it began to cause dissatisfaction among other middle-aged elders and the government, especially Ishida Mitsunari, whose actions provoked attacks by Kato Kiyomasa, Fukushima Masanori, and others (Bunji and Martial Arts faction struggles).

Under Ieyasu's arrangement, Ishida Mitsunari lived in seclusion in Sawa Mountain City. Ieyasu continued to carry out government affairs at Fushimi Castle and Osaka Castle.

In 1599, while congratulating Hideyori at Osaka Castle, Tokugawa Ieyasu became aware of a plan to assassinate him, masterminded by Maeda Toshinaga, Asano Nagamasa, Osamu Ohno, and Hijikata Yuhisa.

The demand for a crusade against Maeda Toshinaga was loud in Osaka Castle. While Tokugawa Ieyasu was preparing to send troops, Maeda Toshinaga sent his biological mother, Yoshiharin, to Edo Castle as a hostage, and the incident was quelled.

However, the voices of dissatisfaction with Tokugawa Ieyasu did not subside, and Tozawa Masamori reported that Uesugi Keikatsu, a daimyo in the Tohoku region, was actively arming and the action was extremely unusual, and Tokugawa Ieyasu sent an envoy to ask Keikatsu to report and even force Kamiraku.

Uesugi Kagekatsu ignored the warning, and his retainer Naoe Kane's "Naoe Form" continued to criticize Tokugawa Ieyasu, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was furious when he read it, and finally issued a declaration against Uesugi on May 3.

Although Genyoshi Maeda, Masashi Nagazuki, and Nagamori Masuda of the Five Commissioners, as well as Kazushi Nakamura and Koma Shinmasa of the Third Middle Elders, requested that the expedition be suspended, Tokugawa Ieyasu decided to act, leaving Osaka Castle on June 16 and arriving at Edo Castle on July 2.

In mid-July, Ishida Mitsunari and some of the daimyo who supported the Toyotomi clan began to make a move, and with the aim of defeating Tokugawa Ieyasu, they besieged Fushimi Castle on July 18 and began to attack.

On August 1, the Western Army captured Fushimi Castle, and on July 24, when Tokugawa Ieyasu was in the hills, the scouts reported on Ishida Mitsunari's moves. On July 25, Tokugawa Ieyasu conducted a hill assessment, and 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 engage in battle in the Tokai region and the eastern region. Tokugawa Ieyasu departed on September 1 and arrived in Mino on September 14. On September 15, the two sides fought at Sekigahara, and the initial situation was unfavorable to the Eastern Army, and the Western Army gradually advanced to the main position, but at about noon, the Western Army's Kobayakawa Hideaki was intimidated and shot by the Tokugawa Army and defected in favor of the Eastern Army, and the situation was reversed. The Eastern Army won the war, and power fell into the hands of the Tokugawa family.

After the war, Tokugawa Ieyasu was active in government affairs, transferring the territories of the daimyo and often operating in Kyoto. In order to become a shogun, he tried to change the genealogy of the Tokugawa clan (in fact, it had already changed when the change from "Matsudaira" to "Tokugawa").

In 1603, an envoy from the imperial court arrived at Fushimi Castle, and Tokugawa Ieyasu became the shogun of Seiyi, and founded the Edo Shogunate, also known as the Tokugawa Shogunate, and in the same year married Chihime to Toyotomi Hideyori as a gesture of friendship.

In 1605, Tokugawa Ieyasu abdicated to Mio Hidetada, and was generally known as the Great Imperial Palace. Tokugawa Ieyasu ostensibly lived in seclusion at Sunpu Castle, but in fact Tokugawa Ieyasu still held power, and Tokugawa Ieyasu was the leader of both the Okamoto Daihachi Incident and the Okubo Changshou Incident.

In the 1614 Hokoji Bell Incident, Tokugawa Ieyasu tried to force Hideyori to surrender completely under the pretext that the bell inscription contained unfavorable sentences for him. However, the Toyotomi side put on a posture of preparing for war, and the Toyotomi army actively recruited ronin and strengthened its armaments, but no daimyo joined the Osaka side (except for Awa's Wasuka housekeeper who was persuaded by the governor to give up raising troops), so Tokugawa Ieyasu ordered the daimyo to prepare for an attack on Osaka Castle.

The Tokugawa army began its attack on November 15 and forced Toyotomi's army to withdraw to Osaka Castle, and on December 4, the Maeda army and Matsudaira army attacked Sanada Maru without authorization, but were fiercely resisted by Sanada Nobuyoshige, and were defeated. (To be continued......)