History of Asia

Ieyasu Tokugawa left a huge heritage to his descendants with a unique economic sense

A long time ago, there was a program looking for Tokugawa reserves. However, when I study history, I don't think there is a hidden property in the Tokugawa Shogunate, which has been in financial difficulty for many years.

The source of this buried treasure is said to be the enormous heritage of Ieyasu Tokugawa.

The legacy of Ieyasu Tokugawa

1615 Osaka Summer Team Ieyasu Tokugawa died in 1616 at the age of 75 after destroying the Toyotomi clan and establishing the world of Tokugawa. It is said that the heritage left at this time is enormous, and it is said that it is more than 1 million cars in cash and more than 100 billion yen in terms of current value.

This is the Tokugawa Gosanke, Owari / Kii 300,000 cars, Mito It is said that 100,000 cars were given to the company and the rest was stored in Sufu as a deposit. The amount of this heritage is said to be 2-4 million, not just 1 million.

Up to this point, it's just about cash, but in reality, it is said that there were many rare and famous items, works of art, and tea ware that cost more than trillions of yen. It is said that Ieyasu Tokugawa had a hobby of collecting rare things, and he was looking at Ninmari by arranging many rare and famous items.

Ieyasu Tokugawa's money-making technique

Most of the heroes who have made a name for themselves in history have a good sense of economy, and Ieyasu Tokugawa Is the same.

Ieyasu spent his time as a hostage of the Imagawa clan from the age of 6 to the age of 18, and he must have been thinking about it from beginning to end economically. Also, Nobunaga Oda and Hideyoshi Toyotomi Since I have seen seniors with a keen sense of economy, it may have inevitably had an economic perspective.

Ieyasu Tokugawa built a huge fortune in the art of making money regardless of his pretense.

In the summer of Osaka, I lent money to a daimyo

Time was the time of the Siege of Osaka ...

When attacking Osaka Castle, the lords of Saigoku who were on the side of Ieyasu after Sekigahara seemed to be in trouble because they did not have the war expenses.

At that time, Ieyasu asked the lords of the West, "Would you like to lend me money? ?? I will approach you.

The lords of the West were upset by Ieyasu Tokugawa's offer, but if he did not serve, the house might be crushed, and he was forced to respond to Ieyasu's offer. And Ieyasu lent money to each daimyo as needed, asking him to return it whenever he lent it.

Despite the battle of Ieyasu himself, each daimyo who borrowed money and served in the army would have gone to Osaka with a moody feeling. Furthermore, when Osaka Castle fell, it seems that more than 20,000 gold and more than 20,000 silver remained, but Ieyasu confiscated all of this, and the money lent to each daimyo was collected tightly / strong> It is said that it was done.

The daimyo who served in the army were full of feelings of disappointment, but most of the daimyo did not have enough power to revolt against Ieyasu.

In the reconstruction of Edo Castle, I bought up nearby mountains and sold stones.

In addition, when starting to build a high-rise castle tower in Edo Castle, where the shogun stays, each daimyo was forced to bear the financial and labor aspects of the construction. At this time, he monopolized the mountain of stones in the direction of Izu and bought it up, and when the daimyo asked for stones to build a stone wall, he sold it to each daimyo.

It's a story that can't be done in a normal sense, but you can't make money unless you do something you can't do in a normal sense It's a place that hasn't changed in the past. Ieyasu was to save enough money to create a legend of buried treasure from this sense.