Date of birth: Nagoya, Zhangwei, Japan.

Death:1582 June 2, Beno Temple, Kyoto, Japan.

Official positions: Shang Zongjie, Wei Zhangshou, Tan, Quan Da, General Youwei, Minister of the Interior, Minister of the Right, presented to the Minister.

Ranking: from fifth, fourth, third, third, second, second and first place.

[Edit this paragraph] Japanese writing

Nonobu Oda, Japanese original

Pen name ぉだのぶなが

Roman word Oda Nobunaga

[Edit this paragraph] Introduction

Noguchi Oda (1534 May12-1582 June 2) was a famous soldier in the Warring States period and flourished in the Antu Taoshan era in Japan. Oda is its Miao character, with three surnames: Ping, Taboo or. It is generally believed that taboos are more likely. Ji was born in Wei (now Aichi Prefecture West). He successfully controlled the political and cultural core of Japan dominated by Feng Jingen Prefecture, making Oda the most powerful family in the middle and late Warring States period in Japan. However, he was betrayed by Akechi Mitsuhide, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and his soul shattered the Tiangong Temple, so the Aude family was devastated. The mage always presents a gift of Taiyan Zunyi to Daxiangguo in the temple. During his life, he was an official of two right ministers. When he was in Taishi Emperor, he was posthumously awarded as a government minister.

Brief calendar

Born in 1534. After his father died, he went through a struggle with his mother's brother Nobuyuki Oda, and became the owner of Oda's family after victory. After defeating the neighboring hostile forces Imakawa and Saito, Ashikaga Yoshiaki was appointed as the general, and Shangluo (Kyoto) was built. Later, Zhao Yi became Nobunaga's enemy and ordered Takeda's family, asakura's family, Liyan Temple in Hiei Mountain and Shishan Temple. Form an encirclement network of anti-letters. After Nobunaga broke through the encirclement network, he embarked on the road of arming the world and carried out innovative policies such as music market and land survey. Later, he committed suicide because of Akechi Mitsuhide's rebellion (the change of Benneng Temple).

Deny the existing authority and power (imperial court, Buddhism, etc. ), regardless of family background, selected talents, and led the Warring States period to the end through the flexible use of new weapons such as matchlock guns. Because of Hideyoshi's intelligence operation and Xintai himself once called himself the Devil (the Sixth Day Devil), Xintai Oda was called the Sixth Day Devil for the first time in the third year of Yuangui (1572). At that time, Takeda Shingen was about to go to Beijing. Xintai wrote a letter to Xintai, signed "Saman Xintai", and Xintai wrote a reply to Xintai with the signature "Xintai Xintai". It can be seen that Nobunaga and Nobunaga are very provocative to each other. For nobunaga and others, you can become a Buddha after death, but for nobunaga, only what you see now is true. Nobunobu disagrees with the idea of enlightenment after death. This is probably why Nobunaga called himself the "Six-Day Devil" at that time. Nobunaga itself has a frightening part.

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Like Nanman's products, Nobukuro wore a velvet coat and a western-style hat to attend the military horse training invited by Emperor Akimachi. When you go to the battlefield in your later years, you will also wear Naman armor. He expressed interest in black people working around Alessandro Valignano, a missionary visiting Japan. The missionary gave the black people to Walk, and Walk named them Mijie as his entourage.

It is said that Nobunaga is quite familiar with the gifts such as globes, watches and maps sent by the Jesuits. At that time, no Japanese knew that the world was a round sphere, and no one in Nobunaga's family could understand Jesus' explanation when he gave the globe, but Nobunaga understood it and said it was "reasonable". Curious, the iron cannon was used before it was widely circulated. This peculiar personality is widely known, but it was common in the eyes of Luis Froy, a missionary who visited Japan at that time. Pope Louis XIII once sent a screen painting to Antu, but it actually arrived in Japan after Nobunobu's death (1585). Then the screen painting disappeared.

When I was a teenager, I was mistaken for a beautiful man like a woman.

I don't stick to my identity, I'm no different from civilians, and my friendship is very good.

It is also a hobby of broken sleeves. It is said that it is related to most teenagers, such as Maeda Toshiie, Horie Hideyoshi and later Mori Ranmaru. Compared with Nobunaga's powerful power, he didn't have so many concubines, but he gave birth to many descendants.

Although Nobunaga is said to have painted the skulls of Asai and Asakura Yoshikage with gold foil, it was shown at the banquet that ministers used skulls as cups to drink. But this is the novelist's embellishment of the story, and it is not actually used. Painting the skull with gold foil is a tribute to the dead. If we look at the walk with common sense now, it is unfair to criticize its cruelty.

Nobunaga has attracted most people's attention and has outstanding command ability. Although he is considered uninterested in trying to make people around him understand, he will condemn the daily behavior of monks who violate Buddhist rules and praise the gentlemanly behavior of Portuguese missionaries. He had to live in the cruel behavior of the Warring States period and call himself the devil. It can be seen that Nobunobu is not a straightforward person, and he will lie for his teachings and reputation.

I like Go, and I like dancing. Nobunaga especially likes a passage in the dance Dunsheng, "Fifty years on earth is like a dream compared with the next day. Once life is over, how can it be immortal?" This passage is in line with nobunaga's outlook on life, so nobunaga often dances.

Nobunaga likes sumo very much and often holds large-scale sumo competitions in Antu. Moreover, at the sumo meeting, Nobunaga's entourage, regardless of their identity, mixed with civilians for sumo competition. Besides, swimming, falcon, equestrian, archery, martial arts and other related things are nobunaga's hobbies.

Regarding the reasons for Honnoji Temple's change, there is a saying that Nobuo is in the army. Both political parties have launched unprecedented actions, but for Akechi Mitsuhide, Nobunaga's behavior deviates too much from the general social standards, so Guangxiu can no longer follow Nobunaga.

When Nonobunaga was alive, none of his entourage used military advisers. Only those who faithfully carried out Nonobunaga's orders, such as Hideyoshi Horizo and Mori Ranmaru, were excellent secretarial officers. Hanbi, Kuroda Yoshitaka and others in Bamboo, though nominally servants of Nobunobu, are actually regarded as military advisers of Hideyoshi, which can be said to confirm Nobunobu's adoption standards. Hanbee itself seems to hate nobunaga (this is a general theory), and water has a high evaluation of nobunaga's strength. However, even if he served Nobunaga like water, he could not give full play to his talent as a strategist. In order to develop his talents, he chose Hideyoshi, who gradually rose under Nobunobu, which is a powerful general statement. Up to now, there are not many examples of people who have successfully carried out reforms. Nobunaga's innovation policy is not understood by people around him, which leads to people's inability to follow it, which is one of the main reasons for its unsuccessful reform. Regarding the reform, there is a saying that the reform in troubled times needs to be vigorously carried out and the necessary innovation policies need to be carried out like a stroll. In addition, nobunaga's employment is a strength policy, regardless of identity and family background. Some celebrities who are obsessed with family background give bad comments on nobunaga's policies and personality.

As a matter of fact, most of the people who betrayed Nobuke were the retainers who joined Nobuke after he went to Los Angeles. In the era of Andy Mino, among the old ministers who served the Ministry of Information, almost no one betrayed the Ministry. In addition, it is common for military commanders to be bought and betrayed during the Warring States period. It cannot be said that Nobunobu has a problem with the way he treats ministers.

Creative revolutionaries are sometimes rated as crazy revolutionaries, and the latter can be considered as the impression that Xiuji's policies will give people in the future. The evidence is that when Nobuyuki was alive, there were no books criticizing Nobuyuki, and such books were produced only after Nobuyuki died.

1580, Nobunaga exiled Lin Xiuzhen on charges of past rebellion, but Nobunaga did not interrogate Shibata Katsuie, who was also guilty. This is Nobunaga's evaluation of the winner's strength and his trust. In fact, Nonobunaga's 750,000-stone territory in eight counties was given to Katsuya before his death, which can be said to be the largest territory among Oda family ministers, equivalent to the position of the first boss in Oda family in Katsuya. Matsunaga Hisahide's strength was also positively evaluated, and even his two surrenders of betraying Wu Hou were forgiven. From this we can see Nobunaga's true colors. As long as he has the ability, Nobunaga will forgive his crimes and value him.

Luis Frois's evaluation of Nobunobu's panorama is "tall and thin, with sparse beard and high voice." I often like martial arts and rudeness, and I hardly drink. "Standing at a height of 170 cm, Nobunaga's voice can be heard 500 meters away, which can be said to be quite high and sharp. Judging from blood stains and hair loss, Nobunobu's blood type is type A.

After Miyoshi's death, a chef named Hirauchi became Oda's prisoner. Nobunaga said to Pingnei at that time, "If the food is delicious, you will be excused and hired as a chef." After that, Nobunaga cooked food for Nobunaga. Nobunaga said that "this food is full of water" and was planning to punish Nobunaga. Nobunaga asked for another chance. The second time, Nobunaga praised it as "delicious" and hired him as a chef. Later, someone asked Pingnei Pu: "Isn't it good to take out the second course from the beginning?" Pingnei's answer made fun of Nomoto Yong, saying, "At first, I cooked high-end Kyoto cuisine, and later I only cooked heavy-flavored rural cuisine. After all, nobuyuki is just a hillbilly. " Nobunaga, who heard the day after tomorrow, said, "As long as he is hired as my chef, he has the obligation to cook my favorite dishes first. And those who ignore this are just incompetent. "

▲ portrait painting

The portrait of Nomoto Ueda was painted by Hatano Yukio, the imperial painter of Ueda. Japanese national treasure cultural relics are now hidden in Changxing Temple, Sanhe, Japan. Realistic portraits drawn by other European painters were originally stored in Sanbao Temple in Tiantong City, but they disappeared in the air raid during World War II. Judging from the existing portraits, it is characterized by thick and powerful eyebrows, large and slender eyes, nose as high as the bridge of the nose, closed mouth, long and distinct face and beard. However, this portrait has not been proved to be true in historical materials, and it is also said that it was made during the commendation work of "loyal ministers" held in Meiji era.

policy

1, the world is armed.

Literally, the world's armed forces are "under the sky, all over the world." It is usually interpreted as "taking the world by force", but in recent years it has been interpreted as "ruling the world by the Wu regime" As mentioned above, Nobunaga changed its name to Gifu and began to use the seal of "Weapons of the World". The name of Gifu is taken from the idea that Zhou Wenwang, China, based on Qishan, will rule the world in the future (hill means mountain), from which Nobunaga's ambition can be glimpsed. In the future, based on Gifu, we will start the road of unifying Japan in 15.

The power relations in medieval Japan were complicated among the government, the temple and the martial arts. Nobunaga's goal is to deploy weapons around the world, which can be thought of as abolishing the power of the public and temples and formally establishing the military regime. In order to achieve this goal, the policy towards the temple family defeated Xian Ru and others who were one-sided and slapped, and fought together in Shishan to defeat Hong Anji. Muromachi shogunate is located in Kyoto, which leads to its deep relationship with the government. From this point of view, it is reasonable to exile Ashikaga Yoshiaki in order to sever this relationship.

2. Religious policy

Nobunaga called his religion Fahuazong, but his policies on the use of Tibetan Bodhisattva and tombstones on Yiluyi, Liyan Temple and the stone wall of Antu City all showed contradictions. In the era of Nobunaga, Europe entered modern times and was in a period of fierce religious struggle. Japanese temples have vast manors, and Oda Shintai confiscated the surplus land after conducting a land survey. If the temple resists, he will confiscate all his manor and give it to his subordinates. It's like Henry VIII of England. His struggle with peasants who have always believed in it can also be compared to the peasant war in Germany. After a bitter war, both of them gradually moved towards a centralized country. In other words, Nobunaga's opponent is not only a military commander in the Warring States, but also wants to prevent the birth of Hong Anji's French Republic, Believer Republic and Peasant Republic. He is a rationalist and a figure who is in the forefront of the times. 1580, two years before his death, the missionary Ogantino took a globe and explained to him that the earth was round. Nobunaga said on the spot: "Very reasonable! Flores, a missionary, said: "Nobuka gathered national idols and Buddha statues. His purpose was not to worship these idols, but to make them worship him. He thinks he is a god, and there is no God who created everything above him. Nobunaga is also opposed to the past concept of bliss. He emphasizes secular interests and thinks that it is most important to bring wealth, health and longevity to people. On the eve of Honnoji Temple's transition, Nobunaga also plans to revise the calendar. Shenjiang is used to materialistic thinking, and does not believe in the existence of gods and buddhas and the immortality of the soul. Nobunaga criticized the arrogance of monks at that time and praised Christian missionaries, which shows that Nobunaga did not completely deny religion.

On the one hand, the roof and murals of Tianshou in Antu City are painted with the themes of Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism, and the religious activities of Pure Land Sect and Liyan Temple have not been banned. It is generally believed that the Ministry of Information may not deny religion, but believe that religion is a part of the world's armaments, separating existing religions from politics or unifying religions in politics.

In Antu City, a big stone named "Vatican Mountain" was placed as Mikamoto (the incarnation of a sacred object or a god), and domestic courtiers and people were required to worship it. (Excerpted from Louis Froy's History of Japan)

Regarding the religious policy, some people put forward the view that "the inquiry and admission fee when entering the city are the same as the incense money of the temple in the eyes of missionaries".

3. Imperial policy

Nobunaga's consideration of imperial policy has two completely opposite assumptions. One is Nobunaga regards the imperial court as an obstacle to world armament and considers abolishing it. The other is Nobunaga's effective use of the authority of the imperial court to defend his policies. At least before the change of Honnoji Temple, Nobunaga had a better relationship with the imperial court than after. Konka is even closer. Here, the former is called "contempt theory" and the latter is called "respect theory". One of the reasons why there is such a difference between Honnoji Temple and the imperial court is that the imperial court participated in the removal of Xinbu, leaving incomplete historical materials.

(1) Emperor Makomachi abdicated.

According to the "contempt theory", Nobunaga's policy towards the imperial court is to contribute money and build an emperor who listens to himself and acts like a puppet. In the first year of Tianzheng (1573), please make way for Ming Chengzu. However, Emperor Akimachi is an experienced emperor, not a man who obeys the orders of walking. In addition, the walk was surrounded by powerful enemies everywhere, and the emperor refused to ask. In the ninth year of Tianzheng (158 1 year), the military horse training in Kyoto not only showed the military strength of Zhitian Army, but also brought pressure to Emperor Mingcheng.

According to the "respect theory", it is the emperor who wants to give way. At that time, if the emperor could not abdicate by his own will, it would be possible to complete all kinds of ceremonies from the abdication of the emperor to the inauguration of the new emperor, the construction of the official residence after the abdication of the emperor, and the transfer expenses prepared for it (the official residence after the abdication of the emperor is called the Xiandong Imperial House, which usually requires more land than the official residence in Kyoto Center, including the transfer of houses and temples around the government). In other words, those who can make the emperor give way must bear huge expenses. During the reign of Emperor Tianzheng, the only person who could do this was Nobunaga. Conversely, even if the emperor wants to make way for Nobunobu, it is impossible to make way as long as Nobunobu does not agree. After the military training in Kyoto in the ninth year of Tenzheng (158 1), Emperor Makomachi conveyed his willingness to abdicate. According to the internal records of the imperial court, it is recorded in the diary of Yutang Temple that if you decide to abdicate on March 24 of the same year, it will be "Congratulations", which was recorded in 1 April. This can be considered as the final refusal to accept the abdication of the emperor. It is also noteworthy that Yuchai (Toyotomi Hideyoshi) was promoted to Guanbai for his achievements in building the Xiandong Palace.

(2) it was nine years of Kyoto military horse training.

According to the "contempt theory", the Ministry of Information, which was dissatisfied with Emperor Qiuxiao Palace's failure to respond to his abdication, not only showed Oda Jun's strength, but also put pressure on Emperor Qiuxiao Palace through the Kyoto military horse drill held in the ninth year of Tianzheng.

According to the theory of "respect", this year was the death of Madekoji, the concubine of Emperor Qiuxiao Palace, the mother of Prince Chu Jun Chengren, and the scale reduction ceremony of Zuo Yichang (a fire sacrifice) in the palace was not held outside the court. On the one hand, Nobunaga held a large-scale Zuo Yichang in Antu City. In order to comfort the Prince who lost his mother, the Emperor offered Nobunaga the hope of recreating his scene in Kyoto Palace. The performance required for this purpose is to consider the beginning of this military horse exercise. According to Nobunaga Gong Ji, Nobunaga's clothes are completely different from those in military operations. In addition, former Guan Bai's representative, Jin Wei, Qian Chang and other public officials also confidently rode horses to participate in the military horse drill, denying that this was the military purpose of strolling to pressure the court. According to public records, it is considered a political purpose to publicize the restoration of peace in Kyoto and the courtesy to the emperor to show respect for the attitude of the imperial court. In addition, Emperor Makomachi was also very happy to be entertained by Nobunaga during the military horse drill. Besides delivering letters to Nobunaga and giving him high-grade clothes, even Nobunaga was rewarded. So, someone asked, "Is there no pressure at all?" Refute the contempt theory.

(3) Nobunaga and official position

According to the "contempt theory", Nobunaga resigned as Minister Right and General Right Guards on April 1578, and did not take office. One month before resigning, Nobu Sugiyama, the last enemy of Nobu, died at the age of 49. After Kenshin's death, the local forces that peeped into Kyoto and were able to fight Shin-woo ceased to exist. Ishimoto's wishing pool has long lost some of its fighting power, and Takeda's, Maori's and Judas's are not as strong as in previous years. He also made an alliance with the Houbeitiao family in Kanto with a total of 2.4 million stones, and at the same time he married Zhi Zhi, the head of the family. Therefore, Nobunaga no longer needs to borrow the power of the imperial court. 1582 Before the change of Benneng Temple in May, Emperor Zhengzhen proposed to Xintai that he should choose one of the three official positions, namely, the general of the foreign expedition, the minister of Zheng Taihe and Guan Bai, and gave the conditions of this position to Xintai in order to compromise with Xintai. Nobunaga, however, did not accept the official position of the imperial court. (Fill in the questions in three places).

According to the "respect theory", Nobunaga is not indifferent to official positions. It is not surprising that ministerial ministers have become decentralized (without officials) after resigning. To say that the difference between the current minister and the former minister is only the difference in the order of seats in the formal court ceremony. Furthermore, the article on resigning the post of right minister already contains the article on loyalty to the first person who has been appointed as Oda's director in name (it was the common practice of aristocratic society at that time to appoint his first person after the resignation of senior officials). Nobunaga's resignation may just be in the hope that his successor Nobunaga will be promoted. (However, the court should give priority to Nobunobu, so it is impossible to promote Nobunobu. ). And Nobunaga is very persistent about the right minister and the right general. Nobunaga accepted Dedaiji Gong Wei's abdication of the post of right general, and agreed to relinquish the right general when he was promoted to minister in the future. Nobunaga, in order to fight against Ashikaga Yoshiaki, who has never resigned as a foreign general, has always occupied the position of right general, and has not fulfilled his promise to give up his position, which has caused complaints from the people and Uighurs (Yan Ji). Therefore, both the right-back general and the right minister can't resign. Then, according to the conditions put forward to Nobunaga, it can be considered that the time is close to the occurrence of Honnoji Temple's misfortune, which leads Nobunaga to have no time to reply to his wishes. Another news is that the Ministry of Information has informally agreed to be the minister of Zheng Tai. /kloc-in July, 0/7, after the change of Benneng Temple, Yukio Hatoyama wrote a letter to mìri Terumoto, calling the Ministry a "big country". However, this is three months after giving an official the position of a palace minister. In addition, the imperial edict on conferring official status mentioned words such as "politics is important to ministers", twice mentioned the known facts such as the wording and statements used by Tyne Temple against ministers, and suddenly resigned prematurely before Honnoji Temple's transition.

4. Business policy

During the reign of Nobutaka Oda, he cancelled unnecessary border checkpoints (checkpoints for collecting transit tariffs), established control over the territory through land inspection, separated farmers from the army, and established a standing army. Establish a music market to encourage business. Actively encourage free trade and reward technological innovation. Nobunaga has also implemented a new big-name system, which makes the local systems in various places more perfect.

5. Some criticized behaviors.

The most famous is the Liyan Temple, which burned the western hills. In addition, there were surrenders who burned Long Island one by one and ordered Tokugawa Ieyasu's eldest son, Xinkang, to have a caesarean section. When dealing with the traitor Araki Village, his subordinates and family members were killed by Nobunaga.

6. Home Affairs

(1) separation of military and agriculture and Qiang Bing, a rich country: Oda Nobunobu gave full play to the geographical advantages of the two countries-a large population and rich products, and established a system of separation of military and agriculture. At that time, because of the frequent wars between famous soldiers, the agricultural and industrial population was mobilized to be soldiers, and there was a shortage of food, so it was necessary to find businessmen to buy it outside. Nobunaga sold the surplus grain to the outside world to accumulate wealth, organized the surplus unemployed people into soldiers, and made them professional, so that farmers could concentrate on production, the quality of soldiers was also improved, food and currency reserves were more, and management was more effective.

(2) Local inspection system: In order to ensure that the salaries of retainers and soldiers will not be short, and at the same time prevent local forces from becoming self-reliant and forming internal unstable factors, Oda Xintai adopted the "local inspection", that is, narrowing the territory of various forces and gradually reducing their subjectivity through fixed assistance, which not only increased their own gains, but also reduced the possibility of domestic riots.

[Edit this paragraph] Genealogy

▲ ancestors

Oda Kyu-Oda Minden-Oda Paul-Oda Nobunaga-Oda Nobunaga

▲ wives and concubines are in groups

Main room: Saitō Kichyō.

Side room: the born Colt Kenai.

Side chamber: the side of a pot

Lateral chamber: Naoko Harada

Side room: Sakamoto

Lateral chamber: Tu's

Side room: Cide Hospital Hall (Oda Nobutada's wet nurse)

▲ sons (in order of seniority)

Nobuhiko Oda (the eldest son and adopted son of Nobuhiko Oda)

Oda Nobutada (Nobunaga's eldest son)

Beichuan Shenfu (Beichuan adopted son)

Kobe Nobutaka (adopted son of Kobe Yisen)

Yukio Hatoyama (Yukio Hatoyama's adopted son)

Oda Katsuhisa (successively the agent of Gaoshan and the adopted son of Takeda Shingen)

Komoda nobuhide

Odano Wu

Oda Nobuyoshi

Omoda masahiro

Oda nobuhiko

Ota Naji

▲ Daughter

Dongji

Wude

Hidoko

Yongji

Heji

Sanwantang

▲ grandson

Hideyoshi Oda (son of Oda Nobutada)

Ying Yoshida (son of Oda Nobutada)

Hideo Oda (son of Nobuo Noda)

▲ adopted daughter

Shenglongyuan hall

▲ nephew

Oda Shinichi

younger sister

Oichi (known as the first beauty in the Warring States period, and later married Azai Nagamasa)

[Edit this paragraph] Minister of the Interior

Shibata Katsuie, Yichuan Yiyi, Niwa Nagahide, Akechi Mitsuhide, Yuchai Hideyoshi, Lin Xiuzhen, Sakuma Shin, Ikeda Hiroshi, Maeda Toshiie.

The Four Heavenly Kings of Oda-Shibata Katsuie, Niwa Nagahide, Akechi Mitsuhide and Yuchai Hideyoshi

Generation of Kyoto-Murai Shinsei

Kyoto pursues-Murai Shinji, Niwa Nagahide, Akechi Mitsuhide (later the rebel side doubted the record of Beno Temple, it is said that when Beno Temple caught fire, the wise army was still 30 miles away), Kinoshita Hideyoshi, and Matsui Youxian.

Son-in-law-Pusheng's hometown, Tian Jingding, Yu Danzhongchang, Maeda Toshitsune, Songping Xinkang, Mizuno Zhongzhi, George One City, Two Ming Dynasties, Made Temple worships the square, and Dedai Temple has a long history.

Close to the crowd-Hideyoshi Horizo and Hideyoshi Hasegawa

Petty surnames-Mori Ranmaru, Mori Richie, Mori Wan Fang, Gao Qiao Hu Song, Ito Youdao Ranmaru.

Sassa Narimasa, Maori Shinsuke, Kawajiri Hidetaka, Ikoma Shengsuke, Mizuno Oshima Saemon, Tsuda Shengyue, Bee House Lailong, Nakagawa Chongji, Nakajima Zhenshui, Matsuoka Jiro, Hirai Keimen, Ayumi Ito Hee.

Red mother's clothes-Maeda Toshiie, Nobu Shangqing, Fukubu Hideyoshi, Naoki Naoki, Tami Jiemen, Maori Xiulai, Nonomura Cheng Zheng, Zhuzi Yi Shi, Asai Nobu, Yamashita Yaruzuke, Ito Joe Hisaishi, Iwashima Yongdong, Yamaguchi Fei Qingshou, Sasaki Ryuno, Hasegawa Hashisuke.

Other powerful ministers: Dickinson Nagatsu, Jiugui Jialong, Hosokawa Youzhai, Araki Murakami, Zheng, Tani Shunqing, Takei Xi, Mori Musashi, and others.

Family: Nong Ji (his wife)