Scarlet first marriage object: Tsukiyamaden (Sena, Sekiguchi pro-Yongnu).
Due to the weakness of the Matsudaira family, Tokugawa Ieyasu (then Takechiyo) was separated from his biological mother at the age of three, and began a long career as a captive and hostage at the age of six, first as a captive for three years in the rival Oda family, and then by his ally Imagawa family from the Oda family to Sunfu Castle (Imagawa Yoshimoto replaced Kotake Chiyo with Oda Nobuhiro, the son of the captive Oda Nobuhide), after that, Kotake Chiyo stayed in the Imagawa family's residence for ten years, where he slowly grew from a naïve child to an ignorant teenager, perhaps also the age of the beginning of love, in some works, it is said that Ieyasu had a first love at that time Shiratsuki Kamehime (controversial) 。 However, the strongman Imagawa Yoshimoto, known as the "first bow of Tokaido", will not give Ieyasu a chance to fall in love freely, he only sees that his ** person in Nishimikawa has grown up, and he has to hurry up to inject the blood of the Imagawa clan into it to strengthen the master-slave relationship between the Imagawa clan and the Matsudaira clan. So, in the third year of Koji (1557 AD), Imagawa Yoshimoto married his fifteen-year-old niece Sena Ji to Matsudaira Motoyasu (Ieyasu), who had completed the Motofu.
The union of a boy and a girl should be one of the best things in the world, but the troubled times are unfortunate. It is rumored that the group of children of the Imagawa family who are the same age as Takechiyo not only did not sympathize with Chiyo Kotake's twists and turns, but looked down on this hillbilly from Nishimikawa very much, and he was humiliated and ridiculed when he caught the opportunity on weekdays. There is no record of whether Sena's attitude towards Ieyasu was the same. If so, will she feel ashamed and humiliated because of this marriage as a kind of marriage? But judging from the auspicious light of history, the two sides seem to have stumbled and collided in a relatively short period of time. Just the year after Tokugawa Ieyasu and Sena Hime got married, Sena Hime gave birth to his eldest son, Nobuyasu and Ieyasu. The following year, in the third year of Eiroku (1560 AD), Sena Hime gave birth to her eldest daughter, Kamehime. In just a few years, the newlyweds have achieved the achievement of "having both children".
Not only that, but in this year, the young Matsudaira Motoyasu was also valued by the main family Imagawa Yoshimoto, and served as the vanguard of the Imagawa family's westward expansion army, starting his first battle. It's a pity that in this seemingly bumper year of family and career, the storm of the troubled times of the Warring States period overturned everything. In 1560 A.D., Imagawa Yoshimoto, the strongman uncle of Sena Hime, was proud to wave his army westward, and the Oda family in the way of Owari Province seemed to be about to disappear soon. But in the Owarida Rakuto Narrow, the wheel of history turned, and in the pouring rain, the invincible Imagawa Yoshimoto was raided by the fledgling Oda Nobunaga, and Yoshimoto himself fell to the ground.
At that time, the young Matsudaira Motoyasu had just completed the task of "transporting grain to the big high city" for the Imagawa clan brilliantly, and before he was awarded, the lord had already died. But perhaps Motoyasu has not yet broken free from the former power of Imagawa Yoshimoto, or perhaps he is grateful for his mentor Taiyuan Yukisai, in the battle of Barrel Sasama, Motoyasu still maintained his loyalty to the Imagawa clan, he actively sent troops to harass the border of the Oda family, and encouraged the Imagawa clan to cheer up and avenge the old lord Koyoshimoto together. But at this time, many of the core generals and local ** people of the Imagawa family have returned to the west with Yoshimoto, and the organizational power is greatly reduced, coupled with the negligence of the clan himself in the military, the Imagawa family not only did nothing after the battle of the barrel narrow, but fell into great chaos.
Under these circumstances, Matsudaira Motoyasu, who had long been accustomed to speculating about the situation in the Imagawa family for many years, finally made the first important decision in his life. He no longer fought Oda and instead led his army to his former residence of Okazaki. However, before Motoyasu could take further action, the Imagawa family's acting official in Okazaki, Yamada Shinemon, who had a bad record against Mikawa in the past, fled early for fear of reprisals. In this way, Matsudaira Motoyasu recaptured the main city without blood, and in fact became independent from the Imagawa family.
But Motoyasu's move was by no means without a price, and his independence was almost ruthless to his wife and children who were still hostages in Sunfu Castle. Fortunately, the Imagawa clan is still more concerned about family affection, although he hated Ieyasu's betrayal very much, he only put Sena Hime, Nobuyasu and Kamehime mother and son under house arrest.
In the fifth year of Eiroku (1562 AD), Motoyasu concluded an alliance with his former childhood elder brother Oda Nobunaga (known as the Kiyosu Alliance) and completely fell to Oda's side, and at the same time abandoned the biased "Yuan" character in the name Imagawa Yoshimoto and changed his name to Matsudaira Ieyasu. The angry Imagawa clan really couldn't help it, so he had to be angry with the people on his side. In the end, Motoyasu's father, Sekiguchi Jinyong, committed suicide with his wife in order to prove his innocence to Xiang Shizhen. That year, the eldest lady of the former Sekiguchi family, the pearl of her parents, lost her parents at once because of the ruthlessness of the "country boy" she marriedHe knew that if he did this, his mother would be abandoned by his mother's family, and his husband's family would look down on him, but he would still be like this, the troubled times are unjust, but he is ruthless!
However, things eventually took a turn for the better, and in the same year, Motoyasu made considerable progress in Mikawa, and he attacked the castle of Kamigo Castle controlled by the Imagawa side, and the lord of the castle, Uden Choteru, was killed in battle, and his sons Clan Cho and Clan were captured by the Matsudaira army. (Uden Nagasho's mother is Imagawa Yoshimoto's younger sister, that is, Imagawa's aunt). Yuanyasu then took advantage of the situation and sent a proposal to the clan to exchange the clan chief and clan rank for his wife and children. The weak Shin agreed to Motoyasu's proposal. Sena-hime, Nobuyasu and Kamehime are finally on their way home again.
But perhaps for the people of Mikawa, Senahime, Nobuyasu and Kamehime, who are of Imagawa blood, have always been just outsiders. This is true for Yuankang's biological mother, Yu Daju. Back then, it was Imagawa Yoshimoto and the group of Suruga people who thought highly of themselves that broke up their beautiful little family. So, Yu Da ordered, "leave the son to go to the mother", and Nobuyasu and Kamehime were welcomed into Okazaki by the retainers, while Senahime was ruthlessly turned away. The once noble lady of Imagawa is now ruthlessly put out of thin air by her mother-in-law, who was born as the daughter of a small wealthy family, and her husband Motoyasu did not say a word about this matter, and only let it go, sometimes silence hurts more than quarrels, maybe sometimes quarrels are a burst of care, and silence is a kind of indifferent indifferent ......
At the Sojo Nun Temple in Sugagawa, just outside Okazaki Castle, Sena Hime looks out the window at the bleak sky and thinks back to the meek and considerate ...... her husband Motoyasu when he was at Sunpu CastleThinking about it today, could it be that everything at that time was just a play in front of everyone in the Imagawa family wearing a mask and disguise......
However, tiger poison doesn't eat children yet, and this is probably one of the few self-consolations in Senahime's heart. Therefore, Sena Hime uses an almost cruel method to prevent other women from giving birth to Ieyasu's son, so that her own son can be safe. But the cruel methods also made Senahime's image in the hearts of the people of Mikawa more and more hateful.
As Motoyasu's power in Mikawa became more and more secure, Yoriyasu's position in the Matsudaira family became more and more humble as Motoyasu's position in the Imagawa family.
In the tenth year of Yonglu (1567 AD), Lai Mingji carefully guarded his son Nobuyasu until he was eight years old, and as the eldest son in the family, he had to assume the responsibility of family marriage at this age. But the candidate for the bride was like a knife, stabbing Lai Ming's heart fiercely. Nobuyasu married Tokuhime, the daughter of Oda Nobunaga, the culprit who killed her uncle and caused the decline of her family. In order to avoid the conflict between Lai Minghime and Tokuhime, and then anger his "big brother" Oda Nobunaga, Motoyasu still did not allow Sena Hime to enter Okazaki Castle and let him continue to live outside the city. watched his favorite son marry the enemy's daughter, but his mother-in-law had to avoid suspicion and retreat. Resentment probably followed after that, and it spread wildly in Sena's heart ......
In the first year of Motokame (1570 AD), Tokugawa Ieyasu (Matsudaira Ieyasu) moved the castle to Hamamatsu Castle in order to shift the strategic center of gravity eastward, while Okazaki Castle was left to his eldest son, Nobuyasu. Because Sena and Ieyasu had a bad relationship for many years, he did not accompany Ieyasu to Hamamatsu Castle as a main room, but entered Okazaki Castle, which had been shut out of him for many years. The reunion of mother and son is a great joy in the world, but the resentment that Sena has accumulated in his heart for many years will eventually destroy this hard-won life.
Sena, who had been separated from her husband for many years, had been alone in the empty boudoir for many years, and the bitterness and hardship of it were indescribable, but now, she watched the enemy's daughter and her own son "show their affection" every day, which not only aroused the fire of Sena's hatred in the past, but also the weeds of jealousy grew wildly ......in her heart
The irrepressible resentment and jealousy made her lose her mind, and she vented her dissatisfaction on her daughter-in-law Tokuhime, not only competing with Tokuki in life, even if Nobuyasu and Tokuji were very affectionate, but also when Tokuji gave birth to two daughters for Shinyasu in the fourth year of Tensho (1576) and the fifth year of Tensho (1577), Sena spent a lot of money to find a side room for his son on the grounds that Tokuji did not have a child, so as to weaken Tokuji's family status. In the end, Nobuyasu's side room fell on the daughter of the former Takeda retainer Asaha Masantoki. Legend has it that this woman was so beautiful that Nobuyasu was immediately intoxicated by the new land of tenderness and neglected Tokuki. Seeing that the relationship between the two is getting worse, Sena is still not satisfied, and often fanned the flames, which means that he will never give up until the husband and wife are completely separated. Ke Deji is the daughter of Oda Nobunaga, the "man of the world", and she has Nobunaga's unruly blood flowing in her bones, so how can she sit still and wait to be killed?In contrast, her counterattack was brutal and ruthless.
Moreover, during this period, Lai Ming seems to have committed the mistakes often made by aristocratic women in the perennial loneliness and loneliness. It is rumored that she had a close relationship with a Tang physician who was inextricably linked to the Takeda clan, the great enemy of the Oda Tokugawa Alliance at the time. This is undoubtedly a perfect opportunity for Tokuki to take revenge.
In the seventh year of Tensho (1579 AD), Tokuhime, who was increasingly dissatisfied with her husband and mother-in-law, finally broke out, and in a letter to her father Nobunaga, she listed as many as 12 charges against her husband and mother-in-law, including the charge of "fornicating with Takeda", which angered Nobunaga. Enraged, Nobunaga then ordered Tokugawa Ieyasu to execute Sena and Nobuyasu's mother and son.
There is no record of how Ieyasu felt when he received Nobunaga's order to "kill his wife and children". No one knows the true emotional fluctuations in his heart, how much affection he still has for this wife who came from the "high climbing" in the past, and what kind of feelings he has for the children she gave birth to?
It's just that, judging from the action, Ieyasu is so rational that he is almost ruthless, and in order to prevent Nobuyasu and Sena from gathering Okazaki's forces to fight back, he first managed to transfer Nobuyasu from Okazaki Castle and set him up empty, and then imprisoned him in Futama Castle. Sena also seems to believe that Ieyasu was not ruthless enough to execute his son, and with only a few retinues, she went to Hamamatsu Castle, where Ieyasu was located, escorted by a close confidant sent by Ieyasu, Shigemasa Nonaka. Along the way, Sena used up almost all her talents, and after preparing to discuss with her husband a way to save her son, but a few days later, when the group was about to arrive in Xiaoya Village, Sena's sedan chair suddenly stopped on the road, and Sena, who just wanted to hurry up, was opening her mouth to ask the people who served outside the sedan chair, but before the words could be spoken, a cold spear had penetrated her body, and she used her last strength to open the sedan curtain, she was angry at why the escort of the Noaka Shigemasa was so derelict in his duties, however, the person in front of him was Shigemasa, at that moment, she saw her husband's ruthlessness, and also foresaw the tragic fate of her son soon after,Faced with the fact that everyone in the family has been excluded and criticized for many years, Sena has not cried at this moment,Can't help crying,Shigemasa didn't say much,He slashed down with a knife without pity.,For the people of Mikawa,"Evil woman" like Sena may not be worthy of sympathy ......
Many years later, Ieyasu has achieved a bumper harvest in both career and love, his Three Rivers Army has become more and more prosperous, and his harem is full of beauties, and he has become a winner in life in the eyes of many people. But few people remember the story of Ieyasu and his first wife, Sena, a horrific marriage that ended in blood. There are many cruel military generals in the history of the Warring States period, who are faithless and unrighteous, but characters like Ieyasu who can kill his wife and children with extreme calmness in order to protect themselves are really rare and terrible, they are unrighteous, and he is ruthless.