Yesterday’s cause, today’s result.
This world is not a movie that disappears once a story is over.
The whole world is a long TV series with no ending.
Even a tiny insignificant foreshadowing in the first episode may cause huge causal turmoil in later generations.
Just like in Chinese history, after the King of Western Chu committed suicide by slashing his throat at the Wujiang River, a soldier named Yang Xi who had snatched a vital piece from Xiang Yu was named Marquis of Chiquan by King Liu Bang of Han.
This is also the famous Hongnong Yang family in later generations. They had a glorious future and inherited the throne from generation to generation. In the final peak period, they founded the Sui Dynasty and achieved a generation of imperial hegemony.
Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Tokugawa family, also relied on the powerful Oda Nobunaga during the Japanese Warring States Period. Through forbearance and strategic marriages, he became Oda Nobunaga's most important ally and accumulated military and political capital.
After Oda Nobunaga died, Tokugawa Ieyasu maintained his independence in the game with Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and finally defeated the opposition through the "Battle of Sekigahara" and became the actual ruler of Japan.
It ushered in the Edo Shogunate rule that lasted for more than 300 years, and it was not until after the Meiji Restoration that it withdrew from the highest stage of Japanese politics.
It can be said that...
The Tokugawa family really began to decline when it came to the generation of Tokugawa Iehatsu's father.
so……
At that time, the Sato family still had enormous power and prestige in the Japanese militarist government, which was why Tokugawa Sosei was so eager and reckless in sending his youngest daughter out for marriage.
To put it bluntly, his approach was to emulate the marriage between his ancestors Tokugawa Ieyasu and Oda Nobunaga.
It was not until Tokugawa Iehata took over the Tokugawa family completely that he realized that the family he had always been proud of since childhood had become so riddled with problems.
If it weren't for the large amount of real estate and land sold in Tokyo, the normal expenses and operations of the entire family would be almost difficult to maintain.
In addition, after Japan was defeated in the war, the government forcibly extorted money from these big families in order to obtain war reparations and development funds, which severely damaged the Tokugawa family.
It is far from as glorious as it appears on the surface. Tokugawa Iehata wants to revive the family, but he is powerless.
All his efforts were just to delay the complete corruption of the Tokugawa family, which was like a skinny camel.
Over the past decade, he has poured all of his family's resources into the family, yet he sees no hope at all for the younger generations.
So much resources and money were wasted, but not even a decent business was built.
What no one expected was that Keiko Kobayashi, who had hardly consumed any resources of the Tokugawa family, suddenly made such a big move without making any noise.
Originally, this should have been an honor shared by the Tokugawa family, but now it has made the Tokugawa family a complete laughing stock.
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"Father! Did you see that? This is the comic magazine that Keiko made. It's said that it has sold over one million copies.
Big companies like Sony and Mitsubishi are all vying to advertise on it!"
Arriving at a high-end and luxurious nursing ward in the inner courtyard, Tokugawa Ieshige looked at his paralyzed father Tokugawa Chusheng who was lying in bed, sighed and said.
"Abba! Abba..."
Tokugawa Chusheng, who had been paralyzed for three years, had completely lost the ability to speak due to throat cancer two years ago. When he was excited, he could only make "Aba Aba" sounds like a mute.
"Father, don't be anxious! I know what you mean. You want to see Shizuko and Keiko, right?
I also tried, but... they didn't forgive you. It's because what you did back then was really too much.
I know you are also working for the revival of your family.
But is it really right to do this without any bottom line and at the expense of one's own children?
Look at our Tokugawa family now, how chaotic it has become?"
After a night of deep reflection, Tokugawa Iehatsu said with a look of despair, "I think... the era of our Tokugawa family is really over. Why should we struggle anymore?
Father, why don't you sincerely admit your mistakes to Shizuko and the others? Just write it down with the pen and paper next to you. I will have someone record it with a camera and play it for Shizuko and the others. Maybe they will forgive you and forgive our Tokugawa family..."
Bang!
When this was mentioned, Tokugawa Chusheng immediately waved his hand in anger and knocked the water cup next to him to the ground.
Then, he wrote with difficulty on the paper beside him: "Don't even think about it!"
When he saw these two words, Tokugawa Iehachi's face suddenly changed, becoming ferocious, and he grabbed his father's collar and yelled:
"Look! Look! What kind of bastard are you? You keep saying that you can sacrifice anyone for the sake of the family.
But now, is it so difficult for you to admit your mistake to your daughter and granddaughter?
Haha! Do you know how popular Dragon Jump is right now? If we can absorb it into the assets of our Tokugawa family, and then use our resources to make it bigger.
Our Tokugawa family can completely monopolize the entire Japanese comics industry. We can also use comics to create many heroic deeds in the history of our Tokugawa family. This will be a great improvement for our Tokugawa family.
For the sake of our Tokugawa family, can't you sacrifice your pathetic, pretentious self-esteem?"
With a snap!
Tokugawa Chusheng, who had been paralyzed in bed and suffered for so many years, was also shocked by the words of his always filial son.
With tears streaming down his face and a painful and struggling expression, he scribbled on the paper: "Okay! For the Tokugawa family."
"That's right! Father, it seems that you are still the father I respect. For the Tokugawa family, there is nothing that cannot be sacrificed, and nothing that cannot be endured.
Do Lin Sang and his family really want to completely cut off ties with our Tokugawa family?
No, no, no! Since you have married a woman from our Tokugawa family, you must dedicate yourself to the revival and rise of our Tokugawa family."
After receiving a satisfactory answer, Tokugawa Iehata left his father's nursing room with a smile.
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Then, after arranging for someone to use a Sony camera to record the scene of his father admitting his mistake, Tokugawa Iehatsu immediately sent someone to deliver the videotape to the Hayashi family to his sister, formerly Tokugawa Shizuko, now Kobayashi Shizuko.
Estimating that the videotape would soon be delivered, Tokugawa Iehachi dialed the Lin family's phone number with a hypocritical face. When he heard that it was indeed his sister Shizuko who answered the phone, he said sincerely:
"Shizuko! Father knows he was wrong. Can you please forgive him? The video tape I sent to you shows him feeling remorseful and apologizing to you sincerely.
Please forgive me for being an old man in his eighties, paralyzed in bed, unable to speak, and only able to express his sincerest apologies to you in this difficult form of writing..."
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