As a very amauterish fan of Chinese history, I'm following the anime Kingdom and this peculiar scene from last episode, where Ying Zheng replied to the urging of treacherous minister Lu Buwei on how to stop the wars ripping their kingdom apart since centuries ago, gave me strong Nobunaga vibes--
A few points really deserve some thoughts.
• The urgency to stop the conflicts by unifying the whole country under one ruler. This was indeed the most effective way to rule a vast land, by promoting a single set of laws and regulations to keep the activities going homogeneously.
• The urgency to stop the conflicts during "their own generation". When we look at Nobunaga's campaign we got the impression that he's rushing his conquest, without a chance to rest. This "haste" is quite common when it comes to conquerors: as they are the only witnesses of "this project" of course they want to make sure to complete it before their death.
This is also a focus point on the moral strenght of these guys, taking full responsability for their actions.
• War was a necessity back in the days. Today we live in a civilization that implemented other ways to control their prosperity, and getting in an armed conflict is just some idiocy that mediocre leaders are forced to do for the sake of propaganda rather than for actual benefits. But for Ying Zheng, and Nobunaga nonetheless, wars were the only way to start a social and political reform, the only way to change the status quo.
It must be clear that the "Tenka Fubu" was a mean, and not the end.
--Nowadays I see many fans of Nobunaga getting into military shit without understand pretty much a fuck about that. Please, behave like a civilized person from the future.
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