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You have to examine and study the concepts in its classical and conservative meaning, not based on your liberal interpretation, my friend.
As for Hideyoshi, he was not a king, but a mere daimyo Lord. The mistake of the Ming Emperor to lay such title on him was wrong, which is the reason why Ming Dynasty eventually lost the Mandate of Heaven to the Great Qing....
Time changes all my friend. Discourse from thousands of years will be interpreted in the present, which is where we are now.
Its the principle that matters, what lie at the very heart.
The concept of the mandate of heaven is not set in stone, as I have mentioned before. Literal and shallow interpretations leads to ignorance.