I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

At this moment, a lot of questions emerged from Ogata's mind.

——Fencing teacher? me? Want me to be your swordsmanship teacher in the sword gym?

—Are you out of your mind...? Do you want me, the most wanted criminal in the shogunate, to be your sword gym teacher?

Ogata couldn't help but look at Naosu with a weird look because he wondered if there was something wrong with his head.

Although Ogata's reputation among the people is not bad, but in the eyes of the shogunate and the court, Ogata is undoubtedly the "number one terrorist".

Not to mention asking Ogata to be their swordsmanship teacher, just providing Ogata with a hiding place, or providing Ogata with other help, the shogunate may not be able to spare you.

Ogata resisted the urge to question Naoshu, "You're not sick in the head", and cleared his throat:

"Thank you for your kindness, but I have no intention of becoming a swordsmanship teacher."

After saying that, Ogata grabbed the turnip's rein, and was about to bypass Naoshu and Ryoma.

Regardless of how busy Ogata is now, even if Ogata is very free now, he will not be a swordsmanship teacher-after all, he has no interest in being a swordsmanship teacher in a sword gym.

Just when Ogata was about to bypass Naoshu and Ryoma, Naoki hurriedly stopped Ogata again.

"Sorry! I was the one who was rude just now!" Zhi Zhou said urgently, "My 'Sword Gym' I just mentioned is not an ordinary sword Gym!"

"I hope that the swordsmanship teacher you serve as is not an ordinary swordsmanship teacher!"

Ogata raised his eyebrows: "Not an ordinary swordsmanship teacher?"

"Yes! Master Yi Dao Zhai! Can you spare a moment? Let me explain to you slowly!"

When Zhizhou was about to say something more, Xu Fangfang waved his hand first to stop him from continuing.

"No need. I have no interest in being a swordsmanship teacher. No matter how different you want me to be as a 'swordsmanship teacher', I will not change my mind."

"Please leave, if you continue to be entangled - I am not a very good-tempered person."

After giving Zhi Zhou a mild warning, Ogata pulled the rein again, ready to bypass Zhi Zhou.

Seeing that Ogata refused to enter, Naoki froze.

When Ogata was about to grab the rein and pass by Naoshu, Naoshu gritted his teeth.

"Please! Please spare some time for me to explain to you!"

"I assure you—it won't take you too long!"

Naoshu ran quickly to Ogata's body again, then knelt down on the ground in the position of Dogezaza, with his forehead pressed against the ground.

Dogeza is the highest level of etiquette in Japan, and Ogata couldn't help being surprised to see Naoshu perform this highest level of etiquette to him.

In Ogata's memory, this was the first time an old man of this age made such a big gift to him.

Out of respect for the old man, Ogata subconsciously turned sideways to avoid Naoshu's salute.

He just wanted to go over and help Naosuke up, when his grandson Isshiki Ryoma rushed to Naosuke's side step by step.

"Grandpa! What are you doing?"

Naoshu who suddenly knelt on the ground surprised Isshiki too.

Although Zhizhou is old, but his strength is not weak at all, Yishi went to help him, but he couldn't lift him up immediately.

"Master Yi Dao Zhai."

Naoshu raised his head and looked up at Ogata.

"It's really just a waste of your time, please. Please listen to me."

Ogata met Naosuke who was looking up at him.

Naosuke's eyes...the passion contained in them seems to be able to burn through rocks.

This passionate feeling was so strong that it seemed to have turned into a real flame, burning blazingly in Zhi Zhou's eyes.

Ogata couldn't help being stunned because he seldom saw such a look in his eyes.

Ogata just stared at Naoshu.

After a while——Ogata sighed softly: "...well, since you've done this, I'll listen to you."

"But let's talk elsewhere.

If we talk in this wilderness, I am afraid that my wife and I will not be able to reach the city before dark. "

"I plan to go to Fengnan Town not far from here. If you have anything to say, let's wait until Fengnan Town."

"Yes!" Zhi Zhou looked excited, "Thank you so much!"

Naoki hurriedly stood up from the ground, his face was flushed with excitement and excitement.

And just when Naosuke stood up——

rustle.

There was the sound of bushes being pushed aside.

Along with this rustling sound, there is also a childish female voice full of eagerness:

"Wait, wait a minute! Lord Yidao Zhai!"

The bushes not a short distance away from Ogata were roughly pushed aside, and a small face poked out from the pushed bushes—it was Azuki.

Probably because of her anxiety, she was eager to get out of the bushes, and "escaped" from the bushes by rolling and crawling.

"Master Yidao Zhai! I also have something to tell you!"

"Can you spare a moment to listen to me, too?"

After finishing speaking, Azuku paused, and then knelt down on the ground in the position of Dogeza just like Naoshu just now.

Azuki: O(≧口≦)O "Please!"

Azukumoto also hid like Naoki and the others, waiting for Ogata to disembark.

But she was one step too late.

Naoshu and Ryoma rushed out of the bush where they were hiding one step ahead of Azuku.

Azhu didn't know until then that someone was hiding in the bushes like her, waiting for Ogata to appear.

Until the two of them took the lead on A Zhu, although A Zhu was unwilling to do so, he could only wait silently. Waiting for Ogata and Naoki to finish their conversation.

Fortunately, the conversation between Ogata and Naoki didn't take long, and Azuki soon waited for the opportunity to appear.

Azuki's Dogeza at this time is actually imitating Naoshu.

Although the place where she just hid was a little far away from Ogata and the others, she could barely hear what they were talking about.

She clearly saw and heard——Ogata finally let go after Naosuke was forced to step down from his seat.

——Ogata Ittosai may not be good at dealing with people who are coming towards him!

Azuki said with eyes shining brightly.

Azuki, who felt that he had harvested a very useful piece of information, could not wait to use Dogeza on Ogata after he appeared from behind the bushes.

Looking at Azuki who suddenly jumped out and was kneeling in front of him, Ogata was speechless now.

——Why did another one pop up... Do you have something to say to me... Why do you all have to wait until you get off the boat before swarming to find me... Do you have to tell me something that you can't let me know? Too many idlers waiting to hear things...

Ogata complained silently in his heart.

Compared with Naoshu, Ogata still knows what Azhu wants to say to him——Ogata guessed that Azhu probably wanted to ask him "Why did you master luck so quickly", "Did you learn it before?" I'm lucky" and the like.

After getting off that pirate ship, the feeling of tiredness that came from the bottom of my heart has not completely dissipated from Ogata's body until now.

This feeling of tiredness makes Ogata, who doesn't want to bother to deal with their stalking, feel like "You have something to say too" If you want to talk to me, then just say it, anyway, one more is not too much, and one less is not much" mentality like self-defeating.

"...Then Azuki, you can come with me too." Ogata sighed softly, "But I'm talking first—don't waste too much of my time."

"Okay! No problem!" Azhu said excitedly, "I will never waste your time too much!"

——Ogata Ittosai is really not good at dealing with people who put him under Dogeza!

A Zhu said excitedly in his heart.

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Before the sky completely darkened, Ogata and the others finally arrived at Toyonan Town.

Just like what the crew of the stowaway ship told Ogata before——Honan Town is a small town.

After entering this Fengnan town, the first feeling that Ogata gave was "lack of vitality".

This is probably also a common problem of this small town with a lack of population.

But although the sparrow is small, it has all internal organs. Fengnan Town is small, but the hotels inside are still very complete.

They range from cheap hotels with fleas and bugs infested with tatami and futons, to upscale hotels with their own baths.

Ogata did not hesitate to choose the most upscale hotel with its own bathhouse.

As for the reason, it is also very simple - Ogata now has no human skin mask, and he can no longer freely enter and leave places like bathhouses where he must be completely naked.

So if he wanted to take a bath, Ogata could only rent a hotel with its own bathhouse.

After opening the room and having a hasty dinner, Ogata, Acho, and Atsuki sat opposite each other in the hotel room Ogata opened with Naoshu and Isshiki.

"Okay, Mr. Isshiki, if you have anything to say to me, please do so quickly." Ogata said lightly.

Adhering to the concept of "first come, first served", Ogata decided to let Naoshu and the others be the first, and Azuki the second.

After Naoshu solemnly nodded his head in agreement, he turned his eyes and glanced at Machi who was sitting on Ogata's left side, and Azuki who was sitting on Ogata's right side very familiarly for some reason.

"Master Yidao Zhai, can you please screen out the outsiders first?"

As soon as Naoki's words fell, Azhu stuck out his tongue very consciously, then got up and left the room: "Then I'll go outside the hotel for a while... I'll be back later."

Azuki moved, but Acho did not.

"This is my wife." Ogata looked at Atachi on the left, "I have shared honor and disgrace with me for a long time, like my half body. So she doesn't have to leave."

Seeing Ogata said that Ah-cho doesn't need to leave, Naoshu didn't say anything more.

In the room, only Ogata and Atachi were left, sitting in pairs with Naoshu and Isshiki.

After Azuki left, Naoshu still didn't get down to business immediately, but first signaled Isshiki beside him with his eyes to let Isshiki inspect the surroundings of the room.

Isshiki finally cleared his throat after checking that no one was eavesdropping outside the room, and sitting alone by the door, monitoring the movement outside the door.

"Master Yidao Zhai, in order not to waste your time, I will tell you directly."

Naosuke stared straight into Ogata's eyes, then said word by word:

"Ittosai-sama, I hope you can help us defeat the Tokugawa family!"

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--what……?

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After hearing what Naoshu said just now, the first words that emerged from Ogata's mind were—"Huh?"

After savoring and digesting Naoshu's words just now, Ogata's eyes widened slightly in astonishment.

Ogata's reaction was quite calm, but it was different for A-Machi who was sitting next to Ogata--A-Machi's eyes were so wide that the eyeballs seemed to be falling off, and his complexion changed drastically.

Unlike Ogata, Acho is not a time traveler, but a veritable person from the Edo period.

What Naoshu said just now had an even greater impact on Machi, a native of the Edo period.

"...defeat...the Tokugawa family...?" A-machi murmured, "You mean...defeat the Edo shogunate?"

Naosuke nodded solemnly: "That's right. We want to do righteousness and punish the Edo Shogunate, which has become a moth that harms the world."

"so--"

Zhi Zhou cast a fiery gaze on Ogata.

"I would like to ask Mr. Yidao Zhai to help me wait."

"As long as Master Yi Dao Zhai helps me, I'll be waiting for ten thousand people... No! It's like winning an army of one million!"

"After all, just your name and your influence are enough to reach thousands of troops..."

Before Zhi Zhou could finish speaking, Xu Jianyi raised his hand to signal him to be quiet first.

Seeing Ogata's gesture, Naoshu also consciously closed his mouth.

"This is a bit far from what you told me before, isn't it?" Ogata said in a deep voice, "More than an hour ago, you clearly told me that you wanted me to be a swordsmanship teacher."

"How come after more than an hour, it turned into asking me to help you with the curtain?"

Hearing this, Zhizhou smiled awkwardly.

"Sorry, this is my responsibility. I didn't make it clear before."

"I'll explain it to you slowly now."

"I will explain the reasons why we decided to close the curtain, and what I want to invite Mr. Yidao Zhai to do."

After all, he cleared his throat vigorously.

Probably because of his age, Naosuke was a little phlegm.

After clearing his throat, Naosuke straightened his back and sat upright.

"As I just mentioned: we are determined to kill the Edo shogunate for the sake of righteousness."

"To put it bluntly - the reason why we decided to close the curtain is to let the people all over the world live a better life."

Zhizhou paused again and cleared his throat.

"I don't know if you two have heard this famous saying: Keeping the peasants half dead is the secret of governing the country."

"This sentence can be described as extremely vicious."

"If the peasants don't have to worry about food, it's easy to think wildly."

"And if the peasants can't eat, they are prone to riots."

"This extremely vicious sentence, to put it bluntly, is a means of fooling the people - although the farmers will not starve to death, their lives are not very good, and the days when they are full are few and far between. In this way, the farmers will Eat and work hard."

"It not only prevents farmers from having unreasonable thoughts because their lives are too good, but also prevents farmers from rioting because of their poor lives."

"This extremely vicious sentence was said by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Edo Shogunate."

"For the past two hundred years, the Edo shogunate has faithfully practiced this ancestral precept."

"Everything since the opening of the Edo Shogunate has been for one purpose - to maintain its own rule."

"Thus, looking at the history since the opening of the Edo shogunate, we can find that the Edo shogunate never thought about how to improve the lives of the samurai and the common people from the beginning to the end."

"Take farmers as an example. Under the "good intentions" of the Edo shogunate, the lives of farmers have never been improved in the past two hundred years. Barely alive' alternates between these two states."

"The various actions of the Edo shogunate in order to maintain the rule are far more than that."

"For example, the release of the lock-up order - a large part of the reason for the release of the lock-up order is to prevent the daimyo from the southwest from strengthening themselves by doing business with foreign countries, and to prevent the power of merchants and Chezhidan from growing stronger and threatening the Edo shogunate Rule over the world.” [Kirichitan: The name given to Catholics in Japan in the Edo period]

"Another example—distorting 'Bushido'."

"I wonder if the two of you have studied the development history of the so-called 'Bushido'?"

"The original 'Bushido' was not as deformed as it is now..."

"'Bushido' initially required warriors to possess the following qualities: righteousness, courage, benevolence, propriety, sincerity, reputation, loyalty, and self-denial."

"But gradually—"Bushido" changed."

"The current "Bushido" only requires warriors to possess these three qualities: fame, loyalty, and courage."

"Loyalty, bravery and reputation are linked. A warrior, no matter how good he is in other aspects, will be cast aside as a warrior if he lacks loyalty and bravery."

"Only a warrior who is loyal and brave is a real warrior."

"This is... the current 'Bushido'."

A look of resentment slowly appeared on Zhi Zhou's face.

"And the instigator who caused the 'bushido' to change its flavor—is the Edo shogunate."

"The Edo shogunate... or the Tokugawa family, in order to maintain their control over the world, castrated the 'Bushido'."

"Emphasis on 'loyalty'. Let the samurai be loyal to the shogunate, it is best to be completely loyal, and will not betray under any circumstances."

"Emphasis on 'courage'. Let the warriors become brave warriors who are not afraid of death, and become useful pawns."

"Then it is emphasized that only by possessing 'loyalty' and 'courage' can one gain 'fame'."

"The Edo shogunate relied on this distorted 'Bushido' to control the samurai and let the samurai foolishly work for them..."

Hearing this, Ogata frowned slightly involuntarily.

Because he recalled... the Hirose Clan warriors headed by Nanahara...

Although he hated Qiyuan and others who washed the Sakakihara Sword Gym with their own hands.

But for Qiyuan and others, Ogata also had a bit of sympathy—the lord they defended with all their loyalty and courage, did not treat them as human beings in the end.

Ogata still vividly remembers how Matsudaira Gennai kicked Qiyuan's head away like a football.

"In short - the idea of ​​governing the country of the Edo shogunate is only to maintain their rule."

"As long as the rule can be maintained, everything else can be ignored."

"They never thought about how well they want to govern the world and this country, how happy the warriors and common people are."

Speaking of this, Naoki let out a few self-deprecating laughs.

"I originally... still had some expectations for the Edo Shogunate. I hope that one day the lords of the Shogunate will no longer only care about maintaining the rule, but start working hard for the happiness of all people in the world."

"However... Matsudaira Sadanobu, who came to power 4 years ago, ruthlessly shattered my expectations."

"It was only after Sadanobu Matsudaira came to power that I decided to defeat the Tokugawa family."

Suddenly hearing the name of an acquaintance from Naoshu's mouth, Ogata frowned.

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PS: If there are no accidents, the author will [ask for a leave] tomorrow. Tomorrow is going to be a long-lost family trip. What temple will the whole family go to worship Buddha. Because this volume happens to involve a large amount of Buddhist content, the author also happened to go to collect materials.

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