I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

　　 Ezo land, somewhere in the north—

　　 "...After my third letter was ignored by the lord of the Sendai domain, I received news about Lucia's frequent small actions in Ezo land due to various coincidences."

　　 "After my investigation, I feel that if Lucia is ignored, Lucia will be a major concern for our country in the future."

　　 "I think: We should live in friendship with the Ainu people, and then develop the Ezo land with the Ainu people, and build the Ezo land into a frontier position to stop the Lucians from going south."

　　 "So in order to realize my political aspirations, I went to Ezo Land for the first time eight years ago and began to personally survey the topography, landforms, resources, and Ainu culture of Ezo Land."

　　 Lin Ziping, who was sitting behind Ogata, was talking freely, while Ogata and Amachi were listening carefully while controlling the horses to jog forward.

　　 The process of rushing is always boring.

　　 While on the way, the only thing that can be used to pass the time is small talk.

　　 In order to pass this boring time, the Ogata and Lin Ziping alternately chatted about various things.

　　 From what I saw and heard when I was traveling, I talked about all kinds of things that I had personally experienced, everything was boring.

　　 At this moment, Lin Ziping is talking about his current life.

Just now, he has briefly outlined his life from childhood to youth: a Samurai of Sendai origin from Edo, who has been scornfully called a renegade person since childhood. When his peers were studying Confucian classics, he was reading. Various miscellaneous books on history, geography, art of war, economics, etc.

　　 When I was young, I started studying abroad. During the study tour, I discovered the corruption and incompetence of the shogunate, so I gradually began to worry about the future of Japan.

　　 wrote to the lord of the Sendai domain three times, and suggested to the lord of the Sendai domain to reform the internal affairs, enrich the country and strengthen the army, all of which were ignored by the lord of the Sendai domain.

　　 And now, Lin Ziping is telling the story of his third letter to the lord of the Sendai domain after being ignored, he started to notice the threat of the Lucias to their country, and then he went to Ezo to investigate the story.

"Eight years ago, after carefully inspecting the Ezo land, in the 5th year of the Ming Dynasty (1785 AD). I published the important geographies of North Korea, Ryukyu, Ezo land and other places: "The Map of the Three Kingdoms" "It's a pity that there was no response...no one was interested in my book..."

　　 After that, Lin Ziping sighed heavily.

　　 "Does your book even write about North Korea and Ryukyu?" Ah Ding interjected, "Have you been to all these places?"

"Uh... No." Lin Ziping laughed awkwardly, "I have not been to any other places except Ezo Land. I have compiled the records of North Korea, Ryukyu and other places based on other people's classics. It's done."

　　 After that, Lin Ziping coughed a few times, and used a blunt technique to bring him a bit embarrassing topic.

　　 "Okay, let me go on."

　　 "In short-after the publication of the "Three Kingdoms General Survey", the response was mediocre. No matter whether the shogunate or the private sector, no one is interested in my book."

　　 "The officials of the shogunate also scoffed at my proposal to build coastal defense and work with Ainu to build Ezo land."

　　 "Probably I think someone like me who criticizes the country's lock-up policy is too distracting. So some time ago, I was caught by an official and put in confinement in the prison of Edo."

　　 "At that time, I seemed to have been sentenced to'permanent confinement' by the government."

　　 "Fortunately-not long after being confined, I was rescued by a group of unknown people."

　　 "The group of people seems to want to invite them to work."

　　 "I have no interest in being an official or anything. When I was thinking about how to escape, the group of people seemed to be attacked by their enemies, and I was able to sneak out."

　　 "As soon as I sneaked out, I learned that the Lucias were doing more and more small movements in Ezo Land."

"I also happen to think that in my "Three Kingdoms Guide", the part that introduces Ezo land still needs to be optimized. So not long after I regained my freedom, I set foot on Ezo land again. The land is ready to conduct an in-depth investigation of the Ezo land."

　　 "You all know what happened next-when I came to the vicinity of the Red Moon Fortress, I was mistakenly caught as a spy, and then I met you."

After listening to Lin Ziping's overview of his current life, Ogata said sincerely: "You are also a person with a particularly rich and tortuous life... You just said that you escaped from prison with the help of others. Isn't it possible that the Japanese side is now full of your wanted warrants?"

"Yeah." Lin Ziping nodded, "It should be. So I am now thinking about how to avoid the search by officials after I return to China, while continuing my academic research, and allowing the shogunate to adopt my opinion and start Government reform."

"You are amazing." Ah Ding said in a tone of unadulterated admiration, "If I were you, I would not have the courage to write letters to the shogunate over and over again and criticize the shogunate for this bad and that bad one. ."

　　 "There is no way like you are willing to run around in such a bitterly cold place for the country... Maybe this is also related to my dislike of the shogunate."

　　 "I just stayed in Ezo land for a few months, and I can't stand it anymore..."

　　 "I miss tatami mats and the taste of miso soup very much now..."

"When I was very young, I started traveling around to study." Lin Ziping smiled, "So I developed a fairly good physique, so I didn't feel very much when I was running around and inspecting Ezo. Hard...Huh? Ogata-kun, look at the sky to the north, a large cloud of dark clouds are floating over."

　　 "Yeah. I saw it." Ogata nodded, "Shut your mouth tightly and stop talking. I want to speed up the horse. I have to build a hunting lodge before the blizzard comes down."

　　 After that, Ogata knocked his horse's belly lightly with his heels, and drove the radish toward a forest not far away.

　　 After entering the woods, Xu Jian quickly found a big tree suitable for building a hunting lodge.

　　 Earlier, when he moved to the Red Moon Fortress with the villagers of China Village, Ogata learned how to use the Ainu hunting lodge.

　　 After making this big tree into a hunting lodge that can barely accommodate 4 people with a slightly rough method, the large black clouds floating from the north covered the entire sky and then fell into the wind and snow.

"Huh..." After squeezing into this hunting lodge, Lin Ziping glanced at the wheezing wind and snow outside, tightening his clothes tightly, "Ezo Land is really a bitter cold land... At this time, spring is approaching everywhere in Japan, but this place is still no different from severe winter."

"Fortunately, I set up this hunting lodge in time." Ogata also glanced at the wind and snow that was blowing louder and louder outside. "If it is later, we will be blown by the wind and snow. Become a snowman."

　　 "Look at the thickness of the dark clouds, this wind and snow will not stop for a while." Lin Ziping sighed lightly, "I can only wait slowly. I hope this wind and snow can stop soon..."

　　 "How far is it from the village where the weird Kazuto doctor lives?" Ading asked.

　　 "It's Kanto Village." Lin Ziping smiled helplessly, and corrected what Ah Ding had just said, "The settlement where the weird Kazuren doctor lives is called'Kantou Village'."

　　 Acho: "It's such a difficult name to remember..."

"There is still a not-short distance." Lin Ziping replied, "If there are no accidents such as blizzards, you have to go north for another two days, and you must first arrive at a settlement called'Tuohe'. Then the doctor The village of Kanto where I live is in a deep mountain to the northwest of Tuohe Village."

　　 "You have to go so far..." Ah Ding twitched his mouth.

　　 "Although it is still a bit far away, but fortunately, the road is still easy to walk." Lin Zi said gently, "I actually don't remember exactly where Kanto Village is in that deep mountain."

　　 "So when you get to Tuohe Village, you may have to entrust people from that village to help lead the way."

　　 "Huh? Are you familiar with that person from Toho Village?" Ogata asked.

　　 Lin Ziping nodded: "It's fairly familiar. I've been here several times before, so after going back and forth, I'm familiar with many villagers in Tuohe Village."

　　 "I'm going to ask those I know to show us the way, and they should readily agree."

　　 "That's it... I feel a little embarrassed..." Ogata said, "I have to trouble you to sell favors to the people from Toha Village."

　　 Lin Ziping smiled: "Compared with the life-saving grace I owe you, it's just a trivial matter."

　　 "If you hadn't repelled the shogunate's army, I'm afraid I would have died in the chaos army."

　　 "You two treat these things as repaying me for what I have done, and accept it with peace of mind."

　　Hu—!

　　 At this time, a very loud gust of wind blew outside the hunting lodge.

　　 This extremely loud wind made Ogata and the others surprised.

　　 "This wind and snow seems to have become stronger..." Ogata murmured.

　　 "Look at the intensity of the wind and snow, in less than half an hour, we probably won't be able to move." Lin Ziping grabbed his half-black and half-white hair.

　　 "Let's do something to pass the time." As he said, he turned his attention to Lin Ziping, "Mr. Lin, let's tell your story next?"

　　 "My story is basically finished just now... there is nothing else to tell."

　　 "Let’s talk about your various experiences when you traveled around to study? I also like to listen to this."

"Various things I learned while traveling around to study...Let me think about whether there is anything worth talking about... interesting things worth talking about. I have already said these days... Ah, "The Yamada Asemon family abducted people." Do medicine', have I told you about it?"

　　 Ah Ding shook his head: "No.'Abducting people to make medicine'...? What is this?"

　　 "The Yamada Asemon family..." Ogata frowned slightly, "It's the "executioner family" in Edo, right?"

　　 "That's right." Lin Ziping nodded, "Since I haven't told you this story, then I will tell you well."

　　 Lin Ziping cleared his throat.

　　 "This is a story I heard in a certain izakaya when I was studying in Kanto. I don't know the truth or not. I personally feel that it should be false. So you just listen to the book with the mentality of listening to the book."

　　 "You should all know it? What does the Yamada Asemon family, who have been named the "shogunate sword testers", do."

　　 "The members of their family have been the imperial sword testers of the shogunate for generations. They are responsible for giving executions to executed prisoners on the execution grounds, and for testing the swords for the Yueqing Yunke headed by the general."

　　 "The title of ‘Sword Tester for the Shogunate’s Queen’s Shogunate’s shogunate’s shogunate’s sword tester’s name gave the Yamada Asemon clan the authority in sword appraisal."

　　 "When any big family gets a new sword, they are willing to ask someone from Yamada Asaemon to test the sword and appraise the grade of the new sword."

　　 "This is the famous "business trip to test the knife" of the Yamada Asemon family-a large family went to ask someone from the Yamada Asemon family to try the knife, and then the Yamada Asemon family sent someone to try the knife."

"Some people from far away places, such as some nobles and nobles in Kyoto, often come to Edo to ask people from Yamada Asemon to test the sword. Therefore, when there is still room for the staff of the Yamada Asemon family, they will send them from time to time. People go far away and try knives on people who are far away."

"Their family has been cutting people for generations. It is said that in a year, their family members can cut 2,300 people. Gradually, they have developed a very profitable sideline: the sale of human guts. ."

　　 Ah Ding said softly, "I know that this medicine is the medicine that is very useful for treating lung diseases, right?"

　　 "That's right. That's the medicine. After the Yamada Asemon family kills the executed prisoner on the execution ground, the dead body will be left to the Yamada Asemon family to deal with."

"They used the human gall of a dead body to make a'human gall pill' which is very useful for treating lung diseases. This medicine is extremely popular and has always been in short supply. This medicine is basically out of stock. Just made one, it will be quickly Buy it."

　　 "Then—I'm about to start talking about the topic now, don't be distracted."

　　 "It is said: In order to solve the problem of shortage of human gall pills, the Yamada Asemon family often abducts people in order to make more money."

　　 "Abducts people who no one will pay more attention to even if they are missing. For example: Ronin, beggar, filthy."

　　 "After these people were abducted, they used their guts to make new drugs."

　　 As soon as Lin Ziping's words fell, Ah Ting rubbed his arms as if his body was chilling: "I don't like this kind of horror story..."

"This is a story I heard through the ears. I don't know whether it's true or not." Lin Ziping smiled, "But according to my judgment-this story should be false. The Yamada Asemon family is a gloomy thing for ordinary people. The family of Yamada Asemon, so they often put all kinds of messy stories on the Yamada Asemon family."

　　 "The Yamada Asemon family is not short of money. Even though Rendan pills have been in short supply, they are not going to abduct and sell people and use living people to make medicine."

　　 "So I think this story should be fake. You don't need to be too serious."

　　...

　　...

　　Edo, the mansion where the gourd house and his group live—

　　 "Senior Asai, there shouldn't be anything wrong with my appearance, right?" Shimada raised his arms flat, showing his clothes to the Maki Village in front of him.

　　 "Um... not bad." Makimura nodded, "There are styles and styles."

　　Today is the day Shimada decided to go home.

　　 If you go home sloppyly, it will be indecent, so Shimada specially borrowed money from Lin and bought a new set of custom-made clothes embroidered with their Shimada family's pattern.

　　Even the scabbard on the waist was waxed, and it was wiped brightly.

　　 Shimada also fulfilled his promise-after deciding to go home, let Makimura, who had long wanted to see the face of the famous Shimada Soichiro, accompany him.

　　 Because she wants to accompany Shimada home, Makimura also put on a very stylish outfit.

　　Makimura has never had the habit of wearing a sword on his left waist. In order to accompany Shimada home this time, he also specially bought two new swords to wear, so that he can be more like a samurai.

　　 The two checked their clothes, and after confirming that there was no problem, they finally faced Lin and Mamiya, who was standing next to them and seeing them off.

　　 "Lord, I will try my best to go back as soon as possible." Shimada said.

　　 "It doesn't matter if you don't have to come back so quickly." Lin said, "You can come back whenever you want."

　　 "Makimura. Don't cause any trouble." Mamiya said in a half-joking tone, "You are just like Yuan Yuan, you are also a troublesome guy."

　　 "When it comes to love causing trouble, I don't think Mamiya will give you much help." Makimura retorted unceremoniously, "You guy always makes troubles from time to time."

　　 "But every time I make something troublesome, I will solve it quickly and beautifully." Mamiya's response was also extremely sharp.

　　 "Okay. Don't just stop here." Lin interrupted the conversation between Mamiya and Makimura, "Miyahachi, Katsurokuro, now that you are ready, let's go early."

　　Makimura: "Good." Shimada: "Yes!"

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　　 Shimada and Makimura walked side by side on the way to the "premium samurai residential area".

　　 Because of going straight to the "premium samurai residential area", the surrounding scenery is constantly changing.

　　 The person who passed by the two people gradually changed from a commoner to a samurai with glamorous clothes and a sword at his waist.

　　 "Shimada, let me confirm-your father shouldn't be someone who sticks to etiquette?" Makimura turned his head and asked.

"My father belongs to the type of person who is tolerant to outsiders and is strict with others." Shimada smiled bitterly. "If you do something that is not ceremonial, my father may not say much. But if I did something rude..."

　　Speaking of this, Shimada didn't say any more, only made a "you know" look at Makimura.

　　 It may be because it is still early morning, so there are not many pedestrians on the road.

　　 Since the end of the "Gozen Trial", Edo no longer swarms in large numbers of Ronin as before, so the public security situation has improved a lot.

　　 The two came to a magnificent mansion all the way unimpeded.

　　 Looking at the magnificent mansion ahead, Makimura chuckled his mouth a few times: "It's really a Kibmoto samurai family with 9,000 Shijialu..."

　　 "Okay, come with me, there is nothing good about this ruined house, let's go in." After that, Shimada walked towards the gate of the mansion on his own.

　　 At the gate of the mansion, there are 2 guards.

　　 When these two guards saw Shimada walking straight towards them, their eyes were all rounded.

　　 "Master?!" the two guards shouted in unison.

　　 "I'm back." Shimada nodded with a smile, "Is father at home?"

　　 "I'm here!" One of the guards nodded hurriedly, "Master, wait a moment! I'll go report inside!"

　　 After speaking, the guard dashed into the mansion quickly.

　　 After a while, the guard who had just left led an old man back into Shimada's field of vision.

　　 "Young Master!" the old man shouted excitedly.

　　 "Hachibei!" Shimada's tone also became a little excited.

　　 The old man called Hachibei by Shimada came to Shimada in three steps and two steps: "Master! You are finally back!"

　　 "Sorry, Hachibei, I worried you."

　　 "Master, who is this?" Hachibei looked at Makimura next to Shimada.

　　 "This is my friend."

　　 "Meeting for the first time." Makimura respectfully salutes Hachibei, "Yahachi in Xiamu Village."

　　 "Ah, UU Reading www.uukanshu.com turned out to be a friend of the young master." Hachibei hurriedly returned the gift and introduced himself.

　　 "Master, come, come in. Don't stand here anymore." Hachibei greeted Shimada and Makimura to enter.

　　 After following Hachibei into this luxurious mansion, Shimada asked the Hachibei in front of him:

　　 "Hachibei, where is his father now? Are you busy?"

　　 "No. Lord, he is not busy right now. He should be with the Yamada Asemon family now."

　　 "Yamada Asemon?" Shimada raised his eyebrows. "Why are the people from Yamada Asemon here with us?"

"Master got a treasured sword in Osaka before: I live in Fujishima, California. After returning to Edo a few days ago, he invited people from the Yamada Asemon family to try the sword. Today, Yamada Asemon The door family finally has a spare manpower that can be sent over to try the knife."

　　 "The knife test should be about to start now."

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　　 There were a lot of chores to deal with yesterday and today, so today’s update time is a little late.

　　 Once again, I miss that college time with plenty of time every day...

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