I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

I was a swordsman in ancient Japan. Volume 1 The life of a samurai from scratch. Chapter 451 Ogata: Why do people always trouble me? [6800 words] "Please go back!" Hirosuke yelled Assuke San and Yushiro with a much harsher and louder shout.

　　 At the same time that Assuke Miwa Yushiro made this yell, Hosho cut his sharp eyes to Susuke Miwa Yushiro.

　　 Suke Miwa Yushiro was shocked by the loud voice and sharp sight of Hosou, and they shrank their necks.

　　 The obvious fear, unwillingness, pain, despair, grievance and other emotions climbed onto their faces.

　　 Looking at the expression changes on the two people's faces, for some reason, the memory fragments that should have been dusty for a long time emerged uncontrollably from the depths of Ogata's mind.

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　　 "Hey! Is anyone alive?! Anyone can! Answer me!"

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　　 "Master..."

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　　 "Makino, Sawa Village..."

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　　 "Senior Mikami...If you want to continue to thank me, just continue...anything is fine, just tell me something..."

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　　 These memory fragments that emerged uncontrollably from the depths of Ogata's mind are played back in front of Ogata's eyes.

　　 Suke Sanwa Yushiro bowed his head, and slowly left the Hosei Sword Hall under the guidance of an apprentice who was still in the Sword Hall at this time.

　　 Just when they left the Baosheng Sword Museum with their front feet, Xuyi said to Baosheng:

　　 "Master Baosheng. It's too early now. It's almost time to leave first."

　　 "Hmm." Takao said with a smile to Ogata, "Mashima-sama, thank you for your hard work today!"

　　 After exiting the gate of Hosei Sword Museum, Ogata took a deep breath and looked up at the almost black sky above his head.

　　 At this moment, there are bright stars hanging on the sky.

　　 Ogata is not so much looking at the sky as looking at the stars above his head.

　　 her lips tightened, not knowing what she was thinking.

　　 After a while, Ogata looked away from the sky above his head.

　　 Then hurried to the direction where Sukezo and Yushiro left.

　　 "Hey! You two!"

　　 Ogata quickly caught up with the two of Sukezo.

　　 "My name is Goro Mashima."

　　 "Tell me more about the things you missed by the tramp in your village."

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　　 The inns of the Edo period are also divided into four levels: Honjin, Wakimotojin, Rigage, and Kidanju.

　　Honjin is a residential facility dedicated to serving daimyo, public officials, and senior officials of the shogunate.

　　Wakimoto Jin, which is inferior to the Honjin, provides services to the lower-ranked daimyo and shogunate officials.

　　 If you want to stay in Honjin and Wakimotojin, you must not only look at the money but also the identity.

　　 No matter how rich you are, if you are not a magistrate or a shogunate official, you cannot live in Honjin and Wakimotojin.

　　 And Lugong and Mudansu is an inn dedicated to ordinary samurai and the common people.

　　 Brigade cage is a general accommodation facility that provides services for samurai and civilians, and generally provides meals.

　　The kind of travel cage that does not provide meals is called "flat travel cage".

　　The lowest-ranked Kidan-su was the cheapest hotel in the Edo period. Not only was the room type single, the rooms were generally small and old, and they did not provide meals or bedding.

　　Because the grade and service are the worst, the price of Kidansu is also the cheapest.

　　 For a one-night stay in Mudan, the price required is about one-fifth of the travel cage.

　　 Ogata and Amachi still have a considerable deposit.

　　 And the two of them are not the kind of miserly stingy, and they are never stingy in terms of food, clothing, shelter and transportation.

　　 The hotel where the two of them lived in Kinno Town was a standard travel cage.

　　 Unlike Ogata, who has activities from morning to night, Amachi is very idle these days.

　　 Kinno Town is not very big, Ah Ding has already visited every corner of Kinno Town.

　　Acho, who has nothing to do, can only stay in the hotel room and learn Ezo language these days.

　　 She never imagined that she, who could not even speak Mandarin, would have the day to learn Ezo.

　　Ading belongs to the “half-illiterate” standard of this era—only the pseudonym can be read, but most of the Chinese characters are not recognized.

　　 This is a bit similar to only recognizing pinyin but not Chinese characters. And this kind of semi-illiteracy is quite common in this era.

　　 Therefore, in order to enable Amachi to understand this teaching guide, Ogata had also spent a lot of time phoneticizing all the Chinese characters in this teaching guide, and marked the meaning of the Chinese character on the side.

Because there is nothing to do other than staying in the hotel to learn Ezo, Amachi’s learning progress has long surpassed Ogata, and he has mastered the sixth form of this "Guide to the Teaching of Ezo Language Common Phrases". One part of the vocabulary.

　　 "Osoma...shit...Osoma...shit..."

　　 is holding the teaching guide, and lying on the tatami, Amachi is learning a new vocabulary-Osoma.

　　 Osoma in Ezo language means shit.

　　 Because the sky outside is completely dark, Ah Ting has lit an oil lamp just now, reading the book with the light from the oil lamp.

　　 After memorizing this new vocabulary silently, Acho, feeling a little tired, closed the teaching guide in his hand, and then stretched vigorously.

　　 then tilted his head and cast his gaze to the sky outside the window.

　　 Looking at the darkening sky, Ah Ding murmured:

　　 "It's so slow... Did something happen..."

　　At this point in time in the past, Ogata has already returned.

　　 However, until now, Amachi has not seen Ogata.

　　 is also a coincidence—As soon as Amachi thought about why Ogata came back so late today, she heard familiar footsteps coming from outside the room.

　　 "Acho, I'm back."

　　 The door of the hotel was opened-Ogata was the one who pulled the door.

　　 Before Amachi could ask why Ogata came back so late, Ogaki took the lead and said:

　　 "Acho. Tonight, we will simply pack our luggage, and tomorrow we will leave Kinnocho temporarily."

　　 "Leaving Kinnocho?" Ah Ding was puzzled.

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　　 The next day, morning—

　　 Ogata and Amachi don’t have much luggage. The two outfits can be said to be "light equipment and simple practice" to the extreme.

　　 Their luggage is only clothes, money, kettles and other odds and ends.

　　 Both of them carry a small cloth bag each, so they can carry all their luggage on their backs.

　　 By the way—the clothes they bought before for the wedding, such as the Monsuke Haori hakama and Shira Muji, are placed at the place of Kei Uncle, who is planning to settle in Edo.

　　Men Fu Yuori hakama and Shiro Wugou are both dresses, but they are useless except for their good looks.

　　 For Ogata and Amachi who are going to travel, these dresses are just a pile of burdens, so before leaving Edo, Ogata and Amachi placed all these clothes at Uncle Kei's place and let Uncle Keiku keep them.

　　 Ogata and Amachi, with their luggage, stood at an entrance to the north of Kinnocho.

　　 In front of them, stood a farmer with a face of vicissitudes—it was Sukezo.

　　Sukezo faced Ogata in front of him, and kept nodding and bowing towards Ogata:

　　 "Samurai-sama! Thank you very much!"

　　 Yesterday, before visiting Hosei Sword Museum, Sukezo and his other companion, Yushiro, had already visited the samurai in Kinno Town.

Although the content of the replies received by 　　 are different, the overall meaning is the same-helpless.

　　 Baosheng Sword Museum was the last stop of their "trip to Kinnocho"... However, they still had a closed-door meal at the Baosheng Sword Museum.

　　Suke Miwa Yushiro had already visited other towns and towns to recruit samurai before coming to Kinno Town—only one samurai was recruited.

　　 If Hosei Sword Museum is the last stop of the two of them on their "trip to Kinnocho".

try{mad1('gad2');}catch(ex){}　　 Then Kinnocho is the last stop of the two "Samurai Recruitment Journey".

　　 Regardless of whether they succeeded in recruiting samurai in Kinnocho, they all had to go home.

　　 So when they came out of the Hosei Sword Museum yesterday evening, Sukezo and Yushiro were desperate... They were all ready to take one samurai home.

　　 But just when they were desperate, Ogata came.

　　 After Ogata left Hosei Sword Museum, he caught up with the two of them, and then only asked them one question about how long it would take to walk from Kinnocho to their village.

After learning that if the pace is fast enough, I will leave in the morning and arrive in the evening, Okinawa said something that made Sukezo and Yushiro couldn’t believe his ears at the time: I understand, I will do my best. To help you.

When they were about to despair, some samurai came to the door and expressed their willingness to help. Although I don’t know the strength of this samurai or his temperament, Susan and the others have already arrived at the sight of the existence of a life-saving straw. The situation.

　　Suke Sanwa Yushiro immediately agreed with Ogata on the departure time-tomorrow morning, they will leave at the dawn of the day.

　　 Facing Shuzo who was constantly nodding and bowing to thank him in front of him, Ogata said in a somewhat helpless tone:

　　 "Don't thank me so hard. I have received your thanks."

　　 "What about your other companion and the samurai you recruited before? Haven't they arrived yet?"

　　 Hearing Ogata's question like this, Shuzo stood on his toes, turned his head, and looked around.

　　 "The two of them are a little slow... Why haven't they two come..."

　　 When Ogata brought Amachi to the agreed intersection just now, he saw Sukezo.

　　 When asked where Yushiro had gone, Sukezo said that he had gone to pick up the samurai who had been recruited from another town.

　　 looked around for a while, and helped San quickly ran to the edge of the intersection not far away, looking towards the end of the road.

　　 While Shuzo ran to the side to find Yushiro and the others, Amachi quietly walked to Ogata's side, and whispered towards Ogata with a volume that only she and Ogata could hear:

　　 "Have you talked to Nishino-kun and the people at the sword hall?"

"Yeah." Ogata nodded softly, "I told Nishino-kun last night that I would leave Kinno-cho temporarily for a while, and asked Nishino-kun to talk to the people at Hosei Sword Museum for me. "

　　 After agreeing to Sukezo and Yushiro, saying that he would help them, I went to the source tachibana house, found Jiro Nishino, and told Jiro Nishino that he would temporarily leave Kinno-cho for a while.

　　 For the convenience of explanation, Ogata did not tell Jiro Nishino that he planned to fight bandits, but told Jiro Nishino that he was a little bored in Kinno, and planned to take Uchiko to other nearby towns and towns.

　　 At the same time, I asked Jiro Nishino to speak to the people at the Hosei Sword Museum afterwards, telling the people at the Hosei Sword Museum: He plans to visit other nearby towns and towns to appreciate the scenery of the Northeast, and come back later.

　　 Amachi glanced at the nearby Sukezo who was looking for Yushiro's figure, and then lowered his voice.

　　 "Why do you suddenly want to help those farmers deal with bandits?"

　　 "You are too boring in Kinnocho, do you plan to move your muscles and bones?"

　　 Hearing this question asked by Amachi, Ogata was taken aback.

　　 then raised his hand and scratched his hair.

　　 "The reason why I chose to help..."

　　 A wry smile appeared on Ogata's face.

　　 When Ogata uttered these words, Amachi noticed—something of memory appeared in the depths of Ogata’s eyes.

　　 Ogata seems to be remembering something.

　　 "I don't know how to tell you more..."

　　 "Ah! Samurai! Yushiro is back!"

　　 At this time, Sukezo pointed at the end of the street in front of him, and shouted at the two of Ogata.

　　 Ogata looked in the direction pointed by the third finger—Yoshiro was trotting toward them.

　　 Behind Yushiro, followed by a samurai.

　　 was holding a messy head that hadn't been taken care of for a long time, and many hairs were knotted due to the fact that it was not taken care of for a long time.

All the clothes on 　　 are also tattered and dirty. It seems that they have not been cleaned for a long time, and they are so dirty that they can't see the original color.

　　 Maybe because I couldn't find suitable shoes, I only wore a pair of clogs on my feet, and my dirty feet were red and cracked from the cold.

　　 The appearance of the saber around the waist is also unsightly. The scabbard was mottled, and the handle of the handle fell off a lot, which made people very suspicious whether the blade inside was still intact.

　　 Above is what this samurai looks like.

　　 is a very standard Ronin of this era.

　　Langren are basically a group of people who have had a last meal without taking a meal, and have no place to live, so most of the ronins look no different from beggars.

　　Suke Sandai Ogata briefly introduced the ronin.

　　 This ronin is named Shinsaburo Tsuchiya, and he is the only samurai hired by Sukezo and Yushiro before Ogata agrees to assist them.

　　 Tsuchiya is a very taciturn person, with few words and expressions.

　　 Facing Ogata and Amachi, he only greeted him indifferently. After introducing himself, he stopped talking.

　　Suke San and their village are a little bit away from Kinno Town. Even if it’s early morning departure, if the pace is not fast, it is very likely that they will not be able to arrive before dark.

　　 So after everyone arrived, Ogata and his party officially set off to the village of Susan and the others.

　　 On the way, Ogata and the others chatted one after another.

　　Through small talk, Ogata learned a lot of new information related to the village of Susan and others.

　　For example, their village has a total of 89 people. It is a small village too small. There are only 32 young and middle-aged people, and the rest are old and weak women and children.

　　 They are not such a poor village.

　　 Before the outbreak of "Twilight Hunger", there were nearly 200 people in their village, and the wealth in the village was neither too much nor too little. Although it is not that kind of rich village, it is by no means poor.

　　 However—this is just the situation before the outbreak of "Tianming Hunger".

　　 After the outbreak of the "Twilight Famine", which spread across the country, the farmers were the most affected.

　　 What's more, the Northeast region is still the center of the "daylight famine" and the most affected area.

　　 After the famine broke out, they quickly ate up all the food that humans should eat.

　　 After eating up all the food that humans should eat, they began to eat tares, rice bran and other foods that were not only unpalatable, but also very bad for the body.

　　 After eating tares and rice bran, they can only eat bark, grass roots...

　　 Suke Sanwa Yushiro was recounting the tragic scenes when the "Tenmei Hunger" broke out, he cried out uncontrollably because of his sadness several times.

　　 After the "Twilight Starvation" passed, the village that originally had nearly 200 people became the size of less than 100 people.

　　 Some of the other hundred people basically starved to death during the "daylight starvation".

After 3 years of recuperation, I finally regained some vitality, and the gangsters who were reduced to bandits were caught sight of-I have to say that their village really is. Bad fate.

　　 Another samurai they invited-that is the Tsuchiya. Although he didn't talk much, he briefly talked about his past when he was on the way.

　　He was from the Hachinohe clan of Ou.

　　 Hachinohe Domain is a relatively inconspicuous domain among the northeastern domains.

　　 An important indicator to measure the strength of a domain is to look at the total rice output of the domain in a year.

　　 The total output of rice produced by the Hachinohe clan in a year is only 20,000 shi-not as good as Ogata’s hometown of Hirose clan.

　　 The total rice output of the Hirose clan in a year is still 30,000 shi.

In the face of "Tenmei famine", a rare natural disaster in decades, such as the Aizu clan and Sendai clan, which have an annual rice output of tens of thousands and hundreds of thousands of shi, can still rely on a strong The family backed it up.

try{mad1('gad2');}catch(ex){}　　 And a feudal clan like the Hachinohe clan with a weak family background did not have the ability to withstand this huge natural disaster.

　　Famine raged, and the finances of the Hachinohe clan were unsustainable.

　　 In order to alleviate financial difficulties, Hachinohe Clan adopted various measures.

　　 One of the measures was to attack the samurai in the feudal clan.

　　 Using a knife at the samurai is no different from breaking one's own arm—but the Hachinohe clan at that time could not control so much in order to keep the domain of the domain alive.

　　 broke his arm, it's better than losing his life.

　　 First cut—layoffs.

Many samurai in the 　　 domain were taken away from jobs for various reasons and demoted to ronin.

　　Second Sword-The remaining samurai who have not been laid off will all be reduced in salary.

　　 Tsuchiya is one of the many samurai who was relegated to Ronin in this first sword.

　　He was originally a low-level warrior with a 40-stone salary.

　　 Not long after the lord decided to lay off his staff, he was stripped of his job and demoted to a ronin.

　　 And the reason for his being demoted was-the clothes on his body were too shabby and damaged the image of a samurai.

　　Those samurai who were demoted to ronin were basically like this-they were randomly given a reason, and then they were abandoned by the feudal lord who had served hard for half his life.

　　According to Tsuchiya: At that time, many samurai cried loudly after learning that they had been demoted to ronin.

　　Almost all of them have served the Hachinohe Clan for generations, and shed blood and sweat for the Hachinohe Clan.

　　 There is no shortage of families that have served the Hachinohe Clan for generations after the establishment of the Hachinohe Clan, and have served for the Hachinohe Clan for nearly two hundred years.

　　I have worked for the Hachinohe Domain since his ancestors, but in the end he was abandoned by the objects his ancestors served for generations. It is not difficult to imagine the feelings of those samurai who were forcibly demoted into ronin.

　　 It's only a pity-no matter how they cry or howl, the lord who they have been serving before has ignored them from beginning to end.

　　 Tsuchiya did not say how he reacted when he learned that he was demoted to a ronin.

　　 only said that he left the Hachinohe clan after being abandoned by the lord of the Hachinohe clan.

　　Because he has no parents, wives and children, and is alone, he is considered to be the better category among the many samurai who have been relegated to ronin and lost their source of livelihood.

　　 Those samurai who are old at the top and young at the bottom are called miserable. They can't do it if they want to go out and wander.

　　 After leaving the Hachinohe Domain, Tsuchiya wandered to Kinnocho and lived a semi-settled life in Kinnocho.

　　Because they can make some handicrafts, Tsuchiya now relies on handicrafts to mix food. Live a life without a meal.

　　 Tsuchiya said why he promised to help three their villages.

　　 His reason is simple-he hasn't eaten white rice until he is full for a long time.

　　 He wants to eat white rice all-you-can-eat after a long absence.

　　The reason is that simple.

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　　 Ogata and his party set off early in the morning, and when the sky was half dark, they finally arrived at the village of Susan and the others.

　　 They could have arrived sooner.

　　 Tsuchiya may not have enough physical strength because it hasn't eaten enough for too long. Physical strength is not as good as Sukezo and Yushiro.

　　 In order to take care of the physically weak Tsuchiya, Ogata and his party took a few more rests along the way.

　　 If there is no such break time, Ogata and the others should be able to arrive at the village of Susan and others before dark.

　　 "That is our village!"

　　 Suke San raised his hand and pointed forward, Ogata looked in the direction pointed by Suke San's finger.

　　Because they are standing on a hillside now, they just happen to be able to condescend to their village not far in front of Susan.

　　 The first impression of Sukezo and their village is that Ogata is shabby and lifeless.

　　 Although the sky started to darken and the light began to dim, Ogata could barely see the houses in Susan's village through the dim light.

　　 Without exception-all houses are old and dilapidated.

　　 I don’t know if it’s because the houses are too dilapidated. From a distance, I don’t feel much anger or smoke.

　　 If it weren't for the hotel nearby, most of the houses had smoke wafting outwards, otherwise Ogata really doubted whether there were still people living in this village.

　　 "Let's enter the village." Shuzo said as he slid down the hillside along a path not far away.

　　 Ogata and his party followed closely, and soon went down the mountain and walked towards the village.

"Hey!"

　　As he was about to enter the village, Shuzo put his hands to his lips and shouted at the entrance of the village.

"We're back!"

　　 "We have invited the samurai back!"

Yushiro beside 　　 also shouted.

　　 Before they entered the village, they just arrived at the entrance of the village, and something happened suddenly.

　　 "Hey! You bastard! Stop me!"

　　 An extremely loud voice suddenly sounded from the village.

　　 This loud voice is really amazing, even if Ogata and others are far away, they feel that this shout is ringing in their ears.

　　 In addition to Ogata's ability to remain calm, both Sukezo, Yushiro, Amachi and Tsuchiya were shocked by the sudden loud voice.

　　 As soon as this loud voice fell, Ou could see a samurai-like figure rushing out of a house in the village.

　　 It may be a little bit inaccurate to say that this person is "the appearance of a samurai".

　　 should be said to be "the appearance of a ronin".

　　The appearance of this person is similar to that of Tsuchiya—if he hadn't had two knives around his waist, he would definitely be regarded as a beggar.

　　 "Beggar Samurai" rushed out of the house, while waving the sword in his hand, he seized the way and fled.

　　 "Go away! Get away from me!"

　　 Some of the villagers dressed up seemed to want to step forward to stop the "beggar warrior", but after seeing the bright knife in this guy's hand, they all showed timidity and flashed aside.

　　 "Stop me!"

　　 "Beggar Samurai" was followed by a samurai who also looked like a ronin, and the loud voice that shocked Amachi and others just now was made by this samurai.

　　 The "Big Throat Samurai" has an extremely burly figure, and screams while following the "Beggar Samurai". U U Reading www.uukanshu.cóm

　　 But his speed is really slow, not only did not catch up with the "Beggar Warrior", the distance between each other is getting farther and farther.

　　 I don’t know whether to say that "Beggar Warrior" is fortunate or unfortunate.

　　The people who pursued him were not as fast as him.

　　 However, at the end of the escape direction he chose... Standing Ogata and others.

　　 "Get out of here!"

　　 "Beggar Samurai" raised the sword in his hand and screamed viciously at Ogata and the others who stood in front of him.

　　 Suke Miwa Yushiro turned pale with fright, and quickly fled to the side.

　　Sukezo and Yushiro, who walked in front of Ogata and others, hid aside, and the person facing the "Beggar Samurai" became...Ogata.

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　　PS: The encounter with Tsuchiya in this chapter is historical fact.

　　 By the end of the Edo period, even the shogunate was not so comfortable, let alone the various domains?

In the latter part of the Edo period, the number of ronin surgeries was largely due to the fact that in order to reduce financial pressures, many vassals "lay off" a large number of people, depriving them of the jobs of ruling many samurai, and demoted them to ronin. .

　　 This kind of situation where samurai is relegated to a ronin in order to reduce financial pressure is more common in that kind of feudal clan with a small family.

　　 To demote a large number of samurai under the rule to ronin is self-breaking, but breaking the arm is better than the bankruptcy and downfall of the entire domain.

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