I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

What Ogata uses is the water fall of Sakahara.

Then the gravitational potential energy when the body fell, directly cut this guy to death.

Since the battle with the bandits, the feeling of cutting the flesh with the blade after more than a month passed along the handle of the knife to the palm of his hand.

Familiar system prompts for gaining experience points sound.

According to Ogata's actual experience of this person's skill and the prompt sound of the system, the person who was slashed by Ogata was not strong. Ogata's personal level and Sakura Ichiduki's experience bar only gained 75 experience points respectively.

Before this guy who had died had time to fall to the ground, the other two companions standing on his left and right sides were already full of horror.

"what…"

The screams of these two people just had time to utter the first syllable, and they saw two sword lights rising from the sky.

As soon as Ogata’s feet touched the ground, he quickly switched the Da Zizao in his hands to the lower posture, chopping the chin of one of the remaining two to the sky spirit cover from bottom to top.

The big comfortable blade had just been cut out of this person's Tianling Cap, Xu Jian turned the blade again, set up a stab posture, aimed the blade at the last person's chest, and then pierced his chest with a blow.

When Taizai was pulled out of this person’s chest, Ogata grabbed the wide sleeves of this person’s kimono and kept it between him and this person, so that when he drew the sword, the blood sprayed from the wound would not splash on him. Body.

"Ding…"

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"Ding…"

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The system tone rang twice again.

After only a few breaths of effort, these 3 guys who were aggressively trying to shoot them with a bow and arrow just now were all killed. The 3 people added up only added less than 200 points of experience to Ogata’s personal level experience bar. value.

When Ogata took out the pocket paper he was carrying and wiped off the blood and grease attached to Ogata's body, Amachi ran to Ogata's side.

"The robbers in Ezo land are really simple and straightforward..." Ah Ding muttered, "Apart from anything else, I plan to kill us directly to grab the money..."

After the whisper, Ah Ding squatted down, raised his hands, and quickly rummaged through the three people's body to find the spoils.

The identities of these three guys are not hard to guess.

In all likelihood, it is the bandit who intends to rob Ogata and Amachi money.

Such people, Ogata and others have seen many in Tohoku a few days ago.

It's just that the people I've seen before will still say a few scenes. For example: "Hand over the money obediently!"

Some people who are greedy for the beauty of Ading will say a few more words, such as: "Keep the women around you obediently."

But it was the first time they saw people like these three people who didn't say anything, just pulled the bow and fired and started to kill.

Soon, Ah Ding touched the bodies of these three robbers all over—these three were quite shabby.

They only carried a small amount of copper coins, a rough count, probably only a few hundred words.

Their bows and arrows must not be taken away.

Neither Ogata nor Amachi can use a bow.

I want to sell the money, but there is no channel to resell the stolen goods.

"Amachi, I'm leaving." Ogata said, "Maybe someone will come here anytime. If people see us standing next to the three corpses, it won't be convenient to explain."

"Yeah." Ah Ding nodded, collected the hundreds of money that had just been searched from the three corpses, and then hurried out of the alley with Ogata.

After returning to the crowded streets, Ah Ding looked back at the alleys that had disappeared behind them.

"They look so weird..." Ah Ding mumbled.

"They should be Ezo." Ogata answered.

A little surprise flashed in Ah Ding's eyes:

"Is that Ezo?"

Ah Ting has never seen Ezo's appearance with his own eyes.

Ogata: "I guessed. But I can't guess wrong."

Ogata has never seen Ezo's appearance with his own eyes.

But during his previous sea trip, he heard Nishino Soichiro introduce the appearance of Ezo.

The facial features were clearly different from those of others, the facial features were deeper and three-dimensional, and the hairs were more exuberant-fully in line with the facial features of the three robbers just now.

"Ezo...Wearing the clothes of us and people..." Ah Ding turned his head and looked back again, "Could they become a naturalized Ezo?"

"It should be." Ogata nodded. "Since they can walk around the castle town of Japan in kimono, they should be naturalized Ezo."

The grievances between people and Ezo have a long history, and can be traced back to thousands of years ago.

As early as a thousand years ago, Heren and Ezo had a protracted war.

Japan's current supreme power and ruler of the shogunate-the shogun, whose full name is the shogun of the shogunate.

Thousands of years ago, General Zhengyi was just an ordinary military attache title.

The "barbarians" in the generals of Zhengyi is Ezo. General Zhengyi was an official title specially established to fight against Ezo.

Until later, the power of the emperor was taken away by a warrior of Genyoshi. After taking the power of the emperor, Genyoshi opened another government in the Kamakura area—the first shogunate in Japanese history: the Kamakura shogunate.

When the first shogunate was founded in Japanese history, the official position of Yoshitomo Genyoshi was "the general of the barbarians".

Since then, the "General Shogun" has been followed, and both the Muromachi shogunate after the Kamakura shogunate and the current Edo shogunate have inherited this title.

"General Zhengyi" has thus changed from an ordinary official title to the official title of the supreme ruler of the shogunate for hundreds of years.

Thousands of years ago, Ezo's sphere of influence was extremely wide. Ou, Hokuriku, and Kanto on the island of Honshu in Japan were once Ezo's territory.

However, because Ezo has always been in the primitive tribal civilization, it is no match for Heren's soldiers.

So Ezo was driven all the way north, completely driven out of Honshu Island, and all the way to the current Ezo land.

For thousands of years, there have always been Ezo, active or passive, and naturalized as Heren.

The appearance of the three people in kimonos just now made Amachi naturally wonder if they would be naturalized Ezo.

"If the three people were naturalized Ezos just now... Then the bow they used just now should be the Ezo bow..." Ah Ding muttered, "What a dangerous band of robbers... They even have bows and arrows..."

Ogata nodded his head appreciatively, expressing his agreement with Amachi's words just now.

Although Ogata killed the three bandits with ease just now, it was only because Ogata was too strong.

If it was not Ogata and the others who were robbed today, but they were robbed by other ordinary people, then the person who was robbed might have died.

Before the firearms appeared, bows and crossbows were undoubtedly king-level weapons.

Because it is the age of peace, Ogata has rarely seen bows and arrows before.

In ordinary samurai homes and private homes, there are no bows and arrows at all in their homes, and no one will carry them with them.

Unexpectedly, as soon as he boarded Ezo Land, he was attacked with a bow and arrow after a long absence.

While Ogata and Amachi were still discussing the three gangsters they had just encountered, they suddenly saw six people dressed as officials walking towards them.

These six officials are very standard "appearance of officials"-ten hands, thorns and other traps are all available.

This group of officials held their heads up and walked in the middle of the street with strides.

Passers-by on the street gave way to the sides for this group of officials to pass through.

Ogata and Amachi did not walk on the necessary path of this group of officials, so they didn't need to think about it.

When passing by this group of officials, Ogata turned his head and looked at the group of officials.

When looking at this group of officials, Ogata frowned.

"...Amachi." Ogata whispered to Amachi next to him, "Don't you think there are too many officials here?"

Ogata also just discovered.

From the time he left the port and entered the city, Ogata has seen many waves or officials who stand guard or patrol.

Such a large number of official posts seems to be too many.

Ogata had never seen such a high-density deployment of official posts in Edo before.

Hearing Ogata’s words, Amachi recalled the scenes since the landing: "It seems to be...there seems to be too many officials here...is something wrong?"

"...Forget it. Don't care about that much." Ogata whispered, "Let's go."

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Just after Ogata killed the three guys who planned to kill them with bows and arrows, and not long after he quickly left the alley, a town citizen who had lived here for a long time passed by this alley in order to take a shortcut home.

Afterwards, the three corpses on the ground were naturally found.

Frightened enough, he hurriedly escaped from the alley, then looked for an official, and reported the discovery of the body.

Soon, four officials rushed to this alley with catching equipment.

The four officials with serious faces, when they entered the alley and saw the faces of the three corpses, their expressions stiffened at first, and then the seriousness dissipated at a speed visible to the naked eye.

"What?" One of the four officials pouted, "It turns out that the dead person was Ezo... I lost the motivation to investigate the case in an instant. What is easy to investigate the Ezo case?"

"They are wearing kimonos." Another said, "And I seem to have seen their faces, they seem to be naturalized Ezo."

"That's right." Another said, "No matter if he is naturalized or not, Ezo is Ezo. You see, they all have bows and arrows on them, and they seem to be a bunch of beasts who are planning to kill people and make money."

"Don't talk about it." The leaders of the four officials said, "Anyway, let's call someone to hurry up and take a straw mat to collect the bodies of these guys. Although the dead person is only Ezo, the way to do it is still It has to be done."

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This time, there were no more accidents.

Ogata and Amachi successfully arrived at the inn they had inquired about from a passerby.

After asking about the price and confirming that it was a reasonable price, Xuyi opened a large room enough for two people to live in.

When they landed, it was already more than 4 o'clock in the afternoon.

The two are now in Matsumae Castle, which is further north than the Ou area. In such a big winter, it gets darker faster.

After finding the hotel, opening the room, placing the luggage, and taking care of everything, the sky has already started to darken.

Looking at the darkening sky, Ogata quickly worked out his plans for the future-first go to a restaurant to solve the dinner, after dinner, go directly to the hotel, and go to bed early tonight.

They are still drifting at sea for most of the day today.

Ogata is fine. But Amachi, who has a physique prone to seasickness, is not so good.

From landing to the present, Ah Ding's face is still pale, which shows that A Ding still has the sequelae of seasickness.

The two of them randomly searched for a restaurant that looked very impressive, which was quite close to the hotel where they were staying.

After entering, I saw a young man in this store showing a warm smile while welcoming Ogata.

On one wall of the restaurant is a large menu list with all the food sold in the store.

Under the leadership of the clerk in the store, after taking a seat at a table that was still empty, Okinawa asked to Ah Ding:

"Do you have anything you want to eat?"

Ogata gave the decision to Amachi.

In order to take care of those who can't understand Chinese characters, the menu hanging on the wall in this store uses only pseudonyms.

So even Amachi can understand all the dishes on the menu.

After taking a look at the menu table hanging on the wall, Ah Ding pointed to one of the dishes written on it and asked:

"What is this ‘crab pot’?"

"Crab pot is a special delicacy we have to eat here!"

The guy introduced it to Ogata and Amachi in a strong accent.

"Our Matsumae clan crabs are bigger and more delicious than crabs in other places!"

"Boiled crabs, mushrooms, greens and other vegetables together is a'crab pot', which is most suitable for eating in winter like this."

"With just one bite, you can warm your whole body comfortably!"

The guy seems to recognize Ogata and Amachi as out-of-towners, so he has always emphasized that this crab hotpot is a specialty of their Matsumae clan.

And Ah Ting's interest was successfully aroused by him.

After learning that this crab pot is a local characteristic of the Matsumae clan, he turned his head and cast an inquiring look at Ogata.

Ogata didn't care what to eat, and after Amachi cast an inquiring look, he nodded immediately.

"Then get a crab pot!" Ading said.

"Good! How many crabs do you want?"

"How big is your crab?" Ah Ding asked rhetorically.

The man raised his hands and made a gesture: "Basically, they are all this big."

"Are your crabs this big?" Ah Ding said with a bit of surprise, "Well... then let's get 4 first. Then come 2 bowls of white rice."

"Okay! Do you need drinks?"

"Would you like to drink?" Amachi Asaogata asked.

"Okay," Ogata said readily. "Drink a little."

"Then blanch 2 bottles of wine." Ah Ding turned his gaze back to the man.

"No problem! Please wait! Drinks and food will be served right away!"

The buddy quickly left Ogata and Amachi's field of vision and ran towards the back kitchen.

In order to pass the boring time waiting for the dishes to be served, Ogata turned his head and looked at the restaurant.

The interior layout of this restaurant is the layout of an ordinary Japanese-style building, and there is nothing exotic in it.

When he glanced around, Ogata suddenly spotted something on a certain wall that was difficult for him to ignore.

"...Amachi, look at that." Ogata stretched out his finger and pointed towards the wall.

After looking in the direction pointed by Ogata's fingers, Amachi picked up the beautiful Liu Mei: "Wanted order..."

On a certain wall of this restaurant, there are dozens of wanted notices posted.

The one posted in the middle and most conspicuous of these dozens of wanted orders is indeed Ogata's wanted order.

A wanted notice is posted on the wall of the restaurant—it's not uncommon.

Governments often force restaurant owners to post wanted notices in their stores so that enough people can pay attention to these fugitives.

After taking a few glances at the dozen or so wanted orders posted on the wall, Ah Ding asked Ogata, "Isn't it a wanted order, what's so good?"

"Look at the wanted order for the executioner Yidaozai in the middle. Look at his bounty."

"Hangman Ichitosai?" With a puzzled expression, Ah Ding turned his gaze to the wall again.

Just now, Ah Ding only glanced hurriedly, so he didn't look closely at the number written on the wanted order.

After focusing on the numbers written on the wanted order this time, a full-bodied astonishment appeared on Ah Ting's face.

"Eh? Why did the bounty go up..." Ah Ding murmured.

Ogata didn't have dementia yet, so he remembered it clearly-more than a month ago, when he saw his wanted order from Hosaka, the bounty written on the wanted order was 500 taels.

But now, the wanted order posted on the wall of this restaurant, the bounty written on it has gone up.

It became 800 taels.

Ogata feels very confused now.

He didn't understand why his bounty had suddenly risen again.

At this time, the clerk of the famous restaurant passed by Ogata, so Ogata hurriedly stopped him.

"Excuse me, I want to ask."

Ogata raised his finger to his wanted order posted on the wall.

"What's the wanted order for the executioner Yidaozhai? I remember the executioner Yidaozhai's bounty was not 500 taels? Why is it now 800 taels?"

"Ah, this. Sorry, Samurai, I am not very clear." The guy smiled wryly, "The bounty before the executioner Ichizasai was indeed 500 taels."

"But just 4 days ago, someone from the government suddenly came up and asked us to post a new wanted warrant."

"Among those new wanted orders, it happened that Yidaozhai's current bounty became a new wanted order of 800 taels of gold."

"So...Thank you." Ogata thanked the guy and let the guy leave.

After the guy left, Ogata looked at the wanted order posted on the wall again.

The wanted notice on the wall is indeed very brand new, the paper is white and clean, and you can see that it is newly made.

"Samurai-sama, don't be confused!"

At this moment, an unfamiliar voice rang beside him and Ah Ding:

Ogata turned his head and looked at the owner of this voice.

The owner of this voice is a middle-aged and elderly person who is probably over 40 years old.

The most conspicuous feature of this middle-aged and elderly person should be his bright bald head.

The bald head was sitting at the table next to Ogata and Amachi, and there were six middle-aged people who were similar to him at the same table.

None of them carried sabers on their bodies, so it can be seen that they were just a bunch of ordinary townspeople.

The bald face is now as red as a monkey's buttocks. It should have been a lot of wine. Even if there is a distance, you can smell the wine on them.

"I heard that the reason why the bounty of the executioner Yidaozai increased because there was a big man who didn't want to see the executioner Yidaozai."

"Big guy?" Xu asked in a puzzled manner.

"Yeah. As for which big person, I don't know, after all, I'm from the hearsay. That big person doesn't want to see the executioner Ichizai, and after learning that the reward for the executioner Ichizai is only 500 taels, he demanded that the executioner be a knife. The bounty has been increased to the current 800 tael."

Upon hearing this, Ogata couldn't help but cast a somewhat complicated look at the wanted order on the wall.

I didn’t do anything, so I inexplicably increased the bounty by 300 taels...

-Never mind...

Ogata said in his heart.

—It doesn’t matter to me whether the bounty is 500 tael or 800 tael.

No worries about debts, no itching if there are more lice—this is Ogata's current state.

On the contrary, Ogata is more concerned now-which big person did not wait to see him to increase his bounty by 300 taels.

"Look carefully, I haven't seen your faces." The bald head just now looked at Ogata and Amachi with curious eyes, "Are you from a different place?"

"Yeah." Ogata only nodded to show his answer to the question that Baldou had just asked.

He and Ah Ding's accents tell that they are not locals.

Matsumae-fan's accent is somewhat similar to the accent of the Tohoku region.

Ogata has neither the need to conceal the identity of foreigners, nor the ability to conceal the identity of foreigners.

"Hahahaha! Welcome to Matsumae!" After laughing, the bald head said enthusiastically to Ogata and Amachi, "We are small here, but there are a lot of delicious and fun things!"

"Yeah." Ogata said with a smile, "If we have time, we will have a good time here at Matsumaehan."

The bald head directly picked up a wine bottle, and after blowing a big mouthful, he changed into a serious face and tone.

"Master Samurai, you are from a foreign country. As a local, I would like to remind you."

"In Matsumaehan, remember to be careful of Ezo."

"Especially the naturalized Ezo."

"You may not have seen the appearance of Ezo."

"Ezo's faces are easy to recognize. They basically have a lot of hair on their faces, and their eyes, nose, and mouth are different from ours."

"You can tell who is Ezo and who is a good person by just looking at it."

"Although I don't deny that there are some law-abiding people among the naturalized Ezo."

"But most of the naturalized Ezos are bastards!"

At the end of the talk, the bare head was like recalling some bad memories, and there was obvious anger in his tone, and his face also showed anger.

Hearing what Baldou had just said, Ogata couldn't help but recall the three guys he encountered shortly after landing today, who took bows and arrows at him and Amachi and planned to kill directly.

Perhaps it was because he had drunk a lot of wine, the bald head was a little excited now.

He didn't specifically conceal his voice in the remarks just now. Everyone in the restaurant could hear every word that the bald head had just said.

However, no one scolded bald heads, and disliked that bald heads were too noisy.

Instead, they responded one by one.

"Yes, that's right! Most of the naturalized Ezos are a bunch of bastards!"

"They do all bad things!"

"A few more naturalized Ezos stole money from my shop a few days ago!"

"From the very beginning, we should not be allowed to accept Ezo's naturalization! Even if a bunch of barbarians wear our clothes, they are just a bunch of barbarians!"

"Samurai Lord! You have to pay special attention to Ezo! Whether they are naturalized or not, you must pay attention! Whether they wear our clothes or not, they are just a bunch of rude barbarians who don’t understand manners and shame. That's it!"

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Ogata and Amachi looked around in surprise.

They, who were not familiar with Ezo land, were very surprised by the situation.

Ezo and people are completely different races and different civilizations.

There will definitely be friction between the two civilizations. Coupled with the conflicts between Ezo and He, the **** battle has lasted for thousands of years.

So Ogata has guessed that the ordinary people of the Matsumae clan must not welcome Ezo very much.

However, Ogata did not expect that the common people of the Matsumae clan would have such a deep resentment towards Ezo. Groups condemned Ezo directly in the restaurant.

The bald head seemed to notice the surprise on the faces of Ogata and Amachi.

After pouring another sip of wine into his mouth, he whispered to Ogata and Amachi:

"Samurai Lord, you must be surprised why we have such resentment towards Ezo, especially the naturalized Ezo?"

"This has to start from the era of the'former old middle' Tanuma Yiji."

"When the'former old middle' Tanuma Yoji was in power, he made a plan to develop the Ezo land."

"His development plan is quite useful. By the time he stepped down, our Matsumae clan had more than one million towns of farmland."

"But Tanuma's strategy against the Ezos in Ezo land is very annoying."

"Tanuma's strategy for dealing with Ezo is to give priority to caress, supplemented by suppression."

"Vigorously appease Ezo and forge friendly relations with as many Ezo settlements as possible."

"At the same time, we welcome Ezo to join us and let Ezo become us and people."

"So since then, there have been more naturalized Ezos in various parts of the Matsumae clan."

"Tanuma's strategy against Ezo is just messing around!"

"Ezo and the others are just a bunch of barbarians, they have no value in naturalizing them!"

"Even if they put on the clothes of us and people, UU reading www.uukahnshu.com can't change their barbaric nature!"

"Sure enough! Since the number of naturalized Ezos in the city increased, the public security situation has immediately deteriorated!"

"They do anything bad. Now we have 10 cases in Matsumae, and at least 6 cases are related to Ezo!"

As soon as the bald-headed voice fell, there was another harmony in the restaurant.

"Samurai-sama, you must be careful of those naturalized Ezos."

"Now those Ezos have learned their skills and know how to slaughter outsiders."

"Ezo and they both live a fishing and hunting life, so they are very good at using bows and arrows."

"Some Ezos used their best bows and arrows to kill people and make money more conveniently."

Hearing this, Ogata recalled the three guys he had encountered today who shot him and Amachi involuntarily with bows and arrows.

"Yeah." Ogata nodded lightly, and said solemnly, "Thank you for your reminder. We will pay attention later."