He dug a hole and buried it himself. Naohide went to complain about poverty and tricked Yoshida Kanbei. As a result, when it came time to set up a private school, Naohide was confused - he told Yoshida that he had no money, but in the end, setting up a private school always requires space, right? Buying a house or renting it is easier

Whether it's a house or a house, it costs a lot of money, and it won't matter if Yoshida finds out about it. Therefore, there is always a price to pay for lying to others, and Naohide is determined to try to lie to as few people as possible in the future.

Naohide mobilized Murata Nagatoshi and two students to brainstorm how to find a house to open a private school without spending money. Nagamin and the other three were not allowed to enter the Yoshida mansion at all. They were suffocating when they heard Naohide tell Yoshida about pretending to be poor.

Finally, the three of them laughed, both at Yoshida for being fooled and at Naohide for causing trouble.

After laughing enough, everyone took the opportunity to do some accounting. Yongmin is the big housekeeper, and he takes care of everyone's travel expenses. He still has about forty small deposits and a few copper coins in his hand. This money is enough for everyone to return, but if we go back again,

If I stay in Tosa, money is really tight, so I really want to make some money in Tosa Kochi.

Everyone knows that Naohide has a lot of good things in his hands, which can be used to exchange money, but Naohide said that now that everyone is not famous in Kochi, the good things can only be sold cheaply, which is not economical. Naohide is the person in charge, and he insists on making money through private schools, so everyone can only

We can think of a solution based on this idea. Yongmin said, "Let's find a wealthy businessman first, and then act on our own initiative." Everyone agreed.

The four of them separated to inquire about the news. Within two days, nine-year-old Ryoma, the young master of Takaya, stood out.

The Saiyaya Sakamoto family is a well-known wealthy businessman in Kochi Castle Town. The current head of the family is Sakamoto Hachihei Naozu, who runs a dokura (pawn shop) and a sake house (wine house). It is said that he also monopolizes the sake business in Tosa and even Shikoku Island. Ryoma is a member of the Sakamoto family.

The second son of Edo was famous in the castle town for being a bedwetter and a crybaby. It was a custom at this time to laugh at wealthy merchants. Edo townsfolk enjoyed laughing at samurai and wealthy merchants. As a rural place, Tosa's class consciousness was stricter.

, so I had to mainly laugh at the wealthy businessmen.

Naohide had paid attention to Ryoma before he came to Tosa, but he never expected that Ryoma, one of the "Three Heroes of the Restoration" and the "Three Heroes Before the Restoration", also had a problem with sleeping and urinating. His eight-year-old child also wet the bed.

The dark history.

Generally, when children are 1-1.5 years old, the phenomenon of bedwetting has been greatly reduced. However, some children can only control urination during the day when they are 2 years old or even after 2 and a half years old, and they still often wet the bed at night. This is still a normal phenomenon. Most of them

Children no longer wet the bed at night after they are 3 and a half or 4 years old, but if they are over 4 years old and still wet the bed more than twice a month, it is abnormal.

Some bedwetting is due to diseases, such as brain hypoplasia, spinal hypoplasia, etc., and some is due to mental factors, such as fright, excessive fatigue, sudden change of environment, etc. Anyway, beating and scolding will not solve the problem. The more you beat and scold the child, the worse it will be.

Putting pressure on the child will make the child more likely to wet the bed.

Naohide had never heard of the rumor that Sakamoto Ryoma had a habit of sleeping and urinating as an adult. As a famous figure in the Bakumatsu period, if Ryoma had this problem, it would have spread far and wide. Imagine that when someone went to visit Ryoma, they would say, "Oh~, you are in the courtyard again.

Sunbathing under the quilt." The picture is so beautiful. In this way, Ryoma is not caused by disease, but by mental factors or slow neurological development. Zhixiu is good at treating this disease. He was also a urinator in his previous life. Will he become a good doctor after a long period of illness?

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Early the next morning, Naohide and four others took three bean bags to visit Uemachi.

The Sakamoto family is both a wealthy merchant and a samurai, which is quite special - because the Tosa Yamauchi family has always had financial problems, the Yamauchi family sold their status as samurai to wealthy merchants at a clear price. It was not just the Yamauchi family that did this. At the end of the Edo period,

The finances of each vassal were not good, and other vassal families also did the same, such as Shoichiro Shiraishi of the Choshu Mori family.

It was also a wealthy businessman who had the status of a samurai. The Satsuma clan owed a huge sum of five million taels in order to repay the debt, and the family boss Murata Seifu also promised that the businessman who would not be in debt could obtain the status of a samurai.

The Yamauchi family is special. Other feudal clans still shyly use "talent" and "merit" as a cover. The Yamauchi family is almost blatantly selling their samurai status. Not only does it clearly mark the price, but it also creates a new business of transferring samurai status - handing it to the feudal clan.

After paying a sum of money from the government, you can purchase the status of "country scholar" or transfer the status of "country scholar" from other villagers. It was a common phenomenon in the late Tokugawa period for merchants to send their sons to samurai as adopted sons to obtain samurai status, but this method of operation was that the son

Inheriting the Miao character of the original samurai's family name, Tosa here directly transferred the status of "country scholar". He is the first generation of the newly established samurai family. This is amazing. If his son becomes a samurai, he will be more comfortable than being a samurai himself. It is simple and crude. Everyone

Like them all.

In fact, Naohide and the others made a mistake. The Sakamoto family of Saitaniya was indeed a wealthy merchant, but Naozu Sakamoto Hachihei was the head of the samurai branch of Saitaniya, and the head of the wealthy merchant main clan was Hachirobei. But the head of the Sakamoto family and the samurai branch of the Sakamoto family were

The relationship is like a two-headed snake. The main family is a businessman, and the branch family is a samurai. The main family relies on the branch family to obtain political resources, and the branch family relies on the money of the main family to maintain its status. The two families support each other, and even the courtyards of the two families are connected together.

Facing south, the branch door faces north.

Because the status of the samurai is higher than that of the merchants, many outsiders believe that the samurai Naozu is the real ruler of Saitaniya. The truth is similar. Sakamoto Kanesuke Naomi, who founded the samurai branch, was the eldest son at the time, and Saitaniya was divided.

The head of the family can dispose of the wealth of the Saitani family at will.

The head of the Sakamoto family, Naohide, was good at bows and spears, proficient in waka, and was a man of both civil and military skills. Hearing that four samurai were visiting outside, he asked his servants to invite him in. After serving tea, Naohide showed Yoshida Toyo's handwriting and said, "I want to shoot

Private school, I'm asking you to borrow a house for classes." Zhizhi became a little unhappy after hearing this.

Although the Sakamoto family is a lower-level countryman, as a wealthy businessman, they are not without their feet. The Sakamoto family has a close relationship with the old Fukuoka family. Although Yoshida Toyo is the head of the county, Yoshida is "upright" in his life and has good relations with several family members.

No, so this face is really hard to give.

"I am Dr. Lan, specializing in pediatric bedwetting." At this time, Zhixiu revealed his true intention, "I will treat your son's bedwetting, and you will lend me a house to use as a classroom." It's a win-win situation, right?

Naozu Sakamoto turned his anger into joy, and was a little embarrassed. As a wealthy businessman, being versatile is a must. He really didn't want to offend the ruthless Yoshida Toyo, so he had this excuse to stall the old Fukuoka family. In addition, he did compare to Ryoma.

Headache.

When Long Ma was born, he had swirling horse-like fetal hair on his back. In ancient times, this was called birth abnormality. Therefore, Zhizhi had high hopes for Long Ma and named him Long Ma as a baby. It comes from the poem of Li Ying, a poet from the Tang Dynasty in China.

There is a poem in "Shang Pei Jin Gong" that "the four dynasties are worried about the country, and the temples are like silk, and the spirit of dragons and horses is like sea and cranes." As a result, the child grew more and more crooked. Not only did he become a crying slug, he also urinates and urinates in bed.

Because of this, the Sakamoto family was often ridiculed by samurai and neighbors. In ancient times, Fuso was so proud that he would commit seppuku without looking at him. The Sakamoto family was a samurai who was bought by Naomasushi's father, Hachirobei Naomasu, with money.

He was not welcome, so Naozu was quite troubled by Ryoma's illness.

"If the child's disease can be cured, the Sakamoto family is willing to help Naohide-kun." If bedwetting can be cured, let's talk about renting a house.

"A gentleman's promise is hard to keep." Naohsiu is confident in treating bedwetting in children because he himself suffered from this disease in his previous life!

The eight-year-old Ryoma was pink and tender. No wonder his family conditions were so good, Naohide fell in love with him. Then Naohide went to Sakamoto's house every day to train Ryoma to interrupt urination and endure urination.

He practiced, and also asked his family to let Ryoma get up at night regularly. Ryoma had no physical diseases in the first place, and the neurological development of smart children is slow, and Ryoma is quite sensitive. If someone makes a mean look to him, he will be frightened and pee at night, but Nao Xiu is different.

Ah, it was too late for him to take care of the future celebrity Ryoma. He played with him every day, and of course he didn't dare to make him too excited during the day. In short, Ryoma lived a good life with Naohide. No one was cruel to him and was interested in his whims.

Wanting to give him recognition, he also took him to study. The children in Terakoya all bullied him. Naohide was so gentle to him. After half a month of this, Ryoma didn't urinate once in bed, and he didn't cry much anymore. Ryoma's family responded to this

Big surprise.

"Naohide-san, where is your private school?" One day, the head of the Sakamoto family, Naozu, asked Naohide to pay for his medical treatment. "Where are you going to build your private school? I'm ready."

In fact, the school Naohide plans to open is Terakoya, not a private school. Private schools are generally for students with basic knowledge, while Terakoya provides a similar modern elementary school education. Why is he unwilling to open a high-end private school? Because Naohide looks down on Tosa's current youth.

generation.

The lord of the feudal lord, the Yamauchi family, was a foreigner from Tosa. Originally, Tosa was the territory of the Chosogabu family during the Azuchi-Momoyama era. However, when the Tokugawa shogunate was established, he was on the wrong side. He joined the Western Army in the crucial Battle of Sekigahara and was defeated by the Tokugawa shogunate.

Kawa Ieyasu led the Eastern Army to defeat. After the war, the Tosa Kingdom was deprived of its territory and was placed under the leadership of the Yamauchi family, a hero of the Tokugawa family. After the Yamauchi family arrived in Tosa, they demoted all the original Chosogabe family samurai to lower-level samurai.

"You are familiar with the local area, so go to a place (rural area) where you can make full use of your strengths." As a result, there was a serious conflict between the samurai group "sergeants" of the Yamauchi family and the "corporals" of the samurai group of the former Nagasogabe family.

The Tosa Yamauchi family was the vassal that had the strictest and least strict control over the countryside during the Edo period. "The strictest" means that the Tosa lord's feudal office was extremely rough in rural governance and basically ignored the opinions of the corporals. "The least strict"

"Strict" refers to the fact that the "corporals" of the rural samurai group have no sense of belonging to the Tosa Domain. Among the most numerous feudal lords at the end of the Bakumatsu period, the Tosa Domain was among the most numerous feudal lords.

The separation between sergeants and corporals led to a great failure in education in the Tosa Domain. The sergeants had good conditions for studying, and the probability of becoming a learned person was high. However, due to the small number of people and the good family conditions, there were still opportunities for sergeants who did not study.

Important positions are waiting to be inherited, so the current teenage children from sergeant families will not be very successful in the future; and among the Tosa corporals, most of the children of the same age cannot afford to study, and the well-educated sergeants do not accept corporals.

The children of Tosa are students, so the young people in Tosa today are the "Beat Generation".

Therefore, if Naohide wants to cultivate talents, the best way is to start with basic education. However, the style of Terakoya, which provides primary education, is too low, so he can only run a private school. Naohide's private school enrolls children under the age of ten. At this time, it is not possible

It's quite an anecdote.

Strange news is strange news, and Naohide didn't care about it. He communicated with Naozu, the head of the Sakamoto family, and put the address of the private school in Ozen Town, where ordinary townspeople live, and he also explained to Naozu that the private school was aimed at children. As a wealthy businessman, the Sakamoto family,

It was relatively easy to get a private school in Ozen Town, especially since Naohide said he only accepted children, Naozu was even happier. Ryoma was always bullied by the children in Terakoya, so it would be great to be put in Naohide's private school, so the two hit it off, and Naozu

Hurry and prepare the house furnishings.

On the 25th of the Frost Moon (November), Naohide's private school "Mizuki Shusuke" was officially opened. Because Naohide's nickname, Kaguo, has "wood", and Murata Nagatoshi, Nakamura Gakujiro, and Takemae Toranosuke all have the character "Miao" in their names.

"Wood", plus the "water" in Tosa Bay near Kochi Castle, so the private school was named "Mizuki". Originally Nagatoshi thought that Naohide's Miao character was "hori", and to show respect for the school owner, he could name it "Tumu", but
Chapter completed!