Chapter 598 About inviting Ogata to overthrow the Edo Shogunate [5200]
At this moment, a large number of questions emerged from Ogata's mind.
Swordsmanship teacher? Me? Do you want me to be your swordsmanship teacher?
Are you mentally ill...? You want me, the most wanted criminal in the shogunate, to be your swordsman's teacher?
Because he suspected that there was something wrong with Naoshu's head, Ogata couldn't help but look at Naoshu with a strange look.
Although Ogata's reputation among the people is not bad, in the eyes of the shogunate and the court, Ogata is the undoubted "number one terrorist".
Let alone asking Ogata to be their swordsmanship teacher, the shogunate may not be able to spare you just by providing a hiding place for Ogata or providing other assistance to Ogata.
Ogata resisted the urge to ask Naoshu, "Is your brain okay?" and cleared his throat:
"Thank you for your kindness, but I have no intention of becoming a swordsmanship teacher."
After saying that, Ogata grabbed Radish's reins and prepared 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 hall.
Just when Ogata was about to bypass Naoshu and Ryoma, Naoshu hurriedly stopped in front of Ogata again.
"Sorry! I was rude just now!" Naoshu said urgently, "My 'sword hall' I just mentioned is not an ordinary sword hall!"
"I hope that the swordsmanship teacher you serve as will not be an ordinary swordsmanship teacher!"
Ogata raised his eyebrows: "Not an ordinary swordsmanship teacher?"
"Yes! Master Ittousai! Can you spare some time? Let me explain it to you slowly!"
When Naoshu was about to say something more, Oubono waved his hand first to stop him from continuing.
"No need. I have no interest in being a swordsmanship teacher at all. No matter how different the 'swordsmanship teacher' you say you want me to be, my mind will not change."
"Please leave. I'm not a very good-tempered person if I keep getting entangled."
After giving Naozhou a mild warning, Ogata pulled the reins of his horse again, preparing to bypass Naozhou.
Seeing that Ogata was refusing to give in, Naoshu froze.
When Ogata was about to grab the reins of his horse and pass by Naoshu, Naoshu gritted his teeth.
"Please! Please spare some time for me to explain to you!"
"I promise you it won't take you too long!"
Naoshu quickly ran in front of Ogata again, and then knelt down on the ground in a soil seat position with his forehead pressed against the ground.
Doge-za is the highest-level gift in Japan. Seeing Naoshu perform this highest-level ritual on him, Ogata couldn't help but be surprised.
In Ogata's memory, this was the first time that an old man of his age paid him such a grand gift.
Out of respect for the old man, Ogata subconsciously turned sideways to avoid Naoshu's salute.
Just as he was about to go over and help Zhizhou up, his grandson Isshiki Ryoma rushed to Zhizhou's side.
"Grandpa! What are you doing?"
Naoshu suddenly knelt down and even Isshiki was shocked.
Although Zhizhou was old, his strength was not weak at all. Isshiki went to help him, but he couldn't help him up immediately.
"Ittōsai-sama."
Naoshu raised his head and looked up at Ogata.
"I really only want to take up your time for a while, please. Please listen to what I have to say."
Ogata looked at Naoshu who was looking up at him.
Zhizhou's eyes... the passion contained in them seemed to be able to burn through rocks.
This passionate emotion was so intense that it seemed to turn into a real flame, burning brightly in Zhizhou's eyes.
Because it was rare to see such a look, Ogata couldn't help but be stunned.
Ogata and Naoshu just looked at each other.
After a while, Ogata sighed softly: "...Okay, since you have done this, I will listen to what you have to say."
"But we need to change the place to talk. If we talk in this wilderness, I'm afraid my wife and I won't be able to reach the castle town before dark."
"I plan to go to Fengnan Town, which is not far from here. If you have any questions, we can wait until we get to Fengnan Town."
"Yes!" Zhizhou looked excited, "I am very grateful!"
Zhizhou hurriedly stood up from the ground, his face flushed with excitement.
And just when Zhizhou stood up
Swish, swish, swish.
There was the sound of bushes being pushed aside.
Along with this rustling sound, there was also a childish female voice with an eager tone:
"Wait, wait a minute! Lord Ittousai!"
The bushes that were a long way away from Ogata were roughly pushed aside, and a small face poked out from the brushed bushes. It was Azuki.
Probably because she was anxious, she was in a hurry to get out of the bushes, so she rolled and crawled out of the bushes.
"Master Ittousai! I also have something to say to you!"
"Can you please take some time to listen to me?"
After saying that, Asuki paused for a moment, then knelt down on the ground in the same posture as Naoshu just now.
Azhu:o(≧口≦)o“Please!”
Ashukumoto also hid like Naoshu and others, waiting for Ogata to disembark.
But she was one step late.
Zhizhou and Ryoma rushed out of the bushes where they were hiding first.
It was only then that Azuki realized that there was someone like her hiding in the bushes, waiting for Ogata to appear.
Naotshu was one step ahead of Azuki. Although Azuki was unwilling to do this, he could only wait silently for now. Waiting for Ogata and Naotshu to finish talking.
Fortunately, Ogata and Naoshu's conversation didn't last long, and Tsuki quickly waited for the opportunity to appear.
Azhu's Tuxia seat at this time was actually imitating Zhizhou.
Although the place where she had just been hiding was a little far away from Ogata and the others, she could barely hear what they were saying.
She clearly saw that Ogata finally relented after hearing that Naoshu was asking Izuku to step down.
Ogata Ittousai may not be good at dealing with people who sit down on him!
Azhu concluded with his eyes shining brightly.
Azuki, who felt that he had gained a very useful piece of information, couldn't wait to use Dogeza on Ogata after he appeared from behind the bushes.
Looking at Azuki who suddenly popped out and was kneeling in front of him, Ogata was speechless now.
Why did another one pop up... Do you also have something to say to me... Why do you all have to wait until you get off the boat before you come to me in a swarm... Is it possible that you all have to tell me something and don't let too much go?
Is this what the rest of the world has heard...
Ogata complained silently in his heart.
Compared to Naoshu, Ogata still had a good idea of what Azuki wanted to say to him. Ogata guessed that Azuki probably wanted to ask him, "Why can you master luck so quickly?" and "Have you ever learned luck before?"
So cool" and other questions.
After getting off that pirate ship, the tiredness that emerged from the bottom of his heart has not completely dissipated from Ogata's body until now.
This feeling of exhaustion made Ogata, who didn't want to spend more time dealing with their stalking, feel like "You have something to say too" when faced with Tsuki who suddenly showed up and expressed that he had something to say to Ogata.
If you want to talk to me, just say it, anyway, one more is not more, one less is not enough." This is like giving up on yourself.
"...Then Ashuku, you should come with us." Ogata sighed softly, "But I said, don't waste too much of my time in advance."
"Okay! No problem!" Azhu said excitedly, "I will never waste too much of your time!"
Ogata Ittosai is really not good at dealing with people who do Dogeza on him!
Azhu secretly said excitedly in his heart.
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Before the sky turned completely dark, Ogata and others finally arrived at Fengnan Town.
Just as the crew of the stowaway boat told Ogata before, Toyonan Town is a small town.
After entering Toyonan Town, the first thing Ogata felt was "lack of vitality".
This is probably a common problem in small towns like this that lack population.
But although the majong is small, it has all the internal organs. Fengnan Town is small, but the hotels in it are still very complete.
There are everything from cheap hotels with fleas and bed bugs on the tatami mats and bedding to high-end hotels with their own bathhouses.
Ogata did not hesitate to choose the most upscale hotel with its own bathhouse.
The reason is also very simple. Now that Ogata has no human skin mask, he can no longer freely enter and leave places like bathhouses where he must strip naked.
So if he wanted to take a bath, Ogata could only rent a hotel with its own bathhouse.
After checking into the room and having a hasty dinner, Ogata, Omachi, Azuki, Naoshu, and Isshiki sat across from each other in the hotel room opened by Ogata.
"Okay, Mr. Isshiki, if you have anything to say to me, please do it quickly." Ogata said calmly.
Adhering to the concept of "first come, first served", Ogata decided to let Naoshu and the others go first, followed by Azuki.
After Naoshu nodded solemnly to show his agreement, he turned his eyes and glanced at Atachi, who was sitting on Ogata's left side, and for some reason, Atsuki, who was sitting on Ogata's right side very familiarly.
"Sir Ittousai, could you please exclude outsiders first?"
As soon as Zhizhou finished speaking, A Zhu stuck out his tongue very consciously, then stood up and left the room: "Then I'll walk outside the hotel for a while... and I'll be back later."
Azuki moved, but Amachi didn't move.
"This is my wife." Ogata looked at Atachi on the left, "I have shared my honor and disgrace for a long time, and she is like half of me. So she doesn't have to leave."
Seeing that Ogata said that Omachi did not need to leave, Naoshu said nothing more.
In the room, only Ogata and Omachi were left, sitting in pairs with Naoshu and Isshiki.
After Azuki left, Naoshu still didn't start the topic immediately. Instead, he signaled Isshiki next to him with his eyes and asked him to check around the room.
After Isshiki checked that no one was eavesdropping outside the room and sat alone by the door to monitor the movement outside the door, Naoshu finally cleared his throat.
"Master Ittousai, in order not to waste your time, I will tell you directly."
Naoshu stared directly into Ogata's eyes, and then said word by word:
"Lord Ittosai, I hope you can help us defeat the Tokugawa family!"
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After hearing what Naoshu just said, the first words that came to Ogata's mind were "Huh?"
After savoring and digesting what Naoshu just said, Ogata's eyes widened slightly in shock.
Ogata's reaction was relatively calm, but the situation was different for A-Machi, who was sitting next to Ogata. A-Machi's eyes were so wide open that they seemed about to fall off, and his expression also changed drastically.
Unlike Ogata, Atachi is not a time traveler, but a genuine Edo period person.
What Naoshu just said had an even greater impact on Omachi, a native of the Edo period.
"...Down with...the Tokugawa family...?" Amachi murmured, "Do you mean...down with the Edo shogunate?"
Naozhou nodded solemnly: "That's right. We want to do justice and get rid of the Edo shogunate, which has become a worm that harms the world."
"so"
Naoshu cast a fiery gaze towards Ogata.
"I would like to ask Lord Ittosai to lend me a helping hand."
"As long as Lord Itosai helps us, we can win tens of thousands of people... No! It's like we can win an army of millions!"
"After all, your name and influence alone are enough to equal thousands of troops..."
Before Zhizhou finished speaking, Xu Feng raised his hand to signal him to be quiet.
Seeing Ogata's gesture, Naoshu also consciously closed his mouth.
"Isn't this a little different from what you told me before?" Ogata said solemnly, "More than an hour ago, you clearly told me that you wanted to invite me to be a swordsmanship teacher."
"Why did you ask me to help you bring down the curtain after more than an hour?"
After hearing this, Zhizhou smiled awkwardly.
"Sorry, this is my responsibility. I didn't make it clear before."
"I'm going to explain it to you slowly now."
"I will explain one by one the reasons for our decision to collapse and the things we want to ask Lord Ittosai to do."
After saying that, he cleared his throat vigorously.
Probably because I am older, I have a little more phlegm in my circumference.
After clearing your throat, straighten your back and sit up straight.
"As I just mentioned: We are determined to kill the Edo shogunate for the sake of justice."
"To put it bluntly, the reason why we decided to close down the curtain is to let people all over the world live a good life."
Zhizhou paused again and cleared his throat.
"I wonder if you have heard of this famous saying: Keeping the peasants half-dead is the secret to running a country."
"This sentence can be described as extremely cruel."
"If farmers don't have to worry about eating, they will easily have random thoughts."
"And if farmers cannot eat, they are prone to riots."
"This extremely vicious sentence is, to put it bluntly, a way to fool the people. Although the farmers will not starve to death, their lives are not that good, and the days when they have enough to eat are numbered. In this way, the farmers will fight for food.
He works hard for food."
“It not only prevents farmers from having evil thoughts because their lives are too good, but also prevents farmers from rioting because their lives are too bad.”
"These extremely vicious words were spoken by Tokugawa Ieyasu, the founder of the Edo shogunate."
"For the past two hundred years, the Edo shogunate has been faithfully practicing this ancestral precept."
"Everything he has done since the opening of the Edo shogunate has been for the sole purpose of maintaining his own rule."
"So looking at the history since the opening of the Edo shogunate, we can find that the Edo shogunate never thought about improving the lives of samurai and common people from the beginning to the end."
"Let's take farmers as an example. Thanks to the 'good intentions' of the Edo shogunate, the lives of farmers have never improved in the past two hundred years. They have only been affected by 'the hungry land has to rebel' and'
He alternates back and forth between these two states of "barely alive."
"The various actions taken by the Edo shogunate to maintain their rule are far more than that."
"For example, a large part of the reason why the lockdown order was issued was to prevent the daimyo in the southwest from strengthening themselves by doing business with foreign countries, and to prevent the power of merchants and Kirikidan from growing bigger and threatening the Edo shogunate's power over the world.
“The rule of
“Another example is the misinterpretation of ‘Bushido’.”
“I wonder if you two have studied the development history of the so-called ‘Bushido’?”
"The original 'Bushido' was not as deformed as it is now..."
"At the beginning of 'Bushido', warriors were required to possess the following qualities: justice, courage, benevolence, etiquette, sincerity, honor, loyalty, and self-denial."
"But gradually the 'Bushido' changed its flavor."
"Today's 'Bushido' only requires warriors to possess these three qualities: fame, loyalty, and courage."
"Loyalty and courage are linked to reputation. No matter how excellent a warrior's qualities are in other aspects, if he lacks only one of loyalty and courage, he will be cast aside and be called a samurai's disgrace."
"Only a warrior who is both loyal and brave is a true warrior."
"This is...the current 'Bushido'."
A look of anger slowly appeared on Zhizhou's face.
“The initiator of the change in ‘Bushido’ was 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 not betray under any circumstances."
"Emphasis on 'brave'. Let the warriors transform into warriors who are not afraid of death and become useful chess pieces."
"Then I emphasize again that only by possessing 'loyalty' and 'brave' can one obtain 'fame'."
"The Edo shogunate relied on this distorted interpretation of 'Bushido' to control the samurai and make them work stupidly for them..."
Because he recalled... the warriors of Hirose Domain led by Nanabahara...
Although he hated Nanabahara and others who had bloodbathed the Sakakibara Sword Hall with his own hands.
But for Nanabahara and others, Ogata also had some sympathy for the lord they defended with all their loyalty and courage, and in the end he didn't treat them as human beings.
Ogata still vividly remembers the way Matsudaira Gennai kicked Nanabahara's head away like a football.
"In short, the Edo shogunate's philosophy of governing the country is just to maintain their rule."
"As long as you can maintain your rule, everything else can be ignored."
"They never thought about how well they would govern the world and this country, and how happy they would make the warriors and common people live."
Speaking of this, Zhizhou let out a few self-deprecating laughs.
"I originally...had some expectations for the Edo shogunate. I hoped that the Dukes of the shogunate would one day no longer only focus on maintaining their rule, but would start working hard for the happiness of all people in the world."
"However... Matsudaira Sadanobu, who came to power four years ago, ruthlessly shattered my expectations."
"It was only after Matsudaira Sadanobu came to power that we decided to overthrow the Tokugawa family."
Suddenly hearing the name of an acquaintance from Naoshu's mouth, Ogata couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
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ps: If nothing else happens, the author will [ask for leave] tomorrow. Tomorrow he will go on a long-lost family trip. What temple will the whole family go to worship Buddha? Because this volume will cover a lot of Buddhist content, so
The author also happened to go to pick up some material.