Chapter 645 How can Ogata and how can he compare with the source? 【5400】
"Is Toyotomi... Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Toyotomi?" Amachi asked in a cautious tone.
Lin nodded: "Yes, it's Toyotomi Hideyoshi's Toyotomi."
"Where should I start..." Lin stretched out her right index finger and scratched the hair on her right temple.
"You should all remember Shiranui, who was destroyed by our combined efforts half a year ago, right?"
"Shiranui has a very deep connection with our Toyotomi clan more than two hundred years ago."
"During the Warring States Period more than 200 years ago, Shiranui was just an unknown ninja."
"It wasn't until I got the help of my ancestor Toyotomi Hideyoshi that it became stronger."
"Shiranui-ri grew stronger because of the Toyotomi clan, and the Toyotomi clan survived because of Shiranui-ri."
"After Toyotomi Hideyoshi's death, Tokugawa Ieyasu, who had originally submitted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, showed his fangs and usurped the power of the country from the Toyotomi clan. He then launched the Osaka Winter Formation and the Osaka Summer Formation, and successfully defeated the Osaka Winter Formation and the Osaka Summer Formation.
The Toyotomi clan was attacked and destroyed."
"Osaka Castle, the base of the Toyotomi clan, was burned down."
"Head of the Toyotomi clan: Toyotomi Hideyori committed seppuku when Osaka Castle was destroyed."
"Toyotomi Hideyori's 8-year-old only son: Toyotomi Kunimatsu, was later beheaded in Rokujo Kawara."
"Only Toyotomi Hideyori's only daughter: Chiyohime survived, but she also became a nun at the forced request of Tokugawa Ieyasu."
"The above is the final outcome of the Toyotomi clan recorded in official history books."
"But the real history is not like this."
"When Tokugawa Ieyasu launched the Second Battle of Osaka, the Osaka Summer Formation, and completely destroyed the Toyotomi clan, someone risked his life and rushed into Osaka Castle, which was already engulfed in flames, and the flames were soaring into the sky, and rescued Toyotomi.
Hideyori’s only son: Toyotomi Kunimatsu.”
"The one who risked his life to save others was the Shiranui ninja who received great favor from the Toyotomi clan."
"The 'Toyotomi Kunimatsu' who was beheaded in Rokujo Kawara was just a stand-in whose appearance was difficult to distinguish from the real Kunimatsu."
"After Toyotomi Kunimatsu was rescued, he was taken to the Satsuma Domain, far away from the center of the Edo shogunate, and changed back to Toyotomi Hideyoshi's original surname - Kinoshita. Since then, he has lived in seclusion in Satsuma under the name Kinoshita, and has flourished to this day.
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"This is... my uncle and I's family background."
"My uncle and I are both direct descendants of the Toyotomi clan."
As if the "time freeze button" was pressed, the room became silent as Lin's voice fell, and no one moved.
After a long while, A-Machi, who looked in disbelief, muttered and broke the silence:
"Shiranui...did there ever be such a history..."
If there was anyone at the scene who was most shocked by Lin's words just now, it was undoubtedly Omachi, who was once a member of Shiranui.
Ogata had seen a lot of storms, so his reaction was relatively calm and his expression was calm.
"It's normal that you don't know." Lin said, "More than two hundred years ago, after successfully rescuing Toyotomi Kunimatsu, in order to ensure that the secret that 'the bloodline of the Toyotomi clan has not been cut off' would not be leaked, we organized and planned this
The ninjas involved in the operation to rescue the Toyotomi clan kept this secret secret and did not mention it to anyone - including their families and the rest of the Shiranui companions."
"After these ninjas who participated in the rescue of the Toyotomi clan died one by one, no one in Shiranui knew that their companions had ever accomplished such a feat."
"The only people who know about 'Shiranui rescuing the Toyotomi clan' are the descendants of the Toyotomi clan."
In addition to Amachi, who was once a member of Shiranui, there is another person whose expression is quite wonderful - that is Shimada.
"Lord, lord... So you... are actually a descendant of Toyotomi Hideyoshi..." Shimada's face turned slightly red due to emotion.
At this time, Shimada suddenly discovered that the three people sitting next to him, Mamiya, Makimura, and Asai, all had very calm expressions...
He looked like he already knew about Lin, Genichi and the others...
"Seniors." Shimada turned his eyes at high speed, letting his eyes pass over the faces of Mamiya, Makimura, and Asai repeatedly, "Don't you all know the secret of my lord a long time ago?"
"Yes." Makimura, who crossed his arms on his chest, said bluntly, "We have known about it for a long time. After all, the three of us are old people in Calabash House."
"Shimada, you are a newcomer who has just joined." Mamiya showed a slightly apologetic smile to Shimada, "So I can't tell you this important secret yet. Several of us have also joined Calabash House.
, I worked under the lord for a long time, and after being tested by the lord and confirmed that he was a trustworthy person, I was informed of the secret."
"So that's it..." Shimada raised his hand and scratched the back of his head, "If that's the case, then I can understand it... After all, it's really impossible to tell such an important secret to a newcomer who has just arrived.
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"That means...I have always been working for the Toyotomi clan?"
"I never expected that Shiranui Ri would have such a connection with my lord..."
Speaking of this, Shimada paused as if he suddenly remembered something.
"Then... In this case..." Shimada looked at Lin with a strange expression, "Half a year ago, when we attacked Shiranui... is it considered ungrateful?"
"Of course not." Lin said without thinking, "Shiranui aided the Toyotomi clan - this can be regarded as repaying a favor."
"After all, it was the Toyotomi clan who was kind to Shiranui in the first place."
"Without the help of the Toyotomi clan, where would Shiranui be?"
"So Shiranui's rescue of Toyotomi Kunimatsu is equal to our Toyotomi clan, and no one owes anyone any more."
"Therefore, I don't have any psychological burden in conquering Shiranui."
"...Although we all know the master's life experience..." Asai, who was already taciturn and had not spoken since just now, suddenly said abruptly, "But the master also has an older brother - I don't know about this at all.
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"I don't know either." Makimura agreed.
Mamiya said nothing.
But he turned his doubtful gaze to Lin.
Judging from their words and actions, none of them knew that Lin had an older brother named "Toyotomi Nobuhide".
Lin's eyes dimmed slightly at this moment.
"...The reason why I don't tell you that I have a brother is because...I don't want to mention anything about that person."
Yuan Yi, who was sitting next to Lin, glanced at Lin.
Looking at Lin's gloomy expression, Yuan Yi let out a silent sigh.
"Next..." Yuan Yi said, "Let me do the talking."
"Toyotomi Kunimatsu was rescued and sent to a remote countryside in Satsuma Domain, so that Toyotomi's bloodline could be continued."
"A few die-hard loyalists of the Toyotomi clan were also rescued there."
"The throne of the people of the world was taken away by the Tokugawa clan - those die-hard loyalists who were rescued to the Satsuma clan were all unwilling to grit their teeth and wanted to bite them into pieces."
"So in order to regain the world, they strictly trained Toyotomi Kunimatsu, who at that time changed his name to Kinoshita Nobuji to hide his name from others."
"And Toyotomi Kunimatsu, under the influence of his ears and eyes, also took the restoration of the 'Toyotomi country' as his highest goal and worked hard to temper himself."
"However... things like restoring the country... I don't need to go into details. You should all know how difficult it is and how slim the success rate is, right?"
"Toyotomi Kunimatsu also knows that it is almost impossible to successfully restore the country with the efforts of one generation."
"So after having his own heir, Toyotomi Kunimatsu gave his heir... an education that was like brainwashing."
"Tell your descendants the bitter history of how the Toyotomi clan has survived so tenaciously, and educate your descendants: We must restore the Toyotomi kingdom, even if it takes a hundred generations, we must take back the throne of the world.
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"This education... is like a curse, passed down from generation to generation."
Yuan Yi gave a self-deprecating smile.
"Each generation of our Toyotomi clan has received the education that we must overthrow the Edo shogunate and reshape the Toyotomi empire."
"It has been passed on and on, and it has been passed on to this day, but the curse has not ended yet."
"You should also know, right? Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a man with poor fertility. He had many wives and concubines, but he only gave birth to 2 children in his life. One of them died young, and only Toyotomi Hideyoshi survived.
He settled down and grew up successfully."
"Toyotomi Hideyoshi's defect of difficulty in having children was unfortunately passed down to the family."
"Although we have been multiplying for two hundred years, our Toyotomi clan is still declining. When it came to my generation, there were only two direct descendants in my generation - me and my younger brother... who is Lin's grandfather.
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"My father is also a man deeply affected by the 'curse'."
"As long as I can remember, I have been taught by my father, 'We must revive the Toyotomi clan.'"
"But maybe it's because my brain is different from ordinary people."
Yuan Yi smiled and shrugged.
"So even though I have experienced this kind of 'curse'-like education since childhood, I have not been harmed by this 'curse'."
"I've never been very interested in 'reviving the Toyotomi clan'."
"After I first came into contact with swordsmanship when I was 13 years old, I became even less interested in 'restoring the Toyotomi clan'."
"The reason why I came into contact with swordsmanship so late is because of my father's blessing. He always felt that swordsmanship could only achieve 'ten enemies' or 'hundred enemies' at most. This was very important to the revival of Toyotomi.
Shi Wuyi has been forcing me to learn military strategies that can defeat ten thousand enemies, as well as the emperor's mental skills."
"It was through various coincidences and accidents that I came into contact with swordsmanship."
"After I came into contact with swordsmanship, my interest in swordsmanship completely overshadowed my interest in 'reviving the Toyotomi clan'."
"My father was furious when he saw this."
"Originally, I tried to argue with reason, and even told my father bluntly: Restoring Toyotomi and so on are completely idiotic."
"But my father has been so deeply affected by the 'curse' that he can no longer listen to my words."
"So - when I was 16 years old, in order to escape from my father who was obsessed with magic, and in order to travel around the world and further hone my sword skills, I left home and the Satsuma Domain."
"When I left home, I tried to persuade my younger brother, Kinoshita Shoichi, who was 2 years younger than me, to leave."
"But - Shengyi is different from me. He was perfectly harmed by the 'curse'."
"Not only did he not plan to leave home with me, he also planned to report me to my father."
"In desperation, I had no choice but to leave alone."
"After I left home to practice, I thought about going home several times - but for some reason, all kinds of troubles always came to my door."
"Sometimes just by quietly going to a noodle shop to eat noodles, you can get involved in trouble for no apparent reason..."
"But thanks to these successive troubles, my swordsmanship has also improved rapidly."
Upon hearing what Genichi said, Ogata was stunned for a moment.
Then, as if he had found a soulmate, he showed a strange expression full of emotion and nodded heavily.
He really felt what Yuan Yi said just now.
He would never forget - in the summer half a year ago, when he was just going to a noodle shop in Kyoto to eat noodles, several officials suddenly rushed in to arrest him, and then he was inexplicably involved in trouble.
...and then spent the longest night of his life in Kyoto.
"It wasn't until I was 24 years old that I finally had the time and margin to go home."
"Returning home after 8 years - things have changed before I imagined it."
"The house is still the same house, but both parents have passed away."
"Only Katsuichi is left in the family and there is a strange girl - that is Kinoshita Katsuichi's wife, who is also my sister-in-law: Aruo."
"When I return home this time, I actually want to take this opportunity to dissuade my father so that Shengyi and the others will not be harmed by the 'curse' again..."
"Traveling abroad for eight years has broadened my horizons a lot."
"It also made me more determined to think that reviving the Toyotomi clan is a complete idiot's dream."
"After eight years of traveling, my eloquence has improved greatly, and I have the confidence to convince my father better than them."
"Who knew that my father had passed away..."
"Katsuichi, whom I haven't seen for 8 years, has grown into something extraordinary."
"I thought I would have a chance to wake him up."
"But who would have thought that after seven years of not seeing each other, he would be poisoned even more deeply."
"Not only did he not listen to my advice at all, he also called me a traitor and a fool who could only swing a sword. He told me to get out of his sight."
"At that time, I was in my prime of life. Shengyi was so stubborn and stubborn, and he spoke so rudely to me, which made me angry."
"I yelled at him, 'Then you can fend for yourself! I don't care about you!', and then I slammed the door and left."
"When I slammed the door and left, I really thought that I would never interact with Shengyi again, and he could do whatever he wanted."
"Not long after I left home, due to various mistakes, I came to the only port in Japan open to foreign countries - Nagasaki Port."
"There, I met a very powerful businessman friend."
"With his invitation and help, I boarded a Dutch merchant ship that was willing to take me abroad."
"At that time, I had already intended to travel abroad and see the wider world."
"However, due to the Edo shogunate's national lockdown order, my wish has been difficult to realize."
"The national lockdown order stipulates that Japanese nationals are not allowed to leave the country. If a merchant ship assists a national to leave the country, the merchant will never be allowed to come to Japan again."
"Because of this troublesome regulation, not even one merchant ship is willing to take people abroad."
"A merchant ship is willing to take me abroad - this is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."
"I hesitated for a long time and finally decided not to miss this rare opportunity."
"The merchant ship that is willing to carry me is a Dutch merchant ship. They want to return to the Netherlands."
"So, I took this merchant ship and left Japan and went to the Western continent of Europa."
"Originally, my original plan was to travel to the Netherlands for a year and a half and then return to Japan."
"But who would have known - accidents happen frequently."
"After staying in the Netherlands for a year, I boarded a commercial ship to Japan."
"However, when the merchant ship arrived in the English Channel, it encountered a storm and the whole ship sank. I held a piece of wood and floated to England."
"I only spoke Dutch and a little Chinese at that time, so I couldn't communicate with the English people at all. It was a difficult time when I drifted to England. I could only rely on movements and momentum to communicate with people.
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"Then, through various mistakes, we arrived in France on the other side of England."
"Then he got involved in some troubles and had to run to the Holy Roman Empire in the east."
"After arriving in the Holy Roman Empire, all kinds of troubles continued to trouble me. I went south to the Papal State, and then east to the Kingdom of Lucia."
"After arriving in the country of Lucia, I couldn't rest. I got on a ship to the America continent by accident, and arrived at the America continent, which is even further away from Japan."
"In short - ever since I went abroad, bad luck has been following me. Every time I try to return to my country, various accidents happen and I get further and further away from Japan."
At this moment, Ogata's mouth twitched.
He could no longer show "I understand you" to Yuan Yi like he did just now.
He originally thought that he and Yuanyi were the same type of people, both of whom were easily entangled in all kinds of troubles.
And now... Ogata was shocked to realize - how could he think that his level of "troublemaking" could be compared to Genichi's?
"After arriving in America, I finally boarded a ship to Japan with the help of a friend."
Yuan Yi's narration of his "legendary adventure" is not over yet.
"When I left Japan, I was a 24-year-old young man."
"When I set foot on Japanese soil again, I was already 54 years old."
"It has been a full 30 years since I left Japan."
"The time I spent abroad was longer than the time I spent in Japan."
"Because I stayed abroad for too long, it took me a long time to finally speak Japanese fluently again when I first returned to China."
"On the eve of leaving Japan, I made up my mind - I would never care about Katsuichi again, and let this stubborn idiot Katsuichi fend for himself."
"But after 30 years of living abroad, my temperament has become much more mature. I am no longer as impulsive and easy to get angry as I was when I was young."
"As my age and temperament grew, I also understood Katsuichi's hostility towards me."
"After returning to Japan after 30 years, the first thing I did was to go back to my hometown. I wanted to meet Katsuichi and get back together with Katsuichi."
"After I returned to my hometown when I was nearly sixty years old... I finally understood what 'things have changed and people have changed'."
"The house in my hometown has become more dilapidated."
"There is no sign of Sheng Yi in the house anymore."
"I only saw the old Aruo, a strange young woman, and a 9-year-old little girl."
"Although we haven't seen each other for 30 years, Aruo still remembers me. She recognized me as her brother at a glance."
"After her explanation, I realized that Sheng Yi had died of illness a long time ago."
"The young woman at home is the daughter-in-law of Sheng Yi and A Ruo."
"And that 9-year-old little girl is the granddaughter of Shengyi and Aruo—that is, Xiaolin."
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I remember the author once introduced to you - Toyotomi Kunimatsu was rescued to Satsuma Domain and it was not the author's fault. There are related unofficial rumors. According to unofficial records: Toyotomi Kunimatsu was rescued to Satsuma Domain and then ran to Hinode Domain.
, became the ancestor of the Kinoshita family branch of the Hinode Domain, and changed his name to Kinoshita Nobuji.
There is an unofficial history about Toyotomi Hideyoshi, that is, Toyotomi Hideyoshi was a man with such a green head that he could run a horse. For details, please see the "Writer's Words" below.