I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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"After knowing the failure of the war in the north, those who hate me must be like cats smelling fish now."

"These people who are waiting for the opportunity and ready to pull me off the horse at any time are the big threat and the big trouble."

"Tachibana, go and make arrangements tonight. By tomorrow morning, I will see that our team is ready to return to Edo at any time."

"Are you going back to Edo tomorrow?" Tachibana asked in surprise.

Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded: "His Majesty has already seen it, and there is no reason to stay in Kyoto anymore. Since there is no reason to stay here, then go back as soon as possible."

"Yes." Tachibana nodded vigorously, "I understand, I will make arrangements immediately!"

Matsudaira Sadanobu, who nodded slightly, was about to wave his hand to signal Tachibana to leave first, when a loud announcement suddenly sounded outside the door:

"My lord! Here is an urgent message from Dasaka Castle!"

The owner of this voice is one of Matsudaira Sadanobu's personal attendants.

"Osaka Joyo?" Matsudaira Sadanobu frowned slightly.

One of the prominent official positions of Osaka Castle and Kyoto Soji.

Responsible for monitoring the shogunate daimyos who are weaker than the shogunate.

"Bring it up."

"Yes!"

The attendant opened the door, then quickly rushed to Matsudaira Takanobu holding a sealed envelope, and presented the letter with both hands.

Matsudaira Sadanobu took the letter, and after confirming that the seal was correct, he handsomely opened the envelope with one hand and pulled out the letter paper.

The urgent letter sent by Osaka Castle to the old middle school is definitely not a greeting letter to the old middle school to greet the old middle school and flatter the old middle school.

Tachibana wanted to see what was written in this letter.

But without the permission of the old man, he is just a mere surname, so it is naturally impossible for him to be qualified to read the content of the letter.

So Tachibana could only suppress her curiosity and wait quietly.

Matsudaira Sadanobu's reading speed was very fast, and he put down the letter in his hand after a while.

"Tachibana, tomorrow's formation will be changed." Matsudaira Sadanobu said calmly.

"Huh?" Tachibana was surprised.

"I won't be going back to Edo tomorrow." Sadanobu Matsudaira squinted his eyes slightly, and his eyes were shining brightly. "Tomorrow, I will change my route to the south, to Osaka."

The Kinki Plain, where Kyoto and Osaka are located, has been fully developed thousands of years ago. This area can be regarded as one of the most developed areas in Japan.

Ogata thought it would take them about 3 days to reach Osaka, but because the infrastructure between Kyoto and Osaka is so good that it far exceeds his imagination, there are straight roads everywhere, So in the end, it took only 2 and a half days to arrive at the destination of their trip, Osaka.

Osaka, in a certain busy city

"Is this Osaka?" Ogata raised the bamboo hat on his head slightly, and looked at everything around him.

None of Ogata, Acho, and Azuki have ever been to Osaka, and these three people are all looking at this strange city like a country bumpkin who has just entered the city. Go ahead and lead the way for both of them.

"Look! The latest Nanban glass beads!"

"Kumamoto's Tangerines! Kumamoto's Tangerines!"

"Soba in Edo! The most authentic Edo soba!"

Because it is in a downtown area, I let out a cigarette and looked at both sides of the street, and there are shops and merchants hawking loudly everywhere.

Because it is in Osaka, the most authentic Kansai dialect is passed into Ogata's ears, which makes Ogata feel a strange feeling that is inexplicable, and it feels like there are many A-machi talking.

"It really is the kitchen of the world," Azuki, who was walking beside Ogata, murmured at this moment, "Glass beads from Nanban, oranges from Kumamoto, soba noodles from Edo, and crabs from Oshu can really be seen in Osaka. Goods from all over the world"

As soon as he entered Osaka, Ogata keenly felt that although it is one of the "three major cities" as famous as Kyoto and Edo, the atmosphere in the air of Osaka is very distinct from the atmosphere of the other two cities. different.

To be precise, it should be said that the atmospheres of the three cities are all different.

The reason why the atmospheres of the three cities are different is probably related to the different labels of the three cities.

If the label of Kyoto, the ancient capital of thousands of years, is culture, and the label of Edo, the ruling center of the Tokugawa shogunate, is politics, then the label of Osaka is probably economy.

Osaka is located in the Kinki Plain, adjacent to the sea, with extremely convenient waterway transportation, and it is just located in the middle of Japan. This unique geographical location makes Osaka a "distribution base" for collecting and distributing materials from all over the country.

In Osaka, you can see goods from all over the world, especially specialties from all over the world, so it is called "the kitchen of the world".

As a giant economic city, Osaka has also attracted and cultivated a large number of giant businessmen who can be said to be incomparably rich.

These giant merchants in Osaka are so terrifying that the folks have a common saying: When the merchants in Osaka are angry, all the princes of the world are shocked.

Due to the defects of the system, the gradual collapse of the small peasant economy and the emergence of capitalism, most of the vassal states have fallen into a financial dilemma to this day.

In order to get rid of the bankruptcy of the vassal government, a large number of vassal states had to rely on borrowing money from the giant merchants in Osaka, including the powerful vassals like Satsuma.

The total number of stones in the Satsuma clan is 77 stones, and it is one of the most powerful clans in the world. However, in essence, the finances of the Satsuma clan have always been ugly, and they have always owed an astonishing amount of debts.

It is estimated that the Satsuma clan has already owed 500 million taels of gold to the outside world. Even if they don't spend a penny for a whole year, it will take hundreds of years to pay it off.

It is precisely because most of the vassal states are now relying on borrowing money from the giant merchants in Osaka that there is a saying that "when the merchants in Osaka are angry, all the princes in the world are shocked".

If one day, all these giant merchants in Osaka stop borrowing money from the feudal states, then more than half of the feudal states in the world will directly collapse financially, and the feudal lords will no longer be able to afford porridge.

"How?" At this time, Fumo, who was walking in front, suddenly turned around and chatted with Ogata and the others, "Isn't the city of Osaka very lively?"

Ogata nodded: "Well, it is indeed more energetic than Kyoto and Edo."

"I have seriously thought about moving here in Osaka before." Fumo said with a smile, "Compared to Kyoto, I actually prefer Osaka, which is more lively. But in the end, my moving plan was due to various reasons. And let it go."

"I'm the opposite." Ogata smiled, "I like Kyoto more than Osaka."

"Oh? Why?" Feng Mo cast a curious look at Ogata.

"There is no special reason. How should I explain it to you? Simply put, I prefer the more relaxed and slower-paced atmosphere of Kyoto."

Having said that, Ogata changed into a half-joking tone:

"If one day in the future, I want to find a place to settle down, I might choose Kyoto as my place of residence."

"Hehehe. Do you live in Kyoto?" Feng Mo laughed again, "The prices in Kyoto are very expensive."

While talking and laughing, they finally arrived in front of an ordinary-looking carpenter's shop

This carpentry shop was opened by Xianbingwei, Feng Mo's old subordinate.

Feng Moben was going to be invited by his old subordinate to visit his old subordinate in Osaka, and at the same time help Ogata to find the said to be very powerful swordsmith: Yuji.

So after arriving in Osaka, they planned to meet Xianbingwei first, and then go to find Yuer slowly.

Xianbingwei has excellent carpentry skills. Before Fuma Zhili was disbanded, Fuma and the others relied on paste umbrellas and wooden crafts made by Xianbingwei to subsidize the expenses of Fuma Zhili.

After Fuma disbanded Fuma Village, Xianbingwei took his family and moved to Osaka, where he opened a small carpenter's shop, which has remained to this day.

Ogata and Atachi: "Mr. Senbingwei, long time no see."

Ogata and Atachi, who had met Senbei in Kyoto last summer, saluted him after seeing him for a long time.

When Xianbingwei saw that Ogata came here with Fengmo, he was surprised at first, then quickly reacted, and entertained them very warmly.

Ogata and A-machi had only met Xianbingwei who had visited Fuma in Kyoto last summer, and they were not very familiar with him, and Azuki didn't even know him.

So in order to avoid embarrassment, and to leave enough space for Fumo and his old subordinate to reminisce about the old times, Ogata, Acho, and Azuku briefly greeted Xianbingwei and left Xianbingwei. Carpenter's shop in my hometown, hang out in the streets to pass the time.

After a while, they passed a tea house that kept emitting a pleasant smell of tea.

The three people who were so saliva by the aroma of the tea got into the tea house, found a seat at random, ordered 3 cups of tea and a few plates of dim sum, and watched the streets with people coming and going outside the tea house, while having a Chatting with each other.

"I always feel that the people in Osaka are very enthusiastic and cheerful." Azuki said, holding hot tea with both hands and sipping it, "It's very different from the people in Kyoto."

"Perhaps this is the character of Osaka people." Ogata picked up a stick of glutinous rice dumpling and stuffed it into his mouth.

"The Kansai dialect spoken by people in Osaka is quite different from my Kansai dialect." Because there were a lot of glutinous rice balls stuffed into his mouth, Ah-cho spoke a little vaguely.

The three of them were all very interested in the city they visited for the first time. The three of them quickly drank the tea in their respective cups and cleaned up all the snacks they bought, and planned to continue to visit various places in Osaka.

But the three of them just left the door of the tea house

"Wow wow ah ah ah ah ah!"

The three of them heard the sound of wailing coming from the door of the teahouse.

The three people who were startled by the cry hurriedly followed the sound to see that the owner of the cry was a little girl who was only about 12 years old.

She hugged a big package, crouched by the gate of the tea house, buried her face in the big package in her arms, and cried loudly.

The girl's cry not only shocked the three of Ogata and the others, but also the passers-by around, but almost everyone looked away after glancing at the little girl, and continued to do their own things except Xu. Fang them 3 people.

"Little girl, what's the matter with you?" A-Ming walked over quickly, bent down and patted the little girl's back.

Suddenly a stranger came forward, and the little girl was so startled that even her crying stopped for a moment.

Maybe it's because A-Machi is pretty, so she looks particularly friendly. Under A-Machi's kind words and persuasion, the little girl gradually explained the reason for her crying.

It turned out that the girl was an apprentice in a grocery store.

She got a task from her boss today: to sell the unsold batch of tooth powder in the store along the street.

The so-called tooth powder can be understood as the toothpaste of this era. Using tooth powder to wash teeth can not only clean teeth, but also freshen breath.But because in this era, the importance of tooth brushing and dental health has not yet been popularized, so not many people like to brush their teeth, so tooth powder is not a best-selling product.

The little girl held the dozens of packs of tooth powder that the boss gave her, and started to sell them along the street since early morning, but it was already afternoon, but only 3 packs were sold.

The delay in selling the tooth powder made the little girl very anxious that if she failed to complete the task, she would be scolded by the boss.

Extremely anxious, her psychological defense line collapsed, and she couldn't help crying loudly.

"I can understand this kind of mood." After knowing what happened, Azhu cast a sympathetic look at the little girl, "When I was practicing under the guidance of my grandfather, I often failed to complete the tasks assigned by my grandfather. And crying out loud."

Atachi, who was still patting the little girl's back, had a sympathetic light in her eyes. As a "Hara Ninja", she also understood the anxiety of not being able to complete the task.

Ogata does not have obvious mood swings like A-Machi and Azuki, and has always looked expressionless.

However, after the little girl finished explaining why she was crying, Ogata said something to the little girl that both Acho and Azuki couldn't help being surprised: "Don't cry. I'll help you." You sell these tooth powders so that you can deal with your boss? Anyway, I'm free now."

Acho, Azuki, and the little girl: "Huh?" 3

The three of them uttered a "huh?" very tacitly at the same time.

"Master Mashima." Azuki's eyes lit up, "Are you still selling things?"

Master Yidaosai is indeed a superman!

From time to time, Ogata can let Azuku see his powerful side besides swordsmanship, which also makes Ogata's image in Azhu's heart gradually become strange.

"No." Ogata replied honestly, "I've never sold anything. The only business-related skill I know is planning."

The skill point of abacus was given to him by "Ogata Hara". When he was the treasury officer of Hirose Clan, he spent more time with abacus than with swords.

"You don't have to shout loudly along the street to sell things." After adding this sentence, Ogata smiled and raised his hand to touch the handle of Da Shitian's waist, "Someone once taught me how to sell things. secret."

"If all goes well, I will probably be able to sell all these tooth powders in just 2 or 3 sticks of incense."

"Miss Isshiki. Thank you for accompanying me to buy knives." A very handsome young man with a very neat crochet hair showed a handsome smile while looking at a woman walking beside him. The beautiful woman in light yellow kimono bowed to thank her.

"You're welcome." Yishihua said coldly, "The medicine you gave my grandma before is very effective, so I'm just giving you a favor."

"Miss Yishi, I recently bought a new batch of good tea from Tangtu West Lake, let's taste it together some other day."

"Well, good." Isshiki replied without thinking, and then added, "When I have time."

During the conversation, the two had come to an intersection.

"You can just send it here." Yishihua said in a very polite tone, "Beiyuan-kun, see you later."

"Miss Yishi, let me take you to the entrance of your sword gym." The handsome young man called Beiyuan said quickly, "The law and order in Osaka is quite bad recently, and there are many small thieves of all kinds."

"No need." Yishihua responded without thinking again, "There is no need to send each other off."

Seeing that Yishihua's attitude is so firm, Beiyuan is too embarrassed to say anything more.

Just when Beiyuan planned to leave here according to Yishihua's intention, Beiyuan suddenly caught a glimpse of many people running towards a nearby intersection, and heard these people say in an excited tone:

"It seems that there is going to be a very powerful performance over there."

"What show?"

"I don't know. Go and see."

Listening to these conversations of the people around him, Bei Yuan's eyes lit up.

"Miss Isshiki." Kitahara hurriedly said to Isshiki, "There seems to be some very interesting performance going on over there. Before going home, let's go and see it together?"

Ask for a monthly pass!Ask for a monthly pass!Begging for a monthly ticket while crying with a headache!leopard head cry p

The foreign debt of 500 million taels of Satsuma mentioned in this chapter is not the author's nonsense, but the real history. For details, see the "Author's Words" below.