I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan - Chapter 694

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“No, the infamy he has brought might even surpass that of Oda Nobunaga.” Feng Mo added, “At least when Oda Nobunaga burned down Mount Hiei, he still had some morality.”

“And now… if you attack Koya Mountain, then in the eyes of outsiders, you are a bunch of thugs who inexplicably attack the Holy Land.”

Asai, who has always been short-tempered, opened his mouth, subconsciously trying to refute Fuuma’s words.

But after opening his mouth, he found that he had no way to refute what Feng Mo said just now, because what Feng Mo said was the truth.

Since Buddhism was introduced into Japan, Buddhism has developed into an exaggerated behemoth in Japan due to Japan’s special cultural soil. It was not until the establishment of the Edo Shogunate two hundred years ago that the Buddhist power was finally completely suppressed.

The Edo shogunate took many measures to suppress the power of Buddhism, such as: prohibiting Buddhism from retraining monks and soldiers, and forming private ministries.

Under the suppression of many means by the Edo shogunate, the Buddhist powerhouses headed by Koyasan finally took on what a Buddhist school should look like. The monks concentrated on worshipping the Buddha, and each Buddhist powerhouse no longer had its own private land and private land as before. Parts, no different from warlords.

But it is precisely because of this that the infamy caused by trespassing and destroying Buddhist holy places like Koyasan today may even exceed that of Oda Nobunaga two hundred years ago.

More than 200 years ago, Oda Nobunaga burned down another holy site, Mount Hiei, which is also known as the “Two Centers of Buddhism in Japan” together with Mount Koya. Although it attracted the eternal infamy of “Buddha’s enemy”, it is still believed by many people to this day. Buddhists cursed, but there were still some people who spoke positively about Oda Nobunaga’s actions to burn Mount Hiei. .

Buddhism before the Edo period was indeed too arrogant.

Having one’s own land, not having to pay taxes to the government, and being able to form one’s own private ministries… These actions all exceed the duties of a monk.

The monks of Mount Hiei were even more arrogant, eating meat and drinking, and indulging in sensuality. They also fortified Mount Hiei and formed an astonishingly large army of monks to dictate national affairs.

As to why Oda Nobunaga wanted to destroy Mount Hiei, the conclusion was reached in the Edo period—not only to retaliate against Mount Hiei who fought against the Oda family at that time, but also to suppress the Buddhist forces in Japan.

After Tokugawa Ieyasu completed the great cause of unification of the world and ended the Warring States Period, a considerable part of the reason why the Edo shogunate was able to suppress the Buddhist forces smoothly was because Oda Nobunaga paved the way for him , The demise of Mount Hiei has greatly damaged the Buddhist power.

Therefore, after Oda Nobunaga made the “two major centers of Buddhism in Japan” directly into “The Sovereign of Koya Mountain”, many people praised Oda Nobunaga.

But now times have changed.

Buddhism today is not as annoying as it used to be.

If it is said that the former Buddhism was a fierce tiger, then the current Buddhism is a sheep that has been trained.

When you attacked Buddhism in the past, there may be many people who praised you.

Now, if you attack Buddhism again, people should only think that you have something wrong.

“…All right.”

At this time, Genichi’s voice was inserted into the conversation between Asai and Fuuma.

“How to act in the future, let’s wait until enough information is obtained from the mouth of the left and right guards.”

“That Yumenemon might have some other, more useful information.”

“…I see.” Asai let out a long sigh and nodded lightly.

“Let’s go.” Genichi raised his hand and patted Asai’s shoulder, then strode toward the room where he was currently interrogating Yoemon, “Let’s go and see if that big man is willing to cooperate with us obediently. .”

When everyone entered the room where Mamiya, Makimura, and Yoemon Gate were located, Makimura happened to be putting down the empty water bottle.

He took off the white cloth that covered Yoemon’s face, tears and snot covering the entire face of Yoemon.

Even a body strengthened by “the power of immortality” is difficult to resist the stress response when it feels like it is about to drown.

Yoemon, whose mouth and nose were finally able to breathe normally, panted hard and greedily swallowed the surrounding air, while he glanced at Genichi and the others standing beside him with hostile vigilant eyes.

However, after his eyes swept over Ogata’s body, his expression froze uncontrollably, and there was a look of fear that could not be hidden in his eyes.

“You’re called Zaemon-Eemon Zuoemon, right? It’s an interesting name.” Genichi squatted beside Zuoemon.

After Genichi squatted down beside him, the guards on the left and right quickly took their terrified eyes away from Ogata and looked at…or at Genichi.

“We already know a lot of information about you.”

Genichi said slowly in a relaxed tone as if he was chatting with an old friend.

“For example: You relied on the third pill to obtain the ‘immortal power’, your master is Toyotomi Nobuhide, and you are an important confidant of Toyotomi Nobuhide.”

As soon as Yuan Yi’s voice fell, he saw the left and right guards face expressionlessly and said:

“…I don’t know what you’re talking about.”

Genichi ignored Yoemon’s remarks, and continued on his own accord:

“We have some questions now that we want to ask you.”

“As long as you can answer our questions, we will not continue to torture you with waterboarding.”

“The first question – we have a companion named Kinoshita Rin who was taken away by you. She is about this height and is a girl. Do you know where she is now?”

Ogata had a rough guess as to how Yoemon would react after hearing Genichi’s interrogation—he would probably say nothing.

After all, Yoemon doesn’t seem to be the type to let go easily.

But who knew—Yoemon reacted completely different from what Ogata had guessed.

“Kinoshita…Rin?” Left and right guards widened their eyes, then turned their eyes and looked at Genichi seriously from head to toe, “You…could it be Toyotomi Genichi?”

The corners of Yuan Yi’s eyes twitched slightly: “…if I say ‘yes’, so what?”

As soon as the voice fell, the left and right guards, who had been stern face just now, slowly… showed a smile.

“Ha ha!”

He laughed a few times.

“It’s better to see once you hear it.”

Having said this, he put on a yin and yang strange tone:

“Since it is Lord Toyotomi’s uncle, then I can’t be too disrespectful, I have to be a little more honest.”

“Meeting for the first time, Mr. Toyotomi Yuan.”

“You were right just now. My master is indeed Mr. Toyotomi Nobuhide.”

“When Lord Toyotomi was chatting with us on weekdays, he often told us: he had an uncle who never had a face mask, and when he left home to revive Toyotomi, he didn’t even know whether he was alive or dead.”

The words of the left and right guards caused a slight change in the expressions of the Gourd House and others headed by Mamiya.

Ogata, who had known about Genichi and Rin’s past not long ago, couldn’t help but quietly squinted at Genichi’s expression—Genichi’s expression was uneasy.

It’s just that in his eyes, there is a faint sense of shame…

“You…” Mamiya was about to say something to the left and right guards, but Genichi raised his hand to signal silence.

“Lord Toyotomi once said that—” U-Guardian continued with a smug tone, “‘If Uncle is still alive, he is too cruel. After all these years, I haven’t come back to see myself. The younger brother and the younger brother’s family at a glance’.”

“Shut up!” Asai roared irritably as if he couldn’t listen anymore, “That beast, Toyotomi Nobuhide, is too embarrassed to call him ‘heartless’?”

“Back then, if it wasn’t because Toyotomi Nobuhide that **** took all the money and valuables from the family when he ran away from home, the lord she…”

“Asai, that’s enough.” Gen glanced at Asai, and then turned his eyes back to the left and right guards, “Nobuhide actually told you such a private matter… It seems that you are indeed Nobuyoshi’s cronies.”

“I don’t have time to listen to Xinxiu’s evaluation and prejudice of me slowly here.”

“I just want to know right now—what was wrong with Xinxiu, why did he take his sister away, and where did he take her sister?”

“Why do you want to capture Toyotomi Rin… This is…” The corners of the left and right guards’ mouths raised a mocking arc, “My brother misses my sister, so I took my sister to meet me again. Is there any problem?”

“I don’t believe a single word of these words.” Yuan Yi’s voice became extremely low, “If Xinxiu and Xiaolin had such a good relationship, then when Xinxiu left home, she would not have lost all the belongings in the family with her. Take away the valuables and let Xiaolin live a life of hunger and cold.”

“That’s right.” The sarcasm on Yoemon’s face became more intense, “Sorry, the reason I made up just now was too stupid, I will try to make up a more reasonable reason later.”

“Please give me some time, I will start to compile the reasons for Toyotomi-sama’s arrest of Toyotomi, and the current location of Toyotomi.”

“…It seems that no matter what we ask, you won’t answer obediently…” Genichi, whose face was a little gloomy, slowly stood up, “Mamiya, Makimura, please.”

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Without saying a word, Mamiya immediately put back the white cloth that had just covered Left and Right Guard’s face.

And Makimura also immediately picked up another bottle filled with water and poured the water in the bottle to left and right Emmon’s face.

“Gu…cough! Gu! Cough-!”

Choked by the water, he could only cough intermittently, his body bound by iron chains struggled like maggots, and he was no longer arrogant.

“When are you willing to talk to us calmly, and when will we stop torturing you.” Yuan pair said lightly to the struggling left and right guards.

“Master Yuan.” Makimura asked, who was pouring water on Eemon’s face. “What should I do with the two prisoners outside?”

The two captives Makimura mentioned were naturally Jiezheng and Aqing, who were captured by Yuan Yi and the others and who still haven’t woken up yet.

“Those two people slept long enough… It seems that before we set off to Longshui Temple, we beat them too hard to make them sleep longer…” Yuan Yi smiled, then Seriously, “Wake them up now and continue to interrogate them.”

“Just ask them two things – Xiao Lin’s movements and details about Koyasan.”

“Although the status of those two in Toyotomi’s army is definitely not as good as that of the left and right guards, they may also know some useful information.”

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After getting the order from Yuan Yi, Huluwu and his party immediately woke up Jizheng and Ah Qing with the brutal method of “inserting their heads into a bucket full of water”.

After waking up the two, everyone did not rush to torture them immediately.

Instead, I’ll take them both to see Yoemon, who has been captured as a prisoner like them.

Jiezheng and Aqing naturally knew each other, one of the “Three Demons”, left and right guard.

While taking these two people to “visit” the captured left and right guards, they also vividly told the two: Toyotomi’s troops in Osaka have been defeated by them, and the captured left and right guards are the evidence.

The reason for this is very simple: to crack down on the fighting spirit of these two people to the greatest extent possible.

And this little trick can be said to be quite successful – after watching the captured Yoemon and learning that their troops in Osaka have been defeated by them, the expressions on the faces of Jiezheng and Aqing immediately changed. Wonderful change.

After blowing the morale of these two people, Huluwu and his party began to interrogate them step by step.

The left and right guards, Jiezheng, and Aqing—the three of them struggled one after another.

While Huluwu and his party were working together to interrogate the three prisoners, the rest who had nothing to do were doing their own thing while waiting for the results of the interrogation.

For example—Ishiki Hana, who felt a little tired, found a room to rest.

Another example—A-machi, who was sitting in a corner of the Buddhist hall, was rubbing Ogata’s face hard.

“…After absorbing that ‘power of immortality’, is there really no discomfort in the body?” A-cho has been pestering Ogata since just now, asking this question.

“I’m fine.” Ogata spoke in a vague tone because he was rubbing his face by A-Ming, “Look at the expression I’m on right now—does it look like I’m not feeling well? The physical fitness has become better than before, and the resilience has become a little stronger than before, and nothing else has changed.”

“…If there is any discomfort in your body, don’t hide it from me.” A-machi slowly released the hands that rubbed Ogata’s cheeks.

“Don’t worry. If there is any discomfort in my body, I can’t hide it from you, who knows me better than anyone, right?” Cho, I have a little favor now, I hope you can help me.”

“Busy?”

“That’s it… can you help me repair these two short guns of mine?”

After saying that, Ogata took out the usual aura of asking A-cho to help him do the laundry, took out Kasumi and Ume-ran, who were unable to use them because of the water, and handed them to A-cho in front of him.

“Wow…” A-cho, who had a pair of beautiful eyes with round eyes, carefully looked at the pistol that Ogata handed over, “The water got in so badly…”

“There’s no way…” Ogata, with a look of embarrassment on his face, raised his hand and scratched his hair, “After all, I fell into the river twice. Please help me fix it, according to my poor craftsmanship. Come on, probably only these two guns will be completely repaired.”

“Really…” A-ding smiled helplessly, “It’s okay to help you repair. But you have to fight me.”

Having said that, A-machi sat on the ground with a bum, and then dismantled Kasumi and Meiran with skillful movements.

“You go and help me draw half a bucket of water now, and I’ll help your Xia Nagi and Mei Ran do a thorough cleaning by the way.”

“Okay.”

“There is a well in the courtyard of this temple, do you know where it is?”

“knowledge.”

“Go back quickly.”

“okay.”

Ogata walked quickly towards the courtyard of the temple.

I have to say that the life of the monks in this temple is really nourishing. There is a well in the courtyard of the temple, and it is very convenient to get water and use water.

The temple was not very big, so after a while, Ouhan arrived at the courtyard where the well was.

But the moment he arrived at the courtyard, Ogata was stunned by the scene in front of him.

“Master Yuan, Master Fengmo. What are you doing?”

Ogata saw that Genichi and Fuuma were squatting beside the well in strange postures.

Feng Mo lighted his upper body and turned his back to Yuan Yi.

And Yuan Yi kept picking up the water in a bucket beside him with both hands, and slapped the water in his palms on Feng Mo’s back…

“Oh, it’s Ogata-kun.” Yuan glanced at Ogata, then turned his gaze back to Feng Mo’s back, “Kanshi said that his low back pain couldn’t be relieved, so I patted cold water on it. On his back, use cold compresses to help him reduce the pain, how about it? Tangerine, do you feel the lower back pain is relieved?”

“It seems a little bit…”

“It’s a pity that all the residents around have run away. If you want to buy medicine for you, you don’t know where to buy it.”

“…Master Yuan, Master Fengmo.”

“Huh? Ogata brother, what’s the matter, suddenly look serious.”

“Tonight…Thank you so much. If you hadn’t rescued A-Ming at the hotel in time, I don’t know how A-Ming would have been now…”

“Hahaha. I didn’t actually do anything.” Fengmo smiled heartily, “You don’t need to thank me so solemnly.”

“We have helped you a lot, and you have also helped us a lot.” Yuan Yi smiled, “Thanks to you for capturing the left and right guards, UU Kanshu www.uukanshu.com gave us the opportunity to consolidate The high-level personnel of the official army were tortured for information.”

“Have the left and right guards opened their mouths?”

Ogata: “As far as I know—not yet. The torture continues.”

“Tsk… your mouth is so hard… ah, by the way, Ogata-kun, are you going to use a well?”

“Well. I’ll get some water.”

“Everything about this well is good, but the mouth of the well is a little narrower.” Genichi smiled and moved to the side together with Fengmo to make enough space for Ogata to fetch water.

After thanking the two of them simply and honestly, Xu took off the bucket that was placed on the wellhead for fetching water.

However, when Ogata was about to throw the bucket in his palm into the well, he suddenly paused as if he had recalled something important.

“…Master Yuan, Master Fengmo. Let me ask you a question…that may be a little strange.”

Ogata put down the bucket in his hand and looked at Genichi and Fuuma.

“Have you… have you ever tried to talk to yourself in a space that is more realistic than reality?”

“…Huh?” Yuan tilted his head and looked at Ogata suspiciously, “What do you mean?”

Just as Ogata was preparing to introduce in detail—

“Talk to yourself?” Feng Mo raised his eyebrows, “Isn’t this ‘one is all, all is one’?”

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The amount of updates of the author may be a little less these days, because I don’t know if it’s because of overuse of the eyes in the past few days, my eyes will feel sore when facing the screen for a long time… The writing speed is greatly reduced…

Is there any book friend who can recommend eye drops that can effectively relieve eye fatigue QAQ