I Was a Swordsman in Ancient Japan

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"No, the infamy it brings may surpass that of Oda Nobunaga." Fuma added, "At least Oda Nobunaga still had some morals when he burned Mount Hiei back then."

"And now... if you attack Koyasan, in the eyes of outsiders, you will be a gang of thugs who attack the Holy Land for no reason."

Asai, who has always been short-tempered, opened his mouth, subconsciously wanting to refute Fuma'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 to Japan, due to Japan's special cultural soil, Buddhism has developed into an exaggerated behemoth in Japan. It was not until the establishment of the Edo Shogunate two hundred years ago that the power of Buddhism was finally suppressed completely.

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

Under the suppression of many means by the Edo shogunate, the important places of Buddhism headed by Koyasan finally took on the look that Buddhism should have. The trilogy is no different from a warlord.

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

More than 200 years ago, after Oda Nobunaga burned down another holy place called "the two centers of Japanese Buddhism" with Koyasan - Mount Hiei, although it attracted the eternal infamy of "Buddha's enemy", it is still regarded by many people today. People who believe in Buddhism curse, but there are still some people who give positive comments on Oda Nobunaga's act of burning Mount Hiei. .

The Buddhism before the Edo period was indeed too arrogant.

Having your own land, not having to pay taxes to the government, and being able to form your own private tribe... These actions are beyond the duties of a monk.

The monks of Mount Hiei were even more arrogant. They ate meat, drank alcohol, and indulged in sensuality. They also fortified Mount Hiei and formed an amazing army of monks and soldiers to dictate state affairs.

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

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

Therefore, after Oda Nobunaga made the "Two Centers of Japanese Buddhism" directly become "Koyasan's only respect", many people praised Oda Nobunaga.

But times have changed.

Today's Buddhism is not as annoying as it used to be.

If we say that the former Buddhism is a vicious tiger, then the current Buddhism is a sheep that has been fully trained.

In the past, if you attacked Buddhism, there might be many people who would like you.

Now, if you attack Buddhism again, people should only think that there is something wrong with you.

"……All right."

At this moment, Genichi's voice inserted into the conversation between Asai and Fuma.

"How to act in the future, let's talk about it after getting enough information from the left and right guards."

"The left and right guards may know some other, more useful information."

"...I see." Asai let out a long sigh and nodded slightly.

"Let's go." Genichi raised his hand and patted Asai's shoulder, then strode towards the room where Yoshiemon was being tortured, "Let's go see if the big man is willing to cooperate with us obediently." .”

When everyone entered the room where Mamiya, Makimura, and Yoshiemon were located, Makimura happened to be putting down the water bottle that had been emptied.

Taking off the white cloth covering the left and right gate, tears and snot have covered the entire face of the left and right gate.

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

Saemon, who was finally able to breathe normally through his mouth and nose, panted hard and greedily swallowed the surrounding air, while scanning Genichi and the others standing beside him with vigilant eyes full of hostility.

However, after his eyes swept over Ogata's body, his expression froze uncontrollably, and an unconcealable fright appeared in his eyes.

"Your name is Zaemon, right? It's an interesting name." Genichi squatted beside Zaemon.

After Genichi squatted beside him, Saemon quickly withdrew his terrified eyes from Ogata, and looked at...or glared at Genichi.

"We already know a lot of information about you."

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

"For example: You obtained the 'power of immortality' by relying on the No. C pill, your master is Toyotomi Nobuhide, and you are an important confidant of Toyotomi Nobuhide."

As soon as Yuan Yi's voice fell, the left and right guards said calmly with no expression on their faces:

"...I don't know what you guys are talking about."

Genichi ignored Saeemon's words, and continued on his own:

"We have some questions now and want to ask you."

"As long as you can answer our questions, we will not continue to torture you by waterboarding."

"The first question - we have a companion named Kinoshita Lin who was taken away by you. She is about this height, and she is a girl. Do you know where she is now?"

Ogata had roughly guessed how Saemon would react after hearing Genichi's interrogation—he would probably be very stubborn and say nothing.

After all, Yoshiemon didn't seem like the kind of person who would let go easily.

But who knows—Saemon actually reacted completely differently from Ogata's guess.

"Kinoshita... Lin?" Left and right gate widened his eyes, then turned his gaze, and looked at Genichi carefully from head to toe, "You...could be Toyotomi Genichi?"

The corners of Yuanyi's eyes twitched slightly: "...if I say 'yes', so what?"

As soon as the voice fell, Saemon, who had been keeping a straight face just now, slowly... smiled.

"Ha ha!"

He laughed a few times.

"Seeing is better than hearing a hundred times."

Having said that, he changed into a yin and yang tone:

"Since I'm Lord Toyotomi's uncle, I can't be too disrespectful, I have to be a little more frank."

"It's our first meeting, Mr. Toyotomi Gen."

"You were right. My master is indeed Lord Toyotomi Nobuhide."

"When Lord Toyotomi chatted with us on weekdays, he often told us that he had an uncle who had never been masked until he left home to revive Toyotomi, and he didn't even know whether he was dead or alive."

The words of Sawaiemon caused slight changes in the faces of the others, including Mamiya and others.

Ogata, who had known about Genichi and Lin's past not long ago, couldn't help squinting at Genichi's expression—Genichi's expression was disturbed.

It's just that in his eyes...a faint sense of shame can be seen vaguely.

"You..." Mamiya was about to say something to Yoshiemon, but Genichi raised his hand to signal silence.

"Toyotomi-sama once said that—" Saeemon continued to say in a smug tone, "'If Bogong is still alive, then he is too cruel. After so many years, I haven't come back to see Take a look at my younger brother and his family members."

"Shut up!" Asai roared angrily, as if he couldn't listen anymore, "That bastard, Toyotomi Nobuhide, is he ashamed to call him 'cruel'?"

"Back then, if it wasn't for that bastard Toyotomi Nobuhide who took away all the money and valuables in the house when he ran away from home, my lord, she..."

"Asai, that's enough." Genichi glanced at Asai, and then turned his gaze back to Saemon, "Nobuhide actually told you such a private thing... It seems that you are indeed Nobuhide's confidant."

"I don't have time to listen to Xinxiu's comments and prejudices."

"Now I just want to know—what's wrong with Xinxiu, why he took his sister away, and where he took his sister away."

"Why did you take Toyotomi Rin away...well..." Saemon's mouth curled up in a mocking arc, "My brother missed his sister, so he brought her here to reunite with him, is there any problem? "

"I don't believe a word if you say less." Yuan Yi's voice became extremely low, "If the relationship between Xinxiu and Xiaolin was so good, then when Xinxiu left home, she would not have given away all the belongings in the family. The valuables were taken away, and Xiao Lin lived a life of hunger and cold."

"That's right." The sarcasm on Saeemon's face became more intense, "Sorry, the reason I made up just now was too stupid, and I will try to make up a more reasonable reason later."

"Please give me some time, I will start to make up the reason why Lord Toyotomi captured Toyotomi Lin and where Toyotomi Lin is currently located."

"...It seems that no matter what we ask, you won't answer obediently..." Genichi, with a slightly gloomy face, slowly stood up, "Mamiya, Mucun, please."

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

And Mucun immediately picked up another bottle full of water in a very tacit understanding, and poured the water in the bottle on Saemon's face.

"Goo...cough cough! Gu! Cough——!"

Choked by the water, he could only cough intermittently, and Yoshiemon, whose body was bound by iron chains and struggled like a maggot, was no longer as arrogant as before.

"When are you willing to talk to us calmly, and when will we stop torturing you." Genichi said calmly to the struggling Saemon.

"Master Minamoto." Asked Mucun, who was pouring water on Saemon's face, "What should we do with the two captives outside?"

The two captives that Mucun mentioned are naturally referring to Jie Zheng and Ah Qing who were captured by Yuan Yi and the others, and who have not yet woken up.

"Those two people slept for a long time... It seems that before we left for Longshui Temple, we beat them a little too hard to make them sleep longer..." Yuan Yi smiled , and then said sternly, "Wake them up now, and then continue to interrogate them."

"Just ask them two things - Xiao Lin's movements, and details about Mount Koya."

"Although the status of those two people in Toyotomi's army is definitely not as good as that of Zaemon, they may also know some useful information."

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...

After receiving Yuanyi's order, the Huluya team immediately woke up Jiezheng and Ah Qing with the brutal method of "inserting their heads into a bucket full of water".

After waking them up, everyone was not in a hurry to torture them immediately.

Instead, he took the two of them to see the left and right gates who were captured like them.

Of course, Jiezheng and Ah Qing knew Saemon, one of the "Three Devils".

While taking these two people to "visit" the captured Saeemon, the people also told the two vividly: Toyotomi's troops in Osaka have been defeated by them, and the captured Saeemon is the evidence.

The purpose of doing this is simple: to hit the fighting spirit of these two people to the greatest extent.

And this little trick was quite successful—after seeing the captured Yoshiemon and knowing that their troops in Osaka had been defeated by them, the expressions on the faces of Jiezheng and Ah Qing immediately changed. Wonderful changes happen.

After the morale of these two people had been hit, Huluwu and his party proceeded to interrogate them step by step.

Left and right door, Jiezheng, and Haru - the three of them struggled one after another.

While the whole group in the Calabash House was working together to torture the three captives, the rest of the people who had nothing to do were doing their own things while waiting for the results of the interrogation.

For example—Isshika felt a little tired, so she found a room to rest.

Another example—A-Machi, who was sitting in a corner of the Buddhist hall, was rubbing Ogata's face vigorously.

"... After absorbing the 'power of immortality', did you really not experience any discomfort?" A-Machi has been pestering Ogata since just now, asking this question.

"I'm fine." Because A-Machi was rubbing his face, Ogata spoke in a somewhat ambiguous tone, "Look at my expression now—does it look like an expression when I'm not feeling well? I Except that the physical fitness has become better than before, and the resilience has become stronger than before, the rest has not changed much."

"...If you feel uncomfortable in any part of your body, don't hide it from me." A-Machi slowly let go of his hands rubbing Ogata's cheeks.

"Don't worry. If there is any discomfort in my body, it shouldn't be hidden from you who know me better than anyone else, right?" Ogata smiled and raised his hand, smoothing the hair on the top of Ah-cho's head, "Ah Ding, I have a small favor now, I hope you can help me."

"A little busy?"

"That's... can you help me repair my two short guns?"

After that, Ogata showed the usual air of asking A-Machi to help him wash his clothes, took out Kasumi Nagi and Ume-ran, which were unusable due to the water, and handed them to A-Machi in front of him.

"Wow..." A-cho, who stared round with beautiful eyes, looked carefully at the pistol Ogata handed over, "Water got in so badly..."

"I can't help it..." Ogata, with a bit of embarrassment on his face, raised his hand and scratched his hair, "After all, I fell into the river twice. Please fix it for me, according to my crappy In terms of craftsmanship, probably only these two guns will be completely repaired."

"Really..." A-Ming smiled helplessly, "It's no problem to help you fix it. But you have to help me."

After saying that, Machi sat down on the ground, and dismantled Kasumagi and Umeran with skillful movements.

"You go and fetch half a bucket of water for me now, and I'll give you a thorough cleaning of Kasumi and Meiran by the way."

"it is good."

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

"Know."

"Go and come back quickly."

"okay."

Ogata walked quickly towards the courtyard of the temple.

It has to be said that the life of the monks in this temple is really nourishing. There is a well in the courtyard of the temple, which is very convenient to get water.

The temple was not big, so after a while, Oo 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 Fumo. What are you doing?"

Ogata saw—Genichi and Fuma were squatting by the well in a strange posture.

Fumo's upper body was bare, with his back turned to Yuanichi.

And Yuan Yi kept scooping up the water in a bucket beside him with both hands, and slapped the water on Feng Mo's back...

"Oh, it's Ogata-kun." Yuan glanced at Ogata, then turned his gaze back to Fumo's back, "Kanshi said that his back pain could not be relieved, so I slapped the cold water on it. On his back, how about using cold compresses to help him relieve the pain? Gan Shi, do you feel the pain in your lower back has eased?"

"It seems that there is a little..."

"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 Feng Mo."

"Huh? Brother Ogata, what's the matter, you suddenly have a serious face."

"Tonight... Thank you all so much. If you hadn't saved A-Machi at the hotel in time, I don't know what A-Machi would be like now..."

"Hahaha. Actually, I didn't do anything." Feng Mo smiled brightly, "There is no need to thank me so solemnly."

"We have helped you a lot, and you have helped us a lot." Yuan Yi smiled, "Thanks to you capturing the right and left guard, we have the opportunity to torture from among the high-level personnel of the Toyotomi Army." Give information."

"Have the left and right guards spoken?"

Ogata: "As far as I know - not yet. The torture is still going on."

"Tsk... your mouth is so hard... Ah, by the way, Ogata-kun, do you want to use a well?"

"Yeah. I'll fetch some water."

"This well is good everywhere, but the mouth of the well is a bit narrow." Genichi smiled, and moved to the side with Fuma, making enough room for Ogata to fetch water.

After Ouxiang thanked the two simply, he took off the bucket that was placed on the wellhead for fetching water.

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

"...Master Yuan, Master Fumo. Let me ask you a question...that might be a bit strange."

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

"Have you...have you ever tried to talk to yourself in a space that is more like reality than reality?"

"... Huh?" Gen tilted his head, looking at Ogata with a puzzled expression, "What do you mean?"

Just when 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 author's update volume may be a little less these days, because I don't know if it is because of excessive use of the eyes, the eyes will feel sore when facing the screen for a long time... The writing speed has been greatly reduced...

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