The Torajiro family are farmers who have lost their land. They are a husband and wife, their elderly parents, and they have three children.
Two sons and one daughter. They fell into poverty because of medical treatment. No matter in that era, there were many people who fell into poverty due to illness.
They cured their mother's illness but lost their land. Torajiro and his father, who was in his fifties, had to carry large bags on the dock in Nagasaki to earn money to support their family.
However, they soon discovered that the dock workers around them were often mysterious, whispering to each other without knowing what they were doing.
Torajiro has a friend named Inoguchi Ichiro. Once, while loading and unloading soap wooden boxes unloaded from a clipper ship, I sprained my ankle.
Torajiro quickly helped him get off the boat. They work as loaders and unloaders, although they make more money than store clerks.
After all, it is heavy physical labor. However, I also look down on orthopedic doctors. The cost of medical treatment in Japan is very high.
Zhukou Yilang hesitated for a long time, because if people like them don't work for a day, their families may not have enough rice for tomorrow.
After all, everyone has a large family to support. There are few job opportunities in this era.
"Torajiro, are you my good friend? Can you keep a secret?" Inoguchi looked around and asked in a low voice.
"Of course, I have already carried a dozen less boxes to take care of you." Torajiro said angrily.
"Well, you help me and go to a place to heal my foot."
"Nani, you are actually willing to spend money to see a doctor."
"Don't tell others that I go to a place where you can get medical treatment for free." Zhukou Yilang said mysteriously.
"What, there is a place like this. Wherever it is, I want to go and see it. My mother has been sick. Although the condition has been temporarily controlled, she has not been cured." Torajiro said.
"I'm afraid you can't do it. You'll know when we get there." Inoguchi Ichiro didn't want to say too much here. So Torajiro helped him to a wooden house in the mountains.
There are already hundreds of people queuing up here waiting for medical treatment.
"Torajiro, only those who believe in our God can get free medical treatment here. Recently, there have been more than a dozen Chinese medicine doctors from the Ming Dynasty here. They are doing a six-month medical tour in Nagasaki. These are all invited by our church to provide Brothers and sisters receive medical treatment for free." Torajiro suddenly became excited and asked anxiously: "How do I join your church? If I join the church, can my mother receive medical treatment here."
"Of course. The captain of our loading and unloading team, Gaizuma Shinji, that guy joined the church. His son was cured of his eyes here. And Shimizu Daishou's father was cured of his skin disease. Inukai Jiro My wife was cured of her lung disease." Only then did Torajiro realize that so many people around him had already joined this mysterious church.
After Torajiro joined the church under the introduction of Inoguchi Ichiro, he was quickly selected through study and assessment.
Entered the second-level church, and then ascended to the third-level church. He learned something different at each level of church.
He didn't even know that there were higher levels above. After many layers of study and selection, when he was confirmed to be a devout believer with extremely firm belief in God, he was sent to the countryside of Osaka to open a small shop near a fishing village.
The church paid for a piece of land on the roadside between a nearby fishing village and three villages. A simple wooden house was built.
The room near the roadside serves as a grocery store, and the one behind it serves as a family residence. The family is responsible for looking after the store and transporting goods.
Torajiro was appointed store manager, he and his family were paid, and he personally enjoyed a share of the year-end profits.
Farm tools and fishing gear are usually sold here, and these are allowed by the shogunate. But at night, cheap Dabaijiu is available in grocery stores.
There are also Ming Dynasty cotton cloths for sale. Soybean oil and rapeseed oil are also available, and even sugar and tea are sold.
Even though they are the lowest quality tea. Although, starting from the early Ming Dynasty, tea tree seeds were introduced to Japan.
However, the sale of tea to farmers, fishermen, and craftsmen is prohibited. In Japan, a country with a strict hierarchy, what social classes can consume are all regulated.
For example, in this era, samurai meals included rice made with tea leaves. Green tea is brewed with boiling water, then put into rice balls, and eaten together with the tea leaves in a form similar to yuzu rice. This is a privilege only reserved for samurai.
At night, many people gathered here, including fishermen, farmers and hunters. Even some small landowners and small fishing boat owners will come here to drink or buy some unavailable goods.
Because the wine here is so cheap. Some women who perform arts, such as those who play string instruments and play drums, also come back to solicit business.
Perform performances to entertain customers and earn a little money on the way. As the place became prosperous, it naturally attracted the attention of local bullies, who soon touched the place like cats that smelled a fishy smell.
Asked to hand over 80% of profits to them. Otherwise, don’t even think about opening a store here. Torajiro kept bowing and expressed that he wanted to discuss it with his master, and he received a reply three days later.
Three days later, a boatload of ronin warriors came, hacked these local bullies to death, and threw them into the sea to feed the fish.
From then on, no one dared to harass me here again. The alcohol content of sake is very low, usually around 15 degrees.
A few can reach 20 degrees. Kikujiro's mother and his wife used the alcohol and spices purchased from the main trading company and blended them into sake with boiling water according to the training formula.
Then sell it locally. This kind of wine requires no food and costs only one-thirtieth of sake. As long as the blending technique is good, the taste will be very good.
What Yang Fan didn't expect was that the great invention of alcohol-blended wine would be carried forward in Japan in this time and space, benefiting countless Japanese people who couldn't afford to drink.
Every night after dark here, lanterns are lit immediately, and the grocery store transforms into an izakaya. He can stay open until midnight with his wife and daughter.
All kinds of drunkards gather here. In addition to drinks, there are also several side dishes to go with drinks. Mainly canned fried sea fish, canned braised pork, canned luncheon meat, and canned pickles.
During this era, meat-eating was prohibited in Japan, and vegetarianism was legal. It's not easy to get meat.
As a result, all the General's money flowed into Mrs. Taozi's pocket from here. Torajiro also sells soap and steel products.
Many farmers, fishermen, and craftsmen came to buy steel weapons secretly. The most purchased items are the heads of long guns.
The spear heads made of open-hearth steel produced in Zunhua of the Ming Dynasty were sharp and eye-catching. As long as the local bamboo is inserted into the gun shaft, the leather and a small amount of iron armor made by the samurai masters are just like Zhihu's, making a hole.
The public security in Japan was not good at this time, and it was easy to encounter pirates when fishing. It is easy to encounter bandits when you go hunting in the mountains.
Farming also requires protection from thugs and bullies. The character of the Japanese people is that they are courteous and courteous on the surface. In fact, when the other party is strong, they stay humble.
When the other party is weak, they become violent and brutal. He can change his face faster than a Sichuan Opera actor. The main reason why they dare not resist is that they do not have sharp weapons.
An unarmed man cannot defeat a samurai master who has been training for many years. In Japan, only samurai can wear samurai swords.
Ordinary people wearing samurai swords would be beheaded. Moreover, the samurai master has the right to kill civilians at will.
Just find a reason to disrespect him. This legacy still existed in the Meiji era. When Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren was studying abroad, he and a group of classmates got a good knife.
They drank and celebrated until midnight. Under the stimulation of alcohol, someone suggested that we go try the knife.
The so-called knife test is to get a good knife or ask a famous expert to make a good knife. Go to a secluded place and wait in the middle of the night. If a civilian passes by, rush over and chop him down with a knife, and then use various knife skills to chop him.
Euphemistically called knife testing. This is the privilege and tradition of the samurai. A group of them ran to a wooden bridge in a daze.
Found a beggar sitting there. In the midst of nervousness and panic, Cang Lang pulled out his knife and slashed with a roar.
Then a bunch of young guys were so nervous that they didn't see the effect. They were afraid of being caught by the police on night patrol, so they hurried back and continued drinking.
Later, he said in his memoirs that after drinking for a while, someone asked who had seen clearly and whether he had been hit.
In the end, no one saw it clearly, so they decided to take another look with the sword in hand. A group of them ran to the bridge. The beggar was still sitting there. When he saw them coming again, he said in panic: "Are you here to fight again?"
