"When two tigers fight, one of them will be injured."
"The duty of the Nagasaki samurai is to educate and educate farmers, industries and merchants, not to vendetta against each other!"
In the 8th year of Emperor Gomizuo's reign, it was west of Nagasaki Port, Japan, on Nagasaki Karakan Street, separated by a wall from Dejima.
A down-and-out samurai who was determined to avenge his lord, followed the way of the samurai, and sacrificed his life for loyalty, finally found his enemy in Nagasaki after twelve years of ups and downs.
He stopped his enemy's car alone, raised an old and sharp sword, and the cold light illuminated his enemy's frightened face.
A group of Nagasaki residents stood on both sides of the street and pointed, urging the samurai to take action quickly and not delay their own business.
There was a faint smell of rouge floating in the air, and several women wearing kimonos as thin as gauze, with thick black hair and blackened teeth were chirping like sparrows, looking here in horror.
Nagasaki was one of the few trading cities under the Tokugawa shogunate, and it was also a city of customs. Here, from day to night, there was no shortage of women at any time.
Dejima is a gentle town for merchants. This artificial island specially built by Japan for Portuguese merchants is now a gathering place for Portuguese merchants. Occasionally, Chinese merchants will stop to unload their goods.
Nagasaki is located among mountains, and is only connected to the sea by a narrow canyon in the south.
Residential houses are built on steep hillsides.
With high mountains and deep valleys directly facing the ocean, Nagasaki has a natural deep-water harbor with a water depth of more than 40 meters.
In the sixteenth century, under the active management of Jesuit missionaries and Portuguese merchants, this small frontier port became a Japanese missionary center with a cathedral and a mission school.
When Tokugawa Ieyasu unified Japan, Nagasaki became a foreign trade distribution center, where merchants from various countries gathered. Later, Christian forces flourished and once threatened the shogunate's rule.
In the same year when the Ping Liao Marquis of the Ming Dynasty entered Guan Jingnan and was ordered to supervise the country, an earth-shattering event also happened in the Tokugawa shogunate.
The conflict between the Portuguese forces who were unwilling to give up their missionary mission and the Tokugawa shogunate reached its peak.
In the fifteenth year of Keicho, Adams, the president of the Dutch Far East Chamber of Commerce, reminded Tokugawa Hidetada that under the surface, the Portuguese were keen on preaching in order to "liberate" the souls of the Japanese, thereby gradually making Japan surrender to the Roman Pope.
What made the shogunate even more uneasy was that Portugal and Spain, the old Christian countries, were ambitious and tried to colonize Japan. They joined forces with the anti-shogunate forces headed by the Toyotomi clan to threaten the unified regime that had not yet gained a firm foothold.
Therefore, after wiping out the Toyotomi clan, the shogunate could not let go of attacking the core parts of the many Christian sects.
Tokugawa Hidetada, the second-generation general who conquered barbarians, decided to abandon the ambiguous attitude towards red-haired barbarians and Catholics during his father Tokugawa Ieyasu's era after careful consideration. He made up his mind to carry out a bloody purge of Japanese Catholics and completely expel Portuguese influence.
The storm is about to come, but the surface of Nagasaki Dejima, which is located in the whirlpool, is calm.
"It would be great if Miyamoto Musashi is here. The battle can be ended in a flash. If that doesn't work, you can still use his gun."
"I heard that Miyamoto died in the Ming Dynasty. He was killed by a Tang samurai..."
The down-and-out vengeful warrior has been surrounded by a group of warriors, and the situation looks bad.
The surrounding townsfolk quickly lost interest in this pretentious duel. Occasionally, someone mentioned the death of Miyamoto Musashi, and the well-informed Nagasaki businessman began to talk endlessly about the news he had received from the Ming Dynasty businessmen.
There was a sudden commotion in the crowd in the distance, followed by the screams of the townspeople.
A group of well-armored Hatamoto warriors surrounded an old man's carriage and passed through the crowd. Soon someone exclaimed:
"It's Miyamoto Musashi's father, Miyamoto-sama!"
The discussion stopped immediately. They knew that the old man of this vassal family was eccentric and had a bad temper. They were already devastated after losing their only son this time.
Miyamoto Katsunari's carriage quickly passed through the crowd. The Miyamoto family sitting in the carriage turned a deaf ear to the whispers around them, and even acted as if they had not seen the samurai duel taking place on the street.
He was eager to rush to Nagasaki Fengxing's mansion.
Since his last escape from the Ming Dynasty, he had repeatedly lobbied the feudal lord for more than half a year, hoping that the feudal lord could persuade the shogunate to launch troops against the Ming Dynasty.
This sounds like a fantasy, but in order to avenge his death and let his son Miyamoto Musashi's soul find peace, this is all he can think of.
As night falls, geishas from the Kansai countryside, speaking with a Kansai accent, paint their teeth jet black, smell bad in their mouths, and show off among merchants.
In the eyes of Miyamoto Katsunari, the gray autumn of Nagasaki is like the soft mud seeping out between the wide-open toes of the green mountains.
The smell of seaweed, sewage, and smoke from countless chimneys floated on the sea, making it even more bustling than Edo.
He looked at the warriors walking on the street and cursed in his heart:
"It is the true nature of a warrior to quarrel over trivial matters such as the collision of sword scabbards, to engage in meaningless fights, and to cut down the opponent and return with his whole body intact."
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