About a week after changing their luggage and leaving Ziyun, the team had already traveled hundreds of kilometers. When I occasionally met other warriors or businessmen along the way, they did not pay much attention to the group of people. Their change of clothes was obviously a success, and now they looked just like the locals. They were just ordinary samurai with an entourage of handymen and guards. They would look away once they glanced at each other.
When discussing how to change their gear before departure, someone in the team suggested that it would be easier to sneak into the market by disguising themselves as civilians than nobles.
But this idea was a bit too simple, and was eventually rejected by the sage.
After all, the samurai are from noble backgrounds, especially the samurai of the Qingtian family, who live in a relatively closed environment. They follow the traditional lifestyle of Japanese samurai, isolate themselves from material desires, and concentrate on honing their martial arts and training their minds and virtues.
To use Kazuto's common saying, they are a group of otherworldly beings.
From a practical point of view, the distinction between military nobles and civilians was a matter of course. Because professional military training is only feasible in a relatively isolated environment. Training requires space, and there are many other things such as wake-up time and bedtime. If they are mixed with civilians, there will inevitably be some conflicts between the two parties.
If professional soldiers are not in an isolated environment, what should they do if a civilian child breaks into the shooting range while practicing archery and is accidentally injured.
Because of this, if a group of people pretend to be civilians, not only will they not be more low-key than the nobles, but they will make people more suspicious.
Because even though the clothes were tattered, the skin was clean, and the strong physique looked like he had grown up with good food and drink, they did not look like those skinny, hunchbacked old farmers whose backs were crushed by the burden of farm work.
The upper-class nobles have undergone rigorous training, and their natural reactions in every gesture are very elegant and appropriate. This is something that civilians cannot learn.
There is a play about a nobleman who despises civilians pretending to be warriors. The general idea is that civilians who put on nobleman's clothes are still just monkeys - they are just monkeys at heart, and no matter how they imitate humans, it is always just a joke.
But few people can be objective when it comes to matters related to themselves. Even the samurai of the Qingtian family, if this drama is mentioned, they will probably laugh at the civilians' overestimation of their capabilities. But when it was their turn to pretend to be civilians, except for the three samurai leaders and perhaps Yajiro, the other nobles were confident that they could do a good job.
After all, what is deep in one's bones cannot be changed. Even if one puts on common people's clothes, one's words and deeds will still be aristocratic. Moreover, when these people put forward this argument, they did not consider how the baggage should be carried. If they were accustomed to traveling by horses, could they sustain the walk all the way?
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Even if there are solutions to the above problems, summer is the time when farming is busy. Under such circumstances, a large and mighty civilian team of more than ten people traveling aimlessly through the province will obviously inevitably be questioned by people at the checkpoint.
And how should they, pretending to be civilians, respond at that time?
The samurai received a standard education, had a high literacy rate and could talk about many things fluently. But this is not the case for civilians. Even if the Kingdom of the Moon has spent a lot of effort to popularize basic education, it is still limited to a very basic level.
Most civilians cannot even speak the standard Japanese language fluently, and in the end, many places still retain a large number of dialects. Folks in the countryside use dialect more than standard language when communicating. Even when they speak standard language, they often encounter some vocabulary that cannot be expressed clearly. Therefore, it is common to suddenly switch to dialect in the middle of a sentence and then switch back to standard language.
Take Zhangzhou dialect as an example. There is a frequently mentioned word here which refers to picking up food with Japanese tableware and chopsticks and putting it into a container.
The language written in the Kingdom of the Moon cannot be written into words, and there is no such expression in the standard language. However, in local hotels and teahouses and other places where catering is involved, you can often hear guests and clerks using this byte.
If you are reluctant to translate it, you can write it as a clip in standard language, but it is not completely accurate. Because the word "pick up" also includes the "put in" part, customers sometimes ask the clerk to pick up a few fried dumplings for them. In situations like this, they actually ask the clerk to refill the plate for them. , add more food to the plate.
Man is a very lazy creature and always omits something when possible. People who grew up in the same area and under the influence of the same culture can understand the omitted parts, but outsiders will be confused and have no idea what is being said.
The deeper you go into the market, the more profound the impression left by these details. So they, samurai who grew up in a closed environment, were asked to pretend to be ordinary people? ——I am afraid that the rigorous wording and detailed sentences will impress the person opposite you as soon as you open your mouth.
There are many reasons. After all, the final conclusion is that it is better to dress up as a samurai. Because these people behave like warriors.
Even though aristocrats are rarer than commoners, judging from the data alone, traveling in aristocratic attire is indeed more eye-catching. However, there are some things that cannot be understood by just arithmetic.
The final result was that Henry's point of view won, and Narumi agreed with the sage's approach and adopted the current model. However, the rejection of the proposal of this part of the warriors caused Henry a considerable degree of dissatisfaction.
Most of the samurai are still stubborn. Even if they accept the status quo due to force majeure in some matters, on the whole they have been growing up under the influence of their own superior ideas, but it is still difficult to accept the refutation of others.
The reasons have been listed out, and the reasons have been analyzed for them in detail and objectively. It is precisely because of this that they have successfully persuaded Narumi to follow Henry's path. But despite this, the hostility of this group of warriors towards him was not wiped out.
Or perhaps on the contrary, precisely because the sage proved the feasibility and reliability of his ideas, these senior warriors, mainly Ayong and several warriors who had escaped and were injured before, had a strong opinion of him.
——Because this is like saying that their proposal of disguising themselves as civilians is a whimsical and childish idea.
There are very few people who can admit their mistakes cleanly when they have been humiliated. In addition, warriors are creatures that respect honor. It was because of this that it seemed a bit unbelievable to the Luoan girl who was an adventurer. Those who had previously respected the sage one by one began to engage in a one-sided cold war with him.
No matter how immature and unreliable what you say is immature and unreliable, you will not allow others to refute it.
People who come from upper-class education and have a smooth life and are accustomed to being flattered and promised by others will inevitably develop such a character in the end. The three samurai who had insulted their honor and escaped and were slightly injured would naturally want to show off in order to wash away their dishonor. And the reason why Ayong, the second youngest samurai in the team who was originally very close to Yajiro, also The reason why he would stand on their side was because when he first entered Ziyun, the sage prevented him from conflicting with the Zhangzhou warriors.
Those who follow me will prosper, those who go against me will perish. Even if everything Henry did was for the sake of the team, Ayong could only see him grabbing his hand like an adult dealing with a naughty child to stop him from taking action - in his opinion, this was probably a kind of insult.
The Lamanites' comment about the "small size" of the Kazuto warriors hit home after all. If you lose sight of the overall situation, you can only focus on small emotions and honor issues at the personal level, pursue performance, and have no concept of the team as a whole. Even if it is for the sake of the group, hostility will arise once others interfere with their identity.
After all, the sage is just a foreigner, existing in this team as a guest. In the eyes of the samurai, if they feel his opinion can be adopted, it can be used as a reference. If you can regularly provide meaningful opinions, then he does have the value of being respected.
But directly interfering with one's own behavior is a bit overwhelming.
"Who do you think you are?" The Luoan girl once heard the warriors whispering such sentences together when she was passing by in the early morning of that day.
Henry actually knew this kind of thing. In fact, even Narumi and others, who are relatively objective, have this problem, which is why he didn't show too much enthusiasm to offer opinions and solve the problem when he had conflicts with Ashigaru before. After all, this is an away game, not a home game. Many things should take into account the dignity and position of the host, and cannot act like he is the talker of the team.
But things turned out differently. The situation was urgent when he first arrived in Ziyun. If he hadn't taken action, A Yong would have pulled out the knife. In a town under the direct control of Xinjing and with a complete legal system, a samurai can only draw his sword when he is sure that his life is in danger. At that time, the opponent was clearly drunk and there were many people watching.
Once the sword is drawn, the Chinese from the government will come to ask, and they will suffer no matter what.
This time it was also because the plan needed to be implemented quickly, so he directly and quickly rejected the extremely low-feasibility plan proposed by the samurai who wanted to show off, without showing any mercy to them.
The Luoan girl looked at her teacher's back and felt more and more that being an omniscient sage might not be a good thing sometimes.
Knowledge does not fluctuate without sensibility, and the right thing is the right thing.
But people's hearts are not.
Humans are fickle and easily confused creatures, and sometimes things that are clearly wrong do not allow others to correct them.
It is clear that the opinions he put forward are undoubtedly correct and are a perfect plan formulated for the sake of the team, but some people feel offended because their immature ideas are compared to others.
Originally it was just a debate between things, and whoever came up with a better plan would be adopted. But the matter did not end there. The warriors, who refused to admit that the immature ideas they had thrown out cleverly, began to attack each other personally, thinking that Henry, who was just a foreigner and a guest, was overly interfering in the team's decision-making.
Because he knows this knowledge and has these relevant experiences, people will rely on him to solve problems.
However, while relying on you, others will start to attack inexplicably, perhaps because of an imbalance in your heart or because of such small emotions.
Then let these guys have their little emotions, don't open your mouth and not solve the problem, let them fend for themselves. It sounds very enjoyable, but as long as we travel together, this kind of breaking things will eventually turn into breaking our own feet.
So for the sake of the whole, he still had no choice but to stand up.
If there was a being who was completely ignorant and not expected by anyone, this kind of thing would naturally not happen.
He is burdened with many things and knows many things. Even if he is not omnipotent, he is almost omniscient. He has answers to many questions, and he can solve many things, but despite this, it is precisely because of this.
He is alone.
"People yearn for geniuses, but they don't get close to geniuses." Mira remembered what she had read and heard her teacher say in the past, but now that she thought about it, this sentence had a different flavor.
The hostility of the senior warriors towards the sage continued to deepen because he did not have the white rice he was accustomed to eating every day. Even if it was not actually his fault, these people still needed someone to deal with their various little emotions and the problems in life. Small frictions and dissatisfactions are projected past.
A group of noble men with an average age around 30 years old who claim to be noble warriors.
In the end, due to problems such as psychological imbalance, they couldn't even self-regulate. Instead, they banded together like teenagers and tried to isolate and attack.
Being controlled by small emotions and unable to see the overall situation clearly, one is self-centered and thinks that one's own emotions are the most important.
"It's true." In the hot summer, the Luoan girl picked up a sweat towel and wiped her forehead with the scenery she was used to seeing.
"What a terrible man."
