During the trip to Kiyomizu Temple, I met Okita Souji, who had just started falling in love, and I didn’t know which girl I was staying at. It was an unexpected bonus.
Regarding the competition, since Zhang Heng had already made an agreement with the other party, he was not in a hurry.
Although Souji Okita has a nagging cough, he probably won’t be able to hang up for a while, and as the being with the highest combat power in this instance, he is like a main dish with all the color, flavor and taste. Once you eat it, you may not be in the mood to go back to it. Went to try other appetizers.
Therefore, Zhang Heng didn't mind pushing back the time of the competition. Anyway, he didn't have other things to do now. The two knives he borrowed from Suzaku Hall and another dojo seemed to be of high quality. However, unfortunately, Just like that rib, there is still a gap between it and a famous product.
Especially the Suzaku Hall sword made by Miike Noita Mitsuyo. Not to mention that it was not Daidenai Mitsuyo. Zhang Heng later went to a specialized collector to identify it, and he was not even sure whether it was really Miike Notta Mitsuyo's work.
This is also the troublesome part of this copy. According to Crimson Sword, the swords that appear here do not have corresponding prompts to obtain props even if they are held in hand. Like the Yonglu Change that Crimson Sword experienced, as well as her friends. The demon sword world dungeons he has experienced all have clear goals to find, but the Bakumatsu Kyoto dungeon that Zhang Heng entered this time was a meeting of the wind and cloud, which also means that he may still need to make a decision in the end.
But for now, he doesn't have to worry about this problem. He just needs to challenge masters from all walks of life and collect famous swords.
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Another week has passed since our trip to Kiyomizudera Temple.
The Changzhou clan's group never came to seek revenge. Zhang Heng originally thought it was a little strange. With the way that group acted, there was no reason for them to be silent for so long unless something more important happened. But now he finally got it. According to news, Takasugi Shinsaku, who was recuperating in Sakurayama, passed away due to illness.
This is indeed a major event that shocked the world.
Takasugi Shinsaku was the leader of the Choshu clan's overthrow faction. He acted radically in his early years. He planned to assassinate Westerners, burned down the British embassy, and forced Emperor Komei to issue a pardon for the foreigners. Later, he single-handedly organized a team of surprise troops to overthrow the feudal clan, and changed the forbidden gate to the king. The anti-barbarian faction was defeated miserably. On behalf of the Choshu Domain, he was forced to sign the Treaty of Shimonoseki with Britain, the United States, France and the Netherlands, and gave up resisting the barbarians. When the Choshu Domain surrendered to the shogunate, he lived in exile for a period of time, but not long after, he joined forces with Ito Hirobumi to use force. Seizing the power of the Choshu Domain, he carried out a series of drastic Westernization reforms, putting the Choshu Domain on the road to prosperity, and defeated the shogunate fleet in the subsequent Oshima and Kokura counterattacks. It was in the limelight for a while, but it was Such a heroic figure was ultimately defeated by a little nagging.
Finally, he died on the bed on the eve of the new era.
You can imagine how devastated and sad the people of the Choshu clan who are now staying in Kyoto are. No wonder they can't take care of the affairs of the Oyama Dojo for the time being.
Zhang Heng has no feelings about the death of Takasugi Shinsaku. He doesn't take any side anyway, he is just a party-goer. Compared with this news that shocked the world, he is more concerned about another news - Sumaru Tsuneji. Entering Beijing!
Sukumaru Tsuneji is one of the five swordsmen in the world that is as famous as the Mikazuki Sect. It is a treasure of Honkoji Temple, and its current owner is Nakamura Hanjiro, who is known as the four-man swordsman at the end of the shogunate.
This man was the sword of Saigo Takamori, the leader of the Satsuma clan, in the darkness. In order to bring down the great cause, he was willing to abandon the honor of the samurai and became a killer who specialized in assassinating the shogunate's minions. Countless shogunate officials died in his hands, but Takasugi Shinsaku was the one who died. The news that he came to Kyoto broke out at the juncture of his death, which can't help but arouse people's imagination.
Is the Satsuma clan planning to make any big move by taking advantage of the death of its ally Shinsaku Takasugi?
Suddenly, undercurrents began to surge in the city of Kyoto. The ronin of the Shinsengumi and Mikaigumi patrolled the streets with knives every day. However, before Nakamura Hanjiro was found, the surrounding people were harassed by them. It is unspeakable that the emperor and the princes are not too big a deal to eat melon seeds and watch the excitement in the imperial city, but the opposite of the shogunate is that everyone is in danger.
Zhang Heng is also paying attention to the development of the situation. It is rare for him to get the exact whereabouts of one of the five swords in the world. Of course, he wants to take this opportunity to get Shuzumaru Tsuneji into his bag, but the premise is that he must find it before the Shinsengumi. Nakamura Hanjiro, and this is not easy. There are also many forces that have defeated the Tokugawa faction in Kyoto. No one knows where Nakamura Hanjiro is hiding now.
The French businessman on the other side had fewer and fewer tails behind him because of his hard work during this period. When the news came on the plane that Hanjiro Nakamura was coming to Beijing, no one was in the mood to stare at him anymore.
So Gabriel found Zhang Heng that afternoon and asked mysteriously, "Are you busy tomorrow night?"
"Huh?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.
"There is a very important banquet tomorrow night that requires you to be the translator. Don't worry, if you do a good job, I can pay you ten small coins in one go." The French businessman added.
This translation job so far is indeed not an easy and comfortable job, and it is completely out of proportion to the generous remuneration. However, Zhang Heng knows very well that this situation will not last forever. Now that the drama has finally been served, he believes that he only needs to I promised Gabriel that tomorrow night we would know what the French businessman had been planning all along.
However, this time the money may not be so easy to make.
No matter what the other party plans to do, it is obviously not to be revealed. Zhang Heng is not naive enough to think that Gabriel will really believe in the confidentiality ability of this strange ronin. Therefore, the other party has no plans after "using" him. It's not hard to guess.
Zhang Heng now needs to make a decision whether to take this risk. If it is just for the reward of the ten small coins, he will turn around and leave now. Anyway, he has made a lot of money during this period, and Akane Koyama has always said that he will pay He waived the rent, but he refused. No matter what happened, he could continue to make money as a translator for other businessmen, but he would get slightly less.
But what really interests Zhang Heng is the group of people Gabriel wants to contact.
Now he already knows that the people who were following the French businessmen behind the scenes were people from the shogunate, so this means that Gabriel is likely to have contact with the overthrown forces, and Zhang Heng now wants to find Tsunemaru Tsuneji and Nakamura Hanjiro's whereabouts. It will fall on the group of overthrowing forces.
Therefore, it is difficult for Zhang Heng to refuse the banquet tomorrow night. This is the only useful clue he has at this stage, and he is also confident in his sword skills, so Zhang Heng agreed to Gabriel's offer after thinking for a moment. Requested, the latter seemed relieved upon hearing this.
"Great, let's meet at the same place tomorrow night."
