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Chapter 145 Samurai and Girl

Osaka... one of the most prosperous commercial areas in Japan.

Although Osaka's current economy cannot be compared with Edo, the most prosperous city in Japan, Edo cannot be compared with Osaka in terms of the overall business atmosphere. The main reason for this is Osaka's business atmosphere.

Due to its geography and various historical reasons, Osaka is mainly populated by businessmen and is a commercial city. This is very different from many current Japanese cities where there are samurai with samurai swords on their waists and wearing clogs everywhere...

It can be said that Osaka as a whole is a city composed of small merchants and hawkers. Because of this, Osaka people are also the most enthusiastic among Japanese people.

You must know that this is very rare in Japan where etiquette is everywhere. The entire Japanese society is actually a natural prison for the soul. Everyone is like a puppet, saying the same words and bowing the same way. The whole society is filled with a sense of tension. With tense emotions, you don't know which string will break.

This is also the main reason why Japan has a high suicide rate and many people suffer from depression in later generations.

In the final analysis, it is still related to the shame culture of the Japanese. Later Chinese scholars said that the Japanese only know small etiquette but no great righteousness. In fact, the Japanese also do the same in life. They often pursue things that look clean on the surface to cover up their inner feelings. dirty.

The so-called shame culture in Japan actually translates to saving face and not causing trouble to others. In the Japanese workplace in later generations, there is no shortage of news about people committing suicide because they did something wrong. In the final analysis, they still think that they have caused trouble to others...

But the Japanese, who are so particular about etiquette and shame, and the Japanese who are so particular about superior and inferior culture, often behave extremely cruelly when facing the weak. It has to be said that the whole of Japan is actually a mental illness suppressed by etiquette and shame. Once it breaks out, it will get out of control, and it will often do things that are unimaginable to ordinary people, and it is also very perverted! !

(Refer to the two infected people exposed at the Fukushima nuclear power plant.)
The people in Osaka are different from many people in Japan. Because the people here are from small business hawkers, they are more enthusiastic and cheerful. This can be seen from the Fourth Division in World War II...

The character of Osaka people is completely different from other Japanese people.

Although Osaka Castle is not one of the treaty ports specified by the shogunate, if a Han Chinese visits the entire Osaka Castle, he will be surprised to find that there are more shops selling foreign goods in Osaka Castle than in Nagasaki, second only to the earliest and Han Dynasty Contact Edo.

Especially the main street of Osaka Castle, which could simply be renamed Han Goods Street. The whole street sells all Chinese goods. Even in many stores selling Chinese goods, you can also find Dutch, Spanish, and even Chinese goods. British goods...

Even in Osaka, I saw a rich kid smoking Han cigarettes, walking directly on the street with a woman wearing Han clothes in his arms, and the people on the street were not surprised, as if it was normal.

And the rich Japanese kid with his arms around the beautiful woman, smoking high-end Liusui brand cigarettes, passed by the poor people in Osaka arrogantly without even looking at them.

And the woman in his arms, wearing high heels popular in Han Dynasty, wearing a slit skirt, swaying her arms around the rich young man, walking on the street without even looking at the eyes on the street. Yes, a man glance.

(Han-made Western clothing is actually Western clothing made in Han Dynasty. Due to tailoring and other reasons, it is more suitable for Asians to wear. In the Han country, it is actually an ordinary Western skirt and Western shirt, but in Japan, these have to add a Chinese character in front of.)
(Han cigarettes are actually cigarettes brought to Japan from the Han Dynasty. For the Japanese who had never seen the world at this time, wearing Han-made Western clothes and smoking Han cigarettes was already the best Chinese style they could think of. In Japan, Chinese-style life is very popular. Translated, it is actually how we learn how the Han people do it. If the Han people smoke, we also smoke.)
The people on the street looked at the departing figures with envy in their eyes. In their hearts, this is life! !
"Hey...who is that kid in front of you??" A black-robed warrior in tattered clothes looked at the man and woman who had walked away in front of him, frowned slightly, and raised his voice to a vegetable vendor carrying a load selling radishes next to him. shouted.

"Nani??" The vegetable vendor carrying the load heard someone calling him, and turned back to look at the samurai with a Kanto accent in front of him, a little confused.

"Baga...didn't you hear what I said??" The samurai looked at the vegetable vendor who was staring at him, feeling a little angry in his heart. No matter how destitute he was, he was still a samurai, but he was looked at like this by this Kansai vendor, and it spread out in the future. , his dream of being a retainer was gone.

The vegetable vendor responded to him with the same blank expression, and even looked at his tattered clothes with some disdain, which immediately made the samurai furious.

"Let me ask you, who is that kid in front of you...that kid with his arms around a pretty girl??" The samurai suppressed his anger and continued to ask the vendor. It's not that he has a good temper, he is just a patrolling samurai from Osaka Castle. He looked over here. He was a foreigner from Kanto and went to Kansai to cause trouble. He could easily be split in half.

"You said Mr. Moriki..." The vegetable vendor immediately shouted after hearing this. It seems that the rich man just now is very famous in the entire Osaka City.

"Morimu, what Morimu, is he the son of a daimyo??" The samurai heard this and asked strangely, "Also, what is in his mouth??" The samurai was very interested in the cigarette in the rich boy's mouth just now. interested.

"His name is Ichiro Moriki. He is the most famous businessman in Osaka City now. He deals in more than half of the Chinese products... He is very rich!!" When mentioning Ichiro Moriki, the vegetable vendor's eyes were full of envy. For a small businessman like him, In my eyes, Moriki Ichiro is definitely the richest man in Osaka...

"As for the thing in his mouth, that one is called cigarette. It came from Han Dynasty. We call it Han cigarette." The vegetable vendor took out a pack of Warship brand cigarettes, which are very cheap in Han Dynasty, from his pocket. He carefully took out a cigarette. He handed it to the samurai, who followed the example of the man just now and put the cigarette in his mouth, but there was no feeling in his arm and no smoke came out. (The unique enthusiasm of Osaka people)

Just when he didn't understand, the hawker took out another small box with a red edge from his pocket, and took out a small stick with a red head. When the stick was scratched on the red edge, it suddenly appeared. to Mars.

"What are you going to do??" Looking at the vendor who put the fire stick to his mouth, the samurai was startled and almost pulled out the knife out of stress, but as soon as he put his hand on his waist, he realized that he was running away. By the time, the knife had been broken.

At this moment, the samurai may be the only samurai without a sword in all of Japan.

"How can you smoke without lighting a fire? Where did you come from?" The vegetable vendor was shocked when he saw the samurai who was about to hit him, and all the matches in his hand were extinguished.

"You bastard, you're wasting my Han Huo..." The vegetable vendor looked at the extinguished matches and felt a little distressed. After all, this pack of matches is about the same price as his many vegetables. One match is half a radish. ! !

(Matches are also called Han fire in Japan)

"How much does this cost??" After understanding this, the samurai asked with some embarrassment, pointing to the match in the vegetable seller's hand, with both shame and curiosity in his eyes. After all, it is much more convenient to make fire with a piece of wood than with flint or something like that. .

"Five copper coins, that's it." The vegetable vendor had almost guessed the origin of the samurai in front of him, and then took out one of his own coins with Chinese characters engraved on it, and it said "Made in 1841, Imperial Bank of the Han Dynasty".

"It's not the copper coin of the shogunate..." Looking at the copper coin without a copper coin eye in front of him, the samurai's eyes lit up, and then he said: "How much can these be exchanged for?" The samurai took out a handful of women's gold jewelry from his worn pocket. , looking at the vendor.

"Uh..." The vegetable vendor was speechless because of the gold jewelry in the hands of the samurai. "You are so weird. You are so rich, but you are so poorly dressed, and you don't know anything. You can't be from Kansai." Are you a fugitive?" The vegetable vendor looked at the gold jewelry in the warrior's hand and the shabby clothes on the warrior's body with some disbelief, and asked with some suspicion.

"Uh...how is that possible? Have you ever seen a fugitive walking on the street so arrogantly? He has been caught long ago!!" The samurai was startled by the vegetable vendor's words, but he quickly reacted. Come here and pretend to be disapproving.

"That's right..." After hearing this, the vegetable vendor also felt that it made sense, and nodded immediately, then took out another match from the matchbox and lit it with some reluctance, and put it next to the samurai. This time the samurai There was no resistance, and soon, a cloud of white smoke rose from in front of the warrior.

"Cough...cough..."

The samurai took a sip and immediately started coughing. "How can this thing be so uncomfortable??" The samurai asked the vegetable vendor with some confusion while holding a cigarette with running water written on it.

"Smoking is like this, you just get used to it." The vegetable vendor couldn't help but feel a little amused when he saw the samurai's expression was the same as when he first started smoking, and then explained.

"By the way, you haven't told me yet, what is a Han Chinese and what is a Han product??" The samurai smoked a cigarette that was a little uncomfortable but very refreshing. He didn't forget to ask the vegetable vendor what he didn't say just now. Finished stuff.

"You mean Han..." After hearing this, the vegetable vendor immediately explained to the warrior what Han was, what Han products were, and even what Han cigarettes were. He went on and on for a long time.

The samurai who came from Kanto had to sigh that the Kansai people were indeed more enthusiastic than the people in Kanto.

"Such a big change has happened in just two years." The samurai's heart was like a sea turning upside down. He didn't expect that after he hid in the mountains for two years, when he got out of the mountains, the whole of Japan had changed, and it made him feel like Feeling out of place.

"Maybe, it's on this one??" The samurai looked at his hand, and halfway through smoking, there were Chinese characters for "warship" written on the cigarette, as if it felt like it was ancient at first, and then modern again.

"This is for you..." Before leaving, the warrior took out a pearl from his pocket, stuffed it into the other person's hand, and then turned around and left. "Hey... what's your name??" the vegetable vendor asked from behind, holding the pearl.

"Kenji Amada..." the samurai said without looking back.

"Where did this guy come from?" Looking at the big pearl in his hand, the vegetable vendor estimated the price in his mind. It was at least three yuan, and he sold a month of vegetables for just over two yuan, so Even more strange, who is the guy named Yutian just now?

And Kenta Haneda (real name), who was on the street, saw an immigration recruitment notice and immediately approached him.

"If you go there, you will be given land..."

"It's a pity that it's a border area. There might be a war..."

"If you ask me, it's more cost-effective to join the army. You can get two to three yuan a month, and you can still eat meat. More importantly, you can still eat enough."

The Japanese civilians gathered around the notice chattered about the treatment above, while Kenta Haneda, who was on the side, calmly listened to the discussions of the people around him and thought about his future.

Kenta Haneda was actually a samurai from the Kanto region. He used to live a pretty good life. However, after he was found guilty of committing adultery with Lord Hatamoto's wife, he simply refused to do anything and continued to kill people and steal goods. He fled to the mountains and escaped for two years. I had been living in the open for two years, and finally managed to survive until now. I was afraid of being recognized in Kanto, so I ran to Kansai and traveled to several cities before arriving at the current Osaka Castle.

"Unfortunately, the number of places is limited, and only samurai can participate..."

"Damn it, why do all the good things happen to those warriors? Why don't they just know how to kill people? What's so great about it!!"

"I think you are just jealous..."

"Ba Ge Ya Lu, you bastard, say it again if you dare!!"

"Stop hitting..."

The surroundings quickly became noisy over the topic of samurai swords. In fact, in a city with prosperous business like Osaka Castle, the number of samurai is relatively small, and most of them are small traders and waiters.

Even among the samurai in Osaka Castle, many are well-organized and are not comparable to the extremely poor guys in other cities. After all, in Osaka Castle, if you can't survive, you can still work for others. In other places, that's really true. Starved.

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"life……"

"Kenta Haneda..."

"Where's the samurai??" Zhang Lifu, a native of Osaka who had joined the Han Kingdom and was formerly known as Xiao Lifu, asked looking at the sloppy samurai in front of him.

"Edo..." Kenta Haneda replied somewhat uneasily.

"Edo, come so far..." Zhang Lifu didn't understand why the other party wanted to come so far to join the Han Kingdom. He could just be in Edo.

"Forget it, what's the proof??" Zhang Lifu asked suspiciously, seeing that the other party didn't even have a knife on him.

"Give me a knife." Although he was embarrassed, Kenta Haneda still begged shamelessly.

"Give him a knife..." Although he didn't know what the guy in front of him was talking about, Zhang Lifu still asked the attendant next to him to take out a samurai sword and throw it at him.

"Ah..." Kenta Haneda shouted, and in front of Zhang Lifu and others, he performed a fairly good sword technique. This sword technique was taught by adults when he was still young and is still used today. .

"Okay, you passed. Go to the port and wait the day after tomorrow morning." After Zhang Lifu read it, he immediately stamped a piece of paper.

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Osaka Port is a port famous for its commerce and trade. It is second only to Edo's core commercial port in the entire Japan. Even Nagasaki Port, which is currently open to Han Dynasty, is inferior.

It can be seen that hundreds of years of accumulation cannot be eliminated in a short time.

On the pier, there were several large ships flying the Han national flag. It used to be that these large ships could still control Osaka and other shogunate places in East Asia, causing quite a stir, but now they have become commonplace.

Only Haneda Kenta looked at the large ships and the Han national flags in front of him, his eyes flashing constantly, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

After he got on the boat, he discovered that there were many Japanese samurai like him on the whole boat, but not too many. The most numerous were Japanese girls wearing kimonos and gathering together.

"Huizi, what do you think the Han country is like..."

"Who knows, but I heard from those people that Han can have enough food and meat."

The girl named Keiko replied eagerly that for a person who often goes hungry and relies on radishes to satisfy his hunger, having a full meal is his greatest wish.

"They said they wanted to marry us over, to those Han Chinese."

"Do you think those Han people are scary? They look like monsters."

A little Japanese girl who was sold from the countryside said with some fear.

"Who did you tell me? I'm from Osaka. Our family is doing business in Han China. Han Chinese men are much taller than Japanese men..." A Japanese girl in luxurious clothes looked at these village girls with disdain and felt dissatisfied. I know how many times I have laughed at it.

"Your family is so rich, why do you want to go to Han??" A Japanese girl who looked very thin looked at this taller and fair-skinned rich girl, and she felt jealous in her heart. replied.

"Do you think that I, like you, came to Han just to get married, and the people I married were all farmers..." The rich girl replied disdainfully, "Listen up, I was admitted to Xijing Women's University, you know what University, village girl..." the rich girl said arrogantly. (Xijing Women’s University is a newly established university in Han Dynasty with mainly female students)
The women around him couldn't lift their heads, as if they were half shorter than the girl in front of them.

Soon, the ship sailed. When the ship left Osaka Port, everyone stood on the deck and looked at Osaka Castle outside. Some girls even cried secretly and kept waving to Osaka, as if saying goodbye. Everything in Japan.

Only Kenta Haneda was wearing a newly bought Han-made Western-style suit, leather boots, and a high-end cigarette in his mouth. He looked at the city in front of him that was slowly moving away, and he didn't know what he was thinking in his heart.

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