Crossover in the Anime World

Yoshida Shoin, the teacher of Gintoki, Katsura, and Takasugi Shinsuke, turned out to be Yoshida Shoin, an important educator in the overthrow movement. He was executed at the age of 29, leaving behind the "Rise of Grass Theory" and "One King, Ten Thousand People Theory" Two important ideas and theories.

The theory of the rise of the reckless is the rise of the poor. One king and all people means that under the emperor, all people are equal.

The history of the island country can basically be divided into several stages. One stage was when many tribes were established. During the Three Kingdoms period, the Yamatai Kingdom paid tribute to the Wei Kingdom and was granted the title of the Japanese Kingdom. At that time, there were still a large number of tribes on the island country. Until the Wei and Jin Dynasties, the Yamatai tribe Defeated most of the tribes and began to seek reform.

At this time, during the Sui and Tang Dynasties, the island country was transforming into a feudal system. One disadvantage of the enfeoffment system is that the strength of the nobles will become stronger and the strength of the emperor will decline. Just like the reversal of strength between the Emperor Zhou and the princes.

In order to consolidate his own strength, the emperor chose to reuse samurai and suppress the nobles. The result was that the nobles were indeed suppressed, but the samurai became bigger and stronger, ushering in the shogunate era, and the emperor remained empty-handed.

After the samurai became bigger and stronger, they needed a set of theories to maintain their social status, which was Bushido. The shogunate era was also the era of samurai.

After the Black Ship Incident, the lower-level samurai began to fall, and the emperor was brought up to fight against the shogunate. The "One King, Ten Thousand People Theory" became the basis. A large number of samurai entered the army, and the cooperation between the emperor and the army was militarism.

At that time, if you could join the army, you would have the opportunity to be promoted to a samurai, so many people from island countries actively joined the army. There will be a problem, that is, there are too few samurai in the army, far less than the common people, so samurai and bushido have been severely impacted. Originally two completely unrelated classes met in the army.

Because the army is the channel for advancement, it cannot stop fighting foreign wars. It is not enough to occupy a piece of territory, and we have to continue fighting.

Then they were defeated and the army was betrayed by the old forces of the island country. The so-called old forces are the group of people who rose up after the fall. Most of these people are warriors. After the fall of the dynasty, the feudal lords were abolished and counties were established. Many superior samurai became officials without any pressure, and they were still huge interest groups.

Most of the members of the army are lower-level warriors and civilians. Therefore, there is no pressure from the old forces to abandon these lower-level warriors and common people.

When the army failed, Bushido was no longer mentioned. Then came the chaebol era. People found themselves working as workers in companies. It was good to be a social beast under the lifelong employment system, let alone the army. Bushido was completely replaced by the social beast culture.

Although the social animal culture is also very particular about class, origin, and seniority, it is much safer and more respectable than joining the Self-Defense Forces.

Bushido declined with the defeat of the war. Just like the decline of scholar-bureaucrats with the failure of the Qing Dynasty, they are all backward versions.

Yoshida Shoin, as the theoretical propounder of the Curtain Fall Movement, is also a scholar of Wang Yangming's psychology.

Wang Yangming's philosophy of mind is to oppose the study of things to achieve knowledge, to promote the unity of knowledge and action, and to discover conscience from the heart, so that everyone can become a saint.

Sure enough, monks from outside are fond of chanting sutras. Sometimes it is difficult to come up with an opposing theory internally, but it is easy to come up with one from the outside.

At the end of the shogunate, there were a large number of poor samurai in society. How to mobilize these forces was a question that Yoshida Shoin thought about. The rise of grass and one king and ten thousand people were his important ideas, but the shogunate would definitely not accept this idea, so he directly Kill Songyin.

Yoshida Shoin indeed has a large number of powerful students who are the main force in the overthrow movement and the founder of the old forces in today's island country.

Of course, there is another reason that cannot be ignored, that is, the countryside where Yoshida Shoin lives is located in the Choshu Domain. This place is actually a port, so it is very convenient for them to accept outside ideas and purchase foreign weapons. Thoughts alone are not enough, warriors also need weapons. Therefore, none of Yoshida Shoin's disciples use swords, they all use guns.

The rise of Bushido was due to the emperor maintaining his status, and its decline was caused by the defeat of war and the development of industry. Of course, although Bushido declined, many Bushido ideas were inherited, such as the etiquette of different classes.

It was reasonable for Yoshida Shoin to be caught and killed, but Yoshida Shoin's arrest was just like a joke. It is said that Yoshida Shoyo saved a child before, and the child was very dependent on him. But one day Yoshida Shoyo disappeared, and the child kept looking for him. One day he saw Songyo talking and laughing with a new student in the countryside, so the child became jealous and decided to lead the heavenly people to arrest Songyo. .

Songyang did not propose the idea of ​​one king and ten thousand people, and the rise of Cao Mang, but he was caught by the white-eyed wolf. Although his disciples were also the force that brought down the curtain, they helped the shogunate fight against the gods.

For those who fell, the arrival of the black ship was indeed the savior. Without foreigners, how could they overthrow the shogunate? This is similar to how they sent envoys to the Tang Dynasty, which was actually to establish their own legitimacy.

For small countries, it is actually difficult to propose their own path, so it is the best way for them to rely on big countries to obtain canonization and gain legal rights.

Big countries say they must set a goal, find their own path, and have their own ideas. That's a big country, small countries are not like that.

Small countries only need to rely on big countries to obtain legal rights. Yamatai paid tribute to the Northern Wei Dynasty, the emperor paid tribute to the Sui and Tang Dynasties, and the shogunate paid tribute to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. They all relied on big countries to obtain legal rights to control their internal affairs. If the Black Ship incident happened in a big country, it would indeed be humiliating, because the rules of a big country were defeated by foreign rules, which would be very painful.

But it doesn't matter to small countries. Anyway, their original rules came from foreign countries. If they are gone, they are gone. Just change them. Anyway, it's the same legality and the same internal control. Small countries don't need to come up with their own rules. After being defeated, they can just change direction. There is no shame for them, everything is natural.

If the rules of a great power fail, it will be a century of humiliation. If a small country fails, it will just change the king's flag on the city wall, it doesn't matter.

Small countries do not gain legitimacy by proposing ideas or goals. They are completely dependent on big countries. The advantage is that no matter the rise or fall of the big country, they can get whatever they want. The disadvantage is that they cannot control their own destiny and will always be followers of the big country.

Big countries must put forward their own rules and shape the world according to their own ideals. Once they fail, they will lose the ability to shape the world.

In short, Songyang in "Gintama", as a kind-hearted personality, has made relatively little contribution to society, but his disciples have indeed taken a different path.

In the past, samurai were loyal to their feudal lords. The overthrow of feudal lords and the establishment of prefectures were to eliminate the objects of samurai loyalty and at the same time eliminate the samurai's legitimacy. So how can samurai establish new legitimacy?

Although some people always say that the emperor is a dictatorship and Confucianism is a way to fool the people, in fact, for the scholar-officials, the emperor and Confucianism are both legitimacy and guarantee. The legitimacy of the scholar-officials comes from loyalty to the emperor and patriotism, and contracts and consensus come from the Confucian principle of preserving natural principles and destroying human desires. . Therefore, there cannot be no emperor and Confucianism, because scholar-bureaucrats need these two points to ensure their legitimacy.

The same is true for samurai. They need shogunate and bushido. Without these two things, there will be no legitimacy. Therefore, Takasugi Jinsuke is confused. He doesn't know what a samurai is, so he must find new legitimacy for himself.

Gintoki found Kabukicho and fought to protect them. Gui still resisted the barbarians, but gradually became a moderate, that is, he continued to be loyal to the shogunate, but only to the independent shogunate, not to the shogunate that cooperated with heaven and man. Takasugi Shinsuke cannot find his own legitimacy.

However, although the routes were different, their respect for the teacher was the same and their desire for revenge was the same, so after seeing Song Yang's photo, they all looked up to the universe.