I formed the strongest swordsman group

After the fat man left, the other two immediately put away their knives and left behind the fat man.

After a while, the figures of these three people disappeared from Qingdeng's field of vision.

Seeing the departure of these three people, Qing Deng felt relieved, and heaved a sigh of relief.

He did not pursue these three people.

He went after those three people only after his brain twitched.

If the three were unarmed, Qingdeng still had the confidence to knock them down by relying on his martial arts skills from his previous life, but the problem was that all three of them were holding knives.

What's more, if you don't know the details of others, you will rush to catch up, and there will be dangers such as ambushes.

The "sudden attack" just now ended in such a peaceful way, which is already a blessing in misfortune.

The originally tense nerves relaxed in one breath.

It wasn't until now that Qingdeng realized that the clothes on his back had been slightly soaked in cold sweat at some point just now.

More and more courageous "melon-eaters" gathered around at this time, and they looked at Qingdeng who was still holding a knife with suspicious and vigilant eyes.

"Don't be nervous, everyone."

Qingdeng put his saber back into the scabbard, and hurriedly said.

"In Shimonokitachi, the concentricity of the designated towns - Juqingdeng."

After saying that, Qingdeng lifted the right hem of his haori, revealing the ten hands with red tassels tied at the bottom of the handle and the seal cage hanging on his right waist.

[Note · Yinlong: A small box-shaped lacquerware, which became an ornament often worn by warriors around the waist in the Edo period. Although it is mainly used for decoration, it also has some practicality. It can be decorated with small items such as small change and keys inside, and can be used as a pocket. 】

On Qingdeng's right waist is always hung a "special seal cage for the staff of the enforcement office" distributed by the enforcement office.

It has a black body, with golden clover and various decorative patterns on the front - only the samurai working in the temple have such seal cages.

The use of tokens was not popular in Japan during the Edo period, and this seal cage assumed part of the functions of tokens.

In Qingdeng, the seal cage that only the samurai serving in the execution office can have, and the blunt weapon that only the "police" can carry: Ten hands later, the vigilance and doubts in the eyes of the surrounding "melon-eating people" suddenly Eliminate most of it.

"Just now I was attacked by mobs, it's not a big deal." Qingdeng continued, "Don't all gather here! Let's spread out!"

These "melon-eating people" who dare to go out of the house are basically here to join in the fun.

Seeing that there was nothing exciting to join in, they immediately dispersed.

After successfully dismissing these "melon-eating crowd", Qingdeng let out a sigh of relief again.

——Those three people just now... who the hell are they?

——Call me a national traitor who worships Yi and Mei Di?

While wiping the cold sweat from his brow, Qingdeng searched for the memory of "Yuan Ju Qingdeng".

In just a moment, he found the identities of the three people in the memory of "Yuan Juqingdeng".

And after finding out the identities of the three people just now, black lines appeared on Qingdeng's face immediately...

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...

Edo, Hatchobori——

Following the memory of "Yuanju Qingdeng", Qingdeng came to a place called "Hatchobori".

This place is a samurai-inhabited area, and almost all officials in the execution office basically live in this block called Hatchobori.

Obviously, it was the first time for him to take this journey home, but because of the memory of "Original Orange Qingdeng", Qingdeng had a strange feeling of familiarity.

After turning on two small roads in succession, Qingdeng stood in front of the door of an ordinary small house.

Before entering the door, Qingdeng scanned the surroundings again with vigilant eyes.

After confirming that no one was following him, he reached out to pull the door.

"I'm back."

Boom, boom, boom.

Just as Qingdeng opened the door and entered the small house, there was the sound of "dong dong dong" footsteps in the room.

Then, an old man with white beard and hair appeared from the depths of the house,

This person slid in front of Qingdeng in a posture similar to a sliding shovel, and then knelt down to salute Qingdeng.

"Young master, welcome back! Come, please put your saber... Ah! Young master! What's wrong with your leg?!"

"It's nothing." Qing Deng smiled wryly at the old man, "It's just that he was attacked by the 'Big Barbarians' faction just now."

The old man's name was Jiubingwei, and he was the youngest in Qingdeng's family.

The so-called small ones can be understood as waiters, the servants of the samurai's family.

Jiubingwei can be regarded as the old man of their Tachibana family.

Before Qingdeng's mother was even married to his father, Kubei came to Tachibana's house to serve his father.

After Qingdeng's father died, Jiubingwei began to serve Qingdeng.

Calculated in this way, Jiubingwei has served their family for more than 30 years.

For such an old man who has served their family for most of his life and is still working diligently, "Yuan Juqingdeng" has always respected him, so the master and servant get along very well.

Qingdeng has no siblings, nor has he married yet.

At the moment when his parents are dead and he has no other family members, Jiubingwei is Qingdeng's only family member at present.

After Qingdeng heard the word "Biyi faction", Jiu Bingwei's face turned pale immediately.

"A-Again, are they the 'Big Barbarians'... Those people are really too much...Young master, you have only served in the embassy of the United States for a while, why do you attack you one after another... really If you want to get rid of the barbarians, they will kill the real barbarians... Ah! Young master, come in quickly! I will bandage your wound!"

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...

Japan in this era naturally did not have such a thing as a bandage.

The Japanese of this era used something called "hemp cloth" to stop bleeding and bandage wounds.

The injury on Qingdeng's leg was just a minor injury, and it didn't affect his daily activities. He only needed to rest for a while to recover.

When Jiubingwei helped Qingdeng bandage the wound on his leg in a somewhat clumsy way, Qingdeng rubbed his frowning brows vigorously.

——So what's the situation now... Just after crossing over, I fell into a desperate situation where I might be hacked to death by a group of lunatics at any time?

After searching the memory of "Yuan Ju Qingdeng" just now, Qingdeng finally found out the identities of the three warriors who attacked him just now.

They are the people of the "rejecting barbarians"!

What is the "anti-barbarian faction"?

That's a long story.

More than 1,000 years ago, the great eastern country across the sea had entered the Sui and Tang Dynasties, while Japan was still in the backward era of slavery.

After seeing the huge gap between their own country and the Sui and Tang Empires across the sea, the Japanese rulers at that time decided to study the advanced system and culture of the Sui and Tang Empires in 645 AD in order to seek prosperity and strength.

This reform is known in history as "Dahua Reform".

"Dahua Reform" can be said to have completely reborn Japan, transitioning from the era of slavery to the feudal era in one go.

Not long after the Dahua reform, Japan moved its capital to Nara, and the period when Nara was the capital is called the "Nara Period" (710-794)

In 794, Japan moved its capital again to Heian-kyo (now Kyoto). The period when Heian-kyo was the capital was called the "Heian era" (794-1192)

The Japanese emperors in the Nara period and the Heian period, like the Chinese emperors, were veritable heads of state and held state power.

However, in the middle and late Heian period, the samurai forces... that is, the samurai group began to rise.

The samurai forces were originally just a bunch of rough people responsible for fighting, but at the end of the Heian period, they gradually formed a group, rose up, and began to control the government and emptied the emperor.

The samurai group has gradually turned into a new class that plays an important role in Japan: the samurai class!

Finally—at the end of the 12th century, the Genji samurai group completely emptied the emperor and took over the power of the court.

Due to its special national conditions, Japan cannot abolish the emperor and change dynasties arbitrarily like China.

At that time, it was extremely difficult and risky to abolish the imperial family that had existed for hundreds of years.

So the leader of the Genji samurai group: Minamoto Yoritomo created the "shogunate system".

He asked the emperor for the official position of "General Who Conquered Barbarians", retained the emperor and the imperial court, but established a new government in the Kamakura area.

This new government was known as the "shogunate".

Because it was built in Kamakura, it is commonly called "Kamakura Shogunate".

The head of the shogunate is General Zhengyi, and the official position of General Zhengyi is passed down from generation to generation by Genji's descendants.

The nominal head of state, as well as the governing body, remains the Emperor and the Kyoto court.

But the real power holders and the institutions that manage the country are the generals who conquer the barbarians and the shogunate in Kamakura.

Since then, the shogun has become the de facto emperor of Japan, and the title of "General Who Conquered Barbarians" has also become a title that represents the supreme under heaven, and countless careerists want to grab it.

The Kamakura Shogunate only lasted for more than 100 years (1185-1333). This period of time when the Kamakura shogunate ruled Japan is called the "Kamakura period".

After the Kamakura shogunate weakened, the imperial court led by the emperor once tried to regain the power of the country, but ended in failure. The power of the country was snatched away by another samurai group, the Ashikaga family.

Ashikaga eliminated the Kamakura shogunate and established the second shogunate in Japanese history in the Muromachi area: the Muromachi shogunate. The official position and state power of the "Great General Who Conquered Barbarians" was taken away from Genji, and the emperor and the imperial court continued to be mascots.

The period when the Muromachi shogunate ruled Japan is known as the "Muromachi Period" (1336-1573)

Due to the special political system, at the end of the Muromachi period, tyrants from all over the country rose up and rebelled one after another, and Japan entered an unprecedented era of war: the Sengoku period (1467-1603).

This is a troubled time when the princes from all walks of life sing and I come on stage, and the national hegemony is fought for by you.

In the end—it was Tokugawa who had the last laugh.

A samurai named Tokugawa Ieyasu successfully unified the country in 1603, and then established the third shogunate in Japanese history in Edo (today's Tokyo): the Edo Shogunate.

The title of General Zhengyi fell to the Tokugawa clan.

And this is also the era that Qingdeng is currently living in - the Edo period ruled by the Edo shogunate.

In the Edo period where Qingdeng is now, the shogunate system can be said to have been perfected to almost perfection.

At this time, Heian-kyo had already been renamed as Kyoto. The emperor and the imperial court still remain in Kyoto, but they have become complete mascots with no real power at all.

To put it simply-now Japan has two governments: the Imperial Court in Kyoto and the Edo Shogunate in Edo.

The head of the Kyoto imperial court was the emperor, while the head of the Edo shogunate was the general who conquered barbarians inherited from generation to generation by the Tokugawa clan.

The former is the mascot, the nominal head of state, while the latter is the real ruler of Japan, the real "Emperor of Japan".

Qingdeng doesn't know the history of Japan, and I don't know how many years AD it is now, but it is calculated based on the memory of "Original Tachibana Qingdeng"-now it is roughly the middle and late 19th century.

Because 7 years ago, the steam fleet of the United States opened the door of Japan.

Since there is a steam fleet and the invasion of European and American powers... then the time point is probably the middle or late 19th century.

Not long after the establishment of the Edo Shogunate, in order to ensure the stability of the country, the shogunate issued an order to lock up the country, and Japan entered a state of seclusion, and only maintained contact with China, North Korea, and the Netherlands.

Under the lock-up order, Japan has spent more than two hundred years of peace.

Until... 7 years ago, in the sixth year of Kayong (1853), Commodore Perry of the United States led the fleet to knock on the gate of Japan.

Because there were black steam warships in the fleet brought by Perry, people called this incident the "Black Ship Incident".

How can Japan, which is still in ancient society, be the opponent of the United States, which has been baptized by the industrial revolution?

Under the coercion of the United States, Japan was forced to accept the "Japan-US Treaty of Amity" of the United States.

The door to Japan is now open.

The "black ship incident" brought too much impact on the government and the people of the shogunate.

Some people have clearly seen the gap between Japan and overseas powers, and proposed to learn from the advanced systems and technologies of Western powers, just like learning from the eastern powers facing them thousands of years ago, and demanded "reformation" to learn from the barbarians to improve themselves.

However, the number of people in Japan who have this concept of "learning from the West" is pitifully small.

The "Law of Seclusion" that has lasted for nearly 250 years has made Japan narrow-minded and arrogant, from meat eaters to ordinary people.

In the face of the incoming Western powers, the most popular and popular trend of thought among the Japanese people at this time is-these foreigners are all barbaric barbarians, and all these barbarians should be driven out!

fighting! fighting! fighting! !

Those who advocated the expulsion of all the Western powers used the slogan of "Eliminate the barbarians". Therefore, these people who advocate "rejection of barbarians" are collectively referred to as "rejection of barbarians".

The thought of "repelling the barbarians" is the most mainstream thought now, not one of them.

The "anti-barbarians" who advocate driving foreigners out of the country are the undoubted majority at present, while those who advocate peaceful coexistence with and learn from the great powers are all in the minority.

Although those who advocate "anti-barbarians" are collectively referred to as "anti-barbarians", there are many different schools of thought in the "anti-barbarians".

Some have a more moderate view, advocating the expulsion of Westerners in a peaceful manner.

However, most of the "anti-barbarian" people at present advocate the use of force to expel all the powers headed by the Americans.

In the past 7 years, as more and more foreigners set foot on the land of Japan, some people who advocate the use of force to destroy the barbarians have become more and more radical and extreme in their thinking.

To this day, there is even such a voice among the "anti-barbarian faction": Those who admire the West, think that Western things are good, or work for the Westerners are all national thieves who worship the barbarians and flatter the barbarians! These national thieves should also be killed!

Such an absurd and extreme idea has gradually spread, and more and more people regard it as a standard.

The three warriors who assassinated Qing Deng just now were "radical extermination" people with such extreme thinking.

Why do people from the "radical anti-barbarians" focus on Qingdeng?

The reason is that "Original Juqingdeng" worked in the US embassy for 7 days more than a month ago.

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The Japanese pronunciation of the protagonist Ju Qingdeng is: たちばなあおと.

The Roman sound is: tachibana aoto.

So Qingdeng's full name looks very short, with only 3 Chinese characters, but the pronunciation is very long, with a total of 7 sounds. The surname "Orange" alone has 4 sounds.