Starting My Treasure Hunting In England

There are many top-notch famous swords in Japan, and among them is a national treasure-level sword called Daden Taiguangse.

This sword was originally a family heirloom of the Ashikaga family, a shogunate during the Muromachi shogunate period. After the demise of the Muromachi shogunate, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took it as his own, and later gave it to the brave general Maeda Toshiie.

According to historical records, someone once tested this knife using corpses as test targets, and found that this knife could cut off two stacked corpses at one time.

In addition, it is said that this sword can also drive away evil. It once expelled the monster that possessed Maeda Toshiya's daughter Gouki, and also eliminated anomalies in Osaka Castle.

The forger of Dadian Taiguangshi, Dian Taiguangshi, forged more than one sword in his life, but not many of them have been handed down now. Therefore it has extremely high value.

The knife in front of Liang En now is another work of this master, and it is also a fine product. Because for this master, he will only carve the three Chinese characters "Guangshizuo" on the knife that he is satisfied with.

This alone was enough to make Liang En feel that this trip was very worthwhile, and when he turned the knife over to look at the other side of the blade, he felt that he had been hit by an even bigger surprise.

Because there is a cross carved on the other side of the knife stem, and below the cross are engraved the three sentences "Heaven and earth have the same root, all things are one, and there is no difference between them."

At the bottom of these patterns and words, the other party carved four characters in a font one size smaller than before, which should also be the name of the previous holder of the knife.

"Amakusa Tokisada!" Looking at the inscription on the sword, Liang En's eyes widened. In the previous world, he was a cloud player of a certain game in order to write a book, so he still had a certain impression of this name. .

Amakusa Tokisada was the leader of the Catholic rebels during the Shimabara Rebellion in Japan's Edo period. He was the son of Konishi Yukinaga's retainer Masuda Yoshiji. His real name was Masuda Tokisada, but he was later adopted to Amakusa Jinbei and changed his name to Amakusa Tokisada.

Because Konishi Yukinaga was defeated and beheaded after the Battle of Sekigahara, his family naturally fell.

For this reason, he did not grow up like a samurai. Instead, he lived in Nagasaki Port since he was a child, believed in Catholicism, and learned Western medical skills from the Dutch living in Japan.

If things had not changed, Amakusa Tokisada would have probably become a famous doctor and spent his life peacefully, but the shogunate's suppression of Catholicism and the natural disaster that broke out in the Shimabara area changed everything.

In 1637, farmers in the Shimabara and Amakusa areas launched an uprising. At the same time, a large number of ronin who had lost their jobs due to the establishment of the Tokugawa shogunate also joined the battle and brought valuable command strength to the peasant uprising army.

Since the local area has always had a Catholic tradition, there has also been a legend about the birth of a child prodigy. Therefore, this insurrectionary army focused on religion and recommended Amakusa Tokisada as the leader of the uprising.

Because the commanders of the rebel army are basically all professional warriors, and they are also determined. In addition, the incompetence of the third-generation shogun at that time led to internal struggles within the shogunate, so at first the shogunate suffered a series of defeats.

At the end of 1637, the shogunate's important minister Itakura Shigemasa arrived in Kyushu and began to suppress the uprising. As a result, he launched two attacks and failed. Therefore, the shogunate sent Matsudaira Nobutsuna to Kyushu to supervise the war.

After receiving this news, Itakura Shigemasa believed that this was the shogunate's distrust of him, so on New Year's Day in 1638, the commander-in-chief launched a general attack. This general attack resulted in the loss of more than 3,900 people on the shogunate's side. At the same time, Itakura Chongchang himself died in the battle.

After Matsudaira Nobutsuna arrived on the battlefield, he changed his tactics and adopted the method of siege without attacking to consume his army's food and grass. At the same time, he hired Dutchmen who believed in Protestantism to continuously bombard the castle occupied by the rebels.

This long-term siege led to a shortage of various supplies in the city, and the combat effectiveness of the rebel army decreased. At the same time, more and more shogunate troops were urgently recruited from various places.

So on February 17, 1638, more than 100,000 troops from the shogunate launched a general offensive. Due to the weakness of hunger and the appearance of traitors within the army, the rebel army was defeated on the 18th, and Amakusa Tokisada and most of the people in the city at that time were killed.

Yes, it's the vast majority of people, not the rebels. The shogunate army killed everyone in the castle at that time, including gray-haired old men and infants. Only a handful of people escaped through the night.

This uprising made the shogunate realize the threat of foreign trade to the traditional feudal economy and the threat of foreign religion to the shogunate itself. So in the second year after the uprising broke out, that is, in 1639 AD, the shogunate issued the fifth order to lock down the country.

The strictness of this national lockdown order was unprecedented. For example, only one port on the island was reserved for trade with the Chinese Netherlands, and another example was that it prohibited all overseas churches from having any influence on the country.

In addition, the shogunate also abolished the original red seal ship system and prohibited the import of books and materials in various foreign languages. and killed or exiled nearly all Catholics.

In addition, there is another interesting thing, that is, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi also participated in this war as a samurai under the command of Ogasawara Choji, the lord of Nakatsu Castle. As a result, he was injured by stones thrown by the rebels and fell into the street. Therefore, there were no results worth mentioning in the battle.

This also shows that a one-on-one duel and participating in a battle on the battlefield are completely different things. Even if you win every battle, you are likely to be killed by an ordinary soldier on the battlefield with one move.

And at the moment Liang En judged the true situation of the knife, the knife opened five cards for Liang En in one breath. This is quite reasonable for a sword that has participated in a battle that changed Japanese history and is similar to a religious relic.

"It seems that this sword is the portable sword of Tendo Amakusa Tokisada." Liang En, who confirmed the condition of the sword through the card, whispered while stroking the blade with his gloved hand.

Although history does not record it. But Liang En could probably tell what the knife was about. After all, it was night when the rebel army broke through the city, so it was not impossible for some people to really want to run away.

According to the current situation, this sword is most likely that Amakusa Tokisada asked someone to successfully break out with his own saber before he died in the battle.

After all, for the Japanese, the katana is equivalent to the soul of a samurai, so it is understandable that before Amakusa Tokisada died in battle, his sword was taken away.

Afterwards, the sword probably fell into the hands of a Catholic samurai, and then was exiled to the Philippines with the samurai and lay dormant for hundreds of years until it was discovered by the Japanese officer hundreds of years later.

Because the enemy of Japanese propaganda in World War II was the European and American world, including Western religions. So the officer who discovered the samurai sword had to hide it temporarily.

Considering that all weapons must be turned in after the defeat, the invading army officer who obtained the weapon disguised the knife and hid it in the crude treasure spot, thinking of retrieving the knife later, but failed. I thought of encountering the guerrillas and being wiped out.

Then the knife stayed in the cave for more than half a century. It was not until Liang En found the knife through clues and repaired it through the power of the card that this part that had been forgotten by history was discovered.