Chapter 32 10. Naval Academy

"Has Sakamoto Ryoma not arrived yet?" The shogunate warship Fushin Katsukaishu lay on the tatami, looking at the crape myrtle flowers in the yard, and asked. "Yes, not yet." The young attendant Michitaro Shintani replied in the waiting room next to him. The fishy smell of the tide blew into the room. "Kobe was originally just a very remote fishing village." Michitaro Shintani said many years later. Before the opening of the port on the seventh day of December in the third year of Qingying, Kobe was unknown to the world.To get to the bottom of it, there is only a place name called "Sheng Tian Sen" in the book.If it is said that Kobe is nearby, some people may think: Oh, so it is there.At that time, Kobe was just a fishing village by the sea, and it was generally placed under the jurisdiction of Hyogo, a post station in the west.Sanyo Road passes through the middle of the village.There are farmhouses on both sides of the road, and there are dots of fishermen's houses on the seashore, with a total of 500 households.

Together with Ryoma, Sheng and Ryoma will establish a "Kobe Warship Drilling Station" in this unnamed small fishing village. Katsu now lives in the home of Dr. Ikushima Shiro, the landlord of Kobe Village. This is a magnificent courtyard.The Ikushima family had already been famous in the prosperous era of the Heike family, and they used to be country warriors who controlled the area.In the Tokugawa period, he served as the village chief. The head of the house, Dr. Shiro, is highly respected in the local area and always has a kind smile on his face. "Building a navy station in such a remote and poor fishing village? The morals of the world have really changed." Every time he spoke to Sheng, he would always shake his head.

After the Restoration, Sheng recalled the situation at that time, and wrote in his notes: "The Naval Training Station is located in today's Kobe Customs. I lived in Tiansen, recruited a lot of students, and then saw that there was still some hope, so I bought a lot of land." He also wrote: "The village chief's name is Dr. Ikushima Shiro. I lived in his house at first. At that time, I told Ikushima that although this place is just a poor place, it will become a prosperous place sooner or later. Ikushima was dubious and bought the land. After the Restoration, Yiping actually rose to as high as tens of yen, making a lot of money. Although I lost some money for some reason, I am still a big rich man. Out of the idea of ​​using local people as much as possible, I use a lot of local people. People, they are also very happy to serve me. Many of them have become rich because of it. It turns out that the daughter of my doorkeeper who sells sugar has become the proprietress of a beautiful tea house. So I went to Kobe and was very popular."

"Oh, Ryoma, you're back." Katsu stood up suddenly, looked ahead and said. Ryoma stood there.When he just arrived in Kobe, he nodded his head and saluted without caring about brushing off the dust. "How about the money?" Seung was worried about this.He was afraid that the Echizen Matsudaira family, which was financially strained in the domain, would not be able to spend so much money. "got it." "Oh." "The Osaka Cangfu of the Echizen Clan has already started preparations and will deliver it soon." That's great, he thought.Sheng is a moody person.He often warns himself: As a man, you can't get carried away with no success.In order to hide his excitement, he touched his face and said, "I'm hungry. Yes, it's getting late. Shall we go to the construction site now, or eat first and go tomorrow morning? Choose one."

"Let's watch the construction site while eating." Long Ma said. "Oh." It's like fighting, Sheng Xin said.Ryoma wanted Fujibei to make dry food and take it to the construction site. What a weirdo, Sheng laughed secretly.If someone else said this, he would at most think that person was very clever, but Ryoma said that, he always found it funny. One left Ikushima's house, and soon came to the beach.Before the title ruler, there was a surging tide. Looking at the house under construction, Ryoma said, "It's almost finished." The walls have been painted, and only the doors and windows need to be installed.

There is a vast sandy beach in front of you, and you can only see fishermen scattered here and there. "The carpenters and masons have already gone back." Sheng walked in and sat down on the table in the entrance.After a while, Fujibei and Shintani Michitaro brought rice balls.The sun disappears into the Valley of One. "Everything is going very well," Seung said. For this school, the shogunate gave a budget of 5,000 taels, and the rest was to continue recruiting students.The enrollment regulations of the school have been notified to all domains.Ryoma also continued to persuade the ronin gathered in Kyoto, and soon he was able to gather hundreds of people.

The four of them ate with lanterns. "Ryoma, this school will become the driving force for the operation of New Japan." Katsuki said, chewing on the pickles. Ryoma had also written letters to his older sister Otome before.The letter always ends with "so and so", and this is the article he is proud of. "Recently, I became a disciple of the unparalleled military scholar Katsu Rintaro Dai." He bluffed to show off to Otome with two "big" characters.He probably wanted to tell his sister that he was a great gentleman because he became a disciple of this gentleman.

"Mr. is especially important and treats you like a distinguished guest. Recently, a naval training center was set up in Hyogo, eighty miles away from Osaka, and a large ship with a length of 80 to 90 meters was purchased. All parties gathered four to five hundred disciples. The master (referring to himself) ) Seeing it, it is really amazing. Such and such. Dragon." When Otome read this letter at Sakamoto House in Honchosuji 1-chome, Kochi Castle, she was rocked with laughter.The wet nurse, Ayapo, and Lao Yuanyuan also came, laughing loudly.They probably thought: That slug is showing off his skills now.

Even Quan Ping, who finally read the letter, smiled, and then frowned and said: "But, this kid, he doesn't practice swords well, he doesn't fight barbarians, and he plays with boats. I don't understand what this kid is doing." With the efforts of Sheng, the establishment of the Kobe Naval Drilling Station was gradually officialized.The shogunate also wanted to build a similar school on Etakajima in Edo, recruiting students from the east in Edo and students from the west in Kobe.But Edo's plan was only an idea. According to Ryoma's original conception, the governor of the Eastern and Western Training Institute should be appointed by one person, and this person does not need to be a clerk, but is selected by the imperial court.The shogunate also tried not to let the shogunate pay for the school, but shared it with the feudal lords of the Western Kingdom.He intends to build private schools, not government-run ones.But his plan failed in the end, and the school became a government-run school.

The person in charge of the training center is the Daikanbuki Katsuki Rintaro and another person, and the candidates for the instructors have also been roughly determined.And it will be a year before everything is ready. Ryoma couldn't wait for all the procedures to be completed, so he decided to set up a "private Katsukai Boat School" to recruit students and start teaching before opening the school. Seung agrees with the idea. "You are the head of the school, just do what you want." Then I handed over everything to him. One evening in May of the third year of Bunjiu, vassals and ronin came to Kobe one after another in order to become sailing trainees.Ryoma stayed in one of the newly built dormitory buildings and received freshmen to report every day.

Two hundred people came all at once this month.Taro Takamatsu, eldest son of Ryoma, is also among them. "Taro, I used to play behind your back, remember?" "Remember." Although the two are uncles and nephews, the age difference is not too big. Hearing that his uncle said that he used to ride on his neck to play, Taro couldn't hold his head up. "You have to do a good job." "yes." There is also a "Taro" among the freshmen, that is Taro Tsozaki, the younger brother of Ryu Suozaki. "You two have the same name, you should get along well. Standing together, you look like twins. You should be more intimate." Long Ma thought it was very interesting, and smiled. Sawamura Sonosuke, who once left the feudal domain with Ryoma, also came, Shinmiya Manosuke, who was known as the red-faced Manosuke under Kochi Castle, Kondo Chojiro, Chiya Tonosuke, who lived not far from Ryoma's house under Kochi Castle, etc. People also came one after another. There are also many people from each domain.Satsuma, who is very enthusiastic about maritime affairs, has the largest number of people here, and most of them later became the navy, such as Ito Yuheng. Among these people was a young man with a fair complexion who looked like a nobleman. "I am Date Kojiro, a Tosa vassal." He announced his family name. Ryoma laughed. "There is no Date in the Tosa domain. It is not acceptable for you to pretend to be the domain name of another domain." "No, I'm a Tosa feudal lord. I don't want to tell you some inside information, but I've always called myself a Tosa vassal, and I will continue to do so from now on." This weird guy, Ryoma thought.A long and straight face with sharp edges and corners, regular features, piercing eyes, and a high nose bridge, looks a bit like a foreigner. Date is the surname of Sendaihou and Uwajimahou, whose ancestor is Date Masamune.There is also a well-known scholar of Chinese studies in the Kizhou clan, who is also an important minister of the clan, named Date Zide.Ryoma suddenly thought of this, and only then noticed that this young man had a Kishu accent. "Are you from Kishu?" Hearing Long Ma's question, the young man didn't panic, but said calmly, "Ah, I've revealed my secrets."So he called himself the son of self-satisfaction.In this way, he is a descendant of a famous family, and now he is also following the trend and has become a vagrant.By the way, he is Mutsu Munemitsu who will become famous all over the world in the future. "It's really surprising." Although Sheng had expected Long Madao in his own room, he was still very surprised. "What we did was like mobs from all over Japan were summoned with official money." Almost all those who came to sign up were fighters, fighting and fighting every day, one after another. The shogunate has organized a Shinsengumi in Kyoto to maintain the authority of the shogunate and maintain law and order.Some people think that the training center in Kobe is like the Sea Shinsengumi of the Qinwang faction. "Xiaolong." Sheng said, "You have to take good care of them. The world is big, but except for you Sakamoto Ryoma, no one can be the general of these thugs." To flatter me, Ryoma felt a little ridiculous.But if you think about it carefully, once an accident occurs, it may affect the career of the generation warship pursuing Sheng Haizhou.Now those who hate Sheng in the shogunate pavilion have begun to spread rumors everywhere, saying that Sheng summoned illegal wanderers in Kobe and instigated riots. "I'm not afraid of what the vulgar officials in Muge say, I just want to run this school well." Sheng said in a unique Edo-style retroflex, "Xiaolong, I'll leave the management of this school to you." Longma receives five or six people to report every day, so it is very busy.It's just that although there are many people coming now, there is not a single talented person.That Date Kojiro was somewhat hopeful, and Ryoma began to pay attention to him. He is nine years younger than Longma, twenty this year.His letter of recommendation was written by Chief Inspector Hirai Shojiro, one of the only three Tosa clan sergeants, and Hirai was also the guarantor.But this young man came from a famous family in the Kishu feudal clan, but pretended to be from Tosa... "Hello," Ryoma called through the window when he saw the young man standing blankly in the yard in the principal's room one day. "Your name is Date Kojiro, right?" "No, no, the student just changed his name, please call me by my new name." This kid is really troublesome, Ryoma thought. "what name?" "Mutsu Yonosuke Munemitsu." "Good name. Well, Date is the Lord of Mutsu, so you changed it to this surname. I have some snacks here, come here." Ryoma's tone was like calling a chick after sprinkling some millet, and the young man was very annoyed . "I'm not a child." Ryoma wanted him to be the vice principal.It's just that he actually used snacks to lure the candidate for the deputy principal, which naturally made people feel a little rash. "Sorry. Mutsu Yonosuke-kun, don't mind, how about you come over here?" Mutsu Yonosuke Munemitsu, a big man who looked like a young samurai in the Genpei era, strode up to Ryoma and sat down. "What are your orders?" "It's nothing, I just want to talk to you." Ryoma wanted to test his talent, and then promote him by chance. "Can you tell me about your life experience? I'm very bored now." "Boring? How rude. Students don't talk about storytelling." A man of character!But he still spoke clearly about his life experience. His grandfather participated in the politics of the Kishu Domain, and his father Date Tojiro was proud of his name. His knowledge was once appreciated by the old Kishu Domain Lord, and he was entrusted with the important task of being in charge of the Domain Administration.However, the situation that often occurs in the Dafan also happened in the Kishu Fan, that is, the opposition between the Fan Hall and the Edo Fan Mansion of the own Fan. The Kishu Tokugawa family is a great feudal clan of 555,000 shi, and is also the most powerful of the three royal families.There are 7,000 vassals above the qualifications alone, of which 2,000 are stationed in the Edo vassal mansion.The commander-in-chief of the Edo feudal government is the old Mizuno Tosamori, the lord of the 35,000 stones of Kishu Shingu.Mutsu Yonosuke's father was the chief of staff of the Fantang faction, and he disagreed with Mizuno of the Edo faction. He had been fighting openly and secretly. After the death of the old fan, he was put under house arrest.Later, the punishment intensified.His family's fief was confiscated and demoted to civilians. The family was even driven to the foot of Koya Mountain and became a farming family. At that time, Yang Zhizhu, named Niu, was only nine years old.Although he was only a child, he was very dissatisfied with the handling of the feudal kingdom and was furious. Holding the ancestral sword, he was about to kill the important ministers of the feudal kingdom.Brother-in-law Date Goro Zongxing hurriedly hugged him.Instead, he grabbed his brother-in-law and asked him why, arguing with him while crying, and sometimes ran out to wash his face, and then came back to argue with his brother-in-law.Nine-year-olds are so fiery and eloquent. Later, his father was pardoned, and he was granted the support of seven people, and returned to the feudal kingdom.But only Yonosuke didn't want to forgive the vassal state. He ran away from home at the age of fifteen and went to Edo. A patriot who respects the king and fights barbarians.During this period, he got acquainted with the Tosa Domain Hirai Shoujiro, Gan Tuisuke and others.Tuizhu liked this young man very much, so he led him to pay homage to the old man's hall... "So, I will hate the Kishu clan for the rest of my life, and remember the kindness of the Tosa clan who provided me with protection." He has a clear love and hate, and he hates unreasonable phenomena more than his father's enemies. A few days later. Early in the morning, Ryoma was having breakfast in his room, and the handsome Mutsu Yonosuke appeared in front of Ryoma with an expressionless expression as usual. "What's the matter?" Ryoma asked, putting down his chopsticks. "Mr. Sakamoto, I heard that you are a master of Beichen's one-sword style. Is this true?" "Why did you say this so early in the morning?" Ryoma was a little impatient. "The student wants to ask how good your sword skills are, can you defeat five or six people at the same time?" Ryoma picked up the mold, he didn't want to argue with this young man. "It's not as powerful as the legend says." Mutsu said, staring at Ryoma closely. Long Ma had no choice but to say: "If you really want to know, let all the students here go up together." "That's right." Although Mutsu is still just a kid, he already knows how to control people's hearts. "Can I borrow your kung fu?" "what?" "When the student was in Edo, he knew a Mito ronin named Dososuke (Kasosuke), who was a fanatical fighter against barbarians. He was a master of swordsmanship in the Shinto Wunian style, and he killed people in Mount Tsukuba. The various assassinations in Kyoto recently The incident seems to have something to do with him." "Assassination of King Qin and his ilk." "He has five or six accomplices. These guys left Kyoto and are now hiding in Osaka. Do you know what their purpose is?" "I don't know." Ryoma was still eating. "They intend to assassinate the shogunate's generation warship, Mr. Katsu Kaishu." "Ah, ah." Ryoma put down his chopsticks.The young man said a big thing nonchalantly.This is true.Mr. Dou and others heard that Sheng Haizhou laughed at and scolded the barbarians, and wanted to take advantage of his occasional opportunity to go from Kobe to the Daiyamen of Osaka City to kill him on the way.Among the Qin Wang Zhishi, there are many such people. They think that as long as they kill people, they can advance the times. "Have you reported this to Mr. Haizhou?" "Reported. He laughed and said he would be careful. But the student got into trouble." "what happened?" "It was a Yamato ronin named Ganjuro who told me this news. He is an accomplice with Dososuke. The place where Dou and others ambush is actually Gan's home in the Koliqiao fish shed. Because he often heard me say As for Mr. Qisheng, I admire his character and talent very much. Those people later found out that Qian had betrayed them, so they wanted to kill him." "What kind of person is your friend Kanjuro?" Ryoma asked. "A radical." Mutsu said. "It should be. I guess he is not a stable person. How old are you?" "thirty-seven." "You're not young." "yes." Mutsu is too mature, but the older Kanjuro is impulsive. Kenjuro was born in Yamato Gojo.His biological parents live in Kitano-cho, opposite the south gate of Gojo Sakurai Temple.It is said that the Gan clan originally came from Umiyahara, Totsugawa Township in Yamato Mountains.Ganjuro has extremes that the people of the Yamato Plains do not have, probably because he has the blood of the mountain people on his body. Morita Sesai, known for his radical thinking, opened a private school in Gojo.Kanjuro first learned poetry from Ji Zhai, and later learned medical skills from Ji Zhai's younger brother Ren Zhai.Later, he came to Osaka and sat in a doctor's house in Gaoliqiao, and soon opened his own clinic in Jinbiqiaodong Yupeng. Earlier, he married a wife from a merchant.She originally thought that her husband was an honest doctor, but she didn't expect that every day, some restless people with lofty ideals would come to the house to drink with him, talk about the current situation, and even waved a long knife and recited poems.Seeing her husband like this, she was terrified, and finally returned to her natal home.She was pregnant at the time and later gave birth to a daughter.This girl is called Inoue Matsu, lived in Sonezaki 2-chome, and lived until the early Showa era.She has investigated many deeds of Kanjuro. Ganjuro joined the Tenchu ​​group after this "incident", and as one of them, raised troops in Dahe Wujo, was arrested after the defeat, and was massacred by the shoguns in the Liujiao Prison in Kyoto on July 19 of the first year of Yuanzhi. Until the early years of Taisho, many people in Osaka and Yamato knew what they did.Yasunari Daren, the abbot of Gojo Sakurai Temple, is one of them. "Juro often makes some haystacks, regards them as shogunate, and slashes them with a knife for practice. He often yells while chopping, and the people nearby are very scared when they hear it." Judging from the legend of Osaka, Kanjuro is not highly regarded as a doctor, and he can be said to be a quack doctor.It is said that one time he went to see a doctor in a dim sum shop nearby, told him that it was all right, prescribed medicine and went home.But before he got home, the news of the old man's sudden death came.Clapping his hands with a serious look on his face, he said: It's a bad thing.It looks very ridiculous. He has long hair, not tied up, but hanging on his shoulders.Because he was wearing a chrysanthemum pattern suit, some people called him Yujing Zhengxue.Whenever he hears someone call him that, he is elated... Closer to home. "You mean me to protect Kanjuro?" Ryoma asked. "Yes. Mr. Dou and others are always pestering him, and the matter is extremely urgent. The student brings Gan here, and you allow him to hide here for a while." "Since it's urgent, I'll go in person. Why are you at Osaka's house?" Ryoma asked Fujihei to go to Osaka first, and then set off with Mutsu Yonosuke, and he would probably arrive in the evening. There is a shrine called Yuling in the shipyard.On the north-south road on the west side of the Jingu Shrine, there are row upon row of fish shops.This area is commonly known as the fish shed, which is worthy of the name. "What a strong fishy smell." Ryoma walked forward helplessly. Kanjuro's house is in this alley.Mutsu Yonosuke had a hard time opening the rough latticed door. "Is Mr. Gan there?" The two walked into the yard, and it was a little dark inside. There was movement, and a child was crying.His current wife is Haisheng, the daughter of Naruse Kiyozaemon who opened a private school in Takatsu Kitasaka.Haisheng walked out tremblingly, and after realizing that the visitor was Mutsu, he collapsed to the ground. "Oh, Mr. Mutsu." "What's wrong?" "My husband was taken away by Mr. Dou." "what?" Haisheng said that Gan Cai was taken away only a quarter of an hour ago. "Has someone named Fujibei been here?" "Well. As soon as Mr. Fujihei arrived, those people broke in, told my husband that they had something to say to him, and took him away." "Where's Fujibei?" "He said, if Mr. Mutsu comes, let me tell you, he went to follow them." Ryoma sat under the eaves, listening to their conversation, thinking that Fujibei should be able to find out where they went. "Mutsu-kun, we are waiting. Fujibei will be back soon." Ryoma sat down holding the sword. Soon, Fujihei came back and reported: "Master, they are in an inn called Yoshida House in Namba Shinchi." The three of them immediately chased after that inn.But when they arrived at the inn, the people there said that they had just left. "Where did you go?" "The direction of Anji Kawaguchi." The woman the guest was looking for said tremblingly. "Mutsu-kun, Anji Kawaguchi is sparsely populated, so it may be a disaster." Ryoma said and took a step forward. "It is said that there are thirteen people on the other side. Mr. Sakamoto, are you all right?" "How do you know if you don't have a fight?" Long Ma strode forward. It was already dark.The embankment was empty. Mr. Dou is a third-rate and fourth-rate diligent king.When the world was in chaos, they left their hometowns and their vassal status, and went to Kyoto and Osaka to make a living.As long as they keep shouting "reject the barbarians", Changzhou Fan, the vanguard of repelling the barbarians, will give them some support.They don't have to worry about their daily meals, and their life is full of vitality, which makes them very interesting.What these people do is kill, intimidate and borrow.Even if they do this, they have a reason, saying that it is for the sake of the world and the country, and they also believe that what they have done is a righteous act, so it is worse than ordinary crimes. The Shinsengumi was already active in Kyoto by this time.With the idea of ​​fighting poison with poison, the shogunate recruited people of the same kind as these people to their side, stationed them in Kyoto, and hunted down the barbarians. Therefore, those third- and fourth-rate people with lofty ideals were afraid, and they no longer approached Kyoto, and those who had to go to Kyoto were met by Shinsengumi.In other words, Dou always helped these low-level people, causing some promising people to lose their lives in the capital for nothing. No gossip. There were no pedestrians on the embankment of the Anji River mouth at this time. Dou and others hid in the grass under the embankment.Looking around, the dense reeds can hide more than a hundred people. "You betrayed us, didn't you?" Excuse asked in Mito dialect. The short Kanjuro tried his best to turn around at first, trying to refute, but under the questioning of thirteen people, his strength was exhausted, and he was already weak at this moment. "Kill him!" said a man with a Yamato accent. "Okay." Dou ordered his accomplices, put the crime name card prepared under the pine branch, and wrote: This person uses the name of "removing barbarians" to make friends with those who are loyal and serve the country, and often deals with all parties, and informs the enemy of his movements. The crimes of tolerance are not listed one by one.Because of this, the Heavenly Executioners are added. "Tie it up!" Dou ordered. Everyone swarmed up, tied Ganjuro tightly, then hung the rope on the branch and hung him up. "Whether to hang him like this, or hack him to death, I'll think about it." Dou and the others began to read dry jokes.The reason why Gan has such an encounter is probably because he is easily deceived.If not, others would not have prepared so carefully to lynch him. At this time, footsteps came from the embankment, it was Ryoma and his party. "Fujibei! Fujibei!" Ryoma shouted.The voice was lost in the wind, making it hard to hear. "What's up?" "There are people talking down the embankment, can you hear what they are saying?" "I'll go down and have a look." Fujihei said as he bent down and wanted to go down.At this moment Ryoma grabbed his belt and pulled him back. "Dangerous. There are people below who have drawn their swords." After finishing speaking, he looked back at Mutsu Yonosuke and asked him if he could borrow a long sword.His 2-foot-2-inch auspicious handle will appear short once it is used. "This is Date's famous sword." Ryoma pulls out his sword and pushes it to Mutsu.Mutsu had no choice but to hand over his two-foot-eight-inch long knife to Ryoma. "Mutsu-kun's long sword is good." Ryoma drew his sword and watched in the sunset. The people below also noticed the movement above, and two or three climbed out from the grass, and looked at the embankment with their heads. Below the navel, a long knife is being held up to watch. "Who are you?" Ryoma asked into the eyes in the grass. Chiliu, the man slid down the river bank, trotted along the bank, and reported the situation to Chief Assistant.The dragon horse ran down the river bank like a gust of wind, and stood in front of the trunk that was hung from the tree.Ryoma put the sword back into its sheath, and said, "I'm Sakamoto Ryoma." Mr. Dou and the others were shocked.At this time, among the people with lofty ideals in the Gyeonggi area, everyone knows the name of Longma.Just the title of chief fencing instructor of Beichen Yidaoliu Chiba Martial Arts School is enough to calm Dou and others.Pocket stepped back a dozen steps. "Sakamoto, although you and Mr. Takeshi are comrades, you follow the shogunate to win the sea boat, abandon the ambition of fighting against barbarians, and publicize the theory of the founding of the country." "That's my Sakamoto's anti-barbarian theory. I'm not arguing with you here. If you listen to my opinion, come to Kobe. You let Ganjuro go first." He gave Mutsu and Fujibei behind him a wink , let them untie the rope. Hold the handle in your pocket. "Really, don't draw the sword." Ryoma said in a reproachful tone, "Don't be so hasty. If you draw the sword, we will have a fight." As he spoke, he stared at the pocket and overwhelmed him with momentum.If he didn't have this momentum, Dou would definitely rush over. Dou couldn't draw his knife anymore, his face was pale with fright. Behind Ryoma, the rope on Kanjuro's body has been untied.He fell in the reeds.Mutsu Yonosuke and Fujibei took care of it. "Mr. Fujibei, can you call for a sedan chair?" Mutsu said. Fujibei ran away.After a while, he came back with a sedan chair.He was about to carry Gan to the river embankment with Mutsu, and shouted: "Wait, you can't take him away!" Mutsu is a quick-tempered person. "What did you say?" he yelled. Mr. Dou lost his composure in anger, and stretched out his hand to draw the knife unconsciously. "Boy." Before the knife was pulled out, Dou suddenly felt a sharp pain in his right hand. "Ah!" He stretched his arms and stepped back. "I didn't hurt you." Ryoma put the knife into its sheath at this time, "Dou, fighting is useless." "Sakamoto, let's stop here today, and we will try another day." Longma and others left safely. The next day, Tobi sent someone to chase Ryoma to the Dotonbori Toriya where Ryoma was staying, but nothing happened. The reason is particularly detailed in the relevant materials of Mutsu Munemitsu: there was another commotion after the Anji Kawaguchi incident.The chief assistant thought that it was unbearable for Sakamoto and others to rush in suddenly and save Juro as if no one was around, so he sent a letter of war to Sakamoto and agreed to a duel.Without fear, Sakamoto said loudly to the messenger: I, Sakamoto, will be waiting for you in the territory of Tennoji at any time.When Sawamura General Manager heard about this, he was afraid of accidents, so he went to Osaka Castle, found Katsuki, and asked for help.Sheng couldn't sit idly by, so he discussed with Shutou Ogasawara, called the chief assistant, comforted him, and the matter was settled. After this matter was settled, Mutsu Yonosuke began to be obedient to Ryoma. "Mr. Sakamoto's courage is really surprising. That guy is known as the chief assistant of the murderer, and he is well-known among his associates." One night, Mutsu said to someone. "What happened to Kanjuro?" "Bringing his wife and children back to Gojo in Yamato. His elder brother is there." It didn't take long for Ganjuro to join the Tenchu ​​group.When the Tenzhu Group entered Yamato and attacked the Wujo Daiguan Office, it was Ganguilu who lived in Wujo at that time.After the collapse of the Tianzhu Group, Gan was arrested in Osaka, sent to Liujiao Prison in Kyoto, and died under torture.Qian once left a song in prison: "Although the rope is stained with blood, a heart will never change." Closer to home.The warship drill station in Kobe is only designated as a government-run facility. In addition, the training ship, equipment and fuel have not yet arrived, and there is no clue.In essence, this so-called government school is Katsu Haishu's private school. The students just listen to Sheng Haizhou and Ryoma Haibui every day, and they don't know when they will get the boat. "Mr. Sheng, it's really a headache." One day, Ryoma said to Sheng in embarrassment, "I really have no choice, and some students have already started to complain." Each person can get two taels of subsidy every month, so the students certainly don't have to worry about their livelihood.Moreover, although the practical courses have not yet been opened, Akamatsu Sakyo and others are already teaching theoretical subjects.Besides that, there are even people who learn English. Ryoma also learned a little bit, but he gave up after a while-he couldn't remember this kind of earthworm text. "They will be dissatisfied. There is no ship in the ship school, which is a bit strange." After discussing with each other, the two decided to let the students go to the shogunate steamship in Tianbaoshan Chong as trainees, and let them travel in Osaka Bay. At this moment, the Tosa vassals in the school began to waver. "Mr. Sakamoto, at this time, we are not in the mood to learn how to drive a warship." At this time, Changzhou had already started preparing to fight against the barbarians. They set up forts along the coast of the sea, and launched shelling whenever they found foreign ships among the ships passing the Maguan Strait.On the 10th day of May in the third year of Wenjiu, they bombarded American merchant ships, on the 23rd of the same month they bombarded French warships, three days later they bombarded Dutch warships, and on the first day of June they bombarded American warships.The Changzhou Fan was sunk by two warships, the Gengshen and the Renxu. In Kyoto, Changzhou, which pursues radical anti-barbarianism, has taken control of the court, and the situation has become urgent. It seems that the court will soon issue an imperial edict to end the country's lockdown and a decisive battle with foreign countries. At the same time, the political situation in Tosa suddenly turned conservative.Some time ago, Tosa's old vassal government began to intervene in the vassal administration and came to Kyoto.This is a feudal lord who attaches great importance to appearance.The geisha in Gion who saw Rong Tang come to Beijing even said: "People say Lao Fan Gong, Lao Fan Gong, and they thought he was an old man. Today, I saw a handsome man." Seeing Rongtang's appearance when he entered Beijing, all the people in Kyoto were surprised. That day, Rong Tang rode a steed named Qian Zai, wearing a black fish roe pattern coat, a purple forged hakama with cypress branches embroidered on the hakama, and a pair of long and short swords with wax-colored scabbards on his body.Rong Tang was thirty-six years old at the time, and his height was five feet six inches.There was a text that praised him like this: "The complexion is fair, the face is round, and the eyes are brilliant." The Qinwang party in the feudal clan knew that Rongtang had the ambition to be a king a long time ago, so they were very happy. They thought "the time has come".However, the first thing Rong Tang did was to suppress the King Qin Party in the feudal clan.His behavior spread to the school in Kobe, and the students from Tosa couldn't sit still.