Chapter 46 7. The Story of the West Country

Sakamoto Ryoma hired a boat at the mouth of the Anji River, and ordered: "Go to the Satsuma Domain in Tosabori River." In Osaka Castle, river boats are an important means of transportation. "Sir, do you want to swipe quickly?" The tip for swipe is high.Longma didn't have much money on him, but he still ordered to paddle quickly.By this time the river had begun to darken. When the boat passed Kujo, it was already night.Next to the outpost for inspecting ships on the shore, lanterns hung on bamboo poles were also lit.Now report your name to the outpost.There was no such procedure before, but since the Forbidden Gate Change, the shogunate began to strictly monitor people who came to Osaka.The outpost was crowded with Ichiliu Fan soldiers who had come under the order of the shogunate.

Ryoma passed the checkpoint smoothly, but he still felt the tension of the situation. The head of the shogunate, Owari Hou Tokugawa Yoshikatsu, had already cut off the heads of seven Choshu people captured in Kyoto, held a flag ceremony for the expedition, and stationed in Osaka Castle, the headquarters of the Choshu Crusade Army.The shogunate wanted to completely overthrow Choshu. After passing the outpost, walk up the river and walk out ten towns away. Linhe was originally a warehouse of the Changzhou clan, but now this house has also been sealed up and nailed to death by the shogunate.The ship passed under the Anzhi River Bridge, and after a while there was another checkpoint for inspecting ships.Ryoma was also called here, and the domain name, name, purpose of coming to Osaka, etc. were written on the register.

Ryoma wrote "Isaburo Saigo, Sazhou".Xixiang had previously explained: "The shogunate officials may do something rude to you, please don't be polite at that time, just report the domain name of Sazhou and use my name." This name is indeed effective against the shogunate officials.The shogunate not only watched the movements of this huge feudal kingdom with fear, but also believed that it was likely to support itself.One thing surprised the shogunate. When the Changzhou people broke into Kyoto, Satsuma and Aizu teamed up to beat the Changzhou people to pieces.That is to say, while the shogunate was afraid of the Satsuma clan, it relied on it at the same time, for fear of accidentally offending it, and even ordered all the members of the Kyoto Shinsengumi: "Don't attack the Satsuma people."

"Ah, so it's the Lord of Sazhou." The attitude of the post officials immediately became respectful.Ryoma nodded leisurely, raised his chin, and signaled the boat to move forward. Sitting on the rickety boat, he suddenly felt ridiculous.Satsuma and Changzhou are known as the two vassals of Qin Wang, but one supports the shogunate, and the other is about to be crusaded by the shogunate.In this crusade against Changzhou, I wonder if Satsuma will become an accomplice of the shogunate again.Xixiang has already arrived at the Satsuma Mansion in Osaka, what is he thinking, this time he must ask clearly.

Entering the Satsuma Domain, Ryoma saw that the comrades were assigned to the No. 16 longhouse, and the food was quite good. "Ah, this is our nest." Ryoma looked around absent-mindedly. "How many years has Mr. Sakamoto left the clan?" Mutsu Yonosuke, who was beside him, asked. "Let's think about it, when the flowers bloomed in the second year of Wenjiu when we left the domain, it should have been two and a half years. I really traveled to many places." Ryoma raised his head and looked at the roof, "It's just that I never expected to take the city of Osaka Satsuma Domain as a base."

"I also travel around." "You came out when you were fifteen years old." Ryoma laughed, no matter what, Mutsu Yonosuke Munemitsu was the best born among Ryoma. Speaking of the Date clan, the vassal of the Tokugawa family in Kishu, it can be described as a famous family that has shocked the feudal lords, and Mutsu was born in such a famous family.His father was imprisoned at home due to political struggles in the domain, and the young man left the Kishu domain at the age of fifteen.He first fled to Edo, earning his living as an apprentice to doctors and Confucians. Ryoma suddenly asked: "When you left Jizhou, was there someone to see you off?"

Yonosuke said angrily: "That's leaving the feudal clan, how could someone see him off?" I have never heard of a child leaving the feudal clan.Ryoma smiled.Back then, when this young man named Niu Mo packed up his luggage and left home, he wrote a poem for himself: What an incredible child, Ryoma said heartily.Ryoma, who is not good at reading, can't believe that a fifteen-year-old boy can write such a poem. "But Mr. Sakamoto, people really don't go hungry. This is the most amazing thing. As the saying goes, there is no end to the road. I wandered around these years, and I realized that this sentence is true."

Ryoma was chatting with Mutsu when Nakajima Sakutaro and Ikeuchi Kurata entered. "Oh, Ryoma." Nei Zang Tai opened his mouth as soon as he sat down, but he was a bit awkward, as if he couldn't speak. "What's wrong?" "I want to go to Changzhou." "Nai Cang Tai, you must be overheated." Ryoma laughed. Ikeuchi Kōta was twenty-five years old this year, the son of his disciple Saiemon, who had a mansion in Kokakuzaka, Kochijo. Nei Cangtai has a black face with piercing eyes, and is known as "Black Face Nei Cangtai".He studied in Edo very early, but unfortunately he was too full of blood and was not the kind of person who was able to learn.He once returned to Tosa to participate in the Qinwang League of Takeshi Banheita, and often went to Kyoto to participate in activities with the patriots of various feudal clans.Later, he thought that the Tosa clan was corrupt, so he left the clan and went to Changzhou like many Tosa ronin.

Later, Naizangtai became the staff officer of the guerrillas in Changzhou and bombarded French warships in the Maguan Strait.Soon, he joined the Tianzhu group and became the captain of the foreign gun team in the group. He raised his troops in Yamato, attacked the Gojo Daikan Office in Yamato, and killed the Daiguan Suzuki Gennai.After the incident was revealed, he cleverly avoided the eyes and ears of the shogunate officials and fled all the way to Changzhou by sea.When the Changzhou army entered Beijing to launch the Forbidden Gate Incident, he was in the army that attacked the Sakaimachi Mimon from Yamazaki, and fought at the Mimon to the end.He charged through the hail of bullets, but remained unscathed.He can be said to be a veteran of the Qinwang faction, and he was involved in all the uprisings that occurred from the third year of Wenjiu to the first year of Yuanzhi.

After the retreat of the Forbidden Gate, when the seventeen ronin including Maki and Izumi committed suicide on the top of Tianwang Mountain, he once said: "Changzhou is destroyed. But as long as I am alone in this world, the great cause of respecting the king and fighting barbarians will not perish." He did not commit seppuku, but rushed along the West Country Road to Kobe Village in one breath, broke into the school and joined Ryoma. Longma took him in and taught him maritime affairs. Now, he wants to go to Changzhou again. What Ryoma was laughing at was Nae Kanta's fiery temperament. "It's better not to go to Changzhou. Now the Saba faction in Changzhou is in power, and only the shogunate is following the lead, and the feudal clan is in chaos to fight against the Qinwang Party. Katsura Kogoro is also fleeing outside the feudal clan. I heard that Takasugi Shinsaku has also disappeared. If you, a remnant of the Heavenly Punishment Group and the Forbidden Gate Change, go to that kind of place, you will definitely be hated by others."

"I wanna go." Once Ikenei Zangta made up his mind, it was difficult to change his mind.He just wanted to fly to Changzhou and plunge into the chaos in the feudal clan to fight. "Let me think about it." Ryoma went to rest after finishing speaking.Nothing to say all night. Late the next night, Ah Xing came.This surprised Ryoma very much. It is more than seventy miles from Kobe to Osaka.Ikushima asked a manservant to follow her, and gave back the money for the sedan chair. "Thank you." Ryoma called Nakajima Sakutaro, the youngest among the crowd, and told him to arrange the next job.Nakajima told the people of the Satsuma Mansion about this, but he did not expect them to be very attentive. "It's a female family member. There happens to be a hut in the Royal Palace that is vacant. Let's prepare." The Royal Palace usually entertains important officials from the feudal kingdom, and the hut is where the important officials and their followers stay. "You want to live in the Royal Palace?" Nakajima Sakutaro was taken aback.He also understood how much Summer expected of these ronin. Nakajima came back to report to Ryoma, but Ryoma was not surprised. "Miss Ayuki, your resting place is in the Royal Palace. Nakajima Sakutaro will guide you." "Okay." Ah Xing hesitated to leave. "What's wrong?" "Don't you ask me why I came to you?" "Ahhh, so I have something to do with you. It's true, if you have nothing to do, you won't come so far away." "It's a very important thing." "what happens?" "It's a major event that concerns the family and the country. Please, Mr. Sakamoto, go to Changzhou." "What are you talking about, little girl?" Ryoma couldn't help laughing, and nodded Axing's round forehead. Ah Xing said angrily, "I mean it." "The head of the village of Shengdao should not say such a thing, who said it?" "Miss Tianzuru." After Ah Xing finished speaking, he secretly took a look at Ryoma's face. Ryoma sneezed loudly in order to hide the ups and downs in his chest, and then said, "Ms. Tianzuru rushed to Changzhou to follow Sanjo Mimi who fled to Changzhou, and stopped by Kobe Village on the way. Right? " "Oh, you know all about it." "I can figure that out. And she's wearing men's clothes, isn't she?" "Oh, have you seen her?" "That's guesswork, too." "There is another person you know." "who is it?" "Miss Aaron from Teradaya." "Don't talk nonsense!" Ryoma scolded loudly.This was to cover up his embarrassment, and he wanted to make people feel that the girl was joking with him. "No, I'm not talking nonsense. But Miss Aaron didn't come to you for big things." "Understood." Ryoma smiled wryly and waved his hand, signaling Ayuki to stop talking.If this continues, I don't know what Ah Xing will say. "Sakutaro." Ryoma called out.Nakajima Sakutaro raised his head. "Go to Changzhou and call Mrs. Shangike Nei Zang. Do you have any money?" Ryoma called Mutsu Yonosuke, brought all the cash he had left there, and turned his head to Nakajima Sakutaro and said, "This mission is to find out the inside story of Changzhou, and at the same time get in touch with Takasugi Shinsaku and the sergeant of the Raiders, exchange Opinion." "I have a request. The Changzhou domain has been divided into two factions, and they are arguing endlessly. If the Qinwang faction wants to attack the Zuoba faction, can I join them in entering the Yamaguchi domain?" "No, the situation can never be so simple, don't make any predictions before going. Also...do you know that person?" "who's that person?" "My old Fukuoka Miyauchi's sister, Miss Tianzuru who was later sent to the Sanjo family." "I've heard of her, but never seen her." "Miss Tianhe went to Changzhou alone, and it is said that she was to protect Santiao Gong, although she is a female." "How brave and fearless." "In this troubled world, women do not give way to men." "Yes. Then what?" "In this way, Ms. Tian He, San Tiao and other five ministers wandering in Changzhou will have no one to protect them. Once Changzhou betrays them, we Tosa with lofty ideals must take the responsibility of protecting them." "Yes. I will risk my life to protect them." "Well, you should save your life for the future. You, a man of lofty ideals who is sure to make great achievements in the future, don't need to lose your life to protect Miss Tianhe and the five ministers. You must use your talents to protect them." "I don't have much intelligence." Sakutaro couldn't understand Ryoma's way of speaking.He was a villager from Tsukaji Village, Takaoka County, Tosa. When he left the feudal domain, he escaped from the village at night with fellow samurai Nakajima Yoichiro and Hosoki Kataro, and ran on the mountain road for two days and two nights.Just when they managed to escape to the mountain pass of Ye Zhichuan Ridge in the feudal border, the feudal official commanded more than a hundred villagers to catch up from behind.The feudal official put blinding lime in the gun and fired desperately.His sight was covered by limestone all over the sky, and he couldn't even see the road under his feet clearly. Yoichiro suffers from very severe athlete's foot. "Sakutaro, I can't do it." He sat cross-legged on the mountain path, opened his clothes, and suddenly committed seppuku. Sakutaro has experienced this kind of thing, and since then, the scene of Nakajima and Ichiro's dying will always appear in front of his eyes, so there is always a kind of sadness in his words and deeds. At this time, all eyes of the world were on Changzhou.Changzhou is also on Longma's mind recently.It can be said that the center of the current political situation is none other than Osaka, and all the people with extraordinary abilities from the various feudal clans have all moved from Kyoto to Osaka. The Satsuma clan is worthy of being a great clan.In Tosa, there are only Nishi-Nagahori and Sumiyoshi in Osaka. In Satsuma, apart from Tosabori 2-chome, where Ryoma is staying, there are also feudal houses in Edobori 5-chome and the east side of the southern end of Tachibori Takahashi.Xixiang should live in one of these places. The mansions of the feudal clans in Edo only knew how to use money, while the warehouses in Osaka were for making money.Each feudal domain transports its local products here, and then sells them to all parts of the country.It is the warehouse that plays this role.Most of the other feudal clans have only one storehouse, and even Kaga, which has an annual salary of one million shi, has only one storehouse, but Satsuma has three storehouses.Satsuma is active and courageous no matter what he does, and business is no exception, which is comparable to Changzhou. Only such a vassal can rule the world.Ryoma commented on Satsuma in this way: he is rich and understands economics.With such conditions, Satsuma is the first to be promoted, followed by Choshu, and Tosa is the third, but Tosa is no match for Satsuma in any case. Although Changzhou is in a miserable situation now, the driving force behind the creation of a new country in the future must be Sa Chang.Tuzhou has fallen behind.This can be seen from the old Fan Rongtang.He was a man of the highest order, a brave warrior, and an ambitious man of state who, unfortunately, knew nothing of economics. Gu Tang once proposed a fantastic plan—the theory of burning Osaka. That was before Elder Jing Yi was assassinated.At that time, the shogunate was afraid of foreign invasion, so Tosa, Okayama and Tottori were responsible for the security of Osaka.As early as after the fall of the Toyotomi clan, Osaka no longer set up guards, because the city was under the jurisdiction of the shogunate and there was no enforcement. Rong Tang quickly submitted a plan, advocating burning down Osaka and turning it into a fortress. Ryoma turned into the samurai mansion town on the bank of the moat of Osaka Castle to visit Okubo Kazuo.Okubo happened to be at home. "Sakamoto-kun, have you heard about Mr. Katsuki?" "I haven't heard of it." "He was officially dismissed, and then he was incorporated into Jihezhong and confined at home. The interrogation will be in the next year, and the court is discussing it. I am afraid that this time he will be severely punished, and the interrogation will also be very severe." Okubo specially sent a letter to Sheng, warning him not to make too many comments in front of officials. Ryoma hated the shogunate deeply.The shogunate not only failed to understand victory, but abandoned it like a shoe. "Okubo-sama, sparrows don't just eat rice, they also eat insects. It is said that everything in this world is useful, but the shogunate is an exception. Only this thing is not only useless to Japan, but also harmful." "Sakamoto-kun." Okubo said helplessly, "I am also a vassal. This topic will offend others, so let's stop talking about it." "No, the shogunate is not as good as a sparrow." "Oh, forget it." Okubo hurriedly changed the topic to the currently hotly discussed expedition to Changzhou.Ryoma immediately took up the conversation and said that if he was from Changzhou, he would never submit like that. "Oh? Then what will you do?" "I will go all the way, with the determination to turn the two prefectures into scorched earth, support the feudal lord and the five princes, keep fighting, and send lobbyists to the world, so that the trend of falling is increasing, and finally the situation is reversed and the shogunate is overthrown." Okubo looked scared.However, Ryoma smiled and went on to say: "But I will not let myself fall into this state. I will change the military system to the Western style before then, deploy weapons, buy warships, and when the time is right, I will jump up. People in Changzhou are mostly talkers, and they do too little, so they have fallen into this situation." "It's such a head-scratching argument." Okubo was at a loss what to do with Ryoma. After the Yumen Incident, in early August of that year, Changzhou's provocation angered Britain, France, the United States, and the Netherlands. The four countries dispatched 16 warships and two transport ships to destroy the Changzhou fort and drive straight into the Maguan Strait , there was a sudden panic. Youtomo Shanxian, the captain of the Tanzhipu Fortress, saw the Western Fleet spread out in front of his eyes, opened the lids of ten wine barrels one after another, and said loudly: "Come, come, let's treat the eighteen foreign warships in front of us as food and drink. It hurts." Have a drink!" There is a ballad that also became popular. When the fort was built before, merchants and women from farmers were mobilized to help, and the women sang ditties such as "Maguan turns Edo".At that time, the Qinwang faction, which held the power of the vassal, successfully raised the atmosphere of public opinion about the downfall of the barbarians.This atmosphere also infected ordinary people, and they began to feel that the Changzhou Domain would take over the world. Regardless of whether this matter is true or not, in the eyes of other feudal clans, they only think that the Changzhou people are coercing the emperor to order the princes, and want to replace the shogunate and order the world. The shogunate hated the Choshu people, and Satsuma was overly wary of them. After the Sekigahara War, every new year, before dawn, the feudal lord would appear in the city alone. A family elder stepped forward and whispered, "The preparations for the crusade against Tokugawa are ready, please show me." The feudal lord Will answer: "It's too early." It is said that this has become a secret ritual, and it is even said that the Choshu clan has held a grudge against Tokugawa for three hundred years, and sleeps with his feet facing the direction of Edo. On the second day of August in the first year of Yuanzhi, in the name of "crusade against the enemy", the general Jia Mao summoned all the daimyo and ministers in Edo Castle, and announced that he would "personally lead the army to conquer Changzhou".However, this is just a show, the general is weak, and it is impossible to stand in front of the battle in person like his ancestor Jia Kanggong.More importantly, the shogunate simply couldn't afford the military expenses needed for the expedition.Therefore, the shogunate appointed Ji Yiquan Zhongnayan of Yusanzhong as the governor-general of Zhengchang. Unexpectedly, the shogunate officials in charge of this matter acted lazily and their work efficiency was astonishingly low. In the end, even Marquis Kishu himself did not know who he was Governor. Marquis Kishu was appointed on the fourth day of August. However, on the seventh day of the lunar month, the shogunate officials went to the residence of Owari's predecessor, Nayan Tokugawa Yoshikatsu, in Yusanjia, and asked him to be the governor. Tokugawa Yoshikatsu was furious: "Did Kishu refuse to be the governor, or was the appointment wrong from the beginning? What's going on?" The clerk had to tell the whole story.It turned out that the opinions of the elders could not be unified, and in the end they each issued orders.Owari Hou was dumbfounded and refused severely.However, in the end the shogunate pushed the appointment onto him.After another week, the general deployment was decided. As for the general, he obviously didn't go to the army himself, but "Mito Nagon is still in charge of staying behind."What is even more amazing is that Kii Gon Chunayan, Shinshu Matsumoto's Matsudaira Tangomori, Hinata Nobeoka's Naito Bizenmori and others took orders one after another. Everything changes like a play. During this period, Qingsheng has been trying his best to resign from the position of governor. In the end, he handed in a resignation letter saying: "This time, although the reputation of Wumen is not as good as this, but he is sick. And the treatment is ineffective..." The clerk tried every means to persuade him, and he finally agreed. All the vassals already knew the situation of the shogunate, and they all thought that they should not be serious, otherwise they would definitely suffer. A total of more than 30 feudal clans received mobilization orders.The military expenses are all borne by the feudal clans themselves, but the feudal clans are not rich and do not want to fight. Tosa was in a remote place and did not receive orders; Satsuma received orders and ordered them to march quickly.It was this situation that made Saigo Takamori possible. Governor-General Owari's predecessor, Kwon Dainaya Tokugawa Yoshikatsu, finally entered Osaka Castle in October, and on October 18 and October 22, he convened military meetings with important officials from various feudal clans in Osaka Castle twice. When Ryoma walked into the Satsuma Mansion in Osaka, Saigo was not in the mansion, but he repeatedly told the people in the mansion: "If Sakamoto-kun comes, you must treat him well." Xixiang lived in the feudal mansion of Gaoliqiao.Since the Governor-General was in Osaka Castle, Saigo had to visit him frequently on behalf of Satsuma, so he lived there for convenience.Xixiang also thinks that Changzhou's life is cunning and incomprehensible. The Changzhou people called the Satsuma people "Sa thief", and the Changzhou vassal who guarded the Maguan Strait shouted: "Satsumo's boat is here. But the ugly thing is first, this Maguan Strait must be crossed as the Styx. " Let's say that Tokugawa Yoshikatsu settled in Osaka Castle, and found that the thirty or so feudal clans were weak, and there was no decent leader, so he naturally wanted to rely on Satsuma.Qingsheng called Shang Xixiang for everything, and he was very friendly, and said: "Please help me handle all the affairs." He also gave Xixiang a well-forged short knife engraved with sunflower patterns. Xixiang's original intention was: "It is necessary to take this opportunity to attack Changzhou and uproot it." He also said in a letter to the comrade of the vassal state, Shimadzu Hisamitsu's clerk Okubo Izzo: "If not, in the future It will bring disaster to our clan." Xixiang was thinking about ways to punish Changzhou day and night.Now he is no longer a vassal, but the brains of Governor Zheng. As long as it is Xixiang's words, the Governor will accept everything unconditionally.Moreover, the shogunate entrusted the governor with full power to formulate the strategy, so the thoughts of this Satsuma vassal alone will influence every move of the shogunate. Xixiang's plan is: "First lead the army to approach Changzhou. The people of Changzhou will come to beg for peace with tears and tears, and destroy it at one stroke. Even if this is not the case, they can be forced to the Dongguo area and make them become five-year-olds. A small daimyo of 60,000 shi." This is the so-called military diplomacy.He further explained: "Changzhou wants to fight. But just raise the sword over his head and not cut it down. Make him kneel down, let him cry, and then decide the conditions of surrender." Xixiang also described the punishment method in detail. He thought he could start with the Yoshikawa family. Changzhou is a big vassal, and there are several vassals in the vassal.One of them is Yoshikawa, the lord of Iwakuni.The head of this family is Yoshikawa Kanmono.They belong to the Maori branch and are very cautious at present. What Xixiang wanted was to let the Changzhou people deal with the Changzhou people when Changzhou surrendered and finally punished.The mastermind of the Forbidden Gate Incident will be punished within the domain, and even if the territory is transferred, it will be executed within the domain.But who should be the executor?Xixiang decided to let the lord of Iwakuni Yoshikawa Kanmono do it. "Wonderful!" Tokugawa Qingkatsu couldn't help applauding. The Yoshikawa family is a puzzling family.The story goes back to the time of the Sekihara War.At that time, the Mori family and the Tokugawa family were listed as famous names in the world. Mori was encouraged by Ishida Mitsunari to be the commander of the Western Army, and his family Terumoto was stationed in Osaka Castle.The branch family, Hiroka Yoshikawa, led troops to deploy in Sekigahara, but without telling the family, he colluded with Ieyasu and climbed to the top of Nangong Mountain without moving his troops. This became one of the reasons for the defeat of the Western Army. When Ieyasu punished the major names of the Western Army, he wanted to completely destroy the Mori family. The Yoshikawa Hiro family cried and begged: "I don't need a fief, so please give mine to my family." The second state of the family's defense chief was given to the Maoli family, so the Yoshikawa family would have no salary. By the time of the second Hirosho, the shogunate gave Yoshikawa 60,000 koku from Iwakuni from the salary of the Mori family.The shogunate of all dynasties gave the Yoshikawa family preferential treatment. Although the Yoshikawa family was not a prince, they also gave them the treatment of a prince. The reason why Tokugawa Yoshikatsu clapped his hands was that "the Yoshikawa family will collect the body for the family again."He was moved by this wonderful reincarnation.Yoshikawa is a gentle and thoughtful man, making him an ideal candidate for this matter. "But, I don't know if the supervisor can agree." Qing Sheng asked. Xixiang replied easily: "I'll go and convince him." So Xixiang returned to the Gaoliqiao feudal mansion, and when he was ready, he took Yoshii Kosuke and the head of the tax office to go. It happened that Ryoma came to Osaka. third day. When Xixiang arrived in Iwakuni, he saw the supervisor and said: "If Changzhou is obedient, the shogunate will definitely not treat you badly." The supervisor is clear in his heart.Saigo's strategy worked. In the end, Changzhou was really "obedient".The vassal government has long been in the hands of the Zuoba faction, and the attitude towards the shogunate is completely different from that of previous years. They only know how to bow their heads blindly.Just a few months ago, Changzhou was the leader of radical public opinion in the world, but now he is so well-behaved, and the speed of change is unimaginable. The feudal government has ordered the arrest of the Qinwang faction, Shinsaku Takasugi fled to the outside of the feudal clan, Zhou Buzhengzhisuke cut his belly at home, Katsura Kogoro disappeared after the forbidden door incident, and his whereabouts are still unknown, and there is nothing he can do about others. The feudal lord Mao Li Jingqin is a big fat man with a difficult move. Yesterday he was instigated by the Qin Wang faction to rebel against the shogunate, and today he was instigated by the Zomaku faction to kowtow to the military gate of the governor-general. "Everything is the fault of the three elders, Masudaemonsuke, Kuniji Shinano, and Fukuhara Echigo." He begged the shogunate. The shogunate then asked him to present the heads of the three elders and execute those who participated in the planning of the incident to prove the sincerity of surrender. Changzhou readily agreed.Xixiang also expressed his attitude to the Changzhou Fan through the Yoshikawa Supervisor of the Mori School: "As long as you prove your sincerity according to the requirements, I will try my best to seek leniency for you in the future." On November 11th of the first year of Zhizhi, Maori feudal lord ordered Masuda and Guosi to cut seppuku. At Haishi that night, Masudaemonsuke, who was thirty-two years old at the time, came to Tokuyama Souschiin in his territory, where preparations for seppuku had been made for him. Two tatami mats are spread out side by side, and the four-foot-square pure white silk mattress is spread on it.Uemonsuke sat down, and Shigesaku Yamada, the envoy sent by the feudal lord, began to read out the "crime". Listening and listening, Eemonsuke couldn't help being taken aback.In particular, there is such a sentence: "collusion with traitorous officials and disciples." The so-called traitorous officials refer to the Qinwang faction such as Lai Dao Youbingwei. "Using one's own selfishness to damage the state system and contempt for the shogunate of the celestial dynasty." In the end, Yamada read: "Such unprovoked disloyalty and unrighteousness are extremely extreme, and I order him to be seppuku." Kokuji Shinano's seppuku site was Seisenji Temple in Tokuyama, and only Fukuhara Echigo committed suicide the next day at Ryugoji Temple in western Sichuan.The charges are basically the same. Fukuhara has been persuaded by the Yoshikawa supervisor to "take the blame for the feudal lord", so he can be said to die willingly.But hearing the accusations in his ears and scolding himself as a traitor and disloyalty, no one could bear it.Fukuhara asked for the official document, looked at it for a moment with a sullen face, his face turned pale, and finally returned it silently to the envoy, stabbing the knife into his stomach.The heads of the three elders were sent to the Governor.