Chapter 71 15. Zhu Luanzhiyue

Sakamoto Ryoma returned to Kosone Mansion, when Aaron saw him, he yelled "It's dirty to death" and was about to flee.It turned out that Longma's face and hands were covered with coal dust because of living in the bilge for many days, and his clothes were soaked in water vapor, making it sticky. "Does it stink so much?" Longma took out the perfume bottle from his arms, sprayed it on his shoulders and neckline, and then sat down in the room as if nothing had happened, but the smell became even more unpleasant, Aaron felt A fit of nausea.This person makes people around him yell every time, what's wrong with him?

After a while, Kanno Kakuhei, Ishida Hidekichi, Watanabe Gohachi, Nakajima Sakutaro and others entered the room and sat down around Ryoma. "Tomorrow the Nagasaki Magistrate will summon Sasaki, so tonight we will discuss countermeasures at Ikedaya, Sasaki's lower place." Ryoma first briefly explained the attitudes of the shogunate, the Tosa clan and Britain. "Did our people really do it?" After finishing speaking, Ryoma stared at the faces of the people around him one by one.But everyone is shaking their heads. "No." Everyone said in unison. Ryoma finally breathed a sigh of relief. "I just want to hear this. Since it wasn't us who did it, no matter whether it is the shogunate or the United Kingdom, whoever provokes the Haiyuan team will definitely accompany it to the end!"

Maybe he was so happy that he shook his shoulder five or six times, but it might actually be too itchy.The youngest, Nakajima Sakutaro, found out, and quietly left the table to wash Ryoma's water. Kanno Kakuhei said with a wry smile, "They suspected me and Sasaki Sakae." On the night of the incident, Kanno and Sasaki Sakae were the white-clothed soldiers who drank late into the night at Huagetsu Tower near the crime scene.The enforcement office seems to have known about it, and is now frequently investigating Kanno and the people around him.And compared to Kanno, the magistrate thinks Sasaki Sakae is more suspicious.

On the night when that incident happened, at dawn, the fife of the Sea Aid Team left Nagasaki in a hurry without sounding the whistle.No wonder it was met with suspicion.In fact, the real situation is just that the Haiyuan team tried to open the fife.That day, they circled outside the port and sailed back to Nagasaki Port after noon.Kanno and others disembarked.However, only Sakae Sasaki then transferred to other ships borrowed from the team and went to Satsuma to deal with the business of the sea aid team.He was here to ship brown sugar, and the enforcement office most likely regarded it as an escape.

After a while, Nakajima Sakutaro went to check how the bath water was boiling, because it was already boiling because of the hot weather.Aaron didn't even say thank you, he just said: "As expected of the boiler for the ship, the water boils so fast." Tsukataro suddenly became angry, thinking, why does Ryoma like such a person? As for women, they are not reconciled. "I don't burn boilers." "Oh, is that the one who climbed the mast?" Aaron asked solemnly.That sounded neither sarcastic nor joking. "I'm a non-commissioned officer anyway!" Sakutaro replied angrily.At this time Ryoma got into the bathtub without saying a word.The water temperature was just right.Sakutaro knew that Ryoma likes to bathe in warm water, so he took a lot of thought.

"Aaron, rub my back!" Ryoma shouted. Aaron tidied up his clothes and walked into the bathroom with soap.Aaron didn't know anything about tailoring and cooking. The only two things he was good at were playing the yueqin and rubbing the dragon horse vigorously.Only these two things, no matter how bad her mood is, she will do it happily. Aaron rubbed Ryoma's back vigorously, and after a while began to soap him carefully. It's unbelievable, Ryoma couldn't understand it. "Aaron, if one day I die, you can survive just by giving people a bath." Aaron ignored him.

Seeing that the dirt on Ryoma's body was washed off, the aroma of soap permeated the bathroom.The good thing about living in Nagasaki is that soap is cheap and available in abundance. Soap was actually introduced very early, and it had a name as early as the Toyotomi era.According to records, Kamiya Sozhan, a tea master in Hakata, once presented soap to Ishida Mitsunari.However, even in Edo, Osaka, and Kyoto, when soap is mentioned, people will only think that it is a material used by people who sell soap bubbles, and almost never regard it as a daily item. After Ryoma came to Nagasaki, every time he used soap, he would think of the soapy water vendors who were looking for business along the streets in Kochi City in midsummer.

"Soap bubbles are flying in the air. I once saw a dragonfly popping a soap bubble." Ryoma said casually.Ryoma marveled at the courage of the dragonfly, and still thinks of it often. Not long after, Ryoma came out of the shower, sat among the crowd, and said, "I've figured out what to do." It turned out that when he was recalling the soapy water vendor in Kochi City in the bathroom, he suddenly thought of something completely different. The most important thing is to offer a reward for catching the murderer. "Tomorrow, let all the team members go to various intersections in the city to post notices and publicize them, saying that whoever can find the murderer will be rewarded with a thousand taels."

It was getting dark, and Ryoma and his men hurried to the Ikedaya where Sasaki Sanshirō and other feudal officials stayed. There are many hills in this city.The streets and the port below were brightly lit.This extravagant style of lighting should be regarded as the characteristic of Nagasaki.This is also a wonderful night view that is rarely seen in Kyoto and Osaka. Long Ma and the others left the sea of ​​lights behind and walked up the hillside.The stone steps on the ramp gleamed silver.On Mount Kimpiro in front of you, a full moon is slowly rising.Not long after, the moon jumped out from between the peaks.

"This is the color of Zhu Luan." Looking at the huge moon in front of him and the interesting red color, Long Ma couldn't help laughing loudly. "How many times does the moon have to go through before the shogunate falls?" He must deal with this incident as soon as possible, and rush back to Kyoto as soon as possible to return the great government. When I arrived at Ikeda House, I saw that all the feudal officials had arrived and were waiting for Ryoma.The visitors included Nishiro Sasaki, Shuntaro Okauchi, Yataro Iwasaki, Shusuke Matsui and others who were stationed in Nagasaki.

Iwasaki Yataro was promoted by Goto Shojiro, and now serves as a Nagasaki stay-at-home service. He is a horse-riding samurai and a dignified high-ranking official.It has to be said that it is a miracle that a country ronin unexpectedly rose to such a high position in the highly hierarchical Tosa Domain. The Nagasaki left-behind residence officer was also in charge of the feudal Tosa trading house.The trading company cooperates with the Haiyuan team, so Iwasaki also serves as the accountant of the Haiyuan team. When Ryoma opened his mouth, he mentioned the matter of offering a reward for arresting the murderer. Sasaki clapped his hands and said, "Wonderful! We will offer one hundred taels." What a stingy person, Ryoma thought to himself. "If you want to pay, you can pay one thousand taels." He insisted: "Only if the reward is large enough, can it cause commotion in the city. Once the momentum becomes large, the shogunate and the United Kingdom will think that since Tuzhou dared to pay so much money, Then the murderer may indeed not be a Tosa.” "I don't have that much money." Yataro Iwasaki, who has a face like a lion, said coldly. Ryoma suddenly became angry.For some reason, he and this Yataro just couldn't get along, as soon as he saw his face, he couldn't help but want to beat him up. "You just have to pay. When you have to take money, even if it hurts like cutting a piece of flesh from your body, you have to take it out. This is what accountants should do. Besides, relying on the people's support The possibility of the whistleblower catching the murderer is only one in 10,000." "So, your way of doing business is that of a pirate!" "That's right! Since you are a pirate, you have to do big business that only big pirates can do!" Ryoma gave Iwasaki a scolding, and still asked him to prepare the one thousand taels. Since the shogunate representative Hirayama Shutou and his party arrived in Nagasaki very late, the negotiation was scheduled for August 16th.On the same day, Ryoma brought four soldiers, Ishida, Nakajima, Watanabe, and Kanno, to Ikedaya, joined the feudal officials, and then went to the Nagasaki prefectural office in Tateyama.They waited in the Western-style living room, and the people from the shogunate gradually arrived. They were the Nagasaki governor Nose Osumi, Tokunaga Ishimi, the foreign general minister Hirayama Shutou, the chief inspector Togawa Izumori, and the inspector Shitara. Iwajiro.Then, Ernest Sadoyoshi and Nagasaki Consul Frauwas also came in and took a seat. Negotiations begin. The two sides gradually talked about the details and began to discuss the actions of Kanno Kakuhei and Sasaki Sakae on the night of the incident and thereafter.There was a heated debate between the shogunate and the Tosa on this point. Ryoma couldn't help but admire the investigative capabilities of the shogunate.They even told how much Kanno drank in Huayuelou that night, which means they knew better than Kanno himself what he did that night.And to make matters worse, when Kanno stated his and Sasaki Sakae's actions, there were inconsistencies in timing. The shogunate insisted on this point, and Kanno had no words to refute, and even said: "I was drunk at the time, and I don't remember it at all." His answer made the other party feel more and more suspicious.As a result, the shogunate began to advocate that another suspect, Sasaki Sakae, should be sent back from Kagoshima to judge right from wrong. Ryoma secretly screamed in his heart that it was not good.Time doesn't allow him to spend any more time with them.The drama of returning the great government to the government in Kyoto was suspended just after the curtain began because he was in Nagasaki.If you stay in Nagasaki for one more day, history will continue to stand still for one more day. After a while, when it was time for a break, Ryoma said to Sasaki Sanshirō, "You must argue that it is useless to recall Sasaki Sakae." Negotiations started again.Sasaki roared that it was a waste of time to recall Sasaki Sakae from Kagoshima, and the facts can be determined by Kanno Kakuhei's statement. Ryoma didn't say a word.He is neither a feudal official nor a suspect, so it is inconvenient to speak.During the dinner, he was bored, so he took out some miscellaneous things from his sleeve pockets, crumpled them up and threw them away. Sa Daoyi was puzzled, and when he took a closer look, the person in front of him was very similar to the person squatting in the boiler room of Xiyan. Who is it?he thought.However, when Ryoma started picking his nose, he was disappointed: there must be no one worth mentioning. The shogunate officials were determined not to budge, and they insisted on bringing Sasaki Sakae back from Kagoshima.Sasaki Sanshiro couldn't stand it any longer. "What should I do?" During a short break, he hurriedly discussed with Ryoma. Ryoma changed his policy on the spot, "There is no other way, we can only shorten the time as soon as possible. You say that in order to save time, you need to borrow the shogunate ship Nagasaki that is moored in Nagasaki Port. If they say that the crew is not enough, you can say that the sea aid The team can have people." "clear." Sasaki returned to the negotiating table and proposed this to the shogunate.The shogunate agreed, so the negotiations were temporarily suspended before Sasaki Sakae arrived in Nagasaki. There was no one on the Nagasaki, which was loaned to the Sea Aid Team.Ryoma returned to the base camp of the Haiyuan team, called Kanno, Ishida, Watanabe, etc., and looked around at everyone. "You come to be the captain." He grabbed Ishida Yingji's shoulder and said.This is also a last resort candidate. Kanno Kakuhei is the most proficient in sailing, but he is now the object of suspicion by the shogunate and can only stay in Nagasaki.In addition to Kanno, Shiramine Junma, Seki Yunosuke and others are also very skilled, but they are currently handling the business of the team in Osaka. "Can I do it?" A peaceful smile appeared on Ishida's round face.At first glance, he looks like a well-digger, without the slightest prestige, and a little listless.However, his Dutch level is second only to Nagaoka Kenkichi in the team, and his personality and appearance are completely different, he is a daredevil. Ishida was born in a rural family in Nakayama Village, Tosa Aki County. In the third year of Bunjiu, he aspired to become a person proficient in Dutch medicine, so he came to Osaka and studied at the famous Ogata Juku. When he was in Osaka, he met Totaro Yoshimura, a fellow villager who later became one of the leaders of the Tenchu ​​Group, and was influenced by Yoshimura.When Yoshimura and others rebelled in Yamato, he left the school and joined them.After that, he began to use the pseudonym Ibuki Shuji, and became the leader of the Tianzhu group, fighting repeatedly.After the defeat, he protected the commander-in-chief Zhongshan Zhongguang to break through the enemy's heavy siege and fled to Changzhou. Later, he participated in the Hayumen Incident with the Changzhou Army and was wounded. After the defeat, he withdrew to Changzhou, and when the chief of the war was about to break out, he joined the Changzhou Raiders, fought bravely, and later joined Longma's sea rescue team.Ishida has a lot of land combat experience, but his sailing skills are average. Even Ryoma said: "You should handle the business of the Sea Aid Team." "What are you talking about, of course it can be done!" Ryoma said now without thinking.But Hideyoshi Ishida doesn't have a captain's uniform.There was a set of Ryoma's old clothes in the team, but the size was too big and it didn't fit.So, Ryoma threatened the accountant Iwasaki Yataro again, first took twenty taels, and then sent someone to a foreign store to buy clothes and shoes for Ishida Hidekichi to wear. Wearing a second-hand captain's uniform, Ishida Hideyoshi boarded the shogunate ship Nagasaki and immediately ordered the anchor to be pulled out. In the past, there was a ship of the shogunate also named Nagasaki.That ship was set on fire by Changzhou people when it was moored in Maguan in the first year of Yuanzhi.The Nagasaki ship that Ishida was on was purchased from Britain by the shogunate in the third year of Bunjiu. The belly of the ship was nailed with iron plates. It was a three-masted ship with 120 horsepower and 341 tons. Although it was a small ship, it was very capable. After Ishida sailed, Ryoma had a spare.He had nothing to do until the Nagasaki came back.Unable to stay idle, he began to think about how to pass the time, and the last thing he thought of was to transform Sasaki Sanshirō.this is a good idea!Only these days.Ryoma is determined to train Sasaki, a guy with an ambiguous attitude, into an unswerving fighter against the curtain. At present, the discussants who can influence the politics of the vassal government include Gan Tuizhu, who presides over the army, and Goto Shoujiro, who is more flexible than him in his style of acting, and the Sasaki Sanshirō.Sasaki doesn't have that kind of intense emotion, nor does he have Goto's unpredictable ability, but he has a rather simple charm at first glance, and he has courage and a strong ability to understand the situation.Among the important ministers of the Tosa domain, apart from these two people, the rest are either incompetent or stubborn samurai.If you want to form a joint army of Satsuma, Changzhou, and Tosa, you can only place your hopes on these three people. After Ryoma made up his mind, he devoted himself to this matter from the day he sent Ishida away at the port.He went to the Ikedaya where Sasaki stayed two or three times a day. "Here I am again!" He said as he put the wooden clogs aside, and walked straight from the entrance to the second floor. Sasaki Jishiro didn't think about Ryoma's purpose at all. He thought Ryoma did this because he felt that the two of them hit it off. Ryoma often began to talk about state affairs as soon as he sat down, talking about the crisis in Japan, the ambitions of the great powers, the political systems and political conditions in Europe and America, and he was completely tireless. It was Sasaki's first time hearing these things, so every word Ryoma said made him feel very fresh. "I'm going to do some business." Ryoma hurriedly left after talking.After finishing the business in the noodle team, he hurried back and continued talking. In Sasaki's view, it is as interesting as listening to a long storytelling. However, listening can also be exhausting.Sasaki didn't dare to say that he was tired, so he could only bear it all the time, and finally fell ill.He lost his appetite, sometimes coughed strangely, and in the evening it became difficult to even raise his hands. This is not to be taken lightly.Ryoma panicked a little.If Sasaki were to die now, the great cause of King Qin of the Tosa Domain would be gone with the wind. "It's okay, it should be tired." Sasaki pretended to be relaxed.Fatigue should be one of the causes.Since Sasaki left Kyoto, he has been running around Osaka, Kochi, and Nagasaki, and this itinerary is very tight.Especially that day he took an express car from Susaki Port to Kochi Castle in the rainstorm, and it was windy and rainy. Since then, his body has been a little bit wrong. "I'll find a doctor for you right away." Long Ma went to discuss with the Haiyuan team members and began to choose a doctor.In Nagasaki, the feudal physicians and general doctors of each feudal clan gathered to study Western medicine, so it was not difficult to find a famous doctor. Ryoma discussed with the shogunate physicians Takeuchi Genan, Ikeda Kensai, and the chief physician of the Omura Domain and Sensai. All three said, "Go to Dr. Manseyhrud." So Ryoma went to the Dutch doctor's house on purpose. . Mansehrud made a careful examination for Sasaki, and said, "Did he cough like this in autumn and winter these few years?" He said, imitating coughing a few times. Sasaki was taken aback. "yes!" "I speculate that this cough has caused your lungs to expand. If the cough becomes more severe and frequent in the future, your breathing will become shorter and you may even vomit blood, which means that the bronchi become weaker. If you don't If you take care of it, you can develop lung disease." "what should I do?" "Don't be too tired. Please let go of all your worries and recuperate slowly. You should be able to recover in three or four years." "Thank you for your reminder. But..." Sasaki was embarrassed.In the current situation, how could he let go of everything and rest in peace? "Time does not allow me to rest." The Dutch doctor also nodded vigorously, it seems that he understands the current situation in Japan. "Then, please be busy for half a day and rest for half a day." Sasaki agreed, and walked out of the foreign doctor's house with Ryoma.Ryoma encouraged Sasaki along the way. "It's useless for the two of us to live another fifty years. The situation will be settled within a year or two. So please work hard and live for at least another two or three years!" On the morning of the second day of September, Nakajima Sakutaro, a member of the team, climbed up to the big roof of the Tosa Trading Company to look at the port from time to time, and suddenly found two ships sailing into the port while furling their sails. "I'm back!" Nakajima climbed down from the roof. Sasaki Sakae, who was going to Kagoshima on the Filipino for business in the team, and Ishida Hideyoshi, who went to greet him on the shogunate ship Nagasaki, and others came back.He ran downstairs and saw Yataro Iwasaki, who was also the accountant of the Sea Aid Team, Nagasaki's left-behind resident, holding a large bowl of rice with pork sauce, eating deliciously. "Mr. Iwasaki, Fife and Nagasaki are back!" "Huh?" Yataro glared at Nakajima, without stopping his chopsticks, his expression seemed to say, so what?His hand holding the chopsticks hurriedly pushed the rice into his mouth. "Please hurry up and get ready!" Sakutaro urged.The young man wished he could pack up quickly, run to call Ryoma, and go to the port to greet him together. "It's only fools who make a fuss." Yataro suddenly dropped such a sentence, and the chopsticks in his hand still didn't stop.After coming to Nagasaki, Yataro Iwasaki fell in love with pork, and he asked his servant to buy pork every day.Although the servant was extremely reluctant, Yataro still asked him to cook meat for himself.After all, the Japanese taboo against eating animals, and they have never served them on the dinner table for three hundred years.Another reason is that the Tokugawa shogunate has banned people from eating pork. Regarding Yataro eating pork, the soldiers also accused him of being unclean.But Yataro didn't mind at all, and dismissed them as fools as if nothing had happened.In his opinion, preventing the Japanese from eating the meat of four-legged beasts is not at all because of Buddhist beliefs, but the shit policy of the Tokugawa shogunate.Eating pork will make people full of energy and energy. If people criticize politics for this, it is the most terrifying thing for the shogunate. Yataro Iwasaki often said that in Japanese paintings, the figures are almost all lying down at home.This is because eating green vegetables all day long makes me lose the strength to stand up and walk.Even so, Yataro would never say, I want to eat meat so that I can overthrow the shogunate!In his opinion, it is enough to overthrow the shogunate, such as destroying the mess on the roadside, and leave it to others. He is interested in things after that.He wants to show his talents in the new era, just like Western businessmen, to be a big businessman who can shake the world.The fact that he was lucky enough to be promoted now is nothing to him. Yataro is still eating.In the end, Nakajima Sakutaro had to leave Iwasaki Yataro behind, and ran to Osone Mansion alone, and told Ryoma about the return of the ship. "Really? Then go quickly." Ryoma picked up the long knife and inserted it into his waist, and went out with Kanno and Watanabe. After walking downhill, they went straight to the port. "Mr. Sakamoto, I really can't help Mr. Iwasaki. He even said that only a fool would make a fuss, no matter what I call him, he doesn't even move." Nakajima complained. Ryoma lowered his face.The man who can pull a boat in the prime minister's belly will probably resolve the embarrassment into a few jokes, and try to maintain harmony with others, but he can't laugh when facing Yataro Iwasaki.It's not for any particular reason, it's just that they don't like each other.Ryoma really didn't know what kind of person Yataro was.He is a stranger.Ryoma only understands this.The mundane affairs of feudal officials, which usually take a day to complete, Yataro can do in two quarters of an hour.For the next time, he didn't joke with anyone, just sat there, looking around with a restless expression.He doesn't seem to have found his place in this world yet.He was promoted all the way from a country rogue to the current high position, but he was not happy at all. From this, it can be seen that he is very confident in his ability, and he doesn't pay much attention to getting ahead in the feudal kingdom at all.He also doesn't interact with people with lofty ideals from other feudal states, and he doesn't seem to have the slightest interest in politics. That guy is standing at a dark crossroads.Ryoma thinks so.Where should the strange enthusiasm possessed by this strange person be released? This point is not even clear to him, at least his enthusiasm is incompatible with this world.Perhaps he was tired of the current day-to-day bookkeeping work. In the spring of this year, he went sailing on a vassal ship like crazy. "I want to occupy the uninhabited island!" He said brazenly.Ryoma, who was in Kyoto at the time, couldn't stop laughing when he heard the rumor. Yataro's goal is an unnamed isolated island in the sea.Yataro was not kidding. He ordered people to take the pole with him. On the pole it was written: "By the order of the Tushu Domain in Japan, Yataro Iwasaki discovered this island." Accompanying him was his subordinate Yamazaki Shoroku. Except for this kind of adventure, Yataro seems not interested in all daily affairs, let alone begging for money from the Nagasaki treasury of the vassal state, and the sea aid team that caused this dispute. It is really a big trouble for Yataro who is in the account. On the pier, Ryoma received Sasaki Sakae who had returned from Kagoshima.Sasaki is a soldier under the care of Ryoma on behalf of the Echizen Domain.He is small in stature and unremarkable in appearance, but whenever he drinks, he will yell and change his face, and for some reason he will always say some extreme jokes, but he is always the same when it comes to his comrades. Gentle nod of praise. "When you get drunk, you become a member of Sasaki, which means that Sasaki is Sasaki Sakae's original intention. You must kill him." The soldiers once quarreled like this.At that time, Longma yelled: "If you can't even persuade a samurai, how can you make a major event that will change the world?" Finally, the matter was calmed down.When he was drunk, he made a big comment on Sasaki, perhaps because Sasaki was born in Echizen, a pro-vassal of the Tokugawa family, and could not restrain his sentimental feelings about the declining shogunate.After waking up, he advocated King Qin, which shows that Sasaki was deeply troubled by this contradiction. Along the way, Ryoma kept confirming the murder of the British sailor, "You really didn't do it, right?" When he reached the second floor of Ikeda House, he asked again. "I didn't do it." Saying that, Sasaki pushed his saber to Ryoma and said, "Please check." Long Ma smiled, didn't take the knife, and said, "I'm relieved." The interrogation should continue tomorrow, so in order to discuss countermeasures, Ryoma called his comrades together.In the vassal state, there are Sasaki Sanshiro, Iwasaki Yataro, Okauchi Shuntaro, and Yamazaki Shengliu. "Just insist that we didn't do it, don't try to play tricks. The key is the momentum. This is the only way." Ryoma said. In the end, the shogunate gave up first. On the second day after Sasaki Sakae's return, the interrogation began at the Nagasaki Prison Office in Tateyama, a city.In attendance were the two executives, chief inspector Togawa Izumori, and inspector Shira Iwajiro and other important officials. On the Tosa side, the suspects Kanno, Sasaki and others appeared in the court. The representative of the feudal state was replaced by Iwasaki Yataro, who was sick. The two sides debated, but there was still no progress. Moreover, Ernest Sa Daoyi, who was present as an attendant, had lost his enthusiasm for the interrogation and just tried his best to hold back his yawns.Seeing this, the shogunate couldn't help being overjoyed, and quietly asked his opinion. "I don't think so." Sa Daoyi said.In his opinion, this was originally a dispute caused by the boss's violent temper, so there was no enthusiasm at the beginning. Thus, the interrogation was over. However, the people in the shogunate felt that the matter was so uproar but ended so hastily, which damaged the prestige of the shogunate, so they thought of an inexplicable way to end the interrogation.That is an apology. Their reason is that although the suspicion has been clarified, there are some differences between Kanno Kakuhei and Sasaki Sakae and Watanabe Gohachi's Chen fans, and the Tosa Clan's left-behind resident Iwasaki Yataro did not report to the enforcing office when the Yokobi sailed. , which is against the rules.They need to apologize for this. Apologizing is a kind of punishment, and the person who has done something wrong must bow down to him. On this day, Ryoma stayed in another room as a witness. After hearing the verdict of the execution office, he laughed and said, "Apologize for nothing wrong?" People say that there must be no apology. In the afternoon, the interrogation began again.Follow orders to apologize. Yataro Iwasaki bowed his head quickly.His idea is that it is useless to be a hero at this time. As soon as Yataro apologized, the key figure Sasaki Sakae became anxious, and quickly bowed his head to worship.However, Kanno Kakuhei and Watanabe Gohachi resolutely refused to apologize, kept their heads up, and refuted each other excitedly, refusing to back down even a single step. As a result, Feng Xing was unable to close the case, and the two sides remained in a stalemate until late at night. However, the two refused to compromise, but finally Feng Xing succumbed. "Forget it." He changed the verdict and acquitted the two. Ryoma hurriedly sent an urgent letter to Sanshirō Sasaki, who was recuperating at Ikeda House, telling the story that the case had not started. With the trial over, Ryoma will return to his grand cause of turning history around. No, not just Ryoma, Ernest Sadoyoshi, the translator of the British Legation who attended the trial, had no interest in major events in Japan. He just wanted to witness the end of this history and the birth of a new history.Who will end the old history and create a new one?In order to solve this question, Sa Daoyi frequently met with Japanese dignitaries to spy on their true intentions.This young man with exceptionally keen senses has already smelled the breath of the "Secret Alliance of the Chief Sacramento".Not only did the shogunate not know about this matter, but only a small number of Satsuma and Changzhou people knew about it.Although Sa Daoyi knew many people in the shogunate and Satsuma, and had many sources of information, he only knew one or two people from Changzhou. He didn't know at all, especially didn't know that there was another bomb-like figure in Tuzhou——Gan Tuizhu.Tuzhou is Sa Daoyi's blind spot, and the biggest blind spot is Sakamoto Ryoma.They took the same boat from Tosa to Nagasaki, and they sat around the same table at the Nagasaki Magistrate, but Sa Daoyi never imagined that this person was the founder of Sa Chang’s secret alliance, let alone that he was about to The screenwriter and director of the big political return drama that kicked off. Due to attending the trial, Sa Daoyi temporarily lived in the official residence of Consul Frauwas in Nagasaki.During this time, the witness to history met a man who surprised him.This person is Katsura Kogoro. Naturally, the big man of the Changzhou Domain did not come to Nagasaki with great fanfare.In order to inquire about the situation in Nagasaki, he claimed to be from Satsuma and appeared with Shunsuke Ito.His main purpose was to meet with Ryoma and ask whether the plan for the return of the great government would involve a military crusade against the shogunate.But as soon as he arrived in Nagasaki, Ito took him to his old friend the British consul.Frauise prepared a sumptuous dinner for him.Sa Daoyi, who was staying at the official residence, was also present. The consul introduced Gui to Sa Daoyi. After dinner, Gui and others discussed politics with Sa Daoyi.But Gui and Ito seem to be very wary of Sa Daoyi, and they never expressed their intention to overthrow the shogunate from beginning to end. "My lord is too pitiful. He has a very docile personality and never thought of overthrowing the shogunate, but the shogunate and the world criticize him. It's really pitiful." He said these words deliberately.Sa Daoyi has concluded that Chief Sa has formed an alliance, these words are inexplicable to him. At that time, Gui used "Mu Gui" to refer to himself.At the end of the trial, Ryoma received a letter with the pseudonym "Mr. Mu Kei Zhicai" on the envelope.The so-called Mr. Cai refers to Ryoma's alias Saitani Umetaro.Gui was worried that the person who sent the letter would be caught by the clerk, so he did so. Ryoma only quietly told his comrades about Gui's coming to Nagasaki and asked Nakajima Zuotaro to arrange a secret meeting. This secret meeting was borrowed from Oura Kei's mansion in Ayuya-machi, and the place was set at the tea room in the mansion, and the time was in broad daylight. Gui arrived with Ito Shunsuke.The non-commissioned officers of the Sea Aid Team are ambushing everywhere in the mansion to prevent anyone from intruding. "I have two things to ask you." Gui said in a low voice, "The first one is about the return of the great government that Xiongtai is planning. Could it be..." What Gui worries about is that Longma is still delusional about carrying out a bloodless revolution.The Changzhou domain has been completely blocked by the shogunate, and there is only one way to save itself, and that is to overthrow the shogunate by force. "Regarding this matter, this is actually the case." At first, Ryoma confessed his thoughts to Xixiang, and now he told Gui the truth in more detail.In short, in order to persuade the shogunate and the Saba sects of the various vassals, they declared to them that they would adopt a bloodless revolution.And once the shogunate refuses, go to war immediately, inform the world of the shogunate's crimes, gather all the vassals, and start a war against the shogunate. "For this reason, we must be prepared to fight at any time. Nakago Shintaro established a land support team in Shirakawa Village in Luobei, and now he has hired Satsuma Suzuki Takegoro, who is proficient in Western military systems, to train comrades. In the Tosa Domain, Gan Tuisuke is secretly It is planned that the Tosa army will leave the domain collectively. And the sea aid team will leave Nagasaki and go to Kyoto." Ryoma has already ordered the cannons to be loaded onto the Filipino, captained by Hideyoshi Ishida, and they can set off for Osaka tomorrow. "Also," Ryoma said, "I have ordered a thousand rifles from a Dutch firm, and they are being shipped from Shanghai. But I am wondering how to raise the money." Gui couldn't help being overjoyed, but then he said in a very embarrassing way: "Actually, I came to Nagasaki from Changzhou on a ship from the feudal kingdom, but the engine of the ship was damaged, so I asked someone to repair it in Nagasaki. Unexpectedly The repair cost is really too high, and there is still a shortfall of about one thousand taels. If we cannot pay this part of the money, we will not be able to return to Fan. Can you help me with this?" Ryoma agreed without thinking. But one thousand taels was a lot of money, so Ryoma immediately consulted with Sasaki Sanshiro, and finally decided to ask the accountant Iwasaki Yataro for the money. "No." Yataro ignored it.He thought that if he obeyed this gangster, he would not be able to work as an accountant. "I refuse," he said. Ryoma couldn't help but make some fallacies. "This is the friendship between feudal states! What does an accountant like you know? All the accountant needs to do is open the door of the treasury!" Ryoma was so aggressive that he wanted to grab Yataro by the front and threaten him, and finally forced him to hand over the treasure. One thousand taels. "Pirates!" Yataro smacked his lips in disgust as he took the money.It seems that these two people can't talk calmly as soon as they meet.Thinking about it carefully, Ryoma and Yataro have never communicated peacefully for a moment since the day they met. On the second day, Ryoma drank with Katsura Kogoro and Ito Shunsuke at Tamagawa Tei in Maruyama.On the Tuzhou side, there are Ryoma and Sasaki Sanshirō.Ryoma introduced Gui, the giant of Changzhou, to Sasaki, which was also regarded as the Qinwang education practice class arranged by him.Not only that, but this move also has political implications.The ethos of the Tosa domain has always been conservative and perfunctory, and because of this, the addition of Tosa has always worried the two feudal domains of Satsuma and Changzhou.Ryoma hopes that through Sasaki's future activities, this bad atmosphere will be swept away.Therefore, the guest of honor behind Tamagawa's pregnant wine feast is actually Sasaki.Gui also understood this, and frequently smiled at Sasaki at the table. "A few days ago, I met a British translator named Sa Daoyi." Gui described the scene at that time.Sa Daoyi said to Gui: "In the West, a gentleman is ashamed to talk but not do anything." He probably alluded to the crusade against the shogunate. "We were actually made fun of by a little English translator," Gui said. Gui is a person who pays attention to speaking skills.He compared the situation that is about to unfold to a play, saying: "I'm afraid it will be difficult to realize the great government. We can't just expect things to succeed. When the play reaches seven or eight points, we have to judge the situation on the stage and wait for it." When it comes to the last scene, there will be a bombardment." Hearing what Gui said, Sasaki Sanshirō applauded happily.Sasaki has already regarded himself as a character in the play and entered the play. "I would like you to write what you said just now into a letter. I want to bring this letter back to the feudal kingdom, so that those old-fashioned guys can wake up." Sasaki asked Gui.Gui then wrote a letter for him. Ryoma is very satisfied with the effect of this banquet.他醉得很厉害，却还说：“据说在美国，大总统会关心一个侍女的薪水。三百年来，德川将军做过这种事吗？单从这件事看，必须推翻幕府！” 他的这番话传到了土佐，令勤王派振奋不已。土佐的勤王运动和萨摩、长州二藩相比，更加平民化，后来这一传统发展成了明治以后的自由民权运动，可以说，它最基础的思想根源已经浓缩在龙马的这番话里了。 第二天早晨，桂离开了长崎。长州藩正在加紧准备起事，这个时候最需要桂。 不知是谁放的风筝，颇有些突元地飞翔在风头山上空。 一般放风筝只在春天，可不知为何到了秋天反而流行起来了，就像反季盛开的花朵。在京都、大坂，也出现了“神符骚动”。人们叫嚷着“改朝换代的神符降临了”，然后便弹起三味弦，一人领唱“无所谓，无所谓”，所有人便跟着疯狂起舞。有传言说是萨摩人让它流行起来的。不过应该说是年年暴涨的物价和幕府为政能力的衰退，还有入户抢劫盛行，让平民百姓现出了渴望改朝换代的狂态。 在长崎，龙马忙着进行起兵前的准备，石田英吉担任船长的横笛号已经奉命起航去大坂。 最初，龙马想把队士全都带过去，中途才又改变了想法，决定留下一部分人。他对队士说，留下来准备袭击长崎奉行所。这件事他对佐佐木也提过。“一旦你们听说上方开战，立刻袭击奉行所，控制住那里的金库，并夺下回天舰，然后乘船从海路上京。” 恰在此时，陆奥阳之助搭乘艺州船震天号从京都回到了长崎。他此前奉龙马之命对海上汇兑业进行了调查，他在船上将调查结果整理成册，亲自交给了龙马。龙马读了一遍，赞了声好又说：“从现在开始，必须动粗了。等风云过后，再好好利用这本册子赚钱吧。” 龙马称赞陆奥劳苦功高，又将这本册子寄存在岩崎弥太郎那里。弥太郎如获至宝，细读了一遍，然后放入金库。 接下来是筹购买武器的钱。不得不说龙马运气太好了。他偶然去了一趟长崎的萨摩藩府，便听到萨摩藩的长崎随从汾阳次郎右卫门说：“在长崎这边赚了五千两，得把这笔钱运到大坂藩府。” 龙马赶忙拜托将这笔钱借给他。龙马在萨摩人眼中信用十分好，那人便当场借给了他。龙马立刻命令队士前往大浦海岸。他已经和那里的荷兰赫特曼商行谈妥了购买来复枪一事。 一共买进了一千三百支来复枪，总价是一万八千两，定钱最终谈到了四千两。龙马回到土佐商行，在合同上签了字。担保人是和他关系密切的商人铗屋与一郎和广世屋丈吉。余款定在交货三个月后付清。 “三个月内，我会推翻幕府，建立新政府。剩下的钱就由新政府支付，不会给荷兰商人添麻烦的。”龙马对忧心忡忡的弥太郎夸口道。弥太郎虽然一脸不痛快，却又忽然嘟囔说：“或许会像你说的一样吧。” 龙马又对佐佐木三四郎说：“这其中的三百支归海援队使用，剩下的一千送给土佐藩府。请把这件事紧急通知藩内。” 佐佐木狂喜，大喊：“你果然没有忘记生你养你的故乡啊！” 龙马又写信给长府藩士三吉慎藏和桂小五郎，说道：“讨伐幕府时，有必要先把萨长两藩与海援队的军舰、运输船编成一个舰队，集结在兵库港待命。”这件事他曾经对桂提起过，当时桂提议龙马来当总帅，但龙马不同意。他担心幕府舰队的统帅万一是恩师胜海舟，那就麻烦了。他决不能将大炮对准胜。 未几，萨摩藩船三邦号开进了长崎港，急急忙忙地装运煤炭。龙马到船上拜访，萨摩藩重臣岛津登、町田民部正在船上。 “坂本君，终于要动手了。”二人悄悄对坂本说。他们现在就要乘坐这艘轮船返回鹿儿岛，在那里将萨摩的士兵接上船，然后前往长州管辖的马关，将集结在彼地的长州兵士运上船，秘密将他们送往京畿。 “土州还是犹豫不决吗？”町田民部有些担心地问道。如果萨摩、长州、土佐不能齐心协力，京都的政变就不会成功。 龙马为自己的故乡感到羞耻。“我不久将进京，不过会在中途去一趟土佐，把这一千支枪卸到岸上去。相信我，土佐不会一直犹豫不决的。” 然后，龙马物色了一艘轮船，陆奥阳之助搭乘的艺州藩船震天号碰巧还在长崎港内。龙马与艺州的长崎留守居役颇为要好，要借震天号一用，对方答应了。艺州藩最近正在以家老辻将曹为中心迅速转为倒幕，不过仍旧不可掉以轻心。“你要用那艘船干什么？”艺州藩的藩士问道。龙马笑了笑，敷衍说做买卖。将赠送给土佐的一千支步枪和海援队用的三百支步枪装运完毕，龙马回到了小曾根府上，对阿龙说：“收拾一下行李。” 龙马不能把阿龙一个人留在长崎，但是也不能把她带去风云激荡的京都，他已经写信拜托三吉慎藏，希望长府藩能够收留阿龙。 庆应三年九月十八凌晨，龙马登上了长崎港内的震天号。船上除了阿龙，还有冈内俊太郎，队士有陆奥阳之助、菅野觉兵卫、中岛作太郎，还有大宰府三条实美的特使户田雅乐。 船收起了锚，开始慢速运转。 龙马站在甲板上，眺望着稻佐山和风头山。不一会儿，太阳升起，海水被染成了朱红色。这一刻，这个港口的水光山色美得让人不禁要赞叹出声。长崎港自古以来便被称为玉之浦，景色之美，果然不辱此名。 “许久以来，这里都是我们的大本营啊。”龙马望着向后移动的稻佐山，忽然嘟囔了一句。或许是太过激动，不久他下到了船舱里。