Chapter 31 Section VII

"In the spring of the fifth year of Yonglu, on a warm day full of cherry blossoms, Master Qingyu, who was a student monk in the Amitabha Hall at that time, was invited by Mrs. Jinai to go to Master Ikoma's house to hold a ritual." Quan Heiwei took the Tianmu tea in Tashi's hand, drank it slowly, closed his eyes and rested for a while, and continued to speak, his words were full of nostalgia for the past. "At that time, Mrs. Duozhi was still a girl of seven or eight years old, and Master Qingyu was only in her early twenties. Later, I heard from others that the reason why Mrs. Jinai invited Master Qingyu was because she secretly hoped that Master Qingyu would She was able to marry her own daughter. But later, because of Nobunaga's intervention, the two were completely separated and ended in vain. Mrs. Duozhi, who knew her mother's intentions slightly, had been secretly in love with Master Qingyu, and she had always cherished The rosary given by Master Qingyu after the ceremony. Seventeen years later, on the eve of the crucifixion, when she was imprisoned in the Miaoxian Temple of Erjo Xidongyuan, and when she was executed in Liujo Heyuan, Kyoto the next day, she wrapped the rosary around it On the wrist, not far away. Seeing that scene, thinking of Mrs. Tazhi's inner world, I really feel heartbroken. When Mrs. Tazhi was tortured in Liujo Heyuan, Kyoto, seeing Master Qingyu chanting outside the fence, it seemed Feeling very relieved, he bowed slightly, then sat on the reed mat without fear, then slowly released the rosary on his wrist, held it tightly in both hands, and stretched out his neck. At the last moment in the world, Mrs. Duozhi must want Master Qingyu to hold her hand. Then..."

Speaking of this, Quan Hei may recall the scene at that time, and suddenly swallowed hard. "The moment the ruthless blade fell on Mrs. Tashi's head, the rosary seemed to have life. It flew high and scattered around us standing outside the fence. I think Mrs. Seeing the rosary flying over, I quickly reached out to pick it up, even if I found one. But Nobunaga's family stepped on my hand so hard that I hurt my middle finger. You see, my finger is still unable to flex and extend normally. " Kwon Hei stretched out his right hand and bit his lip, as if it just happened yesterday.

Niu Yi had never seen the tragedy of Liujo Heyuan. He was very busy conveying the orders issued by Lord Nobunaga one after another, but to be honest, he couldn't bear to watch it.Therefore, when describing the above facts in "Nobunaga Ji", he only quoted the records of Nobunaga's family who witnessed at the scene. Compared with Quan Bingwei's immersive words and secrets about rosary beads, Niu Yi felt that his narrative was too inferior and mediocre. "Later, what happened to those rosary beads?" Niu Yi urged weakly. "I didn't find a single rosary, so I went back to the temple dejectedly. After that, the master stayed in the Daxiong Hall, praying for Mrs. Tazhi's blessings. I didn't pray, and I was not in the mood to pray. I only had one thought, which was revenge on Nobunaga , even if I go to hell. I don't need a Buddha who forgives sins. I need to recognize a God of revenge. That's what I thought at the time. That night, I was depressed and irritable, and I rushed out of Amitabha Temple Money, along the coastal road to Omura in Kyushu."

"Have you been to Kyushu?" Kyushu is a world that Niu Yi has never seen.Nobunaga once said: "Once Maori is pacified, the first thing to do is to go to Nagasaki. In the church there, there is a chime bell with an automatic device. Compared with the chime bell in Azuchi, it is bigger. I want to see it very much. You go too." The man in front of him saw something that Nobunaga had never seen before. Niu Yi once again looked at Quan Bingwei with envious eyes. "I went to Omura, Kyushu just to go to Jerick? Yoshiaki went to Omura, Kyushu. The winter before last, his father angered Nobunaga-kun and was driven away from the Omi Takashima area. Yoshiaki also left Azuchi and lived in seclusion in Omura. "

Sawayama Castle in Omi is located on the main road to Beijing. Before Uesugi Kenshin entered Beijing, Nobunaga could not completely hand over the defense here to Isano Masahiro who had defected from the Asai family, so he suddenly found an excuse to transfer him away. .This happened in February of the sixth year of Tianzheng.Yuanchang pretended to go to Shikoku to pay pilgrimage to the mountains and worship temples, and fled the land of right and wrong. He stayed there for two years. Lord Nobunaga immediately beheaded Yuanchang. "At that time, giving up the Pure Land sect that I had converted to for more than 20 years was something that broke my heart. Now that I think about it calmly, my behavior at that time was unreasonable, and it was an impulse. In short, I couldn't forgive Nobunaga who condoned the cruelty of his subordinates at that time. It is very cowardly and tragic to think that believing in Buddhism will only make people witness tyranny, but save the dead without any resistance. However, in Omura, the once idealized Christian life does not make people feel peaceful.”

Having said that, Kwon Hei let out a sigh of relief. According to the report of the Japanese Society of Jesus in 1583, there were more than 115,000 believers in Omura, Arima, Amakusa, and Hirado at that time.Although there are three city lords managing it, it has long been a huge Christian kingdom.For Kwon Hei, that should be his ideal home, so why did he sigh when he mentioned it? Niu Yi swallowed his saliva, waiting for his next words. Kwonbei via Jerick?Introduced by Liang Qiu, he was accepted by the Christian Church and became an auditor at the Nagasaki Monastery.For Christianity, Buddhist monks have changed their course, which is a victory in the religious war, so it needs to be publicized.

"Did you receive special treatment then?" Hearing Niu Yi's question, Quan Bingwei nodded slightly, and talked about his feelings. "I was probably lucky to study Christianity at the time, because I happened to meet Variniano (East India Inspector) who came to Japan. If I hadn't met him, I would have just studied under Cabralu (Kyushu missionary leader), Perhaps my knowledge of Christianity will be very shallow, and the result will be rapid despair and self-destruction in Kyushu." Varignano was born in Naples in 1539 as a nobleman. He joined the Society of Jesus at the age of 27 and became an inspector of East India in 1573. He came to Japan in the seventh year of Tensho (1579). He was forty years old at the time, a young talent.

And Cabralo was about fifty-two years old at the time, a Portuguese nobleman, and he was earlier than Varignano in terms of age and the time he entered the Society of Jesus, so he could be called a senior.and.Although they are all from noble backgrounds, Cabralo is a thriving Portuguese nobleman; Valignano is a nobleman from the Kingdom of Naples under the control of Spain, and their grades are different.Nevertheless, the reason why Varignano became Cabralo's superior was because of the close relationship between the Varignano family and the Pope.Cabralo was out of luck. On the face of it.The missionary activities of Christianity in Japan have achieved great success, but because of the contradictions between the two, their internal world is also full of confrontation and division.The smallest example is diet.In order to assimilate with Japan, Valignano, who came to Japan, asked the members of the Jesuits in Japan to follow the Japanese diet and only raise chickens and ducks.He was determined, and in order to adapt to this dietary change, the new missionary lived in Nagasaki and Omura for the first year.However, Cabralo fought against the young superior, liked beef with blood, didn't eat rice at all, and didn't memorize Japanese until the end.In terms of clothing, Valignano accepted Cabralo's opinion.Living in the "city", Urugishi believes that Japanese people value appearance and judge people by appearance, and advocates that missionaries should wear expensive silk clothes like Japanese monks.Valignano did not accept it, and, as in Europe, for the purpose of poverty, the wearing of silk clothing was prohibited.The clothes he stipulated were black cotton long coats, Japanese-style coats, European-style black round hats, cloaks only when visiting, and fur clothing was prohibited.On this issue, Urugishi did not follow the rules.In this internal strife of Christianity, Gonbei was gradually convinced by Varignano's noble character.

"At first, I wanted to be baptized by Valignano several times, but after questioning, I found out that the God that Varignano spoke of was a God of mercy, not the God of Wrath that I wanted to allow revenge. .In that case, I can only repeat my suffering in the Amitabha Temple again. To be honest, I am very confused. And Kabulalu said that I was a spy sent in by the Japanese Buddhist circle, and ignored my daily greetings, Don't listen to my complaints and troubles at all. Jerry? Liangqiu also told me not to judge Christianity with the attitude of Cabralo, just listen to Valignano's preaching... In my opinion, Once inside, the world of Christianity is dirtier than Buddhism, and I tasted disillusionment. The reason why I stayed there as a Christian for two years was to find the god who punished Oda Nobunaga. In the Christian myths they told In the book, there is a God of Wrath who punishes human beings. I often say this to Liangqiu—"Liangqiu, what are we looking for here? Isn't it to find a god? Isn't it just to hope that it will personally explain the right things in this world?" Wrong? You should also recall memories, think about Nobunaga’s unreasonable punishment of your father, think about the cruel torture your sister suffered.’”

"Is Liangqiu's younger sister also a victim?" Niu Yi heard about his younger sister for the first time. "Yes. His sister's name is Yae. At that time, she was in Araki's house. She was a maid who followed Mrs. Tashi. She became a victim when the Araki family was tortured and killed. On the eleventh cart towed to Liujo Heyuan, she and the nurses Sitting together. Because she is a Christian, she is alone wearing a linen single dress, which is very conspicuous, with a big cross hanging on her chest. She is facing the sky, singing Christian songs alone. The soldiers of the Oda family molested her, and before beheading her To tear off her clothes and trousers and play with them wantonly is rape and murder. That kind of scene is horrible. I once said to Liangqiu—'If you saw it, you would go crazy at the time. Don't forget this humiliation And revenge.’ So I don’t know when it started, ‘pray for revenge’ became the secret code of the two of us, and from the middle of the ninth year of Tianzheng, Liangqiu and I began to learn to use weapons.”

"The so-called weapons are muskets, right?" Niu Yi wanted to know more precisely, and asked. "No, Liangqiu practices musketry. I practice blowing arrows because of my disabled right eye and right middle finger. Don't look at me like this, I am also from Danba. I have learned blowing arrows since I was a child, and I can't lose to anyone. Although I don't like killing animals by nature , but even now, I can hit wild birds and hares six rooms away. As long as the venom extracted from the toad is applied to the arrowhead, that thing can become a murder weapon. Just practice and you will be able to Hit a target ten rooms away. If you extend the quiver with bamboo, reed tubes, and hollowed out wood, you can hit a farther target. Ota-sama, you may be joking—just with a musket, a Blowing arrows, just want to kill Oda Nobunaga who is in charge of the world, this is like a mantis holding a car." Quan Bingwei smiled and looked at Niu Yi. "I wouldn't say that, but it's still more difficult. During the Yuangui period, the musket master Sugitani Zenjubo once aimed his musket at Nobunaga in Mount Senkusa, but he missed." Niu Yi recalled the past and said casually. "I know about it." Quan Bingwei yelled, "The one who caught that Shanzhufang was Liangqiu's father." "Yes, yes." Almost forgot about this, Niu Yi could only smile wryly. "Liangqiu also heard about this from his father. Shanzhufang was buried in the soil standing up, and then his head was sawed off. Liangqiu also told me in fear that Nobunaga asked his father to try to saw , he refused, saying don’t let me do it. Therefore, to be honest, the two of us are still uneasy about revenge. Encourage each other every day—as long as there is faith, the God of Vengeance will come true. There will be a way. We can only pray like this. There is only one way of revenge with some hope. In Azuchi City, there is a maid who loves Liangqiu, has the same belief as him, and is willing to help them get revenge. Her name is Axian. Uliu From time to time, Kishi brought A Line's secret letters to Yoshinaka at the Nagasaki Monastery, and we probably knew the whereabouts of Nobunaga. However, if we didn't live closer, even if A Line could report Nobunaga's movements, we would Impossible to rush there immediately. Just when we were about to leave Kyushu, an unexpected opportunity came. The beloved priest Valignano left Japan suddenly." At the end of January of the tenth year of Tianzheng, priest Valignano accompanied the Japanese youth European missions to leave Japan. "We didn't have the slightest memory of the Christian kingdom that was left with Cabralu and his ilk. We made up our minds to secretly leave Nagasaki and return to the leaf house in Kyoto. The priest Urugishi of the Kyoto diocese greeted us happily, saying that Kyushu is Kyushu, Kyoto is Kyoto, and the key lies in faith. He squinted one eye and said: "The more people like Mr. Gonbei spend a lot of time to become a Christian, as long as they have faith, they will become our unbreakable friends." Besides, you're a wealthy shopkeeper.' That man, I can't hate you.' You can say that, I'm relieved, anyway, I've studied in the monastery for two years, but I haven't been baptized. . . . Said, he smiled boldly, and replied: "Please do whatever you want. Before you accept it sincerely, worry about it. The more you worry, the more you have received God's mercy." I thought in my heart that this could not be the God of mercy again. Yes, but he didn’t say anything. Maybe he felt that it was a pity to bid farewell like this, so he kept us who were about to say goodbye, and said: “During the two years you two were away, this church has been renovated and changed its old look. If you are not in a hurry, please take a look.' He is very enthusiastic, and we also have the same intention, so we took a look at the new instrument brought by Priest Valignano-the organ. There is also a newly built basement..." "There are basements in Western churches?" Niu Yi heard this for the first time. "Yes. Three years ago, on the first month of the seventh year of Tensho, there was an earthquake in Osaka, and the area around Kyoto was severely affected. I heard that the merchants in the city were hoarding goods, and the church was struggling to raise food and fuel for the kitchen. Therefore, I begged Nobunaga to approve the underground Build a storage room. It is a very strong basement, surrounded by charcoal, and a lot of work has been done to prevent moisture. There is also an underground well, where rice, sauces, bacon, etc. are stored. Urugishi is very proud, and even joked that there Can stick to it for a year or so. At the end, he said a strange thing." "Really? Strange words?" Niu Yi pricked up his ears from beginning to end. "'In the future, if there is a fire around the temple. Or if you are attacked by monks from Mount Hiei, it doesn't matter. You can stand by and wait for help. If the situation is critical, you can escape to a place of absolute safety through a secret passage.' After finishing speaking, he whispered Shouted, 'Oh, oh, this is a secret. I'm talking too much, please forget what I just said, please.' All of a sudden, I became flustered." "He said it leads to a secret place of absolute safety?" The basement that Mr. Nobunaga allowed to build, the secret passage leading to a safe area... What enlightenment can we get from these two pieces of information?Niu Yi quickly thought about this question. "I touched the cross on my chest with my hand, and said that of course I would keep it a secret. In this way, Urugishi felt relieved. On the way back, Liangqiu and I looked at each other, wondering why Urugishi was so flustered? When we arrived at the leaf house , we hurriedly took out a map of Kyoto to check. Because of the need for business, there is a very detailed map in the store. We tied one end of the line to a pen, centered on the church, first drew a circle with a distance of fifty rooms, and then Draw a circle with a distance of one hundred, and investigate to see if there is a place that is secret and safe for the Christian church." "Well, good idea." Niu Yi admired Quan Bingwei's thinking, and secretly praised this tall man for thinking so carefully, and gradually developed a feeling of awe for Quan Bingwei. "It's not easy to find. For churches built by pagans, those Buddhist temples and shrines that are incompatible with water and fire should not be safe places. First exclude them. Then, target those businesses that convert to Christianity, but do not do it in the circle. A shop that does such outrageous things. Except for one place..." "Where?" (Could it be that place...) As soon as Niu thought of something, he was about to say something, but swallowed it all at once. "It's not an ordinary temple, but the Honnoji Temple. Now, the church and the Honnoji Temple are gone, but at that time the two were very close at hand. Starting from the church, you can reach the Honnoji Temple by walking about sixty or seventy miles in the due west direction." "It really is there?" Niu Yi became even more excited.Even when he was young, even before the war, he had never been so excited. "You said 'Sure enough', do you have any clues? Ota-sama." "No, to be honest, I didn't think of it before. I kept listening to you just now, and finally realized it suddenly. Before, I was really stupid. I should have thought about linking the Honnoji Temple with the church long ago." Niu Yi bit his lip. "I hated Christianity in the past, but Nobunaga took sides with them. I used to be bitter about it. It was nine years after Tensho that I realized why Nobunaga was interested in the West. Before that, I didn't care about the church at all. When the wall of the Benneng Temple was being built, a large amount of earth and stones were transported out from nowhere in the middle of the night... At that time, I didn’t think about the church at all, let alone those earth and stones were dug out from the church’s secret passage.” Niu Yi didn't know what to say next.After the Azuchi debate in May of the seventh year of Tianzheng, why did Lord Nobunaga abandon the Fahua sect and choose the small Honnoji Temple?The courtiers expressed doubts about this, but Mr. Nobunaga didn't take it seriously at all, he just told Niu Yi the secret, and there was only one sentence - the small temple is good.However, its intention is not limited to this, there is a deeper meaning, that is - close to the church! Mr. Nobunaga is so cunning and scheming, Niuyi felt a chill behind him. Quanhei continued: "First of all, we want to investigate the secret passage. If the Honnoji Temple is in front of it, we can sneak in along this secret passage, and maybe kill Nobunaga. Moreover, there is a maid line inside to guide us. Liangqiu and I immediately became excited, secretly thanked the God of Vengeance, and swore again—'I'll sneak in here, and be a good devil.'” "You say you are a good demon?" Although he knew the word "devil", it was the first time he had heard the term "good devil". Niu Yi was attracted by this new word. "In this world full of crimes, good deeds must also be demonic." As if thinking of the scene at that time, Quan Heiwei's eyes burned. "The two of us went to the church the next day, and it was not difficult to find the entrance to the secret passage. The inner wall of the rice cellar in the basement has a mezzanine, which can accommodate one person through. Open the sliding door in the center, and there is another one inside that can pave three In a tatami room, many lanterns, candles, flints, Christian priests’ robes, monk’s robes and hats are neatly placed on the shelves. We opened another small door in the room, and a humid wind blew from nowhere. Cold wind. Liang Qiu and I looked at each other and nodded." At this time, Nobunaga was on an expedition in Shinshu, and the Honnoji Temple was idle. It was an excellent time to explore the secret passage.The two of them prepared bundles of fishing line, lanterns, candles, and their respective weapons - muskets and blow darts.They knotted the lines every two lengths so that they could be touched in the dark, and thus calculated the distance. "At the beginning, the secret passage was cramped and could only allow one person to climb through it. After crawling, he entered the main alley. Although it was not very wide, it was relatively high. Even if I was like me, I could stand and move forward just by bending over a little. Maybe because The soil quality in that area is not good, and in order to prevent landslides, they extravagantly used many logs for support, erecting one every three feet, and each log was six inches wide, and thick pine boards were laid on the top and sides. First, it can completely withstand soil pressure.” "How is the lighting?" "Every third room, a candlestick with a cross is nailed to the log." "What about the depth?" "We used nearly two and a half bundles of 30 pcs of fishing line, and the total length was about 60 pcs or more. The two of us carried the lanterns and moved forward cautiously, and soon found that there were several fishes stretched across the front. Lines with bells on them blocking the way. It’s an alarm device, and if someone touches the line, those bells go off.” "Bell? Alarm device?" "Perhaps. I'm tall, so I couldn't avoid those devices, so I had to let the thin Liangqiu pass through alone. According to him, after walking another room, the secret path will end, and there is a hole in it." , he was like at the bottom of a shallow well, about a foot high up and down, with newly dug earth steps on both sides. I asked if I could climb up, and Liang Qiu said that there were fishing lines with bell stops criss-crossing on it, which was impossible at all. .If we are discovered at this time, we will fall short, and the day will be over. Liangqiu and I think that next time we will find something in the middle of the night, and we will go and see what is there. Or in another way, ask about the ability to enter and exit the Benneng Temple People from the Honnoji Temple, ask what is there and where is the Honnoji Temple. The next day, we went around the Honnoji Temple to find a way, and found a woman who could go in and out of the kitchen. After asking, we found valuable information. The person in charge of the warehouse The monk said that the empty kitchen well that used to be used to cool fruit and wine had recently been sealed. We thought it must be there. However, we heard that it was sealed with a heavy cover, and an instant question arose—maybe this secret passage It was not built for the church. From the perspective of Honno-ji Temple, the entrance of the church is the exit. The Christian robes and hats placed in that hut may have been prepared for Oda Nobunaga to escape to the church. What do you think Am I right? Ota-sama." Niu Yi thought about Quan Bingwei's ingenious reasoning, but had nothing to say.