I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

Hearing the boy's rhetorical question, Shimasuke was stunned for a moment, and then asked:

"What do you ask for this?"

"I heard what the samurai who patronized our izakaya said today." The young man said, "Those drunk samurai said that there are gold mines everywhere in Ezo, and they said they want to go there to find gold and get rich."

"Heh." Shimasuke showed a sneer of unknown meaning, "It's impossible for Ezo to be full of gold mines. If Ezo was really full of gold mines, the shogunate would have sent troops to occupy the entire land of Ezo."

"There are gold mines everywhere in Ezo, it's just that everyone spread rumors."

Speaking of this, Shimasuke picked up the teacup on the side, took a sip of tea, moistened his throat, and then said:

"But there is indeed gold in Ezodi."

"I heard from my father before that when the Edo Shogunate first opened 200 years ago, someone panned for gold dust in the rivers of Ezo."

"As soon as this news came out, tens of thousands of speculators flocked to Ezo, intending to seek gold and get rich."

"However, gold is not so easy to find. These speculators who flock to the Ezo to seek gold basically lose their money."

"And their rough gold panning behavior that crowded the rivers also annoyed the Ezos."

"Although the Eizu still live a very primitive and barbaric life, if they make trouble, it will be a troublesome thing."

"In order to calm the emotions of the Ezo, the Matsumae Domain, which is located in the northernmost part of our country and is responsible for monitoring the Ezo, with the help of the shogunate, ordered that it is strictly forbidden to go to the Ezo to pan for gold."

"If you catch a gold digger, you will be executed immediately on the spot."

"Under the gold mining ban imposed by the shogunate and the Matsumae clan, the Ezo land, which had been tossed by those gold diggers in a mess, has finally returned to peace."

"However, to this day, there are still some people who want money without risking their lives. In order to make a fortune, they decide to take risks and come here to pan for gold in Ezodi despite the government's ban."

"When I was young, I encountered a group of gold diggers passing through our village."

"The current gold diggers are basically a bunch of lawless desperadoes who have regarded the law and morality as nothing."

"The group of gold diggers passing through our village actually planned to rob our village of money and food."

"Oh, those gold diggers are also stupid."

"I came to Ezo to pan for gold, and I didn't know much about Ezo."

"They didn't realize that our village is full of hunters. Even women can draw bows and shoot arrows."

"Compared with bears and wolves, those gold diggers are nothing."

"Under the volley of our bows and arrows, the group of gold diggers who planned to rob us of our money and food were shot into hedgehogs by us."

"I will remember the funny faces of those gold diggers when they saw the whole village taking out their bows and arrows. Hahahaha."

Shimasuke's words directly aroused the interest of many people present.

"Mr. Shimasuke! Can you tell us how your village fought those gold diggers? I want to hear it!"

"Yeah yeah, we want to hear it!"

Shimasuke looked embarrassed: "How to fight those gold diggers? This story is not very exciting."

"It's okay, just tell us!"

Seeing that the vast majority of the audience expressed their desire to hear the whole story of their village's fight against those gold diggers, they could only sigh helplessly, and then said:

"Alright then, let's change today's story to how our village dealt with those gold diggers."

"I remember it was 35 years ago"

Shimasuke began to tell the story.

However, Ogata's mind is still immersed in the "gold rush in Ezo" that Shimasuke just mentioned.

There is a lot of gold in Ezo, and until today there are still desperadoes going to Ezo to pan for gold. This is the first time Ogata has heard of it.

No one had ever told Ogata about this before.

Because Ezo is too remote, in this era of extremely underdeveloped information transmission, there are too few people who know about Ezo.

Ogata didn't expect that after listening to Shimasuke's story for so long, he didn't collect any useful information.

Unexpectedly, on the night before leaving Nishino Town, there was an unexpected joy, and a piece of valuable information was harvested.

gold digger

Ogata silently chewed the word "gold digger" in his heart.

According to what Shimasuke said just now, there are still many desperadoes who want money but not life go to Ezo to seek gold.

These people who came to pan for gold have long regarded the authority and laws of the shogunate as nothing, so it is not surprising that they did anything.

Ogata silently labeled the group of "gold diggers" as "need attention".

Chapter 468 Upgrade!The new "grandmaster level" skill [7800 words]

next day morning

The owner of Yuan Tachibana House, Sotaro Nishino and Ogata, agreed to meet at the entrance of Yuan Tachibana House.

Ogata and A-machi, who had already packed their luggage last night, arrived on time with their luggage on their backs.

After arriving at the door of Yuanju House, I saw the convoy ready to go, the employees surrounding the convoy making final preparations, as well as Erlang Nishino and the masters and apprentices of the Baosheng Sword Gym who came to see them off.

Needless to say, Nishino Jiro.

Ogata will be leaving today, and the masters and apprentices of Baosheng Sword Academy naturally have no reason not to come and see him off.

As early as the day when he decided to leave Nishino Town, Oobi informed the masters and apprentices of the Baosheng Sword Gym when and when he was going to leave Nishino Town.

When they learned that Ogata was going to leave Nishinocho on the 5th, the group headed by curator Baosheng naturally asked Ogata to stay for a while longer.

During the period when Ogata stayed here as a diner, under his guidance, the masters and apprentices of the Baosheng Sword Gym felt that they had benefited a lot.

They all hope that Ogata can stay in Nishinocho for a while longer and give them more advice.

Although the masters and apprentices of the Baosheng Sword Gym were enthusiastic about staying, Ogata had important matters to attend to, so it was naturally impossible to stay specially for them.

Seeing that Ogata refused their persuasion, the masters and apprentices of Baosheng Sword Gym could only give up their plan to let Ogata stay for a while.

They expressed their desire to send Ogata off when Ogata left.

Ogata did not refuse such a small request.

As soon as Ogata led Ah Ding to appear at the door of Gentachibana, Nishino Jiro and a group of people from the Hosho Sword Gym headed by the curator Hosho immediately came up to him.

Not everyone from the Baosheng Sword Gym came to see Ogata off.

The only ones who came to see Ogata off were Director Baosheng and a dozen or so apprentices.

"Mashima-sama, Mashima-sama."

Holding an unknown object wrapped in a piece of cloth, Nishino Jiro rushed to Ogata and Atachi first.

"Please accept this!"

Nishino Jiro handed the unknown object wrapped in cloth to Ogata in his arms.

"This is?" Ogata took the cloth bag with a puzzled expression, and found that it was very light.

"Open it and take a look." Nishino Jiro said with a smile.

After Ogata quickly opened the cloth bag, the scene inside the cloth bag appeared in front of Ogata's eyes.

is a flag.

It was the banner that Erlang Nishino personally made with the words "Unparalleled Sword under Heaven" in order to promote Yi Dao Zhai.

These flags, Nishino Jiro made a lot of faces, and let those hired publicity personnel carry these flags to go out for publicity.

"I've always wanted to give you something memorable."

Nishino Jiro said:

"After thinking about it, this flag is the only one that can be given away and has commemorative value."

He gave a wry smile.

"I hope you don't feel disgusted."

Ogata unfolded the flag in his hand.

Looking at the "Unparalleled Sword Ogata Yishi" written on it, Ogata couldn't help laughing.

"Thank you."

"This flag is indeed a commemorative value."

"I will accept this flag."

"Mashima-sama, I wish you the best of luck!" Nishino Jiro said with some regret in his eyes, "There will be a chance in the future, and you are welcome to come to Nishino Town again."

"Yes." Ogata smiled and nodded, "If there is a chance, I will come again. I hope that when I see you next time, you will have become an outstanding Kabuki playwright."

By the way, Treasure Island House managed to make a lot of money after playing the popular Yidao Zhai for several days in a row.

According to what they had agreed with Nishino Erlang, Treasure Island House would share part of their income with Nishino Erlang who was in charge of writing the script.

Nishino Jiro received a total of 6 taels of gold.

After receiving the 6 taels of gold, Nishino Jiro gave half of it and donated 3 taels of it to Ogata.

The script of Yidao Zhai was born because of your contribution, and you deserve the money. This is what Jiro Nishino said when he handed over the 3 taels of money to Ogata.

Ogata felt that he had just done some trivial things that were not worth mentioning, and there was no need to give him such a large sum of money.

But Nishino Jiro's attitude was quite firm, insisting that Ogata accept the money.

In desperation, Ogata could only accept the three taels of gold, adding another windfall.

After Erlang Nishino went up to bid farewell to Ogata, the masters and apprentices of Baosheng Sword Gym stepped forward to say goodbye to Ogata one by one.

After Nishino Jiro and Hosho Kenkan said their goodbyes to Ogata one by one, Yuan Tachibana's convoy just happened to have made all the preparations for the trip.

This is the first time Yuan Tachibana House has sent a merchant ship to Ezo to purchase goods this year. In order to give a good start to this year, the scale of the caravan this time is very large.

Nishino Jiro's father, Nishino Soichiro, personally led the team with 4 carriages and 32 subordinates.

Among the 32 subordinates, there are 20 escorts alone.

Ogata had never had a specific concept of the prosperity of Gentachibana before.

Now after seeing the size of the caravan from Yuanju House, I finally understand how rich Yuanju House is.

After the caravan was ready to travel, Ogata and Atachi, under the watchful eyes of Nishino Jiro and others, boarded the carriage and drove north along with the convoy.

After the caravan drove out of Nishino Town, Ogata silently opened the window of the car, looking back at Nishino Town, which was getting smaller and smaller in the field of vision.

"Huh? Ah Yi, what are you doing?" A Ding on the side asked suspiciously, "What are you looking at?"

"I'm just looking at Nishino Town." Ogata smiled, "I may not have the chance to come back in the future, so I can still see Nishino Town now, so I will take a closer look."

He and A-cho lived in Nishino-cho for more than a month.

Although it is not long, this is the castle town that Ogata has lived in for the longest time since he left the Hirose Domain.Second only to Edo.

And many things happened in Nishino Town.

Just assisting Nishino Jiro in compiling Yidao Zhai gave the town of Nishinocho a different meaning in Ogata's mind.

Maybe there will be a chance to come to Nishino Town again in the future.But even if I go back to Nishino Town, I don't know when it will be.

Under the influence of this sentimental emotion, Ogata involuntarily opened the car window and looked back at the smaller and smaller Nishikino Town behind him.

"Your feelings are always abundant in some strange places." After a few chuckles, A-Machi poked his head out of the window with Ogata, looking at the shrinking Nishikino-cho with Ogata.

I have to say that Soichiro Nishino was very kind to Ogata and the others.

Not only fulfilled the promise, let Ogata and Acho go to Ezo with his caravan.Moreover, a carriage was specially vacated for Ogata and Atachi, and he made a bold statement: Ogata and the others took all the meals along the way, and he took care of it.

After getting on the official road, the caravan raced at such a speed that if they bumped into someone, they might be able to kill that person directly.

Such a fast speed made the car bump very badly.

If you talk, you might bite your tongue.

So Ogata and the others couldn't pass the time by chatting, they could only close their eyes and rest and sleep, they couldn't do anything.

A-Machi leaned back on the back of the chair and dozed off.

Ogata, who was not sleepy and couldn't think of anything to do, pulled out his personal system interface.

Name: Ogata Itsuki