I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"What's really great about him is that he chose to rush into our village at that time and extended a helping hand to us."

Grandma used to tell the heroic epics of the Ainu nation to the young children in the village sitting around her lap, so grandma is also a very good storyteller, whether it is the tone of speech or the rhythm of speech, all Just right.

Whether it's Aisuma and the others, or the young man who just came to carry the dried meat with his grandma, they are all fascinated by listening, watching and listening attentively.

"Our village has nothing to do with him. He didn't need to come to save us. He could just stand by and watch, or just fly away."

"Even if he stands idly by or flies away, no one can criticize him. After all, he really has no reason to lend a helping hand to our village."

"But he didn't do that."

"He chose to help our village, even though doing so may not benefit him at all, and may even risk injury and death."

"In my opinion, judging a person's bravery is not based on how many people he has killed."

"Even if a person has outstanding skills and killed hundreds or thousands of enemies, that person is very likely to be a coward."

"Conversely, even if a person doesn't even have the ability to kill a chicken, and hasn't killed a single person, he is very likely to be a true brave."

"From the moment Mashima Goro chose to rush into the village and fight side by side with us, he was a true brave man."

"Compared to the appearance of him rushing into our village without hesitation, how many people he killed and how many people he saved-these things are just trivial things that don't need further discussion."

Grandma's voice fell.

Ai Suma and others, as well as the young man who was delivering meat with grandma just now, are all staring at grandma in a daze.

The young man who delivered the meat with his grandma now has his eyes widened.

Just now he thought grandma was going to talk nonsense, saying that Goro Mashima beheaded hundreds of people or something...

Grandma has a gentle smile on her face.

Aisuma and the others were silent, with a thoughtful expression on their faces.

After a while, Asuma finally let out a breath, and broke the silence with a sound.

"...It feels like my head has been hit hard by a sledgehammer." Aisuma smiled wryly, "Grandma, you are right... We who are entangled in how many people Mashima Goro killed... indeed kind of stupid..."

"What we should pay more attention to is not how many people Mashima Goro killed..."

Including Ai Suma, many people present showed guilt.

"Hohohoho..." Grandma raised her head and covered her mouth with a chuckle, "Children, you don't need to show such an expression."

"Okay, you still want to hear the detailed story of Mashima Goro that night, right?"

"Grandma, I will tell you now."

"It might be a little long."

Grandma's words made Aisuma and the others immediately put away the shame on their faces, and looked at grandma intently as before.

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At this moment-

"It's the same as the rumors..." A-Machi said to Ogata next to him in a low voice while brushing the grapes, "The Ainu people in the Red Moon Fortress really have muskets...and flintlocks , I really want to borrow their muskets to take a look. See what their muskets look like..."

At this moment, A-Ming's heart that loves firearms is burning fiercely.

While Machi was brushing her grapes, Ogata was also brushing his radishes.

"I think it's difficult." Ogata smiled wryly, "I always thought they wouldn't lend us their muskets so easily."

"You don't know if you don't try this kind of thing." A-Ming said, "I think that girl named Aisuma seems to have a pretty good personality. Maybe she will be willing to lend us their musket."

"Just now, I was a little worried that the group of people who came to the Red Moon Fortress suddenly might be a group of people who don't welcome us and others."

"Fortunately, my worries were unnecessary. They are very kind to us."

"Especially that girl named Asuma."

As soon as A-Machi finished speaking, Ooyo who was at the side immediately added:

"But not everyone is kind to us. I just noticed that some people are not very friendly when they look at us."

"Remember what Village Chief Chepke told us earlier?"

"The Red Moon Fortress has just taken in a group of Ainu who were defeated in the Battle of Kunasi Limenasi and lost their homes recently."

"The few people who looked at us with unfriendly eyes just now may be the Ainu who lost to Kazuto."

"There may be many such people in Red Moon Fortress..."

"All in all—don't take it lightly."

"I know about this kind of thing." A-machi Asaogata stuck out his tongue.

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Matsumae Domain, Matsumae Castle——

Although today is a sunny day without snow, the weather is exceptionally cold.

The icy cold wind was blowing.

At this very moment, a sedan chair, which is obviously expensive from the outside, is moving at a very fast speed along a certain street in Songqian City.

Around this sedan chair, there are 33 horse-riding warriors closely following the sedan chair.

Of the 33 mounted warriors, only one did not wear armor.

The unarmored man had a youthful, handsome face, with only a samurai sword on his waist.

The other 32 people were all wearing red helmets and red armor, with spears in their hands.

A gorgeous sedan chair plus 33 horse-riding warriors closely guarding the sedan chair—this naturally attracted a lot of attention.

The common people on the street gave way to both sides of the street one after another, while looking at the team composed of sedan chairs and cavalry, they discussed in a low voice who was sitting in the sedan chair.

These 32 red cavalry are the elite cavalry of the shogunate - the red cavalry.

The Chibei Squad is one of the oldest troops of the Shogunate. At the end of the Warring States Period, the first general of the Edo Shogunate, Tokugawa Ieyasu, modeled on Takeda's Chibei Squad and formed the Tokugawa Chibei Squad.

Since the establishment of the red reserve team, it has continued to this day and has been under the direct jurisdiction of the general.

Matsudaira Sadanobu went north this time, General Tokugawa Iezai specially sent 32 of the most elite knights from his red reserve team to serve as Matsudaira Sadanobu's personal bodyguards.

The 32 red cavalry who were in charge of guarding the security of the Laozhong surrounded the sedan chair—the identity of the person sitting in the sedan chair was already revealed.

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"It's so cold..."

Matsudaira Sadanobu, who was sitting in the sedan chair, let out a long breath.

Every breath condensed into white mist.

Although the climate is cold, but fortunately the weather is not bad, the sun is high in the sky, and there is no rain or snow.

"My lord."

At this time, Tachibana's voice came from outside the sedan chair.

"We've already left Matsumae Castle!"

Among the 33 horse-riding warriors tightly guarding the sedan chair, the only unarmored warrior was Tachibana.

Although Tachibana is Matsudaira Sadanobu's minor surname, he is not qualified to ride in the same sedan chair with Matsudaira Sadanobu, who is a senior middle-aged man, so he can only ride his horse and follow closely around the sedan chair.

"En." Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded lightly, and raised his hand to open the windows on the left and right sides of the sedan chair.

Matsudaira Sadanobu cast his gaze out of the window.

The people who were in charge of carrying the sedan chair for him were experienced veterans. They lifted the sedan chair at such a fast speed, but the sedan chair barely shook, allowing Matsudaira Sadanobu to sit very comfortably and at the same time allowing Matsudaira Sadanobu to see the scenery outside the window clearly .

The white snow, forests, streams, and distant mountains in the field are receding at an extremely fast speed.

Because of leaving Matsumae Castle, I couldn't see any houses.

After confirming that he had really left Matsumae Castle, Matsudaira Sadanobu couldn't help heaving a sigh of relief.

——Finally, I no longer need to see the letters and interview requests from the monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain...

The monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain were terrified by the "Naturalized Ezo Riot".

At the moment when the second-in-command of the shogunate was in the Matsumae domain, the naturalized eizu in the city actually rioted-there is no worse scandal than this.

Therefore, since the riot, the feudal lord of the Matsudaira domain, and all the courtiers of the Matsudaira domain who are qualified to meet Matsudaira Jonobu, all went to Matsudaira Jonobu to plead guilty.

Japanese officials in this period were not as comfortable as modern Japanese officials.

Modern Japanese officials often only need to bow and apologize when they do something wrong-officials in the Edo period did not have this treatment.

If a very serious mistake is made, seppuku suicide can only be regarded as a trivial matter.

The most serious punishment is that you not only have to commit seppuku, but your family will also be deprived of the samurai household registration, and the whole family will be reduced to civilians.

In this era when samurai valued honor, losing one's samurai status because of a mistake-this is a matter of humiliation so much that no one can hold their heads up.

After the riots, many important ministers of the Matsudaira clan, Shu Matsudaira, asked Matsudaira to allow them to apologize.

The lord of the Matsumae Domain also met with Matsudaira Sadanobu in person, and asked Matsudaira Sadanobu to allow him to abdicate to apologize.

The lord of the Matsumae Domain was also frightened by the sudden riot.

At the moment when the second-in-command of the shogunate is in the Matsumae clan, even the law and order cannot be maintained well-if the shogunate intends to use this as a reason to impose severe punishment on the Matsumae clan.

The lord of the Matsumae Domain would rather abdicate and give up the position of the lord to his adult son, rather than subject the Matsumae Domain to punishment such as land cuts and transfers.

They Matsumae domain was not very rich at first, because the geographical location was too far north, so there were very few fertile fields, agriculture was extremely underdeveloped, and the total number of stones in the whole domain was only 1 stones.

If it weren't for the large-scale trade activities with Ezo and commercial blood transfusions, they would have been able to compete with the famous "poor clan" like Yonezawa and Nitta clan to see who is the poorest clan in Japan up.

Whether it is cutting land or transferring the title, it will be a great blow to the Matsumae domain, which is not very wealthy.

During that time, Matsudaira Sadanobu had been receiving frequent letters and interview requests from the Matsumae clan's monarchs and ministers.

The number of times is so frequent that the current Matsudaira Sadanobu can't help but twitch his mouth just thinking about that memory at that time.

Matsudaira Sadanobu also thought about how to deal with the monarchs and ministers of Matsumae Fan for a long time.

In the end, Matsudaira Sadanobu decided-to relax the monarchs and ministers of the former domain.

All the monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain made verbal criticisms.

The feudal lord was banned for 2 months.

Some ministers were fined for 3 months.

Foot confinement in this era is actually just to stay in your own room and not go anywhere.

Sleep, eat, play—these things are all unrestricted, except that there is no freedom.

Matsudaira Sadanobu's punishment can be described as extremely merciful.

Originally, even if Matsudaira Sadanobu asked the feudal lord to abdicate and some ministers apologized, no one would feel wronged.

The reason why Matsudaira Sadanobu relaxed the former vassal's monarchs and ministers was because the riots they launched by Maca helped them indirectly, giving them more reasons to declare war on the Red Moon Fortress.

The second reason is that the war horse is about to start, and Matsudaira Sadanobu doesn't want to cause more troubles when the war horse is about to start.

Therefore, under the grace of Matsudaira Sadanobu, the monarchs and ministers of the Matsumae Domain were only given a very light punishment that they had never imagined before, and they all wept with joy.

By the way, the captured Maca Nao and others had all been beheaded in Songqian City in front of many ordinary people in the city three days ago.

Maca said that they no longer have any value to keep them alive.

The only value they have left is probably to push them out and behead them, so as to appease public anger.

The angle of view returns to the present moment——Sadanobu Matsudaira is now heading for a place on the outskirts of Matsumae Castle.

At that place, a large army of 800 men was waiting for him.

Matsudaira Sadanobu closed the opened window again, closed his eyes, and began to rest his mind.

After half an hour, the sedan chair slowly stopped.

At the same time, Tachibana's voice sounded again outside the car:

"My lord, we are here."