“I am a soldier, from the common people, bathed in the weight of imperial grace ……”When the peach blossom set of military song loud and clear, in the far east, the sea over there, the Japanese country fat before the country Hirado Daimyo Matsuura family decorated, the family school field set up twenty rings, each ring there are two short, ** tricky samurai holding a Japanese sword to fight, the ring on the crimson blood gurgling to the ring under the flow of …….
In the schoolyard also built a viewing platform, Matsuura family governor kneeling on the second seat, attentive to pouring tea and wine to greet a face of cunning face, body fat as a bear of youth. The youth is only twenty years old, in the chassis of the Matsuura family, but frankly kneeling in the first seat, enjoying the Matsuura family governor’s attentive hospitality. This was a reflection of his strength. This young man was Ryuzoji Takanobu, the current guardian of the Hizen Kingdom.
Ryuzoji Takanobu’s childhood name was Nagahashimaru, and he was nicknamed the Bear of Hizen. He is the first son of Ryuzoji family’s Mizue sub-lineage Ryuzoji Zhou family, when he was nineteen years old, Ryuzoji main family became extinct, and Ryuzoji Yinxin married Yinrong survivor and inherited Ryuzoji main family. He succeeded the House of Ryuzoji as the first son of a sub-lineage, which naturally aroused the dissatisfaction of many retainers of the House, but with the support of Daini Yoshitaka, the most powerful daimyo of the western part of the Japanese Empire, Ryuzoji Takanobu managed to suppress the objections of the retainers, and became the governor of the House of Ryuzoji.
The year before, Ouchi Yoshitaka, who supported Ryuzoji Takanobu, was killed by his retainer, Tao Haruken. Seizing this opportunity, the retainers of the Ryuzoji family, such as Dohashi Eiichi, took advantage of the situation and united with the people to rise up in a raid and siege against Ryuzoji Takanobu, and installed Ryuzoji as a supervisor of the house.
Takanobu was forced to flee to the Chikugo country, and with the support of Gamochi Kansei, he succeeded in returning to Hizen with a borrowed army, defeated the allied forces of the rebellious vassals, Dohashi Eiik and others, and exiled Ryuzoji Supervisor Kane, thus establishing absolute control over the Ryuzoji family.
Under Ryuzoji Takanobu’s efforts and promotion, the Ryuzoji family, which was originally insignificant in the land of Kyushu, Japan, and was weak due to the division of the family, flourished and grew wildly, and became a great daimyo that could compete with Toyo Otomo and Satsuma Shimazu. In the land of Hizen, the Ryuzoji family was the uncrowned king!
The Ryuzoji family was the uncrowned king of Hizenkoku, and the Matsuura family was only a powerful family in the southern and northern Matsuura counties of Hizenkoku, and was not comparable to the Ryuzoji family. In addition, the Matsuura family had a very advantageous location, near the sea, and had the famous trading port of Hirado in Japan, so it had a very strong economy. Because of this, the Matsuura family was like a piece of fat meat that was always coveted by the neighbouring powerful daimyo such as the Arima family and the Omura family. In order to protect themselves, the Matsuura family decisively submitted to the Ryuzoji family, the guardian of the Hizen Province, for protection.
Ryuzoji Takanobu was the founder of the rise of the Ryuzoji family, and was known as the Bear of Hizen, so his ability and tactics were naturally extraordinary.
Therefore, Governor Matsuura was willing to sit at the second seat and entertained him with great hospitality.
Ryuzoji Takanobu arrived at the Matsuura house yesterday at the invitation of the Matsuura family governor, and in order to treat Ryuzoji Takanobu well, last night the Matsuura family governor even sent his concubines, who had a good reputation in the country of Hizen, to serve Ryuzoji Takanobu in his bedchamber. In the morning, Matsuura family governor heard his concubine say that Ryuzoji Takanobu made rain three times last night, he was overjoyed and rewarded his concubine with a hundred taels of gold, telling her to get a good rest, and then to continue to work hard to serve Ryuzoji Takanobu well tonight.
“Yancy, Lord Matsuura, this samurai in the ring on the right is not a bad fighter, and there is not even a single opponent under his sword.”
Ryuzoji Takanobu finished drinking a cup of wine, reached out his hand and pointed to a samurai in the ring to his right, and said to Matsuura family governor.
At that moment, the samurai in the ring had already retracted his sword, and his opponent had already died horizontally in the ring, the second opponent to die horizontally in the ring today.
“Your Highness, he is my nephew, named Matsuura Sanbanro, one of the sharpest swords of my Matsuura family. The blade in his hand is my Matsuura family’s famous ancestral blade, named Matsuura Ghost Jiao Kiri, my Matsuura family’s era passed down by word of mouth, my ancestor Matsuura Maru once killed a ghost jiao in the sea with this blade, hence the name.”The Matsuura family governor attentively poured wine for Ryuzoji Takanobu and explained in detail.
“Matsuura Ghost Scale Cut ……”Ryuzoji Takanobu lightly recited it, seemingly with some interest.
“There is a famous saying in Daming: a precious sword matches a hero. Matsuura Sanbanro is not worthy of Matsuura oni jiao cut, my Matsuura family also has no one who can match Matsuura oni jiao cut, Matsuura oni jiao cut can only show its full power in the hands of your highness, please don’t disdain it, your highness.”
Seeing Ryuzoji Takanobu’s interest in the Matsuura oni jiao kiri, the Matsuura family governor attentively bowed and offered the sword.
“Hehe, thank you Matsuura-sama for your kind words, only this is Matsuura-sama’s ancestral famous blade, how could my lord take away someone’s favourite.”
Ryuzoji Takanobu laughed.
“Your Highness, the Matsuura Onigiri is in the hands of Your Highness to show its full power and spread its fame in the world, this is my Matsuura family’s greatest honour, and my Matsuura family’s ancestors can also smile and celebrate in the nine springs.”
Matsuura Family Governor insisted.
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“Oh, thank you Matsuura-sama for your kind words, it’s just that this gong already has my Ryuzoji family’s ancestral famous blade in his hand.”Ryuzoji Takanobu smiled.
“Alas ……”Matsuura family governor smiled with regret.
“Lord Matsuura don’t need to regret, your nephew Matsuura Sanbanro is very not bad, this public very love. When he returned from this trip to Daming, you can make him go to the Ryuzoji family, follow the left and right of this public, to help this public to unify the Hizen, Buwu world, in this way, Matsuura oni jiao cut in its hands can also be famous in the world ……”
Ryuzoji Takanobu hand holding a cup of wine, a pair of snake eyes burning looking at the Matsuura family governor, slowly said.
In Ryuzoji Takanobu’s eyes, Matsuura family governor was overjoyed, bowed and thanked, “I thank you for Sanbanro!”
Seeing this, Ryuzoji Takanobu narrowed his eyes slightly and smiled as he helped the Matsuura Family Governor up, “Lord Matsuura is too polite.”
“My Lord, the ‘Stabbing Brightness’ ring has all but ended, a total of five hundred and sixty samurai participated, one hundred and twenty died in the ring, one hundred and eighty were injured, and one hundred samurai ultimately stood to the end.”
Just at this moment, a samurai from the Matsuura family on the stage knelt in front of the viewing platform and reported to the Matsuura family governor.
In a ring match of five hundred and sixty people, one hundred and twenty people died, and one hundred and eighty people from the House, such a casualty ratio was a clear indication of the cruelty of this ring match, and the one hundred samurai who won in the end were surely all tough characters with extraordinary skills.
“Your Highness, you see ……”Matsuura family governor looked to Ryuzoji Takanobu.
“Lord Matsuura, why don’t you call him closer and let my lord take a good look at these one hundred winning tiger warriors.”
Ryuzoji Takanobu said with a smile.
“Good! Quickly summon Sanbanro and the others before you, and ask Your Highness to inspect and admonish them.”The Matsuura Family Governor nodded his head in agreement, then turned his head to his retainer and ordered.
“Yes, sir!”
The Matsuura family’s vassal samurai led the order and left.
Soon, Matsuura Sanbanro and a hundred other winning samurai came to the front of the viewing platform with their swords at their belts, sat down on their knees respectfully, and kowtowed to Ryuzoji Takanobu and the Matsuura family governor on the viewing platform.
