I am practicing in the Nianghua Warring States Period

Chapter 136 Japanese Yilin

No one feels good about being cheated.

But as a vassal who "thieves a hook, he will be executed; stealing a country, he will be a vassal"—Hokuto Nobuyuki was adept at such petty trickery. He fished for four fish, not only tricking the enemy into building a city, but also stealing it himself. Secondly, he swindled all the funds they had used to build the city into his own construction materials at a high price, using his own construction team, effectively taking both the city and the money. Thirdly, he tricked Hattori Tomosada into coming out, annihilated the enemy's forces, and even tied him up.

Fourth, capture Hattori Tomosada and take his residence - Ichie Island.

So, when Hattori Tomosada was caught, to be honest, no one knew what had happened.

On February 22, 1552, such an unlucky day, Hattori Tomonari was very happy in the morning.

The city was already built, supervised by his best friend's son. His best friend's son personally bribed the team, and his best friend's son personally led the team to deceive everyone except himself! He took his own money and did his own thing.

Kanie Castle was built beside Kanie River.

On this morning, Hattori Tomosada felt that the whole world was still not in good shape.

I went to bed at about 5:20 and got up on time at 13:14. The main thing is integrity. I indulged in the Crab River and did not go ashore. I saw the city on the Crab River.

Suddenly, a giant in golden armor stood before him, his handsomeness like lightning. Outside, dark clouds formed, and Hattori Tomosada suggested staying in Kanie Castle to finish his soba.

Then the giant man in golden armor put his hands on Hattori Tomosada's chest and began to strangle him uncontrollably.

Life is like a revolving lantern after get off work, and I walk through every street corner alone.

Memories of the dead began to assail him, and the air came back to him.

"I'm Hattori, Hattori Tomosada." Hattori Tomosada's heart was mostly cold, having almost had a one-night stand with the god of death. He saw through the human heart and was immune to all poisons, but he couldn't see through the golden-armored Khan in front of him: "Have you found the wrong person?"

"I am not your 'island brother', nor am I a pirate."

Beidou Xinwei and his men had been lying in ambush here for a long time. This time, Hattori Tomosada brought more than thirty retainers and several hundred men to ambush here. With a single command, all of them except Hattori Tomosada were under control. Beidou Xinwei took off his mail mask and revealed his face: "No, do you recognize that I am asleep this time?"

Hattori Tomonari saw a giant man in the crowd with his helmet shining. He was so young, tall, and powerful that he could kill more than a dozen beautiful boys as easily as taking something out of a bag.

"Lord Hokuto?" Hattori Tomosada looked at the beautiful boy in front of him with gritted teeth.

"Well, it seems you know me." Beidou Xinwei was surprised that the other party, with whom he had such a bad relationship, was speaking so politely. "It seems that you are not very convinced?"

"What a pity, destiny is not with me." Hattori Tomosada snorted coldly and said, "Lord Hokuto is lucky. I am only a few steps away from entering the city. I don't know how you accidentally learned about Kanie Castle... It was so close! If I hadn't come in person, if everything had been so close, you wouldn't have been able to catch me! Hehehe, what would it matter if you caught me? Kanie Castle has been built. Cutting off the connection between Tsushima Port and the Oda family by water will become the norm. Even if I die, my Hattori family will not admit defeat! If the Hattori family is wiped out, I have already donated this city to the Honganji family..."

"Stop, stop, stop. I generally respect personal religious beliefs, but cults are an exception."

Beidou Xinwei doesn't have any religious beliefs, though ancestor worship is one. If they do go beyond religion, does believing in communism count?

"You bastard, you will go to hell! Namo Amitabha..."

Hattori, highlighting the unwillingness to accept.

"Namo, Amitabha." Beidou Xinwei got ahead of the other party and said this Buddhist name in standard Chinese.

“……!!” Everyone present, including Hattori Tomosada, was stunned.

If you preach in Japan using Japanese, it's like an insult, to put it bluntly. Even when the Buddha came to Japan, he had to preach in Chinese. The Sanskrit language in Japan is a translation from Chinese, and all of it uses Chinese transliterations.

Today, Japanese Buddhist sutras are chanted in only one language: Chinese. A monk who doesn't know Chinese is like a crosstalk performer missing one of his four skills. Others earn 100 yuan, and you only earn 75.

"Excuse me for being blunt, but your Honganji Temple isn't Buddhism at all. I've been to Ming. Ming's Mahayana Buddhism is the true Buddhism." No, all religions in the world are the same; once secularized, they quickly degenerate. It's not ruled out that there are a few mutant crows, but they're truly few and far between. Beidou Xinwei, simply showcasing his arguing spirit, spoke in Chinese and Japanese to the stunned Hattori Tomosada, "Buddhism says: 'e equals mc squared,' and also: 'The six senses purify depleted uranium bombs, and great compassion saves all living beings.' The scriptures say: 'The Great Heavenly Dragon, the Great Luo Dharma Mantra, the World Honored One, Ksitigarbha, the Prajnaparamita Buddhas. The cassock that moves mountains and overturns seas'—"

The people present were bullied because they had no cultural level to understand the Chinese language being spoken at a high speed.

"The meaning of these scriptures shows that the 'other-power original vow' spoken of by Honganji is completely false and cannot lead to the right result. Ming Buddhism has been mocking Japan for a long time. The Ming Buddhist community knows what absurd thing you believe in. When I arrived at the Ming Buddhist temple, the air I smelled was the sweet fragrance of Buddhism. If I hadn't heard from my family that my father had died in the war and had no descendants, I would rather work in a Ming temple for the rest of my life and eat vegetarian food in the sewers of a Ming Buddhist temple than return to Japan. It is because of you, a group of low-quality warriors, who believe in things that make the Ming people laugh..."

"!!!"

I have never been subjected to this level of pua in my life.

I suddenly felt like I was inferior to others.

Talking to the Japanese masters of this era about the concept of nationhood is like trying to lift tofu with a rope. But using nation or ethnicity as a unit, and discriminating against another nation or ethnicity from the perspective of civilization, is a dimensionality reduction attack.

Hattori Tomonari's face was as red as a monkey's butt. In fact, the expressions of some of the warriors around him were not very good, but the eyes they looked at Beidou Xinwei were full of two words: admiration!

Have you been to Ming China? No wonder they speak Ming Chinese so well.

"Honganji is a cult. As someone who studied abroad in Ming Dynasty, I don't bother discussing Buddhism with people like you. And Kanie Castle - well, I've known about it since the day you stopped practicing." Beidou Xinwei spoke in half Chinese and half Japanese. In fact, there are many Chinese-pronounced words in Japanese, and the meaning can still be guessed.

Chapter 137: One Fish, Four Ways to Eat It

"?!"

"Come, come here, Keiji." Beidou Xinwei waved his hand, not only to kill but also to destroy the heart. He called Maeda Keiji from a distance and said, "The 'good nephew' you mentioned is him, right?"

"My lord." Maeda Keiji came running over and said to Beidou Xinwei with a smile: "You called me? Hey, don't say that! The foreign language you just spoke sounded like a foreign language! I didn't understand a word..."

"?!" Hattori Tomosada stared at Maeda Keiji in front of him in amazement.

After living in the world for most of my life, it feels like I’m learning for the first time that there are bad people in the world.

"Stop talking nonsense!" Beidou Xinwei cursed with a smile and kicked the other person with his heel. He said to Hattori Tomosada, "Hattori-sama, this is the 'good nephew' you mentioned. By the way, the person you know is actually 'Takigawa Kazumasu'. This is his nephew Maeda Keiji. Don't say that everything is true except for the lies he told you. I let him trick you into building Kanie Castle and I let him trick you into taking out a loan from Honganji Temple. The 'Murata boss' who provided you with the materials was actually my retainer. I gave me the entire loan amount. The construction team for this castle is also my people. A part of them is currently stationed inside the castle.

I also had the money to bribe the local "spies." You see, I pretended not to see anything during the entire construction process. It was very tiring.

"!!!"

He had just been pua, and now his brain was directly overloaded. Hattori Tomosada felt as if he had been cuckolded again and again. If being pua just now made him scold, then wearing this chain hat made him numb.

About thirty seconds later, the red-hot Hattori Tomosada slowly lowered his head. Just as if excitement were followed by weakness, Hattori Tomosada lowered his head and said, "Master Beidou is extremely wise. I am humbled by your wisdom."

"Oh? Lord Hattori, you seem dissatisfied?" Beidou Xinwei asked with a smile.

"I'm convinced." As for whether he was convinced or not, Hattori was convinced. At this moment, he just wanted to end it all quickly: "I have nothing to say."

"Don't look so miserable. Come on, let me tell you the truth." Beidou Xinwei squatted down, otherwise it would be a bit uncomfortable to bow his head. The handsome boy approached the uncle in front of him and said with a smile, "I don't intend to kill you."

"?!" You're attracted to me? It's not like I don't...

Beidou Xinwei didn't know what Hattori Tomosada was thinking, otherwise he wouldn't have let him take another breath. "Hattori-sama, the army and retainers you brought with you have already been handed over here. My ambush was actually quite good, wasn't it? Maybe a few of them will escape, but that doesn't matter. I'll just make sure you're caught - come on, Hattori-sama, please go first."

"?!" Didn't you say you wouldn't kill me? "Do you want me to... commit seppuku?"

"No, no, no, I ask you to go back to Ichie Island." Beidou Xinwei made a gesture of invitation: "You can ask your Honganji people to testify, or someone else can testify. I don't care - you call Ichie Island out, and I will ensure that your Hattori family leaves this place safely. How do you think?"

"!!! This is impossible! I can die, but the Hattori family absolutely cannot..."

"Come on, guess." Beidou Xinwei made a calming gesture and pressed the other party twice. "Don't we have to settle the project payment? Guess what my retainer Murai Sadakatsu...oh, even Boss Murata. What is he doing on your Ichie Island now? As long as you don't agree, I can only attack him by force as an insider. I don't want too many people on my side to die, and I don't want your family to be completely wiped out. So, please let your family surrender."

"!!!"

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The IQ was cut off and the nest was destroyed.

Hattori, I am completely convinced.

Oda Nobuhime's family had been unable to conquer Ichie Island for three generations, but now they had opened their city and surrendered. The final result satisfied everyone present.

At least Beidou Xinwei thinks that everyone should be very satisfied.

Hattori Tomonari fled with all his retainers, but the local fence-sitters stayed.

Beidou Xinwei got Ichie Island, the Hattori family got their lives back, and everyone has a bright future - of course, maybe Hattori Tomonari was only concerned about his life at the time and forgot a truth.

If you lose money, you can earn it again; if you lose your mother, you can have another one - but if you lose your face, it is really gone forever.

"You still have the nerve to come here!"

Hattori Tomonari took his entire family to seek refuge in the nearby Nagashima Castle. The monks of Honganji Temple in Nagashima Castle were almost angry to death.

Monks may not be very good at economic investment, and the only economic activity they participate in is: donations.

Why work hard when you can make money without doing anything?

Nagashima Castle has no lord, only a Buddhist official. Despite being a Buddhist official, his lifestyle is no different from that of a secular daimyo. He often has a nun in his left hand and a beautiful girl in his right. Behind him is a Buddha statue, and to the left is a sign reading "Kyuon Jisei Amida Honganji" in large letters.

The full name of Honganji Temple.

On the right is a large swastika. As you can see, the Buddhist swastika is generally oriented with its gap facing left. The swastika flag of the head of state faces right—but the one at Honganji also faces right. (This is the case in Nobunaga's Ambition 8.)

The Führer and Honganji, you who transcend time and space.

"You're not good enough to accomplish anything, but you're more likely to cause trouble than to accomplish anything!" The monk official, wearing a gorgeous black robe, angrily scolded the kneeling Hattori family members before him, "You've completely disgraced the Buddha!"

"Yes! - But, please give us another chance!" Hattori Tomosada still felt that he could make an effort: "Please, in consideration of my many years of service to the Grand Abbot, one more..."

"How dare you mention the Great Abbot?"

The Daishosho, the supreme leader of the Honganji clan. A Buddhist leader recognized by the imperial court, a religious leader with the power to confer titles and appointments. The current head of the clan is Honganji Shojyo.

Oh, his secular name is Otani, and his adoptive father is the big boss of the Kujo family in the imperial court.

"The Grand Abbot asked you to build the city, and we in Nagashima Castle took a full three thousand kan!—and what happened? Even if it's just a drop on the water, it still makes a sound! You were actually deceived, and you still have the nerve to come back?" The monk official snorted coldly and ignored him. "You still have some connections in the navy, but since you lost Ichie Island, you'll have to deal with it yourself! The Hattori family can stay, but how can you still be a samurai if you disgrace yourself like this?"

After saying that, he stood up, chanted the Buddha's name, turned around and left.

“…” Hattori Tomosada, who stayed where he was, knew.

It was time for me to commit seppuku. Even if I were to be free of all my worries, living in such a shameful way would be meaningless. But the question was…was it true what Beidou Xinwei said about [Chinese monks looking down on the Japanese Buddhist community] and [Japanese samurai being of low quality]?

Hattori Tomosada didn't realize he had been fooled until his death.

Chapter 138 The Phoenixes that have fallen to the ground, let’s see who looks more like a chicken head

You stand on the bridge and watch the scenery, while those who watch the scenery look at you from the upper floors. The bright moon decorates your window, and you decorate the dreams of others.

This sentence translates to: "I enjoy raping other people's wives and daughters, but what can I do about it?" Beidou Xinwei spent four months carrying out a massive fraud scheme. When he told Oda Nobuhime about it, she couldn't believe there were such evil people in the world. She was almost completely evil!

"You are so bad, I like it so much!"

Oda Nobuhime almost expressed this feeling of being exposed.

He had basically exceeded his targets, but some people had only just started their work after accepting it for two months. For example, the aforementioned Master Wu Wei, Yoshigane Sasaki.

Although he's now a jerk, he was indeed a famous family during the Japanese Warring States Period! His life would be in danger if he left Owari, but even if he was attacked by swords and axes! He must pretend to be clear about what he should pretend to be!

Oda Nobuhime's mission was to win over Kira Yoshiaki, who was also from a prominent family and was as famous as his third grandson.

"Hua La La..." The broken flags and streamers fluttered to death, the broken gongs and drums beat to death, the broken people and horses were beaten to death, and the broken men and women howled to death.

Since they were a distinguished family, especially visiting old relatives dating back hundreds of years, with a dozen or so small gold coins in hand, their entire body instantly perked up. Ringing a gong to clear the way was a Chinese custom, not popular in Japan.

What is popular in Japan is the performance of literary and artistic reports, which is a bit like the crosstalk story that after the Jinchuan and Dajinchuan were pacified, the troops returning to the court were full of "literary and artistic soldiers".

"Ha, ha!" At the front of the team, four 5-foot-tall men, armed with spears, repeatedly tossed them into the air and caught them. It looked like Monkey King swinging his staff, and in medieval Japan, this was considered legendary coolness.

"Dong Dong Dong——" The drummer in the middle was beating the drums that could only be used in the general's family and playing the dragon flute.

Everyone in the entire marching team held a banner with the general's family crest on it - two yin and two liang! Because the Wuwei family is of noble status, they are specially allowed to use the family crest that only the general's family can use!

...Of course, firstly, the Shogun's family didn't have much time to run around for a few days; secondly, the Shogun's Nihikari had already consciously changed the appearance of their own Nihikari family emblems because they had too many shameless relatives like Shiba and Kira.

Crossing Odaka Castle meant leaving the Oda clan's absolute safety zone. Crossing Tatsuku Castle meant entering enemy territory. At Uenohara in Mikawa Province, two of the family's former epic leaders met.

Uenohara is the same route that Takeda Shingen took decades later when he ascended Kyoto. It was also the route that allowed Tokugawa Ieyasu to break through the defenses of the Great Wall a few decades later, and it was the cause of the Battle of Lakudang... oh, the Battle of Hachimanhara. Of course, nothing's happening here right now; it's just a rolling hilly plateau.

The two sides, separated by 150 meters, deployed their forces. It wasn't so much a deployment as a display of their respective families' strength. It was clear from each other's forced presence that neither was faring well. It was like visiting relatives during the Lunar New Year holiday: those who used to drive Bentleys and Rolls-Royces now drove BBAs instead. Furthermore, these were all rental cars.

Just to show off in front of relatives, the poor mice at home moved away when they were in their own territories.

"The ones coming are the Ashikaga clan, the Mikami Kirara clan, the Tokai Tandai, the Mikawa guardian lord, the Totomi guardian lord, the Suruga guardian lord, and the Taira clan, Kirara, Takee, Sabeisa Yoshiaki!"

A hundred and fifty meters apart, the two sides spotted each other and rode forward, each acting as a samurai. Shouting across a hundred and fifty meters was, of course, unrealistic, so retainers stood every thirty meters to relay messages, shouting loudly, giving both sides a sense of confidence, a sense of sound echoing through their voices.

Yoshigane Sasaki came up and directly read out the other person's full name.

It was as if he was reading a different name, as if the entire Uenohara couldn't hold so many people. But in reality, the person standing opposite him was just a low-class guy.

Not to be outdone, Kira Yoshiaki also read out Sasaki Yoshikane's full name: "He is the general of the Taira clan, the Ashikaga family, and the Taira clan governor, the Muwei Sasaki family. The pen name..."

Another large number of words were read out, as if it was not read by the same person.

It seems calm, but in fact the seriousness has already begun.

"Your Highness, why are you here? You can stand in the guest seat."

"Why do you say that, Your Highness?—As the head of the Wuwei family, I should be the guest of honor."

Suddenly, an argument erupted over who was host and who was guest. In the end, the two men abandoned their messengers and rode forward, their retainers approaching with their belongings. They spoke via microphone and worked together to set up the meeting tent.

"I @#￥—I come from a higher background!"

"Nonsense! This centuries-old mystery must be resolved—my family is second only to the general, the most prestigious!"