"This day was really like a torture! I finally got through it!" Silently watching his teacher exit the room, Kira Manshomaru took a deep breath and sat there waiting for a while.
Ohuchi Nobuzada had already gone far, so he walked out with brisk steps.
Seeing that the sun was right at lunch time, how could his personality endure the custom of eating only two meals a day? So a few years ago, he quietly advocated a small group of people to take the lead in starting the new habit of three meals a day, and the effect was as expected.
It wasn't as good as he thought. The members of the Kira family still stubbornly insisted on the tradition of two meals a day, which gave him a headache. For this reason, he spent a lot of time trying to persuade him. For example, eating more can make you taller and taller.
If you have strength, you will become a better warrior in the future. Even so, some people still choose to refuse.
Two meals a day was not invented by the samurai. In a country as poor as Japan, very few people can have enough to eat all year round. It has been a millennium custom to save food as much as possible for two meals a day. Except for a few areas with developed agriculture such as Kinai, people like Mikawa Kingdom
Most of the distant countries still retain traditions from hundreds of years ago. In addition, the annual tribute collected by the three public officials and two citizens is very harsh. There are many types of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes that are unheard of. The tyranny of taxes is almost several times that of the Ming Dynasty. It can be described as a tyranny.
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But even so, the warriors of the ruling class did not live a very happy life. Both warriors and peasants were faced with the problem of difficulty in eating. The powerful warrior family could still rely on collecting annual contributions to maintain two meals a day.
In the good days when rice, pickled radishes and fish soup were available, the small wealthy family and the local servant class were much more miserable. In order to survive, they had to put down their bodies and work in the fields with the farmers.
They can't eat white rice more than once a year, so they are particularly envious of masters who eat white rice every meal. In order to ensure that they can also eat white rice, they will not hesitate to fight against the master's family and even the king. Although this is funny, it is
Only one exists. As for the farmers, it is even worse. After paying the annual payment, they sell the rice in exchange for miscellaneous grains to make ends meet. Most farmers have never eaten the rice they grew in their lives.
In ancient times, Japan had an almost perverted obsession with growing rice. He didn't quite understand why they insisted on growing rice. Although the rice produced in Japan was very sweet and delicious, it was unnatural to force farmers to grow rice regardless of the land.
Regularly, and through his observation, he found that Japan in this era not only lacked planting technology, but also lacked the use of cattle and fertilizers, so the yield of food has been very low. In some areas with barren land, it is difficult to harvest even one stone of food.
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What’s even more strange is that this is a country that has banned eating meat for nearly a thousand years. Ever since Emperor Tenmu issued a ban on eating cattle, horses, dogs, monkeys, chickens and other five livestock, and set up a fishing moratorium every summer, Buddhism then flourished.
According to Buddhism, eating meat will lead to falling into the animal realm. In order not to fall into the animal realm after death, no one will eat four-legged animal meat. Later, the rise of Shintoism absorbed many Buddhist rules and considered eating corpses an unclean behavior. As the emperor,
The spokespersons of gods and Buddhas in the human world further prohibit the eating of meat.
Originally, the samurai didn't care about this law. The original samurai were just a branch of the Fujiwara family, guarding the country's estate for their master, who was a minister. Later, the Genpei War broke out, and Minamoto Yoshinaka was embarrassed in Kyoto.
, only then did the samurai realize how much of a country they had lived before, so in order to follow the trend, they also began to ban meat. Of course, fish and seafood were not included. It was unrealistic for them to not eat any meat.
The food that Kira Manshomaru ate was definitely against tradition and samurai rules in this era. A small piece of roasted wild boar drizzled with soy sauce, a palm-long silver carp carefully simmered with chopped green onion, minced ginger and vinegar, and Paired with a bowl of miso soup and fragrant white rice, he finally got rid of the trouble of salted fish and pickled radish-style local turtle dishes. Of course, his doing this was considered by the people as an indulgence and would be punished by the gods and Buddhas.
Even the most luxurious samurai family in this era would not be able to eat this kind of food. Don't say that they don't eat it, even if they want to eat it, the cook can't cook it. He forced the Kira family cook to learn to cook these dishes. Even the cooks broke their heads and couldn't regain Kira Mansomaru's determination. In order to be loyal, these cooks could only recite the names of gods and Buddhas loudly with tears in their eyes, and cook one plate after another for the family. "kosher food".
Fortunately, Kira Manshomaru's actions were very secretive. Apart from his close confidants and the cook, only some members of the public knew about it. Even Yamamoto Kansuke didn't know much about it. He might have suspected it, but Kira Manshomaru definitely didn't. He would admit that in an era when everyone ate pickled radish with grains and rice, eating this kind of food was absolutely shocking. If this incident was spread, his reputation and that of the Kira family would be ruined.
Therefore, the loyal surnames strictly carried out their obligation to keep secrets. In private, they gathered all the people with knowledge of the matter and signed a secret oath, swearing to the gods and Buddhas that they would never reveal this secret forever, and would not disclose it in any form in the future. Descendants... Without Kira Manshomaru's knowledge, he had completed the work of burying a period of dark history.
After a sumptuous lunch, as usual, he would have half an hour's rest. He was woken up by Kansuke Yamamoto early in the morning. After this half-hour nap, he was able to recover. Then he would go to the Honmaru to practice the art of war without stopping. , this is the result of the negotiation between Yamamoto Kansuke and Ohuchi Nobusada. They will study cultural classes in the morning and the art of war and military strategy in the afternoon. If there are special circumstances, other arrangements will be made.
The so-called art of war in Japan, as the name suggests, is not the art of marching and fighting. The art of war is the art of bravery and ruthlessness, the art of attacking and killing. In short, it actually means swordsmanship. There is also a name for strategists called swordsmen. , all outstanding strategists are great swordsmen, the most powerful strategist is the sword master, and the most powerful strategist in the contemporary era is Kashima Sword Master Tsukahara Fuden, this super master has been invincible for more than 40 years. A great man, he is also a master respected by countless warriors.
The art of war practiced by Kira Manshomaru comes from Yamamoto Kansuke. It is a new type of swordsmanship based on the Kyo-ryu in the medieval era, and also intercepts some kendo skills of the Shinto-ryu and the traditional Katori Shinto-ryu. Compared with the old customs of Kyo-ryu that focus on etiquette and law systems, it is more He prefers the new style of swordsmanship, emphasizing the swordsmanship of killing the enemy with one strike and completely overwhelming the enemy in terms of momentum and power.
Kira Mansomaru had always been skeptical about this new and unfamiliar swordsmanship. He raised his heavy wooden sword and chopped the thick tree trunks again and again, muttering in his heart: "What kind of school is this? It's definitely not Kyohachi." It’s not the Katori Shinto style, and why is he a new style? Isn’t this the Tsukahara Buden style?”
