Torajiro's family is a farmer who lost their land. The couple, together with their elderly parents, have three children: two sons and one daughter.
They fell into poverty because of medical treatment. No matter in that era, there were many people who fell into poverty because of illness. They cured their mother's disease, but lost their land.
Torajiro and his father, who was in his fifties, had to carry large bags on the docks of Nagasaki to earn money to support their family. However, they soon discovered that the dock workers around them were often mysterious, whispering to each other without knowing what they were doing.
Torajiro has a friend named Inoguchi Ichiro.
Once, while loading and unloading soap wooden boxes unloaded from a clipper ship, he sprained his ankle. Torajiro quickly helped him off the ship.
Although they earn more money by working as loaders and unloaders than store clerks, it is strenuous physical labor after all. However, they also look down on orthopedic doctors. The cost of medical treatment in Japan is very high.
Zhukou Yilang hesitated for a long time, because if people like them don't work for a day, their families may not have enough rice for tomorrow. After all, everyone has a large family to support. There are very few job opportunities in this era.
"Tojiro, are you my good friend? Can you keep a secret?" Inoguchi looked around and asked in a low voice.
"Of course, I have to carry a dozen less boxes to take care of you." Torajiro said angrily.
"Well, you can help me and go to a place to heal my foot."
"Nani, you are actually willing to spend money to see a doctor."
"Don't tell others that I go to a place where you can get medical treatment for free." Zhukou Yilang said mysteriously.
"What? There is a place like this. Wherever it is, I want to go and see it. My mother has been ill for a long time. Although her condition has been temporarily controlled, she has not been cured." Torajiro said.
"I'm afraid you can't do it. You'll know when you get there." Inoguchi Ichiro didn't want to say too much here, so he let Torajiro help him to a wooden house in the mountains.
There are already hundreds of people queuing up here waiting for medical treatment.
"Torajiro, only those who believe in our God can get free medical treatment here. Recently, there have been more than a dozen Chinese medicine doctors from the Ming Dynasty here doing a six-month medical tour in Nagasaki. These are all invited by our church to provide
Brothers and sisters receive free medical treatment.”
Torajiro suddenly became excited and asked anxiously: "How do I join your church? If I join the church, can my mother see a doctor here?"
"Of course. The captain of our loading and unloading team, Gatama Shinji, joined the church. His son was cured of his eyes here. Also, Shimizu Daisho's father was cured of his skin disease. Inukai Jiro
My wife was cured of her lung disease."
Only then did Torajiro realize that so many people around him had already joined this mysterious church.
After Torajiro joined the church under the introduction of Inoguchi Ichiro, he was quickly selected through study and assessment. He entered the second-level church, and then was promoted to the third-level church.
He learned different things at each level of the church. He didn't even know that there were higher levels above.
After many layers of study and selection, when he was confirmed to be a devout believer with extremely firm belief in God, he was sent to the countryside of Osaka to open a small shop near a fishing village.
The church spent money to buy a piece of land on the roadside between the fishing village and three villages. It built a simple wooden house. The room near the roadside was used as a grocery store, and the back room was used as a residence for the family.
Their family is responsible for looking after the store and transporting goods. Torajiro was appointed as the store manager. He and his family were paid, and he personally enjoyed a share of the year-end profits.
Farm tools and fishing gear are usually sold here, and these are allowed by the shogunate.
But at night, cheap Dabai wine is available in grocery stores. There are also Ming Dynasty cotton cloths for sale. Soybean oil and rapeseed oil are also available, and even sugar and tea leaves are for sale. Although they are all the lowest tea leaves.
Although the seeds of the tea tree have been introduced to Japan since the early Ming Dynasty, the sale of tea to farmers, fishermen, and handicrafts is prohibited. In Japan, a country with a strict hierarchy, what social classes can consume and what they can consume are all regulated.
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For example, in this era, samurai meals included tea-leaf rice. Green tea was brewed with boiling water, then put into rice balls, and eaten together with the tea in a form similar to yuzu-rice. This was a privilege only reserved for samurai.
At night, many people gathered here, including fishermen, farmers and hunters. Even some small landowners and small fishing boat owners would come here to drink or buy some unavailable goods.
Because the wine here is so cheap.
Some women performing arts, such as those who play string instruments and play drums, also come back to solicit business. They entertain guests by performing arts and earn a little money on the way.
As the place became prosperous, it naturally attracted the attention of local bullies. They quickly touched the place like cats that smelled fishy smell and demanded that 80% of the profits be handed over to them. Otherwise, they would not even think about opening a store here.
Torajiro kept bowing, indicating that he wanted to discuss it with his master, and he received a reply three days later.
Three days later, a boatload of ronin warriors came, hacked these local bullies to death, and threw them into the sea to feed the fish. From then on, no one here dared to harass them again.
The alcohol content of sake is very low, usually around 15 degrees. A few can reach 20 degrees.
Kikujiro's mother and his wife used the alcohol and spices purchased from the main trading company and blended them with boiling water into sake according to the training formula. Then they sold it locally. This kind of wine does not require food, and the cost is only one-thirtieth of sake. It only needs
The blending technique is good and the taste is very good.
What Yang Fan did not expect was that the great invention of alcohol-blended wine would be carried forward in Japan in this time and space, benefiting countless Japanese people who could not afford to drink alcohol.
Every night when it gets dark here, lanterns are lit immediately, and the grocery store turns into an izakaya. He, his wife and daughter can stay open until midnight. All kinds of drunkards gather here.
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Mainly canned fried sea fish, canned braised pork, canned luncheon meat, and canned pickled cucumbers. In this era, meat was prohibited in Japan, and vegetarianism was legal. It was not easy to get meat.
As a result, all the General's money flowed into Mrs. Taozi's pocket from here.
At the same time, Torajiro also sells soap and steel products. Many farmers, fishermen, and craftsmen come to buy steel weapons secretly. The most purchased ones are the heads of long guns.
The spearheads made of open-hearth steel produced in Zunhua of the Ming Dynasty are sharp and attractive. As long as the local bamboo is inserted into the spear shaft, the leather and a small amount of iron armor made by the samurai masters are just like those in Zhihu.
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In this era, the public security in Japan was not good. When fishing, it is easy to encounter pirates. When hunting in the mountains, it is easy to encounter bandits. Farming must also prevent the oppression of villains and bullies.
Japanese people's character is courteous and courteous on the surface. In fact, when the other party is strong, they stay humble and act small. When the other party is weak, they become tyrannical and brutal. They can change their faces faster than Sichuan Opera actors.
The main reason why they didn't dare to resist was that they didn't have sharp weapons. Unarmed, they couldn't beat the samurai masters who had been training for many years.
In Japan, only samurai can wear samurai swords. Ordinary people wearing samurai swords will be beheaded. Moreover, samurai masters have the right to kill civilians at will. Just find a reason to disrespect him.
This legacy still existed in the Meiji era.
When Lu Xun's younger brother Zhou Zuoren was studying abroad, he and a group of classmates got a good knife. They drank and celebrated until midnight. Under the stimulation of alcohol, someone suggested that we go try the knife.
The so-called knife test means that after you get a good knife, or ask a famous expert to make a good knife, you go to a secluded place and wait in the middle of the night. If a civilian passes by, rush over and chop him down with a knife, and then use various knives.
Use your sword skills to chop him down. It’s euphemistically called a test sword.
This is the privilege and tradition of the samurai.
A group of them ran to a wooden bridge in a daze and found a beggar sitting there. In nervousness and panic, Cang Lang pulled out his knife and slashed with a roar.
Then a bunch of young guys were so nervous that they didn't see the effect. They were afraid of being caught by the police on night patrol, so they hurried back and continued drinking.
Later, he said in his memoirs that after drinking for a while, someone asked who could see it clearly and whether he had hit it. In the end, no one could see it clearly, so he decided to take another look with the sword in hand.
A group of them ran to the bridge. The beggar was still sitting there. When he saw them coming again, he said in panic: "Are you here to fight again?"