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Chapter 598 About inviting Ogata to overthrow the Edo Shogunate [5200](2/2)

Adhering to the concept of "come first and then come", Ogata decided to let Naozhou and others first and Azhu as the last.

Naozhou nodded solemnly to show his response. He turned his gaze and glanced at Amacho, who was sitting on the left side of Ogata, and Azuki, who was sitting on the right side of Ogata for some reason.

"Master Yidaozhai, can you please send someone out of the outsider first?"

As soon as Zhizhou finished speaking, Azhu consciously stuck out his tongue, then got up and left the room: "Then I'll go out of the hotel for a while... I'll be back later."

Azhu moved, but Amachi did not.

"This is Uchiko." Okata looked at Amachi on the left, "I have been sharing honor and disgrace with me for a long time, just like my half body. So she doesn't have to leave."

Mizuoka said that Ahmachi didn't have to leave, and Naozhou didn't say anything more.

In the room, only Okaga and Amacho remained, sitting in pairs with Naoju and Yise.

After Azhu left, Zhizhou did not start the topic immediately, but instead signaled Yise next to him with his eyes and asked Yise to check the surroundings of the room.

After Yise checked, no one eavesdropped outside the room and sat alone by the door, monitoring the movements outside the door, Zhizhou finally cleared his throat.

"Master Yidaozhai, in order not to waste your time, I will tell you directly."

Nao Zhou stared at Okaga's eyes, and then said word by word:

"Sir Yidaozhai, I hope you can help us defeat the Tokugawa family!"

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ha……?

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After hearing what Naoju said just now, the first words came to Okata's mind were "Ha?"

After savoring and digesting Naozhou's words just now, Okata's eyes were slightly widened due to surprise.

Okaba’s reaction was calm, but Amachi, who was sitting next to Okaba, was different. Amachi’s eyes were so wide that they seemed to fall off, and his face changed drastically.

Unlike Okaga, Amachi is not a time traveler, but a veritable person from the Edo era.

What Naoju just said just now will undoubtedly have a greater impact on Amachi, a native Edo period.

"…Down the Tokugawa family…?” Amachi murmured, "Do you mean…Down the Edo Shogunate?"

Naoju nodded solemnly: "That's right. We want to do justice to eliminate the Edo Shogunate, which has become a tragedy that has harmed the world."

"so"

The storm of Zhou Chaoxu was casting his hot sight.

"I want to ask Lord Yidaozhai to help me."

"As long as Lord Yidaozhai helps us, we will be able to get ten thousand people... no! It is like we will be able to get a million troops!"

"After all, just your name, your influence is enough to reach thousands of troops..."

Before Zhizhou finished speaking, Yu Yi raised his hand and signaled him to be quiet first.

Seeing Okaga's gesture, Nao Zhou also closed his mouth very consciously.

"This is a bit far from what you told me before?" Okayama said in a deep voice, "After more than an hour ago, you obviously told me that you wanted to invite me to be a swordsman."

"Why did it take me to help you turn the curtain down after more than an hour?"

After hearing this, Zhizhou smiled awkwardly.

"Sorry, this is my responsibility. I haven't explained it clearly before."

"I'll explain it to you now."

"I will explain one by one the reasons why I decided to fall back and what I want to ask Lord Yidaozhai to do."

After saying that, he cleared his throat hard.

Maybe it's because I'm older, I have a little bit of phlegm.

After clearing your throat, straighten your back straight and sit upright.

"Just as I mentioned just now: We are determined to kill the Edo Shogunate for the sake of justice."

"To put it bluntly, the reason why we decided to turn the tables is to let the people all over the world live a good life."

Zhizhou paused again and cleared his throat.

"I wonder if you have heard this famous saying: Keeping farmers dead is the secret to governing the country."

"This sentence is extremely vicious."

"If farmers don't have to worry about eating, they will easily be confused."

"If farmers can't eat, they are prone to riots."

"This extremely vicious sentence is to put it bluntly, a means of fooling the people, so that although the farmers will not starve to death, their lives are not very good, and there are only a few days to eat a full meal. In this way, the farmers will work hard to have a full meal."

"It not only prevents farmers from having unreasonable thoughts because their lives are too good, but also prevents farmers from rioting because their lives are too bad."

"This extremely vicious sentence is what Tokugawa Ieyasu, the opening of the Edo Shogunate, said."

"For the past two hundred years, the Edo Shogunate has faithfully practiced this ancestral teaching."

"All actions since the opening of the Edo Shogunate have been maintained for one purpose only."

"So looking at the history of the opening of the Edo Shogunate, we can find that the Edo Shogunate never thought about how good the lives of the samurai and the people would be raised to."

"Let's take the farmers as an example. With the 'good intention' of the Edo Shogunate, the lives of farmers have never improved over the past two hundred years, and they only change back and forth between the two states of "having to rebel from hunger" and "being able to live".

"The Edo Shogunate has done more than this to maintain its rule."

"For example, the reason why the lockdown order was issued was a large part of the reason for the lockdown order was to prevent the daimyo from the southwest from strengthening itself by doing business with foreign countries, as well as preventing the merchants and the Chichidan forces from becoming bigger, threatening the Edo shogunate's rule over the world." [Chichidan: Japan's name for Catholics in the Edo era]

"For example, misinterpreting 'Bushido'."

"I wonder if you two have studied the development history of the so-called 'Bushido'?"

"The 'Bushido' at the beginning was not as deformed as it is now..."

"The 'Bushido' first requirement was to have the following qualities: righteousness, courage, benevolence, courtesy, sincerity, reputation, loyalty, righteousness, and self-restraint."

"But gradually the 'Bushido' changed."

"The current 'Bushido' has become only required by samurai to possess these three qualities: name, loyalty, and courage."

"Loyalty, courage is linked to reputation. Even if a warrior is of excellent quality in other aspects, only loyalty and courage are lacking, he will be despised and denounced as a shame for a warrior."

"Only the samurai who is both loyal and brave are real samurai."

"This is...the current 'Bushido'."

An angry look slowly appeared on Zhizhou's face.

"The initiator of the 'Bushido' decay was the Edo Shogunate."

"The Edo Shogunate...or the Tokugawa family, in order to maintain their control over the world, castrated the 'Bushido'."

"Emphasize 'loyalty'. Let all the samurai be loyal to the shogunate, preferably completely loyal, and not betrayal under any circumstances."

"Emphasize 'courage'. Let the warriors turn into brave warriors who are fearless and become useful chess pieces."

"Then I emphasize that only by having 'loyalty' and 'courage' can you gain 'fame'."

"The Edo Shogunate relies on this misinterpreted 'Bushido' to control the samurai and make the samurai work foolishly for them..."

Hearing this, Okabaya couldn't help but frowned slightly.

Because he recalled... Hirose samurai led by Qiyuan...

Although he hated that he had personally washed Qihara and others from the Sakahara Sword Hall.

But Okabata also felt a little pity for the lord they defended with loyalty and courage, and in the end they did not regard them as human beings.

When Matsuhira Gennai kicked Qihara's head away like he played football, Okata still remembered it vividly.

"In short, the governance philosophy of the Edo Shogunate is just to maintain their rule."

"As long as the rule can be maintained, everything else can be ignored."

"They never thought about how good they would govern the world and how happy the country would be, and how happy the warriors and the people would be."

Speaking of this, Zhi Zhou let out a few self-deprecating smiles.

"I originally... still had some expectations for the Edo Shogunate. I hope that the shogunate will no longer only focus on maintaining the rule, but will start to work hard to make the happiness of the whole world."

"However... Matsu Ping's letter, who came to power four years ago, ruthlessly shattered my expectation."

"We decided to defeat the Tokugawa family after Matsupei Dingshi came to power."

Suddenly, he heard an acquaintance's name from Naozhou's mouth, and Okara's brow couldn't help but raise.

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