Forty-eight years of Qianlong

Chapter 101 The Claws of Matsumae Fan
"He's the patriarch?" Under the sunglasses, Zhao Xin's eyes suddenly widened.

He turned his head to look at the little Ainu beside him, with a smile on his face, and many things will be easy in the future.

The leader of the Matsumae samurai stared at Tuka, and said word by word: "This vassal issued an order last year that all tribes in Eizo prohibited trade with foreign barbarians without permission. Chief Tuka, you are defying His Royal Highness Shimo Shou The command!"

Tuka's neck turned red with anger when he heard this.Although he was extremely angry, he did not dare to argue.For the Ainu people like them, Matsumae Fan was too powerful, making them powerless to resist.

Seeing that Tuka stopped talking, the leader of the samurai asked Zhao Xin, "Where are you from? From your accent, it seems to be from the Kanto region."

"Do I need to tell you? You have good noses. I just arrived yesterday, and you came here today." Zhao Xin said lightly.That is to say, Zhao Xin was wearing sunglasses, otherwise the four warriors would immediately draw their swords when they saw the undisguised contempt in Zhao Xin's eyes.

"You!" Feeling the contempt in Zhao Xin's words, a young warrior immediately touched the handle of the knife, and was about to walk towards Zhao Xin.

"Don't be impulsive." The leader of the samurai stretched out his hand to stop his companion, and he continued to say to Zhao Xin: "Since your Excellency is so rude, please leave immediately, I do not welcome you."

"Hehe. How dare you call yourself the owner of the Matsumae Castle, which has a big booger?"

As soon as Zhao Xin finished speaking, Liu Sheng and Ding Guofeng came out from behind the D30 covered with a cannon coat, followed by Pingtai.The three dispersed and formed a fan with Zhao Xin, surrounding the four warriors.

"What do you mean, Your Excellency?" The eyes of the four warriors turned to Liu Sheng and the others who were gradually surrounding them. Feeling that something was wrong, they took two steps back and touched the handle of the knife with their right hands at the same time.

The leading warrior was fairly well-informed, and he noticed that Ding Guofeng was holding what looked like an iron cannon.But when I saw that there was no fire rope on it, I felt a little relaxed.According to this distance, even if the opponent lights the matchlock and prepares to launch, the four of us can rush up and chop the opponent to the ground in time.

Therefore, the samurai watched Liu Sheng and the others from the corner of his eye, and said to Zhao Xin at the same time, "Since your Excellency is proficient in our language, you should know that my Lord Shimamori is the 'Lord of Ezo Island' personally appointed by the shogunate."

"Should we kill them or let them go?" Zhao Xin hesitated.

Perhaps it was because the blood of the Qing army and island country warriors had been stained on his hands in the past few months, Zhao Xin's anger was getting heavier and heavier, and he had already noticed it.

Ever since the bombardment of Matsushima Town and the first batch of refugees were brought back, whenever he encountered things that did not meet his wishes in Beihai Town, Zhao Xin’s heart would pop out like in the cartoon. A "little red man".That "little man" with horns on his head and wielding a fork would use a set of reasons that sounded very reasonable to lure Zhao Xin to use violent means to deal with those matters.

Several times, Zhao Xinqiang endured the burden.But when he calmed down afterwards and thought about it again, he would break out in a cold sweat from shock.

He felt that no one could help him with this kind of thing, even Liu Sheng had no such experience before he brought him here.But he still forgot one person, Wang Yuanfang.

After learning from Liu Sheng that something was wrong with Zhao Xin's recent state, Wang Yuanfang, who had experienced it, thought about it carefully and understood what was going on.He also had this kind of mental state before, and he had received treatment from a psychiatrist, and it took him a long time to adjust before it slowly subsided.

Wang Yuanfang did not provide psychological counseling to Zhao Xin.Because he knew that in terms of reasoning, he couldn't justify Zhao Xin.So he suggested that Zhao Xin get in touch with the children in the camp more, so that maybe he can resolve the hostility in his heart.

That's why Zhao Xin couldn't wait to ask Chen Qingsong to build a simple classroom and let Sheng Haizhou count the school-age children in the camp.In addition to those children who need to be educated, he also wants to resolve the demons in his heart by giving lessons to those energetic children every day.

In order not to let his eyes reveal his inner thoughts, he hurriedly put on the sunglasses before meeting the four warriors of Matsumae Fan.

At this moment, he has been reminding himself that the Matsumae clan behind these four seemingly polite warriors will use cruel means to suppress the Ainu people in the next few decades, and eventually make the Ainu people on the entire island country archipelago Only more than 2 people were killed.

"Life is a mixture of contradictions and hypocrisy." At this time, Zhao Xin couldn't help thinking secretly.

"I won't kill you now." Zhao Xin felt that it was better not to just shoot to solve the problem.So he took a few deep breaths, and slowly said to the four Matsumae clan warriors in front of him: "Go back and report a letter to Matsumae Michiko, telling him to pack up and go back to the island peninsula, otherwise..."

Before he could finish his words, the four Matsumae clan samurai suddenly became furious, and drew out their samurai swords with a "swish".

"You dare to call Mr. Zhimoshou by his name, you are looking for death!" A young warrior was so furious that he raised his knife and slashed at Zhao Xin.

"Don't!" The warrior in the lead saw that the man not far away did not light the match, but directly raised the iron cannon to aim at it. Feeling bad, it was too late for him to stop it.

"Bang~~" The gun in Ding Guofeng's hand rang out.

On an empty deck, the sound of a lever rifle is not that loud.If you have to describe it, it's like someone whipping a whip in the air, but the sound is not so crisp.

The echo of the gunfire lingered over the Thunder God, and the Ainu people on a dozen small boats on the sea heard the sound, and they all looked at each other in blank dismay, not knowing what happened.

The four people on the deck, including Tuka, trembled from the sudden explosion. Before they could understand what happened, they heard a sound of "Dang~", and a samurai sword fell on the deck.

The .357 Magnum bullet, which can knock down even an elephant, hit the young warrior in the left chest.The young samurai who was shot immediately collapsed on the deck, motionless.

The faint gunpowder smoke from the muzzle quickly disappeared without a trace. Ding Guofeng quickly pushed the lever under the trigger, and a yellow bullet casing was ejected quickly, falling on the deck with a crisp sound.

He turned his gun to the leading samurai, muttering: "It turns out that movies are so deceiving."

What Ding Guofeng said about the deception in the movie was actually the scene in the movie where people who were hit by a .357 Magnum flew out in a very exaggerated way.

At this time, Liu Sheng also took out his pistol and pointed it at the remaining three warriors, laughing at the same time: "When you shot the wild boar with this gun, did the wild boar fly away? Naive."

"You!" The leader of the Matsumae clan samurai was shocked. He didn't expect the opponent's iron cannon to shoot directly without a match.He saw that the shooter just pushed a metal ring on the gun, and then the gun turned towards him.

"Impulse is the devil." Zhao Xin said flatly in Mandarin.

A samurai squatted down, touched the neck of the fallen samurai with his hand, then looked up in grief and indignation, and said to the leader of the samurai, "My lord, Kichiemon is dead!"

At this time, Zhao Xin's voice sounded again.

"I'll let you go back. You go back and tell Matsumae Michihiro that this is the land of the Ainu people, not your Matsumae domain. Let the islanders on the plain (Sapporo) go back to Matsumae Castle, or wash your ass and prepare Meet the wrath of Thor."

The three samurai stopped talking, put away their samurai swords, and worked together to lift the dead young samurai.The leading warrior knelt down and carried the corpse on his shoulders.

The three of them stared at Zhao Xin and the others, then turned and disembarked.

Tuka was stiff all over at this moment, and waves of chills emerged from his heart.He tremblingly said to Zhao Xin and the others: "You guys, you have caused a catastrophe!"

Zhao Xin took off his sunglasses and said to Tuka with a smile, "Don't worry, Patriarch Tuka. Shachuan will always be the territory of the Shachuan tribe, and the Songqian family can't take it away."

"You guys, do you know how many samurai there are in the Matsumae family? I heard that they have recruited a lot of ronin! Your big ship can turn around and go away, we are going to be in trouble here!" An Ainu angrily said to Zhao Xin growled.

The ronin he was talking about was the ronin recruited by many island country businessmen who had obtained local trading rights.

The Matsumae Domain began to implement the "Site Responsibility System" in Ezo more than ten years ago.This kind of lease of trade rights, which is similar to the tax package system, attracted many businessmen from Honfan and Mutsu.

After these businessmen took root in the leased land, they began to monopolize the local fishing and hunting activities.They recruited ronin as overseers and drove the Ainu to hunt and fish for them.If someone disobeyed the merchant's exploitation, those ronin would kill the rebel.

In the eyes of the Ainu people, Matsumae Fan and these businessmen are treacherous and ghostly.Their trading methods are very different from the traditional and simple trading methods of the Ainu people.

High-intensity labor with extremely low wages has caused more and more people to starve to death.The Matsumae clan and these merchants did everything they could to make life extremely difficult for many Ainu tribes in Ezo.

After listening to Pingtai's translation, Liu Sheng said, "Don't worry, Patriarch Tuka. We won't leave until this matter is resolved."

After listening to Zhao Xin's translation, Tuka's expression was slightly relaxed.

Zhao Xin saw that he was still very nervous, so he said to him: "Invite all your clansmen up here. Whether it's exchanging goods, eating or drinking, we welcome you."

Tuka's eyes lit up when he heard that there was wine to drink, and then he walked to the side of the boat and shouted to the people below: "Bring all the things up. The friends on the boat invited us to eat and drink!"

The Ainu people on a dozen small boats on the sea just watched in amazement the three warriors carrying the corpse of their companions onto the boat and going away. Everyone was secretly suspicious when they heard the greeting from the patriarch and said that there was wine, and they were overjoyed .

So more than a dozen small boats docked next to the gangway one by one, and everyone carried all kinds of goods on their backs to the deck of the Thunder God.

Zhao Xin was worried that too many people would damage the machinery on the deck, so he asked Pingtai to greet the Ainu people and lead them to the canteen in the cabin.

Liu Sheng took out two boxes of Vodka that Zhao Xin had bought from a tin cabinet in the cafeteria.

After drinking a few glasses of high-quality liquor, the Ainu people suddenly became elated and babbled and sang.More than a dozen sailors brought all kinds of heated canned meat, and a group of people ate and drank very satisfied.

Zhao Xin, who doesn't like to drink, felt a little over the top after drinking a few drinks with Tuka.Tuka and a few of his men were like drinking water, cup after cup, and finally thought the cup was too small, so they simply picked up the bottle and poured it directly.

Tuka finished drinking a bottle of Vodka with his head up, and said a few words to the people around him.The two tribesmen got up and went to the goods piled aside, and took out a large black bear skin.

"My friend, this is a gift from me! By the way, I don't know your name yet."

The flushed Zhao Xin said with a smile, "You can call me "らいじん"."

Except for Pingtai, Liu Sheng and several modern people don't know what Zhao Xin is talking about.

This guy is playing AC again, and らいじん is "Thor".

(End of this chapter)