Originally, Naoxiu planned to find a name to go to Iwamura in Xiangmei County, but this time it was a matter of convenience. For the four major people, Zhixiu is afraid and afraid, these four martial arts are strong, elusive, if the combat effectiveness of other samurai who engage in heavenly punishment is regarded as one, these few are ten, luck is good, and they can often complete unbelievable assassinations.

Zhixiu is going to open the country in the future, and everyone will definitely shout and beat it at that time, and normal assassination can be prevented by raising vigilance, but these four can meet by chance on the road, and they belong to the kind of gods who are hanging, and they can't prevent it.

Naoxiu almost drooled when he looked at Yizang, this is a fierce man who can fight four, he twisted and said to Okada Yoshihei, I see that this child has clear bones and clear eyebrows, or let me be a student.

Yoshihei Okada looked at his eldest son, who was dark and thin, and fell into a big wave of deep thought.

Zhixiu took a look, and the brand of Qiben was still not hard enough, so he could only enlarge the move.

Naohide said, "I opened a private school in Kochi, I have to eat and live, and the distribution of the package is not negotiable", Okada Yoshihei said no, "You have to add money", and finally the two sides reached an agreement, Xiao Yizang became Naohide's student, but Naoxiu had to give Okada Yoshihei three copper coins every month as Xiao Yizang's "lost work expenses".

Little Ezang is the eldest son, and he will inherit the family business in the future. Okada Yoshihei brought him to Kochi this time, just to find a way for Izo, a ten-year-old child can be a low-level tea man or a small surname to serve a high-level samurai, but Okada's family is poor, as a countryman has no way, Yizang is not good-looking and shy, and a few sergeants who meet by chance can't look down on it, and the money that the family has finally accumulated is spent on buying gifts, what "take the child to the castle town to buy carp streamers during the holidays", it's just a rhetoric.

This time offended Sergeant Yamada Tadabei, Okada Yoshihei was terrified, and then gave Xiao Yizang a big slap in the face, but he didn't expect it to arouse the sympathy of Naohide, Naohide is the imperial flag, if his son can be a retainer of the flag, it is really an ancestor who accumulates virtue and does good, as for the identity of the countryman, it seems that it is worthless from today's encounter.

Hearing Naohide say that he wanted to take in Xiao Yizang as a student, Okada Yoshihei was not contemplative but ignorant, Yizang and him had a virtue, and he didn't know a few big characters, and his contemplation was wondering if there was something wrong. As a result, Naohide said that he wanted to give money, but Okada sobered up, his son couldn't grow up and ate more, and as for the family business, fuck it, and there was a royal flag. Originally, the money could not be collected, but the family was so poor, and the words of refusal could not be said to the mouth, and how to tell the child and his mother if he did not collect the money, and the child and his mother could rest assured if they brought some gifts back.

Okada Yoshihei unceremoniously accepted half a year's remuneration - three small judgments, wiped his tears - he couldn't stop it, turned around and gave Xiao Yizang a big slap in the face, asking him to listen to his husband well, "Let me do whatever I want, run home and send it back."

Okada left, Xiao Yizang was at a loss as he grabbed a small judgment left by his father, Naohide hurriedly called everyone into the steamed bun shop, Yingzi took Xiao Yizang's hand to comfort him, and Katsugoro and Hayato were also helping on the side.

"Can I go to a private school too? You can do anything, as long as you take care of the food", and when he didn't pay attention, the child who stole the steamed buns also followed.

The owner of the steamed bun shop hurriedly explained to Naoxiu that the child who stole the steamed bun was named Yourong, eleven years old this year, and also a poor child, his father died when he was two years old, and then his mother remarried, and Yurong was adopted as an adopted son by a relative who opened a tofu shop at the end of the street, and later the relative had a biological son, Yurong was gradually neglected, grinding tofu was very tired, and Yurong couldn't eat enough to steal things to eat, and the merchants on the street knew it.

At this time, the owner of the tofu shop also rushed into the door, knelt down and apologized, and then prepared to pull Yurong away.

"I don't want money, I don't want money-" Yurong hugged the doorpost, and the owner of the tofu shop couldn't do anything about him for a while.

"Cough", Zhixiu coughed, Yingzi took Yizang's little hand, and looked at Zhixiu with a blank eye, this character can't collapse, this just accepted Yizang, anyway, one is also raised, and two are also fed, all of them are accepted.

Naoxiu gave the owner of the tofu shop, Jin Sanliang, and asked him to write the paperwork, and from then on Yuei was considered a person from Mizuki's private school.

During this period, the owner of the tofu shop still wanted to increase the price, but he was scolded by the Saiya Hachiro Guard, who rushed over, "Half-old children, you can't do any heavy work and can still eat, you can talk to the samurai master after you think clearly."

I don't know when, a group of people gathered outside the steamed bun shop, everyone complained about the owner of the tofu shop, accusing him of abusing Xiao Yourong usually, but today he made such a big thing, and the owner of the tofu shop hurriedly left the paperwork and hugged his head.

Yingzi went to the Wufu shop in Caigu House to order a few sets of new clothes for a few children, and the boss Hachiro Bingwei also gave a few sets of expired pawn clothes in his own soil warehouse, and also helped Naohide buy holiday supplies with the owner of the steamed bun shop, and the four children each carried a carp streamer, and everyone went home in a grand way.

"Meet the teacher and the teacher"*5, on the day of the iris festival, the Mizuki private school held an apprenticeship ceremony, and Katsugoro, Hayato, Ryoma, Izo, and Yuei officially became Naohide's disciples - Katsugoro and Hayato had not formally apprenticed to Naohide before, and when they heard that there was such a thing as an apprenticeship ceremony, the two children ran to Yingzi to be coquettish, and Yingzi promised that they could apprentice together.

In this regard, Oguri Tadashun felt that it was too child's play, how could it be so easy to accept disciples - at this time, the relationship between the disciples and the teacher who formally apprenticed was very close, and the future Yoshida Shoin smuggled into the rice country, in addition to being imprisoned himself, his teacher Sakuma Xiangshan also ate the head of the shogunate.

Naohide couldn't explain to Oguri, he originally felt that there were too many rules now, but he couldn't say this to Oguri, so he had to prevaricate on the grounds that the child was pitiful, Oguri was too lazy to pay attention to him, but Naohide unexpectedly reaped Yingzi's reward - this wave is not a loss.

The Sakamoto family attached great importance to Ryoma's apprenticeship, and Ryoma's father Naozu, his brother Naokata, his sister Otome, and the head of the family, Hachiro Guard, all attended the ceremony.

According to the "Book of Rites" and "Di Zi Gui", the apprenticeship ceremony includes five steps: dressing properly, bowing to the teacher, giving a lecture to the teacher, purifying hands and hearts, and opening the pen.

"First dress up, then be reasonable." Naohide has always been against sloppy appearance, but he also has to guard against well-dressed beasts, Naohide tidied up the clothes for the five children, and then told the story of well-dressed beasts, from the official uniform of the Chinese Ming Dynasty to Ling Mengchu's "Two Moments of Surprise" in the Ming Dynasty, Toranosuke and Gakujiro hurriedly stopped it, and they didn't see that the faces of the Sakamoto family on the side were distorted - Oguri and Murata felt that it was a pity to talk halfway.

The apprenticeship ceremony should first worship the ancestor, the private school is the Lan Xue Museum, and Zhixiu had no choice but to write down the five big characters of "Sir Isaac" and hang it on the wooden screen, which opened a historical precedent.

Kowtowed to the patriarch nine and kowtowed to the teacher three times, Zhixiu instinctively disgusted these cumbersome etiquette, so that the five children were fooled by a single salute.

After worshipping Mr., the students should present six gifts to Mr., namely celery (meaning diligent and studious, good at diligence), lotus seeds (lotus seeds are bitter, meaning painstaking education), red beans (meaning red luck), red dates (meaning early and high school), longan (meaning merit and consummation), dried meat strips (to express the disciple's heart), now Fuso only water celery, longan or Satsuma Shimazu family eight generations of head Shigehao (1745-1833) introduced-it is difficult for the Sakamoto family to get it, meat strips are not meat strips, There is only dried fish, and the fish is also meat, which is good.

Katsugoro and Hayato have followed Naohide and Eiko for the longest time, and knowing that Shu Yu or something is bullshit in the eyes of the teacher, but Izo and Yuei don't know, the two children who are anxious cry directly, or after Yingzi's persuasion, they will keep accounts first and wait until they grow up, and the two children can rest assured.

Naohide felt that this was not good, so he asked the two sailors to take a few children to catch a few fish, and after obtaining the consent of the Sakamoto family, they put the gifts together and counted them as everyone's, and Ryoma also had a better relationship with the children - after all, he had the most gifts, and the children were very grateful to him because of this.

After the worship ceremony, Mr. said, "Come to my door, don't complain", Naoxiu really wanted to say this, but considering everyone's ability to bear it, don't do it. There are no door rules, and it is too early to give the number, and to educate students to respect the teacher and be innocent, considering that Naoxiu will most likely be in conflict with the conservative shogunate in the future, innocence is not innocent, as for respecting the teacher, "I love my teacher, but I love the truth more", is this successful?

"Think twice before acting, do not regret it", this is Naohide's formal instruction to the children - in the past, when Toranosuke and Gakujiro apprenticed, Naohide was still pretending, but now he is completely free of himself, the children can't understand, and the people watching the ceremony are grinning.

Hands and hearts are cleansed, in which students put their hands in a basin of water to "clean their hands", wash the front and back once and then wipe them dry. The meaning of clean hands and pure heart is to clean hands and hearts, remove the turnips, and be able to concentrate on future studies without distractions.

The opening ceremony is the last procedure of the apprenticeship ceremony, which includes cinnabar wisdom, drumming wisdom, red brushwork, etc.

"Cinnabar enlightenment" is that Mr. dotted a red mole on the center of the student's eyebrows, because "mole" and "wisdom" have the same sound, which means that students will open wisdom from now on, have bright eyes and bright hearts, and can learn in the future.

"Drumming wisely" comes from the "Entrance Drum Zheng (qiè), Sun Qiye Ye" in the "Xue Ji", which is intended to warn students to pay attention to reading through the sound of drumming.

Under the guidance of Mr., students learn to write the first word of life, which is often simple but contains profound meaning.

Generally income room disciples, is dressed, worship the teacher, Mr. lecture on it, but the five children are still young, Zhixiu by the way to clean hands and heart, the opening ceremony also added, although the redundant etiquette is disgusted by Zhixiu, but as long as there is no oppression of thinking, some etiquette children have fun, why not.

After the apprenticeship ceremony, Naohide and the students thanked everyone for coming to watch the ceremony, what should everyone do after that, today is a holiday.

"Walk slowly", the Sakamoto family was satisfied and was about to leave, and the two heads of the Sakamoto family were left behind. Tosa's economy is poor, and there are not many wealthy merchants, so as one of the three wealthy merchants in Tosa, Naohide and Caiya need to support each other.

Naohide asked how Saiya had been doing recently, and Hachiro Bei shook his head and smiled bitterly.

The business of the valley house is mainly three major blocks, the earth warehouse (pawnshop), the sake house (wine shop) and the Wu clothing shop, the world has only improved from the Tenpo murder to the present, but the sake house business that he started on has not improved, and it is getting worse and worse, Hachiro Guard and Naozu father and son have discussed, and they are ready to vigorously develop the samurai loan business of the earth warehouse, but these do not need to be talked to Naohide.

In fact, he didn't say that Naohide also knew that the Sakamoto family was broken because of the samurai loan - the samurai loan was a loan to the samurai, and at the end of the Bakudo period, the society was in turmoil and the economy was on the verge of collapse, and the loan to the samurai was to lose money to the Pacific Ocean, and the loss of money could still be heard, and the samurai couldn't afford to pay back the money but they had to be annoyed and ashamed to cut people, and doing the samurai loan business was to bring humiliation on themselves and find themselves uncomfortable.

"If your lord has any orders, I will do my best", Hachiro Bei thought that Naohide was going to fight the autumn wind and ask for money like everyone else.

"There's more and more sake in Nada Gogoto, right?" Naoxiu didn't want to ask the student's family for money, he wanted to help.

"My lord knows everything."

"Ryoma is my student, some things are cheaper for you", Naohide pulled out a stack of papers, which wrote about the sake improvement process, including the vertical steamer, the addition of alcohol at the end of fermentation, the raw brewing method, the yamashiki abolition and the quick brewing method.

In 1848, brewers in the Nada region shortened the fermentation time while mass-producing high-end sake, and Nada Gogo's sake defeated many sake merchants, including Tosa's Seiyaya.

Seiyaya started from four generations, and the ninth generation of Ryoma was a sake house, and the head of the family, Hachiro Guard, was an expert in making sake, and he was excited when he saw it in his hand.

Oguri Tadashun sat on the side and watched the excitement - no one dared to chase him anyway, so he sat there and watched the play, and when he saw Hachiro Guard's reaction, he felt that there was a story in it, and he reached out and took the paper, and looked at it again and again, but he didn't understand it.

"Useful?" If you want to ask, it is Oguri's style.

"Breathtaking", said Hachiro Bei glanced at Naohide, if it is true, Caitaniya is confident that he will regain the sake of Shikoku Island, if it is fake - it doesn't look like it, Kobetan Gogo is a famous sake production area of Fuso, and Saitaniya also sent someone to investigate, although the specific details can't be figured out, but some of the crafts are very consistent with Naohide's description, and some of the crafts are unheard of, and I don't know where the samurai got them.

Oguri picked up the paper again and looked at it, and he clicked on one of the vertical characters and asked Naohide why he used a water wheel to make polished rice, and couldn't he use a windmill? He didn't ask Naohide to say that he told Oguri that the windmill craft had been sold to Kinokuniya in Rihachi, and he couldn't lose his word.

The windmill business brought back a lot of benefits for the Oguri family and the pedigree daimyo and other big body flags. Sake is a business bigger than a windmill. Oguri Tadashun saw that Tosa wine merchant Taniya endorsed Naohide, and he couldn't help but join in, saying that the windmill was not a problem, but Naohide wanted to transfer these crafts to Kinokuniya, and Naohide agreed, and Hachiro Bei also said that he could go to Edo and talk about cooperation with Kinokuniya Toshihachi.

The three families are all happy, as for the windmill, let the Kanaya talk to Rihachi, although the windmill is a design taken out by Naohide, but he is on paper, and it is best to ask Kinokuniya to help build a practical windmill.

Naohide sent the Sakamoto family away, sat there and pondered by himself, the Kobe area is famous for four things in later generations, sake, pearl farming, Wagyu beef and rice breeding, the first two of which were taken out in advance, and the latter two were made in Tosa? After all, Yoshida Toyo's execution is still quite good.