Seventy-year-old Yamamoto Kamiemon Shigesumi has taken most of his life's luck, and the samurai of his age have basically missed the changing Warring States Period, and they haven't even caught up with the Korean army and the battle of Sekigahara, at most, they have shown up in the winter and summer battles in Osaka, and it is more difficult to get mixed up with the real ability of cutting people than to ascend to the sky. If you want to mix well, you mainly rely on reincarnation!

Fortunately, Yamamoto Shigesumi's reincarnation kung fu is still excellent, and it can't be compared with those lucky ones who voted for a feudal lord, but it is too much to compare......

His father was an important minister of the Nabeshima family of the Saga Domain, and he also assisted the second generation of the Nabeshima family Katsushige in the Battle of Sekigahara to "march at a turtle speed" and successfully avoided the decisive battle. avoided the decisive battle, and also avoided turning against Tokugawa Ieyasu. In addition, Tokugawa Ieyasu needed someone to watch the old immortal Kuroda Rushui in Kyushu, so the Nabeshima family, which belonged to the Western Army in the Battle of Sekigahara, was gently let go. And Yamamoto Shigesumi's father was also rewarded for his "late merit", leaving his son with 1,000 koku of Jialu.

Inheriting his father's 1,000 stones, and because he was the son of a meritorious man, he was taken care of by the feudal lord Katsushige, so Yamamoto Shigesumi's life is definitely the envy of most Japanese samurai who can't even fill their stomachs. Accompanied the lord to eat, drink and be merry all his life, and when he was in his sixties, he married a young and beautiful wife, and when he was 70 years old, he had a young son.

Just when he thought he was sure to be a winner in life, disaster struck suddenly! The Tokugawa world, which had been as stable as a rock, suddenly became turbulent, and Kyushu became the hardest hit area in troubled times. And the Nabeshima family, who has always been treacherous, also made a wrong bet in this troubled world and poured blood mold.

In the beginning, the Nabeshima family took a cautious route of loyalty to the shogunate...... That is, to continue the "lateness" that their family is best at, and when the general situation is clear, they will send troops to crusade against Shimazu or defect to Toyotomi.

And the Nabeshima family is not a "late", and they also contacted the Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, Arima and other families next door to be late together.

So many people are late, and the Tokugawa shogunate shouldn't have any tricks, so they have to blame the public, right?

Of course, being late doesn't mean not being there. When the news of the disastrous defeat of the Spanish fleet in the Battle of Kagoshima Bay came, Nabeshima, Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, and Arima all felt that the situation was clear.

The backstage Spaniards of the Shimazu family have been defeated, and the Shimazu family is dead!

Therefore, the five families of Nabeshima, Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, and Arima were no longer late, and ran to the battlefield together.

Except for Arima, all of these five can fight! The five allied forces dispatched 50,000 troops, and they were killed under the castle of Funai, and they were about to capture Toyotomi Kunimatsu alive, and they beheaded Shimazu Mitsu for a long time, and the result was ...... The Shimazu family dispatched 20,000 Japanese-Spanish troops to form a Spanish phalanx of the latest style and draw 20 artillery pieces. A burst of artillery and gunfire combined with a spear assault directly destroyed the 50,000 Nabeshima, Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, and Arima coalition forces.

The five families who returned from the defeat, including Nabeshima, Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, and Arima, were dumbfounded. Because they suddenly found that they couldn't even be a wall grass! Although the five of them made the Shimazu family beat their heads full of money, the Tokugawa family still received the support of the Daimei Dynasty, and the army entered Nagasaki, and the entire Nagasaki Peninsula was encircled.

Shimazu, who had won a great victory in the Battle of Funachi Castle, did not dare to approach the Nagasaki Peninsula......

Even the Shimazu family itself is not confident, how dare the five families of Nabeshima, Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, and Arima take refuge? Isn't this a joke on your belly? How much it hurts to pull it!

But if he didn't take refuge in the Shimazu family, Shimazu Mitsuhisa didn't agree. They were originally squinting on the side and didn't come to provoke the Shimazu family, but they sent troops to attack Funai Castle!

Therefore, after Shimazu Mitsuhisa sent people to persuade him to surrender, he began to attack the castles controlled by the Nabeshima, Kuroda, Hosokawa, Tachibana, and Arima families. Castles such as Kurume Castle, Yanagawa Castle, Miike Castle, Kumamoto Castle, and Saga Castle were conquered...... It's really a breaking bamboo!

Most of the feudal lords who lost their castles and territories were quite open-minded, and instead of scribbling their bellies, they saved their useful bodies and slipped to the Nagasaki Peninsula.

Seventy-year-old Yamamoto Kamiemon Shigemumi is one of many samurai who can think of it - how can he casually cut his stomach with a young and beautiful wife and a baby waiting to be fed at home?

Besides, he also waited a lifetime to wait for the troubled times of the Warring States, how could he die without doing a career?

The old superior of the Nabeshima family, Ryuzoji Jiaken, is still old and strong in his 90s, not only can he lead troops to fight, but also realize the revival of the family after a tragedy.

Hojo Sakumo captured Odawara Castle at the age of sixty-eight, and only pacified Sagami and Izu at the age of eighty-eight, laying the foundation for the future hegemony of the Hojo family.

And the ancestor of the Tokugawa shogunate, Kamijun Ieyasu, also survived until nearly sixty years before waiting for the Battle of Sekigahara and creating the Tokugawa shogunate!

So the seventy-year-old Yamamoto Shigesumi thought that he was likely to be Ieken, Sakumo and Ieyasu in the new era, but the result was ...... I haven't eaten for two days!

Yamamoto, who had lived a good life all his life, never dreamed that when the troubled times that the samurai dreamed of came, he, a high-ranking feudal lord who was like a fish in water in the peaceful and prosperous world, would be reduced to the point of having no food!

His 1,000 stone is gone...... The feudal lord Nabeshima Mitsushige is also unable to protect himself, and he can't afford to support an old man like him!

And he was in too much hurry when he fled home, and he didn't bring anything of value with him, and now he has been pawned out, leaving only his wife and young son, as well as an ancestral knife and a rib shop.

Oh, the sword was not found two days ago, and his wife and son disappeared around the same time, leaving only a rib chacha that could be used for seppuku.

"Samurai deserve to die with dignity!" Shigesumi Yamamoto muttered, then sat up in a dilapidated hut, took out the ribs, and then looked at it for a while, and sighed, "If only there was still a rice ball to eat!" ”

There shouldn't be any rice balls, and he doesn't plan to wait any longer, if he waits any longer, he won't even have the strength to cut his stomach.

Thinking of this, the old man let go, pulled out the ribs, and then gritted his teeth and glared, and aimed the tip of the knife at the belly.

Then, minute by minute, second by second......

It's belly! Own, where can you say stab?

I don't know how long it took, but I heard a gurgling sound from his abdomen.

The old man sighed: "Baga...... It's old, it's useless! It's not even good to cut a belly, what's the use of living? ”

Speaking of which, tears are falling! When he was crying, the sound of a baby crying suddenly came from outside the thatched hut, and then he saw his wife Aju holding his young son, and carrying a basket, and the hand carrying the basket was still holding a katana, and came in from outside.

"Master, you, are you seppuku?" Ah Ju is the daughter of a samurai family, and she was very surprised to see her old husband's face full of tears, his upper body naked, and he was holding the ribs to make a belly stabbing motion, "Why is there no blood coming out?" What's going on? ”

"Baga!" Yamamoto is so angry, this woman has a very bad conscience, and she is looking forward to her own death!

"I haven't stabbed it yet, of course there's no blood!" Grandpa Yamamoto gritted his teeth again, shook his hand and took a knife to stab him in the belly.

"Wait a minute, wait a minute!" Ah Ju shouted.

Grandpa Yamamoto looked at the wife who could be his granddaughter, and waited for her to persuade him...... One day husband and wife, one hundred days!

"Master, don't cut your stomach yet...... Ah Ju put down her son who was crying, and then put a broken basket containing a few rice balls and a tattered katana in front of her husband, "You can't die yet...... Maybe it will be useful! ”

What are these words...... The old man glared at his wife, and then asked, "Are you reluctant to give up on me?" ”

"Not really!" Ah Ju shook her head, "I took your knife into the city the day before yesterday and wanted to sell it...... As a result, I heard people talk about what the shogunate and the Ming Dynasty emperor were going to jointly hold and what exams, and if they passed the exam, they would have food to eat, and they would have 2 taels of silver a month! Hurry up and grab a bite to eat, and then go to Nagasaki City to take the exam, be sure to pass it! If you can't pass the test, please find a place where no one is seppuku! Don't hesitate, just stab hard! ”