Arima Shinjima replied unmoved: "For the sake of the great cause of honoring the king, we Satsuma aspirants have long put life and death out of the way. Moreover, I have read the laws of the Ming Kingdom, and if there is a fight at the banquet, people will die, as long as someone comes out to confess, the officials of the Ming Kingdom will not make a big deal about it. Will you die for the cause of honor? ”

When he said the last sentence, Arima Shinjima suddenly raised his voice, and the Satsuma samurai behind him, as well as the samurai who were holding * and guarding the door, immediately agreed in unison. Out of the corner of his eye, Gamo observed that except for the samurai of the Nagasu Domain, who were calm and composed, the samurai of the other domains were more or less nervous.

Obviously, at this meeting, the samurai of the Choshu and Satsuma domains had already passed the qi. At this time, he didn't want to leave, and wanted to see what the two feudators wanted to do.

Gamo Naorou smiled slightly, and suddenly sat down again as if nothing had happened, and while beckoning his companion to sit down, he said to Arima Shinjima: "If we insist on leaving now, we will inevitably be underestimated by our comrades in Satsuma." Let me see what the Satsuma comrades are trying to do when they put on such a big formation.

In order to restore Japan's independence, we Kumamoto warriors also pinned our heads to the waistbands of our trousers. If Comrade Satsuma wants to attack the nobles under the banner of respecting the king, then I would like to learn how Satsuma has shown the subtlety of the present..."

Seeing that Gamo Naoyu was waiting for the Kumamoto samurai to sit back, Arima Shinjima gestured to the Satsuma samurai guarding the gate, and these samurai with * in their hands put their swords back in their sheaths and retreated, and by the way, closed the sliding door again. As the sliding door closed, the faint noise in the night outside suddenly became much quieter.

Arima Xindao sat down at this time, and after glancing at the more than forty samurai in the room, he said with some arrogance: "Since the Ming Dynasty and the Nanban coalition army invaded our country in the ninth year of Kanei, those Nanban people have wantonly landed in various parts of our country and caused many disputes with the local people.

The Edo and Osaka shogunates were afraid of the power of the Ming Dynasty, and favored the southern barbarians who violated the laws of our country everywhere in these disputes. Not only did they beat up the people and samurai who went to stop them many times, but they also destroyed several shrines built by the people and the ancestral tombs where they buried their ancestors, just to build some roads.

Ladies and gentlemen, is this Japan still the Japan of the Japanese? I have heard that when the Southern Barbarians arrived in the Americas, their numbers were only a few hundred, but they took advantage of the weakness of the natives of the Americas to conquer a country of millions of people with such a small number of men. Today, the population of the Southern Barbarians in the Americas has exceeded hundreds of thousands, but the local natives have lost more than half of the population.

The American continent, which covers an area larger than the Ming Dynasty, Korea, and Japan combined, from south to north, is said to have rarely heard of any independent indigenous countries. On that continent, the original native Americans became slaves driven by the Nanban, while the Nanban, as outsiders, became the masters of the Americas.

The untold amount of gold and silver on the American continent was excavated by these natives who had lost their land and freedom, and then loaded into the wallets of the southern barbarians. What did the natives of the Americas get? All they get is death and the humiliation of being reviled as a natural slave race.

If we do not rise up in Japan, then these natives of the Americas today will be our Japan tomorrow. For the past eight years, we have had enough of the humiliation inflicted on Japan by the Ming and Nanbanians. I think that now is the best time for us to fight back against these Ming and Nanban.

Therefore, when I and the comrades of the Choshu Domain gathered together, I did not just want to talk to you about empty words. We hope to launch an uprising by taking advantage of the fact that the Ming Dynasty is unable to send troops to interfere in Japan's domestic affairs this year.

The goal of this uprising was to overthrow the Ming Governor's Office in Osaka, to take back the administrative power of the Osaka Shogunate, and then to go to Luojing to meet the Emperor and order the Imperial Court to issue a decree to abolish all foreigners' privileges in Japan, recover the ports, land, and mines occupied by foreigners, and return Japan to the Japanese..."

Although the Satsuma samurai had just threatened everyone with force, the feudal warriors were very dissatisfied. But Arima-Shinjima's words still aroused the resonance of many samurai, making them nod slightly, and the expression on their faces eased a lot.

Only Gamo looked at the other party with a solemn face and said, "Your Highness Arima, do you mean seriously?" Recovering the ports, land, and mines that had been seized by foreigners was indeed the goal of our aspirants.

But first of all, to target the Shogunate and the Osaka Shogunate in Japan, isn't it the wrong target? The Ming Kingdom has indeed suffered a serious disaster this year, but the national situation of the Ming Kingdom in these years is like a cloud climbing the hillside, and to provoke the Ming people at this time is undoubtedly to put Japan on the opposite side of the Ming Kingdom.

As long as the Ming Kingdom survived this famine, what should Japan do to resist the Ming people's strong ships and artillery? Could it be that the arquebuses that the Satsuma clan bought from the Ming Kingdom? Challenging the order established by the Ming Kingdom to gain Japan's independent status was a child's negative move.

Your actions will not only not win Japan's independence, but will make Japan wary of the Ming Kingdom, and when Japan loses again, it will be divided into smaller pieces..."

Arima Shinjima didn't listen to Gamo Naorou's persuasion at all, but said to him viciously: "So, do you Kumamoto's samurai plan to stand on the side of the government and betray the great cause of rebellion?" ”

Looking at Arima Shinjima's posture of making a move if he doesn't agree, although Gamo Naoyuki is not afraid of death, he doesn't want to die here for no reason, he still has a lot to do in his life.

The body that was already tense relaxed inch by inch, and Gamo Naorou lowered his head to avoid the gaze of Arima Shinjima, and replied calmly: "No, I just hope that you don't risk the 'sex' of the Yizhi people at will, our strength is not great." If it fails, there will be little hope of winning Japan's independence. ”

Seeing that Gamo Naoyu avoided his gaze, Arima Shinjima felt a lot more relaxed in his heart. For this samurai from the Kumamoto Domain, he was actually quite jealous in his heart. As one of the samurai sent by various families to accompany the Toyotomi family, only Gamo Naoru and Yoshikawa Hiroka of the Choshu Domain were once praised by the Ming Emperor as "beautiful" figures among young Japanese.

Who is this Ming Emperor now? For the Japanese, he is a legendary figure, not only because of his noble status, but because although His Majesty the Emperor ascended the throne with a weak crown, he single-handedly reversed the declining Ming Dynasty and created the current Ming Empire, which shocked overseas countries.

Although the Ming Emperor opened the door of Japan and divided Japan into two shogunate ruling areas in the east and west, the whole of Japan was full of respect for His Majesty the Emperor and did not dare to have the slightest disrespect. Perhaps for those people in the Ming Dynasty, because of the existence of the enemy of the Manchu Qing Dynasty in the north, they do not feel that the power of the Ming Dynasty has exceeded the Wanli period.

But for the people of all countries overseas, the power of the Ming Dynasty does not only exist in legends and words, but is actually manifested in the heavy artillery of those huge ships docked in the port. Being able to get the monarch of such a powerful country, Chen Zan, for these two young samurai, is no less than a step to the sky, and even the Edo shogunate has to send someone to see who Gamo Naoyu and Yoshikawa Hiroka are.

Yoshikawa Hiroka is one of the two rivers of "Mao" and Li, and he is a real son of a famous family, so everyone will naturally not be jealous of him. However, a samurai from a family of villagers can actually get praise from the Ming Emperor, so naturally many samurai will be dissatisfied. And Arima Shinjima is one of these people, and being able to suppress each other on such an occasion makes him feel happy.

But just when he wanted to continue to ridicule the other party, Goroubei Yamamoto of the Choshu Domain finally stepped forward to interrupt. Suppressing the momentum of Gamo Naoyu, who has a high reputation among the young samurai, although it is the result of his communication with Arima Shinjima, he is absolutely unwilling to see Arima Shinjima continue to suppress the other party, after all, Gamo Naoyu's disgrace will also damage another Yoshikawa Hiroga who has been praised by His Majesty the Emperor, as a samurai of the "Mao" Riki family, Yamamoto Goroubei naturally knows what it means to be moderate.

"Our goal is also to restore Japan's independence, so how can we easily risk the lives of people with lofty ideals." Goro Yamamoto took over the topic, and after looking at everyone's expressions, he continued, "Maybe everyone thought that we could continue to wait and not have to take such risks.

But I want to tell you that, in fact, there is not much time left in Japan. Since the defeat of Kannaga, Japan has been divided into eastern and western divisions, and it seems that peace has been temporarily obtained, but in fact the Edo shogunate has never stopped rearming.

As far as I know, the larger feudal states of western Japan have also not stopped buying weapons and training their armies. Japan is already a narrow and densely populated country, and before the Tokugawa clan unified the world, it was already a good year for the people everywhere to be able to eat their stomachs.

After the Tokugawa clan unified the world, Japan lived a period of peace, but with the invasion of the Ming Kingdom and the Nanban, this period of peace came to an end. Now that Japan has to pay reparations to foreign countries, and the feudal domains are constantly increasing their armaments, the people's power has been used to the extreme.

If we can't vent the anger of the people, it will soon be the first to burn to the feudal lords. If there was a large-scale popular uprising, then the feudal clans would have to use the resources they had accumulated over the years to quell the popular rebellion, and when the uprisings in various parts of Japan subsided, would the feudal domains still have the strength to resist the Ming Kingdom and the Southern Barbarian Alliance?

If such a situation really arises, Japan will become a country without the ability to protect itself, and it will be slaughtered by the Ming State and the Southern Barbarians. Therefore, we now have no choice but to gamble on the fortunes of the country. Either burn those foreigners with this fire, or burn yourself to death by this fire..."