Chapter 422: Samurai Mercenaries (2nd Update)
Tal has been in Dalian for a long time, so he has met many Japanese people who have come to the economic zone to make a living. In his eyes, there are two kinds of Japanese people, one is like the hotel owner, who is polite and polite, humble and deferential, which makes people like it very much. The other is the bastards with two knives in their waists, and these guys are also very polite, but they are brutal and cruel, and they are extremely aggressive. The Japanese seem to be very extreme, they are either polite to the extreme, or barbaric and cruel to the extreme.
The Japanese who were repaired by his own soldiers today were stabbed, and Tal thought that they would resist like wild beasts, and all of them died under the gun, but he guessed wrong. In the face of the muzzle of the black hole, whether it was the samurai who was being beaten or was about to be beaten, they all obediently put down their swords and gave up useless resistance. Everyone has surrendered, and it is not easy for the soldiers to kill, but a beating is inevitable. For a while, the * child in the sake house flew sideways, and all the samurai who were arrogant and domineering just now were beaten into pigs' heads.
"Your Excellency General, they are just a group of ronins who have drunk too much, there is no need to let them disturb your peace, the villain told the man to throw them out!" The owner of the liquor house was very kind, and did not mind the samurai beating his buddy just now, and knelt in front of Tar to plead for the samurai who had been beaten to the point of crying wolf.
"Has the Oiran arrived?" Tal stretched, nodding nonchalantly.
"It's coming soon, and they're all looking forward to serving a great hero like Your Excellency the General!" The boss nodded repeatedly, thanking Tal for giving him face.
After the soldiers stopped, the warriors did not leave, but stood up with great difficulty, and put away their precious goods. After being beaten and sobering up, and packing up their *, the warriors still refused to leave, as if they wanted to come to Tar. This makes the pro-soldiers nervous, these guys don't want to play wave strikes! They were all good at it, and if they were allowed to approach Tarr with a knife, Tarr would be a bit dangerous.
"My, Your Excellency's, the General's, the work of the visit!" Faced with the rude drive of the pro-soldiers, the samurai began to confess themselves to the pro-soldiers in stumbling Chinese.
"If you want to work outside, get out!" The only replies of the soldiers were insults and kicks, and they did not understand much what the widows were saying.
"一言話してくれ (Help us say something)!" The leader of the samurai began to shamelessly ask the hotel owner for help.
"Your Excellency General, these ronins have something to say to you, see if you can throw them out directly!" The innkeeper was embarrassed for a moment, and finally translated the meaning of the samurai to Tár.
"Let them come over alone!" Tal was drinking wine and waiting for the Oiran, just to relieve the boredom of these samurai, and it was also quite fun for an adult man who was less than 1.5 meters tall.
Several samurai deliberated for a while, and elected the tallest and best-looking person to be their representative, but this tallest person was only 1.6 meters. The soldiers brutally confiscated all the blades on the representative's body, including the rib forks that the samurai never left his body, and searched and searched until he was almost stripped naked.
The samurai who were allowed to enter the Talya seat paid great attention to his appearance, first arranging his clothes full of footprints, and then straightening his moon head before daring to follow the hotel owner with his head down. The samurai were very obedient throughout the whole process, and they became a copy of the hotel owner, bowing and walking very well, and they stopped more than three meters away from the tower, bowed down, and worshipped as if they were worshipping Buddha in the temple.
"What's your name?" Tal was a little uncomfortable by the rapid change of the samurai, and in a short fight, this guy went from one extreme to the other.
"My Asano Sohide's work!" Asano bowed his bow as he answered, and in the eyes of the Chinese, he just kowtowed.
"Do you have something to say to me? Go ahead! Tal felt that the short man's name sounded good, and more Chinese than his own name, and began to consider whether he should continue to change his name.
"My fellow Daoist, offending His Excellency the General's work, it should not be, my work of making amends!" Asano saluted as he spoke, making people feel like he was a kowtow worm.
"It's okay!" Tal was still thinking about changing his name, and waved his hand indifferently.
"The work of our samurai, the downfall of the master, the ...... of our ronin&()&*()&......" Asano seems to want to introduce his origin and explain his purpose, but his Chinese is too poor, and the words "come" and "go" do not make sense, and then it is all Japanese, not to mention Tár, and even the hotel owner doesn't know what he is talking about. In the end, it was the hotel owner who muttered to Asano in Japanese for a long time before he finally figured out what he was going to say.
Asano Munehide and his companions were both from the Nihonmatsu Domain, and they were serious samurai, but he wasn't too embarrassed to say his rank, they were just ashigaru. To say that they are samurai is also to say that they belong to the rank of scholars, but low-level martial arts such as pawns, concentrics, and ashigaru are not formal samurai, and can only be regarded as Fenggongren. The end of the Edo period had arrived, and all the feudal kingdoms were in financial crisis, and the Nihonmatsu Domain, which was only 30,000 koku, had no way to survive. Asano and the others were reluctant to give up their status as samurai with swords, but they also had to come out to beg for a living.
At the end of the Edo period, there were many samurai who broke away from the feudal domain, such as Isamu Kondo and Toshizo Hijikata, such as Isamu Kondo, Toshizo Hijikata, and others, and there were also many who ran for reform, such as Katsura Kogoro and others, and of course, many of them simply came out to beg for a living. Asano and the others belong to people who have no pursuits, they don't care about how to save the country, they only care about how to eat.
Although Japan has a strict lockdown order, it has been loosened a lot after the black ship knocked. Of course, the Japanese knew that the area around Dalian, which was surrounded by a strip of water, was booming, so Asano and others also wanted to try their luck in Dalian. Unfortunately, there is no suitable place for them here, there is a need for workers, not professional thugs. Even if security is needed in a few places, people want to hire some people who are tall and capable of bluffing people, and their height has become a barrier to restricting their job search. Asano and others, who ran into walls everywhere, were not afraid of the policemen who rode high-headed horses on the streets every day, and they would have been robbed directly in Dalian.
Today they have basically exhausted their entanglements, and they really have no way, so they are ready to get drunk at the end, and then they give it a go. However, they met Tal again, and in the face of the pro-guards, their free fight was only exchanged for a violent beating. However, this beating was not in vain, and Asano was beaten to understand. They were loyal to the daimyo lords in Japan, so why can't they be loyal to a general like Taal when they come to China! Tal is a general, and his men definitely need warriors, these warriors are not only literate, but they are all ascetic warriors, they can serve Tár. So Asano's complicated self-introduction has only one meaning, he wants to apply for a job from Tal, begging Tar to give him a job opportunity and give him a grain to support his family.
"Are your martial arts very strong? Show me! Tar, who had been struggling with whether to change his name, suddenly heard that someone had taken the initiative to become a soldier, and he was interested at that time, and he was too short of people.
Discovering Tár's temptation, Asano took out all the eighteen kinds of martial arts, and demonstrated all the karate techniques such as tile splitting, ice breaking, and self-sacrifice skills. After being allowed to use*, Asano showed the sword technique of Shinto Stream to the fullest, sweating profusely, just hoping to make Tal tempted.
"It's not bad, it's bluffing!" With the mentality of watching juggling, after watching Asano's performance, Tal almost asked for a chest crushing boulder.
"Take your friends back for a drink! Your wine money is mine. After consulting with a few of his close men, Tal gave Asano a very disappointing reply.
"Please, take us to work! Our great thanksgiving! Asano knelt on the ground again and begged bitterly, a penny was difficult for the heroes, and they could only cut their stomachs if they continued like this.
"You can't even speak Chinese, and you can't communicate with others when you enter the army. I admire you, but I can't accommodate you! "Tal is telling the truth, he needs people, but a few people who can't even communicate normally don't really mean much.
"Ours, our own troops, for your Excellency!" Asano also admitted that if they wanted to speak Chinese well, they had to practice for a few years.
"One, two, three...... What is the use of forming you with a force of seven? Tal spread his hands, it was not worth it to have a Japanese translator for seven people.
"We can find someone, a lot of samurai, for your service!" Asano must not pass up this rare opportunity.
"Alright! I'll give you a month, and if you can find a thousand, I'll take you in!" And I will exalt you to be the leader of a thousand men! "Tal is also lucky, Dalian this place, he can't recruit Chinese, maybe he can get some foreigners."
"Hay, I'm going to do it!" Asano finally grabbed the straw that saved his life.
"Take it! If you can find someone, this is your travel fee, if you can't find someone, you can take it home for the New Year! Tal took out his wallet, took out a hundred Manchurian banknotes printed with the saint Kong, and threw them on the tatami mats.
"Hay! Thank you! Asano respectfully picked up the money from the ground, held it high above his head, and then retreated on his knees.
Tal didn't take it too seriously, and when the Oiran arrived, he began to drink and have fun, trying to forget all his troubles. Unintentionally, Asano Munehide really appeared in front of him again a month later, and a guy brought back more than two thousand three hundred guys with patches on their clothes and knives in their waists. Tar, who was crazy about the lack of people, immediately recruited these people and turned them into mercenaries of the Marine Corps, but the price was pressed hard.
Northern Manchukuo has a compulsory military system, but it also has a heavy mercenary color. A second-class soldier's monthly allowance is 30 yuan, which is roughly the same as a peasant's income, but at the end of the year there will be an installment settlement payment, about 600 yuan, so in fact, a soldier's annual income is equivalent to three times that of a peasant, and with promotion, the allowance and settlement will increase. It is precisely because the soldiers' salaries are much higher than those of the peasants, but they are slightly lower than those of the workers, and their social status is relatively high, that the vast number of young people in the rural areas have all enthusiastically joined the army, making serving as a soldier in Manchuria a sought-after job, and the army has room to select soldiers. Tal's salary to the Japanese mercenaries was only twenty yuan a month, and the middle and lower rank officers were only fifty to one hundred yuan, and the highest Asano Munehide was only three hundred yuan. At this price, it is absolutely impossible to recruit soldiers in Manchuria, after all, the training of soldiers is hard, and there are certain risks. But for the poor and crazy Japanese, who are already well-paid, they don't pick at all, and happily accept Tár's conditions.
It is really difficult to get so many ronins in a month for Asano Sohide, there are only more than 300 ronins in Dalian, and the rest are all brought by him from Japan. The more than 2,000 ronin are very bluffing in Japan, let alone Manchuria, and many people suspect that they are here to fight. That is, Asano Soxiu kept saying that he had Tar's approval, and the ronin stayed motionless in the port settlement area very cooperatively, otherwise let alone going to see Tal, they would have to be slaughtered by the customs police as pirates at the port.
When Tal was recruiting these people, he sent a telegram to the General Staff Headquarters to report the recruitment of foreign mercenaries. Because Tal was clamoring every day that he was short of troops, the General Staff Headquarters agreed to Tár's actions, and no one particularly cared about these things. But when Tal reported the list of mercenary officers, there was a problem, because the placement of officers required Goxinga's signature, and Goxinga looked at the Japanese names all over the page and immediately flipped the table. In order to hire foreign mercenaries in an emergency, Guo Xinga can understand, he can hire North Koreans, Vietnamese, even if it is to bring a group of African buddies over, it doesn't matter, but Taal has more than 2,000 little devils, and Guo Xinga will never accept it.
There was no need to send a telegram, Guo Xing'a personally took a special train to Dalian, scolded Tal in person, and transferred the Guards Brigade to forcibly expel the Japanese mercenaries, and even had the intention of killing them all. Just when the Japanese mercenaries were facing a desperate situation again, Sohide Asano once again saved himself with his deference. Out of the consideration of capturing the thief and capturing the king first, Guo Xing'a summoned the officers at all levels of the Japanese mercenaries and prepared to catch them all. During the greetings, Asano Sohide impressed Goxinga with his golden retriever-like deference. Guo Xing'a never thought that the little devil would bow his head so close and prostrate on the ground like this. For some ulterior motives, Goxinga canceled the order to expel the Japanese mercenaries and gave the Japanese mercenaries official titles and arms supplies.
Tal was brought to let the Japanese corps see the railway, anyway, the people along the way did not have weapons such as muskets, and the Japanese corps could cover it with * to bluff people. However, Goxinga decided to give the Japanese corps a certain amount of training and provide them with some weapons used by the Gu'an Army in the Second Opium War. Of course, at the same time, the Japanese Corps was no longer all Japanese, and a large number of Manchurian officers and political cadres entered the Japanese Corps, eliminating all possible rebellion against them.
When the First Wing of Japanese Mercenaries of the North Manchurian Marine Corps was established, Guo Xing'a was full of spring breeze and smiled very proudly. When he decided to keep these people, he thought of a game of chess, and when he attacked Tokyo in the future, he must let the Japanese mercenary wing be the first to enter the city!