Kabuki in Japan, as if the status of Peking Opera in China is the "quintessence of the country".

The founder of Kabuki was a beautiful woman known to Japanese women and children, so most of the early Kabuki performers were young and beautiful women. After the prosperity, there are many women called "wandering girls" who join in the performance, and after the performance, they can also sleep with the guests, so that the guests can return happy.

In the eyes of the Japanese government, this can be regarded as a "bad moral" thing, and finally ordered that young women be prohibited from engaging in this profession, so the actors of Kabuki changed from women to men, which is somewhat similar to Peking Opera.

However, it is always difficult for human desires to be completely suppressed. In Nagasaki, there is an extremely intimate kabuki hall that defies the ban and acts as a kabuki kabuki under the banner of "shrine maidens", and specializes in entertaining wealthy guests and merchants.

The shrine maiden refers to a young unmarried woman, and this kabuthan is the "Tsurukan" that Lord Kinchaseki named to go to.

The reason why he wanted to go by name was because Guan Zhuofan knew that the Sakamoto Ryoma he wanted to see turned out to be a young master from a big wine merchant, very rich, and liked to linger in the Crane Pavilion the most.

Shiro Takeuchi is the commissioner of Nagasaki, and this place is naturally heard of, and he just turns a blind eye on weekdays. Now that this Marquis Guan opened his mouth to say it, he couldn't help but be embarrassed, and at the same time, he also had a lot of slander against this Qin of the Great Qing Dynasty -- the officials of the Qing Dynasty were really all lustful dogs.

However, the slander is slandered, but he doesn't dare to show it at all on his face.

"Hay!" Takeuchi still said respectfully, "The Tsurukan is in Shimokusa Town, just this place. I can't personally accompany Guan Houye. You can only send someone to lead the way. Send Hou Ye to the place. ”

Shiro Takeuchi's expression changed at that moment, Guan Zhuofan saw it in his eyes, and couldn't help but smile secretly in his heart: When I am a straw bale adult? The straw bales are straw bales, which is not a bad thing.

Naturally, the enshrined place was forbidden to go in person, so he was led by two of his attachés, and five hundred soldiers escorted the horse-like Chincha-sama, and drove into Nagasaki in a majestic manner. Xiangxia Kusamachi line.

Nagasaki is not as prosperous as Shanghai, but the roads are a little wider than those in China. Along the way, most of the Japanese people on both sides of the street looked at this Chinese army with foreign guns on their backs with shrunken and awe-struck eyes. Many of them, seeing such a leader, did not know what kind of big man came, and hurriedly retreated to the side of the road like a samurai. Bow down.

Guan Zhuofan wanted to bring hundreds of people into the city, but it wasn't a great plan. First, there were no such soldiers. I'm afraid I won't be able to enter the door of the crane house. Second, he can't be trusted by the Japanese. He felt that, judging from an incident that had happened in history, the Japanese in Nagasaki were a little lacking in heart and vision, and they were also a little "flustered", so they had to take a thorough precaution in advance.

Guan Zhuofan has a deep impression of this incident, but from the perspective of time, it is more than 20 years later.

It was after the formation of the Beiyang Fleet that it visited Nagasaki with four ships, namely "Dingyuan", "Zhenyuan", "Jiyuan", and "Weiyuan", which also meant showing off its military force. When they arrived in Nagasaki, the sailors on the ship went ashore to have fun, but in a brothel called the "Maruyama family", they had a dispute with the boss because of the prostitution, and the brothel owner immediately called the police, and the Chinese sailors clashed with the Japanese policemen who rushed to hear the news, and stabbed a Japanese policeman to serious injury.

The next day, the Japanese spread the news in the surrounding towns, summoned boxers, hid sharp blades, prepared to retaliate, and notified the shops in downtown Nagasaki to close their doors in advance. When more than 400 Qing Dynasty sailors who came ashore again marched to the area outside Guangmachang, they were immediately attacked, and the boxers led the hooligans with knives and sticks to deliberately crowd and provoke, and the two sides fought fiercely, and hundreds of prepared Japanese policemen blocked both ends of the street, isolating the unarmed Chinese sailors in various blocks, and then slashed and killed them with knives. The Chinese sailors were caught off guard, outnumbered, and unable to respond to each other, and suffered a great loss, killing five and seriously wounding six. One Japanese policeman was killed and 30 wounded.

When the negotiations began, the Japanese government thought that it was a brawl between the two sides and wanted to refuse to admit its mistake, but this time, the Qing Dynasty made a rare move, and the huge cannons on the four large ships immediately took off their gun coats and pointed the muzzles of the black holes at Nagasaki. When handling the negotiations, Li Hongzhang bluntly said: "It is not difficult to start a war now. Our ships are anchored in your country, and their hulls and guns are indestructible, ready to fight at any time! ”

If it could really be fought, it would be nice - at that time, the Japanese Navy was just starting, and it was by no means an opponent of the Beiyang Naval Division! Chief Instructor Xi Lang Weili strongly advocated a war against Japan: "Act on the same day and put the Japanese Navy in a place where it is in a state of weakness. ”

It's a pity that the Japanese were very cunning, and immediately confessed, and in addition to the gift of daoqian, they also compensated China with another 52,000 yuan.

This was the only result achieved by the Beiyang Naval Division of the Qing Dynasty from the establishment of the army to its destruction -- the 52,000 yuan "soup and medicine fee" was recovered for the soldiers who solicited prostitution.

However, in the eyes of the Japanese, the resentment and humiliation of foreign sailors who came to their country to make trouble when they were drunk and demanded compensation from their own country were naturally easily instigated. "Vigorously developing the navy" has become the consensus in Japan, and the fact that "Dingyuan" must be defeated has also become the goal and slogan of the Japanese navy. One month after the Nagasaki incident, 300,000 yuan was allocated from the Inner Treasury as a subsidy for coastal defense, setting off an upsurge in the "coastal defense donation campaign." Even the most popular game for Japanese children at that time was divided into two groups, one group dressed as the Chinese fleet, and the other group dressed as the Japanese fleet to capture "Dingyuan" and "Zhenyuan".

This was something Li Hongzhang never expected again -- a rare "diplomatic victory" actually became an opportunity for the Japanese Navy to take off.

As far as Guan Zhuofan is concerned, this incident, of course, has not happened yet. It's just that with this example, I am naturally extra vigilant in my heart and will never suffer the same loss again. If you encounter any police ronin who dares to provoke, if you don't do it, you will have to use a gun.

However, it was calm along the way. When we arrived at Shimokusa Town, which Takeuchi said, the surrounding area was a little desolate, except for a small stream, where there was a pavilion with blue bricks and white roofs, and I thought it was the legendary "Tsurukan".

Outside the small building, there were no signboards, but there were more than 20 strong men dressed as ronin, all of whom were dressed in black shirts, but there was a white edge on the placket, and a thin and long scabbard was inserted in the waist without exception. Suddenly, when they saw such a group of people coming, they were all very nervous, and their hands involuntarily reached for the hilt of their knives, and they watched vigilantly at the people who came forward to negotiate.

Guan Zhuofan saw it really, and said in his heart that this is right, Sakamoto Ryoma is really in it!

He knows very well that Ryoma Sakamoto is not a powerless scholar, but a hero. He was able to become the mainstay of the Japanese Shogunate Movement because he was not only good at Wen Tao, but also had martial arts - he learned Oguri-ryu swordsmanship from the age of fourteen, and later learned "Hokushin Ichi-swords" under Chiba Shusaku, and was an out-and-out master of swordsmanship. The "Kameyama Society" he created in Nagasaki Kameyama was the predecessor of the Kameyama team, and it was a paramilitary unit that served him. He lingered in the Crane Pavilion, and there were always dozens of dead soldiers from the Guishan Society accompanying him, all of whom were dressed in black and white, which was a clear thing in history.

The two attachés sent by Takeuchi went to make the negotiations. They were talking to a tall ronin with a leading appearance, and they were talking in Japanese, while Xu Silin was beside Guan Zhuofan, whispering for him.

"These people said that the crane house was chartered by their owner today, and they don't accept other guests......

"Shiro Takeuchi's attaché, saying that you are a marquis from the Great Qing Kingdom, and you are a distinguished guest, please ask them to be accommodating no matter what......"

The tall ronin's face visibly changed from nervousness to arrogance, and he waved his hand and said something loudly.

"What he said was very rude...... Xu Silin said indignantly, "In short, we are not allowed to go in, let us come back tomorrow." ”

"What tomorrow, the day after tomorrow!" Túrin didn't do it anymore, "There are so many stinky rules...... Zhang Chenglin, follow me! ”

Zhang Chenglin, who had a gloomy face, followed Túrin to Libin's house when he was in Suzhou, the person who spread the flag and guarded the house. He was originally Guan Zhuofan's personal soldier, and now he is the first sentinel, and he is the most ruthless in trouble.

"Turin, be careful," Guan Zhuofan commanded quietly on his horse, "Their knives are very fast. ”

"Don't worry, no matter how fast you are, you can beat the gun!" Túrin put his hand on the holster on his waist, took a sentry from Zhang Chenglin, walked out of the queue, strode to the door, looked at the group of people in front of the door with disdain, a sneer hung on the corner of his mouth, and said loudly: "Lord Xu, you tell them that if you don't get out of the way, you will break in!" ”

The two attachés in Takeuchi saw that they were about to have a conflict, and hurriedly tried to persuade each other. The tall ronin, however, seemed to have understood Túrin's words, turned his head and shouted: "Jinkuba Tou!" ”

There was a choking sound, and the two dozen or so Japanese ronins pulled out their long knives together, clenched them with both hands, and squatted out.

"Raise your gun!" Seeing this, Túrin was not polite, "Surround me with this broken restaurant!" ”

Zhang Chenglin's sentry, the breech gun was lowered to the shoulder in an instant, and the soldiers took small lunges under their feet, leaned forward slightly, and raised the gun flat in an uproar, forming a semicircle, surrounding a group of Japanese at the door. The four sentinels in the back, except for one sentry who stayed by Guan Zhuofan's side, quickly spread out the rest of the place, surrounding this small pavilion.

Such a fierce and well-trained army has never been seen by this group of Japanese, but the power of foreign guns is well known - no matter how sharp the long knife is, how can it block the bullet? At that time, the Japanese army had firearms, and they were mainly arquebuses and a small number of breech guns, and the guns in the hands of the other side were really unprecedented. So everyone's faces changed color, knowing that as long as the young officer gave an order, his two dozen people would inevitably be beaten into a honeycomb!

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(A business trip zuihou for one day, return in the evening, and resume two shifts tomorrow.) ）

*(To be continued......)