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Whether in China or Japan, only samurai or ronin are equipped with katanas, in fact, who can and can't carry them, and there is no special certification body to manage, the real reason is that this kind of controlled knives are very expensive.

Katana swords are very complex, using many different types of iron and steel, then heated in a furnace and vigorously beaten by craftsmen.

But with a katana, even if you can afford it, you may not be able to afford it. Because the knife is made of iron and steel alloy, it is easy to rust, so it must be served well, and every three or five times you have to find someone to sharpen the knife, using a special whetstone, the cost is very high, you have to use oil to wipe the knife every day, it is said that you must also use plants, which is more troublesome than oil.

To tell the truth, if it were now, if there were several armed forces of about 100 people, equipped with light weapons, with a certain degree of anti-armor capability, and combat experience, on the southeast coast to land. If the state does not mobilize the army to carry out encirclement and suppression, it only relies on the police and armed police in various places to confront each other. It must be a county and a county town being abused.

This is the current situation of the Ming Dynasty, now the main focus of troops is in the north, and the focus of training should be large-scale cavalry confrontation, so that there is no problem to fight against the Mongol army, but there is no special armed force to fight against the Japanese in this form of armament.

It cannot be said that the Japanese were strong, but the mountainous terrain on the southeast coast at that time was just suitable for the battle of the small-scale Japanese ronin troops, and the Ming Dynasty did not have a suitable response at the beginning, and the central government has not paid attention to the Japanese troubles, resulting in the Japanese Kou occupying a dominant position on the southeast coast for a long time. When the Ming Dynasty is really mobilized, there will be no advantage!

Now this is the case, the Ming Dynasty soldiers and civilians are very afraid of these "head bird sound, naked body carrying a three-foot knife" of the fierce Japanese pirates, and in a foreign country to do bad things, the Japanese pirates from Japan are also trembling like walking on thin ice, drinking saliva for fear that the common people will be poisoned.

Japan is too difficult to mix in troubled times! Anyone who has watched Akira Kurosawa's "Seven Samurai" must have been deeply impressed by the Japanese ronin in the movie: in the chaotic Warring States period of Japan, the samurai who lost their heads of their homes were like wild dogs, wandering in the mountains and deserted villages, fighting with their lives for rice balls.

Nominally, there is an emperor in Japan, but the real power of the emperor has long been lost, and he is supported by the shogunate for food and clothing, and he is completely a puppet under the fence. The shogunate was no better, and the Muromachi shogunate, established by the Ashikaga clan, was in turmoil since Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, and after the end of the 11-year Onin Rebellion in 1467, the shogun had no real power and was at the mercy of powerful ministers.

Japan is divided into 68 countries, of which 53 feudal states are occupied by 142 daimyos, large and small.

The daimyo are strong and weak, the strong occupy several countries and lead tens of thousands, and the weak occupy several villages and lead hundreds, in order to reach the peak of power, you fight and kill me all day long, and it is not uncommon for sons to kill Lao Tzu and younger brothers to kill elder brothers.

At that time, the situation was often that the retainers rebelled and killed their master, but tomorrow they were killed by the daimyo of their neighbors, and the day after tomorrow, when the victorious daimyo returned home, his son had taken his place.

Japan entered an era in which the so-called "subordinate and superior" princes competed for hegemony without any ordinary morality, and it was chaotic for more than 100 years. In the midst of the war, the bones were strewn everywhere, countless people were displaced, and the peasants could not go to the fields with peace of mind, and famine naturally followed. The common people have no way to live, the stronger ones become thieves or participate in the rebellion of religious organizations, and the weak ones can only wait for death.

What is the situation in Kyushu, Japan, the birthplace of the Japanese Korkos?

Kyushu is the largest island in southern Japan and was home to many feudal states such as Hizen, Higo, Hirado, Osumi and Satsuma. Like all parts of Japan, Kyushu is a chaotic island with its many heroes standing side by side. To the north, the Ouchi clan of Toyozen and Chikuzen was originally the strongest daimyo in Kyushu, but was destroyed in a coup d'état by his retainer Tao Qingxian, who was soon killed by the powerful daimyo Mori Moto, a powerful daimyo outside of Kyushu. Mori Motomo entered Kitakyushu by the wayside, and this came into contact with another powerful feudal clan, the Otomo clan of Bungo. To the south, the Shimazu clan of Satsuma and the liver tofu clan of Osumi are in full swing. To the west, the Hizen Ryuzoji clan and the Shaoji clan were in civil strife.

Where there is a war, there are losers, and what should I do if the samurai who lost the war and lost the owner of the family became ronins who had no rice to cook? What about fishermen and displaced people who are unable to earn a living due to the war? Go to sea! Be a pirate! Instead of dying of hunger on land, it is better to try your luck at sea.

In addition to surviving from the dead, the dream of making a fortune is also another important reason to go to the sea. At that time, the Ming Dynasty cut off the official tributary trade, which led to the increasingly rampant pirate smuggling gangs, and China's raw silk, cotton cloth, ceramics, medicines, etc., were all sought-after goods in Japan, and many wealthy merchants and scoundrels in Japan also started to make huge profits as pirates. Not only that, but the pirates also have the patronage and protection of the daimyo behind them. The Japanese historian Kiyoshi Inoue defines the "Wako" as follows: "From the beginning of the 13th century, adventurous samurai and famous lords along the coasts of Kyushu and the Seto Inland Sea accompanied their accomplices to China and Korea (Goryeo) for peaceful trade, while at the same time waiting for an opportunity to become pirates and plunder the inhabitants of the coast." The other party called this a wolf, which was very terrifying. “

The famous Japanese scholar Nobuchi Sato in the 19th century summed up the origin of the Japanese pirates and said: "From the time of Yongzheng and Oega, people from the local areas of Ining Kuninjima, Kurushima, and Oshima, as well as people from various places such as Iida, Oshima, Kono, Wakiya, Matsushima, Murakami, and Kitaura successively crossed the sea to overseas and engaged in pirate activities to enrich their families; And the lord of Nojima, Murakami, was the head of the discussion, and each of them gathered a total of three or four hundred drifters, divided into more than ten boats, large and small, and sailed the sea...... plundered the coastal provinces, seized all kinds of goods and equipment, and enriched their families...... The ronin, fishermen, boatmen, and scoundrels of Shikoku and Kyushu gradually joined the ranks, and the number of them increased. Later, there were eight or nine hundred, or more than a thousand. “

In the more than 100 years that the tributary trade was normal tomorrow, the number of raids in China was not very large, because the Japanese generals and daimyo also cracked down on them in order to protect the shipping routes. It was only after the interruption of tributary trade in the middle of the Jiajing period that the situation changed dramatically.

In the Ming Dynasty, ships from Japan to China generally departed from the "Goto" or Satsuma in Hirado from March to May, passing through the Great and Small Ryukyus (Okinawa and Taiwan) to Zhejiang, Fujian, and Guangdong.

At that time, the ships sent by Japan to China had to sail for dozens of days or even months at sea, and the journey was so difficult and appalling that Chao Heng (Abe Zhongmaro), a famous student who was sent to the Tang Dynasty that we were familiar with in middle school textbooks, died on the way back to China due to a storm.

By the Ming Dynasty, people's knowledge of the monsoon had become more and more abundant, and the technology of manufacturing ships had developed, and if you had mastered the direction of the wind from Japan, it would only take a few days to reach China.

The Japanese ships of the time were described in the "Japan Atlas" as follows: "Japanese shipbuilding is different from China...... The bottom of the boat is sharp, can break the waves, not afraid of crosswinds, fighting winds, easy to exercise, a few days to come. "As for the size of the ships, they can carry twenty or thirty people to sixty or seventy people, and there are also large ships that can carry more than 200 people.

In this way, groups of Japanese pirates, full of thirst for wealth, rode the wind and waves to the other side of the sea - rich and weak China was their target.