Chapter 4 Everyday Practice
"This day is really like a sentence! I finally got through it! Silently watching his teacher withdraw from Ohiroma, Kira Manmatsumaru took a deep breath, sat in place and waited for a while, estimating that Okochi Nobutada had gone far before walking out with brisk steps.
Look at the day when it's lunchtime, how can his character stand the custom of eating only two meals a day, so a few years ago, he quietly advocated the new habit of taking the lead in starting three meals a day, the effect is not as good as thought, the small surnames of the Kira family still stubbornly adhere to the tradition of two meals a day makes him a headache, so he wasted a lot of brains to persuade, such as eating more to grow taller, more powerful, and will become a better samurai in the future, even so, there are still some small surnames who choose to refuse.
Two meals a day is not created by the samurai, Japan is such a poor country, there are very few people who can eat enough all year round, and it is also a thousand-year-old custom to save food for two meals a day, except for a few areas with developed agriculture such as Kinai, most of the distant countries such as Mikawa still retain the tradition of hundreds of years ago, and the annual tribute collection of the three princes and two people is very harsh, and the variety of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes is unheard of, and the tyranny of taxes is almost several times that of the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as tyranny.
But even so, as the ruling class of the samurai did not live very happily, both the samurai and the peasants faced the problem of difficulty in eating, and the powerful samurai could still rely on the annual allowance to maintain two meals a day, and had a good day to eat rice, pickled radishes and small fish soup, and the small wealthy and landlord class were much more miserable, and in order to survive, they had to put down their bodies and work in the fields with the peasants.
They can't eat white rice several times a year, so they are particularly envious of the people who eat white rice every meal, in order to ensure that they can also eat white rice, they do not hesitate to confront the lord and even the lord of the country, although this is very funny but one exists, as for the peasants, it is even worse, pay the annual payment and then sell the rice in exchange for miscellaneous grains to eat, most farmers have never eaten their own rice in their lives.
In ancient Japan, there was an almost perverted obsession with planting rice, he didn't quite understand why they insisted on planting rice, although the rice produced in Japan was very sweet and delicious, but no matter what land forced farmers to plant rice was not in line with the laws of nature, and after his observation, Japan in this era not only lacked planting technology, but also lacked the application of cattle and fertilizer, so the grain output has been very low, and some areas with barren land are difficult to harvest a stone of grain.
What's even more strange is that this is a country that prohibits eating meat for nearly a thousand years, since Emperor Tenmu promulgated an edict prohibiting the consumption of five animals such as cows, horses, dogs, monkeys, and chickens, and the establishment of a fishing moratorium every summer, and then Buddhism Daxing, according to Buddhism, eating meat should fall into the animal way, in order not to fall into the animal path after death, no one will eat four-legged animal meat, and later Shinto Daxing absorbed many of the rules of Buddhism that the defilement of eating corpses, and the emperor as the spokesman of the gods and Buddhas in the world, further prohibited the eating of meat.
Originally, the samurai didn't care about this decree, the original samurai were just the Fujiwara family's soldiers, guarding the manor of the country for the head of the minister, and then the Genpei War broke out, and Minamoto Yoshinaka was embarrassed in Kyoto, so the samurai realized how much they used to live, so in order to follow the trend, they also began to ban meat, of course, fish and seafood are not included, and it is not realistic for them to not eat meat at all.
The food eaten by Kira Manmatsumu was definitely against tradition and samurai rules in this era, a small piece of roasted wild boar meat drizzled with soy sauce, a silver carp carefully simmered with green onion and ginger vinegar over a palm length, and a bowl of miso soup and fragrant white rice, and finally got rid of the troubles of salted fish pickled radish style turtle cuisine, of course, he was also considered by the small surnames to be greedy for enjoyment, and would be punished by the gods and Buddhas.
The most extravagant samurai of this era will not eat this kind of food, don't say they don't eat it, even if they want to eat the cook, they won't cook, these dishes are all he forced the chefs of the Kira family to learn from him, and the heads of those cooks were broken and did not save Kira Manmatimaru's determination, in order to be loyal to these cooks can only have tears in their eyes, chanting the names of gods and Buddhas aloud, and making plates of "unclean food" for the main family.
Fortunately, Kira Manmatsumaru's actions are very secretive, except for the confidant's surname and the cook, only some of the horses know about it, and even Yamamoto Kansuke doesn't know it very well, probably he will suspect it but Kira Manmatsumu will never admit it, in the era when everyone eats pickled radish with multigrains and rice, eating this kind of food is absolutely shocking, in case this matter is spread, then the reputation of him and the Kira family will be over.
Therefore, the loyal people strictly carried out the obligation to keep secrets, and privately gathered all the people in the know, signed a secret oath, and swore to the gods and Buddhas that they would never divulge this secret, and that they would not tell their descendants in any form in the future...... Without Kira Manmatsumaru's knowledge, the burial of a piece of black history has been completed.
After eating a hearty lunch, as usual he will have half an hour of rest, early in the morning was called by Yamamoto Kansuke, after this half an hour of nap was also recovered, and then he had to go to Honmaru to practice the art of war non-stop, this is the result of Yamamoto Kansuke and Okochi Nobusada consultation, in the morning to learn cultural classes, in the afternoon to learn the art of war and military strategy, if there are special circumstances will be arranged.
The so-called art of war in Japan, as the name suggests, is naturally not the art of war of marching and fighting, the art of war is the art of fighting bravely, the art of attacking and killing, and it is...... In short, it is actually the meaning of swordsmanship, and the art of war also has a name called Jian Hao, and the outstanding art of war is the great sword master, and the most powerful art of war is the sword master, and the most powerful art of war in contemporary times is the Kashima sword saint Tsukahara Bu Ling, who is an invincible super cow man for more than 40 years, and is also a master of countless samurai admirers.
The art of war practiced by Kira Manmatsumu comes from Yamamoto Kansuke, and it is a new type of swordsmanship that is based on the Kyoryu in the Middle Ages, and intercepts some of the kendo skills of the new Dangryu and the traditional Katori Shinto stream.
Kira Manmatsumaru has always been skeptical of this new swordsmanship, holding a heavy wooden sword to chop the thick trunk again and again, muttering in his heart: "What kind of school is this?" It's definitely not Kyohachi-ryu, it's not Katori Shinto-ryu, and why is he a new stream? Isn't this the genre of Tsukahara Buden? ”