Chapter 309: The Secret of the French Merchant
The trip to Kiyomizu Temple met the first love, and the Okita general secretary who didn't know which girl was squatting, was an unexpected gain.
The matter of the competition, since he has made an agreement with the other party, Zhang Heng is not in a hurry.
Although Okita Soji has a cough, it shouldn't be able to hang up for a while, and as the existence of the suspected highest combat power of this dungeon, it's like a main dish with all the color and flavor, and once you eat it, you may not be in the mood to taste other appetizers.
Therefore, Zhang Heng didn't care about pushing back the time of the competition, anyway, he didn't have anything else to do now, the two knives he borrowed from the Vermilion Bird Pavilion and another dojo before seemed to be high-quality, but unfortunately it was the same as that rib, and there was still a gap between them and famous products.
Especially the Miike Dian Taiguangshi casting knife in the Vermilion Bird Pavilion, not to mention the Taiguang Shi of the Great Canon, Zhang Heng later found a special collector to identify, and he couldn't even be sure whether this was really the work of Miike Dian Taiguangshi.
This is also the trouble of this dungeon, according to the Crimson Sword, the knife that appears here does not have the corresponding prompt to get props even if it is held in the hand, like the change of Yonglu experienced by the Crimson Sword herself, and the demon sword dungeon experienced by her friend has a clear goal to find, and the Kyoto copy that Zhang Heng entered at the end of the Bakudo this time is a meeting of the wind and clouds, which also means that he may still need to make a choice in the end.
But now he doesn't have to worry about this problem for the time being, as long as he lets go and challenges all the masters and collects famous knives.
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Another week has passed since the trip to Kiyomizudera Temple.
The group of people from the Choshu Domain never came to the door to take revenge, Zhang Heng originally felt a little strange, with the style of those people, there was no reason why there had been no movement for so long, unless something more important happened, and now he finally got the news that Takasugi Jinsaku, who was recuperating in Sakurayama, died of illness.
This is indeed a great event that shakes the world.
Takasugi Shinsaku was the leader of the Choshu Domain's Shogunate faction, and acted radically in his early years, plotting to assassinate Westerners, burning the British Legation, and forcing Emperor Komei to issue a pardon paper, and then single-handedly formed a surprise army to defeat the Shogunate, and the Forbidden Gate changed to the King of the Shogunate and was defeated, he was forced to sign a treaty with Britain, the United States, France and the Netherlands on behalf of the Choshu Domain, and gave up the Shogunate, when the Choshu Domain succumbed to the Shogunate, he lived a period of exile, but it didn't take long for him to join Ito Hirobumi to seize the power of the Choshu Domain by force, A series of Westernization reforms were carried out in a drastic manner, putting the Choshu Domain on the road to prosperity and strength, and the subsequent counterattacks of the Oshima and Ogura counterattacks repelled the shogunate fleet, which was in the limelight for a while, but it was such a heroic figure who was ultimately defeated by a small chatter.
Finally, on the eve of the arrival of a new era, he died on the sickbed.
One can imagine the turmoil and grief of the people of the Choshu Domain who are now staying in Kyoto, no wonder they can't take care of the affairs of the Koyama Dojo for the time being.
Zhang Heng didn't feel much about Takasugi Jinsaku's death, he didn't stand anywhere anyway, he was just a melon eater, and what he was more concerned about than this news that shook the world was another news - Shuzhu Pill Hengji entered Beijing!
Suzumaru Tsuneji is one of the five swords in the world on a par with the Three Days-Moon Sect, and is a treasure of Honkoji Temple, and its current owner is Nakamura Hanjiro, who is known as the Four Men of the End of the Bakuma.
This person is a knife in the dark of Saigo Takamori, the leader of the Satsuma Domain, who is willing to abandon the honor of the samurai in order to bring down the great cause of the shogunate, and becomes a killer who specializes in assassinating the minions of the shogunate.
Is this the Satsuma clan planning to make some big moves by taking advantage of the death of its ally Takasugi Shinsaku?
For a while, the undercurrent began to surge in Kyoto Castle again, and the ronin of the Shinsengumi and the Mikai Group patrolled the streets with knives every day, but Nakamura Hanjiro had not been found out, and the surrounding people were harassed by them first, and it was not a big deal for the emperor and the public to eat melon seeds in the imperial city to see the excitement, while the opposite shogunate faction was in danger.
Zhang Heng is also paying attention to the development of the situation, he rarely got the exact whereabouts of the five swords in the world, of course, he wants to take this opportunity to pocket Shuzhu Maru Hengji, but the premise is that he must find Nakamura Hanjiro before the Shinsengumi, and this is not easy, there are also a lot of forces in Kyoto, and no one knows where Nakamura Hanjiro is hiding now.
And the French businessman on the other side has made the little tail behind him less and less because of the hard performance during this time, and then the news that Nakamura Hanjiro entered Beijing on the plane, finally no one is in the mood to stare at him anymore.
So Gabriel found Zhang Heng that afternoon and asked mysteriously, "Do you have anything to do tomorrow night?" ”
"Huh?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.
"There's an important banquet tomorrow night that I want you to be the interpreter, don't worry, if it's done, I can pay you ten small sentences at once." The French businessman added.
This job of translator is indeed not ordinary easy and comfortable so far, and it is completely disproportionate to the generous remuneration, but Zhang Heng knows very well that this situation will not last forever, and now that the drama meat has finally been served, he believes that as long as he agrees to Gabriel, tomorrow night he will be able to know what the French businessman has been planning.
However, this time the money may not be so easy to make.
No matter what the other party plans to do, it is obviously unremarkable, Zhang Heng will not be naïve enough to think that Gabriel will really believe in the secrecy ability of this strange ronin, so it is not difficult to guess what the other party plans to do after "using" him.
Zhang Heng now needs to make a decision whether to take this risk, if it is purely for the reward of the ten small judgments, he will turn around and leave now, anyway, he has made a lot of money during this time, and Xiao Shanqian has always said that he wants to exempt him from rent, but he refused, no matter how bad it is, he can continue to make money as a translator for other businessmen, but he gets a little less.
But what really interested Zhang Heng was the group of people Gabriel wanted to contact.
Now that he already knows that it was the people of the shogunate who were following the French merchants behind his back, then this means that Gabriel is likely to have contact with the Shogunate forces, and Zhang Heng now just wants to find Shuzumaru Hengji, and the whereabouts of Nakamura Hanjiro will fall on the gang of the Shogunate forces.
Therefore, it is difficult for Zhang Heng to refuse tomorrow night's banquet trip, this is the only useful clue he has in his hands at this stage, and he is also confident in his knife skills, so Zhang Heng agreed to Gabriel's request after thinking for a while, and the latter seemed relieved when he heard this.
"Very good, we'll see you tomorrow night at the old place."