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Chapter 190 Amakusa Tokisada's Saber
There are many top famous knives in Japan, and one of them is a national treasure-level famous knives called Oden Tai Mitsuyo.

This sword was originally a family heirloom of the Ashikaga family, a shogunate family during the Muromachi shogunate. After the fall of the Muromachi shogunate, Toyotomi Hideyoshi took it for himself, and later gave it to the brave general Maeda Toshiie.

According to historical records, someone once tested this knife with a corpse as an experimental target, and found that this knife can cut through two stacked corpses at one time.

In addition, it is said that this knife can also drive away evil. It once drove away the monster possessed by Maeda Toshika's daughter Hao Ji, and also eliminated abnormalities in Osaka Castle.

The forge of Dadian Tai Mitsuyo, Nodai Mitsuyo, forged more than one sword in his life, but not many are handed down now.Therefore, it has a very high value.

The knife in front of Liang En is another work of this master, and it is still a fine product.Because for this master, he can only carve the three Chinese characters "光世作" on the knife he is satisfied with.

This alone was enough to make Liang En feel that the trip was very worthwhile, and when he turned the knife over to look at the other side of the stem, he felt that he had been hit by an even bigger surprise.

Because a cross is engraved on the other side of the knife stem, and the three sentences "Heaven and earth are rooted from the same root, all things are one, and there is no difference in dignity" are engraved below the cross.

And at the bottom of these patterns and words, the other party engraved four characters in a font that was one size smaller than before, which should also be the name of the holder of the previous knife.

"Amakusa Shizhen!" Looking at the inscription on this knife, Liang En's eyes widened. In the last world, he was a cloud player of a certain game in order to write a book, so he still has a certain impression of this name. .

Amakusa Tokisada was the leader of the Catholic rebels in the Shimabara Rebellion in the Edo period of Japan, and the son of Masuda Yoshiji, the retainer of Konishi Governor.His real name was Masuda Tokisada, but he was later adopted by Amakusa Jinbei and renamed Amakusa Tokisada.

Because of the defeat and beheading of Chief Konishi after the Battle of Sekigahara, his family naturally fell.

Also because of this reason, he did not grow up like a samurai, but lived in Nagasaki Port since he was a child, believed in Catholicism, and learned Western medicine from the Dutch living in Japan.

If things hadn't changed, Amakusa Tokisada would probably have spent his life as a well-known doctor in peace, but the shogunate's suppression of Catholicism and the natural disaster that broke out in the Shimabara area changed everything.

In 1637, farmers in the Shimabara and Amakusa areas launched an uprising. At the same time, a large number of ronin who were unemployed due to the establishment of the Tokugawa Shogunate also joined the battle, and brought valuable command power to the peasant uprising army.

Because the local area has always had a Catholic tradition in the past, and there have been legends about the birth of a child prodigy.Therefore, this rebel army takes religion as its core, and at the same time elected Amakusa Tokisada as the leader of the rebellion.

Because the commanders of the rebel army are basically all professional warriors, and at the same time they are strong-willed.In addition, the incompetence of the third-generation shogun at that time led to internal struggles within the shogunate, so the shogunate suffered disastrous defeats at the beginning.

At the end of 1637, Shigemasa Itakura, an important minister of the shogunate, arrived in Kyushu and began to suppress the uprising. As a result, two offensives failed, so the shogunate sent Nobuzuna Matsudaira to Kyushu to supervise the war.

After receiving the news, Shigemasa Itakura thought it was the shogunate's distrust of him, so on New Year's Day in 1638, the commander-in-chief launched a general offensive, which caused the shogunate to lose more than [-] people. Chongchang himself died in battle.

After Matsudaira Nobutsuna arrived on the battlefield, he changed his tactics and used the method of encircling but not attacking to consume his army's food and grass. At the same time, he hired Protestant Dutchmen to bombard the castle occupied by the rebel army.

This long-term siege led to a shortage of various materials in the city, and the combat effectiveness of the rebel army declined. At the same time, more and more shogunate troops were urgently recruited from various places.

So on February 1638, 2, more than 17 troops from the shogunate launched a general offensive.Due to the decline of hunger and the emergence of traitors inside, the rebel army was defeated on the 18th, Amakusa Tokisada and most of the people in the city at that time were killed.

Yes, the vast majority of people, not the rebels.The shogunate army killed all the people in the castle at that time, from the white-haired old man to the baby in the swaddle, only a very small number of people escaped through the night.

This uprising made the shogunate aware of the threat of foreign trade to the traditional feudal economy and the threat of foreign religions to the shogunate itself.So in the second year after the uprising broke out, that is, in 1639 AD, the shogunate issued the fifth lock-up order.

The strictness of this country-locking order is unprecedented. For example, only one port on the island is reserved for trade with China and the Netherlands, and another example is the prohibition of all overseas churches from affecting the country.

In addition, the shogunate also abolished the original Zhuyin ship system and prohibited the import of books and materials in various foreign languages.And killed or exiled almost all Catholics.

In addition, there is another interesting thing, that is, the legendary swordsman Miyamoto Musashi also participated in this war as a samurai under the command of Ogasawara Nagaji, the lord of Nakatsu Castle, but was injured by stones thrown by the rebels and rushed to the street. Therefore, nothing worth mentioning was achieved in the battle.

This also shows that one-on-one duels and participating in battles on the battlefield are completely different things. Even if you win every battle in the competition, you are likely to be killed by an ordinary soldier on the battlefield.

And at the moment when Liang En judged the real situation of the knife, the knife issued five cards for Liang En in one breath.This is reasonable for a knife that has participated in a battle that changed Japanese history, and it is similar to a religious sacred object.

"It seems that this knife is the portable knife of that Tiantong Amakusa Tokisada." Liang En, who confirmed the condition of the knife through the card, rubbed the surface of the knife with his gloved hand and muttered in a low voice.

Although there is no record in history.But Liang En could probably figure out what was going on with the knife.After all, it was night when the rebel city was broken, so it is not impossible for some people to really want to run away.

According to the current situation, it is very likely that Amakusa Tokisada asked someone to successfully break out of the encirclement with his saber before dying in battle.

After all, for the Japanese, the samurai sword is equivalent to the soul of a samurai, so it is understandable for someone to take away his sword before Amakusa Tokisada died in battle.

After that, the knife probably flowed into the hands of a certain Catholic warrior, and then exiled to the Philippines with the warrior and remained silent for hundreds of years, until it was discovered by the devil officer hundreds of years later.

Because the enemy of Japanese propaganda in World War II was the European and American world, including Western religions.So the officer who found the katana had to hide it temporarily.

Considering that all weapons must be handed in after the defeat, the officer of the invading army who obtained the weapon disguised the knife and hid it in the humble treasure spot, thinking of retrieving the knife in the future, but failed. Thinking of meeting the guerrillas and being wiped out.

Then the knife stayed in that cave for more than half a century. It wasn't until Liang En found the knife through clues and repaired it with the power of the card that he discovered this part that had been forgotten by history.

(End of this chapter)