Tokyo Martial Arts Story

To put it bluntly, this battle between the two is of a higher level than the battle between Fei Cun Yixin and Tie Jian during the daytime, and it is more enjoyable to watch. Judging the situation during the battle, there are advances and retreats in the fight. The use of tactics is more flexible and cunning, but it is not as smooth as the iron sword. The battle continues to be fierce and very exciting.

On the main house, a window facing the courtyard was quietly opened, Kitayama Xingyi leaned on the window with one hand, resting her chin on the palm of her hand, watching the battle between Yan Kai and Saeko Busujima.

"Saeko's swordsmanship has improved!"

Kitayama Xingyi looked at Saeko Busushima's fierce swordsmanship with a smile in her eyes.

In terms of truth, the current Saeko Busujima’s aura is not as good as the state of “getting more courageous” during the day, but that is not abnormal, and it is impossible to maintain it forever, and now Saeko Busujima’s strength under normal conditions is relatively strong. When Beishan Xingyi first met her, she had already made obvious progress, and this is the real progress.

"A swordsman, he seeks to improve himself in battle. Otherwise, my brother-in-law wouldn't be able to test the world with swords. He just wants all the top experts in the world to help him improve his martial arts."

Xue Wenhai also looked out the window and said to the two of them.

"Yeah, I just feel sorry for those who were beaten to autism by their brother-in-law."

Beishan apricot clothes secluded road.

When Yan Feijian tried the world, he himself was happy, but the trauma of those top masters who were defeated by Yan Fei was difficult to deal with. Among them were even Beishan Xingyi's grandfather and father, oh, and hers too. Father-in-law, Xue Dingshan was not Yan Fei's father-in-law at that time.

However, fighting Yan Fei is both a challenge and an opportunity. Those who can climb out of the abyss of failure will eventually improve their martial arts. Reaching Yan Fei's state at that time, generally speaking, there are still more benefits.

For a top expert, face is of course important, but the most important thing is to make further progress in martial arts. In comparison, the embarrassment of losing face to Yan Fei is not important at all, let alone in the world. After the top masters have lost to Yan Fei, losing to Yan Fei will not look ashamed at all, and even if anyone can hold out a few more tricks in Yan Fei's hands, it will still save face.

So in the past, it was Yan Fei who tested the world with his sword and challenged the world's masters, but now there are many top masters who challenge Yan Fei every year, wanting to use Yan Fei's martial arts to sharpen their own martial arts.

Originally, Yan Fei didn't care about this. He challenged the world's masters in the sword test of the world, and now he thinks it should be done in turn, but there are too many people who challenged him later, which has seriously affected Yan Fei's normal life. , so Yan Fei could only set the rules.

The first is that he only accepts challenges from top experts, don't let any "cat or dog" touch him, he has always only challenged top experts back then, and he owes nothing to others.

In addition, he only unconditionally accepted three challenges from the same top master, which was regarded as his feedback to other top masters who "cooperated" with his challenges during the sword test. After three times, Yan Fei would start charging.

There is no way, Jingyun Mountain Villa needs to maintain such a large foundation, and the son's medicine bath also needs money, and Ah Jiu's rations can't be sloppy, can't he eat soft rice?

This is the strength of reality, as strong as Yan Fei has to bow to life.

As for how to charge, it’s hard to say, anyway, this is how Yan Fei’s properties all over the world come from, especially Xizhu She, one of the four major swordsmen in Japan, who was born in a chaebol, he made a move as a commercial street, directly including 30 In the past year, he will challenge Yan Fei almost every season, and he is the most diligent in challenging Yan Fei among all the top masters.

Anyway, at that time, the bubble economy in Japan broke out, and the housing prices in Japan fell precipitously. The Xizhu consortium bought it at a bargain, and it was very cheap, and it didn't feel bad at all to give it to a commercial street.

After watching for a while, Beishan Xingyi suddenly said to Xue Wenhai: "By the way, Haoyi and Xiaokai have an appointment for a duel tomorrow, please help me to watch."

Xue Wenhai shook his head and sighed, and replied, "I think you should stop it instead of letting me watch."

What makes peak-level masters stronger than Huajing masters lies in realm rather than absolute strength and speed. Peak-level masters can easily defeat Huajing masters in three or two moves, but they may only be [-] to [-]% stronger than Huajing masters in terms of strength and speed. Once Kai and Kitayama Koichi fight, Xue Wenhai may not be able to stop the two of them immediately when they are in danger, so it is the safest way not to fight.

Beishan Xingyi smiled wryly: "My nephew looks easy to talk on the surface, but he is as stubborn as my brother in his heart. He has always wanted to fight Xiaokai since he first met Xiaokai when he was 11 years old, but Xiaokai always He was refusing, and now Xiaokai finally agreed, he will never give up."

Xue Wenhai thought for a while and said, "Why don't you tell Hao Yi not to challenge 'Wu Jianshu' but to challenge 'Wind and Thunder Palm', if you just want to know the difference between yourself and Xiao Kai, Xiao Kai can use 'Wind and Thunder Palm' as well. "

Beishan Xingyi glanced at Xue Wenhai: "'Wind and Thunder Palm' is indeed strong, but if you want to say that the three martial arts practitioners in the world miss it the most, there is a saying in the Central Plains called 'Don't eat for the five tripods. , just cook for the five tripods? Since he can't learn the three great skills, then Haoyi must learn the 'no swordsmanship' among the three great skills."

"How to learn?" Xue Wenhai showed a helpless expression on his face, "'No Swordsmanship' is a swordsmanship created by senior Yan Jing in order to kill the enemy most efficiently. Every move is aimed at killing people. Martial arts The cultivation base has not reached the extreme level, and the 'no swordsmanship' can be released or not, will you let Hao Yi learn it with his life? Or you should let Hao Yi wait until Xiao Kai's martial arts reaches the extreme level? Anyway, I guess the time will not be too long A long time, four or five years or so."

Back then, Yan Fei’s martial arts conditions were not as good as Yan Kai’s, and he reached the “Wu Jian Ji Jing” at the age of 20. Yan Kai’s talent was not weaker than Yan Fei’s, and his external conditions were even better than his father’s. The Bible has been optimized by Yan Fei for many years. Compared with when Yan Fei practiced in the past, the strength has not been lost at all, the difficulty has dropped a lot, and many hidden dangers have been reduced to nothing. It can be regarded as the ultimate complete version with dozens of generations of patches However, even if Yan Kai has been "slack" in practicing martial arts these days, it is still not a big problem to catch up with Yan Fei's record.

A bunch of black lines appeared on Beishan Xingyi's forehead: "This is the reason why Haoyi can't wait to challenge Xiaokai. In five years, Haoyi may not even be able to reach the realm of transformation, but Xiaokai has a high probability of reaching the extreme realm. Is there any point in challenging the extreme realm? According to Koichi, now is the time when he is the closest to Xiaokai. If he misses this time, it would be unreasonable for him to challenge Xiaokai after Xiaokai 'reaches the peak' gone."

Koichi Kitayama's martial arts is considered to be the best among the new generation of Japanese martial arts circles, and he is the only one. Even looking at the martial arts world around the world, there are only one or two people who can practice at the same level as him at his age, and even more so. Breaking through the record set by his father (in terms of Japanese martial arts), why is Kitayama Koichi so strong?Because he has known since he was 11 years old that there is someone in this world who he needs to chase desperately so as not to be left behind too much.

When other young talents were complacent because they looked down on their peers, Kitayama Koichi knew very well that his own martial arts were not worth mentioning.

During the time when Xue Wenhai and Beishan Xingyi were talking, Yan Kai and Busujima Saeko had also decided the winner. No, it should be said that Yan Kai's performance was over.

Saeko Busushima got excited and aimed at Yan Kai's opening with a sword. At this time, she didn't think about anything else, she just wanted to win this matter.

Kill it, kill it!

Reason is so weak at this moment that Poisonous Saeko Shima suddenly wakes up after stabbing her sword, but it is too late to withdraw her sword.

And just at this critical moment, Yan Kai's free left hand was gently stretched out. The index finger and middle finger had already clamped the extremely sharp "Wulu" when Saeko Busujima couldn't react in time. The two slender and beautiful fingers were more like A pair of iron tongs firmly clamped "Wulu", and it was difficult for "Wulu" who was as fierce as a lone wolf to move forward an inch, and the fierce and dangerous battle came to an abrupt end.

"Wulu" was easily pinched by Yan Kai with two fingers, the first thing Saeko Busushima felt was not shock, but a sigh of relief, she finally didn't make a big mistake.

"Very good, Saeko, you have worked hard, I am very satisfied."

Yan Kai let go of his fingers, and Saeko Busujima also retracted the knife.

And Saeko Busushima also started to get angry after she breathed a sigh of relief, but Saeko Busushima is Saeko Busushima, even if she was angry in her heart, her performance was impeccable, at least she didn't touch her tail like Kasumigaoka Shiwa She just exploded, spouting derogatory and derogatory words at a machine gun speed, although it was useless when facing Yan Kai, because Yan Kai didn't listen to a word at all.

Saeko Busushima bit her lip after putting away "Wulu", her eyes were filled with five points of resentment, three points of grievance and two points of anger, she looked at Yan Kai and said, "Mr. Kai, I know your martial arts are much higher than mine. , but even so, please don’t do such a dangerous thing, okay?”

She has already seen that Yan Kai's last flaw was exposed deliberately, to lure Saeko Busujima to attack there.

The sword has no eyes, and the swordsman is different from the great swordsman. His thinking and behavior have been unified, but the spirit has not yet surpassed the body. Saeko Shima saw the opening, her body reacted and attacked towards the opening, and when Saeko Busujima realized that the stabbing would really hurt Yan Kai, she was too late to stop, the huge inertia couldn't help her Respond immediately.

That is to say, if Yan Kai hadn't been much stronger than Saeko Busujima, the knife just now had already been stabbed firmly, even if Saeko Busushima could avoid the vital position at the last moment, Yan Kai would have been seriously injured, and this is Busushima Saeko didn't want to see it very much.

"Uh...Okay, I will pay attention to it in the future, thank you Saeko for your concern."

Yan Kai has no way to refute this kind of lecture out of concern, and he can't say that he will be fine if he is very good at martial arts. The fact is that this is true, but such words are still taking the other party's concern as a way to wipe his nose. The paper is under his feet, Yan Kai can't do such a thing, no matter whether it's right or not, in short, he should answer first.

Chapter 260 Tea

God, it's a bit cloudy.

The fine and dense drizzle has begun to fall gently, and the residual heat of the "Jade Dragon Flag" competition has not faded away, but in this depressing weather, more and more people don't want to go out, after all, no one can say no Well, will it rain suddenly?

In this regard, the local government of Fukuoka City repeatedly cursed the bad luck. Tourists held back and did not go out. The loss is all money. It is the GDP of Fukuoka City and the tax revenue of their local government!

Some people don't want to go out because of the uncertain weather, while some people want to go to an appointment that may be life-threatening, because he has been looking forward to this appointment for many years.

In the hotel room, Kitayama Koichi made tea in a skillful, smooth, natural and calm way.

The tea ceremony in Dongying is very cumbersome. Generally speaking, it must be performed in a special tea room. The decoration of the tea room also has specific requirements, such as the layout and design of the tea room, the placement of tea utensils in the tea room, etc. There are very strict requirements, and there must be no deviation in any step, which is the "artisan spirit" that Dongying has been emphasizing.

Kitayama Koichi was born in a prominent family in Japan. The Kitayama family was an upper-class samurai family during the shogunate period. They had a very high status.

He should have learned the Japanese tea ceremony, but for some reason, Kitayama Koichi preferred the less restrictive Central Plains tea ceremony to the Japanese tea ceremony, which restricted every step to death.

Dongying's tea art is also called tea ceremony by Dongying, but Koichi Kitayama thinks that Dongying tea art is too crafty to be called "Tao". Only Chinese tea ceremony is inseparable from Taoist thought, which is quite true to Taoism's true meaning of "Tao follows nature and returns to nature". .

The reason why the tea ceremony introduced to Dongying from the Central Plains developed into what it is now is actually inseparable from the special national conditions of Dongying.

Dongying is an island country, limited by the geographical environment to form a marine martial arts culture, but because it is within the influence circle of the Central Plains culture and deeply influenced by the Central Plains culture, it has not become a pirate civilization similar to Western civilization at the same time, and because the island country The natural environment is extremely unstable, so feudal ethics, especially the ideological hierarchy, was fully implemented by Japan.

Although according to the two famous historical books of Dongying "Kojiki" and "Dongying Shuji", the first emperor of Dongying, Emperor Jimmu, ascended the throne in 660 BC, and later generations also set this day as Dongying's "Founding Day". , but in fact, the eight generations of emperors below the appeasement emperor do not seem to exist.

Of course, this kind of beautification of one's own country's civilization is completely understandable. What really confuses people should be the Goryeo next door. Ku, Emperor Yao, Emperor Shun and other ancient five emperors were recognized as the leaders of the ancient Goryeo tribe. The unofficial history of the Three Kingdoms, which has nothing to do with the Three Kingdoms of the Central Plains), found a myth and legend in excerpts, and took this myth and legend as the origin of its own civilization, trying to get rid of the influence of the Central Plains from the origin of civilization.

At the beginning, although this myth and legend was compiled into the textbook, it was stated as "alleged", that is, they did not think it was true. "Both words have been deleted, and that myth and legend has become an undeniable true history!

Not only is this not an operation in the human world, it is simply not an operation in the underworld!

After seeing the operation of Goryeo breaking through the lower limit, the beautification of the origin of civilization by Japan seems very insignificant.

This is not a world of being better than anyone else, but of being less bad than anyone else.

Speaking of Dongying, before Emperor Tenmu, although the Yamato Kingdom unified Dongying in the [-]th century AD, forming the prototype of the current Japanese royal family and system, but because Dongying had always been a clan and tribal system before, the actual ruler of Dongying was Suwo. The power of the Dongying royal family is subject to those big clans in every way.

In the seventh century A.D., the imperial family of Dongying launched a coup d'état, eliminated Soga and other big clan leaders, successfully seized power, and became the undisputed real ruler of Dongying. The political and economic system of the Tang Dynasty implemented "big changes and new reforms", and sent more than a dozen large-scale envoys to the Tang Dynasty to study in Chang'an, the capital of the Tang Dynasty at that time. So far, Dongying has completed the transition from a slave society to a feudal society. "Innovation" and the "Meiji Restoration" that pushed Japan from a feudal society to a capitalist society in modern times are also called two important changes in the history of Japan.

After the "Dahua reform", Dongying almost copied the political system of the Tang Dynasty at that time, imitating Chang'an to build Nara City, not to mention, many official positions were used by Dongying without changing their names. God restored it, considering that there was no copyright at that time There is nothing to say about this statement and Dongpu's behavior. Maybe Tang Chao will smile knowingly when he finds out.

At that time, Dongying learned from the Tang Dynasty in an all-round way, which can basically be regarded as a "little Tang Dynasty", but there was only one very fatal thing that Dongying did not learn from the Tang Dynasty, and that was the "imperial examination" system.

This is mainly because of the frequent occurrence of natural disasters in Japan. Under the threat of such a natural environment, the people of Japan have an extreme yearning for stability.

The extreme pursuit of stability makes Japan extremely recognize the stable or even rigid social hierarchy. The instability caused by any natural disasters and man-made disasters is not comparable to the instability caused by the collapse of the social hierarchy.

The idea of ​​social hierarchy from the Central Plains is regarded by Japan as an iron law to maintain social stability, so the "imperial examination" is not allowed to exist as a channel for the bottom people to rise up. To put it bluntly, the ruling class of Japan wants to stabilize their position , deliberately did not study the "imperial examination", anyway, the ruling class in Japan is very clear about the urine of the people under their hands, and they would not dare to rebel if they had ten courage, so the "imperial examination" not only has no role in maintaining stability in Japan, but is an important one. unstable factors.

In terms of the obedience of the people in ancient Dongying, in most of the ancient Central Plains, the agricultural tax of farmers generally did not exceed 60.00%, while in ancient Dongying, the agricultural tax of farmers was generally above [-]%, which is equivalent to the income of tenant farmers without land in the Central Plains .

The fundamental reason for the change of dynasties in the Central Plains is that land mergers caused a large number of tenant farmers, so wars and rebellions broke out all over the country. Simply put, the agricultural tax was increased by 60.00%, and I dared to rebel!

In ancient Japan, the agricultural tax of 60.00% was already a blessing from the nobles. In many cases, the agricultural tax rate was still above 60.00%. There has never been a change of dynasty, and the obedience of the ancient Dongying people can be imagined.

In fact, it is the same now. Social animals would rather commit suicide when they are unemployed, but they would not dare to take a life-threatening blow to the capitalists who exploited themselves. Thinking about it this way, there is no essential difference between the people of modern Japan and the people of ancient Japan.

The reason for all the above lies in the deep-rooted social class system in Japan, which is the cornerstone of Japan’s system to maintain social stability. In order to strengthen the social class system, Japan’s society is popularizing an idea from top to bottom, that is, people Not the same, the upper class and the lower class are fundamentally different.

If Dongying really introduced the "imperial examination" system at that time, and let those miserable mud legs enter the court and be promoted to the upper class, wouldn't this tell other mud legs that they are actually no different from those nobles?

They are all the same people, so would they still be willing to let the nobles in power exploit and enslave them unconditionally?Will you?

In the Central Plains, the "imperial examination" system was regarded as a promotion channel for the people at the bottom and became a link to maintain social stability. When rebellions occur frequently in a dynasty, the leader of the rebellion or the staff around the leader are often those talented scholars who have failed in scientific examinations.

The original intention of the "imperial examination" is to find out these unstable factors hidden among the people and use them for their own use. On the one hand, it will strengthen the strength of the ruling class, and on the other hand, it will weaken the cohesion of the lower-level people. It can be said to kill two birds with one stone.

And when the "imperial examination" is no longer fair and the channels to the upper class are blocked, those bold and strategic scholars really dare to rebel!

It is true that most of the demise of each dynasty in the Central Plains originated from land annexation, which is the root of all problems. Why don't ordinary people rebel if they can't eat?However, it is still necessary to have those bright-minded people instigate and take the lead in order to unite the scattered common people and fight together towards the promising cause of "rebellion".

The people at the bottom are living in dire straits, while those who are courageous and resourceful are Mars. Regardless of the grassland or Mars, it will not matter if they exist alone, but once they meet together, it will be a prairie fire.

A single spark can start a prairie fire!

Those "sparks" should stand out in the "imperial examination" system and become a member of the country's pillars. Of course, they may also be another moth of the country. In short, they will all be members of the country's ruling class.

But unfortunately, the upper promotion channels are blocked, so they can only choose to rebel.

If you don't give me an official position, then I will take it myself. If the rebellion is done well, maybe it can be called an "insurrection". Don't talk about being an official at that time, maybe I can still be an emperor!

The thinking of the people of the Central Plains is always so simple and unpretentious, and bold.

But this is not possible in Japan. Japan has restricted the class between people since ancient times. The upper class is the upper class, and the lower class is the lower class. There can be communication between the upper and lower classes, but there cannot be circulation. This is Lei Chi.

Therefore, "imperial examination" is an important tool for the ruling class to recruit talents and maintain national stability in the Central Plains, but in Japan, don't even think about it.

It is precisely because of the extreme importance and emphasis on class that Japan has produced many things that can be said to be anti-human.

Take the tea art for example. With so many steps in the tea art, will the tea brewed be better?Not necessarily, because tea is something like tea. To put it bluntly, people are trying to accommodate the tea. The skill should be adjusted according to the tea and the spring water used to make the tea. Blindly pursuing standards and blindly pursuing a sense of ritual is a foolish thing in tea art.

But!I can't help but do this to force me to be tall!

Compared with making a pot of tea casually, the cumbersome steps, the standard of measuring with a ruler, and the sense of ceremony deliberately created at the time of making and drinking tea, all these are telling the lower class people, we are not with you!one!Sample!

The more cumbersome things often do not mean that it is good, but that the people who use it are free!

People who are not full and do not need to work will never find such discomfort, and the people of the lower class are all people who are hungry and exhausted. It is difficult for them to understand why the upper class nobles want to drink tea like this. I can only think that there must be some mystery in it, and if they don't understand this mystery, it must be that their wisdom is far behind that of the upper-class nobles, so the people at the bottom are more obedient to the upper-class nobles and dare not disobey them.

This is the threshold, which is used to restrict the lower class people to the lower class and not to enter the upper class threshold, and there are countless such thresholds in Japan, so that many upstarts who have sprung up due to emerging industries and have a lot of wealth are stopped in the real decision-making world. Outside the decision-making level of Dongpu, they are members of the upper class in the eyes of outsiders, but they are not the real upper class. They are squeezed and used by the real upper class, and finally come to the end.

Japan does not allow "downward over upper", the "up" and "down" here should really refer to the upper class nobles and the lower class people.

Ethics has always been one of the ruling tools, and it is the best one to use. It clearly divides the upper class nobles and the lower class people, and then tells the lower class people not to touch it. This is not something you can get your hands on!

Today, in the modern society where the mainstream of society shouts "human rights", "freedom" and "equality", Japan's class system is still unbreakable. The children of bureaucrats are bureaucrats, and the children of politicians are politicians. The circulation of upper and lower classes mainly depends on Koichi Kitayama doesn't like this kind of Dongying, but as the eldest son and grandson of the Kitayama family, he can resist many things just because he doesn't like it. To make tea for himself, this may be the only resistance Koichi Kitayama can make.