[Comprehensive History] Clothes are all over the world

Japan’s Sakai Port, as a deep-water port in Osaka, was originally just an ordinary port in the Kansai region of Japan, but because of its trade with the Ming Dynasty in recent years, it quickly became a pearl in Kansai.

But along with wealth comes coveting vision.

Sakai Port is a commercial port opened at the intersection of Japan's Settsu, Hanoi, and Izumi borders, and Izumi is the guardian country of Yamana Ujikiyoshi, the main force of the Yamana clan that was taken over by Ashikaga Yoshimitsu not long ago.

Today, Yamanashi Kiyoshi died due to an attempted rebellion, and Izumi was naturally "confiscated". Now it is assigned to Yoshihiro Ouchi, who performed outstandingly in this battle against the rebellion.

As a beneficiary of the success of standing in the team, in addition to Izumi, he also served as the guardian of the other five countries of Shufang, Nagato, Buzen, Iwami, and Kii.

Yes, Shi Jianguo, who was being plundered by Daming recently, is also the feudal kingdom of this Ouchi clan.The reason why Daming's sneaky behavior was not discovered is also because this Ouchi Yoshihiro is busy cleaning up the remnants of the old power in the new receiver's sphere of influence, and has no time to take care of it for the time being.

His behavior seems normal to many people. The Yamana family has been operating here for many years, and the network of relationships is intricate in the local area. Anyone who comes here to become the new director will make the same decision.

But in this era, if the people above have a slight disturbance, it will be a disaster for the people below.

Saburo was on his way home at this time.

His steps were a little faltering, and his expression was even more bewildered.

On the way home, stones were sprinkled and the ground was compacted, and it was not as muddy as he remembered. Of course, this is also the reason why he has put on cloth shoes now.

He is no longer the poor boy who lost his father and can only walk around with bare feet.

After following the folks in the village to pull the messenger's boat back, Sanlang did not go back to the fishing village directly. He was fortunate to be selected by a kind adult and got a very good job. Later, he became the pride of the family and was awarded I got the surname given by that adult.

He married off his older sister who was divorced because of his father's death, and brought up his younger siblings. His mother, who had worked hard for half his life, finally had a chance to rest and embarked on his own glorious road, but what he didn't expect Yes, this glorious time is so short.

The adult he was following was the target of suppression in this political cleanup, and as a confidant, he naturally lost his former glory.And that adult has decided to go far away, and he is also determined to follow all the way.

After leaving, I don't know when I can come back, where I'm going, or even if I can come back.He has no complaints or regrets about following the adult who is kind to him, but he feels very guilty about his mother who lives alone at home.

The mother worked hard for half her life to raise them, and she was unable to speak. The sisters were not close to each other. Besides, each family had a lot of troubles, and they were powerless to take care of them. The younger brother in the family often worked outside. will not agree.

But even if his mother disagrees, that is the person he wants to follow wholeheartedly.

San Lang clenched his fists and made up his mind, but his hand that wanted to push the door stopped in mid-air, because he saw his mother talking to several people in Ming Dynasty official uniforms.

wait wait wait?

Saburo wiped his eyes involuntarily, his small eyes gradually widened, did he see it wrong?Is it his mother who is talking to Ming officials?But, but his mother, his mother is dumb!

From the time he could remember, his mother never said a word, and his father never said anything about his mother's past, nor did he meet any relatives of his mother, so after his father's death, he was very concerned about his mother's past. It can be said that he knows nothing, he only knows that his mother can cook delicious food, and there is a way to make bitter fish with a strange taste delicious.

Of course Saburo never asked how his mother became dumb. As a child asking his mother like this, isn’t this digging her wounds?As a sensible eldest son, Saburo respects and loves his mother who raised them up by her skill in handling fish.

But now, Saburo can't help but have self-doubt, wondering if he hasn't been home for a long time, so he recognizes others as his mother.

He rubbed his eyes involuntarily, and looked again intently.

The woman over there has black hair that is envied by all the women in the village, and her clean and clear eyebrows always carry the sadness that never goes away. Women who are more beautiful than his mother's standing posture, those noble girls can't compare.

His mother's back was always straight, even at his father's funeral, when the family was most desperate, it was straight, as if nothing could bend her back.

Saburo has also encountered the most desperate and sad times, but in his heart, his mother's slender but straight back is a monument, which made him come out of that emotion time and time again.

Therefore, Saburo naturally wouldn't admit that it was his mother, not to mention that the woman's clothes were also the Tang cloth he bought for his mother when he sent something home for the first time - he didn't have much money at the time, so he bought it It was the worst indigo dyed cloth among all the cloths, but it was already the best gift he could give his mother at that time.

He remembered that when his mother received this piece of fabric, she loved it very much and wept with joy. After that, she kept this piece of fabric very preciously, and was not willing to use it to make clothes...

By the way, his mother didn't make clothes for this piece of cloth, but the woman in front was clearly wearing a normal suit, so it was a coincidence?

At this moment, Saburo's emotions are very complicated. He has recognized the other person in his heart, but his reason overturns him time and time again, because the familiar person feels too strange to him, which makes him inevitably have some self-doubt.

Although I thought so much, it was only for a moment. When San Lang was desperately brainwashing himself, he saw the woman in the distance suddenly bent down and covered her face. Tears flowed from the gap between her fingers and fell It fell on the yellow mud floor.

Saburo's head exploded with a "buzz", his body moved before his brain, and when he realized it, he was already standing in front of his mother, looking at the Ming Kingdom envoy in front of him with defensive eyes.

Seeing the surprise on the other side, and a few steps away from his own position, it is obviously impossible to "bully" his mother as he thought, Saburo collected himself, took a breath, retracted his unfriendly gaze, and politely said She bowed and saluted: "Excuse me, I don't know what it is to find my mother. My mother is just an ordinary fisherwoman. If you need anything, please tell me."

He had worked in Sakai Port for a long time before, and the main customers there were merchants from Ming Dynasty and Ryukyu. For convenience, Saburo also worked hard to learn Chinese, but learning Chinese was really difficult, and he only learned it secretly, so his words always stumbled.

But it doesn't matter. The power of language is that even if there are problems with sentences and vocabulary, it will not affect communication.Sure enough, the envoys from the Ming Kingdom glanced at him with subtle expressions.

After a while, Saburo saw an edict displayed in front of him.

This is written in Chinese. Although Japan today has its own language, it does not have its own characters. The official language of Japan is still Chinese characters, so anyone who can read can understand Chinese.

Saburo took a closer look and found that this edict with the official seal of the Ming Dynasty and the axis of nanmu was written on the recall order of the Ming Dynasty that had aroused their heated discussions before.

When Daming issued such a recall order for the first time, the lord that San Lang followed was still a political participant in Iquan country. He had also heard his lord's views and thoughts on this, but generally speaking, he was not optimistic about it. of.

Japan has plundered a lot of people from Middle-earth several times, mainly artisans, women and children. The reason for robbing people is because Japan lacks labor force, but I dare not say it in other places. At least in Izumi, these plundered people have already Scattered everywhere, and settled down.

Although the early Japanese pirates did a lot of bad things after they snatched people back, but since the founding of the Ming Dynasty, because of its early sea ban policy and later network defense, it’s nothing more than robbing things, and it’s absolutely necessary to rob people less than.

Therefore, most of the people who stay in Japan are those who arrived ten or even decades ago. These people have already passed through the difficult life when they landed. Their way of life, and even have children.

Anyone who has ever planted the land knows that only young plants can move around, and there is no such thing as an old tree that can move and survive, and the same is true for people.

Trees have roots, people have bonds, and the principles are the same.

Moreover, these people have the resources to live on here. Who would be so stupid to give up everything and go back to that strange land, to meet family members who have been strangers for a long time, and start from scratch after crying a lot?

Therefore, although I was a little annoyed that Daming tried to do such a thing that slapped the Japanese government, many officials of the Japanese authorities did not take it seriously, and even took some gloating, waiting to see that Ming's envoy returned without success .

Of course, it’s not really possible to return home empty-handed. There are always some people who want to go home because of impulsiveness, or because they don’t get along well here. They think that they have nothing to lose anyway. There is another chance.

And Japan has also made double insurance when it is in power. They have publicized it a long time ago-once they leave Japan, they cannot come back.Whether to give up the former relatives or the present, as long as you are not stupid, you know how to choose.

Saburo thought so, and then smiled: "Are you looking for someone who can speak Japanese to help you read these edicts? I can recommend myself."

The messenger was slightly taken aback and shook his head.Just when Saburo was wondering, he felt a hand dropped from his shoulder, and then, a voice he had never heard before but which he felt familiar sounded behind him: "Sanlang, they were found by mother."

No way... no way no way no way?

is that a lie?

Saburo had already realized something, but his mind was still being swiped by these two sentences back and forth, so he asked a stupid question: "Look, what are you looking for? You don't know..."

He just wanted to say that his mother doesn't know Chinese, can't speak, and keeps a long distance from the people nearby, so he can't help him, but he suddenly found that his mother speaks Chinese more fluently than him, and can speak normally. This, This this……

Seeing his colorful and frequent changes of expression, the woman slowly nodded her head in the eyes of her son, and said what could be called a death sentence: "Sanlang, I am Han."

Next, Saburo heard a story that was concealed by his father and kept silent by his mother in a trance.

My mother was originally from Jinzhou, Liaodong, Yuan Dynasty. During the Anti-Yuan War at the end of Yuan Dynasty, this place was briefly occupied by the Red Scarf Army, but later the Japanese invaded China and took this place.

The Yuan government believed that it was better to give this land to Japan than to the Red Scarf Army. After all, Japan was still a vassal state of the Yuan Dynasty at that time. But it was so much better, so I even posted a post praising Japan.

Such an absurd act brought great pain to the local people.

Now that it has the recognition of the suzerain country, Japan can naturally grab local resources justifiably.

Japan had been in war for a long time before, and the number of women was greatly reduced during the war years. A large number of bachelors and a decline in the number of births were urgent problems that the new government at that time needed to solve.

How to solve it?Quite simply, prey on women from elsewhere.Therefore, in addition to material wealth, women like Saburo's mother have also become important materials.

Saburo's mother, Axing, came to Japan in this way. She will never forget the scene where she was auctioned in the market together with her sister, who was taken captive from the same village.At that moment, the greedy gazes of the bidders below her and the appearance of haggling over their shortcomings made her feel that she was no different from an animal.

Her sister from the same village was bought by a family with three grown men.

From the indecent attitude of the three members of the family at the time of "picking up the goods", she could imagine the final result of the elder sister in the same village.

Because of panic and desperation, she completely lost the ability to speak at that time.She couldn't speak, and she was only 12 years old at the time, and she hadn't been to Kuishui yet, so she couldn't have a baby right away. These became important deduction items, so she was sold to Saburo's for fifteen fish. Father.

This has to be said to be her luck.Sanlang's father is a very capable fisherman, and his income is not bad for this village. Therefore, he has a good attitude towards this commodity that needs to be raised for several years before it can be used effectively. She named her A Xing, lucky Xing, obviously, he also thought it was a very lucky thing that A Xing was chosen by him.

But what he didn't know was that every time he called this name, it was a stab in A Xing's heart, because it happened that A Xing's real name was A Xing.

Ah Xing's mother passed away when she was born. In that small village, she was an unfortunate child, but her father, who was extremely disappointed with the Yuan court and resigned from office, loved her very much and was often hugged by his friends. Repulsed, she pointed to the stars in the sky and told her the story of the stars.

Father pointed to the brightest star when she was born, and said that it was her mother who had been watching her all the time. He taught her star charts, taught her calendar, praised her excellent calculation ability, and said that she might be able to Became the only female academician of Qin Tianjian in history.

But Ah Xing was gone, she died when she was 12 years old.

That year, she was snatched from her father's arms alive.Watching the weak father being kicked on the ground by the thief, watching the grandparents who were pushed to the ground crying her name, unable to sit up for a long time, watching the beloved little flower dog tailed by the tyrannical thief at any time Knocked out, fell on the loess and never got up again.

She can't do anything.

Therefore, Ah Xing died, and the one who survived was Ah Xing, a wife bought by a fisherman for fifteen fish, and she was a mute.

She was very cowardly, she didn't dare to crash into a big tree like the elder sister in the same village, and she didn't dare to jump into the deep and cold sea. Her only resistance was not to speak, not to speak a word of the language here.

She did it.

Except that when Saburo was just born, she hummed a little tune from her hometown to put the crying eldest son to sleep, and she never spoke again.

Ah Xing's husband, who went out early and returned late, didn't know until his death that she was actually not dumb, and her children didn't know that not only was her mother not dumb, she was also chosen to sing sacrificial rites when she was young because of her beautiful singing voice.

She is almost 50 years old now, and she thought that her final result would be to close her eyes and be buried next to her husband in this land where she has not developed any feelings for 30 years.

In fact, she has already thought about it. She hopes that her son will cremate her and sprinkle it into the sea in front of her house. The sea may bring her back to her hometown and let her see how her family is doing. up.

She has always been concerned about her father and grandparents. She wants to know if they are okay, whether they are sad because she was taken away, whether they are safe and sound after she left, and want to see the little flower dog who is loyal to the Lord. , she hoped that it did not fall on the cold land, but could be found by the family, marry a wife and have children in peace, and live a good life.

How much she wants to hold it and lie on the wheat stack together, listen to her father tell her the story of the stars, how much she wants to put on the clothes at home, comb the hairstyle of her hometown, sing the little tunes of her hometown, and then go back to the land quietly. starry sky.

This is her last wish after her children have a home.

However, when Daming and Japan re-established tributary relations, when goods from his hometown gradually poured into Izumi, and when businessmen from his hometown set foot on this land, Ah Xing felt that he could breathe again.

She buried her face in the indigo-dyed cloth her son had given him, greedily sucking the lingering breath of hometown on it.

She wants to tell her son that he has been cheated. Indigo-dyed fabrics are the last in her hometown. Indigo is easy to get and easy to color, so this color is the most common color on the street.

Especially this piece of fabric doesn't even have half a pattern, it is obviously the most inferior product, and it is not worth that much money at all.

She also wanted to tell her son that it didn't matter. Although indigo was cheap, bluegrass was a very good medicinal herb, so fabrics that used indigo as dye would not attract bugs as easily as other dyes, but were more durable.

But in the end, she didn't say anything.

She just put this piece of fabric in the box, looked at it day and night, and read the breath of home from the warp and weft.

Saburo once asked her why she didn't use it to make new clothes. Her craftsmanship is very good. When her daughters got married, she sewed the wedding dresses by herself. There was never a single hole in the clothes.

It's not that she won't, but she doesn't want to.

She didn't want to sew clothes for this place out of fabrics from her hometown.

I don't even want to wear such clothes, even if she closes her eyes, she can still sew the clothes here.

But she just didn't want to.

Ah Xing originally thought that her last piece of indigo-dyed fabric would become her shroud, but she really didn't expect that there would be a day when it would be remade into clothes.

That day, she overheard a rumor.

Someone said with laughter, half sarcasm, and half sigh that the former emperor of Ming Dynasty did not forget to leave an order before he abdicated to recall the people left behind by Ming Dynasty.

At that moment, her heart beat again.

The desire to go home made her return home in a chaotic state, and immediately made this piece of indigo-dyed cloth into the most popular cardigans and skirts when she was a girl.Because her hands were shaking all the time while sewing, this dress was the ugliest dress she had ever made in her adult life.

But she still put on this dress and stopped the Ming envoy who came here.When the other party asked her to prove her identity, Axing sang the tune of her hometown.

She sang extremely smoothly, although she really hadn't spoken for a long time, and she hadn't sung that tune for 30 years, but she really sang so well, the melody was so melodious that even the messenger couldn't help but close his eyes slightly .

In a foreign country, in fact, he also misses his hometown a little bit.

He missed the grass-scented wind in southern Yunnan, the humid air in Yingtian Mansion, the chaotic court, and His Highness who trusted him.

This woman really sang very well, so when she tremblingly asked him if he could prove his identity, Ma He didn't make too much trouble, he nodded and told her the time to return.

The members of the mission will travel to most parts of Japan, and then bring back the Han Chinese who have confirmed their identities. It will take a long time, and it may be late autumn when they return.But fortunately, Daming's ship is docked at Sakai Port. For Axing, she can stay at home until the ship sets sail before setting off.

Just as Ma He was about to issue her an identity certificate, the woman who had been listening calmly and quietly burst into tears.

Ma He was actually not too surprised by her sudden outburst of emotions.

On the road of searching for the Han people, he met too many such people.

When they heard that Daming welcomed them home, most of these people's reactions were like this.

But after crying for a while, their reactions were different.

He has met an old man who was lingering on the sick bed and begged his family to let him go home, and he also met someone who was silent for a long time and gave up crying.

And the heaviest thing he encountered was the ashes urn.

After hearing the news, it was a young man who sent it. The owner of the urn was his master. He gave all he had learned to this young man. The only request was to send his urn back to Daming.

And such relics, Ma He and his team received too many.

Those who can have a columbarium are already a good death, and more are one or two relics left by fellow villagers.

For example, Ah Xing, she only left a velvet flower of that elder sister, but the seaside climate is humid, which is not conducive to the preservation of objects, and the silk part of the velvet flower has fallen off, leaving a skeleton.

And compared with the copper velvet flower, there is even less information about the girl who died in a foreign country. A Xing only remembered that there was a character "Fang" in her name, but he didn't know which character it was or her surname. And also recorded her in the book.

The Han people who were captured by the Japanese spanned nearly 30 years from the end of the Yuan Dynasty to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty. These 30 years were also the most chaotic period in the Central Plains. The flow of population and the dispersion of household registration made it impossible for them to know how many people were forced to leave their hometown.

But they will try their best to find them, and now that the yellow book that gathers household registration information of people from all over the world has been registered, it must be much more convenient to find people than in the past.

Live to see people, die to see corpses.

This is the attitude of the Ming Dynasty.

Even though many of these people may not return to Mingtu in the end, Daming's attitude is their backing.

The tougher Ming was, the more Japan knew that these Chinese who stayed in Japan had backers, so the situation of these people in the future should be much better.

After writing Daming's seal on the small note with Axing's name and message, and handing it to Axing, Ma He said goodbye.

Before leaving, he took a few glances at Saburo, who was supporting his mother with a worried face, and specifically mentioned that he would send someone to pick up Axing, but Axing refused.

Ah Xing knew that this was the envoy of the Ming Kingdom who was worried that her son would stop her. After all, Ah Xing was old, and if Saburo really wanted to stop her, she would not be able to leave.

But Ah Xing believes that her children will respect her, "Instead of wasting energy on me, I hope that this energy can find more people like me." She said, "People like us really have There are too many, at our age, if we miss this opportunity, we may not have the chance to go back in this life, so don’t spend time on me, please find one more if you can.”

Ma He stared at her deeply for a while, and after a while, he bowed down and bowed to the old woman: "Madam Gao Yi."

What Sanlang didn't expect was that his mother, who refused his support, actually bent her knees slightly, and returned a salute lightly like a young girl. Then she looked at the back of the envoy from the Ming Kingdom and showed a satisfied look. smile.

In the autumn of the 26th year of Hongwu, Daming's building boats did not carry any cargo, and only a group of wanderers who had been away from home for many years were loaded on the huge mountain-like boat.

In the end, there were only 73 wanderers who successfully boarded the ship, but the ship was extremely heavy, because there were 510 lives of four people on board.

Saburo, who stayed on the port, waved vigorously at his mother on the boat. The sister beside him was crying and trying to smile at the mother who might never see her again.

"Mother, you must be well! We will try our best to see you." Even so, the two girls cried until they saw Daming's boat put down its anchor.

Their little brother couldn't even control himself, and ran a few steps towards the big ship, but he was soon stopped by the samurai sent by the Japanese side to maintain order.

A row of warriors guarding in front of the ship divided this place and the other side into two worlds.

"The auspicious time is here—" With a singing, the sails on the huge Ming Dynasty ship dropped with a "squeak", and the last southeast trade wind of this season immediately inflated the entire sail. With the help of the wind, the big ship Gradually left the coast.

Just when the emotions of the people seeing off were about to collapse, they suddenly heard the sound of a crisp copper bell.

The 24 yin and yang students had already stood on the deck at some point. They formed a formation, holding the soul-invoking bell in one hand and the soul-invoking flag in the other, and sang in the strong wind of the seaside:

"The soul is coming back—to go to the king's constant work, what is the Quartet."

"Go to the king's constant work, what are the four directions?"

"Leave the king's pleasure, and leave it more ominous."

Come back, wandering soul.

Why leave your body and wander around?

Why forsake your home of comfort for a place of peril?

Follow us back to your hometown.

There are towering mountains, curling clouds and gurgling streams irrigating the land.

There were bluegrass swaying in the breeze, and its fragrance was pleasant and pleasant.

There are sweet rice, just harvested wheat, there are all kinds of flavors in the world, ups and downs.

There is the most mellow sweetness in the world, whether it is honey from the mountains, sucrose from sugar cane, or malt sugar baked from malt, they are all extremely sweet and pleasant.

There are mighty and caring men there, and there are beautiful and capable girls there. Among them, there must be your significant other. Don't you miss him?

There are chess games between vertical and horizontal, and Liubo chess that is pressing every step of the way. If you like, you can also set up a game quietly, but be careful, this can only be done quietly.

"The soul is back—"

It’s already autumn, and the pomegranate brought here from other countries has finally reached its ripening season. The red pulp is very attractive. After eating the pulp, put the peel on the air outlet, and it will still be fragrant for several days.

Don't you want to look at the ears of wheat with their heads bowed in the rice fields?The ducks swimming among them are at their fattest, if you don’t go home, you will miss them.

It's been a particularly good year, and there's still plenty left after the grain harvest fills the barn, and you see, your loved ones are making wine out of it.

There are mellow and delicious wines, whether it is strong spirits or sweet rice wine, it can make people feel smoky.

That's the home wine that greets you.

Yin Yangsheng raised the soul-calling flag high, it was hunting in the paper money floating in the sky, and the building boat heading for Daming became heavy unknowingly, it seemed that a group of people quietly boarded the ship when no one noticed. Boat.

The soul-inducing bell trembled at the fingertips, as if conveying their excited emotions to those invisible people. The leading Yin Yangsheng smiled slightly and said in a low voice:

"Welcome home."

The author has something to say: Although it is late, but, but it is really fat! !

I wanted to finish this plot in one go, but I didn’t expect the author’s emotions to collapse at the end of the writing, woo woo, Ah Xing is so pitiful! !

This period of history is true. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Japan plundered a large number of people in the Central Plains, especially technical personnel, and most of them never came back.

Saburo's story appeared in Chapter 96.

The three sentences in the article are taken from "Calling the Soul" in Chu Ci, which will not affect the points of the article.