You Know Nothing About Pain

"After all, the most perfect ending for a samurai is to die as gorgeous as a cherry blossom." Hearing Xuansheng Ichiro's words, Naruto opened his mouth, wanting to say something but didn't know where to start.

To be honest, Naruto doesn't know much about this so-called bushido spirit, but from the current observation, he found a very strange place.

That is the Bushido spirit seems to be pursuing death, a gorgeous death, and regards this as a beautiful thing and a lifelong pursuit.

That's not quite right.

It’s not that you can’t accept death, nor that you can’t praise death. There is also a saying in Confucianism that life is what I want, and righteousness is what I want; Confucianism seems to be a thing to be admired.

But the key point is that Confucianism focuses on obtaining righteousness, not giving up life. When a choice must be made between life and righteousness, choosing to sacrifice one’s life for righteousness is praiseworthy. Yi Na is naturally better.

But Bushido is a bit different. Compared with the Confucian sacrifice of life for righteousness, the spirit of Bushido seems to mean giving up one's life for the sake of giving up one's life. As long as one can die as beautifully as a cherry blossom, the reason for dying is not that important.

This is a bit funny, committing suicide and re-death, this kind of thinking is simply anti-human, even the Buddhist idea of ​​pursuing an afterlife is just committing suicide, but there is absolutely no such idea of ​​dying for the sake of death.

And Taoism's theory of precious life naturally scoffs at this kind of thinking even more. He probably will only roll his eyes twice when he hears it, and leave a sentence saying that if you want to die, hurry up and don't disturb my cultivation of immortality.

Ants are greedy for life, so why not spare their lives for human beings, survival itself is the innate instinct and nature of human beings.

Bushido, who died for the sake of death, is an extremely distorted concept in Naruto's view, and behind this extremely distorted concept, there must be some kind of force driving it, otherwise, it is impossible to produce such a situation in a natural development situation extreme thinking.

The performance show called seppuku ended, the family who presided over the seppuku began to clean up the venue, and the crowd of onlookers also began to disperse.

During the discussion among the dispersed crowd, Naruto and Xuansheng Ichiro also heard some information about this seppuku.

It turned out that the person who died this time was a retainer of the Maeda family. The specific reason seemed to be that the head of the Maeda family had a disagreement with this retainer on a certain matter. Seppuku to end everything.

"Because of a disagreement with the head of the family, you decided to cut seppuku?" Naruto frowned and said, "It seems that he is still a person who would rather be broken than whole."

"This is something that can't be helped. It is an unforgivable thing for a samurai to have a disagreement with the patriarch." Xuansheng Ichiro sighed and said, "I guess he wants to atone for his sins in this way."

"Atonement? Unforgivable?" Naruto looked at Xuansheng Ichiro in surprise and said, "It's not normal to have differences. Isn't one of the functions of a courtier to help the monarch make suggestions?"

"It's okay to make suggestions, but how can you oppose the idea of ​​the Patriarch." Xuansheng Ichiro shook his head and said: "The most important thing for a samurai is to be loyal to his current Patriarch, as for the others, they all serve for this."

"Then what if the current patriarch's intentions are not righteous." Naruto frowned and said, "Don't tell me you still have to help the tyrant? Isn't this foolish loyalty?"

"Shh!"

When Xuansheng Ichiro heard Naruto's words, he immediately made a silent movement, looked around vigilantly, and then pulled Naruto while walking and whispered:

"You can't say this nonsense. If other warriors hear it, they will probably draw their swords in the street. You are an insult to the spirit of Bushido!"

Naruto noticed another place, looked at Xuansheng Ichiro curiously and said, "Then why aren't you angry?"

"Uh...I'm different." Xuansheng Ichiro said awkwardly: "The main reason is that my teacher back then wasn't very interested in this kind of thing."

"Actually, Bushido was not like this at the beginning."

Ichiro Gensei explained:

"The original Bushido mainly emphasized righteousness, bravery, dedication to public service, loyalty and benevolence.

But with the gradual development, for some reason, an argument called Ye Yin Bushido began to take over the mainstream. Ye Yin Bushido mainly emphasized fame, loyalty, bravery, death and madness, and believed that the original Bushido was just whitewashing greed for life and fear of death Selfishness, being cautious about human relations and paying attention to the morality of the lord, so as to avoid life and death, so he faces death but does not simply die.

Ye Yin Bushido believes that only a pure and thorough awareness of death is the strength of Bushido. Only when a samurai has a thorough awareness of the meaning of death can his appearance, speech, and daily movements be different, and he can become a real samurai . "

"You know a lot." Naruto looked at Xuansheng Ichiro in surprise and said, "You even know these things."

"Actually, it's not that I'm good. My teacher told me these things." Xuansheng Ichiro scratched his hair in embarrassment and said, "He should be the only one who still insists on the original Bushido. But he's already dead."

"What about you?" Naruto looked at Xuansheng Ichiro curiously and said, "Which faction are you from?"

"I... have both." Xuansheng Ichiro said vaguely: "Although I think some aspects of Ye Yin's Bushido are strange, but the original Bushido is indeed a bit weak, and one of my colleagues and I There is a saying that is called existence is reasonable, since Ye Yin's martial arts occupy the mainstream, then it means that Ye Yin's martial arts are more correct...."

"Is it reasonable to exist?" Naruto didn't say much, just shook his head and patted Xuansheng Ichiro on the shoulder and said, "Let's go, let's go buy a knife first."

Regarding the sentence that existence is reasonable, Naruto feels that many people have misunderstood it, or that some malicious guys deliberately distorted the meaning of this sentence in order to conceal their purpose.

Existence is reasonable. It means that since a thing happens, there must be an internal mechanism behind it. It does not mean that the existence of this thing is correct.

To be precise, the sentence that existence is reasonable should be translated as, since a thing exists, there must be a reason behind it, instead of saying that if a thing exists, then it should exist.

It's like if a person kills someone, then there must be a reason for him to kill someone, maybe it's hatred, maybe it's greed, but it doesn't mean that his approach is correct and reasonable.

So Ye Yin Bushido does not mean that it is just and reasonable because it occupies the mainstream now. In fact, Naruto can know why Ye Yin Bushido can become a prominent school as long as he thinks about it.

To put it bluntly, this theory is more suitable for the rule of the ruling class. It's that simple, there is nothing complicated.

Extremely emphasizing loyalty, bravery, reputation, and death, and treating all doubts and thoughts about the superior as a sign of cowardice, isn't this just to make it easier for the ruler to rule.

This kind of thing is not uncommon. As long as you have read some history books and have a little personal thinking about history, you will know that this is just a commonplace thing.

The same thing happened with Mr. Ji, not to mention the legalists and military strategists who were born to stand on the side of the ruler, even Confucianism had a trend for a while. , It has been popular for a long time, and it is only fueled by the kings behind it.

But fortunately, Confucianism still has many sages and great Confucians who do not forget their original aspirations, and Mencius made a final decision with one word.

King Xuan of Qi asked: "Tang Fang Jie, and King Wu defeated Zhou, what are there?"

Mencius said to him, "Is it possible to pass on his lord?"

Said: "Those who are thieves of benevolence are called 'thieves', those who are thieves of righteousness are called 'destroyers'. Those who are crippled by thieves are called 'husbands.'

If the king treats his ministers like brothers and feet, then the ministers will treat him like his heart;

That's it.

—————————————————————————— Naruto and Xuansheng Ichiro came to the blacksmith shop that buys and sells knives. The shop is small but luxuriously decorated. It can be seen that there are very few customers in the store. Now there are only one or two people in the store who are choosing. Even standing outside the store, you can hear the sound of blacksmithing in the store one after another.

Before entering the shop, Xuansheng Ichiro seemed to remember something, and said to Naruto beside him: "By the way, I haven't asked you what kind of knife you want."

"What knife?" Naruto looked at the shop in front of him and said, "Is there any difference?"

"That's a huge difference."

Xuansheng Ichiro shook his head, and began to popularize Naruto's science.

In fact, there are still a lot of exquisiteness and classification of things like samurai swords.

There are four kinds of classification alone, which are Taidao, Taidao, Wakizashi, and Short Sword.

Taidao refers to a samurai sword with a blade length of more than 80 centimeters. The blade has a relatively high curvature. It can be called a big sword.

However, almost no one knows how to use a big sword. It is really inconvenient. If the arm is a little shorter, you can’t even pull out the sword. If you encounter a sudden attack, you may be killed by the opponent before you can draw the sword. Too bad, only some extremely special schools of swordsmanship use Odachi.

Therefore, the Taidao sold in the store in front of me are all small Taidaos with a length of about one meter. If you want a large Taidao, you must customize it.

A sword refers to a sword with a blade length of 60 cm to 80 cm. After practice, it is the katana sword that is most suitable for use in small numbers or one-on-one battles. It is also the most commonly used katana sword. If it is not specifically mentioned Specific names, when people talk about samurai swords, they refer to swords, and Ichiro Xuansheng is using swords now.

Wakizashi is a samurai sword with a blade length of 30 cm to 60 cm. It is not so much a sword as a longer dagger. Because of its small size and easy portability, it generally exists as a spare weapon for samurai emergency. When the main weapon is stolen or dropped, you can take out the wakizashi hidden in your arms and fight for your life.

Of course, some people regard Wakizashi as one of their main weapons. There is a two-sword style in the capital of the Iron Kingdom. The two swords here refer to Taidao and Wakizashi. One is extremely long and the other is extremely short. The cooperation between them will produce very wonderful effects. Moves, it is easy to make people who come into contact with it for the first time suffer a lot.

As for the short knife at the end, it was really just a dagger. A thing of this length was not even considered a spare weapon. At most, it was used to commit suicide when there was no hope of victory.

However, Xuansheng Ichiro felt that since Naruto went to kick the gym, it was impossible to buy Wakizashi and short swords. Isn't that a joke?

So Xuansheng Ichiro said to Naruto: "Tai sword or Tai sword?"

"Then let's fight with the sword." Naruto said indifferently: "Anyway, I also learned the way of swords from you, so I can just do the same as you."

After the two entered, a shop boy who looked about twenty years old greeted him with a smile on his face and said, "Is there anything I can do for you?"

Before Naruto could speak, Xuansheng Ichiro said directly, "We are here to buy knives."

When the shop boy heard that he was here to buy knives, the smile on his face suddenly became brighter, and he said with a smile on his face: "You two are here to buy knives, so you really came to the right place. Our knives are famous far and wide. , Many great swordsmen are our customers."

"Excuse me, do you want to make it tailor-made?" The shop boy then said enthusiastically: "Our master here will make a tailor-made knife for you based on your height, arm length, and unique knife habits. Accompany you to conquer the world with the exclusive famous sword, and absolutely guarantee your satisfaction."

"Um.... Just make it to order..." Xuansheng Ichiro interrupted the shop boy and said, "We need it urgently, and there is not enough time to make it."

In addition to the time issue, the price of custom-made knives is far higher than that of standard knives. The average samurai really can't afford it. Since Ichiro Xuansheng felt that Naruto didn't have much money, he naturally couldn't choose the way of custom-made knives.

"Okay." The shop boy didn't change his face when he heard it, and lightly made a please gesture and said, "Please follow me."

The two followed the shop boy to a counter. On the wall next to the counter were rows of samurai swords of different lengths.

"May I ask which kind do you two want to choose?" The shop boy said with a proud tone: "Tachi swords, sword swords, wakizashi, short swords, we have everything here, and the quality is guaranteed."

"If it's a knife, we have three styles here." The shop boy took out a beautiful knife from the side and said, "I recommend this one. It's a new one from our family. It's medium in size and high in quality. Except that the size is standard, the quality is not worse than the custom-made knives."

However, just as the shop boy was about to continue the introduction, Xuansheng Ichiro quietly glanced at the price of the sword on the wall, then coughed suddenly, and said with some embarrassment: "That... the sword here does not need to be introduced. Now, take us to the backyard to have a look."

Hearing Xuansheng Ichiro's words, the shop boy who was originally enthusiastic was taken aback for a moment, then he couldn't maintain his enthusiastic smile anymore, and said, "Why don't you say it again..."

The backyard is actually a slang word, because it is usually a place for collecting discarded knives, usually these knives are ready to be remelted into iron, and only the poorest guys want to go to such a place to pick up knives.

"Tch, if you don't have money, don't tell me earlier. It's a waste of my time. If you're poor, don't pretend to be a wolf with a big tail." The shop boy curled his lips, turned around and walked to the backyard, and said lazily, "Come on."

Xuansheng Ichiro just smiled awkwardly at Naruto and said: "Don't take it to heart, they are like this here."

"No." Naruto shrugged indifferently and said, "Actually, all knives are the same."

The two followed the shop boy to the backyard. There was a large pile of broken samurai swords piled up in the corner, most of which were scarred, and some even had only half of the blade left.

"That's all, you can choose for yourself." The shop boy leaned against the wall beside him, picking out his nails and said casually, "One thousand taels, the price is the same."

"Let me help you choose." Xuansheng Ichiro said to Naruto confidently: "Don't look at these as if they are not good, but as long as you are willing to search carefully, you will definitely find a good one."

After finishing speaking, Xuansheng Ichiro walked to the sword pile of money, bent over and searched hard.

"This one won't work... the blade is too brittle, and this one won't work either... the blade is too curled..." Xuansheng Ichiro said to the shop boy beside him speechlessly as he checked. : "Hey, let me tell you why you put this half-broken knife in, and it's fine to tidy up a little..."

"Would you like to buy it or not?" The store boy rolled his eyes and said, "If you don't have money, don't dislike it. There are many good swords in the store. Can you afford it?"

After finishing speaking, the shop boy took out a handful of melon seeds from his pocket and knocked them up. While eating the melon seeds, he complained, "What are you pretending to be?"

"Hey! You bastard..."

Xuansheng Ichiro felt a little displeased when he heard it, and it was fine to talk about it just now, why did he keep talking, and he was going to teach this young man a lesson when he went up.

"Forget it, don't bother."

Naruto stopped Xuansheng Ichiro and shook his head, stepped forward, casually grabbed a handle on the pile of swords, and then pulled the sword out of the pile of swords with a sudden force.

The knife Naruto pulled out was very strange. The body of the knife was bare, and the side blades had been ground flat. It was not so much a knife as it was a handle attached to an iron rod. The blade was so worn that it didn’t appear obvious. The cracks can be regarded as very miraculous.

"What is this?" Xuansheng Ichiro complained when he saw it, "Why did you put this kind of thing in, this is a fire stick."

"Otherwise, if you want something for a thousand taels, it would be nice to have a knife handle." The shop boy rolled his eyes and said, "If it's really not your turn to pick any problem?"

Hearing the shop boy's complaints, Xuansheng Ichiro glared and wanted to say something, but after thinking about it, he rolled his eyes and said nothing, turned to look at Naruto and said, "Change it, this one The knife is too broken, it doesn't even have a blade, it's like a fire stick, are you going to use this to hit others?"

"Knock others." Naruto heard Xuansheng Ichiro's complaints, as if he thought of something interesting, flicked the blade with his index finger, and said with a smile: "That's it."

"Hey! You really want to choose this!" Xuansheng Ichiro became anxious when he heard that Naruto really wanted to buy this fire stick without a blade: "There are still so many knives to choose, anyway, they are all one thousand. Two, I'll pick a good one for you."