Chapter 564 The Secret of the French Businessman

During the trip to Kiyomizu Temple, I met Souji Okita, who was in love for the first time.

Regarding the competition, since an agreement has been made with the other party, Zhang Heng is not in a hurry.

Although Mr. Okita has a nagging cough, he should not be able to hang up for a while, and as the existence of the suspected highest combat power in this dungeon, it is like a main course with good color and fragrance. Once you eat it, you may not be in the mood again. Go for the other appetizers.

Therefore, Zhang Heng doesn't care about pushing back the time of the competition. Anyway, he doesn't have other things to do now. The two knives he borrowed from the Suzaku Pavilion and another dojo before seem to be high-quality goods, but unfortunately Just like the rib difference, there is still a gap between famous products.

Especially the Miike Norita Mitsuyo knife in the Suzakukan, not to mention that it wasn't Daidenita Mitsuyo, Zhang Heng later asked a special collector to appraise it, and he couldn't even be sure whether it was really the work of Miike Norita Mitsuyo.

This is also the troublesome part of this dungeon. According to Crimson Sword, even if you hold the knife in your hand, there is no corresponding prompt to obtain props, like the change of Yonglu experienced by Crimson Sword herself, and her friends The dungeons of Demon Sword that he has experienced in this world all have clear goals to find, but the dungeon of Kyoto at the end of the Bakumatsu that Zhang Heng entered this time is a chance event, 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 issue for the time being, as long as he is free to challenge the masters from all walks of life and collect famous knives.

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Another week has passed since the trip to Kiyomizu Temple.

Zhang Heng thought it was a bit strange that the people from the Changzhou clan never came to seek revenge. With the behavior of that group, it was unreasonable for them to remain silent for so long, unless something more important happened, and now he finally got According to the news, Shinsaku Takasugi, who was recuperating in Sakurayama, passed away due to illness.

This is indeed a major event that shocked the world.

Takasugi Shinsaku is the leader of the Changzhou Fan faction. He acted radically in his early years. He planned to assassinate Westerners, set fire to the British embassy, ​​and forced Emperor Xiaomei to issue a pardon. On behalf of the Changzhou Fan, he was forced to sign the Shimonoseki Treaty with Britain, the United States, France and the Netherlands, and gave up fighting the barbarians. When the Changzhou Fan succumbed to the shogunate, he lived in exile for a period of time, but not long after, he joined forces with Ito Hirobumi Seized the power of the Changzhou Fan, carried out a series of drastic Westernization reforms, let the Changzhou Fan embark on the road to prosperity, and repelled the shogunate fleet in the subsequent counterattacks of Oshima and Kokura. Such a heroic figure was finally defeated by a small nagging cough.

In the end, he died on the sickbed on the eve of the new era.

It is conceivable how distraught and grief-stricken the people of the Changzhou Clan who are staying in Kyoto are now. No wonder they can't take care of the affairs of the Xiaoshan Dojo for the time being.

Zhang Heng didn't feel much about Takasugi Shinsaku's death. He didn't take sides anyway. He was a melon eater. Compared with this news that shocked the world, he was more concerned about another news—Kouzumaru Koji Entering Beijing!

Suzumaru Koji is one of the five knives of the world, which is nearly as famous as Mikazuki Zong. It is a treasure of Honkoji Temple, and its current owner is Hanjiro Nakamura, who is known as the four swordsmen at the end of the Edo period.

This person is a knife in the darkness of the leader of the Satsuma clan, Xixiang Takamori. He is willing to abandon the honor of the samurai in order to destroy the great cause, and becomes a killer who specializes in assassinating the minions of the shogunate. Countless shogunate officials died in his hands. The news that he came to Kyoto broke out at the critical moment of his death, which inevitably aroused people's imagination.

Is the Satsuma clan planning to take advantage of the death of their ally Takasugi Shinsaku to make a big move?

For a while, the city of Kyoto began to have an undercurrent. The ronmen of the Shinsengumi and Mieigumi patrolled the streets with knives every day. However, Nakamura Hanjiro hadn't been found yet, and the surrounding people were harassed by them first. Needless to say, the emperor and his officials were eating melon seeds in the imperial city to watch the fun, but everyone in the shogunate was in danger.

Zhang Heng is also paying attention to the development of the situation. It is rare for him to get the exact whereabouts of Wudao in the world. Of course, he would like to take this opportunity to collect Shuzhuwan Hengci, but the premise is that he must find it before the new selection group. Nakamura Hanjiro, and this is not easy, there are also a lot of forces in Kyoto, and no one knows where Nakamura Hanjiro is hiding now.

On the other side, the French businessman on the other side has had fewer and fewer little tails behind him because of his hard performance during this period of time. When the news of Hanjiro Nakamura's entry to Beijing was heard on the plane, no one was in the mood to stare at him anymore.

So Gabriel found Zhang Heng that afternoon, and asked mysteriously, "Are you busy tomorrow night?"

"Huh?" Zhang Heng raised his eyebrows.

"Tomorrow night there is a very important banquet that requires you to be an interpreter. Don't worry, if I do well, I can pay you ten small sentences at once." The French businessman added.

So far, this translation job is indeed not so easy and comfortable, and it is not directly proportional to the generous remuneration, but Zhang Heng knows that this situation will not last forever. Now that the drama meat is finally brought up, he believes that as long as he I promised Gabriel, and tomorrow night I will know what the French businessman has been planning.

However, this time the money may not be so easy to earn.

No matter what the other party plans to do, it is obviously not to be shown to others. Zhang Heng will not be so naive as to think that Gabriel will really believe in the secrecy ability of this strange ronin, so after the other party "uses" him It's not hard to guess.

Zhang Heng now needs to make a decision whether to take this risk or not. If it is only for the reward of the ten small judgments, he will turn his head and leave now. He exempted the rent, but he refused. No matter how bad he was, he could continue to make money as translators for other businessmen, but he got a little less.

But what really interested Zhang Heng was the group of people Gabriel was going to contact.

Now that he already knew that the person from the shogunate was following the French businessman behind his back, this means that Gabriel may have had contact with the forces that have fallen behind the curtain, and Zhang Heng just wants to find Tsuzumaru Kojiro, the whereabouts of Hanjiro Nakamura. It will fall on the group of fallen forces.

Therefore, it is very difficult for Zhang Heng to refuse the trip to the banquet tomorrow night. This is the only useful clue in his hand at this stage, and he is also confident in his sword skills, so Zhang Heng agreed to Gabriel's offer after thinking for a while. Request, the latter seemed to breathe a sigh of relief.

"Great, then we'll see you at the old place tomorrow night."

Thanks to the book friend 151110204611556, and the reward of S children's boots~