More than half a month ago, almost at the same time as the naval battle of Dayuan.

Kyushu, Japan.

Hizen, Takashijima.

It was already dark, and the two figures walked briskly through the barren mountains, skirting countless cols and winding paths, and finally stopped in front of a broken wooden house hidden behind a tree.

The diminutive man at the head knocked rhythmically on the door.

After a while, someone squeaked the door open, and seeing his appearance, he put down the axe in his hand and got out of the way: "Lord Ebe, why are you late?" ”

Ebe Yoshiji only gave a slight gesture, and then led the person behind him into the house with his head bowed.

Ordinary Japanese people would be horrified to see the sight of this house, which is facing a huge wooden cross with a lifelike carved figure of a man hanging on the east wall. On the table under the cross are several candles and a book. On the opposite side are rows of neat seats. It is clearly a small Catholic church.

You must know that the Tokugawa shogunate has issued a "ban on Christianity", and throughout Japan, once Catholics are found, they will be immediately executed with cruel punishment.

But the dozen or so people in the house apparently did not take the shogunate's ban seriously, and actually carried out Catholic activities in this barren mountain.

They turned around and saw Ebe Yoshiji, and were about to smile and say hello, but suddenly saw the tall man behind him, who immediately stood up with a sickle and a pitchfork, and said in a panic: "Ebe-kun, who is this person?!" ”

No wonder they were nervous, if the stranger revealed what they had seen, none of them would survive!

Without waiting for Ebe Yoshiji to answer, he saw the man behind him take a few steps forward and said loudly: "In Xia Lou Ming, it is a priest." ”

"Priest?"

More than a dozen people surrounded him suspiciously, and if they found the slightest abnormality in him, they would immediately kill him.

Someone heard that Lou Ming's Japanese accent was a little strange, and contacted his name, and said in surprise: "You, you are from the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"Not bad."

These people immediately glared at Ebe viciously, "Are you crazy? How do you bring a bearded captive here?! ”

"Listen to me......"

Lou Ming interrupted him again and said indifferently to the people around him: "I am here to save you according to the decree of Jesus." ”

Everyone immediately looked at each other, and after a while, Ebe Yoshiji was able to interject: "It's true! I have been with Father Lou for a long time, and I am completely sure that I have brought him to you. ”

This Ebe Yoshiji was a wealthy family in the Austronesian area, and he had quite a prestige in this circle, and as soon as he said this, the others couldn't help but put down their hands holding weapons.

A short and thin old man looked at Lou Ming and said cautiously, "Are you really a priest?" What about saving us? ”

Lou Ming was actually a hundred households sent to Japan to assist Dai Xiuyuan by Jinyi Weibei Town, but he had many dealings with Japanese merchants and was quite familiar with Catholicism. He immediately took out a cross from his bosom according to the "script", and said with a majestic expression: "I am naturally a priest.

"When Jesus learned of your suffering, he ordered Lord Amakusa to be reincarnated. I am the godfather of Amakusa-sama after reincarnation. ”

Amakusa?!

These two words made everyone feel like they were electrocuted, and they couldn't help staring at Lou Ming, and said in a trembling voice: "You...... Is what Father Priest said true? ”

Amakusa Tokisada was the leader of the religious uprising in Kyushu more than a decade ago. At the end of the 16th century, Catholicism was introduced to Japan, and it spread so rapidly that most of Japan was populated with believers.

In order to eliminate the influence of the Church and consolidate its power, the ruling class began to ban Christianity. From Toyotomi Hideyoshi to Tokugawa Iemitsu, several times persecuted Catholics. Eventually, due to the brutality of the Matsukura Katsuya of the Shimabara Domain in Kyushu, the heavy taxation of the people led to the misery of the people, and finally a peasant uprising broke out in the Shimabara and Amakusa regions.

The rebel army, led by a sixteen-year-old boy - Amakusa Tokisada, occupied the original castle of Shimabara Island, erected a cross, and the flag was painted with a cross pattern, facing several times the shogunate army, and held out for nearly half a year, severely inflicting heavy damage on the shogunate rule.

After the failure of the uprising, a large number of Catholics were killed, and Amakusa Tokisada was also killed. However, legend has it that he was powerful, able to save the dead, could do magic, and had great influence among Catholics.

Lou Ming said: "It's true, Lord Amakusa is in Jiangbe-kun's house at this time. ”

Ebe Yoshiji nodded hurriedly, "Yes, yes, Amakusa-sama is giving up." ”

The old man was suspicious, "Are you sure he's Amakusa-sama?" ”

Ebe looked around and said in a low voice, "My lord told me his real name in his previous life, Shiro Masuda. There are also many things during the fierce battle in the original city, such as the time when the city was defended......"

He said a lot of things, and now the others couldn't hold their breath anymore.

The name of Shiro Masuda alone is known only to a very small number of core figures of the rebel army. As for the things that defended the city, almost all the people who rebelled at that time were killed, and who could know that much detail except for Amakusa-sama himself.

Of course, even if they dreamed of it, they couldn't have imagined that these were all told to Lou Ming by a descendant named Zhu Linmiao.

Seeing that they were beginning to waver, Lou Ming took out the trump card taught to him by the Son of Heaven again, and began to tell a "prophecy": Amakusa Shizhen fell into the demon world after his death, and was reincarnated back in the human world, summoning many swordsmen in the demon world, and after a hard battle, he finally overthrew Tokugawa Iemitsu, the black hand who suppressed the Shimabara Rebellion.

This so-called prophecy is all taken from the background story of Zhu Linmiao's later Japanese "Demon World Reincarnation", and the content is naturally twists and turns, fascinating, and these Japanese people who are extremely poor in spiritual and cultural life on weekdays are stunned.

After a while, someone finally asked with great excitement, "Father, please take us to meet Amakusa-sama!" ”

Lou Ming waved his hand and said, "Lord Amakusa consumes too much because of reincarnation, and now he is only seven years old. He entrusted me with leading his Lamb to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the devil. ”

Everyone was immediately stunned, "Seven years old? ”

"Righteousness?"

"Do you want to be an enemy of the shogunate?!"

The old man shook his head even more, "Father, I won't tell you, although we all hate the Tokugawa clan so much, there is not a day when we don't want to take revenge. But without the divine might of Amakusa-sama, our people would not be the opponents of the shogunate at all. No one will want to be involved in this inevitable struggle. ”

Ebe Yoshiji's eyes immediately lit up and said, "Although Amakusa-sama is a seven-year-old body, his supernatural powers are still there!" Last month, he cast a spell and brought me 500 iron cannons! ”

"Five hundred iron cannons?!" There was an immediate exclamation of exclamations all around.

The iron cannon they speak of is the firebolt. At present, the shogunate is extremely strict in regulating weapons, especially firearms, and even if you have money, you can't buy iron cannons.

And Amakusa-sama's method can "transform" into five hundred, which can only be explained by miracles!

Someone said, "But, five hundred iron cannons...... It's not enough. ”

Lou Ming smiled and said, "Lord Amakusa told me that with the mana he has left now, he can summon five thousand iron cannons, as well as the corresponding lead bullets, gunpowder, and even grain and grass. ”