Sakamoto Ryoma

He was originally a native of the Tosa clan, but later twice surrendered to the clan and became a reformer. He was one of the important promoters of the establishment of a military alliance between Satsuma and the Chōshu clan. He proposed eight strategies in the boat to Goto Shōjiro, namely, emphasizing the return of political power to the emperor's court and envisaging the establishment of a new state power system centered on the emperor, which also became an important guideline for the later reform government.

Ryoma Sakamoto was born at a time when Western capitalism invaded at the end of the shogunate and Japan was in an era of unprecedented national crisis. At this time, the awareness of national defense among people of insight in Japan was high. In order to defend Japan, samurai began to practice martial arts again. In particular, swordsmanship was once revived, and swordsmanship halls all over Japan flourished again. When he was a teenager, Sakamoto was no exception. He learned swordsmanship at the Kenji Hikino School, a swordsman from the Koguri Sect near his home. There are children of lower-level warriors gathered here, with no restrictions and a strong atmosphere of freedom.

In 1853, at the age of 19, Sakamoto went to Edo and entered the Kendo School of the Hoshima Ichiro School of Chiba Dingyoshi in Keibashi Tochō to further practice swordsmanship. He kept in mind his father's warnings-never forget to put loyalty and filial piety first in practice, never worry about wasting money on materials, never get involved in pornography, forget national affairs, and concentrate on learning skills together. Two years later, he finally obtained the teacher's secret inheritance certificate, moved his household registration to the Dingji Sword Arts Hall in Chiba, and settled in Edo. In the fourth year of Yasasa (1857), the main mountain content hall of Tosa Fran held a martial arts competition in Edo. Dozens of swordsmen participated in the competition, and Sakamoto and Kosuke Shimada won the competition.

The swordsmanship hall at that time was not only a place for martial arts practice, but also a political school. Young people from various kingdoms discussed national affairs and how Japan should treat foreign enemies. In order to confirm their claims, they traveled to various countries (kingdoms) to collect intelligence, and then returned to Edo as a material for discussion. Mizuyama Takeshi of Tosa, Shinsaku Takasugi of Changzhou, and Goro Gui were such young people. In 1861, Mizuyama Takeshi organized the Tosa Kinshin Party in his residence in Edo, and returned to Tosa to expand the organization. More than 200 people participated, and Sakamoto was one of them. In January 1862, Sakamoto, on behalf of Takeshi Mizuyama, the leader of the Tosa Kinshin Party, went to Changzhou to meet with the leader of the Changzhou Kinshin Party, Hyun Rui Kusaka, and to inquire about the situation in

At that time, defection from the vassal was a serious crime. Not only did he have to be executed, but he also implicated his family. Because Sakamoto left the vassal, his sister and daughter had to divorce, and gave Sakamoto a knife to his sister Rong to commit suicide. Brother Quan Ping spent a lot of money to avoid trouble. He himself became a professional revolutionary after leaving Tosa Domain, but the severe test of life awaited him.

The only path taken by those who defected at the end of the period was to riot and raise troops. For example, Shintaro Yoshimura, the pioneer of the military crusade who set off the "Tianshi Party Rebellion", had a strong sense of fame. However, Sakamoto surrendered not for fame, but to get rid of the shackles of the Tosa clan, which was full of reactionary forces, and gain freedom in thought and action. Therefore, after Sakamoto surrendered from the vassal, he did not follow Shintaro Yoshimura. Instead, he traveled around Kyushu, via Osaka to Edo, where he met Kaishu Muri and learned navigation from him. Takeichi Ruishan wrote a poem praising his decisive action to defuse the vassal:

The liver and gallbladder are powerful, and strange opportunities emerge from their own hands.

Who knows flying diving, but he is not ashamed of the name of the dragon.