What History Teaches Us
"I… I see! The Normandy Peninsula was ceded to the Duchy of Sussex!"
When I showed the chief of a certain village on the Normandy Peninsula a letter from the King of Normandy, he was easily convinced.
Well, like Sussex, the Normandy Peninsula is also a hotly contested area in the event of a war between the Kingdom of Britain and the Frankish Kingdom, so perhaps they have the wisdom to be obedient to the new lord.
"If you understand, explain to the villagers that we are important people of the Duchy of Sussex!"
"I understand. You were the King of Sussex and the captain of the Golden Skull Pirates which is one of the Five Dukes!
I had no idea that one of the Five Dukes, Golden Skull Pirates, had taken over the Duchy of Sussex!
From the moment I laid eyes on you, I felt like you were a conqueror!"
The village chief keeps currying favor me.
Even though I know that it's a way to survive in the world, I feel itchy.
"Just in case, we’ll make it tax-free for a while!
For more details, please ask Heidi, the Minister of Finance!"
I gave Heidi and ran away.
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"So, what are we going to do now?"
I ask Shiro a question.
"That's right. First of all, we will fortify the Normandy Peninsula just like Sussex!"
"That's good. If we don't do that, the Normandy Peninsula will soon be taken over by European powers due to its location!"
This is a strange theory that I came up with myself.
I answer while thinking of the theory that the Yamato Imperial Court (Yamataikoku) was a maritime nation that ruled southern Korea, the Chugoku region of Japan, and northern Kyushu.
"Indeed, the current relationship between the Duchy of Sussex and the Normandy Peninsula is similar to the Yamato Imperial Maritime Nation Theory that Master came up with!"
"Yeah. Himiko ruled the southern part of the Korean Peninsula,
The theory I came up with is that the Okuninushi (Daikoku-sama), a family member of her younger brother Susanou, ruled the Chugoku region and Kyushu!"
"In the end, the descendants of Himiko, who ruled the Korean peninsula, lost to the combined forces of Silla and Tang at the Battle of Hakusonko on the Korean peninsula, and fled back to Japan!''
"That's right. And since the descendant of Himiko, who was the older sister, was originally a higher-ranking sister, the incident where the Ōkuninushi, who was a descendant of Susano, was forced to hand over the country was the heavenly grandchild descent!"
I briefly explain the original and correct heavenly grandchild descent.
This is because it is a story written in the Kojiki that was written by a descendant of the Himiko side that ruled the Korean peninsula, so it is written like a beautiful story.
"In the end, Okuninushi agreed to those messed-up conditions that he builds a large shrine and enshrine himself in it!"
"Yeah. Or rather, the ruler of the country has succumbed to the Confucian ideas that Koreans love so much.
Even when I read the Kojiki, the descendants of Himiko were saying a lot of ridiculous things, and the Ōkuninushi seemed like a pain...
So, in exchange for ceding the country, the large shrine built was today's Izumo Taisha!"
"Well, that’s just Master’s theory!"
Shiro adds a few words to prevent the reader from believing that everything I'm saying is true.
"Stop being an idiot! My idea is the most correct one!
It's usually written in the Kojiki!
Idiot historians have strange delusions and fabricate history on their own!
Are Himiko, Amaterasu Omikami, and Empress Jingu different people?
Are you an idiot?
They're all the same person!
Himiko, who appears in Gishi Wajinden, is just referring to the shrine maiden of Japan in a degrading way, and Yamataikoku is just referring to Yamato province in a degrading way!
Moreover, it is clearly written in Gishi Wajinden that the southern part of the Three Koreas on the Korean Peninsula was the territory of Yamatai, and it is also clearly written that Himiko has a younger brother who assists in national affairs!
No matter how you think about it, it's probably Susanoo!
In the Kojiki, it is written that Amaterasu ruled Takamagahara, Tsukuyomi ruled Night Shokukuni, and Susanou ruled Umibara.
It says that there was a country ruled by Himiko and another country ruled by Susano!
Kaibara means the country across the ocean from the Korean Peninsula!
Truly, past Japanese historians were idiots because they read too much into it!
It's pretty simple though.
Everyone wants to boast that they've discovered a new truth about history, so they fantasize about history that doesn't even exist!"
I say it with full confidence.
"Master, you talk about history, but!
Actually, you're dissing all Japanese historians and turning them into enemies!"
Shiro warns me that I get carried away and say unnecessary things.
"I'm a history lover!
When I was in a third-rate college, my seminar teacher bossily said to me, [Tell me who you admire!] You know what I said!"
"The other students said things like their parents, but you said, Shinsaku Takasugi!''
Shiro replies. Of course, she knows.
"Yeah. Then, after I announced to everyone who I admired, that idiot Professor Oshima called me by name and said, [You said you like Shinsaku Takasugi, but how much do you know about Shinsaku Takasugi, whom you admire? Do you know? If you admire him, of course, you know how old Shinsaku Takasugi was when he died, right?
You can't say you admire him without knowing that!], he said in a kind of angry and arrogant manner!"
"Professor Oshima is an idiot! I know that scene from Master’s memory, but he is too stupid to try to ask history to Master!
Master has read over 100 novels and articles about Shinsaku Takasugi.''
"He was an idiot professor who tried to show his students how great he was!
So I remembered it normally, it was 28 or 29 years old.
I answered. At the end of the Edo period, a person's age was measured in years, so I decided to tell him both the age they counted and the age he actually died!
Because I don't want to be told otherwise!"
"That professor, did he happen to be reading a novel about Shinsaku Takasugi recently and thought he could say that?
His opponent was bad. Master's memory for history is a monster!"
"He, when I answered normally, froze for a moment and then changed the subject as if nothing had happened!"
"Professor Oshima, after that, he sacrificed Master one after another and was so intent on dissing you!"
"Yeah. If you answer the right answer, people usually say you're right!
And yet, can you think of any way to diss it?"
"So he's a third-rate professor at a third-rate university, right?"
"That's right..."
I felt like I was being called a third-rate student, and even though I graduated from a third-rate university, I was also being looked down upon, but I had demonstrated through skills.
"Well, putting aside the bastard Professor Oshima story, historically speaking, the Normandy Peninsula overlaps with the Korean Peninsula, making it easy for the mainland to make trouble.
We'll be able to handle it against the Duchy of Normandy, but if a major power like the Frankish Kingdom or the Holy Roman Empire comes along, we won't be able to defend it.''
"Master, you know what you're doing even though you're an idiot!"
"Anyone who knows history would know something like this!
That's why we're turning the Duchy of Normandy into a fortress, right?"
"That’s right! As expected of Master!
You only get serious when history is involved!"
"I really can't stand it when history is distorted!
Whether it's a famous historian, a professor at a third-rate university, or anyone!"
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