( And he'll follow? Lead the way? Either is fine with him. But he'll explain either way, )
He wanted to do everything. Japan was pretty old fashioned and isolated back then... He wanted to open up the ports! Make sure we could trade with other countries and grow strong like the other nations in the world. Our military was pretty weak too... we couldn't even defend ourselves from other countries, really 'cos all their weapons were better than us. So Ryouma got himself a navy and started trading arms so we could stand up for ourselves against the westerners. He wasn't lookin` for a fight or nothing like that... really, he didn't like fighting but he just wanted to make sure we'd be respected, ya know?
But a lotta people didn't like what he was doing there... 'cause swords were getting old fashioned by then. Everyone was using guns and he knew if wanted anyone ot take us serious, we'd have to switch over. But a lotta people were real proud about their swords for a lotta reasons and didn't wanna give those up.
... The Shinsengumi were guys that really liked their swords.
And that's just some of what he did, heh heh...
( There's a political and social side too!! His old man did a lot, okay. )
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( And he'll follow? Lead the way? Either is fine with him. But he'll explain either way, )
He wanted to do everything. Japan was pretty old fashioned and isolated back then... He wanted to open up the ports! Make sure we could trade with other countries and grow strong like the other nations in the world. Our military was pretty weak too... we couldn't even defend ourselves from other countries, really 'cos all their weapons were better than us. So Ryouma got himself a navy and started trading arms so we could stand up for ourselves against the westerners. He wasn't lookin` for a fight or nothing like that... really, he didn't like fighting but he just wanted to make sure we'd be respected, ya know?
But a lotta people didn't like what he was doing there... 'cause swords were getting old fashioned by then. Everyone was using guns and he knew if wanted anyone ot take us serious, we'd have to switch over. But a lotta people were real proud about their swords for a lotta reasons and didn't wanna give those up.
... The Shinsengumi were guys that really liked their swords.
And that's just some of what he did, heh heh...
( There's a political and social side too!! His old man did a lot, okay. )