Mirror!"【4400】

“Um…”

After listening to Genzaburo Inoue's explanation, Harada Zuosuke pondered.

After a while, he muttered:

“There is something weird…”

At the same time, Nagakura Shinhata was also murmured:

"I guess... no, I'm sure! The Chief Officer must know something!"

As soon as he finished speaking, he turned his head and looked at Inoue Genzaburo.

"Uncle Yuan, have you ever asked the porcelain pot that the Chief Secretary gave to Mr. Ju. What was in the pot of porcelain?

Inoue Genzaburo smiled bitterly:

"How dare I ask! The Chief Executive looked at that time, it was obvious that he didn't want anyone to know about the set of "secret deals" between him and Qingdeng! If she knew that I had witnessed the entire transaction process between her and Qingdeng, she might be angry!"

Nagakura Shinhata sighed softly:

"That's it... I'm right, it's really hard to ask people in person..."

At this time, Harada Zuosuke waved his hand suddenly.

"Forget it! Let's not worry so much!"

"Don't we know what kind of people are Mr. Juicy and the Chief Executive?"

"Mr. Ju, both civil and military, never does useless things!"

"Since he locked himself in the room and didn't want us to know what he was fiddling with, there must be some reason for him!"

"Let's eat, sleep, work, and wait quietly as always!"

"I have a premonition that Mr. Orange is doing something amazing now!"

After hearing this, Shinba Nagakura fell silent and then nodded slightly:

"Well... that's right."

Inoue Genzaburo also nodded in agreement.

After the brief chat, the three people who could not find the new topic moved forward silently and carried out the patrol mission step by step.

However, not long after, they heard a quick footnote from far to near. Two troop men in the second team controlled a young shabby warrior from left to right, and ran towards them quickly in three steps.

"Captain Nagakura! We found a sneaky suspicious member near Nijo Castle! We have escorted him!"

As he said that, the two teammen used a ruthless force to force the young warrior who was controlled by them to kneel down to the ground.

This man is about 30 years old, with an ordinary appearance, dirty hair, and a dark face. Even his clothes are covered with dust and dirt.

As soon as his knees touched the ground, he whispered loudly:

"Wait a minute! Please listen to the explanation below! I am definitely not a suspicious person! There is a very reasonable reason why I wander in Nijo Castle!"

His accent is very heavy, and some of the pronunciations don't even sound like Japanese at first.

Nagakura Shinhara and Inoue Genzaburo finally understood what this person was talking about.

On the contrary, Zuosuke Harada did not show a puzzled expression because of the person's accent. Instead, he seemed to have discovered something amazing, with a look of surprise.

"Huh? I heard your accent... Are you Tosa?"

This question was spoken by Harada Zuosuke in the dialect of his hometown (Iyu Matsuyama).

The young warrior was stunned for a moment, then nodded like pounding garlic:

"Yes, yes! I'm Tosa!"

Tosa - the Tosa vassal state, officially called Kochi vassal state, the lord is the Yamauchi clan, Ishigao 240,000, which is one of the most powerful vassal states in western Japan.

Harada Zuosuke smiled

"Ahhh! Then we are half a fellow villager! I am from Yi Yu-songyama!"

The Tosa family and the Iyu Matsuyama family are both located on the Shikoku Island.

The former is located on the south side of Shikoku Island and facing the Pacific Ocean in the east; the latter is located on the north side of Shikoku Island and connected to the Seto Inland Sea in the west, and both sides are considered neighbors.

Harada Zuosuke swept his eyes and looked at the other party roughly for a few times.

"From the clothes and outfits of you, are you a villager?"

The young warrior smiled embarrassedly:

"No...No... It's worse than a villager... It's an underground ronin..."

Nagakura Shin-eba turned his head and threw a puzzled look at Harada Zuosuke.

"Sonosuke, what is a village sect? What is an underground ronin?"

Harada Zuosuke laughed a few times:

"Ahhaha...this is a long story. Simply put, the village scholars and underground ronin are special classes of the Tosa family."

After thinking for a while, he cleared his throat and told the story-

The Tosa Countries were ruled by the Nagazomoto clan at the end of the Warring States Period.

In the 5th year of Keizao (1600), the Battle of Sekihara, who was surnamed Toyotomi or Tokugawa, Nagazo's army, was personally involved in the war as the Western Army.

After the Western Army was defeated, Nagazo's troops Mori was demoted and his identity was removed from his lord, and his territory was replaced by Yamauchi Ichifeng.

Speaking of Yamauchi Ichifeng, he can be called "the king of the Horizontal Jumping in the Warring States Period" and "the master of 'shouldering and learning'".

He was originally a lowly ronin, neither had extraordinary literary Tao nor extraordinary martial arts.

No matter from any aspect, he is just a mediocre person with mediocre ability.

However, he relied on his perfect "horizontal jump skills" and an unparalleled good wife, he successively went to the Shimaimura clan, Yamaoka clan, Oda clan, Toyotomi clan and Tokugawa clan, completing a class leap, soaring into the sky and becoming a great lord with 240,000 stones of land.

On the eve of Sekihara's battle, the keen Yamauchi Ichito expected that the world would change hands again and began to look for a strong man worthy of his dependence.

At that time, he was already enfeoffed in Guchuan City, Yuanjiang Kingdom, and enjoyed the reputation of a territory of 60,000 stones.

He foresaw that in today's world, only Tokugawa Ieyasu has the "three virtues of wisdom, benevolence and courage", so he resolutely abandoned his old master Toyotomi and defected to Tokugawa.

At that time, his wife, Chiyo, "one of the strongest good men in Japanese history", was detained in Kyoto as a hostage.

The Western Army sent people to threaten Chiyo and forced her to write a letter to Yifeng, urging him to join the Western Army.

For the sake of her husband's future, Chiyo disregarded life and death, pretended to agree, wrote a letter of advice, and at the same time took the risk of attaching a letter of his own family, which was roughly persuaded Ie-homo to rely on Ie-yao and store it in the thin rope of the hat.

This is the famous "Kasa'oi's story".

After Yamauchi Ichitomi received the letter, he handed it to Tokugawa Ieyasu intact, and all his territory was handed over to Tokugawa Ieyasu.

Seeing this, Tokugawa Ieyasu was very moved and praised Yamauchi Ichibe's loyalty as "like the center of a tree", while the others were just "branches and leaves".

In this way, with the bold and just right "licking", Yamauchi Ichito won the favor of Tokugawa Ieyasu.

After that, Yamauchi Ichitomi did not perform outstandingly in the Sekihara battle, which can be said to have not achieved any achievements.

But because of Chiyo's letter and Yamauchi Ichitomi's two actions of handing over letters to Tokugawa Ieyasu, Tokugawa Ieyasu still gave him the highest reward - from Kagawa in Toho River to Tosa of the Shiguo, the territory has increased four times, from 60,000 shi to 240,000 shi!

In the second year after the Battle of Sekihara, Yamauchi Ichito officially arrived at Tosa.

He first arrived at a strange land and was a lord without prestige.

The old retainers of the old lord, Nagazo, my tribe in the Tosa area were still attached to the old lord.

In addition, Yamauchi Ichitomi did not have outstanding personal charm and gained fame by relying solely on "shouldering" and "licking", which made the remains of the Nagatozo's army unable to convince him.

They treated Yifeng with lip service, but they were just obedient.

Long before Ichifeng entered the country, they incited Ikki to resist Ichifeng's entry.

Later, Ichito sent his brother Yamauchi Yamauchi to launch a brutal suppression, and more than 270 people were beheaded.

After Ikki was suppressed, Ichifeng began to artificially create class conflicts in order to establish his absolute rule in Tosa.

He set the "Yamanai Samurai Warrior" who entered the country with him as "Superiors" and the remaining ministers of Nagato's tribe as "Live Scholars".

There is also a transitional class called "Baizha Township Scholars" between the two, similar to "Certain Scholars".

The identity of a village scholar can be traded, but there is a tight barrier between the sergeant and other classes.

Under Yamauchi Ichitomi's careful design, the sergeant enjoyed a high status and many privileges, but the sergeant suffered crazy suppression.

The discriminatory treatments received by the village scholars include and are not limited to: they cannot wear wooden clogs; they cannot hold umbrellas in rainy days; they must give way and salute when they meet a sergeant; they cannot wear clothes well... etc.

As for "underground ronin", it refers to a person who sold his identity as a villager.

"Underground ronin" can still be called the surname Pian Dao, but their household registration is no longer a warrior, but a civilian.

After explaining to Nagakura Shinhara and Inoue Genzaburo what the lunar sect and underground ronin were, Harada Zuosuke's eyes fell back to the young samurai.

"Brother, for the sake of our two people being half fellow villagers, I don't make things difficult for you!"

"Tell me quickly, why are you wandering sneakily around Nijo Castle?"
To be continued...