Chapter 125 Qingdeng is promoted! Increased salary by 400 stones! [7000 words]
"Mr. Orange, tonight... thank you so much."
Katsurin Taro sincerely bowed almost 90 degrees to Aoto.
"Mr. Katsu, there is no need to be polite." Qingteng raised his hand to help Katsu Rintaro up and said modestly, "I just had good luck for a while and did what I should do as a 'Sankai' samurai."
After learning that Katsurintaro wanted to see him, Aoto guessed that Katsurintaro probably wanted to thank him in person.
Anyway, he happened to be free now, so Qingden took the initiative to greet Katsurin Taro.
As Ayoto expected - after seeing him coming, Katsurin Taro immediately saluted him respectfully and solemnly thanked him.
Katsu Rintaro is older than him, and judging from his official position, Katsu Rintaro is older than him by an unknown number of levels. Therefore, even though he has a life-saving grace for Katsu Rintaro, Ayoto does not treat him with any casual or disrespectful attitude.
I always use honorifics when speaking to Katsu Rintaro and Katsu Rintaro.
After thanking Aoto several times in one breath, Katsurin Taro straightened up and showed an expression of mixed emotions to Aoto.
"Mr. Orange, I have heard your name before."
"He is truly worthy of his reputation... He is indeed a young hero who has become famous recently."
"Um?"
At this moment, Katsurin Taro suddenly opened his eyes even wider and carefully looked at Qingden from head to toe.
"Mr. Orange...have we met recently? Why do I always feel that you look familiar?"
Qingdeng raised his eyebrows and laughed and said: "When I went out to eat at noon today, I passed by the gate of the martial arts institute. At that time, I passed by Mr. Sheng who came out of the martial arts institute. It was probably at this time that you saw
You know me, so you have an impression on me."
Katsurin Taro showed a look of sudden realization: "Yes, yes, I remembered, you are one of the tall guys I saw outside the martial arts school at noon today."
"Haha, it seems that the two of us have a strange fate."
After expressing a small sigh in a half-joking tone, Katsurin Taro turned his head and looked at the Tibetan Bookstore next to him with a somewhat sad look, which had been partially burned down.
"Mr. Ju, you not only saved us tonight, but you also saved this Tibetan Bookstore."
"Without your timely arrival, this academic center, which was built with countless people's efforts, would have been completely destroyed by those lunatics..."
"You have been very kind to me and to us, Fanshu Diao."
Katsurin Taro turned his gaze from the Fan Shu Tiao Institute back to Qing Teng's face, revealing a smile full of gratitude.
"Mr. Orange, if you encounter anything that needs help in the future, just come to us. Wherever we can help, we will try our best to help!"
"Will you try your best to help me..." Qingden smiled, "... By coincidence, Mr. Sheng, I happen to have something that I need your help with right now."
Sheng Rintaro was startled for a moment, then said quickly: "What's the matter? Please tell me."
"Actually, it's nothing, I just have a question to ask you."
Qingdeng raised his hand and made a gesture of pulling the trigger.
"Mr. Katsu, how did you get that revolver?"
While fighting fiercely with the "surrounding team" of the "anti-barbarian group" outside the transfer station, Qingdeng kept hearing vague gunshots coming from inside the transfer station.
After the war, he inquired with someone and found out that these gunshots came from a revolver owned by Katsurin Taro.
"Huh? Mr. Tachibana, why do you ask this?"
"I'm just a little curious," Qingdeng said casually.
"Oh..." Katsurin Taro nodded slightly, and then without doubting his presence, he reached out and took out a black revolver from his arms, "This gun was from when I went to the United States two months ago.
I received it from an American friend of mine."
"Although it is very powerful, loading and aiming are very troublesome. If you don't train hard, whether you can hit a target in the distance depends entirely on luck."
"That's it..." Qingdeng murmured, "It's a gun given by a friend..."
——It turns out I didn’t buy it myself...
Qingdeng couldn't help but feel a little regretful.
He originally wanted to find out how to buy a gun from Katsu Rintaro...
For Qingdeng, whose soul comes from the 21st century, he has long been salivating over firearms.
If it weren't for the fact that he couldn't find a way to buy a gun, he would have stopped practicing swordsmanship and went to buy a pistol!
Although Aoto was regretful that he could not ask Katsurintaro what he wanted, he was not too anxious.
——Forget it...weapons like pistols...just let it happen...
Qingdeng comforted himself in his heart.
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Tonight is a sleepless night for many people in Edo.
Not to mention the "Three Chapters" from the execution center who have been working hard since daytime to hunt down the barbarian group.
In order to escape the fire scene, people dragged their families and families to flee to a safe place.
In order to prevent the fire from spreading, the local fire department officers all had their faces blackened by the fire.
After nearly an hour of fighting, the fires in various parts of Edo were finally extinguished.
Being able to put out the fire so quickly was all thanks to two things.
1: God’s cooperation.
Although there was a slight night wind tonight, the wind was not strong overall. Without the help of the wind, the spread of the flames was greatly slowed down, leaving enough time for the town fire department to remove the fire belt.
Two: The shogun...that is, the mobilization of Tokugawa Iemo.
Tonight is a "sleepless night" not only for the residents of the town, but also for the officials at the execution office and the town fire department.
The Supreme Being who lives in Edo Castle has not slept until now...
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Edo, Edo Castle, Fujimi oar——
"Sir General, the fire in Edo City has been basically extinguished." A man named Tokugawa Iemo knelt on one knee behind him and reported respectfully to Tokugawa Iemo who was now standing by the window.
At this moment, Tokugawa Iemo, who was standing by the window, was holding the window edge with both hands, pressing his lips tightly, and looking at the world outside the window solemnly.
And beside him, stood the "empress dowager of the day": Tianzouin - she stood side by side with Tokugawa Iemo, and looked out the window with Tokugawa Iemo.
Outside the window, in the towns and cities of Edo, the thick smoke that was still very strong just now has basically dissipated.
The firelight that originally illuminated half of the sky almost disappeared at this time.
Under the cover of night, the towns and cities of Edo were once again plunged into darkness.
Looking at the town where there was finally no more firelight, and listening to the report just made by the young man behind him, Tokugawa Iemo's face, which had been tense, finally gradually relaxed.
"It's finally extinguished... Let the town fire department calculate the damage as soon as possible. How many people died and how many houses were burned down? You have to give me an accurate figure."
"yes!"
"Okay, please step back first."
The young man lowered his head, said "Yes" loudly, and then exited the room with a quick but polite pace.
As soon as this young man left, he saw Tianzhangin, who had been standing next to Tokugawa Iemo, smile slightly.
"...Sir General." Tianzhangyuan asked in her wonderful and ethereal voice, "That's great, the fire in the town has finally been put out."
Tokugawa Iemo showed a tired smile: "It's been such a long night..."
As the shogun's residence, Edo Castle is located in the center of Edo. If anything big happened in the castle towns of Edo, it would not escape the eyes of Edo Castle.
When the flames started to appear in Edo's cities and towns, such as Kawan-machi, Edo Castle immediately detected the change.
Although there is a wide moat around Edo Castle, we should not be careless in the face of fire.
Thinking back two hundred years ago, the "Meiretsu Fire" that burned two-thirds of Edo to rubble spread to Edo Castle and burned down the Edo Castle Castle Tower, which was the tallest in the country at the time.
Already.
Although there was no wind tonight, as long as we acted quickly, there was a great hope of preventing the fire from getting out of control. However, the fires broke out in so many places at the same time, and the noise was still a bit scary. For the sake of caution, the officials responsible for serving Tokugawa Iemo in Edo Castle finally
Still decided to escort Tokugawa Iemo to a safe place.
At that time, Tokugawa Iemo had already fallen asleep. His attendants woke him up urgently and wanted to take Tokugawa Iemo to temporarily escape from Edo Castle through a tunnel.
After waking up in a daze and figuring out what had happened, Tokugawa Iemo had a serious face.
"It's ridiculous! As a general who conquered the barbarians, wouldn't it make people laugh if I ran away before the fire in the castle town was completely out of control?" - With these words, he severely reprimanded and advised him to leave Edo Castle temporarily.
After a meal with those people, Tokugawa Iemo insisted on staying.
Also requesting to stay in Edo Castle was Tenjoin: "With such a fire, it is far from the point where we need to leave through the tunnel."
Tokugawa Iemo got dressed, and together with Tenjoin boarded the Fujimi Tower, the tallest building in Edo Castle, where you can overlook Mount Fuji in the distance and have a panoramic view of the entire Edo city when the weather is good.
While monitoring the fire-fighting situation in real time in the tallest building in Edo Castle, he also personally issued a mobilization order: recruiting fire-fighting bandit Kai and other troops to participate in the fire-fighting.
Tokugawa Iemo's mobilization order played a great role.
Although the fire-fighting thieves Kai and other troops do not have very professional fire-fighting skills, they are still capable of helping guide the townspeople to evacuate to safe places and help demolish houses and other tasks.
With the additional manpower transferred by Tokugawa Iemo, the pressure on Edo's town fire department was greatly reduced.
With the help of "Tianshi" and "Herenhe", the town fire department finally put out the sudden fire tonight.
The string that had been tight relaxed... Tokugawa Iemo suddenly felt tiredness rushing towards him like a tide.
But now is not the time to settle down and rest.
Tokugawa Iemo raised his hand, pressed his eyebrows hard, and said in a deep voice: "After that... I have to let the people who changed the robbers to find out who was so bold and dared to set fire to the town..."
Fire Bandits Kai - a special security force in Edo.
The initial function of this special force was to catch thieves and arsonists.
But with the passage of time, and after many reorganizations, their actual functions have gradually evolved into being responsible for handling various serious and major cases, and arresting those for the Edo Office that cannot be solved by the Office alone.
those vicious criminals,
In a nutshell - they catch the criminals that the officers of the enforcement office cannot catch! They come to crack down on the criminal groups that are difficult for the officers of the enforcement office to attack! They can control what the enforcement office cannot control, and they can control what the enforcement office can control
More manageable.
Under his name, he directly manages the most important armed force in the shogunate's military system - the Advanced Group.
The Pioneer Group is a vanguard force with a long history. It is mainly equipped with long-range weapons such as bows, arrows and muskets. It has repeatedly charged on the battlefield for the Tokugawa family and made countless contributions to the Edo shogunate.
In other words, the combat power and equipment that the Huo Fu Thieves Kai can use are much stronger than those of the Enforcement Station.
The executioner can only use various cold weapons, while the fire thieves can mobilize a large number of bows, arrows, firearms, and even war horses.
Therefore, the actual positioning of Huo Fu Thief Kai is similar to the WU police force in the 21st century.
It is a public security organization in name, but it is actually an army, one of the most important and most powerful standing armies of the shogunate.
Even a fool can see that tonight's fire must have been set ablaze by someone!
How could it be such a coincidence that so many towns and cities caught fire at the same time!
Tokugawa Iemo is really on fire right now.
Setting fire to Edo... is unreasonable! You are simply ignoring the millions of living beings in Edo!
If the tragedy of the Mingli Fire were to happen again, I don’t know how many people would be killed in the flames!
Tokugawa Iemoge had secretly made up his mind at this time - no matter what, the thieves who set the fire tonight must be discovered and severely punished!
Tenzouin, who was standing next to Tokugawa Iemo, looked serious after hearing Tokugawa Iemo's firm murmur.
Like Tokugawa Iemo, she felt quite angry about the fact that someone set fires everywhere in Edo tonight.
At this moment, an announcement suddenly sounded outside the room:
"Sir General! There is an urgent order from the execution office!"
The owner of this announcement was none other than the young man who just exited the room.
"Following the urgent order from the office?" Tokugawa Iemo frowned, "Come in!"
Wow - the door was opened, and the young man returned to Tokugawa Iemo and the others.
He quickly ran to Tokugawa Iemo and knelt down, then put the tightly tied scroll in his hand on the bearing.
Tokugawa Iemo took the scroll, then raised his hand to signal the young man to leave for now.
After the young man left the room again, Tokugawa Iemo untied the scroll and unfolded it.
He glanced at the words on the scroll - Tokugawa Iemo's expression suddenly changed.
Tianzhangin, who noticed the change in Tokugawa Iemo's expression, quickly asked:
"General, what happened?"
"..." Tokugawa Iemo, with a calm face, handed the scroll in his hand to Tianzhangin without saying a word.
Tenzouin took the scroll and looked at it quickly - and then, like Tokugawa Iemo, his expression changed drastically.
After reporting at all levels, an incident no less serious than tonight's "arson incident": "The attack on the Fanshu Diao Office" was finally handed over to the supreme ruler of the Edo shogunate.
In this scroll, Hakui and Atsukawa jointly describe everything that happened today in a rigorous style.
In order to guard against the barbarian group tonight, the execution office deployed the entire city for defense; the Fanshu Diao Station was attacked; Katsurin Taro and others who stayed at the Fan Shu Diao Station almost died...
At the end of the scroll, Hakui and Atsukawa also pointed out that they had serious suspicions that tonight's "arson incident" was also committed by the anti-barbarian group.
A simple scroll made Tokugawa Iemo and Tenzouin feel frightened when they saw it.
The Tosho Institute was an academic center dedicated to the study of foreign studies built by the shogunate with a lot of money. It was the hope of revitalizing the country in the minds of Tokugawa Iemo and Tenjoin.
As for Katsurin Taro, he was an important minister that both of them valued highly.
It has been rumored by the outside world that Tokugawa Iemo intended to let Katsu Rintaro be the first "Marshal of the Navy" of the Edo shogunate... This rumor is actually correct.
Tokugawa Iemoji indeed intended to use this valuable talent who was proficient in Western military science to form the naval force of their shogunate.
When they saw the part in the scroll about the attack on the Fanshu Adjustment Institute and the attack on Katsurin Taro who happened to be working in the Fanshu Adjustment Institute tonight, both Tokugawa Iemo and Tenzouin were so shocked that cold sweat broke out down their backs.
After seeing that the Fanshu Diao Institute was not completely destroyed and that Sheng Lintaro was rescued, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
"The anti-barbarian group..." Tokugawa Iemo raised his hand to press his eyebrows again, his expression extremely solemn, "Tsk...it's really a wave that has not subsided, but another wave has risen..."
Tokugawa Iemo closed his eyes and let out a heavy and long sigh.
During this period of time... To be precise, since the "Sakurada Gate Incident", Tokugawa Iemoji has hardly stopped to rest, and his spirit has been in a state of high tension.
In order to restore normalcy as soon as possible to the shogunate that had become extremely chaotic due to the death of Naomi Ii, Tokugawa Iemo quickly promoted Nobumasa Ando, whom he trusted very much, to the position of chief minister. With the assistance of Nobumasa Ando and Tenjoin, he tried his best to quell the chaos.
But how can the chaos caused by the death of Ii Naomi be easily solved?
While resolving the confusion caused by the power vacuum, Tokugawa Iemo also had to devote his attention to dealing with the issue of war.
Because the assassins who assassinated Naomi Ii were basically vassals of the Mito Domain, during this period, many ministers aggressively requested the launch of the "Mito Expedition", summoning the shogunate army and the vassal armies of each domain to conquer the Mito Domain!
There are those who advocate war, and naturally there are those who advocate peace.
Regarding whether to conquer Mito, the war faction and the peace faction were almost evenly matched, and the two parties were so quarrelsome that Tokugawa Iemo felt a headache.
Various internal worries within the shogunate have not yet been resolved...foreign troubles have emerged one after another...
Tokugawa Iemo had also heard a little about this "anti-barbarian group" that had assembled more than 200 people to attack and kill French businessmen more than two months ago.
He originally thought it was just a slightly larger "radical anti-barbarian" organization, but now he was shocked after reading the report on the scroll - this anti-barbarian group was far more crazy and terrifying than he imagined.
!
It is no longer a hostile organization that can be treated normally...
Internal and external troubles came one after another... Even the strong-minded Tokugawa Iemo couldn't help but feel a bit heavy and tired.
But the good thing is - it's not just bad things that keep happening.
Tokugawa Iemo received the scroll.
Since everything that happened tonight is written in the scroll, it naturally also contains information about who turned the tide and saved Katsurin Taro and the Fanshu Diaosuo.
"Tachibana Aoden..." Tokugawa Iemo chewed this name gently.
Tenzouin, who heard Tokugawa Iemo's chewing, slowly said with a surprised expression: "It's really unbelievable... This person can achieve another great achievement so quickly..."
Both Tokugawa Iemo and Tenjoin are no strangers to the name "Tachibana Aoden".
The last name written on the "talent book" that Naoki Ii gave to Tokugawa Iemo was "Tachibana Aoden".
After receiving this "talent book" from Naomi Ii, Tokugawa Iemo immediately shared it with the person he trusted most: Tenjoin.
Tianzhang Academy has given very high praise to this "talent book". Most of the people written in it are outstanding talents that Tianzhang Academy is very optimistic about.
Because she had read through the talent book, Tenchoin also knew that Tachibana Aoden was one of the talents that Naomi Ii strongly recommended to Tokugawa Iemo.
"Tachibana Aoden... Tachibana Aoden..." Tokugawa Iemo muttered Aoden's name a few more times, then smiled:
"It seems that Jing Yi did not recommend the wrong person to me..."
After saying that, Tokugawa Iemo suddenly turned solemn and looked depressed.
"Sir General, what's wrong? Why do you look troubled?" Tenzouin asked curiously after noticing the depressed look on Tokugawa Iemo's face.
"Oh...it's nothing." Tokugawa Iemo shook his head, "I'm just...thinking about how to cultivate this Tachibana Aoden."
"Now I can confirm that the Tachibana Aoden recommended to me by Ii is indeed a very courageous person with outstanding action, decisiveness, force, and leadership ability. He is an outstanding talent worthy of our focus and training."
"We can't abandon such an outstanding talent."
"However, I am a little worried about how to train this person."
Tokugawa Iemo sighed silently.
"Judging from Tachibana Aoden's current performance...the military is the place where he can best demonstrate his talents."
"I'm thinking - should I just transfer Tachibana Aoden to the big division or some other unit..."
Before Tokugawa Iemo finished speaking, Tianzhangin interrupted:
"General, no."
"I think that if you want to further train and cultivate Tachibana Aoden, the best way is to maintain the status quo - let Tachibana Aoden continue to stay in the 'three chapters' of the training center."
"Oh? Why?" Tokugawa Iemo asked quickly.
To Tokugawa Iemo, Tenzōin was not only his adoptive mother and the most trusted person, but also his think tank.
Tokugawa Iemo, who is only 14 years old this year, still has many immature and unclear things about the shogunate.
As for Tenjoin, who was 10 years older than Tokugawa Iemo and was the princess of Satsuma Domain before marrying to Edo, she was already used to seeing all kinds of political ins and outs.
Therefore, Tenzouin, who is smart and knowledgeable and familiar with politics, can very well make up for Tokugawa Iemo's shortcomings in this aspect.
Whenever Tokugawa Iemo encountered something difficult to decide, he would often ask Ji Tianzhangin.
"Sir General, what do you think is more tempering: the prison camp where the thugs are currently fighting against the 'radical anti-barbarian faction', or the current decadent army?"
Tianzhangyuan's words were extremely sharp.
The word "rotten" is directly used to describe the current shogunate army.
But after hearing this, Tokugawa Iemo did not show any displeasure.
I saw Tokugawa Iemo purse his lips, thoughtfully.
"Sir General, except for a very small number of troops such as Huo Fu Thief Kai, you should also know what most of the troops look like now."
Tianzhangyuan then continued using her ethereal voice to speak calmly.
"Nearly three hundred years of peace... have long since corrupted most of the troops."
"If Ju Qingden is transferred into the army now, it will be called a treasure in the ocean. Staying in a place where even the air is filled with the smell of decay will only destroy a person's spirit."
"So I think the best thing to do at the moment is to let Tachibana Aoto continue to stay at the training center for the 'three times'."
"Right now, the Edo Administrative Office is the front line against the 'radical anti-barbarians' in Edo. They are fighting those crazy thugs every day."
"It is most appropriate for Tachibana Aoden to continue to stay in the training center to train and accumulate qualifications."
"After Tachibana Aoden has been trained in the prison for several years and accumulated certain qualifications, Tachibana Aoto will be transferred to the Huo Fu Thief Kai."
"Fire pays thieves?" Tokugawa Iemo blinked at Tenzouin.
Tianzhangyuan nodded:
"The Huofu Thief Kai is very suitable for the future destination of Tachibana Aoden."
"First, the Huofu Thieves Kai is a special security force of our shogunate. Tachibana Aoto, who was born in the "Sanchai" of the Enforcement Office, was able to quickly adapt to and take over related work after being transferred to the Fire Thieves Kai."
"Second, the Fire Thief Kai is one of the very few troops that has not yet been completely corrupted. It is the best place for a hero like Tachibana Aoden who has the talent of a general."
Tokugawa Iemo listened carefully to every word and sentence of Tianzhangin.
"……I see."
Tokugawa Iemo nodded solemnly.
"Then as Mother said, let Tachibana Aoden continue to stay in the training center and train!"
After saying that, Tokugawa Iemo smiled.
"Then...Mother, let's talk about what kind of reward we should give to Tachibana Aoden, who has made another great contribution tonight."
"Protecting the Shenghe Fan Shu Tiao Institute...this is an achievement that must be highly rewarded."
"Sir General." Tianzhangyuan asked, "In your personal opinion, what kind of reward should be given to Ju Qingden?"
Tokugawa Iemo pondered for a moment:
"...Since I have decided to train Tachibana Aoden properly...then I want to gradually upgrade Tachibana Aoden's status from now on!"
"Ju Qingden is currently only an imperial member of the 100 Shi family. This status is really too lowly."
"If we want to entrust him with important responsibilities in the future, we cannot let his status remain low like this."
"Mother, I would like to increase the salary of Ju Qingden by 400 stones!"
"400 stones?" Tianzhangyuan's beautiful eyes opened wider, with a look of surprise on his face.
But after the brief surprise, the look of surprise on Tianzhangyuan's face quickly turned into a look of thinking.
"...Although giving Ju Qingdeng an additional 400 stones in one breath...is a bit out of the norm." Tianzhangyuan said slowly, "But it's not completely impossible..."
"I want to take advantage of this opportunity to boost everyone's morale." Tokugawa Iemo smiled and said, "I want to tell everyone through Tachibana Aoden: Things are no longer what they used to be. Now you only need to make great contributions, and the shogunate will not
Will be stingy with rewards!"
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