Takasaka Masanobu looked at Liu Eighteen suspiciously, and then at Soranta, and said strangely:

"The family governor, he is a spy captured by the Takeda family not long ago, because he is a crosser, so he became a horse groom in the army, but it seems that the family governor seems to know him?"

Liu 18 waved his hand and said:

"Well, he is my old acquaintance, called Solanta, and he will be by my side as a personal retinue from now on, and he will be regarded as one of the courtiers. ”

"Hah, then Your Majesty will register Soranta in the Takeda family's retainers' roster?"

Takasaka asked suspiciously.

"Shuffle! ”

Liu Shibai grinned in response, and then mysteriously pulled the old driver to the side and said:

"There are thirty-two sacks of flour and cornmeal on the other side of the grain bag, and you have to make me three thousand multigrain buns as fast as you can. ”

The old driver's eyes widened and said:

"I looked at the state of the soldiers, and they looked like starving ghosts! There seemed to be no rations in the army. ”

Liu Shibai said with a smile:

"They don't eat it, they only eat dough made of rice, wheat flour and cornmeal, which are supposed to be imported products, because they are cheap, so they are only used as horse food to feed their animals. ”

"Really, stupid!"

The old driver pouted and said:

"Actually, I can't make flour, so where can I ferment koji?"

Liu Eighteen was stunned for a moment, touched his head and oozed beads of sweat, gritted his teeth and said:

"That's your problem, anyway tonight, no! Before dawn tomorrow morning, labor and management must see the steaming white bread. ”

"You don't kill me, you don't hit it! There is no fermented koji, there is no steamer, do you understand that it is difficult for a good woman to cook without rice?"

The old driver glared at Liu Shibai with contempt, and gritted his teeth in the same way.

Liu Shibai was stunned, then turned around angrily and ran to the grain bag, walking around alone with his hands behind his back, anxious......

The rest of the people, you look at me, I look at you, I don't know what's going on......

Takasaka Masanobu was even more at a loss, because he couldn't understand what the new governor and those new favorites were talking about?

Li Ergou glanced at his daughter-in-law Cuihua, and Cuihua walked to the old driver's side and said coquettishly:

"What are you talking to the young master?"

The old driver looked left and right and said in a low voice:

"There were more than 30 sacks of flour and mixed noodles under the empty grain bags, and he asked me to knead out the steamed buns for 3,000 people.

How is this possible? There's no baking powder, there's no steamer, isn't that?"

Cuihua was stunned for a moment, and then said with a smile:

"Who says no? ”

Before he finished speaking, Liu Shibaiyin's voice sounded beside Cuihua and the old driver:

"What's the solution?"

Cuihua was startled, glanced at Liu Eighteen, who had a stiff expression, and said with a smile:

"The old lady just saw that there are some wild mushrooms all over the mountains, and after grinding, they are natural fermented products.

I don't like sake, and there must be some of the retainers and generals in the army, and they can be mixed with the fermented product and stirred and heated, and after two hours, they can barely be used as baking powder. ”

Liu Shibai and the old driver looked at Cuihua stupidly, I really didn't expect that she would have this dirty method?

The old driver stubbornly quibbled:

"Where are the steamers for 3,000 people?"

Cuihua turned her head strangely, pointed to the guard named Nizi Jiujiu who was following Liu Shiba, and said with a smile:

"Eighteen, you ask him to go out and find a ashigaru with a hat, take off his feet and hat and put them into the big tent, and we will see. ”

"Sufficient?"

When Liu Shibai heard this, his eyes lit up, and he hurriedly turned his head and shouted:

"Nizi endures. ”

"The minister is here!"

The silent Nizi replied for a long time.

"Go out of the big tent, find a ashigaru with a hat, and bring in his feet and hats. ”

Liu Eighteen commanded.

"Hah!"

Although Nizi didn't understand it for a long time, the governor instructed himself to bully a lowly ashigaru for that, but he still took the order, turned around and ran out.

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A few minutes later, in front of Liu Shibai and his party in the grain depot, there was a Ashigaru peasant soldier who had been captured by Nizi for a long time, trembling with fear, and his soul was not possessed.

"Take off your feet and hats. ”

Although Takasaka Masanbu did not understand Liu Shibai's deep meaning, he still obeyed the order and conveyed the deep meaning of the family governor to the poor peasant soldier.

"Smack!"

The peasant soldier was so frightened that he lay on the ground, and kept kowtowing and crying out:

"The adult spared his life, and the villain took a nap......! But so many soldiers are napping, why do you want to kill me alone?"

"Who said they were going to kill you?"

When Liu Shibai heard this, he still couldn't help it, and walked over angrily and roared angrily.

"Ah, don't you want to kill the villain? Then why do you want the villain to take off his mustache, the villain asked himself how brave he was fighting, and he didn't retreat without permission. ”

The peasant soldiers were visibly frightened, but explained clearly.

However, Liu Shibai obviously didn't have time to talk in vain, and said angrily:

"Take off your sufficiency, or else - beheaded!"

Ashigaru hurriedly stood up when he heard this, and without saying a word, he ripped himself naked in two strokes, and he was bare-chested, and he didn't even have a pair of underwear......

Liu Shibai and his entourage looked at him dumbfounded, speechless for a long time......

I have to say, the guy under the short crotch is really big......

"Why don't you wear pants?"

Li Ergou immediately took a step forward, blocked her sight in front of his daughter-in-law Cuihua, and asked sharply.

"The villain has a pair of pants that can be worn out of the house...... Pants, the villain goes out to answer the call, and the pants are left for the old father and wife to rotate when they go to the fields to plow. ”

"Huh, a pair of pants for the whole family?"

Liu Shibai and his entourage were completely shocked by the truth of what the peasant soldiers said in front of them......

What appeared in front of Liu Shiba's eyes was actually only one word: poor!

Poor to the point of dripping blood is not enough to describe this - very poor state!

Liu Shibai looked at the frightened peasant soldiers who were half dead, his eyes lit up after looking left and right, and he glared at Takasaka Masanobu and asked:

"Takasaka-sama, are you wearing trousers in your skirt?"

Takasaka Masanobu had a red face, as if he had encountered something shameful, and gritted his teeth and said:

"Minister! Wear ......"

Liu Shibai said with a smile:

"Very good, take off your trousers and give them to this ashigaru, we have pants for this circle. ”

"Minister...... The minister's refusal is a humiliation to the minister. ”

Takasaka Masanobu shook his head and flatly refused.

Liu Eighteen's face turned cold, and he said with a cruel smile:

"If Takasaka-sama feels humiliated and you can kill yourself by disembowelment, how about it?"

Takasaka Masanobu raised his head and looked at Liu Shibai in surprise, as if he had reacquainted himself with the new family governor.

"Hah!"

Masanobu Takasaka turned around decisively and ran behind the pile of grain bags......

"Soso ......"

A few more decisive sounds of wide clothes came, and after a few breaths, Takasaka Masanobu spun out, holding a pair of steaming moon-white tunics in his hand, and casually handed it to the bare-seated, stunned Ashigaru.

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Later, there is a slightly shorter chapter.

(End of chapter)