In the middle of summer, it was sunny and windless, and even though it was not far from Lake Biwa, it was already very hot. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info it is not a pleasure to come out to do things at this time. On the streets of Kyoto, the ashigaru who put up posters were sweating profusely.

After some reforms, the Oda family, which owned both the two countries, had a much lower proportion of peasants than other daimyo families, but still accounted for more than 50 percent, and had to rush back to the territory for the autumn harvest, leaving only a few people to handle chores.

These Ashigaru who are in charge of publicity are all subordinates of Hirate Tsunohide. Originally, Nobunaga preferred to let the steady Sakuma Nobumori guard the mountain castle country, but the latter was injured in the battle of Joraku, so the position fell to someone else. The 1,000 men of the Heate Headquarters plus the 2,000 men who had been temporarily divided, a total of 3,000 troops, were stationed in the south of Kyoto, and at the same time, it was necessary to prevent a counterattack by Miyoshi and Rokkaku.

"Ashikaga Samatou-sama, who has inherited the position of shogun, will be peaceful in this area in the future......" The residents of Kyoto have a relatively high level of culture, and one or two literate people can always be found in the streets and alleys.

"Huh? Didn't Ashikaga Zuoma head inherit the shogun two months ago? Why is it coming again now? "There are ignorant women who ask questions.

"You don't understand this! That Ashikaga left horse head was supported by the Miyoshi family, and now this one is supported by the Oda family, and it is two different generals. The man who had just read the notice proudly flaunted his knowledge.

"Sounds pretty much the same, it's not a good ...... anyway"

"Whisper to me!" The old man in the crowd snorted, "Now that the lord of the Oda family is in power, be careful that you will be arrested if you talk casually!" ”

"Oh......"

The crowd fell silent.

"Our Oda family has nothing to do with the people of Kyoto!" The head of the Ashigaru group, who led the team, hurriedly explained in a loud voice, "Anyone who embezzles the property of the residents, as long as it is reported, will be severely punished and repaid twice." ”

"Does eating a bully meal count?"

"Of course."

"What if there is a samurai who kills people or ****?"

"Then the death penalty will be imposed without mercy."

"Is it true?"

"Absolutely."

"Will we also punish the samurai for scolding?"

"Yes."

"Unbelievable......"

"Be trusted!"

It's okay to let the samurai of Owari go out to fight, and it's not what the people are good at. It's just these few words over and over again, and the sweat on my forehead is still so anxious that it still has little effect.

"I believe in the master of the Oda family!" After a few words of conversation, the crowd suddenly remembered such a voice, "I am a businessman from Weizhou, and the Oda family has not only not raised taxes for several years, but also cleaned up the landlords and evil merchants who bullied us, what a good person!" ”

"Yes, yes, we're going to have a good life...... another person next to him helped, "You see other daimyo calling around, the first thing is to rob our people, the old men of the Oda family have been in Beijing for a month, and they haven't heard of this kind of thing." ”

"That's what I said......"

"Makes sense."

These words calmed down the skeptical townspeople.

"Yes, yes, yes!" The leader of the team hurriedly took the opportunity to speak, "I heard that there are big thieves here in Kyoto, if you report it in time, you will definitely eradicate this group of thieves!" ”

This silenced the people.

"What a thief......"

"I haven't heard of it."

"yes, yes."

They all flatly denied it.

……

At this time, Hirate was stationed in the Yamazaki area, and discussed the political affairs left behind by Murai Sadakatsu and Naomasa Tsukasa.

"Thanks to the method that Lord Tieshou came up with, otherwise it would have been really difficult to fulfill the lord's orders." Naomasa thanked Tsunao.

"It's not a clever idea." Instead, he shook his head, "The key is your contribution to law and order, and sooner or later those townspeople will find out that the Oda family is different from other daimyos, so I just sent some people to guide them." ”

"But if you want the people to settle down, I'm afraid you need to send more soldiers to patrol the towns, and the large and small temples and shrines that have monks and soldiers may not be willing to obey the ban, so I think it will be better to allocate a thousand people to maintain it?" Murai Sadakatsu believed that his status was no less than that of a tie, and they were acquaintances with each other, so he asked for it bluntly.

"In this case, there will only be 2,000 people left under Heisama, and if Miyoshi or Rokkaku make a comeback...... "Naomasa was born in the mother's clothes, and the consideration is a little more complicated than Murai's—of course, it may also be that he does not want to show weakness, "Three hundred people under my command in Kyoto are enough." ”

"Then I'll compromise and divide five hundred." Fan Xiu made a decision, "There are directions where reinforcements can be called on all sides of the vicinity, and Miyoshi and Rokkaku are not to worry about for the time being." ”

"It's good ......"

The three of them had a hasty discussion and went to deal with government affairs separately, and as soon as Fan Xiu went out, he ran into someone who reported back.

"Your Highness!" Kato Kyoaki bowed and said, "I just caught two comrades who rescued the thieves. ”

Thief? Fan Xiu recalled for a while, and then remembered that the guy captured by Shangquan and the others seemed to be obscene but was a tough guy, and he never refused to admit anything.

"It's a gang of thieves." Fan Xiu bowed slightly, "So is there anything to gain?" ”

"It's all the same, they won't confess."

"What about the results of the investigation among the townspeople?"

"The people won't help us!" Asano Nagayoshi complained, "Even if it's a bounty, there aren't many people to provide information. ”

"It seems that this group of thieves is quite popular!"

As she said this, she raised her eyes to look at the person opposite.

"Uenosuke (Numata Yumitsu), what's going on, have you heard of it in the Kyoto area?"

"It is said that there is a group of thieves, and every time they succeed, they only leave a small amount of money to make ends meet, and give more than eighty percent of the alms to the people, so they are very popular - but no matter how you look at it, it is hard to believe that it is true!"

Numata Yumitsu frowned and shook his head, looking very distressed.

Fan Xiu instructed: "The so-called empty wind comes from the wind, and the orange sentence comes to the nest, if there are any rumors, let's hear it." ”

"Yes. If you want to say that here in Kyoto, the most popular folk should be the great thief Ishikawa Goemon and the illusionist Guoxin Jushi two names, the former is rumored to be able to fly the eaves and walk the wall, the latter is through the wall to escape, but according to the bottom of the view, the former should be a character out of nothing, and the latter ...... It's just an ordinary monk in Nara, and his demeanor is exaggerated. Numata Yumitsu spoke his judgment.

Ishikawa Goemon, and the fruit heart of the layman. This name appears repeatedly in literary and artistic works. But the exact story is completely unknown.

Fan Xiu thought for a while, and called the Nakamura father and son over.

"Have you heard of that name?"

"Returning to His Royal Highness, if there really is such a person as Ishikawa Goemon, then he is most likely Iga's famous Bashinobu Sanada Hachiro. But the authenticity is not distinguished. "Nakamura Issei, who was born in Koga, really deserves to be a ninja with old qualifications.

"Hachiro Sanada? What did he do? "For these forces in the dark, Hirate Honhide naturally doesn't know much about being a samurai.

"This person originally studied under Hyakchi Tanba, one of Iga's three major leaders, but later had an affair with the side room of Hyakchi and was hunted down, but Sanada Hachiro's ninjutsu has become blue, and he also recruited twenty ninjas to rebel together, which made Iga powerless to pursue."

It's getting more and more suspenseful!

Fan Xiu shook his head:

"Let's put this matter aside for the time being, it's not worth sending too many people for this kind of untrue news."

"What to do with that guy who is being detained?"

"Wait another month, if you can't attract the same party, just kill them."

"Yes." (To be continued, if you want to know what will happen next, please log in to the www.qidian.com, more chapters, support the author, support genuine reading!) )