On the outermost part of Kaimachi is a natural circular waterway that separates the inside and outside. As a result www.biquge.info there are many low-end ryokan sake breweries near this waterway, catering to those who earn a living in the neighborhood but cannot afford the cost of living in Kaimachi. Most of them are honest people - like the people who work hard at the docks, but there are definitely a lot of people who are not honest.

The room where Sungoro Matsuura was about to enter was obviously full of dishonest guests.

"Mountain vegetable house", this is a dormitory with a strange name - or more accurately, a large shed of grass and trees. At a glance, you can see that the buildings are extremely simple and old, and even by the standards of the 16th century Fuso, they are low-grade shops.

The only advantage is that it is large and cheap. The house is made up of many wooden sheds of different sizes, the front is six rooms (more than ten meters) wide, and there is nothing in the entrance hall except a dozen low tables, which is used as a restaurant during the day and the tenants sleep on the floor at night, and this "service" is only charged for two cents a day. Inside are three large shops, the price is Wuwen, and the environment is not much better. There are only twenty rooms a day, and they can barely live in people.

The servant who has nothing to do sells his strength in Kai Town, and only has twenty or thirty yuan a day to live on, and there is no guarantee that he will find a job every day. So the five cents were also distressed, and they only spent two cents to sleep in the hall.

Farmers who generally live in the Chase shop are visiting relatives and passing by. They were much poorer than the servants, but they only had occasional need for lodging, and were more likely to spend a little more.

And Matsuura Sungoro, who is dressed in the dust, although he seems to be very depressed, he has a decent dress, and the straw sandals under his feet are also very tightly knitted. The owner of the "Yamajianya" felt that this person should be a low-level samurai, or a handicraft or a head of a merchant house, or something like that, in short, a high-class person who could afford to spend a "huge amount of money" of twenty wen.

So the hunchbacked innkeeper hurriedly greeted him.

"Distinguished guest, distinguished guest, please come in! The cleanest upper class room, only 20 wen a night! If you are short of people to serve, I have both men and women here, the price is preferential, and you are guaranteed to be satisfied! And ......"

It's just that before he finished his words, he was stopped by the unkind gaze of the comer.

Matsuura Sungoro just stared at him with a frown, with a disgusted and hateful expression, and shouted: "Who will live in your broken pigpen?" I'm here to find someone, isn't Shinsuke Naya here? ”

Feeling the other party's spit on his face, the hunchbacked boss was not angry, but he was sure that the other party was not a merchant but a samurai. Since he is a samurai master, what is it to beat and scold a pariah? Did you take care of it?

So he immediately bent down and flattered:

"Yes, yes, it's in the third private room on the left hand inside, I'll bring you ......"

"No need! Take the money, buy some decent food and drinks, and send them in half an hour! ”

As he spoke, the guest waved his hand in the hunchbacked boss's face, and then strode inside.

But this slap was not for nothing. There was clearly a thick silver-white disc that leaked out of the samurai's old man's fingers and fell on the counter with a crisp sound.

The hunchback boss's eyes have not been very good for a long time, but when he saw the silver money, he seemed to have opened his eyes. He immediately recognized that it was a silver coin commonly hammered by the people, "Ikuno Silver", and that a disc was one or two (about 37.5 grams per tael), and that at the current market price in Izumi Province, one hundred and four Yongle Tongbao, or four hundred and sixteen wen, could be exchanged for one hundred and four Yongle Tongbao, or four hundred and sixteen Wenwen coins.

worked hard to open a dormitory, in addition to all kinds of complicated expenses, the daily income is only 200 Wen, but also to deal with exploitation, filial piety to the heroes on the rivers and lakes, calculated to five days of net profit, to be worthy of this silver cake.

If every slap could be exchanged for a tael of silver, the hunchbacked boss really wanted the samurai uncle just now to wave his face twice.

He swallowed, reached out and pinched the hem of his garment, wiping it vigorously before carefully picking up the silver coin and placing it carefully into the compartment of his pocket.

At this time, it seems that you can feel the disdain around you, but why should you care about this? The slap of 400 Wen, it's too late for ordinary people to envy! Generous, but vicious, look at this style is an upstart from Owari. The person who can throw out a tael of silver to buy wine must be at least a samurai master of more than 500 koku. It seems that I came here to meet a person called "Shinsuke Naya"? Forget it, it doesn't matter.

"What's there to see? Haven't you ever seen a samurai lord reward slap? You can't get your turn yet! Dare to laugh again and charge two pennies tonight! ”

The hunchbacked boss scolded the guests who were talking to themselves for a while, and then cheerfully called the servant and sent him to buy a few liters of wine. The guest lord who has a generous hand is not suitable to deal with the bad wine mixed with his own water, otherwise what if he is annoyed? Of course, it's impossible to really buy good sake, and the sake in the sake house next door costs 36 yuan a liter, and 5 liters is enough. There are still more than 200 more than 200 yuan left!

It wasn't until the little guy walked away that he felt some pain in his face, and when he took out the mirror, he saw that it was actually a little red and swollen, so he took out a small box from the counter and smeared the powder on his face. While worrying about the medicine money, I was secretly happy.

Rice is expensive in Kaimachi, and it is not easy to live in a big place. The eldest son has been in charge of the house for eight years, and his daughter-in-law and grandson are still living poorly, so they still have to help this year. The youngest son has a bit of swordsmanship talent and can't be wasted, so he simply sent it to the Jingbaliu Dojo, and he has ten times a year, and it is not impossible to make up a way. It's time to prepare the daughter's dowry......

As soon as he thought of this, the hunchback boss hoped that this samurai lord who liked to slap people would come a few more times, and hoped that the children would have their own way out, and that they would not have to take over the shift here in the future, so as not to be slapped all the time.

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Entering the corridor, Sungoro Matsuura immediately changed his face.

He is not young and vigorous anymore, and he is so arrogant and domineering, just to verify the effect of his dressing.

There is no such person as "Shinsuke Naiya" at all, and this name was used yesterday when Sungoro Matsuura came to rent a room.

It seems that the owner of the inn didn't recognize it at all, which is good.

After pushing open the door, he found exactly what he was targeting.

Miyoshi's Matsuyama Shigeharu and Kasai Naganobu, although they have both changed their appearances, their body shape and movement habits cannot be changed, and Matsuura Sungoro still recognizes them at a glance.

Then the only eye born nature is-

"Presumably this is the famous Mr. Goemon Ishikawa! I didn't expect you to arrive so soon. After closing the door, Sungoro Matsuura walked up to Ishikawa and made a big salute, looking very sincere.

"You're Matsuura-sama? Please be polite, although I don't share the sky with the tie, but I may not be your friend. ”

Ishikawa's words were cold, and his face was even colder.

However, Sungoro Matsuura laughed instead. The style of this speech is definitely the great thief Ishikawa. And the deliberate forbearance, but still uncontrollable resentment between the corners of the eyebrows, is also very consistent with the rumors.

The woman who hasn't had time to enjoy it before she is caught by a tie and thrown out again when she gets tired of playing, haha, haha, what a shame for you as a thief!

Matsuura didn't show any disdain and ridicule in his heart, but became more and more respectful, and then saluted: "I don't dare to climb high, but at least now we are allies with a common enemy." ”

"No more nonsense, is the money in hand?" Without waiting for Ishikawa to speak again, Xiangxi Naganobu asked anxiously, he has always been the most straightforward one.

"Of course, of course!" Matsuura Sungoro was secretly angry in his heart, but he knew that in order to achieve his goal, he could not offend anyone here, especially the brave and warlike Kosai Naganobu, so he hurriedly took out the money bag that was sandwiched on the inside of his clothes.

"Two thousand pieces of gold! There is no greed for ink, please take a look. ”

"You'd better not be greedy." Xiangxi Changxin unceremoniously tore open the money bag and checked it, still muttering in his mouth, "I don't know how anyone can trust you to hand over the money......"

Matsuura Sungoro still chuckled, as if he hadn't heard the words, turned around and continued to greet Ishikawa Goemon:

"This time, we will work together to deal with the tie, which will definitely make him embarrassed and anxious. If you're lucky, you might even get their head removed! ”

Ishikawa was still lying against the wall unruly, silent, but his brows trembled slightly, as if he was still pondering, and he said lazily for a long time: "Then tell me what you think first, if there are more than a hundred words, Uncle Ben will not have the patience to listen!" ”

"No problem!" Matsuura smiled confidently, considered the wording for a moment, and then spoke: "This person has always been good at bribing with small favors, so I will use this to carry out assassination strategies, and then incite the Izumi people to oppose the Oda family, so that he will not be able to advance or retreat." ”

Because Ishikawa asked for "no more than a hundred words", he described his thoughts as simply as possible.

Then Ishikawa pursed his lips and seemed to be disdainful when he heard this, but he didn't say anything sarcastic or objective.

On the other side, Xiangxi Nagasobu was still counting the money, and he didn't have time to take care of it, but Matsuyama Shigeji, who had been sitting quietly, slowly opened his mouth: "Contemptible people have never had any doubts about Lord Matsuura's conduct. It's just that the even-handed show is scheming, and it is by no means simple to deal with. I can still come and go freely in Izumi today, and that is borrowed from the friendship formed in the past. However, this friendship will always run out one day, and it will not be in vain. If you can't come up with a careful and reliable way to do it, we won't be able to get involved in it. ”

This Matsuyama Shigeji was originally a businessman, and he used to be a member of the Miyoshi family, and he has always been more cautious. He spoke much more politely than Na Xiangxi Changxin, but there was a vague intention of rejecting people.

Sungoro Matsuura was not discouraged in the slightest. According to Matsuyama's temperament, it is normal to question three times before acting, which is expected.

At this time, Ishikawa also coldly spit out a sentence:

"I'd like to hear from Matsuura-sama, too."

Xiangxi Changxin still only cared about gold on the surface, but his ears couldn't help but turn sideways.

Seeing this, Sungoro Matsuura made up his mind, and hurriedly began to explain:

"Ladies and gentlemen, in fact, before coming here, I have encouraged more than 20 wealthy families to write letters to the flat hand of the people, openly claiming to be vassals, but in fact they have put forward unrealistic requests for territorial security."

Quietly, Matsuura vaguely boasted of his influence among the people of Izumi Country.

Sure enough, it piqued the interest of the audience. Even Kasai Nagasin pushed the bag of gold aside, and instead began to listen intently to what he had to say.

"Next, let's create some trouble in the neighborhood first, and the tie will definitely be ...... And then we'll ...... When the two sides have a grudge, no matter how wise he is, it is useless, and then he can ......"

Matsuura's voice gently echoed in this small room, and the more he spoke, the more energetic he became, and he forgot to lower his voice for a while, and only reacted when Matsuyama Shigeji coughed as a reminder, and quickly laughed, and whispered again:

"Actually, I have gathered a group of stalwarts in the vicinity, not far from here, led by my subordinate Terada, just wait for me to give the order, and I can act immediately!"