While the Diet was in full swing, Hatakeyama Takamasa came to Hanoi quietly after the arrival of Yuqiu. Like the merchants, he was wary of Yu Qiuping and refused to go to Maple Mountain Castle, but wanted to set up the court in Ruojiang Castle. Yu Qiuping tried to convince Hatakeyama Takamasa to set up the court in Maple Mountain Castle on the grounds that Wakae Castle was the front line and could not guarantee safety, so that Yu Qiuyu would not have to leave home. This was naturally rejected by Takamasa Hatakeyama.

After returning from Sakai Town, Amano Keitoku immediately set about handing over this legal system with Hatakeyama Takamasa. Amano Keitori handed over the roster and section system of all employees in the legal system in the current territory to Hatakeyama Takamasa, and also instructed Hatakeyama Takamasa and his Hatakeyama family retainers. It took three days for Amano to explain how the entire legal system worked to Hatakeyama Takamasa and the Hatakeyama family's retainers. Although those retainers from famous families were very uninterested in such a dirt bun as Amano Keitoku, Hatakeyama Takamasa showed great importance and seriousness, and they had to listen to it together.

However, it is another thing to understand and actually operate. Hatakeyama Takamasa appointed a retainer of his own as a judge in each of the several prefectures under the control of the Yuaki family. In the territory of the Yuqiu family, a three-tier system of basic courts, county courts, and the Supreme Court of Hatakeyama Takamasa was formed.

Although the grassroots courts still handle cases in an orderly manner, the county judges who have parachuted in are somewhat unskilled in adjudicating cases. Under this system, only those who believe that the judgment of the lower level court is incorrect will choose to appeal to the county court. As a result, the judges of the county court would not have had many cases to deal with. However, these appealed cases are often controversial cases; Most of the appellants were businessmen in the region who could afford the costs of the lawsuit. There was a county judge who relied on his famous background and did not want to deal with the lowly businessmen who came to fight the lawsuit, so he directly judged the case according to his own common sense and speculation. This angered many businessmen who had worked so hard to enact laws in order to preserve their power. As a result, these county judges actually skipped the law directly, and even looked at the dictionary at a glance and came to a conclusion.

As a result, the angry businessmen appealed again, asking the Supreme Court's Takamasa Hatakeyama to make a ruling. Hatakeyama Takamasa has always attached great importance to his reputation, and he was so angry that his subordinates made such a scandal within a few days of taking office. After figuring out what happened, he unceremoniously dismissed the subordinate who had committed the crime, and rushed back to barren Kii from rich Hanoi to serve as a general. This frightened the other retainers of the Hatakeyama family, and they no longer dared to judge with their own temperament. Some time later, there will be a peculiar scene in the county judge's courtroom: the bewildered plaintiff and the defendant look at each other, and the judge sitting in the middle eagerly flips through the code to find a basis for deciding the case.

Although this incident can be called a scandal, Hatakeyama Takamasa's response has won him a lot of favor and made the nascent court gain prestige. And the case that happened after made many people, including the samurai of the Yuqiu family, reject Hatakeyama Takamasa before the change.

The reason for this was that the Diet had enacted a bill that would allow the Tsukiwabei baggage squad to legally carry supplies for merchants. Yu Qiuping himself did not have much rejection of this case, because the businessman would give Chang Panbei a corresponding reward. However, Hatakeyama Takamasa firmly disagreed with the passage of the bill, declaring it unconstitutional—Tsukiwabi was an army subordinate to the Yuqiu family, and could not directly intervene with the Diet, which was contrary to the principles of the Constitution.

The Diet, which had suffered a dumb loss, was not reconciled, so Imai Munehisa sent someone to privately bribe Hatakeyama Takamasa to pass the bill. Anyway, he is different from Amano Jingde, and he is not a loyal dog of the Yuqiu family, so there is no reason to insist on it!

However, to the surprise of the Diet, Hatakeyama Takamasa seems to be more determined than Amano's Keitoku. He angrily reprimanded the envoy sent by the Congress on the spot, and said in a loud voice, "The corruption of the world is because of you undisciplined businessmen." Subsequently, he directly disclosed the matter and used the power of the court to investigate the illegal acts of congressional bribe-givers.

Imai Munehisa was shocked when he heard this, for fear that the matter would be revealed, and he hurriedly spent a lot of money to buy a small businessman who had a relationship with his shop and let him go out to top the bag. After an investigation, the small businessman was outright removed from his parliament and was also put in prison for trying to bribe public officials.

This turmoil made the businessmen in Congress angry, and they immediately became much more honest. They couldn't understand why Takamasa Hatakeyama was so old-fashioned and stubborn. These shrewd businessmen are always calculating their interests. Under the tripartite constraints, the two weak parties, the National Assembly and the courts, should have helped each other and fought together against Yu Qiuping. Under the expectations of the Diet, if Hatakeyama Takamasa was a mature businessman, he would give the green light to their various laws and restrict the power of the Yuqiu family.

However, Hatakeyama seems to be acting strictly in accordance with the law and justice. Is he really so ignorant of current affairs?

They don't know that Hatakeyama Takamasa is such a fool who doesn't know the times. If it weren't for that, Yu Qiuping would not have chosen him to be a judge.

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In the blink of an eye, it was February of the twelfth year of Yonglu (1569). Amano Keide finally finished all the handover work and rushed to report to Yu Qiuping. Yu Qiuping looked at the white hair and vicissitudes of life of his 40-year-old old subordinates this year, and suddenly felt a little guilty.

"Quan Bingwei, I've worked hard for you these days, but I've exhausted you." Yu Qiuping sighed, motioned for Amano Jingde to sit down, and at the same time opened his mouth and said in a low voice: "It just so happens that the affairs of the court have been handed over to His Highness Hatakeyama, so you can also rest for a while." ”

However, instead of sitting down obediently, Amano Keitoku stared at Yu Qiuping with a very serious expression.

"Your Highness, now is not the time to rest. Because of His Royal Highness's decision, the Yuqiu family is already on the cliff, and there can be no slackness. ”

What do you mean by that? Isn't everything done now? Yu Qiuping disagreed with Amano's words.

"On the side of the couch, it allows others to sleep peacefully." Tianye Jingde was very dissatisfied with Yu Qiuping's laxity, and said in a deep voice: "What has happened continuously during this period of time, hasn't it made His Highness sober?" ”

"Do you mean businessmen paying bribes?" Yu Qiuping thought for a moment and asked in some surprise.

"Your Highness Mingjian." Tianye Jingde snorted coldly, "Even if His Highness gives them so much power and sets a perfect system, those despicable people can't change their nature after all. For the sake of profit, they don't care about law and loyalty. How could His Highness feel comfortable handing over power to these merchants? ”

"They can bribe other businessmen to win seats today, they can bribe Hatakeyama Takamasa to pass the law, and they regard the authority and law of the Yuqiu family as a mustard. Such a villain may have a relationship with Miyoshi's family and sell information to make a profit in the future! Is Your Highness going to let them go? Amano Keide paused, and said sharply again: "There are also those people from the Hatakeyama family, they all have an intricate relationship with the wealthy families of Hanoi. Now let them go deep into each county, if they take the opportunity to collude with the local wealthy clans and raise the rebel flag when the time comes, how does His Highness plan to deal with it? There is also this vast Hanoi and spring, which we have recently laid down, and it is not clear how many fine works left by the Miyoshi family lurk on it, how can Your Highness ignore them? ”

"That's a good point." Yu Qiuping nodded a little scared, "They are not our own people after all. For the safety of Yuqiu's family, it must be monitored. When the time comes, I'll have Kibei's MI send ninjas to take care of them, so that they don't have the opportunity to collaborate with the enemy, pass on news, or civil strife. ”

"The Department of Military Intelligence is useless in this situation." However, Amano Jingde seemed to have thought about it for a long time, and mercilessly poured a basin of cold water on Yuqiuping. "The Department of Military Intelligence has always been responsible for external investigations, and it is an agency that is in the open, and their every move is particularly conspicuous. What's more, the Military Intelligence Department is part of the Yuqiu family, and their budget allocation is also in the hands of Congress. If the businessmen perceive that MID is spying on them, they will cut the funding for MID. And Hatakeyama Takamasa is by no means a fuel-efficient lamp, and it has only been less than a month since he began to use his investigative powers. The deployment of the Military Intelligence Department is all from the Yuqiu family, and theoretically they are all the objects of investigation by the court. If someone is monitoring the court, Hatakeyama Takamasa can investigate his wrongdoing and accuse him of misdeeds with the court. When the time comes, what should His Highness do? ”

"It's a big problem." After hearing this, Yu Qiuping sighed with some annoyance. Amano Jingde's words hit the nail on the head, poking at Yu Qiuping's weakness. He is right, the Department of Military Intelligence has always been responsible for external intelligence gathering, and under the current system, there is no way to monitor internally. "Then Quan Bingwei, do you have any good ideas?"

"Yes, it just depends on whether His Highness is willing to use it." Amano Keide gave a categorical affirmative answer, and then made a gesture to the guards at the door, and after asking Yu Qiuping's opinion, they immediately retreated quickly.

"What do you want to do?" Yu Qiuping saw Amano Jingde make this posture, and immediately realized that Amano Jingde was about to use the means in the dark again.

"If I'm not mistaken, the money of the Mitsubishi caravan didn't go to the treasury, but was in the hands of His Highness, right?" Amano Keitoku leaned down, leaned close to Yu Qiuping's ear, and whispered in a very slow and gloomy voice, "I beg Your Highness for permission to use this money that does not need to be reviewed by the National Assembly to prepare a new secret army. This force has nothing to do with the Yuqiu family, and is only responsible to His Highness alone, and is not subject to the constraints of the Congress and the courts. Among them, I will select from the reliable ninjas in the MID to guarantee absolute loyalty. ”

"And this unit has only one mission - that is, to monitor the dangers inside the Yuqiu family in the dark, and it is a spy organization against our own people. Once something is discovered, it can bypass the complicated procedures and directly leave it to His Highness to judge and deal with. ”

"Please allow Your Highness."

Yu Qiuping realized that what Amano was describing was a special service force similar to the KGB of the former Soviet Union, specializing in internal cleaning and security maintenance.

Yu Qiuping also remembers that whenever such a force appears in a country, what may come is mutual suspicion and white terror among its own people, as well as countless unjust, false and wrongful cases and heads falling to the ground.

Such an organization means the breakdown of trust in the team, and it also means that the original harmonious atmosphere is gone.

He instinctively repelled such an evil dark organization, but he also understood that the current situation of the Yuqiu family needed a wicked person to monitor the internal turmoil and sweep away possible dangers for him.

The words of Miyoshi Yixian suddenly came to mind.

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In every family that wants to achieve great things, there must be a person who does dirty things and bears infamy for the family.

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"Have you decided on a name for the organization?" Yu Qiuping did not answer Amano's question, but asked directly in a deep voice. After hearing Yu Qiuping's question, Tianye Jingde suddenly bowed slightly with some relief. His Highness is not the rotten good guy he was ten years ago after all. Even if his heart is towards the light, even if he will still block everything for the lives of tens of thousands of people, he is no longer naïve, but understands the importance of darkness.

And my darkness exists for his light.

"Raven."

A bird that symbolizes death.