Chapter Seventy-Two: The Lost Girl
Marsh Ren Shi is indeed a benevolent and weak man, as rumored to be. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the face of the strong tie of the show, he did not dare to have the idea of secretly resisting; As the big brother of the people, he can't harden his heart to carry out orders.
Ordinary people are designated as the flag bearers of the country, and they only think that it will be a good opportunity to absorb profits or climb up. But for Marsh, these months have felt far more helplessness than a sense of accomplishment. Taking advantage of the tie and the new policy, he simply resigned.
Fan Xiu originally planned to squeeze out the last bit of use value of this person.
But the dilemma of the swamp suddenly reminded him of a man.
That is, the brother after the crossing, the "cowardly and incompetent", the good old man who can't satisfy the lord and can't suppress the retainers for a long time.
It has been more than six years since my brother died in battle. Fan Xiu's impression of him has gradually faded, and only today, there is a subtle overlap between memory and reality.
So Honshu relented for a while, and agreed to resign from the position of flag leader and serve as an ordinary new senator, and he would no longer come to the Imperial Pavilion Evaluation Committee in the future.
But then the problem came. Who should take this place? Dr. Yasuda Terada is just an established model, and he himself and other people are no longer in the same circle at all.
In addition, the two banner heads, Manabe Gorou Uemon and Tamawa Shinbei, are far from each other in terms of strength and connections, and they don't seem to be working as they should.
However, this little trouble was not enough to give Honhide a headache, and he immediately ordered Ina Tadaji to bring a letter and pass the decision to the people of the country together with Numa and Terada. At the same time, let Ji Yin communicate and negotiate with the "eleven people" of the temple and society.
Naturally, the investigation of the case itself is still the responsibility of Haruya Hattori of the "Metropolitan Police Department." Fan Xiu temporarily gave this organization the power of the police, prosecutors, and judges in one. This is not appropriate in a sound regime, but now that the stalls are small and there is a shortage of manpower, it is not easy to distinguish between law and order and the military.
The organization of the so-called "Metropolitan Police Department" was originally just an idle post set up by Fan Xiu on a temporary basis. But the results of the investigation of the riots made him start to have a little expectation of Haruyasu Hattori. A fighting force may play a more positive role in maintaining order in the territory than a thousand troops. So next, Fan Xiu gave them a more important task, which is to continue to thoroughly investigate the implementation of the "knife-like". In the future, if there are people wearing weapons in the Izumi Domain, they are neither soldiers of the Heishou family, nor belong to any of the wealthy clans, temples, or villages that are allowed to carry swords, or are not on the list of swords declared by their families, they can be arrested immediately.
The "Metropolitan Police Department" from Hattori Haruyasu down to Haruyasu had ten junior samurai or veterans as team leaders, and the Ishikawa party's thieves and some newcomers recruited from the rich peasants served as team members. I believe that with this kind of composition, the speed of corruption should be relatively slow.
A tie can strengthen the supervision of officials, but in the final analysis, it still depends on the integrity of the retainers. In this era, if you insist on building an ancient version of the "Independent Commission Against Corruption", it is likely to end up as an "East Factory", and we must be cautious.
Of course, the necessary supervision is indispensable, and it is Kawada Naga who is in charge of this for the time being.
In view of the current world, if only one or two law enforcement officers act alone, I am afraid that there is often a danger of being counter-killed. Therefore, the more than 100 people under the jurisdiction of the "Metropolitan Police Department" are divided into 10 groups, each group of 10 to 15 people, and they act as a collective. On a scale of this kind, even if it is in danger, it is enough to separate people to deliver the message.
But on the other hand, there are only 10 groups of inspectors, scattered among nearly 100,000 people in the country, which is obviously far from enough. The scope of management can only be limited to dense areas such as municipalities and large villages, and it is not possible to penetrate deep into the countryside. Especially for the poor areas of the southern hills, the deterrent significance is far greater than the practical significance. However, this is also the normal state of course, before the advent of industrialization, it was normal for "imperial power not to go down to the county", and it was a very successful regime that could bypass the bureaucrats of the big landlords and penetrate its tentacles to the level of small landlords.
With the directive of the tie, the administrative system began to operate, and the "knife-like" management and inspection were put on the agenda.
According to the estimates of the people of the Izumi Kingdom combined, the maximum number of peasants and soldiers that can be mobilized should be about 5,000. Due to the dispossession of land by some of the countrymen, the military service determined by the land seizure was 3,100. However, many people chose to pay the military service exemption tax, and the final result of military service was 1,700.
The number and names of people who are now required to report "with knives" are quite uncomfortable for some people.
The few families that really could not afford to undertake military service took the initiative to submit their equipment. Those who are willing to go to the army are even simpler, according to the number of military service, fill in the corresponding number and name of the person. But the rest of the people had to rack their brains to make up the reason.
In the end, there were more than 200 wild swords, more than 700 spears, and 60 pairs of spears. Fan Xiu formulated the reward standard of a consistent sword, a spear of 200 letters, and a full five, and generously paid a bounty of hundreds of yuan, and announced a reward to appease the people who cooperated with the policy.
The number of people who applied for "knives" was 2,800, more than 1,000 more than the number of military service. It is full of various obviously fabricated excuses, such as "the sword is a sacred place and needs to be passed down from generation to generation" or "it is used as a hunting tool".
For these, Fan Xiu instructed the executives to give approval, and did not examine them carefully. At this stage, as long as you ostensibly obey the law, you can be considered a good citizen, and you will not be held accountable for the time being.
Comparing a few figures, it can be inferred that theoretically there are still about 1,000 people who are illegally armed and refuse to come to declare, which is the key goal of the next work.
A few days later, the results of the temple were also reported. The "Eleven" of the United Autonomous Organization paid only a symbolic 200 weapons, but reported 3,500 places with swords. The reason, of course, is that monks are needed to protect temple property, and divine soldiers are needed to protect social property.
This figure made many retainers furious, but in public, Fan Xiu still said that he respected the right to "not lose or enter", and did not question it, but only repeatedly confirmed this specific number.
The figure of 3,500 must still be untrue. According to the proportion, the total number of temples and shrines may be as many as five or six thousand.
As long as there are inaccuracies, you can make a fuss about it in the future. What needs to be done now is to make the "knife-like" rule deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.
At the same time, some villagers and townspeople said that they needed to keep their weapons to unite and defend themselves, and a total of more than 20 villages or towns reported a quota of 700 people to carry knives, which was the only one that Ling Honxiu approved with sincerity.
The number and list were determined, and Haruyasu Hattori began to patrol with the "Metropolitan Police Department".
According to common sense, no one with brains will commit crimes against the wind at this moment, and those unreported armed forces should have been hidden. But Fanxiu still insisted on searching with great fanfare, and did not hesitate to give more service allowances.
This is not to catch the culprit, but to instill in the onlookers the impression that it is a grave sin to be armed without permission. Therefore, even if there is no result, it must be implemented in a deliberate manner.
It's just that I didn't expect such an investigation, but on the second day, a suspicious gang was found.
The gang rented a house with a courtyard, and there were more than twenty men, women, and children, most of them armed with swords, and they looked like high-ranking samurai families traveling with their servants. Therefore, Hattori Haruan did not ask strictly as soon as he came up, but politely sent someone to inquire.
It's just that when I first got in touch, the subordinates over there all said that the owner went out early in the morning to participate in the "auction", and they didn't dare to reply privately, and they didn't know when the owner of the house would come back.
This explanation was unsatisfactory, so Hattori Haruan continued to send people to interrogate him, and his tone became more and more unfriendly.
At the same time, two teams of people were mobilized to keep an eye on the front and back doors of this house.
He didn't mean to hide it, he just sent his subordinates to put on a posture in a bright way. This is also a requirement of the tie show, the security organs in their own territory, need to have some fanfare, to show their presence, to deter potential criminals.
Seeing that the situation was about to develop in a bad direction, a rather heroic girl suddenly walked out of the room.
This girl's face is still a little childish, with a brand-new hairpin inserted in her bun, and it seems that she has just carried out the "hair knot ceremony"; She was dressed in a white Wu suit, but she did not wear a smock like the average martial arts daughter, but tied leggings and sleeves that were convenient for movement, and she was also equipped with a small sword around her waist.
Seeing that her dress and bearing were completely different from the subordinates she had talked to before, maybe she was a person who could take charge, and Hattori Haruan planned to come forward to ask in person.
But before he could speak, the little girl who had just come of age scolded solemnly:
"I'm a person who has had an old friendship with the guardian of Izumi Country, Lord Hirate, and I dare to ask which one of your Excellency's families is the Hirate? Why so rude? ”
Then Hattori Haruan couldn't say a word.
I can't even make an expression.
He kept his eyes wide open and his mouth open, and he was stunned for a long time.
A young girl, saying that she had an "old friendship" with Lord Tieshou...... And Lord Tieshou, in everyone's opinion, is indeed a relatively suave person.
In this case, the girl's words, let a hundred big men listen to it, ninety-nine and a half will want to be crooked!
Haruyasu Hattori is not the remaining half. So he obviously wanted to be crooked.
Then I was amazed, and suddenly felt a little tricky.
According to the usual ideals, this mysterious girl must be a lie. But looking at her determined and solemn appearance, it doesn't look like a lie. What if it's true?
It doesn't seem like there's no possibility at all.
If it really has some kind of special relationship with the lord, it won't be easy to offend.
Although there was a little hesitation, Hattori Haruan's mind was not dizzy yet. He kept his men on guard and watch, and he began to rack his brains about how to find out how to find out about this kind of thing.
If you don't ask me, there seems to be no other way. But really ask me...... Isn't it even more unreliable?
Hattori Chunan thought about it, and felt that the possibility of this mysterious girl really having something to do with the lord was still very small, so he decided to take a risk, or catch it first.
After all, he is a conscientious old minister, and even if this little thing is not done well, it is best to reprimand him, and he will not be severely punished.