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Although there was still goose feather snow in the sky, there were already hundreds of people standing in a clearing outside Ueno Castle.

Today is the Tsugawa family's annual talent selection meeting, and Tsugawa Soji himself is in charge, and Saigo Kizo and Ogasawara Nobutoki and others have also temporarily put aside their affairs to assist Tsugawa Soji. The purpose of this talent selection is to discover various talents in the collar to enrich the retainers of the Tsugawa family, and also to find a few helpers for retainers such as Saigo Kizo and Ogasawara Nobuti to share the burden.

At the same time, the ashigaru selection of Ueno Castle was also being carried out at the same time, and the two of them, Kenjiro Torima and Nobuyori Shinda, were in charge of the Ueno Castle garrison, and the selection location was in the open space on the banks of the Omonogawa River.

Compared with the ashigaru selection, the number of people participating in the talent selection is very small, after all, not all cats and dogs can participate. Those who participate in the selection of talents are selected through layers of selection, and only ronins or civilians with certain talents can be qualified.

The selection is divided into two parts, one is the selection of military talents, and the other part is the selection of internal affairs talents.

Among them, military selection is divided into martial arts and military law according to the different abilities of individuals. However, anyone who meets the minimum requirements in one aspect can become a leader samurai, and it is precisely because of this that this talent selection meeting of the Tsugawa family has attracted many ronins and down-and-out samurai from neighboring areas to participate.

In the crowd, a young man in a light blue samurai uniform looked firmly at the field in front of him, and a touch of solemnity appeared on his handsome face.

"Date Keimune, Tazawa Jubei, Odagijiro ..........." At this time, Matsui Kojuro of Tsugawa Soji came to the front of the crowd and read the name on the silk cloth in his hand, and as a personal name was pronounced, the person whose name was read began to walk towards the literary examination venue on the side.

These people are here to participate in the selection of internal affairs talents, and the blue-clothed samurai is among them.

"Name?" As soon as the blue-clothed samurai came to his position, a retainer of the Tsugawa family came over and asked.

The blue-clothed samurai was stunned for a moment, and then replied, "In ShimoDate Genjiro Keimune." ”

"Date Keimune?" The retainer flipped through the roster in his hand, and then said slowly, "Mutsu Oida's family is still famous. This is your test question, answer it in half an hour, and half an hour after answering the test question to the front and ask if you have passed the assessment. If so, then congratulations, you can go to the village to report to the village. With that, the retainer walked to the next person on his own.

After the retainer left, Date Keimune looked at the test questions in his hand in confusion, "Tell me about my understanding of the Tsugawa family and my personal opinion?" Date Qingzong was stunned, and then quickly picked up the pen on the side and wrote hard.

Date Keimune is a descendant of the Mutsu Oida family, and his father was a major general of the Date family before, although he has the blood of the Date family, but he is not taken seriously. During the Astronomical Rebellion, the Date family was in turmoil, and Date Keimune's father died in the Great War. Since there was no inheritance to be inherited, and Date Keimune was stripped of his status as a samurai after the death of his father, Date Keimune left the Date family.

Over the course of more than a year, Date Keimune traveled throughout the Ou region and finally decided to come to the Tsugawa family to participate in the talent selection, and to revitalize the family name by going out of the Tsugawa family.

Just when the talent selection for Ueno Castle was in full swing, the standing ashigaru selection on the banks of the Omonogawa River outside Ueno Castle was also in full swing.

Compared to the 100 or so people selected for talent, the ashigaru selection of Ueno Castle gathered hundreds of people from several villages near Ueno Castle. Among them are peasants, there are also some ronins who are not confident in their abilities, and those who are eliminated from the talent selection in the first place.

"Brother. Have you passed? At this time, next to a group of bonfires on the banks of the Xiongwu River, a man in shabby clothes and a very "miserable" face said excitedly to another man who was not much better.

"Right Soldier Wei Shaozhi, it seems that you have passed, haha, I have also passed. It is said that if we pass, we will receive rations, and now we don't have to go hungry at last. After saying that, the man's face, which was originally slightly pale from hunger, suddenly appeared a flush.

That's right, these two people are Yukasu Yukihide and Yamaguchi Chokyo.

Speaking of which, what happened to these two people during this time can only be described as a miserable son.

Originally, the two of them planned to go to play football under one of the most famous samurai of the Tsugawa family, but after many inquiries, they found that the important ministers of the Tsugawa family were very famous in the territory. Among them, there are five of the most famous, and they are the five leaders of the Tsugawa family.

The two of them first went to Miki Naogo in Yodogawa Castle, the closest to Minato, but when they arrived, they were told that the selection had been completed............ Although the two of them were very helpless, they were not discouraged, so they went to Miki Naoxiang in Uemaeda Castle, but unfortunately Uemaeda Castle did not organize the ashigaru selection this year.

At this time, the two of them were so hungry that they were almost speechless, and in desperation, the two of them decided to go to the nearby village to "beg" by Yamaguchi Changjiao. I don't know if it was luck or what, the two of them actually got two still hot rice balls.

In such a cold weather, these two rice balls warmed the originally frozen bodies of the two and melted the cold hearts of the two. Rekindling hope, the two continued to move towards their next stop, the main hall castle, but before they reached the main hall castle, they could no longer walk. It just so happened that at this time, a caravan heading to the Ueno Castle Trading Post passed by and kindly took in Yukihide Hazu.

The two then traveled to the vicinity of Ueno Castle, which happened to be the time when the ashigaru selection for Ueno Castle had just begun.

At this time, the two of them could still take care of the previous "Lingyun Zhuangzhi", and the two who cried with joy just wanted to pass the selection as soon as possible and have a full meal.

Although the two of them have no image at all, after drinking a bowl of hot soup prepared by the Tsugawa family, the two who are quite good in martial arts finally successfully passed the ashigaru selection. This means that the two of them can at least be a standing guard and not starve.

Just as Yamaguchi Chokyo and Yukihide Hazu were overflowing with the joy of passing the selection, suddenly the two of them felt the ground tremble under them!

"It's cavalry! There are at least 100 rides! At this time, Yamaguchi Changjiao's face suddenly changed, and he said with an affirmative face.

Xiang Xiang this kind of cavalry with hundreds of horses, that is, Yamaguchi Nagakyo has seen it in the Oda family, even the Hazu family, where Hazu Yukihide is located, does not have such strength at all.

"It's the Tsukawa family's horseback riding team!"

"Look, the samurai at the front should be Kanna-sama, right?"

"I heard that in the battle of Akita last year, Kanna-sama took the lead in taking several samurai from the Andong family!"

"Nonsense, it's obviously dozens!"

"Shut up, Koshiro, the son of the third brother of the father of Kojiro in the village next door, is playing in the horse riding team, and it is said that the battle of Kamina-sama has taken thousands of people from Anton's family!"

"Made, isn't Koshiro yourself? What do you say in the middle of the day! ”

Yes, the shaking of the earth is the movement created by the Tsugawa family's horseback team.

With the arrival of the horse riding team, the entire selection field began to be noisy for a while. Some people have some understanding of the Tsugawa family's horseback team, so they began to tell those around them who don't know much about the Tsugawa family's brilliant achievements. Of course, there are some exaggerated remarks in it, but at least it shows that the prestige of the Tsugawa family's horseback team is indeed quite high.