Chapter 3: Sakai no Machi
When he got home, Yoshiki took the dishes and chopsticks handed by him, and was just about to eat, but a ninja came to the door of Hagi's house and said: "Order, Hagi Yoshiqin leads ten ordinary ninjas to escort the merchant Heijiro to the boundary town, and immediately go to Yashiki to meet the merchant." Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ļ½ļ½ļ½Uļ½Eć ļ½ļ½ļ½ļ½ā
After eating a big meal, Ji Qin set off again fully armed, different from the armament he brought to the training, this time Ji Qin said that he was fully armed, referring to the ten flying knives made by the blacksmith who specially found Koga, one pole and one zhang long, and the blade of the gun also had a two-foot straight iron gun (one zhang ten feet, that is, three meters), and a rib gap left by his father, this is Ji Qin's full armament.
The flying knife and the iron spear are all based on the Gentian gun in the memory of Xiao Li's flying knife and Zhao Yun's hand, but the iron gun is much shorter than the original Gentian gun, after all, it is now a foot battle, and the spear is too long to wield, which is not conducive to play.
When he came to Ninja Yashiki, he first greeted Mitsutoshi Tarao, and then faced his employer, a middle-aged man in his thirties, more than 1.4 meters, with a light in his small eyes that only belonged to a businessman.
"Ding, side quest, escort merchant. Lead ten ninjas to escort the merchant to Sakai Town. Quest reward, 50 pieces of money. ā
Although Qimu Jiqin's face is immature, his height of more than one meter and a half is enough to dispel everyone's doubts, so the merchant Heijiro is also satisfied with Ji Qin's escort, leading the pack horse full of goods to the boundary town. It's a horse that's just over a meter tall and has good stamina, but that's it. Although Ji Qin wanted to have a horse of his own, he would not take a second look at this kind of pack horse.
Heijiro is a talkative person, but Yoshiqin has no interest in talking to him, and most of them are just perfunctory "um, um, ah, ah", and the rest of the ninjas naturally don't communicate with him. Along the way, there was the sound of Heijiro's chattering, and Ji Qin was paying attention to the surrounding environment, one was the quality that he should have as a bodyguard, and the other was to enjoy the scenery outside Koga.
Whenever he passed through a village, Heijiro would go to sell his goods, and at this time, Yoshiqin would lead the ninjas to help him unload and load the goods from the pack horse.
I stopped and stopped all the way, but I arrived at Sakai Town three days later in the morning.
"Thank you for your hard work, this is my letter of entrustment, you can take it back and hand it over to your leader." After Heijiro finished speaking, he handed a piece of paper to Ji Qin, and after Ji Qin read it carefully, he nodded to Heijiro. Heijiro waved goodbye to Yoshiqin and led the pack horse into Sakai Town, and Yoshiqin's first mission ended peacefully. However, Yoshiqin did not plan to return to Koga immediately.
Now that you're in the bustling town of Sakai, how can you not go in and enjoy its prosperity! Although Ji Qin only had fifty yuan on his body that he had just completed the task, this did not hinder Ji Qin's determination to visit Jiezhen, because the system rewarded him with Daming copper coins, which were high-grade copper coins that could achieve a very high exchange rate with Japanese copper coins.
Let the ten subordinates go back first, and Yoshiqin entered Sakai Town alone. The letter of entrustment must be returned by the leader of the team, so Ji Qin did not let them bring it back first.
With the fifty yuan he got from completing the task, Ji Qin wandered around.
Sakai was run by a "rendezvous" elected by the citizens, who could also be said to be merchants, and also had its own court, with some ronin samurai serving as mercenaries, much like medieval cities such as Venice and ******.
It's also similar to Koga, where Yoshiqin is currently located, both are co-governed, slightly different, maybe it's just that Sakai Town is a merchant group, and Koga is a ninja group.
Sakai Town is one of the centers for the production of iron cannons, and in terms of commercial power and armament, Sakai City is not bad. Of course, Sakai people were merchants, not samurai, and when they encountered ruthless characters, they felt that there was nothing to fight and they might as well return to Shun, for example, after Oda Nobunaga went to Luo, they expressed their goodwill to Nobunaga.
At the same time, the town of Hirado in Kyushu was also a city with a lot of commerce and maritime trade, but because of its distance from the political center, it was not as famous as Sakai Town, but it was more prosperous.
At this stage, Yoshiqin can only enjoy the style of Sakai Town.
Stepping into Sakai Town, Yoshiqin was attracted by the prosperity of Sakai Town, the sound of hawking that could be heard everywhere, the pedestrians rubbing shoulders, everything that could be found during the Warring States period in Japan, there were people selling in Sakai Town, everything you could think of, what you couldn't think of, things that fit this era, are reflected in Sakai Town.
Ji Qin found a piece of cloth and wrapped fifty copper coins, his small body carried a large number of copper coins, and it was very difficult to walk, and the sound of a large number of copper coins hitting in the cloth bag continued to attract the attention of countless people.
Looking at the greedy gazes of the people around him, Ji Qin smiled in his heart, and the secret path really took the bait. All of this was done by Ji Qin on purpose, otherwise, how could it be difficult for Ji Qin to work hard with such a little weight.
However, this money could not attract the attention of those merchants with status, and Ji Qin did not want to attract their attention, Ji Qin's purpose was just to know if there was anything that could attract his attention from these vendors on the street.
Obviously, Ji Qin's strategy was very successful, and as Ji Qin continued to move, all the vendors who saw Ji Qin approaching him all shouted as if they were selling their lives, trying to attract Ji Qin's attention and tempt Ji Qin to stop his steps.
Although Sakai Town is very prosperous, although there are many street vendors, but none of the goods can attract Ji Qin's attention, seeing that he is about to walk out of the most prosperous street in Sakai Town, Ji Qin can only sigh, it seems that he can only go to those shops to take a look,
I remember that there was a person named Naya Sukezaemon who was very powerful.,I don't know if I'm working in Naya now.,By the way, let's go and see.,If you can have a good relationship with him.,He's developed in the future.,I can have another way out.ć
Ninja is a high-risk profession, although Ji Qin's martial arts are very good, but there are always times when he misses, as the saying goes, no matter how high the kung fu is, he is also afraid of kitchen knives, and the future is an era of muskets, Ji Qin must prepare a way back for himself and his son.
After asking passers-by about the location of the house, Ji Qin hurried over. Naya's storefront is not large, but it is very exquisite, and it seems that Imai Munehisa, a big businessman, is still very tasteful and not an upstart.
Ji Qin, who walked into the house, thought so.
"Welcome to Naya, is there anything this ninja can help me with?"
A child who looked about the same height as Yajiro said earnestly to Ji Qin, who looked at the child in front of him who was about the same age as himself, but was a lot shorter than himself, and the ghost made the god use the identification.
"Ding, name: Nayasuke Saemon
Occupation Level: Merchant Apprentice (Naya)
Personal attributes: Force 5
Intelligence 65
Charisma 60
Trait: Merchant (C-level) - Slightly increases the profits made when conducting business activities. ā
Ji Qin said without moving: "Do you want to become the number one businessman in Japan?" I can help you! ā
Sukezaemon was stunned, he didn't expect this ninja to say such a thing to himself, if he was at home now, Sukezaemon would definitely think that Yoshiqin was a madman, and then drive Yoshiqin out.
Although he was in the store now, he couldn't make a move to drive away customers, but he still thought that Ji Qin was a madman, and his attitude was naturally much colder, but he still maintained the kind of atmosphere that a businessman should have.
After saying this, Ji Qin also realized that it was himself Meng Lang, and then looked at Sukezaemon's face, Ji Qin also smiled bitterly in his heart, it seems that this first image is not very good, it's just that.
Yoshikoto turned to leave, Sukezaemon looked at Yoshiko's back, and suddenly had a feeling as if something was leaving him, shook his head, Sukezaemon picked up a rag and carefully wiped the various decorations in the store.