Chapter 115: The Troubled Wave President
Looking at the figure of Ranbo Eleven who disappeared ghostly outside the door, Abe Tadamoto frowned.
"Is it really someone from the Yan family?" He muttered a sentence in his mouth, dragged a low table from the tatami mat, spread out a piece of white rice paper and prepared to write a letter, just dipped the lake pen from Daming into ink and stopped, frowning and falling into deep thought.
Just now, Ranbo Eleven Lang said his judgment: this Chu Xiucai from Dengzhou is probably very related to the Yan family. The reason for Ranbo Eleven Lang was that he saw Li Guozhu's big butler Fang Zifang enter and leave the Fat Wind Pavilion and sent a lot of things, and Chu Fan even sent Fang Zifang to the door with a group of people, and the two held hands and laughed, and they were extremely intimate, so he thought that Chu Fan and the Yan family had a deep relationship.
If Chu Fan is behind the Yan family, then he can obviously sell fairy grass cigarettes without selling them, which is even more confusing.
Thinking of this, Abe Tadashi couldn't help but sigh lightly, put down his pen and took the beautifully bound wooden box from the side and looked at it.
After all, he is not the material for doing business - in the matter of fairy grass cigarettes, Abe Tadashi felt that he had made too much mistake!
As the ruler of the Turbulent Waves, the fifty-five-year-old Tadashi Abe himself has gradually grown up from a Turbulent Wave. Back then, when Tadashi Abe, who was only sixteen years old and had studied ninjutsu for three years, left Iga, it happened that Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who was the minister of Taisei at the time, expanded his army in order to defeat the Hojo clan, and he took advantage of the situation to join the army of the Toyotomi family and officially became a ranbo. In the Battle of Odawara of the Hojo clan after the crusade, he made many great contributions and emerged; Later, he established Kixun in the pacification of the Nine Household Rebellion, won the summons of Toyotomi Hideyoshi, and gave him the surname Abe, and was awarded the title of lord of Okura Castle in Mino Prefecture, and ate 500 koku. It was the grace of His Royal Highness Taige that allowed him to step from a low-level commoner carp jumping into the aristocratic class.
In the Battle of Bunroku Keichōcho, Abe Tadashi served as the president of the Fifth Army, but unfortunately he was unlucky, and before the Battle of Chungcheongdo, he was accidentally seriously injured and was sent back to Japan by Fukushima Masanori, the general of the Fifth Army. (Crab note: The so-called Battle of Wenroku Keicho is the Japanese name for the Battle of Wanli Korea)
However, Fukushima Masanori was still deeply impressed by Abe Tadamoto's bravery, so much so that seven years later, when Fukushima Masanori was preparing for the upcoming Battle of Sekigahara, he immediately thought of Abe Tadamoto, the outstanding president of the turmoil, and asked Tokugawa Ieyasu, who was acting as the national government, to give him a requisition order.
However, at that time, Abe Tadashi had already seen Tokugawa Ieyasu's ambition to replace the Toyotomi family, and was in frequent contact with the daimyo and castle lords who were loyal to the Toyotomi family, how could he obey Tokugawa Ieyasu's orders and poison his lord and benefactor, His Royal Highness Taiko?
Therefore, after settling down with his family, Abe Tadashimoto resolutely joined the side of the Western Army and joined the Sekigahara Battle against Tokugawa Ieyasu.
On the battlefield, Abe Tadamoto plotted to assassinate Tokugawa Ieyasu more than once, but unfortunately failed each time, and finally had to accept the bitter consequences of defeat. (Crab note: The Battle of Sekigahara was a key battle for Tokugawa Ieyasu to eliminate the daimyo loyal to Toyotomi Hideyoshi)
But what he didn't expect was that after the war, his own Kokura Castle was purged by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and his wife and three children died, from the day he got the bad news, Abe Tadamoto vowed that he must make Tokugawa Ieyasu and all the people of the Tokugawa family pay a terrible price!
In the battle of Osaka Natsu, just before the fall of the Tenshokaku, Abe Tadamoto was ordered to lead the Ranbos to send Toyotomi Kunimatsu, the eight-year-old son of Toyotomi Hideyori, to the Higo Domain. (Crab note: The Battle of Osaka was divided into two phases: winter and summer, and in the Osaka Summer Battle, Tokugawa Ieyasu captured the castle tower and completely destroyed the Toyotomi family)
Seeing the complete destruction of the Toyotomi family, Abe Tadamoto did not give up, he changed his name from "Matsuo" to "Tadamoto", and lurked in Nagasaki with the remaining turmoil.
Soon he met many colleagues who were also loyal to the Toyotomi family and determined to overthrow the shogunate, and slowly formed a well-organized and secret organization called "Kinoshita Maru" - this is in honor of the name of His Royal Highness Kinoshita Toyoshiro when he was born - to amass strength to avenge the Toyotomi family.
As he continued to gather turmoil loyal to the Toyotomi family from all over Japan, his financial situation began to deteriorate - he had no regular income and could not support them on the relief of "Kinoshitamaru" alone.
Therefore, seven years ago, the elders of "Kinoshitamaru" decided to allocate a huge amount of money, and sent assistants from Shentong to help him establish this flower house, and recruited popular prostitutes from all over the country to enrich it, and finally made it the largest and most high-end brothel in Nagasaki.
To put it bluntly, Hanamakan is the organization's intelligence base in Nagasaki, and of course, it also shoulders the heavy responsibility of earning funds for the organization.
Because of this, Abe Tadashi hesitated when Chu Fan visited, because in the eyes of the chaotic waves who are good at lurking, it is better to be still, and more is better than less, and anything that may lead to the exposure of the intelligence base should be done with caution.
But now he found out that he was wrong, very wrong!
Chu Fan's immortal grass cigarette was centered on Qifeng Pavilion, and it was rolling up a storm in Nagasaki City at a speed like a wind.
In just ten days, fairy grass has become the most lively topic in Nagasaki City. On the recommendation of the prostitutes of the Sehokaku, more and more Nagasaki people tried the cigarette rolls, and they were quickly captured by them, becoming their most loyal fans, and boasting of its miraculous effects and indescribable sensations after smoking, causing more and more Nagasaki people to flock to the Suhokaku to find out.
And in Abe Tadamoto's Flower Pavilion, although the benefactors were still able to sit still, there were already signs of flocking towards the Qifeng Pavilion - the silver received in the past few days had begun to decrease, and there were more and more benefactors asking if they had fairy grass cigarettes for sale.
Just yesterday, the chief tax collector of Nagasaki Town, Dayo, told the prostitutes who served him that if there were no more fairy grass cigarettes, he would have to go to Qifeng Pavilion to buy them—it was hard to say whether he would come back or not.
This made Abe Tadamoto extremely angry and annoyed, angry that these damn guys were so nostalgic for the prostitutes of the Flower House, but they couldn't resist the temptation of fairy grass cigarettes; Annoyed, he really shouldn't have missed Chu Fan's cooperation in the first place - now it's a good thing, that bastard in the village has taken the lead and reached an exclusive agreement with Chu Fan.
Slowly opening the wooden box, Abe Tadashi took out a pale yellow cigarette roll and looked at it carefully, he couldn't figure it out, how could it become fascinating to just roll a roll of tobacco?
Putting the cigarette on the tip of his nose and sniffing it, a faint smell of urine rushed into his nose well, it seems that the little show of the Ming Kingdom added something to the tobacco.
But what is it?
Tadashi Abe reluctantly put down the cigarette roll, covered the box and put it aside, and picked up the pen again.
He had to report the matter about Chu Fan and the Immortal Grass Cigarette to "Kinoshitamaru", and by the way, ask for instructions.
If the elders of "Kinoshitamaru" agree, he will not hesitate to use the few waves he usually has to put an end to this matter.
Kill Chu Fan, and everything will be over!