Chapter 76: Ninja

Early in the morning, after spending the night in the chariots, Masayo's army set out on the journey home again.

Yesterday afternoon, Masara, accompanied by his subordinate general Tsuda Hiromune and military commander Toro Sasuke, inspected the 3rd Standing Ashigaru Brigade. Although Tsuda Hiromune is usually a little unreliable, in ashigaru training, he has completely inherited Masayo's method and trained the entire third team well. Of course, due to the need for secrecy, the place where Ashigaru trains is strictly protected, and other personnel are strictly forbidden to approach.

And last night, Masato also received the latest news about Nakao from Kuaima, and the 200 stone grain of the Huzi family has arrived. Masarashi gave the order to store the grain in Nakao, mainly in preparation for the upcoming war. As for the fast horse that sent the letter, it was specially assigned by Masato in the middle tail. At present, there are three small ponies in the territory, one is for the exclusive use of Zhengliang, one is placed in Nakao, and the last one is placed in Yegao Village, these two horses are mainly used to transmit emergency information, and are fed by special personnel. In the future, with the increase of horses in the territory, Masara plans to establish a cavalry squad, and at the same time let all the scouts learn to ride horses, so that the speed of information transmission will be much faster.

Last night, it rained heavily, and in the early morning, there were still puddles of water on the avenue in the fields, and the hooves of the ponies stepped on the puddles, splashing strings of water. Looking at the surrounding wasteland that was being reclaimed, Masahiro stopped from time to time and went to the field to inspect on the spot. Since yesterday he saw that all the city lords had gathered their lords to welcome the lords, which led to the temporary halt of the construction of the territory, Masahiro immediately arranged for personnel to notify the next territories to stop such a welcome ceremony. At this time, the liberated people came to the fields one after another, some of them were taking care of their fields, and some of them were participating in the paid conscription of the territorial organization, cultivating the fields and digging deep canals. Seeing Masayo's arrival, they gathered over to salute the lord. At the same time, everyone was overjoyed that the lord who had been high up had gone down to the field.

In this way, after walking and stopping, I finally came to the original Tashiro neighborhood near noon. The original Tashiro town has been demolished and replaced by a town that has been several times larger in size. Kosuke, who rushed to hear the news, hurriedly saluted Masahiro. Masara waved his hand, signaling that there was no need to be polite, and then asked, "How is the road from the lord's mansion to the bottom of the mountain open?" ”

"Your Highness, there are currently 71 slaves in charge of opening the road, and it is expected that the road from here to the lord's mansion will be completed by the middle of next month," Kosuke said. According to Masarashi's arrangement, 25 Standing Shotgaru of the First Brigade were stationed here, temporarily led by Kosuke, who were responsible for guarding the territory slaves on the open road.

“71? How did you have so many slaves all at once? Masahiro clearly remembers that in the middle of May, there were less than 50 slaves in his family's territory.

"This is exactly what His Majesty is preparing to report, during this time, the nearby Haoqiang sent Hosaku to frantically sneak into the house from the mountain trail on the edge of the territory, trying to find out the news, but it was soon discovered and reported by the people, and so far 26 spies have been caught with the cooperation of the people, who were sent from the Nagasura family, the Taiku family, the Nagoshi family, the Sashi family, the Yomiko family, and the Akasaka family", Kosuke immediately reported.

"Hiss", Zhengliang broke out in a cold sweat on his back, he didn't expect that there were so many heroes who favored him, which was not a good thing.

"The information from the interrogation has been compiled to Tadajiro, and when His Highness returns to the mansion, Tadajiro will report it to you personally. At the same time, those newly discovered mountain trails have also been blocked or monitored", Kosuke continued to report, "Hehe, those guys don't know the power of the people's war launched by His Highness Lu Dao, the family is now like a man-eating beast, and the fine work that entered the territory has been reported and captured by the people, and it can no longer leave, it seems that the families will not dare to send the fine work in casually." ”…,

"After completing the opening of the road on the mountain, continue to be responsible for the opening and reinforcement of the main military roads in the territory", Zhengliang said fiercely, Zhengliang was heartbroken at the moment, 26 people, each of them had to reward 5 stone of miscellaneous grain to the reported people, and 130 stone of miscellaneous grain was consumed at once, and it was necessary to wage a people's war.

"Yes, Your Highness", hearing Masara's voice as if gritting his teeth, Kosuke immediately bowed down to receive the order, "Also, Your Highness, we caught a ninja the day before yesterday." ”

"Huh?" , Masara was stunned, to be honest, Masara has not seen a real ninja yet, it is said that the ninjas at this time are very powerful, and the most powerful ones are the three sons of Hyakchi, Hattori Hanzo, Wind Demon Kotaro, etc. Now that he suddenly heard that he had caught a ninja, Masarashi was immediately intrigued.

"That's right, that ninja tried to find out about the destruction of the Kogi family, and was discovered by the people, and the most people were caught under the siege of Ashigaru and the people led by Lord Tsuda", seeing that Masara was interested, Kosuke immediately raised his voice and said, "But that ninja doesn't seem to want to hurt the ordinary people, although the secret weapon is very powerful, the last one is still captured." ”

"Did you ask what's wrong?" , Masarashi asked. He's getting more and more interested in this strange ninja, and there are even ninjas who can't bear to hurt the people and take them down? It's really strange in the world.

"Your Majesty used all the torture of His Highness's Church, but the ninja only said that he was from the Mountain Sneakers, and his name was Ichijo," Kosuke seemed ashamed that he had not received useful information.

"Hiss", Masato shuddered, if Masato understood correctly, fortunately used some of the "Ten Tortures of the Manchu Dynasty" of the Masato Church. There are people who are under such torture and only reveal so little information, they are really tough guys.

Mountain lurkers? One If? Kogi's house? Masarashi instantly thought of an important piece of information and immediately ordered, "Bring that ninja here." ”

"Yes, Your Highness", Kosuke took the order and left.

Soon a thin young man covered in scars was carried in front of Masara, and looking at the ten bloody fingers, Masarashi shivered again, and Masarashi now wondered if Kosuke was trying to add the same fear he had when he interrogated him to these slaves. After all, if you've been hurt here, then you'll find happiness from other people's pain, and that's the character of Yusuke.

"Don't waste any more energy, you won't give any more information down," said the ninja lying on the ground, his eyes closed, disdainful. After being tortured for two days, you still have the strength to speak? Sure enough, under the thin body, there is a powerful mind hidden.

Masara looked at the face of the ninja in front of him, looked at it for nearly a minute, and then said, "Che Mu Yinuo, who are you?" ”

After hearing Masara's words, the ninja's eyes suddenly opened, and then he looked up at Masara and asked, "Who are you?" How did you meet him? He... Where is he now? ”

Seeing the performance of the ninja, the political conscience was the first to sudden, and sure enough, there were two moments, and he was able to hear and distinguish the direction, and at the same time, he was more sure of the original guess in his heart, "Hehe, he is now the head of the Ashigaru group of his family." ”

"Hmph, don't think that you can deceive you like this, you won't be fooled so easily", although his mind was suddenly disturbed by Masaara's words just now, the ninja quickly recovered.

"Whether you have deceived Your Excellency or not, you will naturally know when the time comes. Kosuke, take him in a good position, and inform Ikno that his relatives are coming", Masarashi waved his hand and ordered, "If Your Excellency wants to see Ikno, then please don't leave easily." Masarashi was worried that after letting go of this ninja, the latter would say goodbye.

"Yes, Your Highness", Kosuke immediately lifted the ninja who was already full of doubts and walked down. …,

Hehe, God helps the Luo family, a ninja was sent at this time, looking at the ninja who was gradually moving away, Masahiro thought happily.

After lunch and detailed instructions on what Kosuke needs to pay attention to, Masarashi set out on his return journey again. Instead of taking the secret path from Harada Shiro to the mansion of the Lord of Notakayama, the road was being opened by an army of slaves and was difficult to pass quickly, so Masarashi chose the avenue where the Haradahara family and Notaka Village met, and this avenue had been nearly doubled in width after some maintenance by Kosuke. According to Masayo's original request to Togo Heiji, it was necessary to build a wide avenue connecting the main roads. When the lords along the road saw the lord's main banner, they knelt on the ground and saluted.

After nearly half an hour of travel, along the newly built forest avenue, through a forest, and into an open territory, Notaka Village finally arrived, and this is the place where Masato has risen. Looking out into the distance on horseback, the village seemed to have expanded several times, and at the edge of the woods in the distance, some people were cutting down trees, while others were simply disposing of the trees and transporting them to the village to build wooden houses.

Tadajiro, who had been waiting for a long time, led the Fourth Ashigaru Team, who had no task on his side, to salute Masahiro, "Your Highness."

Masarashi waved his hand, signaled for everyone to be exempt, and then said to Tadajiro, who was kneeling in front of the horse, "Let's go, talk as we go."

Tadajiro immediately got up and respectfully led the horse for Masara. If you want to say that the retainer of the Luo family is most eager to see Masayo, the first thing is to count Tadajiro. During this time, Tadajiro was not only responsible for the daily training of the Fourth Foot Light Team and the territory guards, but also had to keep an eye on Yunoo's movements, in addition, he was also responsible for the daily affairs of Notaka Village and the lord's mansion, after all, the lord's mansion had his own future housewife, and he couldn't be lazy at all, so he ran from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain every day, and then ran from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, back and forth several times, so tired that Tadajiro's oily bald head was about to smoke.

"Your Highness, with the assistance of the ploughing oxen, the speed of field reclamation has been greatly accelerated, and the wasteland southwest of Notaka Village has been basically reclaimed, and if you push further inside, you will enter the forest," Tadajiro reported as he walked.

When Zhengliang heard this, he was very surprised. Although the five captured ploughing cattle were placed here, they didn't expect to reach the edge of the forest so quickly? You must know that it is very close to the place where he fought with the wild boar herd.

"According to His Highness's request, the next step in the direction of reclamation is to the south, where there will be more wasteland," Tadajiro continued, "Notaka Village has nearly 1,000 people, and the size of the village is constantly expanding, and according to His Highness's original request, the houses of the lords are built according to the designated location." After hearing Tadajiro's words, Masara also looked up at the houses in the distance, and sure enough, they were all built in an orderly manner according to his original requirements.

At this time, the surrounding leaders had already discovered Zhengliang's team, and they all stopped what they were doing and gathered on both sides of the avenue. This is the root of the Luo family, although many new homeless people from other places were added later, but under the subtle influence of the original people, they all worshiped Luo Zhengliang. It is no exaggeration to say that there are some of the most loyal and even fanatical believers of Luo Zhengliang. Riding on a horse and looking at the people who kept gathering on both sides of the avenue to cheer loudly, Masara suddenly had a feeling of happiness, a kind of happiness that was relied on and worshipped.

The 40 cloaks are also excited at the moment, they have been away from home for nearly a month, and today they can finally see their families. Masarashi also noticed the change in the mood of these mid-level samurai around him, and immediately announced that the cloaked people would have a day off and meet at the camp next to the lord's mansion tomorrow. As for the 20 low-level samurai, since they all have no family here, they can only continue to protect Masayo.

After learning of Masaliang's decision to take a holiday, the commotion of the crowd immediately erupted in bursts of cheers, and the cloaked people immediately ran to their families next to the avenue, and many people hugged each other, and the scene was very touching for a while.

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