Although there are not many Japanese ronins in this group of pirate captives, there are more than a dozen people, and Ren Liang will notice the short Takahashi Minami from these people, not because of anything else, precisely because this guy has a surname and a name, and he is not an ordinary ronin Wako. （.）

When Ren Liang was interrogating Takahashinan, he heard this little devil report his name seriously, and Ren Liang realized that this guy was not an ordinary ronin. Ren Liang was also a light anime otaku before the crossing, so he still has some superficial understanding of Japanese folk customs, as far as he knows, if it is not a nobleman and a formal samurai in this era, ordinary people's names have no surnames.

It was a rare opportunity to meet a real Japanese samurai in this era, and under Ren Liang's interrogation with great interest, the captive Takahashi Minami stammered his origin in Chinese, which he was not fluent in.

Takahashi Minami claimed that he was originally from Settsu Province, and that he was originally a samurai belonging to the Naito family, a local high-ranking official, who was sentenced to exile for offending the head of the family after drinking, and then followed a group of ronins to the coast of Fujian in a daze, and then slowly drifted to the coast of Guangdong, joining the group of pirates who attacked last time. Unexpectedly, the first time I followed this gang of pirates south to rob, I bumped into the iron plate of the traversal.

If it weren't for Ren Liang's previous knowledge of Japanese history through guò anime, I'm afraid it would be difficult to know that this somewhat indecent name of Settsu Country is actually the Osaka area in later generations. The two Osaka battles in which Tokugawa Ieyasu defeated Toyotomi Hideyoshi, which are famous in Japanese history, took place more than a dozen years ago. However, Takahashi claimed that he was only twenty-three years old, and it was clear that he had not been able to take part in the two great wars that would change the history of Japan. Ren Liang later consulted the relevant Japanese information in the large database, and found that after the Setzu Province became a direct jurisdiction of the shogunate in 1619, the local governor appointed by the shogunate was surnamed Naito, which is very likely the head of the family mentioned by Takahashi Minami, which also confirmed that he did not fabricate his origins.

Of course, if Takahashi Minami just has the identity of a samurai, then at most it can satisfy Ren Liang's curiosity as an anime otaku, and he will not have any special treatment because of this. What really caught Ren Liang's attention to him was the so-called "samurai style" that Takahashi Minami upheld on weekdays, always maintaining a superior posture when he was with other ronin. And these ronins are obviously also deeply poisoned by the domestic hierarchy in Japan, and still retain a certain reverence for this down-and-out samurai, and often nod their heads when communicating with Takahashi Minami.

And this kind of arrogance is only relative, Takahashi Minami has always been very obedient in front of several guards, and in the face of any order, he immediately accepts "hi" and "hi", and there is never the laziness and disobedience that will occur in other pirates. Ren Liang tried a few times, and even asked Gao Qiao Nan to jump directly into the smelly and dirty river bottom quagmire on the hydropower station site to install the pumping pipe, Gao Qiao Nan did it without hesitation every time, so that Gu Wei, who has always liked corporal punishment of prisoners, secretly sighed that he couldn't find a chance to make a move.

Ren Liang believes that this is a kind of national inferiority formed in Little Japan since ancient times, that is, the worship and absolute obedience of the strong, and the brainwashing education that these family samurai received from an early age allowed them to sacrifice their lives, including their lives, without hesitation for their allegiance and the spirit of bushido. But it is accompanied by a rejection of humanity, and as long as they think it is the right order, they will not hesitate to carry it out, even if it is to turn themselves into a dehumanized killing machine. Ren Liang thought that when Gao Qiao Nan found out that the hard labor he was working with was actually a group of soldiers of the Ming army, the little confrontation he still had about crossing the crowd should have been completely wiped out.

After Luo Shengdong left the labor camp, Ren Liang had been looking for a replacement, so that the resentment of these hard laborers would not be too concentrated on the people who crossed the people, and the people often hated most were not enemies, but betrayers in their own camp. This attitude of absolute obedience to the orders of superiors and consistently good execution from Takahashi Nanbiao are exactly what Ren Liang's replacement should have.

So under Ren Liang's conscious arrangement, Takahashi Minami began to gradually assume the position of the person in charge of the construction site, and did quite conscientious. Whenever he saw someone being lazy at work, while scolding "Baga" in his mouth, Takahashi Nan scolded "Baga" in his mouth, and his fists and feet went up together, and he was much more ruthless than a few guards who crossed the crowd. Of course, it's not that no one resisted him, but this guy, as a samurai, has a little skill, Ren Liang once saw him in a one-on-three situation, and quickly knocked over the opponent's three Southeast Asian monkeys with his bare hands, and he was unharmed. Ren Liang weighed it, although he was a head taller than this Japanese dwarf, but if he really wanted to let go of his hand to fight, he was very likely not to be the opponent of the little devil.

After Takahashi Nan gradually became a puppet consciously supported by Ren Liang, some of the internal conflicts that originally existed in the labor camp were reduced a lot. It's not that he has any special management methods, it's just that he can simply rule people ruthlessly. In the past, when Luo Shengdong was there, all his subordinates were in the labor camp, and Luo Shengdong was worried that these people would deliberately sabotage to harm him, so when someone made a mistake, Luo Shengdong often just scolded a few words. Although there are many rules in the labor camps, the actual implementation effect is not particularly good.

But after Minami Takahashi came to power, this situation changed radically. Takahashi Minami had no friendship with the Ming soldiers and Chinese pirates, and naturally he would not leave any affection, although those ronin and Japanese were out of the same country as him, but in his eyes they were not of the same level, and in the spirit of bushido, the scolding and punishment of superiors to subordinates was a matter of course. As for the remaining black pirates of the South China Sea, in Takahashi's eyes, they were just a bunch of uncivilized monkeys, and since he happened to hear Ren Liang make such remarks, he thought it was true and took it as a matter of course.

After watching Takahashi Nan reprimand and punish the ineffective hard labor several times, Gu Wei couldn't help but sigh to Ren Liang: "This little devil is much more ruthless than us, there is such a ruthless character in the labor camp, I think I am about to lose my job." ”

Gu Wei's words can be described as a prophecy, and within a few days, the Military Police Department sent an internal order, asking Gu Wei to report to a new post The Military Police Department decided to recruit a group of local youths as future test subjects for the naturalized civilian army for training, and Gu Wei, who had rich experience in militia training before the crossing, was obviously the best candidate.

After Gu Wei was transferred, it became Ren Liang who was in charge of the labor camp. It stands to reason that Ren Liang will become busier because of this, but in fact, on the contrary, Ren Liang's life is more leisurely than before, thanks to his successful discovery of Takahashi Minami, the number one dogleg. Although Takahashi Minami is not as good at figuring out Shangyi and dealing with interpersonal relationships within the hard labor as Luo Shengdong, and occasionally seems too rigid, it is this one-dimensional character that meets the management needs of the labor camp. Under his strict control, the efficiency of the labor camp has improved significantly compared to before, and Ren Liang has more leisure time as a result, allowing him to even enjoy fishing while overseeing.

If it had been placed in the past, Ren Liang's bold employment strategy would definitely be questioned by his colleagues. Recently, however, Ren Liang is a favored celebrity in the Executive Committee, and the improved version of the labor points system proposed by him has now begun to be put into trial operation in the two newly established communes, and it is said that the results are good, and the Executive Committee is ready to recruit another group of members in the near future, and will promote this set of "labor grading system" in the future control area. There are even rumors that the system proposed by Ren Liang is very likely to be considered as one of the legislative proposals at the first plenary meeting in a year's time, and once it is passed, it will be determined as a means of governance by the Executive Committee in the next few years. In this situation, Ren Liang's attempts at work are considered reasonable, and with the recent improvement in all aspects of the labor camp, no one will question his current management methods.

Just as Ren Liang was pondering how to cook today's harvest, Takahashi Nan ran over in small steps, didn't say anything, first came with a deep bow of 90 degrees, and then reported: "Chief Ren, the work you assigned has been completed, please instruct!"

Before Ren Liang could speak, he felt a sinking in his hand, and immediately raised his arm vigorously, and a half-foot-long crucian carp flew out of the water with the fishing line.

Takahashi Nan had a quick hand, and when the fish crossed in front of him, he reached out and grabbed it tightly, then took off the hook and put the fish into the bucket in front of Ren Liang.

Ren Liang nodded approvingly and said, "Takahashi ......"

"Hey!" Takahashi immediately replied loudly.

"Don't always be hi hi hi in the future, it sounds awkward, what do I say, you answer 'yes', it's okay......"

"Hi...... Yes!"

"Also, listen to me first when I speak, don't interrupt me casually......"

"Yes!"

For this brainless little devil who doesn't know how to be flexible, the corners of Ren Liang's mouth twitched a few times, and finally he could only sigh helplessly: "Takahashi, why are you so obedient? Don't you have the will to resist at all?"

Takahashi Minami replied solemnly: "The samurai's survival is to serve the strong, and a samurai who cannot carry out orders is not a qualified samurai." ”

"You work so hard, does your family know?" Ren Liang couldn't help but tease.

"Hard work will definitely pay off, I Takahashi Minami will use my whole life to prove it!" The humble little man suddenly raised his head and said loudly: "Sir Ren, please believe me!"

Ren Liang couldn't help but smile and said, "Don't be so solemn, I'm not your allegiance." Even if you are to be allegiant, you should be loyal to the Executive Committee, not to me. ”

"Executive Committee?" Takahashi Minami didn't know much about the organizational structure of the Crossing People, and repeated the unfamiliar word.

"That's right, the Executive Committee. Ren Liang thought for a while, and then explained: "Just like the shogunate of your country, it is the highest authority of our Haihan. ”

What the highest authority meant, Takahashi Minami didn't quite understand, but he understood the phrase "the same as the shogunate", and his eyes immediately lit up: "Commander Ren, then do I have a chance to become a samurai of the executive committee?"

"Of course there is, and you also said that hard work will definitely be rewarded...... Oh no, it pays off. Ren Liang couldn't help but smile and continued to encourage him: "As long as you continue to work hard, there will definitely be a chance." ”