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The bandit leader's subordinates have an elite army of 50 wild samurai.

These were samurai who had perished or committed crimes, and were well educated and trained in combat. The bandit leaders were well-equipped because robbery was a lucrative business.

On weekdays, these bandits who are peasants are scattered in small groups, covering most of the Three Rivers area, and are mainly responsible for finding information. If you see a lone samurai or a merchant, you will directly attack and rob them. If they came across a larger caravan, they gathered together and surrounded and plundered with the advantage of numbers. If they really met a large caravan, they reported it to the bandit leader, who led its elite to rob it.

Mikawa is the only way from Kansai to Kanto, and is a link hub for the Kyoto, Sakaimachi and Kojunxiang trade circles. If the merchants don't go from here, a lot of trade will be interrupted because of this.

The bandit leaders are also reluctant to kill chickens for eggs, so as long as the big merchants are willing to pay protection fees, they not only allow them to pass freely, but also give them a certain amount of protection.

But the protection fee they ask for is a bit too high, and for the average businessman, the profit is very thin, and they would rather operate in their own business district than conduct long-distance trade. This has played a great negative role in the economic development of the Imagawa family's territory.

However, for this group of bandits, life is indeed very pleasant, and they have accumulated a lot of wealth.

Not only the elite troops, but even the ordinary peasant members eat rice and white rice every day.

But there was one thing that Gao Xianda found strange. No matter how elite this bandit is, after all, it is just a group of bandits, not a regular army. How could such an army be allowed to appear in the territory of Mikawa, and it had not been heard of in Sunpu Castle?

This is an armed group of bandits with a fixed base, so you don't have to search for them everywhere. If the troops in Okazaki Castle want to come out to suppress the bandits, with the strong combat power of the Mikawa samurai, send a regular force of 200 people out, and I am afraid that they will be able to wipe out this group of bandits.

Even if the bandit leader has some superpowers and is more difficult to deal with, then it is better to send a team of 500 people. His ability to drill into the ground was not very effective against formed enemies, and Gao Xianda did not believe that the bandit leader would dare to openly transform into a forest troll to resist hundreds or thousands of regular armies surrounded by contractors.

Five hundred people, relying on his own strength, were shot to death at once, and he had to be tired to death. Moreover, it is impossible for the enemy to stand still and let him fight, it is a man with a good weapon.

In addition, if he makes too much noise, he is likely to be killed by a hostile contractor during the battle.

And if he takes a step back and speaks, even if he really changes, the battle will be won. A monster that can transform into a forest troll! This should be a strange story that spreads throughout Japan, right? At the very least, there is a terrifying enemy in Okazaki Castle, and you have to ask for help from Sunpu Castle, right?

But the people of the Imagawa family didn't know that there was such a thing.

Therefore, Gao Xianda could only understand this incident as someone in Okazaki City colluding with the bandit leader, and the bandit leader did not need to fight the regular army in Okazaki City at all. You only need to pay the protection fee upwards.

It's a chain of layers of exploitation, and the end of the chain points to Okazaki Castle. This is also exactly what Kosenda sent Kinoshita Tengjiro to investigate, and it is also what he sent Matsudaira Motoyasu to face to suppress the bandits.

Several clues are finally intertwined, and it is time to close.

Kosenda had experience in raiding homes, and Sukezaemon had a very good understanding of valuables. This time, they teamed up to carefully count the treasures in the bandit stronghold.

Sukezaemon saw that his saliva was about to stay.

"My lord, these things together, I'm afraid they can be worth 500,000 yuan!" Sukezaemon said excitedly.

Gao Xianda nodded. In other words, the goal of the bandit leader is already half accomplished. However, there are a lot of valuables in this area, which are not converted into cash, so they cannot be counted as mission objectives.

Moreover, most of these valuables are porcelain, calligraphy and painting works and other works of art, although they are valuable, but they are of little significance to Gao Xianda. So Kosenda recruited the remaining bandits, asked them to obey Sukezaemon's leadership, and brought these valuables to the merchants in Kyoto to sell.

Naturally, the bandits who were born as farmers did not think much about it. As long as there is rice to eat, whoever leads them is the same. But for those bandits who were born as wild warriors, they have a higher spiritual pursuit.

They were trained as samurai from an early age, and the hierarchy was ingrained in their hearts. Although they have become ronin, they still despise the merchants at the bottom.

They would rather be bandits than bodyguards for merchants.

Gao Xianda had no choice but to show his identity as the head of the Imagawa family, and promised them that if they completed their work well this time, not only would everyone get a bonus, but they could also consider recruiting them and letting them serve the Imagawa family.

Many of them were samurai who had fled from Owari, and many of them had lost their territory due to the rise of the Oda clan. So they have a lot of hatred for the Oda family. Recently, the news that the Imagawa family defeated the Oda family has already spread, so they have a strong affection for the Imagawa family.

When they heard that it was the head of the Imagawa family, Imagawa Clan, they were relieved at once. I understood why the other party was able to break up his team of fifty people with one person. It is worthy of the title of "Oni Imagawa"!

So many of these wild samurai chose to agree. Although the other people have no grudges against the Oda family, it does not affect the idea of joining the Imagawa family.

Although the Imagawa family did not succeed in Shangluo, the annexation of the Oda family showed their fighting ambitions, and there will be no less invasion battles in the future.

So they agreed. This made Goldenda very satisfied.

Without this bandit army led by the contractor, ordinary bandits would not dare to rob a caravan guarded by dozens of people.

Takasenda ordered the Saemon to hoist the flag of the Imagawa family in front of the caravan to identify himself.

It was a caravan sheltered by the Imagawa family. If a money-hungry daimyo dares to attack them, then the Imagawa family has an excuse to attack them. That's a lot more than a caravan is worth.