Kamo Township is bordered by Zenshu Temple in the west, Rakuhara in the north, and Noda Castle is a famous fortified castle in the eight counties. Although Songshan Sudo was hit by fire, after all, the temple town of Shezenshu Temple has a rich population, and the lodging field is even more prosperous.

Every year, just to receive the pilgrims who come and go do not know how many, to pay homage to the big Buddha in the temple, naturally there will be offerings, in the past, the monks in the Shanxiu Temple only levied a section of money, it is enough to have three or four hundred money, counting other kinds of miscellaneous taxes are more.

Although it may not be as good as the Benzheng Temple, which is known as the "annual income and persuasion to enter the account", it is already a large amount of income for the current Gao Shisheng.

With Songshan in hand, it can greatly alleviate the embarrassment caused by the lack of military funds, and it can also firmly monitor the movements of the monks in Shanxiu Temple like He Maozhong. Nagabe Township is located right between Kamo and Songshan Suku, and the old owner of this township in the past was the Sakurai Matsudaira clan, and it is logical to support Matsudaira Tadashi to return to the old leader.

And his people are cowardly and weak, Gao Shisheng is also easy to manipulate behind his back, not afraid that he will have a rebellion, the position of these three townships in the county is very important, and it cannot fall into the hands of the Sanhe Hao clan.

Gao Shisheng thought so and asked, "In this case, who does the Zen master think can guard this Sanxiang?" ”

"Songshan is located in Baofan County, there are many temples and shrines nearby, and most of the villagers are disciples of the Pure Land True Sect, so it is necessary to choose reliable people who are close to them and let them be practiced in their towns. Noda Castle is the base of the Kamo people, and the Suganuma clan must have many friends in the township, and after taking Noda Castle, he should choose a person who is fierce and powerful and has a clear sense of internal sensitivity to guard the city. Between Zenshu Temple and Noda Castle in the countryside of Nagabe, after Matsudaira Genbo returned home, he could choose a capable soldier to assist him. ”

Gao Shisheng nodded, and said to Isshiki Zhenxiu with a smile: "Yuantai, you are both wise and brave, and you are good at local government affairs, are you willing to serve as the town governor of Songshan Sunai for me?" ”

Because he was in charge of Songyama as a private retainer, he was only said to be a town commissioner, not a service appointed by the Sunfu.

Isshiki Zhenxiu was pleasantly surprised when he heard this, although he had long known that following Gao Shisheng would have a great future, but he didn't expect that after only a few months in the eight counties, he would be able to serve as such a town governor with both wealth and power, and he also had the responsibility of supervising the Zenxiu Temple, as if he was the acting official of the township, he hurriedly left the table and bowed, and said: "I will not dare to live up to the judge's trust!" ”

Gao Shisheng helped him up with a smile, asked him to sit back in his place, and said: "The head of the temple seat of Shanxiu Temple, although he is a mediocre and incompetent person, he still swallows his anger, but there are still many monks and soldiers in the temple, and he cannot be underestimated by him, let alone without a brave samurai as a deterrent, I mean that Nagaoka Uemon will lead fifty people, and then recruit the town's heart stick and ronin to help, and form a return group together, what do you think?" ”

After all, the current army is limited, and it is impossible to send too many people to the side of Songshan Suku, so it is reasonable to co-opt the heart stick and ronin in the town.

"Follow the judge's orders." Isshiki Zhenxiu thanked again.

As for Nagaoka Uemon, he has no indifferent attitude, he is the same everywhere, in his opinion, there is nothing bad about Songshan Suku, and even in terms of military discipline, it is more comfortable than in Nakasenkan, and he also got up and promised loudly.

Gao Shisheng beckoned to Oi Shengchao to take out the appointment document that had been written long ago and give it to the two.

This time, he brought Yishi Zhenxiu, naturally he was selfish, after all, Songshan Su was such an important position, and it was not safe to let others serve as Gao Shisheng after all, and the most important thing was that his subordinates could be used, and there were not many people who could rest assured.

Ono Tadashi is counted as one, but he has to stay by his side to discuss major matters at any time, and Beizhuang Shengzhong is also counted as one, but unfortunately he returned to Pingshan Township in Yuanjiang Province, and among the many remaining people, only Isshiki Sadahide is the most suitable, but his martial arts are really not good, so he is matched to the fierce and warlike Nagaoka Uemon when he is strong.

Of course, this arrangement was also made to divide the gap between the various samurai regiments, and in the past few months in the Nakkaikan, although everyone nominally lived together in the Kanjo barracks, they were not very close to each other.

Now in the same place, after getting along for a long time, the relationship is naturally close, although Isshiki Zhenxiu is a little resourceful, but the nature is generous and open-minded; Nagaoka Uemon is greedy for money and dies lightly, and he is not a good person, but his mind is not as cunning and untrustworthy as the other two in the Shoyoshi team.

The two of them serve together, and there will be no suspicions and grudges, and there is no need to worry that Nagaoka Uemon will collude with Zenhide Temple to cause trouble.

Songshan Sujiao was in charge of guardianship and garrison by Isshiki Sadahide and Nagaoka Uemon, and in charge of the people of Nagabe Township, Gao Shisheng chose Akika Nakamaro.

He smiled and said to Qiulu Zhongmalu: "Zhongmalu, are you willing to guard Changbu Township for me?" ”

Qiulu Zhongmaro was obviously even more surprised, turned his head and looked around a few times to make sure that he had heard correctly, and then hurriedly said, "Does the judge want me to go to the Prison Commander's Township?" ”

"Chang Nian Zhai Shi said that he was elected as a capable soldier to guard the important place of Changbu Township for me, I want to think about it, and now only you are the most suitable."

Although he knew that Gao Shisheng was a false praise, it did not affect the joy of Qiulu Zhongmalu at all, he hurriedly attended the bow and promised loudly: "Zhongmalu knows the military order, and he will not dare to live up to the judge's trust!" ”

Just now he heard Isshiki Zhenxiu's answer twice, and felt very submissive, so he simply learned to answer with the same words.

He was an old subordinate of Gao Shimori when he was out of Shinano, and he was brave in battle, although he was now promoted to the soldier of Junfu, but to tell the truth, it was really unsatisfactory, otherwise he would not have been sent to Hachigu, a place that could break out again at any time.

Before Gao Shisheng arrived, he was nominally the garrison general of the Zhongquan Pavilion, but in fact, he had to live by looking at the face of the Zhongquan Temple Supervisor and the Yada family, otherwise even the military rations would be cut off.

Because his subordinates are all the banners of the Yuanjiang Kingdom, there is no shortage of scholars and servants, and there is no shortage of followers in the army, so he simply saves his strength.

The person in charge of the garrison of the two townships was agreed, and the sky was already bright, and the chaos had not slept all night, but everyone was not sleepy, but became energetic because of the collection of the south of the county.

It was only at this time that Mitsuhide Naito finally returned to Songshan in embarrassment, and what Ono Tadaaki instructed him to do was obviously not done.

Bringing almost twenty evil parties, counting him, there are only four left, not even a palm is enough, it may be that he was hit by the enemy's rocket, Naito Mitsuhide's beard and eyebrows were burned clean, covered in blood, and his face was full of ash, which could not hide the bean fire blisters that were everywhere.

Gao Shisheng was quite stunned, and hurriedly ordered someone to entangle him to the hall, and was helped into the hall by two flags outside the hall to sit down, and the first thing Naito Mitsuhide said was: "Have you eaten?" ”

Not only Gao Shisheng was surprised, but the rest of the people in the hall were also very surprised, and everyone before heard that he had led people to intercept and kill Suzuki Reset, the official of Yunfa Temple.

Mitsuhide Naito brought those people to the evil party that had been rampant for many years, and everyone saw that he had not returned, although they felt a little strange, but they never thought that anything would happen.

"What's going on?"

Endured the pain of the fire bubbles on his mouth, gobbling up the soldier food pills sent by Gao Shisheng personally, Naito Mitsuhide slurred his speech, and said in a snort: "After I followed Suzuki to Xixiang, I saw that there were no outsiders around, so I led the troops forward to rob and kill, who knew that when I was halfway through the fight with the monks, I happened to bump into the disciples of the Nichiren Sect who came to meet them, and the number of people on the opposite side was too much, so I had to lead people to retreat first." ”

Ono Tadaaki also felt a little embarrassed when he heard this, and he didn't say a word with the rosary in his hand, after all, he had previously promised Gao Shimori that the men sent would inevitably assassinate Suzuki Shigetsu as well, thus instigating the disciples of the Nichiren sect to attack the other branches of Zenshu Temple in the county.

At present, the dilapidated Shanxiu Temple, naturally, is unable to shelter the officials of those courtyard owners, and then Gao Shisheng came forward to mediate in the name of prosecuting non-violations, and brought the temple Wanxing into the control to a limited extent, so as to levy 'Duan money' since the rentier self-fattening.

Everyone in the hall suddenly had different expressions, but they were all silent, feeling that the matter was out of control, Shimazaki Keishin rarely saw Ono Tadaaki make a mistake, and he felt quite happy in his heart, if it weren't for too many outsiders, he couldn't have laughed out loud.

Gao Shisheng didn't want to blame Ono Tadaaki and Naito Mitsuhide for doing things badly, after all, the incident happened suddenly, and it was possible for everything to go smoothly in the world.

But he still asked with concern: "Have you ever found out the identity of the other party?" "As long as the identity is not revealed, everything is fine.

Mitsuhide Naito drank two more cups of sake poured for him by others in succession, and only after relieving himself did he relieve: "The other party must not have noticed, and after being repulsed, I took the remaining people and fought and retreated, leading them all the way to the nearby monastery of the Pure Land Shinshu, pretending to be a Pure Land disciple and shouting for help······"

Speaking of this, he pointed to his face and said, "These burns were left by the monks of the Nichiren sect when they led people to set fire to the temple, but they did not delay the instructions of Changnian Zhai, but several wounded soldiers who fled into the temple together at that time failed to follow, and all of them were burned to death with the monks of the temple. ”

In fact, this is not true, those wounded soldiers were indeed burned to death, but they were not disciples of the Nichiren sect, but he was afraid that those people would tell the truth after being captured, so he killed all the seriously injured people with knives, and then set fire to the courtyard, and after creating chaos, he took advantage of the chaos to escape over the wall.

In saying this, it is just that there are still many subordinates in the hall, and the reputation of spreading it is not very good for both himself and Gao Shisheng.

Gao Shisheng and the others naturally understood, so they didn't continue to ask questions in the depths, and hurriedly ordered people to help Naito Mitsuhide, the five people who survived, and went down to bandage and rest.

"Now that the two schools of Nichiren and Pure Land have started to discuss, how do you think I should break it?"

"In my opinion, this matter should be kept out of the sect first, as the so-called authorities are confused, and after the people of the two monasteries are panicked, it is not too late to come forward to mediate, and at that time it is also the right time to come out to ask for offerings." Shimazaki Keishinobu's proposal could not be miscalculated, but it was not careful with He Gao Shisheng's intentions.

He worked hard to defeat the Kamo people entrenched in the south of the gun, in order to naturally take over his position to control the south of the gun, how could he tolerate the reckless behavior of the Nichiren sect in his sphere of influence, and he was also a disciple of the Pure Land Shin Sect, regardless of whether he was devout in his heart or not, but as a foreign samurai, if he wanted to gain a successful foothold in the Mikawa country, he had to use the identity of a disciple of the same sect to close the relationship between the two sides.

Master Gao shook his head and said, "Harima is always on the right path, but it is not advisable now. ”

"If you can't sit and watch, you can retreat and settle for the next best, then send someone to stop it." Akika Nakamaro pleaded: "Nakamaro is willing to lead his subordinates to stop the sectarian arguments of the two families, and force the Unhoji Temple to withdraw from the south of the gun, so that it will no longer incite Nichiren to invade the temple shrine." ”

Sending troops to forcibly stop it is a good method, but I am afraid that it will not let the Nichiren sect stop the army so willingly, and the Pure Land Shinzong may not be willing to leave it at that, this method is just a temporary urgency, and in a few days the two families will go back to regroup, and really gather all their disciples and believers, at that time, it will not be a simple matter of burning a monastery and killing and injuring dozens of people.

Sending troops to attack He Maozhong, it can still be said that it is to prevent them from raising troops to make trouble after they are aware of it, so they barely cover up the past, if there is another outbreak of thousands of people in the county, Junfu will inevitably send people down to be held accountable, Gao Shisheng will be dismissed from his post if he can't say it, this is not something he wants to see.

Gao Shisheng thought about it for a while, then vetoed Qiulu Zhongmalu's proposal, and said: "He was born in the monks of the temple family, and he has been rampant in the local area for many years, and he has always flouted the laws and regulations of Junfu. ”

"It is not possible to sit and watch, and then retreat and seek the second, you might as well discuss how to escort Suganuma Dingcun to Sunfu, prepare the army, and then summon the people of the southern country of the county to pay homage in the name of the judgment of the prosecutor's non-embassy, and then the judge will come forward for peace talks." Ono Tadaaki said that his mind was flexible, and after listening to what Mitsuhide Naito said, he thought of a follow-up remedy.

Gao Shisheng laughed and said: "What the Zen master said is very much in my heart!" ”

He thought the same way, and he could just take advantage of this opportunity to let the wealthy families know that now the land in the south of the county is already the direct leader of Junfu, and everything in the future should be in accordance with the laws of Junfu.

"Later, after escorting Suganuma Dingcun and others back to the Zhongquan Pavilion, he ordered the whole army to reorganize his troops, and sent people to the townships to pass the order, telling all the wealthy families, temples, and shrines to quickly go to the embassy to senate, and if they can't, they will all be punished according to the remnants of the Hemo Party!"

And all the men arose and made their promises.