As a former member of Shinkyo, Kiyoshi has a deep understanding of the importance of order.

No rules, no rules. It is precisely because of the many rules and traditions that such a large and narrow territory of the Moon Country has been able to maintain overall peace and prosperity for thousands of years.

Everyone had a role to play in this society: peasants ploughed, merchants traded, artisans made, and the nobles governed their domains with all their might, and scholars led them astray.

Shrine maidens and monks used religious precepts and the Otsuki Law issued by the Imperial Family, and the laws of spiritual belief and mortal punishment to restrain people's evil deeds and maintain social stability.

People of all classes perform their duties, and try to avoid the appearance of lazy people as much as possible, so that everyone can come in handy, so that the society can have a thousand years of stability.

And even with so many precepts and rules, if there are still transgressors, then it will be the turn of the ninja troops.

Like many of his predecessors, Kiyoshi sees himself as a gardener in the garden, cleaning up the wrong branches and making the bonsai grow into an ideal and regular shape. Many ninjas' hobby is to grow bonsai, and that's no surprise.

Maintain a balance and remove overgrown and crooked branches, so that other places can get adequate nutrition. They are unseen, hidden in the dark, but they are important players in keeping the country in order and calm - at least Kiyoshi and many ninjas think so.

The Moon Country is huge, and in order to be able to act in a timely manner, ninjas must have a deep enough vein and a wide enough reach. They are distributed throughout the Crescent Island, using izakayas, teahouses, inns and other places where people come and go as strongholds, grasping information and transmitting it through various covert means. In the eyes of ninjas, there are no secrets in the entire Crescent Continent. And because it may be too late to report the news at some point, the ninjas are also given the power to perform a certain degree of slashing and then playing.

A ninja born as a commoner has the same power of life and death as a samurai's "rudeness". This power comes from the secret decree issued by Xinjing hundreds of years ago, the "Fire Payment Law", and its content is very characteristic of Xinyuezhou - the sparks of wood, thatch, and paper structures can easily be burned in pieces, so the fire must be extinguished as soon as possible. Sometimes, discovering a fire and reporting it all the way will eventually lead to the disaster expanding to the point where it cannot be solved, so citing this allusion, the ninjas became the firefighters in the hands of Shinkyo in the form of espionage and assassination.

"Everything is for the Imperial Kingdom, everything is for the Crescent Continent. ”

"It was a good time. Looking back on it to this day, Qingshi still can't help but sigh like this.

But the ninja is gone, and that era is gone.

The Passover has seen so much that it is inevitable that someone will be affected by it. Inferior civilians had some of the same privileges as samurai, and sometimes even samurai were arrested or even assassinated by ninjas in the name of rebellion. Against the backdrop of the intensifying contradictions between the two classes, as an existence with privileges and so many secrets, it is inevitable that some young people will become arrogant and arrogant.

Holding the power given by Xinjing, he did not contribute to the imperial state, but filled his own pockets, and tried to expand his influence and seek more power. When this series of events was revealed, Xinjing naturally did not tolerate or tolerate the rebellion.

Qingshi hated those clansmen who didn't know what to do, but in the end, he still cherished the lives of himself and his subordinates, and did not lead the hunting troops sent by Xinjing to be killed.

He fled, and when the Heavenly City, the ninja's stronghold, was struck by lightning and attacked by the oni forces, the assassins who had worked hard to learn their skills were torn to pieces in the face of overwhelming power, and the city where he had been born and raised was burned to the ground, which was called a mille-feuille labyrinth full of mechanisms and various training equipment, he turned and fled without looking back.

There were also a number of other ninjas who fled, most of them fleeing to the domain, as it was not under the direct administration of Shinkyo.

They hated the women who carried out their tasks mercilessly, the traitors who encroached on their greed and eventually brought destruction to their kindred, and they hated themselves who could only choose to turn their backs on Xinjing and turn their backs on the imperial state.

The ninjas are still loyal, but the Imperial Kingdom no longer needs their loyalty.

Many of the depressed ninjas have ended their lives early by immersing themselves in alcohol, but Kiyoshi and the rest of the ninjas still maintain their belief that they must rectify the chaos in the country, and if they eradicate the filth, if they bring order back to make amends, they will have the possibility of starting over.

Therefore, finding a capable master to serve has become the practice of most ninjas.

Everything is for the Moon Country, so that this country that has lasted for four thousand years can last for another four thousand years. I don't care if I get my hands dirty, and I don't care if I'm misunderstood and rejected by Xinjing. The only things that are unforgivable are those women who don't know the severity of their actions and the rebellion that leads to disasters, but as long as they make meritorious deeds, as long as they make meritorious deeds that no one can ignore, they can be liquidated after they are restored to their former status.

With this in mind, Kiyoshi served the new lord faithfully in the domain for nine years. Even after the turmoil in the domain, in order to cover the evacuation of the core personnel, some elite ninjas, including his own brothers, were killed, but his loyalty was still not shaken in the slightest.

The rebels of the domain are an abomination and disrupt order, but in his capacity, no one will buy it. So he was heartbroken, but he could only tell himself to be content with the status quo first.

They fled the domain, but headed south with a clear purpose. Some of the people who fled from the swamp village were nouveau riche of the domain who had come to have fun that night, because suddenly the samurai of the Kaga family did not know about their existence and they did not receive any news. In order to survive, these people exchanged information for supplies and gave Saburo many amazing secrets, and it was these secrets that led them to Zhangzhou, where they are now.

Godfall.

Zhangzhou has stories and legends that are different from other places in Crescent Island, and the children's songs and folk tales here depict not the most common Inari god and the highest status of the Great Moon God, but the dragon god of Si Fengyu.

But the dragon had fallen, and the massive corpse fell from the night sky on fire, smashing through the ground and burying deep into the earth. The corpse of the dragon god flowed out countless liquids, and the clear and sweet water made people drink to achieve eternal life, possess divine power, and be able to control wind and rain like the dragon god. But there is also an endless poison, which is the Gu of hatred for the betrayer, which curses the land and makes it forever full of miasma.

Folklore has become fragmented over the years, and there are only many contradictory speculations about who the betrayer was. But such stories are still deeply rooted in this land. Perhaps it is the real existence of the miasma that makes this story more convincing, but the "Founding Myth" that circulates in other regions, especially in the places closer to the central and southern regions, in the bridge section where the great moon god Sun Xia Fan unified the Crescent Continent, this paragraph only uses the phrase "the lord of the earth will sacrifice their kingdom and bow down to the vassals." "Brushed aside.

Saburo is not a man who would believe in mythological stories, and although he was indeed born in Zhangzhou, he used to scoff at this story.

But the fleeing nobles showed them something unimaginable, though it was a clear and sweet antonym and not a liquid. But after he swallowed the black pill, he did go from a fat, fair-skinned and powerless middle-aged man to a warrior with infinite power who could throw a heavily armed ronin out with one hand in a short period of time.

Before he was killed by Saburo's orders, the man shook out everything he knew—though he didn't know much—though he didn't know much.

The ninja leader didn't know what his master was seeing, and though he was a little surprised and saw the value of the pills—if they were, they might be able to fight even against the demons—but he just wanted to keep things in order and get things back in order.

Saburo is a capable man who can organize his own forces, and there is indeed an order of his own in the area under his control—an order with him as the apex.

Although sometimes he has some whimsical actions, it may make Qingshi serve willingly for so many years, which means that he is a master who meets his ideals.

But all this began to falter a little during this time.

Thousands of troops were stationed in the depths of the swamp, and they spread out under Kiyoshi's arrangement: just as the ninjas had done in the past on the land of Crescent Continent, they were scattered into several small camps, and the ninjas hid among the rogues and kept track of their movements.

All these things, he is doing. Defense work, material circulation, reassuring people's hearts. Others might be complacent about this control of power, but Kiyoshi only felt uneasy.

Since arriving in Zhangzhou, his master seems to have been obsessed with digging up the so-called divine water that can bestow divine powers. He didn't care about anything but the few women who followed him when the swamp village fell, the local hunters who were in charge of finding the sacred water according to the legend, and some ronin, who went in search of the legendary power.

Vicious Jiao eats people, and the pervasive rat ants eat away at the rations. The miasma has reduced the number of people under his command, and it is not uncommon for the rogues to engage in infighting and squandering to steal property and supplies while the management is chaotic - Kiyoshi intended to confine everyone in the swamp, and their supplies are enough to last for a month, and only a small number of people are needed to send them out to buy.

But how can there be any order in these rogues, they have already exposed their existence to the surrounding villagers as they run out in a mess, and if they continue like this, they will be targeted by the government sooner or later - but even if he reports these to San Lang, he doesn't seem to care at all.

And then it got to the worst.

Is it a demon, is it a curse of the land, or is it the government finally sending troops.

He didn't know.

The only thing he knew was that someone had come to the vicinity and that he had taken the enemy. was attacked, and was defeated.

After the various outposts were attacked and the fire consumed a third of their supplies and belongings, the impatient Saburo directly gave him "full control", so Kiyoshi chose to inform the troops to retreat to the main camp.

And it was at this point in time that he counted the number of people and suddenly found that nearly half of the rogues took advantage of the chaos to loot the treasure and left.

There are just under 600 people left, and to the worst of the story, the ninja and ronin forces are a large number of people killed or missing.

When he finally reacted that the other party was accurately attacking the backbone troops under his command, because of the lack of these personnel, the remaining rogues were in a mess and had no combat effectiveness at all, this man who had always been calm and did not panic even when he lost his hometown, his brothers and many compatriots, fell into a stupor for 10 minutes, unable to speak.

Is it because he has finally become sluggish in the face of time, or is he so preoccupied with serving his master faithfully to maintain order that he will one day return to the old days that he has neglected a lot of important information.

Look at the ninja army with only 7 people left.

The thought of "what the hell is all this for" came to Kiyoshi's mind, and he clenched his fists, and once again tried to report to Saburo and seek the opinion of the master, who had been very capable in the past.

Then when he came back to his senses, a nameless fire rose under the cynical attitude of the other party, and he lost his usual calm and pulled out his knife at the master who was supposed to serve.

However, the emaciated one-eyed dragon dodged his knife with incredible speed, and with a single punch, the experienced ninja leader was sent flying.

The spine slammed into the thick central support pillar of the big tent, and the back of his head knocked the solid wood pillar into it, and the blood began to flow, and his head was dizzy while Qingshi had no strength to sit there paralyzed.

"You. And Saburo walked over, poked his fingers rhythmically in his chest again and again, and said, "Like most people in this country, it's too short-sighted. ”

"I can only see what is in front of me, and I just want to keep what I have. ”

"How many years have the royal family been royalty, and how many of the samurai's families have been passed down for thousands of years. ”

"Yes, yes, all glorious, all with fine traditions. Saburo took out the wine bottle and took a sip before smashing it on the ground and shattering it, unable to move Kiyoshi as he watched the black liquid spilling from the broken bottle mouth little by little.

"You know what. ”

"Nanban has wax ink, but there is more than wax ink. ”

"Lamo is just one of the countries of the Southern Barbarians. ”

"A piece of land as large as Zhangzhou can be divided into several countries, several kings! noble kings! noble but not unique. Their king was not canonized by the royal family, nor did he rely on the rich heritage of some thousand years of inheritance. ”

"I made it myself. ”

"Why!" Saburo, whose face was covered in green tendons, roared and shouted at the slumped Kiyoshi, "Why can't we do the same." ”

"The people in the domain are going to raise an anti-flag against Xinjing, anti, anti, good! But I don't plan to take any side. ”

"You, definitely, no, understand. He poked Qingshi's chest again and again: "You only think about returning to the glory of the past, and you only think that the old men of Xinjing will reward you with a few mouthfuls of soup when you eat meat." Like a dog following the buttocks of the samurai masters, he flaunted his might by relying on the majesty of his master. ”

"It's going to shuffle the cards, now what I need is someone with ambition, and an old antique like you will sink. Saburo turned his head, and Kiyoshi felt his eyelids grow heavier and heavier, as if he was about to lose consciousness.

"My lord, how to deal with it?" said one of the people who had been following Saburo all the time, and his tone was as loyal as that of a minister who served the king's side—this was his position. Even though his senses were getting duller and duller, Qingshi's heart was extremely clear at this time.

'Ah, so I was a long time ago'

'Excluded'

Seemingly in a managerial position, he has actually been pushed out of the inner circle, and Saburo no longer shares secrets with him—if there ever is—just sends him to manage the cannon fodder who delays time. Just like the ninja who still has loyalty in his heart and has to hide that loyalty in his heart and flee when he is chasing and killing in Xinjing, he has been loyal for 9 years.

It is also worthless in the heart of this man.

"Throwing it in the pool should turn him into something useful. Before he lost consciousness completely, he heard Saburo coldly drop such a sentence.