Swallow Back

Ashaji Jinghe hesitated for a while, then discouraged: "After all, you have just joined the Oda clan. Although you are valued, your foundation is not deep. If you get into trouble because of the investigation, it may not be good. Maybe you should tolerate it a little bit. In the future, after gaining status and the right to speak, and then rectifying such things, we can benefit more people... In order to achieve greater justice, sometimes we have to temporarily compromise with evil."

Liu Yun shook his head and asked back, "That's what you thought before, so you turned a blind eye to the corruption of Buddhism?"

Jinghe Asha Jimu was embarrassed and speechless.

Chapter 63 Solve the crime at the fastest speed

Liu Yun entrusted the fainted little girl to Asaji Jinghe to take care of him, and he immediately went to Sandaya, which sold food in the castle town.

In fact, the most direct thing is to go to Mizuno Tadahiro with a round face and a mustache. If he can tell him honestly, he will understand everything.

However, since Liu Yun absorbed the red hook jade, he naturally had a comprehensive understanding of the "power of bewitching".This thing's ability to manipulate people's hearts looks powerful, but it is actually subject to many restrictions.

To put it simply, the stronger the opponent's strength, the firmer his mind, and the more vigilant he is, the less effective the "bewitching power" will be.

Used on ordinary people, it is equivalent to complete mental control.But when used on more powerful people, it can only slightly strengthen the friendliness.

Or the other party has other antagonistic magic weapons and abilities, which can also make the "bewitching power" invalid.For example, in the past, it was useless within the enchantment of Enryakuji Temple on Mount Hiei.

The round-faced mustache Mizuno Tadahiro looks good in martial arts, and is cunning and deep, and he is not someone who can be easily controlled.

Relatively speaking, the merchants of Sandaya must be much easier to deal with.

Moreover, the most suspicious part of the matter is also with the merchants.

According to what I know so far, the little girl took the big silver coins to buy rice, and she should not have had any dealings with other people on the way, and only had contact with the merchants of Santianya.

Then she was quickly arrested by the government of the castle town.

He didn't even have time to go back to meet his brother.

The response is too fast!The staff at the office don't seem to be that dedicated.

Suppressing his anger and doubts, Liu Yun maintained a calm demeanor, and easily asked passers-by for the address of Sandaya, where rice was sold.

Then he found the location directly and walked through the door.

This "Mitaya" is indeed a shop specializing in the food business.Probably because it is the early winter season, when farmers are selling rice after harvesting, the business in the store is relatively busy.

In a shop about [-] feet wide, there was a person who looked like an employee bargaining with a group of peasants who had entered the city, and a well-dressed old woman was asking something.

There was a cart full of grain at the door, and two strong men were carrying it.

Liu Yun was wearing a decent Wu suit and a sword, which made him stand out in this store.

In an instant, a relatively senior-looking employee, a chubby middle-aged man with a smile, ran over and asked respectfully, "Hello, my lord! I'm the hand-in-hand of Mitaya, my name is Yaqiro, may I ask you to come to the store? Why is it expensive? Is it to sell grain or buy grain?"

Liu Yun glanced at the other party and felt that this person was obviously not strong and his mind was not very firm, so he said in a commanding tone: "Yesterday I sent my retainers here to buy food, but something went wrong and I need to communicate with your store. Come on. Who was in charge of the store yesterday?"

The chunky middle-aged man who called himself Yaqilang still replied with a smile: "It's not wrong to find me like this. I was staring at the store yesterday! May I ask what business your retainer does?"

Liu Yun glanced around the store, cast a disgusted look at the whispering clerks and customers next to him, and frowned, "Can we discuss in a quiet place?"

The chunky middle-aged man nodded, and then he reached out and gestured to please.

So Liu Yun followed the directions and came to the living room in the depths of the shop.

The living room is not big, only the size of six tatami mats.But it's quite clean and elegant, with some decent calligraphy and paintings and tea sets as decoration, but I don't know if it doubles as a tea room.There are also displays of pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

At the same time, the chubby middle-aged subordinate quickly fetched a ledger and showed it with a smile: "Yesterday's sales records are all here, which one do you want to ask?"

After Liu Yun waited for the idle and miscellaneous people to retreat, he quickly got up, closed the doors and windows, and then took advantage of the short, fat middle-aged man who didn't respond, grabbed the opponent's arm, activated his "bewitching power", and asked, "Yesterday there was a little girl holding a big silver coin. Came to buy rice, but was caught as a thief. Do you know what happened?"

The chunky middle-aged man didn't seem to have any special mental resistance, and his eyes lost focus in an instant, and he answered honestly: "I know. I know a little bit about that little girl's life experience. The government office in the castle town made an appointment with me, Anyone who has no background and can spend a lot of money to buy things will report it quickly. When the thief catches it, I can give [-]% of the stolen money confiscated afterwards. So I dragged the little girl and immediately notified them to arrest the person. "

Hearing this, Liu Yun felt righteous indignation, and asked again, "Is it not only you who has been responsible for this kind of thing, right?"

The chunky middle-aged man nodded and replied, "As far as I know, Meji of the Itoya branch and Xiong Bing of the Majiangya main store have also done this kind of thing."

Liu Yun thought for a moment, then continued to ask, "How many times have you done it?"

The chunky middle-aged man said, "Is there about ten times this year? I can't remember exactly."

Liu Yun issued an order: "There is a pen and paper here, write down everything you can remember, sign your name and put your fingerprints on it!"

The chunky middle-aged man still showed no resistance, obeyed his orders obediently, picked up a pen, ink, paper and inkstone, and started writing honestly.

After about a quarter of an hour, Liu Yun successfully got what he wanted.

Next, find what the chunky middle-aged man said, "Meji ​​from the Itoya branch, and Xiong Bing from the Majiangya main store", and do the same, and have them write down the "criminal evidence" respectively.

Then Liu Yun walked towards Hengshan City.

Now that there is certain evidence, coupled with my own persuasion, the first choice is of course to try it through official channels.

Extrajudicial sanctions are a helpless choice when official channels fail, and they will have many side effects.

At this time, he vaguely heard the noisy noises on the streets of the castle town, and there were people who looked like both samurai and onmyoji, holding bells and compass-like instruments, shouting: "There seemed to be someone there just now. The traces of using evil magic to manipulate people's hearts! Hurry up and check with a few people!"

Liu Yun thought to himself that this might be the confusion he caused, but he didn't care about it at this time.

The wind was blowing from his steps, and he arrived at Honmaru in an instant.

Facing the guards in the palace, as soon as they said "seek to see", the guards replied: "The Lord of the City specially ordered that you don't need to notify when you are here, just go in directly."

Liu Yun did not refuse at the moment, pushed the door and entered.

It wasn't even noon at the moment, Kinoshita Tokichiro seemed to be working on the case, saw Liu Yun, smiled and put away the work at hand, and asked, "Isn't Brother Liu Yun arranging those five hundred women? How's it going? Is there anything I can help with?"

Liu Yun replied simply: "That matter is progressing. I came today for something else."

Kinoshita Tokichiro looked a little serious, nodded and said, "Please speak."

Liu Yun handed over the three "criminals" he had just obtained, and then roughly repeated what had happened in the past two days.

Kinoshita Tokichiro's expression changed a little when he heard the words, and he frowned and said to himself: "You are really brave enough to do such a thing?" Then he thought for a while, shook his head and said in a reflective tone: "I came here a year ago to take office, An order was issued, stipulating that the stolen money confiscated when the thief was caught, if the owner of the thief is not found within [-] days, it will be rewarded to the person who caught the thief. I originally thought that this would encourage the following people, but I didn’t expect…”

Liu Yun advised: "It's not too late to make amends now."

Kinoshita Tokichiro nodded and said, "Thank you, brother, for reminding me, I will definitely find out about this matter. Those involved will be punished properly! When it comes to this guy Mizuno Tadahiro... that can't be too much of a concern!"

Liu Yun keenly sensed the fear in the other party's words, and asked directly, "Is it troublesome to deal with Mizuno Tadahiro?"

Kinoshita Tokichiro hesitated for a while, his eyes rolled back and forth, and finally seemed to have made up his mind, and said sternly: "If someone asked, I would say that the Mizuno family is a big family of Owari, although Mizuno Tadahiro is only inconspicuous. Collateral, but there are also many powerful relatives, so it is difficult to deal with."

Liu Yun immediately realized: "In other words, this is just an excuse."

Kinoshita Tokichiro changed his usual giggling appearance, and said solemnly: "Yes. The Mizuno family is indeed a big family, but they are not united at all, and I am not afraid to offend them. The real problem is that this guy, Mizuno Tadahiro, is actually not mine. I am a retainer, but Yuli, who was sent to me by Tansho-sama (Oda Nobunaga), and it is vaguely meant to be a supervisor."

"So that's the case." Liu Yun was just suddenly stunned, and then said calmly: "Then, even if you don't deal with this person, I can understand."

Having said that, Liu Yun's thoughts were obviously not like this.

Hearing this, Toujiro Kinoshita laughed and said boldly: "Brother Liuyun, you underestimate me! Since I told you about this, I have already made up my mind to clean up this bastard! Oda Nobunaga) no matter how big the fire, it doesn't matter how hard you scold me!"

Hearing this, Liu Yun felt a little admiration, bowed sincerely, and said, "It's hard work!"

Kinoshita Tokichiro shook his head and said, "There's no need for this, I have a reason. After all, I used to be an ordinary person with no identity, and I was bullied by confused deputy officials and bastards everywhere! Not to mention that this is not something that ordinary people ask me to do. , Regardless of ability or character, Brother Liuyun is a great hero worth making friends. Since you have mentioned it all, I have to do everything properly. Otherwise, how can I still have the face to call you 'brother' in the future?"

Hearing this, Liu Yun felt a little more comfortable.

If I used to have three points of respect for Tokichiro Kinoshita just because I knew the "original history", now it's at least four to five points.

Since Liu Yun merged with the red hook jade, he is particularly sensitive to the subtleties of the human heart, so he can distinguish the authenticity of the other party's words.

Judging from the performance of Tokichiro Kinoshita today, first of all, this person still retains a certain conscience, so that he will not completely ignore black and white good and evil.Secondly, he expressed his appreciation and win over very frankly, not as hypocritical as typical politicians.

Although the image is still too down-to-earth or vulgar, it also has a unique personality charm.

Chapter 64 Disposing of Poltergeists

Kinoshita Tokichiro has always been a very efficient person.

He agreed to Liu Yun to solve the matter, and quickly summoned Shigeji Takenaka and Masatoshi Hashisuka to investigate the questionable case.

In the end, it only took one day to confirm that Mizuno Tadahiro, the governor of the castle town of Yokoyama Castle, had intentionally framed innocent people as thieves at least eight times during his tenure of ten and a half months, and five of them resulted in death. It is one tael of gold, four taels of silver, three pens of Yongle coins and 440 Wen, which is equivalent to about twenty pennies of copper coins.

Including the arrest of the little girl this time.

At the same time, several members of the same party made profits ranging from [-] to [-] yuan.

So Kinoshita Tokichiro immediately arrested Mizuno Tadahiro.

After some interrogation, it was revealed that this guy took more than [-] bribes and more than [-] other crimes of embezzling public money.

The total amount of illegal gains identified by this "criminal group" is sixty or seventy.

It is roughly equivalent to the annual tribute of a medium-sized village.

Or the annual income of an intermediate samurai who knows and does three hundred stones.

As an aside, after knowing this amount, Liu Yun realized that the 100 taels of silver he obtained after he sneaked into the Enryaku Temple in Mount Hiei and destroyed the enchantment—about [-] taels of copper coins, or [-] shi of grain—was that It's a very, very huge amount, and the reward is not low.

After consideration, Kinoshita Tokichiro finally made a decision on the matter: Mizuno Tadahiro confiscated Zhixing, expelled from the office, and the rest of the accomplices served three years of hard labor to pay off the crime.

Of course, since Mizuno Tadahiro is a "Yori" sent by Nobunaga, additional reporting is required before implementation.

Kinoshita Tokichiro's statement is: "According to the habit of Dan Zheng-sama (Oda Nobunaga), although he will be angry because of it, he will not dismiss the decision."

At first glance this approach is a bit strange.

The principal was simply fired, and the accomplice had to suffer hard labor.

However, it is a general law of class society that "the commoner cannot be punished by the court", and the public opinion will think that a samurai's dismissal is more uncomfortable than death, and soldiers and civilians are not a big deal even if they go to hard labor. .

Considering the characteristics of the times, Liu Yun felt that it was acceptable.

Samurai is a profession that doesn't care so much about life. If you kill Tadahiro Mizuno with one knife, maybe there will be a "death in the line" statement. It is better to leave the house like this now, which can cause a bigger blow.

Liu Yun expressed his gratitude to Tokichiro Kinoshita for his assistance.

As for potential trouble, Liu Yun's mentality is that soldiers will come to block, and water will come to cover.

Even the so-called Buddhist holy place, the thousand-year-old temple of Mount Hiei Enryakuji Temple, is still afraid of any trouble?

……

The whole process was not hidden from anyone.

therefore--

Sasaki Liuyun, a new foreign-like retainer, collected evidence and sued Tadahiro Mizuno, who was Yuli, causing the latter to be convicted—the news spread throughout Hengshan Castle immediately.

Probably also spread to other territories of the Oda family at the same time, who knows?

Although Sasaki Liuyun is only a newcomer, he is very talented and has won the attention of Tokichiro Kinoshita. He has won the award of a thousand stones in just a few months of his career. He can be said to be a rising star.

And Mizuno Tadahiro is not an ordinary person, this guy only has 260 shi, but he is one of the ten powers specially sent by Oda Nobunaga, his identity and status can be described as very subtle.