Civilization Guardian Front

"Old man..." Another ashigaru interjected earnestly at this time.

"Including Kyoto, where is it not dangerous now? Don't you have to worry about bandits and robbers at all when you cultivate the fields? Or the daimyo army of other countries, they will not protect you. Be a standing ashigaru, at least If you can protect yourself and your family, if you have no strength, who will protect you?"

"Oh, what your lord said makes sense, I'm going to talk to the young people in the town now."

The old man sighed, turned around and explained to the townspeople the importance of having a stock of ashigaru in detail, and even said that the safety of Minami Wakaguri Town and the recruitment of a stock of ashigaru were inseparable, more than what he said just now.

Elderly people with rich life experience are often highly respected, and the treatment of standing ashigaru is indeed not bad. The old man also mentioned protection of the homeland, which made some young people with hoes excited, and soon some people signed up.

People in this era generally don't live long. There are 230 seven people in Minamiwakaguri Town, and there are more than 30 men aged 70 to [-]. It didn't take long for the ten standing ashigaru to be recruited.

While the ashigaru recruitment was going smoothly, Chios was talking with the two owners of the restaurant.

Chios drank a glass of turbid wine, the rough taste made him frown slightly, but he quickly put on a gentle smile and said to one of them:

"Boss Kurichiro, you are one of the few people in this town who are literate and good at arithmetic, and you are of great help to me. I hope you can be a farmer in my territory and count the crop production and losses in Minami Wakuri Town for me, and I will collect taxes when needed."

"Really, really?" The owner of the restaurant, Li Shichiro, was about to jump up in surprise, and asked a little uneasy:

"Master Chios, are you really willing to let me do things for you?"

"Yes, because I won't be in Nanruoli most of the time, so someone must handle some government affairs for me." Chios didn't touch the wine on the table, the quality was really hard for him to swallow, and his eyes turned to the other side A restaurant owner.

"Boss Heizang is a merchant, responsible for the sale and purchase of materials in the town. The two of you assist me in governing Minami Wakaguri, and I will give you a salary equivalent to that of standing ashigaru, and you will be considered my retainers."

Speaking of this, Chios's eyes were fixed, and the sharp gaze caused the two bosses to put away the joy on their faces and sit upright.

"I hope you will do your best for me and don't let me down." Chios said in a rare and severe tone.

At this moment, the two bosses thought of how the Heimu family was destroyed overnight at the hands of the young people in front of them, and their hearts suddenly arose.

""yes!Kurichiro (Heizang) will fulfill your mission wholeheartedly. ""

"Very good." Chios restrained his sharpness and continued:

"Now let me explain the details of your duties..."

With the determination of the pursuit and standing ashigaru, the matter of Chios taking over Minami Wakaguri is progressing in an orderly manner.

After all, it only manages hundreds of people, and almost all of them are farmers, so there is no need for a complicated civil service system.

Taxes can be levied as long as the yield of crops in the territory is clear; there is a special person in charge of the sale and purchase of crops, and money and goods can be brought in and out reasonably, and profits can be made from it; coupled with the constant ashigaru to maintain law and order, the entire Nan Ruo Li will not be too expensive. question.

Chios now only needs to explain the details of the work to these recruited people, and then he can let the territory develop and return to Qingzhou City.

Chapter 42? Singer's troubles

Shibata Mansion outside Qingzhou City.

At the hour of the hour, around eight o'clock Western time.

Swish swish!

The large spear over four meters long is as light and nimble as a thin willow branch in the hands of Katsuie Shibata. The brown ponytail sways with violent movements. The heroic samurai girl, with strong will in her eyes, repeats the words of spear skills. Basic actions.

After practicing martial arts at the age of six, Sheng Jia would practice sword and spear skills in the courtyard for an hour every morning, no matter it was windy or rainy, it never stopped.And Singer still has rigorous exercise after lunch and after sunset in the evening.

Oni Shibata, the number one general of the Oda family, was born under such hard work.

Today's spear practice was equally as hard, but Singer was a little restless in his movements.

The straw man in front of her knows this best. Usually, Singer's stabs are always clean and neat, directly piercing holes the size of spearheads...

But today the straw man looked very miserable. Apart from being pierced through the gun hole, the dry grass around the hole was also messy. This showed that Singer's strength was not concentrated enough.

Singer stabbed forward with his gun in both hands, shook his hand, and shook out four or five spear flowers. The next moment, the tip of the gun pierced the straw man in front of him. This time, he finally controlled the power, and the blade of the gun pierced straight through the head without causing any harm. Grass flying.

"Huh..." Singer, dressed in plain white, gasped, put away his big gun, and wiped the sweat from his forehead with his sleeve.

Putting the large training gun back on the shelf, Singer took a few deep breaths of the fresh morning breath and returned to the house.

The maid who knew Sheng Jia's living habits for many years had already filled the bathtub in the bathroom with hot water. When Sheng Jia walked into the dressing room, he saw white steam coming from the curtain leading to the bathroom.

Thinking of taking a bath, Singer's restless mood slightly improved.

She pulled the straps on the hakama skirt of the kendo uniform with her hand.The hakama skirt, which was convenient for movement, was loosened to the ground, and then the belt of the plain white kimono was untied, revealing her body that could make men short of breath.

As a warrior, her skin can't be as fair as a daughter in a boudoir, but I don't know if it's because of her physique or something else, years of exercising in the sun didn't make her skin darker, just more A rosy color, and more firm and elastic.

Where the corset is tightly wrapped, no matter how tightly the cloth is wrapped, it cannot suppress the full fruit, but the cloth is stretched as if it is about to be torn apart; the slender waist without a trace of fat due to exercise is even more It brings out her slender curves.

Singer, who is tall and close to 1.7 meters, has a good figure that is not lost to European women.Coupled with her beautiful facial features and heroic general temperament, she is indeed a very beautiful girl.

It's just that her height and martial arts tend to make men feel inferior, and in places like Japan, it may not meet the aesthetics of most thin men.

Sheng Jia gently supported his magnificent chest with his hands, and sighed slightly.Sometimes this symbol of femininity is too big, and it is a headache for girls. It is a burden on the shoulders when swinging a weapon, and it is easy to be stared at on the road, which makes Singer feel very uncomfortable.

It is also for this reason that Singer often goes out in armor.

The armor can flatten her chest and reduce the shaking. Most importantly, as long as the armored and saber-wearing Singer stares, the man will immediately look away.

It is impossible to be comfortable wearing armor, but Singer would rather wear the armor as casual clothes, at least it is more comfortable than being stared at by others.

"Chios is better, he won't stare at me all the time..." Sheng Jia murmured, pressing his hands on his chest, feeling a warm current filling his heart.

Singer took off all his clothes, including the corset, and walked into the bathroom.

The warm water vapor hits your face, and the cypress floor will not feel cold even if you step on it with bare feet.

Singer first used a small wooden bucket to scoop some warm water to rinse his body, and then probed the surface of the bath with his toes. He felt that the water temperature was just a little hot, and then let his whole body soak in the bath.

"Ha ah..." Singer groaned comfortably, and the depressed mood before was finally relieved.

"Conspiracy or something, it's annoying!"

As Sheng Jia said, half of her face was submerged in the water, her small mouth was slightly opened, and the air that escaped was bouncing on the surface of the water, thinking of the source of her boredom again.

Yesterday, after sending Chios out for a trip, Katsuya was suddenly called to the residence of Oda Nobuna's younger brother, Nobukatsu.

Suesori Castle, the final residence of Nobuhide, the former governor of Oda Dan Masatada's family. Nobuhide moved to the castle many times in his life, from Katsuba Castle, Naguno Castle, Koto Castle, to Suesori Castle, which is quite different from the style of most daimyos who settled in one place.

Because of this, it is not unreasonable for Oda Nobukatsu, who inherited his father's final residence, to consider himself the orthodox successor.

Including the evidence that some retainers and wealthy families in Owari supported Xinsheng, it was also closely related to the ownership of Suomori Castle.

When Sing family entered the evaluation room, he found that all Xin Sheng's retainers had gathered inside.No matter how much he doesn't like to use his brain, Sheng Jia can feel that these people are definitely not discussing anything that is beneficial to His Highness Xin Nai.

Sure enough, after a brief greeting from the Sheng family and Xin Sheng's retainers, as soon as they sat down, they saw the young man who was seated at the front among the retainers leaning out, with an ugly expression on his face:

"Lord Xinsheng, don't you just forget about the hateful Southern barbarian hacking up my brother?"

"Yeah, being so humiliated by a mere barbarian, don't do something to damage your reputation!"

Several retainers then echoed, in fact, they didn't care about the identity of the southern barbarians of Chios, they were just making use of it.

The real target of this group of guys, even Katsuya, with her politically incompetent mind, knew that it was Oda Nobuna.

Mentioning "humiliation", Nobukatsu's face also became ugly. On the land of Owari, as the head of Oda's family, he even asked a samurai of low status to threaten to apologize.

Looking back afterwards, it really annoyed him, and the words he said could not help but carry emotions:

"Otherwise, what do you want to do with it? There are rumors in the streets and alleys, saying that the Nanman was killed by a hundred people."

Looking back on that day, when Chios pointed at himself with a knife, a trace of fear appeared on Xinsheng's fair and tender face, which was somewhat similar to his sister.

"I see that apart from Sheng Jia, you can't beat him even if you all fight together. Are you going to fight each other if you don't agree?"

The lord's contemptuous remarks made his retainers feel as if they were choking, but only Singer seemed to think so.

However, Nobukatsu's vassals and Oda Nobuna have had a bad relationship since the time of Nobuhide, so naturally they don't want each other to continue to sit in the position of Lord Owari.

The retainers are eager for Xinsheng to replace them, and in this way, the status of those who support Xinsheng will also rise.

"You can't say that, Mr. Xinsheng, can everything be solved with just bravery?"

"That's right, we should protest to that foolish princess and ask her to tie up Chios and hand him over to us."

"If the big fool Owari dares to refuse, we will rebel!"

The retainers excitedly whispered all kinds of rebellious words in Xinsheng's ears, and tried their best to incite Xinsheng to confront his own sister.

It is a headache for Xinsheng to hear these words, and it is even more unacceptable for Shengjia...

"What are you bastards talking about? You actually want to rebel again!" Singer couldn't help standing up, pointing at the retainers in the evaluation room and shouting angrily.

As early as a long time ago, Singer became a loyal follower of His Royal Highness Nobuna.

When Nobuna's father, Lord Nobuhide, was still alive, His Highness Nobuna's smile was deeply imprinted in Singer's heart.

It was an incomparable, beautiful smile without any impurities.

But after the death of Lord Nobuhide, Nobuna, who lost the understanding of him, began to close his heart, not to mention the strange clothes, his temper became irritable and irritable, and his subordinates became more and more harsh and impatient.

It is also because of this that many people in Owari have doubts about Nobuna's decision to inherit the daimyo's position, and there are more and more rumors that Nobukatsu will sit on the daimyo's position.

So far, Xinsheng has rebelled three times under the instigation of his retainers, and Xinnai forgives each time, and Xinsheng's territory and army have not been confiscated.

Thinking that everyone is Xinsheng's retainers, and it's not up to him to say serious words, Shengjia suppressed the urge to draw his sword and slash people, and persuaded all the retainers present.

Sheng Jia has always believed that there is room for relaxation between Xin Nai and Xin Sheng, and they can even get back together.She also had this in mind to persuade the retainers present.

However, Sheng Jia is good at martial arts, not eloquence.

Speaking of loyalty to the head of the Oda family, he was refuted by Nobukatsu's retainers, saying that Nobukatsu is the real successor of the Oda family...

It was mentioned that His Highness Xinnai forgave them many times for their treasonous acts, and they should change their past mistakes, but they were told by the retainers that it was Xinsheng's destiny, and that with the blessing of gods and Buddhas, they should continue to resist...

When it comes to the unity of the Owari Kingdom, the retainers ridiculed that Owari's foolish princess is the culprit of disunity.

He wanted to show great righteousness to Xin Sheng's retainers, but in the end he became the Sheng family and was preached, and he said with a mature and prudent look, "Sure enough, too young..." and other nonsense.

Obviously this group of guys are not that old, they are all stinky brats whose parents have retired behind the scenes to inherit the family governor.

The ponytail girl almost drew her sword against this group of bastards who only had rebellion in their minds.However, if she really killed Nobukatsu-sama's retainers, such behavior would be similar to betrayal.

For the loyal Singer who insists on it wholeheartedly, this kind of fact is impossible.

In the end, Oda Nobukatsu compromised with his retainers, and said to the Katsuya:

"Hey Shengjia, go and negotiate with my elder sister and ask her to hand over the southern barbarian who chopped up my guard. If my sister wants to cover up the criminal, we will go to war."

(What is this with what!!!)

Singer was about to explode in anger. After talking so much, in the end, if he didn't hand over Chios, would he rebel?

Is rebellion a game?How can you say it so casually!

Besides... Chios is her friend!It is impossible for the Sheng family to negotiate this matter, so it would be better to cut her off.

But the lord's order cannot be refused at all, as long as Sheng Jia has no determination to tear his face, she has to accept it.

wow wow...

Sheng patted his face with hot water to wash away the weakness that flowed out of his eyes.She understands that she is not the one who can handle this, so talk to someone who can.

Luckily, Kios will be back tomorrow...

Thinking of being woken up in the middle of the night last night, I thought something big happened, but it turned out that the ashigaru sent to Chios came to report the good news:

"The Kuroki family was destroyed, Master Chios successfully captured Nan Ruoli, and returned to Qingzhou City two days later."

Unexpectedly, in just one day, Chios could completely control Nan Ruoli in his hands, really amazing...

(It would be impossible for me, who only knows how to fight, to go so smoothly.) Although Sheng Jia sighed, he was not disappointed, but rather happy.

(Yes, I still have such an excellent friend, he must be able to come up with a satisfactory solution.)

Thinking of this, a pure smile finally appeared on Singer's unhappy face.

Chapter 43? Rage

After bathing.

Singe put on a gorgeous blue and white armor and came to Honmaru, Cheongju City. She had to tell His Royal Highness Nai the good news from Chios.

After notifying the female samurai guarding in front of the Honmaru Palace, Singer was invited into the waiting room.

She found that there was another person waiting here as well.

The purple-red kimono, black long hair, and the folding fan in his hand are hard to be mistaken for...

"Ah? Six, you're here too." Niwa Nagahide greeted with a smile, not surprised by Singer's appearance.

"It seems that you also received a reward from your subordinates and came here to announce the good news... same as me, but a bit slow, barely giving [-] points."