Chapter 1549 1521. Meeting
"It seems that as the acting city lord, you are finally busy?" Tsukahara Fu Chuan teased without malicious intentions.
He turned his head back to ask Lan Eun.
"Do you need to stop temporarily? Do you need to practice martial arts, and don't rush for a while."
"That's not necessary." Lan En's movements kept on, and the wooden big sword still left sharp in the air. The sound of breaking through the air.
And now, he can even speak steadily while exerting the [Cancer Heart]. "What should be arranged has been arranged. If this can go wrong, I will look up to the senior officials in Lushan City at a glance." After all, it makes him feel Exceeding control is also an extraordinary skill.
The tzukahara Furuchi looked down at his current posture, with a strong old man holding an eagle on his shoulder, holding a sword with one hand and a sharp breath.
There is also the lonely atmosphere in the dojo, which is soaked in the cold morning sun.
"It seems that you want to use the old man as a foil for the market?"
The old warrior snorted coldly, but did not move.
Tzukahara Fukuru not only has outstanding swordsmanship, but his experience and background also make him not far from the Kyoto court.
Even once went to Luo and became the swordsman of the current shogun.
If you say that he doesn't understand the official articles, he is just joking.
But because he understands, he is even less optimistic about Lan En's current situation in the official position.
The Onmyoji, who was so eccentric that he called Abe Harumaki, told him about the general situation here when he persuaded him to come to Lushan Castle.
The [Mino Viper] who is below the Sanna Saito, who is on the verge of the samsara, is out of the city urgently, as if it is about to cause trouble again in Mino. No one has ever heard of the remaining city lord.
No prestige, no foundation, no background.
There is nothing, just hoping that you can control the city with just a letter of appointment?
Not to mention that Saito Dozomi has an incorrect standing and unstable foundation in Mino, even the most upright and stable emperor in the entire Japanese world!
Can he really appoint and remove a local name by sending a letter of appointment?
Although this idea may be a bit disrespectful, if the Emperor really could do this, how could the troubled times of the Warring States Period come from?
But the reality is that the emperor and the ministers are still hungry in the palace now.
Even the Ashikaga family, the shogunate general, had to borrow money frequently to maintain decent.
Tsukahara Fu Chuan complained in his heart.
If it weren't for the great reputation of the "shogunate general" that was taught, the Ashikaga family would not have been able to hire him to teach swordsmanship.
He has such a skill, and when he meets a satisfactory talent, he has to continue to teach him even if he pays for it himself. But if it is not satisfactory, it has to be done business.
And just as the [Sword Saint] was complaining, a group of people rushed in outside the gate of the dojo.
Their straw sandals rustled the pebbles in the courtyard.
Twelve officials wearing straight clothes and black hats crossed the small bridge over the small pond and squeezed under the wooden steps of the vestibule of the dojo.
They looked shaken, their eyes were dazed, and they could not control themselves.
But Fujiro, who was still dressed in a businessman's dress, had a bright yellow jacket on the outside, stood in front of the group with his head held high and his chest held high.
He had a smile on his face and rubbed his nose with pride.
"Hehe!"
Two days ago, after Fujiro's visit, he turned around and said that he was Aichi Konoyama, who was "the grass mustard from the countryside and the untouchables". At this time, sweat was seeping out of his palms, soaking the bat fan in his hand.
The sweat on the neck and the home patterns on the neckline [water-colored Platycodon] were also wet.
The group stood up straight and sat down on the pebbles under the wooden steps with a serious expression.
Realistically speaking, even if Saito Dosan met their joint visit, he had to clean up the most serious room and put on the most regular hospitality in the Tianshou Pavilion to be considered polite.
But since yesterday.
The merchant in front of him, who didn't even have a serious surname, said to them in a tone of announcing his decision, "Tomorrow morning, I will go to the temple to visit His Royal Highness the City Lord."
One of them, the twelve officials in the management of Lushan City, think there is anything wrong with them.
At that time, no one of them was still rational and sober, thinking about what arrangement was in the temple and where was the spacious place for them to kneel down and worship.
Until now, when they came to the temple, they only dared to kneel down the steps of the temple, kneel on the uneven pebbles, and did not dare to touch the flat wooden stairs upwards.
The feeling from the knees is very bad.
But they couldn't feel it at this time.
The complex interests and connections are of course a very useful network of relationships in daily life, and a very powerful and hidden shelter.
Even Saito Dozo, who has been in Mion for many years, can only see a vague corner of this kind of relationship network.
I can't even see clearly, let alone put pressure, dismantle, or target.
Even said, the officials and nobles in these networks cannot see the entire picture of the entire network themselves.
Because these are all the relationships and connections accumulated by great families in the past few generations, even when the family was born.
Cross generations of intermarriage and exchange of interests.
This is the way of survival and survival instinct of the entire aristocratic class. Even individuals belonging to this class are so small that they are not worth mentioning.
It is precisely because no one can see this net clearly, and even the weaver cannot see clearly, so it cannot be dealt with. But since yesterday, these nobles who formed a network of relationships but couldn't even see the full picture of this network clearly felt the ripples on this network!
But the source of the ripples was just holding a piece of paper on the street, following the map like a manual, looking for the funny traveling Fujiro, who was under the city lord of Dai? !
The great families of high-ranking families have enjoyed the care brought by this hidden and deep net since they were born.
So, when the entire net was pulled out and was played with by people just like fishing catches on the stalls, the horror of these people also penetrated into the bones!
The nobles who first discovered this were once furious and wanted to kill Fujiro Fujiro, who was like shopping and selected goods, and got the terrifying note in his hand.
But then, he discovered that the network of relationships that once made him feel like a fish in water was coming from all directions, making him unable to move.
The subordinates, colleagues, bosses, in-laws, friends, and distant families in the family. He usually doesn't even realize the relationships that he exists, and at this time he is overwhelmed.
So the person who formed the net has now become the one who waited for death in the net.
Amatsu Guangan was lowering his noble head at this time.
The Akatsuki family is a branch of the Toki family, and is an unbiased noble bloodline in Mino.
No mistakes, one poem, one post, one content, one in 6, one book, one bar, one read!
Later, he judged the situation and turned to the Saito family usurped by the Saito Domain. But this was at least surrendering to the famous family of the Saito family, which was equally noble.
His adopted son, also his nephew, Akichi Mitsuhide, was still serving as the general under the command of the three masters of Saito Do.
But now, he didn't even dare to look up at the mud-legged merchant!
I can only glance carefully with my light.
Not to mention the owner of this traveler, the acting city lord who was waving his knife in an orderly manner on the wooden floor of the dojo.
Akechi Guangan almost broke the bones of the bat fan in it!
But he did not dare to shake his face when he knelt on the pebbles.
But then
"Sher!"
The sound of breaking through the air, which was so sharp that even a few people could use to open the real sword, sounded again!
The breathing frequency of [Cancer Heart] is too accurate and compact, and is confused and hidden by the sound of swinging the knife.
But a shrill and thin blood line was thrown out from the dojo along the track of the wooden big sword dancing.
"Chroat!"
A sparrow flying into the dojo was chopped to the ground with only a last cry of sorrow.
The shrill bloodline was thrown on the straight clothes of the twelve officials kneeling in a row.
The snow-white and hard clothing fabric is like a painting board, setting the blood on it.
At the same time, it also makes people sincerely wonder, how could a mere sparrow be brought out so much blood by a knife?
What is even more incredible is that the sparrow is still not dead! Still twitching on the wooden floor!
This person is not! How far has His Highness Dai City Lord’s swordsman reached? !
The pine sparrow eagle on Tsukahara's shoulder was not attracted by the blood food on the ground. Instead, she just looked vigilantly at the sword wind that almost wiped a sparrow's body. A wooden big tai knife that accurately drains blood.
It was raised by Tsukahara Kuma for a long time, so even its feathers were stained with sword energy.
Lan En's sword just now made it squeal in his throat.
"Mr. Mingzhi Guang'an?"
And amid the roaring eagle, Lan En's breath was not at all confused in his steady voice. "I'm here! Your Highness, the city lord!"
Without caring about the blood marks on his straight clothes and the pebbles on the ground, Aizhi Guangan immediately bent down to bow.
Although I was pretending to be a wise family, at least I was considered a peaceful and calm expression, and I am worthy of the famous family of a wise family. "You were scolding Fujiro Fujiro just now, right?" Lan En said in a tone of indifferent and stating the facts.
Mingzhi Guangan, who bent down to bow, trembled, and the eleven people next to him gritted their teeth at the same time.
"Ah haha! No, Your Highness." Fujiro, who was standing next to them, smiled in a heroic voice, "I was born in poverty, and I was born like Lord Akichi, and I could say it in my heart. Normal. Right, Lord Akichi? ”
Futi Yoshiro's voice was as friendly as ever.
If you don’t know, you would think that he and Akechi Guangan were old friends for many years. "Of course, I don't want to make a false charge based on what others think." Lan Eun continued without waiting for Akihiko Guangan himself to refute.
"But you scolded him three times at home, right?"
"Yes, yes"
"Then you will be fined for one year. Do you have any objection, Lord Mingzhi?" br>
"Let's beside you! I'm grateful!"
"Okay." The steady sound of breaking through the air in the dojo finally stopped temporarily, a wooden knife was thrown out and she drifted away gruntly Go to the steps before Aizhiguang settled.
"Please make a mistake for this sparrow, Lord Akichi."
Akichi's head was deeply buried again: "Yes!"
(The end of this chapter)