I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

"Although some people say that Ogata Isai has died in Nijo Castle, until now there are various opinions on whether Ogata Isai is dead or alive."

"But I think a character like Ogata Yidaosai, who can be a thousand at a time, will never just die like this."

"Ogata Yidaosai should still be alive, right?"

Although Hasegawa's sentence is in the form of an interrogative sentence, the tone is that of an affirmative sentence.

"Did Ogata Ittosai come to Edo with you? Or is he in the Kanto area now?"

"If Ogata Istosai is in Edo or the surrounding areas of Edo now, can you help me contact Ogata Istosai, so that I can talk to Ogata Istosai?"

Looking at Hasegawa with a sincere face, Mucun, who was full of complex emotions, sighed softly after being silent for a while.

"Master Hasegawa, you are right. Brother Ogata is not dead. He is still alive and kicking."

"Maybe after a while, you will be able to know the news that Ogata Yidaosai is active in a certain place again."

"But he's not in Edo, nor in the Kanto region."

"Where he is now, I don't know."

"After the farewell in Kyoto, I haven't seen him again."

"He said he wanted to travel to the north, and he might have gone to the Aizu domain by now."

Mucun panicked casually.

Hearing Mucun's answer, Hasegawa's face showed a very obvious look of disappointment.

"Ogata Yidaosai, isn't he around now? Well, whatever."

"Then Mucun, are you willing to help me and participate in the imperial trial?"

"Master Hasegawa, did I just say that?" Mucun smiled wryly, "I haven't even read all the four books and five classics."

"People like me who haven't even read all the four books and five classics will surely fail the essay test even if they take part in the imperial test."

"That's it"

After letting out another long sigh, Hasegawa leaned over and saluted Mucun.

"I'm so sorry for taking up so much of your time tonight."

"Where is it?" Mu Cun hurriedly returned the gift, "Anyway, I have a lot of time."

"What about tonight, please don't tell outsiders. After all"

Before Hasegawa finished speaking, Mucun immediately answered:

"I understand. I won't talk nonsense. Even if I try to talk nonsense, I don't have anyone to talk to."

Hasegawa stood up slowly.

"Makimura, let me take you to the gate of my Huofu Thief Kai headquarters."

"Ah, I'm sorry to trouble you. The headquarters of your Huofu Thief Kai is quite big. If no one leads the way, I might really get lost."

After saying this witty remark, Mucun picked up his big sword and stood up slowly following Hasegawa.

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"Good guy."

After Mu Cun finished telling the details about the secret agent he had just had with Hasegawa, Asai was the first to express his feelings.

"This kind of thing related to political struggle, Hasegawa will definitely ask you to keep the secret of tonight's spy content a secret, right? As a result, you just came back from the headquarters of Huofu Thief Changing, and you leaked the secret to us directly."

As soon as Asai finished speaking, Mucun said angrily:

"Hasegawa did tell me to keep it a secret."

"I also promised Hasegawa at the time: I will never talk nonsense."

"The content of my promise is that I will not talk nonsense."

"I'll tell you the contents of the secret agent, isn't this not within the scope of casual talk?"

As soon as Mucun finished speaking, Jian Gong said:

"You actually hid the fact that Ogata-kun is in Edo from Hasegawa."

Mucun shrugged: "Without the permission of Brother Ogata, I will not casually reveal the whereabouts of Brother Ogata."

"Master Hasegawa actually wants Master Ogata to participate in the imperial trial." Shimada murmured, "If you don't make a disguise, Master Ogata will not be able to participate in the imperial trial at all."

"As long as you report Ogata Yasushi's name, you will definitely be surrounded by a bunch of officials."

"Master Hasegawa must also understand this, but he still intends to let Master Ogata participate in the imperial trial. Could it be that he has some means to help Master Ogata to make a disguise?"

"Probably so." Mamiya replied, "Master Hasegawa, after all, is the chief of Huofu Thief Kai, and it's normal to have one or two tricks that can help people disguise themselves."

"That's something I've been wanting to ask since just now." A-Machi suddenly asked in a cautious tone, "What is that Hitoyose Field?"

"That's an amazing thing that Hasegawa-sama built three years ago."

Makimura replied.

"Three years ago, Master Hasegawa, when he first took office as the new chief of Huofu Thief Gai, he tried his best to build a Renzu Depot."

"The People's Foot Depot specializes in taking in those prisoners who have been caught by the Huo Fu Thief Kai and have lesser culpability, and then teaching these prisoners how to abacus and how to keep accounts is to teach these prisoners skills so that they have a skill. "

"As far as I know, Mr. Hasegawa's original intention of building the Renzu Juyuan is to let these prisoners have a skill that they can rely on to survive, so that after they are released from prison, they can rely on the skills they have learned in the Renzu Juyou. You can eat for a living and don’t have to commit crimes.”

"Hey" Ah-Machi let out a small exclamation, "What a great idea."

"I also think Hasegawa's idea of ​​allowing prisoners to have skills so that they don't have to rely on crime to earn a living in the future is great." Lin, who had been silent since just now, suddenly said.

"In this world where many samurai don't treat ordinary people as human beings, there is actually an official like Hasegawa who can be sympathetic to prisoners."

"This can be regarded as a miracle."

Speaking of this, a faint smile appeared on Lin's face for a long time.

As soon as Lin's voice fell, Kuro, who was sitting next to Lin, answered:

"Although I've always found it annoying that Hasegawa is always chasing after the lord and my ass."

"However, I still have to give a high evaluation to his behavior of building and insisting on operating Renzujiu."

As soon as Jian Gong finished speaking, Lin cleared her throat.

Then he said sternly:

"Mihachi, thank you for your hard work."

"We all know what happened."

"Many vassals don't want to see Shiranui, it's not surprising."

At this time, Asai suddenly interjected:

"I think this might be a good opportunity."

A thoughtful look slowly appeared on Asai's face.

"Hasegawa's status in the shogunate is not small."

"If we cooperate with him, we can get some useful information from him."

"For example, the location of Shiranui."

"Hasegawa is a senior official of the shogunate, he may know the exact location of Shiranui."

"If we can learn the exact location of Shiranui from Hasegawaguchi, it will save us a lot of trouble."

"Oh? Asai." Yuan Yi smiled, "Are you going to agree to Hasegawa and let Ogata-kun participate in the imperial trial?"

"It is not necessary to let Yidaosai participate in the imperial trial." Asai said, "Hasegawa's purpose is just to let as many powerful people as possible participate in the imperial trial, so that Ji Taro can get the first place in the martial arts test. drop to lowest."

"In this case, we can send other people."

"We will cooperate with Hasegawa on the condition that we can send other experts."

"Let Hasegawa tell him everything he knows about Shiranui."

Just as Asai's words fell, Mamiya and others present nodded their heads in agreement.

But at this moment, a voice sounded faintly.

"I actually don't mind participating in the imperial trial."

The person who spoke was Ogata who was sitting cross-legged next to A-Machi with his hands crossed into the haori sleeves on both sides.

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As soon as Ogata's voice fell, everyone's eyes naturally fell on Ogata.

After everyone's eyes fell on him, Ogata immediately went on to say:

"Asai was right just now."

"Master Hasegawa is a military officer with a high status in the shogunate."

"If we are mutually beneficial with him, maybe we can exchange important information such as the exact location of Shiranui and how many ninjas are currently staying in their base in Shiranui."

Speaking of which, Ogata put on a half-joking tone and continued:

"If we can directly ask the exact location of Shiranui's base from Hasegawa's mouth, we don't even need to help Hasegawa to participate in the imperial trial."

"You can directly start drawing up a plan to attack Shiranui, and then defeat Shiranui in one go."

"In this way, there will be no Shiranui ninja who can participate in the imperial trial."

"At the same time, it can also indirectly help those vassals who oppose Shiranui achieve their goals."

"There is no need to object to Shiranui, after all, Shiranui is gone."

Ogata's joke made many people present laugh.

Even Lin, who was usually expressionless, turned up a little at the corners of her mouth when Ogata finished speaking.

But just as the corners of her mouth turned up a little, they were immediately flattened by her.

After pondering for a while, he said in a deep voice:

"Qibingwei, Ogata Yidaosai, you are right."

"If Hasegawa can give you a helping hand, it will indeed be of great benefit."

Lin moved her eyes and scanned the people in front of her.

"I agree with Hasegawa for mutual benefit. How about you?" Lin said.

As soon as Lin's voice fell, Xu conveniently said:

"I have no opinion."

After Ogata expressed his opinion, the rest of the people also expressed their opinions one after another.

Everyone agrees with this matter.

After all, if it is necessary to rely on the "Dongchengya" local snake to slowly find the exact location of the Shiranui base, God knows how long it will take for them to find out the location.

Seeing that everyone agreed, Lin nodded gently:

"Then let's reciprocate with Hasegawa."

"If you want to agree with Hasegawa to be mutually beneficial with us, and if you are willing to open your mouth to tell us the information we need, then we must first verbally agree to Hasegawa. Promise him that we will help him and send our masters to participate in the imperial trial. .”

"If Hasegawa didn't verbally agree first, then he probably wouldn't open his mouth to tell us about the Shiranui-related information."

"Only men can participate in the imperial trial."

"There are a lot of uncle's enemies in Edo now, so uncle can't participate in the imperial trial. Letting uncle participate in the imperial trial will only cause trouble."

"What a pity." Yuan Yi said in a regretful tone after taking a sip of the wine in his glass, "If it weren't for the more important thing to do to defeat Shiranui, otherwise even if there are enemies everywhere now, I would still miss it. Participate in the imperial trial."

Lin ignored what Yuanyi said just now, and continued:

"Kuro is a wanted criminal by the shogunate. If you only rely on mud on your face as a disguise, you may still be exposed."

"So the only ones who can participate in the imperial trial are Mihachi, Shichibei, Katsurokuro, and"