I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

How can the way out for the warriors be so easy to find?

Due to various reasons such as class attributes, there are many jobs that are actually unwilling to recruit samurai, or the samurai simply cannot do it.

Jincheng's family belongs to the type that is not very friendly to the erjies.

Jincheng's father randomly found a job for Jincheng to work as a housekeeper for another Banner family.

Jin Cheng, who didn't want to be guarded by others and was only interested in swordsmanship, simply took his own sword and left his hometown to practice martial arts.

Before I knew it, I wandered here.

After Hosaka quietly listened to Jincheng's story about his past, he grinned:

"In this case, you are doing martial arts training. Do you want to wander with us in the future? Let's form a team dedicated to catching wanted criminals."

"Catch the wanted criminal?" Jin Cheng looked puzzled.

Ogata, who was sitting across from Hosaka, couldn't help but look up at Hosaka.

"My apprentice and I are now wandering around, living by catching wanted criminals."

While talking, Hosaka took out a large stack of crumpled papers from his bosom, and showed them to Ogata and the others.

"This is the wanted warrants I have collected so far. After I finish helping in this village, my apprentice and I will continue to look for these wanted criminals."

Looking at the wanted warrants that Hosaka showed them, the eyes of Ogata and Atachi became strange.

Because on the first sheet of this stack of arrest warrants, there is a face that Ogata is very familiar with.

Ogata: "Can you show me your wanted warrants?"

"Take it! Just look at it!"

Hosaka directly gave Ogata all the wanted warrants in his hand.

After receiving the stack of wanted warrants, Ogata directly picked up the wanted warrant placed on top.

No matter how you look at it, it's ugly. It doesn't show my handsomeness at all.

The first one on the top of Hosaka's stack of arrest warrants is Ogata's arrest warrant

Ogata always felt that his arrest warrant made him look ugly.

But the strange thing is that those bounty hunters can always accurately identify him through the wanted poster

And what hurt Ogata the most was that Ah-machi once said to Ogata: Isn't this arrest warrant drawn quite like you?

The "heartache" left by this sentence to Ogata still remains to this day.

"You still want to catch Ogata Yidaosai?" Ogata raised his arrest warrant.

"How is that possible!" Hosaka laughed loudly, "Don't you know how many catties I have? I'm going to catch Ogata Yidaosai? How many heads I have are not enough to chop off!"

"I just brought Ogata Isai's arrest warrant along with me. If one day I really run into Ogata Isai, I will definitely run away without saying a word!"

Ogata turned his gaze back to the wanted warrant in his hand.

"Ogata Yidaosai is now offering a reward of 500 taels. I remember he used to offer a reward of 300 taels."

When he first got the arrest warrant, Ogata noticed that his bounty had increased.

It has risen to 500 taels.

Since leaving Kyoto, Ogata has never paid attention to his arrest warrant.

This is the first time Ogata has received his arrest warrant since he left Kyoto, and it is only now that Ogata knows that his bounty has increased so much.

"This is the latest arrest warrant!" Hosaka said, "I just got it a month ago too! After Ogata Isaito broke through the Nijo Castle in Kyoto, the shogunate increased Ogata's bounty from 1 tael Up to 300 taels."

"Ogata Yidaosai should be the most valuable wanted criminal right now." A look of longing appeared on Hosaka's face, "500 taels, with 500 taels, I won't need to work for the rest of my life."

Chapter 453 Using "Japanese Sword Technique" "Impure Fasting" [6500 words]

500 two

Ogata couldn't help but take another look at the wanted warrant in his hand.

For some reason, at a certain moment just now, Ogata had the urge to surrender to the government!

While having this impulse, a big plan was born in my mind:

First go to the government to surrender, sell yourself, then let Ah Ding receive the 500 taels of gold, and then think of a plan to escape from prison by yourself.

Ogata felt that his plan seemed quite clever.

When one day in the future when the money is very short, maybe we can carry out this plan that can grab the government's wool.

He participated in the "Imperial Trial" in Edo before, and after exhausting himself and good luck, he finally earned 00 taels of gold.

As long as Ogata and the others don't mess around with this money, 00 taels is enough for Ogata and his wife to not have to worry about money for at least 0 years in the future.

If the 500 taels were not used to buy antiques or other messy things, this money would really be enough for Ogata and A-Machi until the end of their lives.

At this moment, Jincheng on the side beckoned to Ogata, expressing his desire to see the stack of wanted warrants.

Ogata was only interested in his wanted warrant, and he was not interested in the rest of the wanted warrants.

Now that he has read his wanted warrants, Ogata has no interest in holding this stack of wanted warrants anymore. Seeing that Jincheng wanted them, he simply gave them all to him.

Jin Cheng took the stack of arrest warrants from Ogata, casually flipped through them, and said:

"I didn't expect you to be the kind of ronin who lives on bounties. These bounty criminals must be very difficult to catch, right?"

"Of course." Hosaka shrugged, "After working hard for several months, it's just a common thing to find that the bounty hunter is dead, or he chases the wrong person."

"So my apprentice and I don't all live by catching bounty criminals."

"If we come across a job that earns money and feeds us, we will do it too."

"Just like this job now."

Kasaka grinned.

"Although there is no money to take, but there is white rice to eat, which can save several days of food money. And it is also very suitable for us master and apprentice. Apart from wielding swords, we master and apprentice have nothing else to be good at. .”

At this time, Jin Cheng had roughly finished flipping through the stack of wanted warrants in his hand.

When handing the pack of wanted warrants to Hosaka, Jincheng said softly:

"Thank you for your invitation. But after all, I'm used to being alone, and I don't really like partnering with others."

"That's it." Seeing that Jincheng's invitation to join him as a bounty hunter was rejected, Hosaka didn't show annoyance, and just smiled casually, "Forget it."

After returning the stack of wanted warrants to Hosaka, Jincheng smiled, and then continued:

"I just looked at these arrest warrants, Ogata Yidaosai is really powerful."

"Among this pile of arrest warrants, only Ogata Yidaosai's bounty is more than one hundred, and it's still a full five hundred."

"As expected of the Shogunate's most wanted criminal."

"If anyone can catch Ogata Yidao Zhai, leaving his name aside for the time being, it is certain that he will have enough food and clothing for the rest of his life as long as you don't spend money recklessly."

"Ho ho."

As soon as Jincheng finished speaking, Kasaka suddenly sneered a few times.

After the sneer, Hosaka who showed a mocking smile suddenly changed the topic:

"Although 500 taels of gold is a sum of money for ordinary people like us, we can afford food and clothing for a lifetime."

"But for those rich and powerful, 500 taels may be just money for a few days of fun."

"I used to be a low-ranking samurai in the Mito Domain in Kanto."

"I have seen with my own eyes how extravagant the daily lives of the rich and powerful of the Mito Domain are."

"Because the Mito Clan is close to Edo, many of the Mito Clan's dignitaries would take a carriage to Edo's Yoshihara to have fun."

"In a gold-selling land like Yoshihara, it's not uncommon to spend tens or hundreds of taels of gold overnight."

"After being cool at Yoshiwara, I will take a carriage back to Mito."

"Mito clan?" Jincheng raised his eyebrows on the side, "You are from the male clan."

The Mito clan, Owari clan, and Kishu clan are collectively known as the "Three Royal Family", and they are the feudal states closest to the shogunate.

As the lowest number of stones among the three royal families, the Mito clan has 35 stones, making it an undoubted male clan.

"That's right. I'm a samurai from the Mito domain, but only a junior samurai."

Kasaka shrugged.

"Before I left the feudal domain, I was a treasury officer in the Mito feudal domain. I was responsible for abacus, counting and managing warehouse inventory every day. My salary was only a pitiful 50 shi."

Hearing what Hosaka said, Ogata couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

Ogata is familiar with the job of the warehouse officer.

"I took over as treasury officer when I was 20 years old."

"When I first took over the job of the treasury officer, I worked very hard."

"Every day I'm exhausted with calculations, bookkeeping, and hard work."

"But gradually, I realized something was wrong."

The sarcasm in the smile on Hosaka's face became more intense.

I just don't know who the mocking look on his face is for.

"I work so hard every day, and I can't get any real compensation."

"Because I was born as a low-level warrior."

"You are all samurai, you should all know what the origin of a lower-level samurai means?"

Everyone, including Ogata, nodded silently.

Ogata himself was born as a low-level samurai of the Hirose Clan, so he naturally knew what a low-level samurai represented.

It means that unless the ancestral grave is smoking, you will never be able to climb to such a high position.

In the Edo period, when the Shiqing Shilu system was practiced, one sentence was used to describe the officialdom of the shogunate and the vassals, that is, "the upper-ranking samurai monopolizes high-ranking official positions, and the lower-ranking samurai monopolizes low-ranking official positions."

Unless he made some great achievements, even if he struggled for a lifetime, it was impossible for a low-level warrior to get a high position.

"Those samurai who are born well enough have high-ranking officials at their fingertips."

"As for me, a low-level warrior from a humble background, no matter how hard I try, I probably won't be able to get promoted in my life. I can only live a life of poverty."

"I feel very uncomfortable."

"So I gradually stopped working so hard to serve the public. No matter whether I work hard or not, the result is the same. I can only get such a meager salary, and I can't see the hope of being promoted and living a good life."

"However, I still complete my own job on time and according to the amount every day."

"After I started to serve the job with less enthusiasm, my boss came to me out of the blue."

"Can you guess what he told me?"

Kasaka shook his shoulders, and sneered a few more times.

"He thinks that I have not worked as hard and desperately as I used to work recently."

"I told him: I do my job well every day."

"Then he said: I know that your daily work is indeed done well, but just like this, are you satisfied?"

"As a samurai, you should serve your lord wholeheartedly."

"In the face of a job where the full score is [-] points, you should strive to achieve [-] or [-] points."

"Only in this way can the morality of the samurai be honored."

"I obviously finish my work well every day, but I was scolded and lectured for no reason."

"When I got home, the more I thought about it, the angrier I became."

"Serve the lord? When did the lord of the Mito clan be kind to me? Why should I go all out to serve someone I've never met?"

"And the one who doesn't talk about samurai morality should be the lord, right? My family has served the Mito Domain since the establishment of the Shogunate."

"I have been serving the public for 200 years, but because of my humble background, my salary has never been raised, and I can only do some humble jobs all the time. Is there such a thing as samurai morality?"

"The more I thought about it, the angrier I became, so I went to my boss the next day to argue."

"Then I was scolded by my boss again."