I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

But now he didn't even have the strength and mood to look up.

In addition to Maca Nao, the government also captured many people who also participated in the riot.

They are also like Maca Nao. These days, they shouted in the torture room until their vocal cords were about to burst.

After rounds of tortures were carried out on the group headed by Maca Nao, it can now be concluded that those who participated in the riots were all naturalized Ezo who were extremely dissatisfied with Kazuto on weekdays.

Inamori, who was standing behind Matsudaira Sadanobu, was watching Maca Nao in the cell with Matsudaira Sadanobu.

Looking at Maca Nao in the cell, Daamori's eyes were full of contempt and disdain.

After the Kanpei riots, Inamori and Sadanobu Matsudaira had discussed the gang of rioters in private.

The result of the discussion between the two of them was - this is a bunch of guys who can't get things done at all.

Throughout the entire process after the riot was launched, there was a sense of "insufficient ability" and "insufficient vision" everywhere.

A total of more than 300 people participated in the riots. This number is not too many, but it is not too small.

If they had planned well in advance, the group of them might be able to change the ending.

If the goal is to "take revenge on Kazuto and carry out indiscriminate massacres", then from the beginning of the battle, "fast break" must be launched.

After the rapid massacre, he immediately fled Songqian City before the government's army arrived.

If the goal is to "attack the mansion of the Matsumae Domain", then too much time should not be spent on massacring civilians from the beginning.

Looking closely at Maca's entire actions and the information they revealed after their arrest, it's not hard to see that Maca's group wanted both of them.

He wants to take revenge on Kazuto, and also wants to attack the mansion of the Matsumae Domain.

This behavior of "not concentrating power on one target" has already laid the groundwork for failure.

By the way - after being captured and tortured, Maca Nao quickly sold out those officials in the feudal mansion who were closely related to him.

Maca Nao admitted frankly: As a wanted fugitive, the reason why he has not been arrested is because he bribed these officials to assist him secretly.

At the same time, he admitted frankly: it was these officials who told him that Matsudaira Jonobu was now in the Matsumae domain, and a large part of the reason why he chose to revolt at this time was to capture or kill Matsudaira Jonobu alive.

After Ma Kanao betrayed all his good partners, the government immediately sent people to arrest these officials.

Only one person committed seppuku because of a guilty conscience before being arrested.

Another major reason why Maca's uprising failed so quickly was because the officials who were collaborating with him did not provide him with enough information.

These officials only knew that Matsudaira Sadanobu was here.

I don't know that the 1 coalition forces of the shogunate and the Northeast vassals are also here.

I don't know that there are elite troops such as "Aizu people" and "Sendai people" stationed in Matsumae Castle.

The 1 coalition forces of the shogunate and the Northeast feudal clans are currently gathered in the Matsumae domain, and the shogunate decided to use troops against the Red Moon Fortress-these two things are top secret.

For the sake of secrecy, Matsudaira Sadanobu has been strictly controlling public opinion.

In the entire Matsumae Domain, only the Lord of the Matsumae Domain and a few high-ranking officials knew the details.

None of the middle- and lower-level officials knew that a large-scale battle was about to break out in Ezo.

I don't know that Songqian City is now the elite gathering of Maca Nao, so it is so stupid to raise troops when the power of the government is the strongest...

After learning that Maca Nao was still alive, Matsudaira Sadanobu nodded gently.

The reason why he came to see Maca now was just on a whim - he suddenly wanted to see this guy who had helped them a lot invisibly.

After glancing at the almost out-of-shape Maca Nao, Matsudaira Sadanobu looked away and walked out of the cell.

After leaving the cell, Matsudaira Sadanobu dismissed the Xiaolu who had led them just now, and only walked back to his room with Tachibana and Inamori.

On the way home, Matsudaira Sadanobu suddenly asked Inamori behind him:

"I'm suddenly curious."

"If those thugs knew that their riots not only did not bring us any harm, but also gave us a lot of help, what kind of expressions and moods would they have?"

When he said this, Matsudaira Sadanobu had a faint smile on his face.

Hearing these words from Matsudaira Sadanobu, Inamori was stunned for a moment, then hurriedly said with a smile:

"I guess they're going to hit the wall with resentment."

At the beginning, when he learned that there was a riot in the city by naturalized Ezo, Matsudaira Sadanobu said in a low voice: "This is a good opportunity."

This sentence is actually a pun.

It also refers to a good opportunity to test the abilities of generals from the Aizu and Sendai domains such as Kamao and Tenmoku.

It also refers to encountering an excellent reason to go to war with the Red Moon Fortress.

Anyone with a little bit of military common sense knows that there must be a sufficient reason to go to war before going to war.

You can talk about the reason for the war, but in short, there must be a reason that can tell all the soldiers-why we are fighting.

Matsudaira Sadanobu was thinking of breaking up a random reason to start a war with the Red Moon Fortress.

Anyway, casually breaking up the reason for the war-this kind of thing can be regarded as one of the old traditions of their Edo shogunate.

200 years ago, when the Edo shogunate just opened, the first general Tokugawa Ieyasu used a very outrageous reason to launch a final battle against the Toyotomi family.

At that time, Tokugawa Ieyasu had seized power from the Toyotomi family through politics, war and other means.

The family who ruled the world changed from the Toyotomi family to the Tokugawa family, and Tokugawa Ieyasu also successfully established the Edo Shogunate in Edo.The Toyotomi clan became a vassal who could only rule Osaka.

Although the power of the Toyotomi Clan is gone, the prestige is still there. As long as he ascends to the top, countless warriors and princes eager for fame or favored by the Toyotomi Clan will gather to respond.Toyotomi was the only prince who could pose a threat to the Edo Shogunate at that time.

Tokugawa Ieyasu, who regards Toyotomi as a thorn in his side, has been looking for opportunities to eradicate Toyotomi.

Finally, more than ten years after the establishment of the Edo Shogunate, he waited for the opportunity.

At that time, Toyotomi Hideyori, the head of the Toyotomi family, restored the Fangguang Temple in Kyoto that had collapsed due to the earthquake, and placed a huge Sanskrit bell in the main hall, engraved with dense bell inscriptions.

There is such a sentence in Zhong Ming - "The monarch and his ministers are prosperous and happy, and the country is safe and healthy".

Because of this inscription, the war between Toyotomi and Tokugawa resumed.

Tokugawa Ieyasu thinks—the second half of the Zhong Ming: "National Ankang", separating the two characters "Ieyasu" is cursing Tokugawa Ieyasu to die.

So for this reason, the "Battle of Osaka" was launched, and troops were sent to attack Osaka, the residence of the Toyotomi clan, and finally succeeded in destroying the Toyotomi clan.

All fools know that Tokugawa Ieyasu's reason for starting the war is completely unreasonable.

But that's the reason for the war.No matter how nonsensical it is, as long as there is a reason-even if the times have changed, this is an eternal truth.

In modern times, there was also a country that practiced this truth: this country took a test tube that might contain washing powder, said it was a chemical weapon secretly developed by a certain country, and then attacked that country on the grounds.

Matsudaira Sadanobu wanted to imitate their first general, and casually made up a plausible reason to start a war with the Red Moon Fortress.

But now——this group of Maka Nao, who suddenly rose up to make trouble, sent an excellent reason to start a war in front of Matsudaira Sadanobu.

From the day before yesterday, Matsudaira Sadanobu began to make arrangements.

He asked the officials of the Matsumae Domain to inform the entire Matsumae Castle and the entire Matsumae Domain—after investigation, it was found that the instigators of this riot that killed and injured countless civilians were the Ezos of the Red Moon Fortress.

The ezos of the Red Moon Fortress have always hated Kazuto, so they secretly planned this massacre.

Since the "investigation results" of their government were notified to the whole city the day before yesterday, Matsumae Castle has been in a state of indignation for the past two days.

Many civilians died in that riot.

Some extremely angry people even blocked the feudal mansion directly, asking the government to avenge them.

In addition to the anger of the people of Matsumae, the generals of the shogunate allied forces were also very angry.

Because while telling the "truth" to the people of Matsumae Fan, Matsudaira Sadanobu also asked Inamori to tell the "truth" to the generals of the army.

There is no shortage of passionate men in the army.

After learning that Eizi of Red Moon Fortress had done such an outrageous thing, many generals clamored to flatten Red Moon Fortress and demand blood for blood.

This is the effect that Matsudaira Sadanobu wanted.

There's no better cause for war than "revenge."

The truth of the matter does not need to be announced to the public at all.

It is enough to announce to the public what the rulers want the public to know.

Matsudaira Sadanobu and his party unknowingly returned to his room.

After returning to the room, Matsudaira Sadanobu turned around, looked at Inamori, and said word by word:

"The time is now very ripe."

Yesterday, Matsudaira Sadanobu had the final pre-war military meeting with the generals headed by Inamori.

After repeated confirmation, it has been confirmed that:

The generals of each army are ready to go.

The luggage has been deployed at the northern border of the Matsumae Domain.

The reason for the war is very good, and the morale of the generals of the whole army, eager for vengeance, is now high.

The time has come to send troops.

"Inamori, report to the entire army."

Matsudaira Sadanobu said word by word.

"The whole army is in battle!"

"Peace the Red Moon Fortress!"

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Matsumae Domain, an ordinary village near the northern border——

Yutian carried his bow and arrow, and walked back to the village with a dejected expression on his face.

Yoda is an ordinary farmer in this ordinary countryside.

After the freezing winter, I would pick up a bow and arrow and try to get some small animals to subsidize my family.

There are no big beasts such as bears and wolves around the village, only small animals such as rabbits and squirrels who are easy to bully.

It's just that Yoda's hunting skills are really poor.

10 times into the mountain, maybe 10 times will return without success.

Today is also a day of returning home without success. After running around in the mountains for most of the day, Yoda walked back to the village exhausted with nothing.

Walking on the road back to the village with ease, he has already seen the shadow of the houses in the village.

At this moment, he suddenly heard a strange noise coming from a distance beside him.

As a native of Matsumae in the Matsumae domain, Yoda is no stranger to this sound—it is the unique sound of a dog sled running on the snow.

Follow the reputation - as expected, in the distance beside him, there is a dog sled running towards his direction at high speed.

And the person sitting on the sled was someone Yoda knew.

"Old man Tangshen..." After recognizing the person sitting in the sled, Yoda waved his hands vigorously in the direction of the sled, "Hey! Old man Tangshen!"

Sitting on the sled was an old man.

While Yoda recognized the old man, the old man also recognized Yoda.

"Hello!" The old man waved his hands vigorously at Yutian, "Yutian, long time no see."

The sleds are pulled by 6 very strong sled dogs.

The limbs of these 6 sled dogs are covered with strong and powerful muscles, and it can be seen that they are carefully and professionally domesticated dogs.

The old man's name is Tangshen.He is an ordinary pet merchant in Matsumae Castle.

If Ogata and A-Machi were present, they would have recognized it quickly—this old man was the owner of the pet stall that had told them the precious information before.

In order to replenish the quantity of goods, Tang Shen often drives a dog sled to leave Matsumae Domain and go all the way north, entering the territory of Ezo to hunt animals.

This route passing through the village where Yoda lived is the most frequent route taken by Tangshen.

And Yutian and Tangshen are also very destined, and they often meet Tangshen by chance.

So after going back and forth, Yoda gradually got acquainted with this pet dealer.

Yoda has always felt that Tang Shenren is a god-man as his name suggests.