What made you have the illusion that I am the protagonist! ?

As time passed, the weather in Kyoto gradually began to get colder.

"Master Toya, it's time to get up."

"Hmm...wait a minute..."

After entering the season when you can spit out white air when you breathe, the warm bed begins to have infinite appeal. Fuyuya has actually woken up, but he is unwilling to get up from the quilt.

Diarmuid persuaded: "Isn't today the opening ceremony of Anping House, are you going to make everyone wait for you?"

"...Okay, okay." With a formal reason, Fuyuya could only sigh heavily under the quilt, and then made up his mind to lift the quilt and get up.

Quickly put on her clothes and shivered, Toomi washed up and went downstairs.

"Morning, Lord Samurai, your breakfast is ready."

"Morning, Xiao Berry, let's talk about breakfast when I come back." Dongmi, who had been lying in bed for a long time, quickly passed by Xiao Berry, walked out of the store, stretched directly, and was attracted by the crowd gathered next door up.

Seeing him coming, the flow of people soon divided into two columns to make way for him to enter.

"Yo, good morning everyone~"

Fuyuya entered it unceremoniously. They were gathered in front of a shop with a wooden sign that had not yet been unveiled. There were already two parties sitting in the shop, one was the Shinsengumi led by Isamu Kondo, and the other was It was Kyoto Sojidai and his party who later became drinking buddies.

"Ishitani-kun, you really made a big scene." Kondo said first.

"Ishitani, what are you planning to do by inviting us to the opening ceremony of this store?" Matsudaira Nobuhide, who is the leader of the Kyoto Soshidai party, asked. From his surname, it can be seen that he is the Matsudaira family. after.

"This is..."

Fuyuya scratched his cheek. Although he sent invitations to both of them, he didn't expect to come in person. He thought it would be good to have a few people of the same level as Okita or Ogasawara, but it turned out to be such a big scene .

However, he didn't have the slightest sense of stage fright.

"Everyone, it's been more than a month since I came to Kyoto. Although I brought some money, it's not easy to just sit and eat, so I thought about opening a small shop or something."

Nobuhide Matsudaira's face darkened. In this era, samurai don't do their official duties but want to open a shop for business or something. I can recommend you to Inaba-sama."

"Oh, I'm not interested in this." Toomi flatly refused.

"Oh? Then I don't know what kind of goods Ishitani-kun you want to deal in?" Kondo asked with interest. He was born in an ordinary farming family and he was much more receptive to this.

The space of the store is very small, and after only a few steps, Toyomi walked outside the store and pulled down the curtain—"The goods I deal in... are just like the name of this store."

"Anpingya?" Nobuhide Matsudaira walked out of the store, looked at the wooden sign, and repeated.

"Well, the goods I plan to deal in are the peace of this Kyoto." Fuyuya said with folded arms.

It has been more than a month since I came to this era, and Fuyuya has traveled all over Kyoto.

Although there are two big mountains, Shinsengumi and Kyoto Shojidai, the security of this city is still not very good.

Not to mention the Kyoto Soshidai, most of the people inside are retainers who have contributed to the shogunate, such as the Matsudaira family, the Ogasawara family, the Toki family, the Sakai family, etc., basically they are the so-called X-generation aggregates. The young master went to protect the safety of civilians, so the original function of maintaining law and order has long been degraded, and the routine patrol of the city has become more formal than substantial.

It is also because of this that Mr. Matsudaira Yohoho incorporated the Shinsengumi.However, the situation has not improved a lot, because there are too few people in the Xinxuan group. Although many vicious cases have been suppressed, there is no spare power to manage frequent ordinary security incidents.

In addition to this period of time, Toya also saw many unemployed low-level samurai.

The income of these people used to be mainly from the salaries issued, but the peace has passed, at least that kind of large-scale war has not passed for a long time, and the hired warriors are becoming more and more elite, while those who have been brushed down have lost Source of income.

Like Matsudaira, the prevailing belief today is that these samurai cannot afford to degenerate, work to support themselves, and end up as criminals.

At the beginning, Toya also thought about opening a coffee shop like before.

It's a pity that in this era, things related to the West, such as coffee and wheat flour, are not cheap. If he wanted to open such a store, if he set a high price for the product, no one would buy it, and if the price was low, he was doomed to lose money, so he gave up.

After wandering around for a long time, Toya came up with an idea - to organize these low-level warriors to maintain law and order.

"That is to be bodyguards. Of course, I will give them salaries and hire them. As for the money, I think those merchants who have been harassed will be willing to pay some protection fees. Of course, I will also ask you two to take care of them in the future." .”

Fuyuya's explanation made Matsudaira Nobuhide look a little better. Anyway, it sounds much better than being a merchant to buy and sell goods.Although this is also stealing their jobs, the second generation doesn't care about this little money, and civil organizations naturally have the advantages of civil organizations, at least they will not steal their limelight in front of Mr. Matsudaira like the Shinsengumi.

And the Shinsengumi didn't mind either. They were too small in number, and they were destined to be unable to manage a place as big as Kyoto, so it's better to be a favor.

Collect protection fees from merchants to support low-level warriors, which in turn maintain the safety of merchant stores.

First, it made the samurai with income less likely to become criminals;

Secondly, although protection fees have to be paid on a regular basis every month, for businesses, it is better to use the money to hire bodyguards, especially in places like Gion, than to worry about possible cases and subsequent losses. Geisha who are prone to conflict and have extremely high social status.

Basically, it can be said to be the practice of the modern anti-black and Quandao (Tao) company (organization), but obviously there is no such term in this era.

In the past month, Fuyuya has also visited many merchants and low-level samurai, regardless of potential customers and potential employees.

After some exchanges with people from both parties, in order to jointly build a safe and secure Kyoto, Fuyuya bid farewell to Kondo, Matsudaira Nobuhide and others. Even if Anheiya has officially gone through the procedures, it can be opened.

"Well, it worked, Diarmuid. If it goes well, I can just sit back and wait for the money without doing anything." After sending everyone away, the idle Toya sighed.

"Congratulations, Toya-sama."

"Hey... you can relax now, let's go back and have breakfast, I hope it's not cold yet."

……

On the way back, Todo Heisuke took the initiative to ask: "Hey, tell me, what kind of Anping house—is it really possible?"

Today, many people from the Shinsengumi also went to the opening ceremony of Anpingya with Director Kondo, which was considered to be a fun.

"...It can be done." Saito took the initiative to speak.

"Huh, even Yijun said that?" Fujido said unconvinced.

"It sounds simple, but it's not easy to do it, Hirasuke." Harada reassured.

Okita continued: "It's not something ordinary people can do just to make us and the people who serve vegetarian meals in the place of corpses in the capital's office buy into his account."

Indeed, if the person who opened the Anpingya was not Ishitani Toya, it would probably not work.

Leaving aside the notorious Shinsengumi, if the person who opened the store was an unknown junior and tried to grab their business, I'm afraid they would have been made a fuss by those in Kyoto, and Matsudaira Nobuhide and others would not give it to anyone.

Secondly, this kind of violent organization will definitely be accompanied by countless conflicts and troubles in the future. If the ability is not strong enough to gain a foothold, it will be quickly killed and replaced by others.

It is not so simple to grasp the balance among them.

"...Hehe, let's see how far he can do it."