Prime Minister Bizen

"Daxi Duozhong", a small ninja organization that is not very famous in history, is the most important intelligence agency of the Satomi family, and lost control after the Satomi family was destroyed.

There are very few descriptions of them in history. It is only known that the Satomi family sent their own son to be the governor of the family many times in order to control the mountain people in Daxiduo.

In history, after the Satomi family was changed, Daxi Duoduo followed him to transfer to Anfang. In this life, the Lijian family was destroyed. Although the Satomi family was re-supported by the Xiu family, after all, the family’s territory is only 5000 shi and it is impossible to support it. How many vassals, this has become a force for disaster.

Daxi is now Hori Hideji's sphere of influence. Right now, he is still in Kaga to sort out his skills and has not been transferred. If he can take advantage of this time when he doesn't care, it would be a good choice.

"How many people are there under your command, and how many of them are old people from Bizen?"

"Reporting to my lord, there are still 48 people under my command, almost all of whom are Bizen old men. When I was in Jibei, if I wanted to control the territory, the number of people should not be less than 150. With the help of guards and guards, basically Can complete the mastery of the information in the territory.

Most of them are locals from various countries in Jibei. After the reform of the lord's reserve team, many people are willing to provide information in exchange for meritorious service.

But in Kanto, this single person is not enough for us to develop, and the security and defense system is not perfect, which caused such a problem. Please forgive me, my lord. "

The Xiu family waved their hands and said it didn't matter. The transfer of retainers involves too many aspects. They are immigrants themselves, and even their accents are very different. It is really difficult to control the village.

"Does Your Highness want me to wipe out the remnants of Feng Mo Zhong, Tou Po Zhong and Da Xi Duo Zhong?"

"I did have such an idea at first, but now I have changed my mind. It is indeed a disaster for these people to stay in Kanto, but their past skills are still solid. Why not use them for my own use. It just so happens that you don't have enough manpower now. This It’s obviously too late to go back to Jibei to recruit people.”

Takano Kansuke quickly understood what Hideka meant: "My lord, do you want me to talk to them and bring them under my command?"

Xiujia nodded and replied, "I do have such an idea that there are some things that cannot be cleaned up with the current administrative ability, and if this is the case, we must let them live in an orderly manner under our structure.

I thought about it for a while, that person named Nonosuke Hiramura did have some ability, and he knew how to bring the girls together.

In this way, the wandering girls are under control, the chaos in the castle town and the countryside has been improved, the safety of both the wandering girls and the intellectuals is guaranteed, and the family can draw taxes from it to improve finances.

The most important thing is that it is easy for people to say things that should not be said when they are relaxed. The place where there are red wine and greenery is the place where information is exchanged. A little training for wandering girls and turtle husbands may not be able to provide us with information.

For the family, gossip and gossip stories will be exchanged if there is any disturbance in the collar.

I even think that geisha girls can be divided into levels. There are fast-paced brothels suitable for ordinary people, izakaya suitable for low-level samurai and businessmen, and high-end lodgings suitable for high-level samurai and wealthy households. …

Different people reveal different information. The people who know you best will always be your servants and your neighbors next door. With this Kabukicho, it will save you from placing people from door to door.When necessary, you can even provide door-to-door service. "

The Xiu family uttered all the various routines of the later generations at once, and created a new way for the current era where the wandering girls who shoot and change places are still the mainstream.

"All Fengyue places must have our people. We can use people from Fengmozhong in the early stage, but we will gradually replace them with our people. Especially the places facing middle and high-level intelligence must be firmly controlled by us. , In this regard, you can ask Misakushou for help.

But one thing you need to know is that Kabukicho is controlled by our side, and only you can know it, and you must never reveal it, so you must choose some tight-lipped people to join in.

From the official point of view, the family only collects business tax every day. If someone says something wrong, no matter what his status is, I will execute him in the name of slandering the family. "

Hideka's tone was so severe, Takano Kansuke had no doubts about him, so he advised him with trepidation: "Yes, please rest assured, my lord, I know the pros and cons of it."

After the Xiu family finished their orders, they prepared to provide financial support for them. After all, if you want to establish a spy network and set up a Kabukicho, you need money. The money cannot be taken from the public account of the Kanto Toyotomi family, which will leave traces .

For the Xiu family, this new intelligence agency will be their own "Jinyi Pro-Army", and they can only receive the salary given by their own money. If they receive money from the public, why should they do it for themselves? What about supervising the retainers under his command?
But when the Xiu family habitually wanted to call the attendant beside him to get the money, he realized that he had waved back and left. The helpless Xiu family could only get up and open the door, and faced the horse farm worker waiting outside. Said, "Go to the bank to withdraw the big gold and get 10 coins, small gold and 10 coins, and 2 bags of silver beans."

Not long after, Baba Shizuo handed over these goods to the Hide family, and then the Hide family handed them over to Takano Kansuke: "These are used as the start-up of the new department, including the funds for soliciting Hira Muranosuke.

For such people, money is not something they can win over. What they want is to regain their official status.

You tell him for me that as long as he is willing to surrender to me and do things for me, I will immediately give him the status of a warrior, and if he has meritorious service in the future, I will not hesitate to reward him with knowledge and deeds. "

"Knowledge?" Takano Kansuke himself is only a samurai who lived because of the transfer of the Kanto, so don't count on Zhixing.

Finally, according to the arrangement of Osafune Sadakin, I allocated a piece of land in Musashi, but this is only for farming, not for my own knowledge and practice. I must be regarded as a local samurai who owns land. I never thought that the Hide family would promise knowledge and practice. , so he showed a surprised expression.

But soon after he realized that he had a problem with his expression management, he buried his head down again and agreed, "Ha!"

"It's not just him, as long as you have done meritorious service in the surveillance of the territory, Zhixing will also reward you."

"Thank you so much." Kansuke Takano, who received a bad check from Hideo, said excitedly, "Your servant will definitely serve the public wholeheartedly." …

Hideka was very satisfied with Takano Kansuke's answer, and said to him: "I have already ordered Tsusue Sanzhicheng to reorganize the ninja army. You go to him to ask for people, fill them up to 100 people as the backbone, and then recruit Fuma who are willing to follow. Crowds, through-crowds, and ecstatic crowds are enriched as bloodlines, and an intelligence system to control the territory is established.

When recruiting people, you don’t have to be limited to ninjas. Tight-mouthed traders, villagers, wandering girls, geisha, craftsmen, and servants of famous families can all become peripheral intelligence personnel. You can put your manpower over there. "

"By the way, since this organization is secretly used for the internal affairs of the family, and its members all live for secret tasks, it will be called the 'Internal Affairs Control Department' from now on."

"For the bottom-level personnel, you don't need to tell them who they are working for, you just need to tell them that we will not be stingy in rewarding those who have contributed.

All in all, it's just a matter of confidentiality, the less involvement you have with my family, the better, and the fewer people who know that they are doing things for me, the better. "

In this way, in addition to the two organizations that manage the security of the territory, the Xiu family has become an organization that specializes in intelligence investigations in the territory and surveillance of the samurai families and the people under its command. It is called the "Internal Affairs Control Department". ", referred to as 'Internal Affairs Bureau'.

Correspondingly, the ninja army of Tsushizhi Sanzhicheng only reserved the right to investigate information from outside after the layoff, and was officially named "Zouma Investigate the World's All Affairs Division" by the Xiu family, referred to as "Zouma Bureau".

Correspondingly, for the protection of Xiujia's secret safety, Xiujia does not plan to independently set up a ninja department, but imitates Hideyoshi and recruits capable ninjas directly into the right pen and attendants to become Xiujia's close personal guard.

Wu Kaicaizao was still kept by the Xiu family, after all, this child grew up with the Xiu family since he was a child, so he is trustworthy after so many years.

Moreover, he is the younger brother of Sanzhicheng Zhezhi. At this time, you erased all his relationships from you just because of Sanzhicheng Zhezhi's mistake. It will inevitably make people feel different thoughts.

After Takano Kansuke left, the affairs of the Hideo family were not over yet. The Hideo family still had a lot of things to deal with regarding the two intelligence agencies, including arranging two yamen for them, as well as designing a new command system and the relationship between superiors and subordinates. , intelligence systems and tokens.

These materials in later generations have been exposed long ago. Limited by the level of technology, it is necessary to distinguish between friend and foe. The most effective tools are passwords, tokens, and tattoos.

In order to keep it confidential, and even avoid cross-talking with each other, Hideka has to design tokens and tattoos for different departments in charge of the Internal Affairs Bureau separately, and then hand them over to Takano Kansuke and Tsusue Sannojo for implementation .

After finishing all this work, it was already dark at Xiu's house. I stayed in Shiji's room that night, thinking that I would know all the inside and outside information and gossip in the future, and quietly made a scene of eating melons.

When you meet someone who has two intentions, or someone from the people who slanders your existence, you can directly ask the Internal Affairs Bureau to arrest him, don't think about how flattering it is.

But Xiujia quickly thought of a problem.

The Bureau of Internal Affairs has to be kept secret. If arrests are made by the Bureau of Internal Affairs, wouldn't that mean exposing this department to the sun? …

Moreover, Japan's national conditions are different from China's. China's Jinyiwei is the emperor's eagle dog. Who are the people in the Internal Affairs Bureau?
Their identities are all vulgar people who can't be put on the table. If you let them arrest people, isn't it just to let the guards and guards intervene?

Thinking of this, Xiujia suddenly sat up from the bed. This sudden movement scared Shi Ji who was lying on the side. She sat up worriedly and leaned on Xiujia's shoulder and asked, "Is there any discomfort, Your Highness?"

Xiujia didn't give Shiji an answer, he was trying to restore his brain to normal operation from idle time as soon as possible, and he wanted to make up for this loophole.

Xiujia took the initiative to ask outside: "Who is on duty outside now."

In an instant, Ota Keiko's voice came from outside the wooden door and said, "My lord, I, Gen Saburo, are on duty tonight. May I have any orders?"

Xiujia didn't give an answer right away, he tapped his fingers rhythmically on the tatami to beat, he still didn't give orders to the outside.

Seeing that the Xiu family did not give orders, Ota Zijing asked the Xiu family again: "Your Highness? Do you have any orders?"

The reason why the Xiu family was hesitant was because he hadn't made up his mind who would handle the next thing.

The Neiwuju can only be used as an internal intelligence agency, not as a law enforcement agency, not only for concealment, but also to prevent the situation of excessive power like Jinyiwei in history.

The most important thing is that the people they are going to arrest in the future are likely to be family samurai with samurai status and knowledge. In Japan's current national conditions, the samurai class has a very high status. It is unrealistic for you to expect a group of civilians to arrest people of.

When it comes to catching samurai, even the guards are useless. The samurai family does not have weapons, armor and servants. One less organization is a small armed force.

After much deliberation, the Xiu family still decided to organize a troop composed only of the children of the samurai family. This troop is different from the servants and the bannermen. It will be used to spy inside, arrest treason or slander the monarch.

After much deliberation, the Xiu family still wanted to choose someone from among their attendants.

First of all, Kagawa King is not suitable. It is meaningless for him to be handed down as soon as he became a servant. Secondly, he may be able to take up this position as a real job at the horse farm. However, his mother is the aunt of the Xiu family, so it is not easy to let his cousin do such a job. Something doesn't fit.

Hideka looked at the 20-year-old young man in front of him. As the youngest son of Ota Sukage, Ota Sukage was more suitable in terms of grade and status, but no matter whether it was Ota, Hojo or Satomi, they had just surrendered to Hideo. The Xiu family felt that it was inappropriate for their children to lead an important military force.

This position must be an old Jibei who is absolutely loyal to the Xiu family, but there should not be too much knowledge and practice. There is a false marriage between the leading martial arts family and the famous family. If there is too much knowledge and practice, it is easy to leak things.

Knowledge and action cannot be too small, too little knowledge and action will not have dominance in this army, and when arresting the most important criminals of the samurai family, their knowledge, action and identity must also have a certain deterrent effect.

Therefore, the best number of knowledge and actions is 1000~3000 stones, and at most it should not exceed 5000 stones.

Shimizu Nobuya, Zhuang Zhiqing, Zhuang Lin Yixin, the names of past attendants flashed in the Xiu family's mind. Although these people came from the Xiu family's servants, their knowledge and conduct were too high. …

The final list was fixed on the name of a person named Yoshikatsu Kojima.

He was born in the Kojima clan of the Hide family, and he and Ukita were originally bound as one, so it goes without saying that he is loyal to the Hide family.

The key is that his family is considered one of the three great masters of the Kojima Clan. His father, Kojima Yoshiki, unfortunately died in the previous Ueno battle. He had just inherited the position of the family governor, and the Xiu family gave him a generous reward to know him Lifted to 1100 stone.

Moreover, this person was born as a close servant of the Xiu family, so he has very good swordsmanship and iron cannon. He was one of the earliest servants of the Xiu family at the beginning. One of the attached samurai under the service account.

(Don’t talk to me about the art of war or the art of war. Swords, spears, iron cannons, and bows are all art of war. The sword art is mentioned here for emphasis.)
After making up his mind, Xiujia called Ota Zike outside and asked him to find Yoshikatsu Kojima after dawn. He would lead a unit under Xiujia's command that was dedicated to arresting spies, gossip, and saboteurs. The first ruler.

And the name of this team, Xiujia, has long been thought of, and it is called "Chixin Team", which means "red courage and loyalty".

In a word, from now on, the Internal Affairs Bureau will be responsible for investigating all kinds of information in the territory. When it finds that the image and interests of the Xiu family are damaged, the Red Heart Squad will come forward to maintain the rule of the Xiu family and the Kanto Toyotomi family.

From now on, the Bureau of Internal Affairs is in the dark, the Red Heart Team is in the open, the Bureau of Internal Affairs is the tailwind in the hands of the Xiu family, and the Red Heart team is the knife in the hands of the Xiu family, but their goal is to deal with people in the territory who are detrimental to the rule of the Xiu family. .

(The name of the Chixin team in the previous article was used early, and a correction has been made.)