Chapter 176 Dealing with the Ronin Problem
The official document was about a ronin who was blocking the road and robbing people. This kind of thing happened every week in Inazuma and was basically not reported unless there were special circumstances.
This time is a special case. The identity of this ronin is a bit complicated. The ronin comes from a country gentleman family on Qinglai Island, and the attribute of the Eye of God is fire.
Of course, these are not the most important things. The most important thing is that this ronin was once a member of the samurai recruited by the shogunate.
Originally this ronin was the heir to his family's samurai title, but unfortunately his father died while fighting monsters when he was recruited for training.
His stepmother and his younger brother successfully seized the title and fiefdom that originally belonged to him, and then, by some unknown means, they actually made the local town magistrate approve of their actions.
Then two years ago, when this conscripted samurai returned home, he found that the matter was already done. After causing a big disturbance in his family, he had no choice but to become a ronin.
And because he lost the support of his family, he also lost the opportunity to work as a town magistrate, and basically he could only do odd jobs and dirty work around here to make a living.
Everything was fine at first, but for some reason, he had a conflict with his original family not long ago. The family sent people to hunt him down. Those ordinary samurai were naturally no match for this man who had once recruited samurai. The situation became more and more serious, and the family's original allies were also involved, and finally the local town magistrate was also involved.
This made it difficult for the ronin, as there were many conscripted samurai among the town magistrates who had been conscripted before.
He was just an ordinary conscripted warrior at the beginning. He couldn't defeat these people so he had to run away. Then, for some unknown reason, he actually escaped.
After he escaped, he gradually gathered some people and formed a dynamic group called Fuyi Zhong. They robbed surrounding caravans and sometimes even robbed their own caravans.
"Well~ Such a guy is indeed a trouble." Ren Lian Lingyi said.
"How are you going to deal with this?" Raiden asked. "I have to remind you that this kind of situation is not uncommon in the entire Inazuma."
"I understand. It's just about the shady things in the fight for the family property." Ren Lian Lingyi nodded.
"It's good that you understand." Lei Dian really believed in Ren Lian Lingyi. "Then I'll leave these guys to you."
"Don't worry, it's no problem." Ren Lian Lingyi smiled, "I have a lot of experience with this kind of dynamic group."
There was a flash of lightning in Ren Lian Lingyi's hand, and a document came out.
"Regarding the legal registration of active groups." Lei Dianzhen couldn't help but read out the name of the document. "What are you doing? Recruiting."
"Or it would be more appropriate to say 'recruit' them." Ren Lian Lingyi said, "Just legalize them and incorporate them into the current system of the shogunate to deal with some inconvenient things. After all, as you know, there are always not enough laborers at the docks or street sweepers."
"Moreover, the shogunate's control over the lower classes outside of Narukami Island is not very strict. It mainly relies on the self-consciousness of many nobles. After legalizing those dynamic organizations, we can make use of their idle labor and military power."
"Of course, we can also allow them to run some businesses, which will consume their energy and physical strength, and also consume their ambitions that they should not have had. After all, the mundane world is the most wearying of human nature."
"Let's leave this matter to the Rock Shadow Lightning Troops under my command. They are a perfect match for my profession. Those guys used to be the leaders of the ronin. It is said that their former subordinates were doing very well in the Desolate Sea."
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"Then this matter will be handed over to you. Start from Mingshen Island and Haiqi Island and recruit all the vagrant gangs in the two places. This is my talisman. With this, you can mobilize a certain amount of shrine power, including part of the power of the Coral Palace on Haiqi Island." Ren Lian Lingyi said to Banjiao Erxing.
"After recruiting the people from these two places, we started recruiting those guys with names and surnames."
"Don't worry, boss. This is not a difficult task for us. However, many people here have bounties on their heads... This may be difficult to resolve." said Banjiao Erxing.
"...How about this, you take a [One Series of Ten Thousand God Machine] away, and do a test on those wandering warriors with bounties. If the trend of thought is Fushigi or Fuga, arrest them directly. If the trend of thought is Tianguang, investigate and if there is no major problem, let them go. If the trend of thought is other than Tianguang, just kill them directly."
"As for what happens to those people later, just hand them over to Tenryo Bugyo, Sha Bugyo, and Kanjo Bugyo."
"As for the wanted issue, that's easy to solve. After those issues are resolved, just use my talisman to register those people under the names of various shrines, and then come back and tell me. I will communicate with the Tianling Bugyo to cancel the wanted issues for those people."
"Of course, don't forget to test other people, but don't move those people after they are tested, just report it quietly, especially those on Haiqi Island."
"I understand, but boss, is it really possible on Haiji Island?" Banjiao Erxing said uncertainly.
Ren Lian Lingyi also understood. After all, the people of Haiqi Island gave the entire Inazuma people the feeling that they were untrustworthy. However, he couldn't say that he had done anything with the modern god and priestess, so he just laughed it off.
"Don't worry, I have already sent a letter to the current Shrine Maiden. Basically, there will be no problem. After all, this matter is also a very beneficial thing for the Shrine Maiden. Haiqi Island is still suffering from those villains, ronin and spies."
"Besides, the shogunate will issue a decree soon. If you really can't bear it then, you can go to the military camps of the Tenryo Bugyo in various places to ask for help. You don't trust the people of Haiqi Island, so do you not trust the Tenryo Bugyo?"
Seeing Banjiao Erxing leading his men away, Ren Lian Lingyi finally breathed a sigh of relief.
My goodness, this matter is not worth explaining. It almost went wrong.
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Although Banjiao Erxing became a high-level agent of the [Iwakage Leiguangzhizuo], he did not give up his identity as the leader of the Banjiao group.
After returning from the Heguan mission that year, he reorganized the disbanded Banjiao group.
He also trained the members of these Banjiao groups and made them his informants to collect information for him. All he had to do was simple: he just had to act as a guarantor for these people so that they could find some temporary jobs with relatively high pay.
For example, they might be laborers at village docks, or they might be helping warriors hunt down spies.
After reorganization and relevant training, the Banjiao Group found as many as fifteen Kanreya spies who were lurking in the desolate sea and quietly conducting archaeological work.
Some spies even have worldly thoughts, but they all serve Kanria.
