Tokugawa Iemo's mobilization order played a great role.

Although the fire-fighting thieves Kai and other troops do not have very professional fire-fighting skills, they are still capable of helping guide the townspeople to evacuate to safe places and help demolish houses and other tasks.

With the additional manpower transferred by Tokugawa Iemo, the pressure on Edo's town fire department was greatly reduced.

With the help of "Tianshi" and "Herenhe", the town fire department finally put out the sudden fire tonight.

The string that had been tight relaxed... Tokugawa Iemo suddenly felt tiredness rushing towards him like a tide.

But now is not the time to settle down and rest.

Tokugawa Iemo raised his hand, pressed his eyebrows hard, and said in a deep voice: "After that... I have to let the people who changed the robbers to find out who was so bold and dared to set fire to the town..."

Fire Bandits Kai - a special security force in Edo.

The initial function of this special force was to catch thieves and arsonists.

But with the passage of time, and after many reorganizations, their actual functions have gradually evolved into being responsible for handling various serious and major cases, and arresting those for the Edo Office that cannot be solved by the Office alone.

those vicious criminals,

In a nutshell - they catch the criminals that the officers of the enforcement office cannot catch! They come to crack down on the criminal groups that are difficult for the officers of the enforcement office to attack! They can control what the enforcement office cannot control, and they can control what the enforcement office can control

More manageable.

Under his name, he directly manages the most important armed force in the shogunate's military system - the Advanced Group.

The Pioneer Group is a vanguard force with a long history. It is mainly equipped with long-range weapons such as bows, arrows and muskets. It has repeatedly charged on the battlefield for the Tokugawa family and made countless contributions to the Edo shogunate.

In other words, the combat power and equipment that the Huo Fu Thieves Kai can use are much stronger than those of the Enforcement Station.

The executioner can only use various cold weapons, while the fire thieves can mobilize a large number of bows, arrows, firearms, and even war horses.

Therefore, the actual positioning of Huo Fu Thief Kai is similar to the WU police force in the 21st century.

It is a public security organization in name, but it is actually an army, one of the most important and most powerful standing armies of the shogunate.

Even a fool can see that tonight's fire must have been set ablaze by someone!

How could it be such a coincidence that so many towns and cities caught fire at the same time!

Tokugawa Iemo is really on fire right now.

Setting fire to Edo... is unreasonable! You are simply ignoring the millions of living beings in Edo!

If the tragedy of the Mingli Fire were to happen again, I don’t know how many people would be killed in the flames!

Tokugawa Iemoge had secretly made up his mind at this time - no matter what, the thieves who set the fire tonight must be discovered and severely punished!

Tenzouin, who was standing next to Tokugawa Iemo, looked serious after hearing Tokugawa Iemo's firm murmur.

Like Tokugawa Iemo, she felt quite angry about the fact that someone set fires everywhere in Edo tonight.

At this moment, an announcement suddenly sounded outside the room:

"Sir General! There is an urgent order from the execution office!"

The owner of this announcement was none other than the young man who just exited the room.

"Following the urgent order from the office?" Tokugawa Iemo frowned, "Come in!"

Wow - the door was opened, and the young man returned to Tokugawa Iemo and the others.

He quickly ran to Tokugawa Iemo and knelt down, then put the tightly tied scroll in his hand on the bearing.

Tokugawa Iemo took the scroll, then raised his hand to signal the young man to leave for now.

After the young man left the room again, Tokugawa Iemo untied the scroll and unfolded it.

He glanced at the words on the scroll - Tokugawa Iemo's expression suddenly changed.

Tianzhangin, who noticed the change in Tokugawa Iemo's expression, quickly asked:

"General, what happened?"

"..." Tokugawa Iemo, with a calm face, handed the scroll in his hand to Tianzhangin without saying a word.

Tenzouin took the scroll and looked at it quickly - and then, like Tokugawa Iemo, his expression changed drastically.

After reporting at all levels, an incident no less serious than tonight's "arson incident": "The attack on the Fanshu Diao Office" was finally handed over to the supreme ruler of the Edo shogunate.

In this scroll, Hakui and Atsukawa jointly describe everything that happened today in a rigorous style.

In order to guard against the barbarian group tonight, the execution office deployed the entire city for defense; the Fanshu Diao Station was attacked; Katsurin Taro and others who stayed at the Fan Shu Diao Station almost died...

At the end of the scroll, Hakui and Atsukawa also pointed out that they had serious suspicions that tonight's "arson incident" was also committed by the anti-barbarian group.

A simple scroll made Tokugawa Iemo and Tenzouin feel frightened when they saw it.

The Tosho Institute was an academic center dedicated to the study of foreign studies built by the shogunate with a lot of money. It was the hope of revitalizing the country in the minds of Tokugawa Iemo and Tenjoin.

As for Katsurin Taro, he was an important minister that both of them valued highly.

It has been rumored by the outside world that Tokugawa Iemo intended to let Katsu Rintaro be the first "Marshal of the Navy" of the Edo shogunate... This rumor is actually correct.

Tokugawa Iemoji indeed intended to use this valuable talent who was proficient in Western military science to form the naval force of their shogunate.

When they saw the part in the scroll about the attack on the Fanshu Adjustment Institute and the attack on Katsurin Taro who happened to be working in the Fanshu Adjustment Institute tonight, both Tokugawa Iemo and Tenzouin were so shocked that cold sweat broke out down their backs.

After seeing that the Fanshu Diao Institute was not completely destroyed and that Sheng Lintaro was rescued, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"The anti-barbarian group..." Tokugawa Iemo raised his hand to press his eyebrows again, his expression extremely solemn, "Tsk...it's really a wave that has not subsided, but another wave has risen..."

Tokugawa Iemo closed his eyes and let out a heavy and long sigh.

During this period of time... To be precise, since the "Sakurada Gate Incident", Tokugawa Iemoji has hardly stopped to rest, and his spirit has been in a state of high tension.

In order to restore normalcy as soon as possible to the shogunate that had become extremely chaotic due to the death of Naomi Ii, Tokugawa Iemo quickly promoted Nobumasa Ando, ​​whom he trusted very much, to the position of chief minister. With the assistance of Nobumasa Ando and Tenjoin, he tried his best to quell the chaos.

But how can the chaos caused by the death of Ii Naomi be easily solved?

While resolving the confusion caused by the power vacuum, Tokugawa Iemo also had to devote his attention to dealing with the issue of war.

Because the assassins who assassinated Naomi Ii were basically vassals of the Mito Domain, during this period, many ministers aggressively requested the launch of the "Mito Expedition", summoning the shogunate army and the vassal armies of each domain to conquer the Mito Domain!

There are those who advocate war, and naturally there are those who advocate peace.

Regarding whether to conquer Mito, the war faction and the peace faction were almost evenly matched, and the two parties were so quarrelsome that Tokugawa Iemo felt a headache.

Various internal worries within the shogunate have not yet been resolved...foreign troubles have emerged one after another...

Tokugawa Iemo had also heard a little about this "anti-barbarian group" that had assembled more than 200 people to attack and kill French businessmen more than two months ago.

He originally thought it was just a slightly larger "radical anti-barbarian" organization, but now he was shocked after reading the report on the scroll - this anti-barbarian group was far more crazy and terrifying than he imagined.

!

It is no longer a hostile organization that can be treated normally...

Internal and external troubles came one after another... Even the strong-minded Tokugawa Iemo couldn't help but feel a bit heavy and tired.

But the good thing is - it's not just bad things that keep happening.

Tokugawa Iemo received the scroll.

Since everything that happened tonight is written in the scroll, it naturally also contains information about who turned the tide and saved Katsurin Taro and the Fanshu Diaosuo.

"Tachibana Aoden..." Tokugawa Iemo chewed this name gently.

Tenzouin, who heard Tokugawa Iemo's chewing, slowly said with a surprised expression: "It's really unbelievable... This person can achieve another great achievement so quickly..."

Both Tokugawa Iemo and Tenjoin are no strangers to the name "Tachibana Aoden".

The last name written on the "talent book" that Naoki Ii gave to Tokugawa Iemo was "Tachibana Aoden".

After receiving this "talent book" from Naomi Ii, Tokugawa Iemo immediately shared it with the person he trusted most: Tenjoin.

Tianzhang Academy has given very high praise to this "talent book". Most of the people written in it are outstanding talents that Tianzhang Academy is very optimistic about.

Because she had read through the talent book, Tenchoin also knew that Tachibana Aoden was one of the talents that Naomi Ii strongly recommended to Tokugawa Iemo.

"Tachibana Aoden... Tachibana Aoden..." Tokugawa Iemo muttered Aoden's name a few more times, then smiled:

"It seems that Jing Yi did not recommend the wrong person to me..."

After saying that, Tokugawa Iemo suddenly turned solemn and looked depressed.

"Sir General, what's wrong? Why do you look troubled?" Tenzouin asked curiously after noticing the depressed look on Tokugawa Iemo's face.

"Oh...it's nothing." Tokugawa Iemo shook his head, "I'm just...thinking about how to cultivate this Tachibana Aoden."

"Now I can confirm that the Tachibana Aoden recommended to me by Ii is indeed a very courageous person with outstanding action, decisiveness, force, and leadership ability. He is an outstanding talent worthy of our focus and training."

"We can't abandon such an outstanding talent."

"However, I am a little worried about how to train this person."

Tokugawa Iemo sighed silently.

"Judging from Tachibana Aoden's current performance...the military is the place where he can best demonstrate his talents."

"I'm thinking - should I just transfer Tachibana Aoden to the big division or some other unit..."

Before Tokugawa Iemo finished speaking, Tianzhangin interrupted:
To be continued...