What happened!【6600】

After Arima finished speaking, the living room was suddenly surrounded by silence.

"……Um?"

After a while, Qingdeng broke the silence with a confused "hmm".

"This... Lord Arima, is the news confirmed?"

Arima nodded lightly with a determined look on his face.

Arima, who is known for his serious personality, is showing such an expression, so Aoto can't help but not believe it...

Qingdeng's eyes flashed with disbelief.

"I was promoted directly to the captain of the third division of the Fire Thieves Kai team and the leader of the seventh division of the first bow group... This promotion span is a bit too big..."

What Arima Shicai mentioned before: the 500 koku increase in salary and the promotion of the family status to the "flag base" were all within Aishoto's expectations.

Qingdeng had long expected that based on his great achievements this time, his family fortune was only a sure thing. Maybe his family status could also be improved, from "imperial family" to "flagship"

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But what Arima said later was completely beyond Qingto's expectations...

He had received rumors before that he might be transferred to Huo Fu Thieves.

Regarding this rumor, which was unknown to be true or not, Qingdeng could only guess at first: even if he would be transferred to fight against thieves, he would probably only serve as a force in a certain division.

From the "Three Chapters" of Tongxin in the service station, to being promoted to Yu Li, who changed the way to punish the thieves... In this era when the class is extremely solidified and the promotion of officials is difficult to achieve, this is a very valuable rightward move.

Qingteng never expected that his promotion span would be so exaggerated - surpassing the level of "Yu Li" and directly taking charge of a division and a team of the Advanced Archers as the "Team Captain".

The Archer Group and the Iron Cannon Group - the Archer Group and the Iron Artillery Group, which are directly under the shogunate, are the two standing armies of the shogunate.

The so-called "iron cannon" is a musket.

The Edo shogunate closed itself off, did not communicate with the outside world, and did not pay attention to the development of science and technology. Therefore, the advanced iron artillery group is still using matchlock guns that are hundreds of years out of date.

The matchlock gun has the fatal flaw of having to spend a lot of time filling the next bullet after shooting, so bows and arrows have become an important presence when filling the matchlock gun.

In a word - just because the Edo shogunate is still using this backward firearm that has long been put in museums in the Western world, bows and arrows still have a role that cannot be ignored until now.

Both the vanguard archery group and the vanguard iron artillery group are the troops that lead the battle for the general in wartime, so the candidates are selected from those with outstanding martial arts skills.

When the Edo shogunate was founded, there were a total of 34 groups of sage bow groups and sage iron cannon groups. However, since a hundred years ago, the grouping has been reduced to 8 groups of sage bow groups and 20 groups of sage iron cannon groups.

As the standing army of the shogunate, whether it is the advanced bow group or the advanced iron cannon group, both groups were idle in the Taipei era when there were no big battles to fight.

In order to give the second group something to do, the Edo shogunate assigned them a lot of "part-time jobs".

Outside of military drills, the second group needs to be responsible for guarding the gates of Edo Castle, guarding the general when he is out, and responsible for setting down fires and firefighting for thieves and reforming!

There are only about 30 "Sankai" samurai who specialize in catching thieves in the North and South Edo Offices. They maintain the security of Edo with such a pitiful number of people... I wonder what the burden is on the shoulders of the "Sankai" samurai.

How stressful it is.

It is abnormal to be safe and stable, but it is normal to be extremely busy.

Moreover, the Edo Executive Office cannot control the entire Edo. The Edo Executive Office is only responsible for the administrative, judicial, and police work of Edo civilians.

For example, temple grounds and samurai lands... that is, "the boundaries of shrines and temples" and "the residences of samurai" are not under the jurisdiction of the shrine.

The temple grounds are managed by the temple officials.

Temple priest - a very prominent official position. Responsible for the jurisdiction of the temple territory and its residents across the country, as well as professions such as priests, monks, onmyoji, gakuto (people who make a living by playing music), go and shogi masters, etc.

Under the supervision of the temple community, there is a Ginmimono Service, which is responsible for resolving disputes within the temple territory, reporting and investigating criminal cases, etc.

Once an incident occurs within the temple's territory, its general prosecutors and minor prosecutors will dispatch to summon or arrest suspects for investigation.

Because the temple grounds were not under the jurisdiction of the Edo administration, the "Sanchai" samurai could not enter or leave the temple grounds at will.

Even if a crime is committed in Edo-machi, which is under the administrative jurisdiction of Edo-machi, once the person escapes into the temple territory, the people from the town administrative office cannot go in and arrest the person at will.

If you encounter this situation, you can only contact the major prosecutor requested by the temple administrator, and the minor prosecutor will go out to arrest the prisoner, or you can enter the temple grounds and arrest the prisoner with the permission of the temple administrator.

The same is true for the Wu family.

If the samurai in the Edo samurai area commit a crime, the responsible public prosecutor will be responsible for handling the crime.

Once a crime occurs in towns, samurai lands, temples and other places, the responsible officials must be contacted every time, which creates a great obstacle to reporting criminals.

In order to solve this problem and relieve the pressure on law enforcement officials such as the "Three Chapters", the "Eight States Directors" and the "Huo Fu Thieves Reform" came into being.

The so-called "Eight Prefectures" refers to the "Eight Prefectures of Kanto": Sagami, Musashi, Anfang, Kamisou, Shimotsou, Hitachi, Ueno, and Shimono.

The eight states directors are a special kind of patrol police.

There were only 8 officials at first, but later due to social unrest, the number has been expanded to 15.6.

Their daily job is to ride horses and lead their men around aimlessly in Kanba Prefecture. As long as they meet gangsters, they can arrest them without any hindrance, no matter where they are in daimyo territory, samurai territory, temples, shrines, or townsfolk.

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You are free to use violence against prisoners and suspects. If you encounter prisoners or suspects who resist and are difficult to subdue, you can directly kill them.

To distinguish them from the "Three Chapters" samurai, the ten hands used by the eight states directors were tied with purple cherry blossoms.

As for the Huo Fu Thief Kai, it is the "Special Police Force".

All members of the Fire Thief Kai are basically composed of soldiers from the Advanced Bow Team and the Advanced Iron Cannon Team.

Therefore, Huo Fu Thieves Kai has the common name of "Additional Service".

The highest commander of the Fire Rogue Group is concurrently served by the First Hand Bow Head or the First Hand Iron Cannon Head (the highest commander of the First Hand Bow Group or the First Hand Iron Cannon Group).

In order to facilitate work, the officer's house would be used as a prison. Therefore, the prison converted by the thieves was not fixed.

Unless there are some exceptions, the term of office for the highest officer of the Hufu Thief Reform is basically about one year, so the position of the government office is basically changed every year.

Like the Yashu Directors, fire thieves can freely enter and exit all areas such as samurai lands, town lands, and temple lands.

However, compared with the Eight Prefecture Directors, the Huo Fu Thieves Reform is very different in one aspect - it is not only an independent security force, but also an independent judicial authority.

After the prisoner is captured by the execution center, if he wants to be tortured and interrogated, he has to be notified at all levels and go through a lot of complicated procedures before he can be tortured.

There is no need to go through such a complicated interrogation procedure in order to change the situation.

Rather... they have no so-called interrogation procedures at all.

After they catch the prisoner, they can directly take him back to the prison and torture him severely without having to say hello to anyone or go through any formalities.

This kind of power to freely use lynching is somewhat similar to the Jin Yiwei of the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty.

Since there are almost no restrictions on torture and interrogation of suspects, the torture methods used by Huo Fu Thieves are extremely harsh.

Therefore, there is a saying that has been circulating among the people: "Once you are arrested by thieves, you will never come back alive."

Being able to freely enter and exit any place, and having the privilege of using lynching freely... This is not the most frightening thing about the Huo Fu Thieves Kaifa. The most frightening thing is their fighting power.

All members are members of the Advanced Bow Team and the Advanced Iron Cannon Team who are professional soldiers, and can freely use heavy weapons such as bows, arrows, and muskets... The combat effectiveness is not "three times" at all, and the eight states directors and other security officers

What the organization can match.

Although as the shogunate deteriorated, the quality of the generals of these standing armies inevitably weakened a lot, but a skinny camel was ultimately bigger than a horse.

Currently, there are 8 divisions in the Fire Thief Kai. Each division is manned by one of the first-hand bow team or the first-hand iron cannon team.

The third division of the Fire Thieves Reform was formed by the seventh division of the Archer Group.

Qingteng, who became the captain of the third division, naturally became the leader of the seventh division.

He was promoted to a small archer general capable of commanding dozens of archers in one fell swoop from Sadachi Hui Tongxin, who had only a few Okahiki under his direct subordinates... Such a promotion speed and promotion span was truly a "rocket-like promotion".

--Too strange……

The more Qingdeng thought about it, the more he felt that his speed of promotion was a bit strange.

Although he had indeed made great contributions in the decisive battle with the anti-barbarian group more than two months ago... Qingden always felt that his level of achievements was not enough to earn him such a high promotion.

Moving to the right is as difficult as climbing to the sky, moving to the left is as easy as turning the palm of your hand - this is a saying that is particularly popular among the martial arts.

The Edo shogunate was notoriously stingy when it came to promotions and promotions! It was also extremely generous and generous when it came to convicting and demoting people.

Since Tokugawa Ieyasu, the first shogun of the Edo shogunate, ended the chaotic times of the Warring States Period and created a long-lost era of peace, the comfortable and stable world has led to a population explosion, and the number of samurai has increased dramatically.

The samurai who were not engaged in production were all supported by the salary, gold and rice from the shogunate and the feudal government.

Therefore, in order to reduce financial pressure as much as possible, both the shogunate and the local vassals vigorously control the number of officials who move to the right every year and the promotion span of each official who moves to the right. At the same time, they often punish them with nitpicking.

The samurai who were relegated to errands.

There are countless members of the samurai family who were deprived of their official status, or even removed from their samurai ancestry and demoted to commoners just for making some minor mistakes.

The Edo shogunate, who "did not want to give it to his subordinates even after polishing the official seal", unexpectedly promoted him, a member of the royal family who had not made any earth-shattering achievements... No matter how you think, it is strange!

When something goes wrong, there must be a monster.

So Aomori couldn't help but asked Arima across from him:

"...Arima-sama, the speed at which I was promoted...is a little too fast? Do you know any secret information about this?"

Arima smiled bitterly with a look of helplessness on his face.
To be continued...