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Chapter 3 3. Pursue year-end performance

After putting the rice ball in his hand into his stomach, the man stretched out all of a sudden. Although he was not even half full, at least the food was over and his body could be warm after he fell into his stomach.

Ping San finished eating the brown rice dumplings in small bites, and then ran to the soil to get a large scoop of cold water. A cast iron pot was hung from the fire pit and poured the water into the pot. The two of them looked at the pot in a daze.

Maybe he felt cold in his feet, so Hei Mian took off his socks and approached the fire pit. Tadaoemon then remembered that in this winter, he was wearing only a pair of single shoes, thin cloth, which was probably better than straw sandals.

The gauze mesh was a little light-transmitted, and the cloth socks that were stretched out by the toes, Hirami smiled. The two were monks who grew up together, so there was nothing to be embarrassed about. They were often silent about Tadaemon, quite ignorant, and used to it.

After all, the former Chuanyoumon was surrounded by an old monk, and he was trained as a heir to the temple. It is normal for a person to live alone now. Otherwise, he would not have been idle and kept hanging out with Chuanyoumon. In addition to being able to go out to eat delicious food, he was mainly worried about Chuanyoumon.

"I'm afraid I can't sleep for too long tonight, so let's go out while the night." Ping San's whole body became warm and he spoke.

"What?" Tadaoemon was a little curious.

It’s okay to eat for free, but we can’t do business of killing people and robbing people in the middle of the night. With this little body, he is powerless and has a hard time holding a kitchen knife, and he can’t climb over the wall or anything else. How can he go out and do business without money?

Moreover, this Ping San doesn't look like a traitor or a villain. He has an ordinary round face, thick eyebrows and big eyes, and he is square and straight. He is diligent in his hands and feet, and he has no bad habit of smoking and drinking. Why do he have to go out in the middle of the night to make trouble?

"During the day, I heard from my family that Yoshihara had something tonight." Hei San sat upright.

"Yihara? Ouch, that place..." Tadaoemon smashed his mouth.

It is famous, no one in Edo knows where Yoshihara is, a street in Kabukicho. The first place of happiness is, at this moment, the dreamland of all men in Edo except the general. It is both a gold-selling cave in the world and a gentle Tsuka in the world. The taste is entirely experienced by one person.

"Tonight, the temple and society pursued the sect of Toda Yama Castle to investigate Yoshihara."

The temple and society pursue inspection of Kabukicho? What the hell is this? If you follow Edocho, it would be fine. After all, Edocho is the mayor of Edo. It is necessary to manage all matters in Edo. It is impossible to conduct inspections of weathered places before the New Year. It is a matter of no reason. Let everyone prevent fire and theft during the New Year, properly operate and celebrate the New Year.

As for the master Toda Yama Castle (actually he will be called Toda Yama Castle Marquis or Toda Yama Castle Temple), he is named Toda Tada, Shimono Utsunomiya, who is 38 years old this year. He is currently the shogunate master, the monk Wanka Temple, and is the shogunate minister who will be on duty this month.

The other three temples that have not taken the rotation are Matsuhei Tadagu, Inaba Masamo and Abe Masahiro, so we won’t mention it. The only thing that needs to be talked about is that Abe Masahiro is his nephew and his partner is working, which is also a good talk.

"I understand the inspection of Yoshihara, but why did Lord Toda send someone to check?"

"Why do you think?" Heizo stretched out his hand, pointed at Tadaoemon first, and then at himself.

"To capture us?" Tadaoemon did not react for a moment.

"To catch the monk!"

“!!!”

What a guy, this Lord Toda is a little interesting. He was preparing to go to a weathered place in the middle of the night, and he was also thinking of catching a monk. Is this going to rectify the bad habits in the religious community?

But like the Yixiang Sect, it is openly allowed monks to marry and have children. Some other sects do not prohibit monks from marrying, and even if they are prohibited, no one will care about anything you secretly and secretly with the masters.

Tadaoemon suspected that he was the illegitimate son of an old monk, otherwise why would he have to pass on his robe to himself? In addition to the famous and famous temples, which require the approval of officials and generals to succeed, they have basically evolved into temples of descendants, passed down from father to son, and became monks from generation to generation.

By the 21st century, the number one among many cherry blossom girls' mate choices was monks with the right to inherit the temple. Those large temples not only had a lot of incense, but also had other messy incomes, but also had a large amount of real estate and temple property. They lived a much better life than ordinary civil servants and members.

"It's the end of the year, Lord Toda wants everyone to have a good New Year."

"A good New Year?"

"Oh, you don't understand, just follow me." Heizo saw Tadaoemon's confusion look and was too lazy to explain. Tadaoemon didn't understand too many things, and he no longer wanted to do it perfunctorily.

"I understand, why don't I understand? I will definitely be fined." Tadaoemon traveled through time, but he still didn't understand this routine.

Such things, as long as they are government agencies and have the right to fine, they must not use them hard, regardless of modern democratic governments or feudal governments.

Monks have money and the government has power!

That's sorry!

Nowadays, the shogunate's finances are becoming increasingly difficult due to the great famine of Tianbao. Although the salary can still be barely supported, the salary that can be supported is not enough for the life of the flag and the Imperial family. The shogunate's position is that there are many monks and few porridges, with more than 5,000 vassals and more than 20,000 attendants. So many people are counting on the general for dinner. Even if the general is 4.5 million, it is not enough for him to eat.

Since you don’t have enough food, you can only give full play to your subjective initiative and find food for yourself. Corruption and bribery are not common in the top leaders of the shogunate, but at the grassroots level where there is no oil or water, you don’t have the chance to do anything corruption and bribery. At most, when you go to the countryside to collect New Year’s tribute, you will be delicious, drink, sleep and sleep in wild flowers, and that’s it.

It is rare that Lord Toda could come up with this trick. He knew that there were many monks in Hua and that monks were very rich. The shogunate rule strictly prohibited monks from entering and leaving weathered places. If he was caught, even if he was not beheaded or executed, it would be natural to punish you for one or eight taels.

However, Toda Tada is a member of the temple. He can arrest the monks openly and fine them, and then give his subordinates some New Year's expenses together. What does this have to do with Tadaoemon and Hei San? The two are not a member of the temple, and they are not a member of the public. They can't be fined if they share the money.

Heizo said that Tadaoemon didn’t understand, and it seemed that he was right!
Chapter completed!
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