As a member of the "Sanchai", he knows better than ordinary people how powerful the "Qingshui Clan" is.

The Yakuza of this era are completely incomparable to the modern Yakuza.

To put it simply - the Yakuza of this era can confidently question the modern extreme people: You guys have the nerve to call them "violent gangs"? It's ridiculous!

For evil forces like Yakuza, the lack of social order is the soil for their survival.

In the early Edo period, when the Edo shogunate was still very powerful and could effectively maintain social order, the Yakuza had no choice but to survive.

However, as the rule of the Edo shogunate gradually decayed, and the country's small-scale peasant economy gradually collapsed under the historical trend, the Yakuza immediately flourished like mushrooms after a rain.

One of the major factors that contributed to the rapid development of the Yakuza was that more and more warriors who could not survive began to join them.

Due to the flaws and rigidity of the system, as early as hundreds of years ago, a large number of middle- and lower-level samurai were in poverty, and it was extremely difficult to even make ends meet.

As a result, a large number of warriors who "learned literary and martial arts but could not reach the emperor's family" had no choice but to throw themselves into the arms of Yakuza in order to survive.

Whether there are educated people with higher education in a group is completely different.

With the addition of more warriors, Yakuza began to grow and develop in an orderly and organized manner.

Therefore, the Yakuza of the Edo period cannot simply be regarded as just a bunch of bad guys who can only be annoying - a large number of their members have the right to carry swords and have learned swordsmanship and other killing skills since childhood.

warrior!

The abundance of martial virtue is completely incomparable to the so-called yakuza people in modern times who were generally ordinary people before joining the yakuza and could not even carry a knife out of the house.

Because those Yakuza groups with certain power basically have considerable force, there is often such a saying in Edo: If the "Shimizu Clan" wants to bloodbath the two major administrative offices in the south and north of Edo, then

It only takes one hour to wipe out every living person in the two major monasteries.

As a member of the "Three Chapters" and an insider, Qingdeng can say responsibly: This kind of statement is indeed not completely bragging...

It may be an exaggeration to wipe out two major execution centers in one hour, but there is no doubt that the "Qingshui Clan" possesses extremely powerful weapons, so that none of the execution units dare to use their force rashly.

After any Yakuza group develops to a certain level, if it wants to expand further, it will need to find people in the political circles who can support them and work with them for mutual benefit.

The "Shimizu Clan", known as the "No. 1 Yakuza Group in Edo", is no exception.

Everyone knows that the people of the "Qingshui Clan" are loan sharks, smuggled goods, extortion, kidnapping and human trafficking... They have done all kinds of bad things, but just because someone is protecting them, the people in the practice have been unable to do anything to the "Qingshui Clan"...

…

Every time I encounter a case related to the "Qingshui Clan", I will encounter a lot of resistance from the superiors and subordinates at the same time, making it impossible to investigate the case at all, and in the end it will end without any resolution.

Not only was the execution center unable to punish the "Shimizu Clan", it was also difficult to detect information about the "Shimizu Clan".

So far, the Enforcement Office has been extremely lacking in information on the "Qingshui Clan".

How many people have they grown now, how many warriors do they have under their command, what kind of cadres do they have, how far has their power expanded, and whether they have stored heavy weapons such as muskets and artillery... None of this important information is known!

The only thing confirmed is where their headquarters and several important branches are located, and the unfathomable and powerful force they possess...

The "Shimizu Clan" has such power and force, and it is really not surprising that Kinoshita Mai feels helpless against them.

"...Miss Kinoshita, let's go." Qingto pouted angrily towards the alley.

As for the "Qingshui Clan" who are trying to win over him now and it will be difficult for them not to interact with them in the future, they can leave it until later and think about how to deal with it.

Now, let’s focus on investigating that suspicious teahouse!

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The suspicious tea house that Kinoshita Mai mentioned was located somewhere in the eastern suburbs of Edo.

Not long after entering the eastern suburbs of Edo, Ayoto saw an old three-story teahouse in the distance ahead under the direction of Mai Kinoshita.

"Let's follow my infiltration route yesterday and sneak in through the hole above the roof." Kinoshita Mai said.

Qingto looked around the tea house: "The houses around this tea house are very short... there is no way to jump from the roof of the next door house to the tea house's roof. When thinking about the tea house's roof, we can only directly follow the outer wall of the tea house

Climb up."

Kinoshita Wu nodded: "Yeah. Yes, I can only climb up directly. I climbed up directly with my bare hands last night."

"In order to make it easier to climb to the top floor, I specially brought this tonight."

Kinoshita Mai took off the small cloth bag she was carrying on her back, and after untying it, she saw that the bag contained an iron hook and rope painted black.

"I made this myself." Kinoshita Mai said with a little pride in her tone, "I didn't bring this with me last night, so I had a hard time climbing the stairs. Come with me, I know there is a place that is the best.

Infiltration location.”

Qingden nodded, followed closely behind Mai Kinoshita, and the two of them tiptoed around to the southwest corner of the teahouse.

When he got a little closer to the teahouse, Qingden could clearly see that every window in the teahouse was closed tightly, making it impossible for outsiders to see what was inside the teahouse.

Since they had already approached the teahouse, in order to avoid disturbing the people inside the teahouse, Aoto and Mai Kinoshita both silently silenced and slowed down their breathing.

Kinoshita looked left and right, and after confirming that the surroundings were quite safe, she shook off the hook rope in her hand. Without any need to accumulate any force, she raised her hand and flicked it upwards, and the iron hook successfully hooked the eaves of the teahouse roof.

After pulling hard to confirm that the hook rope was tight, Kinoshita Mai, who volunteered to be the vanguard, pulled the hook rope with her hands, stepped on the outer wall of the tea house, and climbed to the top first.

Immediately afterwards, Aoto, who climbed the stairs after Kinoshita Mai, also stood on the roof of the teahouse with great success.

Kinoshita Mai waved her hand to Qingteng, and then led Qingteng to walk quietly toward a large hole in the northeast corner of the roof.

On the way to this teahouse, Kinoshita Mai mentioned to Ayoto: underneath the hole, there was a room with nothing in it.

As soon as they came to the hole and looked inside, the expressions of the two people suddenly became strange - they saw a warrior standing just below the hole.

Qingto and Kinoshita Mai exchanged glances.

After the two of them carefully confirmed that there was no one else under the hole except the samurai, Kinoshita Mai stretched out her finger and pointed at herself, and then pointed at the samurai standing directly below the hole...

The warrior standing under the hole was holding the sword on his waist and yawning boredly.

The reason why this person happened to be standing directly under the hole was simply because he wanted to relieve his boredom.

Because he felt very stuffy and wanted to get some air, he sneaked into this room and stood under the big hole in the teahouse, breathing in the fresh air that came into the room from the hole.

He had been yawning from sleepiness since just now, and was extremely unfocused.

His careless attitude prevented him from noticing that there were two people standing on the hole above his head.

Kinoshita Mai, who was crouching on the hole above his head, calibrated her lower body and then jumped down quickly!

Hearing the strange sound of breaking wind above his head, the warrior instantly felt refreshed and quickly raised his head to look above his head.

But obviously - it's too late.

As soon as he raised his head, he felt like his head was clamped by something.

Then...

Bang!

The samurai felt a heavy blow on his neck.

The intense pain caused by this heavy blow made the warrior unable to even scream, so he rolled his eyes, lost consciousness, and passed out...

After successfully knocking out the samurai, Kinoshita Mai waved to Aoto who was still staying in the hole.

Qingto saw Kinoshita Mai's gesture, nodded, jumped up, and landed firmly next to Kinoshita Mai.

——There is really an unidentified samurai lurking in this tea house...

Looking at the samurai lying at his feet who had been knocked unconscious by Kinoshita Mai, Qingto's expression subconsciously became solemn, and his heart became more wary.

Are you ready? Kinoshita Mai asked Aonto with her eyes.

Qingdeng didn't reply, only nodded vigorously.

Kinoshita nodded in agreement, and then he and Qingto lowered their body weight and walked out of the room one after another.

As soon as the sliding paper door of the room was opened, the darkness in the corridor outside the room rushed towards Qingdeng and the others.

Not long after leaving the room, the two of them discovered another samurai - a relatively thin samurai standing at the corner of the corridor ahead.

This samurai was also the same as the samurai who was knocked unconscious by Kinoshita Mai just now. He probably thought that this place was quite safe and that no outsiders could sneak in here, so he was very unfocused and just kept yawning.

Qingto and Kinoshita Mai looked at each other.

Let me do it—Aoto said to Mai Kinoshita with his eyes.

Kinoshita Mai didn't say much nonsense, just nodded, and then stopped where she was.

In order to prevent the orange water around his waist from bumping into something and making an abnormal sound, Qingden used his left hand to carefully steady the orange water around his waist while squatting half-crouched, leaning towards the orange juice from behind little by little.

A samurai who is still yawning.

The next moment he silently approached the distracted samurai's back, Qingden quickly raised his voice and covered the samurai's mouth with his left hand. He raised his right hand high and used his forearm to give the samurai a hard blow on the back of his neck.

Came here for a while.

The floors in this corridor are all wooden.

Therefore, if you draw a knife to kill someone, the sound of blood spurting and flowing on the wooden floor will be particularly obvious, which can easily attract the attention of others.

And before he knew who these warriors were, Qingteng didn't want to be good at using the butcher's knife.

The warrior who was attacked by Qingteng rolled his eyes and passed out before he could even hum.
To be continued...