Akaba family, in the mansion——

"Damn it! Damn it! How could this happen!"

The current head of the Akahashi family: Akahashi Sectarao took a big mouthful of wine and said indignantly.

Opposite him, Kentaro Suzumura, who was deeply relied on by his retainer, said: A strong man with a very strong body, strong body, two arms as thick as elephant legs and his palms were covered with calluses:

"Master Zong, you have been drinking too much tonight, stop drinking it."

Akaba Sontaro turned a deaf ear to Kentaro Suzumura's suggestions.

"Damn...how could there be such a thing...how could there be such a thing!"

While filling the cup in his hand with wine again, he blew his beard and muttered in his mouth.

If you want to use precise language to summarize Akaba Sousaro's recent mood—

Successfully brought in many qimotos and Yu family who were willing to support their Akaba family... and sent the damn yukito to prison... The two happy things overlapped together, and these two happiness brought me more happiness. What I got should have been a time of happiness like a dream... But why did it become like this?

Aiya Koichiro was killed by Aoden - after suffering such humiliation and such hatred, Aiya Sectaro could not give up.

He will not avenge his beloved son and not expose all the anger in his heart. He will not be a human being!

Of course, after living in the world for more than forty years, and having been floating and falling in the large dye vat of the shogun officialdom for such a long time, Akaba Sontaro, who practiced more sophisticated than a fox, was not a reckless person who would lose his mind and start to act blindly with a passionate rush.

He knew that Qing Deng, who has outstanding personal abilities and extraordinary expectations, is not a soft persimmon that he can let him control.

So, he did not act rashly.

The reason why Akayu dared to attack Qingdeng was because he had confidence: he could completely defeat Qingdeng with the energy of the family and his family's connections. If he knew that on New Year's Day, Katsuki Ichikura was respectful to Qingdeng and did not hesitate to teach his son Hirahiko Ichikura in public, he might not have this confidence.

On the night when "Otakura Heihiko looked for Qingdeng and Tianzhangyuan and his group" happened, Tokugawa Ishiki secretly summoned Katsuto Ichikawa and told him: Don't spread the story of him taking Qingdeng, Tianzhangyuan and others in private visits.

Tokugawa Ishiki is currently only targeted by the powerful Ichihashi faction. He is not the kind of monarch who has no real power at hand and is undermined by his subordinates. What he said is worthy - at least it is very worthy of Katsuto Tokura.

How dare Katsuto Iodangagawa refuse to obey if Tokugawa Ieshima ordered this?

He kowtowed immediately, ensuring that he would never reveal what happened today.

Katsuki Itankura was silent, and it was time for the onlookers to watch the entire process of "Kaoitakata Katsuki's courtesy of Qingdeng" that the number of people who were ejecting melons was not large enough to allow this news to spread throughout Edo and outside in a short period of time.

So, due to this information, Akaba Sontaro did not know that Aoden's personal energy was so great that he would have to sell him a little bit of thin surface if he sent it every year.

Otherwise, the matter of Aoden being falsely imprisoned may not have happened - no matter how confident Akaba Soraki is, he will not be so confident that he will think he has a way to defeat a man who even Ruonianshi has to be treated repeatedly.

Since I learned of Aiko's death, Akaba Sortaro secretly lies down, looking for allies while waiting for the best time to avenge.

The qibo, the qibo, the qibo family, who possessed a large number of political and social privileges, was a high-ranking existence under the Edo Shogunate rule.

After nearly three hundred years of development, this group of "people" has long formed a political group with mixed relationships with each other.

Killing the children of the flag book in public - in this group of borers who were corrupted by comfortable days early, Qing Deng's behavior was completely openly challenging their authority! It is really untolerated!

What's more, there are many people in Qiben and Yu's family who hate and even hate Qingdeng.

Qingdeng's original hometown is the Yu family member who has a family fortune of only 100 stones.

In just less than a year, he transformed himself into a flag book with a family fortune of more than a thousand... For those who value bloodline and family background, they could not accept that people with low bloodlines like Qing Deng were among the flag book.

Therefore, Akaba Sousaki has no worries about not being able to find allies.

The Akaba family has always had good connections, and Akaba Sotaro happened to be the kind of eloquent person. After his lobbying and inciting, he immediately responded to the crowd and quickly brought up a group of "Direct Parties Alliance" willing to assist the Akaba family in fighting against Akito. (Direct Parties is a collective name for Hachimoto and the Omi family).

After several months of preparation, Akaba Sontaro, who was conscious of everything being ready, immediately launched his revenge on Aoden!

I have to say that the process of the revenge operation was so smooth that it surprised Akaba Soustaro.

He reported Qing Deng on the grounds of "abuse of power and killing loyal and kind people in vain", and worked with his allies to put pressure on the government departments such as the Fengshou.

As a samurai group directly belonging to the general, Hachimoto and the Imperial family took over almost all official positions in the shogunate.

Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call them the cornerstone of the Edo Shogunate.

Without them, the entire Edo shogunate would have to be stopped directly.

Therefore, we should not underestimate the influence of the "direct participation alliance" formed by Sontaro Akaba.

Under the tough pressure of Akaba Sontaro and others, the government could not bear the pressure and arrested Aoden to imprison Komacho's prison room.

The first battle won... According to Akaba Sortaro's plan, the next step is to continue to put pressure on the government and convict Aoden!

Although I know that this is impossible, Akaba Sontaro still sincerely hopes that Aoden can be sentenced to death!

Whether he was ordered to cut off his stomach, he was sentenced to beheading, and he was given the sword test for the swordsmen of the Yamada Asuemon clan, the "executioner family", or the target of practicing. Anyway, as long as Akaba Sectaro was able to die, he would be satisfied.

No matter how bad he is, he will be sentenced to exile!

Jiudu Mountain, Bazhang Island...it is possible anywhere, as long as it can make him live a life worse than death!

After learning that Aoden was successfully imprisoned, Akaba Sortaro began to happily imagine the wonderful scene of "Aoden died or was exiled". The corners of his mouth were raised high and could not be put down.

However... what happened next was far beyond his previous expectations...

First of all, he never expected that Qingdeng's connections were so rich!

The Kitachi Yidao Dojo, owned by the Chiba family, Katsura Taro Katsura and the other high-ranking shogunate officials who he brought to help the platform, scholars from the Fanshu Institute, Westerners in the residence, officers who made fire thieves, "police" from the town decided to return to the town, and wealthy merchants who have a significant position in the Edo economic circle...

The martial arts world, politics, academia, business world, military world, foreign forces... People from all industries and fields unite each other to avenge Qingdeng.

I'm afraid I haven't had the chance to see such a grand scene in 10 years... It's really shocking.

If only a single force is to stand up for Qingdeng, then Akaba Sect Taro is not afraid, but so many forces support Qingdeng... This makes Akaba Sect Taro unable to help swallowing uneasy saliva.

It can be said that the strength and energy of the "Supporting the Orange Alliance" are no weaker than the "Direct Participation Alliance" formed by Sontaro Akaba!

Just as Akaba Sectar was thinking hard and thinking hard about how to deal with the offensive of the "Support the Orange Alliance"... a new sudden accident caused Akaba Sectarar to drink here suddenly to fall.

That is when Kozumacho prison yashiki suddenly caught fire! Aotomi disappeared!

The prison room in Macho has been in a long time since I encountered a fire, but it turned out to be dead. It happened to be on the day that Aoden was imprisoned!

Such coincidences are difficult to avoid making people think about it.

Naturally, various conspiracy theories are rampant.

For example: "The fire in Mamacho prison yashiki was man-made, and it was set by the Akaba family! It was to kill Aoden!"

For example: "The Akaba family burned the Komama-cho Yashiki, and then took advantage of the chaos to abduct Akabashi, locked him up in the underground secret room or somewhere in the Akaba family's residence, and humiliated and tortured Akabashi. This is the truth that the Komama-cho Yashiki was missing and the Komama-cho Yashiki caught fire for no reason!"

Faced with these various rumors and conspiracy theories, Akaba Sontaro really wanted to roar loudly: Even if it is edited, it is better to make it more reasonable?!

"Arson" is a serious crime that even if the big-body flag book (the flag book with a family fortune of more than 3,000 stones) is committed!

Yes. Akaba Sousaro admitted that he really hated Aoden and wanted him to die soon, but his head was not broken. No matter what, he would never use this stupid trick of "killing one hundred enemies and losing eight thousand of them"!

Akaba Sotaro firmly believes that "rumors stop at the wise man."

Anyone who is smart must have judged that the fire in the Kozumachi prison jailaki and the disappearance of Akano has nothing to do with the Akaba family.

However... in this world, there are fools who do not have the ability to think or judge, and follow the crowd account for the vast majority of the population.

Recently, there are frequent good people who love to join in the fun and squat on the outside of Akaba’s mansion.

Not to mention the children of the clan, even ordinary servants of the clan often get strange sights from others when they go out.

The Akayu family is now really covered in yellow mud - it’s either shit or shit.

If this continues, and these outrageous rumors will continue to spread... It is not impossible for the shogunate to launch an investigation into the Akaba family.

Inexplicably, he took the blame for "arsoning fire"... How can this not make Akaba Sontaro not angry? How can he not be depressed?

It was really not satisfying to drink with a porcelain bowl that was not as big as a palm. Sontaro Akaba threw away the cup in his hand, picked up the bottle, and tilted his head "gudong gudong" and sucked it hard.

"Zong Master..."

Lingcun gritted his teeth and advised him again.

"Please stop drinking..."

"Talk! Talk! Talk!"

Akaba Sontaro rudely interrupted the head of the village.

"I drink as much as I like!"

After roaring, Akaba Sontaro tilted his body, leaned against his elbow, sipped in a small mouthful while muttering softly.

"Damn... Damn Juiceng... It won't make people feel at ease if they disappear... hiccup!"

Akaba Sontaro burped a big hiccup, shook his body hard, and his hand was unstable, and the bottle slid from his palm.

Under the pull of gravity, the bottle drew straight lines and fell to the tatami on the knee of Akaba Soustaro.

Just when the wine bottle hits the tatami and makes a muffled sound of "bang"-

Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang! Bang!

"Wow, ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

Puchi! Puchi!

Outside the room, the sound of the door being kicked open, the screams of human beings, and... the sound of the blade cutting the body...

Akaba Sontaro's eyes suddenly widened and his drunkenness disappeared.
To be continued...