Samurai of the Takeda Family

Chapter 170 Ninja Army

Since the beginning of winter, Hida country has ushered in the biggest blizzard. The roaring mountain breeze is wrapped in snow and hits everywhere without a purpose. The snow powder slaps and rustles on the window panes.

The heavy snow covered the entire Kamoka City, the snow on the house was thick, and the newly built roof made a gurgling noise under the pile of snow.

The temperature was cold, and the water turned into ice.

Both the samurai and the standing guard in Kamoka Castle hide in the house to avoid the severe cold weather.

Although Shengang City was built in a hurry, the quality did not decline. Despite the wind and snow, the house could keep warm and there was no air leakage. All of Li Xiao's subordinates could live a winter without worries.

There is still a month to go before the New Year.

Shengang Castle, in the dark room of the castle tower.

Li Xiao put his hands on his ribs and looked at the paper sliding door. Yokotani Yuki, who was kneeling on the side, said: "Sister Xiaolu family, Neijima family, Jiangma family have any movement recently?"

"Oh," Yokotani Yukkiyo lowered his head and said, "My ninja appeared in the highland Suwa city. Recently, there have been frequent visits by unidentified people. According to investigations, it is likely that it is from Echigo, Anakoji’s family. people."

"Oh?" Li Xiao narrowed his eyes and asked, "Are you sure?"

"I don't dare to have ten points, but it is at least 70-80% possible. If it weren't for the extremely difficult tracking in this snowy day, my ninja could follow these people and investigate their true forces behind the scenes."

"No, I don't want to come and go," Li Xiao hummed, then took out a small note and said, "This is the news that Jiangma Fraser secretly sent to me through your ninja today. Inside guess, Next year, it is very likely that Jiangma Shisheng will have an unfavorable action against the Takeda family, no, it is my Kamioka Castle."

After Li Xiao finished speaking, he threw this note into the brazier aside, and thought to himself that this Jiangma Shisheng was not a good thing, and he really wanted to do it to himself.

Yukiya Yokotani raised his head when he heard it, and said, "If this is the case, should the Lord's visit to Jiangma's house during the New Year continue?"

Li Xiao nodded and said, "We must continue, we must preempt others, fortunately."

"Oh."

Li Xiao thought for a while and said: "I think it is very necessary to strengthen the intelligence power of our ninjas in Hida. Your ninjas have been lurking in Hida for a long time. You should be familiar with the local situation, but this Not enough, we need more local people to join, and the penetration into Viet-China will also begin."

Li Xiao’s current ninja group is mainly divided into three parts in terms of intelligence collection. One part is the collection of the own family’s intelligence, which is lurking in the territory of Shinano and Kai family, and the other is the collection of intelligence against hostile forces, that is, lurking in Echigo. , To understand Uesugi’s every move, the last part is the collection of intelligence on Hida country. This part has the largest number of people and is now the top priority.

"Increase the intelligence penetration into Yuezhong," Yokotani repeated Li Xiao's words, saying: "We must swear to complete the mission of the lord, but with our current manpower, we must cover the intelligence collection of Yuezhong. There are some difficulties."

Well, Li Xiao nodded and said: "I know, so I decided that I want to expand the size of my ninjas. Fortunately, the total number of ninjas in my family is less than a hundred people, so I let you expand to two hundred. People should be recruited more, Hida, Vietnamese and local people, but the quality must be strictly selected, and their loyalty and reliability must be ranked first."

"Oh."

Yokotani Xingzhong agreed, but he thought to himself that there were only two hundred people in the family, and the number of ninjas was equal to this number. Could it be that the Lord’s purpose is to establish a secret, unknown underground power.

Although Yokotani Yukizhong had such speculations in his heart, he did not ask on the face. As a ninja, he knew what to ask and what not to ask.

Li Xiao pondered for a while and said, "I will allocate the funds of the recruited ninjas to you. And the cost of the two hundred ninjas will be increased from 1,500 to 2,500. "

Li Xiao’s Mingguo Ramen Restaurant in Takato Castle was managed by Yusada Ohata. It has achieved an annual income of 2,500 kan. And a month ago, Yumi Ohata, who was pregnant, was not idle. The town opened a branch of Mingkoku Ramen Restaurant.

This move began, Li Xiaomingguo's first step in expanding the chain of noodle restaurants.

The town of Suwa is near Suwa Shrine’s Upper Shrine and Lower Shrine. Whether it is Ojinto, Oto Matsuri, Oshu Matsuri, Osayama Matsuri, especially the Oju Matsuri, one of Japan’s three most wonderful festivals, it can attract people from all over the world. Believers.

In terms of geographic location, Suwa Town is the meeting place of Koshu Street and Nakashu Street, so Suwa Town is better than Takato Town by one or two grades in terms of its prosperity.

In fact, in the Meikuni Ramen branch in Suwa-no-cho, the operating income in the first month of opening exceeded the highest monthly turnover of the Takato-cho main store in a year. It is conservatively estimated that the net income of the previous year was more than 3,000 kan.

Because of the money in his hand, Li Xiaocai was more confident and boldly expanded the ninja group in his hand.

As Yokotani Yukiji had expected, Li Xiao's ninjas were his secret weapon. This force lurked underground and could not attract people's attention, even Takeda Katsurai didn't know it.

On the surface, Li Xiao is just the lord of a city, a wealthy clan of five thousand stone territory, standing by two hundred people under him, but who could have predicted that Li Xiao would actually have a ninja group of two hundred people, such an elite force.

However, it does cost money to raise ninjas. The same amount of money can equip more than twice the number of standing equipment. If it is used to mobilize peasants and soldiers to fight, the strength can be easily increased.

However, Li Xiao is convinced that his trump card will play an unexpected role at some critical point in the future.

Li Xiao reiterated to Yokotani Yuki: "However, among the newly-built ninjas, I need to set up a special ninja responsible for latent assassination. They must be the elite of the elite and complete all the assassination missions under impossible circumstances. This There don’t need to be too many ninjas in the army, twenty people are enough."

Latent assassination was originally a course that ninjas must take, but the ninja’s ability does not know that. Some people are better at collecting intelligence, inciting rumors among the people, investigating and analyzing, sabotage, divorce, steal valuables, long-distance raids, and so on.

Yokotani said in a loud voice, "Yes, Lord, when will the Lord want to use Ranwen Novel.com. If it is a month later, I am afraid it will be a bit reluctant."

Of course, Li Xiao knew what Yokotani would do after a month.

However, Li Xiao waved his hand and said: "The goal of the assassination team is not Jiangma Shisheng, but the establishment of the assassination team is imperative, and it will be completed within three months."

Yokotani nodded and said: "Once the ninja constituency is expanded, the manpower is temporarily insufficient, and the subordinates' ability is limited, so the subordinates urge the lord to send reliable subordinates to join the ninja congregation to assist the subordinates."

Li Xiao's eyes flashed, but he didn't expect Yokotani Yukju to understand how to advance and retreat.

The expansion of the ninja congregation is already underway~www.wuxiamtl.com~ If Yokotani's power is fully grasped by one person, he is really a little worried, so it is imperative to send someone to monitor it.

However, he did not expect that Yokotani was so smart that he would take the initiative and strive for the initiative. This was a matter of course and could win Li Xiao's trust in one fell swoop.

Li Xiao nodded and said, "I understand what you said. Within three days, I will send designated subordinates to join the ninja crowd."

Changing from a samurai to a ninja will inevitably lead to a gap, so it is not easy to find a suitable candidate. However, Li Xiao has several people in his heart. They have been following him for a long time. They have good character and loyalty, and they can completely trust them.

Li Xiao and Yokotani Yukoshige talked a few words, and Yokotani Yukushige retreated.

After Yokotani Yuki left, Li Xiao rethinked his plan again, and after confirming that there were no flaws, he was relieved.

A month later, it was Li Xiao who went to Jiangma’s house to express the New Year’s congratulations to Jiangma Shisheng. When the time comes, Ranwen Novel Network will be a Hongmen feast, or the end of Jiangma Shisheng, Li Xiao is really looking forward to it.