Age of Heroes, ten consecutive guarantees

The burning Changletian was too late to put out the fire.

Fortunately, Inazawa's goal was very clear, and it was just aimed at Changletian.

When everyone in the Bai Feng group returned to the Bai Feng family's mansion, they found that there was no sign that it had been attacked.

That's true, after all, the Bai Feng family, which has even dismissed its servants, is now an ordinary empty shell.

The Inazawa Association and the Baifeng Group are fighting against each other, and they have reached the point where they will fight to the death. Naturally, they have to pay attention to the right time, the right place, and the right people.

The Bai Feng family's residence is just a large stockade built on an ordinary plain. It has no strategic depth and no natural dangers to defend it. On the contrary, Changletian is located in a relatively remote mountain, in a position that is easy to defend but difficult to attack. In ancient times, a bunker was built here. A few hundred people can defend a city from thousands of people.

There are still some women and children left in the Bai Feng family's mansion. Even after most of the servants were dismissed, there are still about a dozen who have nowhere to go. Some have stayed here for more than thirty years, and some have been abandoned by their families. Picked up.

When Shiromine Naomi returned home, the women and children dared to come out of their hiding places, with daggers ready to commit suicide hidden in their arms and sleeves.

After seeing the safe and sound members of the Bai Feng group, a group of women gathered around and cried.

After that, he quickly started to tidy up the mansion, cooking when he needed to, and cleaning when he needed to.

The originally deserted and lifeless mansion has regained some of its former appearance.

After Bai Yu entered Bai Feng's mansion, he came to the Shinto Geninryu dojo.

The dojo and the Shirahamine mansion are connected to each other. The dojo was expanded on land specially purchased by Naomi Shirahamine.

"This is the tea room that Teacher often uses." A disciple of Shinto Geninryu led the way.

The tea room is clean and tidy, with simple arrangements, including tea trays, tea sets, and stoves for boiling water.

The stove has been out for more than ten days, and the fragrant wood used has not been replaced for several days, and has accumulated a layer of ash.

Bai Yu flicked a ray of fire into the room and the stove was lit. He naturally sat on the main seat and started making tea and boiling water, not treating himself as a guest at all.

On the contrary, this attitude made people around him feel at ease.

About ten minutes later, Naomi Shiromine arranged the internal and external arrangements for the Shiromine group as quickly as possible and then arrived at the tea room. After entering the door, she knelt down and stretched out two fingers from the cuffs of her kimono. She pressed them on the floor and pressed them tightly. Then he bent down, with his fingers at the same level as his eyebrows, and made a respectful salute.

"Naomi Shiromine...Greetings, sir."

"You know I'm from Daxia, and I don't like kneeling down like this." Bai Yu raised his hand: "Sit down."

Naomi knelt down on the futon in a standard sitting posture, staring at the tea tray, watching Bai Yu wash the tea set skillfully.

"How is the situation now?" Bai Yu talked in a casual tone while waiting for the water to boil.

"We are regaining the lost ground as soon as possible, but the lost stronghold cannot be regained so quickly for the time being." Naomi Shiraimine replied in a low voice: "The news that Changletian was burned will spread soon, and I am afraid many parties will think it is Shiraimine The group was defeated... and in fact, the available personnel left now, even including the Ruozhong who escaped and reunited, are barely a hundred, which is far from enough to compete with Inahaya."

Today's Baifeng Group is undoubtedly severely damaged. Its stronghold has been uprooted and company commander Lotte has been burned. It now faces many problems, including but not limited to asset losses, interruption of contact networks, lack of intelligence, personnel losses, and insufficient supplies. etc……

In fact, if the last fifty or so people hadn't seen Baiyu God come down to earth and strike three times, I'm afraid that even if they were determined to die, it would be difficult for them to have the determination to make a comeback in this situation.

Sometimes it's easy to die, but it's hard to decide to get back up.

Bai Yu asked lightly: "Is there anything you need my help with?"

Naomi Shirahamine opened her eyes slightly, opened her mouth and said, "How can I trouble you... Many of the industries that Mr. Shirates entrusted to the Shirates Group have been destroyed, and the profit dividends received over the years cannot be paid. If you don't hold me accountable, Your responsibility is already very merciful, how dare I make a request to you."

Bai Yu smiled: "This sounds a bit too artificial."

Shiromine Naomi pursed her lips.

"But I believe you are sincere." Bai Yu continued: "After all, you did intend to die, and you didn't even leave any escape route for yourself."

Shiromine Naomi said bitterly: "I am sorry for your entrustment, sir, and I am willing to accept the punishment."

"You acted so decisively because there was no hope of a comeback and victory." Bai Yu asked while fiddling with the tea set, "Is it because you knew Mahiru would never come back?"

Shiromine Naomi hesitated for a moment, then shook her head: "I, I don't know...it's just that my sister mentioned that if I don't come back for ten days after this trip, it will be very bad, and she asked me to prepare early." ."

Bai Yu touched her chin: "This is strange. What happened to her that made her act so recklessly?"

Shiromine Naomi said: "Sir, maybe you can go to Nan's house to check the situation. Sister Mahiru left in a hurry. I was not at home at the time. I only received a message from her before she left."

Bai Yu nodded, washed the teacup, turned it over, put the tea leaves into the bag and threw it into the teapot. He said thoughtfully: "It looks like I'm going to Osaka again."

"I will arrange a vehicle immediately..."

"Why are you in such a hurry?" Bai Yu said calmly, "Wait until I take care of things here first."

Shiromine Naomi hesitated to speak.

"If you have anything to say, just say it. I've never been guilty of speaking here."

"Sir, you should set out immediately to find Sister Mahiru. You have killed a swordsman and defeated the other two. Yoshiji Usoi is also dead. The news must not be hidden. Once it gets out, it will also affect Inahaya. Producing a huge deterrent effect, they will definitely make no mistakes in a short time, and even invite people to negotiate peace." Naomi Shiromine rationally analyzed: "Even if Mr. is not here at this time, they will not dare to do anything, at most Testing and making things difficult, but the Inahaya Club doesn't dare to bet on whether sir will retaliate against them, so sir, you can go directly to find Mahiru-sama, and leave the rest of the chores to me."

That makes sense.

"In the Ganges River." Bai Yu nodded: "The analysis is quite thorough."

"So……"

"But you overlooked one point." Bai Yu said slowly: "The forces involved are not only the Inahaya Association, but also the invisible hand hidden in the shogunate, and even the Tianzhu Chamber of Commerce... These parties are all involved. I treat the Baifeng group as a fat sheep, and now I have eaten most of it. Even if one or two teeth break in the end, I will still bite when I need to, and I will not stop midway."

"You think that they are looking at this from the weaker side in the meeting, but they don't think so. The strong don't need to reason with the weak. The death of key people means that they have to implement the plan to the end and lose money. If you retreat midway after you have already appeared, you will not only get nothing, but you will also lose a swordsman."

He continued to deduce in the face of Shiromine Naomi's astonished eyes.

"I have a hunch that even if there is a negotiation next, it won't be an armistice agreement. There is a high probability that the victor will ask the loser to sign a treaty... that is, in exchange for letting you go, asking for ceded territory and compensation. of."

"In the eyes of these parties, their offensive is just blocked. In fact, the overall trend is still in their hands. It is only a matter of time before they want to win, but it is not worth it to continue to pay too much price. Simply let the Bai Feng Group continue to exist. But correspondingly... we need to perform a castration surgery on the Bai Feng group, what is the specific form?"

Bai Yu held her chin and thought: "It is most likely that you will be asked to marry someone, and then the Baifeng Group will be regarded as a collateral line and become a vassal of a certain family."

"And this certain family is the family most likely to be promoted to the samurai family and enter the shogunate's imperial council after being commended by the shogunate."

As he finished speaking, the water boiled.

The iron kettle spurted out water vapor and made a whining sound. The iron kettle burned bright red, and the maple leaf pattern on it was revealed, followed by a yaksha and a tiger, with their fangs and eyes glowing with fire.

At the same time, there was a knock on the door.

"I'm very sorry to disturb you. Master... the phone number is from Inahaya."

Ruotou, who was waiting outside the door, handed over a mobile phone.

Shiromine Naomi answered the call in person and put the phone on the desk.

The subsequent conversation, including greetings, only lasted about ten sentences.

The national character of the Yingzhou people is always overly arrogant and overly inferior. Humility and politeness are reflected in superficial greetings, while the inner viciousness, paranoia, and madness are hidden in the bone marrow... They can fight on the night after the river of blood flows. They communicated on the phone, but hung up after saying less than ten sentences, which proved that Inahaya was too lazy to maintain superficial humility and stopped pretending.

Hang up the phone.

Shiromine Naomi sighed softly: "Just like what Mr. said, the other party seems to want to negotiate, but has no intention of negotiating at all, and his tone is full of instigation."

The king humiliated the minister and died, Ruotou couldn't help but said angrily: "Damn beasts!"

Bai Yu poured hot water into the teapot, and a fragrance suddenly filled the tea room. He said lightly: "We must talk about it, but how to talk about it, you can think about it slowly. You have a good rest tonight, don't worry too much." I will take care of things tomorrow."

Shiromine Naomi didn't dare to say anything: "Everything depends on sir."

"By the way, there is another thing." Bai Yu handed a cup of hot tea to the two of them: "There will be a few boat merchants from Daxia coming to send greetings. You can talk about business with them. , now the Baifeng Group has suffered a lot of losses and needs some new business."

"I have considered this matter before." Naomi hesitated: "But we don't have a dock. The Hakumine group has no control over the docks and warehouses in Edo."

Bai Yu said: "Don't worry, agree first, they don't have a choice anyway."

Naomi lowered her head and said, "Yes."

The two of them picked up the teacup, drank it all in one gulp, put the teacup down, turned around and left to deal with business.

Bai Yu stared at the tea in the teapot... He drank it in such a hurry. Isn't it hot?

Naomi, who had just walked out of the door less than ten steps, immediately took out a handful of ice cubes from her pocket and stuffed it into her mouth.

She was prepared.

Ruotou on the side also kept licking the roof of his mouth with his tongue, feeling like his skin was being burned. He asked in a hoarse voice: "Master, what is the origin of this gentleman?"

Shiromine Naomi shook her head: "Don't ask if you shouldn't ask... If you don't tell me, it's just not time to let us know yet."

Although my husband said that he would be responsible personally, when negotiating things like this, we still have to pay attention to the word "power".

No matter how strong he is, it won't be enough to make Inahaya surrender... let alone the hand in the shogunate.

After all, he is from Daxia, and his influence on Yingzhou is limited.

Unless he really has some kind of big identity, tomorrow's negotiation will probably be...

"If the other party really makes a request, they must hand me over." Naomi Shiromine suddenly stopped and said, "You must not raise any objection."

Ruotou's expression changed, he remained silent and said, "Yes."