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After climbing up to the top floor of the Beifan Institute, Qingdeng and others stopped in front of an imposing paper sliding door.

Arima gave a loud announcement to the door, and after obtaining permission to enter, he led Qingdeng and others into the room.

As soon as he entered the room, Qingdeng saw a big, white and clean fat man—it was Chujiro Susui, who had seen off Qingdeng and others who were responsible for the crusade against "Renyizhong" the night before yesterday.

As one of the two "mayors" of Edo, Susui is full of wealth both in appearance and demeanor.

"Oh! Yuma, you are here. You are the first to come." After a brief greeting with Qingdeng and the others, Susuki made a "please" gesture to the tatami on the left side of the office, "You first Sit down."

Arima led Qingdeng and the others to sit down in a dignified manner on the left side of the room.

After a while, the door of Susui's office room was opened again, and a group of people came in... a group of people who made the expressions of Qingdeng and others become weird.

"Ah..." Inoya murmured softly, "The faces of the people in the Dongcheng group really become more and more annoying..."

There are 4 newcomers in this group.

The leader is a middle-aged man in his 40s.

The middle-aged man's head looked huge compared to his body, and his hair was untidy and messy as if it hadn't been tidied for several days.

The facial features, which were originally fairly straight, became slightly deformed due to the fat cheeks.

His face was covered with greasy dirt, and a bit of eye dirt was still faintly visible in the corners of his eyes. He looked like he had just woken up and hadn't had time to wash his face yet.

Beards were not very popular in Japan during the Edo period, and most adult men were used to shaving their cheeks clean.

But this uncle went against the trend - with a thick beard, his beard was as messy as his hair.

He has a fat belly, and the flesh on his belly trembles with his footsteps, which makes people feel an inexplicable urge to get close to it and knead it.

Mingming looks so sloppy, but the strange thing is—his eyes are divided into clear and bright.

Such a scruffy face, but with such a pair of bright eyes... It looks particularly unsuitable, like two springs that can gush out clear spring water in the bottom of a pool of sewage.

A middle-aged uncle who looks very scruffy, unkempt, and unattractive—anyone who sees this middle-aged man will think so.

Tojo Shintaro - the name of this middle-aged man.

This slovenly uncle is exactly the other Yori besides Arima in the town of Beifan.

And the three people following Dongcheng are the three Tongxins under the jurisdiction of Dongcheng.

All the members of Beifan's Dingchohui are here now.

In order to facilitate the name, the officials of the Beifan Institute have always referred to Arima and Qingdeng under the jurisdiction of Arima as the "Arima Group". Then Dongcheng and the three Tongxins under the jurisdiction of Dongcheng are collectively referred to as the "Dongcheng Group".

The Dingchohui of the Edo North Division was "divided into two parts" by these two groups of people.

Intrigue and competition are absolutely indispensable in the officialdom, even if there are only 8 members in this department that is "divided into two parts of the world".

The "Arima Group" Qingdeng belongs to has always been in a competitive relationship with the "Dongcheng Group".

In order to compete for a case that is easy to increase their performance, two groups of people are arguing - this is one of the most common situations in Beifan.

The two groups of people often rob cases there, so the relationship between them is naturally not very good.

After the people from the "Dongcheng Group" came in, Inotani, who had the liveliest personality, immediately glared at them viciously.

Ushiyama, who is usually taciturn, also stared at the Dongcheng group with sharp eyes at this time.

And when Inoya, Ushiyama and the others glared at the people of the "Tojo Group", the members of the "Tojo Group" also stared back without showing any weakness.

Neither of the two groups participated in the "staring war".

Arima, who has always been indifferent to fame and wealth and rarely initiates disputes with others, sits respectfully on his knees, watching his nose and his heart.

Dongcheng, on the other hand, crossed his legs, looked at the ceiling above his head in a daze, and while in a daze, picked the toes of his right foot with his right hand. After picking the toes, he raised his right hand and blew his nose...

The two groups stared back and forth—while Qing Deng stayed out of it.

Qingdeng is now looking at the books on the next shelf with great interest.

Reading was Qingdeng's biggest hobby in his previous life besides fitness.

Although in his previous life, he was a muscular tyrant who wanted to develop his muscles, but his reading preferences were quite literary.

He loves to read poetry, especially Russian poetry, and his favorite poet is the famous writer Pushkin.

When he first entered Susui's office, Qingdeng's attention was immediately drawn away by the bookshelf full of books standing on one side of the office, and he looked at the books on the shelf with great interest.

Japan in this era was still greatly influenced by Han culture, and none of the intellectuals in the Edo period did not read Chinese books.

The books placed on this bookshelf in Susukei's office are basically some Confucian classics, such as: "The Analects of Confucius", Four Books and Five Classics.

When Qingdeng's attention was focused on this bookshelf, another wave of people came into Susui's office.

This wave of people who came this time is a temporary return.

Temporary Hui is a department composed of elites selected from those who have worked in Ding Ding Hui for a long time. The task is to guide and assist Ding Ding Hui. The organization is also concentric with 2 people, power and 6 people.

To put it simply-they are the teaching team, fire brigade and all-purpose bricks of the Edo police circle.

Move them wherever they are needed.

Because all the members of the temporary return were once the elites of the Dingcho Huili, they are all older, and the youngest and youngest ones are all in their 30s.

"Ah..." At this moment, Zhu Gu let out a deep sigh that only he, Qingdeng, and Niu Shan could hear clearly, "The people who came back temporarily are still so vicious..."

Temporary returnees gathered with elites are often sent out to deal with some extremely troublesome cases.

This has also led to a surprisingly high "dark circle rate" of temporary return.

Everyone's eyes showed a grumpy look of "What are you doing? I'm very busy! Don't suffer from me!"

After the 8 people who returned temporarily also came, Susui's office immediately became crowded.

Immediately behind the temporary members came in were 2 very young youths.

These two young people are the department with the smallest number of people in the entire Beifan Institute, and they do not have the strength to serve as middle-level cadres: the two concentrics who are secretly returning.

If there was an idiom to describe the two concentric looks of Yin Hui, it would be - ordinary.

The job of the secret return is to carry out espionage activities in various parts of Edo, collecting information for the fixed town return and the temporary return.

Therefore, due to the nature of the work, all the members of the Hidden Group are required to have ordinary looks and temperament.

If it is the kind of appearance that has no sense of existence, makes people forget it at a glance, and can't be found when thrown in the crowd, then it is the best!

8 Dingmachi Hui who are responsible for fighting on the front line, 8 temporary Hui who are responsible for both fighting on the front line and serving as universal bricks, and 2 secret Hui who are responsible for espionage activities—all the police forces of the Edo Kitaban Station are here. This is it.

Seeing that everyone from "three times" had come together, Susui stood up slowly with his hands behind his back.

"It seems that everyone is here."

"In order not to hinder everyone's work today, I will make a long story short."

Susui cleared his throat vigorously, then took a deep breath, and after exercising enough energy, he shouted loudly:

"Boss Jingyi has an order: a large-scale assessment will be held on March 1!"

"Assess the achievements of all the officials of the "three times" of the Edo South and North Fans!"

"Those who fail in their political performance - directly dismissed!"

As soon as Susui said this, the originally very quiet office immediately became noisy.

Everyone stared wide-eyed and cast surprised gazes at Susui.

"Boss Ii wants to assess our political achievements on March 1?" Arima, who was sitting right in front of Qingdeng, was also staring straight at him in astonishment with his eyes that never squinted. Susui, "Master Fengxing, why is it so sudden?"

Ii Tai Lao - this is not a person's full name.

The "big boss" in the back is the official title.

The Edo Shogunate, as the government organization that actually ruled Japan at present, naturally has a mature official system.

Standing at the apex of the Edo shogunate is naturally the "Great General Who Conquered Barbarians" who is currently hereditary from generation to generation by the Tokugawa family and whose status is similar to that of the Chinese emperor.

Under normal circumstances, the official position under General Zhengyi is "Old Middle School".

The status of Laozhong is similar to that of a prime minister in China.

However, when some special circumstances are encountered, an official position with a status and power above the elders will be established-that is, the elder.

The official position of the elder is not permanent, but only established in special periods. This extremely powerful official position, so looking at the history of the shogunate for more than 200 years, there are only a handful of people who have held the position of the elder.

And it just happened—just two years ago, in the fifth year of Anzheng (1858), due to various reasons such as national turmoil and the urgent need for a strongman to sit in the battle, the official position of the elder was restarted.

A strong man named Jingyi Naosuke was pushed to this position.

The "Old Ii" that Susui just mentioned was referring to this Ii Naosuke.

The elder's power is higher than that of the old middle school who is similar to the Chinese prime minister - it is conceivable that Ii Naosuke, who is currently sitting in the position of the elder, has a status in Japan at the moment.

Its status is undoubtedly second only to the shogunate's general who conquered barbarians, "under one person, above ten thousand people".

"Why else?" Boi twitched the corners of his mouth, showing an impatient expression, "Isn't it because of those thugs who open and shut their mouths to 'reject barbarians'!"

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[Japanese history class starts~]

Although at first glance—Qingdeng and the others who were in charge of catching thieves seemed to be just a bunch of ordinary catchers.

But they are actually serious officials.

In the official position system of the Edo shogunate, there is no such rank as first-rank official or second-rank official.

Although the status of the "Three Returns" of the Edo South and North Fansuo is not high, their power is not small.

The power held by Qingdeng and the others in the hands of the "Three Backs" is actually much greater than the power held by the police in everyone's impression.

The following plots will slowly show everyone what power Qingdeng and his "three-time" warriors have.