I formed the strongest swordsman group

"Learn sword?"

Jiubingwei blinked his eyes a few times suspiciously.

"Young master, why do you want to learn swords so suddenly? Haven't you always had no interest in swordsmanship?"

"The people of the 'Big Barbarians' are so unreasonable and hateful, so I decided to start practicing swords seriously from today, and when they come to attack me again next time, I will beat them to pieces." Qing Deng half-truth, half-true falsely say.

Hearing Qingdeng's words, Jiu Bingwei was stunned for a moment, and then his face showed excitement.

"Young master, well said! You must have such ambition! This is what makes a warrior! That's right! That's how it should be! Wait a moment, I'll get the ledger and money."

Jiubingwei turned around and ran quickly to the back room.

After a while, he returned to Qingdeng.

When he returned to Qingdeng, he had an account book, an abacus and a bag of money in his arms.

Qingdeng looked at the bag of money in Jiubingwei's hand with somewhat sad eyes - this bag is not too much money, it is all the savings of Qingdeng's family at present...

"Yuan Juqingdeng" doesn't know how to settle accounts, and the money and account books of the family are usually taken care of by Jiubingwei.

Jiubingwei moved over the low table placed in the corner of the hall, spread the ledger on the low table, placed the abacus beside the ledger, and quickly calculated the ledger.

After a while, Jiubingwei stopped his abacus, and then untied the money bag containing all the savings of their Tachibana family, and took out some silver coins and a large bunch of copper coins from it.

"Young Master..." Jiubingwei smiled with embarrassment, "After deducting the necessary expenses such as food, clothing, housing and transportation... the funds we can use now are only 11 liters of silver and 6,000 liters of copper coins."

In Japan during the Edo period, there were three types of currency in circulation: gold, silver, and copper.

1 taels of gold ≈ 64 liters of silver ≈ 6400 liters of copper coins.

After learning that there is only a small amount of funds that can be used freely at home, Qingdeng's jaw almost dropped to the ground.

"Is there only so much money?"

"Young master..." Jiu Bingwei let out a long sigh, "The remaining money of the family... basically used it to pay off the debt..."

Hearing Jiubingwei's words, the corners of Qingdeng's mouth couldn't help twitching.

——It’s really hard for a penny to beat a hero...

After silently sighing in his heart, Qing Deng heaved a long sigh.

"Hey...forget it, let's spend less money. Jiubingwei, which is the best sword gym that we can afford for me with our current spare money?"

The original owner of this body was not interested in swordsmanship, so he didn't have much information about the sword hall in Edo in his memory, so Qingdeng could only turn to Kubei for help.

"Oh..." Jiu Bingwei showed a look of embarrassment, "Young master, you are asking me too much... I don't know what kind of sword gym, I can name the sword hall, and I can use one hand Can count..."

"I think so..." Qingdeng sighed lightly, "I can't help it... I'll ask some of my friends later..."

"Ah!" Jiu Bingwei patted himself on the forehead abruptly, "Young master, I remembered, do you want to go to the Qianshiwu and ask?"

"The House of Thousand Things?" Qingdeng raised his eyebrows, "What is this?"

"It's an employment agency." Jiubingwei said, "Young master, isn't our family short of money recently? So I thought about finding some jobs that I can do to subsidize the family, so I was introduced by someone. Know about this employment agency."

Qingdeng: "Employment agency?"

As the ruling center, political center, and economic center of the Edo Shogunate, Edo was the largest city in the Edo period.

As the largest city in this era, Edo naturally attracted young people from all over the country with dreams of getting rich.

A large number of young people came to work in Edo, and in this era, there were no such convenient things as newspapers and the Internet, and information exchange was very difficult. It would be very difficult to find a job in this city with a population of one million.

So - the employment agency that specializes in helping people introduce jobs came into being.

Most of the employment agencies in the Edo period were privately run. In Edo, there are more than 20 large and small employment agencies.

"Jiubingwei, what I'm looking for is a sword gym, not a job."

"Young master, listen to me." Jiu Bingwei shook his head, "The house of thousands of things can not only introduce jobs, but also introduce the sword gym. This is one of their important signs."

"Oh?" Qingdeng's eyes flashed with interest immediately, and he subconsciously leaned towards Jiubingwei.

"Specifically, I don't know too much. I only know that Qianshiya can not only introduce jobs to those who are looking for jobs, but also help those who want to learn swords in Edo to introduce suitable sword halls for them."

"Hey... Qian Shi Wu Wu..." Qingdeng Mo moved his chin, "Could you introduce the sword hall... sounds good."

"Okay, it's decided!"

Qingdeng clenched his right hand into a fist, and lightly hammered his left palm.

"Tomorrow is just a day off! I'll go to the House of Thousand Things tomorrow morning to ask."

Don't procrastinate in doing things, just do it when you think of it - this is one of Qingdeng's most proud advantages.

As a reward for the successful crusade against "Benevolence and Righteousness", it is advisable to give everyone who participated in this operation a day off tomorrow, which happens to be an effective use of this holiday.

"Kubei, do you know where the House of Thousand Things is?"

Jiubingwei nodded: "It's pretty close to us."

...

...

The next day (January 13), early morning——

After hastily eating the breakfast cooked by Jiubingwei, Qingdeng put on his clothes, wore a saber and wakizaru on his left waist which symbolized his status as a samurai, and rushed out of the house in a hurry.

The door of Qingdeng's house is facing a dirt road that is neither narrow nor wide.

The current time is about early 7 o'clock in the morning. After turning on the dirt road facing the door of the house, Qingdeng saw people in twos and threes who either had nothing to do like him, or looked anxious, or they were in a hurry to go. The samurai who "worked".

In Japan during the Edo period, samurai and civilians generally lived together in order to show their status and avoid disputes.

The warriors live concentratedly in the "samurai settlements", while the civilians live concentratedly in the "civilian settlements".

Hatchobori, where Qingdeng lived, was one of the samurai settlements. Therefore, samurai with swords can be seen everywhere in Hatchobori.

In terms of number, the number of samurai in Edo is far less than that of civilians, but the residences of samurai occupy more than half of Edo, and the land occupied by samurai is still the best pieces of land in Edo, so the number accounts for an absolute majority. Most civilians can only be crowded in the areas with the worst geographical location.

The distribution of resources is so unfair that people just want to say "the evil ruling class" with grief.

Having no time to appreciate the streetscapes of ancient Japan, Qingdeng followed the address mentioned by Jiubingwei last night and rushed to the house of thousands of things as soon as he left the house.

What Jiubingwei said was true—the house of thousands of things was indeed not far from Qingdeng's house.

Qingdeng trotted all the way, and in just over 10 minutes, he saw a rather plain looking wooden house at the end of his field of vision.

On the top of the door of this wooden house is a door plaque with three big Chinese characters "Qianshiwu" written on it.

In ancient Japan and ancient China, houses were basically made of wood.

Since Japan launched the Dahua Reform in 645 AD, after comprehensively learning the advanced culture and system of the Sui and Tang Dynasties, Japan directly imported Chinese characters and used them. Before that, Japan had no own characters.

After the Taika reform, the usage rate of Chinese characters in ancient Japan has always been very high. An official document from the government may be written in Chinese characters throughout. .

"Is this the Qianshiwu..." Qing Deng stood in front of the shop door, looking at this rather plain-looking employment agency.

"Is it open now..."

While muttering so, Qingdeng walked quickly towards the shop door.

When he put his hand on the handle of the shop door and was about to pull the shop door open——

"Oh~ Mr. Kazuma Kiryu, you can even mend Wufu?"

"Well, because I used to learn how to make and repair Wufu in the Muromachi area."

"Mr. Kazuma Kiryu! You really know everything! You are amazing!"

"You are absurd, these are just some small advantages that are not worth mentioning."

Two simple conversations were transmitted to Qing Deng's ears from behind the door.

clatter——

Qingdeng pushed open the wooden shop door.

The first thing that caught Qing Deng's eyes was an old lady with thick lips.

The old lady was kneeling and sitting in front of a low counter.

At the back of the counter, sat an old man who looked like he should be 80 or 90 years old, wearing glasses on the bridge of his nose, smiling warmly, and looked quite gentle.

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