Today, Sakai Port is still as prosperous as ever. Although it was plundered by the Far East a few years ago, it took less than a few years to regain its former prosperity thanks to its excellent geographical advantages and the strong support of the shogunate.

Kitai stood on the Sakai Port pier with a smile, looking at the merchant ships on the Sakai Port pier and the busy scene everywhere. He had been in Japan for more than two years, and when he was leaving, his wife gave birth to another daughter for him, but he only met him in a hurry, and then received the task and left home.

Although he misses his wife and children in Liaodong very much, he knows that in order to make his family live a good life, he must be loyal to the Far East and do his best to serve the Far East. The first Japanese immigrants like him to join the Far East were extremely loyal to the Far East, and it can be said that they already considered themselves Far Easterners.

At this time, Kitai, dressed extremely well, stood there with a calm temperament, who would have thought that he was just a gold miner on Sado Island back then. Since joining the Ministry of Intelligence, Beijing has worked very hard to learn all kinds of knowledge and skills, and after several years of training in the Ministry of Intelligence, Beijing has truly become a qualified intelligence officer.

During the Edo period, merchants were called "machito" because they lived in towns and cities, and machiren was a term used by a people in Japan during the Edo period, who were mainly merchants, machito, and some were craftsmen and engaged in industrial work.

But the merchants of this era had a very low status in Japan, and all the inhabitants of the Edo period were divided into four classes by a strict hierarchy: samurai, peasants, craftsmen, and merchants, and merchants were the lowest and most insignificant people in the ranks.

Japanese merchants were simply not qualified to be on an equal footing with the samurai. However, after the townspeople became rich, their lives became rich, and the market also prospered, and theaters and restaurants sprung up one after another. Watching theater and recruiting prostitutes became a kind of culture of the townspeople. Although the samurai were the ruling class, for the sake of material comfort, they also colluded with the merchants, officials, and merchants, and as a result, the merchants had the opportunity to intervene in the samurai society.

And the samurai, as the ruling class of the country, their function in society is mainly to intimidate the common people. It played a distinct agent role in the increasing strengthening of its policy of exploitation by the feudal ruling class towards the common people, especially the peasantry. A free-spirited samurai was punished by his lord if he was not harsh enough.

Formally, the samurai were the military vassals of the daimyo and lived on rice stipends given by the lords. The Tokugawa shogunate led to the unification of the whole country, but peace also deprived a large number of samurai of the opportunity to engage in military activities. Without the war, the Tokugawa shogunate and the daimyo of the lords in various places would have to bear a large parasitic class.

As a result, the status of the samurai in Japan in this era was often extremely disproportionate to their real economic power. Samurai as a class. Being detached from the source of wealth makes them extremely vulnerable. Many Japanese samurai have empty status, but life is extremely embarrassing, and Japan is still a place where face is very important.

Although the samurai class in Japan looked down on the merchant class very much, they were scolded for being calculating, short-sighted, greedy, and third-rate, and they were slaves who were slaves who were slaves. But in order not to lose their dignity, many samurai could only borrow usury from merchants, and slap their faces to become fat.

The townpeople class is a class that uses commercial capital and usury capital to engage in exploitation. this class. There is a contradictory and antagonistic side with the feudal samurai; But at the same time he was parasitic on the samurai class. The biggest commercial activity of the townspeople was the resale of rice scavenged from the peasants by the feudal lords. The city's consumer goods and usury activities were also mainly aimed at samurai, large and small.

The merchants also took advantage of the weakness of the samurai class and lent them step by step. For the sake of material comfort, the samurai class had to collude with the merchants, officials and merchants, and as a result, the merchants had the opportunity to intervene in the samurai society, becoming able to compete with the samurai, and often threaten their existence with money.

Kitai, who came to Sakai Port, also lived up to expectations, thanks to the support of Guò Far East. Within two years, he established his prestige in Sakai Port and became one of the more famous merchants in Sakai Port.

Kitai took advantage of the vast financial resources supported by the Far East to grant low-interest loans to lords and samurai classes in Japan, and even bribed them in exchange for their trust. In addition, he also made the work of the Far East's intelligence station in Japan very smooth. Not only has a well-established intelligence network been established in various parts of Japan, but a large number of supernumerary intelligence personnel have also been trained.

Moreover, Kitai also used usury, narcotics and other methods to control a considerable part of the Japanese samurai class, the shogunate and officials under the daimyo in various places, and transmitted a large amount of precious information back to the company in a timely manner through various means.

Several fierce wandering samurai and two Japanese dressed as merchants stood respectfully behind him. The samurai at the head was none other than Kenji, Fujita's deputy, who was also recruited by the Ministry of Intelligence as one of the two deputies of Kitai, the head of the Far East Intelligence Station in Japan.

After Kenji joined the Far East, he married a North Korean woman and had two children. He is calm and strong in martial arts, because he has experienced ups and downs in his life, he has rich experience, and he is good at coordinating and dealing with all kinds of cumbersome things.

Moreover, before he joined the Far East, he had been in Sakai Harbor and had a great reputation among the wandering samurai of Sakai Harbor. His main duty at the Japanese intelligence station was to be responsible for the perimeter security of the station.

Now that Japan is in a peaceful environment, a large number of homeless samurai and ninjas have lost their livelihoods, and they are so busy that even food is a problem. The wandering samurai went around extorting, stealing chickens and dogs, and barely managed to make ends meet.

But ninjas who have no livelihood are even more miserable. Ninjas are a special profession created purely to cope with times of war, and they are basically unable to play their role in times of peace. Moreover, the particularity of their previous professions often has to hide their identity, and they can't even show their true faces for the rest of their lives, so it is more difficult for them to find a way to survive.

In Japan's Warring States Period, although they both served the daimyo, the identities of ninjas and samurai can be described as heaven and earth, and the image is that ninjas are domestic slaves and samurai are retainers. Since most of the ninjas are secretive events involving power struggles at the top, and they are quite dangerous, they often end up in a very sad way. The danger comes first and foremost from the employer. After these insidious and vicious social leaders achieve their goals by unscrupulous means, they are afraid that the inside story of the matter will be revealed, and they often kill the ninjas who are on a mission.

Serving Tokugawa Ieyasu for many years, "Oni Hanzo" can be described as a ninja who knows both black and white, he is a trust of Tokugawa Ieyasu, has saved Tokugawa Ieyasu's life countless times, and has repeatedly swayed into battle to participate in the battles of the Three Rivers Legion, his life can be described as the most glorious example of ninjas. But when he was dying, his salary was only 8,000 stones, which was only a fraction of the treatment of a samurai-born general with the same meritorious merits.

After Kenji came to Japan, he not only vigorously assisted Kitai in forming a Japanese intelligence network, but also subdued wandering samurai and ninjas all over Japan. Taking advantage of the huge financial resources of the Far East, he spilled a lot of silver, but attracted many masters.

The good welfare treatment of the Far East made these wandering samurai and ninjas who were struggling at the bottom of society feel flattered and worshipped the Far East as their heads of family and regarded themselves as retainers. In less than two years, Kenji secretly developed an armed force in Japan loyal to the Far East. (To be continued......)

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