On the 27th day of April in the 23rd year of Astronomy (1554), at the foot of Takada Castle in Oniwa County, Mimasaka, 1,000 ragged men sat on their knees in rows, and around them, 300 soldiers of the Date Army dressed in bronze armor were on the ground.

It was obviously impossible for these kneeling people to be sitting in protest, none of them were holding their heads up, and most of them were almost numb, and they only obeyed the orders of the Date Army, and did not dare to show the slightest expression of dissatisfaction.

The person who showed a little dissatisfied expression would immediately be dragged out of the crowd by the Date Army soldiers behind him and severely beaten, and it was quite polite not to kill him on the spot. After doing so, no one in the crowd dared to raise their heads.

Despite this, the Date soldiers kept weaving through the crowd, waving their swords in their hands from time to time to intimidate the docile men from messing around. The reason why these men were pulled out and gathered by the Date Army from various construction sites was because the first ransom payment was delivered by Niko Haruma.

Nizi Qingjiu originally wanted to drag out the ransom, of course, he didn't want this batch of prisoners, but he wanted to lower the price, but he didn't expect Zhu Yunhuixin to break the secret that Nizi Qingjiu had hidden in his heart as soon as he came, so he could only pinch his nose and admit it, and searched the manor he forcibly occupied, rummaged through the boxes and cabinets and made up a ransom of 300,000 taels.

The ratio of gold and silver to copper coins was extremely low in the world at that time, and the maritime merchants of the Ming Dynasty at this time often liked to bring a large amount of copper coins to the Ming Dynasty to exchange gold and silver, and then bring them back to the Ming Dynasty, so as to earn the difference, and often make a lot of money back and forth.

Since Iwami produces silver. Production was about one-third of the world's production at the time. Therefore, silver is very cheap in the Iwami area. Izumo Kuniko Haruhisa relied on the iron sand of Izumo and Hakuki to have a lot of wealth, and only then did he mobilize tens of thousands of troops in the barren land.

Uyama Kukane's expression was very grim, he obviously didn't think that he would lead to such a group of insensitive people, it was hard to imagine how they survived the half a year they were captives, and under the sadness of the rabbit and the fox, there was a sense of disgust that swelled up from the bottom of his heart for the smiling short and fat samurai in front of him.

The Humpty Dumpty Samurai was clearly unaware of this, and he was still vigorously talking about his pride. Uyama Kukan interrupted the other party's obscenity, and said in a deep voice: "Ma drunk Mushan castle guard." "Humpty Dumpty Samurai is one of the three people of the Southern Carp Marshland, Ma Zuiki Yamajo Castle Shou Keisa, since he led the way for Zhengheng once, he himself has not much talent, and he has not gained any proud combat exploits on the battlefield, so he has to retreat to the next best thing, and become the overseer who escorts the captives to work in various factories.

Ma Zuiki Keizo raised his head and glanced at Uyama Kukane, who originally had no intersection with Uyama Kukane, and the status of the two in their respective families was very different. Even if they meet, they won't be as equal as they are now, which is enough to be proud of.

Ma Zuiki Keiza obviously didn't mean to be modest. He originally wanted to publicize his ability to manage prisoners, but seeing Yushan Kukan's increasingly ugly face, he knew that he was afraid that he would turn his face if he continued to talk about it, so he had to smirk for a while, and then said, "Lord Yushan, don't you look at it again?" ”

Obviously, he was only watching the prisoners who came to watch them, not the specific handover personnel, and Ma Zuimu Keizo pointed to the prisoners who were kneeling on the ground with a numb expression, showing his outstanding ability. Ma Zuimu Jingzuo was obviously a little dissatisfied with the fact that the lord had received the ransom and handed it over, and these people were all strong laborers who built bridges and cities.

In half a year, because of his work experience, he will come to work, from the hundred-person squad to the current supervisor of the thousand-man team, he climbed up step by step, and now he suddenly wants to be repatriated, and he is kicked down from a high place all of a sudden, who is willing.

Uyama Kukan "snorted", ignored Ma Zuimu Jingzuo, and walked straight to the captive who was kneeling on the ground, a captain of the ashigaru in bronze armor wanted to stop him, Ma Zuimu Keizo shook his hand and said: "Let him go, he can still turn the other way." ”

Ma Zuiki Keisa had this confidence, Uyama Kukane walked in front of the captive, but did not attract the warm welcome he imagined, nor did he cry bitterly, just looked at the person with a numb gaze, even if he saw the flower wheel pattern that Uyama Kukan was wearing, he did not have any reaction.

Uyama Hisaka was a little strange in pain, he glanced at everyone, and shouted hoarsely: "I received the order of the lord of the country and came to pick you up!" I thought that after this sentence, I would respond with tears and shouting to the heavens, but what I got was an expression of disgust and distrust.

Ma Zuimu Jingzuo, who was standing not far away, had a scorn in his heart, and there was a faint sneer on the corner of his mouth. In order to better manage the captive team, he ordered people to play the role of Nizi Qingjiu's messenger more than once, and played a scene of going home in front of the captives every once in a while, and then picked out the people who were still loyal to Nizi Qingjiu from the captives, and beat them up severely and put them in a water prison.

Now Uyama Kukane's voice is hoarse, obviously not as vocal as Ma Zuiki Keiza let people play, of course, it can't resonate with the captives, so that Uyama Kukan is speechless for a while.

Ma Zuiki Keiza waved his hand at the ashigaru captain who gave advice, and the ashigaru captain yelled at the crowd: "Silence! Ma Zuimu Jingzuo then walked out, and said to the crowd in a weird manner: "Everyone, I have always been a man of words, and everyone knows about this." ”

After a pause, Ma Zuimu Jingzuo himself felt funny, if what he said always counted, he would not have played with the prisoners out of shape, he didn't care about the thoughts of others, and said again: "My lord is merciful, for the sake of everyone's hard work, an amnesty order has been issued, which means that you will be released soon, but before you are released, I want to talk to you." ”

There was a slight commotion in the crowd in the audience, and Ma Zuimu Jingzuo said that he was going to let them go, which should not be fake, because everyone has been working at various construction sites in Sanbei for more than half a year, and has not been to Meizuo Country, and now not only see the person wearing the flower wheel pattern, but also hear the words of Ma Zuimu Jingzuo and Yan Yuese. Expressions of joy and pain flashed alternately across the faces of these people, but they were soon replaced by numbness, and it was obvious that they would no longer believe that the Horse Drunken Keisa, who had always done evil, would tell the truth.

Of course, Ma Zuimu Jingzuo would not know that his perception in the captives would be so hateful, of course, he would not care, if his perception in the captives was very good, I am afraid that he would have already been replaced, looking at the expressions of everyone, he was obviously very satisfied with the fruits of his labor, and continued: "The lord is merciful, for the sake of your hard work, I have specially issued an amnesty decree, ordering me to bring you and others to Takada Castle, and after reading the lord's pardon decree, those who are willing to follow this great official of the Nizi family can also leave on their own, Anyway, as long as you go out of the border of the United States, you can choose whatever you want. ”

Uyama Kukan obviously didn't expect Ma Zuimu Jingzuo to come to such a situation, even if he protested to Zhengheng, at most he verbally punished Ma Zuimu Jingzuo, and he would not give Ma Zuimu Jingzuo a little punishment, so he could only keep his mouth shut and sit back and wait for things to progress.

didn't expect that Ma Zuimu Jingzuo really took out an amnesty order issued by Zhengheng and read it out. Uyama Hisaka was slandered in his heart, the upper beam was not right, the lower beam was crooked, what kind of master there was, what kind of slave there was, obviously in exchange for paying a ransom to get back the captive, but in the mouth of the Date family, it became an amnesty.

It's just that these are still small troubles, and Uyama Kukane's only idea now is to bring this first batch of people back to Izumo Province first, and give an explanation to the wealthy clans, and he doesn't want to make any more extraneous troubles and cause unnecessary trouble, so he swallows his anger and acquiesces in the shamelessness of the Date family.

The work efficiency of the Date family has always been very fast, and after receiving 300,000 taels of silver from Uyama Kusaka, Ma Zuiki Keisa scolded and ordered the team to set off. The captives apparently knew that they were about to be released, and they also did not want to make a fuss, so they left Takada Castle silently under the watchful eye of the Date army and walked towards the border of the Boqi Kingdom.

At the urging of the overseer and the soldiers of the Date Army, the team sped up, and at noon, they came to the border checkpoint between Misasaka and Boqi Province, Inu-Saga, and rested near Inu-Sasa. Inusasato is one of the most important checkpoints between Mimasaka and Boqi country, where there is a team of more than 100 people stationed all year round, and a strong pass is built, the earliest owner is the Yamana clan, and later changed generations of masters, and the current master is Date Masahiro.

Uyama Hisaka looked at Ma Zuimu Jingzuo with an ugly face, and roared angrily: "The fifteen hundred people who were said to be good, now there are only a thousand people, and there are five hundred people, where are they?" Also, how you treat them, it's abuse. ”

Ma Zuiki Keiza listened to Uyama Kukane's angry roar, with a slight sneering smile on his face, and after hearing it, he held back: "Then how will you treat the captives?" As he spoke, he touched his head and said, "As for the five hundred people, someone will naturally send them later, otherwise what am I asking you to wait in Inusasa?" ”

Yushan Jiukan "hummed", and looked at Ma Zuimu Jingzuo angrily, but he had nothing to say. After a while, Takei HD led several overseers to lead four or five hundred people over the dog narrow wall, and before he could reach him, Takei HD raised his right hand and shouted: "Stop!" ”

Four or five hundred people actually stopped under the order of Takei HD, although there was some chaos, Yushan Kukan turned his head to look at him, the anger on his face flashed, and Ma Zuimu Jingzuo said with a smile: "General, why are you here in person, people?" ”

Takei nodded for a moment, and said proudly: "The one behind is that!" ”

Ma Zuimu Jingzuo stared out of his eyes, with a surprised expression, Yushan Kukane's expression was even more ugly, he glanced left and right, on the one hand, his ragged expression was numb, and he was obviously severely abused, and on the other hand, he was dressed plainly and his mental outlook was quite good. (To be continued......)