I was a swordsman in ancient Japan

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Ogata and his party are like a small boat cleaving the waves, and the "wave" that is cut is a "wave of people" composed of these spectators, slowly walking towards their destination tonight, Xutian House, bit by bit.

Shinmachi is the same as Yoshiwara, not all the shops in it are Yumeya, but there are also some normal shops.

Xu Tianya is the largest tea house in Shinmachi, similar to the high-end restaurants in modern times, and is a place favored by countless wealthy people in Osaka.

Just now, while chatting with Shibata Yu Chuguang's piano practice room, Ogata learned from Shibata some basic information about the guest who invited Chuguang tonight.

Shibata didn't know much about tonight's guests, except that he was a big businessman with samurai status. He held a banquet at Xutian House tonight. Chuguang invites them to perform at their banquet.

Although in the Edo period, the shogunate adopted an extremely strict status hierarchy, delimiting the four classes of "scholar, farmer, businessman and commerce", and stipulating merchants as a class whose social status was only one level higher than that of the uncle, and did not allow all classes to Free circulation.

But because the power of merchants is gradually growing, in order to get rid of their political low positions, merchants have gradually discovered many "card"-like methods to transform themselves from lowly merchants to warriors.

One of the commonly used methods is to recruit samurai as son-in-law.

The principle is to take advantage of the institutional flaws of the shogunate.

The Edo Shogunate had a strange system: as long as a samurai was recruited as a son-in-law, the family's native place could be changed to the samurai's native place, and the whole family could use the samurai's surname and family crest.

For example: Ogata entered the family of a businessman named Sangoro and became Sangoro's son-in-law, then Sangoro could change his name to "Ogata Sangoro" from then on, and the family became the Ogata family , You can use Ogata's bellflower pattern to make a new family crest, and the whole family will change from a merchant's family to a samurai's family, and you can call it Saber.

Most of them are samurai who don't want to endure hardship and want to be the son-in-law of a wealthy businessman, and enjoy the glory and wealth since then. Therefore, countless businessmen have become samurai overnight by this method.

As an economic metropolis where wealthy businessmen gather in Osaka, the most indispensable thing is the kind of businessman who has obtained the status of a samurai through various methods.

From Qi Cao House to Xu Tian House, the distance between the two places is not too far.

Although there were countless people who came to watch the famous Chuguang on the road, they didn't block the way too much. Ogata and the others arrived at Xutian House smoothly.

Just arrived in front of the gate of Xutian House, a dwarf who had been standing by the gate looking around just now, who had been standing by the gate and looking around, ran towards Ogata and the others with a happy face.

"Miss Chuguang, welcome." Although this dwarf is a bit ugly, he can speak well and understands etiquette, "Please come with me, my young master has been waiting for you for a long time."

"Thank you." Chu Guang bowed lightly to the dwarf.

The dwarf led Ogata and the others straight to the top floor of Xutian House.

Xutianya is indeed a famous big tea house in Osaka. Not only is it huge in size, but the quality of the waiters is also very unusual.

When he followed the dwarf to the top floor of Xutian House, Ogata noticed that every person dressed as a waiter in Xutian House, whether male or female, all had young and correct facial features.

Because Xutian House is very big, Ogata and the others walked a not-so-short distance before arriving at the door of a room on the top floor of the destination that was beautiful just because of the pictures on the door.

"Master!" The dwarf shouted into the room, "Miss Chuguang is here!"

As soon as the dwarf finished speaking, an extremely excited voice sounded in the room: "Oh! It's finally here! Let Miss Chuguang come in!"

Ok?

At this moment, Ogata's expression changed.

Also with a slight change in expression was A-Ming.

Both of them said the same words in their hearts at the same time: the voice just now was so familiar

When Ogata was thinking about when he heard this voice, the dwarf had already opened the door of the room, Chuguang had already entered the room first, and Ogata, who was Chuguang's temporary guard and temporary assistant, He and A-cho had to go in with him.

As soon as he entered the room, Xu was stunned.

No.

It should be said that Ogata, Machi, and someone in the room were all stunned at the same time.

This is an extremely spacious room, with a total of 13 people having a banquet in it.

Twelve of them sat on the east and west sides of the room, facing each other.

There was only one extremely gorgeously dressed young man sitting at the head of the banquet, who was stunned at the same time as Ogata and A-Machi, and that was him.

And this person was none other than the Miura who struck up a conversation with Machi yesterday.

Right now

Xutian House, a luxurious big house not far from Ogata and the others

This is the most luxurious and high-class room in the entire Xutian House.

Not only is it extremely spacious, but the interior layout is also extremely luxurious. The tatami mats are high-end products from Kyoto, and the walls are painted with famous paintings by famous masters.

In the room, a middle-aged man with a scar from the left forehead to the corner of the left mouth, and a scar from the root of the left ear to the right cheek, these two scars just formed a cross wound, sitting upright on a cushion.

With a flattering smile on his face, he said to a young man sitting opposite him who was sipping tea in a respectful tone:

"My lord, this is the Longjing tea I recently purchased from Tangtu West Lake. How does it taste?"

"Well, I don't know much about tea, but I think the taste is okay."

The young man sitting opposite the middle-aged man had a burly figure of nearly 1 meters, and his long hair was tied up and dragged behind his head casually.

Beside him is a mighty Otachi sword.

"By the way, Yukimura, I haven't seen you for a while. Your business has grown so big." The young man said slowly, "You even bought such a luxurious tea house. It is said that you even got involved in the silk business a while ago. .”

"Don't dare to do it, don't dare to do it." The middle-aged man called Yukimura continued to laugh, "A while ago, I just got lucky and bought some silk shops cheaply from a friend named Miura."

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Chapter 626 Ogata (Tactical Leaning Back): What is Backstage? (Middle)【4400】

The Miura house of Miura and his family is a well-known existence in the business circle of Osaka, and it is one of the well-known silk merchants in Osaka.

The silk of Tangtu is undoubtedly a luxury. As long as it is managed properly, getting rich is nothing but an easy thing.

The Miura family has a history of more than 20 years. Miura’s great-grandfather started from scratch. After more than [-] years of development, their Miura family has finally become one of the wealthy merchants, and successfully recruited samurai as their son-in-law [-] years ago. The method obtained the status of a samurai.

Miura Taro is the eldest son of their Miura family.

In order to avoid the outbreak of family turmoil, the Edo shogunate has stipulated since its establishment that whether it is a samurai or a commoner, the family business shall be inherited by the eldest son.

At the same time, the family cannot be divided, and the family business cannot be divided into several pieces for each son to inherit. The rest of the heirs can only find another way out.

As the eldest son of the family, Miura Taro, if there is no accident, the huge family business of their family will be in his pocket.

In order to allow his son to take charge of this huge family business smoothly in the future, Miura's father had asked Miura to help take care of some of the family business a few years ago.

I have to say that Miura still has a bit of a business mind.

After helping to take care of the family business, he successfully made a lot of achievements.

Half a month ago, Miura succeeded in negotiating a business deal with a daimyo in the West Country on his own. This business directly brought 1000 taels of income to their Miura family.

1000 taels is not a small sum for Miuraya.

Having made a great contribution, this naturally made Miura want to look up to the sky and laugh for half an hour.

In order to celebrate his new achievements for the family, Miura hosted a banquet tonight for all his friends.

All his friends had dinner except Kitahara at Quanbingkan.

Unlike Miura and the others who "appear to be samurai, but are actually businessmen", Kitahara is an out-and-out samurai, and he is also a star figure in the famous swordsmanship in Osaka, such as Quanbingkan.

The two are not in the same circle, but they met unexpectedly a few years ago. The two have similar temperaments and quickly became friends.

Kitahara is now extremely obsessed with that Isshiki. When Miura invited him to the banquet yesterday, even though the Xutianya where the banquet was held was a very serious tea house, he still flatly rejected Miura in order to maintain his image of "never going to Shinmachi". invitation.

Since Kitahara didn't come, Miura didn't force him either.

Almost all of my friends will come to the banquet tonight. In order not to let the banquet celebrating his great achievements for the family look too inferior, and to show off in front of his friends, Miura paid a lot of money to make an appointment a few days ago. The performance of today's star character Chu Guang.

Chuguang is no stranger to Miura.

Two months ago, Miura met for the first time at a friend's banquet with Hatsumitsu who was there to perform at the banquet.

Miura likes girls who are "drum up and up". The slightly thin figure of Chuguang is not the type that Miura likes, but Miura likes Chuguang's piano sound very much.

Music is one of Miura's few hobbies. After hearing the sound of Hatsumitsu's piano for the first time, he immediately fell in love with Hatsumitsu's talent.

A small part of the reason why Miura invited Miura was to listen to Hatsumitsu's beautiful piano sound again.

At this moment, seeing that the long-awaited first light finally came, Miura immediately beamed with joy.

Then after the happy smile opened, the expression on his face froze.

Because he saw two acquaintances behind Chuguang.

Miura recognized at a glance that these two people were the woman he fell in love with yesterday, and wasn't that woman's husband?

Miura is well aware that Chuguang has one assistant and two guards. After all, "assistant guard" is like a business card to Chuguang.

In an instant, countless questions flashed through Miura's mind.

Why are these two people here?Aren't these two people selling tooth powder on the street? Why did they suddenly change into Miss Chuguang's assistant and guard? When I met Miss Chuguang for the first time 2 months ago, Miss Chuguang's guard and assistant were obviously not these two people

Although there were many questions, Miura quickly gave explanations to each of these questions:

Chuguang's original assistants and guards had probably resigned, so the couple applied to fill in the vacancies of assistants and guards. When they were free, they would go to the street to sell tooth powder to subsidize their family.

There were no loopholes or irrationality in the reason he made up in his own brain, which made Miura smile involuntarily because of his self-satisfaction.

"I'm sorry." Just as Miura's expression returned to normal from a daze, Chuguang folded his hands in front of him, then bowed to Miura and the others, and said softly, "I kept you waiting for a long time."

"Ahahaha." Miura looked away from Ogata and Atachi, and waved at Hatsumitsu, "Miss Hatsumitsu, you came in time! You didn't keep us waiting! Come in! Come in Bar!"

After seeing Miura, Ogata was surprised.

Surprised that Osaka is so small

The guy who struck up a conversation with Ah Ding yesterday had such a low probability of appearing in front of him again today that Ogata actually ran into him.

But the surprise was the surprise, and Ogata quickly put away the surprise in his heart.

All he wanted to do tonight was to quietly complete the task assigned to him by Satoshidaemon.

So he only hoped that Miura would not do anything to disappoint his expectations.

After following Chuguang into the room, Chuguang knelt down in a corner of the room, with a smile reminiscent of the wind in spring, and said something like "Thank you for inviting me to the banquet" to everyone at the banquet. The opening remarks and polite words of the class.

After talking about these messy things, Chuguang's performance officially began.

A-machi, who was kneeling neatly behind Hatsumitsu, said in a loud voice that he was going to start the performance, and handed her the shamisen that he had been holding in his arms very conspicuously.

Also holding shamisen, some people act like gorillas playing with toys, while others look like fairies in the sky.

Chuguang belongs to the latter.

After picking up the shamisen handed by A-Machi in an extremely elegant posture, Hatsumitsu pressed the strings with his left hand, held the pick with his right hand, and began to pluck the strings slowly.

The sound of Chuguang's piano is like crystal round beads swimming around and bumping into each other.

It is also like a series of clear streams, gusts of warm wind, and pieces of fallen leaves dancing with the wind.

Ogata doesn't understand music, but he can also instinctively hear that Chuguang's playing skills are very high.

Even Ogata, who knows nothing about music and lacks interest, can't help being fascinated by Hatsumitsu's piano sound at this time.

The originally noisy banquet had already quieted down, and everyone was listening attentively to Chuguang's performance.

The first piece of music that Chuguang played was not long, so it took only a blink of an eye to finish one piece at a time.

"Okay!" Miura took the lead in applauding vigorously, "As expected of Miss Chuguang! This skill is really amazing!"

After Miura applauded first, the rest of the banquet followed suit, applauding and applauding together.

Ogata, who was sitting behind Chuguang with Shibata, almost clapped subconsciously, but just as he raised his hands, he suddenly remembered that his current identity is Chuguang's guard, so he hurriedly put back the hands he had just raised onto the legs.

"Oh! It's all thanks to Miura-kun that I can feast my ears today!" At this time, a big fat man who was near Miura clapped his hands and laughed, "Miura-kun is indeed a role model for us! Chuguang Miss is not someone who can be invited to perform casually, but Miura-kun can invite Miss Chuguang with ease!"

"Yes, yes!" A certain person followed closely, flattering Miura together, "And you can also set up a banquet in a place like Xutian House! It's really amazing!"

Hearing these flattery from his friends, Miura felt extremely refreshed.

In fact, the flattery that the fat man patted just now was slightly exaggerated.

Although Miuraya is a well-known existence in the business circle of Osaka, it is only a little famous.

The business circle in Osaka is the real land of Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon. Compared with the real bosses in Osaka, their Miura House is still far behind.

No matter how capable Miura was, it was impossible for him to invite Chuguang casually. It took him a lot of effort and even asked his father to help him, so he succeeded in inviting Chuguang to the banquet.

But now Miura, who is feeling very happy in his heart, will not point out the exaggeration of the fat man just now.

Not only did he not point it out, he even smiled pretendingly: "It's all just trivial things not worth mentioning."

"Miura-kun." At this time, someone suddenly asked Miura, "Speaking of this Xutianya, I heard that your Miuraya has recently cooperated with that Mr. Yukimura. Is this true?"

"Oh, about this matter." Miura took a sip of his wine, "It's not considered cooperation, it's just a mutual benefit with Master Yukimura."

"You also know that since last year, we at Miura House have been trying to engage in the wine business."