"Ah! Lord Niang!"

"Mr. Orange!"

"Mr. Niewang! Thank you for clearing the Kanda Shui! Thank you!"

...

A large number of people were crowded on the left and right sides of Qingdeng, either casting admirational gazes at him; or making excited shouts; or waved his hands hard, hoping to make the other party notice him.

Qing Deng smiled and nodded to the people around him, like a lord who was inspecting his territory.

Aoden enjoys extremely high popularity among the people of Edo - and this is also natural.

Looking back at his past achievements: destroying the Yi group first, and destroying the Qingshui clan hard.

Whether it is the former or the latter, it is a social cancer that is deeply disgusted by the Edo people.

Qingdeng eliminated all these two major harms, so how could people disrespect and love him?

After all the people in Rakshasa, Qingshui Rongyi and others were killed, the strength of the Qingshui clan plummeted.

The Qingshui clan who started his business with swords and blood naturally has many enemies.

For a long time, countless Yakuza groups, both big and small, have been squatting beside each other, eyeing the Qingshui clan.

If it can always hold the throne of "Kanto's strongest", that would be fine.

But if it falls from this throne...

Then, the nature waiting for it is the extremely cruel law of nature - the prey of the weak.

There was no need for the government to take action. Just a few days after the Qingshui Mansion was broken, a large number of Yakuza Group could not help but start attacking the Qingshui tribe.

Immediately afterwards, other organizations rushed up like sharks that smelled fishy, ​​attacked and shared the legacy of Rakshasa and Yoichi Shimizu.

Nowadays, although the Qingshui clan is still alive, it is already at a loss and has only half a breath left. It may be completely swept into the trash can of history at any time.

Even if Qing Deng’s past achievements are not mentioned, his current performance is equally dazzling.

The biggest feature of the officialdom in the Edo era is that bureaucracy is extremely serious, officials are arguing with each other, and playing against the ball is the norm. It is even more common to delay a little big thing for a month to solve.

This is also related to the institutional design in the Edo period.

In order to prevent the concentration of power, the shogunate had to set up a group of people to serve in each position, from the old middle school, and from ordinary officials.

If there are redundant officials and redundant employees, it would be strange if they can improve their efficiency.

The samurai and civilians in Edo have long been accustomed to the ugly behavior of shogunate officials who only know how to shirk responsibility when encountering problems and only know how to perfunctorily responsibilities - until Ao comes to power.

After taking office as a member of the Otachi, Aodo showed a completely different style of integrity and decisiveness from other colleagues, which refreshed the people of Edo.

First of all, it is due to personal personality. Qingdeng himself is a person who doesn’t like to procrastinate and only likes to fight quickly.

Secondly, he was a favorite minister who was trusted by Tokugawa Ishishi and Tenzhangyuan. He was named the gang, but he was actually gang-his people. He had no one around who had the same functions as him and would pull him back.

Therefore, no matter what type of political affairs you encounter, Qingdeng can take measures quickly and decisively.

Therefore, during his inauguration, he achieved many achievements worth boasting about.

It’s like the one who just shouted “Download the water in the Kantian”.

Kanda-Shui was built by the shogunate in the sixth year of Kuenyeong (1629) to ensure the daily water for the Edo people, using the Iinotou Pond as the water source to collect the water from the pond water on the way to lead it to the waterway under the Edo Castle.

In Japanese, "shangshui" refers to drinking water.

A month ago, a small earthquake occurred around Edo, and a section of the waterway in Kanda Shui was damaged and the water flow could not be supplied.

Kanda Sui Water is one of the most important water sources in Edo. If its water supply is cut off, the lives of nearly half of Edo people will be seriously affected.

On this occasion of the quarrel, Qing Deng was ordered to personally lead people to clear the water from the sacred fields and supervise the project throughout the process.

With his lofty expectations and hard-working management methods, Qingdeng finally took less than two days to clear the water in the Kantian and minimize the losses.

In the Edo era, such a speed of doing things was extremely fast.

It has both drastic style and extraordinary achievements... In this way, it is naturally natural that Aoden is deeply admired and loved by the Edo people.

Qingdeng's ordinary background brought him closer to the ordinary people.

The existence of radish also indirectly increased Qingdeng's popularity.

This great man who is honored and noble neither rides a sedan chair nor a horse, but rides a cow!

It's a cow!

Qingdeng's behavior of not riding a sedan chair or not sitting on a horse or riding a cow to get to and from get off work is laughable, but it also makes the image more intimate.

...

Cross the avenue and turn across the corner.

Gradually, the tall Edo Castle caught Aoden's eyes.

Each person and a cow slowly passed through the famous mansions surrounding Edo Castle, rows of rows.

Qingdeng couldn't help but swept his eyes, looking around at the grand, luxurious, but not as popular as the vassal residences around him... Looking up, it was deserted and desolate.

At Shimazu Kuraku's tough request, the confession of the audience was changed to once every three years. The Daime Masao who were taken hostage and held in Edo were also released back to their respective vassal states.

Such an approach will cause too much harm to the Edo economy.

It is no exaggeration to say that a considerable reason why Edo's economy is so prosperous is due to the participation in the lecture.

According to the regulations of the attending ceremony, all the vassal states, Daming, went to Edo every once in a while to help the shogun handle government affairs for a period of time, in order to consume the Daming people's time and financial resources.

When the daimyos came to Edo, their followers ranged from hundreds to thousands.

In other words, the blessing of entrusting the lecture, Edo has hundreds of thousands of additional population movement out of thin air every year, which not only flourished the Sushi Station along the way, but also flourished the Edo economy.

Now, the account of the attendance has become once every three years, and the flow of people entering and leaving Edo instantly plummeted.

The residences surrounding Edo Castle have become deserted, and the places of interest and commercial streets such as Yoshihara, Hiroshijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijijiji have become much more depressed.

Click, click, click, click, click, click, click.

Before we knew it, the carrot had stepped onto the wooden bridge leading to Edo Castle.

Under the hooves is the bridge body, and then down there is a turbid moat.

The sound of the "knock dong" cow hooves hitting the bridge's body endlessly - Qingdeng likes this sound very much, which will make his mood unconsciously relax.

The surrounding area of ​​Edo Castle is surrounded by a spacious moat, with only a few wooden bridges connecting with the outside world.

Seeing Qing Deng coming, the guards in charge of guarding the gate immediately rushed up and then knelt on one knee in front of the cow's head of the carrot.

Qingdeng turned over the bull and handed over the reins of the bull to the guard who was in charge of guarding the door.

On the next road, you can’t ride a bull anymore, you have to walk.

"Carrot, wait for me to come back."

Qingdeng rubbed the cow's head with the radish.

"Moo~~"

While shaking his long tail, the carrot stretched its neck and arched into Qingdeng's arms.

"Okay... Let's start working..."

After murmured like this at a volume that only he could hear clearly, Aodo simply sorted out his clothes, then strode forward and walked into Edo Castle.

On the other side, the guard gently pulled the reins and led the radish to the horse shed next to the gate.

In the huge horse shed, there was a big black cow among hundreds of good horses... The scene was so funny.

In order to prevent foreign enemies from invading, Edo Castle was designed with a "の" shape.

Simply put, it is the mosquito coil type.

Whether it is a friend or an enemy, if you want to enter Edo Castle Motomaru where General Chengyi is located, you must continue to advance along the only road from the starting point in the lower right corner of "の", and pass through Ninomaru and Ichinomaru to reach the Motomaru where General Chengyi is located.

Although such architectural design is very tormenting for people like Aoden who get off work in Edo Castle, it has to be admitted that Edo Castle, which has both a moat and a "の"-shaped structure, has its defense power of top-notch.

If there are 10,000 elite troops and inexhaustible abundant supplies in Edo Castle, then even if there are 100,000 troops to attack, there is no need to be afraid - of course, only feudal troops that are not equipped with a large number of hot weapons.

Aoden, who had amazing feet, quickly arrived at his own office located in Honmaru.

"Mr. Orange!"

A young man was waiting there early, kneeling down to Qingdeng and greeting him in a cheerful voice.

The man's name is Uchimura Takataro, 16 years old this year. He is the little surname of Tokugawa Ieshima. He was sent by Tokugawa Ieshima to assist Aoden, and he is now the secretary of Aoden.

Although he is not old, he is very clever.

After nearly two years of working together, Qingdeng likes him quite well.

"Good morning, Uchimura-kun."

Aoden smiled and reconciled, then removed the Dinggui and Vairocana on his waist and handed it over to Takataro Uchimura.

The other party took Qingdeng's knife with both hands, stood up, and carefully placed the two swords in his palm on the knife holder in the office with a gentle movement as if he was carrying some fragile items.

Generally speaking, warriors usually wear only two knives, one hitting the knife and the other flank.
To be continued...