Chapter 89: Control of Xiaoshui Town

With money, resources, and many employees, these businessmen successfully took control of Komizu Town and divided the rights based on business. For example, they monopolized the food, salt, ironware, fish, prostitutes and other industries, making huge profits.

However, due to the low status of merchants and their pursuit of profit, they were reluctant to spend money, so there were no samurai to join them, nor did they spend money to form a large-scale foot soldier team. On weekdays, they only relied on employees and temporarily hired ronin to deal with some troubles.

Employees and temporary ronin with sticks could still be somewhat effective against the bandits, but faced with large-scale soldiers, their courage melted faster than the ice and snow in early spring.

So when they saw the fully armed and aggressive soldiers of the Moroboshi family, the smart ones dropped their weapons and turned around to hide in the alley, while the dumb ones didn't remember to lie down until they were stabbed.

They were unstoppable along the way, and only met a few swordsmen who were hired for a large sum of money, which allowed Hui Ruomaru to warm up and vent his frustration of being a step slower and having to watch that day.

Not long after, the ten merchants who controlled Komizu Town were captured, and none of them escaped because the port had long been blocked by a Kan ship and several Kobayashi ships. Unless they could fly, they would have no choice but to surrender.

Although Fu Ji did not contribute at all during the entire process, Hui Ruomaru, who had been instructed long ago, still handed over the right of disposal to the other party and stepped aside.

After taking a look at the retreating Hui Ruomaru, Fu Ji, under the protection of Benimaru Taro, stood in front of the Ten Merchants who were kneeling on the ground and begging for mercy, and once again felt the taste of power. For some reason, her heartbeat quickened a bit, and a blush appeared on her handsome face.

If Yan Xu, who was far away in Guimaru Mountain Castle, had been paying attention to the system, he would have discovered that Fu Ji's loyalty suddenly increased a lot. Although it has dropped back, it still remains at around fifty, which is a considerable improvement, because there is only a 50% chance of betrayal. For an abnormal person like Fu Ji, when one hand is about to stab you, the other hand will try to stop it, and it's a fight between the left and right.

As for the reason for the increase in loyalty, it is true that Fu Ji is a bit perverted and a bit crazy, but aren’t all Japanese people like this?
So after tasting power again, Fu Ji regained some of his sanity, and he drew his sword and killed the richest and most bullied of the ten merchants in the street.

"Do you know why I want to kill them?" Fu Ji said in a slightly light tone, admiring the blood drops slowly sliding down the snow-edge blade without leaving any trace, because he recalled that he once had such a sharp sword, which was a coming-of-age gift given to him by his father. Unfortunately, it was later taken back by his father without mercy and then given to his younger brother. Just like his status and power, he once had it but it no longer belonged to him. But now he has another one, which is even sharper and more convenient to use.

"Because the strongest never likes someone to suppress them, and they will rebel sooner or later, so I killed him." Fu Ji's reason was simply nonsense, but none of the eight businessmen kneeling there dared to object. In fact, their pants were already wet, but in order to survive, they were still desperately praising each other's wisdom and decisiveness, even though the person who was killed was their partner and the body was still warm.

"As for why I killed the one who was always bullied by you, it's because I don't like having useless people under my command." Fu Ji put the knife back into the sheath and said calmly.

"So you understand?" Fu Ji's calm eyes made the eight merchants kneeling in front of him squeeze their anus tightly and show their loyalty crazily, even willing to give up all their property and women. Now they just wanted to survive.

Unfortunately, Fu Ji was not interested in this at all, and even felt bored. Compared to the excitement of killing his own blood relatives, ordinary killing would only make him feel bored, so he left a seed and hoped that the seed would grow up as soon as possible and bring him more pleasure, even if the grown seed would one day stab the blade into his heart and cut off his head, so what.

Next, Fu Ji set taxes and tariffs and announced new laws, which actually made the eight merchants feel relieved, because collecting taxes meant that they would not be killed. If they were killed, how could they collect taxes?

After Fu Ji left, the eight surviving merchants gathered together for a heated discussion, completely unaware of how suspicious their actions were. If they were particularly suspicious, they would break into the house, hack them all to death, and ransack their homes at the same time.

Fortunately, they were not discussing revenge, nor were they discussing whether to seek help from other forces, because they thought it would be too stupid to do so.

They had heard of the strength of the Moroboshi family. They were able to fight against the overlord of the Fuetoshima, the Otomo family, and won. They also forced the Otomo family to seek peace first and paid a large sum of money to redeem the captives and Otomo Munemori. This was enough to scare them, not to mention what they had experienced personally today. Another reason was that, regardless of whether the reinforcements they found could defeat the Moroboshi family, they would have to pay a huge price regardless of winning or losing, because the only difference between reinforcements and bandits was that there was no difference. Even if they took out most of their property, it might not be able to satisfy the other party's greedy appetite.

Not to mention that although the taxes set by the Moroboshi family are not low, they still make substantial profits, especially since they can use gold and ginseng to offset taxes, which is even more profitable.

At the same time, security is more guaranteed, so there is no need to hire too many employees and ronin, which can save a considerable amount of expenses.

The most important thing is that Lady Fuji also took out some products that are unique to the Moroboshi family, and asked them to sell them on her behalf, and she could get a commission from them.

After seeing those samples, the Eight Merchants had completely forgotten about their two dead partners.

It can be said that as long as they were asked to sell on their behalf, not to mention Fu Ji killing two of them, even if she asked them to do it themselves, she would kill two more without hesitation. Any hesitation for a second would be disrespectful to wealth.

After killing the richest merchant in Omizu Town, everything he had naturally belonged to the Moroboshi family, so the other party's mansion became Fuki's residence.

"It's more interesting than I thought." Fu Ji smiled as she looked through the information brought by Sen Zhinin, which included a scene where eight merchants fought for a share of the goods.

As the heir of the former Sagara family, Fuji didn't have much contact with merchants because of their low status. Even when samurai went to contact them, they often took a high-handed attitude or even spoke harshly to them. So it was the first time he saw such an interesting scene, and he even felt that the days to come would not be too boring.

But the lord is really courageous. He obviously knows a lot of things, but he gives himself such great power. It's really interesting. Fu Ji put down the information, waved her hand to let the ninja hiding in Xiaoshui Town in the forest to retreat, and couldn't help smiling again.

Fujime did not hide too many things from the Moroboshi family, from planning to betray the Sagara family to secretly pushing for the battle in Fushima, and even her allegiance was somewhat careless.

If it were any other force, let alone giving him the power, it would be considered showing mercy if they didn't kill him on the spot.

Fu Ji didn't believe that the other party didn't know all this. Even if she could hide it from her lord, she couldn't hide it from Yi Yujing, who was so smart.

However, compared to Yi Yujing, who is outstanding, smart and strong, the lord is the one that Fu Ji really can't see through, because the other party seems to care less than him.

Neither the battle situation on Fuejima nor the occupied Komizu Town were really taken seriously by the other side, as if none of it mattered.

Fu Ji even felt that even if she rebelled on the spot, the other party would still act as if it didn't matter.

(End of this chapter)