Warring States Eagle

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After putting Kuna and the others on the merchant ship in Hakata Bay and letting the two boatmen in charge take care of them, Zhengliang returned to the temporary residence of Shengfu Temple again.At this time, Kamiya Shaoce had finished discussing with Kizuo Shigetada, and hurried back to Kamiya's house to prepare related supplies.Two days later, the two merchant ships of the Kamiya family will return to Higashimatsupu along with Zheng Liang.

"Your Highness, I'm really sorry for calling rashly. I don't know that Hakata and his party today have had a good time, Your Highness?" In Zheng Liang's residence, Master Chan Rong, the abbot of Shengfu Temple, asked.

"Hehe, it's been a good experience." Zheng Liang said with a smile.Zhengliang can be sure that the other party knows his travel situation today. As a force that cannot be underestimated in the Hakata area, Shengfuji Temple has its own intelligence network.

"His Royal Highness's way of tea Zen is really unique, and the poor monk admired it. It happened that a friend of the poor monk came to visit. After learning about His Highness's extraordinary insights from the poor monk, he also praised him. Now this friend invites us to I don’t know if His Highness is interested in going to the other courtyard for a while?” After chatting, Master Chanrong invited straight to the point.

"Oh? I don't know what the master's friends are called?" Zheng Liang couldn't help being slightly taken aback when he received the invitation suddenly, and asked quickly after he realized it.

"Hehe, Your Highness, all living beings are equal before the Buddha. Now we are just tasting tea and discussing Taoism, so why should we stick to our status?" Master Chan Rong said with a mysterious smile.

"Ah! I'm just trying to figure it out. Master, please lead the way. I'm also looking forward to meeting the master's friends," Zheng Liang replied with a bow.

"Your Highness, please come this way." Master Chan Rong clasped his hands together and saluted, and then got up first to lead the way.

Passing through the path in the courtyard with lush flowers and plants, Zheng Liang soon came to a small courtyard. Master Chanrong walked in first. Zheng Liang signaled to the two cloaked people who followed him to wait outside the courtyard, and then walked in.

The yard is not big, surrounded by some flowers and plants, in the middle of the yard is a small gazebo, beside the gazebo are several old plum blossoms.At the moment, a middle-aged man in his 40s was drinking tea alone in the gazebo, while a young monk was looking at the tea stove.Zheng Liang followed Master Chan Rong and walked slowly to the middle-aged man.

"Hehe, your lord is really elegant. Drinking tea alone here is a joy in life." Master Chanrong said first.

"Ah! The master is here, please sit down. I am just thinking about it occasionally, but I made the master laugh." The middle-aged man was awakened from his contemplation, and he saluted quickly. At the same time, he also saw the master Chan Rong behind him. Zheng Liang was taken aback for a moment, then looked at Master Chanrong and asked, "Who is this?"

"This is the strange person I mentioned to you this morning," Master Chanrong introduced.

"Hahaha, it turns out that it is His Highness Zhengliang who has unique insights into the way of tea Zen." The middle-aged man immediately realized that he had obtained relevant information about Zhengliang from Master Chanrong, "Sure enough, he has seen people well. Your Highness’s morning speech of “Prosperity, the people suffer, death, the people suffer, the rise and fall of the world have all been turned into soil” is really a portrayal of the people’s livelihood in troubled times!”

"Huh?" This time it was Zheng Liang's turn to be a little dazed, because the middle-aged man had just uttered an exclamation he had inadvertently made in the morning.

"Hahaha, His Highness Zheng Liang, don't be surprised. I happened to be among the crowd this morning. Thank you for driving away that annoying guy so that I can return here." The middle-aged man laughed loudly, "Now let's formally Let’s get to know each other, I’m under the Ouchi family, Fujiwara’s Sagara Takeshi.”

"Massara Roshi, Luo's family," Zhengliang bowed back and said, "So it's Mr. Sagara, I was rude just now."

Zheng Liang was secretly surprised, he didn't expect to meet a big man here.It is no exaggeration to say that the person in front of him and Tao Longfang, another important minister of the Ouchi family, directed the demise of the Ouchi family.Sagara Taketo was born in Higo's Sagara family. Due to his proficiency in literature and history and his outstanding internal affairs, he was gradually reused by Ouchi Yoshitaka.If things continue to develop according to this situation, then the Ouchi family will not have the disaster of extinction later.The turning point of the matter was in the ninth year of Tianwen (1540, this year) when the Nizi family launched a joint war against the Maori family.The joint wars against the Maori family launched by the Nizi family in 1540 and 1541 respectively ended in failure. This gave Ouchi Yoshitaka a wrong judgment that the Nizi family was not as good as before, so in 1542, Ouchi Yoshitaka ignored Sagara On the advice of Wu Ren, he led a large army to counterattack the base of the Nizi family, Yueshan Tomita Castle, but in the end they returned in a disastrous defeat. The Ouchi family lost many generals, and even the successor, Ouchi Harumi, drowned because of the sinking of the warship.

After returning to the territory, Ouchi Yoshitaka, whose spirit was close to collapse, lost his interest in martial arts due to the failure of the Battle of Izumo, coupled with the blow and dissatisfaction of his heir, and began to devote himself to the culture of Kyoto.The accumulation of Kyoto culture in Yamaguchi Castle for a long time was also fully stimulated at this time. He had strongly opposed it before, and it can be seen that Ouchi Yoshitaka deeply regretted the expedition, and Tao Longfang, who strongly advocated the expedition beforehand, could also feel an unprecedented crisis of trust.Gradually, Sagara's status reached the level of Tao Ping, which became the biggest threat to the Tao family, which was written by the Ouchi clan.At this time, the internal contradictions of the Ouchi family began to climax slowly from the initial simmering, and the Ouchi family divided into two camps headed by Sagara Taketoshi and Tao Longfang.The struggle between Tao Longfang and Sagara Takeshi began with a few arguments at first. As Ouchi Yoshitaka became more and more partial to Sagara's faction, Takashi's love continued to change gradually, and he even called Sagara Takeshi It is called "the old monk who is pedantic and stupid".However, in 1545, in the struggle between the two camps, Taketo Sagara lost to Tao Longfang and was forced to become a monk. Tao Longfang regained power. In 1547, Taketo Sagara was invited by Ouchi Yoshitaka to come out again, and the two camps faced each other again. stand up.In order to reconcile the contradictions between the two factions, Ouchi Yoshitaka once wanted to marry the daughter of Sagara Wuren to Tao Longfang's son, the eldest son. This made Takashi who had always looked down on Wuren feel great shame.On the other hand, Xiangliang even forcibly occupied the territory of the Tao family behind Yilong's back, which shook the most fundamental interests of the Tao family. In 1550, Tao Longfang and Naito Xingsheng, who could not retreat, tried to assassinate Sagara Takeshi, but were discovered by Ouchi Yoshitaka.As a result, Tao Longfang's strength in Ouchi's family was greatly weakened.

Originally, Tao Longfang had quite deep feelings for Ouchi Yoshitaka.He grew up as Yilong's servant boy and has always been loyal.When retreating from Izumo, he personally protected Ouchi Yoshitaka from the rear.However, as Yilong indulged in a luxurious life, he lost his ambition.Tao Longfang, who didn't want to fall into the fate of decline with his master's family, launched a rebellion based on the belief that "God does not take, but suffers instead".On August 20th, the 1551th year of Tianwen (8), taking advantage of the rumors of General Tao's rebellion written by Takashi Qingjing, Tao Longfang joined forces with Nagato Takayo and Buzen Guardian, who were also dissatisfied with Ouchi Yoshitaka's favorite Sagara military appointment. Daisugi took the lead and launched a rebellion.Tao Longfang and Jiang Liang Rongfang led 29 Tao troops from Tomita Wakayama Castle. Ouchi Yoshitaka had received the news in advance, and his confidant Ryoizumi Takatoyo led 3000 troops to fight. However, about 10000 soldiers were killed by Tao on the spot. Instigated rebellion, in the ensuing battle, the number of deserters on the Ouchi side gradually increased, and the command failed. In the end, the whole army retreated, and only about 2000 people were left in the escape from Zhoufang to Nagato.Yoshitaka arrived at Nagato, ready to cross the sea and flee to Kitakyushu, but encountered a storm at sea, and finally fled into Nagato Taining Temple, where he committed suicide on September 60st. bead day.Those who died together were Takatoyo Reizumi, Takakage Okabe and others.However, Long Fang's arch-rival, Sagara Taketo, had learned the news beforehand and fled to Sugi Xingyun in Chikuzen.Sugi Xingyun firmly supported Yoshitaka and took in the escaped Sagara Takeshi, so he was attacked by Tao Longfang and died in battle in 45. .

"Hehehe, His Highness Masara doesn't need to be too polite." After seeing Masara bowing, Sagara Taketo hurriedly returned the salute, "Recently, I heard that there is a famous general in Higashimatsuura, known as the 'Eagle of Higashimatsuura'. I don't know if it is related to His Royal Highness Zhengliang?"

"Exactly, the so-called 'Eagle' is just a misappreciation by the world," Zheng Liang said modestly.At the same time, he was secretly shocked by the intelligence capabilities of the big family.A daimyo with an income of hundreds of thousands of shi was able to notice the news of a small place, which really makes people have to admire his meticulous intelligence ability.

"Oh? It turns out that His Highness Masaragi is the descendant of Genji, who personally slashed dozens of heads of the 'Eagle' in the battle with Nagoshi. His Royal Highness's bravery, even the general Tao Longfang of the family admired it. Once I want to compete with His Highness for saying something," Taketoshi Sagara immediately praised.

"Sir Sagara is too much, how can I compare with General Tao Longfang?" Zheng Liang said hastily.Just kidding, it's not a good thing to be remembered by radicals like Tao Longfang.Now that I think about it, the rumors of fighting with Nagoshi that were spread out to confuse the tyrants around me were a bit too exaggerated, and now it feels like shooting myself in the foot.

"Hehe, Your Highness Zhengliang doesn't need to be humble. Tao Longfang of our family is only 20 years old. His Highness Zhengliang looks younger than Tao Longfang. The future is really limitless. I wonder if His Highness has any idea of ​​investing in our family?" Takeshi Sagara Ren continued. Tao Longfang was 1540 years old at the Battle of Yamashiro in Yoshida County in 20, and this battle was his first battle.For this battle, people have always focused on Mao Liyuan's unparalleled strategy. Before the battle, the strong wall cleared the field, and the flexible defense and surprise attack during the war were incomparably exquisite, but there was no such thing as Tao Longfang's final confrontation with Nizi. The surprise attack of this formation is a stroke of genius, so all the efforts of Yuan Jiu will be in vain after all.After becoming famous in the first battle, Tao Longfang began to be known as the unparalleled servant of the Western Kingdom.At this moment, Luo Shizhengliang is also beginning to gain fame. Maybe one day, the two people who are also young will meet one day.

"This?" Zheng Liang didn't expect the other party to recruit him at all. He definitely didn't want to live under someone else's roof, but it's not very good to refuse rashly. Get help from the other side.

"Ahem, my lords, the tea is ready, we'd better take our seats." Just as Zhengliang was thinking about how to answer quickly, Master Chan Rong suddenly invited him by the side.

"Hahaha, I have forgotten the purpose of this time, Your Highness Zhengliang, please!" Sagara Wuren laughed and invited Zhengliang.

"Hehe, Mr. Sagara, please!" Zheng Liang breathed a sigh of relief, and bowed in return.

So the three of them discussed the way of tea Zen again in the pavilion.

This time the tea party can be said to be very complete, the three of them chatted very happily, and it was not until the evening that Sagara Taketoshi left. Before leaving, Sagara Taketoshi once again invited the Luo family to join the embrace of the Ouchi family, and at the same time reminded him mysteriously Zheng Liang pays attention to the movements of Harada's family. The uncle of Harada Takashi in the morning is a man who will take revenge. Zheng Liang thanked him repeatedly.At this point, the Luo family and Taketo Sagara can be regarded as formal friendship.

Recalling the meeting between the two today, it can be said that it was an extremely matter of chance.Now Sagara Takeshi is only a retainer of the Ouchi family who is gradually being reused, so he can still make good friends with small tyrants like the Luo family. Once Ouchi Yoshitaka is defeated by the Nizi family two years later, Sagara Takeshi If it is completely reused, the Luo family may not be able to enter the eyes of Takeshi Sagara.

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