Warring States Eagle

"My lord, the two armies of Otomo's family have already arrived at the border of Bungo and are about to enter Chikugo; the other route has also come along the coast of the Bungo Toji River to the border of Higo." A secret room in Kishidake City In the middle, Kansuke Yamamoto reported to Masara with a solemn face.

"Well, the Chikugo army is nothing to worry about. As long as Kinoshita Masunao and Yoshida Shigemasa can stick to the fortress, this army can only linger at the border. It's just that the Higo army, if Otomo's family joins Higo again If the nobles attack our family, then our family's territory in Higo will be in danger." Ishimune Kakukuma frowned and said.

"Hmph, this matter is nothing to fear, as long as Akabane Shinnosuke, Enjoji Shinyin and others can stick to it for half a month, the Otomo family's army will retreat." Zheng Liang snorted coldly.Otomo Yoshikam's act of launching a war regardless of spring plowing is simply an expression of anger and embarrassment. Soon he will retreat because the attack is not going well.Once the delay is too long, the peasants and soldiers in the army will probably flee.Compared with the war of the lord and lord, these peasants and soldiers are more concerned about their own fields.

Similarly, for the rich families of Higo, they will definitely not actively cooperate with Otomo's strategy during the special period of spring plowing.Of course, Zheng Liang would foolishly wait for others to attack, so he had to fight back.

"Send news to the Otomo family, saying that if the Otomo family dares to step into the territory of the Luo family, the family will first take the head of Yoshioka Changzeng as a sacrifice to the flag! The focus is to spread the news to the territory of the Yoshioka family. I would rather Let's see if Otomo Yoshikan dares to go to war with the main family at the risk of chilling the retainers and making enemies with the Yoshioka family." Masaragi ordered. [

After a short pause, Zhengliang continued: "A large number of rumors about the Otomo family's betrayal of faith and openly tearing up the peace treaty just signed were spread throughout Kyushu. Do your best to tarnish the reputation of the Otomo family. In addition, at the same time spread the news in Bungo about Yoshihiro's family and Beizhi. Rumors that the He family was at odds with the Otomo family because of the death of the governor in battle. At the same time, rumors were spread that the Otomo family would rebel in the footsteps of the Oshi Tsuna, causing chaos in the Otomo family's territory."

"As for the clans of Higo, a subjugation order was issued in the name of Dazai Shaoer, calling on the rich clans of Higo to conquer the treacherous Otomo family."

"My lord, this?" Kakukuma Ishimune immediately became puzzled when he heard the words. Now anyone who is a normal person will know that this conquest order will never get the response of Higo's rich family.

"Hmph, of course I know they won't respond. I'm just providing a righteous excuse for Fei Hou's rich family not to participate in the dispute between Dayou's family and Luo's family." Zheng Liang said.

Kakukuma Ishimune thought for a while when he heard this, and immediately understood Masara's intentions.Now Otomo's family and Luo's family are simultaneously calling on all clans of Higo to participate in the conquest against each other.

According to the past, fearful of the strength of Dayou's family, even if they are unwilling in every possible way, they will send some troops to show their cooperation.Now that the Luo family has also issued such a subjugation order, they immediately have an excuse not to participate.

They could have said to Dayou's family, look, now the Luo family is ordering me to send troops to conquer you out of the righteousness of the court. Of course we will not do this, but out of respect for the court.Also in order to support your family's conquest against the Luo family to the greatest extent, we will remain neutral.

at the same time.They also have an explanation to the Luo family.You see, I'm still neutral now, it's enough to give face to your Luo family, don't use the excuse of disrespecting orders to beat us in the future.

Of course, just relying on such a call-up order is not enough. Zheng Liang also wants to make Higo's powerful families completely busy, so he continued: "Let's spread rumors, saying that a silver mountain was found in Miyahara."

"Ah? My lord, is this true? There is really a silver mountain in Hihou Miyahara?" This time it was Togo Heiji, who was in charge of the family's internal affairs, who spoke.

"Yeah." Zheng Liang replied affirmatively.According to historical development, the Miyahara Silver Mine in Higo and the Odaira Gold Mine in Bungo were almost discovered only a few years later.The location of Miyahara Ginzan is just at the edge of Higo Kamimashijo County. Near it is the sphere of influence of the Koshi family and the Kakoki family, and even the Uchikan family and the Nawa family who are a little further away can get involved there.

If in the past, Xiayicheng County had not been attacked by the Ichigomune, Nawa, and Sagara families, then no one would have dared to compete with the overlord of the Xiayicheng County, the Omiya Shijia, for this silver mountain. In a group, the ownership of Yinshan is a bit uncertain.

According to Zheng Liang's original idea, he planned to develop this silver mountain after occupying Feihou in the future, but the current situation forced Zheng Liang to use this silver mountain.I believe that under such a huge temptation, it is impossible for the nearby nobles to be indifferent, and the situation in Feihou will become even more chaotic. This will help the Luo family to concentrate on dealing with the invasion of Otomo's family and the rebellion in the territory. up.

"This plan is brilliant!" Kansuke Yamamoto exclaimed after understanding Masara's intentions.

"Although these strategies of the lord can ease the tension faced by the family, but the lord, please forgive me for speaking bluntly. I think it is better for the lord to show up as soon as possible. At this time, the conspirators in the territory have almost appeared. It’s already necessary to go on like this.” Kakukuma Ishimune at the side said.

During this period of time, they were indeed under considerable pressure. As one of the few retainers who knew the real situation of Zhengliang, they not only had to be careful not to leak Zhengliang's situation, but more importantly, they had to cooperate with Zhengliang to perform well. At the same time, they also It is necessary to secretly implement Zhengliang's various instructions, and make arrangements in advance to quickly quell the conspiracy.In addition to the above, they have to endure a lot of gossip.After all, some of their previous actions made people suspect that they took the opportunity to control Zheng Liang's heirs and usurp the real power in the family.

"Everyone." After listening to Ishimune Kakukuma's complaints, Masatoshi looked at the people in the secret room and said seriously, "The time to wipe out the conspirators is almost here, please hold on for a little longer."

"It's not good." Just when Zhengliang was about to comfort these loyal retainers to the Luo family, Naoshima Naomi, surnamed Nabeshima, ran in recklessly.

Although Zheng Liang pretended to be in a coma, he still needed someone to take care of his daily diet. Under such circumstances, ordinary servants were naturally inappropriate, so this heavy responsibility fell on the four little surnames around Zheng Liang.That's why Naoshima Naoshige suddenly appeared. [

"Why are you so reckless!" Seeing Naoshima's panicked look, Masara asked immediately in displeasure.

"My lord, Master Qu Naose Dosan...he..." Naoshima immediately knelt on the ground and reported.

"Shouldn't he injure himself again, and then use himself to experiment with surgery?" Zheng Liang asked immediately.

"My lord, yes, Master Xuanzhi is being treated, but he ordered the villain to come and report this to the lord immediately." Naoshima Naoshige said immediately.

"You idiot!" Zheng Liang said in his heart. (to be continued...)