Warring States Eagle

On July 17th, Astronomy [-], Naito Xingsheng, as the envoy of the Ouchi family, arrived at the meeting hall in the village castle.

"Master Xingsheng, is the journey going well?" Masaragi asked calmly after Naito Xingsheng sat down.For Naito Xingsheng, Zhengliang really didn't like it very much. This guy has always been an advocate in the Ouchi family who advocated guarding against the Luo family.Zhengliang really couldn't understand why Ouchi Yoshitaka would send this guy as an envoy for the negotiations between the two parties.According to the past, Masaragi's cheap father-in-law Sagara Taketoshi usually came forward.

After hearing Masara's words, Naito Xingsheng also replied indifferently: "Thank you, Mr. Dazai, for your concern. Except that the road was difficult due to the heavy rain the day before yesterday, everything went smoothly."

"How is Master Xiguo Tanti?"

"Energetic, scolding us every day."

"Oh. I miss him so much. It's been a few years since the last time I saw him, and that time I blocked an arrow for him..."

"Master Dazai's sacrifice of his life to save each other, I will always remember it in my heart." Naito Xingsheng immediately put his hands on the ground, prostrated himself on the ground and saluted.

Seeing this, Zheng Liang showed a smile, and then lightly touched on the key topic, "So, this time you come..."

"The purpose is simple." Naito Xingsheng twisted his beard with a very serious expression.The generals of the Luo family were also silent immediately, "Master Dazai, the family has also heard about the recent conflict between you and Otomo's family, especially the conflict between the two parties in Higo this time. The master of the family believes that this is the right time When Otomo's family is at its weakest, I hope to take the opportunity to join forces with you to attack Otomo's family. This is the purpose of my trip."

"Oh?" Zhengliang was a little surprised by Naito Xingsheng's proposal just now.I didn't expect that Ouchi's family planned to make trouble for Ouchi's family.As soon as Naito Xingsheng's proposal came out, not only Masara himself, but also the other Luo family retainers in the assembly hall were quite surprised.

You must know that there were several conflicts between Luo's family and Dayou's family in the past.Everyone in Ouchi chose to be a bystander.Unexpectedly, this time the Ouchi family became the active party to attack the Ouchi family.However, due to Ouchi's indecisive approach in the past.For a while, everyone, including Zheng Liang, could not fully believe in the authenticity of Naito Xingsheng's suggestion.So the whole meeting hall suddenly became a little quiet.

"Hum..." Naito Xingsheng seemed to have expected this situation a long time ago, so he immediately snorted coldly, and then said, "Master Dazai, to be honest, my attitude towards you, I believe that you will be satisfied through Mr. Sagara Takeshi." I've heard it. This time, I really don't want to take on this mission, but my master believes that only by coming here in person can I prove the sincerity of my family, and in this way, I can dispel Mr. Dazai's worries. Do you know if Master Dazai also agrees with this idea of ​​our lord?"

"Hahaha, Lord Guardian has filtered it, but I don't know how Master Tanti plans to attack Dayou's house?" Zheng Liang laughed and continued to ask.

"It is divided into two plans. The first plan is to use the Chikugo River as the boundary. The northern bank of the Chikugo River will be captured by the main family. The southern bank of the Chikugo River will be in charge of your side, and the acquired territories will be owned by each of them."

"Yeah." Zheng Liang nodded.On the north bank of the Chikugo River are mainly Yamanaki Castle and Akashi Castle, which are directly under the Otomo family.On the south bank is the Kusano family, the Hoshino family, and the Wenzhusho family. It is indeed the most reasonable way to divide the territories of the two families by Chikugo River, and the income of the two places is also similar.

"What is the other plan?" Zheng Liang continued to ask after a moment of contemplation.

"After dividing up the territory of the Otomo family in the Chikugo country, your side will attack the Otomo family's Hinaki Castle on the border of Bungo along the border between Chikugo and Bungo; and the main family will attack Takada on the border of the Otomo family from Buzen respectively. City and Sunrise City. The territory acquired by each of the raids belongs to each of them."

"What is the exact date of the attack?"

"After the autumn harvest."

"Okay, please tell Mr. Tanti that our family will definitely help us with this strategy." Zheng Liang finally said.Judging from the current plan, it was indeed a good opportunity to jointly attack Otomo's house, and there was no problem in it, so Zheng Liang naturally agreed.

In this way, Naito Xingsheng returned to Ouchi's house with a satisfactory answer, while Masara simply rested in the village and the city for several days.The main reason why he stayed for several days was that Zheng Liang had just received some shocking information.

The information was sorted out by Shigetada, who had just returned to the territory of the wooden building, for Zheng Liang.

First of all, the Maori family that Zhengliang has been focusing on.

More than half a year ago, Kobayakawa Xingjing, who was lucky enough to save his life from Izumo because of Masara's previous layout, died suddenly (in Masara's view, he was probably murdered by Mori Moto), leaving him blind and weak Shigehei Kobayakawa.Less than two months after Kobayakawa Xingjing was buried, a group of people in Kobayakawa's family, headed by Nomi Takashi, suddenly clamored to join the Mori family.Shigehei Kobayakawa had no choice but to welcome Motozuru's third son, Takakage Mori, as his adopted son.As soon as Longjing came in, he colluded with Naimi Longxing, and gradually purged and killed the retainers who were loyal to Fanping within a few months.In the end, Yuan framed Shigehei Kobayakawa for colluding with the Niko family, and forced Shigehei Kobayakawa to live in seclusion as a monk. Then, with the full support of Yoshitaka Ouchi, Takakage Mori married Shigehei Kobayakawa's younger sister as his wife, and took over Shigehei Numata's family. The Takehara and Numata Kobayakawa families were all unified in the hands of Long Jing, and the name of Kobayakawa Takake was officially passed down in the world.Coupled with the acquisition of the Yoshikawa family before, the Maori family's Liangchuan system was formally formed.

After getting the Kobayakawa family, Mori Moto didn't intend to stop. He found an excuse to launch a surprise attack on the Inoue family, the important officials of the Mori family who had a lot of land, great power, and control of the Mori family's finances, posing a threat to the clan.Except for the Inoue family who was young and old, and a man named Inoue Mitsutoshi who was always loyal to Yuanjiu, the rest of the Inoue family were all slaughtered.After the Inoue family was purged, the people of An Yun were frightened to death, and hurriedly wrote a letter of loyalty and dedicated it to Yuan Jiu.Mao Liyuan took the opportunity to ask all 239 retainers to submit a letter of petition, promising to obey the master's control.

So people from all over Anyun signed their signature monograms on the oath one by one, and arranged them together according to the center of the circle, which was somewhat similar to the Knights of the Round Table under King Arthur. The guiding ideology of Yuanjiu's "one million hearts" is written on it, and oaths to the gods (such as if I rebel against the master's family, I will be struck by thunder and so on), and then handed over to Yuanjiu in Junshan City, this is called "Umbrella Company". Judgment".Chinese people who have entered the "Umbrella Company Judgment" will follow Mao Liyuan to go to war when they encounter wars, and Ping Yen will protect their castles and territories and enjoy relatively high independence.Later, although the power of the Maori family expanded to other countries, they all adopted the form of "umbrella joint judgment" to attract people from all over the country to work for them. The "Umbrella Company Judgment" was issued.As a result, the Maori family's "Umbrella Company Judgment" gradually took shape.

The reason why Zhengliang was shocked was because whether it was the purge of the Inoue family or the formation of the "Umbrella Company Judgment" system, in history, these events would have occurred at least a few years later, but now they all happened earlier. .

What's more, before this, Zhengliang could have made some arrangements in an attempt to prevent the rapid rise of the Maori family.Unexpectedly, not only did it fail to stop the rise of the Maori family, but it even stimulated the Maori family to become ruthless and speed up the rise.Zhengliang suddenly felt like lifting a rock and hitting his own foot.

Especially after seeing the information about Mino and Owari, Masara's feeling became even more obvious.

Originally, Masara snatched Saito Guicho over with the purpose of destroying the alliance between the Saito family and the Oda family.As a result, Oda Nobuhide was unable to fight on both sides because he had to deal with the Imagawa family, and Saito Dozo also encountered difficulties in winning over the Mino trio, so the two sides decided to negotiate a peace.Nobunaga, the son of Shinhide, married the third daughter of Tao San.

Saito Dosan has a total of five daughters, the eldest daughter has been betrothed to his sister Koji Yorimasa as the main wife, and Saito Guicho is the second daughter of Dosan.Unexpectedly, under the circumstances of losing his second daughter and suspecting that it was the Oda family's work, Dozo betrothed the third daughter who should have been betrothed to Toki Yorimumi to Nobunaga in the future.Dao San really deserves to be the Viper of the Warring States Period, his heart is so ruthless.

After receiving the news, Zheng Liang was really dumbfounded.What made Zhengliang even more depressing was that shortly after forming an alliance with the Saito and Oda families, Oda Nobuhide was forced to go to war against Qingzhou City.

The lord of Qingzhou City at this time was Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo, who was also a member of the Oda clan with Oda Nobuhide.Hikogoro's master is Shiba Yoshitomo, the head of the Shiba family known as "Mr. Takee", who also lives in Cheongju City.On the surface, it seems that this is the residence of the Shiba family, the lord of the country, and it is also the base of the guardianship and Oda Yamato.Yan Goro's family, Sakai Dazen, is a well-known strategist, known as the little guardian.Under him are Kansuke Sakai, Yoichi Kawajiri, and Oda. Their bravery is famous in Mikawa, but they are controlled by Yagoro Naguno.Yagoro is not Oda Hikogoro's retainer, but Shiba Yoshitomo's retainer.Shiba Yoshitomo, also known as "Mr. Wuwei", lived peacefully in Cheongju Castle, which was due to the military protection of Yagoro from Nakono Castle.It can be said that the internal relationship of Qingzhou City at this time is quite complicated.

The cause of the incident turned out to be that Oda Nobunaga did not know why he was crazy, and suddenly launched a fire raid on the castle town of Cheongju City one evening.This made Oda Hikogoro Shintou very angry, so after putting out the fire, he immediately raised his troops to attack Gudu City where Oda Nobuhide was located.Oda Nobuhide, who has been committed to temporarily maintaining peace within the Oda clan in order to attack Mikawa with all his strength, was shocked and had to fight passively.

The final result of the battle naturally ended with the victory of Oda Nobuhide.However, it caused chaos within the Oda family. The Owari Unification War, which was supposed to start after Oda Nobunaga became the governor of the family, kicked off ahead of schedule.This was years earlier than historically occurred.

Damn, could it be that my appearance and some layouts for them caused history to change?Shocked, Zheng Liang couldn't help talking to himself. (To be continued..)