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On the tenth day of October in the 17th year of Tianwen.

This day is a big day for Dazaifu of the Chikuzen Kingdom, because a significant tea party will be held here today.

The maid Aning opened the door as soon as she woke up, and looked at the sky outside.A day ago, she and a few maids were temporarily arranged to enter this dilapidated Dazaifu.Although neither she nor the sisters knew exactly why she was arranged to come here, but judging from the way everyone was busy preparing for the past two days, she knew that someone important must have come here.Later, she inquired from several young novice monks who were also temporarily transferred here that there would be a tea party here.

When Aning saw with his own eyes the Master Chanrong who presided over the conference, he immediately believed in it.Master Chanrong is the most famous eminent monk in the vicinity, and he has also won the respect of many adults for his superb tea art and virtue.

Master Zen Rong said, "As long as people who are interested in the tea ceremony, as long as they are merchants and ordinary people, they can carry a container, a cauldron or a rough embryo pot. Sweep the table and wait for the honor. If you still don't want to come, then in the future Treat the crude embryo pot as it is, and use it..." Even Aning, who is a maid, has heard rumors about this sentence.

When everything was ready for the tea party, it was already noon.Aning, who was one of the attendants of today's tea party, saw eminent monks from several nearby temples and even several temples in the Hakata area arriving at the tea party.But these eminent monks seemed to be waiting for some important person. When they arrived at Dazaifu, they all just waited quietly after paying respects.

"Come here, pay attention to salute." While waiting, a little novice hurriedly came in from the outside and reminded in a low voice.Aning and the others quickly knelt down on the ground.

It was Zhengliang and the others who came.

After personally leading the army to monitor Akizuki Wenzhong and leading his subordinates to leave Yesu Castle through the ancient mountain city, Masaragi ordered Shenya Shaoce to send the Akizuki family to follow Akizuki Wenzhong to the eastern part of the Chikuzen Kingdom (actually, according to the previous agreement, In disguise, he became a hostage to ensure the safe relocation of the Akizuki family members from the western part of the Chikuzen country), on the other hand, Masahiro left Kinoshita Masao to lead part of the army to monitor the evacuation of the remaining members of the Akizuki family and gradually take over Yasu County. [

After settling these things, Masara led the army to Yamanaki Castle to join Yoshida Shigemasa and others who were resting there and taking over Mihara County of Chikugo Country.After a short pause, he led the army non-stop to Shibata Castle, the home city of Chikushi's family.

Zheng Liang has already read the last letter that Chikushi Yuimon entrusted to the samurai in his family to deliver to Zheng Liang before his death.After watching.Zheng Liang couldn't help but feel a little embarrassed.The only enemies that the Luo family faced when they rose up in Hizen were Chikushi Yomon and Ryuzoji Takanobu. Now Chikushi Yomon has "committed suicide", and Ryuzoji Takanobu has disappeared.In less than ten years, these wealthy families that have gone through several generations disappeared in the tide of history.Zheng Liang couldn't help but feel a sense of crisis, just like these families, as long as they are not careful, the Luo family is likely to follow in the footsteps of these families.This also alerted Zheng Liang, so that he must not be complacent because of the current achievements of the Luo family.

After arriving at Shibata Castle, Masaragi did not immediately order to attack the city.Instead, let the samurai who had been guarding the head of Chikushi Yuimon enter the city with the last letter and head of Chikushi Yuimon.Zheng Liang decided to give everyone in the city a chance to choose.It is death or life.It's up to them to choose.

Fortunately, the retainers of the Chikushi family in the city finally chose Kaesong to surrender wisely when facing the army of the Luo family with more than 1 people outside the city.So Luo's family soldiers took over Shibatian City without fighting.

As for the Chikushi clan, Masarai also complied with the agreement in the last words of Chikushi Yuimo about the voluntary surrender of his tribe, and did not massacre them.Instead, relocate them away from the local area.They will be scattered and moved to various places in Hizen, Higo, and Chikugo countries.From then on, although the Chikushi clan retained their blood, they were almost wiped out.

After leaving behind Akaana Moriki from the Cabinet who hurried over to take over the territory of the Chikushi clan, Masara officially set off to attend the tea party in Dazaifu on the second day.

It was Master Chan Rong who invited Zheng Liang to this tea party.Zheng Liang is extremely familiar with Master Chan Rong.When the Luo family had just risen and went to Hakata for the first time to seek funds to develop the family, the place where Zheng Liang and others settled was the Shengfu Temple presided over by Master Chanrong.Later, with the help of Master Zen Rong, Zheng Liang was able to escape from Hakata from the siege and interception of the Harada family and returned to his own territory safely.

A few days ago.Zheng Liang, who was resting in Hizen Castle in Buzen Country, suddenly received a letter from two masters, Genji and Kaikawa Saki, who were in Hizen Country.It turned out that Master Zenrong formally invited Zhengliang to Dazaifu to attend the tea party through these two people.And he also directly stated that all the eminent monks from temples in the Hakata area participated in the conference.

As many temples that should not be underestimated in the Hakata area, after learning through their own intelligence network that the Luo family had defeated the Otomo and Ouchi alliance forces, and had taken advantage of the victory to enter the Chikuzen Kingdom, they decisively chose to take the initiative to fight with the Luo family. touch.In fact, it also proved the foresight of these monks.Just as they were preparing for this tea party, the Luo family had already completely occupied the Chikugo country one after another, and pushed back the Akizuki family and forced them to surrender to the Chikushi family, and their soldiers pointed directly at the Dazaifu area controlled by them.After learning that Zhengliang was in Shibata Castle, these monks hurriedly asked Master Chanrong to come forward and set the date of the tea party for today.

Shibata Castle (the Chikushino City area in later generations) where the Chikushi clan lived was actually only less than one mile away from the Dazaifu area. Under the protection of the army, Masara quickly approached his destination.

At a distance of half a mile from Dazaifu, Masara left most of his accompanying troops, and then moved on with only 200 troops.According to the agreement, the two sides can only bring 200 people into the area within half a mile of Dazaifu.In order to ensure Zhengliang's safety, a large number of black eagles and detectives entered the area on the day they received the invitation from Master Chanrong.Masara also left for Dazaifu after several groups of black hawks confirmed that there was no danger near Dazaifu.

Near Dazaifu, I saw a plum grove growing luxuriantly.The buildings of Dazaifu are hidden in this plum grove.Along the way, you can see many buildings that have gradually become dilapidated.

Dazaifu was established in AD 663. It was the military and administrative center of Kyushu at that time, and it was the department that governed Kyushu.The prince appoints the honorary commander-in-chief, and the sophomore is the substantive chief.Since the right minister Sugawara Michizane, Dazaifu Quanshuai has always been the post of exile and left transfer of ministers.Since Kamakura, Mutoshi, the guardian of Chikuzen, has served as Dazai Shaoer together with the Shaoer family from generation to generation.It is a pity that with the decline of the imperial court and the shogunate, coupled with the economic rise of the Hakata area, Dazaifu has become ineffective at this time, and eventually lost its status as the economic and political center of Kyushu, and now it is even more occupied by local temple forces , and became a place enshrined by the temple.Although Ouchi Yoshitaka, who had just become the guardian of the Chikuzen Kingdom, applied to the imperial court for approval of the official position of Dazai Daiji in order to legitimately dominate the Kitakyushu area, he was unwilling to confront the local temple forces, so It has never actually occupied it.

At this time, Master Chan Rong and others had already set up a tea banquet in a pavilion in Dazaifu.Accompanied by Master Chan Rong, Zheng Liang greeted the eminent monks from the temple one by one, and then walked into the tea banquet surrounded by reed mats.

Then the tea party officially started, and the sound of pots and kettles colliding was everywhere in the tea party, as if everyone was showing off the famous utensils they were proud of.As the lord of Hizen, Higo, and Chikugo, Masaragi naturally couldn't be rude, so he also took out the only tea utensil that was available at home, Ozengama. [

The tea party at this time is not the kind of tea party in the later generations when drinking tea in a tea house, it has a certain process and rules.Therefore, during the entire tea party, everyone discussed the topic of tea.Regarding this topic, Zheng Liang from later generations is naturally not too bad, so he, who was originally the protagonist of this tea party, immediately gained the favor of many tea ceremony lovers.

In fact, Zheng Liang is also very clear that as long as Zheng Liang is willing to come this time, he has released enough goodwill to these temple forces.And in Master Chan Rong’s previous letter to Zhengliang, Master Chan Rong also clearly told Zheng Liang that the temple forces in the Hakata area are willing to make friends with the Luo family, and are even willing to assist the Luo family to settle in the Hakata area.In return, these temple forces also hope that the Luo family can make appropriate concessions. After all, they have heard more or less about the temple system in the territory of the Luo family.The policy of confiscating temple fields alone touched the fundamental interests of these temples. As the Luo family entered the western part of the Chikuzen Kingdom unstoppably, they were naturally worried about the Luo family's next temple policy.And this is where the two sides will directly confront each other after the tea party.

At about four o'clock in the afternoon, the tea ceremony ended.But at this moment, it began to rain lightly in the sky.

Looking at the rainwater floating in the breeze outside the pavilion, Master Chan Rong, who was the host, smiled and said to Zheng Liang:

"Master Dazai is really destined for wind and rain!"

Master Chanrong's words are a joke on the surface, but they express two meanings.One is to take the opportunity to touch on the matter of Zheng Liang's escape from Hakata with his assistance. After all, it was a stormy day at that time.Secondly, he also secretly recognized the official position of Masarai Dazai Shaoer.

Zheng Liang also smiled slightly after hearing the words.These are really stormy days.

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