Warring States Eagle

In the afternoon, the drizzle outside the house was still falling.Looking into the distance, the mountains and forests in the distance are like smoke and fog, and it is a little hard to distinguish.

It was already mid-October at this time. According to the situation in previous years, it should have been the beginning of autumn, but the weather was very abnormal. Occasionally there were a few days like summer, making people unable to feel the breath of autumn.

And this abnormal weather, just like the various forces in the Warring States Period, can be changed day and night for the sake of profit.In the past, when the Ouchi family gained power in the western part of the Chikuzen country, these temple forces were all staunch supporters of the Ouchi family.Now, with the Ouchi family's coalition forces being defeated by the Luo family at the foot of Mt. Therefore, he immediately abandoned the Ouchi family, and decisively contacted the Luo family to jointly divide up the interests of the western region of the Chikuzen country.

After the tea party, under the organization of Master Chanrong, the Luo family held interviews with the temple forces.After more than two hours of negotiations, the two parties finally reached an agreement on cooperation.

The temple forces in the Hakata area (mainly the five counties of Sarya, Naka, Xitian, Zaiya, and Mikasa) will publicly recognize and support the Luo family’s efforts to attack Yito, Shima, Sarya, Naka, Xida, Zaiya, and Yasu in the near future. , Xiaza, Shangza, and the ten counties of Mikasa (Chikuzen Kingdom has a total of fifteen counties. In addition to these ten counties, there are five counties in the eastern region, including Munakata, Toga, Kurate, Kama, and Hoonami). The believers cooperate with the rule of the Luo family.

Second, these temples will abide by the Luo family's ultimatum system.The information of the monks in each temple will be registered under the management of the Luo family.also.The temple forces recognized the Luo family's ownership of Dazaifu.Agree to hand over Dazaifu and its surrounding areas to the Luo family.At this point, the Luo family will completely control the Dazaifu, and Masaragi has become a veritable second Dazai.

But what the Luo family has to pay is to recognize the ownership of the territories that these temples have already occupied, and the income tax from these territories does not need to be handed over to the Luo family (in fact, this was the system during the rule of the Ouchi family in the past).And they can still keep all the current monk soldiers, but they are not allowed to increase the size of the monk soldiers (compared to the Ouchi family period, the size of the monk soldiers has been restricted).

at the same time.They must abide by the laws of the Luo family. If the monks commit crimes, they will be jointly judged by both parties.This not only restricted these temples from continuing to occupy more territory, but also restricted the possibility of these monks wantonly violating the laws of the Luo family.This is already a huge concession from the temple side. In the past, the power of the temple committed crimes, and the local wealthy family had no way to punish them.

Of course, with Zhengliang's previous style of handling things, he was very unhappy with such an agreement.What Zhengliang emphasizes is absolute control.With such an agreement, the temple side not only retains its original strength, but also becomes a potential "smart work" in the territory of the Luo family.Other tyrants can learn more about the internal situation of Luo's family through these temples.

certainly.Zhengliang no longer cares about the leakage of information such as the system.In fact, with the continuous expansion of the Luo family's territory.As well as the continuous infiltration of the Luo family by the surrounding tycoons, the Luo family could no longer completely seal off the border as it had just started.This has already led to the outflow of many Luo family's systems and even technologies.The most obvious example is that the fire ash composting method of the Luo family has spread to Kyoto and even the Owari area.

The benefit that the Luo family gained from this meeting was the public support of these temple forces.Don't underestimate these temple forces.According to the results obtained by the Intelligence Pavilion, if the temple forces in these areas united against the Luo family, the harm would be even more serious than the Ouchi family's direct attack on the Luo family.This is why even though the Ouchi family controlled the Chikuzen Kingdom, they still treated these temples with courtesy.Therefore, these temple forces took the initiative to contact the Luo family, not because they were afraid of the Luo family, but because they were unwilling to harm their own interests by confronting the Luo family for no reason.Of course, if the Luo family deliberately harmed their interests, they would not mind going to war with the Luo family directly.

Now after mutual compromise and the support of these temple forces, the Luo family can quickly receive the newly occupied territory and start orderly management, and at the same time avoid being hindered by these temple forces when they continue to expand the results in the western part of the Chikuzen Kingdom. .When necessary, they can even seek the support of the monks and soldiers of these temples.Of course, there is a fee to be paid for this.

As for the future, Zheng Liang had already thought about it.After the Luo family has completely controlled the western part of the Chikuzen country and won the support of the people, and cut off the source of these temple support forces, Masaragi will slowly uproot these temple forces.Now that Luo's family has something to ask for from these forces, Zheng Liang has no choice but to endure it for the time being.

After agreeing on everything, Zheng Liang immediately got on his horse and prepared to leave.Before leaving, Zheng Liang accidentally saw Ah Ning and several other maids.So he casually asked Master Chanrong to bring these maids over.

Zhengliang did not do this repeatedly.This time, the two sides negotiated, although an agreement had been signed, but it was not safe.Zhengliang's move is just to remind Chan Rong and others not to tear up the agreement at will.Naturally, these maids, who were witnesses to the meeting between the two sides, will stay.In fact, if Zheng Liang didn't take the initiative to take these maids away, what awaited them was probably the fate of being killed for keeping secrets.Aning and the others, who were shocked by suddenly becoming Zheng Liang's maids, did not know that they escaped unharmed.

Just when Zhengliang was about to leave, Heiying suddenly came forward to report:

"My lord, a mile to the east, I found a large army approaching."

"Huh?" Mr. Zheng Liang was startled, and then looked at Master Chanrong who came out to the side to see him off.The latter was also surprised.The talks between the two parties here today were strictly kept secret, and now they suddenly heard that there was an army approaching, which obviously leaked the news.

"Immediately send an order to the army from halfway to come to guard." At this moment, Zheng Liang could no longer think about why the army suddenly appeared approaching, and immediately ordered.After being ambushed last time, Zheng Liang has become much more careful.This time, in addition to the 200 guards outside the temple, there is also an army of 3000 people waiting for orders.And Zhengliang also realized one thing, that is, the integrity of the army must be ensured and it must not be separated.The deadliest part of the last ambush was that the enemy had completely separated Zhengliang from the army under his command from the very beginning, causing Zhengliang to fight alone. Otherwise, with the strength of the army led by Zhengliang at that time, he was fully capable of rushing out of the encirclement of.

"My lord." Just as Zheng Liang was about to order an emergency to join the army halfway, another black eagle came running to report: "My lord, we have captured an envoy who claims to be the Takahashi family, and this person claims to be the representative The governor of the family asked the lord to stay and see. In addition, the opponent's army stopped suddenly when they were half a mile away."

"Takahashi's family?" Zheng Liang recalled instantly.This place is actually not far from Takahashi's Baoman Mountain City, probably less than three miles away.The only strange thing is that this time the Takahashi family came too suddenly, and they were very clear about the agreement made by the Luo family and the temple forces in the Hakata area this time, and they automatically restrained the army under their command to stop at the agreed distance.

"Master Dazai, this matter should be confirmed by the poor monk himself." Hearing that it was the governor of Takahashi's family who came, Chanrong said immediately.He was also very angry about the sudden arrival of the Takahashi family. He didn't want to be misunderstood by Zheng Liang as conspiring with the Takahashi family to deal with the Luo family. Otherwise, the agreement reached between the two parties today would be ruined, and Chikuzen would be in a state of misery. up.

"That's great!" Sensing the other party's calm gaze, Zheng Liang agreed.Then he signaled several retainers to "accompany" Master Chan Rong to the front to see what the purpose of Takahashi's family came this time. At the same time, he did not forget to continue to order the army half a mile away to rush here to meet up immediately.For this unexpected visitor, Zheng Liang did not trust him very much.

(Please note that the next chapter is quite interesting, so don't miss it.) (To be continued...)