Warring States Eagle

The remaining snow is still there, and the foot of the mountain is covered with evening mist;

The mountain village and the river are far away, and the plum blossoms are fragrant;

The river wind blows the willow bushes, and the spring scenery is in front of us;

The sound of sculls can be heard in the distance, and the spring tide is white;

Clouds cover the night sky, leaving a round of moon;

The morning frost is all over the fields, and the autumn colors are already deep;

Although the insects wish to sing, the autumn grass has withered;

came to the hedge, and showed a way;

……

The cool evening breeze mixed with the smell of spring blows from the distant mountains.

It has been three days since Masara completed his inspection of Kobocho. During these three days, Masara stayed almost in the castle tower, working day and night to approve the documents piled up on the desk.After continuously fighting outside, some matters in the territory that must be approved by Zheng Liang naturally piled up. Taking advantage of this time, Zheng Liang naturally has to step up to deal with it.

In the evening of this day, after a busy day, Zhengliang came to the balcony of the castle tower, leaning on the railing to overlook the scenery outside the city.But at this time, from the bank of the Matsuura River outside the city, there was the sound of two male voices singing duet.Since the Hizen country is already the most prosperous area in the Luo family's territory, the castle town of Kishigake Mountain Castle, which is the core of the Hizen country and the Luo family's territory, is naturally the place where all kinds of cultural people in the Luo family's territory yearn to gather.Therefore, in ordinary days, many literati gather on the bank of the Matsuura River next to the town to communicate.

These songs are also very interesting to say.It is a game in which two people chant a waka, which began at the end of the Heian period.At first, Liange was popular in the court as an aftertaste of waka, and later it was widely popular among the citizens.Become a popular entertainment project.And appeared 5 rhyme, 100 rhyme lengthy sentence.That is the so-called "Hundred Rhyme Liange".

The advent of Lian Ge was based on the background that some nobles could not bear the shackles of stale traditional culture and tried to use folk interests to find a way out.The first feature of Liange is collective creation, that is, each sentence must be connected with the previous sentence of others, and the turning point is purely accidental, so the author needs to have a kind of wit to adapt to the situation, and at the same time, it also enables Liange to change from stagnant and heavy Get rid of emotional tendencies.The second characteristic of Liange is improvisation.The so-called "Song Tao" generally has its secrets.Liange has no definite format since ancient times, but it is superior to arouse the current interest. It can be seen that the second feature of Liange also needs to be resourceful and adaptable.So in Zhengliang's view, this kind of Liange is a bit like the duet of folk songs in Guilin that he has seen in later generations.

"This kind of elegance, I am afraid that even the capital at this time does not have it?"

While listening to Liange, while looking at the beautiful scenery of the mountains in the distance, Zheng Liang couldn't help thinking.He even thought of a strategy because of this, that is, if he recruits Lian Ge masters who have traveled to various countries from the capital and other places, he can learn Lian Ge from them.In fact, they want to know the affairs of the world without leaving home.Ask those singers about the customs of people from various countries.This method seems to be much cheaper than sending detectives from the Luo family to go out to inquire about information.

Then he thought of the good news from Bungo country.It turned out that the high castle that was defended by the Nakahoku Shiga family in Bungo State's direct entry county was finally broken.It was not the Luo family's army that caused the fall of this fortified city that had stood firm for two months.It was a soldier of the Kitashiga family in Takashiro.

It turned out that Honda Masanobu saw Shiga's relatives in Gaocheng stubbornly refused to surrender, so he asked his father to lead a thousand peasants and soldiers to continue to harass Gaocheng, and at the same time sent people to nearby Inquire about news from the territory of the former Kita Shiga family.Inadvertently, he discovered that because the family's labor force was trapped in Gaocheng, many nearby villages of Hara Kita Shiga's family could not carry out spring plowing normally.So Honda Zhengxin immediately sent people to infiltrate these villages, and then instigated these leaders to go outside Gaocheng to persuade their relatives in the city to surrender.

After more than half a month of persuasion by family affection, some soldiers in the city were finally shaken.People's hearts are also fleshy. Shiga Kidu brought his family and relatives into Gaocheng long ago, and there is enough food in the city to support everyone in the city for a year. Naturally, Shiga Kidu can sit back and relax.But as ordinary soldiers guarding the city, their wives, wives and children are all outside the city. Without them as the main labor force, how will these relatives outside the city plow in the spring this year.If spring plowing is not good enough to grow food, how will they survive this winter?Do you want them to wait to die?

This is obviously impossible, so on a dark night, some soldiers guarding the city launched a conspiracy.After seeing relatives of the soldiers guarding the city outside the city to persuade them to surrender, Shiga personally dispatched his confidantes and relatives to guard the city gate. Shiga never imagined that the target of the rebels was not the city gate. , but stayed in the castle by himself.Caught off guard, he was beheaded by the swarming rebels.Then, under the influence of Shiga's leader, more people joined the ranks of the conspiracy, and finally overwhelmed those who resisted the conspiracy.

The rebel soldiers took the opportunity to open the city gate, and put the Luo family's army, which had gathered outside the city after discovering the changes in the city, into Gaocheng.Finally, Gaocheng, which had held on for two months, declared its fall.Since then, Zhijin County has been declared to be completely incorporated into the territory of the Luo family.

In order to appease the local people, Masara just killed the men of Shiga's family, and spared Shiga's wives and daughters. Anyway, with Shiga's death, there is no male heir at this time. The Shiga Kindo Clan declared extinct.The two fathers and sons Honda Toshimasa and Honda Masanobu who had done meritorious service assisted the Luo family's cabinet to appease the local people on the spot.

With the fall of Gaocheng, the Otomo family was left with only Kunisaki County as a complete territory, and half of the remaining Sujian County and Haibu County fell into the hands of the Luo family.Suddenly thinking of this matter, Zheng Liang couldn't help but sigh with emotion. It is true that Dayou's family is in decline, but Luo's family is thriving.

Standing on the terrace and meditating for a while, Zheng Liang finally turned around and prepared to go back to the meeting hall on the first floor of the castle tower, but the moment he turned around, he saw a samurai riding a horse from a big hand in the afterglow of the setting sun. The door rushed in, and then came towards the Tianshou Pavilion.The man looked distraught.who is it?What's the matter?Zhengliang muttered in his heart, while turning around and heading for the meeting hall on the first floor of the castle tower.

"My lord." After the visitor arrived, Zheng Liang, who was sitting on the head seat of the meeting hall, realized that it was Shimadzu Yoshihiro who was riding the horse just now.

Yoshihiro Shimadzu, as a hostage of the alliance between the Shimadzu family and the Luo family, entered the Luo family five years ago. Before he knew it, he had changed from an eight-year-old child to a 13-year-old boy.

In fact, watching Naoshima Naomo, Honda Masanobu, Kawada Yoshiro and others who have been by his side for several years have all been reused by the lord Masarai and sent to the army below. Yoshihiro Shimadzu, who is no worse than them, is naturally anxious, so whenever he has an errand, he will take the initiative to take care of him.This time he took Zhengliang's task and went out.

"My lord, the Kitahara and Hisikari families of the Osumi country and the Qi Dayuan family of the Satsuma country jointly sent envoys, and the Kitahara Kanshou..."

"Matashiro, don't panic, wipe off the sweat on your forehead first." Zhengliang said with a smile, "Kanshou Kitahara came here, there must be something important. Can you guess what it is?"

Yoshihiro Shimadzu knelt on the ground wiping his sweat, raised his head after hearing the words and shook his head, "That guy has no expression on his face..."

"Hahaha... as long as you keep your eyes open and look carefully, everything in the world has expressions. Look at the rice outside the city..." Zheng Liang said with a smile, "it is saying that the people cultivate it with heart, and it is very happy. Only To hear the voice of all things is to grow into a man."

As for the four tigers of the Shimadzu family, Zheng Liang’s favorite is the second tiger, "Onishimanzi" and "Oni Shimadzu" Yoshihiro Shimadzu. Ability to analyze calmly and not to panic.Often in his spare time, Zheng Liang would teach him some subtle things.As for Masahiro's teachings, Shimadzu Yoshihiro will listen carefully every time.

"Okay, since you're back, the other party is almost here too? You go down and inform Master Dongxiang and Master Yamamoto to come to the meeting hall." Zheng Liang finally said.

After the latter got the order, he immediately bowed and left.Seeing the obedient Shimadzu Yoshihiro gradually disappearing, Masaragi suddenly said:

"Did he make any changes?"

"My lord, there was nothing unusual. After leaving the city, he followed the lord's instructions to meet the envoys from the Dasumi Kingdom. He also kept his word and acted slowly along the way, and there was nothing unusual."

A black eagle stepped out of the shadow of the meeting hall and knelt down to salute Zheng Liang and said.

"Well, keep watching him."

"Yes!" Hei Ying bowed and retreated after being ordered, and immediately followed the direction where Shimadzu Yoshihiro left.

"Hey! It's not that I don't want to reuse you! It's just that you are still from the Shimadzu family!" Zhengliang said to himself after Heiying left.

In any case, Yoshihiro Shimadzu is still a member of the Shimadzu family. At this time, after all, he is still a hostage of the two alliances. Naturally, Zheng Liang cannot keep him away from his surveillance.In addition, Zheng Liang did not want him to be sent to the army so that he could learn more about the secrets of the Luo family.

In fact, Yoshihiro Shimadzu already knew many secrets of the Luo family after following the Luo family for so long.And Zhengliang is also considering how to deal with the issue of Yoshihiro Shimadzu.But what is certain is that unless the Shimadzu family has taken refuge in the Luo family, in order to keep it secret, Yoshihiro Shimadzu basically has no chance to return to the Shimadzu family.As for how to deal with Yoshihiro Shimadzu in the end, even now, Zhengliang still hasn't come up with a good way to deal with it.

This time, Zhengliang sent Yoshihiro Shimadzu out to meet the envoys of the Osumi Kingdom, so he naturally took the opportunity to observe Yoshihiro Shimadzu's performance.After all, the Kitahara family, Hishikari family, and Satsuma's Ketain family who sent envoys this time are united in confrontation with the Shimadzu family.

"At least, from the current point of view, nothing out of the ordinary has been done." Thinking of Yoshihiro Shimadzu's performance this time, Zheng Liang finally said to himself.Then he looked silently at the sky facing the gate of the meeting hall.

In the sky at this time, the bright red sunset was slowly setting towards the west. (To be continued..)