Warring States Eagle

Tianwen 18th year ([-]), early May.

That is to say, the second day after the joint envoys of the Hishikari family, the Kitahara family, and the Qidayuan family arrived at the Luo family, Zheng Liang, who had hurriedly dealt with the government affairs of the day, finally received the anxious Kitahara Kanesori.

"Greetings to Luo Shi Hihoushou Dazai Shao Er Masara-sama." Kitahara Kenmori immediately saluted when the protagonist finally appeared.

"These days I have been busy meeting the peace envoys of the Ouchi family and the Ouchi family, so please forgive me for being far behind." Zheng Liang lied directly when they met.

However, Kitahara Kaneshou on the opposite side believed it completely, and immediately bowed to the ground in panic again: "Master Dazai Shaoer is the well-deserved No. The coalition forces of the Uchi family and the Otomo family were defeated by the Luo family last year, and the Luo family entered the Chikuzen country in one fell swoop, and then this year, taking advantage of the civil strife in the Otomo family, the Luo family took advantage of the civil strife in the Otomo family. This series of shocking news is indeed true. It was the local nobles of Satsuma and Osumi that were shocked.

Of course, the noble families of the Rhikari family, the Kitahara family, the Qidayuan family, the Takashiro family, and the Tsuruta family were the most shocked, and they also began to panic after being shocked.Because some time ago, it was they who sent troops into Kuma County after Nanfei to help the Sagara family there, which prevented the Luo family from occupying the remaining half of Kuma County after Nanfei in time.

They were all worried that the Ouchi family and the Otomo family's Luo family, who had won a big victory in Kitakyushu and actively oppressed the former Kyushu overlord, would suddenly settle accounts for them.Coupled with the fact that several recent battles with the Shimadzu family in Kita Satsuma ended in disastrous defeats, this made them realize that it was time to find a bigger backer to support them.

Historically, the Shimadzu family did not act against these wealthy families so quickly.It is estimated that it was influenced by the continuous growth of the neighbor Luo's family.The Shimadzu family also gambled to speed up the pace of unifying Satsuma.There is even the ambition to press on Osumi.

According to historical development, the Shimadzu family should have gradually started to attack these local wealthy families in the following years. At that time, these wealthy families had also accumulated a certain amount of strength, so they could still deal with the Shimadzu family.But at this time, the overall strength of the Shimadzu family is obviously much stronger than them. In addition, the Shimadzu family has received the help of a group of mysterious pirates, so the combined forces of the Kitahara family and other wealthy families continued to fight against the Shimadzu family. Several battles were fought, all of which ended in disastrous defeat.

And it was the offensive launched by the Shimadzu family in advance.It also prompted these local wealthy families to trigger historical events in advance, that is, to start looking for foreign aid.In history, the foreign aid they invited this time was the Ito family who had already extended their influence into the southern part of Hyuga, which in turn triggered a decades-long conflict between the Ito family and the Shimadzu family.But at this time, the Ito family is still fighting with the Kitago family who have unified the Toyosu Shimadzu clan under their command while the Toyoshu Shimadzu family has no heirs. Naturally, they have no time to take care of Kita Satsuma's affairs for the time being. up.

At this moment, the Luo family defeated the joint army of 5 people from the Ouchi family and the Ouchi family with a thunderous force, and took the opportunity to enter the Chikuzen country within the Ouchi family's sphere of influence and the Bungo country, the home of the Ouchi family. Huge momentum.So they naturally set their sights on the Luo family.

Seeing Kitahara Kaneshou's fearful expression, Zheng Liang smiled and continued, "The weather is good, this year should have a bumper harvest." At this time, the yard was full of brilliant euphratica flowers.It is indeed a look of brilliant spring flowers about to harvest.

"Exactly. The common people should also breathe a sigh of relief, and they will live comfortably in a few days." Kitahara Kaneshou immediately echoed.

"Well. Let's get down to business. What is the reason you are here this time?" Zheng Liang always likes to change the topic constantly when conducting diplomatic exchanges, so that the other party loses his composure when he is stunned.

Sure enough, after hearing Masara's sudden straight-forward words, Kitahara Kanemori was taken aback for a moment, and then said with a mournful face: "The Satsuma Shimadzu family is cruel and ruthless, and brutally invaded our territory. Please ask Luo's fat empress Dazai Shao Er Masahiro to do it for you." I'll be the master!" His sincere expression was as if the Luo family was already their suzerain.

"Oh?" Zheng Liang said with a half-smile after hearing this, "It seems that you have once been hostile to our family? Besides, the Shimadzu family is also an ally of our family."

"Your Masara, Dazai Dazai, Luo's Higo, doesn't know something! This time, a group of pirates who used hundreds of iron cannons suddenly appeared in the Shimadzu family's army, which made our army suffer a disastrous defeat." Kitahara Kanemori is very smart. Not only deliberately avoided answering Masara's rhetorical question directly, but pointed out the obvious change in the Shimadzu family's military strength this time, and at the same time reminded Masara cryptically that if the Shimadzu family with mysterious force continues to develop, sooner or later they will Not good for the Roche family.

"Oh? A pirate who uses hundreds of iron cannons at the same time?" Sure enough, Masara was attracted by Kitahara Kanemori's words.Although the Tanegashima of the Shimadzu family has already started producing iron cannons, it will take at least one or two years before a team of several hundred iron cannons can be assembled.So the sudden appearance of such a large-scale iron cannon at Shimadzu's house naturally attracted Zhengliang's attention.

"Yes, Dazai-sama, according to my investigation, these pirates who use iron running are said to be from the Ming Dynasty, and they have already joined the Shimadzu family." It is to work harder to reveal more information.

"Who is the pirate of the Ming Dynasty with the iron cannon?" Zheng Liang couldn't help muttering in his heart.Thinking about such a thing in his heart, but on the surface, he continued to say:

"If you want my family to come forward to mediate, what are you going to pay?"

"Master Dazai, please understand us. We have been defeated by the Shimadzu army several times. I hope that Master Dazai can support some iron cannons for us." Kitahara Kanemori said very Cunning, not only did not take the initiative to ask for the price he was willing to pay, but instead hoped that Zhengliang would take the initiative to ask for conditions so that he could bargain proactively.At the same time, he was still crying for poverty, hoping that the Luo family could provide them with iron cannons.But this is obviously impossible. Originally, the Luo family didn't have much reserves of iron cannons, let alone iron cannons. Even some of the Ming Dynasty Huotong who were eliminated are now sent to Ye Gaoshan, Matsuura County, Hizen Kingdom. The boot camp serves as a training weapon for the new iron cannon ashigaru.

Besides, Kitahara Kaneshou was still on the disadvantaged side at this time, so Zhengliang simply fell silent and looked at the other party with a half-smile.It's like watching a fool. (To be continued..)