Warring States Eagle

Regarding the war against Iki, in the end, Zheng Liang postponed the plan.But it is already secretly preparing for the expedition.

The Cabinet is already preparing relevant supplies for the expedition, and the navy has also received relevant preparation orders.As for Iki, Masara no longer needed to hide his intentions. After all, in terms of strength, the Luo family could completely crush Iki's Bodo.

In addition, the anti-espionage strategy established by using the maid around Tai Jiuling can also be implemented, and the details will be handed over to the intelligence cabinet to operate.Presumably Bodo will be surprised by then.

Of course, for the looting incident, the Luo family still had to find a way to settle it.So Dongxiang Heiji, the Luo family's old man, personally convened a meeting in Hakata with businessmen including the victim Nawu this time. During the meeting, Dongxiang Heiji clearly stated to everyone that he would strengthen the patrol of coastal commercial routes Some new small preferential measures were promulgated, and in addition, the merchants were asked to go to the side of Hirado Island when transporting food in the future (just because the sea journey is too long, in order to save costs, these merchants may not be willing to go here), and finally let the merchants The businessman settled down.

Subsequently, the Luo family's navy did fulfill its promise and greatly increased the patrol density on the Chikuen coast.The unusual behavior of the Luo family's navy made the Munakata's family nervous for a while, and even asked the Ouchi family for help.After receiving the request for help, the Ouchi family immediately sent an envoy to protest to the Luo family. Zheng Liang didn't even bother to meet the other party's envoy. Say it clearly, and then expel the envoy of the Ouchi family.

The Luo family has such a tough attitude.Immediately, the Munakata family and the Ouchi family became nervous.The two had to bite the bullet and strengthen the number of defenders at the junction of the Chikuzen area and the Luo family.

At this time, the relationship between Luo's family and Ouchi's family is indeed very strange.It was obvious that the two sides were tearing their skins apart, and there were occasional conflicts, but they still tried their best to maintain mutual restraint, and instead fought diplomatically.It's like two people are fighting, they have already pushed each other, but instead of fighting, they are still scolding each other.Of course, such a result.It mainly depends on the situation in each family.The Luo family needs to recuperate, and the Ouchi family also needs to recuperate.So no one wanted to fight first, and then let the other onlookers take advantage of it.

The same as Ouchi Yoshitaka's situation at the time, Ouchi Yoshitaka realized that the threat of the Luo family was getting bigger and bigger, so he resolutely tore up the covenant and jointly suppressed the Luo family with the Ouchi family.Now seeing that the suppression is too much, I have no choice but to prepare to use the method of slow consumption and confrontation to deal with the Luo family.It’s just that what Ouchi Yoshitaka didn’t know was that the internal affairs system of the Luo’s family was different from the internal affairs management system of all the other great names in the Wa Kingdom. Concentration utilization efficiency and other aspects are ahead of them.Unlike them, most of them are Chinese systems.Moreover, most countries do not have a close-knit national population management system, and the retainers and powerful families operate independently in their own territories, resulting in scattered resources that cannot be concentrated and effectively used.So the longer time passed, the stronger the Luo family would be.

While dealing with the robbery of the merchant ship, Zheng Liang also paid attention to the assassination in the castle town.The assassin has come to his senses, and the intelligence cabinet is also interrogating him, and it is estimated that he will get the information Zheng Liang needs soon.

In addition, Zhengliang took advantage of this time to strengthen the guards of Xuefu City and the castle town.

目前学府城中，一共常驻军势分别有400人的武士番队、100人的披风众、200人的铁炮番队、50人的黑鹰、100人的第一骑兵常备番队番队、500人临时征募的守城农兵。而由于工作关系未能长期全员驻扎在学府城内的军势则有250人的侦番以及100人的传令兵。随着大筒工坊今年测试全部通过的三尊大筒安置在城内的炮台之上后，学府城的守卫也算得上是安稳了。

As for the castle town of Xuefu City, since the population of the town has increased to more than 2 at this time, it is impossible to maintain the law and order of the town only by relying on a 500-member security team composed of mostly retired soldiers. The number of the squad has increased to 1000.The specific recruitment work was handed over to the Interior Cabinet and the Intelligence Cabinet to jointly operate. As for the arrangement of the generals in the security team, it was jointly negotiated by the Military Cabinet and the Intelligence Cabinet, and finally decided by Zheng Liang.

At the same time, Zheng Liang also ordered the Cabinet to immediately start a comprehensive population survey of the castle town.Since the Luo family implemented the method of linking the wooden sign (equivalent to an ID card) with the registration information of the local population account book, such an investigation would inevitably reveal the details of some other forces hiding in the castle town.

And just as Zhengliang was arranging follow-up measures for his attack and the robbery of the merchant ship, a major incident also happened at Sagara's home in Kuma County, Nanhigo.

It turned out that Uemura Laixing, who belonged to Sagara's family, was critically ill.On this day, all the powerful families in East Kuma County were invited to come to Nabe Castle of Sagara's family.Uemura Laixing's life is actually similar to that of Mori Moto. He constantly used intrigues to suppress the retainers who opposed him at home, divided some territories under the names of his second and last sons, and at the same time emptied the power of the governor Yoshiko , made his son as the adopted son of Yoshiko Sagara, and finally got the position of family governor through his son Haruhiro Sagara.In addition, he is also a talent who treats the people well and is good at civil affairs. At this time, in some areas of Nanfeihou, even though it has been ruled by the Luo family for several years, some local people still mention from time to time the rules implemented by the Sagara family. Some benevolent ones.

If the Luo family hadn't been born, then according to historical development, Sagara Haruhiro would have successfully inherited the position of family governor. With his assistance, he would not only open up trade with the Ming Dynasty, but also follow the laws and regulations of the previous daimyo to formulate more perfect The last 21 articles of the Sagara family's regulations finally made the Sagara family a powerful and powerful one in the Warring States period.

It's just that after meeting the Luo family, all of this disappeared. They not only lost most of Nanfeihou's territory, but also had to hide in the remaining half of Kuuma County for a long time.Sudden turn of events.And during this period of time, they have worked hard to resist the continuous invasion of the Luo family in the west.Uemura Laixing, who was the real pillar of the family but was old, finally fell ill.Not long ago, after learning the news of being abandoned by allies such as the Hishikari family and the Kitahara family.His condition worsened again, and now he is dying.All the powerful families who received the news rushed to Guocheng where Uemura Laixing was located.

On this day, in front of the door of Lai Xing's ward in Shangcun, Guocheng City, the Lords of Uemura Uemura Laixiao, the Lord of Fengfu City Uemura Laijian, and the Lord of Okamoto Inaniru Changzang who rushed to the ward after hearing the news all knelt and sat quietly in front of the door. Under the two toon trees full of flowers, waiting for the reception of Uemura Laixing.

"Wow!" At this moment, there was a sound of vomiting from inside.

"Come quickly, find a doctor, your lord is vomiting blood again." Immediately, a maid's anxious cry sounded in the room.Suddenly, Sagara Haruhiro and the others who were standing outside the door became flustered.

While sitting under the toon tree, Uemura Yoshitaka, Uemura Laijian, and Inamura Chozo were pretending to be concerned.They also secretly exchanged glances.For a long time, Uemura Lai Xing has been a big mountain on top of everyone in the family, so that they dare not act rashly at all. Even the sons of Uemura Laixing, Uemura Laixing and Uemura Laixing, have behaved quite well. Now, seeing Uemura Lai Xing was about to die, and the ambition deep in their hearts was finally revealed. They had discussed it long ago. Once Uemura Lai Xing died, they advocated dividing up the rights and territories in the family. As for the slightly sick brother Haruhiro Sagara.If he is sensible, let him live.Let him be the governor of the puppet family. If he doesn't know the person, he has no choice but to kill him just like his father Uemura Laixing treated his uncles.Then he supported Haruhiro Sagara's five-year-old son Manmanmaru (that is, Yoshiyo Sagara) to become the puppet governor.

While Yoriko Uemura, Yori Ken Uemura, Changzang Inamura and others were eyeing each other below, they didn't notice that their entourage outside the yard had been invited by Yori Uemura in the name of preparing to confess his last words not to approach Went elsewhere.Of course, under the influence of Yoshihing Uemura for a long time, they did not realize that this visit turned out to be a poisonous plan set by Yoshihing Uemura.Even his second and last sons were not spared by this poisonous trick.

In fact, in history, the three of Uemura Yoriko, Uemura Laijian, and Inamura Chozo were rebels.At that time, Uemura Laixing had just died of illness, so they banded together to bully Sagara Yoshiyo as a young man, trying to follow the example of the division of the three families into the three prefectures of Kuma, Yatsushiro, and Weibei owned by the Sagara family. And the Satsuma Lingkari clan invaded the family territory for aid.In the end, Sagara Yoshiyo used his wrist to solve it.

Now Sagara Yoshiyo is only a child over five years old, so he is naturally unable to deal with the three of Uemura Yoshitaka, Uemura Yoriken, and Inazu Nagazo, but they have met Uemura Yoshio who is not yet dead.Historically, it was because of the suppression of Uemura Yoshihing that the three talents Uemura Yoshitaka, Uemura Yoriken, and Inamura Nagazo worked as cowards for a long time, until their minds matured and they knew how to hide their ambitions, and then waited for Uemura It was only after Lai Xing died of illness that he launched the attack.But now the strength of the Sagara family is not as good as before, and Uemura Laixing is seriously ill again, but the three young people can't bear their ambitions and start to make small moves below.It's just that they didn't know it, and it was precisely because the strength of the family was not as good as before, Uemura Laixing strengthened the surveillance of the retainers, so they had already discovered the misconduct of these three people.Now, before he died, he decided to solve the future troubles for his son and grandson.

"Boom, boom, boom..." Just as everyone outside the ward had different thoughts, the room suddenly fell silent, and there was the sound of a hard object hitting the floor.

Immediately after the sound of "shua", the wooden pavilion of the ward was pushed away, and the pale body of Uemura Laixing was exposed from the entrance of the room. A maid helped.Seeing Uemura Laixing who was rumored to be about to die suddenly, everyone in the courtyard immediately became dazed, and even forgot to salute for a while.

"Why... ahem... Seeing that I... didn't die, aren't you... very disappointed?" Uemura Laixing was already out of breath when speaking at this time.When Uemura Yoshihing said this, everyone reacted immediately and saluted quickly.

"Everyone, I think my Sagara family used to dominate Nanfei, but I didn't expect to be reduced to such a point now!" After slowly sitting down on the cushion prepared by his son Sagara Haruhiro, Uemura Laixing suddenly sighed .

The people below couldn't help but look at each other after hearing the words. They really couldn't understand that Uemura Laixing, who had sent a letter to confess his last words, was not only sitting in front of them alive (although it seemed that he was seriously ill, but at least he was still far away from death. What is the meaning of this sentence even suddenly issued such an exclamation?Some people with active minds seem to have smelled something unusual.

"I'm afraid...you already know..." Uemura Laixing said while scanning the people in the yard, "The powerful families in the west and south have all abandoned us and turned to the Luo family, only the Ito family in the east and Mi Liang’s house hasn’t changed yet, what do you guys think about this matter? Cough cough…” After saying such a sentence in one breath, Uemura Lai Xing suddenly felt that he was almost out of breath.

Uemura Laixing asked such a question, but no one in the yard dared to answer.Of course, they knew about the betrayal of the Hishikari family in the Satsuma border area and the Kitahara family in the Osumi area, but no one was willing to speak out what they really thought in their hearts.

"Haha...hahaha...cough cough..." Uemura Laixing couldn't help laughing when he saw that everyone lowered their heads and refused to answer.For a while, only Uemura Laixing's intermittent laughter remained in the yard.

"It's ridiculous! It's really ridiculous! Could it be that... ahem... no one is willing to talk?" Uemura Laixing's pale face at this time turned a little rosy, "But, why are you in your respective Why do so many things that shouldn't be done in the territory?"

Suddenly hearing what Uemura Laixing said, the people below immediately became commotion, and some people who had ghosts in their hearts even trembled.But there are also people with very good mental qualities.I saw Uemura Laixing's second son Uemura Laixiao's face changed slightly, and then immediately turned into an expression of anger, and immediately shouted injustice:

"My lord father, this decision is slander, we will never do anything different."

"Whether the slander will come to light sooner or later, from today onwards, you will stay in Guocheng, and someone will come to help you take care of your home territory." Uemura Laixing was breathing much more smoothly after being angry just now. Now, I can't speak without panting.

"Ah!" At this time, everyone in the yard knew that this time Uemura Laixing deliberately pretended to be dead to trick them into coming here and put them under house arrest.Immediately there was a surge of enthusiasm.

(It's a holiday, and I still have to work hard in front of the computer to code words. I beg everyone to leave a few monthly tickets for encouragement.) (To be continued...)

ps: It's a holiday, and I still have to work hard in front of the computer to code words. I implore everyone to leave a few monthly tickets for encouragement.