Warring States Eagle

The plum tree in the courtyard is covered with heavy flowers.Time flies like a river, and it is now the end of October in the 23rd year of Tianwen ([-]).The mansion built by Niko Haruhisa on the side of the Sumhii River outside the Otemon Gate of Gassan Tomita Castle in the Izumo Country of Honshu Island when he succeeded the family governor was already grand in scale, more than three times the size when it was just completed.

And in her spare time, Nizi Qingjiu would also come here to rest.On this day, when Nizi Qingjiu was leisurely drinking tea in this mansion, a figure stumbled in.

"My lord, please be the master of your subjects! Huh, huh..." As soon as the visitor ran into the room, he knelt down on the ground and cried out at the same time.

Nizi Qingjiu was taken aback for a while, and when she looked up, she was immediately startled.The person who came was none other than his retainer Nakai Heizangbing Weiwei. This retainer was usually famous for having a beautiful beard.Fortunately, Nakai Heizangbing's big beard was shaved off on the left side. Obviously, Nakai Heizangbing's beard was definitely because of his beard, so Nizi Qingjiu immediately asked:

"What's going on?"

"My lord, please be the master of your subjects!" Hearing Nizi Qingjiu's question, Nakai Heizangbing guard immediately cried again, and then he told Nizi Qingjiu that his beard was shaved The whole story.

The reason is simple, because he met Nizi Chengjiu of the Shingong Party.And Nizi Chengjiu didn't know what went crazy, he even called Nakai Heizang soldier guard over, then pushed him to the ground, shaved off his beard with a knife, and deliberately shaved only the left half.

"How do you look good with half a beard? You go home and shave off the other half. Then grow it slowly. Don't worry. I will make decisions for you." After learning the whole story.Nizi Haruhisa immediately comforted Nakai Heizangbing, but he was already furious in his heart, "Father Kuniku, you are slapping me in the face!" Then he had already considered how to get rid of Kuniku and his son. Instability at home.

Objectively speaking, in fact, Nizi Qingjiu can also be regarded as a rare British lord among the generations of Nizi family governors.Although at the beginning of inheriting the family governor, he ran to attack the Maori family with great success, trying to use a big victory to establish the prestige of the family governor for himself, but the result was a big defeat.After driving his grandfather Nizi to death for a long time, he even attracted Ouchi Yoshitaka.Although Ouchi Yoshitaka was finally repelled, his family's prestige was also severely hit.

But Nizi Qingjiu was not discouraged by this. Instead, he took advantage of the opportunity to repel the allied forces of the Ouchi family to exile a large number of Izumo people who had secretly communicated with the Ouchi family, and then confiscated their territories, thus Greatly strengthened the power of the clan.At the same time, Niko Haruhisa used coercive means to seize the monzen towns of temples and shrines such as Kitsuki Taisha Shrine (especially when he went to the Aki Kingdom some time ago, he asked for help from Ichiko Sect but was rejected, so Niko Haruhisa returned to Izumo Kingdom. Just use these local temple forces to vent your anger).He and the wealthy merchants of the Wakasa country opened up a sea route across the West Wa country, and extracted a large amount of "treasure" (waterborne trade tax) from the trade of the iron sand of the Izumo country, the Hoki country, and the Iwami Ginzan.Nizi Haruhisa, who was fat and strong, had financial support. Internally, he vigorously built shrines and Buddhist temples, tried his best to maintain the order in the territory, and vigorously conquered the East externally. He visited Bingo, Bichu, Misaku, and Harima many times. In addition to persuading the tyrants in these areas, they also repelled the Ouchi and Maori coalition forces that invaded these areas several times, which is very majestic.

In fact, all the above-mentioned actions of Nizi Qingjiu are based on the foundation laid by his grandfather Nizi for a long time, accelerating the concentration of all the wealth, materials and power in the family to the clan and the clan governor, and completely transforming it into a real Warring States name .As Nizi Qingjiu's reform continued to progress, he soon discovered that he had encountered a huge obstacle.

This obstacle is naturally the Nizijia Xingong Party led by Nizi Guojiu and Nizi Chengjiu.

The Shingu party is an exceptionally elite force of the Nizi family of Izumo country. Over the years, its horseshoes have traveled all over Anyun country, Bingo country, Misaku country and other places, and its power has shocked the enemy countries.However, for the family governor, Nizi Haruhisa, the Shingu party is a worse opponent than Mori Moto, because the commander of this army is not himself, but his uncle Yoshida Kunihisa (Nizi Kunihisa).Back then, after Nizi Jiujiu's third son Yanye Xingjiu rebelled against him, Jijiu became overwhelmed and gave Xingjiu's fiefdom to his second son Guojiu.Yoshida Kunihisa, who was originally the heir of Higashi-Izumo Yoshida-sou, now owns Nishi-Izumo's Shioyasou, his power spread across the entire Izumo country and swelled extremely.Not only that, Mr. Nizi Jiujiu also took a fancy to Guojiu's bravery, and appointed him as the commander of the Nizi family's army. He organized the small nobles directly under the domestic government into an army, and returned to Guojiu to command.And because Kuniku's building is located in Shinmiya Valley, north of Gassan Tomita Castle, this army was named "Shingu Party", and it was actually the private armed forces of Nizi Kunihisa and Nizi Makoto's father and son.

Now that Ni Ziqing wants to unify the power in the family for a long time, he naturally has his eye on the command of the army.Therefore, originally Nizi Qingjiu was jealous and envious of this army, wishing to die, but due to the growing power in the family, Nizi Guojiu and Nizi Chengjiu became arrogant and rude, even when they treated the house governor Nizi Qingjiu also the same.

Nizi Chengjiu, in particular, has done many appalling things with his bravery and rich second generation.For example, Nizi Haruhisa had a civil servant named Sue Sanuki Mori, who served as the right pen (equivalent to a secretary). The nose of the last time was very big. Once he met Makoto, Makoto said: "You are as unrestrained as you are." A civil servant with the strength of a chicken, his martial name is not high at all, why is his nose so tall?" Then he punched an iron fist, and the bridge of his nose was broken for the last time, and he could only keep his nose flat for meeting minutes.

Nizi Chengjiu not only beat the subordinates of the family governor at will, but also liked to engage in privileges. He stipulated that all samurai in Yueshan Tomita City must dismount and walk in front of his new palace hall to show respect.Some Nizi's retainers refused to accept, so Nizi Chengjiu ordered a group of Xingong party elites to station at the gate of the building, and when they saw those who could not dismount, they rushed up and dragged them, which was extremely arrogant.Once, Nizi Qingjiu ordered all the retainers in the city to go hunting in the north of the city. The only way to pass was the Xingong Valley. As a result, all the retainers were crying and dismounted and lined up in front of Nizi Chengjiu’s building. Xingong party sat by the door, laughing, It's better than watching a military parade.

Nizi Guojiu and Nizi Chengjiu have many more arrogant actions that ignore the authority of the family governor like the above.Today, Nakai Heizangbing Weiwei's beard was shaved off, which further proved the arrogance and rudeness of Nizi Kunihisa and Nizi Makoto.

"Ma'am, it looks like I'm sorry for you." After comforting Nakai Heizangbing, Nizi Haruhisa, who asked him to go back and shave off the remaining half of his beard, looked at the sky in the yard and said to himself Said to himself.

Nizi Haruhisa's first wife is Nizi Kunihisa's daughter (another pair of standard cousins), who died of illness last year.In the past, because of his relationship with his wife, Nizi Qingjiu never made up his mind to eradicate Nizi Guojiu and his son, but now he has finally made up his mind.Therefore, Nizi Qingjiu immediately secretly prepared to eradicate the plan of Nizi Guojiu and his son.

While Nizi Qingjiu was secretly preparing, Duanmu Qingzheng, the official of the Luo family who stayed at Nizi's home as a hostage, silently watched the behavior of Nizi's home, and then reported the situation to Zhengliang in Kyushu at any time.

On November [-]th, on this day, a detective from the Luo family rushed into Duanmu Qingzheng's residence, and then reported: "Report, my lord, a bloody corpse was found in front of Yueshan Futian City Gate .”

"Oh? Do you know why this corpse is there?" Duanmu Qingzheng immediately felt the unusualness of the matter when he heard Wan Detective Fan's report, so he immediately asked.

"Because the subordinates are far away, they did not hear the conversation of the soldier who found the body, so they are not clear."

"In this case, immediately lead someone to closely monitor the changes in Yueshan Tomita Castle during this period, and come back in time to report." Duanmu Qingzheng arranged for his subordinates to continue to investigate, but said decisively in his heart, "It seems that Nizi's family is really Something is going to happen."

Indeed, as Duanmu Qingzheng expected, something really happened to Nizi's house, because the soldiers of Yueshan Tomita City found a secret letter on the body, and the content of the letter was about Nizi Guojiu and his son, who were going to lead the new The palace party rebelled, and Mao Liyuan made an appointment with the time and place and so on.After reading this letter, Nizi Qingjiu was furious immediately, and immediately ordered Nizi Guojiu and his son to come to have an audience and defend themselves.

Nizi Kunihisa and his son, who had received the summons and the secret letter, actually brought dozens of followers as guards, and immediately set off for Yueshan Tomita Castle.After all, they really did not rebel, and although they were arrogant, they were not so arrogant that they dared to refuse the call of the governor.

What surprised Nizi Kunihisa and his son was that when they were halfway away from Gassan Tomita Castle, they were suddenly confronted by Nishi's army, which was several times larger than theirs, led by Xishibingwei and Tachihara Bizen Garrison. The siege.The slogan for besieging them was to accuse Nizi Guojiu and his son of conspiracy.

Although Nizi Kunijiu and his son resisted and asked to plead in front of Nizi Qingjiu in person, Shibingwei and Liyuan Beiqianshou who had received Nizi Qingjiu's death order finally killed Nizi Kunijiu and his son one by one.Afterwards, under the arrangement of Nizi Haruhisa, a large number of troops attacked Xingong Valley, the territory of Nizi Kunijiu and his son. As a result, the Xingong Party dispersed and all key personnel were detained. Soon after, they were purged one by one. The "Gong Party" fell apart in an instant.

"Hurry up, take care of me with pen and ink, I will immediately write the situation into a letter and report it to the lord." Duanmu Qingzheng ordered after learning the news.At the same time, powerful and powerful agents such as the Mori family hidden in the Izumo Kingdom also sent this shocking news back to their families. (To be continued..)