The person who negotiated on behalf of the Maori family was a monk of the Tofukuji sect of the Rinzai sect, known as "Yaofu Huiqiong", who was currently the abbot of Anguo Temple in Anyi.

His teacher Zhu Yun Huixin and his ancestor Yunfang Huiju are all highly respected sages and elders in Zen Buddhism, and they are very famous in the industry and have a lot of face.

Heite has always had a respectful attitude towards the six sects of the Southern Dynasty, the two sects of Heian and the extended Nichiren and Pure Land, but most of the ancestors of his relatives are enshrined in the temples of Zen Buddhism, and he always pays attention to a little incense, especially the Rinzai lineage, which is the belief of the Heite lineage.

Judging from the style of painting, Zen monks pay attention to "experience" and "enlightenment", and are accustomed to compiling "public cases" to spread and inherit Buddhism as knowledge, acting relatively leniently and benevolently, and participating in secular power in a more tactful way, which is closer to the imaginary "enlightened person" in all aspects.

This monk of the Maori family, known as "Lord Huiqiong of Anguo Temple", shaved his hair, wore a plain monk's robe, wore heavy Buddhist beads, approached without hurry, his face was not good-looking, but his temperament was very refined, and he did not deliberately ignore the eyes around him, nor did he feel embarrassed at all.

It can be called the fairy wind bone, kind eyebrows and kind eyes, as still as water, and there is no dispute with the world.

Most of the samurai in and Eastern didn't know this guy very well, but there were quite a few from the Western Kingdom, so it was a great honor to take the time to greet him and say hello when he saw him.

It can be seen that he is at least not the kind of monk who is high up, enjoys power and wealth, and is separated from ordinary believers.

Hirate Hoshu also sent a monk, and Maeda Genyi received him.

It's not because of any "every day, no time to doppelganger", it's just to put on a show.

The Maori family came this time with Ankokuji Huiqiong, a big man in the Kansai region, not some unknown cat and dog, which shows that the sincerity is indeed not small.

But it's not high enough.

In the heart of the hirate, it had to be Kobayakawa Takakei himself to believe that Maori had indeed lost the fighting spirit to resist. Now the scene is still not satisfactory enough.

So he refused to meet in person.

However, it was said that Anguo Temple Huiqiong and Maeda Xuan met with each other, and they did not talk about mundane matters, but they said something like "Huoshan worship", "Master Xilaiyi", "net bottle watering", "cypress tree in front of the court", "silent throwing son" and so on.

Then they looked at each other and smiled.

It seems that he has been fighting the wit of Zen Buddhism for a while, and it seems that he just said a lot of nonsensical allusions, and others don't understand it at all, but the person concerned looks quite confused.

This is a great way to lighten up the mood of the game.

Probably in this era, learned people are still very rare, even in Zen Buddhism, which attaches great importance to inheritance, most of the practitioners are indiscriminate. Occasionally, when I see my peers who are on the high level, the feelings of mutual vigilance and hostility are greatly alleviated, and I have the urge to become confidants.

No longer need to bluff and bluff, but can use the identity of a friend to share some less secret information.

Maeda Genyoshi said frankly and bluntly that the purpose of building a castle in Hiroshima was to force the Maori family to surrender, and as long as the darkness was abandoned as soon as possible, this plan could not be canceled.

Ankokuji Huiqiong, on the other hand, admits to the position of "dove" and reveals where the nobles of the mountain castle in Yoshida County are currently suffering the greatest source of pressure.

That's the call of the wealthy families of the two countries of Zhou Fang!

More than a month ago, the Hiratei Tsunohide army divided the road and besieged the Maori family, using troops in the four places of Inaba, Bichu, Mishima, and Hiroshima.

It was supposed to act from a long-term perspective in order to undermine the future war potential of the other side.

I didn't want to have an unexpected effect.

Many wealthy families living in the Nagato and Zhoufang areas received a conscription order and led their troops to the mountain castle of Yoshida County to assemble in response. This is the duty of the retainers, so there is nothing to complain about if you die in battle.

However, these people gradually learned that when they were fighting outside, the territory was seriously poisoned, the land and houses were burned and demolished, and the men and women of the people were captured and killed, so they could not calm down.

It is inevitable that the front line will be affected by the flames of war, and it is acceptable to the heart. However, Noguchi Masatoshi's troops deliberately went around for the purpose of sabotage, and it was impossible to stabilize people.

They have made requests to Maori Terumen, hoping to solve the matter.

Whether it is to send troops to drive out the invaders, or to quickly talk about and stop the war, it is fine, as long as it can work! Of course, it's best to be the former, and if you really can't help it, the latter is also a helpless choice.

The local snakes of Nagato and Zhoufang have not really experienced the baptism of unification, and they still retain the behavior and habits of local tyrants and local servants, and have not yet transformed into professional samurai who live around the daimyo. As long as they meet the military service tax requirements of the Maori family, they are able to act independently in their own affairs. Correspondingly, they are unlikely to hold high positions in Yamashiro, Yoshida-gun.

That is to say, compared with the ethereal general trend of the world, more attention is paid to one's own one-acre and three-point field. In view of the current situation of plundering in the territory, he only hopes to solve the problem quickly, and does not care whether the daimyo has the ability to do so.

However, there is nothing wrong with that.

Before the birth of the terms "land seizure", "separation of Shinong" and "gathering of retainers", the most traditional relationship between the monarch and the minister was actually "loyalty in exchange for security". The samurai offered military obligations to the daimyo in exchange for the daimyo's endorsement of his domain of zhiyuki.

If the sovereign is unwilling or unable to ensure the stability and reliability of the Zhixing territory, then it is a breach of contract first, and the retainer has sufficient reasons to turn his back on it, or even rebel, and it will not be regarded as a violation of traditional principles.

When Oda Nobunaga attacked the Saito family, he always won and lost, but he always insisted on advancing the battle line to the opponent's doorstep, which caused the income of the samurai in Mino to be seriously affected, and Saito Ryuxing was unable to take measures for a long time, so everyone defected.

The draw was originally experienced by those things, but after a long time, it gradually faded into oblivion.

The main reason is that most of the strong enemies faced in the past ten years are the Warring States daimyo with a relatively high degree of unification, and the relationship between the monarch and the minister in the economic field is very close, and there will be no change because of a slight loss.

Unexpectedly, the Maori family is the overlord of the Western Kingdom, the guardian of the Ten Kingdoms, and the heroes of more than one million stones, but the system is very loose, and he is completely a fat man who is not beaten.

If you think about it, is it because of the excessive use of diplomatic and strategic means that the degree of centralization of power is low, or is it because of the low degree of centralization that diplomatic and strategic means have to be used repeatedly?

It is said that when he was dying, Mao Liyuan, the "god of conspiration", persuaded his descendants that "today's power is enough to comfort the ancestors of the light lintel, and do not be obsessed with fighting for the world, otherwise it will bring disaster to the family". Did he anticipate the hidden dangers inside in advance and confess this?

I can't tell.

Based on what he knew in this life and his previous life, Heite Hoshu believes that the information he got from Huiqiong of Ankokuji Temple is reasonable and credible.

Not to mention the character of Maori Teruyuan, Yoshikawa Motoharu is known as a famous general in the West who has been fierce and unyielding all his life, and now that the two sides have not yet had a real decisive battle, how can he be willing to hibern? It must be that the internal environment is too sinister and urgent, forcing him to face reality.

So on the one hand, Maeda Xuanyi and Ankokuji Huiqiong were entangled in the details of the negotiation conditions, bargaining, and delaying time. On the one hand, it has intensified the dispatch of troops to raid the rear. In addition to Nagato and circumference, there is also an attack on Iwami.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the effect to be immediate - after receiving the letter from the rear, Huiqiong of Anguo Temple said goodbye on the grounds that "the matter is too big for the poor monks to do anything". Then Kobayakawa Takakei personally went out and came to the front of the Hirate Tsuhideki Army to ask for an audience.