"Hehe... Of course, it will be of great benefit to both you and me. Nagafune smiled, he was one of the three elders of Ukita, a famous diplomat.

"Please let me know as well." As soon as Hashiba Hideyoshi heard the benefits, he immediately became interested.

"Your Highness Yuchai, let me tell you the truth, the family has already reached an alliance with the Maori family. Since then, the family can act as an intermediary between the noble family and the Mori family, and you and I will be able to agree on an offensive and defensive alliance to deal with the Hosokawa family together! "Nagafune Sadako moved out of the dominant overlord Mori family, and Hideyoshi Hashiba was shocked when he heard it.

"That's great! It would be a great thing to be able to form an alliance with the Maori family. It's just that this Maori family is located in Aki, which is not adjacent to the Hosokawa family, and there is a Akamatsu family in Harima Province in the middle. Moreover, the head of your family, the Urakami family and the Akamatsu family, are mortal enemies, so wouldn't it push the Akamatsu family to the Hosokawa family again? No, no. "Hideyoshi Hashiba is not useless, what he is best at is the handling of this kind of interpersonal relationship.

"Hehe... In fact, the Akamatsu family has long been committed to the Maori family, and it will not be a problem to unite with the Akamatsu family! Nagafune said in person, and it seemed that it was true.

"Then how does the Urakami family, the head of your family, handle itself?" Yushiba Hideyoshi was a little confused, it seems that the Urakami family has always been excluded, and there seems to be something wrong with it.

"Urakami's family... Of course, it was replaced by the main family! A cold light flashed in Nagafune's eyes, and it seemed that the Ukita Nao family had already planned it.

"What... What the! "The first time I heard someone say "Xia Keshang" so lightly, even Hashiba Hideyoshi was shocked, although he is now semi-independent, but he still does not dare to publicly say that he has left the Oda family.

"Rest assured, Your Royal Highness Yuchai, Urakami Zongjing is already very unpopular, my lord basically controls the power of the Urakami family, plus the foreign aid of the Maori family, it can be said that it is a sure thing." Nagafune Sadako proudly straightened her chest, and her admiration for the Ukita Naoya family had long been carved into her bones.

"That's great! Hahaha! Hashiba Hideyoshi laughed loudly, and in this way, after the alliance of the three families of Mori, Ukita, and Akamatsu, the entire territory of the eight countries of Sanyo Province was connected.

"Hahaha! His Royal Highness Yuchai! May we have a happy cooperation! Nagafune Sadako also laughed, in fact, the alliance with the Yushiba family is a gimmick, in order to have a reason to ally with the Akamatsu family in the future, and serve as a bridgehead for his Uki family to block the westward invasion of the Hosokawa family.

"Good! Happy working together! Hahaha! Come! Entertain the longship-sama! I want to stay drunk with him! As if he had removed a piece of his heart, Hashiba Hideyoshi was very happy to feast on Nagafune's sadasan, and the two families made an offensive and defensive alliance.

Three days later, the longship Sadako left Nagahama Castle in Hashiba Hideyoshi, and on the way back, he turned around at Lake Biwa and visited Shibata Katsuya and Oda Nobutaka successively, and it turned out that the Uki family had no intention of putting their eggs in one basket.

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"My lord, the matter has been completed, the Yushiba family, the Shibata family, the Takigawa family, and the two Oda families have all reached an offensive and defensive alliance." In the assessment room of Okayama Castle in Bizen Province, Sadako Nagafune was respectfully reporting to the people on the throne at this time, and it was full of retainers of the Uki family.

"Zhenqin, these days have been going south and north, and you have worked hard." The person on the throne has a thin face, a darker complexion, a pair of high noses, swallow eyebrows, and a pair of burning eyes revealing a thick shrewdness, which is none other than the Ukita Naojia, one of the "Three Evildoers of the Warring States".

"Thank you for your concern, this is the duty of your subordinates!" The longship lady hurriedly bowed her head and saluted, looking flattered.

"Xiu'an, how are you preparing there?" Ukita Naoya turned to another subordinate.

"Rest assured, my lord! The Numata clan, the Coffin Na clan and other Misaku people and some Urakami retainers were all instigated, and as long as the lord ascended to the top and shouted, they would naturally respond en masse, and even stab the Urakami family in the back. "Togawa Hideyasu bowed his head and responded, his father Togawa Shoyasu was originally the concubine of the Ukita Nono family (the grandfather of the Ukita Naoya) family, and changed his surname to Togawa because he was the adopted son of the retainer Togawa Masashi. After his father died in the 17th year of Astronomy (1538), he and his mother, who had remarried, came to the famous Tomagawa family in Misasaka Province, so he also had the surname Tomikawa, and later became a Naogawa family through his half-brother Tadashi.

"Well, that's good, in that case... It should be about the same, and when the time comes, you can join forces with the Maori family and take the territory of the Urakami family in one fell swoop. Ukita Naoya subconsciously touched his chin and thought about the coup d'état again, feeling that there should be nothing missing. Almost all of his territory was acquired by marriage and assassination, and he was a conspirator known for his superior assassinations, divisions, false accusations, ostracism, rumors, and slander of others.

"My lord, there is something unclear about your subordinates, since we have all united the important ministers of the former Oda family, why don't we unite the Hosokawa family?" Oka Rikatsu was a fierce general who followed the Ukita Naoya family very early, and he was known as the Ukita Sanlao along with Nagafune Sadako and Togawa Hideyasu.

"Because of profit!" Ukita Naoka's eyes were cold, and he said gloomily: "His Hosokawa family can only attack to the west now, and Tanba Country and Harima Country must be his established goals." And after the main family seized the Urakami family, I was also going to annex Harima Province, so in this case, there would definitely be a conflict with the Hosokawa family, so..."

"Yes! We will die for our family's loyalty! When everyone heard that the lord still had such great ambitions, their eyes suddenly lit up with excitement, and they must have risen by then.

"Alright, let's go down and set it up. After this battle, I, Ukika, will become the master of this Bizen and Misaku! The Ukita family is burning with fire in their eyes, and his grandson, who has been a grandson of the Urakami family for thirty years, is finally about to get ahead.

"Oh!" The retainers of Ukita shouted in unison, regardless of the fact that their lord was "Shimokagami" and "the three evildoers of the Warring States", but it did not affect their loyalty and unity, and the reason was that they had a common experience.

I think that year, in the 13th year of astronomy (1544), Ukita Naojia Motofu, was given Otoko Village, and received 300 Zhixing.

Otoko Village is located at the mouth of the Yoshii River, Kojima-gun to the west belongs to the Hosokawa clan of Shikoku, Kamichi-gun to the north belongs to the rival Matsuda clan, and pirates from the Setouchi Sea Dog Island often land and plunder the property of the people. Otoko Village can be said to be attacked from three sides, and it is the forefront of the Urakami family.

Later, Urakami wanted to build a castle in Otoko Village to defend it, but Otoko Village was too far away from Tenjin Mountain Castle, the home city of the Urakami family, so it was necessary to send someone to garrison it. As a result, the Ukita Naoke resolutely received the order and led thirty Ashigaru towns to defend the newly built Otoko Castle. At this time, Ukita's former ministers heard that the young lord was out of the mountain, and they came to vote one after another, and Togawa Hideyasu, Nagafune Sadakin, Oka Toshikatsu, and Hanabo Masayuki were the first to follow the Naoyasu.

Gradually, the Uki family began to prosper and have many retainers, but there was an embarrassing situation of more soldiers and less food. As a result, the Ukita family led by example and personally led everyone to work in the fields to increase their income. In order to maintain enough military rations for the battle, he often took the lead in hunger strikes three or five times a month, and lived a hungry and full life, which made the Uki family retainers unprecedentedly united.

Whenever there is movement of the enemy around Otoko Castle, Naoke will first engage in defensive battles, and after repelling the enemy, he will lead Otoko Castle soldiers to invade the enemy's territory, and use various intrigues and tricks to achieve his goals.

The so-called going through the same window together is better than having prostitutes together, carrying guns together, and sharing the spoils together. Every time there is a conspiracy, everyone in the Uki family participates in it, and it can be said that everyone has a share. In this way, the Uki family gradually grew and became a force of quasi-Sengoku daimyo.