"Hey! You've got to be careful! Nagamasa-sama has been in a bad mood recently because Edo's house has been burned, so don't be caught by him to vent your anger! ”

The guard remembered the secret letter sent to him by the mother of the mother a few days ago, and was very troubled by this. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

Like him, Muri Taibei Yushin is one of the Kuroda Eight Tigers and Kuroda Twenty-Four Horsemen, and he is also a retainer who belongs to the old minister's faction in Kuroda's family. Youxin has a bold personality, attaches great importance to affection, and is very arrogant. In addition, he was very fond of drinking, and it is said that he once compared the amount of alcohol with Fukushima Masanori, and he was a famous alcoholic.

Because he belongs to the faction of the old ministers, Youxin is naturally not less opposed to the retainers of the Qingzhuang faction. However, he is different from Matabei in that he does not have any special contradictions with the lord Nagamasa, and he is not jealous of Nagamasa. Among all the retainers, Nagamasa hated and hated the most than Youbei.

After learning that the Kuroda family house in Edo had been burned, Tomonobu had already anticipated the irritable mood of the lord Nagamasa, so he sent a special secret letter to Matabei to remind him to be careful.

For the enthusiastic reminder of the friendly letter, Matabei is very grateful for this.

But at the same time, the irritability and depression in Matabei's heart became more and more intense.

His own people are in Okuma Castle, so he may not necessarily see Nagamasa. But his eldest son Ji Ze is Changzheng's small surname, and he doesn't know what will happen to Changzheng when he is in a bad mood for a while.

Thinking of this, the head of the guard was flushed, and he felt extremely angry.

As one of the important ministers of the Kuroda family, it is unreasonable to have to think about these things every day, and also have to endure the oppression and insults of the lord. Again the guard thought angrily.

After his old lord Rushui became seriously ill, he considered leaving the Kuroda family more than once because of the suppression of Changzheng, and found another way to make a living. However, thinking back to the old lord's kindness and care for him, the guards endured these humiliations again and again.

Goto and Bingwei are worthy of being a loyal and righteous man. This is the secret evaluation of him by several other old ministers.

Of course, Matabei himself decided to endure it because of his bondage and loyalty, but his sons disagreed.

As the eldest man, although Ji Ze is a small surname of Changzheng, he has not been treated harshly by Changzheng and other small surnames, and he has never had a good impression of Changzheng.

And the second male square is even worse. He has always been by his father's side on weekdays, so he naturally knows best how his father has been treated. Especially after knowing that his brother was also bullied by the Kuroda family, he often bluntly scolded Nagamasa, who was the monarch, in front of his father. Under the influence of the second brother Zhengfang, the young third male Ji Fang also began to gradually dislike this lord.

"Father! It's unbearable! This is an insult to our Goto family! ”

Zhengfang always said this to his father.

And the guards could only say a few words of appeasement about this, and could not do anything.

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Inside Fukuoka Castle.

As the lord, Nagamasa welcomed a guest today, and is now setting up a luxurious banquet to entertain him.

"Changzheng! What wine! ”

The guest rudely drank the wine from the glass in one gulp, then wiped his lips with the sleeve of his coat without healing, slapped the bowl heavily on the table, motioned for another bowl, and laughed heartily.

The attendants beside him did not dare to slack off, so they cowered and immediately poured him a full wine.

"Zhengzheng, I didn't expect you to be able to laugh at this time."

The mood of the master Changzheng is not as good as that of the regular one. His thin face was covered with clouds.

The guest is Fukushima Masanori who received 498,000 stone from Hiroshima. It is the daimyo of the former Toyotomi lineage, a distant relative of the late Taiko Hideyoshi and one of the famous Shigaku Seven guns. Like Kato Kiyomasa, he followed the Yushiba family when Taiko was still the lord of Nagahama Castle. Later, after the Shuji incident, he received 240,000 koku from Owari Kiyoshu. After the Battle of Sekigahara, he received 498,000 stone from Aki Hiroshima for his merits.

Masanori is also one of the arbitrary factions of the Toyotomi family.,When he was a child, he was raised by the main room of the Taiko, which is now the Gaotai Temple.,The Gaotai Yuan can be said to be obedient and trusting.。

Speaking of the relationship between Changzheng and Zhengzheng, it can be said that the two are a very good relationship. Although a long time ago, when they were young, Nagasamasa and Masanori did not like each other, but it is said that after the Battle of Bunrokukei Cho, the two admired each other's strength and became a pair of friends. Now the two still have many personal relationships in private.

So, now after Edoyashiki was burned, Nagamasa found him as soon as possible.

This time, Changzheng invited Masanori to drink and enjoy Noh, but he didn't just want to invite him to have fun. Nagamasa wanted to discuss with Masanori about the burning of Edoyashiki.

"Rightly, our houses have been burned, and many of the famous ones have also suffered. Those of us who used to serve in the Toyotomi family were even more serious. ”

Nagamasa took a sip of wine while absentmindedly watching Noh.

After learning that his sister-in-law Mantokumaru was frightened and had a high fever because of the fire in Edo, he was not in a good mood and was in a state of extreme irritability. Feng Ya Noh, which he likes very much on weekdays, has also become inexplicably irritable and difficult to see in his eyes at this time.

"My Ichimatsu and Rimatsu too! I heard that I was so scared that the boy from Ichimatsu wrote to me to cry that he broke his leg! ”

At the mention of the safety of the heir, Masanori also stopped smiling and put down the wine bowl with a gloomy face.

"Changzheng, what are you going to do? Wande's situation, not so much now, right? ”

"Ah...... Wande has a high fever now, and the situation is indeed not very good. Anyway, now that I've protested to the Tokugawa family, it's up to Mandeok to see what happens. If there was a good situation, I asked the Tokugawa family to temporarily take Mantoku back to my Fukuoka castle to recuperate for a while, and then let him return to Edo in a few years. ”

"Humph! It's impossible for the Tokugawa family not to agree, because they didn't take a good look at their own family, and they also affected us. ”

Zhengzheng snorted coldly and continued to take a big sip of wine from the wine bowl.

And Changzheng didn't move, his face was gloomy.

"Regular."

"What's wrong? Don't keep wearing a death-threatening expression! Hurry up and recover! Wande will definitely get better! ”

"That's not what I meant! Wande's affairs are put aside for now. Don't you think it's weird? ”

"What's weird?"

"Only our outward daimyo Yashiki was burned, and especially we, the former Toyotomi daimyos! Even our family and heirs were implicated! Don't you really think there are ghosts in the Tokugawa family? ”

"Hey, hey! You can't just talk about it! ”

Zhengzheng didn't turn his mind for a while, and beckoned to Changzheng with a big grin.

"Impossible! Look at how many people have died in Edo! No matter how stupid the Tokugawa family is, they won't do these loss-making things, right? ”

"Who knows! With Tokugawa-sama's old fox-like tricks, no one knows what the truth behind it is! ”

Nagamasa was suspicious of this, frowning and refusing to let go of the possibility of Tokugawa conspiracy theories.

"We, the former daimyo of the Toyotomi family, should contact us more in Edo in the future, and it is better to be more defensive than not to be prepared. Regularly, these are just in case, and nothing is to be lost. ”

"Well, that makes sense! I promised! ”

Zhengzheng agreed to Changzheng without even thinking about it. It made it feel like he hadn't even taken what he heard through his head.

Changzheng was used to the character of this old friend, and he didn't say much.