"On one condition, as long as Saemon can agree, I can persuade all the retainers under me to agree to the peace, and I will also return your Seifu-sama," said Masahiro. Come on,.! Saemon Taifu refers to the Ryuzoji Iekane.

"Your Highness, please," said the door of the temple at Longzoji Temple, who immediately leaned over and saluted.

"I heard that Lord Qingfang has a son, named Master Yan, who should be more than two years old now," Zhengliang said, "In order to show the friendliness of the two families and the good Lu, I am willing to recruit Master Yan as a small surname and follow him, I wonder what the Lord of the Lu Taoist family thinks?" ”

"Your Highness, I'm afraid the foreign minister won't be able to reply immediately" The door of the Longzoji Temple was obviously stunned, and then after a little thought, he replied.

"Please allow the minister to return home and report His Highness's suggestion to the head of the family before replying."

"Hehe, then I'll wait here for the reply from the family-sama, as for the Kiyobo-sama, please ask the family-sama to reply to Saemon Taifu, and the family will definitely be hospitable," Masarashi said with a smile.

"Then please ask His Highness Masashi," said the door of the temple of Takazo. Originally, he thought that the other party would ask for coins and the like, but he didn't expect that the other party wanted the son of Nabeshima Kiyofang. Now it's a matter of exchanging the son of Nabeshima Kiyoya for Nabeshima Kiyoya himself, and the family of Longzoji Temple really can't make a decision.

In this way, after receiving the news that the Luo family passed to the Longzoji family that Nabeshima Qingfang was being detained in the Luo family, they rushed to the Luo family to negotiate peace with the permission of the head of the family, and then rushed back to the Longzoji family non-stop.

A day later, the Ryuzoji family made a difficult decision, agreed to Masara's conditions, and sent Hiko-shi as a hostage, and Masarashi kept the agreement and released Nabeshima Kiyobo. At this point, the Longzo temple family and the Luo family officially negotiated peace. In the eyes of the Takazoji family and the Nabeshima family, the importance of Nabeshima Kiyofu's son is not as important as Nabeshima Kiyofang himself, and the son, if there is no one, there will be another one. So in the case that they could only choose one or the other, they could only make the decision to exchange Nabeshima Kiyobo's son as a hostage back to Nabeshima Kiyofu.

"This little guy is Naoshige Nabeshima, the general of the Longzoji family in the future?" Masara thought as he looked at Master Hiko, who was being held by a maid. This future Hizen feudal lord is now less than three years old, and he is tiger-headed.

"Little one, you will be called Naogeru from now on," Masarashi said as he touched the little one in the maid's arms. In the opinion of Zhengliang. This little guy will be a retainer of the Luo family in the future, and it is absolutely impossible to return to the Longzoji family, and even the Nabeshima family is impossible. And the Takazoji family and the Nabeshima family don't know the way. In their opinion, it's just a little guy who can have another one if his son is gone, but he will be a general when he grows up in the future.

After hearing Masarashi's words, Nabeshima Naoshige was startled by Masara's sudden move, and suddenly burst into tears in the maid's arms. It's clear that this little guy misses his mother.

"Take it with you. Take good care of it," Masarashi said. At such a young age, you still have to be raised under the service of a maid for a period of time before you can take it with you as a small surname.

After receiving Nabeshima Naoshige, two more days passed, that is, on December 28, the ninth year of astronomy. Information from the Hirado Matsuura clan came again.

Although it was a strong resistance, it was damaged by the main force. The Hirado Matsuura clan was unable to resist the combined invasion of the Omura family, the Goto family, and the Kamimatura family, and at the moment when Hirado Castle was breached, the head of the Hirado Matsuura family, Matsuura Konobu, committed suicide. The rest of the retainers and relatives also fought hard until they died in battle. The Hirado Matsuura clan perished. After learning this news, Zhengliang secretly sighed to himself, he couldn't imagine that such a strong man would perish so easily, and he couldn't even wait for the time for the Luo family to send troops to help. In this way, the Hirado Matsuura clan, which would leave a mark on history, disappeared into the long river of history, and not even a single wave was raised.

Of course, Matsuura Koshin also made proper arrangements before his death. Guarded by several loyal samurai. Matsuura Yoshinobu's family (mainly several wives and concubines and three daughters. One of them was Yui Hatano, who was originally going to marry Masayo), who was secretly sent to the Luo family's domain.

They were accompanied by a handwritten letter from Matsuura Konobu, which contained two sentences: "They will entrust you, and the territory of the Matsuura family will also entrust you." ”

After reading the letter, Zhengliang smiled bitterly. He now found that every dying hero would not forget to make the last calculation. Masato was absolutely sure that Matsuura Konobu's family had gone to the Roche family to seek refuge. Even the contents of this epistle will soon circulate everywhere. This reminded Masahiro of the original Taijiu family, and it seemed that he had calculated Masahiro in the same way.

That's fine. That is, if it comes, it will be safe, with the current strength of the Luo family. It can be regarded as a person who is not afraid.

"Let's settle down in Notaka Town," Masarashi said, reading the letter, looking up at Shinnosuke Akabane.

"Yes, Your Highness," Shinyuuke Akabane bowed to receive the order.

"By the way, what about the guards who escorted them?" Masarashi suddenly remembered the loyal guards who were responsible for protecting Matsuura Konobu.

"They all resolutely returned to the Matsuura family, and the subordinates thought that they were going to seek a decisive battle," Shinnosuke Akabane said with a solemn salute.

"True and loyal people are also," Masahiro couldn't help but praise after hearing this.

"Once the Hirado Matsuura family perishes, the navy on the sea will definitely be leaderless, and under the banner of Matsuura Konobu's family, try to recruit them as much as possible," Masara continued.

"Yes, Your Highness. Please leave this matter to your subordinates," Shinnosuke Akabane said automatically.

"Then I'll leave it to you," Masarashi said, nodding.

After arranging the affairs of the Hirado Matsuura family, Masaro once again devoted himself to the construction of the territory. The place that has recently occupied several times the original territory of the Luo family, and the construction of the territory is naturally to be stepped up.

Now there is still a month before spring ploughing, and the construction of the territory must be accelerated. On December 29, the ninth year of astronomy, Zhengliang officially embarked on the journey of inspecting the territory and supervising the construction of the territory.

It's winter in Matsuura-gun in December, but it's sunny today, and you can feel the warmth of the cold winter. The dense woods of summer are now full of leaves. Some of the lords are piling up leaves in the woods and preparing to transport them to the fields to burn. With the popularization of the fire ash composting method, more and more people are aware of this method of increasing the fertility of their fields.

Along the way, the village road and the road through it have been repaired, and even in the newly occupied territory, the road is now smooth and spacious.

"Your Highness, according to your orders, the four marching avenues from Kishigaku Castle to the western part of the Higashimatsunura Peninsula, Karatsu Bay, Riseong, and Lion Castle, as well as the avenue from Notaka Mountain along the Karagawa River to Karajin Bay, and the avenue from Karatsu Bay to Seven Hills Castle, a total of six avenues, have been paved by the people," Togo Heiji reported on the side.

Hearing that Zhengliang was going to inspect the territory in person, except for Ichijo Shenglong, who stayed in the mansion of the lord of the wild mountains and was responsible for handling daily affairs, and Liu Le, who needed to command the immigrants of the Ming Kingdom to build a residence, the retainers in charge of the territory's agricultural affairs and civil affairs were all there. In addition to Togo Heiji, there are also two newly recruited retainers here.

One is Nobumoto Aoyama. It turned out to be the second son of the Aoyama family in China.,Can't inherit the family business.,So he came out to travel everywhere.,This time I happened to be trapped in Karatsu Bay.,And met the Luo family recruiting ashigaru and samurai.,Unable to make ends meet, he defected to the Luo family.。 Because he had also done agricultural and civil affairs at home, and he had contact with many low-level people during his wandering, he had a deeper understanding of agricultural and civil affairs, so he was arranged to work under Dongxiang Pingji.

The other was a Ming immigrant. His name is Li Hongfei. He was originally a farmer and hunter in the Ming Kingdom, managing the fields when he was busy farming, and occasionally going into the mountains to hunt. Later, the family encountered a famine, and under the heavy taxes and miscellaneous taxes, he had to wander around with his family, and when he was desperate, he happened to meet Zhengliang's recruitment of immigrants, so he took his family to follow Wang Hai's ship to Zhengliang's territory. After gradually adapting to life here, his ability to farm gradually became apparent, especially for the cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn promoted by Zhengliang. Under Liu Le's recommendation, he also became a retainer of the Luo family, responsible for the cultivation of sweet potatoes and corn.

This was also the first time that these two retainers had met with the lord, so they were a little reserved.

"When is it expected to be completed?" After hearing Togo Heiji's report, Masara asked.

"I'm afraid it will take a few months to complete all six avenues," Togo Heiji replied immediately.

"No, it's too slow," Masarashi said. These avenues are the marching avenues of the territory, which are related to the speed of the movement of the troops in the territory, so the progress of such expansion is too slow.

"Your Highness, this is already an expansion of the way to mobilize a large number of people to participate in the conscription," Togo Heiji said in a low voice.

It seems that there is still a lack of manpower and tools, especially tools, and the tools at this time are very backward, even if Masarashi has given the drawings of some hand-built road tools in later generations to Tadajiro who is in charge of ironsmithing some time ago, but the latter obviously will take some time to imitate some tools. Now there is no way to save it.

"In this case, let's concentrate on completing the construction of the three avenues leading from Kishigaku Castle to Karajin Bay, Richeng, and Lion City," Masahiro commanded.

"In this way, His Majesty will be able to complete the construction of these three avenues within three months" Togo Heiji frowned and calculated, and finally replied.

"Three months? Okay, that's it," Masarashi said, nodding.

"What's the latest security in the territory?" After instructing the matter of the marching avenue, Masato turned his head and continued to ask. With so many territories added at once, and they were hastily occupied, the security of the territory must be problematic when the people of the territory are unstable.

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