"I really didn't expect that in less than a year, the Luo family, under the leadership of His Royal Highness Masaliang, has grown into a powerful family that the family has to pay attention to," In a courtyard in Hakata, the retainer of the Ouchi family, Sagara Takeren, looked at the bay in the distance and sighed.

"My lord, the guests are already waiting," Iza and Saburo Takamitsu reminded behind them.

"Okay, it's really exciting to meet this old friend right away," Sagara Takeren said, his eyes lit up.

At the same time, in another courtyard separated by a wall, Masahiro was leisurely drinking tea.

Yes, the help that Masayo referred to in the evaluation of the retainers that day was the Ouchi family. Although he once defeated the Shaoyi family and extended his power to Hizen, due to the lack of power to support him in Hizen, in fact, the Ouchi family only maintains control over Hizen on the surface. It is precisely because of this that with the assistance of the retainers, the Shaoyi family began to gradually raise their heads again, and even secretly contacted the Otomo family in an attempt to get rid of the control of the Ouchi family. Now the Ouchi family needs to have a strong man who cooperates with him in the interior of Hizen,

And the Luo family is very likely to face a strong enemy siege at this moment, if you wait for the support or even support of the Ouchi family, at least the pressure on the north side of the Luo family will be greatly reduced, so that more troops can be deployed to deal with the threat from the east.

So, after settling all the affairs of the territory, Masarashi decided to go to Hakata in person, meet with Sagara Takeren, who was gradually reused by Takanobu Ouchi, and persuade the Ouchi family to help the Luo family. This time, along with Masayo, there were Kato Duanzo, Feidan, Ahri, one of the Gongfang Moritaka, and a total of more than 20 people who were in charge of Masayo's safety, Black Hawk, Detective, and Cloak Public.

At this moment, Masashi was enjoying the scenery of the courtyard where he was while secretly thinking to himself. It's funny to think about it, but the courtyard where he is now belongs to the Chikuzen Sugi family. And a few years later, when there was a civil strife in the Ouchi family, Sagara Takeren, who was aware of the danger in advance, fled to this Sugi family, but in the end he was placed under house arrest by the Sugi family, and he couldn't avoid the end of death.

"Huh. His Royal Highness Zhengliang, I've kept you waiting for a long time" Just as Zhengliang was thinking, a polite voice came from behind him.

Masarashi hurriedly turned around, and then saluted back: "I didn't expect to be able to meet Sagara-sama here." Not seen for months. Are you well? "The last time I saw him at Sefukuji Temple, it was when he was a little discouraged and went to Hakata to recuperate.

"Well, it's okay! In the next just in the vicinity of the execution of the head of the family's life.,After receiving the news of the visit of His Royal Highness Zhengliang.。 I rushed over immediately," Sagara responded with a smile.

"Lord Sagara, here are some of the best tea leaves from my family, and drinking them often has great benefits for the body" Sagara Takeren, a man of tea love, brought tea made by the method of roasting tea taught by Masara himself.

"Oh?" Sagara Takeren became interested when he heard this. Picked up the tea handed by Zhengliang and smelled it, "Mountain tea? ”

"Huh? Adults actually know the name of this camellia? Masarashi asked in surprise.

"Hehe, I see," Sagara Takeren said with a smile as he put down the box of tea, "Hakata's Kamiya family once sent several boxes of this mountain tea to him, and after tasting it, he found that it was indeed tea as its name suggests." Later, he tried to buy it from the Kamiya family, but the Kamiya family told him that this tea was not made by him, and if he needed it. The Kamiya family still needs to buy it again, and now it seems that the maker of this tea is undoubtedly the Luo family. ”

"Haha, I didn't expect it to be like this" Zhengliang also laughed when he heard this. He didn't think of a temporary way to make money at the beginning. It led to such a story.

Thinking of this, Zhengliang immediately said: "This tea is in the early morning, when the sun is rising. It is made by collecting the young leaves of the best tea trees in the mountains, due to the harsh collection conditions. It's true that there aren't many products, but if Sagara-sama likes it, it's good that my family often sends some to adults in the future. ”

"So rare!" Sagara Takeren couldn't help but marvel when he heard this.

"Exactly," Masahiro nodded and said, "Even if the tea tree is good, if it can't cooperate with a certain environment, it won't be able to produce better tea." Zhengliang's words are in the middle of the words.

The clever Sagara Takeren obviously heard the meaning, so he simply waited for Masayo's next step.

"Since a few years ago, when your lord's family attacked Hizen with a thunderbolt and forced the head of the Shaoyi family to commit suicide, Hizen has been brought under the jurisdiction of your lord's family," said Masarashi, "Now that several years have passed, I think adults can also see that if you can't support a strong and powerful person in Hizen, you won't be able to completely control Hizen." "Masashi is a knowledgeable Taoist Ouchi family has always been very optimistic about the Longzoji family, and even extended an olive branch to the Longzoji family several times, trying to win over the Longzoji family. That's all it really does.

Sagara nodded thoughtfully.

"Two years ago, with the support of the Bababa, Oda and other heroes, the Shaoyi family returned to Sefukuji Castle, and the power of the Shoji family began to regain again, so that such a strong man who was full of hatred for the Ouchi family regrouped, which is obviously not a good thing for the Ouchi family," Masarashi said.

"I'm afraid Your Highness has said this too much, right?" Sagara Takeren said. After all, from the current point of view, the Shaoyi family shows a surrender appearance.

"Hehe, Lord Sagara, please take a look at this letter first" Masarashi did not refute, but took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Sagara Takeren.

The latter took the letter and opened it.

"This?" As the words in the letter continued to pour into the other party's brain, Sagara Takeren's face suddenly changed drastically.

After seeing the change in Sagara Takeren's expression, Masa's conscience smiled secretly. This letter is the Luo family used a lot of money to buy a close servant of Shaobi Dongshang, and obtained the handwriting of Shaobi Dongshang, and the general content of a letter imitated by Shinnosuke Akabane was that Shaobi Dongshang expressed his hatred for the Ouchi family, and was willing to unite with the Otomo family to drive the power of the Ouchi family out of Hizen, and even Chikugo's private letter.

Although the letter did not have the autograph of Shaobi Dongshang, nor did it have any seal, it was enough to arouse the vigilance of the Ouchi family.

"Is this letter really written by the Shaoyi family?" After reading the letter, Sagara Takeren had completely regained his composure, and he became confused about the source of the letter.

"This letter was stolen by the family from a retainer in charge of sending important letters, so it must be unmistakable, and if you can't confirm it, you can go back and take out the handwritten letter handed to the Ouchi family by Shaobi Tosho and compare the handwriting," Masarashi proposed. No matter what the Ouchi family thinks, they can't imagine that someone in the Luo family can imitate other people's handwriting, and even to the extent that it is fake.

Shao Erjia, you just wait to be caught.

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