On the 10th day of the first month of the 19th year of Tenmon (1550), just a few days after Mori Moto's decisive action against rumors and attacks on the territory, Masarashi who was in the castle of Hizen Kokugakufu in Kyushu received the results of the attack sent back by the Kato Danzo faction from Honshu Aki Province and the subsequent strategy adopted by the Mori family.

"Are you going to be able to handle it like this?" Masara said with a smile after reading the information. Although Mao Li Yuan is a strategist, he is not from the later generations like Masa, for the tool of public opinion, he has not yet realized its power (later after Mao Li Yuan became more sophisticated, but used this tool to slap Nizi Haruhisa), so Masato decided to let Mao Li Yuan see the real power of public opinion as a tool of war in advance.

In the past, due to blind faith in historical records and too much concentration of his energy in Kyushu, Masarashi ignored the powerful enemy of the Mori family, and now after being assassinated by Mori Moto, he once again sounded the alarm in the heart of the political conscience. Although the territory of the Luo family is not yet bordered by the Maori family, Masashi decided that he must do everything possible to curb the development of the Maori family in the future. So he immediately wrote down several orders, and then asked people to urgently send them to Kato Duanzo, who was still on standby in An Yi Country.

In late January, after more than half a month of emergency measures in the territory, rumours about the Maori family were finally curbed to some extent, but they are still difficult to extinguish. In contrast, rumours outside the territory of the Maori family are becoming more and more intense, and there are new rumors with new content.

These new additions are mainly to bluntly say that the Maori family's previous high-profile claims that they have been framed and that the rumors are false, are all hypocritical. The evidence that the former governor of the country, Mori Moto, had attacked their two sons (which the Mori family used to prove that the rumours circulating everywhere had been deliberately framed) were nothing more than a bitter ploy used by the Mori family when they realized that the matter had been revealed. Now, in order to cover up their crimes, the Maori family continues to hunt down and kill innocent people in their territory. Even the borders were blocked. These behaviors once again reflect the Maori family's thief-minded mentality.

The rumors are true. That is, Mori Moto really intends to use the attack on his two sons to play the sad card, in order to win the trust of the people, retainers and wealthy families, and more importantly, to win the trust of Yoshitaka Ouchi. Just because of this rumor, the effect of the Pathos card has dropped a lot.

In the mansion of the lord of Tayama Castle in Aki Koki-gun, Mori Moto was a little anxious and threw aside the flower-cutting tools in his hand. At his feet are freshly cut flowers known as autumn seven grasses. In the past, when he was irritable, Mao Liyuan's favorite thing to do was to fiddle with the flowers and plants in this yard, but today, these autumn seven grasses that have been cut up in a mess are shivering at this time, and they look a little desolate.

Although the rumors in the territory have been curbed to a certain extent. However, outside the territory, especially in Zhoufang, the rumors about the Maori family are getting stronger and stronger. The situation is becoming more and more unfavourable for the Maori family. According to the information sent back by the family detective from the Inner Pavilion of the Zhou Defense National University, many retainers of the Ouchi family have already made suggestions to Ouchi Yoshitaka and advised Ouchi Yoshitaka to summon himself to the Ouchi Pavilion to analyze those rumors. The most active of these is the Tao Long House.

Thinking of this, Mao Liyuan couldn't help but sneer in his heart. The Tao family, which is located on the border between Zhou Fangguo and An Yiguo, came to visit as soon as possible after the incident. The visit was fake, but it was true to come to confirm whether there had been an attack. What made Maori Yuan even more angry was that Tao Longfang and his injured second son Yoshikawa Motoharu were still sworn brothers, and they also sent someone to confirm Yoshikawa Motoharu's injury, but they didn't help the Maori family speak at this time, but fell into the stone.

Mao Liyuan knew there again, in fact, it was the rumor's last words about Ouchi Yoshixing that he had to watch the Mao family's last words that made Tao Longfang vigilant. You can become the lord of a wealthy family. And he became a retainer of the Ouchi family again, and many people are not fools. This naturally includes the Tao Long Room. When the rumors about the Maori family first spread, Tao Longfang naturally didn't care too much about it, but under the reminder of the retainers who were secretly bought by the Luo family, he finally paid attention.

After some scrutiny, it was found that many of the things in the rumors did not seem to be false, and even some of them were involved in them. This made him suspicious of other rumors that he didn't know about, and then after seeing this last sentence of Ouchi Yoshiko, he became completely alert. Even if these rumors are clearly a unity within the Ouchi family, the Maori family can't help but control it. So recently, he has joined forces with other retainers to advise Ouchi Yoshitaka many times, hoping to restrain and monitor the Maori family.

It's just that what makes Tao Longfang angry is that Ouchi Yoshitaka is keen to study Kyoto's renge and waka with the down-and-out ministers who have settled there in the castle town at this time, and he is noncommittal to the advice of Tao Longfang and others, and has not given a disposition result. What made Tao Longfang even more angry was that Sagara Takeren, as his sworn enemy, really rebelled against him again, and he in turn advised Ouchi Yoshitaka that at this time, there was the Nizi family in the northeast of the family and the Luo family in the southwest, and the two great enemies of the Ouchi family were still allied at this time, and their common purpose against the Ouchi family was too obvious, and the unity of the family should be maintained as much as possible at this time. All in all, it's about being inside and outside. Of course, Sagara Takeren's assertion is not deliberately against Tao Takabo, he is just giving Ouchi Yoshitaka a suggestion in response to the current situation faced by the Ouchi family.

But Tao Longfang didn't think so, it can be said that Sagara Wuren's assertion almost made him angry, so he almost pulled out the blade and cut Sagara Wuren with a knife. This villain is so hateful that not long ago this villain openly encroached on his Tao family's territory in Zhoufang. Regarding this matter, Ouchi Yoshitaka, as the governor of the family, not only did not get justice for the Tao family, but even took the initiative to act as a matchmaker, planning to let Sagara Takeren's adopted daughter marry Tao Longfang, in order to mediate the conflict between the two.

But after learning the news, Tao Longfang broke out decisively. What adopted daughter? Bah, even if the villain's biological daughter (the only daughter of the right age, Risa Sagara, who is already married to Masaara), or even give me his woman, I don't like it. This is simply an insult to my martial arts family. The lord is too partial. Not only did he not uphold justice for my Tao family. He even insulted him by marrying a daughter. In exchange for the villain's legitimacy (as a dowry) for occupying the Tao family's territory. Tao Longfang naturally would not agree.

So Tao Longfang not only rejected Ouchi Yoshitaka's kindness, but even sent troops to forcibly seize back the original Tao family's territory occupied by the Sagara Takeren family. Sagara Takeren also knew that he was at a loss in this matter, so after learning that the territory was taken back by Tao Longfang himself, he didn't dare to say anything anymore.

Although Tao Longfang snatched the territory back, he was always angry about the humiliation of the territory being robbed, and the anger has always been hidden in his heart. Now that Sagara Takeren is once again against him in matters concerning the Mori family, and Yoshitaka Ouchi seems to have listened to the villain's advice again, the anger in his heart has skyrocketed several times. In a fit of rage, he simply went away in a rage. Such a piece of news came back to the Maori family. But it's a good thing.

In Tianshan Castle, Aki Kokuji County, Mao Liyuan was stunned at the flowers and plants in the yard, and these flowers and plants that could calm him down in the past seemed to be invalid at this time. He blamed himself a little in his heart, blaming himself for only spying on his retainers and wealthy families, but for not monitoring the general territorial situation enough, if he had discovered these rumors earlier, he might have been able to extinguish them in time. Now, even if it is extinguished, if we want to return to the previous situation, we will have to renovate it internally for at least one or two years. Completely dilute the suspicion of the lords, nobles, and retainers towards the Maori family, otherwise there will be instability within the territory.

For rumors outside the territory. At this time, even the Maori Yuan is completely helpless, but for the Ouchi family, the Maori family must also express something, otherwise the Maori family will really fall into a disadvantageous situation. The so-called "representation" has long been decided in Maoriyuan's heart, but Maoriyuan is a little undecided.

In addition, he once again felt the power of framing the Maori family this time, and even misled the pathos card he planned to use into a bitter meat play, completely putting the Maori family in a disadvantageous situation. This made him suddenly think of the rumors about the Takeuchi family in Misaku two or three months ago.

At that time, after learning the news that Takeuchi Hisamori failed to assassinate Luo Masara and was "killed", Mao Liyuan immediately prepared to secretly kill Takeuchi Hisamori's family and clansmen. After all, it was he who forced Takeuchi Hisamomori to assassinate Luo Masara, which led to the failure of Takeuchi Hisamori's assassination and his killing. The Takeuchi Hisamori family, who learned the truth, would definitely hate the Maori family, so in order to avoid future disasters, it is best to simply cut down the grass and eradicate the roots.

It's just that just as he was preparing to assassinate him, a rumor suddenly arose in Anyi Country, Bei China, Bigo Country, Misaku and other places, and this rumor was naturally a rumor that Mao Li Yuan forced Takeuchi Hisamori to go to Kyushu to assassinate Luo Masara and promised to guarantee the life of Takeuchi Hisamori's family. Although Mori Moto tried his best to clarify, in order to avoid causing unnecessary suspicion, Mori Moto finally had to give up his plan to secretly kill the Takeuchi Hisamomori family, and instead settled them in a remote territory in Aki Province and placed them under surveillance. After a few years, when the people gradually forgot about it, they would kill all of them.

At the beginning, Mao Liyuan thought that this rumor was just a hindsight by Takeuchi Hisamori after he went to Kyushu and used some of the hidden power in his hands before assassinating Luo Zhengliang. Now that I think about it, that doesn't seem to be the case. Judging from the situation of this rumor, the method is so similar to the method of the previous rumor. After being sent to Kyushu, there was only one person who was able to contact Hisamomori Takeuchi and obtain information through interrogation.

"Could it be him?" Mao Liyuan suddenly thought of the cunning and despicable eagle.

"Father." Just when Mori Yuan deduced from the recent rumors that the mastermind behind the scenes might be the Kyushu Eagle Luo Clan Masayo, his sister-in-law Mori Takamoto hurriedly came to report the urgent news.

"Taro, what's the matter?"

"Father, this is news that I just sent back from Zhou Fang." After coming to Mori Yuan's side and saluting, he immediately opened a letter and handed it to Mori Yuan. Mori Takamoto, who had already succeeded to the position of family governor last year, naturally had the right to check this information in advance, although at this time the power of the Mori family was still in the hands of Mori Mototo.

Let Mori Takamoto serve as the family governor, and Mori Yuan will retreat to the background to take power, this move is also to reduce the Ouchi family's wariness of the Mori family and the decision was made by Mori Yuan, after all, in Ouchi Yoshitaka's view, it is much better to let his son-in-law control the Maori family than to control the Mao family. In the end, this move was also exchanged for the Ouchi family's support for the Mori family's strategy in Bigo and China. It's just that what Maori Yuan didn't expect was that the painstaking arrangement at the beginning was finally going down the drain because of this rumor, and it was a little gratifying that at least during this time, the Maori family had extended its power to Bigo Province, Bei China, and Misaku Province. It's just that at that time, whether the territory of these areas will be divided by the Ouchi family depends on the situation.

(Well, the monthly pass situation these days is just too bad.) I was going to send a vote-asking announcement, but I forgot it after the worst. I know that many book friends are holding the monthly pass to see the after-effect, but the double monthly pass is only a few days, and the situation of the monthly pass has slightly affected the author's level, so don't miss it. Let's make an agreement here, if the monthly ticket for this book exceeds 100 in the first seven days of May, then this month, even if I don't sleep, I have to ensure that I have to change 10,000 words every day. If I break the contract, punish me for going out and meeting a beautiful woman. What do you think? Ruthless enough, right? Everyone, vote for your commuter pass. (To be continued......)