In the eighteenth year of astronomy (1549), in late May, the cherry blossoms had begun to wither, but warblers were crying everywhere. It was not the immature voice of early spring, but the tactful singing of the competition, which flowed into everyone's ears like a clear spring.

This is the courtyard of Shikoku Iyo Kuniyu and the county Iyo Saionji home castle Matsuha Castle, the Saionji family governor Saionji Shimitsu, facing the south window sprinkled with the morning sun, loudly chanting the song "Xuanzong":

The sun and the moon are reflected in front of the old door,

The Son of Heaven and the Emperor,

The people of Li are full of grace,

I can hear the sound of thousands of households worshipping.

The Saionji clan originated from Fujiwara Kita's Kanin Gongji, and Koji's descendant, Kokei, was called Saionji Temple because of his construction of Begye Saionji Temple in Kitayama-gun, Yamashiro Province, and Saionji became a family name. Insert a sentence here. Minami Iyo's Uwa Shomoto was an inheritance of the Tachibana clan for generations, and was later taken by the Saionji clan. In the "Azuma Mirror", it is recorded that the Saionji Gongjing has coveted the Uwa County under the jurisdiction of the Tachibana Gongye for many years. Because the Tachibana clan was not defeated, the shogunate did not agree at the time, but in the end, it seems that the request of Kokei was accepted, and Uwasho became the domain of Kokei's son, Tokiwai Irimichi Minoru. Although the Saionji clan controlled Uwa-gun, it was actually governed by a dai official, and the Saionji clan only managed Uwa-gun as a leader. The actual settlement in the area began from the descendants of the Shi clan, the Seonji family, to the descendants of the Saionji family. In short, the activities of the Saionji clan of Iyo began in the Northern and Southern Dynasties period. The Saionji clan is based on Matsuba Castle, and the local nobles of the Uwa region are under their command, and they are active guardian daimyos.

However, in the Warring States period, the Kono family in the eastern part of Iyo Province, the Utsunomiya family in the southern part of Iyo Province, the One family in the central part of Iyo Province, the Ichijo family in Tosa in the south, and the Otomo family in Bungo Province in Kyushu in the west invaded the Saionji family, and suddenly the Saionji family fell into decline.

Luckily it was. At this time, the Xiyuan Temple family ushered in the nineteenth generation of the family governor Xiyuan Temple, who was known as a "civil and military all-rounder". Under the leadership of Saionji Minotsu. The fifteenth of Xiyuan Temple will be the core retainers of the retainers. Resisted the invasion of the surrounding powers.

And Wu Yong has long been praised by the retainers of Xiyuan Temple, but deep down he actually hopes that his literary and artistic talents can be praised by all the retainers. He was tired of the frequent wars between the Hao clans, and he preferred to find a quiet place to sing his lien songs and write his books. This wish of Saionji Shichong was indeed fulfilled in the future, and after passing on the position of family governor, he left Yuhe County Shangluo in May of the third year of Yonglu to become a monk and began to write "The Names of the Soil Dynasties" and "Yan Jiqing Ji". After becoming a monk in Shangluo, he also befriended the ministers of the clan family, and often participated in song meetings (such as participating in the Lian Song Meeting of the Sanjo Dynasty). After the most Lu died in the sixth year of Yongroku, he died in Kyoto.

Just when Xiyuan Temple was singing, his adopted son Xiyuan Temple Gongguang came to the door at this time and said, "The son has something to enlighten his father......

"I'm singing!" Xiyuan Temple said sharply and continued to sing his ballad.

Xiyuan Temple Gongguang, who knew Xiyuan Temple's habits, had no choice but to sit in the corridor honestly, waiting for Xiyuan Temple to finish singing "Xuanzong".

May the king be honored to the palace of eternal life,

Talk about this hatred and comfort.

Xiyuan Temple finished singing as if no one was around, and said, "Come in!" "The voice is as high-pitched as it was when I was a child.

The public of Xiyuan Temple respectfully opened the partition door. Xiyuan Temple Shichong laughed loudly and said, "Hahaha, all the tunes I sang let you listen." How's that, okay? ”

Xiyuan Temple Gongguang was not surprised at all and looked up at Xiyuan Temple Shichong. replied very honestly: "Erchen doesn't understand ballads at all. ”

"Ha Lu haha...... "Xiyuan Temple Shichong likes the honest character of Xiyuan Temple Gongguang the most. Two years earlier, his only son, Seonji Kotaka, had been killed in a battle with the Utsunomiya family under Asuka Castle, although he later recaptured Asuka Castle and burned it down. But he couldn't save his son-in-law's life. In grief, in order to stabilize the uneasiness of the retainers in the family because of the loss of the heir of the family governor, he adopted Saionji Gongguang as his adopted son, and married the last daughter to Xiyuan Temple Gongguang (Xionji Shichong has two daughters, and the eldest daughter is married to the important minister of the family, Toi Qingqing). The Duke of Xiyuan Temple is widely honest and filial, and it is precisely because of him that Xiyuan Temple Shichong took a fancy to him that he accepted him as an adopted son to inherit the family business.

"What's the matter with you?" After calming down, Saionji Shimitsu finally asked.

"Father, this is the information that the detective of the family just came back from the sea this morning. It is information about the Kyushu region, especially the Bungo Province region. Xiyuan Temple Gongguang immediately reported. After finishing speaking, he handed a scroll in his hand to Xiyuan Temple Shimitsu with both hands.

"Oh?" After hearing this, Xiyuan Temple immediately took the scroll and immediately opened it to read it.

The scrolls mainly recorded the recent situation of Bungo and Hyuga, but what caught his most attention was the news about the Luo family.

According to the intelligence, in early May, a fleet of Roche ships coming from the direction of the Osumi Strait met the Ito family navy in the Hyuga Beach off the coast of Hyuga Province, and a fierce battle ensued, which ended with most of the Ito family's navy being sunk and the rest of the navy escaping.

In fact, this Luo family navy is the Luo family's second standing navy army responsible for escorting part of the ships of the Fourth Standing Navy back to the coast of Fenggo. After ambushing the Muneka family's navy in Hakata Bay, Chikuzen Province, Masarashi allocated some of the captured ships to the 4th Standing Naval Army, and at the same time asked the 4th Standing Naval Army Commander Murakami Bukitsch to send someone to collect the ships, he also ordered the 2nd Standing Naval Army to send warships to escort the ships back to Beppu Bay in Bungo Province.

The reason why Masarashi arranged this way was that he was worried that these ships would be attacked by the Ito family and other hostile forces during the voyage, but the result was really expected by him. After learning that the Luo family's navy passed through the coast of his territory, Ito Yoshiyu immediately dispatched all of the Ito's navy to intercept it.

It's just that although the Ito family's land soldiers are good, but the combat strength of the navy is very average, under the attack of the Luo family's pei burning, most of the ships of the Ito family's navy were burned, and countless sailors were killed and wounded in battle. After this battle, the Ito family completely lost the barrier of the navy, and the coastal area of Hyuga Province became a paradise for other powerful and powerful sailors, including the Luo family's navy.

After defeating the Ito family's navy, the Luo family's navy fleet did not stay where it was for long, and after resting for a while, the captured and captured ships were gathered together, and then they continued to set off for the coast of Bungo Province.

(Thanks to the monthly pass of "Miss Lee 1, jackkk2007".) Thank you to "Kaihuang" for receiving the light of the great gods of this book! (To be continued......)