The rain in the sky was still falling, and Masahiro, accompanied by Stone and the others, came to the captain's cabin, and then the Stone and the others left first. And Masahiro paused a little under the wooden eaves in front of the cabin, mainly to wait for the water droplets on his body to drain before going in, otherwise he would be wet all over, and it would be a little rude to the owner inside.

After the water on his body was almost dripping, Masa-ra knocked on the door.

"Come in." A handful of voices came from inside. But Masara was a little surprised, because it was a woman's voice.

With a "squeak", Masahiro pushed open the wooden door of the cabin and walked in. Looking up, this cabin doesn't look too big, and it is naturally surrounded by wooden planks, but Masashi saw a nautical chart nailed to it on a wooden wall, and there was even a compass for Ming Dynasty sailors hanging next to it. Behind a table, a chair, and a bookcase in the cabin, there was a screen embroidered with a large red peony, and behind the screen there seemed to be a curtain. The middle part of the cabin is estimated to be able to accommodate about six or seven people at a time. The only source of light is a small window on the right side of the room, through which a light blue sea can be seen.

And as the owner of the cabin, he was also in front of that small window at this time, looking at the rain on the sea outside the window. When he heard the footsteps of Masarashi entering, the owner of the cabin finally turned around. Masayo's eyes immediately met the owner of the cabin.

Zhengliang was immediately stunned, and stood in place. Amazing, really amazing. The master had his hair neatly combed and short, over his ears but not shoulder-to-shoulder. In this era when long hair is popular. This cabin owner has to say that it is an alternative among the other. But it has to be said. Even if it's different, it's beautiful. He was dressed in a splendid black and splendid dress. He also wears a large pink peony on his chest, and covers one side of his shoulder with a red satin. It's just that when he seriously looked at the beautiful appearance of the owner of the cabin (no way, this is the part that men almost must see when they see a beautiful woman), Masashi couldn't help but be stunned again.

"You...... You ......"

"Why, I haven't seen you for a few years, but Childe has forgotten the little girl?" After seeing Masayo's strange expression, the woman couldn't help but smile indifferently. It's a laugh, but it's so heart-pounding.

"You...... You...... You are Zhu ......" Finally. Masarashi spat out a few words from the middle of his mouth. It's no wonder that Masato was surprised! Now he is basically sure that the beauty in front of him is Zhu Zining, the only heir of the Zhu family who supported the family business alone, he met in Ningbo Mansion in the Ming Kingdom. It's just that the original Zhu Zining was a typical Ming beauty who was graceful but a little stubborn in her heart, but Zhu Zining, who was standing in front of Zhengliang at this time, seemed to have become another person in terms of clothing and form, which made Zhengliang unable to react at all for a while.

It has been seven or eight years since the two parted that year, and during this period of time, Zhengliang can only occasionally hear about Zhu Zining from Wang Hai's mouth. In general, her situation has not been very good, because she has lost the support of officialdom. It was even constantly suppressed by officials and wealthy businessmen who tried to seize the family's wealth, after Masayo returned to the territory. The Zhu family's family business is getting worse and worse, even with the secret help of Wang Hai, Shi Shi and others, they can only barely maintain it. Of course, this is also the news that Zhengliang got more than a year ago. And in the following year or so, what happened to Zhu Zining?

"Let's settle the outside matter first, and see how your fleet is besieged by others?" Seeing that Zhengliang's eyes were still looking at him in a daze, Zhu Zining couldn't help but blush, and then reminded.

Zhu Zining's mention of this immediately made Zhengliang sober up, even if there were a lot of things that Zhengliang didn't know about in Zhu Zining, but at this time, it was indeed necessary to solve the outside matter first, so he immediately bowed solemnly to Zhu Zining and said: "Please also ask the girl to help you in the next hand......

Just when Zhengliang and Zhu Zining met on the huge fortune boat, there was a strange scene on the battlefield outside. The originally troubled Luo family's naval army not only increased its strength sharply, but also its morale suddenly rose after Zhengliang's repeated encouragement and the arrival of the huge fortune ship.

In comparison, as the Luo family's hostile side, the Ouchi family, the Bojia family, and the Zongjia naval army, at this time, some of the temporary peasant soldiers who had never seen the Fu boat were so frightened that they shouted. After finally stabilizing the fleet, the main generals of the three families immediately converged.

"Your Excellency the General, do you think it is better for our side to attack or retreat?" The general of the Zong family's navy asked at Mao Liyuan. Seeing that the Luo family's naval army had a huge ship to support, it instantly became a hard nail, and once the two sides attacked, it was very likely to cause great losses to the Zong family's naval army. So this naval general had a little idea of retreating before getting the permission of the governor.

"No, General, don't retreat!" On the other side, the general of the Hakata family's navy, Nao Tsuruta (the brother of the Luo family's territory who is known as Kuro's pseudonym) immediately shouted that once the navy of the Ouchi family and the Zong family withdraw, then the Hakata navy will naturally not be the opponent of the Luo family's navy, and then Iki Island will also fall into the hands of the Luo family, which is unacceptable to them.

"Sagasu-sama, are you blatantly disobeying the support orders of Lord Sogi?" While begging Mori Moto not to withdraw his troops, Naoya Tsuruta asked angrily at the general of the Zong family's navy, Sasu Morien.

"Humph!" Sasu Momoto was too lazy to answer Tsuruta Nao's question. At this time, when the strength of the enemy and us is almost the same (to be exact, the strength of the Luo family's naval army has gained the upper hand slightly), as a direct victim of the Luo family's strategy this time, it is naturally based on the premise of ensuring that his own strength is not excessively lost, so even if Tsuruta Nao sues his family governor at this time, he will not be afraid, and maybe he will be praised by the family governor.

Just when Nao Tsuruta was arguing with Sasu Momoto, Morimoto was thinking about it in his heart. Arguably. This time it was the second time he had fought the Roche family (actually the third time. But at this time, Mao Liyuan has not yet determined whether the last assassination and rumor incident was committed by the Luo family).

I think back to when I followed Yoshitaka Ouchi to attack the Izumo country of the Niko family. That was the first meeting between Maori Yuan and Luo Zhengliang. At that time, the Luo family was just a pawn arranged by the Ouchi family in Hizen Province to contain the local wealthy family of the young family and to prevent the Chikugo Kunigo Otomo family from infiltrating into Hizen Province. It's just that at the beginning, Luo Masashi's eyes always gave Mao Li Yuan a deep feeling like the sea, and this feeling can only appear in the kind of people who are deep in their minds and are extremely ambitious, so at that time, Mao Li Yuan secretly reminded Ouchi Yoshitaka to pay attention to the Luo family. It's a pity that Yoshitaka Ouchi doesn't seem to value his reminder, which finally caused the situation that the Ouchi family is facing today. In retrospect, the incident when Masarashi Roche was injured in order to save Yoshitaka Ouchi and took the opportunity to return to Hizen Province was full of suspicions.

And at the end of last year, when the Luo family and the Nizi family formed an alliance and formed a situation of attacking the Ouchi family. Feeling deeply stressed, Yoshitaka Ouchi immediately wrote an urgent letter by hand and sent someone to send it to Mori Motosa.

The letter mainly told Maori Yuan about the alliance between the Luo family and the Nizi family. At the same time, he informed the Mori Motosho that due to the alliance between the two families, the pressure on the border areas between the Ouchi family and them has increased dramatically, so in the future, he will reduce his support for the Mori family's strategy in Bigo Province, Bei Chugoku, and Misa Province, and even need the Mori family to send troops to deal with these two countries if necessary.

Yoshitaka Ouchi's decision surprised Mori Moto. Now is the time for the Maori family to fully penetrate into Bigo Province, Bigo China, and Misaku Province! Although even after these areas were defeated, they still nominally belonged to the Ouchi family, but the Maori family could not only loot supplies and other materials in the process of raiding to secretly accumulate strength, but also expand the influence and reputation of the Maori family in the local area (in this era, the slightly ambitious daimyo are very famous, at least so that you can get more people to join you). More importantly. For the area that was raided, Yoshitaka Ouchi almost always handed it over to the Maori family to take care of it temporarily (that is, it nominally belonged to the Ouchi family.) In fact, it is under the care of the Maori family, and the Maori family only needs to pay the annual tribute regularly every year), and only a part of the territory will be divided into other retainers (which can also be regarded as a disguised surveillance of the Maori family by Yoshitaka Ouchi).

If the Ouchi family stopped supporting the Mori family in the local area at this time, the Mori family, who did not fully control the new territory, would not only face a large number of local forces to counterattack, but would even have to face the attack of reinforcements from the Niko family. More importantly, the Maori family lost an opportunity to secretly accumulate strength. Therefore, Maori Yuan immediately offered a plan to Yoshitaka Ouchi to deal with the Luo family. After all, only by striking the Luo family can the resources of the Ouchi family be liberated, so that they can be invested in the strategy of supporting the Maori family. So attacking the Luo family is equivalent to helping the Maori family themselves.

Unfortunately, in the end, Maori Moto's assassination plan failed. The Maori family was then embroiled in a series of assassinations and rumors. And this time, Maori Yuan is the reason why he is against the Luo family. Mainly because Maori Yuan took the opportunity to leave Yoshitaka Ouchi, who was full of surveillance, and then looked for an opportunity outside to remotely control the development of the Maori family's territory in Aki Province. What he didn't expect was that he met the legendary undefeated god of war Hizen Eagle so coincidentally here.

At that time, the idea of taking the opportunity to eliminate the Hizen Eagle that was always making trouble for the Ouchi family and thus affecting the development of the Mori family immediately arose again in his heart, and thus ignited the hope that the Ouchi family could be liberated from the entanglement with the Luo family, so as to provide more support to the Mori family's Bigo Province, Bei Chugo, and Misaku Raiders. It's just that all of this was shattered with the sudden appearance of a Ming Guofu ship.

However, Maori Yuan did not lose because of this. is already over half a hundred years old, and he has seen many things more thoroughly. Anyway, the purpose of this support is not to let the Luo family completely occupy Iki Island. As long as this goal is achieved, as for any other hopes, it will be left to the next time to settle the score.

And at this time, he was also a little worried, if he really fought with the Luo family's water army at this time, would his old life be handed over here? Although he is a retainer of the Ouchi family, it is appropriate to give advice to the suzerain, and even be loyal, but selfishly, it seems that it is not worth losing his life for this. So Mori Moto immediately stopped the argument between Nao Tsuruta and Sasu Momoen, and then said calmly:

"Maybe we don't have to fight against the Luo family, and we don't need to retreat."

"Huh!?"

{PS: In view of the recent fact that some book friends think that the plot of Mao Li Yuan suddenly fighting against the Luo family for the Ouchi family in the first few chapters feels abrupt.} Let's break it down here:

First of all, I would like to ask you to jump out of the concept that the Mori family is the first daimyo of the Western Kingdom, and really substitute it into the actual situation of the Mori family at this time. At this time, the Ouchi family was actually very powerful, stronger than Imagawa Yoshimoto, who had just unified Enoe, Sunfu, and Mikawa, after all, Ouchi Yoshitaka's Laozi had only succeeded in going to Rakuro for a short time (note, this was to go to Raku with an army, not the kind of Kamiraku that only brought a few people into Kyoto). If it weren't for the large number of messy things that came out of the Ouchi family later, it would be a question of whether the Maori family could rise (although Yoshitaka Ouchi likes Kyoto culture too much, but once he comes to his senses, his ability is not bad, at least he can suppress the Maori family). Even if the Maori family were to rise eventually, it would take much longer than it had historically.

Compared to the Ouchi family, the Mori family was still a wealthy family in Aki Province at this time, and the local family had just abandoned the Niko family and switched to the Ouchi family, and in history, the strength of the Mori family at this time was not even called the Sengoku Daimyo (of course, due to the emergence of Masayo, the strength of the Mori family is much stronger now than in history). At this time, the Maori family also needs to slowly accumulate strength under the protection of the Ouchi family. At the same time, with the help of the Ouchi family's strength, he resisted the invasion of the Niko family and accelerated the Maori family's external expansion. To put it simply, it's a tree that is still growing rapidly under the shade of other big trees (and it's not a sapling).

And historically, the Mori family was also completely transformed into a real Warring States Daimyo after Yoshitaka Ouchi was killed, defeated Tao Takabo, and swallowed the inheritance of the Ouchi family like a small fish eating a big fish, and then the Mori Yuan continued to expand his power through various means, and finally grew into the Warring States overlord of the Western Kingdom. It's just that before Yoshitaka Ouchi was killed, the Maori family was still a local wealthy family in Aki Province, and Maori Yuan was still a retainer of Yoshitaka Ouchi. Therefore, it is normal to give advice to Yoshitaka Ouchi (even if the matter of offering advice has nothing to do with the interests of the Mori family, it will be done.) Although the Warring States period was an era of prioritizing self-interest, at this time, the Mori family needed to rely on the help of the Ouchi family, and as an equivalent exchange of interests, he also had to do his duty as a retainer).

In addition, it has been described in the article that because the Ouchi family wants to be distracted to deal with the Luo family, it will affect the strategy of the Maori family in Bigo Province and other regions (because the Ouchi family is going to change the support for the Maori family to support against other wealthy families of the Luo family), since it affects its own interests, in order to let the Ouchi family be released from the entanglement of the Luo family and provide more support to the Maori family, Maori Yuan will naturally take more action against the Luo family (here I want to review, I wrote a little implicitly, It is necessary to combine the previous content and then think about it a little to understand it thoroughly. I'll be more direct in the future).

In short, if everyone always thinks that it is recorded in the game or in the literature (and underestimates the strength of the Ouchi family, it is estimated that everyone thinks that this is a master who will be destroyed quickly, so there is no strength. But after all, the game is still a game, and the book is still a book after all, and now it's in a realistic environment after all), and the Maori family, who has grown into the hegemon of the Warring States, looks at this plot from the perspective of this plot, so it is natural to think that Maori Yuan is such a bull B, how can the guy go all the way to fight against the Luo family for the sake of the Ouchi family? Isn't this a lack of things to do? From this point of view, even if Nobunaga replaces Yoshitaka Ouchi as the suzeraine of Mori Motosho, it is estimated that everyone will feel abrupt. (To be continued......)