In the assessment room in the academy city, Masato picked up a sword placed on the tripartite platform, gently pulled the blade out of the scabbard, looked at the blade that was constantly flashing red in the light of the oil lamp, and couldn't help but admire:

"It's a good knife!"

"This knife is called Haiyue, and it is a very favorite thing of the late ancestor of this family." In the assessment room, a middle-aged man sitting opposite Zhengliang immediately leaned over and saluted and explained.

In fact, this sword was an heirloom of the Kira family, one of the Seven Heroes of Tosa, but after the Kira family surrendered to the Chosho Ibe family, an ally of the Ijo family, it was obtained by the Chosho Ibe family. However, in order to show their gratitude to the fourth family governor of the Ichijo family who was still alive at the time, the fourth family governor Ichibanji and the late second family governor Ichifang family, these two people originally took in the Changzong family and helped the Changzong family regain the favor of the old leader, but also to further maintain the relationship with the Ichijo family, so they gave this famous knife as a gift to the previous family governor Yiyifangji.

The family governor is very fond of this famous knife, but unfortunately, after the death of the family governor a house foundation, and the fifth family governor is only fond of wine, and the treasure knife has been ignored, and this time when the decision to send a middle-aged man to Luo's house, it happened that other retainers pointed out that Luo's family governor Kyushu Eagle Luo Zhengliang seemed to like famous knives, so the family governor Yijian immediately decided to use the famous knife as a gift to see the Warring States Daimyo in front of him.

"Judging from the expression of the young adult in front of him, he really appreciates this famous knife, and it seems that there is hope for the request I just mentioned." The middle-aged man carefully paid attention to Zhengliang's expression, and thought to himself.

It's a pity. This middle-aged man really guessed wrong. Although Masahiro likes the famous knife named Haiyue in his hand. But he had a different opinion on the middle-aged man's previous request for a marriage alliance with the Luo family.

First of all, the marriage proposed by the other party is that the other party's family governor is also determined to marry the princess of the Luo family. And for a family governor who is known for his incompetence in later history, Zhengliang doesn't look down on him at all, so let Zhengliang marry his daughter to this incompetent person, is Zhengliang willing?

Although in this Warring States period, the two forces were aligned. Or one of the forces is subservient to the other, often the superior side marries the daughter to the weaker one. The reason for this is that the dominant party thinks that it is possible to spread its own blood to the other family, and thus to annex the other party's power through the descendants of the guò daughter.

But from the perspective of Masaliang from later generations, he didn't think so, but he felt that it was really a bit of a loss to send his daughter out, so when the Ichijo family asked to marry the princess of the Luo family to conclude an alliance, Masaliang's heart was really a little resistant.

Moreover. Even if Masara agrees, will his daughter be willing? To know. At present, Masato only has two daughters, and the least Chun Ji is not even six years old at this time, so it is naturally impossible to marry, as for Mei Ji who meets the age conditions, hehe, it's hard to imagine that she will be willing.

Secondly, at this time, there was a main room, and the main room was the daughter of Utsunomiya Toyotsuna, the governor of the Utsunomiya family, who was his hardcore ally in the northern Iyu Kingdom.

Speaking of which, this Utsunomiya Toyotsuna is indeed more unlucky, originally his family and the Ichijo family were located on the north and south sides of the Xitu Temple family, in the past, when the father of a Kanji and a house foundation were still alive, the two families were always able to attack and invade the Xitu Temple family from the north and south at the same time, but, after a Kanji came to power, because a Kanji Ji Ding increasingly ignored the forces of the Yiyu Kingdom, including the Utsugong family, the relationship between the Daozhì Yiyi family and them became worse and worse, not to mention that the two parties joined forces to invade the Xitu Temple family.

As for the Xitu Temple family, because they hugged the thigh of the Luo family very early, they not only got a strong backer, but also swept the waters between the Shikoku region and Kyushu Island in one fell swoop with the naval army attached to the Luo family a few years ago, and cleared the coastal naval forces of the Yiyu Kingdom, including the Utsunomiya family's naval army.

After the loss of the naval army, the coastal area of the Utsunomiya family was equivalent to no protection, but the naval army of the Xitu temple family invaded the Utsunomiya family from the sea and land at the same time after obtaining the approval of the Luo family, and the Xitu temple family became stronger and stronger, while the Utsunomiya family became weaker and weaker.

Faced with such a situation, Utsunomiya Toyotsuna naturally asked his allies Ichijo and Kono for help respectively, but unfortunately, the focus of Ichijo was still on Tosa Country at this time, and he didn't have the leisure to pay attention to the situation in Yiyu Country at all, not to mention that Ichijo Kabetsu, as the governor of the family, was so incompetent, so naturally he couldn't get the support of Ichijo Family. As for the Kono family, when they saw that the Utsunomiya family, which was a barrier to the invasion of the Xitu Temple family to the northern Yiyu region, was gradually invaded, they naturally hoped to help, but at this time, the powerful Luo family had invaded the northern part of its territory, and the Kono family's navy was also wiped out by the Luo family's navy, and the coast of the Kono family's territory was even more threatened by the Luo family's overall threat, and although the Miyoshi family in the east sent people to persuade under the banner of support, But the Kono family can also see the ambition of the Miyoshi family to invade the Iyu Kingdom with the help of the Kono family, so in this case, where can the Kono family be distracted to support the Utsunomiya family?

Helpless, Utsunomiya Toyotsuna could only join forces with the Ono family army led by his son-in-law Naoyuki Ohno to resist the invasion of the Nishitoji family.

In fact, this is not the case in the history of the Yiyu Kingdom during this period. In history, due to the absence of the Luo family, the Xitu temple family was in a weak position during this period, and Utsunomiya Toyotsuna saw this situation, so he united with the powerful forces around his family to invade the Xitu temple family, trying to annex the Xitu temple family in one fell swoop, but was defeated by the Xitu temple family to fight back.

Seeing the Utsunomiya family in this situation, they were facing the invasion of the Miyoshi family at that time, but the Kono family, who had the support of the Maori family, simply turned around and secretly communicated with the Saitoji family, and jointly carved up the Utsunomiya family, thus causing the Utsunomiya family to be destroyed.

Now, with the emergence of the Luo family, the Maori family is weak and has not been involved in the Shikoku region, and the Miyoshi family can only secretly contact the Kono family because they are afraid of the Luo family. The Kono family was even invaded by the Luo family. And even after that. It will also be invaded by the Shimazu family, who will attack fiercely because of the need for territory. At the same time, the Saitoji family became strong because of the appearance of the Luo family, but the Utsunomiya family was weak because the Luo family was destroyed by the water army, so it was invaded by the Saituji family.

In history, the Utsunomiya family, which was defeated by the joint invasion of the Nishitoji family, was also defeated by a Kaneji at this time (although it was later supported by the Otomo family and sent troops to support the Utsunomiya family when the Utsunomiya family was destroyed, it was still defeated by the Kono family's coalition supported by the Mori family, and it still could not change the fate of the Utsunomiya family's destruction). In order to hug the thicker thighs of the Otomo family, one Kaneda abandoned the daughter of Utsunomiya Toyotsuna, who was his main room, and instead married the second daughter of the Otomo family governor Otomo Yoshizhen (legal name Sorin), who was in the middle of the day at the time.

And now, although the Otomo family is gone, it is replaced by an even more powerful Luo family. At the beginning, when the Luo family was still very weak and confronted the Otomo and Ouchi coalition forces, in the face of the Luo family's invitation to form an alliance, the Xitu Temple family and the Ichijo family both refused.

It's just that when the Luo family destroyed the Otomo family and invaded the Ouchi family's old nest in the western country, the governor of the Xitu Temple family, Saitu Temple, made a decisive move and concluded an alliance with the Luo family similar to becoming a daimyo outside the Luo family. It was even more decisive to send troops to support the Luo family when they were attacking southern Kyushu, so that the Xitu Temple family was able to gradually become stronger under the care of the Luo family.

And a home. Although Ichijo Wanlong, a clansman who had become a retainer of the Luo family, had persuaded the Ichijo family to move closer to the Luo family decisively, he was still delayed by the drunken family governor Ichijo Kaji, but at that time, the Ichijo family was already a little afraid of the strength of the Luo family, so the activity area of the Ichijo family's navy was almost only in the coastal area of Tosa Province, for fear of angering the Luo family by entering the sea near Kyushu Island.

Now, with the Luo family conquering the southern Kyushu region in one fell swoop, thus completely unifying the island of Kyushu, the Ichijo family has finally realized the danger. With the Luo family unifying the island of Kyushu, if the Luo family plans to continue to expand, the Shikoku region, which is one of its neighbors, is naturally the first choice.

And in the Shikoku area, the Haoqiang across the sea from the Luo family are mainly the Kono family, the Xitu temple family and the Ichijo family, and now, the Kono family has been invaded by the Luo family, and the Xitu Temple family is an ally of the Luo family, so the only remaining family is likely to become a new breakthrough for the Luo family to invade the Shikoku region.

Realizing that the glory and wealth would not be guaranteed, he immediately convened all the retainers to discuss, and finally decided to use a piece of Bandung as the intermediary, and sent the important minister of the family, Toju Zongshan, as an envoy to ask for a meeting with the Luo family, asking for an alliance with the Luo family.

After Doi Sozan made a request for marriage, Masarashi knew that the Ichijo family was ready to fall for poor Utsunomiya Toyotsuna again. This time, the family is not to hug the thighs of the Otomo family, but to hug the thighs of the Luo family.

This can be seen from the middle-aged man in front of him, Tuju Zongshan, who secretly came to Luo's house to ask for a meeting. On the one hand, as the pioneer of the Ichijo family, he first inquired about the Luo family's intention to ask for an alliance with the Ichijo family, and on the other hand, it was to avoid being exposed by Utsunomiya Toyotsuna before it was determined that he could form an alliance with the Luo family, so as to avoid the end of the Luo family not agreeing to the alliance request of the Ichijo family, and deepening the hostility with the local forces of the Yiyu country such as Utsunomiya.

For such a move of the Ichijo family, although Zhengliang is understandable, but he is a little dissatisfied, with the prestige of the Luo family at this time, as the party requesting an alliance, he actually treats it like this (a bit of a feeling of stealing chickens and dogs), which has an impact on the reputation of the Luo family and the reputation of the princess who is about to marry.

In this regard, Zhengliang was very dissatisfied: "The marriage of my Luo Zhengliang's daughter must not be decided so secretly. ”

Of course, since the other party took the initiative to ask for an alliance, Masara would not let go of this opportunity to infect the Luo family's forces in the Shikoku Tosa region, after all, according to the previous report of the Intelligence Cabinet, the forces in Tosa Province at this time had formed a wonderful situation.

At the beginning, as a house foundation of the ancestor of Ichijo family, after inheriting the foundation of Ichijo's ancestor, he actively managed the domain, and his power reached Takaoka Castle (the central region of Tosa Province), and he put the Tsuno family, one of the "Seven Guardians of Tosa", under his banner, and took his younger brother Haruru Ouchi into the Ochi family, and married the daughter of the Otomo family. Under his management, the Tosa Ichijo family reached its peak.

It's just that after his son Ichijo Kaneji succeeded to the position of family governor, the Ichijo family deteriorated, and even the castles in places such as Hasuike Castle in the central region of Tosa Province were seized by the Motoyama family, which was gradually becoming stronger. Ichijo decided that he could not regain the lost territory, but later saw that the Motoyama family was losing ground under the attack of his ally Chosho and Ibu, so he sent an envoy to ask Nagamune and my head to march into Takaoka County and help recapture Hasuike Castle. The head of the Changzong and my department agreed to this matter out of consideration of using the Ichijo family to suppress the Benshan family in both military and political aspects. After that, the head of Changzong and my department sent troops to Takaoka, and Ichijo Kanedai also sent 3,000 troops to assist and recaptured Hasuike Castle.

However, at this time, as the Motoyama family was suppressed by the Nagazong family, the whole family finally realized that another Motoyama family was about to appear, in order to protect the strength and prestige of the Ichijo family in Tosa, and limit the continuous growth of the Nagamune family, Ichijo Kanji would take the initiative to ask the Luo family for marriage and alliance at this time, so as to find greater backing to ensure their own safety.

The strength of the Nagazong family is also detrimental to the future development of the Luo family in the Shikoku region, so Masara naturally has the same purpose as the Ichijo family, and the Luo family also happened to take advantage of this opportunity to infiltrate the Tosa Province region, so Masara finally said:

"For the alliance between the two families, the family is naturally in favor, but there is another ...... here."

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Sorry, guys, I just arrived at the Internet café today. In fact, most of this chapter was completed last night, but because it was past 12 o'clock last night, it was too late, and it took at least half an hour's drive to ride a bicycle from the small town Internet café, during which I had to pass through several uninhabited plant plantations and barren mountains and forests. (To be continued......)