Just as Shimazu Yoshihisa led the Shimazu army to attack the North Satsuma region of southern Kyushu, and his sister-in-law Luo Shi Teirashi suffered his first defeat in his life, Masarashi led the army to rush back to Yamaguchi Castle in Zhou Fangguo.

After this period of campaigning, most of the rebel forces in the western part of Zhou Fangguo were destroyed by Masayoshi, and this time he temporarily rushed back to Yamaguchi Castle, mainly to receive Kyogoku Takayoshi, who was already waiting in Yamaguchi Castle.

Kyogoku Takayoshi is already an old friend of the Luo family, he was rescued by the Luo family when he was in distress in Kyushu Hizen country, after more than ten years of exchanges between the two sides, Kyogoku Takayoshi has become the spokesperson of the Luo family in the shogunate and the emperor. This time, Kyogoku Takayoshi came to see Masayo as a representative of the shogunate and the emperor.

Before meeting with Kyogoku Takayoshi, Masara learned from the information sent by a Moritaka in Kyoto that the emperor and the shogunate were going to package the two imperial court positions of Nagato Mamoru and Zhou Defense, as well as the four shogunate positions of Iki Guardian, Tsushima Guardian, Nagato Guardian, and Zhou Guardian to Masarashi at one time.

Cunningly, neither the Emperor's court nor the shogunate mentioned the attribution of the two official positions of Aki Mamoru and Aki Guardian (short for official position and service), which previously belonged to the Ouchi family, and now with the fall of the Ouchi family, according to the previous practice of the Emperor's court and the shogunate, it must have been given to the new occupants of Aki Province as a tool to obtain money and food, and to be precise, it should be given to the Luo family, which not only often helped the emperor and the shogunate, but also actually occupied most of the territory of Aki Province. However, the emperor and the shogunate were worried about being punished by this, and they also often helped their Mori family, after all, the Mori family also occupied part of the Aki Province at this time. The Mori clan is also currently working hard to exert its influence in the imperial court and shogunate. Strive to obtain the nominal ownership of An Yi Guo. So in a dilemma on both sides, the court and the wooden house had to deliberately avoid the nominal ownership of An Yiguo.

The Maori family is naturally happy to accept this deliberate avoidance. Although they did not obtain the nominal ownership of An Yiguo, it also caused the Luo family to be unable to obtain nominal ownership. In this way, the Maori family was not restricted by the Luo family in general righteousness.

But in this way, it will inevitably attract the dissatisfaction of the more dominant Luo family, and it is precisely with this in mind that the emperor and the shogunate sent Kyogoku Takayoshi, who has a deep relationship with the Luo family, as a mediator envoy, so that even if the Luo family is angry, there is no one to vent (of course). This is also a show of goodwill from the imperial court and the shogunate), and he also rewarded the official position of Dazai Marshal from the three to Masarashi.

Dazai Shuai is the highest official position in Kyushu Dazaifu, since the original Kyushu Imagawa family was destroyed, the highest local power in Kyushu has only obtained the official position of Dazai Daitsu from the fourth place (such as Ouchi Yoshitaka), but no one has ever held a higher rank from the third Dazai Shuai. Now, in order to appease the Luo family, the emperor and the shogunate have taken this official position back up. The rank of this official position is indeed very high, and the rank in front of it is only from the three right guards, from the three left, from the three chiefs, from the three chiefs, from the three generals, from the three ministers, from the two ministers, from the two right ministers, from the two left ministers, from the first minister, and from the highest one, the first minister. From this point of view, the emperor and the shogunate were already quite dedicated to appeasing the Luo family.

In this way, Dazai Shuai, the highest local official position in Kyushu, and the highest position in Kyushu, Kyushu probe, belong to the Luo family. As for Masahiro's original official position from the four Dazai Daji, it was rewarded to Masaliang's sister-in-law, Luo Shi Huiliang. Now all it comes up, since the start of the Roche family. Until now, Masato alone has held three official positions (Dazai Shuai); Repair doctors from the four; From the top of the five (Higo Mamoru ) From the bottom of the five (Hizen Defense, Tsukugo Defense, Harvest Defense, Tsukuzen Defense, Harvest Defense, Zhou Defense); From the six (Nagato Mamoru down); On the seventh rank (Iki Mamoru and Tsushima Mamoru).

In terms of shogunate service, it is to take over the four positions (Kyushu Exploration); is under the sixth position (Higo Guardian); From the six positions (Chikugo Guardian, Hizen Guardian, Chikuzen Guardian, Bunzen Guardian, Bungo Guardian, Perimeter Guardian, Nagato Guardian); From the seventh (Iki Guardian, Tsushima Guardian). As for the retainers of the Luo family. His son-in-law, Rashi Teruma, is from the fourth rank of the lower Dazai Daibi, Togo Heiji is the fifth upper Dazai Shaoji, Yamamoto Kansuke is the fifth lower Dazai Shoji, Kakukuma Ishimune is from the fifth rank of the Upper Nakasu Shofu, Akabane Shinnosuke is from the fifth rank of the Upper Dazai Shofu, Kinoshita Masanao is from the fifth rank of the Lower Soldier Department, Yoshida Shigemasa is the fifth Lower Punishment Department Shofu, Isono Yuanchang is the sixth Lower Soldier Commander, Akuda is the sixth Lower Punishment Department Chief, the second son Song Wang Maru Luo Shi Shinra is the sixth Lower Left Guard Captain, and the third son Motowang Matsuura Takanobu is the seventh Lower Left Guard Second Lieutenant.

In this way, the military and political power of the Luo family in ten places, including Higo Province, Hizen Province, Chikuzen Province, Chikugo Province, Fengsai Province, Bungo Province, Nagato Province, Zhou Defense Province, Iki Island, and Tsushima Island, was officially recognized. As for the four places of Anyi Kingdom, Bigo Kingdom, Yiyu Kingdom, and Hyuga Kingdom, the Luo family only actually controlled most of the territories or a small number of them, and had not yet obtained military and political power in these areas in the name of righteousness.

As for some of the official positions (such as guardian positions) that were awarded to Masarashi by the Emperor's court and the shogunate, since the Luo family had already implemented another set of military and political bureaucratic systems created by themselves, Masarashi did not intend to give these official positions to his retainers, but replaced them with other official positions that the Luo family already had, such as guardians, and then rewarded them to his retainers as a reward.

Of course, even if the emperor and the shogunate did not hesitate to use the three Dazai marshal positions to appease the Luo family and mediate the relationship between the Luo family and the Maori family, Masarashi did not intend to sell face.

This time, the riot in the western region occupied by the Luo family actually has the shadow of the Maori family behind it, and it was pitted. Not long ago, at the behest of Masarashi, the Duke of Izumo Province, who was serving as a guest general of the Niko family (in fact, an alliance hostage, and the Niko family's alliance hostage on the side of the Luo family was Izumo no Kayama Yukimori), the public secretary of the Dutaki Kiyomasa, was trying his best to urge the Niko family and the Luo family to jointly attack the Maori family.

(Thanks to "Reinstein" for the commuter pass; Thanks to "Midoria" for the tip. (To be continued......)