"It's great that the two families have finally achieved righteousness and can shake hands and make peace. It's so rare! After returning to Kyoto, he will certainly report the righteousness of the two families to the emperor and the shogun. After the Luo family and the Mori family finally reached a peace agreement, Kyogoku Takayoshi, as the mediator of the emperor and the shogunate, immediately said happily to the negotiators of the two families.

Soon after, Kyogoku Takayoshi happily set off for Kyoto on the Ro's merchant ship with generous gifts from the Luo family and the Mori family. For Kyogoku Takayoshi, this time his mission has been successfully completed, and he has also gained a lot of benefits from it, at least his family will not have to worry about money and food for a long time to come.

At the same time, the Roche and Maori families also stopped the war with each other according to the peace agreement, and began to quickly implement the contents of the peace agreement between the two sides. After ensuring the stability of the border, Masara also began to draw more troops from the various teams in the border of Anyi Country to extinguish the rebellion in the territory of the Luo family in the western country.

In this time, the Emperor and the Shogunate intervened purely as outsiders in the struggle for the interests of the four parties, and in the end they did facilitate peace between the parties. Don't look at the fact that on the surface they only facilitated the peace between the Luo family and the Maori family, but in fact, secretly, they also sent people to put pressure on Honganji Temple in Ishiyama Gobo, Osaka. And Honganji Xianru, who had just inherited the throne of the Lord, also needed to establish a good relationship with the emperor and the shogunate, not to mention that with the continuous damage of the core personnel he sent to the territory of the Luo family in the western country, in fact, it was difficult to form a larger-scale movement against the Luo family this time, so at the request of the emperor and the shogunate. Honganji Xianru also simply agreed to their request. The personnel sent to Saikoku Shubo, Aki, Bigo and other places were gathered and returned to Osaka.

Of course. Although Honganji apparently agreed to the request of the emperor and the shogunate, secretly, the newly appointed head of Honganji Temple has no good feelings for the Luo family at all. However, even if Masarashi knew that Honganji was hostile to the Luo family, he would not be surprised. Anyway, in the original Kyushu region's purge campaign against the Ichijo sect, Masara became a mortal enemy in the eyes of the Ichijo sect. Now, naturally, I am even less afraid of the hostility from Honganji Temple, the new master.

In short, the intervention of the emperor and the shogunate once again enhanced their prestige among the heroes, as for the Ichizo sect. Although the riot against the Luo family seems to have ended, the riot in the western territory of the Luo family is still going on at this time. For the Ichijo Sect, even if the rebellion ultimately failed, as long as the riot lasted for one day, it would be a day when the influence of the Ichijo Sect would continue to be promoted. So for them, this compromise is not actually a failure. What's more, Ichijo took advantage of this opportunity to force the Maori family to board their thief ship, which allowed Ichisho to gain more rights in the territory of the Maori family, and at the same time once again expanded the influence of Ichijo Mune's influence in the local area.

And so it goes. It seems that the most heaviest loss this time is naturally the Maori family. It's just that, although he has been asked for a lot of benefits by the sect. was also forced to cede some of the benefits to the Luo family, but the Maori family finally achieved the goal of negotiating peace with the most powerful enemy, the Luo family, so that the Maori family was able to spare more energy to deal with the invasion of hostile forces such as the Nizi family at this tense moment.

As for the Luo family, although they missed the opportunity to unite many forces to destroy the Maori family, they also enhanced the prestige of the Luo family among the heroes from this peace negotiation. More importantly, with the pacification of the rebellion, the Luo family was able to uproot the temples and shrines in the territory of the former Ouchi family in the Saikoku region. In this way, with the previous Kyushu region, the Luo family has obtained a territory that is completely controlled by themselves. These areas will inevitably become the most solid foundation for the Luo family's future expansion.

With the peace agreement decided, the time soon came to the beginning of September. During this time, Masarashi drew a large number of troops to quell the rebellion in the territory of the western country, and with the burning of important temples such as Honshoji Temple, Katsutsuji Temple, and Shanguji Temple, the rebellion that broke out in the western territory of the Luo family was finally completely quelled at this time in early September of the third year of Hongji (1557). During the riots, which lasted for several months, the Luo family slaughtered tens of thousands of monks and soldiers, captured more than 20,000 believers (all of whom were reduced to slavery and sent to the Kyushu region in batches to serve as labor), and burned down thousands of temples and shrines. This was the largest massacre of the Luo family since its rise, and it was almost the same as the number of believers slaughtered by Oda Nobunaga in history. Zhengliang has also completely become the biggest enemy of the Buddha in the eyes of everyone in the sect.

After the riot finally ended, the Luo family was able to carry out the autumn harvest work in the local area peacefully. Of course, due to the riots that lasted for several months, almost all of the Luo family's territories in the west had been damaged by different Cheng dù, and this autumn harvest was bound to fail. Fortunately, because Zhengliang was on guard at the beginning, the Luo family was able to minimize the damage this time. For a long time to come, these territories of the Luo family in the western kingdom will enter the stage of restoration.

Just as the autumn harvest was officially underway, and families were busy harvesting grain, thus reducing conflicts, there was shocking news in Kyoto. That is, Emperor Nara died after being sick in bed.

What is even more surprising is that at this sensitive moment of the death of Emperor Go-Nara, the shogun Ashikaga Yoshiteru, who had previously gained a lot of prestige among the heroes because of the promotion of peace between the Luo family and the Mori family, was actually secluded in Omi Kuchigi Valley because of the conflict with the Miyoshi family governor Miyoshi Nagakei. As a result, the prestige of the shogunate, which had been easily enhanced before, was once again swept away because of this incident.

And now that the emperor has died, the shogun who was supposed to help with this matter has been put into seclusion, and even Hosokawa Harumoto, who was originally imposing, fled to the Wakasa area because of successive defeats at the Miyoshi family. Under such circumstances, the Imperial Palace, which was already impoverished, did not have the money and food to organize the funeral of the deceased Emperor Go-Nara.

In fact, in history, the body of Emperor Go-Nara was kept in the Kuroto Imperial Palace for two and a half months before Miyoshi Chokei, the lord of Akutagawa Castle in Settsu, who was stationed in Kyoto again at that time, collected 600 kandobetsu money (equivalent to the property tax of later generations) in Rakuchu as funeral expenses. But this time, Emperor Hounara finally didn't have to be so miserable. Because after learning the news from a Moritaka in Kyoto, Masarashi immediately ordered to donate some money and food to the Imperial Palace to hold a timely funeral for Emperor Go-Nara.

However, after the funeral of Emperor Go-Nara was completed, Emperor Shokincho, who had been elected by everyone to inherit the throne as the new emperor, had another problem. This problem was also due to the lack of money and food, which led to the inability of Emperor Zhì Masakincho to hold the enthronement ceremony.

The financial embarrassment of the royal family at this time really embarrassed the authority. Historically, it was not until 1560 that Emperor Shokincho reluctantly held an enthronement ceremony when Mori had thoroughly digested the Ouchi family's territory in the western country and gradually became a new giant, and realized that he needed the support of the emperor and the shogunate for the general cause.

And according to a piece of information sent back by Moritaka, Masarashi recalled the situation of this newcomer emperor, this Shokincho Emperor, the second prince of Emperor Go-Nara, and his mother was Eiko Wanli Koji, the daughter of Wanli Koji Kenfang. His name was Fang Ren, and he was made a prince in 1533. Historically, after inheriting the throne of the emperor, Emperor Shokincho seemed to be very knowledgeable and very good at cooperating with some powerful daimyos, especially after Oda Nobunaga came to Beijing. The emperor assisted Oda Nobunaga in issuing a number of peace talks to hostile forces, including the 1570 war against Asakura Yoshikei and Asai Nagamasa, 1573 against Ashikaga Yoshiaki, and 1580 against Ishiyama Honganji, all of which were issued in the name of Emperor Shokincho, for which he won the respect and trust of Oda Nobunaga. After the death of Oda Nobunaga, power gradually shifted to Toyotomi Hideyoshi, who also adopted an attitude of cooperation with Toyotomi Hideyoshi.

Such an interesting emperor is naturally beneficial to the Luo family after Kamirako in the future, so after learning that the emperor of Shokincho was short of money to hold a succession ceremony, Masara immediately came to his aid again, provided him with money and food again, and helped him hold a grand succession ceremony.

Why does Zhengliang help him again and again? You must know that before there was no change in southern Kyushu, the emperor even sent someone to help the Maori family negotiate peace with the Luo family, who was on the strong side? This is obviously preventing the Luo family from annexing the Maori family? Isn't Zhengliang repaying grievances with virtue in doing so?

Naturally, this is not the case, after all, the last time the emperor made the decision to help the Maori family negotiate peace, it was actually decided by those around the emperor, and the then Emperor Go-Nara was sick in bed and could not express his opinion, and even from the information sent back by a Moritaka, the Go-Nara Emperor was completely unconscious at that time. Therefore, the real murderer who did not want the Luo family to annex the Maori family at that time was not Emperor Gonara himself. As for the new successor, Emperor Masamicho, he is even more unaware of this.

Moreover, as the so-called icing on the cake is not as good as charcoal in the snow, Masarashi provided timely assistance at the funeral of the previous emperor and when the new successor emperor was short of money, which naturally won the emperor's great favor, so not long after the emperor of Shokincho, the Luo family was immediately rewarded. (To be continued......)