At the beginning of September of the 18th year of Astronomy, after more than a year of back and forth, and after learning that the Luo family almost occupied the old nest of the Kyushu daimyo Otomo family, Bungo Province, the governor of the Niko family in Honshu Izumo Province, Niko Haruha, finally made up his mind to form an alliance with the Luo family, and at the same time signed an alliance with the Luo family, and at the same time sent the hostages of the alliance.

At the end of October, the group of the Nizi family, accompanied by the envoys of the Luo family, finally arrived at the castle town of Hizen Kokugakufu, just in time for the military parade of the Luo family, and witnessed the great grand occasion of the military parade of the Luo family.

As the chief general of this mission, Yamanaka Mikawa Moritsuyuki couldn't help but feel glad that his family was able to form an alliance with the Luo family after seeing the strong military might. But when I saw the second son who was looking around curiously at this time, I couldn't help but feel a pain in my heart. Although there is already a son-in-law in the family to inherit the family business, the son-in-law is always sick, which makes people feel that they will not live long, and if the son-in-law dies, they will have to rely on this second son to inherit the family business. But I didn't expect that at this time, the Luo family was directly accused of being a hostage for the exchange of the alliance between the Nizi family and the Luo family.

This request of the Luo family made the three rivers in the mountains happy and painful. Happily, the Kyushu Eagle who was famous in Kyushu, and even the Wa Kingdom, specifically named his second son as a hostage for the alliance between the Luo family and the Nizi family, and even promised to accept his second son as a small surname. This kind of thing, even Yamanaka Mikawa Mori, who is already an important minister of the Niko family, feels honored and honored.

The pain is that for the sake of the great cause of the Niko family, he had to send his second son, who was less than six years old, to Kyushu Hizen, far away from his hometown of Izumo, which made him feel unbearable. Especially his wife, I don't know how many times she cried before leaving.

As a matter of fact. Historically. Yamanaka Mikawa Moriyuki must have been on behalf of the Niko family in the invasion of the Mori family in Bigo Province a few years ago (around 1545). He died at the hands of the Maori family. But it just so happened that that year, stimulated by Masayo, Mori Mototo, who began to build his Liangchuan system in advance, focused on how to obtain the family business of the Yoshikawa family and the Kobayakawa family, and instead suspended the invasion of Bingo Province, and then let Yamanaka Mikawa Morimitsu, who should have been called up, not have to go to the expedition, and finally escaped the catastrophe.

Historically, when he died. It was when his second son was born. Due to his early death, his two sons were raised by his wife alone. And because the son-in-law was sick and weak since he was a child, the second son later inherited the position of the governor.

If history is still going according to the original process, then if Masarashi asks the Niko family to take Yamanaka Mitsuyuki's second son as a hostage for the alliance, he may not be able to get the other party's consent, after all, in the case of losing the family governor and the son-in-law is weak and sick, the Yamanaka family may not be willing to send the second son of Yamanaka Mitsuyuki as a candidate for the family governor, and the Niko family, as the clan family, will also consider the Yamanaka family's request. And now that the mountain is still alive, the Nizi family saw that the Luo family only needed a little-known child as a hostage in exchange, so they naturally agreed. And Yamanaka Mitsuyuki couldn't refuse the request of the clan family.

Out of reluctance to the second son, but also out of the intention of personally going to the place where the second son needs to live for a long time in the future. This time, Yamanaka Mitsuyuki applied to Niko Haruhisa for the task of escorting the allied hostages to the Luo family.

Since arriving at Karatsu Port by boat, and then rushing all the way to the Luo family's new home city, the Luo family has given him a lot of shocks, and when he arrived at the huge school city and watched the military parade of the Luo family, he was already full of interest in the legendary Kyushu eagle of the Luo family. What kind of person can build such a strong country?

Soon, not long after the military parade at Luo's house, their group was finally received by Zhengliang.

Standing at the foot of the huge academy castle, looking up at the majestic walls of the academy castle and the seven-story castle tower that towered like a pagoda, everyone was led by the envoy of the Luo family across the bridge in front of the city gate, through the city gate, and then through the gate of Mimaru in succession, and finally came to a courtyard in the academy castle.

This is the mountain tea pavilion built by Masato in the city of Gakufu. Today's weather is fine, and the tea and plum blossoms have fallen in the yard, and the yard looks solemn against the red sky in the east. The hall of the mountain tea pavilion is the size of three stacks, and it is filled with all kinds of tea utensils that have been collected by the Luo family from hostile forces or purchased by their own merchant houses over the years.

These tea ceremony utensils are otherworldly treasures (but in the eyes of Masaara, they are not enough to stand out at the tea party). Zeng Luli's vase, Shaoou's tea kettle, white tea bowl, several sets, lotus-foot teapot, zygote water vessel...... To put it mildly, even if these are all fakes, Masahiro can't recognize them. However, it cannot be inferred from this that Zhengliang is a vulgar person who lacks taste. Since coming to this world, Masahiro has spent most of his time almost galloping on the field, how can he have time to consume this?

However, Masara believes that the first thing to meet guests in such an environment is to show people the towering seven-story castle tower on the east side of the tea pavilion, to fully display the majesty of the guests, and then to bring the guests to this extremely elegant tea pavilion to show his bearing.

In the tea pavilion, when Masahiro boiled a pot of mountain tea that only the Luo family could produce, and the mountain tea pot exuded bursts of tea fragrance, the guests were finally brought in.

"Meet the repairman." In the end, the only people who were able to meet Masayo were Yamanaka Mitsuyuki and his second son, Shijiro. The rest of the entourage were invited to wait in another courtyard outside the tea pavilion.

Masara, who was sitting on the main seat, smiled faintly and said, "Mikawa Shou doesn't have to be formal. There was a rule in the tea ceremony that tea people were not allowed to discuss world affairs in the tea room. However, for Zaixia, this is a good place to talk to Mikawa Mamoru in Xia. ”

Masara was so enthusiastic when they met, which really flattered Yamanaka Mitsuyuki. Besides, he really didn't have any research on the tea ceremony, and he didn't know how to respond to Masayo's words for a while. But after seeing Masahiro for the first time, he was really surprised in his heart.

Why the surprise? Mainly frightened by the age of Zhengliang. Although his family is located in the Izumo Province region far away from Kyushu, he comes from merchants and wandering monks from all over the world. He had more or less heard a lot of stories about the daimyo in front of him.

is such a family governor who looks to be in his twenties. led a weak small family to grow into a rival to the Ouchi family in Kitakyushu in ten years. At the same time, the tentacles of power have extended to southern Kyushu? If this is the case, then the sect master of his own family is really a little insufficient.

At this time, Nizi Qingjiu was already thirty-five years old, and the family business was also left by Nizi Qingjiu's grandfather, who was known as the wolf of Yunzhou and the Warring States period "Yin and Yang One Taishou". Previously, after Nizi Haruhisa inherited the family governor, he did not listen to Nizi's persuasion for a long time, and rashly attacked the Maori family, resulting in a big defeat, losing a lot of powerful retainers, and at the same time, Nizi, who was respected by the wide audience, was angry to death for a long time. Even later, it was beaten to the territory by the coalition forces of the Ouchi family and the Maori family, although the last one held the territory. However, Niko Haruhisa's prestige among the retainers has been greatly reduced, which is why Niko Haruma has been actively trying to occupy Iwami Ginzan in recent years, in order to divert the attention of the retainers and then re-establish his prestige in the conquest.

"Mikawa Mamoru, I don't know who this young man is?" As if seeing the embarrassment of the other party, Masara immediately changed his voice and looked at the child who had been quietly following behind Manyuki in the mountains and asked.

As soon as he heard that it was his son who asked Masayo, Yamanaka Mitsuyuki immediately introduced with a little pride in his tone: "Doctor Repair, this is Kanjiro, the second son of the next one." ”

"Kanjiro Yamanaka meets your lordship." The child, at the signal of his father Yamanaka, also hurriedly made a slightly immature salute to Zhengliang.

Kanjiro Yamanaka? This is the Yamanaka Shikasuke Yukimori (real name Yamanaka Yukimori) who became famous in the future because he wore a deer antlers and slashed the wolf of Iwami to support Shinagawa Daizen in a battle with the Maori family, so he called himself "the deer of the mountain"?

Judging by the appearance of this Izumo deer at this time. Thin and black, he is not very handsome (his appearance is very good in later games). And it still looks a little scared now. The only thing that satisfied Masara was the curiosity that flashed from time to time in his big eyes. He was clearly fascinated by what he had seen along the way.

But overall, this is very different from the Izumo deer in Masato's mind. Is this still the Izumo deer of history? It is said that it was recorded in historical documents that Izumo no Shika was not only a beautiful man at a very young age (later in a competition with a rival in love, he successfully defeated Kiyomatsu Yajuro and married Kamei Chiaki, the daughter of Kamei Hidetsuna), but also very bloody (because his eldest brother was physically weak and insulted by others, he actually picked up a sword and killed the guy who insulted his brother). I don't look like it's noticeable at all.

You must know that in order to bring this famous military general under his command, Masahiro had some small turmoil in the negotiation process with the Nizi family. At that time, it seemed that the alliance between the two countries was about to be successful, and the only thing that remained to be discussed was the question of the hostage candidates for each other's alliances.

However, at this time, the envoy of the Luo family not only took the initiative to take the deer of Izumo as a hostage, but also asked for himself to be taken hostage.

Judging from the bright side, this hostage exchange plan is obviously a loss for the Luo family. After all, at this time, Izumo no Ka was just a child, and the people of the Nizi family did not know about his future achievements. On the contrary, Duanmu Qingzheng is already the official party of the Luo family. In comparison, it is natural that Duanmu Qingzheng's identity and value are higher.

But at this time, some retainers of the Nizi family deliberately found fault, and even said that Duanmu Kiyomasa had been a hostage in the Ouchi family, and I was afraid that there was a suspicion of secretly taking refuge in the Ouchi family. As soon as the doubts of these retainers came out, Duanmu Qingzheng almost exploded, this time he took the initiative to ask Masato to stay in the Nizi family as a hostage, in order to make up for the failure of the hostage trip in the Ouchi family, and now he saw that someone specifically picked his sore spots, he was naturally angry, so he immediately swore to the sky in public that he would not die with the Ouchi family.

In ancient times, most people attached great importance to their oaths, and as soon as Duanmu Qingzheng's oath came out, the doubts about Duanmu Qingzheng disappeared. In the end, this time the alliance between the two families was also successful.

This time, Masarashi met with the two fathers and sons of Izumo no Ka, mainly to meet the historical Yamanaka Shikasuke Yukimori in person. At the same time, he further discussed with Yamanaka Mikawa Moriyuki, who came on behalf of the Niko family, how to jointly deal with the Ouchi family in the next step, after all, when the alliance was formed, it was just a simple goal to jointly deal with the common enemy of the two sides, the Ouchi family, and the specific strategy has not yet been decided.

In the ensuing conversation, Yamanaka Mikawa Moriyuki made a request to purchase iron cannons from the Luo family. It seems that he saw the situation of the iron cannon team of the Luo family in the military parade, so he was envious. Of course, he purchased this request in his own name. For his request, Zhengliang also seemed very generous, and immediately gave an iron cannon to the other party, as for more iron cannons, it was impossible, after all, there were not many iron cannons in the Luo family. Of course, the iron cannon given away is actually the kind of iron cannon that the Nanban sold to the Luo family at the beginning (anyway, at this time, the Nanban Zhu Qinfeng is selling this iron cannon everywhere, and if he gives it to Yamanaka, he doesn't have to worry about the leakage of his skills), as for the kind of iron cannon that the Luo family has researched and improved by themselves, it will definitely not be sold.

In the end, the two sides agreed to work together to deal with the Ouchi family after next year's spring ploughing. (To be continued......)