Time is like an arrow, and in the blink of an eye, the time has come to March of the third year of Hongji (1557), which is the beginning of spring ploughing.

Outside the temple of the Prayer Witness Temple of the West Province Angei Province, the cool water in the Ota River is crystal clear. Until morning, it was drizzling on the sandbar of Ghost Lake. From the side of the White Valley, there were also a few fox cries from time to time, which shook people's ears. The morning rooster has stopped whining, and the temple is cold and quiet.

Lai Lian in front of the window of a wooden house looked at the morning mist that was rushing past the arrow tower in the temple, and pondered: "Now that I think about it, it has been more than two months since I came down to this place, although a lot of progress has been made during this time, but I wish the temple to prove that this guy is still too cautious." ”

At the beginning of this year, he came here under the leadership of several monks of the temple, in accordance with the instructions of the young lord Honganji and the acquiescence of the abbot Honganji Zhengru. The purpose of his coming here this time was very simple, that is, to once again encourage the Western Kingdom to be in the same way, and to make the world turn their attention to the Pure Land True Sect again, so as to demonstrate the strength of the Pure Land True Sect and increase the influence of the Pure Land True Sect.

Before arriving here, he had secretly met with the Mori family governor under the tutelage of Bigo Province and the Mori family's envoy to Osaka, Kouwa Tsura. In order to cooperate with the Pure Land Shinshu in the western country, the Mori family not only strengthened the conflict with the Luo family at the border of Aki Province during this period, thus attracting the attention of the Luo family, but also deliberately strengthened the exploitation of the Mori family territory in the Bingo Province region, resulting in the emergence of a large number of displaced people.

Under the deliberate guidance of the Maori family, almost all of these displaced people flocked to the border of the territory occupied by the Luo family, Angi Province and Bigo Province. This plan was formulated by the young master of his own family, Honganji Temple, and the purpose was also to cause chaos in the border area of the Luo family. So as to attract the attention of the Luo family there. In order to create even greater chaos. The Maori family is still under the young master's tiyi. Secretly sent a number of people to disguise themselves as homeless people to blend in with these homeless people, ready to incite the surrounding homeless people at any time.

Of course, in order to make the Mori family cooperate with this time, their own side also had to express something, so on the one hand, their own side began to encourage believers to gather at the border of the Luo family's territory in Bigo Province, Bigo Province, Bizen Palace, etc., and on the other hand, they also sent envoys to the Izumo Niko family to ask the Niko family to negotiate peace with the Mori family.

Since the governor of the Niko family, Niko Haruha, happened to be bedridden during this time, although the Niko family did not explicitly respond to the request for peace with the Maori family. But it also made it clear that there would be no confrontation with the Maori family in the border area for some time.

In the end, Shimoma Yoriren also took out the alliance signed by the young lord Honganji Xianru with the Mori family, and the two sides decided that when their side launched a battle in the western region, they would gather men and horses to attack the various military positions of the Luo family in the Aki country, so as to unite the Mori family to jointly seize the Aki country.

As soon as he remembered the look of the Maori family when he confirmed this agreement with his side, Shimoma Lai Lian wanted to laugh a little. In fact, according to the real instructions of the young lord Honganji, in fact, when the first time has begun, he will lead a large group of people to the hinterland of the Luo family's western country.

Why? The reason is simple. Because even though the border area is pinned down by a large number of displaced people, the number of troops of the Luo family in the Anyi country area is still amazing. If he did attack these forces as agreed with the Maori family, he would probably incur a heavy blow. This collides with the purpose set by the young master to expand the scope of influence and prolong the time of the first time. And the Luo family's army in the hinterland of the Western Kingdom is just a place where the army is empty, which just gives him enough space and time to expand the scope of influence of the Yiyi, so the Maori family is naturally abandoned, and when the Maori family launches an attack on the Luo family's military in the Anyi country area at that time, it just delays the main force of the Luo family's army for them, and buys more time for them to expand the influence of the Yiyi.

After making a joint covenant with the Maori family, Shimoma Yoriren disguised himself as a city outcast, and infiltrated the Luo family's territory in An Yi Kingdom, and came to the Wishing Temple. During this period of time, he secretly visited the Kingdom of Anyi, the Kingdom of Zhoufang, and even the Kingdom of Nagato, and secretly united many local temples and even shrine forces in the name of Allah of the Pure Land Shinshu, preparing to launch a joint campaign at that time.

Just when Shimoma Ryan was secretly preparing to launch a one-time battle, Masashi was also paying close attention to the situation in the territory. After the progress of the past few months, the expansion of the Luo family's various teams and the adjustment of military deployment have been basically completed, and the progress of immigration in the western region has also made great progress, and now it is the most critical spring ploughing season, in order to promote the smooth development of spring ploughing, Zhengliang has indeed strictly fulfilled his promise at the tea party, and has not violated those temples and shrines.

But even so, because it is inevitable to touch the interests of some temples and shrines, and not all of these forces are fools, after seeing the Luo family move their followers away in large numbers, they are also aware of the potential crisis, so they will naturally secretly incite the local people to rebel against the Luo family's policies such as immigration and sword hunting orders.

For such a civil rebellion, as long as the temples and shrines are not directly participated, Masahiro is not afraid, so he directly excluded the military situation to suppress it, and for the people who participated in the resistance, he was led by direct slashing, and the rest of the people and their families were all enslaved, and they were escorted to the Kyushu area to participate in the various labor of the Luo family. In order to strengthen the security of these areas, the first and second standing cavalry units of the Zhengliang Company did not need to return to the garrison for the time being, but were responsible for the main force of pacification in the area occupied by the Luo family in the Western Kingdom.

Of course, in addition to the local resistance that was occasionally secretly instigated by forces such as temples and shrines, Masara was more concerned about these local temple and shrine forces, especially those who did not participate in his tea party in the first place. These forces are almost equivalent to a small local wealthy family, and their temples and shrines are often like a small city, if these forces concentrate their forces in these small cities, it is equivalent to adding a lot of new wealthy families to the western country of the Luo family. And after this period of monitoring by the Intelligence Pavilion, the Luo family found that some of these forces seemed to be secretly eyeballing, and there must be some conspiracy behind it.

For such a situation, Masaliang knew that these forces seemed to be impatient. In this case, should your own side strike first? (To be continued......)