Regarding the war against Iki, in the end, Masarashi still postponed this plan. But they are already secretly making preparations for the expedition.

The Cabinet of the Interior is already preparing relevant materials for the expedition, and the Navy has also received relevant orders to prepare for war. For the Iki side, Masashi doesn't need to hide his intentions at all, after all, in terms of strength, the Luo family can already completely crush the Bojia family on the Iki side.

In addition, the counter-espionage scheme established by using the maids around Tai Jiuling can also be implemented, and the details will be handed over to the Intelligence Pavilion to operate. Presumably, Bodea will be surprised by then.

Of course, because of the looting incident, the Luo family still has to find a way to calm it down. So the old Togo Heiji of the Luo family personally came forward to convene a meeting of all the merchants, including the victim Naya this time, to hold a meeting in Hakata, in which Togo Heiji made it clear to everyone that he would strengthen the patrol of the coastal trade routes, and at the same time promulgated some new small preferential measures, and let the merchants take the side of Hirado Island more often when transporting grain in the future (but because the sea is too long, in order to save costs, these merchants may not be willing to go this way), and finally let the merchants settle down.

Subsequently, the Luo family naval army did fulfill its promise and greatly strengthened the patrol density along the Chikuzen coast. The abnormal behavior of the Luo family's water army also made the Zongxiang family nervous for a while, and even asked the Ouchi family for help. After receiving the request for help, the Ouchi family immediately sent a messenger to protest to the Luo family, and Masara didn't even bother to receive the envoy of the other party, and directly asked someone to tell the envoy of the Ouchi family, first explain clearly the last time the Ouchi family attacked Chikuzen Province, and then expel the envoy of the Ouchi family.

The Luo family has such a tough attitude. Suddenly made the Zongxiang family and the Ouchi family nervous. The two families had to bite the bullet and strengthen the number of defenders at the junction of the Chikuzen area and the Luo family.

At this time, the relationship between the Luo family and the Ouchi family was indeed very strange. Obviously, both sides have torn their faces, and there have been occasional conflicts, but they still try their best to maintain mutual restraint, and instead they have fought each other diplomatically. It's like two people fighting, they have been pushing each other, but they just didn't fight, but they scolded each other. Of course, causing such a result. It is mainly determined by the situation in the respective family. The Luo family needs to recuperate, and the Ouchi family also needs to recuperate. So no one wants to fight first, and then let the other onlookers pick up the cheap.

In the same situation as Otomo Yoshiyi's intentions, Yoshitaka Ouchi realized that the threat of the Luo family was getting bigger and bigger, so he resolutely tore up the alliance and joined forces with the Otomo family to suppress the Luo family. Now that he sees that he can't suppress it, he has to prepare to use the method of slowly consuming confrontation to deal with the Luo family. It's just that what Yoshitaka Ouchi doesn't know is that the internal affairs system of the Luo family is different from the internal affairs management system of all the other daimyo families in the Wa Kingdom, and in the same time, the speed of the recovery of the Luo family's internal affairs, the efficiency of the centralized use of resources, and so on are ahead of them in all aspects. Unlike them, most of them are the national people's system. Moreover, most countries are not close to the national people's management system, and the retainers and wealthy families have their own affairs in their own territories, resulting in scattered resources that cannot be used in a centralized and effective manner. So the longer the time passes, the stronger the Luo family becomes.

While dealing with the looting of merchant ships, Masaro also paid attention to the assassination of the castle town. The assassin had come to his senses, and the Intelligence Pavilion was interrogating him, and it was estimated that he would soon get the information that Masayo needed.

In addition, Masarashi took advantage of this time to strengthen the defense of Gakufu Castle and castle towns.

At present, there are a total of 400 samurai troops, 100 cloaks, 200 iron cannons, 50 Black Hawks, 100 100 First Cavalry Standing Troops, and 500 temporarily recruited peasants to defend the city. Due to the work relationship, the army that could not be fully stationed in the academy city for a long time has 250 scouts and 100 heralds. With the three cylinders that have passed the test of the big barrel workshop this year all placed on the fort in the city, the guards of the academy city can be regarded as stable.

As for the castle town of Gakufu Castle, since the population of the town had increased to more than 20,000 at this time, it was impossible to maintain the security of the town by relying only on the 500-member security team, which was mostly composed of retired soldiers, so Masara ordered the number of the security team to be increased to 1,000. The specific recruitment work was handed over to the Cabinet of the Interior and the Cabinet of Intelligence, and the arrangements for the generals in the security team were jointly agreed upon by the Cabinet of Military Affairs and the Cabinet of Intelligence, and the final decision was made by the Cabinet of Justice.

At the same time, Masashi also ordered the Cabinet of Internal Affairs to immediately carry out a comprehensive population survey of the castle town. Since the Luo family implements the method of linking the wooden card (equivalent to an ID card) with the registration information of the local population book, under this investigation, it is inevitable that some other forces hiding in the castle town will be carefully investigated.

And just as Masarashi was settling for the follow-up measures for his attack and the looting of merchant ships, a major incident occurred at the Sagara family in Kuma County, Minamihigo.

It turned out that Yoriko Uemura, who was from the Sagara family, was critically ill. On this day, all the wealthy families of Higashi-Kuma County were invited to the pot castle of the Sagara family. Uemura Yorixing's life, in fact, is similar to Mori Moto, he constantly used intrigues and tricks to suppress the retainers who opposed him at home, divided some territories into the name of his second son and last son, and at the same time emptied the power of the family governor Sagara Yoshiji, and made the son-in-law the adopted son of Sagara Yoshiko, and finally obtained the position of family governor through his son-in-law Sagara Haruhiro. In addition, he was also a person who was kind to the people and good at civil affairs, and in some areas of Nanhigo at this time, even if it had been ruled by the Luo family for several years, some local people would still mention some of the benevolent policies implemented by the Sagara family from time to time.

If there is no Luo family born out of nowhere, then according to historical development, Sagara Haruhiro will smoothly inherit the position of family governor, and with his assistance, not only will trade with the Ming Dynasty be opened, but also follow the laws and regulations of the previous daimyo and formulate the middle and second 21 articles of the Sagara family law more perfectly, etc., and finally make the Sagara family a powerful Sengoku daimyo.

It's just that after meeting the Luo family, all this disappeared, and they not only lost most of the territory of Nanfeihou, but also had to hide in the only remaining half of the Qiu Mo County for a long time. Sudden change. and during this period of time, he has worked hard to resist the continuous invasion of the Luo family in the west. Yoriko Uemura, who was the real breadwinner of the family but was old, finally fell ill. Not long ago, I learned the news that he was abandoned by allies such as the Ryoshikari family and the Kitahara family. The condition has worsened again, and now it is time to die. The wealthy families who received the news rushed to the pot city where Uemura Laixing was located.

On this day, in front of the ward of Uemura Yorixing in Nabejo, the lord of Kamimura Yoritaka, the lord of Fengfu Castle, and the lord of Okamoto Castle, Inari Nagazo, and others who had rushed to hear the news, sat quietly under the two flowering toon trees in front of the door, waiting for Yoriko Kamimura to receive him.

"Wow!" Just then, there was a vomiting sound from inside.

"Come on, find a doctor, the adults are vomiting blood again." Immediately, the anxious shouts of a maid sounded in the room. Suddenly, Sagara Haruhiro and the others, who were standing outside the door, were also busy.

And when the three of them, who were sitting under the toon tree, Uemura Yoritaka, Uemura Yoriken, and Inaru Nagazo, were pretending to be concerned. also secretly exchanged glances. For a long time, Uemura Lai Xing is a big mountain above the heads of everyone in the family, so that they don't dare to act rashly at all, even as the son of Uemura Lai Xing, Uemura Lai Xiao and Uemura Lai Jian are also behaving decently, and now seeing that Uemura Lai Xing is dying, the ambition in their hearts is finally revealed, they have already discussed, as soon as Uemura Lai Xing dies, they advocate dividing up the rights and territory of the family, as for the somewhat sick brother Xiang Liang Qingguang. If he knew him, he would have been spared. Let him serve as the puppet family governor, if he doesn't know each other, then he has to kill him just like his father Uemura Raixing did with several uncles. Then he supported Sagara Haruhiro's five-year-old son-in-law Manmanmaru (i.e., Sagara Yoshiyo) to become a puppet family governor.

Just when Uemura Yoritaka, Uemura Yoriken, Inaura Nagazo and others were eyebrowning below, they didn't notice that their entourage outside the courtyard had been invited to other places by Uemura Yoriko on the pretext that he was ready to confess his last words and not to approach. Of course, under the obscenity of Uemura Laixing for a long time, they didn't realize that this visit was actually a poisonous plan set by Uemura Laixing. This poisonous plan did not even let go of his second son and his last son.

In fact, in history, Uemura Yoritaka, Uemura Ryken, and Inatoru Nagazo are anti-bones. At that time, Uemura Yoriko had just passed away, so they joined forces to bully Sagara Yoshiyo when he was young, and wanted to follow the three clans' move to divide the Jin dynasty into plotting against the three counties of Kuma, Yachishiro, and Reedaki, which were owned by the Sagara family, and even the Kitahara clan and the Satsuma Ryojo clan of Hyuga Shinkoin Temple as aid to embezzle the family territory. As a result, it was solved by Sagara Yoshiyo using his wrist.

Now Sagara Yoshiyo is only a five-year-old child, so naturally he can't deal with Uemura Yoritaka, Uemura Yoriken, and Inatoru Nagazo, but they meet Uemura Yoriko, who has not yet died. Historically, it was with the suppression of Uemura Yoriko that Uemura Yoritaka, Uemura Ryjian, and Inatoru Nagazo worked as shrunken turtles for a long time, until their minds matured and they knew how to hide their ambitions, and then waited for Uemura Yoshiko to die of illness before they attacked. But now the strength of the Sagara family is not as good as before, and Uemura Yoriko is seriously ill, but the young three of them can't bear their ambitions and start to make small moves below. It's just that they don't know what to do, and it is precisely because the strength of the family is not as good as before that Uemura Laixing has strengthened the surveillance of his retainers, so he has already discovered the misdeeds of these three people. Now, before he died, he decided to solve the problem for his son and grandson.

"Knock, knock, knock......" Just when everyone outside the ward was thinking differently, the room suddenly fell silent, and the sound of hard objects hitting the floor was heard.

Immediately after that, the wooden pavilion of the ward was pushed open, revealing the pale body of Uemura Yorixing from the entrance of the room, who was now struggling with crutches in one hand, and one hand was supported by a maid. Suddenly seeing Uemura Yoixing, who was rumored to be about to die, everyone in the courtyard was immediately stunned, and they forgot to do it for a while.

"How...... Ahem...... See me...... It's not dead, is it...... Disappointed? Uemura Laixing was already out of breath when he spoke at this time. When everyone was told by Uemura Laixing, they immediately reacted and hurriedly saluted.

"Everyone, I think that my Sagara family once dominated Nanfei, but I didn't expect it to fall to such a point now!" After slowly sitting down on the cushion prepared by his sister-in-law Sagara Harihiro, Uemura Yoriko suddenly sighed.

The people below couldn't help but look at each other after hearing this, they really couldn't understand that Uemura Yorixing, who had already sent a message to confess his last words, was now not only sitting in front of them alive (although it seemed that he was indeed seriously ill, but at least he was still far from death), and even suddenly let out such an exclamation, what did this mean? Some of the more active people seem to have smelled something unusual.

"I'm afraid...... You've ...... Zhilu said," Uemura Yorixing said as he glanced at the people in the courtyard, "The wealthy families in the west and south have already turned their backs on us and turned to the Luo family, only the Ito family and the Mira family in the east have not moved, what do you think of this matter?" cough cough ......" said such a sentence in one breath, and Uemura Laixing suddenly felt that he was about to lose his breath.

Uemura Raising asked, but no one in the courtyard dared to answer. They naturally knew about the betrayal of the Ryokari family in the Satsuma region on the border and the Kitahara family in the Osumi region, but no one was willing to say what they really thought in their hearts, and they said that they were too wrong to simply keep their mouths shut.

"Ha Lu Ha...... Hahaha...... Ahem...... "Uemura Yoriko couldn't help laughing when he saw that everyone lowered their heads and didn't want to answer. For a moment, only the courtyard was left with the intermittent laughter of Yoshiko Uemura.

"Ridiculous! It's ridiculous! Don't...... Ahem...... Won't anyone want to speak? Uemura Yoixing's originally pale face was a little ruddy at this time, "But why are you doing so many things that you shouldn't be doing in your respective territories?" ”

Suddenly, hearing Uemura Yoshixing say this, the people below immediately became in a commotion, and some people who had ghosts in their hearts even trembled. But there are also people with quite outstanding psychological qualities. I saw that after Uemura Yoriko's second son, Uemura Yoritaka's face changed slightly, he immediately changed to an angry expression, and immediately shouted that he was wronged:

"Father, this must be slander, and we will do nothing different."

"Whether the rumors will come out sooner or later, from today on, you will stay in the pot city, and someone from your family territory will naturally go to help you with it." After Uemura Laixing breathed hard just now, his breathing became much smoother, and he stopped panting when he spoke.

"Ahh At this time, everyone in the courtyard realized that this time Uemura Laixing deliberately pretended to be dead to trick them into coming here and putting them under house arrest. So the crowd immediately surged.

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