The time has entered November of the seventeenth year of astronomy (1548 AD), and it is almost the end of the year.

Since the outbreak of the First World War between the Luo family, the Otomo family, and the Ouchi family in October, both sides have died down since November. On the Ouchi side, the newly arrived reinforcements settled in the territory of the Chikugo Kunimune family, and then stationed on the spot, as if to prevent the Luo family from continuing to advance to the eastern part of Chikugo Province.

As for the actions of the Otomo family, it was even more bizarre, as if they were preparing to use Murei Castle in Bungo Kunikaku as the residence of the family governor, and a large number of troops and retainers of the Otomo family gathered there, but there was no intention of heading in the direction of Hizo Castle to the west. For this reason, the Luo family's intelligence cabinet has put in twelve efforts to try to find out the details. Similarly, the Ouchi family also had this in mind, so they also sent a lot of detectives to investigate. As a result, a fierce spy war has begun near the calm city of Jiaomuli.

The Luo family, on the other hand, was also busy with post-war resettlement affairs at this time. During this time, Masayo had also moved from the Hakata area of Chikuzen Province to the Matsuura Gunno Takayama area of Hizen Province. On this day, as soon as he approved several certificates of thanks to meritorious people and the decision to reward military merits, the small surname Kamiya Sozhan outside the door hurriedly came in to report that the diplomatic envoy of the Ouchi family, Sagara Takeshi, had arrived.

Hearing this, Masarashi nodded, and then ordered Kamiya Sozhan to take people to the place where Sagara Takeren had already been prepared. After Sagara Takeren arrived at Hakata Port by sea and asked to come to negotiate on behalf of the Ouchi family, Masarashi received the relevant news, and today's meeting was already prepared.

Thereupon. Under the leadership of Kamiya Zongzhan. Soon they came to the bottom of a hill. Look up. Sagara Takeren was immediately intimidated by the situation in front of him.

I saw that on the hill ahead, countless white stone tablets were neatly erected. From a distance, it looks like a soldier standing on top of a mountain. When I got closer, I realized that these steles were all tombstones. On many tombstones, there are even words about the owner of the tomb. And at every point of the tombstone, Sagara Takeren even saw a huge stone tablet, which was written to introduce the battle in which the owners of those tombstones behind the stone tablet died.

Shocking, it's just shocking. Such an approach. How many soldiers are willing to fight for their masters? How many people are even willing to join the Luo family's army. In an instant, Sagara Takeren's opinion of Luo's son-in-law has improved even more.

This time, he took the Luo family's ship directly from Hakata to Karatsu Bay of the Matsuura Army in Hizen Province, and then turned to Kishigaku Castle, where he learned that Masarashi was in Notakayama, the birthplace of the Luo family.

Along the way, what impressed him the most was the hard roads that could be seen almost everywhere. The roads appear to be paved with special materials, and although there are occasional bumps, they are generally much better than ordinary dirt roads. When the Ouchi family formed an alliance with the Luo family, they tried to get the construction method of these paving materials, but they were rejected by the Luo family, and it seems that there is no strong way to get this kind of paving material construction method until now.

Of course. Most of Haoqiang laughed at the Luo family's practice of using such good materials to pave the road, even the Ouchi family. It's just in Sagara Takeren's opinion. This kind of road not only reduces the time for future maintenance and thus saves the cost of road repair, but also strengthens the rapid connection between various places in the Luo family's territory, which is conducive to the economic development of the territory, and is also conducive to speeding up the speed of information dissemination, and even speeding up the speed of military marching. These are all things that other wealthy families can learn from. It's just that even his clan, the Ouchi family, scoffs at these.

In addition, along the way, he found that the fields in the Luo family's territory were quite large, and even some mountainous areas that other powerful people would not reclaim were cultivated. This made Sagara Takeren curious. In addition, almost all of these people were farming with satisfied smiles, and it was obvious that there was a scene of peace and contentment everywhere in the Luo family's territory.

All of the above makes Sagara Takeren even more impressed by Masaka. recalled that the two met inadvertently in Hakata for the first time, and then it was under his guidance that the Luo family received assistance from the Ouchi family, and now, less than ten years, the Luo family has become a powerful daimyo who has to take the initiative to negotiate under the leadership of this cheap son-in-law. Thinking about it makes Sagara Takeren sigh.

After following the little surnamed Kamiya Zongzhan in front of him and continuing to walk for a while, Sagara Takeren finally saw the protagonist of this request, the Luo family governor Luo Masara. At this time, Masara was standing in front of a row of tombstones. Obviously, the place where the two sides met today is on this hill where a large number of tombstones have been erected.

Although diplomatic meetings are usually held in solemn chambers, neither Sagara nor the two retainers behind him protested. For, in this hill, where only the wind whispered, or even the silence of the whole voice, solemn, but also seemed to be deeply moving, even they could not say anything to disturb the sleep of the owners of these tombs.

"The owners of these two tombs are named Samuta Nagaken and Kamaike Kanhiro, and they were killed in the ambush battle of that day outside Takeno Castle. And this one, his master's name is Tadao Hikaryu Jun. In order to cover my escape, he put my helmet and armor on his body to divert the pursuers, and finally died heroically. Well, and the numerous tombs behind there. Each tombstone represents the warriors who died in that battle. They are the heroes of their family. They will be remembered by the family. ”

As Sagara approached, Masarashi suddenly turned around and pointed to some of the tombs that seemed to have just been built next to him. Sagara Takeren was immediately embarrassed when he heard this, and Masara was now obviously accusing the Ouchi family of treachery and causing a lot of killings. Many of the words he had prepared were instantly unspeakable.

"Hehe, before you came, you should have visited Riki, right?" At this time, Masarashi suddenly changed his words and directly asked about Sagara Takeren's visit to Sagara Risa and Sagara Risa's mother in Kishigaku Mountain Castle this time.

"Thank you for taking care of them." Sagara Takeren was stunned again, and then hurriedly said. In fact, he has scolded Zhengliang countless times in his heart. This time, Masarashi forcibly took his daughter and Masamu to Hizen Province to settle down, which made his position in the Ouchi family immediately embarrassing. This time, he also had to accept the assignment of Yoshitaka Ouchi to negotiate peace in order to avoid suspicion. (To be continued......)