Chapter 924: Mutual Compromise

In Yamaguchi Castle, Zhou Defense Province, after Kyogoku Takayoshi made a request with the shogunate on behalf of the emperor to negotiate peace between the Luo family and the Mori family, Masara pretended to have some difficult discussions with his retainers, and finally agreed to Kyogoku Takayoshi's request.

It's just that when he agreed to Kyogoku Takayoshi's request, Masayo also sent someone to euphemistically inform Kyogoku Takayoshi that it would be better not to inform the Mori family of the news of the change in southern Kyushu for the time being until the peace negotiations were over.

Although I don't know why Masayoshi had this request, Kyogoku Takayoshi realized from the words that Masayoshi sent someone to tell him that if he told the Maori family the news of the incident in southern Kyushu, it would probably lead to a change in the opportunity for peace that could not be seen this time. Anyway, he came to the Luo family this time for the purpose of negotiating peace, as long as he can prompt the Luo family to negotiate peace with the Maori family, then this has completed the task completely, and he doesn't want any changes during the period, so he naturally accepts the Luo family's proposal.

Therefore, after obtaining the consent of the Luo family, Kyogoku Takayoshi immediately rushed to Tayama Castle in Mori Ieki-gun, Aki Province, met with Mori Motojo in person, and informed the other party that under the mediation of the emperor and the shogunate, the Luo family was willing to negotiate peace with the Mori family.

Maori Yuan, who finally waited for this result, was really in tears in his heart at this time (due to the geographical distance, he had not yet received the news of the change in Minami Kyushu at this time)! Of course, as a very deep strategist of the city government, he naturally would not express his inner feelings on his face, and he even took the opportunity to put forward a condition to negotiate peace with the Luo family, that is, the Luo family must release his third son, Kobayakawa Takakei. At this time, Kobayakawa Takakei was imprisoned in a courtyard in Hizen Kokugakufu Castle in Bikyushu.

Regarding Maori Yuan's request, Zhengliang naturally scoffed. He replied directly to the Maori family envoy Toryo Kuchiha, who had followed Kyogoku Takayoshi to the Luo family to negotiate peace. Ordered him to go back to Maori Yuan to prepare to meet the army of the Luo family.

Such a direct refusal of Zhengliang. Kyogoku Takayoshi immediately mediated as an intermediary, but Masara didn't bother to entangle with Kuchiwa Tsura, and directly sent his military advisor Shinnosuke Akabane to take full charge of the peace negotiations with the Maori envoy.

Even Kouba Tsura, who has always been known for his eloquence in the Mori family, is helpless in the face of Shinnosuke Akabane's vicious eloquence and his posture of negotiating as a winner. After all, in fact, the Maori family and the Luo family are also at a disadvantage in the battle. This time, he had only one purpose, that is, to negotiate peace with the Luo family at as little price as possible, so that the Maori family could concentrate on dealing with enemies such as the Nizi family.

After several days of haggling. In the presence of Kyogoku Takayoshi, the representative of the Emperor and the shogunate, the two sides finally reached an agreement to stop the war between the two sides and negotiate peace between the two sides. In the agreement, the Luo family will no longer invade the territory of the Mori family in Aki Province, Bingo Province and other places from now on. As for the Maori family's territory occupied by the Luo family before, the Luo family will naturally not return it, and even the prisoners of the war between the two sides are only exchanged for a part of the Maori family, and after the captured Luo family soldiers are ransomed, the remaining Maori family prisoners, the Luo family will reply with suicide (in fact, these people have become a member of the Luo family's slave brigade). And the Mori family was most concerned about the return of Kobayakawa Takakei. The Luo family is also biting to death.

As for the Maori family's side, in order to obtain peace with the Luo family. It also paid a lot of price:

First, the Maori family must allow the Maori soldiers in the Maori army, whose families are in the territory of Aki Province occupied by the Luo family, to freely return to their respective homes in the Luo family's territory if they are willing (these subjects will be relocated to the Kyushu region in the future);

As for why Mori finally agreed to this request, it is estimated that Mori Yuan felt that the Mori family could take advantage of this opportunity to send Hosaku to the Luo family's territory. If Mao Liyuan really had this plan, then he would definitely regret it in the future, because the original Luo family's reward law for reporting and rewarding the fine work had already achieved the Cheng dรน of all the soldiers, not to mention that the Luo family would soon implement a sea ban, and these fine works basically had no chance to send the information they got out of the Luo family's territory.

Second, it is not allowed to obstruct the homeless people and subjects in the territory of the Maori family from going to the border of the Luo family;

In this regard, Masahiro naturally also has the purpose of attacking the Maori family, and this is a ploy to draw salaries from the bottom of the kettle, as long as there is a lack of population, both the Maori family's military strength and territorial construction will be affected. At the same time, Zhengliang also prepared to send people to infiltrate the Maori family's territory, while discrediting the Maori family, and on the other hand, promoting the benefits of settling in the Luo family's territory, so as to lure more displaced people to migrate to the Luo family.

As for why Mori Yuan agreed to this request, on the one hand, it was also the intention of taking the opportunity to send Hosaku or even some forces into the territory of the Luo family, and on the other hand, in fact, Mori Yuan had not realized the importance of population at this time, and even if the population was insufficient, as long as he came back from the country of Bigo, China, Bizen and even the United States. It's just that this method not only offends the surrounding forces, but also consumes a lot of family funds during the period, compared to the Luo family's method of taking the initiative to take refuge without doing anything, but it is much better.

The third is to require the Maori family to hand over the trading rights of the silver mines they control in Anyi, Guoshan County and other places (that is, the silver mines produced can only be traded with the Luo family), and at the same time allow the Luo family to enter their territory to trade other materials (so that the Luo family can carry out economic warfare in the future), and sell 1,000 cultivated cattle to the Luo family at market price (the area occupied by the Maori family is the production area of bison), and allow the Luo family to continue to buy cultivated cattle from their territory in the future.

The main reason why Mao Li Yuan agreed to this request of the Luo family was because the Mao Li family also needed to trade with other forces anyway, and since the price of the Luo family's transaction was according to the local general market price, he was also happy to trade with the Luo family. In fact, what hurt him the most was the deal with the 1,000 head of cattle with the Roche family and the agreement to allow the other party to enter the local area to buy cattle in the future.

Fourth, the Mori family ceded a mountain castle on the coast south of Bigo Province. The castle is located on the Fukuyama Plain in the Ashida River basin in the south, and is directly connected to the Seto Inland Sea, so that the Luo family will not only directly control the coastal waters in the southern part of Bigo Province, but also after obtaining the bridgehead here, it will be beneficial for the Luo family to continue to infiltrate the rest of Bigo Province.

(Thanks to the "zj_gold" commuter pass; Thanks to the reward of "Green Mia, Li Xiaoyixin, Xinding Flying, jackkk2007", and thank "Li Xiaoyixin" for the renewal vote. (To be continued......)