"My lord, this is a measure of checks and balances." After reading a letter from Sheng Long, Kakukuma Ishizong spoke first.

"Although it was calculated by the imperial court and the shogunate, it also gave the family a righteous name." On the contrary, Kansuke Yamamoto attaches more importance to the righteousness that this appointment brings to the family. Don't underestimate the role of this righteous name, at least if you attack others, you will have a more high-sounding excuse, and you can send troops with an unrespectful reproach. Moreover, after this righteous name is matched with the corresponding strength as a guarantee, it is even more a sharp weapon to subdue the enemy.

"Previously, the imperial court and the shogunate sent a total of two people to the main house, and I am afraid that the main family saw the implicit intentions and came to appease them, right?" Kakukuma Ishizong said again.

"Well, I'm afraid it is!" Masarashi nodded. Not every Sengoku daimyo is willing to obediently suffer such a dumb loss. If you offend the local power daimyo because of this, the situation of the already stormy imperial court and the shogunate will be even more difficult. So Masato felt that this group of ministers hiding in a wooden house in Kyoto was really playing with fire, and they actually gave him such a secret trick.

In addition to Kyogoku Takayoshi, an old acquaintance of Masayoshi on behalf of the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, there was also Yamashina Yanji on behalf of the imperial court. The first purpose of Yamashi's words, it is self-evident, is naturally to collect money.

Why? This has to start with the financial situation of the imperial court. After the Onin Rebellion, the imperial court's finances were extremely embarrassed. Both the emperor's inauguration and burial after his death depended on the support of local daimyos. The saddest thing happened in 1500. Emperor Dogomon died, and only a hundred pieces of money were taken out for the funeral. As for his son, the enthronement ceremony of Emperor Go-Kashiwahara became a big problem. Due to the lack of money to hold the ceremony. The emperor could not be formally inaugurated. Until twenty-one years later. In March 1521, the ordeal of enthronement was finally held. Emperor Go-Kashiwahara was finally officially enthroned at the age of 58. Then there is the sad news that Emperor Go-Kashiwahara died in 1526, and his body was stopped for two months due to lack of money before being hastily buried.

The son of Emperor Go-Kashiwahara continued to mourn. It was not until 1536, ten years after my father's death, that the enthronement ceremony was held after the Hojo clan, Ouchi clan, Imagawa clan and other Sengoku daimyo gathered funds. At that time, the imperial family was so poor that they even had to sell the emperor's own calligraphy and paintings to make money. For this reason, Emperor Go-Nara was forced to reorganize the imperial finances. The Yamashina family has held the position of the head of the inner treasure for generations, and was responsible for the financial operation of the imperial court, and the current head of the family, Yamashina Yan, began to be responsible for collecting the royal money from the princes in various places. In addition to this, he was also responsible for requesting the princes to restore the imperial court's "imperial land", that is, the property of the imperial court that had been embezzled. In most cases, his efforts will come to naught, either in the chaos of war or in the dust.

This time, it is estimated that Yamashina Yanji is to continue to raise donations from the Luo family and request the restoration of the "imperial land" of the imperial court. Speaking of the "Imperial Material", Hizen was used as a place for the imperial court and the Ming Kingdom to go to sea in the past. In Karatsu Bay in Matsuura-gun, Hizen, and the Nagasaki Peninsula in Biki-gun, there are indeed many "imperial food areas".

It's just that since it's fat that has been swallowed into the stomach. Zhengliang will definitely not spit it out again. As for fundraising, it depends on the sincerity of the imperial court and the shogunate, after all, as long as the powerful daimyo can financially support the imperial court, they can obtain the official position of corresponding strength. Although this time he got a good local official position on the surface, there was an unknown calculation hidden in it. In this breath, Masayo still plans to settle accounts with the imperial court and the shogunate? If he doesn't give enough sincerity this time, Zhengliang will definitely not be wronged.

Of course, as Kakuma Shizong said, the imperial court also knew that Lu Dao's calculations this time were likely to be seen by the Luo family, and in order to appease, so this time Yamashina Yanji came for another purpose. That is to determine the genealogy of the Roche family.

Masarashi has always declared himself to be Genji, but this is not recognized by the imperial court after all, if it can be determined that Masara was born from Genji this time, then it will be beneficial for the Luo family to recruit talents and even future development.

This era is an era that pays attention to the level of blood. If you want to hold a higher position, you must have a noble bloodline. For example, the position of Sekihaku can theoretically be held by the Fujiwara clan and its descendants, so Toyotomi Hideyoshi, a commoner-born monkey, wants to be Sekihaku and has to find Konoe Maehisa to recognize his godfather. The Shogun of Seiyi was also stipulated that only the nobles of the samurai family (from the Genji and Taira clans) could serve as the shogunate and open the shogunate.

Of course, because it is from later generations, Masashi has always scoffed at these, and in his opinion, whoever has a hard fist will talk about it. However, the retainers of the Luo family did not see it that way, and when they learned the news, at least the two military advisors who came to meet this time and the old Dongxiang Pingji of the family seemed to attach great importance to it.

Seeing that they were so enthusiastic, it was not easy for Masato to go against their ideas. So he threw the family tree he had already made up to them, and then told the three of them to prepare for the arrival of the public and prepare the relevant materials for the family tree. Anyway, for the imperial court, they also know what is going on with these genealogies, as long as there is money to collect, they will generally recognize it.

After seeing the three of them walking out of the council hall enthusiastically, Masahiro couldn't help frowning. It seems that the generation that represents the new ideas will need time to grow. Most of the important positions in the family now fall into the hands of retainers who still maintain the old ideas, and people such as Masamune Roche, Masahide Roshi, Sasuke Roshi, Shigoro Roshi, Nabeshima Naoshige, and Masanobu Honda, who represent the new ideas transmitted by Masahiro, have not yet grown up and begun to control the actual positions in the family, which makes Masayo always seem to be alone when he implements some new policies at home. That's not going to work.

Of course, although the superstructure still needs to wait for everyone to grow up, the people who are the substructure have been greatly improved after graduating from the Luo School and becoming officials at the grassroots level of the territory. At least some of Zhengliang's new policies and ideas have great support at the grassroots level.

In this way, after some preparations, half a month later, Kyogoku Takayoshi and Yamashina Yan came to the Kishigaku City of the Luo family as scheduled.

"I have heard recently, there is a Western warrior Luo Zhengliang, loyalty, bravery, benevolence and ......righteousness" In the conference hall, Yamachiyan sits on the main seat, and the retainers of the Luo family are on both sides. Masarashi himself bowed to the 'angels' and put on a respectful appearance of listening to the 'heavenly sounds'.

Yama Keyan Jiben is also dressed very ceremoniously, with white face, shaved eyebrows, and black teeth. He looks like a real minister.

Finally, Yamashina Yanji read the last sentence with an unusually solemn expression: "...... Today, I am awarded the position of Dazai Shaoji, and I hope to fulfill my loyalty and not live up to my hopes! ”

After bowing and thanking him, Masara took over the holy decree from Yamashina Yanji's hand, and then immediately invited Yamashina Yanji and Kyogoku Takayoshi to go to a meeting room that had been prepared for a long time.

Yamashina Yanji was a very famous cultural person, proficient in waka and tea ceremony, and his diary "Yan Jiqing Jiji" is one of the most important materials in future historical research. The biggest hobby in his life is to travel in the mountains and rivers, and he has traveled to most of Fuso, and has a wide range of knowledge. It's a very good minister.

In the small living room, only Kakukuma Ishizong, Yamamoto Kansuke, the two military advisors, and the only one in the Luo family, Togo Heiji, were sitting this time. These three people are also well-informed, and they also have some understanding of the culture of the minister, which just caters to Shankeyanji.

"On this trip, I'm brazen to bother Dazai Shaoji." Walking into the living room and sitting opposite Masahiro, Yamashina Yanji nodded slightly and apologized.

"Hahaha, you don't have to be polite. Zai Xia is also a bold person, and Lord Gao Ji must be very clear about this matter. Masara Ha Lu Ha smiled and said to Yamashina Yanji and Kyogoku Takayoshi in return, and then clapped his hands, "The banquet has been prepared, please dine." ”

The door to the parlor was pulled open, and the maid bowed outside, and then came in with food, which was respectfully placed in front of several adults in the room.

"Hiss......" At this moment, Masaro heard the sound of Yamashina Yanji gasping for air. Zhengliang couldn't help but smile secretly.

Although the current Warring States is still based on grains and wild vegetables, the Masashi from later generations will definitely not treat him badly. And this time to entertain Yamashina Yanji and Kyogoku Takayoshi, in fact, Masashi did not prepare any delicacies from the mountains and seas, in fact, it is just the meal that Masashi's family usually eats, the only difference is that there are more dishes and ingredients.

So what are these dishes? There are mainly sweet potatoes with rice, steamed ginger and shallots, delicious sea fish (this dish is a favorite of Masayo's eldest princess Tamiko), pickles, wild vegetables, fried chicken with corn, abalone in soup, and chicken broth.

Yamashina Yanji, who was accustomed to running around all year round, was naturally a little surprised to see such a sumptuous dish there. Even Kyogoku Takayoshi, who had dealt with Masarashi several times, was surprised by the dishes in front of him.

And the secret laugh in his heart that Zhengliang made was not laughing at these two people for being hillbillies. Rather, he was satisfied with the expressions on both of them. In fact, such dishes can be seen not only in Masaara's daily staple food, but also in some newly opened sake breweries in the Luo family's territory.

Compared with later generations, some of these dishes may be very expensive, such as the abalone, which is indeed not generally cheap in later generations, but in the current era when there is no pollution and no large mechanical fishing boats, abalone in the sea can be seen everywhere. Moreover, there are many specialties in the Luo family's territory, such as ginger and abalone before fattening; There are seaweeds and so on after fattening.

These things can be profitable, so Masahiro suggested that Tai Jiuling and his wives and concubines could invest in this aspect of the business, and then Masato taught them some business methods, so this kind of sake house that can not only provide sake and dried radish, but also these special delicacies appeared in the territory.

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