In the middle of November of the 23rd year of astronomy, the cold winter is gradually approaching, and the weather is getting colder day by day. On this day, there was a thin snow in the sky, and in the blink of an eye, the ground, mountains, rivers, trees, and houses were all covered with a thin layer of snow. The trees that had lost their leaves were covered with fluffy and shiny silver stripes; And those trees that are evergreen in winter and summer are covered with fluffy pine snow. A gust of wind blows, the branches of the trees shake gently, beautiful silver stripes and snow fall down in a dazzling manner, and jade-like snow dust flutters in the wind, reflecting the early morning sun, showing a rainbow of colorful colors.

At this time, it is naturally a good time for children to go out and play, but because the snow on the ground is really limited, they can only "squeak" on the ground to step on the thin snow for fun, as for snowball building, snowball fights and other games are naturally not playable. Compared to the other children, Mei Ji, Tang Wang Maru, and Song Wang Maru were much more depressed, because at this time they were being taught by their father Masaara. On the contrary, Haruhime, who was only six years old, and Motowangmaru, who was only four years old, were carried by their respective mothers to the courtyard to watch the scenery.

After replying to the invitation of the shogun, Ashikaga Yoshiteru, to Kamiraku from Shogun, Masarashi returned from Bungo Province to Hizen Province's Gakufu Castle in a tone that he was eager to kill King Kyoto immediately. The first battle from the second half of last year to the first half of this year caused a lot of losses to the Luo family, and the soldiers were also a little tired, and because they were not suitable for continuous combat in winter, even if the Interior Pavilion had already taken precautions, there were still many soldiers who were frostbitten in this battle. So at the end of this year, Masato is ready to take a break. Wait until the coming year to start thinking about military action.

After returning home. In addition to handling household affairs on the one hand. Masahiro also found time to reunite with his family, and teaching his children was one of them. Different from the general teaching method, Masaliang's teaching is mainly based on allusions and storytelling, which makes the three siblings of Mei Ji, Tang Wang Maru, and Song Wang Maru not disappointed because they can't go out to play.

It's just that the good times didn't last long, and soon a detective came in to report to Masahiro about the collapse of the Shingu Party staged in Izumo Province half a month ago, and handed over the letter written by Duanmu Kiyomasa to Masa.

"What do you think about this?" When the retainers of the Fang Cai family reported the matter of the Xingong Party of the Nizi family, Masara did not let his three children back down, and now he had to ask them what they thought about this matter.

"I don't know what to do." A sound like a yellow oriole sounded immediately. All right. The owner of this voice doesn't need to look at it to know that the Tao is from the mouth of Mei Ji. However, Masato didn't expect this girl to answer seriously, but looked forward to his two sons being able to give some answers that satisfied him.

"Father, my son, I think that it is not the best policy for the Nizi family to remove the Xingong Party." Sister-in-law Tang Wangmaru thought for a while and finally said.

"Oh? Why isn't it the best policy? Zhengliang immediately asked.

"Erchen once heard Shijiro (also known as Yamanaka Yukimori) say that the Shingu Party is the most elite team in the Nizi family, and now that it has been cleared, the strength of the Nizi family will be damaged." After his sister-in-law Tang Wangmaru finished speaking, he looked at Masahiro with a little apprehension. Apparently he was a little worried that his answer would displease Masarashi.

"Hmm. Not bad. Song Wang Maru, what about yours? Masato then asked again.

"Father. Erchen thinks that what the elder brother said is reasonable. Song Wangmaru, who was asked by Zhengliang, immediately replied.

"Well, you're all answering well. That's all for today, as a reward for you, today you can go to your mother in advance. Masato finally said.

"Yes, Father." The three of them immediately saluted and said. Especially Meiji, who was originally sick, was like taking a recovery potion at this time, her voice became vivid, and when she left the room, she almost dodged out of the house in three steps and two steps.

"This naughty girl." Seeing such a scene, Zhengliang had no choice but to shake his head helplessly and muttered to himself. As expected, with three children, Mei Ji naturally doesn't need to comment too much. And the second son, Song Wangmaru, has really become a follower of his sister-in-law. I don't know why, the second son has been more fond of dancing and playing guns since he was a child, and even said that he would become the general of the Luo family in the future, but he didn't dare to be interested in those things of dancing and writing. It's just that if you want to become a general, it's not enough to rely on martial arts, you also need to have enough strategy, so Masahiro is ready to let a few military advisors in his family teach him well.

As for the performance of his sister-in-law Tang Wangmaru, it made Masahiro feel more satisfied. Although he still didn't think about the problem comprehensively, at least he was able to analyze it from the perspective of the governor, and he also knew how to use the resources around him (Yamanaka Yukimori) to understand the situation.

As the sister-in-law Tang Wang Pill said. When the Niko family arrived in the era of Niko Haruha, they began to evolve into a true Sengoku Daimyo. What is a Sengoku Daimyo? That is to reduce the power of the people, abolish the collegial system of important ministers, and realize the dictatorship of the power of the daimyo. For Niko Haruha, if he wants to strengthen the power of the clan, he will have to fight to the death with the various countrymen, Shu clans and temple shrines in Izumo, and he relies on the "followers" who are directly loyal to him, and the last Sanuki Mamoru who was broken by Niko Seihisa who broke the bridge of his nose belongs to this list, and the economic foundation he relies on is his own direct territory, and the Yoshida and salt metallurgical territories owned by Niko Kunihisa and his son obviously do not belong to this category.

In fact, at that time, the power of the "Shingu Party" of Niko Kunihisa and his son was already very inflated, as if it was a large military and political group independent of the Zongjia, with a vast number of fiefdoms, elite armed forces, and inextricably linked marriages with many people in Izumo Province, and the "adherents" of Niko Haruma. Niko Seihisa's wanton beating of the last Sanuki Mamoru is the manifestation of this contradiction.

This kind of "two-headed" power structure is absolutely intolerable to Niko Haruhisa, who pursues the unification of the power of the daimyo, and at this time, Niko Haruhisa's eldest son, Niko Yoshihisa, is already in his teens, even if it is for the sake of the next generation of sons-in-law, it is necessary to exterminate the Shingu Party! In fact, after the demise of the Shingu Party, Nizi Haruhisa immediately confiscated all Yoshidaso and Shioyezhuang as their direct territories, and used the water transportation of Shioye Township to transport a large amount of iron sand and silver nuggets to the land of the Japanese country (many of which were traded with the Luo family), achieving the ultimate goal: greatly enhancing the military and economic strength of the Nizi clan.

As for whether the letter on the corpse was a ploy by Mori Motosa (it is said that Mori Motoshi deliberately sent a death row prisoner to Mt. Getsan Tomita Castle to deliver the letter, and then killed him, leaving "ironclad evidence" to separate Haruhisa and the Shingu Party), and it was simply a post-incident planting, which no longer matters at all, this is just a prop of history.

However, the fiefdom of the Shingu Party is dead and can produce food at any time, but the Shingu Party, a battle-hardened military group, has been destroyed, and people are precious resources that cannot be reborn.

What is even more coincidental is that Masarashi learned from the letter sent back by Duanki Kiyomasa this time that during the period when the Shingu Party was purged, it happened to be at the juncture when the Niko family and the Ouchi family formed an alliance to jointly deal with Mori Motosho.

Now that Nizi Haruhisa has eliminated the Shingu Party, while strengthening the power of the clan, he has also lost a large number of military backbones, in this case, will Nizi Harumu join forces with Tao Longfang to attack An Yun Kingdom together?

However, according to historical records, the Nizi family did not go out to participate in the war in accordance with the covenant, so that when Maori Yuan fought the Tao army in the decisive battle with Itsukushima, he had no worries at all, and he could give it a go. And a few years later, when Niko Haruhisa fought hard for Iwami Silver Mountain, and Maori Yuan, who annexed Zhou Fang and Nagato, and completed the leap with great strength, will there be a little regret in my heart when I think of this past? Unfortunately, history does not allow assumptions, let alone dealers who sell regret drugs.

But there are also historical materials that prove that after the purging of the new palace party, it did not cause much loss to Niko Haruhisa's military strength, and in that year, Niko Haruhisa also organized 20,000 troops to go on an expedition to prepare for the Urakami family in the former country.

So, if this record is true, when Tao Longfang and Maori Yuan faced off, what did Nizi Haruhisa think about it, why did he stick a knife in the back of Maori Yuan?

At this time, Masashi is speculating, and the reason is very easy to explain, this is because the alliance between Nizi Haruhisa and Tao Longfang is fundamentally different in terms of interest orientation, and it looks like an empty shelf, and after Nizi Haruhisa became the governor of the family, the main direction of the strategy was placed in the eastern part of the western country, such as the Misaku country, Bizen country, Harima country, etc., as for the west, after occupying Iwami Ginzan, there was no big action at all.

In other words, the more lively you Tao Longfang and Maori Yuan fight, the safer the back of my Nizi family, plus you Ouchi and my Nizi family have not dealt with each other before, even if Ouchi Yoshitaka is reborn, my Nizi Haruhisa may not be willing to give three points of thin noodles, not to mention that you are an anti-thief Tao Longfang, the two of us really have no historical and practical basis for sincere cooperation. Therefore, historically, Niko Haruhisa did not fulfill his promise to come to support Tao Longfang in the end.

However, what Nizi Haruku miscalculated for a long time was that he didn't expect that the historical Tao Longfang would lose so quickly, and the Ouchi family would perish so quickly. A small Itsukushima, a wonderful battle in which the situation changed drastically, not only buried Tao Longfang's ambition to the sky, but also completely ruined the foundation of the Western University of the United States for hundreds of years.

"It's just that, now that the family has appeared, should the battle of Itsukushima be changed?" Masara looked at the sky outside the wooden window and muttered to himself. Perhaps, this war will be an opportunity for the rapid development of the Luo family. (To be continued......)