The remnants of the snow have not disappeared, and the foothills are covered with twilight;

The mountain village river is far away, and the plum blossoms are fragrant;

The river breeze blows the willows, and the spring color is in front of you;

The sound of the oars can be heard in the distance, and the spring tide is white;

Clouds and mist cover the night sky, leaving a moon;

The morning frost is all over the fields, and the autumn colors are already deep;

Although the insects wish to sing for a long time, the autumn grass has withered;

Come to the fence and show a way;

……

The cool evening breeze mixed with the smell of spring blows from the distant mountains.

It's been three days since Masarashi finished his inspection of the workshop, and for the past three days, Masarashi has spent most of the time in the castle tower, working day and night to approve the paperwork piled up on the desk. Continuing to fight abroad, some affairs in the territory that must need Zhengliang's approval are naturally piled up, and taking advantage of this time, Zhengliang will naturally have to step up his handling.

In the evening of this day, after a busy day, Masara went to the balcony of the castle tower and looked out over the castle by the railing. At this time, from the bank of the Matsuura River outside the city, there was the sound of two male voices singing in duet. Since Hizen Province was already the most prosperous area in the Luo family's territory, the castle town of Kishidake Mountain Castle, which was the core of the Hizen country and the Luo family's territory, was naturally a place where people of various cultures in the Luo family's territory gathered. Therefore, on a normal day, many literati gather on the shore of the Matsuura River, which is next to the town, to communicate.

These songs are also very interesting to say. It is a game in which two people chant a waka song against each other, and it began at the end of the Heian period. Initially, renge became popular in the imperial court as a remnant of waka, and later became widely popular among the burghers. Become a popular entertainment project. And there are lengthy conjunctions of 5 rhymes and 100 rhymes. This is the so-called "Hundred Rhymes and Songs".

The advent of Lian Ge is based on the fact that some aristocrats could not bear the shackles of stale traditional culture and tried to find a way out with folk tastes. The first characteristic of Lian Ge is collective creation, that is, each sentence must be connected with the previous sentence of others, and its transition is purely accidental, so it requires the author to have a kind of wit to adapt to the situation, and at the same time, it also enables Lian Ge to get rid of the stagnant tendency to focus on feelings. The second characteristic of ligans is improvisation. The so-called "song road" generally has its secret tradition. Since ancient times, there has been no definite format for liange, but it is superior to evoke the current feelings, which shows that the second characteristic of liange also requires the wit of improvisation. So in Zhengliang's view, this kind of liange is a bit like the duet of mountain songs in the Guilin area that he saw in later generations.

"I'm afraid this kind of elegance doesn't even exist in Kyoto at this time, right?"

While listening to the song and looking at the beautiful scenery of the mountains in the distance, Masato couldn't help but think. Even because of this, he came up with a plan, that is, if he recruited singers from the capital and other places who traveled to various countries, he could learn liange from them. In fact, he wants to know the world without leaving home. Ask those singers about the customs of the characters of various countries. This method seems to be much cheaper than sending the Luo family's detectives out to inquire about information.

Then he thought of the good news that had come from the country of Bungo. It turned out that it was Bungo Province that went straight into the gun, and the high castle that the Shiga family held on to was finally broken. What made this fortified city, which had been held for two months, fall, was not the military strength of the Luo family. It's a soldier of the Kita-Shiga family in the middle of Takajo.

It turned out that Honda Masanobu saw that Shiga in Takashiro was stubborn and unwilling to surrender to Kaijo, so he let his father lead a thousand peasant soldiers to continue to harass Takashiro, and on the other hand, he sent people to the nearby territory of the former Kita-Shiga family to inquire about the news. He inadvertently discovered that because the labor force in his family was trapped in Takashi, many villages in the nearby former Kita-Shiga family could not carry out spring ploughing normally. Honda Masanobu immediately sent people to infiltrate these villages, and then incited these people to go outside the high castle to persuade their relatives in the city to surrender.

After more than half a month of family persuasion, some of the soldiers in the city were finally shaken. People's hearts are also long, Shiga Qindu has already brought his family and relatives into the high city, and there is enough food in the city to support everyone in the city for a year, Shiga Qindu is naturally at ease. But as the ordinary soldiers guarding the city, their wives, wives and children are all outside the city, and they lack them as the main labor force, how will these relatives outside the city plough this year. If spring cultivation is not good for grain, then how will they survive this winter? Do you want them to die?

This was obviously impossible, so on a dark night, some of the soldiers defending the city launched a rebellion. He had already seen the persuasion of the relatives of the soldiers guarding the city outside the city, so he personally sent his henchmen and relatives to Shiga Qindu, who was in charge of guarding the city gate, never expected that the target of the rebels' attack was not the city gate, but stayed in the castle himself. Caught off guard, he was beheaded by the swarming rebels. Then, under the influence of Shiga kinto's head, more people joined the ranks of the rebellion, and finally overpowered the people who opposed the rebellion.

The rebel soldiers took the opportunity to open the city gate and put the Luo family's army, which had urgently gathered outside the city after discovering the abnormal movement in the city, into the high city. In the end, the high city, which had held out for two months, announced the fall. Since then, Zhijin County has been completely incorporated into the territory of the Luo family.

In order to appease the local people, Masara just slashed and killed the male members of the Shiga kinto clan, and spared Shiga kinto's wife and daughter, and anyway, with the death of Shiga kinto, the Shiga kinto clan was declared extinct at this time, which had no male heir. And the two fathers and sons, Honda Toshimasa and Honda Masanobu, who have made meritorious contributions, are on the spot to assist the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet to pacify the local people.

With the fall of Takashiro, the Otomo family was completely left with only Kunisaki-gun or the complete territory, and half of the territory of the rest of the Ami-gun and Kaibe County fell into the hands of the Luo family. suddenly thought of this, which made Masahiro sigh with emotion, it is really the Otomo family that is already in decline, but the Luo family is thriving.

Standing on the terrace and pondering for a while, Masarashi finally turned around and prepared to return to the council hall on the first floor of the castle tower, but when he turned around, he saw a samurai on horseback galloping in through Otemon in the afterglow of the setting sun, and then coming towards the castle tower. The man looked anxious. Who is it? What's the matter? Masatocrat muttered in his heart as he turned around and walked towards the council hall on the first floor of the castle tower.

"Meet my lord." When the visitor arrived, Masayo, who was sitting on the main seat of the council hall, realized that it was Shimazu Yoshihiro who was riding a horse.

Yoshihiro Shimazu, as a hostage of the alliance between the Shimazu family and the Luo family, entered the Luo family five years ago, and before he knew it, he had gone from an eight-year-old child to a thirteen-year-old boy.

In fact, seeing that Naoshige Nabeshima, Masanobu Honda, Yoshiro Kawada and others, who have been by his side for several years, have been reused by the lord Masayo and have been stationed in the army below, Shimazu Yoshihiro, who thinks that his ability is no worse than them, is naturally anxious, so as soon as there is an errand, he will take the initiative to take care of himself. This time, he took over the task of Zhengliang and went out.

"My lord, the Kitahara family and the Ryokari family of Osumi Province and the Keta-in family of Satsuma Province jointly sent an envoy, and Kitahara also guards the ......."

"Matashiro, don't panic, wipe the sweat off your forehead first." Masashi said with a smile, "When Kitahara comes here, there must be a confidential matter. Can you guess what? ”

Yoshihiro Shimazu knelt on the ground and wiped his sweat, raised his head after hearing the words and shook his head, "That guy has no expression on his face......"

"Hahaha...... As long as you open your eyes and look with your heart, everything in heaven and earth has an expression. Look at the rice outside the city......" Masara said with a smile, "it is saying, the people are cultivating it with their hearts, and it is very happy." Only when you hear the voice of all things can you become an adult. ”

For the four tigers of the Shimazu family, Masara's favorite is the "Onishi Manzi" and "Onishimazu" Shimazu Yoshihiro as the second tiger, since following Masatsu's side, he has shown a strong personality, can calmly analyze things, and deal with the characteristics of not panicking. Often in his spare time, Zhengliang would teach him some small things. As for the teachings of Masayo, Shimazu Yoshihiro will listen carefully every time.

"Okay, now that you're back, the other party is almost there, right? Go down and tell Togo-sama and Yamamoto-sama to come to the council hall. Zhengliang said later.

The latter immediately bowed down and retreated. Looking at the obedient figure of Yoshihiro Shimazu gradually moving away, Masarashi suddenly spoke:

"Did he make any changes?"

"Tell the lord that there is no change, and after leaving the city, he will go to meet the envoy of Osumi Province according to the lord's instructions. Along the way, he was also cautious and slow, and there was no change. ”

A black eagle came out of the shadows of the council hall and knelt down to Masato and said.

"Well, keep an eye on him."

"Yes!" After the black eagle who had been ordered to bow down and retreat, he immediately chased in the direction that Shimazu Yoshihiro had left.

"Hey! It's not that I don't want to reuse you! It's just that you're still from the Shimazu family! After Black Hawk left, Masayo muttered to himself.

In any case, Shimazu Yoshihiro is still a member of the Shimazu family, and at this time, he is still a hostage of the two alliances, and Masahiro naturally can't keep him away from his own surveillance. In addition, Masato did not want to send him to the army, so that he could learn more about the secrets of the Luo family.

In fact, after following the Luo family for so long, Shimazu Yoshihiro has already learned a lot of secrets about the Luo family. And Masahiro is also considering how to deal with the issue of Shimazu Yoshihiro. But what is certain is that unless the Shimazu family takes refuge in the Luo family, for the sake of secrecy, Shimazu Yoshihiro basically has no chance to return to the Shimazu family. As for how to deal with Shimazu Yoshihiro in the end, even now, Masara still hasn't come up with a good way to deal with it.

And this time, Masara deliberately sent Shimazu Yoshihiro to meet the envoy of Osumi Province, so he naturally took the opportunity to observe Shimazu Yoshihiro's performance. After all, the Kitahara family, the Ryogashi family, and the Satsuma family of Satsuma Province who sent the envoys this time are in a joint confrontation with the Shimazu family.

"At least, for now, we haven't done anything out of the ordinary." After thinking of Shimazu Yoshihiro's performance this time, Masarashi said to himself in the end. Then he looked silently at the sky facing the door of the council hall.

At this time, the bright red sunset is slowly setting in the west. (To be continued......)