On the 14th day of the seventh month of the 17th year of the Astronomical Calendar, Naito Yoshimori arrived at the council hall of the village castle as the envoy of the Ouchi family.

"Lord Xingsheng, can the road go smoothly?" When Naito sat down, Masaro said lightly. For Naito's prosperity, Masara really doesn't have a good impression, this guy has always been an advocate of beware of the Luo family in the Ouchi family. Masato really couldn't understand why Yoshitaka Ouchi would send this guy to serve as an envoy for the two parties to discuss. According to the past, it was usually Masarashi's cheap father-in-law, Sagara Takeren, who came forward.

After hearing Masayo's words, Naito Xingsheng also replied lightly: "Thank you Dazai Shaoji for your concern, except for the fact that it was difficult to walk on the road due to a heavy rain the day before yesterday, everything is still going well." ”

"How is Lord Xiguo Tanti?"

"Energetic, reprimanding us every day."

"Oh. I miss him so much. It's been years since I last met him, and that one time I stopped him from an arrow......"

"The grace of Dazai Shaoji to save his life is remembered by my family." Naito Xingsheng immediately propped his hands on the ground and knelt on the ground in salute.

Seeing this, a smile appeared on the corner of Zhengliang's mouth, and then lightly touched the key topic, "So, ...... you come this time"

"The purpose is simple." Naito twisted his beard with a very serious expression. The generals of the Luo family were also silent for a moment, "Lord Dazai, the recent conflict between you and the Otomo family has also been heard of by our family, especially the conflict between the two parties in Higo this time. The head of the family believes that this is the time when the Otomo family is at its weakest, and the family wants to take the opportunity to join forces with you to attack the Otomo family. That's what I'm here for. ”

"Oh?" Masakira was a little surprised by Naito's proposal. I didn't expect the Ouchi family to plan to fall into the hole for the Otomo family. As soon as Naito's proposal came out, not only Masara himself, but also the other Luo family retainers in the council hall were quite surprised.

You must know that in the past several conflicts between the Luo family and the Otomo family. The Ouchi family chose to be a bystander. Unexpectedly, this time, the Ouchi family became the active party attacking the Otomo family. However, due to the previous indecisiveness of the Ouchi family. For a while, everyone, including Masara, could not fully believe in the authenticity of Naito's proposal. As a result, the whole council hall suddenly seemed a little quieter.

"Hmph" Naito Xingsheng seemed to have expected such a situation for a long time, so he immediately snorted coldly, and then said, "Dazai Shaoji-sama, to be honest, I believe that you have heard of your attitude through Sagara Takeren-sama. This time, I was really reluctant to take on the errand of the mission, but the head of the family agreed. Only by coming in person can the sincerity of the family go out to the battle, so as to dispel the concerns of Lord Dazai, I wonder if Lord Dazai also agrees with this idea of the head of the family? ”

"Haha, Lord Guardian has filtered, but I don't know how Lord Tanti plans to attack Otomo's family?" Masahiro snorted and continued to ask.

"Divided into two plans, the first plan is to take the Chikugo River as the boundary, and the north bank of the Chikugo River belongs to the family to attack. On the south bank of the Chikugo River, you are responsible, and the acquired territories belong to each of them. ”

"Hmm." Masarashi nodded. The north bank of the Chikugo River is mainly Yamaya Castle and Akaji Castle, which are directly under the Otomo family. On the south bank are the Kusano family, the Hoshino family, and the Omsaysho family, and the Chikugo River is indeed the most reasonable way to divide the territory of the two families, and the income of the two places is also about the same.

"And what is the other plan?" Masara pondered for a moment and then continued to ask.

"After dividing up the territory of the Chikugo Koku Otomo family, you will attack the Otomo family's Hizo Castle on the border of Bungo along the border between Chikugo and Bungo; The main family attacked Takada Castle and Sunrise Castle on the border of the Otomo family from Bunzen. The territories obtained by each strategy belong to each of them. ”

"What is the exact date of the attack?"

"After the autumn harvest."

"Okay, please tell Lord Tanti that this time, this strategy, this family will definitely help." Zhengliang said later. Judging from the current plan, it is indeed a good opportunity to jointly attack the Otomo family, and there is no problem in it, so Masayo naturally readily agreed.

In this way, Naito returned to Ouchi's house with a satisfactory answer, while Masarashi simply rested in the village and city for a few days. The reason why he stayed for a few days was mainly because Masara had just received some shocking information.

The information was compiled to Masahiro by Kizo Shigetada, who had just returned to the territory.

The first is the Maori family, which Masayo has always focused on.

More than half a year ago, Kobayakawa Xingjing, who was lucky enough to pick up a life from Izumo because of Masara's previous layout, suddenly died (in Masaliang's view, it is estimated that he was murdered by Maori Moto), leaving behind his blind and frail son Kobayakawa Shihei. Less than two months after Kobayakawa Kokyo's burial, a group of people in Kokusakawa's family, led by Nomi Takako, suddenly clamored to belong to the Maori family. Kobayakawa Shihei had no choice but to welcome Maori Takakei, the third son of Maori Moto, into him and become his own adopted son. As soon as Longjing entered, he colluded with Nami Takako, and gradually purged and killed the retainers loyal to Fanping in a few months. After the last episode, Yuan framed Kobayakawa Shihei for colluding with the Niko family, forcing Kobayakawa Shigehei to live in seclusion and become a monk, and then with the full support of Ouchi Yoshitaka, let Maori Takakei marry Kobayakawa Shigetei's sister as his wife, and took over the Numata Kobayakawa family, since then Takehara and Numata Kobayakawa families are all unified in the hands of Takakei, and the name of Kobayakawa Takakei has officially spread in the world. In addition, the Yoshikawa family was obtained before, and the Maori family and the two rivers system were officially formed.

After getting the Kobayakawa family, Mori Moto didn't plan to stop it, and he found an excuse to launch a surprise attack on the Inoue clan, a major retainer of the Mori family, who had many fiefdoms, great power, and controlled the finances of the Mori family, and posed a threat to the clan family. In addition to the old age of the Inoue family, there is also a person named Inoue Mitsutoshi who has always been loyal to Yuan, and the rest were all slaughtered. After the Inoue clan was purged, the people of An Yun were scared to death, and they hurriedly wrote a letter of loyalty and dedicated it to Yuan Yu. Mao Liyuan took the opportunity to ask all 239 retainers to submit a petition to the ruler's control.

So the people of Anyun all over the country signed the signed flowers one by one on the oath, arranged together according to the center of the circle, some similar to King Arthur's Knights of the Round Table, which not only expressed the relationship with the Maori family, but also reflected the idea of equality between the retainers, permeated with the guiding ideology of "one million hearts" of Yuan, and also wrote an oath to the gods (such as if I rebelled against the master's family, the sky thundered and the clouds were split), and then handed over to Yuanji of Koriyama Castle, which is called "Umbrella Company Judgment". The people who entered the "Umbrella Company Judgment" would follow the Mori Yuan on the expedition in the event of war, and the flat yen would protect their castles and territories, and enjoy a relatively high degree of independence. Later, although the Maori family expanded to other countries, they all adopted the form of "umbrella judgment" to absorb local people to serve themselves, for example, after the Maori family captured Bigo country, the eighteen local wealthy families presented the "umbrella judgment". As a result, the Mori family's "Umbrella Judgment" gradually took shape.

The reason why Masashi was shocked was because whether it was the purge of the Inoue clan or the formation of the "umbrella judgment" system, in history, these events would have happened at least a few years later, but now they have happened in advance.

What's more, before that, Masato could have made some layouts to try to stop the rapid rise of the Maori family. Unexpectedly, not only did it not stop the rise of the Maori family, but it even stimulated Maori Yuan to launch a ruthless attack and accelerate the rise of the company. Masarashi suddenly had the feeling of lifting a stone and hitting his own foot.

Especially after seeing the information about Mino and Owari, this feeling of Masara is even more obvious.

Originally, Masaro snatched Saito Guidie with the purpose of destroying the alliance between the Saito family and the Oda family. As a result, Oda Nobuhide was unable to fight on both sides because he had to deal with the Imagawa family, and Saito Michizo also encountered difficulties in winning over the Mino trio, so the two sides decided to negotiate peace. Nobunaga, the son of Nobuhide, married the third daughter of Michizo.

Saito Michizo has a total of five daughters, the eldest daughter has been married to his sister Koji Yoritsuna as the main room, and Saito Guidie is the second daughter of Michizo. Unexpectedly, when he lost his second daughter and suspected that it was the Oda family, Michizo actually married the third daughter who was supposed to be married to Toki Yorijun in the future. Dao San really deserves to be the pit viper of the Warring States, and his heart is so ruthless.

After getting the news, Masahiro really couldn't cry or laugh. What made Masakira even more depressed was that not long after forming an alliance with the Saito family and the Oda family, Oda Nobuhide was forced to go to war against Cheongju Castle.

The lord of Kiyoshu Castle at this time was Oda Hikogoro Nobuyo, who was a member of the Oda clan with Oda Nobuhide. Hikogoro's owner is the head of the Spo family, known as "Mr. Wuwei", and he also lives in Cheongju Castle. On the surface, it is the residence of the lord of the country, the Spo family, and it is also the base of the guardian and Oda Yamatomori. Hikogoro's family, the old Sakai Daizen, is a well-known strategist and is known as the little guardian. Under it were three important ministers, including Sakai Kansuke, Kazuichi Kawajiri, and Oda, whose martial prowess was famous in Mikawa, but was controlled by Yagoro Nakono. Yagoro was not a retainer of Oda Hikogoro, but a retainer of Spo Yoshitomi. Yoshitoshi Spo, also known as "Mr. Muwei", lived in Cheongju Castle in Antai, which was guarded by the armed forces of Yagoro Nakono Castle. It can be said that the internal relations of Cheongju Castle at this time were quite complicated.

The cause of the incident turned out to be that Oda Nobunaga did not know what was going crazy and suddenly launched a fire raid on the castle town of Kiyoshu Castle in the evening. This made Oda Hikogoro Nobutomo very angry, so after extinguishing the fire, he immediately raised an army to kill Kodo Castle, where Oda Nobuhide was located. Oda Nobuhide, who had been committed to temporarily maintaining peace within the Oda clan in order to attack Mikawa with all his might, was shocked and had to passively face the battle.

The final result of the battle, of course, ended with the victory of Oda Nobuhide. However, it caused chaos within the Oda family, and the battle for the unification of Owari, which was supposed to start after Oda Nobunaga became the governor of the family, kicked off in advance. This is again years ahead of the time in history.

Damn, could it be that my presence and some of the arrangements for them have caused history to change? Masato couldn't help but muttered to himself while being shocked. (To be continued......)