With the death of the abbot of Xianfeng Temple and a large number of monks who possessed insects, the chaotic people domesticated by Xianfeng Temple lost their owners and temporarily fell into civil strife and confusion.

Some of the chaotic people advocated adapting to the situation and completely surrendering to the inner government.

The other part hopes to admit their mistakes and continue to protect their hometown.

The two factions each had the support of their followers, and finally fought in a big fight.

When the wolf woke up from the pain of his broken arm, he immediately went into action, searching the town of Ashina Castle and the dungeon, and finally found Kuro in the castle tower overnight.

After Issein fell ill, most of the affairs of the Ashina Province were overhung on Genichiro, and coupled with the aggressive military presence of the Inner Government and the heavy responsibility of finding the source of the source of the water, it was impossible for Genichiro to guard Kuro all the time.

When the wolf arrived at the castle tower, Genichiro had just left Ashina Castle for the Valley of the Fallen, and the two of them, who had experienced a life-and-death battle not long ago, happened to stagger each other.

After some consideration, Kuro finally decided to take out the treasures of Senhoji Temple and give them to Genichiro as the military expenses of the Ashina Province.

The wolf who received the order did not rest for a moment, and rushed to Xianfeng Temple to search for the location where Lu Xiao buried the treasure.

The treasure buried by Lu Xiao is actually located in the cave on the west side of the main hall, and the wolf accidentally receives a call to become a royal son in the process of searching for the treasure.

The two sides did not meet directly, and the prince transmitted the voice through the portrait of the Buddha, and entrusted the wolf to send a message to Lu Xiao.

Lu Xiao roughly guessed about the intention of changing the royal prince, which should be related to the eternal travel scripture he handed over to the other party before.

"Da~Da~"

Footsteps suddenly sounded from the floor of the castle tower, and in Lu Xiao's eagle vision, the color of this person's logo was actually blue and red.

'What weird hue is this?' ’

A familiar young man's voice sounded from outside the door: "Lady Kuro, in Heiroku, in the lower mountain of Heiroku, Ichiro-sama has asked me to thank you for donating military expenses." ”

'Uh...... I see. ’

Lu Xiao smiled bitterly and rubbed his eyebrows, "No wonder it's this strange color." ’

Yamauchi Heiroku was put on a role by Lu Xiao before, and he would definitely be resentful of him, but now that there is no direct conflict between Shinichiro and Lu Xiao, Yamauchi Heiroku, who is in a complicated mood, can only bury his dissatisfaction in his heart.

Jiulang motioned for the wolf to invite Yamauchi Heiroku into the room, and the moment the little surname Yamauchi raised his head with low eyebrows, he saw Lu Xiao standing aside.

"You! Why are you here? ”

Lu Xiao spread his hands helplessly: "Don't get excited, I'm Jiulang's guest secretary, and I'm helping him deal with some secret things, and Xian Yilang is also very clear about this, I don't have any conflict of interest with you." ”

"Humph!"

Yamauchi's attitude towards Lu Xiao is very bad, but Lu Xiao doesn't care about it, after all, there is a reason for it.

In terms of age, Yamauchi is not much older than Kuro, at most 12-13 years old.

Lu Xiao looked thoughtfully at the still angry mountain, and an idea suddenly popped up in his mind.

At this time, the system also intervened: "According to the choice made by the host in this world, the side quest is triggered." ”

"Side Quest: Defend Ashina."

"To ensure that the reeded country blocks the invasion of the inner government before the completion of the world mission, this task is a floating reward mechanism, and the amount of the captured area of the reed country will affect the final evaluation of the mission and the quality of the reward given."

The side quests released by the system have strengthened Lu Xiao's idea, since he has already helped, he will simply help to the end, and there will be task rewards to be won in the end.

The gap between the country and the inner government is all-encompassing, from the training of soldiers, the number of soldiers, and morale, to the quality of weapons and equipment, grain, grass, and material reserves, etc., both sides are not at the same level.

Morale, supplies, and food and grass can be compensated for with the treasures captured from Xianfeng Temple, and once the experiment of the insect appenders is successful, the soldier's training is no longer a problem, but the numerical disadvantage cannot be easily compensated.

Now, he can still rely on the dangerous terrain of the Tsuina Province to barely block the attack of the Inner Palace, but this is when the Inner Mansion has not launched a full-scale attack.

The lone shadow who slipped into the central area of Reeda City forced the seriously ill Ichishin to go into battle to kill the enemy himself, which shows how dangerous the reeda is secretly in the background, which is barely stable on the surface.

After reaching a consensus for the time being, the reintegration of the Eichiro and the Eagles under the control of Isshin made up for the lack of strength of the ninjas of Ashina Province to a certain extent, but this was obviously not enough.

"Yamauchi, how many surnames do you have from a famous family, do you want to contribute to the guard Reed?"

Yamauchi snorted coldly in displeasure: "Meaningless question, we are willing to sacrifice everything for our motherland, but the heads of the family think that it is not yet to the point where we need to go into battle. ”

Eijin, who had been silently observing, explained, "The head of the famous family of Ashina wants to preserve the hopes of the next generation by his own sacrifice, and even if the Uchifu wins, according to the custom of the Sengoku period, as long as the samurai family voluntarily submits to the Uchifu, it usually does not harm the family. ”

This situation is actually very common, and it is not limited to the Warring States period in Japan.

Conquerors often need people to govern a place, and local nobles who are familiar with the local situation are naturally the most suitable candidates, and conquerors usually promise benefits to make them abandon their old lords and turn their allegiance to themselves.

The only thing that really needs to worry about being wiped out is the family of the head of a country, which is called the daimyo family in Japan.

Out of the concept of preserving the survival of the family, this approach is understandable, and Lu Xiao does not intend to force the wealthy family of Reeda to give up everything and side with Xianichiro, but ......

"Yamauchi, judging by your name, you shouldn't be the eldest son of the family, right?"

Yamauchi: "That's right, I was my father's sixth child, so I was sent to Genichiro-sama as a small surname. ”

The eldest son of a large family needs to learn all kinds of knowledge required to inherit the family from an early age, and except in a few cases, most of the minor surnames are held by the concubine or second son of the family.

Bing Xue's clever Yongzhen guessed his purpose through Lu Xiao's pointed question, and asked with a look of surprise on his face: "Do you want to gather the non-eldest son of the big family of Wei Ming to form a young army?" ”

"Not exactly."

Lu Xiao looked at the confused Yamauchi and said: "Now that Wei Ming is a critical moment of life and death, even the strong men of the peasant family have been almost pulled up, and it is obviously impossible to recruit soldiers from the people. ”

"In this case, the only soldiers that can be considered are only half a young man, and some are not limited to big families."

"Of course, I don't plan to let these children who have not yet grown up to go to the battlefield to kill the enemy, that is to send them to death in the fire pit that pushes them into the battlefield, I just hope to train them to become the eyes of the reeds and reduce the pressure of espionage faced by the eagles."

This was not a ninja practice, but an assassin's code of conduct.

To put it simply, it is to use these wealthy teenagers as the fuse to call on the numb people of the Reed Country to stand up and do their part, so as to increase the people's centripetal force and cohesion towards the country, and work together to resist the invasion of the inner government.

As a pharmacist who takes care of Yixin every day, Yongzhen is very familiar with the undercurrents faced by the eagles.

Knowing that Ichishin has dressed up as a tengu many times to go out to kill enemies, but for the safety of Ashina, she can't stop it openly.

"Relying on teenagers as eyeliner...... Will it work? ”

Lu Xiao smiled and said: "It's man-made, anyway, it's already reached this point, and if you don't show some awareness, you can't stop the endless army of the Inner Mansion." ”

"I just got a windfall from Xianfeng Temple not long ago, and there must be brave men under the so-called heavy reward, so let's give it a try."