"Good for everyone!" Kang Chang's meeting finally ended. Zhengheng sat in the upper seat one floor in the hall... After saying that, he stood up from his seat, and the two followers behind him quickly followed. Almost at the same time, more than 20 people standing on both sides of the main hall knelt on the ground in unison, bowing their heads deeply.

Seeing such a neat scene, Zhengheng smiled rarely. He said it was a smile, but in fact it was just a twitch on the muscles on his cheeks. Everyone could see that it was not a smile from the heart.

He glanced at everyone below, his sharp eyes almost breathless.

The content of the meeting was very simple, which was the result of the handling of Nizilunjiu and Uyama Fei. Just as the decision before the meeting, Nizilunjiu, as Nizilunjiu's heir, naturally could not live in Izumo Country anymore, and was demoted to a minister and a salary of 6,000 stones. Uyama Feiru was appointed as the auxiliary government. Although Nizilunjiu and Uyama Feiru were dissatisfied, they had to bow their heads under the eaves, and had to swallow their anger and crawl on the ground to agree. He didn't know that Masaheng had already set a trap for them waiting for them to get in.

Just as he walked out of the conference room, a guard had been waiting there for a long time. He fell to his knees and whispered: "Your Highness, the person you invited has arrived."

Zhengheng nodded and said coldly, "It's so good, lead the way!" The guard bowed and said, "Hi!" He then walked back and led the way. In fact, Zhengheng also knew the route clearly where he was going, but leading the way is essential as a gesture.

As soon as he walked out of the conference room, Zhengheng's eyes fell on one of them and said softly: "Ryuzaoji Yama Castle, I'll set up a banquet for you. Let's go there."

A young man with a rosy complexion and well-maintained name is Takanobu Ryuzoji. He is now 30 years old and nicknamed Himemaki. He has built the largest power of the Ryuzoji family in history. He is known as Mio Kyushu together with Toyoto Oto and Satsumashimazu.

Today's life is not very good. Naturally, it is because of Masaheng's sudden rise and the butterfly effect. Ouchi Haruhie and Otomo Yoshim fought against Otomo Yoshim. He originally wanted to attack Otomo Yoshim within the year, and Otomo Yoshim also knew that he was not a match for Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu was decisive and came to Otomo Yoshim alone. Now Otomo Yoshim Haruhie is not strong enough and wants to climb Otomo Yoshim, so he can only choose to climb to the stronger Ida family. Ryuzoji Takanobu Ryuzoji Takanobu was decisive and came to Otomo Yoshim alone.

Zhengheng sat in the main seat, looked at Ryuzoji Takanobu with a smile on his face and ordered: "Today, Lord Shancheng Guard will stay here for meals. Please order people to prepare some simple food!"

The maid brought me a simple meal, which was really simple meal, with two servings of rice and two dishes of pickled cabbage.

Ryuzoji Takanobu looked at the food delivered to him, and his eyes unconsciously showed an angry look. He did not expect that the head of his famous Ryuzoji family would not have encountered such heavy rain, so why could not make him angry? In the past, when he visited Ouchi Yoshitaka, he could not say that he had delicacies of mountains and seas. But he was also fine wine and delicious food. Now, Masahogaki Ida has a larger territory than Ouchi Yoshitaka, and his voice is even louder, but he never thought that he was so crude.

Zhengheng said while drinking the rice with relish and sauerkraut, "Simply cooked and asked the mountain city guard not to be surprised!"

Ryuzoji Takanobu looked at Masaheng and ate the pig food that he thought only pigs could eat. His eyes were full of surprise and doubt. He couldn't help but think of the days when he was wandering in the country. When Ouchi Yoshitaka was expelled from his retainer Tao Longfang, he was besieged by the Homikita people of his relatives and friends, and supported Ryuzoji Supervisor.

Takanobu was forced to flee to the country of Chimae and asked for support from Yoshitaka Ouchi. Yoshitaka Ouchi was devoted to returning to Yamaguchi's career. He was perfunctory about his affairs and only got a fief of 300 stones. After three years of hard life, he finally borrowed a thousand soldiers and exiled to the supervisor of Ryuzaoji, establishing absolute dominance of Ryuzaoji. Gradually, the hard and simple life gradually became luxurious and luxurious. When he thought of this, Takanobu Ryuzaoji could not help but twitch in his heart, and he held the bowl of rice with his hands, which could clearly count the amount of rice.

He approached his mouth and a bad smell of overnight rice came to his nose. Ryuzoji Takanobu's stomach felt nauseous again. Seeing Masaheng was still drinking the rice with relish, he swallowed a mouthful of water, and thoughts in his heart. Finally, he resisted the disgust caused by the rice soaking and started drinking.

Zhengheng smiled and looked at Ryuzoji Takanomiya's actions while drinking the rice. When he saw him holding back his drink, he put down the bowls and chopsticks in his hand. After a while, he saw Ryuzoji Takanomiya finish drinking the rice in the bowl and asked with a smile: "Mr. Shancheng, don't you know if you need it?"

It was his limit to Ryuzoji Takanobu's ability to drink a bowl of a bit bad rice. He would never dare to drink it again. A smile appeared on his face and said, "Thank you for your kind hospitality, I'm already full."

Zhengheng nodded apologetically and ordered the maid to remove the food, but he felt funny. He knew that he could not play with Takanobu Ryuzoji anymore, and asked earnestly: "I heard that Lord Yama Castle just arrived at Okayama Castle a few days ago. Is it safe on the road?"

Ryuzoji Takanobu was quite respectful and said, "How to say it? It's much safer after entering Ida Corps. However, now Kitakyushu is undercurrents, and Ouchi and Otomo brothers are fighting each other. I am the Honshu Island where I landed on Hirado's sea boat."

Masaheng also heard a little about Ouchi Haruhi and Otoyoshi Town's battle. Knowing that Otoyoshi Town wanted to annex the territory of the Otoyoshi Town, Ouchi Haruhi was tough and did not fall at all. The two sides fought secretly. He frowned and said seriously: "I have heard a little about Kitakyushu, but now the chaos in the Kitakura is endless, and the Ida family really has no intention of Kyushu. Please forgive Yama Castle for this matter."

Ryuzoji Takanobu was naturally aware that the main strategic direction of the Ida family is to the east, otherwise he would not have come to seek support. He would have immediately ceased the war with the Shaoyi family and formed an alliance with the forces in Kitakyushu to resist the Ida family's invasion. Ryuzoji Takanobu only sought material support and nominal support for the Ryuzoji family, so that Otoyoshi Town would place its main troops on the front line of resistance to the Ida family, and give up or not to give him much help.

Masaheng naturally knew the intention of Ryuzoji Takanobu coming alone, and of course he was also eyeing Kitakyushu. However, now that the chaos in the capital is in a mess, it is indeed difficult to distract yourself from Kyushu. However, it is also a good idea to make Otoyoshi Town unable to monopolize Kitakyushu.

Thinking of this, Masaheng continued: "Otoyoshi Town is cruel and unkind, so we naturally have to teach some lessons, but now the Ida family is not easy to go to Kitakyushu, so well, I don't know what Yama Castle has to ask. Even if I raise this matter, I will leave it to Noyama Yoshiko to handle it with full authority."

Ryuzoji Takanobu never thought that Masaheng would be so generous. Although the food just now made him a little unhappy, it was already an irrelevant thing. He put on a decent look and said, "You are really the benefactor given to me by God. Please accept me as a bow!" As he said that, he waved his hand regardless of Masaheng, he fell straight in front of him and kowtowed.

Zhengheng did not accept it directly. Instead, he turned his hand sideways and only received a one and a half gifts. He stepped forward and helped Takanobu Ryuzaoji and continued, "I believe in great righteousness. Since Otoyoshi is cruel and unkind, God has given me punishment of evil and promoting good, so I naturally want to help the weak."

Ryuzoji Takanobu's face was not ashamed, but instead seemed to be full of reverence. After a few words, it seemed that he had been completely convinced by the man in front of him. However, he didn't know that the smile on his lips slightly raised when he lowered his head, and secretly scolded Zhengheng for being a fool.

In the Warring States Period, he believed in righteousness and punishing evil and promoting good were just means. If someone believed it, he would be a real fool. Echizen Dragon always claimed that righteousness was the first, but never put down his butcher knife that was cut at the common people. What was Zhengheng's origin? He was ashamed of what he said just now. What's more, he attacked the master's Shao Er family and wanted to seize the Ryuzaoji Takashi from the country of Taichung.

Since everyone knows, people in the world know that righteousness is false first, but they often look forward to false things. Echizen Dragon can win the respect of the world. No matter how cruel and easy it is to kill him privately, on the surface he has achieved the point where he believes himself. For the weak, he likes hypocrites even more. The strong people in the world are always a minority, and the weak occupy an absolute majority. The righteousness is the first, and this is Zheng Heng’s current strategy. If you want to own the world, righteousness is an indispensable thing.

Of course, righteousness is just a strategy, Zhengheng will not even believe himself. He is not that stupid or does that. What he wants to do now is to make the world mess up, whether in Kinki or Kyushu. He will help whoever is weak. Punishing evil and promoting good is the principle of helping the weak and punishing the strong. In Zhengheng's eyes, evil people and good people can change each other. When the evil people are weak, they will naturally become good people.

He had just sent off Ryuzoji Takanobu, and the latest information from Kyushu was sent to Masaheng. After reading it, Masaheng murmured in a low voice: "Otoyoshi Town is worthy of being Otoyoshi Town. I know that once I pull myself away, I will interfere in Kitakyushu matters. I never thought that he would do it first."

...

On September 21, the first year of Yonglu, a crescent moon hangs high in the dark night sky, bleak and dull. The thick black clouds hide all the stars behind them. Even the curved moon night was blocked by the rapidly moving clouds from time to time. The entire earth was shrouded in the dark night, and it was impossible to tell where the road was and where the mountains were.

Otoyoshi-jin personally led 12,000 people to climb slowly in the Jizi Mountain area panting. In order to seize the necessary path Qingshan Castle before Ouchi Haruki, he climbed Jizi Mountain area overnight. The Japanese were eager to fight, and because of the meat ban order and two meals a day, they were thin and short, so their physical strength was naturally poor.

Otoyoshi Town did not care about insufficient endurance and tried his best to urge him to move forward.

He didn't expect that his younger brother Harue Young would be so difficult to deal with. He originally thought that the territory of the Ouchi family was not easy to capture because of the slander of Yoshitaka Ouchi, but he also married Usa Omiya's niece of Justice and Sunoshi's adopted daughter as his side room. He used three women to stabilize the situation.

Hundreds of cavalrymen held up torches and walked on both sides of the long crowd. From a distance, they looked like a slender fire dragon. Otoyoshi Town pointed to a place with sparkling lights in front and asked loudly: "Is Aoyama Castle ahead?"

The general Toji Kenlian of Otoyoshi Town narrowed his eyes and replied: "It's indeed Aoyama Castle, but there seems to be murderous intention in the city?" The murderous intention is too fantastic, but the look-again is written directly in the art of war, observing the changes in clouds to distinguish good and bad luck.

Yoshioka Nagato sneered, exposing Toji Kenlian's trick, and said, "Kiyi, there is no need to say that those who are murderous intent do not have murderous intentions. The Lord of Aoyama City, Sakada Takayuki has only 300 soldiers and more than ten generals. Now all the city walls are full of torches, probably no less than three thousand."

Toji Ken even didn't care about the trick being told, his face was quite serious, and said, "Zaemon, this Aoyama Castle is a dangerous city. Now there are three thousand defenders, so it is probably not easy to break. However, Sada Takayu is a reasonable person."

Toji Jian was ordered to go to talk about the Xiang several years ago. Although he did not ask Sada Takayu to open the city to surrender immediately, he had a great conversation with Sada Takayu. Now that the Oyo Army has arrived, it is very likely that under the oppression of the army, he will open the city gate and surrender.

Yoshioka Nagato was not as optimistic as Toji Kenlian, and whispered to remind: "Ouchi Haruki, one of the two-bedroom lateral rooms, is Sada Takayuki. I heard that Ouchi Haruki's son changed his name to Eizuna and adopted it as a relative."

Otoyoshi Town heard his right-hand talk and looked quite bad. He decided to walk the mountain road by arbitrarily. At that time, Yoshioka Nagato and Toji Kenlian expressed opposition, but now they have trapped the army into the dead. He did not consider the orientation of Aoyama Castle clearly.

Otoyoshi Town whispered: "Will we change to Kaichiro, which is more reliant on the east side?"

Yoshioka Nagato shook his head repeatedly and said, "If it's just a team of 100 people, the turn will be simple, don't forget that we have a team of 10,000 people. Even if we finally get through, it will have been calmly blocked by the internal family. I'm afraid it's not easy to win in a short time."

Otoyoshi Town never expected such an embarrassing situation. It was necessary to advance to fight against Aoyama Castle, which had been stationed in three thousand. Of course, it was impossible to retreat. He personally led tens of thousands of troops to come. When he encountered a strong city, he retreated. He asked, "What should we do now?"

Yoshioka Nagazuki replied firmly: "Fight to the death!"
Chapter completed!