Regarding the war against Iki, Masaru finally suspended the plan. However, he was already secretly preparing for the battle.

The Internal Affairs Office has been preparing relevant materials for the expedition, and the Navy has also received relevant orders for preparation. For Iki, Masayoshi no longer needs to hide his intentions. After all, in terms of strength, the Luo family can completely crush the Homodo family in Iki.

In addition, the anti-espionage strategy established by the maids around Ling before can also be implemented, and the specific operation will be left to the Intelligence Bureau. I believe that the Bodu family will be shocked by then.

Of course, the Luo family still had to find a way to soothe the looting incident. So the old man from the Luo family, Togo Heiji, personally convened a meeting of many merchants, including the victim Nawu, this time. During the meeting, Togo Heiji clearly told everyone that he would strengthen patrols on coastal commercial roads, and also issued some new small preferential measures, and in addition, the merchants were allowed to go to the other side of Hirado Island when transporting food in the future (it was just because the journey on the sea was too far, to save costs, these merchants might not be willing to go here). Finally, the merchants were safe.

Then the Luo family navy did fulfill its promise and greatly strengthened the patrol density on the front coast of Zhuqian. The abnormal behavior of the Luo family made the Zong Xiang family nervous for a while, and even asked for help from the Da Nei family. After receiving the request for help, the Da Nei family immediately sent an envoy to protest to the Luo family. Masayoshi was too lazy to receive the other party's envoy, so he directly asked someone to tell the Da Nei family's envoy to explain clearly the last time the Da Nei family's sneak attack on the Kuroshian country, and then expelled the Da Nei family's envoy from the country.

The Luo family's tough attitude suddenly made the Zong Xiang family and the Da Nei family nervous. The two families had to bite the bullet and strengthen the number of defenders at the junction of the Zhuqian area and the Luo family.

At this time, the relationship between the Luo family and the Da Nei family was indeed very strange. Both sides had broken up and occasionally had conflicts, but they still tried their best to maintain mutual restraint and started fighting diplomatically. It was like two people fighting, pushing each other and rushing each other, but they didn't fight, but they started to scold each other. Of course, the result was mainly determined by the situation in their respective families. The Luo family needed to rest, and the Da Nei family also needed to rest. So no one was willing to fight first, and then let the other people onlookers get the advantage.

Like the situation of Ototo Yoshiki's opinion, Ouchi Yoshitaka realized that the threat of the Luo family was getting greater and greater, so he resolutely tore up the covenant and jointly suppressed the Luo family. Now seeing that the suppression was too much, he had to prepare to use the method of slowly consuming confrontation to deal with the Luo family. However, what Ouchi Yoshitaka didn't know was that the internal affairs system of the Luo family was different from the internal affairs management system of the Chinese people in all other Japanese daimyo families. At the same time, the speed of the internal affairs of the Luo family recovered, the efficiency of the centralized utilization of resources, and other aspects were ahead of them. Unlike them, most of them were the Chinese people. Moreover, most countries were not close to the management system of the Chinese people, and the retainers and families were in their own territory, which led to the dispersion of resources and the inability to use them in a concentrated and effective manner. Therefore, the longer the time was spent, the stronger the Luo family was.

While dealing with the looting of merchant ships, Masayoro was also paying attention to the assassination in the castle town. The assassin had already woken up, and the Intelligence Pavilion was also interrogating him. It was estimated that he would get the information that Masayoro needed soon.

In addition, Masayoro took advantage of this period to strengthen the guarding power of Xuefu Castle and the Castle Town.

At present, the regular garrisons in Xuefu City are 400 soldiers, 100 cloaks, 200 iron cannon teams, 50 black eagles, 100 cavalry standing teams, and 500 temporary recruitment of peasants in the city. Due to work relations, all the troops stationed in Xuefu City have 250 reconnaissance personnel and 100 commanders. With the three big tubes that passed the test this year in the Datong Workshop were placed on the forts in the city, the guards in Xuefu City were also considered stable.

As for the castle town of Xuefu Castle, the population of the town had increased to more than 20,000 at this time, it was impossible to maintain the security team of the town by relying solely on a 500-man security team composed of retired soldiers. So Masayoshi ordered the number of the security team to be increased to 1,000. The specific recruitment work was handed over to the Internal Affairs and Intelligence Pavilion. As for the arrangements of the generals in the security team, the Military Affairs and Intelligence Pavilion jointly agreed, and finally Masayoshi decided.

At the same time, Masayoshi also ordered the Inner Political Department to immediately carry out a comprehensive population investigation of the Castle Town. Since the Luo family implemented the method of linking wooden signs (equivalent to ID cards) with the local population account registration information, after such investigation, some other forces hiding in the Castle Town Town will inevitably be investigated.

Just as Masayoshi settled the follow-up measures for his attack and the looting of merchant ships, something big happened to the Suiliang family in Nanfeihou Qiumo County.

It turned out that Lai Xing, the Uenumura family, was critically ill. On this day, all the wealthy families in Dongqiumo County were invited to come to the Sakura family's pot city. Lai Xing's life was actually similar to Muri Yuan. He continued to use conspiracies to suppress the retainers who opposed him at home, and divided some territories into the names of his second son and the last son. At the same time, he undermined the power of the family governor, Yoshizuki, and used the legitimate son as the adopted son of Yoshizuki, and finally obtained the position of the family governor through his legitimate son, Haruhiro. In addition, he was also a talent who was kind to the people and was good at civil affairs. At this time, some areas in Nanfeihou, even though they had been ruled by the Luo family for several years, some local governors would still mention some of the benevolent policies implemented by the Sakura family from time to time.

If the Luo family had not emerged, then according to historical development, Sae Liang Haruhiro would successfully inherit the position of family governor. With his assistance, he not only opened trade with the Ming Dynasty, but also followed the laws and regulations of the previous Daming Dynasty, and further formulated the last twenty-one articles of the laws of the Sae Liang family, and finally made the Sae Liang family a powerful man of the Warring States Period.

However, after meeting the Luo family, all this disappeared. Not only did they lose most of the territory of Nanfeihou, they had to hide in the remaining half of the Koma County for a long time. Sudden changes, and the hard work to resist the continuous invasion of the Luo family in the west for a period of time. As the real pillar of the family but the old Lai Xing of Uemura finally fell ill. Not long ago, after learning about the abandonment of the allies of the Luji family, Kitahara family and other families, their condition worsened again, and it is now time to die. The rich families who received the news rushed to the Kuramura where Lai Xing of Uemura was.

On this day, in front of the ward of Lai Xing in Shangcun, the lord of Shangcun, Lai Xiao of Shangcun, Lai Jian of Fengfu lord, Lai Jian of Shangcun, and Okamoto lord, Naoru Nagazang and others, who rushed to the door, heard the news, rushed to the scene, Lai Xiao of Shangcun, who were all kneeling quietly under the two flowers of Chinese toon trees in front of the door, waiting for Lai Xing to meet.

"Wow!" At this moment, a sound of vomiting came from inside.

"Come on, come and find a doctor, and the adults are vomiting blood again." Then an anxious shout of a maid rang out in the room. Suddenly, Aoray Haruhiro and others who were standing outside the door were also in a state of confusion.

Lai Xiao, Lai Jian, Lai Jian, and Lai Liu Changzang, who were sitting under the Chinese toon tree, also secretly exchanged glances when they were pretending to be concerned. For a long time, Lai Xing of Shangmura has been a mountain above the heads of everyone in their family, which made them dare not act rashly at all. Even Lai Xiao, who is Lai Xing of Shangmura, Lai Jian of Shangmura, has acted in a normal manner. Now that they see Lai Xing of Shangmura is not good enough, their deep ambitions have finally been revealed.

When they came out, they had already discussed it. As soon as Lai Xing of Umura died, they advocated dividing the rights and territories of the family. As for his brother, Ao Ryohiro, who was a little sick, he would save his life. He would let him serve as the governor of the Puppet Family. If he didn't recognize him, he would have to kill him just like his father Lai Xing of Umura treated several uncles. Then he supported Nao Ryohiro's five-year-old son Wanmanmaru (i.e., Ao Ryo Yoshiyo) to become the governor of the Puppet Family.

Just as Lai Xiao of Umura, Lai Jian of Umura, Nagazo Nagazo and others were flirting with each other, they did not realize that their entourage outside the yard had been invited to other places in the name of being prepared to explain the last words of death. Of course, under the power of Lai Xing of Umura for a long time, they did not realize that this visit was actually a poisonous plan made by Lai Xing of Umura. This poisonous plan was not even spared by his second son and his son.

In fact, in history, Lai Takashi Uemura, Lai Ken Uemura, and Nagazo Inuru were just rebellious. At that time, Lai Xing Uemura had just died of illness, so they joined forces to bully Aoray Yoshiyo's young, trying to imitate the three families' move to divide Jin and plan the Ball Mine, the Eighth Dynasties and the Aokigai county, and even led the Kitahara clan and Satsuma Rikika clan of Hyuga Matsuyuen to encroach on the family territory. As a result, Aoray Yoshiyo used his skills to deal with it.

Now Yoshiyo Yoshiyo is just a five-year-old child, so he naturally cannot deal with Lai Xiao of Umura, Lai Jian, and Nao Liu Changzang, but they met Lai Xing, who has not yet died. In history, it was precisely because of Lai Xing's suppression of Lai Xing of Umura, Lai Jian, and Nao Liu Changzang, who have been suppressed for a long time. Until his mind matures, he knows how to hide his ambitions, and then waits for Lai Xing of Umura to attack after he dies. But now the strength of the Aoliang family is not as good as before, Lai Xing of Umura is seriously ill again, and the young three people can't help but start making small moves below. But they don't know that it is precisely because the family is not as strong as before that Lai Xing of Umura has strengthened his surveillance of his retainers, so he has long discovered the evil of these three people. Now, before his death, he decided to solve the problems for his legitimate son and grandson.

"Dong, dong, dong..." Just as everyone outside the ward was thinking differently, the room suddenly became quiet, and the sound of a hard object hitting the floor was heard.

Immediately afterwards, the wooden pavilion in the ward was pushed open, and the pale body of Umura Lai Xing was revealed from the entrance of the room. At this time, he was struggling with a cane with one hand, while the two hands were supported by a maid. Suddenly, seeing Umura Lai Xing who was about to die, the people in the yard were stunned and forgot to even keep the ceremony.

"Why... cough cough... are you very disappointed when you see that I... aren't dead?" Lai Xing of Uemura was already in a state of irritation. Everyone reacted immediately after Lai Xing of Uemura and bowed one after another.

"Everyone, I think my family once dominated Nanfei, but I didn't expect that I have fallen to this point now!" After slowly sitting down on the cushion prepared by my legitimate son Aoray Haruhiro, Lai Xing, Uemura, suddenly sighed.

After hearing this, the people below couldn't help looking at each other. They really couldn't figure it out. Lai Xing, who had already sent a message to explain his last words, not only sat in front of them alive (although it seemed that he was seriously ill, but at least he was still far from death), but even suddenly sighed, what does this mean? Some people who were active seemed to smell an unusual smell.

"I'm afraid... you already... know." Rai Xing Uemura said as he glanced at the people in the yard. "The wealthy families in the west and south have turned against us and turned to the Luo family. Only the Ito family and the Mirai family in the east have not moved. How do you think about this? Cough cough..." After saying this in one breath, Rai Xing Uemura suddenly felt that he was almost breathing.

After Lai Xing of Uemura asked, no one in the yard dared to answer. They naturally knew about the betrayal of the Rikika family in the Satsuma area and the Kitahara family in the Osumi area, but no one was willing to say the true thoughts in his heart, and he said so much that he would just keep silent.

"Haha...haha...cough cough..." Lai Xing Umura couldn't help laughing when he saw everyone lowering his head and not willing to answer. For a moment, only Lai Xing Umura was left with intermittent laughter in the yard.

"It's ridiculous! It's really ridiculous! Could it be...ahem...no one is willing to speak?" Rai Xing Uemura's pale face looked a little rosy at this time, "But why do you do so many things that you shouldn't do in your respective territories?"

Suddenly hearing what Lai Xing said at Uemura, the people below immediately became turbulent, and some people with ghosts in their hearts were even trembling. However, there were people with very good psychological qualities. After the face of Lai Xing's second son, Lai Xiao of Uemura, changed slightly, he immediately changed into an angry expression, and immediately shouted injustice:

"My father, this must be a slander, and we are absolutely nothing different."

"Whether the slander is revealed sooner or later, you will stay in Guocheng from today. Of course, someone will come to help you with your territory." After Lai Xing, Uemura, breathing was much smoother and he didn't breathe when he spoke.

"Ah!" At this time, everyone in the yard knew that this time, Lai Xing, Umura, deliberately pretended to die to deceive them here to come under house arrest. So the crowd immediately became in love.

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