In Shimazu Yoshihiro's heart, his second brother Shimazu Yoshihiro made great contributions to the Shimazu family. This article was first published. In order to avoid being threatened by the Luo family whose power had penetrated into the Nankaimaki area, and to concentrate the family's energy on dealing with the hostile tyrants in the Satsuma country, the second brother, who was only eight years old, was sent to the Luo family village Nakago (that is, Masaroju Castle, at this time).

Since then, for twelve years, he has never met his second brother Shimazu Yoshihiro again, and his father, his mother and others have only maintained contact with his second brother through letters. Although his father once scolded his second brother for being incompetent at home and being by the Luo family's supervisor, he could only report his safety to his family every time he wrote a letter, but he did not send some secrets of the Luo family, such as the many strange laws and techniques that Daming around him cares about.

Even though the second brother has never been able to take advantage of his opportunity to be with the Luo family as his father expected, he secretly sent useful information to the family, but just by staying at the side of the Kyushu Eagle Masaro, who has won time for development and brought temporary safety for the family, was enough to make the Shimazu family grateful to him. For so many years, Shimazu Yoshihisa has been looking forward to the day he meets the second brother again, and now he has finally waited for such an opportunity. As a result, he has waited for the ending of conflict with his father. It is really unpredictable.

Why did my second brother have this situation? As a brother of the Shimazu family, I have learned from my father's education since I was a child that if the Shimazu family wants to become the masters of Satsuma, Osumi and Hinata again, then the Shimazu people in the family must first learn to unite, especially their four brothers. They must twist into a rope. Now, more than ten years after leaving the Shimazu family, the second brother who had been following him had changed so much, and seemed to have become a retainer of the Luo family. This really surprised Shimazu Yoshihisa.

"Fatashiro Masara, how did you influence your brothers?" Shimazu Yoshihiro's second brother Shimazu Yoshihiro couldn't help but ponder.

In fact, it was not just Shimazu Yoshihiro who was influenced by Masayoshi. At least at this time, there were two other people in Kyoto who had changed their life trajectory due to the Luo family and the Luo family's governor.

In the quadrilateral yard of a private house in Kyoto, the viper Saito Dozo, who fled from Mino a month ago, was slowly putting away a letter at this time.

The letter papers of the letters are very exquisite. You can tell at a glance that they are unique to the Luo family. Because at this time, only this overlord-level daimyo could produce such exquisite papers in the entire country. Moreover, this paper is rarely spread outside the Luo family's territory. Therefore, this paper has become a treasure that many famous ministers love and treasure.

The owner of the letter was Saito Dao San's second daughter, Saito Guidie. From the beautiful fonts on the letter paper, Saito Dao San felt the deep concern of his daughter. Even the Viper Dao San, who has always been known for his ruthlessness and sinisterness, was moved to his eyes so moist.

"Ha. It seems that he is old!"

He gently wiped the edge of his eyes with his hand, and Saito Dozo said to himself mockingly. No wonder Saito Dozo felt so. After all, he was attacked by his legitimate son. In addition to losing everything he had managed in Mino Country for his whole life, he also lost two biological sons there. Then, he took a few families and slept in the open air under the protection of the few remaining retainers, sneaking from Mino Country to Kyoto with great difficulty. Along the way, he even experienced even greater hardships than when he gradually rose from a small oil merchant.

Fortunately, in Kyoto, his group was warmly entertained by the Luo family's retainer, Yoshitaka, and finally settled in this house. There were even some Luo family samurai nearby who were secretly protecting his family, but in Saito Dozo's view, this was also considered surveillance.

During this period, he also wrote several letters with his son-in-law Masayoro. During this process, news of the Luo family's battle on Itsukushima had reached Kyoto Nakatsu.

"I am really worthy of being my son-in-law of Saito Dao San!" Dao San, who learned of this news, praised him in front of his retainers. Of course, it was just a rumor from the people of Kyoto, so in previous letters, Dao San tested his mysterious son-in-law in a way of congratulating his son-in-law. What made Dao San praise the mysterious son-in-law again was that the other party did not answer his spy positively, but told him in the letter that he did not need to worry too much and live in Kyoto with peace of mind.

"Haha, what an interesting son-in-law!" Saito Daosan found that he suddenly fell in love with this kind of incident of fighting with his son-in-law in the letter. Moreover, in the letter, he found that the son-in-law seemed to have a tacit understanding with him, and did not mention whether he would go to the territory of the Luo family.

Yes, Dao San suffered a lot of hardships, and even needed the funding and relief of Masayori, his son-in-law, to settle down in Kyoto, but he had no intention of seeking Masayori's son-in-law for the time being. Of course, he also admitted that he did make a big mistake when he did not take Masayori's reminder to him seriously. But he would not regret it.

In his eyes, Masayoshi, the son-in-law, must not underestimate it. Everything this son-in-law does has its purpose. Otherwise, the son-in-law would not have sent people from Kyushu Himemaki to Mino in the central region of Japan to kidnap his pearl.

We must never underestimate all the actions of this son-in-law. Although, from a geographical point of view, the distance between the Mino and the Roh family is still far apart for the time being. However, many things cannot be avoided just by geographical distance. With Dao San’s own style, he naturally pushes these uncontrollable things as much as possible away from his side.

What's more, Dao San never likes to be passive. If he followed Zhengliang's advice, it would make Dao San feel a little led by Zhengliang's son-in-law, which made him feel a little resistant. It is precisely because of this that Dao San would not go to the territory of the Luo family to join the Luo family. Once he goes there, he will become a cage bird and even become a tool for the Luo family to seize Mino's country in the future.

"Have you thought too much? Haha. Don't underestimate this son-in-law's ambition!"

Saito Dao San said to himself. As for how he saw the ambition of Masayoro, the son-in-law? It was very simple. Look at the staff arrangements of the Luo family in Kyoto and the arrangements in Mino. If this son-in-law had no ambitions, with his daimyo, who was far away in the Kyushu area, would he do so many arrangements in such a distance from the territory? Dao San is even sure that the Luo family has arrangements in other places besides Kyoto and Mino, and there are some arrangements in other places he didn't know.

Such an ambitious son-in-law, as a Dojo who also has many ambitions, can you not be prepared for it? This is also the real reason why he was unwilling to completely believe Masayoshi, the son-in-law when he was in Mino. Is there no threat if there is a distance? This is actually difficult to determine. You must know that he Dojo has become the overlord of Mio from a person who has nothing. With such a powerful reputation as the Ro family, he can make a long distance of wind and rain in Mino and even seize Mio. In this regard, Dojo has to be careful.

Dao San has sufficient reasons for not going to the Luo family's territory to join Zhengliang's son-in-law, but the son-in-law deliberately did not invite him to the Luo family's territory to reunite with his daughter. In Dao San's opinion, Zhengliang's son-in-law was afraid.

Is this really the case? Of course not. In fact, Masara is too lazy to cause trouble. Once Saito Dosan, a guy known for his conspiracy and tricks, enters the Luo family, it is difficult to guarantee that he will cause any storm. Then he will have to spend some time dealing with these matters, which is really unnecessary. Moreover, Masara can see from several letters he had with his father-in-law that this father-in-law did not intend to defect to him, so he simply followed the flow and thanked this not-so-simple father-in-law outside the door.

Maybe in the eyes of others, Masaro seems to be too cautious. Even if Saito Daozo is a viper, after losing Mino Country, he is just a toothless viper and cannot cause too much trouble.

Is this the truth again? Then you are obviously disappointed. After the Kyoto area settled down, Saito Dozo immediately revealed his broken poisonous fangs. He asked several loyal subordinates who followed him to Kyoto to lurk back to Mino again, and then began to spread rumors everywhere in Mino.

So, what is the rumor? The general meaning is: I, Saito Daozo, is not dead yet, and I do not recognize the legitimacy of Saito Yoshiro's rule over his Mino Country. Finally, I strongly warned everyone in Mino Country, saying that he, Saito Daozo, will come back again. When he returns to Mino Country, it is the day when those traitors who betray him suffer.

This rumors were very cruel. First of all, the remarks that Saito Do not recognize the legitimacy of Saito Yoshinori's rule brought a lot of trouble to Saito Yoshinori, and he had to send additional defenders on various borders to avoid the surrounding forces from taking up the idea of ​​Mino. Moreover, the rumors that Saito Dosao was not dead also made some of his actions after the battle of Nagarakawa seem ridiculous, which affected his prestige among the rich families of Mino to a certain extent.

But this is not the most headache. What scares the people of Mino is the rumors that Saito Dozo is coming back to restore and revenge. You should know that Saito Dozo has ruled in Mino for a long time, and during this period, Saito Dozo left a deep sense of fear for these people. Now I suddenly find that a viper is staring at you in the dark, ready to bite you at any time. In this case, it would be strange if these wealthy families are not afraid.

What surprised Masara was that in this process, Saito Dozo did not avoid any reluctance to the Luo family samurai (in fact, these people were personnel from the Luo family intelligence cabinet) who were responsible for "protecting" him. It seemed that he deliberately told Masara behind these people that he did not need to avoid his son-in-law and had no secrets hidden. Of course, Masara would never believe this. Masara did not regard him as a simple father-in-law, as a viper.

Sure enough, Saito Dozo's real purpose soon came out. After letting Masara clearly understand the plan for Mino Country, he indeed expressed his hope that the Luo family could provide some support such as intelligence and even coins in the process.

In order to also hope that the local area of ​​Mino is in chaos, and the Ro family can also take the opportunity to deepen the infiltration of the Mino region through these means by Saito Dozo, Masara naturally agreed directly to Saito Dozo.

But this also alerted Masara. Obviously, Saito Daozo knew that the Luo family had arranged a lot of eyeliners in Mino Country. Now Saito Daozo also realized the power of the Luo family's eyeliners and began to pay attention to it. This is not a good thing. No one knows that Saito Daozo could return to Mino Country in the future, but once he returns, he may immediately attack these eyeliners in the Luo family. Mino Country, Ohachiko and other places are important historical events in the future. The Luo family took more than ten years to arrange and a large amount of manpower and material resources to establish an intelligence system in the local area, in order to more thoroughly monitor all the trends in these areas. The intelligence system that was finally established, Masara did not want to be destroyed by the Daozo, which affected some of the future plans of the Luo family.

Therefore, in Masarara's view, Saito Dozo's request this time was obviously aimed at spying on the details of the Luo family's local intelligence system. So Masara immediately ordered that the intelligence personnel of the Luo family would never allow contact with Saito Dozo's personnel. The Luo family would only provide relevant information to Saito Dozo through personnel who were already familiar with Daozo in Kyoto. As for whether these information would be deviated due to the delay of time, which would affect Saito Dozo's strategy, it was not considered by the Luo family. After all, the Luo family was able to provide intelligence to the Luo family.
Chapter completed!