In late August, when Masaru and Yoshitaka Ouchi were fighting each other in Kitakyushu, the Shimazu family in Mikushu was ushering in the harvest season.

After several years of continuous expansion, the thirteen counties in the Satsuma Country of Mikushu, including Takashiro, Satsuma, Enjima, Hirai, Ado, Kawai, Yingwa, Ishisu, Qishan 11 counties have been completely controlled by the Shimazu family. Now there are Kagoshima County and Isa County occupied by the Osumi Ganfu family. And the Kidayuan family and the Rikika family of Isa County are about to be defeated by the Shimazu family. Seeing that Shimazu generations have been striving to unify Satsuma, this goal of Shimazu Takahara is about to be achieved. Shimazu Takaha is now ambitious.

At this time, it was already evening, and the lights were on the palm of your hand, and dinner was also set up (Shimazu Takahiko learned from the detailed work of sneaking into the Luo family's territory that the Luo family's military power had three meals a day. After discussing with his retainers, Shimazu Takahiko's diet was conducive to increasing his own military power, so he also implemented the system of getting up early, lunch and dinner at Shimazu's family).

In order to celebrate the great victory that Shimazu family is about to achieve, the meal was very rich tonight, including fresh kaki fish, abalone, and the oil-sauce soup that Shimazu Takaraki liked. Shimazu Tadoryu, Shimazu Takahiko and his three generations of son Shimazu Yoshihiko and grandson, they drank some turbid wine together, talked about some topics about the current situation in Kyushu, and finished the meal happily. Shimazu Takahiko stood up first and prepared to go to the backyard to rest.

"Who? No one is allowed to do anything without notice!"

At this moment, I heard the guard who was serving as a guard in the yard shouting loudly, and then I immediately heard the other party's answer: "Mi Bingwei, there is something urgent to do. So I broke in. Please don't be surprised."

With Yabukie's voice, four figures appeared under the lights in the yard. When Shimazu Takaku walked out of the room, he saw two Shimazu soldiers who were in charge of guarding the 2nd gate, one with a messenger on the left and the other one came in. The messenger had a letter bag hanging around his neck, looking extremely tired, and he didn't even have the strength to walk.

Seeing this, Takahisa Shimazu rushed out. "Yibe, who is this person?"

"The soldiers guarding the gate reported that this man had just arrived at the first gate on a fast horse. He asked the guards of the city gate if they were guarding the adults' residence, and then he fainted." Mibingwei replied.

"Take that bag quickly, there must be something big."

"Yes." Yabee was about to take off the leather bag from the messenger's neck, but the other party muttered in pain again: "This... is really... guardian..."

"Don't think about it all. The guardian is standing in front of you."

"It's really..."

"Hold on. Can't your ears hear it?"

"Oh!" Yabui Masashi shouted in his ear.

"There is the water below... County... Zhongqian..."

"It was the messenger sent by Tadonica from the Immishimazu family." Dozu Takahisa said while taking the bag from Yaebei. Tadonica Shimazu is Shimazu Miku's younger brother. When Shimazu Takahira and his son defeated Shimazu Miku, they made Shimazu Tadonica, who was more inclined to Shimazu Takahisa, succeeded as the governor of the Immishimazu family.

"Strange! I sent someone to send an urgent letter so late. Is there something urgent?" Shimazu Tadaroya, who had already come to behind Shimazu Takahisa after hearing the sound in the yard, said.

Hearing his father Tadaroshi Shimazu, Takahisa Shimazu quickly opened the rope of the letter bag and asked to the messenger:

"When did you start from the Water City?"

"When did you start from the Shuishu City?"

Yabuiwei approached the messenger's ear and repeated Shimazu Takahisa's question.

"This morning..." the messenger replied with all his strength.

"He is extremely tired, hurry up and treat Mibingwei. Come with a candlestick!"

Before he could get the candlestick, Shimazu Takaku had already opened the letter impatiently. Hearing that the messenger had actually finished the journey that needed to take a day and a half, it was obviously a very urgent matter. Shimazu Takaku immediately had an ominous premonition.

"There is only one powerful man who needs to be wary of in the direction of the water city. Could it be?" Thinking of this, the letter in his hand was also opened, Shimazu Takahiro quickly looked down and his face turned pale after a moment. He held the letter and couldn't help but tighten his hand. The blue veins on his arms were erect, his eyes suddenly became fierce, and the expression on his face instantly became as terrifying as the legendary Yasha.

"What's the matter?"

"Is something happened?"

Shimazu Tadaroya and Shimazu Yoshihisa, who were standing aside, saw that Shimazu Takahisa's face suddenly became so ferocious, and they couldn't help but ask nervously.

"Send the order to ask the retainers to come to the city's convention hall immediately." Shimazu Takahisa handed the letter directly to his father Shimazu Tadaroya, and then ordered.

Soon, after receiving the notice of attending the assessment meeting, the retainers near Shimazu Home Furnishing City, Shimazu Tadaro, Ijiyuan Tadaru, Shinna Yuuku, Sado Tada General, Kawakami Tada, Hirata Somamasa and others all got up from the tatami mat at home, and then rushed to the Shimazu Family's convention hall in the moonlight. The family governor suddenly summoned them to discuss matters at night, and something major must have happened, so they did not dare to neglect them.

The letter from Tadonico Shimazu mainly told Shimazu Takahisa about the fact that the Ro family envoy Yoshioka Nagazu was rushing to the Shimazu family's residence. According to the speed of Yoshioka Nagazu and his group, they will arrive at Shimazu Takahisa's residence tomorrow.

Yoshioka Nagato also made his name directly when he was on a mission, which was to mediate the dispute between the two as a common allies of the North Satsuma forces such as the Shimazu family and the Ryaka family. Tadaki Shimazu also pointed out in his letter that during this period, the Luo family suddenly increased its garrison force in Miyako Castle, which bordered the Satsuma Navy Army, and was in a strong position to face a large army. He asked Shimazu Takaha to pay attention to defense.

So why did Yoshioka Changzeng take so long to go on the Shimazu family to mediate its conflicts with the North Satsuma forces such as the Ling Ka family? This was actually because Yoshioka Changzeng deliberately delayed it.

Although he signed a covenant with the North Satsuma forces such as the Ling Ka family a few months ago, the Luo family will not take any action in advance before the conditions for alliance (blocking the border of the Hakka Koma County of Fukumo; assisting the Roche family to deal with the Sura family and other forces in the Koma County; raising 20,000 stones of food as the cost of the Roche family mediation this time) was cashed out. Moreover, the Roche family also hopes to take advantage of this time to let the Shimazu family and the local forces in the North Satsuma have some good efforts.

After getting the alliance between the Luo family, these local wealthy families in North Satsuma will definitely struggle to death and bite the Shimazu family hard. In fact, this is true. In the past few months, the Shimazu family has suffered great resistance and suffered a lot of losses. Now, seeing that the local wealthy families in North Satsuma are really unable to hold on, Yoshioka Changzeng finally appeared.

"Om!" After learning about the purpose of the Luo family's envoy, the entire convention hall was in chaos. The irritable Zuo Duozhong called the first one: "Kill the envoy, sneak attack the Luo family's border, and fight with the Luo family."

"We will not accept mediation from the Luo family. Continue to attack Beisatsu and see what will happen to them?" Hirata Somasaki also said.

"This is equivalent to declaring war directly on the Luo family!" said Tadago Shimazu, "Everyone, with your opinion, will our current strength be a rival to the Luo family?"

Tadzu Shimazu's question immediately calmed down the hall. Before occupying the Fenghou Kingdom and the Shizumaki Kingdom, the Luo family was able to defeat the army of nearly 30,000 people of the Outo family alone. Can the Shizu family gather a large army of 30,000 people based on the current territory of the Shimazu family? What's more, the Luo family had occupied part of the Fenghou Kingdom and the Shizumaki Kingdom at this time, and its strength increased again. After comparing, everyone finally found that the Shimazu family was no match for the Luo family at all.

"How about deliberately avoid meeting directly with the envoys of the Luo family, and then take advantage of this time to speed up the progress of the strategy at any cost to get Kitasamo?" Kawakami Takashi suggested.

"This plan is feasible!" A retainer immediately agreed.

"It's inappropriate. This time, the envoy of the Luo family promoted the purpose of this trip with great fanfare, to warn the family not to avoid it, and the other party has also added defenders on the border, which is obviously to put pressure on the family." Takaro Yijiyuan reminded.

"Okay, everyone, calm down." This time it was Tadaro Shimazu. As the former governor of the family, Tadaro Shimazu had not appeared at the retainer evaluation meeting for a long time, but as the foundation for the Shimazu family's origin, he was still very respected by the retainers at this time even after he retired. As soon as he finished speaking, the retainers immediately calmed down.

"Everyone, we will call you here tonight, not to discuss whether to accept the mediation request of the Luo family." Shimazu Tadaroya said with a calm expression, "but to announcing that our family will accept the mediation decision of the Luo family."

"What?"

"Old master, no! This really loses our dignity!"

"Is this a sign that our family shows weakness to the Luo family?"

"Do I want me to bow to the lowly blooded sneak attack eagle?"

...

As Tadaroshi Shimazu said, the house immediately started to shout after learning about the decision of the family. It was obvious that they were not satisfied with such a decision.

Seeing that the peaches were about to ripen, they were suddenly told that they could not be picked. How can this tolerate the retainers who have worked hard for a while? Shimazu Tadaroya seemed to have known the consequences long ago, so after announcing the decision of his family, he sat there quietly, allowing the retainers to vent their dissatisfaction.

Tadaroya Shimazu and Takahisa Shimazu were of course extremely angry about the mediation of the Luo family. However, in the Warring States Period, the focus was on big fish eating small fish. The Shimazu family, which was far weaker than the Luo family, could only temporarily endure it. They endured it strongly until the day when the Shimazu family and the Luo family were on an equal footing day.

After the assessment meeting was held, Shimazu Takahiro, who had been sitting in the main seat, was already so angry that he had clenched his hands under his sleeves into fists. He had originally accepted the mediation resolution of the Luo family, but it was snatched away by his father. If he had announced it himself, it would seriously affect his prestige at home. But even if he had not announced it himself, his prestige would not have declined?

However, as a qualified governor, in addition to being angry, he should also consider the next policy of the Shimazu family after they were unable to continue to explore the northern region of Satsuma. Then he raised his head and looked at Osukiki on the other side of Jinjiang Bay to the east, and murmured to himself:

"Brother-in-law, it seems that I can only say sorry to you in advance."

At this time, Gan Fu Jiansu, who had just finished a banquet in Takayama Castle, the Liver City of Osumi Guo, did not know that he had been thinking about his elder brother-in-law Shimazu Takaha on the other side of Jinjiang Bay.

Compared with the Shimazu family's food, the Ganfu family's food is much worse. Even the banquet held by the family supervisor, the staple food is nothing more than rice, sea fish, dried radish, and wild vegetable soup. Although there is a crane bird that looks good in the local area, since the Ganfu family's family emblem is composed of two cranes as the theme, any food related to cranes must be avoided. Therefore, even if they have the courage to eat meat with two feet, they dare not catch those cranes to eat.

At this time, Ganfu Kensuke was about to take advantage of the Shimazu family's continuous coercion of Kitasatsu and Osumi borders, he planned to form an alliance with the Rikikari family in the northern part of Satsuma and the Kitahara family of Hyuga Makoto Inn, and then prepare to expand his territory extensively, dreaming of building the largest territory in the history of Ganfu family (he really did it in history).
Chapter completed!