The New Year is coming soon, and this year's New Year also ushered in a heavy snowfall, and the entire Kuroda Castle was covered in heavy snow, and the white expanse was also very spectacular. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 ｉｎｆｏ

The Kuroda family dispatched hundreds of people to clear the road between Honmaru and the castle town, because this time the number of retainers, wealthy clans, and lords of the Kuroda family who were eligible to attend the New Year's assessment reached as many as 800, so a large open space outside the Honmaru castle tower was cleared, and charcoal fires, cotton clothes and other items were prepared in advance for the people waiting outside.

Since the rise of the Kuroda family, almost every evaluation has been a grand event, and almost all the retainers have been able to get rewards that match their own. Even those who do not have any merit at all during the year are rewarded with a portion of the money.

For the current Kuroda family, rewarding money and grain is the best choice, because of the Kuroda family's strong internal affairs and triangular trade, the treasury is full of money and grain, and it is not a matter of rewarding a part of it.

As usual, the Kuroda family removed all the wooden planks on all three sides of the Ohiroma on the first floor of the castle tower, so that the samurai sitting outside could clearly hear and see everything that was happening in the Ohiroma.

However, even so, the Kuroda family could only let the elders, the foreign ministers, the high-ranking ministers, and the main high-ranking samurai sit in the main hall, and the number of people was only about seventy.

There were about two hundred of them, including the heads and lords of the wealthy clans and the clansmen, as well as the high-ranking samurai of the Kuroda family, who were able to kneel in the corridor or in the open space outside the Great Hiroma, according to their positions.

The rest accounted for the majority, and the low-level retainers of five hundred people, the small wealthy clans, and the lords of the countrymen could only wait for the summons of the main hall in a few reception places in Ninomaru, of course, there would be a group of people who were about to enter, and they would be taken outside the main gate in advance to wait, so as not to wait for the main hall for a long time.

The important ministers in the main hall of the Kuroda family are holding their own identities and not communicating with each other, they are all big people who control tens of thousands of stone territories, and they are also the number one people in the world, and then they are twittering like before, it is indeed a little inappropriate, and they themselves know this very well.

Kneeling in the hallway, or in the open space outside the Great Hiroma, the lords and lords of the countrymen's forces, and the high-ranking samurai of the Kuroda family, no matter what the reason, maybe it was some nervousness, worried about the reward they might receive, or a little nervous about participating in such a large-scale evaluation for the first time, feeling the solemnity in the Great Hiroma, or some other reason, they seemed very quiet anyway.

Occasionally, there will be people who happen to sit together and have more familiar people, and maybe they will say a word or two. But after a short greeting, he seemed to keep his mouth shut as if tacitly, because everyone now has their own thoughts. The greetings just now were really just pleasantries.

Among them, the two of them, Kugiya Shubing and Irita Qinli, who were sitting together, had been talking in a whisper. Both of them were members of the Musato Kobei Legion before, but Kugiya Shubei was a retainer of the Musato Kobei, and Irita was a roster of the Kuroda family.

When the two were in their mother's house, because they were born on the same day and month in the same year, and the two of them had similar abilities in all aspects and even hobbies, the two became very good friends. If there are two characters like this in the game of shame, then you can even just change the avatar and directly use the same data.

"Irita, I heard that we are going to attack Kyushu this time, right?" Kugiya asked in a low voice.

"Yes, the young lord has already talked to Lord Matsui about this, and a few of us from Kyushu have also gone to Nagato Province, and will serve as the vanguard of the Kyushu expedition in the future."

"I see, that's great, so you have a chance to get revenge."

"Yes! After so many years, it's finally time to wait for the opportunity. ”

Irita and Irita are both the sons of Irita Kanmi (always Tian Kanshi), and because of their father's death, they fled to the Kuroda family, so they are also very excited to be able to return to Kyushu.

"It's just that Iritian, I have one thing I want to remind you of," Kugiya said.

"Xiubing, just say it!"

"When you go to Kyushu, you can't be hot-headed!" Kugiya said with some concern.

"What do you mean?"

"Irita, I don't mean anything else, you can go back to Kyushu to fight, and I'm happy for you, but when the time comes, you have to be more careful! Because after you return to Kyushu, I am afraid that when you face the enemy, you will be desperate to advance, so it is easy to encounter danger, because it is said that the military advisor of the Otomo family, Kakukuma Ishimu, is a figure who is no less wise than the young master. ”

"What? You said that the Kakuma Stone Sect is a figure whose wisdom is no less than that of the young master, isn't that ......?"

"Hey! So I hope you can calm down a little bit at that time, don't overturn in the gutter at that time, with the ability of the young master, you will definitely be able to defeat the Otomo family and other enemies in the end, which means that our Kuroda family will definitely get the whole of Kyushu in the end, so you can't be impulsive at this time. You and you have been waiting for so long, so don't be in a hurry. Kugiya said.

"You're right, I'll pay attention when the time comes, and the wisdom is no less than that of the young master, isn't it......" Irita said with a frown.

"We won't talk about this, did you participate in this big battle?" Kugiya Shubing saw that Irita was thinking, so he interrupted and asked him.

"I didn't get any chance in this big battle, but since I have been transferred to Nagato Country, I should have a chance in the future!"

"This time, I went out to Tango Province with Lord Musato Takatomo, but I killed two samurai in the place, and I don't know how many seals I can get (given by the Muri family, his reward has nothing to do with the Kuroda family)."

"Good luck." Irita said with a smile.

"The same goes for you." Kugiya Shubing also said with a smile.

"The lord has arrived," the little surnamed Taibei shouted, and immediately everyone fell silent.

Kuroda and Kuroda walked into the evaluation room one after another, Kuroda sat in the main seat, while Kuroda was still sitting at the bottom of the steps, in the first position on the left-hand side, facing the retainers.

"Ladies and gentlemen."

"Hey," shouted everyone below in unison.