Ashikaga Yoshito's appointment of Masara this time is naturally to win over the Luo family. For this reason, Ashikaga Yoshito also ordered someone to send a handwritten letter to Ichijo Moritaka. Let a Shenglong be handed over to Masahiro. The letter probably meant to invite Masashi to Kyoto to meet him.

Although there is no very obvious word against the Miyoshi family in the letter, from the words of the letter, Masahiro sees the strong ambition of this young general. Thinking about it, what happened to this young general in the past few years is indeed quite tragic.

In the seventeenth year of Tenmon (1548), his father, Ashikaga Yoshiharu, reconciled with Hosokawa Harumoto and returned to Kyoto. Hosokawa Harumoto also immediately recognized Ashikaga Yoshito's status as a general. However, fate did not allow Ashikaga Yoshito to live a stable life, and the following year because the old Miyoshi Sozo of the Hosokawa Harumoto family intended to plot to assassinate the Miyoshi Chokei who came to help, Miyoshi Chokei defected to the Hosokawa clan in a rage, and joined forces with Yusa Chokyo to attack Miyoshi Sosan, Hosokawa Harumoto led his army and the Hexagonal Army to save Sozo but was defeated by Miyoshi Chokei and his brother Shikawa Ichiku.

Ashikaga Yoshiharu, Ashikaga Yoshito, and Hosokawa Harumoto fled Kyoto together, and once again went to Omi Kunisakamoto, where the Shogun's family had taken refuge several times, and lived in Tonzaiji. In the 19th year of Astronomy (1550), Ashikaga Yoshiharu died of illness in Omi, and in order to save his family, Ashikaga Yoshito endured the grief in his heart and moved to Kuchigi under the shade of Rokkaku Jorai.

Last year, Hosokawa Harumoto, who wanted to regain his strength, led the army to fight another battle with Miyoshi Nagakei, but lost again, and finally had to accept the mediation of Rokkaku Dingyori, and at the beginning of this year, he cut his hair and fled to Wakasa as a monk, and was succeeded by the Hosokawa clan as the leader, and Ashikaga Yoshito returned to Kyoto to officially start the shogunate. But his actual power has fallen into the hands of Miyoshi Changqing. At this time, he was actually just a puppet of Matsunaga Hide, a retainer of Miyoshi Chokei.

And Ashikaga Yoshito, who is determined to restore the authority of the shogun, will naturally not be willing to be a puppet. So he began to devote himself to building good relations with powerful daimyo in various places. The most typical example is that Ashikaga Yoshito appointed Niko Haruma as Inaba, Hakugi, Bizen, Bichu, Bigo, Misaku, Izumo, and Hiki in February and June of this year, respectively. The intention of wooing the Nizi family is very obvious. Similarly, for Zhengliang's appointment, there is also a sense of wooing. After being appointed as the guardian of Chikuzen and Toyozen, plus the Hizen, Higo, and Chikugo guardians appointed by the shogunate to Masarashi, Masarashi is already the guardian of the Five Kingdoms recognized by the shogunate.

In fact, Masato would prefer to get the position of guardian of Bungo, after all, most of the Bungo Kingdom is already under the control of the Luo family, and if he gets the guardian position recognized by the shogunate in this area, it will be more conducive to the Luo family's management of the Bungo Kingdom. It is also conducive to the differentiation of the rest of the wealthy families in Bungo Province that are still in the hands of the Otomo family. It's a pity that it is estimated that Ashikaga Yoshito still remembers the help of the Otomo family to his father, and Otomo Yoshijin, who is the guardian of Bungo, has not died yet, so he is naturally not easy to start.

This time, in addition to sending back Ashikaga Yoshito's handwritten letter, the detective of the Luo family also escorted the daughter of Nakayumon Nobuhide back. Since the last time he went to the Luo family, he agreed on a marriage with Masahiro, due to the busy affairs and the fact that Hosokawa Harumoto and Miyoshi Chokei were fighting back and forth near Kyoto, the marriage with Nakayumon Nobuhide was temporarily delayed.

But Zhengliang is not in a hurry, but the Zhongyumen family is anxious. Especially in the past two years, after receiving several orders to sponsor the Luo family's official party stationed in Kyoto and Sakai Town, the Nakayumon family really felt the benefits of the Luo family, a wealthy man. So their family was afraid that this family affair with the Luo family would accidentally collapse. So this time, I simply took advantage of the stabilization of the situation in Kyoto. The daughter who was going to marry Masato was sent directly to the backyard of Masayo in the Daimyoju City of the Luo family, as for when Masato married this daughter. Zhongyumen Xuanxiu simply left it alone, anyway, my daughter will be sent to you, as long as the Luo family acknowledges this family business. Poor Masayo, as a groom, is sitting in Ogura Castle in Bunzen Province at this time, so he doesn't even know how old the bride is or what she looks like. Fortunately, the housewife Ju Ji was understanding, and soon explained the situation to Masahiro through letters, and let him feel at ease in government affairs, and she would arrange the future life of this new sister. However, Masahiro knew through Ju Ji's letter that this time he had taken in a thirteen-year-old little Lori, and it would take at least a few years to raise it before he could be included in the house.

In addition to sending his daughter to Masahiro's side, Zhongyumen Xuanxiu also knew that Lu Dao still had something to explain to Masaliang, so he also asked the Luo family's detective to forward a letter from his own hand to Masaliang. The letter mainly told Zhengliang about the progress of the matter of obtaining the royal companionship for the Luo family. It was going to be done, but because Miyoshi Changqing and his son were also interested in it, there were now variables. Although Ashikaga Yoshito, who is a puppet, also intends to give the family of the royal companion to the Luo family, he also has to consider the idea of the Miyoshi family. So it was put on hold for the time being. While apologizing to Masahiro in the letter, Nakayumon Nobuhide also said that he would continue to work hard to facilitate this matter.

After reading the letters of Ashikaga Yoshito and Nakagomon Nobuhide respectively, Masarashi immediately looked at the information collected by the Intelligence Pavilion in the Kyoto area from all over the country. Due to the backward means of communication and the distance between Kyoto and Kyushu, unless it is extremely important news to the Luo family, it is basically collected by the local detectives, and after sorting it out, it is sent back to the territory once every six months for Masarashi to see.

Among the retainers, such as Yamamoto Kansuke and Togo Heiji, they actually didn't understand why Masarashi cared so much about the situation in various parts of the Wa Kingdom, and in their opinion, it was enough to pay attention to the situation in the surrounding areas of the Luo family. But, again, they will be very happy. Therefore, it can be seen from Zhengliang's actions that his family governor's ambition is not small. As long as you follow this family governor, your family will definitely eat and drink spicy food.

Where will Zhengliang know what these retainers think below? Now he was perusing the situation in various parts of the country over the past few years.

In the Ezo region at the other end of the distant Wa Kingdom, the peace talks between the governor of the Oysaki family, Oysaki Yoshihiro, and the Ezo tribe ended, and the war between the two that lasted for more than 90 years finally ended.

Zooming in a little closer, head back to the Kanto region. Since their great victory over the Uesugi Allied Army in the Night Battle of Kawagoe, the Hojo family has continued to expand their power in Musashi and Sagami countries. In the last year, Hojo Shiyasu sent troops to attack the northern part of the Uesugi family and the territory of Ueno in the Yamauchi. At the beginning of this year, the fortress of Ontake Castle, the avant-garde stronghold of Hirai Castle, was captured, leading to the surrender of the castle lord Taihiro and Taitadashi father and son. And the retainers of the Yamauchi Uesugi family were greatly shaken by this, and many people had secretly paid the Hojo family. Soon after, Uesugi Kenmasa, the governor of the Uesugi family, was exiled by his retainers in Hirai Castle, and Uesugi Kenmasa had to run to take refuge with other powerful people, but was rejected by Yokose Narishi and Nagao Nagato of Ueno Province respectively, so he had to run to Echigo Province, and was later taken in by Nagao Keitora (later Uesugi Kenshin). The Yamauchi Uesugi family's rule over Ueno Province came to an end. And after obtaining Musashi Province, Hojo Shiyasu extended his hand to the Shimokuni region next to Musashi Province, forcing Furukawa Gongfang Ashikaga Haru clan to take the position of family governor and his youngest son Ashikaga Yoshiji (also Hojo Shiyasu's nephew), and the Furukawa Ashikaga family was actually controlled by the Hojo family. The Hojo family's aggressive expansion naturally aroused the vigilance of the powerful names in various parts of the Kanto region, and it was not long before the powerful people, mainly the Satomi family, would unite and have the famous Kofutai battle with the Hojo family.

In the Kai and Sunfu country regions, Takeda Shingen fought fiercely with Ogasawara in Komoro and other places in the Shinano region for a long time, and on the other hand, concluded an alliance with Imagawa Yoshimoto, whose daughter married Takeda Shingen's sister-in-law, Takeda Yoshinobu, as the main room. Kai Tiger, who had solved the worries of the east, was finally able to deal with the Murakami and Ogasawara families in the Shinano area with all their might. And in Echigo, the dragon of Echigo, Nagao Keitor, who gradually took control of the family's power, made peace talks with Nagao Masaki, the lord of Echigo Sakado Castle, in order to calm the family's internal troubles, and married his sister Sentoin to Nagao Masaki. After calming down the internal troubles, Nagao Keitora was finally able to look beyond Echigo Province, including the Shinano region adjacent to Echigo Province. The dragon and tiger battle in history is about to be staged.

On the Owari side of the country, Oda Nobuyo in Kiyoshu City, who inadvertently became the object of Oda Nobunaga's prestige in history, has been killed by Oda Nobunaga's father, Oda Shinhide, in advance, but another object used by Oda Nobunaga to establish prestige at home has appeared, that is, Sakai Daiji and Sakai Shisuke, who are connected to the Imagawa family. Due to the control of Cheongshu Castle earlier than in history, in fact, the strength of Oda Nobunaga at this time was stronger than in the historical period, not to mention that Oda Nobunaga pulled Sasa Narumasa, Kawajiri Hidetaka and others into his camp, so the "cup" Sakai Daisuke, Sakai Shisuke father and son were soon captured by Oda Nobunaga, and Sakai Daisuke, Sakai Shisuke and his son were also beheaded to show the public. Oda Nobunaga began to establish his prestige at home.

Of course, there is also the information of another person related to Oda Nobunaga, and Masarashi is unknown at this time, that is, the monkey Kinoshita Toyoshiro (that is, the future Toyotomi Hideyoshi). In order to find him, and to bring him to the end in advance, Masato spent a lot of manpower and material resources, but still found nothing, in fact, at this time, he had just started at the Yuanjiang Toutuo Temple City Lord Matsushita Nagaze.

In Kyoto, in the process of assisting the 13th Shogun Ashikaga Yoshito to negotiate peace with Miyoshi Nagakei, Rokkaku Tadaiyori, the governor of the Rokkaku family of Omi Province, who had always been friendly with the shogunate and the emperor, died at the beginning of this year, and Ashikaga Yoshito was thus deprived of a strong arm to counter the Miyoshi family. But Ashikaga Yoshito was not willing to be a puppet of the Miyoshi family, in addition to showing favor to powerful daimyos such as the Niko family and the Luo family, he even sent people to assassinate Miyoshi Chokei several times. One of the most famous assassinations was the assassination of Miyoshi Nagakei on the orders of Shogun Yoshito, and Miyoshi Chokei was injured as a result, and Shinshi Kenmitsu also committed suicide after being arrested, and did not say anything about the main messenger behind the scenes, Ashikaga Yoshito. (To be continued......)