A knife in love

Chapter 3537

Li Qiufeng listened to Songshan Yilu's narration of the past, and vaguely guessed Songshan Yilu's origin, and wondered why this old guy could speak Chinese so fluently, so he was really Han.It's just that this person's words are clouded, and he doesn't know which words are true and which words are false.I have to deal with him carefully, so as not to be deceived by him and make a big mistake.

When Li Qiufeng was thinking about it, he only heard Songshan Yilu go on to say: "After the Songtian family left the deep mountains, in order to avoid being hunted down by the Fusang government, they retreated to a large island in the extreme north of the Fusang country, relying on fishing and hunting for their livelihood. The patriarch of the Songtian family learned from the painful experience, thinking that the Songtian family was weak and could not stand up to the Fusang court and the government at all. If they wanted to take revenge and overthrow the Fusang royal family, they would have to pretend to be obedient to the Fusang court. So that the government will no longer besiege the Matsuda family. In this way, the Matsuda family can escape the catastrophe, expand their power secretly, and finally fight the government. The patriarch of the Matsuda family made a big plan, and first sent people to bring gold, silver and jewels to bribe Fusang The high officials of the national court made them no longer regard the Matsuda family as rebellious, and tried to buy off the government officials who governed the big island where the Matsuda family was located, asking them to turn a blind eye and not send people to harass the Matsuda family. Since then, the Songtian family has reclaimed fields and built villages on the big island. In more than ten years, the population has multiplied several times, and they no longer worry about food and clothing. The head of the Songtian family personally came to the secluded place of the Songshan family and begged the Songshan family to send people down the mountain Went to Dashima to teach the children of the Matsuda family how to read and write and how to deploy troops. At that time, the two clan heads had a deep friendship, so the head of the Matsuyama family naturally would not refuse the friend’s request, so he chose a well-educated member of the family to go to Dashima , He taught the children of the Matsuda family the classics of Confucianism and Legalism and the art of war of arranging troops and marching and fighting.

"In the next few decades, the Songtian family endured hardships and endured humiliation, and their power continued to expand, gradually controlling the entire big island. Because the Songtian family spent countless gold, silver and jewels to bribe the big shots and government officials of the Fusang Kingdom, these people won The good thing is that they will not be in trouble with the Songtian family, so seeing the growing power of the Songtian family, the government simply ignored it. Later, the Songtian family bribed several bigwigs who were in charge of the court power of the Fusang country, and let them deal with the king of the Fusang country. Let the Matsuda family get the title of daimyo. In this way, the Matsuda family, who originally just lived in the deep mountains with no clothes, no food, and even no surname, finally got rid of their humble status and transformed into the nobles of Fusang Kingdom .

"After the Matsuda family became aristocrats, they no longer held back as they used to. They continued to encroach on the daimyo's territory in the vicinity, tempting and coercing people under other daimyo's rule to join the Matsuda family. As a result, many daimyos were dissatisfied with the Matsuda family. While writing a letter to the imperial court, accusing the Matsuda family of plotting wrongdoing, they persuaded other daimyos to join forces to besiege the Matsuda family. Naturally, the Matsuda family would not ignore the siege of these daimyos, and at the same time sent people to the capital of Fusang Kingdom with a lot of money to bribe the court's bigwigs into Matsuda Talking with the family, while training soldiers and horses, they sent people to the territories of the nearby daimyos to inquire about news, spread rumors and cause trouble, in an attempt to break up the covenant of the daimyos.

"The money of the Songtian family is not in vain. The big bosses of the court took the benefits of the Songtian family and said a lot of good things about the Songtian family in front of the king of Fusang, so the court ignored the accusations against the Songtian family by those big names. The Songtian family knew this. After hearing the news, he breathed a sigh of relief and could concentrate on dealing with the coalition forces of the various daimyos. At that time, after decades of recuperation, the population of the people under the Matsuda family's rule had reached 6 to 5, and there were no less than [-] soldiers ready to fight. Moreover, the Matsuda family lived in the extreme north of the Fusang Kingdom, with fierce soldiers and many horses. The soldiers and horses of other daimyos could not stand up to the Matsuda family. Losing soldiers and generals, they were in a state of disarray, and the Matsuda family took away a lot of land under their rule. Originally, the Matsuda family's territory was only in a corner of Oshima. Going south across the strait, they seized more than ten cities south of Dadao, not to mention boosting the military power, and the population increased by another [-] to [-] people."

Li Qiufeng heard Songshan Yilu say this, and said in a deep voice: "Songtian's family concealed the truth, secretly accumulated soldiers, horses, food and grass, was able to defeat the coalition forces of daimyo, and continued to attack cities and territories. I guess it was all the old master's ancestors who made suggestions?"

Songshan Yilu pondered for a moment, and said in his mouth: "Although the ancestors of the Songtian family were natives, they were quite knowledgeable. Afterwards, they made great efforts to govern the clan, and many great people came out of the clan. The previous patriarchs were even more shrewd and capable, leading the clan to rise from the poor mountains. Between them, it is really God's will, beyond human power. Although my Songshan family has assisted in it and advised the Songtian family, in the final analysis, the Songtian family's ability to dominate the Fusang country is due to the unity of the whole family, and the Songshan family is only contributing to the flames."

Songshan Yilu said this, took a look at Li Qiufeng, and then continued: "When the Songtian family attacked the city in the northern part of Fusang Kingdom and expanded their power, the party struggle in the court of Fusang Kingdom became more and more fierce. The big brothers are constantly attacking each other. The party confronts political enemies. In fact, these bigwigs are very wise and scheming, and they will never fail to see the ambitious intentions of the Matsuda family. It’s just that they don’t care about suppressing the Matsuda family in order to monopolize power and defeat political opponents. In this way, the Matsuda family does not have to be wary of the Fusang court being unfavorable to them, and can wholeheartedly deal with those daimyos who are against the Matsuda family. In decades of wars and small battles, the Matsuda family marched eastward Going to the west, the daimyos were beaten into a mess, and finally became the most powerful daimyo in the Fusang country.

"At that time, the court of Fusang Kingdom was controlled by powerful ministers, and the king and royal family became the puppets of powerful ministers. Only then did the powerful ministers free their hands to deal with the Songtian family. But the Songtian family already had tens of thousands of elite soldiers, controlled a large area of ​​land and a large population, and had already Naruo is in danger. Although the ministers of power gathered many daimyos to deal with the Matsuda family, they could only barely block the momentum of the Matsuda family going south, but they could not defeat the Matsuda family. In this way, the king of the Fusang Kingdom, who had been reduced to a puppet of the ministers of power, took control of the Matsuda family The powerful ministers of the imperial court, the famous and aggressive Matsuda family from all over the country have become the four largest forces in Fusang. They fight for power and profit. Wei Wei, even in the palace, he is monitored by the powerful ministers' eyeliner, and he has no power at all. If the powerful ministers still use the name of King Fusang to suppress the Matsuda family and other famous names, I am afraid that King Fusang would have been abolished long ago Although the power ministers control the government of Fusang Kingdom, they don't have many soldiers and horses, and their power is only near the capital, so they can't compete with the Matsuda family and other daimyos. The difficulty is that the two sides are evenly matched and fearful of each other. They used the Fusang royal family and powerful officials as shields, so they did not break through the capital and wipe out the Fusang royal family and powerful officials. Right now, these four forces are entangled with each other. The war is imminent.”

(End of this chapter)