The new year just passed, and the remaining officials and wealthy families in the territory had just been sent away. Maori Yuan, who was in his fifties, began to bury himself in heavy government affairs again.

When he was 21 years old, he led his retainers to repel the invading attacks of An Yi who guarded the Takeda family with a weak formation. From then on, he continued to accumulate experience in war and became a giant of the martial family. With his outstanding political ability, he allowed the people to live a wealthy life; he had sharp eyes, insight into interests, and had a far-reaching attack; relying on powerful force and intelligent strategies, he seized every opportunity to expand his territory. After decades of hard work, the Maori family has become the most powerful family in An Yi country, and even the power has penetrated into the sphere of influence of the Nizi family in the north. Now, he has used the power of the Damen to extend his power into the east, the Damen to the Zhong and the United States to assist the Damen to fight with the local Nizi family forces.

At this time, Yuan was sitting quietly in the bedroom of Tianshan City, Jijun, half-opening his eyes and looking at the fresh and tender green wood on Baimu Mountain in the distance. He looked without thoughts. After more than 50 years of military career, his life was as heavy as a mountain. He was thinking deeply.

Several retainers came to the door and saw Yuan meditating and immediately left quietly again.

The voice of the shriek continued to break the calm of the yard of the Chunghyu Courtyard. The third person to come to the bedroom was Muri Takamoto, the legitimate son of Muri Takamoto. Muri Takamoto seemed very anxious.

"Is it Taro?" After a while, Yuan finally spoke, "Taro, why are you panic?" The legitimate son Takamoto Kokan of Maori was gentle, deeply recognized by his retainers, and had unparalleled leadership skills, which was enough to rule the future Maori family. Therefore, in Yuanzui's heart, the legitimate son was the best candidate for the family governor. However, the legitimate son, who had always been unscathed, seemed a little panicked today, which surprised him a little.

"My father is not good, Jiro was attacked in the castle town." Maori Takamoto immediately reported the report with a little choking voice.

"How is the situation?" Although he suddenly heard that his second son, Yoshikawa Motoharu, was attacked, Mori Moto tried his best to maintain a calm state. He opened his eyes and asked in a low voice.

"I have been rescued and am now receiving treatment in Xiyuan. It's just..."

"What's the matter?" Hearing the legitimate son's tone, Mori Moto's heart couldn't help but jump and asked quickly. The safety of the second son was related to his next plan, and his son's safety. If you are unfortunate at this time... Thinking of this, Mori Moto, who had already tried to calm down, became nervous.

"After the doctor saw it, he initially diagnosed Jiro's left hand that he could not be saved."

"That's life saved." After hearing Takamoto Mori's answer, Morimoto couldn't help feeling relieved. Although he was sad about his second son being hurt, he still asked:

"Why don't you send someone to report such an important matter early? Has the attacker caught it?"

"My father, I am in a hurry to take power. At that time, the minister was eager to treat Jiro and sent someone to pursue the attacker. The minister had to send his retainers to report. However, after the retainers came back to report that his father was thinking, the minister quickly came to report. As for the attacker, the person was still pursuing him."

"How many people came to attack Jiro, who actually attacked the people of the family in the castle town. Are those patrol soldiers all waste?" It is indeed a shameful thing to be attacked on our own personnel in the heart of the Maori family's nest.

"My father. According to Jiro's close servants, there is only one person on the other side." Maori Takamoto reported a little ashamed. He was not ashamed of himself, but rather as the close servants responsible for protecting Yoshikawa Motoharu. Five or six close servants not only could not protect Yoshikawa Motoharu, but also two people were killed and several people injured. This was simply a shame, so when those close servants Yoshikawa Motoharu were blamed and cut off their stomachs, he did not stop them.

"What? There is only one person on the other side?" This time even Mori was surprised. In an instant, he felt that this matter was not simple.

"Master Father, Master Father." Before Mori could wait for Mori to continue asking, a loud shout came from the yard. This sound was the voice of the third son Kohayakawa Takake.

"Master Father..." As soon as the words in the yard were finished, a sixteen- or seven-year-old boy broke in. This person was Motozumi Motozumi, who inherited the position of governor of the Kozaikawa family in Anyiguo.

"Tokusumaru, are you?" At this time, Takake Kobayashikawa seemed quite embarrassed. Several accessories were dropped on his armor, as if he had just experienced a big battle. And didn't he set off back to Kobayashikawa's house this morning?

"My father, brother, I encountered an attack while rushing back to Kobayakawa's house. Fortunately, we were alert and repelled the sneak attacker."

"What?" Within a day, his second son and third son were attacked, and Mori could no longer sit still and stood up. It seems that if he and his legitimate son were out today, they would likely be attacked. This time the enemy is attacking the Maori family in a full-scale attack.

"Immediately send the territorial borders to blockade and order the establishment of levels for the assassin at important intersections in the territory to search for assassins." Maori Mori immediately ordered. Maori Takamoto, who also realized the seriousness of the matter, immediately took the order and left.

In the evening, the Maori family monarchs and ministers gathered in the meeting hall in Tayyama Castle in Yoshiguchi.

After half a day of searching, no trace of the two attackers was found. Fortunately, this attack only targeted Yoshikawa Motokura and Kobayakawa Takake, and did not target the rest of the Maori family. However, in this attack, Yoshikawa Motokura was seriously injured (although his life was saved, his left arm was deposed from then on. Since he was facing the first ninja of the Luo family, and the number of guards around him was small, it was already very lucky that he was not killed), Kobayakawa Takake was only frightened (he was facing a part of the Black Hawk sneak attack team of the Luo family, but because he had dozens of guards around him and was very alert at the time, the effect of the sneak attack was greatly reduced, which allowed Kobayakawa Takake to escape).

What made Mori feel even more serious was that during the search for the attackers, the Maori family found that there were rumors circulating in various towns and villages in the territory. The content of these rumors was mainly about how the Maori family used conspiracy to form a system of two rivers, how to conspire to kill the Inoue Moto-kan clan, the important minister of his family, how to force more than 200 retainers and tycoons in his family to submit blood letters of loyalty, how to conspire to inherit the position of the family governor, how to use the Daouei family to expand the power of the Maori family, and the last words of Yoshihiko Ouchi to keep a close eye on the Mori family.

The most terrible thing is that most of these rumors are true and can be considered from many things. Although the addition of salt and vigor adds a lot of content to the Mouri family (this time Masayoshi did not slander the Mouri family, after all, the most easily believed rumors are actually true or false rumors, so such rumors are the greatest harm to the Mouri family), but they are basically in line with the facts.

When Maori Yuan learned about such rumors, he couldn't help but stayed in shock. The content of the rumors was too real. Some of the contents were even beyond himself, even his sons didn't know. Who could only know these inside stories? Maori Yuan instantly felt that there seemed to be a pair of eyes monitoring him in a secret place, and even the legendary ninjutsu and mind reading technique, knowing his inner thoughts.

Such rumors will have a great blow to the Maori family's rule over the territory. Whether the retainers or the lords hear such rumors, they will probably believe it if they think about it for a little bit. They will lose trust in the Maori family, and even everyone will be in danger (who are afraid that the Maori family will use the same method to deal with them). What's even more fatal is that if these rumors are known by the internal affairs, then a huge storm will arise. At a critical period when the Maori family needs the support of the internal affairs, the Chinese and the United States will be fully expanded, such rumors can be said to have hit the life of the Maori family.

So when he felt the seriousness of the matter, Maori Mori quickly gathered the important ministers in his family, the legitimate son Maori Takamoto, the third son Kohayagawa Takake (the second son Yoshikawa Motoharu had to stay in the ward for rest and could not move) and others to discuss countermeasures. The people in the meeting hall were all people who Maori Mori could trust. So there was no need to worry about the meticulous things. Since the rumors appeared, Maori Mori had already felt an inexplicable emotion at home. Some people were suspicious of the Maori family, while some people were opening their eyes wide and looking for those meticulous works that leaked the secrets of the home. In this case, Maori Mori had to take action decisively.

"My father, it must be someone in my family who leaked some of my family's secrets." said the legitimate son Takamoto Mori. The rest of the people in the meeting hall also nodded in favor of Takamoto Mori's inference, otherwise it would be difficult to analyze why there were so many secrets in the rumors.

"If you investigate the people in our family, be sure to search for this detailed work. Let Taro take this matter to the responsibility." Mori Moto was also a decisive person. He immediately decided.

"Yes, my father." Maori Moto, who was given the order, immediately took the order.

"My father, my elder brother also needs to coordinate family affairs. It's better to let my son be responsible for this matter. It just happens to share some important tasks for my elder brother." At this time, the third son Kobayakawa Takake suddenly asked.

"Well, that's good, you can help your brother and follow your brother's arrangement." Mori Moto agreed after a little thought. But he asked Takake Kobayakawa as Takamoto Moto's assistant.

"Yes." Although he was dissatisfied with not being able to take on the main responsibilities alone, he still showed a happy expression on his face and accepted the appointment.

"The most important thing at this time is how to deal with rumors within the territory, right?" After deciding to investigate the details of the retainers, the retainer's important minister, Motozuki Moto, immediately raised the biggest problem facing the Mori family.

As soon as the Nagdo Takashi family said this, the entire convention hall suddenly became quiet. This was the most sensitive thing. It was hard for everyone to express their opinions.

"In the territory of our country, we will immediately send additional personnel to investigate the towns and villages, arrest all those who spread these rumors, and then execute them all. We will completely block the border in the name of searching assassins, and prevent the rumors from spreading outside the territory." Although this measure of Maorimoto will cause dissatisfaction and panic among the leaders in the short term, it will play a role in killing the chicken and intimidating the monkeys, and can quickly curb the rumors.

However, this approach also gave others the feeling of being unable to cover up the plot, and there was no silver here. Under the intentional misleading of those who are interested, it would become another means for others to attack rumors and further verified the authenticity of the rumors. Masayoshi was this person who was interested. This time he sent more than 200 detectives and Black Hawks to spread to the Daoui family and the Maori family, and then launched a large-scale "public opinion" war against the Maori family.

Such large-scale and organized attacks and rumors were definitely the pioneering move in the history of the Warring States Period. It seems that Maori Yuan and Masayoshi had a fight with Masayoro immediately afterwards.
Chapter completed!