Li Xiao and Mouri Terumoto sat opposite each other. Li Xiao looked at this famous Japanese Warring States figure unceremoniously.

Mouri Terumoto looks a bit old, he must be around sixty years old. He has a hooked nose, a face with vertical folds, and bright eyes that look like an eagle. A big nose, a big mouth, and deep nasolabial folds extending from the wings of the nose to the end of the mouth.

At the corner of his mouth is a black samurai uniform with the Maori family crest embroidered on it.

It gives the impression that this is a man-eating tiger, squatting there and ready to choose people to devour.

He was worthy of being one of the five family members left behind by Toyotomi Hideyoshi! The coercion emanating from his body made Li Xiao feel very uncomfortable.

Both of them were testing each other with their momentum. Maori Huiyuan also thought that the guy who claimed to be the commander-in-chief of Daming Shanhaiguan seemed a little too young.

"Your Majesty, why did you come to Hagi City?" Maori Huiyuan finally spoke, and Ai Husheng quickly translated his words to Li Xiao.

"For the future of the Maori family!"

"The future of my Maori family?" Maori Terumoto asked strangely. The future of my family is none of your business.

"Your Western Army failed in the Battle of Sekigahara, and Tokugawa Ieyasu became the shogunate. Your territory was cut off again and again, and Aki, the ancestral home of your Mori family, was also taken away by Tokugawa Ieyasu and betrayed.

Your Yoshikawa Hiroie.

You are one of the five family members left by Toyotomi Hideyoshi. I don’t believe you can endure such humiliation. So, I come to you. I hope we can cooperate to make the Maori family glorious again. At least, we must restore the Maori family.

previous sphere of influence.”

"Why? Why do you want to help me?" Maori Huiyuan looked straight at Li Xiao with his eagle-like eyes and asked.

"It's very simple. Your power has been weakened the most at present. Your men are also in a state of neither hunger nor support. You used to have many territories. So you have many warriors under your men, but you don't have so many fiefdoms now.

.What do you do to feed your warriors?

As far as I know, your finances are on the verge of depletion. You have to increase taxes to feed the extra mouths. But if you increase taxes like this, the people will become increasingly poor. You have established fiefdoms in Nagato and Shufang

This is your last territory. If chaos breaks out here, you won't even have a place to stand in the future. How can you have the face to meet the grandfather underground?

So I came to you to form an alliance, and guys like Jiuki Jialong are in full swing. Even if I seek an alliance with them now, they won’t agree to it.”

"What do you want?" Maori Huiyuan knew that there is no free lunch in the world. Since Li Xiao put forward the conditions, he would naturally ask for something.

"It's very simple. Our current operation is to severely damage Jiugui Jialong. Some time ago, they robbed a lot of Jurchen gold, and I want to get it all back. Then I will count you in! How about it?"

"Hahaha!" Maori Huiyuan laughed wildly, almost choking with laughter.

Now he can almost confirm that the boy in front of him is a fake. Kuuki Yoshitaka is a popular figure in the eyes of Tokugawa Ieyasu. He played a powerful role in the Battle of Sekigahara. His Kumano Navy was known as the Hachiman Pirates. At its peak, he fought with Kyushu

Jinfang, Goto and other naval forces fought fiercely one after another without losing any ground.

The naval army of Murakami Bukichi under Mouri Terumoto was completely destroyed by Kuuki Yoshiro's attack.

Now Kuuki Yoshiro is favored by Tokugawa Ieyasu, and has formed alliances with Shimadzu, Changzhou and other feudal lords. His power is at its peak, and he doesn't dare to underestimate this famous pirate. But this kid in front of him wants to steal gold from him. It's simply

A joke within a joke!

"Mr. Mori don't believe it?"

"Catch him!" Before Li Xiao's question could be translated, Kobayakawa Ryukage immediately roared. The samurai who had been waiting outside the door immediately rushed in. One of them was a tall and well-dressed samurai who drew his katana.

, slashed diagonally towards Li Xiao's shoulder.

The sword flashed, and Jiang Chaozong didn't even have time to react. The sword had already struck down, and Jiang Chaozong stood in front of Li Xiao. He wanted to use his body to help Li Xiao block the sword.

"Bang!" There was a crisp gunshot, and the katana erupted with dazzling sparks. A bullet hit the blade, directly breaking the samurai sword in half. The broken blade scratched an inch past the tip of Jiang Chaozong's nose, almost touching it.

Scan his face.

"Bah, bang, bang!" Three more shots were fired in succession, and all the warriors who rushed in were shot in the shoulders. They screamed and fell backwards!

More warriors rushed in, but Li Xiao pointed the still smoking muzzle at Maori Terumoto opposite him. At this time, Jiang Chaozong also took out his short gun and pointed it at Maori Hidetada who wanted to pounce.

The samurai were dumbfounded. The gunshots just fired were so rapid. No one dared to say whether there were any bullets in the strange-looking gun in this kid's hand. If Mouri Terumoto and his son were hurt in order to catch him, no one dared to say.

Can't afford the consequences.

"Lord Maori, do you think this guy is talking big words? You can send someone to find out. Last month, Kuuki Yoshiro went out to sea to attack one of my islands. As a result, I killed more than a thousand people and captured more than 600 people.

.If Kuki Yoshiro hadn't been assisted by cannons, he wouldn't have been able to escape my hands.

Now I have also forged cannons, but I have fewer ships and less equipment to cross the sea, so I chose to cooperate with you. This time, the gold Jiugui Jialong stole from the Jurchens should be no less than 20,000 taels. I promise you

After the work is done, divide the gold equally. I believe that with this gold, you should be able to support your subordinates for a while!

If you need it, I can also contact you with King Li Yan of North Korea and ask him to sell you some rice. I believe you need these things now.

And we will have more cooperation in the future, and I will help you become the number one celebrity in Japan again. Your power will even surpass Tokugawa Ieyasu, how about that?"

"What do you want?" Facing the gun, Maori Huiyuan was still able to ask the question. It can be seen that the title of "Five Guys" is well-deserved.

"This time I want gold, and next time I want your full support. Because my navy is short of manpower now! Moreover, I also want the Japanese market. I have a lot of goods that need to be dumped throughout Japan through you.

Don't worry, I always do things based on the principle of win-win.

I have interests, and I definitely have your interests. Only when both parties make money can the alliance be healthy and long-lasting. What do you think?"

Maori Huiyuan was silent. Li Xiao's conditions were quite tempting to him. If he could really get ten thousand taels of gold after the matter was completed, it would greatly alleviate his poor finances. To be precise, because of the fiefdom's

Sharp decline. Mouri Terumoto’s men are almost out of food.

The plan proposed by Li Xiao to buy North Korean rice was undoubtedly a timely help for Mao Li Huiyuan. A few days ago, Mao Li Huiyuan even had the idea of ​​​​going to North Korea to grab rice.

Yoshikawa Motoharu came over and whispered something in Maori Terumoto's ear. Maori Terumoto looked at Yoshikawa Motoharu in surprise, and then ordered: "Hidetada! You treat this distinguished guest well, the conditions proposed by Mr. Li

I will discuss it with the retainers and give you an answer!"

At the critical moment, Terumoto Mori's indecisive character was exposed again. He stayed in the strong Osaka Castle at the critical moment and missed the best opportunity to defeat Tokugawa Ieyasu.

There is nothing Li Xiao can do about this. This is a character issue and there is basically no solution.

Letting the heir Mouri Hidetada accompany him is another attitude. It means that if it is not good for Li Xiao again, no one will take risks with his heir. Especially now, when Mouri Terumoto is over sixty years old.

Li Xiao had no choice but to follow Mouri Hidetada and retreat.

Receiving these things is nothing more than eating and drinking. Although the Maori family is in poverty, they can still afford to raise geishas, ​​but Li Xiao really cannot enjoy this Japanese culture.

The woman's face was thickly smeared with powder, and her eyebrows were painted into two black balls. Her lips were as red as if she had just drank human blood. The most painful thing was that her teeth were painted black. Three or five people were wrapped in silk.

cloth, put a pillow on your back, and sway around in circles.

The dance is not graceful, and the figure is not protruding. It looks awkward no matter how you look at it!

It’s not that there are no beauties, Mr. Aoi, Mr. Hatao, Mr. Ozawa, and the late Mr. Muto. Where have these outstanding artists with both virtue and skill gone?

What Li Xiao can’t stand the most is sake!

This thing is called liquor, but it is not as high in alcohol content as liquor. It is said to be beer, but it has a slightly higher alcohol content than beer. Once you drink it, you will drink it by the pound. Even if I drink well, my mother’s bladder capacity does not allow me to continue drinking!

To drink this thing, the capacity must be greater than the amount of alcohol.

A glass of sake will turn into ashes for a lifetime. A thought will return and you will have no regrets for the rest of your life.

Li Xiao regretted it so much now that he never wanted to drink sake like this again in his life. His liver did not protest to his body, but his bladder kept protesting.

Really worried about his bladder, Li Xiao could only say goodbye to Mouri Hidetada. He also resolutely rejected Mouri Hidetada's enthusiastic attempt to send several geishas to Li Xiao.

It's not bad enough to get a few of these things back. It just looks awkward!

Where have all those artists with both virtue and art gone?

Burping from wine, he returned to his ship under the escort of Hidetada Mouri. As soon as he returned to the ship, Li Xiao felt a headache. After confirming that this was a primary symptom of alcohol poisoning, not a symptom of poisoning.

Li Xiao fell asleep!

When I slept until midnight, I woke up in a daze. Seeing that Li Hu was still beside me, I was about to speak. When I opened my mouth, a large amount of sake in my stomach spurted out.

Li Hu hurriedly pushed the prepared wooden basin to him and vomited half of the basin of Li Xiao before he vomited all the sake in his stomach. It was too uncomfortable to have this thing in his stomach, and it was stuck and couldn't go up or down. Now he felt comfortable and dizzy.

Hu's head seemed to suddenly wake up.

"Brother! Drink some tea and rinse your mouth!" Li Hu brought a cup of tea to Li Xiao's mouth.

I rubbed my head and stood up, feeling my stomach felt better. Japanese people feel uncomfortable eating half-cooked food!

He took the tea from Li Hu's hand, rinsed his mouth, and drank more than half of the cup. Drinking tea when your stomach is empty is the easiest time to get hungry, and your newly empty stomach immediately began to scream "gulu" and "gulu".

"Huzi! Look at what else is there in the kitchen and get some. Damn it, the Japanese people eat these amazing things. They can make a bird out of their half-cooked mouth."

"I knew I would be hungry, so I have already prepared it for you. It's wrapped in cotton and it's still warm!" Li Hu actually took out a fat, buttery yellow chicken from the cage holding the quilt.

He was really hungry, so he tore off a chicken leg and started eating. Li Hu took out a bowl of gruel from the basket. Li Xiao, who was eating greasy, didn't bother to praise Li Hu. He gave a thumbs up and started sucking it.

Drink it slurpingly.

These are blood brothers, and it is impossible for others of the two surnames to think so thoughtfully.

Li Xiao suddenly stopped eating the chicken and looked at Li Hu blankly for a while. No! Li Hu, a single-celled person, actually has such a brain. When did his brain work so well?

"Big...! Brother, what are you looking at me for? Eat it quickly!"

"Wait a minute! Who did you learn this from?"

Li Hu rubbed his hands in embarrassment: "Yan Yun taught me that if you drink too much, you should prepare tea, chicken, porridge, etc...!"

Li Xiao nodded, knowing why Li Hu stayed up so late waiting for him. It turned out that it was because of the issue of his wife's permanent employment. It could be seen that Li Hu and Yan Yun had really gotten along. Otherwise, the single-celled Li Hu would definitely

I won't listen to Yanyun like that.
To be continued...