Warring States Eagle

This tactic is human trafficking.

In the Warring States Period, human trafficking was not uncommon.The most famous of these is Takeda Shingen.After defeating the enemy or destroying the traitor, this Takeda tiger likes to sell the people in the enemy's territory as slaves to the victim.Therefore, it is not an exaggeration to call Takeda Tiger the No.1 dealer in the Warring States Period.

In the several battles between Higo and Chikugo, the Luo family should have seized a lot of copper coins, and Zhengliang planned to use these copper coins to buy food and population.

food.This has always been the material that the lords paid the most attention to during the Warring States Period, and its role was even more important than coins. When many wealthy clans recruited soldiers, they almost all directly used food as recruitment rewards.In this era, for ordinary people, being able to eat enough is the most important thing.

Of course, when it comes to purchasing materials, here is inseparable from the role played by a person.That is Kamiya Shota.

Since Kamiya Shaoce joined the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet, the cooperation between the internal affairs cabinet and the intelligence cabinet has become even closer.Internally, the Cabinet needs to promote the stability of the territory by encouraging commerce and trade in the territory to promote prosperity and taxation in the territory.During this process, Zheng Liang's instructions and the experience of the Kamiya family played a very good role.

Externally, the Interior Cabinet also needs to continuously purchase some materials needed by the territory from outside.The original business route of the Shenwu family provided a good business route for secret communication with the outside world.Although some tyrants had roughly guessed that the Shenwu family had joined the Luo's family, this did not prevent the Luo's family from collecting supplies everywhere under the name of the Shenwu family.

Similarly, the intelligence cabinet also uses these business routes to carry out the duty of monitoring the stability of the territory on the one hand, and on the other hand to infiltrate into the territories of other wealthy families through the business routes connected to the outside world.

So-called surveillance and spying.It's not just about letting detectives or ninjas sneak into the target's territory.Or simply hide under the target's window.Conduct so-called undercover visits and eavesdropping.Its highest state is to integrate into the target's life silently and colorlessly, become a part of its life, and finally obtain information from it.

Since the establishment of the intelligence cabinet, the goal it has been adhering to is exactly the highest state instructed by Zheng Liang.

The intelligence cabinet can not only cooperate with the internal affairs cabinet to conduct simple intelligence collection and spying, but they can even cooperate with the Luo family's strategy to carry out many things.

Purchasing food is one of them.

One of the strategies of the Luo family's foreign strategy is to continuously acquire hostile forces in various ways, even at any cost.Even food in the territories where potential hostile forces are located.

The place that does this best is the Chikuzen area.During this period of time, the food in the area around Hakata has been purchased in large quantities, either explicitly or covertly, causing the price of food to soar, and the general residents even complained.

Just like the approach to Hakata, Zheng Liang is also preparing to have the Cabinet and Intelligence Cabinet vigorously implement this policy in Higo.

Food is very important to the lord, which is common sense of almost every lord, so they may not be willing to sell the food.However, as long as the price is many times higher than the market price, there will always be a few lords who will make mistakes.Moreover, not all lords can strictly control the actions of the people in their territories.The lord is unwilling to sell.Then there will always be someone willing to lead the people.

Large quantities of food are purchased, and the local food price and food shortage are gradually raised secretly.Then causing public grievances to gradually rise, this is only the first step.And Zhengliang still has a second step.

This step is time.

According to Zheng Liang's memory, these few years will quickly enter the climate flood season of the Little Ice Age in Asia.In fact, since the Southern Song Dynasty in China, the entire Asian region has gradually entered the Little Ice Age.And Japan is no exception.

The most notable climatic feature of the Little Ice Age was the lengthening of the cold period.According to previous life records, from the past few years, the climate in the whole of Asia, especially in the Ming Dynasty and the Wa country along the longitude and latitude line, will become colder and drier.

Such a climate is a fatal blow to an empire with a huge population.The severe cold in the north caused the rainfall area to generally move southward, which caused disasters in almost all parts of the country in the Ming Dynasty.This is also the reason why peasant uprisings in the Ming Dynasty gradually increased.

However, during this period of time, the country of Wa, because it was already in the melee period of the Warring States Period, such extreme weather did not attract much attention.But this is quite important for Zhengliang's next plan.Once the climate of the Little Ice Age intensifies, unforeseen droughts or typhoons will occur in various parts of the country due to climate changes.

Think about it, the Luo family secretly took away a large amount of private food reserves in the territory. Once there is a drought or bad harvest or frequent typhoons and other natural disasters, the leaders have no food. What else can they do besides asking the lord for help? Method?

The leader's main purpose is to open the granary to help the people, so the Luo family will take the opportunity to attack, and there will be a food crisis.Besides, you have distributed food, and the leading people may not accept your affection under the original atmosphere of public grievances.If they were provoked by the Luo family, looting would even happen.And it's not impossible for the Luo's family to deal with such things, such as getting some poisoned or moldy rice incidents, or simply taking the opportunity to set the food on fire.Opportunities to cause trouble abound.

What if the people are not rescued?Then the complaints from the citizens will be even greater, and under the deliberate instigation of the Luo family, there is no guarantee that there will be an incident, so the Luo family will also have an opportunity to take advantage of it.Besides, the Luo family can also take the opportunity to recruit a large number of these people to their territory, weakening their opponents on the one hand, and strengthening their own strength on the other.

Worried that the Luo family will not be able to hold on?Are you kidding?Those grains that have been bought in large quantities before are guaranteed.Besides, in the past three years, regardless of the confusion of his retainers, Zheng Liang has vigorously promoted water conservancy construction, perfected water conservancy facilities in rivers and fields, and devoted all his efforts to reclaiming new farmland. What is the reason for this?

In order to deal with the extreme weather of the Little Ice Age.You see, when there is a drought, water can be directed to a large amount of farmland through a large number of deep and reinforced rivers in the territory, so that the damage of dry weather can be avoided to a large extent.

As for the typhoon and flood weather?It is still these large numbers of well-built river water conservancy and field water conservancy facilities, which will greatly increase the drainage effect of rainwater.Coupled with the effect of a large number of fields sharing and diverting rainwater, the damage caused by the disaster will definitely be minimized.

When he was prepared and others were unprepared, such a period was the time for the Luo family to flex their muscles.

In addition to the two methods of food and climate, Zhengliang is also planning to implement a third method in Feihou.That is human trafficking.

The Luo family's internal affairs cabinet and intelligence cabinet will use business channels to secretly buy a large number of people in various places in Feihou, especially the population of the local aborigines.

These aborigines were originally a group that caused great headaches to the lords of various places in Feihou.Now there are people who are willing to buy these aborigines at a high price, of course they can't wait for it.Although it is likely to stir up conflicts among the aborigines again, under the beating of interests, it is inevitable that no one will be tempted.

Besides, the Luo's family will also secretly fan the flames.If the local lord hesitated, then the Luo family would pretend to be them and attack the aborigines.The purpose is to provoke conflicts between the local lords and even the local people and the aborigines by any means.

Conversely, the Luo family spent so much effort to purchase these populations, apart from increasing the instability in the territory of the local wealthy, what good is there?The benefits are many.

First, these aborigines have always been an unstable factor in the rule of local lords.After reducing their local ethnic groups through human trafficking, their strength in the future will definitely be greatly reduced.At that time, it will be much easier to deal with them after Luo's family becomes the master of the fat queen.

Second, after these people entered the territory of the Luo family, they would be dispersed and distributed to various parts of the territory to settle down, and then gradually assimilated by the surrounding residents.The culture of an ethnic group is passed down by relying on a large whole. When they are separated independently, they will be gradually assimilated by the surrounding environment.With their joining, the territory will naturally gain more power.

Third, these aborigines are warlike guys.The Luo family can take this opportunity to lead them into the Luo family's army.Let them become a powerful fighting force in the Luo family and make greater contributions to the Luo family.

In the end, being forced to leave their homes and their loved ones definitely fills these people with hatred for those who captured them in the first place.The Luo family can guide them to turn this hatred into combat power, and serve as the vanguard to attack Feihou in the future.I believe that based on their hatred of the local wealthy family, they must be brave enough to die.

Of course, Zheng Liang is not a ruthless person. Besides, no matter what, one day, some of these grown-up aborigines will discover the role played by the Luo family in this.So Zhengliang also left behind.

That is, before sending these people to settle in various parts of the territory, Roche will register their original tribe information, personal information, relative information, etc., and even allow them to register the information of finding relatives.

If conditions permit, the Luo family will arrange the whole family to live together, and will also help them reunite according to the information they left.But that's just for families not clans.Clans are not allowed to exist in the Luo family's territory.

In this way, the resentment of these aborigines will be reduced to a certain extent, and they will even be grateful to the Luo family and speed up their integration into the Luo family.

Insufficient food, high prices, and natural disasters are enough to make the wealthy families of Feihou feel devastated.If the conflict with these aborigines is added, it is estimated that Feihou will become a mess.

However, this is not the most fatal problem. (To be continued..)