Warring States Eagle

The current situation of the Luo family is very special.

In China, the Luo family is completely dominant.Even the attached retainers and powerful families, the number of their own private soldiers is not a threat at all.As for the wealthy families in the newly occupied area, due to the protection of their own interests, they must resist the laws of the Luo family.But these are nothing to fear, and soon these wealthy families will be submerged in the development trend of the Luo family.

foreign.At sea, there are also the Hata branch on Iki Island and many pirates in the Goto area.It's just that Bodo is currently in civil strife. It is said that the main family on Tsushima Island has already started to think about Iki Island.As for the pirates in the Wudao area, because they were intimidated by the Luo family's navy, they did not dare to act rashly.

In front of Nanfei, there are also wealthy families such as Arima, Omura, and Xixiang who occasionally cause trouble for the Luo family.However, Songyue City and Songgang City are almost like iron walls, preventing these powerful families from gaining a foothold in the territory of the Luo family.

In Higo and Chikugo, the Otomo family has become the great enemy of the Luo family, and it will be the enemy of the Luo family for a long time in the future.Therefore, the attitudes of the Luo family's allies and neighbors became the key to the Luo family's ability to calmly deal with surrounding threats.

At the beginning, Zhengliang was willing to agree to Ouchi Yoshitaka's request and keep Duanmu Kiyomasa in the Ouchi family's home as a guest general. Stabilize and paralyze the Ouchi family, and even make the Ouchi family the goal of supporting the stable development of the Luo family.This time, after the battle between Hizen and Otomo's family, Kiyomasa Duanmu did indeed play such a role.

"My lord. Fortunately, you gave Mr. Sagara a letter in advance. With his help, the remarks about the rising of the main family and threatening the Ouchi family were suppressed, and under the arrangement of the lord of the country, everyone Some wealthy families have already directed their complaints at Shan Xingyun."

"Yeah!" Zheng Liang nodded.Not long after returning to Chikuqian, that guy Sugi Xingyun secretly came up with the theory of the threat of the Luo family in order to divert the pressure of accusations from the wealthy families on him for this failure.So Zhengliang immediately took countermeasures.

First of all, they secretly united with wealthy families such as Masara's cheap father-in-law Sagara Taketoshi and the Akizuki family who had been on good terms with the Luo family, and set off a whirlwind of complaints about Sugi Xingyun within the Ouchi family. It's been a rough day.It is said that even Ouchi Yoshitaka, who was fighting in Izumo, wrote a letter of reprimand to Sugi Xingyun.

The reason why Yoshitaka Ouchi was so annoyed was that he received complaints from his family and Masara about Sugi Xingyun at the same time.The former, of course, truthfully reported Sugi Xingyun's stupid performance in Hizen.Zhengliang complained in the letter that he could not get support from Sugi Xingyun, and was even excluded by Sugi Xingyun from the camp against the Otomo family.

Masara's letter, in addition to indirectly complaining to Ouchi Yoshitaka about Sugi Xingyun, also implicitly told Ouchi Yoshitaka that Hizen's current territory was taken by the Luo family alone, so don't ask the Luo family to get it back. Returning to Hizen again under the pretext of the castle that the Otomo family took away.it's out of the question.

Ouchi Yoshitaka also saw this meaning clearly and became furious. If Sugi Xingyun stood in front of him at this time, he would definitely cut Sugi Xingyun directly.

In addition to these two methods, Zhengliang also ordered people to secretly step up the purchase of food from Hakata, where Sugi Xingyun's family is located.As a result, public grievances in its territory gradually boiled up.Not only that, in order to match the current accusation of his incompetence.Zheng Liang also asked people to pretend to be thieves and kept stealing from Hakata shops, which caused the prestige of the Sugi family, who was in charge of Hakata management, to decline again and again.

"Thanks to the help of my father-in-law and Qiuyue's family this time, my family will present a batch of gifts later. When you return to Chikuqian, give them the gifts along the way." Zheng Liang instructed.

"Yes." Duanmu Qingzheng immediately bowed down.He knew that Zhengliang took the opportunity to create an opportunity for him to deepen friendship with these two wealthy families.In fact, since he became the guest general of the Luo family living in Ouchi's house, Masaragi has provided him with several coins and supplies, allowing him to deepen his friendship with Chikuzen and even Ouchi's various retainers.

In fact, it is estimated that Ouchi Yoshitaka did not expect that a retainer who was forced to come to the Luo family because of his temporary love for talent, actually secretly created a lot of benefits for the Luo family, and even became a member of the Luo family. A spy stationed in Ouchi's house.In Zhengliang's view, it is estimated that Yoshitaka Ouchi is confident that he can completely transform Duanmu Kiyomasa into a retainer of the Ouchi family by virtue of the background of the Ouchi family, but judging from the current situation, it is obvious that his plan has failed.Duanmu Qingzheng is really in Cao Ying and his heart is in Han!

"Is there any latest news about the Ouchi family's battle in Izumo?" Masara asked again.Regarding Ouchi Yoshitaka's expedition this time, Zhengliang was quite concerned. Not only did he send people to secretly monitor the battle near the battlefield, but he also kept abreast of the news about the battle within Ouchi's family through Duanmu Kiyomasa and others.

"Since the news that the army was besieging the Nizi family's territory came back again one month ago, there has been no other news. It's just that the Ouchi family has made plans to expand the territory of the Ouchi family again. It is." Duanmu Qingzheng replied.

After Zheng Liang heard this, he couldn't help but chuckled secretly.I don't know how these retainers will feel when Ouchi Yoshitaka returns after a disastrous defeat two months later?

After asking Duanmu Qingzheng about the current internal situation of the Ouchi family in detail, Zheng Liang arranged for Duanmu Qingzheng to go down to rest.This time Duanmuqing returned to Hizen secretly, so he had to go down and make preparations to return to Chikuzen secretly.

After sending Duanmu Qingzheng away, Zhengliang took out another list and handed it to Muzu Zhongzhong who had been waiting outside the meeting hall.

"Master Patriarch, this is?" After seeing a series of names in the list and some information about their characteristic places of residence, Muzo Shigetada seemed quite puzzled.What surprised him even more was that some of this list were far away in the Kanto and even the Mutsu area.Almost all over the Warring States.

"According to this list, find these people for me to see if they are willing to work in the family, even if they pay a high price. It also writes some corresponding to the maximum price that the family can pay for them." Zheng Liang Said.

"Master Patriarch, what are your plans?"

"Bring them to my family. If they don't want to come, they can be kidnapped. Even if they are kidnapped, they will be kidnapped by me." Zheng Liang said.

That's right, this list of loyalty to Mu Zuo is exactly a list of the warring states heroes drafted by Zheng Liang based on his memory.With the development of Luo's family, the problem of talents has become more and more prominent.Although Zheng Liang has been trying his best to cultivate talents in the territory, these people have basically not grown up, so Zheng Liang thought of a way to recruit foreign aid.

Zheng Liang is not a super talented person, let alone a person with the aura of a protagonist. He really can't do the thing of attracting a bunch of talented people as soon as he appears on the stage. This is impossible.Even though the Luo family has now become a big name that can challenge the Ouchi family and even the Ouchi family, it may not be able to successfully recruit the people on the list.So Zheng Liang decided to take both soft and hard measures.It’s best if you’re willing to come, everyone, I’m willing, if you don’t want to, then I’ll be an overlord, and I’ll cook the raw rice first, and then slowly cultivate the relationship.

Muzo Shigetada, who had long been accustomed to the way the patriarch did things, didn't say much after receiving Zhengliang's order, but after listening to Zhengliang's opinion, he respectfully resigned.According to the distribution range of the list, it is estimated that he will not be in the territory for a long time, so he has to go down and make preparations.

After arranging all the affairs in the village in the castle, Zheng Liang began to return to Kishidake City under the guard of two hundred warriors and a hundred cloaked people.During this period of time, I have been fighting in the east and west, and I have neglected my wife and children at home.So at this time, Zhengliang can be said to be returning home.

But when the team walked halfway, they ran into the iron cannon general Ander who was about to rush to the village city, and three people.Among the two foreigners following Ander, one is a local craftsman, and the last one is a Ming craftsman who followed Zheng Liang from Ming to Hizen.

It turned out that Ander and the others were planning to go to the village city to report to Zheng Liang the progress of the matchlock gun forging.

Just two months ago, he imitated the first matchlock gun with some craftsmen in the firearms workshop, but the quality and effect were very poor, and it was not even as good as the fire system of the Ming Dynasty.

This time they finally imitated an arquebus.After testing, they all agreed that the imitation gun worked well, so they sent three Anders to report the good news to Zheng Liang.

After hearing the news, Zheng Liang first tried out the newly imitated matchlock gun.From the perspective of future generations, the current arquebus gun, from the point of view of the loading method, is a front-loaded manual single-shot; from the point of view of the barrel type, it is a smoothbore gun; Medicine packs.The caliber of the matchlock gun is about 15-20 mm. I tried to shoot it on the spot. The range is about 60-100 meters. If the operation is skilled, it can fire five bullets per minute.

Overall, such results have been very good.With the birth of this arquebus, at least it was announced that the Luo family had become the first daimyo to master the use and production technology of muskets in the Warring States Period.

But Ander had mixed feelings about it.Because although the first musket of Luo's family was born, there is actually a problem that has always troubled the large-scale promotion of muskets in Luo's family. (To be continued..)