Warring States Eagle

Sailors are different from farmers and ashigaru who fight on land. Under normal circumstances, if you want to ensure the combat capability of the navy, it is best to recruit some fishermen.

Of course, Zheng Liang is actually more inclined to those pirates who surrender to the Roche family (in fact, they are often fishermen, they are pirates when they rob, and they become fishermen when they return home).After all, they have all experienced wind and rain at sea, and after being recruited, they can save a lot of training time.

"Everyone, what do you think about the recruitment of the navy?" Zheng Liang said.This time, the expansion of the naval army has increased by 600 people at once. Even if we recruit from the fishermen along the coast of the territory, we may not be able to recruit enough people. The reduction will affect the lives of fishermen, and will even affect the supply of fish in the entire Luo family's territory, and even cause prices to rise.

After hearing the Patriarch's inquiry, the retainers present all became thoughtful.

Seeing the retainers frowning and thinking hard, Zheng Liang couldn't help shaking his head slightly.Regardless of the increasing number of retainers of the Luo family, perhaps they can give some ideas of their own on a certain war or internal affairs issue, but on these overall issues, there are really not many who can give good advice.The only thing left, besides Masara himself, are only two military advisors, so Masaragi looked at Kakukuma Ishimune, the only military advisor at this meeting, and asked:

"Shi Zong, tell me your opinion?"

"My lord, before I express my opinion, can I first ask my servant to analyze the current situation that my family is facing?" Kakukuma Ishimune said with a salute.

"Yes." Zheng Liang said.

"My lord, at present, the main family has almost controlled the entire territory of the Hizen country, and the territory of the central and southern part of the Chikugo country. It even occupies a place in the Higo country and the Chikuzen country." Kakuma Ishimune looked at a place on the side of the meeting hall. The sand table map is analyzed by Zheng Liang. "In the northern part of Kyushu. The main family is adjacent to the territory of the Ouchi family and the Otomo family in Chikuzen and Chikugo."

Speaking of this, Kakukuma Ishimune paused for a while, and then continued: "At present, the Ouchi family and the Otomo family are well-deserved overlords, and the main family also has the power to fight them. Therefore, the subject thinks that after receiving In the coming time, our family should try to avoid getting involved in entanglements with the Ouchi family, or even the Ouchi family, so as not to greatly consume the resources and combat power of our family."

"Yeah!" Zheng Liang nodded.The current situation of the Luo family is a bit like the Takeda family, the Nagao family, the Imagawa family, and the Hojo family. They are always restraining each other. Once they fall into such a situation, it will greatly hinder the development of the family.Tiger Takeda, Dragon of Echigo, etc. consumed a lot of resources in this kind of tug-of-war, and eventually even consumed their youth until their youth passed away.Today, Kawayoshi is lucky. After forming an alliance with the Hojo family and Takeda family around him, he finally got rid of the constraints and can go to Luo with peace of mind. In the end, he met Oda Nobunaga tragically.

Of course, the situation of these overlords is also due to the limitations of their geographical environment.But now the Luo family is different.

"My lord, it's in the middle of Kyushu. It's the country of Higo. At this time, the country is already across the sea from our family's Nanfeiqian. There are a lot of relatives and friends in the north-central part of this place. Similarly, once our family forcibly enters this place, it will definitely It will cause the local wealthy families to unite with the Dayou family to resist the family, and if we are not careful, the family will fall into this quagmire, and the subordinates think that this place is not suitable for the development of the family for the time being."

"And the southern part of Higo is almost occupied by the Sagara family. At the same time, the Sagara family has also formed an alliance with the Satsuma Shimadzu family across the mountain. Their strength should not be underestimated."

"Damn it, it's not good here, it's not good there, military advisor, are you going to let the lord shrink into the territory like a turtle?" He was advocating the power of the surrounding forces, so he quit immediately.

"Hehe, no, on the contrary, I think this is where the Lord can consider." Kakukuma Ishimune said with a smile.

"Oh? Please tell the military advisor clearly." Zheng Liang immediately said with great interest.

"Although the Shimadzu family of Satsuma unified the Satsuma Peninsula and subdued the Izumizu Shimadzu family in the northern part of Satsuma, in the central and northern part of Satsuma, there were still rebellious noble families such as the Iruiin family, the Kiraiin family, and the Hishikari family, regardless of Higo's Sagara family is still a powerful family in Satsuma, and there is no powerful family like the Otomo family around them, so this is the right place for the main family to intervene."

"Regardless of Higo's southern part or Satsuma, if the main family wants to intervene in these two places, they must go from the sea?" Togo Heiji, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly said.

"This is exactly the situation at sea that I will talk about next. From a geographical point of view, there are three sea powers surrounding our home from the sea. One is Iki Island, which is located in the sea north of our home. Currently, the island's The powerful families, headed by the Hidaka family, are fighting against the oppression of Hata. In order to avoid the suspicion of the Ouchi family who are also concerned about this place, the minister suggested that they can secretly form an alliance with the Hidaka family to keep the current civil strife on the island. The situation." Kakukuma Ishimune suggested.

"En." Zhengliang nodded. In fact, he had already secretly contacted the Hidaka family on the island, and even conducted several transactions secretly.

"The other one is the Five Islands area to the southwest of the main family, and the last one is the Amakusa Islands area in Higo. There are many wealthy pirates in these two areas, but they lack a strong coordinating family, which is what the family can consider. place."

"The military division means that our family can focus on these two directions in the future, and at the same time obtain a large number of navy soldiers?" Isano member Chang immediately understood.

"That's right, but the final decision still needs to be decided by the lord." Kakukuma Ishimune nodded and admitted.

"The Five Islands or the Amakusa Islands? Everyone, what do you think?" Zheng Liang asked with a frown.

"The subject thinks that if the family is committed to Nanhihou and Satsuma, then the Amakusa Islands should be controlled first." Enjoji Shinyin expressed his opinion.

"Inappropriate." Dongxiang Heiji immediately expressed his objection, "Even if our family controls the Amakusa Islands, we can only rely on sea routes when we march to the southern part of Higo and the Satsuma area. However, due to the distance between these two places and our territory Not only will it greatly increase the consumption of armaments, but it will also easily cause the acquired territory to lose control."

"Harusumi, what's your opinion?" Seeing that the retainers were arguing over whether to attack the Goto Islands or the Amakusa Islands first, Masara realized that Arima Harujun, who was actually most familiar with the coastal areas, hadn't said a word, so asked immediately.

(Thanks to book friends Dongfang Weiming and Jinghe for the monthly votes. Thanks to book friends Longteng Tianxia 12 for the reminder vote.) (To be continued...)