Warring States Eagle

Ever since the Ouchi family made a fool of themselves, and then they were forced to cede the three counties of Yasu, Kamiza, and Xiaza in the western part of Chikuzen to the Luo family, no matter for the Ouchi family or the Luo family, , Qiuyue's family is hostile.

Yes, even in the end, the Akizuki family was able to quickly return to their territory in the three counties of Ante County, Kama County, and Suinami County under the coercion and lure of the Luo family, ensuring that the Akizuki family would not be annexed by the Ouchi family, but The Luo family has always been the villain who snatched the Yexu, Shangzuo, and Xiazuo counties from the Qiuyue family, so no matter what, the Qiuyue family is still hostile to the Luo family.

This time, at the suggestion of Naito Takashi, Ouchi Yoshitaka ordered the Akizuki family to send troops to support the Munakata family. Naturally, the Akizuki family would not agree, so they found someone who suffered heavy losses after the battle with the Luo family last year and was unable to send troops. The excuse of using this is to stick to the border of the territory.

At the same time, Qiuyue Wenzhong also wrote a letter to Zhengliang in the name of an ally.Qiuyue's letter also clearly stated the Qiuyue family's attitude towards the conflict between the Luo family and the Ouchi family: Mr. Zheng Liang, if I can tell you about this, I have fulfilled my duty as an ally.This time, in the conflict between Luo's family and Ouchi's family, Qiuyue's family will not participate in the small business.The Luo family should not ask the Qiuyue family to send troops to help in the name of allies. It is already very good that the Qiuyue family can not help each other.

Regarding the attitude of the Qiuyue family, Zheng Liang has nothing to do with it. Although the Luo family and the Qiuyue family had secretly signed a covenant before, this was after all caused by the Luo family's coercion and lure. At this time, it is normal for the Qiuyue family to treat the Luo family with such an attitude. .And just as Qiuyue Wenzhong said in the letter, shortly after passing the letter to Zhengliang.The number of defenders of the Qiuyue family on the border with the Luo family's territory really began to decrease.The defenders who were reduced were naturally stationed at the border bordering the Ouchi family's forces.After all, if they blatantly disobeyed the suzerain's order, the Qiuyue family would anger the big family.

Indeed, just as the Akizuki family expected, Ouchi Yoshitaka was really irritated by the Akizuki family's reply and the move to increase troops on the border.But for a while, there was not enough military power to conquer the Qiuyue family, and this time was not the best time to conquer the Qiuyue family.When he was suffering from extreme headaches, another retainer of his, Toyosugi Shigemo, offered him a clever plan, which was to prohibit merchants from entering the territory of the Qiuyue family, and at the same time prohibit salt from entering the territory of the Qiuyue family.

In general.Even in the war stage, merchants can enter and leave the area in the middle of the war (the only one that seems a bit weird, probably only the territory of the Luo family who strictly implements the closed-door policy), so that the citizens of each area can buy some things that are not available in the area , the local lord daimyo will also be able to obtain armament resources that are not available in the local territory.

After the Ouchi family implemented the border closure policy at the border, as the most important resource such as food, the Qiuyue family is still able to guarantee self-sufficiency.Some strategic resources, such as iron ore and copper ore, are also stored in a certain amount in the territorial warehouse.However, the supply of salt, which is a daily necessities of the local people, was cut off.

Due to the limited technical level, at this time, the daimyos basically relied on the ocean to obtain salt.The Qiuyue family is located in the east of Chikuzen country, separated from Buzen country in the east by the Yingyan mountain range.The north is the territory of the Ouchi family, and the west and south are the areas controlled by the Luo family.It can be said.As long as the passage connecting the north to the sea is blocked by the Ouchi family, the Qiuyue family will lose the access to the salt supply.

"My lord, I'm afraid it's wrong to go on like this. The merchants can't transport salt into the territory. With the current salt reserves of the family, I'm afraid it won't last long." Seeing that the business roads were blocked, the retainers of the Qiuyue family reported worriedly.

"It would have been okay if the war had been fought, but now that the commercial roads have been blocked and salt cannot be brought in, there is really nothing we can do. Let the citizens and soldiers reduce the use of salt, and don't even use salt in food." Qiuyue Wenzhong also sighed road.At this time, Qiuyue Wenzhong has not realized the danger of lack of salt (there is no way, it is impossible for an ancient person to know the importance of salt to the human body in advance).

In this way, Qiuyue's family was unable to transport salt for several months.So the harm caused by the lack of salt was finally reflected at this time.Salt is not only the basic material of food, it is also an indispensable nutrient for the human body.Once the human body lacks salt, it will feel tired and the spirit will become unstable.In severe cases, drowsiness or dizziness may even occur, making it impossible to do anything.Gradually, the territory of Qiuyue's family lost its vitality in the past. When the number of people with dull eyes gradually increased, Qiuyue Wenzhong finally realized the seriousness of the matter.

"It won't work like this! Before all the salt reserves are used up, we must find a way to solve it. Is it necessary to start a war with the Ouchi family, but once the war starts, the Qiuyue family may not only be unable to open the business, but may even Incur more powerful revenge from the family." Qiuyue Wenzhong thought anxiously.

"My lord, why don't you ask for help from Duke Zhengliang in the west?" At this time, a retainer suggested.

"Ask for help from the Luo family?" Qiuyue Wenzhong still frowned after hearing the words.Ever since Luo Shi Zhengliang coerced and seduced the territory of the three counties from him, Qiuyue Wenzhong never wanted to deal with Zhengliang again.In his opinion, Zhengliang is simply a devil. If Qiuyue's family asks Luo Shizhengliang for help when Qiuyue's family is in trouble, maybe that devil will ask him to vomit blood again.What's more, not long ago, he just wrote a letter to Luo Shizhen Liang, telling the other party that brother is very busy now, and he is not interested in participating in the arm wrestling between you and Ouchi Yoshitaka.Turning his head now, he pressed his face to ask for help instead, which made his face and dignity go away!

So, after another period of hesitation, half a month passed. At this time, the people in the territory of the Qiuyue family began to lack salt on a large scale, even the salt reserves in the Qiuyue family's army were not much.The citizens began to complain, and the border guards became unstable.Qiuyue Wenzhong couldn't sit still anymore, and finally had to bow his head and send an envoy to Zhengliang for help.

And Zheng Liang, who had already known the actual situation of the Qiuyue family through the secret message of the family hidden in the territory of the Qiuyue family, had long been waiting for the Qiuyue family's call for help.After knowing the arrival of the envoy of the Akizuki family, Zheng Liang deliberately avoided the direct meeting with the other party, deliberately expressing his anger at the Akizuki family for not cooperating with the Luo family to launch pressure on the Ouchi family this time, and then sent Kansuke Yamamoto to meet Akizuki Messenger of home.

"Since the other party has agreed to allow our family's commercial house to freely enter and exit his territory, then we will also help this ally." After Kansuke Yamamoto said that the Akizuki family had accepted several conditions proposed by the Luo family, Masara immediately ordered.

"You only know that the other party is your ally now, but judging from the conditions that even you are not willing to accept, what you are facing now is not an ally, but a prisoner of war!" After hearing the words, Kansuke Yamamoto But he couldn't help but muttered in his heart.

Following Zhengliang's order, a large amount of salt that had been prepared earlier was transported to the Akizuki family's territory in the east through the Guchu mountain castle on the border of Yasu County in the Chikuzen country.

"My lord! My lord! Salt, here comes the salt!" The vassals who learned that the first batch of hundreds of stones of salt had been sent by the Luo family to the frontier of the territory happily came to Qiuyue Wenzhong to report.

Soon, the envoy of the Luo family who was in charge of delivering the salt this time also came to Qiuyue Wenzhong.

"Master Patriarch, this is a letter from the repair doctor who asked the villain to bring you." The people who came here were Ai Ji Zhiji, who was in charge of taking care of Qiuyue Wenzhong in Shenya's house, and the Qiuyue family members of his second son, Qiuyue Zhongshi.

"Madam and Fujisaburo, are you okay?" Qiuyue Wenzhong didn't open the letter immediately after receiving it, but instead asked the servant who delivered the letter about Zhiji and Qiuyue Zhongshi.When the Ouchi family fought fiercely with the Luo family last year, Chihime's elder brother Kamiya Shaoce, as the representative of the Luo family's retainers, went to the Akizuki family to force the Akizuki family to cede territory and negotiate peace, and even forcibly sent Akihime Chihime of the Akizuki language class. And the second son brought back the Luo family as a hostage. During this period of time, he could only know a little about the situation of Zhiji's mother and son from the letters Zhiji sent him. Just ask.

"Thanks to the great blessing of the Patriarch, Madam and the Second Young Master are very good. The Second Young Master is already babbling, Madam is teaching him to address the Patriarch." The servant immediately replied.

"Really? Hahaha..." Hearing that his second son was learning how to address him, he had a long-lost fatherly smile on his face, "It's so good, so good!"

In fact, sending Zhiji's two mothers and sons to Zhiji's natal family, Shenya, to settle down is also what he hopes to see.After all, as the envoy of the Luo family last year, Shenwu Shaoce acted too tough, and finally cut off the three counties from the Qiuyue family, among which Yexu County was the place where the Qiuyue family started.The retainers and other wives and concubines of the Qiuyue family will definitely vent their grievances against Kamiya Shaoce and the Luo family to Kamiya Shaoce's younger sister Chihime and her child Fujisaburo.In this case, it is better to take the opportunity to send Zhiji back to her mother's house, which will make the lives of the two mothers and children more enjoyable.

After learning about the situation of Chihime and Fujisaburo, Akizuki Wenzhong finally opened the letter sent by Masara, and saw in the letter:

"I fight the public with swords and not with salt." (To be continued...)