Warring States Eagle

On the Western side, Niko Haruhisa, who was appointed by the shogunate Ashikaga Yoshito as the guardian of the Eight Kingdoms of Inaba, Hoki, Bizen, Bichu, Bingo, Misaku, Izumo, and Oki, is very majestic at this time, and he really thinks he has become the Eight Kingdoms The real boss.

In fact, only Izumo, Yinqi, and Hoki are really controlled by the Nizi family at this time, and Yinqi is just two small islands.For the rest of the countries, the Inaba country is controlled by the Shan Ming family, and Nizi Haruhisa is absolutely no bird. After all, the Hoki country was snatched from him by the Nizi family.As for the four countries of Bizen, Bichu, Bingo, and Misaku, a large part of the area is being occupied by the forces of the Ouchi family and the Maori family. In fact, they did not completely obey the orders of Nizi Haruhisa.This is different from Zhengliang's situation. Zhengliang's Hizen, Higo, Chikugo, Chikuzen, and Buzen five kingdoms are guarded. Among them, the Hizen, Higo, Chikugo, and Chikuzen four countries are completely the territory of the Luo family, while the Buzen country and Fengzen Most of Houguo belonged to the Luo family.So in comparison, Nizi Qingjiu's title of Guardian of the Eight Kingdoms is actually very useless.

But even so, Nizi Haruhisa felt that at this time, being the guardian of the Eight Kingdoms was an inspiration to Nizi's family, and immediately decided to march to the Yinshan area of ​​​​Iwami Country.But at this time, he discovered that the damn Maori family had also extended their power to the border of Iwami country, and seemed to intend to seize Iwami's Yinshan area.If the Nizi family's army is attacking this area, if the Maori family on the side sends troops to flank the Nizi family, then the Nizi family will be in danger.So after discussing with all the vassals, Nizi Qingjiu officially went out to fight against the Mori family after the autumn harvest this year.

Before going out.Nizi Haruhisa once considered bringing in some helpers to flank the Mori family.His first thought.Naturally, he wrote a letter to draw his attention to Maori's Zheng Liang.However, the Luo family happened to be "deadly fighting" with the Naito family and the Tao family in the Toyoura County area of ​​​​Nagato Kingdom during this period.Besides, the Luo family was invited to attack the Maori family.There are only two directions to come to help, one is to reach the Izumo country through the coastal waterways of Nagato and Iwami countries, and then go out after joining the Nizi family army, and the other is to attack directly through the Seto Inland Sea controlled by the Murakami navy. An Yiguo.These two roads are either far away, or full of threats. The Luo family will never be invited to come.

Since it was impossible to invite the Luo family to send troops to help, Nizi Qingjiusu immediately thought of the Yixiangzong in the Anyi area.So he immediately sent people to Ishiyama Gobo Castle in the Settsu Kingdom to seek the evidence of Honganji Temple, and asked him to order the Ichiko sect in the Aki area to assist the Nizi family in attacking the Maori family.However, it was rejected by Hongan Temple Zhengru.Since then, Ni Ziqing has held a grudge against Yixiangzong for a long time, and soon began to suppress Yixiangzong in his own territory, which caused a lot of confusion.

Without Yixiangzong's help, Nizi's family had no choice but to go out on their own.Facing the invasion of Nizi's house, Mao Liyuan went out to fight in person with crutches.The two sides have been fighting continuously for several months on the border of Anyi Country, and it didn't subside until the end of last year.Although the Nizi family's army did not advance very far into the territory of Anyi Kingdom this time, it beat the Maoli family's army to the point of hiding in the walled city.The morale of Nizi's family suddenly increased.And Mao Liyuan finally realized a problem on this side.That is, to deal with Nizi's family, he must first get rid of the most elite Xingong Party in Nizi's family. At this time, he already has a good plan in mind.

Judging from these information.The powerful and famous all over the country are moving forward according to the wheel of history.Naturally, the Luo family cannot fall behind.After the Luo family had basically controlled the newly occupied territories such as Nagato, Zhengliang immediately issued a "demolition order".It was ordered that all the forts in Chikuzen, Buzen, and Nagato, except for the border areas, be demolished.

This order naturally had a lot of impact on the local wealthy families in these newly occupied areas. After all, the wealthy families have long been accustomed to living in the fortresses they built. Now that their walls are suddenly demolished, they are naturally Felt very insecure.So, led by the Shiroi family in Buzen, the Akizuki family in Chikuzen, and the Aso family, a group of retainers jointly petitioned Masara to cancel the demolition order.

Masaragi naturally ignored the pleadings of these people, he just asked Togo Heiji and Yamamoto Kansuke to meet these people.As soon as they met, Dongxiang Heiji directly scolded these wealthy families:

"The law of the family clearly stipulates that, except for the home governor's home city and the garrisons of various divisions, unless he is personally approved by the family governor because of military merits, no other retainer is allowed to own his own fortress. Are you planning to let the family governor violate the law of the family? Or do you all think that your military exploits are enough for the lord to approve you to have your own city?"

"Or, do you think that your contribution to the family is even greater than those of us? Could it be that you have the idea of ​​occupying the city and plotting rebellion?"

Faced with Togo Heiji's questioning one after another, especially the last question about treason, the Shiroi family, Qiuyue family and other retainers broke out in a cold sweat.So they all tried their best to defend themselves, until finally they came out of Xiaocang Castle, they realized that they were all busy defending themselves just now, and instead forgot about pleading with Zheng Liang.

The people who came to their senses immediately looked at each other in blank dismay.Do you want to go back and ask to see the governor again now?But judging from the situation just now, there is absolutely no result. It seems that the walled city of their family has been continuously built by generations. It seems that it will definitely be demolished.

direct resistance?But now his family's military force has been disbanded, and even the retainers have been entrusted by the Luo family with various excuses to settle in areas that are basically impossible to contact in a short period of time.And the people in the territory, no matter the newly migrated new people or the old original people, are all attracted by the Luo family's seductive laws, and have firmly followed those appointed by the Luo family's cabinet. Around villages and towns in various places, they have become loyal supporters of the Luo family.If they were able to resist, they suddenly realized that they could only bring a few clansmen to resist in the end.

Of course, they didn't get nothing.At least after joining the Luo family.The income of their territories will increase a lot.Among these people, there are also many talents who are familiar with farming.After seeing the planting of various crops, farming tools and farming measures promoted by the Luo family's cabinet on their territory.Everyone knows that this will increase their territorial income a lot.With more income, they can join the business that is currently being promoted within the Luo family.

In fact, what they don't know is that according to the employment system of the Luo family.Due to the occurrence of this petition, at least in the next ten years, except for the members of his family who were jointly reviewed by the Intelligence Cabinet and the Military Cabinet in order to appease them, and approved by Zhengliang himself, all the rest of their family members even if they are No matter how talented they are, they will never get the chance to enter the Luo family's official organization.This is mainly to prevent these wealthy families who have not yet integrated into the Luo family system from secretly forming a lurking unstable force in the Luo family's institutions.The so-called nip in the bud.These regulations must be introduced.

While the Luo family's territory was carrying out a large-scale demolition movement by organizing the citizens to participate in corvee labor and dispatching slave teams, etc., the southeastern part of Buzen Kingdom, which had finally recovered from this year's special weather disaster, The Shan family and other powerful families are ready to move again.

Zheng Liang, who heard the news, sneered. Some time ago, you guys were temporarily given a breather because of the disaster relief and the attack on the Nagato country, but now you have come to your door by yourself.So Zhengliang immediately issued a mobilization order to the border teams of Bungzen and even Bungo, ready to attack these areas at any time.

Of course, although both sides hope to play against each other, there is a tacit understanding.That is, they are all prepared to wait until the spring plowing in Tianwen 22 () is over before going to war.Just at this time, according to historical records, the biggest drought in Tianwen Years came, which was called "Astronomical Drought" in history.

As the saying goes, there must be a severe drought after a severe flood.The ancients were indeed not deceitful.After the continuous rainstorm and typhoon weather last year, it has been 22 years since Tianwen entered.God didn't even drop a drop of rain.After May, the dry weather further intensifies, the sun is fierce in the sky, and the temperature rises sharply.Under the hot weather, the water levels of streams and rivers in various places dropped sharply, and even dried up directly.What is even more troublesome is that some mountainous areas have spontaneously combusted due to the high temperature.Because there are many mountains and forests in the country of Wa, once a place burns, fueled by such high temperature weather, a large forest fire will be formed in an instant.The land was dry and cracked, the rivers were dry and dry, and the mountains and forests were full of fire. For a while, there was a scene of the end of the world everywhere.

This time, the disaster was no longer limited to certain areas of the Wa country like last year, but swept across the whole country.It was even learned from Wang Hai that the same disaster happened in the Ming Kingdom, so during this period of time, the number of Ming immigrants who were relocated to the Luo family's territory also increased significantly, so Zheng Liang took the opportunity to send these Ming people They were scattered and resettled in Higo Country, Bungo Country, Chikuzen Country, and Bungzen Country, areas where there were not many immigrants from the Ming Dynasty before.

Such a disaster situation lasted from the beginning of Tianwen 22 to August.All parts of the Wa country have been affected to varying degrees.Fortunately, after more than ten years of development, the Luo family had established a relatively complete water conservancy system in Hizen, Higo, and Chikugo, so these three areas were almost least affected. Farming during this period has been greatly guaranteed.

As for the western region of the Chikuzen country and the central region of the Toyokuni country that became the territory of the Luo family a little later, a lot of water conservancy facilities have also been built. Although they have not yet reached a perfect level, the impact on the local area has been minimized, at least. It is to keep the local spring plowing, and it is expected that the autumn harvest will also be guaranteed.

In contrast, the most affected areas are naturally the five eastern counties of Chikuzen Kingdom, the five central and northern counties of Buzen Kingdom, and Toyoura County of Nagato Kingdom that have just been occupied by the Luo family during this period.Due to the relatively short period of time under the rule of the Luo family, during this period, the main tasks of the Luo family's cabinet were to register the local population, check the land, relocate and resettle the citizens, and appoint personnel who graduated from the Luo family or retired from the Luo family. Work locally, organize paid corvee labor, or arrange slave teams to demolish various cities.As for the reclamation of fields, the construction of marching roads, and the most important repair of water conservancy, these tasks have not yet been carried out.

So just relying on the old local water conservancy facilities, the local spring farming and farming during this period have naturally been greatly affected.To be precise, the people in these areas can only resign themselves to their fate and depend on it for food.During Zhengliang's local inspections during this period, he found that basically only some fields near rivers and creeks can continue to be cultivated. As for some fields with slightly higher terrain, they have been completely abandoned.

Of course, the so-called harm will be beneficial, and this severe drought is not all bad for the Luo family. (To be continued..)