Warring States Eagle

In late May of Tianwen 23, following the suicide of Otomo Yoshinobu, under the deliberate publicity of the Luo family detectives, the news of Otomoyoshi Town's death quickly spread to all parts of Kyushu, and then continued to spread all the way to Shikoku, Kyoto, Kanto and other regions.

The reason why the intelligence cabinet deliberately publicized this news is to increase the centripetal force of the people in its own territory towards the Luo family, and to lose confidence in the forces inside and outside the Luo family's territory that are still trying to restore the Dayou family; Prestige made the allies of the Luo family more confident in the Luo family, while the hostile forces of the Luo family became more frightened.

As the news of the death of Otomogi Town spread, the Saeki family, the former ministers of the Otomo family who were entrenched in Kaibu County, Bungo Country, first received the news.Saeki's family supervisor, Saeki Yuikao, felt grief, but also immediately felt a sense of crisis.After the Luo family occupied the northeastern part of Bungo country, now in Bungo country, only half of Haibu County in the southeastern part occupied by the Saeki family has not been conquered by the Luo family.Next, the Saeki family's territory was naturally the first target of the Luo family's attack.Thinking of this, Yoshiki Saeki immediately sent people to the Ito family in Hyuga country, preparing to unite the Ito family to fight against the Luo family. While protecting his own territory, he also attempted to seek revenge on the Luo family.

At a seaside in Shikoku, Usuki Kanhaya, who also received the news of the death of Otomogi Town, also came to the seaside and worshiped in the direction of Bungo Country.He worshiped not only the lord Dayou Yizhen himself, but also members of his family.The Usuki clan was almost wiped out this time.

"It seems that we have to accept the other party's conditions." After Usuki Kamhashi worshiped, a young man behind him said.This person is Dayou Qinzhen, the younger brother of Dayou Yizhen.At the beginning, the Luo family invaded the hinterland of Bungo country on a large scale.And when they surrounded the mansion hall.Otomo Qinzhen took advantage of the chaos and fled to Shikoku by boat.Later, he also met the young monk who happened to save Usuki Kamsu's life, so by coincidence, Usuki Kamsu met Otomo Kinsada again in Shikoku.

"As long as the young master can return to the Bungo country in the future, what are the conditions for agreeing to the other party?" After hearing Otomo Kisada's words, Usuki Kansu immediately looked at the baby placed in a bamboo basket beside him.

This baby was the legitimate son of Otomo Yoshino who was embraced by Usuki Kansuki when he fled Luming Yuecheng that day.Compared with Otomo Yoshitomo (Otomo Yoshito), who was born in the history of Otomo Yizhen, the current son was born earlier because Otomo Yizhen inherited the family governor earlier than the time recorded in history.It's just that this baby was also very unfortunate. Not long after the birth, her mother (the daughter of Naiduo Jianji) committed suicide when Luming Yuecheng was captured by the Luo family.And now, his father Otomo Yoshijin is also dead.He instantly became an orphan without father and mother, and lived a miserable life of fleeing with his family's important ministers and his uncle.

Just when Usuki Kansu and Otomo Kisada were looking forward to restoring Otomo's family with the help of Otomoyoshi's son-in-law, Shimadzu Takahisa, who was far away in southern Kyushu, also received the news that Otomoyoshi was killed by the Luo family. The plot against the Northern Satsuma area has been postponed.Shimadzu Takahisa was indeed a little afraid to act rashly at this time, at least he would not make any moves until he figured out the next move of the Luo family.

The Shimadzu family suddenly became quiet, but it made Zheng Liang, who was in charge of the family affairs in Qibu City, Bungo country, while closely watching the Shimadzu family's actions, depressed.He also wanted to take the opportunity to knock on Shimadzu's house.

While Zheng Liang was still paying close attention to the actions of the Shimadzu family.In Aki country on Honshu Island, it has been concentrating its forces to the east.After the integration of the forces left behind by Ouchi Yoshitaka in Bingo Country, Bi China and other places after the death of Ouchi Yoshitaka, Mori Moto finally showed his fangs to the Itsukushima area of ​​the Tao family.

In May of the 23rd year of Tianwen ([-]), Mao Liyuan, who had accumulated a lot of money, finally blew the horn. On the one hand, he sent envoys to the Yoshimi family in Iwami Kingdom, preparing to form an alliance with the Yoshimi family. Under the banner of Ouchi Yoshitaka's revenge, he organized more than [-] elite soldiers, and suddenly rushed into Zuodong County in the south of Anyun Country. First, he raided Jinshan Castle, which originally belonged to the Ouchi family. At the beginning of the month, Jifei Castle, Caojin Castle, Yingwei Castle and other strongholds also fell in anticipation.All the key points along the coast opposite Itsukushima fell into the hands of the Mori family.

Afterwards, the Maori army crossed the sea to take Itsukushima, and expelled all the wealthy families on the island who were loyal to Tao Longfang. .In order to guard against Tao Jun's counterattack, Mao Liyuan set up a perfect Itsukushima defense line: Guiyuan Cheng guarded Sakurabi Castle, Kagawa Kwangjing guarded Nibaojima Castle, Kodama guarded Kusatsu Castle, strengthened the city defenses, stored food and grass to train the navy, and prepared A decisive battle with Tao Longfang.

At this time, Tao Longfang was still staying in Ishimi country with his army, attacking the Yoshimi family's Tsuwano Castle.After learning the news of the fall of Itsukushima, Tao Longfang, who was impatient, couldn't sit still, but at this time he couldn't immediately take down the Yoshimi family's Tsuwano Castle, but he couldn't retreat immediately (otherwise he would suffer from the Yoshimi family. It can be said that he can neither advance nor retreat, Mao Liyuan chose to make trouble at this juncture, which really made him feel like he was on pins and needles.

"My lord, why don't you negotiate a peace with the Jijian family, and then transfer the main force of the family to Anyi Kingdom to fight against this villain, Mao Liyuan?" Seeing this situation, the retainer Hongzhong Longbao suggested.

"What, let me ask for peace with that nasty guy Yoshimi Masarai?" Hearing Hongzhong Longbao's suggestion, Tao Longfang immediately became furious.It is because of Ji Jianzhenglai that this guy always comes to harass the territory of the Tao family like a fly, which made Tao Longfang greatly slow down the speed of integrating the various forces in his family. All the forces have been integrated, so he naturally wants to find Shangjijian Zhenglai to express his anger.Therefore, there is absolutely no possibility for him to take the initiative to ask Yoshimi Masahiro for peace.

"My lord, if that's the case, why don't you follow Ouchisuke's suggestion and ask him to intervene in this matter?" The retainer Miura Fangqing also said.Ouchisuke is the collective name of the previous governors of the Ouchi family. At this time, he is referring to the puppet Ouchi Yoshinaga who was promoted by Tao Longfang.

As soon as Miura Fangqing said this, all the retainers in the big tent, including Hongzhong Longbao, shook their heads slightly in their hearts.Expect that Ouchi Yoshinaga who has no prestige at home to come forward?What else can mediation look like?Mao Liyuan simply ignored this puppet governor.

"Mediate with Mao Liyuan on this villain? No. Mao Liyuan is just a small wealthy family. How can the family take the initiative to mediate with him?" Tao Longfang also immediately rejected Miura Fangqing's suggestion.Actually.Tao Longfang has long been dissatisfied with the Maori family. When he attacked the Jijian family, Tao Longfang sent people to ask the Maori family to participate in this expedition as a servant army, but Mao Liyuan sent him a Tao Longfang's request was rejected on the grounds that he needed to deal with the threat from Nizi's family.This made Tao Longfang already dissatisfied.This is also one of the reasons why Tao Longfang decisively took action against Jiang Liang's family when Mao Liyuan spread the rumors that "Jiang Liang's family is trying to respond to Mao Liyuan's internal affairs" in various places in Zhoufang.

However, although Tao Longfang was already dissatisfied with the Maori family.And he has the intention of beating the entire Mori family, but in his eyes, Mori Moto is still the same as it was ten or 20 years ago. It is just a small turtle in Yoshida County, Anyun Country, and its threat level is far less than that of Iwami Country. A big family like the Yoshimi family.To deal with the Maori family, it only needs a partial division. Even if the Maori family cannot be dealt with, it can completely contain the Maori family.

If Zhengliang were here, he would definitely laugh at Tao Longfang's idea.The so-called knowing oneself and knowing the enemy can be victorious in all battles.Not only did Tao Longfang not send people to learn more about the enemy’s power situation (this is a common problem of most wealthy families in the Wa country. They ignored the role of scouts and ninjas), but he also flamboyantly ignored the fact that the Ouchi family stayed in Bingo country, Prepare China's power attribution.He also self-righteously thought that those local wealthy families who had surrendered to the Ouchi family at the beginning, like him, had betrayed the Ouchi family and then became independent after being killed by Ouchi Yoshitaka (of course, the more important reason is that Tao Longfang It is believed that the Maori family does not have the strength to integrate the power of these wealthy families).

It is precisely because of this mentality of underestimating the enemy that Tao Longfang finally decided: "To deal with the Maori family, let the wealthy families near Anyiguo raise another army to attack."

Therefore, after consideration, Tao Longfang decided that the main force would continue to attack the Yoshimi family's Tsuwano Castle with all its strength, and at the same time mobilize some local wealthy families in the Yamashiro and Sasai counties of Zhou Fangguo to form a special task force to recover Sakurao Castle and Itsukushima, etc. land.In mid-June, Zhou Fangguo's local tyrants in Yamashiro and Zuoxi counties obeyed Tao Longfang's order and mobilized to attack the Maori family.

The time quickly passed to mid-July, when the local nobles in Yamashiro and Sasai counties of Zhou Fangguo were still mobilizing their troops, and Mao Liyuan on Yandao was also building a reinforced defense line.Luo's family also ushered in a good harvest.

The reason is that the population statistics and land inspections of the Luo family have finally been released. Not only the situation of the newly occupied areas has been counted, but also the original territory of the Luo family has undergone new and gratifying changes after a period of development. The specific situation is:

For the Hizen Kingdom, all the income of the territory (that is, the income of all the territories including land production and various mining workshops) has increased to 45 shi, and the total population has also increased by 30, including 17 young and strong. There are 7 children, and the population of Ming Dynasty is 8.

In the case of Hihou, the total income of the territory has increased to 37 shi, and the total population has also increased by 22, including 13 young and strong, 5 children, and 5 people in the Ming Dynasty.

As for Chikugo, the total income of the territory has increased to 33 shi, and the total population has also increased by 16, including 10 young and strong, 4 children, and 5 people in the Ming Dynasty.

As for the Chikuzen Kingdom, the total income of the territory has increased to 34 shi, and the total population has also increased by 18, including 8 young adults, 3 children, and [-] people in the Ming Dynasty.

For Bungo Kingdom, the total income of the territory has increased to 40 shi, and the total population has also increased by 25, including 13 young adults, 6 children, and 1 people in the Ming Dynasty.

For Bungzen Kingdom, the total income of the territory is 14 shi, and the total population is 12, including 6 young adults, 3 children, and 1 people in Ming Dynasty.

As for Nagato Country, since it only occupies the Toyoura County and the Kanmon Strait area, the total income of the territory is only 1 koku, and the total population is 3000, including 4000 young adults and 7000 children.As for Iki Island, the total income of the territory is about 4000 koku, and the total population is 2000, including [-] young adults and [-] children.Since the territory secretly occupied by the Luo family in the Hyuga country is too small and the population is not large, it can almost be ignored.

In general, until July of the 23rd year of Tianwen, the total income of the Luo family's territory has reached 1205 million shi, and the total population has reached 68 million, including 29 young and strong, 22 children, Ming has a population of [-].

During this period of time, the population of the Ming Kingdom had the fastest population increase.Due to the natural disasters and civil strife in the Ming country, many Ming refugees, with the help of Wang Hai, Shitou and others, chose to settle in the territory of the Luo family. has increased substantially.

Of course, during this period, after seeing such a large number of Ming people, some retainers immediately thought, since it seems that the people of Ming came to the territory of the Luo family from Ming so easily, why not vigorously carry out cooperation with the Luo family? What about trade in the Ming Dynasty?

But these retainers need to see that the population of 22 in the Ming Dynasty was transported to the Luo family's territory after more than ten years of ants moving. In fact, the average annual population is less than [-]. Population (in reality, since people will actively cooperate, it is much simpler and more convenient to transport people than to transport materials).Similarly, the so-called trade is just a sneaky sea smuggling trade under the background of the Ming Dynasty banning the sea (not only the Ming Dynasty banned the sea, but even North Korea also restricted the scale of foreign trade). Without official support, the scale of trade cannot be expanded.Unless you launch a large-scale naval battle and completely defeat the navy of these countries.

In addition, the undeveloped high-sea navigation technology and the dense pirate forces in the ocean also greatly restricted the development of high-sea trade.Of course, the Luo family can also vigorously introduce the shipbuilding technology of the Southern Barbarians and the Ming people, and then build a powerful long-sea trading fleet to conduct trade.However, during this period, the Luo's family had to ignore the needs of the local strategy, and invested almost all resources in building it, and the building cycle was quite long.Based on the local historical background at this time, I am afraid that before the Luo family's long-distance trading fleet is built, the Luo family will be wiped out by other big names (even their own survival is a problem, let alone the waters of other countries. The topic of naval warfare and the like).

When they got here, some retainers would be puzzled. Now that the income of the Luo family's territory has reached 200 million shi, they don't even have enough financial resources to build a long-distance fleet?

First of all, we must look at the territorial income of more than 200 million stones realistically.Based on the current population of 120 million in the territory, even if the Luo family shared all the income among the citizens of the territory, the average income of each citizen would only be a little more than one stone.How can such income feed so many people?

Of course, it cannot be calculated in this way in practice. After all, these incomes are just the extra income of the local residents. After so many years of development, the local residents in the Luo family's territory have actually gotten rid of the previous habit of relying on annual income to survive. Instead, they changed to relying on food reserves at home to survive.But in any case, from this calculation method, it can be seen that even with an income of 200 million shi, it is not easy to completely feed these people. In practice, the income of 200 million shi is not much. After going to the daily consumption of the territory, there is even a little less.

However, the consumption of building a long-distance fleet is really a lot. Zheng Liang really can't figure out how much manpower and material resources will be consumed during this period.However, from the year before last to last year, in the process of building the first small blessing boat, it took more than a year for the Luo family shipbuilding workshop, from preparing materials and materials to going to sea for sea trials, and the construction time is not short. .Moreover, the manpower and material resources consumed during the period were astonishing. At least Zhengliang would never invest in this field like a fool. After all, the strategy on land is the focus of the Luo family at this time, which is a matter of survival. ah. (to be continued..)