Warring States Eagle

Preparations for the Battle of Itsukushima began in July last year. In September, the Luo family officially intervened. In October, they completely defeated the Tao and Maori armies that were fighting. From the end of October, the Luo family took advantage of the victory and pursued the battle. Zhoufang, Anyi, and Bingo fought many battlefields on land and along the coast. Until the beginning of March this year, this battle lasted nearly eleven months from the beginning of preparations to the finalization of the overall situation. ?. .

During this period, the Luo family used almost all of their war preparations, and the specific war preparations consumed during the war are still being counted.With the lifting of the ban on the sea area and the description of some of the participants who escaped, people gradually learned about the situation of this great war.As a result, the Luo family, which once again occupied several countries in one fell swoop, once again became the talk of the people after dinner.

Yoshida-gun Yamashiro, Aki Country.Although it is already early spring, the location of Yoshida-gun Yamashiro is in the high mountain area of ​​Anyi country, so the temperature at this time is still a bit cold.In the courtyard where Mori Moto lived, the orange tree that Ouchi Yoshitaka gave away was still lifeless at this moment.

"Hey!" Mao Liyuan sighed after gently putting down the "Three Sons Lesson Form" in his hand.In addition, it also mentioned a lot of Mao Liyuan's experience in managing the family. For example, the second article mentioned: "Yuanchun's Miao character is now Jichuan. Longjing Miao's character is Kobayakawa, but don't forget the family's Maori";

The fifth article mentions: "Everything in the family should be handled by the three brothers together, but if the opinions are not unified, Yuan Chun and Long Jing, you still have to listen to the elder brother, the elders and the younger are orderly";

Article [-] says, "Your father and I are still very powerful in my old age. After your mother passed away, I took a few concubines and gave birth to a few babies. They are all very young. If they are generals in the future, they will Give them a share of the territory of the distant country, if you are incompetent, please also read it for the sake of the fact that everyone is a family, keep it by your side, and don't embarrass them."In fact, future generations can take a look at these lessons and these few items together, so they can probably get some content about the Maori family's ruling system from it!

Before the Battle of Itsukushima, the Mori family finally became the leader of the small countrymen of the Aki Kingdom through Mori Moto's own efforts, and the core group of its rule was the "two rivers" system of Yoshikawa and Kobayakawa.At the bottom are Fukuhara, Kouha, Zhidao, and Gui, a group of wealthy families. On the periphery are half-officials and half-friends, Kumagai, Shishido, and Amano. mode.

This model governs one country and two countries.But once the company continues to expand, the original family-style management method, which was only suitable for small and medium-sized private enterprises, immediately becomes unsuitable.

Long before the Battle of Itsukushima, Mao Liyuan gradually realized the problem of this method. In order to better adapt to the expanded rule of the Maori family, he continued to reuse blood relatives and common people, such as letting the fourth son Yuan Qing The Hoida family inherited Beichukuo, the fifth son Motonaki inherited the Tomita family in Izumo, and the sixth son Motoku inherited the Dewa family in Iwami Country, etc.To digest the vast new territory.Each is responsible for the offense and defense of an area.

At the same time, he also established a "four-member collegiate assembly" at home.In addition to Futagawa, Fukuhara Sadatoshi and Kouwa Tongliang were added. In terms of duties, Yoshikawa Motoharu and Kouwa Tongliang are responsible for the military administration in the direction of Yamagata. The military administration in the direction of Yangdao is for the "Southern Army Corps". No matter how big or small, the family governor Long Yuan discusses with these four.All of the above are the measures that Maori Yuan implemented in advance in order to better adapt to the development of the expanded Maori family after he expected to win the Battle of Itsukushima.

In addition to completing the above-mentioned measures, in history, Morimoto also expanded the "scope" of the external alliance after the victory of the Battle of Itsukushima. Before that, it was the wave of Kumagai and Shishido in the Aki Kingdom. Later, Ishimi Masuda and Yoshimi of the big tycoons, Naito of Zhoufang Nagato, Shimizu of Bichu, and Nanjo of Hoki have all become Maori's "strategic partners". satellite country.

It can be said that in the first half of the Warring States Period, due to the reforms implemented by the Maori family under the auspices of Motozuru Maori, the Maori family became the famous name that ruled the Western Kingdom.But with the continuous development of history, in the middle and late Warring States period, Mao Liyuan found that this set of ruling system could not keep up with the needs of development. He planned to carry out reforms, but at this time the original ruling system had already been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. And it affected the stability of the family. Once changes were made, Mao Liyuan would not be sure what would happen. In addition, he was already old and frail at this time, and he had no energy, so he could only sigh "Mao Liyuan On the surface, the family has the power of several countries or even ten countries, but the foundation is Aki and Bingo, and they are not qualified to compete for world hegemony."

Tradition is naturally good, otherwise how could it become a tradition?But tradition is not good either, it will eventually become a stumbling block to innovation and development.Just as Maori Moto had expected, after his death, the next few generations of Maori in the Maori family held on to the "essence" of the "Lessons of the Three Sons", and lost the style of Oda Nobunaga in vain. The opportunity for the evolution of the regime was to fight against the Oda family first, and they were repeatedly defeated. They could hardly survive under the onslaught of Oda Nobunaga's new army. The Maori family has not completely reformed the model of blood relatives and alliances, which has laid the bane for the failure of the competition for the world.

Of course, Mori Moto hadn't fully realized this yet. He just discovered the shortcomings of the family's ruling system at this time, and made remedies in advance before the Itsukushima World War I. That's all.But what he didn't expect was that the result, which seemed to be a sure thing, was finally taken away by the Luo family who appeared out of thin air.Every time he thought of this, Mao Liyuan wished he could pick up the sword and slash the governor of the Luo family, Luo Shi Zhengliang, countless times, making the opponent Ling Chi over and over again.

During the Battle of Itsukushima, the Luo family not only deprived the Mori family of the opportunity to annex the broken ship of the Ouchi family, but was even beaten back overnight by the Luo family before liberation.

In this battle, so far, Mori Moto has learned that the retainers who have been confirmed to have lost in this war include Kodama Yukata, Iida Yoshitake, Kumagai Nobunao, Sansu Fangqing, Nami Zongsheng, etc. More than [-] people, and families such as Kumagai, Kodama, Iida, Naomi, Kiki, Nisato, and Itoga have almost suffered genocide. Even Takashi Amano, Fukuhara Sadatoshi, The family territories of Xiangchuan Guangjing, Gui Yuancheng and others also fell into the hands of the Luo family.What's more terrible is that, as Morimoto, the Kobayakawa family in the Liangchuan system that he had painstakingly built over the years, was also captured with the third son Kobayakawa Takakage, and the Kobayakawa family's territory in the eastern part of Anyi Kingdom was captured. collapsed.

In terms of military power, in the First Battle of Itsukushima, the tens of thousands of people who managed to put together a large army were almost wiped out. Some of them were taken as prisoners of the Luo family and surrendered to the Luo family, while some died in battle. During the Battle of Itsukushima.Even the last part of the die-hards who hid on Itsukushima and were unwilling to surrender would eventually be hunted down by the local residents of Itsukushima and died under spear gun dung.

What's more terrible is that even though they aggressively invaded the territory of the Maori family in various parts of the Anyi country, the Luo family still pursued closely and directly entered the border of the old territory where the Maori family started. Mountain County.The Luo family is going to kill them all.

Therefore, Mao Liyuan decided to fight for his life with the Luo family.While using the combat experience he had accumulated throughout his life, he dealt with the invading Luo family's army at the border of the two counties. At the same time, he urgently dispatched pro-Mori family reinforcements from Bingo Country and even Bei China, determined to fight the Luo family to the end.Fortunately, before going out to battle Yandao, he, who had always been cautious, deployed enough troops in these two lairs to avoid being attacked by Nizi's family, but now he was using them to fight against Luo's family.

Of course, as the Luo family defeated themselves and the Ouchi family in the Battle of Itsukushima, and even seized the opportunity to invade the territories of the Ouchi family in Anyi Country, Zhou Fang Country, and Nagato Country, the power structure in the Western Region will be greatly affected. changes, which caused a lot of commotion.

This can be seen from the information recently sent back from the country of Bingo, and even China from Beihou. )