Warring States Eagle

While Jiro Saburo was still distressed by the misery that Imakawa Yoshimoto brought to his family, Zheng Liang also encountered good and bad things here.

It was already May at this time, and after some pacification, the Yamabushi riots in the territory controlled by Nagato, Zhou Fangguo, and Anyi Kingdom's Luo family had basically been wiped out, and the navy led by Li Huamei had also arrived in Nagato half a month ago. Jiandao County in the country.In the territory of Nagato State and Zhou Fang State, only Huanglong City and Marsh City are still resisting at this time, but at this time these two cities have been surrounded by the Luo family's army, and they have become isolated islands where no water can enter.

For these two walled cities, Zheng Liang did not plan to attack them by force, but planned to besiege them.Given the current situation of these two strongholds, sooner or later the food in the city will be eaten up, and it will be the time for them to open the city and surrender. What awaits them is the fate of becoming slaves of the Luo family.

As for the only remaining Maori family nests in Takata County and Shanxian County in Anyi Country, the two armies of the Luo family are confronting the Maori family army here.Due to the continuous battle, a large number of young and strong were drawn to deal with the attack of the Luo family, which also seriously affected the spring plowing of the Maori family this year, even in the area of ​​influence of the Maori family in Bingo and Beigo. At this moment, it is not comfortable at all, and the strategic reserves of the Maori family will also be seriously depleted.Relatively speaking, as for the Luo family, as the main force of the battle, they are basically out of production. Their annual salary is enough to meet the food and clothing of a family of five for a year, and naturally there is no need to cultivate the fields.Of course, in order to accumulate more wealth, in fact, these standing homes still have land.Their fields would be worked by their own families or hired others to help them.And those reserve and temporary farmers and soldiers who also participated in the war.In this special period.The members of the Luo family's cabinet will arrange slaves or hired personnel to help their family members plow the fields in their family, so as to complete the spring plowing in time.Therefore, fighting in the season of spring plowing has little impact on the Luo family.

In addition, the Tsushima clan, who had been unwilling to submit to the Luo family before, also formally surrendered to the Luo family at this time.In fact, it would be impossible for the Tsushima clan, which has been controlling the island, to surrender at this time.Before the Battle of Itsukushima, in order to confuse Tao Qingxian and Mori Motojo.To make the two men feel at ease to fight hard on Itsukushima, Masara deliberately gathered more than 800 naval warships on the western coast of Hizen Kingdom, and headed for Tsushima in a mighty manner under the banner of going to Tsushima Island.Facing the huge Luo family's navy that was surging, he knew that if his dozens of naval warships went to fight the Luo's family's navy at sea at this time, they would definitely not be the opponents of the Luo's family. It was just to "send" the boat to the Luo family.So at the suggestion of Sasu Morimoto, the chief minister of the Luo family who had secretly taken refuge in the Luo family, after some consideration, Yoshimune, the governor of the Tsushima clan, simply sold the ships of his own navy to the local Tsushima island Merchants, let these merchants drive their boats to leave Tsushima Island first.He rushed to the defense line of Jeju Island in the Korean waters to seek refuge, while Zongyi Tiao gathered all the ashigaru sailors in the city of Jinshi, together with the temporarily summoned farmers and soldiers.Get ready for a full-on cage battle.

According to common sense, when your own navy is completely unable to resist the opponent, or even be plundered by the opponent, sell these navy ships to local merchants on the spot, so as to obtain enough food and concentrate more It is the best way to use troops to defend the city for the upcoming battle of the cage city.

But when Zong Yidiao thought about it carefully at that time, he would find something wrong with it.Because since the Luo family has taken control of Hizen Country, Chikuzen Country, Iki Island, and the southern part of Nagato Country, the Luo Family has actually blocked all sea trade routes near these areas at this time. Next, regarding the trade with Tsushima Island, the Luo family does not allow any merchants to import food, minerals, gold and silver and other materials to Tsushima Island, but allows Tsushima Island to export any materials to the outside world.

Under such circumstances, Tsushima can only purchase items such as food, minerals, gold and silver with the Ouchi family who still occupy the central and northern part of Nagato country, as well as the wealthy families in Iwami country and Izumo country. .However, because the trade route blocked by the Luo family is the main trade route between Tsushima Island and various parts of the Wa Kingdom, since Tsushima Island, there have been very few merchants on the island selling materials such as grain, gold and silver.

Under such circumstances, when Zong Yidiao suddenly decided to sell the ships of the navy in his hand, why did so many merchants suddenly appear with enough food in their hands?This is too much of a coincidence, right?many words

In fact, this is not a coincidence at all. Some of these businessmen are businessmen who have secretly taken refuge in the Luo family’s official business house, Luo’s house, and some are simply disguised by the Luo’s house. Some of these people are businessmen on the surface, but secretly It's the eyeliner of the Luo family's Intelligence Pavilion.What's more, the use of grain procurement to target the ships of the Ma family's navy was secretly assisted by the important officials of the Zong family, the Sasu family, so the whole transaction process was naturally extremely smooth.

And Zongyi Diao, who got a lot of food through the sale of ships, immediately mobilized the islanders with all his heart and soul, and together with the navy ashigaru who lost the warship, they gathered in Jinshi City, Zongjia's home city, and prepared to resist the Luo family's attack with all their strength. invasion.

It's just unexpected that the mighty Luo family's navy circled around the outskirts of Tsushima Island, and by the way secretly took away the navy ships that Zongyi Tiao had just sold in another sea area. , directly draw an arc on the sea, head east, and prepare to intervene in the Battle of Itsukushima.

Zong Yidiao, who was preparing for a fierce cage battle, just stood on the castle tower of Jinshi City, watching the Luo family's navy fleet gradually disappearing from sight, and finally cried out "My Sailor!" Then he spurted blood and passed out.

Afterwards, Zong Yidiao naturally hoped to form a navy again. After all, as an island, it would be very dangerous if it did not have its own navy.But it is easy to sell ships, but difficult to buy them.The commercial route, which was the main source of ships, was blocked by the Luo family, and they could only rely on sources from Nagato, Iwami, Izumo and other places. Obviously, it was difficult to form a navy again in a short period of time.Since it is not possible to buy ships directly.So how about buying the ingredients and making it yourself?But Tsushima lacks enough craftsmen and materials.Hire craftsmen and buy raw materials.Immediately, they encountered the same problem of blocked trade routes as buying ships directly.

Find a way to North Korea?This is impossible. At this time, North Korea is restricting trade with Tsushima Island. The trading time and list of trading materials are fixed every year, and North Korea mainly sells materials such as ores and special products. Instead, they bought food, gold and silver, and Japanese specialties. Even North Korean smugglers traded similarly to the official ones. The Zong family couldn't buy the materials they needed from North Korea.In this situation.Naturally, it is impossible to find a way from North Korea.

The room leak happened to rain overnight, and just when Zong Yidiao was worried about forming a self-protecting navy again, another shocking news came from the Western Kingdom. The family was destroyed, and even the Jijian family, a powerful family in Shijian country, also asked the Luo family for peace.This is really a bolt from the blue for Tsushima Island.

As the Luo family takes control of the above-mentioned areas, the last remaining maritime trade route between Tsushima Island and Nagato, Iwami, Izumo, and even further regions will be controlled by the Luo family. The coast of Nagato country blocked it.After the Luo family's blockade policy, Tsushima Island will no longer be able to obtain food, gold and silver and other materials.

Without these materials, how will Tsushima maintain its trade with North Korea, which is an important economic pillar of the island? After all, the grain, gold and silver that are the main trade materials with North Korea are gone.North Korea will naturally not trade with Tsushima Island.What's more serious is that there are many mountains and forests on the island.The fields are scarce, and with the continuation of the Luo family's blockade policy, there will be a crisis of food shortage on the island sooner or later. Under such circumstances, how will the clan's ruling foundation on the island be maintained?I'm afraid those retainers will be the first to make trouble.

Sure enough, before Zongyi came back to his senses, the vassals on the island headed by Morimoto Sasu of the Sasu family and the powerful clan immediately united and asked the Zong family to negotiate with the Luo family on behalf of Tsushima Island to resolve the issue. The food crisis that the island will face.In desperation, Zong Yidiao had no choice but to send an envoy to Zhou Fangguo's Yamaguchi Castle on a non-stop merchant ship, and made a request to Zheng Liang.

Faced with Tsushima's request, Masaragi only gave three conditions. One is that Tsushima formally submits to the Luo family; The Luo family will send new retainers to the island to fully take over Tsushima Island.The third is to hand over the certificates of trade with North Korea and other documents, and send personnel to help the Luo family trade with North Korea under the banner of the clan.

The reason why Zhengliang had not attacked Tsushima Island before was mainly because the Luo family's navy had limited power at that time, and he did not want to cause losses to his own navy in the battle with the Tsushima navy.The second is that they don't want to force the Tsushima family to destroy the certificate of trade with North Korea. After all, the North Korean official at this time only recognizes this certificate and the banner of the clan.

The trade between North Korea and Japan has a long history. When the two parties traded, North Korea opened its coastal seaports.And the Zong family, which was the guardian of Tsushima Island, was also very strong at the beginning, enough to guarantee the trade with North Korea and ensure the smooth progress of the trade.It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. With the appearance of more and more Japanese pirates, the clan fell into weakness again, which led to the invasion of Japanese pirates along the coast of North Korea. Situation of the island.In the end, an agreement was signed between Tsushima Island and North Korea. The North Korean side is no longer opening up the coast, but adopts the method of sea-ship trade. At a fixed time every year, sea-going ships are used to transport materials and conduct trade.If the Luo family wants to maintain this kind of trade with North Korea after capturing Tsushima Island, they must obtain the official trade documents and certificates between the Zong family and North Korea, and it is best to use the banner of the Zong family.

This time, since Tsushima took the initiative to give in, Zheng Liang naturally wanted to take the opportunity to retain the right to trade with North Korea while acquiring Tsushima.In order to threaten the other party, Zhengliang directly stated that if the people on Tsushima Island do not agree to these three or two demands, the Luo family will not only continue to strengthen the trade blockade on Tsushima Island, but also send naval forces to attack Tsushima Island.In order to cooperate with Zhengliang's intimidation, Li Huamei, the commander of the First Standing Navy, was ordered to dispatch a navy fleet to cruise in the waters around Tsushima Island, as if ready to attack at any time.

The request and action of the Luo family immediately caused a commotion on the island, and they were divided into two camps, those who surrendered and those who opposed the surrender. In the end, led by the Sasu family, the side that surrendered to the Luo family gained the upper hand, and the side that surrendered to the Luo family gained the upper hand. With the explicit support of the family, Zong Yitiao, the governor of the Zong family, was forced to agree to all the requests of the Luo family.

After completely surrendering to the Luo family, and leaving behind the certificate of trade with North Korea and the members of the clan who assisted in the trade, the rest of the clan was forced to move to Kyushu Hizen to settle down, and Zongyi Tiao, who was the governor of the clan, also went into seclusion with the family , obviously, he is not willing to work for the Luo family.Since then, the Luo family has formally and completely controlled Tsushima Island.

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