In late March of the 21st year of astronomical twentieth year (1552), in this busy season when spring plowing began, heavy rainstorms occurred in Kitakyushu and Nishiko, and some areas even had hail.

The Luo family army, who were originally preparing to enter the southeast of Fengqian Kingdom, had to temporarily station at the junction of Zhucheng County and Shangmao County of Fengqian Kingdom. They were preparing to move forward after this special weather.

But what the Luo family did not expect was that due to continuous heavy rains, a major natural disaster occurred in the Luo family territory. The root cause of the disaster was Yuxu Mountain, which separated the Jiqian Kingdom and the central and northern parts of Fengqian Kingdom.

Last year, a fire in Yuxu Mountain lasted from September to the end of the year. After burning for more than three months, it finally went out in a spring rain at the beginning of this year. It was only because a large amount of vegetation in Yuxu Mountain was burned out, and the new saplings did not have time to grow again in a short period of time. So in this continuous rainstorm, a large number of mountain torrents and mudslides formed in Yuxu Mountain. These mountain torrents and mudslides continued to flow to the lower places along the terrain. In this way, the three counties of Yuanhe, Anshou, Kama, and Fengqian Guoda River located in the west of Yuxu Mountain, and the three counties of Kyoto were damaged to varying degrees. A large number of fields and villages were flooded by floods and mudslides.

What's even more severe is that as the precipitation continues, the water levels of rivers such as the Chihou River and Yuanhe River in the Luo Family Territory began to soar. Although due to previous water conservancy construction, the flooding of the Chihou River is not likely to be large. However, the rivers in the newly occupied territory of the Chihou Kingdom, such as the Chihou Kingdom and Fengqian Kingdom, had not had time to carry out water conservancy construction, so the Chihou Kingdom and Fengqian Kingdom instantly became the areas with the most severe natural disasters in the Luo Family Territory.

In such weather, not only can we continue military operations, but we must also quickly invest in rescue in the affected areas. Otherwise, the autumn harvest in these areas will definitely be greatly affected this year. The Luo family has finally accumulated a lot of food and other materials in the past two years.

During the intense disaster relief, May soon came, and the disaster was finally greatly stopped. But just as the Luo family had just taken a breath, the typhoon season came again. This year's typhoon came very violently, not only the entire Kyushu, but also all parts of Japan were affected to varying degrees. So in such weather, most of the wealthy families in various places stopped fighting each other and began to deal with the invasion of the typhoon.

In September, the autumn harvest season. Zhengliang, who finally recovered from the response to natural disasters for several consecutive months, received news that made him hesitate.

It turned out that the Nagato and Zhoufangguo areas were famined on a large scale this year.

The cause of this great famine is both a natural disaster and a man-made disaster. There is no need to say much about the natural disaster. Even the Luo family, which has always attached importance to internal affairs, was exhausted by the special weather this year, not to mention these local heroes from Nagato and Zhou Fangguo who do not attach great importance to internal affairs?

The man-made disaster was caused by Tao Longfang's army raising troops to rebel last year. After killing Yoshitaka Ouchi, the chaos caused in Nagato and Zhou Fangguo continued until May and June this year, resulting in delays in spring plowing in many places in the local area.

In addition, Yoshimi Masara, the great family of Ishimi Kingdom, invaded Nagamon Kingdom with the banner of avenging his brother-in-law Ouchi Yoshitaka from the end of last year to the beginning of this year. For this reason, Tao Longfang had to fight. Since the western and northern areas of Nagamon Kingdom were mountainous and transporting food was too troublesome, Tao Longfang simply increased the grain taxes to the local hierarchy. This move and the repeated battles with Yoshimi family also greatly affected the local internal affairs of Nagamon Kingdom and Zhou Fangguo. The consequences finally broke out after this autumn harvest, and a large number of hierarchy people formed a famine due to the lack of food.

In history, this great famine between Nagamon and Zhou Fangguo did occur. However, Masayoshi always thought that this famine was caused by man-made disasters, and now I understand that the influence of natural disasters is indispensable. Such civil strife between Nagamon and Zhou Fangguo is a good time for the Luo family to take the opportunity to invade the local area. However, Masayoshi also hesitated because of this.

Among the goals set by Masayoshi, the Luo family has always been the first goal to achieve in the next step among the goals set by Masayoshi. As for other goals, they can be temporarily suspended.

If the Luo family sends troops to Nagamon and Zhou Fangguo, then after being harmed by such a natural disaster this year, the strategic materials stored in the Luo family's warehouse are not allowed to be carried out at the same time in multiple directions, the Luo family is likely to suspend the strategy of the eastern part of Fengqian Kingdom and the northeast of Fengqian Kingdom under the control of the Otomo family.

Just when Zhengliang was hesitating about this, Zhou Fang's Tao Longfang sent an envoy to Zhengliang. Tao Longfang actually planned to use the land of Fengpu County in the Changmen Kingdom, plus a population of 3,000 to exchange for the support of the Luo family's 40,000 stones of grain and an alliance with the Luo family.

Seeing Tao Longfang's conditions, Masayoshi first scolded Tao Longfang for being shameless. The southern areas bordering the Luo family in Nagato's country were actually controlled by the Naito family. Tao Longfang now only controls the western and northern areas of the county with mountains and forests. In writing, it is said that this county was given to the Luo family, but in fact, Tao Longfang only lost the western and northern areas with barren land. As for the relatively flat and fertile southern areas, the Luo family still had to fight for it.

But Zhengliang immediately felt strange. Judging from this situation, it seemed that the Naito family, who had been wearing the same pair of pants as the Tao family, had a quarrel with the Tao family. You know, since Tao Longfang said that it had given Fengpu County to the Luo family, it naturally included the Naito family's nest and the southern part of Fengpu County. In other words, if the Luo family had taken the opportunity to fight against the area, Tao Longfang would not have come out to support the Naito family. Tao Longfang was using a knife to kill people again! But why did Tao Longfang want to use a knife to kill people?

Zhengliang knew that Tao Longfang was in trouble with internal and external affairs at this time.

Since last year, he negotiated peace with the Luo family and brought Ouchi Yoshinaga back to Zhou Fang's house, Ouchi Yoshinaga (actually called Ouchi Haruhie) became the family governor under the protection of Tao Longfang. Even Tao Longfang also received a word "未" from Ouchi Haruhie's name and changed it to Tao Qingxian. However, as an outsider, Ouchi Haruhie could not win over Zhou Fang's country at all. The rich people of the Ouchi family in Nagamon Country are still in chaos everywhere.

Later, rumors were heard that Tao Qingxian and the Luo family had colluded privately to instigate Fengqian to protect the Daishan Shigezuki family. This made Tao Qingxian lose hearts and made the family panic and split. At this time, Naito Xinglong (also known as Naito Takashi), who was one of Tao Qingxian's iron players, suddenly died suddenly.

In fact, Naito Yoshitaka has always been weak and sickly (it is estimated that his father Naito Yoshimori planned to marry the young and beautiful Aso Ki. In addition to strengthening his connection with the Aso family, he also had plans to cheer him up). In history, he actually died earlier than his father Naito Yoshimori. So Naito Yoshimori, who was still alive at that time, appointed his grandson Naito Takae (that is, Naito Yoshinoki's legitimate son) as the governor of the Naito family after his legitimate son Naito Yoshinoki died.

Unfortunately, due to the emergence of the Luo family, Naito Yoshimori died several years earlier than in history. Now he has only succeeded as the family governor two years ago. Naito Yoshimori died suddenly again after three years, and even the heir to the position of the family governor was not designated. Although traditionally, Naito Yoshimori's legitimate son Naito Takashi's successor Naito Takashi's uncle Naito Takashi (Nito Yoshimori's fifth son and Naito Takashi's younger brother) had the idea of ​​inheriting the family governor. So Naito Takashi and Naito Takashi's quarrel started.

However, both Naito Takashi and Naito Takaharu had great caution about Tao Longfang after rumors of Tao Longfang colluding with the Luo family. They even had the idea of ​​breaking away from Tao Longfang's control and dominating the Nagato country. (The emergence of the Luo family greatly changed the history of the Naito family. In history, with the help of his grandfather Naito Hiromori, Naito Takashi would successfully inherit the position of the family governor, and even be a die-hard ally of Tao Longfang. Now Naito Takashi not only wants to compete with his uncle for the position of the family governor, but also has great conflicts with Tao Longfang.)

After learning from the idea that Takao Naito Takao and Takahura Naito were both planning to be independent through the Sei-Written writer lurking in Naito's family (Hei-Written is an important official of the Naito family), Tao Longfang simply decided to take advantage of the Naito family's disagreement and do whatever he wanted. Since he had already used the sword of the Luo family to kill Sugi-Juzuki, now he would just kill the Naito family, and he could just take the opportunity to annex the Naito family's territory in Nagato Country.

However, there are still turmoil in various parts of the Zhou Fangguo and Nagato. Yoshimi Masara of Ishimi, and Yoshimi Masara of Ishimi, came to Tao Longfang from time to time to fight (the Yoshimi family and the Tao family have a deep blood hatred. Since the Yingren chaos, the two families have been fighting for decades. When Yoshimitsu was reigned, in order to win over Yoshimi family, they married their sister to Yoshimi's governor Yoshimi's family. Yoshimi Masara was a kind and kind person. After becoming Yoshimi's brother-in-law, they have been loyal to the Ouchi family. Now that his brother-in-law, Ouchi Yoshimi was harmed by the traitor Tao Longfang. In addition, the feud with the Tao family raised the banner of revenge for Yoshimi, and naturally they had no choice but to do so), which made Tao Longfang no time to distribute more troops to deal with the Naito family. So Tao Longfang thought of the Luo family again.

Tao Longfang's idea was very simple. He used the hands of the Luo family to remove the Naito family, and then gave the Toyoura County controlled by the Naito family to the Luo family. He himself annexed the forces of the Naito family in other counties in Nagato country.
Chapter completed!