In late May of the 23rd year of the First World, with the suicide of Otoyoshi Town, under the deliberate publicity of the Luo Family Detective Fan, the news of Otoyoshi Town's death quickly spread to various parts of Kyushu, and then continued to spread to Shikoku, Kyoto, Kanto and other regions.

The reason why the Intelligence Pavilion deliberately promoted this news was, on the one hand, to enhance the centripetal force of its own territory and the people of the Luo family, causing the forces in the Luo family to lose confidence in the Luo family inside and outside the Luo family's territory; on the other hand, to enhance the reputation of the Luo family in Japan, so that the allies of the Luo family have more confidence in the Luo family, and the hostile forces of the Luo family became even more terrified.

As the news of Otoyoshi's death spread, the former minister of the Otoyo family, entrenched in the Haibe County of Toyoko, the Sahiro family first received the news. The Sahiro family's governor, Sahiro, felt sad, and immediately felt a sense of crisis. As the Luo family occupied the northeastern part of the Fenghou Kingdom, the only half of the Haibe County occupied by the Sahiro family in the middle of Toyoko, has not been conquered by the Luo family. Next, the Sahiro family's territory is naturally the primary target of the Luo family's attack. Thinking of this, Sahiro family immediately sent people to the Ithiro family, which was in the Hitoko country, to join forces with the Ithiro family to fight against the Luo family. While protecting its own territory, it also attempted to seek an opportunity to retaliate against the Luo family.

At a beach in Shiguo, Usuki, who also received the news of Otoyoshi's death, also came to the beach and worshiped him in the direction of Toyoko Country. In addition to his lord Otoyoshi himself, he also worshiped his family members. The Usuki clan was almost exterminated this time.

"It seems that we must accept the other party's conditions." After Utsuki's speed audition, a young man behind him said. This person was Otomo Yoshi-shi's younger brother Otomo Yoshi-shi. When the Luo family invaded the hinterland of Fenghou Kingdom and surrounded the inner hall of the mansion, Otomo Yoshi took advantage of the chaos to escape to Shiguo by boat. Then he met the young monk who happened to save Utsuki's speed audition and his two lives. So by coincidence, Utsuki's speed audition met Otomo Yoshi-shi again in Shiguo.

"As long as the young master can return to Fenghou Kingdom in the future, what about the conditions he promised to the other party?" After hearing Otomo's words, Usuki took the opportunity to look at the baby in a bamboo basket next to him and said.

This baby is the legitimate son of Otoyoshi Town who was embraced when Utsuki escaped from Shimoji Castle on the same day. Compared to Otoyoshi Town's legitimate son (i.e., Otoyoshi Yoshikong), who was born in history, the current legitimate son was born earlier because Otoyoshi Town inherited the family governor earlier than the time recorded in history. However, this baby is also very unfortunate. Shortly after his birth, her mother (daughter of Nada Kanki of Nada Kanki) committed suicide when Lutoyoshi Castle was captured by the Luo family. Now, his father Otoyoshi Town is also dead. He instantly became a fatherless orphan, and he also lived a miserable life of escape with the important officials in the family and his uncle.

Just when Usuki Satoshi and Otomo Seki were looking forward to restoring the Otomo family with the help of Otomo Yizhen's legitimate son, Shimazu Takaha, far away in Mikushu, suddenly suspended his plot against the North Satsuma area because he received the news that Otomo Yizhen was killed by the Luo family. Shimazu Takaha was indeed a little afraid to act rashly at this time, at least he had to figure out the next move of the Luo family, and he would not have any action before he could figure out.

The Shimazu family suddenly became quiet, but Masaru, who was in charge of family affairs in Fugu Kibu Castle in Toyokoku, became depressed while closely watching the actions of the Shimazu family. He also wanted to take the opportunity to hit the Shimazu family.

Just as Masara was still paying close attention to the actions of the Shimazu family. On Honshu Island Yasuki, he had been concentrating his troops to the east. After the death of Ouchi Yoshitaka, the forces left behind in the country and China, Mori Moto finally showed his fangs to the Tao family's Itsuki area.

In May of the 23rd year of Astronomy (1554), the Maori Moto, who had accumulated strength, finally sounded the horn. On the one hand, he sent an envoy to the Yoshimi family of Ishimi, preparing to form an alliance with the Yoshimi family. On the other hand, he organized more than 2,000 elite troops under the banner of avenging Yoshiki Ouchi Yoshiki, and suddenly entered Sato County, southern Anyun Kingdom. First, he raided the Kansan Castle, which originally belonged to the Ouchi family in name. Under the attack of the Maori family army, in early June, the city walls such as Kikai Castle, Kusatsu Castle, Sakurao Castle and other cities also descended in sight. All the key points along the coast opposite Imai Island fell into the hands of the Maori family.

Subsequently, the Maori army crossed the sea and directly took Itsuki, expelling all the wealthy families loyal to Tao Longfang on the island. By mid-June, the Maori family controlled Itsuki, the prostate area of ​​the Seto Inland Sea at lightning speed. In order to prevent the Tao army from counterattacking, Maori set up a perfect Itsuki defense line: Kagawa Sumiya guards Sakurao Castle, Kagawa Kojirishima Castle, and Kotaki guards Kusatsu Castle, strengthens the city defense reserves and trains the navy, and prepares to fight Tao Longfang.

At this time, Tao Longfang was still stranded in Ishimiya Kingdom and attacking Tsushima No Castle of the Yoshimiya family. Upon learning about the fall of Itsushima, Tao Longfang could no longer sit still, but at this time he could not take Tsushima No Castle of the Yoshimiya family immediately, but he could not retreat immediately (otherwise he would be chased by the Yoshimiya family). It was really impossible to advance or retreat. Maori Yuan chose to make trouble at this critical moment, which really made him feel uncomfortable.

"Lord, why not discuss peace with Yoshihide's family and then transfer the main force of our family to Anyiguo to attack Maori Yuan, this villain?" Seeing this, the retainer Hirozaka Takaba suggested.

"What, let me ask for peace from that hateful guy, Yoshimi-chan-lai?" After hearing Hirozhong Ryobao's suggestion, Tao Longfang immediately became angry. It was because Yoshimi-chan-lai, who always came to harass the Tao family's territory like a fly, that Tao Longfang was slowing down the speed of integration of the various forces of the family. Now, he has finally integrated the forces of the former Nagato country and the Zhou defense country. Naturally, he has to find Yoshimi-chan-lai to be angry. Therefore, he has no possibility of taking the initiative to ask for peace from Yoshimi-chan-lai.

"Lord, since that's the case, why don't you obey Ouchisuke's advice and let him mediate the matter?" The retainer Miura Fang Kiyoshi also spoke. Ouchisuke is a general term for the previous family governors of the Ouchi family. At this time, he refers to the puppet Ouchi Yoshinaga who was supported by Tao Longfang.

As soon as Miura Fangqing said this, all the retainers in the big tent, including Hiroaka Takashi, shook their heads slightly in their hearts. They hoped that the Ouchi Yoshigaki, who had no prestige at home, would come forward? What could this be mediated? Maori Moto would not pay attention to the governor of the puppet family at all.

"Mediating with Maori Yuan for this villain? No. Maori Yuan is just a small family. How can I let my family mediate with him on their own initiative?" Tao Longfang immediately rejected Miura Fang Qing's suggestion. In fact, Tao Longfang had long been dissatisfied with the Maori family. When he was attacking Yoshimi's family, Tao Longfang sent someone to ask the Maori family to participate in the conquest as a servant army, but Maori Yuan refused Tao Longfang's request on the grounds that he needed to deal with the threat from the Nizi family. This made Tao Longfang feel dissatisfied. This was also one of the reasons why Tao Longfang decisively took action against the Jiang Liang family when Maori Yuan spread rumors that "the Jiang Liang tribe was trying to respond to the Maori Yuan".

However, although Tao Longfang was already dissatisfied with the Mori family and had the intention to hit the entire Mori family, in his eyes, Mori Mori was still the same as ten or twenty years ago. He was just a small local in the Yoshida Gateyama of Anyunku, and his threat was far from as strong as the Yoshimi family of Ishimi. To deal with the Mori family, it was just a side corps. Even if the Maori family could not be dealt with, he could completely restrain the Maori family.

If Masayoshi was here, he would definitely laugh at Tao Longfang's idea. Only by knowing oneself and the enemy can one win every battle. Tao Longfang not only did not send anyone to learn about the enemy's power situation in detail (this is a common problem for most local wealthy families in Japan. They ignored the role of detectives and ninjas), but also gorgeously ignored the power belonging of the power of the Danei family in Beihou and Bei China. They also thought that the local wealthy families who surrendered to the Danei family were like him, and with the murder of Yoshitaka Ouchi, they had betrayed the Danei family and became independent again (of course, the more important reason was that Tao Longfang believed that the Maori family did not have the strength to integrate the power of these wealthy families).

It was precisely because of this underestimation of the enemy that Tao Longfang finally decided: "It would be better to deal with the Maori family and let the wealthy families near An Yiguo start a new army to attack."

So, after consideration, Tao Longfang decided to continue to attack the Tsushi and No Castle of Yoshimi's family with all their strength. At the same time, in the Yamayo of Zhou Fangguo, Sashi mobilized some local tyrants to form a ranged team to recover Sakurawei Castle and Itsujima. In mid-June, the Yamayo of Zhou Fangguo and the local tyrants of Sashimi followed Tao Longfang's orders and mobilized them to attack the Maori family.

It was soon mid-July. When the Zhou Dynasty's Yamayo, the local tyrants of the two counties of Sashi were still mobilizing their military power, and the Maori Yuan on Itsui Island was also building a reinforcement line of defense. The Luo family also ushered in a good harvest.

The reason is that the demographic status and inspection situation of the Luo Family are finally released. Not only are the newly occupied areas counted, but the original territory of the Luo Family has also undergone new gratifying changes after this period of development. The specific situation is:

In the Feiqian Kingdom, all the income of the territory (i.e., all the land production and various mineral workshops) increased to 450,000 shi, and the total population also increased by 300,000, including 170,000 young and strong people, 70,000 children, and 80,000 Ming Dynasty population.

In the Feihou Kingdom, the entire territory's income increased to 370,000 shi, and the total population also increased by 220,000, including 130,000 young and strong people, 50,000 children, and 50,000 people in the Ming Dynasty.

In terms of Zhuhou Kingdom, all the income of the territory increased to 330,000 shi, and the total population also increased by 160,000, including 100,000 young and strong people, 40,000 children, and 50,000 people in Ming Dynasty.

In terms of the country of Zhuqian, all the income of the territory increased to 340,000 shi, and the total population also increased by 180,000, including 80,000 young and strong, 30,000 children, and 20,000 people in the Ming Dynasty.

In the Fenghou Kingdom, the entire territory's income increased to 400,000 shi, and the total population also increased by 250,000, including 130,000 young and strong people, 60,000 children, and 10,000 people in Ming Dynasty.

In the Fengqian Kingdom, the territory's income was 140,000 shi, and the total population was 120,000, including 60,000 young and strong people, 30,000 children, and the Ming Dynasty's population was 10,000.

In the Nagato country, since it only occupied the areas of Fengpu County and Guanmen Strait, the entire territory's income was only 20,000 stones, and the total population was 10,000, including 3,000 young and strong people and 4,000 children. In the Iki Island, the entire territory was about 15,000 stones, and the total population was 7,000, including 4,000 young and strong people and 2,000 children. Since the territory that the Luo family secretly occupied in Hinata State was too small and the population was not large, it could be almost ignored and calculated.

In general, by July of the 23rd year of the Astronomy, the total income of the Luo family's territory had reached 2.06 million shi, and the total population had reached 1.25 million, including 680,000 young and strong people, 290,000 children, and 220,000 people in the Ming Dynasty.

During this period, the population of Ming was naturally the population that increased the most rapidly. As the Ming Dynasty was caught in natural disasters and civil strife, many Ming refugees, with the assistance of Wang Hai, Shi Tou and others, chose to settle in the territory of the Luo family, which greatly increased the population of Ming in the Luo family's territory in a short period of time.

Of course, during this period, after seeing such a large number of Ming people, some retainers immediately thought that since the Ming people seemed to have come from Ming to the territory of the Luo family so easily, why not vigorously carry out trade with the Ming country?

However, these retainers need to see that the 220,000 Ming population was transported to the territory of the Luo family after more than ten years of ant moving method. In fact, on average, it only receives less than 20,000 people per year (and in fact, because people will actively cooperate, transporting the population is much simpler and more convenient than transporting materials). Similarly, the so-called trade is just a secret sea smuggling trade under the background of the Ming Dynasty's ban on the sea (not only the Ming Dynasty ban on the sea, but also North Korea has restricted the scale of foreign trade). Without official support, the scale of trade cannot be expanded. Unless you launch a large-scale naval war to completely defeat the naval forces of these countries.

In addition, the underdeveloped long-sea navigation technology and the pirate forces densely spread in the ocean also greatly restricted the development of long-sea trade. Of course, the Luo family could also vigorously introduce the shipbuilding technology of the Southern Barbarians and Ming people, and then build a powerful long-sea trade fleet to carry out trade. However, during this period, the Luo family had to ignore the needs of local strategies and invest almost all resources to build it, and the construction cycle was quite long. With the local historical background at this time, I am afraid that before the Luo family's long-sea trade fleet was built, the Luo family would destroy other daimyos (even its own survival was a problem, let alone topics such as fighting naval battles with other countries' naval troops).

When he arrived here, some retainers would wonder. Now the Luo family's territory income has reached 2 million stones, but they do not have enough financial resources to build a long-distance fleet?

First of all, we must look at the territorial income of more than 2 million s. Based on the current population of 1.25 million in the territory, even if the Luo family spreads all the income to the territorial residents, an average of one stake will only earn more than one stake. How can such income be supported by so many people?

Of course, this cannot be calculated in reality. After all, these incomes are just the extra income of the people in the year. After so many years of development, the people in the Luo family's territory have actually gotten rid of the previous life of relying on annual income to survive, and have changed to relying on the family to store grain to survive. But in any case, from this calculation method, we can see that even if the income of two million stones is not easy to fully support these people. In fact, the income of these two million stones is not much. If it is spread to the various daily consumptions of the territory, it will be a little less.
Chapter completed!