Chapter 879
Just when Jiro Saburo was still worried about the sufferings brought to his family by the incident of Imakawa Yoshimoto Kanro, Masara also encountered good and bad things here.
It was already May. After some pacification, the Shanfu riots in the territory controlled by the Luo family of Nagamon, Zhou Fangguo and Anyi have basically been eliminated. The navy led by Li Huamei has also arrived at Mishima County of Nagamon and Zhou Fangguo half a month ago. In the territory of Nagamon and Zhou Fangguo, only the Huanglong City and the Maple City were still resisting, but at this time, the two castles had been surrounded by the Luo family's army and became an isolated island without any water.
Zhengliang did not intend to attack these two cities, but planned to siege them. With the current situation of these two cities, the food in the city will be eaten up sooner or later. Then, when they open the city and surrender, the only thing waiting for them is to become slaves of the Luo family.
As for the two remaining Maori families in Anyiguo, Takata County and Yama Prefecture County, the two armies of the Luo family are confronting the Maori army here. Due to the continuous combat, a large number of young and strong men were drawn to deal with the Luo family's attack, it also seriously affected the Maori family's spring farming in the local area and even in the Houguo country this year. It is estimated that Maori Yuan will not feel good at all at this time, and the Maori family's strategic reserves will also be seriously consumed.
Relatively speaking, as the main force of the Luo family, the main force of the battle, was basically full of fullness. With their own annual salary, they naturally did not need to cultivate the fields for a family of five. Of course, in order to accumulate more wealth, these permanent families still had fields. Their fields will be supported by their own family members or hired others to help them cultivate. Those reserve service reserves and temporary peasants who also participated in the war. In this special period, the fields in their family will be arranged by the staff of the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet to arrange slaves or hire personnel to help their families farm, so as to complete the spring plowing in time. Therefore, fighting during the spring plowing season has little impact on the Luo family.
In addition, the Tsushima Sect family, which had been unwilling to surrender to the Luo family, also officially surrendered to the Luo family. In fact, the Tsushima Sect family that had been controlling was not allowed to surrender at this time. Before the Battle of Itsushima, in order to confuse Tao Qingxian and Mori Moto, these two people were at ease to fight hard on Itsushima. Masayoro deliberately gathered more than 800 naval warships along the western coast of the Kaiqian Kingdom, and ran away from the Tsushima Island in a mighty manner under the banner of taking out the Tsushima Island.
Faced with the huge sailors of the Luo family, he knew that if dozens of naval warships of his family were still going to fight against the Luo family at this time, they would definitely not be the opponent of the Luo family, and in the end they would only "send" the ships to the Luo family. So at the suggestion of Sasu Shengyuan, the important minister of the family who had secretly defected to the Luo family, the governor of the Son family of the Tsushima Island, after some consideration, he simply sold the ships of his own naval forces to the local merchants on Tsushima Island, and asked these merchants to drive the ships to leave Tsushima Island first. They rushed to the Jeju Island defense line in the Korean waters to take refuge, while the Son Yishima gathered the naval forces in Jinshi City to join the temporarily gathered peasant soldiers. They prepared to fight the cage with all their efforts.
According to common sense, if the navy is completely unable to resist the other party and is even plundered by the other party, these naval ships are sold to local merchants on the spot, thereby obtaining enough food and concentrating more troops to defend the city so that the upcoming cage battle is about to begin. This is the best way to do it.
But when Soyoshi thought about it carefully, he would find that there was something wrong with it. Because since the Luo family took control of the Hibishimai country, the Chichimai country, Iki Island and the southern region of the Nagato country, the Luo family had actually blocked all maritime trade routes near these areas. When Tsushima was unwilling to surrender, the Luo family did not allow any merchants to import grain, minerals, gold and silver into Tsushima Island, but allowed Tsushima Island to export any materials to the outside world.
In this case, Tsushima can only buy items such as grain, minerals, gold and silver from the Ouchi family, which still occupies the central and northern Nagamon Kingdom, as well as the wealthy families in Ishimikoku, Izumokoku and other places. However, because the trade routes blocked by the Roh family were the main trading routes between Tsushima and Japan, there have been few merchants on Tsushima since then, such as food, gold and silver, on the island.
It was in this case that when Zong Yichi suddenly decided to sell the ships of the navy, why did so many merchants holding enough food suddenly appear? Is this really a coincidence?
In fact, this is no coincidence. Some of these merchants secretly defected to the Luo Family's official business house, and some of them were simply pretending to be Luo Family's house. Among them, some of them were merchants on the surface, but secretly the suspicion of the Luo Family's Information Pavilion. What's more, this time the operation of using grain procurement to the Ma family's naval ships was secretly helped by the Sakasu family, the important minister of the Zong family, so the entire transaction process was naturally very smooth.
Zong Yidiao, who obtained a lot of food by selling ships, immediately mobilized the island's leaders with all his might. Together with the navy troops who had lost the warships, he gathered in Jinshi City, Zong family city, preparing to resist the invasion of the Luo family with all his might.
But what was unexpected was that the huge Luo family naval army took a circle around the periphery of Tsuma Island, and secretly took away the naval ships that had just been sold in the other sea area, and then drew an arc on the sea surface and headed eastward to prepare to intervene in the Battle of Itsuada.
Zong Yidiao, who was originally preparing for a fierce battle in the cage, stood on the Tianshou Pavilion of Jinshi City, looking at the Luo Family Naval Fleet that was gradually disappearing from sight, and finally suddenly cried, "My naval army!" and then burst into a coma.
Afterwards, Soyoshi naturally hoped to form a navy army again. After all, as an island, it would be very dangerous to not have its own navy army. But it is easy to sell ships, but it is difficult to buy them. The trade route, which is the main source of ships, was blocked by the Luo family, and only rely on the sources of Nagato, Ishimi, Izumo and other places, is obviously difficult to form a navy army again in a short time. Since you cannot buy a ship directly, how about buying raw materials yourself? But Tsushima lacks enough craftsmen and materials. Hire craftsmen and buy raw materials. Immediately, I encountered the problem of blockade of the same trade route as buying a ship directly.
Thinking of a way to North Korea? This is impossible. At this time, North Korea is implementing trade restrictions with Tsushima Island. The trading time and trading material list are fixed every year. Moreover, North Korea mainly sells materials such as ore and specialties, while the purchases are grain, gold and silver, and Japanese specialties. Even North Korea's smuggling merchants trade similar to those of the official ones. The Zong family cannot buy the materials they need from North Korea at all. In this case, it is naturally impossible to find a way from North Korea.
It was raining all night long. Just when Soyoshi was worried about forming a self-protecting naval army again, shocking news came from the Western Kingdom, controlling Nagato. The Daunai family of Zhou Fangguo was destroyed by the Luo family. Even the Yoshimi family of Ishimi Kingdom asked for peace from the Luo family. This was really a bolt from the blue for Toma Island.
As the Luo family controls the above-mentioned areas, the maritime trade routes of the last remaining Nagato Island, Ishimi Kingdom, Izumo Kingdom, and even further regions will be blocked by the Luo family on the coast of Nagato Country. After the Luo family's blockade policy, the Tuoma Island will no longer be able to obtain food, gold, silver and other materials.
Without these materials, how will Tsushima Island maintain trade with North Korea, which is an important economic pillar of the island? After all, as the main trade material with North Korea, there is no gold or silver. North Korea will naturally not trade with Tsushima Island. What's more serious is that due to the large number of mountains and forests on the island and the scarcity of fields, as the Roh family's blockade policy continues, the island will sooner or later have a food shortage crisis. In this case, how will the Zong family's rule foundation be maintained on the island? I'm afraid that those retainers will be the first to make trouble.
Sure enough, before Soyichi came back to his senses, the island's retainers and wealthy families headed by Sasu Morien of the Sausu family immediately united and jointly asked the representative of the Soyichi family to negotiate with the Ro family to resolve the food crisis that the island would face. In desperation, Soyichi had to send an envoy to Yamaguchi Castle, which had been on a merchant ship, and made a request to Masarara.
Faced with the request of Tsushima Island, Masayoshi only gave three conditions: First, Tsushima Island officially surrendered to the Luo family; second, the tyrants on the island, including the Zong family, will be transferred to Kyushu to settle in various places, and the Luo family will send new retainers to the island to fully accept Tsushima Island. Third, hand over certificates such as documents for trade with North Korea, and send personnel to help the Luo family trade with North Korea under the banner of the Zong family.
The reason why Masayoshi had never attacked Tsushima Island before was mainly because the Luo family's naval forces were limited at that time and did not want to cause losses to their own naval forces when fighting against Tsushima Island naval forces. Secondly, he did not want to force the Tsushima family to destroy the certificate of trade with North Korea. After all, the North Korean official only recognized this certificate and the banner of the Zong family at this time.
The trade between North Korea and Japan has a long history. When the two sides traded, the North Korean side opened its coastal ports. The Zong family, as the guardian of Tsuima Island, was also very powerful at the beginning, which was enough to ensure trade with North Korea and ensure the smooth progress of trade. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long. With more and more Japanese pirates, the Zong family fell into decline, which led to the invasion of Japanese pirates on the coast of North Korea. The trade between the two places repeated many times, and even North Korea conquered Tsui Ma Island. In the end, Tsui Ma Island signed an agreement with North Korea. North Korea did not open the coastal areas, but adopted the method of sea ship trade. During a fixed period of each year, sea ships were used to transport supplies and trade. If the Roh family hoped to maintain this kind of trade with North Korea after seizing Tsui Ma Island, they must obtain the transaction documents and certificates of the official trade between the Zong family and North Korea, and it is best to use the banner of the Zong family.
Since Tsubasa Island has taken the initiative to surrender this time, Masayoshi naturally has to take the opportunity to retain its trade rights with North Korea while gaining Tsubasa Island. In order to threaten the other side, Masayoshi directly stated that if Tsubasa Island does not agree to these three or two requests, the Luo family will not only continue to strengthen the trade blockade of Tsubasa Island, but also send a navy army to attack Tsubasa Island. In order to cooperate with Masayoshi's threat, Li Huamei, the head of the first standing naval army troop, was immediately ordered to send a navy fleet to cruise in the waters around Tsubasa Island, making an attitude of ready to attack at any time.
Such requests and actions by the Luo family immediately caused a sensation on the island and were divided into two camps that surrendered and opposed surrender. Finally, under the leadership of the Sausu family, the surrendered party to the Luo family gained an advantage. With the clear support of the Luo family, the Zong family forced Zong Yi to agree to all the requests of the Luo family.
After completely surrendering to the Luo family and leaving behind certificates of trade with North Korea and members of the Zong family who assisted in the trade, the rest of the Zong family were forced to move to the Feiqian Kingdom of Kyushu to settle down. Zong Yichi, as the governor of the family, also became secluded with the family. Obviously, he was unwilling to work hard for the Luo family. Since then, the Luo family has officially completely controlled Tsushima Island. (To be continued, please search for Astronomy, the novel is better and faster!
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