If the Ishiyama Honganji uprising has always disturbed the world and caused peace in the world, it can be said that it is the result of Date Masaki's encouragement, then the affairs of Inaba and Tajima are a testing ground for him to try his hand.

Takeda Takanobu defeated Yamana Yutoyo in one fell swoop, and he was so complacent that he completely forgot the idea of defecting to Date Masaki, and took it upon himself to eradicate the local forces that did not submit to his jurisdiction, hoping to become the new ruler of Inaba Province in one fell swoop. Yamana Yutoyo withdrew from Inaba Country, of course, because he was unwilling, and Takeda Takanobu was really disagreeable, and he went on a killing spree in Inaba Country, giving Yamana Yutoyo the opportunity to sow discord. However, in the battle of Tottori Castle, Yutaka Yamana was injured, and he couldn't deal with Takeda Takanobu militarily, so he could only sow discord in the end.

After three years of dormancy, the Date family basically subdued the disobedient in the territory, and it was even more logical to send troops to seize Izumo Province in one fell swoop. For three years, Takeda Takanbu kept attacking local forces, and he also subdued Inaba Province.

However, the population of Inaba Province was about 50,000 during the reign of Yamana Yutoyo, and now it does not exceed 35,000 people, which means that under the constant blows of Takeda Takanobu, the population not only did not increase in three years, but disappeared 15,000 people, of course, more than 10,000 of them left Inaba Province and entered the neighboring provinces of Hachi, Mimasaka, and Tajima.

It can be said that the strength of Inaba and Tajima has reached the valley under the continuous weakening of Masei for three years, and he looked at everyone, interrupted Tozawa Hakusai's statement, and said: "We first move Inaba and Tajima, firstly, these two places have been weakened to the valley, and they will not be able to fight back, and secondly, they will not attract the attention of Ishiyama Honganji, but will let Ishiyama Honganji do his best to fight the battle of Yamashiro Province," as Masahiro said. The attack on Inaba and Tajima will have little impact on Kinai, and it should be said that for the princes who are close to Inaba and Tajima, Inaba and Tajima are already the sphere of influence of the Date family in the eyes of many people, and Ishiyama Honganji Temple is also paying attention to the movements of the Date family, and if the Date family has been accumulating strength, this is an object that must be paid attention to by Ishiyama Honganji, which is also afraid of the Date family. Once the Date family found an outlet. Then, in a short period of time, Ishiyama Honganji can do his best to deal with the opponent in Kinai.

The first target of the Date family, Inaba and Tajima, was chosen to make Ishiyama Honganji no longer fearful and do his best to deal with the opponents in Kinai, those forces who were also the temple family, and the samurai forces that stood with the temple family. The main reason is that there is already a lot of noise in Inaba and Tajima, the perverse actions of Takeda Takanobu and the reckless militarism of Yamana Yutoyo. The tendency of a large number of local forces in both countries to fall to the Date family will be very rapid.

What's more, the goal of the Date family is not just to Inaba and Tajima, but to swallow up the buffer zone between the Date family and Ishiyama Honganji, and even to seize the latter's territory after the defeat of Ishiyama Honganji. In this way, it will not be possible to dispatch the main forces against Inaba and Tajimaku, and only the local forces of Haki and Misaku will start a war against Inaba country.

Sun Tzu's Art of War said: The first army is to attack and plan, the second is to attack the enemy, the second is to attack the army, and then the next is to attack the city; The siege of the city is a last resort.

Mashiro pointed to Tajima and said, "Since the Battle of Tottori Castle four years ago. Yamana Yufeng lost his soldiers and lost his vitality. If it weren't for Jiwei, I'm afraid he would have been expelled by his retainers, but the power of the main family has been greatly weakened, and the power of Tajima is now in the hands of the four major families of Gakiya, Yagi, Otagaki, and Tayusuo, and together with Yamana Yutoyo, they form the current government of Tajima Province, which can be said to be a multi-headed politics. And so it goes. Submission but Equestria does not need a single soldier, as long as a lobbyist is enough. ”

Since it has been decided to fight, then those who should contribute will have their strength, and those who should have made up their minds will have their ideas. But the horse country is enough to lobbyist, because of the country. If the political balance is not explicitly stated, then it is very likely that the Inaba country will be resolved by means of war. This is not up to the Date family, but to Takeda Takanobu, and as long as Takeda Takanobu gives up Inaba Province and voluntarily comes to Okayama Castle to become an entertainer, the Date family does not want to have blood on their hands again. Obviously, this aspiration is a difficult task to accomplish.

The discussion between Inaba and Tajima is just the beginning, and there are many things to be discussed later, of course, now we can only discuss the matter of dealing with Inaba and Tajima, because when the spring flowers are blooming, that is, around the time of spring ploughing, the Date family will send an army of four or five thousand people to attack Inaba Province, and at that time, the surrender of Tajima Province has been obtained, and the Tajima Yamana clan has been given a letter of resignation, and it is best to gain a foothold in Inaba Province in the general righteousness, and it is best to attack Takeda Takanbu from the direction of Tajima Province at the same time.

The situation changes with time, and all plans must follow this iron law, and no one can make the most correct strategy. If you think that everything is going according to your own mind, you will end up with nothing.

So, after discussing how to deal with Inaba and Tajima, Shoheng briefly mentioned the strategy and then started a new topic, saying: "Ladies and gentlemen, the total stone height that can be produced in the territory under our control is about 2 million koku, and if we can increase the production of ox ploughing and iron farming tools, the number of stone heights will increase by one to two percent, that is, at most no more than 2.5 million koku." There are about 100,000 permanent and local troops to feed, as well as police forces and their families, and 1.1 million civilians, and it is very difficult to feed such a large number of people, and the development of commerce will be the main issue we will face next. ”

The current ruling class of the Wa Kingdom is the samurai class, and the biggest internal problem of the Wa Kingdom is that there are too many people squeezed into the samurai class, and you must know that the sons of the samurai are naturally also samurai. This is also an important reason for the turmoil in the Wa Kingdom for hundreds of years.

Date family started from the end of the year, he can rely on the same samurai class, it is impossible to surpass this class, there is any Datong party, now the number of samurai who rely on Date to eat is two or three thousand, the permanent army belongs to the quasi-samurai class of the separation of soldiers and peasants, and the local troops are mostly composed of peasants and soldiers, and the police force also belongs to the quasi-samurai class of the separation of soldiers and peasants to a certain extent, and the number is decreasing, these people plus the samurai, and their families have a total of about 100,000 people.

In addition to the samurai class and the quasi-samurai class separated from the soldiers and peasants. The rest of the people have to be produced, that is to say, 1.2 million people have to feed 30,000 or 40,000 people, and it is one question to feed 30,000 or 40,000 people, and it is another question to equip them to become a ruling class in the true sense of the word.

Business has become an important issue. Actually, when it comes to business. The Date family is not short of goods, nor is there a shortage of silver, Iwami Silver Mountain is currently the largest silver mine in the world, four or five hundred thousand taels of silver a year is a joke, copper ore is also an important item for trade.

Originally, the existence of Sakai Port made up for the Date family's lack of commerce to a certain extent, and Tsuda Soda of Tennojiya acted as a commercial agent, and overseas trade through Sakai Port was not comparable to the naval trade of the Ouchi clan in terms of scale, but it was also self-sufficient. Now the three good ones are resting, and the ten rivers are one saving in order to return to the four countries. The Sakai Port was burned, and although Tennojiya withdrew from the Sakai Port before the war, the actual losses of Tsuda Soda were minimized, and the losses to Kinai were not small, and the losses to the Date family were equally huge.

However, weighing the pros and cons, in the long run, the destruction of Sakai Port, especially the turmoil in Kinai. The benefits outweigh the disadvantages for the ports along the Seto Inland Sea, and the ports of Hiroshima, Okayama, and Himeji will benefit greatly from trade.

In the long run, the benefits outweigh the disadvantages. However, how to introduce trade will be an important topic, especially how to do business with the Tang people and Yi people will be a topic to be discussed today. The young Kuroda Kanbei was on his way to the port of Hirado, so he became a supernumerary member of this important meeting.

The news presented by Kuroda Kanbei is not good news.

Due to the sea ban system of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, most of the overseas trade of the Japanese State was smuggling and looting, and the exploration trade had already been with the decline of the Ouchi clan for nearly seven or eight years without going to the Zhu Ming Dynasty. Today's maritime trade is smuggling and looting. However, with the emergence of Hu Zongxian, a large number of pirate leaders were captured and killed, and now the One Piece Wufeng Ship King of East Asia has also been invited into the dungeon of Hangzhou, and the maritime trade with the Zhu Ming Dynasty has been greatly hit.

The demise of One Piece in East Asia will be an important issue in the future situation in East Asia, and it will also be the beginning of a new round of Japanese raids on the southeast coast. The land of the Central Plains will enter a new cycle after eighty or ninety years, and of course, the current Zhu Ming Dynasty is still in a period of decline after the prosperous era.

Whether the Zhu Ming Dynasty is strong or declining is a very small impression on a local government in the distant Wa Kingdom, but the capture of the East Asian One Piece will have a huge impact on the Date family, which is why the Date family has not become rich for several years because of Iwami Silver Mountain and Bichu Copper Mountain.

The development of business raises another issue, and the most important point for island nations, ships, which need to be noted as ships that can run at sea. As an island country, the shipbuilding industry cannot match its geography.

Most of the shipbuilding industry of the Wa Kingdom was in the hands of pirates, and at the same time, all the ships of the Wa Kingdom were flat-bottomed ships rather than point-bottomed ships, so the draft was shallow, and the ability to resist wind and waves was not very strong.

Zhengheng looked at everyone and said: "Ouchi Qingying sent our old friend Leng Quan Takaho has secretly contacted us several times, wanting to ask for our support, for their request, I agree, the Zhu Ming Dynasty issued by Ouchi Yoshitaka who fled to Kyushu and took away will also be handed over to us as a gift, that is to say, we will have the possibility of conducting exploration trade with the Zhu Ming Dynasty." ”

In the exploration trade, everyone was in a commotion again, you must know that in the total of eleven exploration trades in more than a hundred years, the output of each item can be more than doubled, and the input of raw silk alone can obtain four or five times to more than twenty times the profit.

If the Date family can facilitate a conquest trade, it will be a huge boost for the Date family, and at the same time, they can also do smuggling business in addition to the contemplation trade, which will play a pivotal role in the development of the Date family.

The young Tsuda first bowed, and then asked: "My lord, if you want to carry out the exploration trade, you must first contact the Zhu Ming Dynasty, and you must also have a strong fleet, otherwise you will become the target of many pirates, you must know that they are very greedy." ”

Zhengheng clapped his hands, Ge Lang Hengxiu walked in with more than ten people carrying a wooden shelf, the shelf was covered with a layer of gauze, after the gauze was uncovered in front of everyone, Tsuda Zonghe followed his father to run a business at sea since he was a child, he looked at the ship and said: "Lord, this is a sea ship?" ”

Zhengheng said with a smile: "Sukegoro is smart, this is indeed a sea ship, with a pointed bottom, high broadside, and ballast with heavy objects, when it can withstand the wind and waves, and gallop at sea." This is a model, a large ship with a standard length of 50 meters at a 100-fold magnification, and has begun sea trials. ”

Ge Long Hengxiu replied: "Yes, the trial voyage was quite successful, and the load was about 7,500 hundred. ”

This sea ship that made everyone exclaim was the ship model of the Galen ship that Zheng Heng got on his twentieth birthday in his previous life, and this ship model was built quite precisely, and it was naturally cherished because it was a twentieth birthday gift in his previous life.

When he wanted to make a sea ship, Zheng Heng's first thought was to recreate the model that had excited him for many days, when he had studied the structure and performance of such warships after obtaining this ship model. Due to the backwardness of artillery technology, coupled with the age, the shipbuilders according to the ship model of Zhengheng made the ship is quite speechless, because there is no artillery technology, the speed of the ship is obviously not comparable to the speed of the ship he is familiar with, coupled with the breakthrough of ship technology can not be realized, so that the ship has some four differences.

However, it was still a bit similar to the Galen ship in his impression, but because of the lack of artillery technology, some bows and iron cannons were added to the gun position, that is, the arrows of the firecracker, and the weight reached 7,500, that is, nearly 500 tons, so that such a ship had more than 400 armor. Naval warfare in East Asia is often fought at close range with hand-to-hand combat, and such ships are as good as defending castles on land.

Hisataka Ishikawa suddenly asked, "Captain Shichiro Saemon, there are already several such ships. ”

Ge Long Hengxiu replied: "Three, there are still seven ships in the dock that are nearing completion, and they will be able to be launched in about three to four months, and after half a year of sea trials, they will be able to be incorporated into the ranks of the navy, in addition to these ten ships with a load of up to 7,500 hundred, there are more than 20 ships of two or three thousand hu being manufactured at the same time." (To be continued......)