In the previous discussions between Masayo and Kansuke Yamamoto, Heiji Togo and others, the Luo family agreed that the focus of the Luo family's strategy at this time should still be in the Kitakyushu region, or even the Central Kyushu region. The southern Kyushu region, on the other hand, should not intervene too early.

This is mainly considered from three aspects.

First, at this time, although the Luo family in the Kitakyushu region had the upper hand, the Ouchi family, which had a strong foundation, was not a fuel-efficient lamp, and the Otomo family, which had suffered a major blow, would also launch a crazy counterattack at any time. Moreover, at this time, the Luo family also has a good reputation, and there are enough internal resources to support it, and at the same time, it is opening up more battlefields. Since you can't fight by force, it's better to have a civil fight, and try to use diplomatic skills to control the situation in southern Kyushu.

Second, if the tentacles of power are extended into the southern Kyushu region, it will cause the Luo family's border line to be too long, and it will be difficult to concentrate forces for defense, which will create opportunities for the power of the Hyuga Province, Osumi Province and other regions to invade the territory of the Luo family, and eventually cause the Luo family to fall into the entanglement with these powerful people. If the Ouchi family and the Otomo family in Kitakyushu take the opportunity to make trouble again at this time, then the Luo family will be difficult to take care of.

Third, because the territory is stretched too long, when the territory marching road network is not perfect, this will not be conducive to the mobilization of military forces, let alone the delivery of materials, resulting in a lot of unnecessary material consumption (such as grain and grass consumed when transporting materials). In addition, due to the overstretched territory, it also caused a lack of strategic depth within the territory. Not conducive to the defense of the territory.

After combining the above factors. Masarashi finally decided not to intervene directly in the southern Kyushu region. But just because you don't get involved directly doesn't mean you can't get involved indirectly. And the power of the Beiyuan family who came to ask for help this time is a good opportunity for the Luo family to take the opportunity to indirectly intervene in the local area.

Although the Shimazu family, a giant ape from southern Kyushu (the Shimazu family's unique iron cannon skill is named Ape Call), has not fully grown up at this time (historically. In the early days of the war with the Ito family, the Shimazu family was still oppressed by the other party, and later after the four tigers of the Shimazu family gradually grew up, the Shimazu family gained the upper hand in one fell swoop), but judging from the appearance of mysterious pirates and the sudden acceleration of the pace of expansion of the Shimazu family, Masarashi has suddenly realized that history has changed due to his appearance and the sudden rise of the Luo family. Therefore, we can no longer look at this giant ape by our own footprints on the history of the Shimazu family.

Therefore, Masarashi decided to take advantage of this opportunity to support some local forces, and use them as a pawn to counterbalance the Shimazu family's allies when the Luo family was still unable to deal with the power of southern Kyushu. And the local wealthy families such as the Kitahara family are naturally the preferred force. As for whether the Shimazu family will tear up the alliance with the Luo family because of this, in the opinion of Masahiro, it will not.

Because the Shimazu family did not have a big picture of the overall trend of history at this time, they could only consider how to deal with it in their own situation. For the Shimazu family, which is still relatively weak, it is very irrational to tear up the alliance with the Luo family.

The current relationship between the Roshi family and the Shimazu family is similar to the relationship between the Otomo family and the Shimazu family in history. At that time, the town of Otomo had completely occupied the north-central part of Kyushu, and was named Kyushu Tanti by the shogunate. The Shimazu family, on the other hand, had just unified the entire Satsuma country. The Shimazu family, which is still in the weak stage, naturally does not want to be targeted by the behemoth Otomo family. So the Shimazu family took the initiative to make friends with the Otomo family.

And at that time, Otomo Yoshizhen also looked down on the Shimazu family a little, not to mention that at this time, the Shimazu family took the initiative to express their friendship, in order to express their generosity as a Kyushu explorer, it was naturally to accept the kindness of the Shimazu family. From then on, the Shimazu family was able to concentrate their efforts on the struggle against the Ito family and the liver family until they unified Satsuma, Osumi, and Hinata, and defeated the Otomo family at the Battle of Otagawa, which led to the decline of the Otomo family, the former overlord of Kyushu.

The current strength of the Luo family is much worse than the Otomo family, which occupies the six countries of Kyushu in history, and the Shimazu family has not yet unified Satsuma. So at this time, the Shimazu family took the initiative to form an alliance with the Luo family. How similar the situation is. Only this time it was the Luo family that replaced the Otomo family.

Therefore, at this stage, without being able to know in advance the trend of the situation in the Kyushu region in advance, and without knowing the internal affairs of the Luo family at this time, the Shimazu family will definitely think that it is impossible to conflict with the Luo family, which seems to be already a behemoth, at this time.

Even if the Roche family intervenes as allies of both sides this time and stops the beautiful situation in which the Shimazu family is about to occupy the North Satsuma region, the Shimazu family will endure it. Then they would turn their arms to the nearby Osumi. And that's exactly what Masato wants to see. Masara is also waiting for such an opportunity, when the Luo family has a complete foothold in Kitakyushu and is fully prepared internally, and the Shimazu family and the liver Fu family in the southern Kyushu region are fighting to the death, it is time for the Luo family to send troops.

This is also why when Masato was unwilling to submit to the Luo family in Kitahara Qianshou before, Masara also agreed to the other party's intention to form an alliance. Once the other party is willing to surrender to the Luo family, it will be equivalent to the Luo family's power officially intervening in the southern Kyushu region, which will lead to unexpected changes in the current situation in Kyushu, and even the Shimazu family, the liver Fu family, and the Ito family will unite against the Luo family. Therefore, it is not appropriate for the Luo family to enter the area at this time, so as not to arouse the vigilance of these forces.

After agreeing to form an alliance with the Seki forces represented by Kitahara Kenshosho, Masarashi then issued an order to send Yoshioka Nagazen to secretly return to Kitasatsuma with Kitahara Kenmori. Yoshioka Nagazen's purpose is to connect with the local forces on the one hand, and to investigate the situation of the mysterious pirates of the Shimazu family on the other hand. For these pirates, Masato faintly expected someone. But Masaara's hope that this expectation is not true. Otherwise, the Luo family will really be in trouble.

In addition, Masara sent someone to Bungo Province urgently to search for a person. This person should be living in seclusion in Bungo Province at this time, and Masarashi's new wife, Otomo Matsu, who is guarding Otomo Yoshiken's filial piety there, should know a little about this person's whereabouts. If this person can be found with the help of Otomomatsu, then Masarashi will have an extra hole card in his hand to balance the Shimazu family.

Just when the Luo family was secretly discussing the alliance with the Kitahara family and other powerful forces, far away in the pot city of Qiumo County in Nanfeihou, an old man with a pale look and white hair smashed a book in his hand on the ground as soon as he "touched", and then looked up to the sky and sighed:

"Damn, damn it...... ......As he sighed, he suddenly felt a depression in his heart, and a fishy sweet liquid rushed out of his throat in an instant, and then the liquid sprayed on the book that was smashed on the floor. Through the bright red liquid, you can vaguely see that the first page of the book is written with a brush "For the continuation of every two generations of the Imperial French style".

This volume, "The Imperial Ritual for the Continuation of Every Two Generations," was specially added by the Sagara family to strengthen the implementation of the territorial system, and it has been continuously compiled since several years ago. At that time, the Sagara family was still a powerful daimyo who dominated Nanhigo, and their territory spanned several prefectures, so in order to strengthen their rule over the territory, this supplementary law was naturally necessary.

But now, the Sagara family only occupies three castles, and a few villages have long since lost their prosperity. What made the Sagara family even more angry was that since the beginning of spring, the army of the Luo family at the border of the territory has been constantly harassing the territory of the Sagara family, the Kamimura family and other wealthy families, which has seriously affected the spring plowing work in the territory.

According to the practice of the formation of the powerful and powerful in the Warring States, they generally do not attack each other during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest. This is a convention consciously formed by the heroes of the Warring States Period, but after all, Masashi is not a native of this era, he comes from later generations, and he pays attention to winning at all costs, not to mention that the military strength of the Luo family is mainly based on standing reserves, and it also has the conditions for conquest while carrying out spring ploughing or autumn harvest work during spring plowing and autumn harvest. In addition, the generals of the Luo family have long mastered the essence of harassment warfare and guerrilla warfare taught by Zhengliang in the regular study of war examples in the Luo family's academy, so these harassed wealthy families will naturally suffer.

In the face of the harassment of the Luo family's army, the Hao clan alliance was not the opponent of the other party when they heard the news, so they had to retreat back into the city and defend it, watching the Luo family's army continue to destroy their land and even rob their population. This kind of grievance makes Uemura Laixing, who is nearly 60 years old, embarrassed?

Where will there be Haoqiang who will come out during the spring ploughing and autumn harvest season? The Luo family is really unreasonable. What made Uemura Yoshixing even more annoyed was that when the Luo family was constantly harassing, his two sons (Uemura Castle Lord Uemura Yoritaka and Fengfu Castle Lord Uemura Ryjian) seemed to be secretly discussing something with another local wealthy clan, Okamoto Castle Lord. This made Uemura even more annoyed. It's already this time, and these people still don't know how to unite? Must wait until the army of the Luo family comes to the city, will they know what is the most important thing in Lu Dao?

When he was depressed, today he accidentally saw this book in the cabinet "The Imperial French Style for the Continuation of Every Two Generations", which made Uemura Yoixing feel emotional, and under a stimulus, he directly spurted blood.

"Father!" At this time, Harukihiro Sagara, who happened to come in with his five-year-old son Manmanmaru (future Sagara Yoshiyo) to visit Uemura Yoriko, happened to see this and immediately ran over in surprise.

"Damn, damn it......" Uemura Yorixing, who was about to fall into a coma because of his sullen breath, was still angry. (To be continued......)