Just when the three battlefields of the Chu State had entered the stage of stalemate, Shi Luosheng, who was far overseas, had already gained a firm foothold in Naha City, and although the city lord Takenaka Shigeji still did not surrender on the surface, the way of considering the problem had begun to start from Shi Luosheng's interests.

After discussing with Huang Songsheng, Ni Yun of Xiachuan Island also decided to merge into Changxing Island and officially became a member of the Tianluo Sect.

Because Shi Luosheng is now independent and can no longer use the banner of Song Guo or Xiao Yan, both Takenaka Shigeji and Shi Yu suggested that he take a new name, Shi Luosheng thought about it again and again, and felt that his power was still too small and he didn't want to be too public, so he still acted in the name of Tianluo Sect for the time being.

In the first half month after returning to Naha, Shi Luosheng took Jiang Wan'er to walk around the streets and alleys of the city. Speaking of which, neither of them had a good look at this city, and the day after they defeated it, they rushed out to deal with the coalition forces of Nine Ghost Jialong, and then hurried back to Jianye, which was the first time the two of them experienced the exotic customs.

Under the leadership of Shigeharu Takenaka and Shi Pre, the city of Naha became more and more open, and the number of people who settled abroad also increased, and merchants from Qi, Yan, Siam, Luzon and other places came and went more frequently.

In order to thank Ning for his unyielding help, Shi Luosheng reduced the tariff on Yan by two percent. With the adjustment of the strategic objectives of the Qi State from the Yan State to the Chu State, the Qi army under the city of Hanzhong also withdrew, which made the exhausted Yan State breathe a sigh of relief.

Yan Emperor Zhu Tingxun also wanted to learn from the Song State and seize the time to develop the domestic economy, and the unyielding Penglai City naturally became the focus of overseas trade. Although Penglai City has close trade contacts with Naha, in the Yan Kingdom, except for Ning Buqu himself, even Ning Zefeng does not know the news that Shi Luosheng is still alive, and they all think that their trade object is Naha City's lord Takenaka Shigeji.

Half a year later, Shi Luosheng asked Ling Zhen to lead his troops to absorb Osumi Island, which had lost the Nine Ghosts Jialong, and then establish a new military base with Osumi Island as the center, and slowly began to expand from the surrounding small forces, and those who could be persuaded to surrender were persuaded to surrender, and all those who could not be persuaded to surrender were exterminated.

These small forces usually live on pirate trade, and their main targets are the merchant ships of various countries that travel to and from Naha, and they have the support of merchants from all over the world to exterminate them.

A year later, in addition to Dadong Island and Anmei Island, which had surrendered to Qi State, only Liu Suojing, who had one Xiandao, was still independent.

Shi Luosheng has not used troops against him is waiting for Liu Suojing to surrender on his own initiative, and Liu Suojing was able to come to Ryukyu alone to lay down a family business, which is enough to show that he is not a mediocre talent. Now that he is also at the time of employing people, Shi Luosheng wants him to be willingly included in his account.

Liu Suojing watched the Ryukyu Islands, which he was bent on dominating back then, gradually fall into the territory of the Tianluo Sect, and he also felt a trace of sourness in his heart. lamented that he didn't catch up with the good times, and was taken advantage of by the late Shi Luosheng.

Now there is no place for him on the Ryukyu Islands, and he will either surrender to the Tianluo Sect or the Qi State. Liu Suojing is a native of Qi State, although he was driven out of the country by Lu Xinghai back then, but now if he has to choose one of the two to surrender, he subconsciously still favors Qi State.

It's just that Jiang Huanyan is far away in Jiaozhou and doesn't say anything. The main energy of the Qi State is also on the battlefield of the Chu State now, and 250,000 troops have been invested there, so naturally there is no spare energy to care about the belonging of this small island.

The land on the island is not suitable for farming, and the people can only make a living from fishing, but fortunately there are some resident merchants on the island who come to buy their seafood, but no one has come to the island to do business for more than three months. The people's homes are full of all kinds of dried fish, and the staple food on the dinner table has become all seafood.

In the past, when there was a natural disaster, Liu Suojing could still go out with the warship to rob it, but now he doesn't dare. Because this is not a natural disaster, but Shi Luosheng's economic blockade of Xiandao, as long as he dares to lead his troops out to rob, Shi Luosheng will have an excuse to destroy himself, even if he can't find an excuse, he can destroy himself.

Liu Suojing, who had completely lost his financial resources, stayed up for another two months, looking at the people on the island with yellow faces and thin muscles, he finally couldn't hold it anymore, and brought several of his important leaders to Naha City to take the initiative to ask Shi Luosheng to surrender.

Shi Luosheng naturally accepted with a smile on his face, Xiandao was still governed by Liu Suojing, and at the same time, the economic blockade of Xiandao was lifted, but all the military forces on the island were taken over by the Tianluo Sect.

At this point, the entire Ryukyu Islands were all returned to the Tenra religion, and the remaining Daito Island and Anmi Island, although nominally belonged to the Qi Kingdom, still had to be economically dependent on Naha.

The products on these two islands are not abundant, and the sea trade alone is not enough for the people to live a good life, and Bukit used to rely on pirate trade to subsidize the people, but now, like Liu Suojing, he does not dare to take troops out to earn extra money.

The other islands could not continue the pirate trade, but they were subsidized by Naha Castle, so they were far more affluent than Daito Island and Anmi Island. This gap caused an imbalance in the hearts of the people on the two islands, and over time, they gradually began to leave the island without permission and move to the nearby islands.

The other islands naturally did not refuse to come, and Naha City also gave them the same subsidies, and Bukit naturally did not dare to go to Xingshi to ask for the guilt, and his life was quite aggrieved.

In order to change the current situation, Bukit had to return to his old business, but he could only take the risk of taking warships to rob the Wa Kingdom, Luzon, Siam and other places.

In this sea area, there is no longer any force that dares to provoke the Tianluo Sect, except for Shi Luosheng who left Wang Chiji on Changxing Island to assist Zuqing, all the other Sun Seven generals were recalled to Naha.

Changxing Island has now become a training base for talents, and the seedlings selected by Shi Pre-selected are sent to Changxing first, so that they can follow Wang Chiji, start from the trade with Yan State, and slowly familiarize themselves with the whole process, and at the same time learn some martial arts from Zu Qingzhi in their spare time.

Although the existing manpower was still insufficient, Shi Luosheng still insisted on sending Ling Zhen, Shi Pre and other seven generals in turn to send out, in addition to the nearby Wa Kingdom, Siam, Luzon and other places, and even let Shi Pre and Ling Zhen go to the distant Indian Ocean.

Shi Luosheng himself and Jiang Wan'er went to the country of Wa for three months, saw the culture of different regions, and on the way also met Kuroda Takataka, who was known as a genius and a genius with Shigeharu Takenaka.

The two talked very happily, and Kuroda had admired the daimyo of Shigeharu Takenaka for a long time, and if it wasn't for something, he would still want to go to Naha to meet Takenaka.

Two years have passed in a flash, and Wu Shiqi's poison pill policy two years ago has gradually revealed the harm, although Xiangyang, Chaisang, Jincheng and other places have been supported by this policy for two more years, but now the city is also starving, and the people in the city have long ceased to cultivate the land, and the grain has been exhausted.

In order to save food, Gao Kegong of Chaisang even drove the old, weak, sick and disabled people out of the city. Although Zhou Yunjing has not yet reached this step, he is also trying to exploit the surplus food in the people's homes. Xiang Chu's situation is slightly better, after all, Xiangyang is an important town in Chu State, and there is a lot of grain in stock, and it can hold on for a while.

"General, our food stock is less than half a month, and although we have driven out the people, it will not last for a month." Gao Kegong's lieutenant Yang Zhiyuan looked anxious.

Gao Kegong, who was standing at the head of the city, looked at the Song army camp outside the city, and his expression was a little excited: "If it weren't for the strategy of the Prime Minister, this Chaisang City would have been lost two years ago, and now the city will be broken, and we are ready to withdraw." ”

Yang Zhiyuan was a little angry: "Withdraw? When the national crisis is headed, where else can we go? In the end, he will live and die with Chaisang. ”

Gao Kegong was slightly dissatisfied: "General Yang's words are wrong, we are not going because we are afraid of death, but because we exchange space for time." Now that my Dachu troops are not many, the lives of every soldier are precious, and the 50,000 people in the city can no longer be lost. Since Chaisang can't hold it, then we will go to Shuzhou to build a new defense line, and the grain stored there is enough for us to defend for another two years. ”

The important town behind Chaisang is Shuzhou, followed by Huicheng, and if Huicheng is lost again, it will be the national capital Shouchun. From a strategic point of view, Gao Kegong's idea is not wrong, but Yang Zhiyuan still can't accept it, he is a native of Chaisang, and he was originally the commander of the Chaisang City Defense Army.

"We have been surrounded by the Song army, even if we want to break through, we will lose a lot, the last general asked for orders to stay to block the Song army, and the general withdrew to Shuzhou with the main force." Yang Zhiyuan is determined to live and die with Chaisang.

Gao Kegong stared at Yang Zhiyuan for a while, and finally sighed and said, "Since General Yang has already decided, I will no longer persuade him." I will leave you with 5,000 men to continue to defend the city, and after three days, I will break through to Shuzhou with the rest of the army. ”

Yang Zhiyuan looked firm: "I don't need 5,000, the general will leave me 2,000 people, as the general said, now the life of every soldier is very precious, the general will take more people to Shuzhou, and it will be better to stay for a while." ”

Gao Kegong was a little inexplicably moved, patted Yang Zhiyuan's shoulder, and walked down the city silently.

Three days later, Yang Zhiyuan really only needed 2,000 people to guard the city wall, while Gao Kegong suddenly opened the north gate with nearly 50,000 people and killed them in the direction of Shuzhou.

With the advantage of troops, coupled with Yang Zhiyuan's attraction of Song troops in the city, Gao Kegong broke through Deng Wenhao's defense line at a very small cost.

The angry Deng Wenhao had no choice but to sprinkle his anger on Yang Zhiyuan, and in less than two hours, Chaisang City was broken, and Yang Zhiyuan also fought to the last moment and killed himself.

"Big brother, this is not the direction of Shuzhou City, are we going the wrong way?" Gao Kejian, who accompanied Gao Kegong to flee together, found that he had taken the wrong route.

Gao Kegong glanced at his own brother and smiled: "This is indeed not the direction of Shuzhou City, but we are not wrong." ”

Gao Kejian looked puzzled: "If you don't go to Shuzhou, where are we going now?" ”

"What are you doing in Shuzhou? Do you want to run away after two more years? Gao Kegong looked at his younger brother who looked puzzled and said: "I'm afraid our Da Chu won't be able to survive this hurdle, two years ago, the prime minister's new policy, my uncle was strongly opposed, but unfortunately His Majesty did not adopt it." In the past two years, we have wasted time on the front line to defend against strong enemies, and if you look at those local forces in China, they have taken the opportunity to grow and develop one by one. ”

Gao Kejian somewhat understood: "What does the eldest brother mean is that instead of us going to Shuzhou to buy time for others to develop, why don't we take the opportunity to develop ourselves?" ”

Gao Kegong smiled: "You have finally opened your mind, I have discussed it with my uncle, and he also agrees with me, Shuzhou can't go, it will soon become the main battlefield of Chu and Song, and we have to stay away from there." ”

"And where are we going?"

"Go to Lin'an."