In addition to ordering Watanabe Moritsuna to personally accompany the fleet to Kumano Beach to cause some misunderstanding, the clan sent people back to the territory as soon as possible, and ordered the army to go to meet it, although the road was all walking on the territory of the Oda family, but it was better to be careful.

Although Yamada Nagamasa accompanied the clan to board the ship just now, he was not present when the clan talked to Carl, perhaps because Carl didn't want too many people to know what happened to him.

Yamada Nagamasa had already thought that if Mr. Karl wanted to meet the lord, he must be talking about a big business, so big that he was not even qualified to know the truth, but when he took over the contract from the lord, although he was ready to prepare in his heart, but when he saw the above content, he was still stunned by this shocking deal.

The lord actually bought two advanced iron cannon production lines, what does this mean, these two production lines are completely equivalent to countless money in his eyes, as long as he has it, then no one can cut off the supply of his family.

Although the contract states that these two production lines can only produce about 1,000 iron cannons a year, but this is enough, if it is his own production, he is confident that the cost will be controlled at about eight, so that the cost will drop by 30%, the cost of a drop of 30% is nothing, but 1,000, 10,000, it will be a lot of money.

And when he saw the amount of the transaction, he was even more surprised, 30,000 gold small judgment? Seeing this number, he was shocked, and the funds available to the family now did not add up to so much, but when he looked down more closely, he finally breathed a sigh of relief. The 30,000 gold judgment is to be paid in five years, 6,000 per year, how did the lord do it, it is definitely not an easy task to make the Nanban unconditional believers.

But now the lord and Carl are chatting while walking, and it is difficult for him to go over to ask, so he has to hold back this question.

After sending off Carl's fleet, the clan was already physically and mentally exhausted. With a long day of travel and a battle of wits with Carl, he just wants to rest now.

However, although the iron cannon production line is in hand. But there was a problem that needed to be solved immediately, otherwise, the two lines would be almost indistinguishable from scrap. And the question is who is in charge of the management.

The clan plans to hand over full authority to Yamada Nagamasa, and at present, with the continuous increase of the territory of the Oda family, although the business of the Sparrow House is getting bigger and bigger, if a person like Yamada Nagamasa is only responsible for the operation of one store, it is really a bit big and useless, so he plans to hand over all the business of the Sparrow House to Naya Sukezaemon, with his ability, not to mention that there are only a few stores now, even if it is dozens, it should be able to take care of it very well. In this way, Yamada Nagamasa can be relieved and let him be in charge of the production and trading of iron cannons, so that he can rest assured.

The clan's resolute character was once again reflected, and he hurriedly ordered: "Quickly recruit Yasuke Saemon to come and see him." Then he fell asleep.

While the clan was waiting for Nayasuke Saemon to arrive in Kaimachi. The chief sect of Shikoku, my family, has no mind to sleep.

In the past, because the Miyoshi family set the main direction of development in Honshu, the Chomune Ibe clan took advantage of the situation and first destroyed Saito, and then the Motoyama family destroyed Yasaki, and in just a few years, they almost unified Tosa. The land under his rule is nearly 100,000 stones.

Although as far as the land under the rule of the Changzong family is concerned, if it is placed in this continent, it is not worth mentioning at all, if it provokes the general force, it can be wiped out in an instant, however, the four countries are too backward, and it is precisely because of backwardness that the scale of each power is limited, so don't look at it as only nearly 100,000 stones, but if it is placed in the four countries, it is definitely a general force.

But the young head of the family, the head of the family, was not satisfied with the status quo, so after a year or two of recuperation, he slowly stretched out his hand to Awa. …,

The country of Awa belongs to the territory of the Miyoshi family, and in the eyes of the retainers of the Changzong family, the Miyoshi family is simply a behemoth, and he can already thank God if he doesn't come to attack his own family, and now he goes to provoke it in turn, which is definitely self-defeating.

Therefore, as soon as the head of Chosō Ibu proposed it, it was opposed by the retainers, who believed that even if they wanted to be enemies of the Miyoshi family, they also needed to unify the lands outside the Miyoshi family in the Iyo and Sanki countries of Shikoku, and even if they wanted to defeat the Miyoshi family, they were not sure of anything, let alone be an enemy of them now.

The retainers' words are not unfounded, not to mention the ambition of others and the destruction of their own prestige, just from the equipment point, it can be seen that the retainers of the Changzong family are not cowardly, but do not want their own family to perish.

Look at what kind of weapons the Miyoshi family uses and what armor they wear, it's a spear, a bucket and a bucket, looking at the military situation under the command of the family, the bamboo guns and wooden sticks in their hands, and the hoes are already very good weapons, and there is no piece of armor on the body.

And it is said that the ashigaru guarding the castles of Awa is not an elite at all, and the head of the Miyoshi family still has an elite flag book of thousands of people in his hands, and if he attacks in a rage, the family will definitely not be able to escape the fate of destruction.

For the opposition of the retainers, the head of the Changzong and my department did not take it too seriously, and the Miyoshi family was strong, but in his opinion, as long as the timing was right, it was completely defeatable, at least it could be driven out of the four countries, as long as the Miyoshi family could be defeated, then the other forces in the four countries would dare not listen to the orders of the family, so that a lot of time could be left to prepare for the unification of the four countries.

Although such an idea seems risky, it is not impossible, of course, the most important thing is to seize the opportunity, and for this reason, the head of the Changzong and my department has sent spies to.

And when he learned that the Miyoshi family was fighting the Oda family, although he didn't know how powerful the Oda family really was, and he didn't deliberately send someone to collect information about the Oda family before, his intuition told him that his opportunity had come.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the Miyoshi family to start sending a large number of Awa's ashigaru to Honshu to fight, and Awa's defenses had never been so empty since the head of the clan succeeded the head of the family.

He knew that if he summoned the assessment meeting, then the retainers would definitely oppose it as before, and the fighter plane was fleeting, and he didn't have time to fight with the retainers under his command, so after confirming that the Miyoshi family's army was leaving, he only led 500 banners to attack Apo.

The five hundred banners led by the head of Changzong and my department are ashilight, although they are also called banners, but the equipment is only stronger than the military strength of the retainers under his command, if it is placed in front of the Miyoshi army, then although their loyalty is not comparable to the peasant soldiers, but the equipment is no different from the peasant soldiers, but even if the strength is very different, but due to the unpreparedness of the attack, so the army of Changzong and my army only captured Oda Castle at a small price.

When the retainers of the Chosho family knew that the lord of the province was in danger, the head of the Chozong family had already led the army to capture the three castles near Tosa, and with the fall of the three castles of the Miyoshi family, the illusion of the Miyoshi family's strength also became fragmented.

And after this battle, the position of the head of Changzong and my department in the family has also been consolidated, as long as it is the strategy he proposed, the retainers will all implement it unconditionally.

However, just when the retainers of the Changzong family saw hope, the Miyoshi family's action of gathering heavy troops to destroy their own family in one fell swoop was like a thunderbolt from the sky, and it was in everyone's hearts.

In the assessment room of Gangfeng City, the retainers of the Changzong family sat in their respective positions with bitter faces, I am afraid that the army of the Miyoshi family will attack soon, and no one's mood will be much better, even the relatives of the Changzong family are no exception, and they must come up with countermeasures before the army of the Miyoshi family arrives in Shikoku, otherwise it will be all over. …,

However, they don't know what to do, because the clan sect appeared again in the territory of the Miyoshi family and killed the pioneer general Shinohara Nagafang, and now the Miyoshi family is only concerned with searching for traces of the Takayama clan in the territory, so who cares about them, and the elimination of the Changzong family has been postponed indefinitely.

But this has not yet been heard, so everyone in the room has to continue to look for a way to preserve the name of the family.

If you talk about the quality of the ashigaru, everyone thinks that the ashigaru is not only not worse than the three good ashigashi, but much stronger, the only thing missing now is weapons and equipment, as long as this problem is solved, then the strength of the family will inevitably be greatly improved, even in the face of the three good family, they also have the confidence to protect themselves, but the problem is also here.

There are only nearly 100,000 stones of land under the rule of Changzong's family, and there are still thirty percent of the land that is not owned by Changzong's relatives, and the people who control these lands are all retainers and the territories of the wealthy clans who return to Shun, even if Changzong's relatives are the heads of the family, don't think about the idea of fighting these lands, although the rest is directly under his jurisdiction, but with the harvest of these lands, it is only enough to maintain the daily consumption of the family, even if there is some surplus, it will not be too much.

But he understands that in Jiemachi, the price of a spear is about five times, and a set of barrel and river bucket is even more than ten times, even if all the savings in the family are taken out to buy, it is only enough to equip four hundred people, and even the flag book under his command is not equipped with enough, how can he fight against the tens of thousands of troops of the Miyoshi family?

As an orthodox samurai, Changzong and my head relatives don't value money very much, but the money that he usually doesn't look down on stumps him.

And just when the relatives and retainers of the Changzong clan were at a loss, suddenly a low-ranking samurai ran in from outside and said, "Report to the lord, Kogoro is asking to see him outside the city, and ask the lord to decide." ”

Changzong I Yuan personally heard that it was Kogoro who had been doing business with his family when he arrived, and his eyes did not light up, maybe the hope of the family to resist the Miyoshi family was in this person, thinking of this, I only heard him open his mouth and say: "Please!" (Your support is my biggest motivation.) )