Chapter 142: The Battle of Profit (Part II)

"His Royal Highness Kobayakawa's compassion is very emotional," I nodded, "It's just that since there is already a dispute, there must be a result." Otherwise, the dispute will still exist, and there will inevitably be wars in the future, so that both sides will continue to shed blood and sacrifice...... So, unless the Li family is willing to surrender, I will consider withdrawing troops. ”

These words were actually a rejection of Kobayakawa Takakei's request. With the current stalemate and the scope of the war, it is absolutely impossible for the Li family to show surrender.

"His Highness Taichang is too aggressive, isn't he?" As I expected, Nami Zongsheng really refused, and there was a bit of indignation in his tone, "Let's not say that the foreign minister only represents His Royal Highness and has no authority to decide whether to surrender or not; Even if there is, the foreign ministers will not agree, and His Royal Highness Taichang should not forget that it is the family that currently controls the Guanen Strait."

"Then let's take a look," I closed the fan and closed my eyes slightly, "please reply to His Highness Kobayakawa like this." ”

“…… Understood, then the minister retreated," Nami Zongsheng bowed his head, stood up and walked outside. However, before he could reach the entrance, he suddenly turned around again, bowed down to me, and said, "His Highness Taichang is so sure, I guess I haven't heard from the Shikoku side yet...... Lord Ryo Yasu Murakami of the Injima Navy is leading his troops to attack and harass Imabari Port in order to contain the return of the naval army of the defense castle. ”

"Innoshima Marine?" I was really a little surprised now, "In the original battle of the Kawanoe River, wasn't the entire Innoshima Island cleaned up by our side?" Didn't the commander of the navy, Murakami Yoshimitsu, commit suicide? ”

"That's right," Naomi Sokatsu sighed, "It's not a secret, the younger sister, as the main room of Yoshimitsu, also committed suicide on Innoshima...... However, Yoshimitsu's younger brother, His Royal Highness Ryoyasu, was guarding the Gongbo Hall (Ashikaga Yoshiaki) in Castle at that time, so the Injima naval army was not destroyed. ”

"I see." I was relieved. Since it's just the remnants of the Injima Naval Army, it doesn't matter. Wasuka Masakatsu is currently staying in Imabari Castle, and with his ability and Shikoku's maritime escort force, even if Ryiyasu Murakami tries hard, there is no way to break into the port.

"I feel very sorry about Ling Mei's matter." I'll put it simply.

"As the NV of the samurai family, the sister has already had such an awareness," Naomi Zongsheng raised his head, "Moreover, His Royal Highness Ryoyasu also has such an awareness, and before leaving, he has entrusted his younger brother Ji Liang to His Royal Highness Nakamo, in order to continue the family name of the Injima Murakami family...... If His Royal Highness Taichang still pinned his hopes on the naval army of Fangfu City and wanted them to return to the Guanen Strait in time, I am afraid that he would be doomed to disappointment. ”

"Hehe, Shikoku is the foundation of the family, isn't it so easy to get in and out?" I couldn't help but laugh again, "So, Lord Liangkang's consciousness is indeed very necessary." Not only that, but he wants to contain the defense government's own navy, I'm afraid it's self-defeating...... the truth of 'too much', His Royal Highness Kobayakawa should know, right? He deliberately wanted the defense army to return to the four countries, did he think that all the people in our navy were stupid and would be led by him? ”

"This ......" Naomi Sokatsu couldn't help but be taken aback.

"So that's it for today." I stood up and prepared to go back to the inner room at the back, and the next person next to me opened in response, and sat down with his head bowed and kneeling respectfully. Walking to the entrance, I thought about it and turned around again, and said to Nomi Munekatsu, "Please ask Nomi-sama to reply to His Highness Kobayakawa that it is absolutely impossible to discuss peace. His Royal Highness Kobayakawa should be clear about the ambitions of the family, so I asked him to think carefully about what to do in the future with the strength of the remaining countries of the Rika family and the control of the Rika family. ”

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In fact, the Shanyang area where the Li family is located has never been enough to compete for the capital of the world due to its barren land and complex terrain. Although there are many kingdoms, the stone height in the country is basically around 200,000 koku, or even only a few tens of thousands of koku, that is, the stone height of Bizen and Harima is slightly more, and it exceeds the level of 300,000 koku, but these two countries have always been the traditional power of the Akamatsu family, or they were occupied by official retainers under the command of the Akamatsu family (Urakami family, Ukita family, Kotera family, and Bessho family). Therefore, whether it is the previous "one-sixth hall" mountain name Shi clan, or the "mountain yīn Shanyang Taishou" Ni Qingjiu, in fact, there are not many stone heights, and once they are challenged by a strong force, they will be very defeated, and even fall apart because of this.

The same is true for the Li family, and compared with the previous two, it may be inferior. Before the start of the Li family, it was just a small wealthy family of Yasuyu, and due to the name of the family (Oe Hiromoto Yanliu) and the support of the clan (Fukuhara, Saka clan, Shido clan of the Saka clan and Katsura clan, Kuchiwa clan of the Shido clan), he served as the leader of the Hao clan alliance to resist the invasion of the Ouchi family in the west (and later added the Ni family in the east), and to deal with the domination of the Takeda family in Anyu's guardianship. In this alliance, the positions of the wealthy clans were equal, and the Rika family, as the leader of the alliance, did not have the right to arbitrariness, and it was up to the wealthy clans to decide on matters by collegiality, but later Rigen won over the Xù family, Kumagai and other families, destroyed the opposing Inoue family, and annexed the Yoshikawa and Kobayakawa families, which established a certain degree of dominance and transformed into the ruling system of the "Riyagawa".

Since the destruction of An Yun, who was born in the Wakasa Takeda family, the guardian Takeda Shinshi has calculated, and the rise of the Li family has only been thirty years. The reason for achieving the domination of the Chinese region was due to the momentum of the Takeda family, the Ouchi family, the Ni family, and the Mimura family, as well as the huge financial resources provided by Iwami Ginzan and the commercial profits under the protection of the Lishui army. In practice, however, the Li family did not rule the various kingdoms completely, and made a considerable degree of compromise with the original wealthy families, and co-opted them through marriage. For example, in the country of Changen, the Naito family still serves as the guardian generation, and the sister of Takashi Naito, who was courted before, is the main room Ozaki Bureau of Litakamoto; In Iwami Province, in addition to the two wealthy families of Yoshimi and Masuda, in addition to the Montian family (Ouchi family), Yoshimi Hiroyori married the sister of the Toshimi family, and the head of the Masuda family, Masuda Motosho, married Yoshikawa Mototo, and they all became a member of the Toshimi family (Lingguang, Yuantongzi); In the middle school of the later country, the original guardian of the generation of Yamauchi Naotsu's NV son was the mother of the Niv-in-law of the Liyuan family, and the son of Yamauchi Toyotsu married the NV son of Liyun's brother and the head of the previous family, Li Xingyuan; In China, the heirs of the Zhuang clan and the Ishikawa clan were the guardians, and the rulers were the four sons of the Rimoto family, the Zhuang (Hoida) Motoqing who inherited the Zhuang family, and the in-law of the Ishikawa family, Shimizu Soji; The rest of the second-class wealthy families are forcibly adopted by the way of inheritance, and they are included in the Li family - fortunately, there are many Li Yuan, among the ten children, except for the eldest Li Takamoto and Sueli Xiubao who are ready to inherit the Kobayakawa family) to inherit the Miao character of the family, the rest of Yoshikawa Motont, Kobayakawa Takakei, Hoi Ida (Zhuang) Motoqing, Suki Du Motoaki, Dewa Motoku, Amano Motomasa, Suji Motoyasu, and Ninomiya Jichen all passed out.

At the time of the establishment of the Rityogawa system, the Yoshikawa Gennt region now governs the three kingdoms of Iwami, Izumo, and Hakugi, and also governs Iwami Ginzan; Kobayakawa Takakei managed the Rike Naval Army and Shodo, and together with Rimoto, he presided over the Ouchi Family's raids, focusing on the four provinces of Shubo, Choen, Chikuzen, and Bunzen in the old land of the Ouchi Family, and used the Naval Army to infiltrate the Iyo-Kono family. However, the Toshiya family was defeated by the Ouchi family in the heyday of Bunzen, and the claws that infiltrated Iyo were also cut off by me, which turned the target to the Mimura family in Bichu and the Uki family in Bizen in an attempt to expand their power to the east.

A few years ago, when the pacification of Beizhong and the alliance with the Uki family, it can be said that it was another peak of strength since the setback of the Li family in Kyushu. However, with the seizure of the trade routes in the Seto Inland Sea by me, the destruction of the Kono family and the Yamana family by me and Hideyoshi, and the Uki family turned to the Oda family, the strength of the Rika family has been seriously damaged. At this time, if they suffer another major defeat, they may lose control of the countries under their command, just like the historical mountain masters and the Ni family.

For those wealthy families, kinship has never been a matter of scruples before the major event of family name. For example, the Yoshimi family of Iwami Province, the current head of the family, Yoshimi Masayori, is still the brother-in-law of Yoshitaka Ouchi, and Yoshihirorai also has half of the blood of the Ouchi family, but if you want to attack the Ouchi family with the Riki family, isn't you doing your best? Therefore, once the Li family loses power, those guardian generations and wealthy families will go out from the Li family without any scruples, or throw themselves into the powerful daimyo around them.

Because of this, before the original historical Honnoji Incident, when Takamatsu Castle was in danger and Nobunaga was about to come to the front in person, the Rika family immediately asked Hideyoshi J through Ankokuji Eikyo, and very simply proposed the peace conditions of J out of the Five Kingdoms; When the battle of Sekigahara came to an end, the Toshiya and the inquisitive J took out most of the territory and Iwami Ginzan, and shrank back to the two countries of Zhoubo and Naga.

With the strength of my Kyushu, Shikoku and naval forces, I believe that I can steadily defeat the Toshiya, and this expedition to the country of Naga-N is mainly to arrange Shimazu Yoshihiro in Satsuma, and to take over the Sanyo strategy from Hideyoshi, so it is the Shimazu family as the main force, and there is no major mobilization in the territory.

Kobayakawa Takakei should have seen this very clearly, so he wanted to take advantage of the opportunity to negotiate peace with me when he had the upper hand, so as to obtain relatively ideal conditions for harmony. Naturally, I can't agree to him, at least not at this time, otherwise, not only will I not be able to get the territory to house Shimazu Yoshihiro, but the prestige of the Kira family and myself will also be severely damaged.

In my mind, there are two bottom lines for the armistice: one is that the Rika family will give up at least one country, and the other is that the Rika's Kobayakawa naval army must be completely destroyed. Therefore, after beating Naomi Munekatsu, I immediately asked Kennai Jingding to return to the port of Én and continue to wait for news from the two detachments of Dinghai and Fub.

Two days later, the Dinghai detachment finally arrived in the Guann Strait. When the majestic body of the Dinghai appeared in the east of the strait and led more than 200 warships under its command to press on the Kobayakawa naval army in an orderly manner, Murakami Takeyoshi and Nomi Munekatsu, who commanded the naval army, knew that they were invincible, but they still led more than 300 ships of different styles and sizes to meet them. After a battle of jī, the Kobayakawa naval army naturally suffered a crushing defeat, and was almost completely annihilated by the Dinghai detachment, and the sea surface of the strait, which was about two kilometers wide, was full of ships that had lost their columns, or wreckage that was simmering with flames, just as it was during the Battle of Tannoura. The large Guan ship that Murakami Takekichi was the flagship of was hit by the Dinghai because the target was too obvious, and it almost became a fragment floating on the sea; Murakami Takeyoshi himself was grazed in the arm by a cannonball and was unable to fight with a sword, so he committed suicide with the help of Nomi Munekatsu; Naomi Munekatsu was rescued by us, but because he lost this naval army, he was so depressed that he even disregarded the dignity of the samurai and attacked the people who saved him, so that Yoshikei and Iwamatsu Jingding had to tie him up.

It wasn't until he saw me again that he regained some of his anger and told Murakami about Takeshi's suicide.

"His Royal Highness Bukit said that he did not want to go back to Yashiro Island and live as a fishermen's leader. Therefore, although he knew that he was not an opponent, he still made up his mind to lead his troops to meet the battle and perish with the naval army," he bowed his head gloomily, "In this battle, His Highness Taichang has won. ”

Seeing his appearance of resting everything, I couldn't help but feel a burst of compassion: "With the strength of the naval armies on both sides, it is natural for your side to be defeated, not that you two are not in improper command...... I don't embarrass you. Give you ten of the ships, and you can go back with the survivors."

"What's the point of being alive now?" Naimei Zongsheng shook his head, "Just met His Highness Taichang, the foreign minister thought, maybe you have something to say to His Highness Zhongwu, right?" Therefore, let the foreign minister serve as this messenger, and fulfill your duties as a subordinate for the next time...... Afterwards, the foreign minister will commit suicide by seppuku and apologize to His Royal Highness Kobayakawa. ”

After saying this, his attitude calmed down a lot, as if he had unloaded all the responsibilities on his shoulders.

"Really? Then I won't say anything more," I sighed, "I had two conditions. One is J out Kono Nao, and the other is J out Sugi Motora, but the Rika family is unwilling to accept it, which causes this war. Well, now I don't insist on it anymore, the first condition can be canceled, and only one country needs to be long-lasting; The second condition...... If the Rika family accepts, I will give Sugimoto Ryoshi the two counties of Miyu and Atsusa that are adjacent to the Naga-N country and the Zhou defense, and the people of the family will serve as the after-secretary as a buffer between the two families. As a j exchange, I will J return Mihara Castle and Hofu Castle of Kobayakawa His Highness and cancel the plan to attack Yamaguchi"

"Understood," Nagmi Zongsheng bowed his head, "The foreign minister will really bring the news to His Highness the Central Affairs." ”

With that, he stood up, straightened his clothes, and walked out of the meeting room with solemn steps.