If a family has more than five people, each additional person will be given more land for cultivation, and the cattle and horses for cultivation will be lent by the Kira family, and the cattle and horses will be registered according to the age and health of the cattle, and the more than five years will be owned by them, exempting the one-year period of money and the three-year building money, and the policy of providing housing is also in full swing.

This policy still caused a strong response under the propaganda network of Hattori Ninja, and in half a year, 50,000 people moved in successively, but even so, there was still a large shortage of peasants in Echigo, and the land of the Kira family and the Nagao family alone needed 500,000 peasants to cultivate, but now there are only 200,000, so they can only be given higher treatment and forced the peasants to work harder.

Twenty people do the work of fifty people, it will definitely be very tiring, men, women and children go into battle together, even with straw mats to cover them, mosquito nets and wormwood sleep directly in the field is not uncommon, from dawn to the three watches of the night of the peasants are very many, often you can see three or four-year-old children carrying a small burden to follow the older brother to fetch firewood, for which Ji Liang is helpless.

In the Middle Ages, the old peasants of Japan were no worse than the Chinese peasants in terms of tenacity, paying sixty percent of the grain as an annual tribute, and at the same time having to bear various taxes such as section money, donban money, military service, and general service.

About half of the 21,000 towns of land the two families planted with potatoes, corn, and pumpkins, and the other half was planted with rice. In addition to the low-ranking samurai, townspeople, and farmers, the staple food of new grain was new. High-ranking samurai and monks still ate rice as their staple food. Of course, they usually drink pumpkin porridge, eat corn rice, eat potatoes and stewed quails or something, but relatively little meat is also eaten secretly.

Pumpkin, corn, potatoes, pickled radish roots, chicken soup, and fish soup can supplement most of the nutrients needed, which is much more delicious than dry, cold and hard rice dumplings. Therefore, it is loved by soldiers who march and fight.

Before the winter, the excavation of the river pond was gradually stopped, and under the command of Li Ding, tens of thousands of peasants surrounded more than a dozen swamps of different sizes, first dug through the inlet and outlet of the swamp to keep alive water injecting and flowing out, and then built a dam to build a polder.

At the same time, another interesting thing happened in Shinano Koji-gun, Sanada Yutaka may have been addicted to stealing the city, and this time the target of the night attack was Yasuda Keimoto's Susuki Castle, using the Shinano samurai, who had already rebelled, to open the city gate and steal into the city. As a result, he was attacked head-on by the Yasuda army, which had been prepared for a long time.

In the face of the onslaught of Yasuda Keimoto's soldiers, Sanada Yutaka realized for the first time that the news had leaked and the sneak attack failed. However, the Sanada army's numerical advantage made him hesitate to retreat, because the Sanada army of more than 500 people had been pressing Yasuda Keiyuan's team to fight, and the outer warp wheel was completely occupied, and he was confident that he could defeat the enemy in half an hour.

This hesitation almost caused the Sanada army to fall in, and it didn't take long for the secret outpost lying in ambush outside the city to send a warning, and two armies of unknown numbers appeared outside the city, Sanada Yutaka was scared out of a white sweat, and retreated in a hurry without caring about taking the city.

As soon as he escaped from Susu Gui Castle, the Sanada army was unfortunately chased and beaten by the support forces of Kakizaki Keijia and Yoshie Keishi, and Sanada Yutaka immediately decided to leave a team of Ashigaru to fight to the death, and he led his team to flee eastward along the Chikuma River.

The samurai of the Broken Rear Army were loyal ministers who had served the Sanada family for many years, and in order to buy more time for the Sanada army to retreat, they bit the pursuers of the Kakizaki Keijia and Yoshie Keizi Division, and the Yoshie team that rushed to the front was blocked, and at the same time, the Kakizaki team, which had the strongest combat effectiveness, was blocked behind.

This blockade will miss the precious pursuit, Kakizaki Jing's angry scolding is to no avail, he bypassed at this time will definitely cause Yoshie Keizi's dissatisfaction, and his army's fastest combat power is slightly inferior, being dragged by the fifty people for a quarter of an hour is obviously nothing to chase, and finally the two discussed it and decided to give up the pursuit and return to the army to rest.

In this night raid, the Yasuda army only lost a few dozen people, and it still had a certain advantage on the scene, and then it was almost dumplings by reinforcements without knowing it, and the Sanada army lost more than 100 people after the break, and the Sanada family lost a lot this time.

Echigo quickly received a battle report from Yasuda Keigen and others, and soon issued a new order, and in the next few months, the old Kakizaki Keijia of the Pedigree family served as the banner leader, and with the cooperation of the Hattori ninja who was ambushed by Shinano, the Takeda family was ambushed in the eyes of Kita-Shinano, and the rebellious samurai were uprooted one by one, and the method of dealing with the betrayers was borrowed from the execution method of Kira Yoshishi, and he was directly hanged outside the city to make an example.

Nearly 100 samurai were hanged outside the castle towns of various castles, and the brutal executions and stern warnings made the people of Shinano fear the Hattori ninjas, and at the same time, they used the corpses of these public executions as bait to quickly catch the samurai who had come to collect the bodies of their companions in spite of the danger.

The Hattori ninja showed his skills, borrowing various interrogation methods, prying open the mouths of these samurai, and then grabbing a line along the vine, which also involved several hidden big fish.

In the process of this massive purge, more than 200 wealthy clans and local servants were executed, and the land was confiscated equivalent to 1,000 steps, and the scope of execution was concentrated in the countrymen lords in the higher counties, Hanna counties, and Koji counties, and it is worth mentioning that the people of Mizuuchi and Takai-gun, where the Kawanaka Island area is located, were not implicated, and this result made Kira Yoshitoki extremely satisfied.

The Great Purge severely shocked the ill-intentioned Shinano people, especially those who had just attached themselves to the Kira family, and the landlords were frightened, and many people still had extravagant hopes for the Takeda family in their hearts, hoping that Sanada Yukitaka could bring the Takeda army back again, and this time the Kira family told them with an iron fist that "this is delusional", only obedience can be forgiven, and those with bad intentions can only be hanged.

The law of the Kira family is very much in the eyes of dealing with this kind of wealthy family who does not know how to advance and retreat, and has never been soft, hanging the first offender, knowing and changing the way, and the relatives and retainers were assigned to the Echigo samurai as punishment, although this method is not as good as the massacre of Takeda Harunobu at every turn. swept away the ruthlessness of the city's residents' efforts to degrade. But it also touched the hearts of countless Shinano samurai.

Kira and Takeda are not easy to mess with. The problem is that the Takeda family is weak, the Kira family is strong, and the form is relatively clear, and many people in the country have begun to think about what to do to vote for the Kira family.

After this change in Shinano's form, the people who firmly believed in the unity of the Takeda family in Shinano gradually wavered, and Takeda Nobushihiro and Sanada Yukitaka, who were in Konobu County, had to spend more effort to pacify the people of the county, and they could not suppress Echigo's infiltration of Shinano in the short term.

Not long after the beginning of winter, a series of news came from Kyoto, first of all, the outbreak of the Itsukushima Battle, which decided the hegemony of the Western Kingdom, and Tao Qingxian, the actual ruler of the Ouchi family, the overlord of the Western Kingdom. At the beginning of the year, he made an alliance with Izumo Niko Haruhisa, another overlord in the western country, and joined forces to destroy the Maori family.

At this time, the Nizi family coincided with the change of the Shingu Party, and Nizi Qingjiu was busy eradicating the military leaders of the Nizi Kunijiu and Nizi Chengjiu who had always been arrogant and domineering and despised the authority of the family governor, not only was their military strength seriously weakened, but they also spent time to annex the territory belonging to the Shingong Party and appease the foreigners who belonged to the Nizi family.

Seeing that his allies are so weak, at this time, he happened to receive the news that Maori Yuan began to build Miyao Castle on Itsukushima, which can stab the Ouchi family and Tao Qingxian's heart, Itsukushima Shrine is a famous tourist attraction in the West, and who doesn't go there to worship the gods and Buddhas?

It is also an important source of financial income for the Ouchi family. How can Maori Yuan be taken by this old boy? So Tao Qingxian decided not to wait for the cooperation of his allies, and personally led an army of 27,000 to cross the sea to attack the Maori army on Itsukushima.

Strictly speaking. Tao Qingxian's choice is also good, the Ouchi army with 27,000 troops this time is enough to crush the 5,000 defenders of Maori Yuan, and Itsukushima is a small island surrounded by water on all sides, as long as the Maori army on the island is besieged by the army, it will become a war of annihilation to catch turtles in an urn.

He is not wrong to think so, the basis of the Ouchi family's hegemony is the Ouchi Navy, this powerful naval army with 700 large and small ships maintains the Ouchi family's hegemony in the West and Kyushu, and the Maori Naval Army and the Kobayakawa Naval Army against him add up to only about 100 ships, most of which are Xiaozao, and there are more than a dozen ships.

Such a big military advantage, the advantage of the navy is Tao Qingxian's self-righteousness and obstinate confidence, no matter how persuaded by another important minister of the Ouchi family, Hongzhong Takabao, it will not help, compared to the strategy of encircling the mountain castle of Yoshida County to send reinforcements, Tao Qingxian prefers to fight a war of annihilation, annihilate all the main forces of the enemy, and the Maori family will collapse without a fight.

The result was much to his surprise, and it had not been smooth since he stepped into Itsukushima to attack Miyao Castle, and the defenders of Miyao Castle were the countrymen who were originally subordinate to the Ouchi family, Naoyuki Kohi and Motomasa Tsuboi, who were neither hardcore nor loyal servants of the Mori family, but had an unexpectedly stubborn resistance.

Miyao Castle happens to be built on one of the few cliffs on the island, the only passage is still a rugged steep slope, the attack angle is not good, the road is not usual, and the narrow attack surface cannot play the effect of the siege of the army at all, at this time Tao Qingxian also began to regret his recklessness, but the matter has come to this, as the actual ruler of the Ouchi family, can he bow his head and admit his mistake like Hongzhong Takabao? No way! Even if you know you've made a mistake, you must never bow your head.

When Tao Qingxian gritted his teeth and planned to go all the way to the dark, Mao Liyuan was also anxiously waiting, since the change of Daning Temple happened four years ago, he was keenly aware that the sky was about to change in this western country, so he worked hard to plan this war, in order to lure Tao Qingxian to the bait, from the moment the war began, his strategic purpose has been basically achieved.

The only thing left to consider was how to encircle and annihilate the Ouchi army, which was several times his own, and Mori Motosa's strategy was to draw the Mishima naval army of the Murakami family to attack the Ouchi army together, and from the date of the start of the Itsukushima Battle on September 21, Naomi Munekatsu, who was the liaison with the Mishima naval army, went to ask for help with a letter from Mori Motosatsu.

For the request of the Maori family, the Mishima Navy behaved differently, because the Shima Murakami family governor Murakami Yoshimitsu was the first to accept it, his main room is the daughter of Nami Sokatsu, and it is natural to help the old father-in-law, and the attitude of the Shima Murakami family governor to come to the island is very ambiguous, this family has long taken refuge in the Kono family, and he himself has been the son-in-law of Kono Tongnao, and he has long been not a person from the other two families.

The last and largest Nojima Murakami family is the head of the Mishima Water Army, and the family governor is Murakami Yamato Mamoru Buyoshi. His official position is not what the turtle daimyo claims. Because Murakami's status is extraordinary. Mishima was the strongest of the naval forces, and he had always been obedient to the shogunate.

So in order to commend Murakami Takeki's "loyalty" over the years, Ashikaga Yoshiki got him a Yamato official position in the imperial court, as for the money to buy the official, of course, the shogunate can't let the shogunate, Murakami Takeyoshi is very good at contributing 500 yuan to express his gratitude.

Murakami Takeshi was originally unwilling to help the Maori family, what does Ouchi have to do with Maori's life and death, what is the death of the lips and teeth is purely a lie, everyone was very harmonious under the Ouchi family in the past. Why should Ouchi let us help you when you're shopping with Maori?

Seeing that this trick did not work, Naomi Sokatsu hurriedly called for the support of the lord, and this time it was delayed until September 28, the seventh day of the Ouchi army's attack on Itsukushima.

Mao Liyuan calculated and wrote a letter, talking about the "Tao Qingxian Itsukushima" set up by Tao Qingxian in Itsukushima half a year after the end of the Daning Temple Incident, which has a regulation prohibiting unknown ships from docking and prohibiting unknown ships from levying "police solid materials".

In his letter, Mori Motosho said, "If the Yamato Mori Temple adheres to neutrality and my Mori family is defeated." I'm going to die on Itsukushima, and the Mori family will soon be destroyed. At that time, the Ouchi family, which has no rivals in the western country, will formulate more stringent legal restrictions, and even force the Murakami naval army to surrender...... If the Yamato Mori Mori family cooperates to counterattack the Ouchi Navy, I will swear to the gods and Buddhas to protect the privileges of the Murakami Navy's forces in Setouchi! ”

Mori Moto's judgment is very accurate, Murakami Takeyoshi was successfully moved, and when he came to the island to see that the clan family was also busy moving together, in the blink of an eye, more than 300 large and small ships of the Mishima Navy gathered, and the number of sailors on the Maori side reached more than 500 ships, and the disadvantage of the Navy was quietly pulled back, and the balance of victory was tilting a little bit in the direction of the Mori family.

The end of every month is called "evil day", in the Ming Dynasty this is called "obscure day", the night of the evil day is not appropriate, the night before Tao Qingxian also received Gui Yuancheng's surrender letter, this self-proclaimed unparalleled general in the West Tao Qingxian, but did not know the "Huang Gai fraudulent surrender" this said, saw the surrender letter under the joy of agreeing to accept surrender on October 1.

This wait for something to happen, that night the moon is dark and the wind is high and the storm swept the entire Itsukushima, the next morning woke up, Tao Qingxian was full of hope waiting for Gui Yuancheng's surrender army to come, at this time suddenly there was a chaotic shout of killing in the camp, located in the back of the Red Leaf Valley to kill a group of Maori troops to raid the Ouchi army, so that the unsuspecting Ouchi army fell into a difficult situation.

At the same time, the Maori Navy and the Mishima Navy attacked the equally unsuspecting Ouchi Navy Army, and the Ouchi Navy was unable to give full play to its numerical advantage and was overwhelmed by the Mishima Navy Army, which was proficient in sea raids.

Seeing that the form was good, Murakami Takeyoshi immediately sacrificed the magic weapon to bake the fire arrow, and suddenly the sea was raging and burning, and the Ouchi Navy was killed and collapsed, and only lasted for an hour, and this sea overlord who had been in the west for more than 200 years disappeared.

The navy won a complete victory and cut off the only chance for the Ouchi army to escape, the original intention was to catch the turtle in the urn of Maori Yuan, but he never thought that he had become the sad prey, a desperate raid to fight the Ouchi army had no power to fight back, after a whole day of fierce fighting, Tao Qingxian led the remnants of the retreat to the sea.

However, he would never have thought that the Ouchi Navy docked in Dayuanpu would turn into burned ruins overnight, and the ships moving on the sea were all "Shang" flags, and occasionally he could see the three-star flag of the Maori family, where there was still a ship of his Ouchi family.

Tao Qingxian has realized that he has fallen into the trap carefully arranged by the enemy, but he has not given up hope, and insists on leading the remnants to continue to escape towards the mountains and forests deep in Itsukushima.

He fled for four days, in these days Tao Qingxian had risked his life to flee to Dajiangpu still without a ship, at this time Tao Qingxian was completely desperate, and the unparalleled general of the Western Kingdom, who was hungry for a few days, wrote his death sentence in front of an unknown forest: "What a pity, why hate to trace back to the origin, the destiny of heaven is destined to be here." ”

As a result, a generation of heroes Mori Yuan finally completed the triple jump of his life, from a small wealthy family to bury in the class of the Warring States Daimyo, the Ouchi family irrepressibly fell into decline, which represents the end of an old era, as if to herald the Warring States Troubled Era will usher in the last and most crazy era.

It seems that the imperial court was shaken by the glorious record of annihilating more than 8,000 people and capturing more than 18,000 people in the First Battle of Itsukushima.

On October 23, the new year name was set, the Yuan name was called Hongzhi, from the "Book of Northern Qi" only Cheng Bao Ming, Zhi Hongzhi style, and the Hongzhi year name of the Ming Empire, since then 1555 only a little more than a month is called the first year of Hongzhi.

During the year, the Miyoshi family, which had frequently entered Harima and Tanba, suddenly stopped expanding into Kinai, and a few months before the outbreak of the Itsukushima War, they turned their attention to the solid foundation of Shikoku's nest, due to the instability in Sanuki, which was the third time in recent years.

Prior to this, it had always been the Shikawa Ichicun who was responsible for the second battle of the Sanki people, but with the death of the Tokawa Ichicun five years ago, the Miyoshi family's control over Sanuki was gradually weakened, and the repeated problems in Sanuki for a few years could not be effectively resolved, and the main force of the Miyoshi family happened to be trapped in Kinai and could not return to help, so it was pacified for five years.

Now that the situation in Kinai is stable, Higashi Harima has basically surrendered, and the Tanba country has been completely straightened out, Miyoshi Yoshiken was ordered to return to Shikoku to pacify the people of Sangi Province, from annexation to digestion, and then accumulate strength to wait for the next annexation, this is the rhythm of the Miyoshi family, and it is also the rhythm of most Sengoku daimyo.

Compared with the Awaji Navy three years ago, the quality of the new army's non-commissioned officers has decreased considerably, and in recent years, in order to improve the quality of the soldiers, a sense of belonging, a sense of honor and loyalty, Ataka Dongyasu has taken the newly formed Awaji Naval Army to attack and suppress pirates from all walks of life.

In the past, these pirates roamed around Seto and there was nothing, and the Awaji Navy has always turned a blind eye, and everyone understands the truth that when the water is clear, there are no fish, but three years ago, they were defeated for a thousand days, and in order to recover, they targeted them, including the Tosa Navy, Kumano Navy, and other key targets.

With excellent equipment and the initial mastery of baked jade, with the intention of attacking unprepared, and with the outnumbered, he successfully took the two naval armies by surprise, and played a brilliant record of sinking more than half of them and severely damaging and capturing dozens of large and small ships.

With the power of this great victory, the Awaji Navy swept several difficult sailors in succession, forced Kii's small sailors to submit, and at the same time stabilized the Iyo-Kono family, ensuring that the navigation route of Sanuki Utatsu Port was unblocked, and dominating half of the Higashi Seto country.

With this series of achievements, Ataka Fuyasu was greatly praised by Miyoshi Chokei, and he was transferred to Sakai Town to guard Osaka Bay, and his status in the Miyoshi family, which had declined slightly in recent years, was restored. (To be continued......)