Chapter 472: Revenge

After relocating the people of the newly occupied territory and adjusting the location of the standing army, Masarashi immediately issued an order to dismantle part of the castle and ban the sea.

In terms of demolishing the city, the purpose of the relocation of the people in the war zone is the same as that of the territory, mainly considering the need for territorial secrecy and the purpose of preventing hostile forces from sending spies into the territory to the greatest extent, and at the same time to avoid the need to send people to defend the territory due to the resistance of rebels in the territory. The ones that need to be gradually demolished this time are Hinoe Castle (also known as Hino River Castle), Antoku Castle, and Uki Castle in front of Nanhi; Otsuura Castle and Hondo Castle in Higo Amakusa County.

Maritime ban. It is also implemented due to the need for territorial secrecy and territorial protection. At present, the main places that the Luo family can open to the lords for fishing are Imari Bay, Tachibana Bay, Omura Bay, and the Ariake Sea, while Karatsu Bay, Genkai Beach, Hirado Coast, Nagasaki Coast, Amakusa Beach, Shimabara Bay, and Yatsushiro Sea are all prohibited from fishing. In these waters, only the existence of the Luo family's naval vessels or the existence of the rest of the ships authorized by Masahiro himself is allowed. Once the rest of the fishing boats and merchant ships appear, they will be attacked by the Luo family's sailors.

Of course, in order to increase their income, the Roche family has set up Hizen Hirado Island as a free trade island, and any ship will be able to dock on the island and conduct transactions without charging taxes and fees, provided that they obey the laws of the island. In addition to participating in transactions on the island, the Roche family will also charge a certain docking fee for ships docked on the island. Order on the island was maintained by the 2nd Standing Navy Brigade and a number of peasants temporarily hired in Matsuura-gun, Hizen.

In addition, after completely taking control of Amakusa County, Masarashi is also preparing to open the sea checkpoint guarded by Kutama Castle on Amakusa Island. A certain transit fee is charged. Kutama Castle is separated from Nagashima Castle on the opposite side of Satsuma Nagashima Island. Nagashima and Amakusa form a relatively wide strait to the west. The land of Satsuma Izumi-gun, the long island of Nagashima, also forms a relatively narrow strait.

Usually, when the merchant ships of the Higo wealthy clan go to sea. They all entered the Amakusa Beach from these two straits through the Yatsushiro Sea, and then went out to sea. The strait on this side of Amakusa Island, because it is closer to Kutama Castle, has always been controlled by Kutama Castle, and it used to be one of the important financial sources of the Amakusa family, but now it has become the source of wealth for the Luo family.

After these things are on the right track, Masahiro begins to take revenge on the previous invasion of the Luo family's sea area by the wealthy clans of Higo.

In fact. Revenge has already begun.

At the beginning, with the help of the Oyano, the Luo family captured Tahei Castle in one fell swoop, and gave the main force of the Nawa, Kagogi and the three families of the Inner Space to a nest.

After that, through the exchange of names and lines and the Uchikawa Sonao, the Nawa family was forced to cooperate with the Luo family, and in the name of discussing important matters, the Otsuura family and the governor of the Sumoto family were lured to the Hongmen banquet prepared by the Luo family, and finally forced the Otsuura family and the Sumoto family to submit to Cheng, thus forming a joint naval army of the Luo family, the Otsuura family, the Sumoto family and the Oyano family, and set up an ambush to defeat the Amakusa family's naval army in one fell swoop.

As for the Shiki family's naval army, which was anti-water at that time, it was Masarashi who secretly transported the 6th Standing Naval Army under the command of Nobuyin of Enjoji Temple in Fukuda Castle on the Nagasaki Peninsula to Amakusa Island with 25 ships. Then he took control of the bay where the Shiki family was located overnight, and then forced the Shiki family to help lure the Amakusa family into the ambush circle.

It is worth mentioning. In addition to capturing a lot of naval ships from the wealthy clans of Amakusa County, the battle of Amakusa County also captured a lot of merchant ships and Dutch ships, and at present, there are 30 Dutch ships and 20 merchant ships in the Luo Family's Internal Affairs Cabinet.

The so-called paper can't keep the fire, and the news that the Luo family has controlled Higo Amakusa County will be spread sooner or later by people such as the Nawa family and the Kakoki family, so after secretly completely controlling the newly occupied territory, Masato simply came to the first mover and let people trumpet the Nawa family and other territories to betray their allies and assist the Luo family in seizing Amakusa County.

At first glance, the surrounding wealthy families seem to be really like this! You see, the name and line of the name and the family returned to the name and family unharmed, and the generals of the other two families who followed the two people were still in the hands of the Luo family, and it would be really hell if there was no problem with the name and family. For a time, the Nawa family had to send people everywhere to extinguish the fire, especially to their traditional allies, the Sagara family, and the nominal lord of the Otomo family.

The name and family fell into an embattled situation all of a sudden, but Masashi did not let the name and family go. Because in addition to the two generals of the Nawa family who were captured by the Luo family, the Luo family also captured a lot of relatives and ordinary soldiers of the Nawa family in the first battle of Tianping Castle.

Ordinary soldiers naturally have to be escorted to Hizen as the leaders of the Luo family, and they can even be added to the Luo family's army. But in order to bring these soldiers to their hearts, they are not the only ones, but also their families.

So, Masato asked people to tell the name and family. I'm not going to ask for your loyal kinship warriors, so I'll exchange them for the families of the rest of the ordinary soldiers. If I didn't want those kinship warriors, I'd cut them all down. Of course, this quid pro quo was also spread to the territory of the Minghe family.

As soon as he heard this quid pro quo, the family governor of the Minghe family, Ming and Wutou, were suddenly angry enough. Aren't you roasting me on the fire, Hizen Eagle? If I don't agree, not only will the family members of the kinship samurai resent me, but even the ordinary people will have opinions about me; What if I said yes? Although he has gained the loyalty of his relatives and samurai, he will not only lose a group of his lords, but will also be scolded by the rest of his lords. So the name and the martial arts seem to be entangled.

The name and the martial arts here are entangled, but the masarashi over there can't wait. He directly cut down a samurai and sent his head to Nawa Taketo, clearly telling him that within half a month, one less family member of those captured ordinary soldiers was not sent to Tianping City, so the captured relatives of the Nawa family would not be left, after all, it would be a waste of food to keep these people. Faced with such a threat from Zhengliang, Ming and Wutou had no choice but to grit their teeth with tears in their eyes and agree to Zhengliang's conditions. So while Masarashi sent officials from the Cabinet of Internal Affairs to receive these people, he also sent people to publicize this transaction in the territory of the Minghe family, which made the popularity of the Minghe family drop again and again.

Now that the matter on the side of the Nawa family is over, then it's time to take revenge on the Kazimu family and the inner space family. Although during this time, the two families jointly sent several groups of envoys to express their willingness to exchange their generals and soldiers with money and food, and it would be better if the Luo family was willing to return those naval ships.

Zhengliang scoffed at the demands of these two families. He directly asked the 3rd Standing Navy to launch a large-scale sweep of the water potential off the coast of Higo Island.

In the battle of Tianping City, the main force of the water army of the Luzimu family and the inner space family was already wiped out, so in fact, there were not many sailors left along the coast of the territory, so under the blow of the Luo family's navy, the strength of the two sailors was almost completely destroyed.

After the sweep was over, on the water surface of Shimahara Bay, except for the Luo family's sailors, even the fishing boat of the Higo Hao clan could not be seen. The eight ships and twenty small ships seized this time were allocated to the Second Standing Naval Force. At present, there are 120 sailors in the Second Standing Naval Corps and 43 ships in the Navy. The seized fishing boats were directly allocated to the Cabinet of the Interior for disposal.

After the sweep was completed, Masayo, who had already returned to Kishigaku Castle, ordered the navy to carry out a three-robbery strategy of "robbing people, goods, and food" along the coast of Higo Island.

Robbing refers to snatching all the boatwrights and lords along the Hara Bay of Higo Island back to Hizen as the lords of the Luo family; Looting naturally means snatching all the valuable things you see along the coast, including timber for shipbuilding and fishing boats hidden in the river. The grain grabbing is to help the wealthy families along the Feihou coast harvest the grain, of course, the most difficult of these grains to enter the Luo family's pocket.

The wealthy clans of Higo Shimahara Bay had not been unaware of these intrusions, and when they were plundered, they had sent troops to drive them away, but after being ambushed several times in a row by Tankane, Tetsunosuke, and Asakura Sote, they retreated back into the castle. After all, in addition to the enemy of the Luo family, the other wealthy clans around Feihou are also hungry wolves, and if one is accidentally hit hard by the Luo family, if it is not good, it will be taken advantage of by other wealthy clans, so they wisely preserved their strength.

During the implementation of the "three robberies" strategy, Masara also launched a prisoner exchange transaction with the Kagoko family and the Inner Space family. Masarashi returned the captured samurai of the two families to the two families, and the two families gave the families of the ordinary soldiers captured by the Luo family to the Luo family, after which these ordinary soldiers and their families would be scattered and settled in various parts of the Luo family's territory. As for the inner space town house and the deer wood connoisseur who were captured by the Luo family, they still need to continue to be slaves in the Luo family. Until Masa-liang thinks of a better quid pro quo, they all have to continue to live as slaves.

Of course, the reason why the two families of kinship samurai were exchanged back, Masara's main purpose was to maintain the balance of strength of the various wealthy clans in Higo. Once you lose too many samurai as the backbone, the strength of the three families of Nawa, Kagogi and Inner Space will be greatly reduced, and under the incursion of the Luo family, it will be easy to be eaten up by the surrounding powers.

Such an outcome is not what Zhengliang wants. He didn't want to make wedding dresses for others, and he even increased the strength of the rest of the Feihou wealthy families out of thin air.

Of course, under the condition of controlling the limit, the "three grabs strategy" will continue to be implemented. In the same way, Masato also used the same method as dealing with the name and family, while exchanging prisoners with the two families, while launching a three-robbery strategy, Masato also sent a large number of scouts into the territory of the two families to spread rumors, so that the reputation of the two families dropped sharply. (To be continued......)