Chapter 501: Five Islands Raiders

In the council hall of Kishigaku Castle, Masari and the others were discussing the matter of the Ichijo sect being launched at the time of the autumn harvest.

"Kansuke, after you go down, in addition to being responsible for monitoring the powerful detectives and black eagles around your family, the rest of the people are all invested in the territory, comprehensively monitoring all the temples and shrines in the territory, as well as all abnormal behaviors in the territory, and reporting the situation to the lord of the country in time."

"Shi Zong, you go down and immediately issue an order from the lord of your country, let each of the teams stationed in various places draw a hundred people as special squads, and scatter these squads throughout the territory, ready to extinguish the disturbances in the territory at any time."

"In addition, the cavalry team of Yanagawa Castle was temporarily deployed to Kishigaku Castle, ready to carry out support tasks at any time. Since Togo Heiji is busy with the autumn harvest at all costs, and some abandoned castles in Hizen and Chikugo must also be demolished quickly, I will give an order for the territory slaves to join the demolition team, and this matter will be handed over to you. ”

Masara issued several orders in one breath, and after receiving the order, all the retainers in the council hall immediately went down and secretly arranged.

In this way, while preparations were in full swing for the relevant measures, the autumn harvest season in September finally arrived. According to the estimate given by the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, the total income of the territory this year will be about 500,000 stones, and after deducting the income of the lords and the income of the feudal lords in various places, Masara will receive another income of about 200,000 yuan.

Just when Masashi was pleased with the income of the territory, and at the same time cautiously guarded against the Yixiang Sect's initiation, the Yixiang Sect did not move for a long time.

It wasn't until the end of the autumn harvest that it broke out from Higo. A large number of temple monks, local aborigines, and some wealthy families led by the Kikuchi family joined in the process. For a while, the fat queen became a pot of porridge. And with the farmers joining one after another. As a result, some wealthy families will not be able to receive this year's agricultural tax.

Other than Higo. The aborigines of Satsuma and Osumi also joined forces with the Ichijo sect to launch a strong momentum, which caught the Shimazu family and other heroes in these two places off guard.

At the same time, Hyuga, Toyozen, Toyogo, Chikuzen and other places in Kyushu also broke out to varying degrees. Such a large-scale and extensive has always been enough to go down in history, but it has never been recorded in history, and Masato estimates that this is the butterfly effect after he came here, and Ichizong, who should not have appeared on the political stage of Kyushu, has been on the stage in his unintentional push.

Compared to the rest of the heroes, they were caught off guard. The Luo family seems much calmer here. This is first of all due to the fact that the Luo family has always implemented the system of management of the people and the system of temples and shrines, which has weakened the infiltration influence of the Ichizong to a certain extent.

Secondly, some of the civil agricultural systems implemented by the Luo family also benefited the lords, so the Yixiangzong with the slogan of opposing the tyranny of the lords also lost a lot of markets.

The most difficult thing is that because Zhengliang got the information in advance and made careful information, often after there were signs of abnormal movements in the territory, the army of the Luo family would immediately kill them and extinguish these abnormal movements in time. In this process, Masayo's original law of demolishing redundant castles in the territory and prohibiting the people and retainers from building fortresses without permission played a significant role. Due to the lack of a place to hold on, some of the rioters had to fight a decisive battle with the Luo family's standing in the wilderness. The results can be imagined.

For those who are caught, Zhengliang directly adopts a policy of no leniency. Those who are guilty of the most crimes are directly slashed on the spot, and those who follow are directly reduced to slaves, and they must work for the territory for free for at least a few years before they can regain their freedom. As for the women and children, as well as the old and the young, they were also directly reduced to slavery, and then filled into the textile and paper workshops under construction in the territory, and they happened to provide labor for these workshops, and they were unpaid labor.

At the same time, Masahiro even took this opportunity to purge the participating temples and shrines in the territory, and all those who were found to have not followed the laws of the Luo family were all beaten as supporters of the Yizong sect and directly demoted to slaves.

Such a war lasted for half a year in the Luo family on the surface. Similarly, in the second half of the thirteenth year of astronomy, the powerful people of Kyushu were also very busy. Due to the emergence of the Yiyi Yiyi instigated by the Yixiang Sect, the powerful people had to put down the various plans in their hands that had been decided and concentrate their energy on the Yiyi Yi in the pacification territory.

The Otomo family's planned attack on Higo Kikuchi Yoshitake had to be postponed due to this incident, which allowed Kikuchi Yoshitake to quickly gain a foothold in Higo, and quickly expanded his power with the help of the Luo family and the Ichisho sect.

On the surface, when the Luo family made a big deal to the outside world because of the constant aggression in the territory, in fact, it only took less than three months for the Luo family to calm down all the unstable factors in the territory, and the subsequent performances were just what Zhengliang deliberately asked his subordinates to do for others to see.

In fact, in secret, Masato ordered his subordinates to prepare for the attack on the five islands. The previous incident of the Wudao Navy uniting with the Otomo family to coerce the Luo family's territorial waters, how could Masahiro forget it? Moreover, at present, the Luo family is still in a situation where the enemy is on all sides, and Masara must clear out the surrounding unstable factors as soon as possible, so as to deal with the hegemony on Kyushu Island with all his might, so it is time to solve the tumor of the five islands naval army.

In the fourteenth year of astronomy, on the third day of the first month of 1545 A.D., that is, just after the third day of the new year, the Luo family soldiers launched an attack on the five islands in three ways.

On the first road, Murakami was the general in chief, Sun Goro, Oyano Tanemitsu, and Kamitsuura Tanekyo were the deputy generals, commanding 50 Kozao and 20 ships, a total of 400 standing naval forces. The water army assembled at the Genkai Beach in Hizen and pounced directly on the island where the Goto Navy Army was located.

On the second route, with Kana Tong as the general in chief, and the lieutenant generals Fukuda Kanji and Kamitsuura Shigesada, commanded 120 small grass and 43 ships, a total of 500 standing naval forces. The navy secretly assembled in Hirado, and then went straight to the sea area where the Goto navy was located, and was responsible for encircling and suppressing the many pirates scattered in the Goto water.

On the third road, Masarashi himself served as the commander-in-chief, and the deputy generals were Tao Masatora, Oyano Tanego, Sumoto Zhendori, and Shiki Zhenjing, commanding 100 Xiaozao and 50 Guan ships, a total of 400 standing naval forces. In addition, there were thirty lotus boats, which carried 500 soldiers of the 6th Standing Ashigaru Brigade, led by Shinyin of Enjoji Temple and Masamune of the Luo clan. The goal of this army is Gangcheon Castle, where the residence of the Wudao naval army is located. (To be continued......)