In November of the first year of Koji, the riots that broke out in the eastern part of Chikuzen Province, the entire territory of Bunzen Province, and Bungo Province (the main location of the riots was the territory of the Mototomo family in the northeast, and a small number of riots occurred in the rest of the country), with temples and shrines as the main force, were actually led by a joint mistake between Mori Motoshi and Masarashi of the Rashi clan.

Why?

For the Luo family, although Masarashi had arranged for the military advisor Shinnosuke Akabane to be fully responsible for dealing with the instability in the territory before the First Battle of Itsukushima. However, since most of the forces of the Intelligence Pavilion were transferred to Southern Kyushu and the Western Region (especially the Itsukushima area) to carry out surveillance and layout tasks at this time, the Intelligence Pavilion responsible for monitoring the situation in the territory of the Luo family was very limited. Therefore, even if there were changes in Chikuzen, Bunzen, and Bungo at the same time, Shinnosuke Akabane was unable to react in time. Eventually, the riot took place.

As for Maori Yuan, his original plan was to try to use this riot to contain the Luo family, so that when the Luo family went out against Tsushima Island and the Bungo Sasaki family, they had no time to take care of the decisive battle between him and Tao Longfang on Itsukushima Island. As a result, due to the fact that the Luo family completely blocked the waters around Kitakyushu later, the director lost contact with the Hosaku hidden in the territory of the Luo family in Kitakyushu, and it also required appropriate preparation time to incite a riot, so it was not until the end of the First War of Itsukushima that the Luo family army invaded the countries of Nagato, Zhoufang, Ani, and Bigo, and the riots in Kitakyushu broke out. There was a huge difference in timing.

Although this riot could not be coordinated with the Maori family's battle in Itsukushima, it mistakenly affected the Luo family's strategy for the four regions of Nagato, Shubo, Aki, and Bingo. At this time, with the Luo family's large-scale mobilization of troops, they went to the western region. The Maori family, who was lurking in the territory of the Luo family, also realized that the Luo family was involved in the dispute between the Maori family and the Ouchi family. And the riot at this time did add a lot of trouble to the Luo family. They were worried about the situation of the Maori family at the same time. I am also glad for the riot.

It's just that, compared with the fine work of the Maori family, Masashi has a different view in his heart at this time.

This time, the main area where the riot occurred was in the territory newly occupied by the Luo family for a period of time, and there were no riots at all in areas such as Hizen Province, Higo Country, Chikugo Country, and Chikuzen Province, which had been operated by the Luo family for a long time. And these areas where there was no riot are currently the largest food and material production areas of the Luo family, so this riot will at most bring a certain loss to the Luo family's territory. It can't affect the foundation of the Luo family at all.

In addition, because the main local tyrants and some small tycoons in the riot area were either wiped out by the Luo family at the time of the initial attack, or the Luo family moved to other more stable areas of the Luo family after the war, so the main participants in this riot were only local temples and shrines and some ignorant believers. Its overall strength is really very average (after all, the power of temples such as Ichijo is limited in Kyushu, and it cannot be compared with its power in the base areas of, Ise, and Hokuriku). For the pacification of these riot forces, there is no need to dispatch the standing reserves of the Luo family at all, and only a part of the peasant soldiers need to be mobilized to go into battle. This is why Masahiro is relieved to let his children participate in this counterinsurgency operation.

So after the riot broke out, Masara ordered Shinnosuke Akabane not to take care of the rioting forces, but to concentrate on the details that instigated the riot to find out completely. Get rid of them completely.

At the same time, Masarashi ordered the Sixth Standing Ashigaru Squadron, which was attacking the Saeki family of Bungo Province, to retreat to the border of the territory. While guarding the borders of the territory, he sent troops to enter the riot area to quell the rebellion. In each area where riots occur, the local cabinet of the interior should unite with the village heads and town heads of each village and town to organize the local people to defend their own territories.

In the end, Masaroshi ordered the immediate mobilization of 20 temporary peasant armies of no less than 500 men each in the western Chikuzen Province, Chikugo Province, and Hizen Province regions, where there was no riot, and immediately rushed to the various places where the riots were taking place to quell the rebellion under the leadership of the military cabinet retainers and the students of the Military Academy of the Luo Academy.

Although Masashi's series of orders were an immediate response to the riots, they also had many flaws.

First of all, only one standing force was involved in the counterinsurgency, and because of its weak strength and limited numbers, it was difficult for it to resolve a large-scale riot in a short period of time.

Secondly, the order to let the local people protect themselves under the leadership of the retainers of the Luo family, although the purpose of protecting the safety of the people was also achieved, but if the riot army was too large, it would also cause great damage to some small villages with weak strength. Therefore, it is inevitable that some innocent people will be killed or injured in this riot.

Finally, due to the Luo family's policy of sword hunting, not only did the local people have no real weapons to defend themselves, but even the peasant army organized in various places had to wait for the Luo family to distribute weapons before they could officially set off for the counterinsurgency. In addition, these counterinsurgency forces are at a certain distance from the riot areas, and they come and go, and the counterinsurgency time during the guidance period has been delayed a lot. When the local people lack weapons to defend themselves (they can only use earthen weapons such as bamboo guns), and the counterinsurgency army does not arrive quickly, it will inevitably further increase the losses of the local people in the event of riots.

Of course, there are losses and gains. Such a strategy is also beneficial.

First of all, the local people who rioted deeply realized the dangers of these temples and shrines, and at the same time realized the benefits brought to them by the Luo family's law. Therefore, after the rebellion, the people of these areas will be integrated into the Luo family's management system more quickly.

Secondly, after this riot, the Luo family must be able to completely eliminate the fine work of each family and the local temple and shrine forces, and completely wipe out the other forces in these areas, so that these areas will soon be like Hizen Province and Chikugo Province. Become an absolutely reliable backup base for the Roche family.

Finally, take advantage of this riot to train the Luo family's reserve soldiers and the main forces of the next generation (mainly Luo Academy students), such as Zhengliang's own children. It's just that as the years go by, Masahiro feels that he is getting more and more cold-blooded. Of course, Masahiro wants all the people to be safe, but now that things have happened, it is necessary to minimize the danger and at the same time gain greater benefits. After all, not everything will be perfect, and when necessary, as a family governor, you must know how to make decisions and trade-offs. The strategy for the western region is the top priority in the overall interests of the Luo family, and it must not be restrained because of this, so after the riots, he can only sacrifice some innocent people in exchange for greater benefits.

Of course, with the riots, it was also announced that the previous policy of appeasement of the temple and shrine forces implemented by Masara in the local area had failed.

At the beginning, in order to control the newly occupied area more quickly, the main force of the Luo family's army was quickly withdrawn from the local area, so that he could intervene in the battle of Itsukushima at any time, but Masara did not immediately attack the local temple and shrine forces as before, but turned a blind eye to them. At the same time, the Rashi family's own temples and shrines and the churches of the Nanban people began to be vigorously promoted in these areas (two years ago, the first church in the history of the Wakoku Province was officially inaugurated near Hakata Port in Chikuzen Province). According to Zhengliang's own plan, he adopted Xu Tu's gradual method to gradually let the Luo family's own temples and shrines and churches replace the local temples and shrines that were not under the jurisdiction of the Luo family.

As a result, it's good now, Masato doesn't take the initiative to provoke these temples and shrines, but they turn around and make trouble for Masara first. In fact, what Masahiro didn't know was that in the eyes of these local temple and shrine forces, the Luo family would always be the enemy, although the enemy did not do anything to them at this time, and even made a reconciliation appearance, but under the instigation of people with intentions, they naturally took the lead decisively.

In this regard, Zhengliang was naturally very angry. After this incident, Masato finally understood. Since the law of the Luo family is inherently strict and threatens the core interests of these temples and shrines, there can be no so-called honeymoon period, peace period between the two, and there will only be bloody wars. It can be said that from the moment the law of the Luo family was established, the Luo family had a great grudge with these bald monks.

Of course, in essence, the root of the grievances between the two is interests. From another point of view, it is because the power of the Luo family has developed too fast.

After all, it will take a lot of time to dismantle the power of these local temples and shrines. It's like a battle, judging from the comparison of the strength of the two sides, it can be quickly ended, but it turns out to be carried out for a long time, in fact, the main time during this period is spent on the march.

Even the rise of Oda Nobunaga in history was due to the accumulation of several generations of his family's business in Owari, which was able to develop rapidly. The Luo family has developed from scratch from a small village temporarily composed of displaced people, and in only a dozen years of development, it has already established a lot of powerful and powerful territories that generations of powerful people cannot establish. Judging from the entire scroll of history, it is already very fast. It is precisely because the power has expanded too fast that it is impossible to slowly disintegrate the forces of these temples and shrines that were originally born and raised, which has led to conflicts and contradictions with these forces because of their respective interests.

Of course, no matter what, after this lesson, Masashi no longer intends to use the method of Xu Tu's slow progress to disintegrate the power of these temples and shrines, and he is ready to insist on the method of bloody purge. Of course, for the current strategy of the Western Kingdom, in order to prevent the local wealthy clans and temples and shrines from uniting to resist the Luo family, Zhengliang still decided to clear the local wealthy forces first, and then attack the temple and shrine forces.

It's just that what Masara doesn't know is that Mao Liyuan, who was in Aki Country at this time, had already started the idea of these temple shrine forces. (To be continued......)