The drought that lasted from the beginning of the year to the end of August in the 22nd year of Astronomy (1553) finally came to an end in a light rain in early September.

But the after-effects of the drought came to full effect at this time. Due to the drought for several months, the people of various countries have been unable to carry out spring ploughing, and the continuous wildfires have also caused many people to lose their homes and become homeless. With the arrival of the autumn harvest, due to the large-scale failure of the autumn harvest, the grain stock in the people's homes was almost exhausted, so the number of people who lacked food and clothing increased. These lords suddenly became a problem for the various powerful and powerful to deal with immediately.

As the Bunzen Province and Bungo Province regions that Masayo had been paying attention to before, wealthy families such as the Sugi family and the Otomo family also encountered such problems. Originally, they planned to jointly launch an attack on the Luo family after this year's spring ploughing, but they encountered such a drought. In order to ensure the spring ploughing of the territory and the autumn harvest this year, and it was also inconvenient to fight in such dry weather, they had to suspend their battle against the Luo family.

However, the fact that they suspended their appearance against the Luo family does not mean that Zhengliang intends to let them go. Although the Luo family's territory also suffered from drought, with the good water conservancy facilities in some areas and the previous savings of the territory, it was completely able to support the Luo family to launch a large-scale attack during this period.

For the sake of safety, Masayo also went to a group of retainers to assess the impact of the territory's invasion of the southeastern part of Bunzen Province and the northeastern part of Bungo Province on the internal affairs of the territory, and came to the conclusion that even if the drought continued next year. With the income of the autumn harvest at this time of the territory. It can still support the daily operation of the territory. And this war even stretched out to a year. It can also support the fight, but the territory's reserves are likely to be depleted.

After coming to this conclusion, Masato gritted his teeth and decided to do it directly. This drought caused chaos in the southeastern part of Bunzen Province and the northeastern part of Bungo, and it was a favorable opportunity for the Luo family to come out into battle, and Masarashi did not intend to let it go no matter what.

Since he was going to do it, Masarashi immediately secretly ordered the Cabinet of Internal Affairs and the Military Cabinet to make relevant preparations, and he discussed a series of strategies with the retainers of the Intelligence Pavilion led by Kansuke Yamamoto to deal with the wealthy clans in the southeastern part of Bunzen Province and the northeastern region of Bungo. These strategies are mainly as follows:

First of all, Masara wrote several handwritten letters to the Sugi family, the Kamimo Yamada family, the Nonaka family, the Usa Omiya family, the Otomo family, the Yoshixian family, the Takeda Tsu family, the Fulai family, the Tahara family, the Naga family, the Kifu family, and the Tabei family. The letters will all mention their alliance with the Luo family alone.

This letter will not be sent to the target Hao clan with great fanfare, but will secretly enter the territory of other Hao clans near the target Hao clan, and then pretend to be unintentionally lost so that other Hao clans adjacent to the target Hao clan can obtain the letter. Anyway, the effect is that these wealthy families know each other, and the neighboring wealthy families are likely to have a secret communication with the Luo family.

Although these wealthy families may not all believe the content of these letters, in this era, even brothers, fathers and sons may not be able to believe it, so they can't help it. Therefore, Zhengliang's plan seems to be a conspiracy, but in fact it is a conspiracy that makes the wealthy families have to be fooled.

Just by virtue of these letters. So these wealthy families have to be suspicious of each other and take precautions. In this case, when the Luo family invaded the local area later. These wealthy clans could not unite and resist in trust with each other, and achieved the goal of dividing these wealthy clans.

Secondly, the Luo family began to send smugglers pretending to be smugglers who passed through the Luo family's water defense line, and began to infiltrate the local area to buy food and other materials on a large scale. Since the Luo family defeated the Sugi family's army in Matsuyama Castle, and the Sugi family's navy was taken over by Tao Longfang, due to the loss of the protection of the Sugi family's navy, the coast of the Otomo family in the northeast of Bungo Province to the coast of the southeast of Bunzen Province was within the attack range of the Luo family's navy. That is, since last year, the Luo family's naval army has taken advantage of the number of warships to completely block the maritime trade in these areas, and it is estimated that the other party is now in urgent need of various materials.

Although the local wealthy may not be willing to sell such materials as grain, there will always be some stupid bosses who will be lured by other materials such as money. In addition, Bunzen Province has always been the largest copper mining area in Kyushu, and in addition to copper mines, there are also minerals such as gold and sulfur in the southeastern part of Bunzen Province. During this period of time, it is estimated that due to the blockade of the surrounding trade routes by the Luo family, they have accumulated a lot of mineral storage, and they will have to trade under the lure of interests. The Luo family's detectives just pretended to trade with them and let them start transporting these materials to the seaside, which caused these wealthy families to have to waste their own materials (such as food), but after arriving at the beach, it was the result of getting people to go to the boat.

Of course, the main purpose of these detectives is to spread rumors in various places. The content of the rumor is very simple, that is, there is grain distribution in the adjacent Luo family's territory, and as long as you defect to the Luo family, you will have grain, fields, and even a place to live.

After hearing the news, the local displaced people, who lack food and clothing and are unable to survive this winter, can imagine the consequences that this will cause. A large number of displaced people will inevitably drag their families to the border checkpoints bordering the Luo family's territory.

At this time, the local wealthy families will face a difficult choice. If you want to keep these people, you can only use the food in your own territory to help the disaster, but this will consume a lot of their food. Once the Luo family's army is killed in the future, even if they hide in the city, due to the lack of food, it is estimated that sooner or later they will have to open the city and surrender. In the final analysis, it is impossible to fight a protracted war.

If you don't open the warehouse to store grain, and then forcibly intercept these homeless people, it will definitely cause conflicts with these homeless people, and even inspire these homeless people to resist and become a mob in the territory. Then the local wealthy family has a headache.

As for letting all these displaced people go, it is also impossible, because the people are gone, and they will go there in the future to mobilize the peasants! And these people all ran to the border of the territory, which will inevitably cause chaos in the local area. If the Luo family takes the opportunity to send troops, it will be troublesome.

In short, under the strategy of the Luo family, the southeastern region of Bunzen Province and the northeastern region of Bungo Province will inevitably fall into chaos. (To be continued......)