A secret letter sent by Masayo to Hidaka Soyoshi was written about the exchange of local bison in Iki for food weapons. Although there are already a lot of cultivated cattle in the Luo family's territory, and even self-produced cattle, the more strategic materials such as cultivated cattle, the better. In the mountains of Iki, there are many local bison, and after they are exchanged, they can be used for production as long as they are domesticated. On the other hand, Iki is due to the large number of mountains, so the grain production is not much, and it is unable to meet the daily needs of the many wealthy families in Iki Island.

More importantly, at this time, the wealthy clans led by the Hidaka family were confronting the Hakata clan. From the perspective of overall strength, due to the support of wealthy families such as the Chikuzen Sugi family, the Hakata clan has a greater advantage in strength. Of course, Masato didn't want the Hidaka family to be defeated so quickly, so while obtaining the ploughing cattle, he also supported the Nidaka's camp in disguise to keep it abandoned.

It is impossible for Hidaka Soyoshi not to know the intentions of the Luo family, but with the current situation on Iki Island, who else can they go to besides continuing to seek the support of the Luo family? Anyway, judging from the current situation of the Luo family, the Luo family has absolutely no intention of participating in the troubled waters of Iki in the short term. Therefore, one side hoped that Iki would not settle down so as to reduce its threat to the Luo family's border, and the other side hoped that it would not be annexed by the Wave family, so the cooperation between the two parties immediately hit it off.

Hidaka Muneyoshi of Iki received a secret letter from Masayoshi, and Masayoshi, who had returned to Kishigaku Castle, also had three letters on his desk.

The first letter was a letter of request signed by Shinnosuke Akabane, Tomasa Isono, and others. The content of the letter is to ask Masato to officially send troops to the fat queen. Last year's battle with the Otomo family not only played the prestige of the Luo family. It caused a lot of losses to the Otomo family. At the same time, it has also greatly increased the ambition of its own army. The retainers led by Shinnosuke Akabane, Isono Wonmasa and others were no longer satisfied with the results after that war. After all, the subsequent impact of this battle on the Otomo family will not be reflected for some time, but what they want to see is the most direct and obvious result. Now that the Otomo family was defeated in Chikugo and Higo respectively, their influence on Higo has dropped to a certain extent, so they want to seize the opportunity to take action against Higo.

And with the gradual expansion of the momentum, Masashi is more and more inclined to a steady strategy, so he doesn't want to start the strategy of Higo again so soon. After all, in his opinion, the influence of his previous means such as repeatedly dividing the wealthy family and provoking the contradictions between the local original owners and the wealthy family has not yet been fully exerted. The ultimate goal of practical political integrity is through a series of means. Mixing the fat queen into a quagmire, the strength of the Ichijo clan, the local wealthy family, the original owner, and the Otomo family who are deeply involved in it will be greatly consumed. Otherwise, once you intervene too early, not only will it take a lot of effort in the process of intervention, but you will also have to spend more effort to weaken the local wealthy clan and other forces after the war, and even have to deal with the counterattack of the Otomo family.

Of course. Although the Luo family is a retainer evaluation system determined by the final word of the family governor, as a family governor, he cannot be too arbitrary. Otherwise, it would discourage the enthusiasm and even loyalty of the retainers too much, so when he received this letter, Masarashi immediately found Kakuma Ishimune and Yamamoto Kansuke, who were in Kishigatake Castle.

"How? What do you think? When Kakukuma Ishimune and Yamamoto Kansuke read the letters of Shinnosuke Akabane and others, Masarashi asked.

"My lord, now, the last threat to the west of the family has been dealt with by the Goto Navy, while the southwest of Shimazu is still mired in the rebellion of the indigenous people and the local wealthy clans, and the Sagara family is in the midst of civil strife over the heir of the family governor. Iki to the northwest is also in the midst of civil strife. The only thing left is the Ouchi family in the north and the Otomo family in the east. Kansuke Yamamoto said. He did not give his opinion directly, but talked about the situation around Luo's house.

"Hmm." Masarashi nodded, and then looked at Kakuma Ishimu.

The latter immediately said: "My lord, judging from the latest statistics of the Internal Affairs Cabinet, after a series of means during this period of time, the population of this family at this time has reached nearly 300,000, and there is already enough population to prepare for the upcoming spring ploughing. In terms of military rations, there are still nearly 200,000 stones of grain and grass stored in warehouses in various parts of the territory last autumn, even if part of the grain reserves are consumed in the upcoming spring ploughing, there is absolutely no problem to support the arrival of this year's autumn harvest; In addition, His Majesty had just learned that the main marching road connecting Higo and Chikugo had been completed, and that the march connecting Chikugo and Higo Tamana-gun had also come to an end, and that the family could make rapid military movements in these places at any time. ”

"My lord, please forgive your ministers, if the lord has the world in mind, then the continuous battles of the family's army will inevitably be frequent in the future." Kakuma Ishizong said in the end. In other words, this time it is just the opportunity to exercise the ability of the Luo family's army to fight continuously.

After listening to the opinions of Kakuma Ishimune and Yamamoto Kansuke, Masara couldn't help but smile bitterly in his heart. The meaning of the two of them is obvious, that is, at this time, the Luo family has a lot of food, and there are not many threats to the surrounding environment, so it is a good time to send troops. It seems that all the retainers, from top to bottom, do not want the Luo family to be able to take advantage of the victory this time.

"If you send troops to Higo, you must be defended in the place where Chigo and Chikugo are located." Masato frowned.

After Kakukuma Ishizong and Yamamoto Kansuke heard Masara's doubts, their eyebrows immediately jumped, it seemed that Masato had no objection to sending troops, so Yamamoto Kansuke immediately said: "My lord, this matter is easy to handle, as long as the family makes a lot of moves to mobilize troops at the border of Chikugo and Higo at the same time." ”

"That's a brilliant plan!" After hearing this, Kakukuma Shizong on the side immediately exclaimed, "My lord, I can help the lord with this plan, one is to confuse the Ouchi family and the Otomo family, so that these two families do not know where the Lu Dao family is sending troops, and the other is to make the wealthy families in these two places fall into a panic, as for the reaction of the Ouchi family, the ministers think that there is no need to worry, when the family does not completely threaten the foundation of the Otomo family, and when the power of Kyushu is out of balance, the Ouchi family will not react too much, and even hope that the family will continue to fight." ”

"Well, in that case, then you can wait for the two of you to go down and make a good calculation, and then show me a perfect plan for dispatching troops." Masahiro decided later. (To be continued......)