The last remaining land passage to Kamirako is to start from Aki Province and follow the Sanyo Road that the Ouchi family governor Ouchi Yoshiko walked to Kyoto when he was in Kamirako.

During the Warring States period, the Sanyo Province ran from west to east and included eight provinces: Nagato Province, Zhou Defense Province, Aki Province, Bigo Province, Bigoku Province, Bizen Province, Misaku Province, and Harima Province.

At present, the Luo family has already established roots in the Nagato country, the Zhou defense country, and the Aki country, so if you go to Luo from this land route, you only need to follow the five remaining countries from west to east, such as Bigo Province, Bigokugo, Bizen country, Misaku country, and Harima country, and finally have a final decisive battle with the Miyoshi family in Settsu country, then you can succeed in going to Luo.

Of course, taking this land route will not only be able to temporarily avoid the Miyoshi family that is in the limelight at this time (after all, according to historical development, Masayoshi probably remembers that in the next one or two years, the Miyoshi family will fall into civil strife, and at that time, it is also when the Luo family's Shangluo team arrives in Settsu Province, and the Miyoshi family that the Luo family will face will be much weaker), but also can walk out of a different way to Shangluo.

Yes, Zhengliang does intend to walk out of a different way from all the previous overlords of Shangluo. Historically, all the overlords of the armed Kamiraku led the army all the way to the Kyoto area, and some of the forces along the way were directly destroyed, but most of the forces were subjugated to this Joraku daimyo. This is dangerous, because for a time without full control of these local forces, then it is very likely that the guide zhì will encounter danger on the way to Shangluo (compared to the current Chuan Yoshimoto), or after the success of Shangluo, due to the distance from his own territory, there will be a rebellion by the forces that have already surrendered. So he led his own nest to be coveted (such as Ouchi Yoshixing). So such a Shangluo. In Zhengliang's view, they are all unsuccessful.

Therefore, Masaliang does not intend to lead a large army directly in the way of rapid horizontal pushing, but to lead a certain army to gradually annex and digest the forces along the way Shangluo, what Masaliang needs is to create a way along the way that is completely controlled by him, and completely implements the Luo family's law of Shangluo, so that the territory of this road becomes the link between Masara in the Kyoto area and the Luo family's old nest Kyushu and the western region. This allows Masato to keep in touch with the territory at any time.

Of course, if you follow this way of going to Luo according to Zhengliang, you will first have to face two problems, one of which is how to deal with the forces along the way.

In this regard, the solution decided by Masahiro and the retainers was that the forces that did not submit would be directly destroyed (the captives became slaves of the Luo family and migrated to Kyushu and other places to join the local slave farms); The subjugating forces will take the form of increasing various compensations to transfer them to the territory of Kyushu or the Luo family in the western country, if they are willing to cooperate. Then all kinds of compensation will be abundant, if they do not cooperate. Then we can only usher in the fierce blow of the Luo family.

With the strength of the Luo family now, this is completely doable, and with the relevant preparations of various institutions during the dormant period of the Luo family in the past two years, the various consumption in the process of transferring these forces has also been prepared.

Once you have decided on the solution to the first problem, then you have to face the second problem. The question is whether to occupy all the countries and regions along the way.

The answer is obviously no, you know, in the Luo family, Shangluo is about to pass through the country of Bigo, China, Bizen country, Harima country, these regions, their central and northern areas are plateaus and mountain forest terrain, which are dotted with various wealthy forces, if the Luo family wants to fully control these areas, they must enter these areas with complex terrain to suppress these forces one by one, so that the Luo family really does not know that the year of the monkey can only succeed in Shangluo.

Therefore, in the discussion between Zhengliang and the retainers, this time the Luo family's way of Shangluo is mainly to completely occupy the coastal plains and hilly areas of the countries of Bigo Kingdom, Bei China, Bizen Country, and Harima Country, and as for the central and northern regions of these countries, it is necessary to slowly infiltrate them after the Luo family has thoroughly digested their coastal areas, and the purpose is to create a way of Shangluo that is completely controlled by the Luo family in the coastal areas of these countries.

Of course, since the coastal areas of these countries are dominated by plain terrain, this kind of terrain is naturally more suitable for farming, so it has gathered many forces in various countries, so the Luo family's Shangluo this time is not easy.

In general, choosing this path on Luo, at least he doesn't have to face too powerful forces, and the only force that can make Masato feel a little scruple is the Zijia and the Maori family and Ni.

But among these two families, the Nizi family is not only an ally of the Luo family, but also the Nizi family is mainly concentrated in the northern regions of these countries in the several countries that the Luo family passes through, and there is no direct conflict of interest with the southern coastal area that the Luo family is preparing to occupy.

As for the Maori family, because they were peached by the Luo family in the First Battle of Itsukushima, not only did they lose the opportunity to annex the Ouchi family's territory in the western region, but they were even taken advantage of by the Luo family to annex many of their territories in Aki Province, and even the Bigo Province and Beichu in their sphere of influence were infiltrated by the Luo family.

Previously, the Maori family's Gui Yuancheng and others tried to take advantage of the opportunity to send an envoy to the Luo family to invite a doctor to treat the illness of the Maori family, and secretly probed the information of the Luo family, but they were caught by the Luo family's intelligence cabinet, and the Luo family also took the opportunity to tear up the peace treaty signed with the Maori family under the mediation of the shogunate and the imperial court, and directly mobilized troops to attack the Maori family at the same time (this is actually a false action by Masayo, and the real purpose of its transfer is actually aimed at the coastal areas of Bigo Province). In addition, the joint Niko family cut off the trade routes and salt routes of the Maori family, so that the Maori family could only obtain commodities and salt and other materials through Bigo Province and Beichu, which were more distant by road.

So, under the series of blows of the Luo family over the past few years, the Maori family is no longer the Maori family in history, if it weren't for the fact that Zhengliang didn't plan to consume too many resources and troops before Shangluo, so he never entered the Maori family's mountainous territory and slowly circled with the Maori family. Anyway, now that the Maori family was hit by the Luo family and hid in the mountains as a shrunken turtle, Zhengliang naturally took the opportunity to start the Luo family's road to Shangluo. (To be continued......)