The current situation of the Luo family is very special.

In China, it is completely the Luo family that dominates. Even the attached retainers and wealthy clans did not pose a threat at all due to the number of their own private soldiers. As for the wealthy families in the newly occupied area, due to the protection of their own interests, they will inevitably resist the law of the Luo family. But these are no longer to be feared, and soon these wealthy families will be drowned in the tide of the development of the Luo family.

Abroad. On the sea, there are also the Hata branch families on Iki Island and the many pirates in the Goto area. It's just that the Banda family is now in civil strife, and it is said that the clan on Tsushima Island has begun to raise the idea of Iki Island. And the pirates in the Godao area, because they were deterred by the Luo family's naval army, did not dare to act rashly.

In front of Nanfei, there were also wealthy families such as Arima, Omura and Saigo who occasionally caused some trouble for the Luo family. However, Songyue City and Songgang City are almost iron walls of copper cities, so that these wealthy families cannot get their hands on the territory of the Luo family.

In Higo and Chikugo, the Otomo family has become the great enemy of the Luo family, and it is the enemy of the Luo family for a long time in the future. Therefore, as an ally of the Luo family and the attitude of the Ouchi family as a neighbor, it has become the key to the Luo family's ability to calmly deal with the surrounding threats.

At the beginning, Masahiro was willing to agree to Yoshitaka Ouchi's request and leave Duanmu Kiyomasa in the Ouchi family's home as a guest general, which was also based on keeping abreast of the internal trends of the Ouchi family and secretly influencing the public opinion of the Ouchi family against the Luo family, trying to stabilize and paralyze the Ouchi family, and even making the Ouchi family the purpose of supporting the stable development of the Luo family. This time, after the battle between Hizen and the Otomo family, Duanki Kiyomasa did play such a role.

"Your Excellency. Thankfully, you sent a letter to Sagara-sama in advance. With his help. Talk about the rise of the family and the threat to the Ouchi family has been suppressed, and under the arrangement of the lord of the country, most of the wealthy families have already pointed the finger of complaint at Sugi Xingyun. ”

"Hmm!" Masarashi nodded. Shortly after returning to Chikuzen, in order to divert the pressure on the wealthy clan to blame him for this failure, the guy Sugi Xingyun secretly came up with the threat theory of the Luo family. So Masahiro immediately took countermeasures.

First of all, he secretly united with the Ouchi family, such as Masayo's cheap father-in-law Sagara Takeren, and the Qiuyue family, who had always been good friends with the Luo family, and other wealthy families, and set off a whirlwind of complaints about Sugi Xingyun within the Ouchi family, which made Sugi Xingyun very unhappy during this time. It is said that even Yoshitaka Ouchi, who was far away in Izumo, wrote a letter of reprimand to Sugi Koyun.

The main reason why Yoshitaka Ouchi was so annoyed was that he received accusations from both his family and Masarashi about Sugi Xingyun. The former, of course, truthfully reported the mediocre performance of Shanxingyun in front of fat. Masarashi complained in the letter that he could not get the support of Sugi Xingyun, and was even excluded from the camp against the Otomo family by Sugi Xingyun alone, and finally had to use the whole clan to fight against the invading army of the Otomo family alone.

In addition to indirectly complaining to Yoshitaka Ouchi about Sugi Xingyun, Masahiro's letter also implicitly told Yoshitaka Ouchi that Hizen's current territory was all fought by the Luo family alone, so don't return to Hizen again under the pretext of asking the Luo family to get back the castle that was taken by the Otomo family. It's impossible.

Ouchi Yoshitaka also saw this meaning clearly and was furious, if Sugi Xingyun stood in front of him at this time, he would definitely cut Sugi Xingyun directly.

In addition to these two methods, Masara also ordered people to secretly step up the purchase of Hakata's grain, where Sugi Xingyun's family was located. As a result, the resentment in its territory gradually boiled. Not only that, but in order to complement the current accusations of his incompetence. Masara also had people pretend to be thieves and constantly steal from Hakata's shops, causing the reputation of the Sugi family, who was in charge of Hakata's management, to drop again and again.

"Thanks to the help of my father-in-law and the Akizuki family this time, there will be a batch of gifts from the Huiben family, so when you return to Chikuzen, you can give them the gifts." Masara commanded.

"Yes." Duanmu Qingzheng immediately bowed. He knew that this was an opportunity for Zhengliang to create an opportunity for him to deepen his friendship with these two wealthy families. In fact, since becoming a guest general of the Luo family living in the Ouchi family, Masara has provided him with several coins and supplies, allowing him to deepen his friendship with Chikuzen and even various retainers in Ouchi.

In fact, it is estimated that Ouchi Yoshitaka did not expect that a retainer who was half-forced to come to the Luo family because of his momentary love for talent really secretly created a lot of benefits for the Luo family, and even became a spy sent by the Luo family to the Ouchi family. In Masaliang's view, it is estimated that Yoshitaka Ouchi is confident that he can completely transform Duanmu Kiyomasa into a retainer of the Ouchi family with the background of the Ouchi family, but judging from the current situation, it is obvious that his plan has failed. Duanmu Qingzheng is really in Cao Ying, and his heart is in Han!

"Is there any update on the Ouchi family's war in Izumo?" Masarashi asked again. Regarding Ouchi Yoshitaka's expedition, Masayo was quite concerned, not only sent people to secretly pay attention to the battle situation near the battlefield, but also learned about the news about this battle within the Ouchi family in a timely manner through Duanmu Kiyomasa and others.

"Since the news came back a month ago that the army was besieging the territory of the Nizi family, there has been no other news coming back, but the entire Ouchi family is ready to expand the territory of the Ouchi family again." Duanmu Qingzheng replied.

When Zhengliang heard this, he couldn't help but chuckle secretly. I wonder how these retainers will feel when Yoshitaka Ouchi returns after a fiasco more than two months later?

After learning in detail about the current internal situation of the Ouchi family from Duanmu Kiyomasa, Masara arranged for Duanmu Kiyomasa to go down to rest. This time, Duanmu Kiyoshi secretly returned to Hizen, so he had to go down and prepare to secretly return to Chikuzen.

After sending Duanmu Kiyomasa away, Masara took out another list and handed it to Kizo Shigetada, who had been waiting outside the meeting hall.

"My lord, what is this?" After seeing the list of names and some of these characteristics, places of residence, etc., Kizo Shigetada looked quite puzzled. What surprised him even more was that some of the list was still far away in the Kanto region and even in the Mutsu region. It's almost all over the Warring States.

"According to this list, I will find these people, see if these people are willing to serve in the family, even if it is a big price, and it also writes some of the biggest price that the family can pay for them." Masara said.

"My lord, are you going to do it?"

"Recruit them to their own house, if they don't want to come, they can kidnap them, and even if they do, they will kidnap me." Masara said.

Yes, this list of Kizo Shizhong is a list of Sengoku cattle drawn up by Masashi from memory. With the development of the Luo family, the problem of talents has become more and more prominent. Although Masato has been doing his best to cultivate the talents of the territory, these people have basically not grown up, so Masaliang thought of a way to recruit foreign aid.

Zhengliang is not a super cowman, let alone a person with the aura of a protagonist, and he really can't attract a bunch of cattle people as soon as he appears on the stage, which is impossible. Even if the Luo family has now become a big name that can compete with the Otomo family or even the Ouchi family head-on, it may not be able to successfully recruit the people on the list. Therefore, Zhengliang decided to adopt a combination of soft and hard methods. If you are willing to come, you are willing to come, if you are unwilling, then I will come to a bully to make a bow, first cook the raw rice into rice, and then slowly cultivate the feelings.

Kizo Shigetada, who had long been accustomed to the way the head of the family did things, did not speak much after receiving Masayo's order, but after listening to Masayo's opinion again, he respectfully retired. According to the distribution of personnel on this list, it is estimated that he will be out of the territory for a long time, and he will have to go down and prepare well.

After arranging everything in the village castle, Masarashi began to return to Kishigaku Castle under the escort of 200 samurai and 100 cloaked people. During this period of time, I have been fighting in the east and west, and I have neglected my wife and children at home. So Masahiro can be said to be like an arrow at this time.

However, when the team was halfway there, they ran into three people, including the iron cannon general Ander, who was about to rush to the village city. The two foreign people who followed this Andel, one was a local craftsman, and the last one was a Ming craftsman who followed Zhengliang from the Ming Kingdom to Hizen.

It turned out that the three of Ander were about to go to the village city to report the progress of the arquebus forging to Masayo.

Just two months ago, he and some craftsmen in the firearms workshop copied the first arquebus, but the quality and effect were very poor, and even inferior to the Ming Dynasty's fireworks.

This time they finally made another arquebus. After testing it, they unanimously felt that this imitation gun was effective, so they sent the three of Ander as representatives to report the good news to Zhengliang.

After learning the news, Masara first tried out the newly imitated arquebus. From the perspective of future generations, the current arquebus, from the point of view of the loading method, is a front-loading manual single shot; Judging by the type of body barrel, it is a smoothbore gun; Judging by the projectile, it is a spherical projectile, and the projectile is packed separately from the propellant. The arquebus caliber is about 15-20 mm, and if you try to shoot on the spot, the range is about 60-100 meters, and if you are proficient, you can fire five rounds per minute.

Overall, the results are already very good. With the birth of this arquebus, it was at least announced that the Luo family had become the first daimyo in the Warring States period to master the use and production of muskets.

But Ander was a mixed bag. Because although the first musket of the Luo family was born, there is actually a problem that has been trapped in the large-scale promotion of the musket in the Luo family. (To be continued......)