The First Battle of Itsukushima began to prepare in July last year, the Luo family officially intervened in September, and completely defeated the Tao family and the Maori family army in the warring in October, and from the end of October, the Luo family took advantage of the victory to pursue, respectively, in the land and coastal areas of the Nagato country, the Zhou defense country, the Aki country, and the Bigo country launched a number of battlefields, until the beginning of March this year, this war lasted for nearly 11 months from the beginning of preparations to the overall situation.

During this period, the Luo family used almost all the war reserves, and the specific war reserves consumed during the war are still being counted. And with the lifting of the ban on the sea area and the description of the combatants who escaped as part of the escape, people gradually learned about the situation of this great war. As a result, the Luo family, which once again occupied several countries in one fell swoop, has once again become a topic of conversation after dinner.

Aki Province Yoshida-gun, Yamashiro. Although it is already early spring, the location of Yoshida-gun's mountain castle is in the alpine area of Aki Province, so the temperature at this time is still a little cold. In the courtyard where Mori Moto lived, the orange tree from Yoshitaka Ouchi was still lifeless at this time.

"Hey!" After gently putting down the "Three Sons Lesson" in his hand, Mao Liyuan sighed.

This "Lesson of the Three Sons" was written casually by him in recent years (the real history is not the story of Mao Li Yuan letting his three sons break the arrow, this story is made up by later generations, the real situation is that Mao Li Yuan wrote such a pleading, and this book is still in the collection of the Yamaguchi Prefectural Museum), which first introduces the entrepreneurial history of Mao Li Yuan, including how difficult his life was when he was a child, and how he inherited the family business later. How to marry your own main room. How to get along with the main room. He even mentioned trivial matters such as asking his children and grandchildren to burn a few pillars of incense in front of his wife's spiritual throne in the future.

In addition, it also mentions a lot of Maori Yuan's experience on governing the family, such as the second article in it: "Yuanchun is now Miao, the word is Yoshikawa, and the Longjing Miao character is Kobayakawa, but don't forget your own Maori";

Article 5 mentions: "Everything in the family must be handled by the three brothers, but once the opinions are not unanimous, Yuanchun and Longjing, you still have to listen to the eldest brother, and the elders and young are orderly";

Article 9 says: "Your father, I still have a strong old age." After your mother died, I took a few concubines, and gave birth to a few little babies (Yuan Qing, Yuan Qiu, Yuan Ju, etc.), the age is very young, in the future, if they are generals, I will give them a copy of the territory of the distant country, if they are incompetent, please also read that your three brothers are all a family, put them by your side, don't embarrass them."

The above content is some of the experiences of Maori Yuan about governing a family or even governing a country so far. As time goes on, more will be recorded in this pleading. Thus it became the pleadings of history.

In fact, future generations can take a comprehensive look at these lessons, and then they can probably get some content about the Maori ruling system from them!

Before the Battle of Itsukushima, the Mori family finally became the leader of the small country alliance of Aki Province, and the core group of its rule was the "Nikawa" system of Yoshikawa and Kobayakawa, and below it was the Shu Fukuhara, Kuchiha, Shido, and Katsura clans, and the periphery was Kumagai, Shishido, and Amano, who were half-ministers and half-friends.

This model is okay to govern one country and two countries, but once it continues to expand, the original family management method that is only suitable for small and medium-sized private enterprises is immediately not very adaptable.

Long before the Battle of Itsukushima, Mori Mototo gradually realized the problem of this method, in order to better adapt to the rule of the Mori family after the expansion (at this time he was already very confident that he would be able to swallow the sick elephant of the Ouchi family in one fell swoop), so he continued to reuse blood relatives and Shu clans after that, such as letting the fourth son Motoqing inherit the Suiida family (i.e., the Zhuang family) in Beichu, the fifth son Motoaki inherited the Tomita family in Izumo, and the sixth son Motoju inherited the Iwawa family in Iwami Province, etc., to digest the vast new territories (which is where Article 9 of the Lesson comes from), each responsible for the attack and defense of an area.

At the same time, he also established a "four-person collegiate council" at home, and in addition to Fuchikawa, he added the Shu clan Fukuhara Sadatoshi and Kuchiwa Tsura, and in terms of duties, Yoshikawa Motoharu (military chief) and Kuchiwa Tsuryo (political zhì member) were in charge of the military administration in the direction of Yamami, Izumo, Hakuki, etc., for the "Northern Army", and Kobayakawa Takakei and Fukuhara Sadatoshi (division of labor as above) were in charge of the military administration in the direction of Sanyodo (Seto Inland Sea and Shikoku), and they were for the "Southern Army", regardless of the size of the matter. It was all the family governor Long Yuan who discussed with these four (this is the origin of Article 5 of the Lesson Statement). All of the above were measures taken by the Mori Yuan in advance before the Battle of Itsukushima in anticipation of their victory, in order to better adapt to the development of the expanded Mori family.

In addition to completing the above measures, historically, Mori Mototo's expansion of the "scope" of external alliances after the victory in the Battle of Itsukushima was previously the wave of Kumagai and Shishido within Aki Province, and later Iwami's wealthy clan Masuda and Yoshimi, Zhou Defense Nagato's Naito (Takaharu's lineage), Bichumizu (Shimizu Soji), and Hakugi's Nanjo all became Mori's "strategic partners", in fact, independent autonomy was fully recognized, and it was enough to act as a servant army and satellite of the Mori family.

It can be said that in the first half of the Warring States period, the Mori family was able to become the daimyo of the Western Province because of the changes carried out by the Mori family under the auspices of the Mori Motosho. But with the continuous development of history, in the middle and late Warring States period, Mao Li Yuan found that this set of ruling system was a little unable to keep up with the needs of development, he planned to reform, but at this time the original ruling system has been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, and affected the stability of the family, once the change is made, Mao Li Yuan is completely uncertain what will happen, plus he is already old and decrepit at this time, and he has no energy, so he can only sigh "The Mao Li family has the power of several countries or even ten countries on the surface, But the foundation is still Anyi and Beihou, and he is not qualified to dominate the world."

Tradition is naturally good, otherwise how can it become a tradition? But tradition is not good, and it will eventually become a stumbling block to innovation and development. As Mori Moto expected, after his death, the next few generations of the Mori family held on to the "essence" of the "Three Sons Lesson", and lost the opportunity to evolve to the Oda Nobunaga-style regime. laid the bane for the failure of the competition for the world.

Of course, Mori Moto was not fully aware of this, and he only discovered the shortcomings of his family's ruling system at this time, and remedied it in advance before the First World War of Itsukushima. But what he didn't expect was that the result, which seemed to be nine out of ten, was finally removed by the Luo family that appeared out of thin air. Every time he thought of this, Mao Liyuan couldn't wait to pick up the knife and slash at the Luo family's governor Luo Zhengliang's countless knives, killing the other party over and over again.

In the First Battle of Itsukushima, the Maori family was not only robbed of the opportunity to annex the broken ship of the Ouchi family by the Luo family, but was even beaten back to the pre-liberation period by the Luo family overnight.

In this battle, so far, Mori Moto has learned that the retainers who have been determined to have been lost in this war are more than 20 people, such as Kodama Shokata, Iida Yoshitake, Kumagai Nobunao, Misu Boqing, and Nomi Munakatsu, and such as Kumagaya, Kodama, Iida, Nomi, Jifei, Shinsato, and Iga, etc., have almost suffered a blow of extermination, and even Amano Juni, Fukuhara Sadatoshi, Kagawa Kusei, Katsura Motosumi and others who escaped with their lives have also fallen into the hands of the Luo family. What's even worse is that the Kobayakawa lineage, which is the two rivers system that Maori Yuan has painstakingly built over the years, also collapsed with the capture of the third son, Kobayakawa Takakei, and the Kobayakawa family's territory in the eastern region of Aki Province was captured.

In terms of military strength, in the First Battle of Itsukushima, tens of thousands of people who were finally put together came out of the army, and almost all the troops were wiped out, some of them were taken prisoners of the Luo family and surrendered to the Luo family, and some people were killed in the First Battle of Itsukushima. Even the last part of the diehards who hid on Itsukushima and were unwilling to surrender were estimated to be "hunted by warriors" by the local leaders of Itsukushima and died under the speargun dung fork.

What's even worse is that even if they invaded the Maori family's territories in various parts of Anyi Country, the Luo family still pursued closely and directly entered the border of the old territory when the Maori family started, Gaotian County and Shan County of Anyi Country. The Luo family is going to kill them all.

Therefore, Mao Liyuan decided to fight with the Luo family. While using the combat experience he had accumulated throughout his life to maneuver around the border between the two counties with the invading army of the Luo family, he was also determined to fight the Luo family to the end by urgently dispatching reinforcements from the country of Bigo and even from China to pro-Maori. Fortunately, before leaving Itsukunshima, he had always been cautious and had arranged enough troops in these two lairs in order to avoid being attacked by the Nizi family, but now it was used to fight against the Luo family.

Of course, as the Luo family defeated themselves and the Ouchi family in the battle of Itsukushima, and even took the opportunity to invade the Ouchi family's territories in the Aki Kingdom, the Zhou Defense Kingdom, and the Nagato Kingdom, then the power structure in the western region will cause great changes, which will cause a lot of commotion.

This can be seen from the recent information sent back from Bigo Province and even from Bigo China. (To be continued......)