Chapter 973: The Fish and the Bear's Paw (1)
For the events that happened in the same time period of the liver Fu family, due to the long distance apart, Masara naturally did not know for the time being, and the current strategy of the South Kyushu side has been handed over to Kakuma Ishizong to fully co-ordinate, as for the affairs of the South Kyushu Intelligence Pavilion, it is entrusted to Shinnosuke Akabane, so at this time Masashi is more concerned about the surrender negotiation of the Shimazu family.
Just when there was civil strife in the Liver Fu family, and the Shimazu family was discussing the final bottom line of surrender, in the military camp of the Luo family, there were constant praises from Masahiro:
"Yes, very good! Hahaha......"
After appeasing and sending away Shinna Tadazeng, who had met Masayo for the first time, Masara immediately read the report brought by the military advisor Shinnosuke Akabane, and listened to the detailed explanations of the intelligence cabinet personnel who came to report this time, and when he heard the wonderful points, he praised it even more.
The last time Shinnosuke Akabane came to see Masaka in person, he carefully selected a group of smart guys from among the deserters who escaped from the coalition camp. Not only do these guys come from the families of the major wealthy families in Hinata, Satsuma, and even Osumi Province, but they are all relatively smart, and after being taught by Shinnosuke Akabane himself, they know how to work together with the Luo family information cabinet.
When Akabane Shinnosuke took them back to the southern Kyushu region, they really cooperated with the local intelligence cabinet personnel who were lurking in the local area, which greatly shook the resistance of many local wealthy families, and then Akabane Shinnosuke also personally took a few captives who originally belonged to the Mira family and directly entered the Ogawa Pavilion in Mira Castle to meet the Captain of the Mira family, Mira Shigeji, and finally persuaded the Mira family to decide to surrender to the Luo family.
And in order to show his loyalty to the new master, Yonera Shigeji also offered to help persuade the defenders of Kakudo Castle to surrender. And in the end, it succeeded with a very fast speed (the Shimazu family did not react at all). There is the surrender of the Milla family and the surrender of Kakuto Castle. The Ito family can be said to be in decline. Even if he can finally resist the attack of the Luo family, he will only be able to retreat in the mountains and forests of the Southern Hyuga region in the future. And it also suddenly made the belly area of the Shimazu family's territory exposed to the Luo family's soldiers, and the Shimazu family fell into a crisis because of this, so the next negotiations with the Shimazu family will naturally be much smoother.
Sure enough, just as Masato expected, three days later, as if the internal opinions had been unified, the Shimazu family once again asked for negotiations. And this time in the negotiations, the Shimazu family lowered their posture (previously it gave people a tough attitude of "it's a big deal", and they were far away from opposing some conditions of the Luo family).
Just as the Shimazu family began to lower their negotiating stance, the members of the Luo family were arguing about what to do with the Shimazu family.
"My lord, please think again. The Shimazu family has been entrenched in the southern Kyushu region for several generations, and is closely related to the local wealthy clans, and even ordinary lords only know the Shimazu family but not the Luo family. His Majesty thought that in order to accept the southern Kyushu region more lightly, measures should be taken to appease the Shimazu family. "Some of the retainers led by the elder Yoshida Shigemasa were kind to the Shimazu family and recovered it for their own use. Then in the future, I will look for opportunities to slowly weaken the Shimazu family.
"Yoshida-sama, that's a mistake! It is precisely because of the complexity of the Shimazu family's power in Kyushu. For the sake of the family's development in the local area, it is even more necessary to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, and take the opportunity to completely destroy the Shimazu family. "Some of the retainers led by the general Tomohisa Oishi advocated taking the opportunity to completely eliminate the Shimazu family.
Of course, in addition to the above two parts of the accident, there are also people such as Aguta, these people are all neutral, as long as the lord and the public government decide how to do it.
And in Masahiro's heart, whether it is Yoshida Shigemasa or Oishi Tomohisa's side, the opinions of these two sides, one side is too weak and slow, and the other side is too intense, and neither of them is the Kenyì that Masayoshi likes.
In fact, in his mind, he had already made a decision to dispose of the Shimazu family, that is, to transfer the Shimazu family to the Iyu region of Shikoku, and the specific location was the coastal area of Suitan between Shikoku and Honshu Island.
Since the Luo family occupied the northern areas of the Yiyu Kingdom such as the Kono family, Jinye Port, the Kono family, in order to prevent the Luo family from continuing to invade, they deployed heavy troops in Jianshan Castle, a strategic town in the northern region into the central region of the Yiyu Kingdom.
Masarashi plans to provide the Shimazu family with a temporary territory in the area controlled by the Luo family in the Iyu Kingdom, and then fund it with certain materials to seize the important town of the Kono family. After obtaining the land, the domain of the Shimazu family was here from then on, and in the future, the territory of the Kono family and even the Miyoshi family was obtained, and Masara allowed the Shimazu family to take it as his own domain.
There are several reasons why the Shimazu family was transferred here:
The first is to weaken the strength of the Shimazu family by connecting the Shimazu family with the Kono family, and even with the Miyoshi family. Moreover, in the early stage of the Shimazu family's foothold in the Shikoku region, the Shimazu family must rely on the support of the Luo family, so that the Luo family can control the Shimazu family. What's more, most of the Shikoku region is an area with poor land and a small population, and such an environment must have controlled the development of the Shimazu family, even if the Shimazu family rebelled in the future, it would not be able to compete with the Luo family with such a foundation.
The second is that the area that the Shimazu clan is about to occupy is located in the connection zone between the Iyu Province and the Sanuki Province controlled by the Miyoshi family to the east. Previously, the Kono family not only refused the persuasion of the Luo family several times, but also secretly contacted the Miyoshi family forces on the Sanuki country several times, so in this case, it was better to simply make the Shimazu family's troops directly target the territory of the Kono family, and at the same time act as the forward of the attack on the Miyoshi family.
The Miyoshi family gradually reached its peak during this period, and according to the historical development that Masarashi remembers, the Miyoshi family will control the territories of nearly nine countries in, Yamashiro Province, Yamato Province, Iga Province, Kawachi Province, Izumi Province, Awa Province, Sanuki Province, Settsu Province and Kii Province. Such a strong strength is almost the same as the Luo family, not to mention that the Luo family has just carried out the western strategy and the southern Kyushu strategy in the past few years, and it is taking a while to recuperate, so at this time, there is naturally no need to be hard with the Miyoshi family, anyway, in the next few years, there will be problems within the Miyoshi family, and the important minister of the Miyoshi family, Matsu Naga, will take the opportunity to rise, and Masahiro can wait for such an opportunity. At this time, it is just right to use the Shimazu family to consume with the other party, on the one hand, as a transition zone between the Luo family and the Miyoshi family, and on the other hand, it also consumes the strength of the Shimazu family. (To be continued......)