While Jiro Saburo was still distressed by the suffering of his family caused by Imagawa Yoshimoto's Kamiraku, Masarashi also encountered good and bad things here.

At this time, it was already May, and after some pacification, the mountain rebellion in the territory of the Nagato Kingdom, the Zhou Defense Kingdom, and the Luo family control of the Anyi Kingdom had basically been cleared, and the naval army led by Li Huamei had also arrived in the Jiandao County of the Nagato Kingdom half a month ago. In the territory of the Nagato Kingdom and the Zhou Defense Kingdom, only the Araven City and the Marsh City were still resisting at this time, but at this time, these two cities had been surrounded by the Luo family's army and became an isolated island that could not be entered.

For these two cities, Masashi did not intend to storm them, but planned to besiege them. With the current situation of these two cities, sooner or later the food in the city will be eaten up, and then it will be the time for them to open the city and surrender, and what awaits them is only the end of becoming slaves of the Luo family.

As for the only remaining Maori family nests in Takada County and Yama County, the two old nests of the Maori family, the two armies of the Luo family are in a confrontation with the Maori army here. Due to the continuous operations, in the case of extracting a large number of young people to deal with the attack of the Luo family, it also affected the spring plowing of the Maori family in the local area this year, and even in the country of Bigo and the Maori family in China.

Relatively speaking, the Luo family, as the main force of the operation, is basically out of production, and their own one-year income is enough to meet the food and clothing of a family of five within a year, so naturally there is no need to cultivate the fields. Of course, in order to accumulate more wealth, in fact, these permanent homes still have fields. Their fields will be cultivated by their own families or by hiring someone else to help them farm. And those who also participated in the war, the reserve standing and temporary peasant soldiers. In this special period. The fields in their homes will be arranged by the personnel of the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet to arrange slaves or hired personnel to help their families plough, so as to complete the spring ploughing in time. Therefore, fighting in the season of spring ploughing does not have much impact on the Luo family.

In addition, the Tsushimashima clan, which had been reluctant to surrender to the Luo family, officially surrendered to the Luo family at this time. In fact, the Tsushima clan that has been holding on to it will not be able to surrender at this time. Before Itsukushima fought the First World War, in order to confuse Tao Qingxian and Mori Moto. In order to make these two people feel at ease to fight Itsukushima, Masarashi deliberately gathered more than 800 naval warships on the western coast of Hizen Province, and under the banner of going out to Tsushima Island, they rushed to Tsushima Island in a mighty manner.

In the face of the surging huge naval army of the Luo family, he knew that if his dozens of naval warships went to fight against the Luo family's naval army at sea at this time, they would definitely not be the opponents of the Luo family, and in the end they would only "send" ships to the Luo family. Therefore, under the construction of Sasu Shengyuan, a retainer who had secretly defected to the Luo family, the governor of the Tsushima clan, after some consideration, simply sold the ships of his own navy to the local merchants on Tsushima Island, and asked these merchants to drive the boats to leave Tsushima Island first. He rushed to the Jeju Island defense line in the Korean Sea to take refuge, and Jongui gathered the naval army and Ashigaru in the city of Jinseok to join the temporarily assembled peasant soldiers. Prepare for an all-out cage battle.

According to common sense, in the case that their own naval forces are completely unable to resist the other side, and will even be plundered by the other side, it is best to sell these naval ships to local merchants on the spot, so as to obtain enough food and concentrate more troops to defend the city, so as to prepare for the upcoming cage battle.

It's just that if Zong Yi thought about it carefully at that time, he would find that there was something wrong with it. Because since the Luo family took control of the Hizen Province, Chikuzen Province, Iki Island and the southern part of Nagato Province, in fact, at this time the Luo family has blocked all the maritime trade routes near these areas, and in the case that Tsushima is unwilling to submit, for trade with Tsushima Island, the Luo family does not allow any merchants to import grain, minerals, gold and silver and other materials to Tsushima Island, but allows Tsushima to export any materials to the outside world.

Under such circumstances, Tsushima Island could only buy items such as grain, minerals, gold and silver from the Ouchi family, which still occupied the north-central part of Nagato Province, as well as the wealthy families of Iwami Province and Izumo Province. However, due to the blockade of the trade route between Tsushima and the Wa Kingdom, the main trade route between Tsushima and other parts of the country, Tsushima Island has since been surrounded by very few merchants selling grain, gold and silver, and other materials on the island.

It was under such circumstances that when Zong Yiqiao suddenly decided to sell the ships of the naval army, why did so many merchants suddenly appear with enough food in their hands? It's too much of a coincidence, isn't it?

In fact, it is no coincidence at all that some of these businessmen are businessmen who secretly took refuge in the Luo family's official merchant house, and some of them are simply pretending to be from the Luo family. What's more, this operation of using grain to purchase the ships of the Ma family's navy also received the secret assistance of the Sasu family, an important minister of the clan, so the whole transaction process was naturally smooth.

Zong Yituo, who had obtained a lot of food from selling ships, immediately went to mobilize the people of the island with all his might, and together with the naval army Ashigaru who had lost his warship, he concentrated in Jinshi Castle, the home city of the clan, and prepared to resist the invasion of the Luo family with all his might.

It's just that what I didn't expect was that the huge Luo family's naval army went around the periphery of Tsushima Island, and by the way, after secretly receiving the naval ships that had just been sold by Zongyi Diao that had been concentrated there in another sea area, they directly drew an arc on the sea surface and headed east, preparing to intervene in the battle of Itsukushima.

Zong Yituo, who was originally preparing for a fierce cage battle, stood on the castle tower of Jinshi City like this, looking at the Luo family's naval fleet that gradually disappeared from sight, and finally suddenly cried, "My naval army!" Then he spurted blood and passed out.

Afterwards, Zong Yi naturally hoped to form a naval army again, after all, as an island, it would be very dangerous if it did not have its own naval army. But when it comes to selling a boat, it's easy when it comes to buying. The trade routes, which were the main source of ships, were blocked by the Luo family, and it was obviously difficult to form a naval army again in a short period of time by relying only on the sources of Nagato Province, Iwami Province, Izumo Province and other places. Since it is not possible to buy ships directly. So how about buying raw materials and making them yourself? However, Tsushima lacked enough craftsmen and materials. Let's hire a craftsman and purchase raw materials. Immediately, the same trade routes were blocked, as was the case with the direct purchase of ships.

Trying to figure out what to do with North Korea? This is impossible, at this time North Korea is restricting trade with Tsushima, the trading time and the list of traded materials are fixed every year, and the North Korean side mainly sells materials such as ores and special products, and the purchase is grain, gold and silver and Japanese specialties, even if it is a smuggling merchant in North Korea, the transaction is similar to the official one, and the Zong family cannot buy the materials they need from the North Korean side. In such a situation. Naturally, there is no way to find a way from the North Korean side.

The house leak happened to rain overnight, and just when Zongyi was worried about forming a self-protecting naval army again, there was shocking news from the western country, and the Ouchi family, which controlled the Nagato country and the Zhou defense country, was destroyed by the Luo family, and even the Yoshimi family, a wealthy family in Iwami country, also asked the Luo family for peace. This is really a bolt from the blue for Tsushima.

With the Luo family taking control of these areas, the last remaining maritime trade route of Tsushima with Nagato Province, Iwami Province, Izumo Province, and even further afield will be blocked by the Luo family along the coast of Nagato Province. After the lockdown policy of the Luo family, Tsushima will no longer be able to obtain food, gold and silver.

Without these supplies, how will Tsushima maintain trade with North Korea, which is an important pillar of the island's economy, because after all, the food, gold and silver, which are the main trade materials with North Korea, will be gone. Naturally, the DPRK will not trade with Tsushima. What is even stricter is that the island is mostly mountainous and forested. The fields are scarce, and as the Luo family's blockade policy continues, there will be a crisis of food shortage on the island sooner or later, so how will the foundation of the Zong family's rule on the island be maintained? I'm afraid those retainers will be the first to make trouble.

Sure enough, before Zongyi came back to his senses, the retainers on the island led by Sasu Shengyuan of the Sasu family and the wealthy clan immediately united at this time, and jointly asked the Zongjia to negotiate with the Luo family on behalf of Tsushima Island to solve the food crisis that the island would face. In desperation, Zong Yiqiao had no choice but to send an envoy to Yamaguchi Castle on a merchant ship that had been going to Zhou Fangguo, and made a request to Zhengliang.

In the face of Tsushima's request, Masashi only gave three conditions, one is that Tsushima officially surrendered to the Luo family; The second is that the wealthy families on the island, including the clan family, will be transferred to various parts of Kyushu to settle down, and the Luo family will send new retainers to the island to fully take over Tsushima Island. The third is to hand over the pleadings and other documents for trade with North Korea, and send personnel to help the Luo family trade with North Korea under the banner of the Zong family.

The reason why Masahiro has not made a move against Tsushima Island before is mainly because the Luo family's naval army was limited at that time, and he did not want to cause the loss of his own naval army when fighting against Tsushima naval army. The second is that they do not want to force the Tsushima family to destroy the certificate of trade with North Korea, after all, the North Korean official at this time only recognizes this certificate and the banner of the clan.

North Korea has a long history of trade with Japan, and when the two sides first traded, the North Korean side opened its coastal seaports. The clan, which was the guardian of Tsushima, was strong enough to guarantee trade with Korea and ensure that trade went smoothly. Unfortunately, the good times did not last long, as more and more Japanese invaders appeared, and the Zong family fell into weakness, which led to the invasion of Japanese invaders along the coast of Korea, and the trade between the two places was repeated many times, and there was even a situation of Korean conquest of Tsushima. Eventually, Tsushima signed an agreement with North Korea, and instead of opening up the coast, the North Koreans would trade by sea vessels, using sea vessels to transport supplies and trade at a fixed time each year. If the Luo family wanted to maintain this kind of trade with Korea after the seizure of Tsushima, they had to obtain the official trade documents and vouchers between the clan and Korea, and preferably under the banner of the clan.

This time, since Tsushima took the initiative to succumb, it was natural for Masayo to take the opportunity to retain the right to trade with North Korea while acquiring Tsushima. In order to threaten the other party, Masahiro directly stated that if Tsushima did not agree to these three or two demands, the Luo family would not only continue to strengthen the trade blockade of Tsushima, but also send a naval army to attack Tsushima. In order to cooperate with Zhengliang's intimidation, Li Huamei, the commander of the First Standing Naval Force, was immediately ordered to send a naval fleet to cruise in the waters around Tsushima Island, making a posture of being ready to attack at any time.

The Luo family's request and action immediately caused a sensation on the island, and it was divided into two camps of surrender and opposition to surrender, and in the end, under the leadership of the Sasu family, the side that surrendered to the Luo family gained the advantage, and with the clear support of the Luo family, forced the Zong family governor to agree to all the Luo family's requests.

After completely surrendering to the Luo family, and leaving behind the proof of trade with Korea and the members of the clan who assisted in the trade, the rest of the clan was forced to move to Hizen Province in Kyushu to settle down, and Zong Yituo, as the governor of the family, also lived in seclusion with the family, apparently, he was unwilling to die for the Luo family. Since then, the Luo family has officially and completely taken control of Tsushima Island. (To be continued......)

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