Chapter 970: Unification of Kyushu (Medium)

Regarding the submission agreement of the Shimazu family, Masashi naturally scoffed. |[2][3][][x]}

With the situation that the combined forces of the Shimazu family and the Ito family are besieged at this time, as long as Masara besieges them without moving, they will become the fish and meat of the Luo family sooner or later, and it will be their turn to talk about what surrender conditions will they talk about at that time? Even their lives are in the hands of the Luo family.

Of course, in this case, when the Luo family attacks the territory of the Shimazu family in the future, it will encounter great resistance. However, Masara believes that with the territory of nearly twelve territories (including islands) controlled by the Luo family, they will definitely eventually conquer the territory of the Shimazu family completely, although in the process it will inevitably consume a lot of resources, and it will also lead to a long delay and cause a lot of casualties, but it is better than accepting the surrender conditions proposed by the Shimazu family at this time.

In short, in any case, Masayo must have a thorough grasp of the southern Kyushu region, and he must not allow an ally like the so-called foreign alliance proposed by the Shimazu family to exist. After all, the so-called alliance is actually based on the power of both sides, and once the power of the Luo family is damaged, Masahiro will definitely dare to guarantee that the Shimazu family will bite the Luo family a few bites in the back like a white-eyed wolf.

In Masara's next plan, the entire Kyushu region will be the rear foundation of the Luo family's next plan, and no unstable factors will be allowed to exist, so no matter what, Masara will not accept the submission agreement proposed by the Shimazu family before.

Of course, the so-called negotiation always requires both sides to put forward their own demands, and then bargain with each other. Anyway, the anxious side is the Shimazu family. And what the Roche family has is time. Then negotiate on the side. Let's procrastinate and see how long your Shimazu family can negotiate.

So in the following days, Masahiro didn't bother to meet Yijiin Tadaro, so he directly sent several retainers of the Luo family to take turns to negotiate with Ijiin Tadaro. As time dragged on, the Shimazu family realized that they had to make some concessions, but before that, they made a demand. That was to ask the Roche family to invite officials from the shogunate to come and act as intermediaries in the negotiations between the two sides, so as to ensure that the two sides could abide by the agreement in the future.

After all, with the shogunate's involvement, it would be possible to ensure that the agreement would be made public. Once one party violates the agreement, it will not only affect your own reputation, but also cause other daimyo to dare not trust your family casually (as for the alliance with you, they will be more cautious), and it will also have a negative impact on the internal rule of this party's territory (for example, some rigid retainers will have opinions, and when recruiting retainers, ronins or even lords, etc.). The most stern thing is that it also gives other daimyo powerful excuses to invade you. Therefore, unless necessary, it is generally better not to violate the agreement without the intervention of the shogunate.

Of course, after this request was made on the side of the Shimazu family. Masarashi immediately realized another intention of the Shimazu family, which was to use the shogunate to put pressure on the Luo family. on this. Masahiro scoffed again.

The Shimazu family and the Ito family did spend a lot of effort to establish a good relationship with the shogunate and the imperial court, but compared to the Luo family, it was far behind. You must know that at this time, the Luo family was still the gold lord of the daily life of the shogunate and the imperial court.

What's more, the shogunate and the imperial court had already made peace with the Luo family because of the Maori family (in fact, at that time, Masara didn't want to spend a year or two with the Maori family in the mountains of the Maori family's old nest in Aki Province), and the Luo family had already given them face, and if they came to ask the Luo family to give face again this time, then the shogunate and the imperial court would really be fools. Therefore, at that time, the shogunate and the imperial court will definitely only be a witness, and they will not care about anything else.

What's even more coincidental is that at this time, Zhongyumen Xuanxiu, the son of Yumen Xuanyin in Quan Da Nayan, also happened to be playing in Qibu City in the Luo family's Fenghou Kingdom. As for why Zhongyumen Xuanxiu came to Luo's house at this time? Naturally, this is not to participate in the negotiations between the Luo family and the Shimazu family, the real purpose of his visit this time is actually to urge Masato to marry.

As early as a few years ago, the Zhongyumen family reached a marriage agreement with the Luo family, and Zhongyumen Xuanxiu had already left her daughter in the Luo family at that time.

It's just that the daughter of Zhongyumen Xuanxiu was really young at that time, although at this time there was a general situation in the Warring States period where they married young girls for the sake of politics or life needs, but after all, Masashi came from later generations, and the life expectancy of women in this era was generally only in their thirties, one of the reasons was because they married prematurely and gave birth to children. For this reason, in order to ensure the ratio of women in the territory and the reproductive health of the population, Zhengliang specifically stipulated in the Luo family law that women need to be fifteen years old before they can marry and have children (except for the ruler, of course). Although fifteen years old is actually still very young, after all, this Warring States is such a background, and if the age is increased, it is estimated that it will lead to a riot within the territory.

In addition, he already has a lot of women, so he didn't put his mind here, and raised this little girl at home and even put it in the Luo School Women's College, and over time, he really forgot about this little girl. But Zhengliang forgot about it, but the Zhongyumen family has not forgotten it, after seeing that his daughter is getting bigger and bigger, and the Luo family is getting stronger and stronger (especially after receiving a lot of relief from the Luo family over the years because of the relationship between his daughter and the Luo family), and the Luo family governor Zhengliang has not included the daughter of Zhongyumen Xuanxiu as a side room, and Zhongyumen Xuanxiu, as the father, personally came to urge the marriage.

For Zhongyumen Xuanxiu's urging to marry, Zhengliang has no intention of resisting, although it is a political marriage, but Zhengliang is also a man after all, plus Zhongyumen Xuanxiu's daughter is also good at this time and has completely passed the marriage age stipulated by the Luo family's law, so naturally she will not refuse. It's just that this period of time happens to be an important period for the Luo family's southern Kyushu strategy, and Masahiro naturally doesn't have time to marry the side room. But Zhongyumen Xuanxiu was really afraid that Zhengliang would postpone it again, so he simply stayed in Luo's house. After waiting for Zhengliang to be free, he personally handled the marriage of his daughter Gui Ji.

In desperation. Masahiro had no choice but to beat Zhongyumen Xuanxiu to the territory to play. And since it's playing. Zhongyumen Xuanxiu naturally went to the three major Luo family superintendent cities, such as Anyue Mountain City, Xuefu City, and Qibu City, which are famous in the Luo family's territory.

These three cities were used as the residence of Zhengliang in different periods (later designated by Zhengliang as the three major residences of the Luo family in the future), and they are also the most populous and economically and culturally developed areas in the Luo family's territory.

Among them, Hizen Kunigishigatake Castle (located in the western part of the Roche family), which is the residence of the Luo family, is the center of the Roche family's technology in the surrounding area, such as textile workshops, snow salt workshops, salt-drying and salt factories, sugar workshops, paper printing workshops, shipbuilding workshops, cement workshops, carpentry workshops, and ceramics workshops.

In addition, there are also such as the Luo family weapons workshop (responsible for the forging of weapons and armor such as iron cannons, large barrels, knives and guns, armor, etc., and has formed an assembly line forging process), recruit training camp (most of the Luo family's reserve standing recruits and the military training and assessment of the students of the Luo family are carried out here), the ninja army Black Eagle Curie (the old nest of the intelligence pavilion), the hero cemetery (a large number of scouts from all over the country are organized to come to worship every year), the Luo family temple Zhongxiao Temple (both the temple and the medicine garden, the political prison), The training base of the Tangjin Bay Naval Academy and the former residence of the Luo family are the military education centers of the Luo family.

Compared to the technical and military education center of Kishitake Mountain Castle. Hizen Kokugakufu Castle (located in the central part of the Luo family) as the seat of the Luo family has assumed the role of a political, cultural, economic, and transportation center.

In this giant city, in addition to being the daily residence of the Luo family's governor, it is also famous for the Luo family's dream of all the young people of the Luo family. After so many years of exhibition, the Luo family has become the cradle of the Luo family's talents, all the Luo family retainers have studied in this school, and every year here will be for the Luo family to cultivate a variety of disciplines, political beliefs, loyal to the Luo family's ideology of the influence of the Luo family, and under the joint consultation of the internal affairs cabinet, military cabinet, intelligence cabinet and other institutions, arrange to enter the Luo family's various places, become the cornerstone of the Luo family exhibition. With the continuous training in reality, these people will also become the trendsetters and pillars of the future exhibition of the Luo family.

Of course. It is not so easy to get into this school, unless it is personally approved by Masashi, and in order to enter the school, the average person must first go through the villages or town colleges that are already scattered all over the Luo family's territory (these colleges are local school institutions with a predominantly school body, and the teachers are usually students who graduated from the Luo school). These teachers are also one of the retainers of the Luo family, and they will not always serve as teachers, but after they are excellent, they are likely to be transferred to positions such as the retainers of the Internal Affairs Cabinet and the Retainer of the Military Cabinet, so being a teacher in various places is also one of the most favorite positions for the students of the Roche Academy to receive the initial assessment after graduation). in order to enter the Roche Academy.

But even so, it still attracts all the young people in the Luo family's territory to study desperately and strive to enter the institution (the school does not limit the number of students, and as many students as there are that meet the requirements, it will absorb as many people). And with the continuous expansion of the Luo family's territory, more and more students who meet the assessment requirements to enter the academy every year (after all, the territory expands, the population base naturally increases, and with the promotion of the Luo family's various laws in the new territory, the more students who meet the assessment requirements of the academy), in order to meet the requirements, the scale of the Luo family is also getting larger and larger, originally only occupying only a quarter of the area of the castle town of the school (the school is located in the northwest of the castle town, close to the north side of the main city of the academy), and now with the continuous expansion, As it gradually expanded to the west, it now occupied almost half of the area of the castle town.

In short, after more than ten years of exhibition, at this time in the Luo family territory has formed a relatively complete set of basic education, selection and assessment of the education system, at the same time, the territory education system and the territory of the exhibition has formed a virtuous circle, it is because of the cultivation of a large number of talents from the territory of the education system, so that the Luo family in the end of each war to quickly fill the gap such as soldiers, retainers and other kinds of talents, it is these talents, to make every war. The Luo family's logistical affairs, such as the quick reception of the newly occupied territory, were carried out quickly and smoothly.

Of course. In addition to the Roche Academy, there are castles and towns. To the northeast of the castle town is the residential area of the Luo family, which is also expanding to the northeast, and as the number of Luo family retainers increases, the expansion here will accelerate (according to the regulations of the Luo family law, the family members of the retainers must live here, so almost all the Luo family retainers have a house here). As for their territory, they entrust their own clansmen or retainers to be responsible for long-term garrison and care under the supervision of the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet, or even simply entrust the internal affairs cabinet to take care of it, anyway, according to the Luo family's law. In fact, he only has a certain percentage of tax power over his territory, and the rest such as military power and internal power are controlled by various institutions of the Luo family).

To the southwest of the castle town, this area was home to the Roche family's diplomatic office and various merchant houses, and due to the continuous expansion of the adjacent Roche Academy, the space to the north and west of the diplomatic and commercial area was occupied by the Roche Academy, and this area could only be expanded to the south. Among the buildings here, the headquarters of Roche House is the tallest and largest, and it is also one of the landmark buildings of the Academy City.

At the same time, there are also many characteristic buildings from various parts of the Warring States and even the Ming Kingdom, and there is a bright Ariake Sea in the distance. As a result, literati from all over the Luo family and even from all over the Warring States period came here, and such as Noh opera, waka, and opera (brought by immigrants from the Ming Kingdom) were constantly staged here. As a result, there is an atmosphere of "a hundred schools of thought contending".

Because this is the Luo family economics zhì and cultural center, it naturally attracted many people to settle down (although at this time the internal affairs cabinet has begun to implement the household registration management system, but because it has just begun to be implemented, it has not been able to completely limit all the people to the location of their household registration, and considering the need to expand the school city into a giant city of the Warring States, so the internal affairs cabinet will generally readily agree to the residents who have lived and settled in the Luo family's territory for many years after applying to settle in the Luo family's school, In particular, it is easier to approve the application of the Ming Prefecture lords), so as the area inhabited by the lords in the southeast area of the castle town, it is also constantly expanding. In short, every time Masashi returns to Gakufu Castle from abroad, the castle town changes dramatically, and there is a sense of rapid change.

Similarly, under the deliberate arrangement of the Interior Pavilion over the years, Xuefu City has become the transportation center and hub of the Luo family's territory. As long as you go out of Xuefu City and follow the dense marching avenue of the Luo family, you can definitely reach any place where the Luo family has a leader to live, and the closer you get to Xuefu City, the wider and smoother the marching road there is.

Compared with the obvious functional characteristics of Kishidake Mountain Castle and Xuefu City, Qibu Castle, which is located in the east of the Luo family and in the territory of Bungo Kingdom, its function is a little insignificant, but as the Interior Pavilion deliberately guided a large number of goods to gather here (in this point, the Luo House gave the Luo Family Interior Pavilion great cooperation), thus attracting a large number of merchants within the Luo family to buy goods here, and it gradually became a commodity distribution center within the Luo family's territory. In fact, after years of exhibition, the mountain city of Anyue, Xuefu City, and Qibu City have been connected from west to east, leading to the marching avenue of the Luo family, and have become an economic center line running through the east and west of the Luo family.

Since the mountain city of Anyue, Xuefu City, and Qibu City are all so distinctive, and they are the three most populous and prosperous places among all the territories of the Luo family at this time, Xuanxiu of Zhongyumen, who has temporarily decided to stay in the Luo family, naturally has to go to play.

And after visiting Kishidake Mountain Castle and Gakufu Castle respectively, not long ago, Nakayumon Nobuhide just came to the last stop of Gibu Castle, and now the Shimazu family asked the shogunate to participate in it, and was preparing to eat and live well in Gibu Castle (during his time at the Luo family, the daily consumption such as eating, drinking, and playing was taken care of by the Luo family's public cabinet), but he never expected to be directly arrested by Masaara. After a bumpy ride in the rugged mountain road, he finally came to the position of the Luo family in Manjigu besieging the combined forces of the Shimazu family and the Ito family.

Nakayumon Nobuhide, who was originally furious because of the interruption of the game and after a tiring journey, did not dare to complain casually after learning that the Luo family and the Shimazu family needed to negotiate to decide the life and death of the Shimazu family. After all, the Luo family has always been the owner of his Yumen Xuanxiu family, and soon they will be each other's relatives, and the relationship with the shogunate and the imperial court is not to mention, as for the Shimazu family and even the Ito family, when these two families went to Kyoto to engage in relations with the shogunate and the imperial court, he received a lot of benefits from these two families, and he himself personally went to Satsuma and Hyuga as an envoy of the imperial court, and met with Shimazu Takahisa and Ito Yoshisuke.

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