After sending Masaru Isono away, Masaru slowly walked out of the meeting hall, then stood in the corridor made of wooden boards, looked at the rockery in the yard, and slowly fell into deep thought.

Many people may think that Zhengliang's decision after building this strategy is a bit rushing, but this is the result of Zhengliang's careful consideration.

Because they dared to stay and resist the pursuit of the Luo family army during the defeat, they were usually elite warriors and soldiers, and most of them became prisoners or sword ghosts of the Luo family. Most of the people who were able to escape were fearless peasants. Therefore, the Otomo family and the powerful men of the Turkishou really lost most of the elite soldiers after this battle.

Coupled with the large number of powerful generals injured in the chaos and the Yoshihiro Kanri, who is said to be still injured and unconscious, the Otomo family was obviously injured this time. At least in a short period of time, the Otomo family's influence and power in the aftermath of the Tuya will be greatly reduced. This is a great opportunity for the Luo family to take advantage of the situation.

Moreover, in history, the Otomo family has always been good at making a comeback. This can be seen from his repeated attacks on the rising Ryuzoji family and failed. Masayora believes that as long as he gradually recovers, the Otomo family will enter the Joseph again. At that time, will the Luo family still fight in the battle in the Hoshiqian? No, as the saying goes, defending the enemy outside the country, the Hoshiqian will serve as the strategic rear, and the Hoshiqian is a new battlefield selected by Masayora. Here, no matter how the two families fight, it will not affect the stability of the Hoshiqian. Therefore, from a strategic perspective, the Hoshiqian is also very important.

More importantly, while the Luo family and the Otomo family were fighting each other, there was a coveted Outo family standing next to it. Since returning from Izumo to pretend to be injured, Masara actually always pays attention to Izumo's battle situation.

Judging from the current situation, the Oui family is almost certain that as recorded in history, it will experience a crushing defeat. However, even if it is crushing, Yoshitaka Oui and Tao Qingxian, who are the main foundation of the Oui family, still exist. As long as these two people still exist, even if they are injured, the Oui family will still be an injured lion.

Masara has always adhered to one principle, that is, believe in history but cannot fully believe in history. Since his little butterfly came here, the wheel of history may have changed quietly. Therefore, Masarara did not dare to bet that after Ouchi Yoshitaka experienced this failure, will it really fall into a trough like historical records, and even ignore political affairs.

If the Da Nei family is already an injured sheep after this battle, the Luo family can naturally develop according to their own plan. But if the Da Nei family is a lion who is licking his wounds and waiting for an unlucky person to come to provoke him to reshape his majestic lion, the Luo family will naturally have to be careful. At least for now, the Luo family is not suitable to be the unlucky person and become the target of the great inner family's authority, and it is even more unsuitable to have direct conflicts with the great inner family.

Therefore, Masarae must race against time before the results of the Izumo Battle of Ouchi's family come out. When Ouchi's family's attention is not in front of the fat, they must speed up their expansion. Then, while digesting the gains, they wait for the changes.

It is also based on this principle that Masarae defeated the Otomo family coalition and received the invitation from Toji Jianlian to discuss peace, she opposed the opposition and agreed to the Otomo family's request for peace. Everyone could see that the Otomo family was just a helpless move to preserve their strength. But isn't this Masarae's move to preserve their strength?

If, according to the advice of the retainers at the time, take advantage of the great victory to take down Katsuo Castle and Asahiyama Castle controlled by the Otomo family of Himemaki, then enter the Yamaki Castle and Akashi Castle where the front meet, and finally cross the Katsuo River, and drive the Otomo family of Himemaki on the other side out of Katsuo.

Let’s not talk about whether this can win, but even if it really wins in the end, it will be a tragic victory. The powerful people around us will definitely not sit idly by. In the end, the Luo family is just making wedding clothes for others.

Now, not only has the strength preserved, the Luo family has been able to transfer its main force to the southwest of the Chuhou, but also won the Katsuo Castle and Asahiyama Castle without bloodshed, and then he was able to defraud Muda Castle and surrender Mise Castle, directly controlling the eastern part of Himeqian. Now, except for the southern powerful forces such as Arima and Saigo, the rest of the places in Himeqian have been completely included in the territory of the Luo family.

What Masarara cared even more was that the Yamashi Castle and Akashi Castle were located in the north of the Chigo River, and were attacked by Himeqian and Chigo Market.

Such a land of right and wrong is indeed difficult to take over. Unlike now, except for the borders of Kuroegao Castle and Mise Castle and Jiqian, the rest of the areas are blocked by mountains and seas, with natural protection barriers. Once the Luo family takes over this land of right and wrong, it is equivalent to completely bordering its territory with the Daoue Home.

If you are not careful, the Luo family will take over the position of the Otomo family and fall into a situation where the Otomo family and the Otomo family are attacked. Now leaving this place of right and wrong and the northeast territory after building will be equivalent to leaving a common enemy for the Otomo family and the Luo family. Indeed, for a long time in the future, the Luo family will need to have a common enemy with the Otomo family to ensure the existence of the alliance. That is the Otomo family.

However, if you don’t enter Zhu Qinfeng, the Luo family will have Da Nei family in the north and the Zhu Qinfeng’s Otomo family will have, which is almost equivalent to being completely trapped in the direction of land. As for the sea route? To be honest, putting aside the combat power of Zhu Qinfeng’s southern barbarian ship, the Luo family’s naval army can only protect themselves.

Therefore, the land passage must be opened. So Masayoshi chose the southwest direction of the building. As long as we take this place, the northeast direction is the rest of the building part controlled by the Otomo family, which will be used as a fat and bone to attract the attention of the Otomo family. Continuing to the southwest direction is the fat and the nominal jurisdiction of the Otomo family. This is equivalent to opening up a new development channel.

While opening up this development channel, the Youming Sea area between Feiqian and Zhuhou was gradually controlled to reduce the scope of the Luo family's enemy. This is the real purpose of Zhengliang's strategy this time.

However, only Zhengliang, who knows the direction of history, will come up with such a strategy, and it seems unconvincing. This is why some of the retainers have objections. However, Zhengliang can't tell them that he knows the result of history, right? Therefore, Zhengliang can only bite the bullet and respond to the opposition of the retainers.

This time, the news and results of the meeting with Togo Heiji and Isono Tomokazuo quickly reached the ears of the retainers. The retainers quickly understood the information conveyed by the head of the family. So Masayoshi's ears finally calmed down for several days.

In the past few days, Zhengliang was not idle. In addition to approving the territorial affairs sent from various places in the territory, he also kept preparing for the attack on the southwest region of Zhuhou. Food, arms, maps, intelligence, etc., all of which must be prepared in advance.

On that day, just as Zhengliang was approving the territory affairs, the crowd outside the door asked for instructions and said that Li Hongfei was asking for a meeting outside the door. Zhengliang immediately asked him to come in and meet him.

"Master, I'm so happy." After meeting and salute, Li Hongfei immediately said happily.

"Oh? Why are you happy?" Zhengliang's eyes lit up when he heard this. Because of his experience in surveying minerals, Zhengliang has asked Li Hongfei to survey the minerals in the territory in the past six months. Could it be that Li Hongfei found the minerals?

"Mr. Lord, silver mines and copper mines appeared in my territory." Li Hongfei said happily. This young man who had worked as a farmer, had hid in the mountains and hunted, and even followed several foreigners to assist in the exploration of minerals in the Ming Dynasty and seemed quite excited at this time.

When Zhengliang appointed him as a mine, he was questioned by some of his retainers. Now, after more than half a year of hard work, he has finally proved his ability and completely shut up some people. More importantly, he will be able to make a living under the young and admirable great lord in front of him.

"Silver mine? Copper mine? Where is it?" Masayora immediately asked the little surnamed Naoshima next to him to bring a simple map and asked directly.

Li Hongfei pointed out two places on the map at an extremely fast speed. Zhengliang looked carefully and couldn't help but say in his heart: It's true.

When sending Li Hongfei to survey the mines, Zhengliang pointed out several places that particularly need key exploration. Unexpectedly, Li Hongfei really found minerals in these places.

These places were actually pointed out based on the memories of Zhengliang's later generations. However, due to the long period of time and the confusing memory, Zhengliang did not know whether the minerals in these places had been mined. So he just wanted to give it a try. Unexpectedly, he actually found the minerals.

From the map, the silver mine is located on the Beizhen Mountain in Dongfeiqian, located close to the Bianxia, ​​while the copper mine is located on the Xukongzang Mountain in Nanfeiqian. Both places are located in the territory of the Luo family, so we can start mining immediately.

"Mr. Lord, as you mentioned, my subordinates found a large amount of porcelain clay near Heifa Mountain and some low-content sulfur mines on Tianshan Mountain." As if he was deliberately delaying and telling Zhengliang, Li Hongfei told more good news.

"Very good!" Zhengliang was really excited at this time.

The discovery of silver mines, copper mines and even porcelain clay has eased the financial pressure of the territory to a certain extent, allowing Zhengliang to exchange for more materials. The emergence of sulfur mines has solved the problem of gunpowder source in the firearm manufacturing workshop that is about to get on track to a certain extent. As long as there is enough saltpeter, gunpowder can be produced on a large scale. This will be a great combat power for the Luo family in the future. Zhengliang cannot be unhappy.

"The Lord of the Kingdom, the sacred house Shaozhan, the messenger of Lord Wang Hai and the messenger of Lord Zhu Qinfeng are asking for advice together." The cloakers standing guard outside the door suddenly came in and asked for advice.
Chapter completed!