After just after being assassinated, he returned to Xuefu City. However, Masara received an urgent report that the merchant ship in Kuroshimaki Kyoto Port was robbed by pirates. The urgent report mentioned that the group of pirates was extremely cruel. After getting close to board the ship, he started a massacre. Fortunately, the owner saw the opportunity early and left on the Xiaoxiao Express, and then encountered our patrol ship, so he was able to escape by chance.

The accident was on the island on the coast of the Sonsou County of Chuanqian. Near the island. To the northeast is the Guanmen Strait controlled by the Daneijia Navy, and to the southwest is the waters controlled by the Luo family. The accident was used to be the sphere of influence of the Zongsou family naval army, but after the ambush battle in the Bota Port last year, the Zongsou family's naval army was almost destroyed by the Luo family, and that area also became a place where the Luo family naval army often appeared. The Daneijia's naval army was strongly requested by the Guanmen Strait, because the Zongsou family was worried that the Luo family naval army would be attacked from the coast and sent naval army to patrol from time to time, so it became an area where the Daneijia Navy and the Luo family naval army confronted each other.

After receiving the urgent report from Zhengliang, he listed the Zong Xiang family as the target of suspicion. But it seemed impossible. The main force of the Zong Xiang family's naval army and the coastal naval base were destroyed by the Luo family. Even though the Zong Xiang family still hid some naval ships in rivers such as Yuangachuan in its territory, their strength was limited. Otherwise, when the Luo family's naval army harassed the Zong Xiang family's coastal territory, their naval army would have been dispatched long ago.

In addition, because he was worried that his merchant ship would be intercepted by the Luo family's naval army after going to sea, he did not dare to send his merchant ships to sea. At the same time, the Zong Xiang family also needs these merchant ships from the sea to enter its territory. In this way, the Zong Xiang family will not attack the merchant ships even more.

Could it be that the Danei family's navy is pretending to be a pirate? But there are two things that cannot be explained in this way. First, the Danei family's navy no longer needs to block the Luo family's trade route. Because even if the Guanmen Strait is blocked against the Luo family's trade route, the Luo family can now obtain a new maritime trade route from the Fenghou Waterway. Moreover, Yoshitaka Ouchi does not want to increase the scope of entanglement with the Luo family due to maritime disputes at this time, right? Second, the Guanmen Strait is the most prosperous strait in western Japan and the northern part of Kyushu, and there are extremely many merchant ships passing by every day. If the Luo family's trade route is deliberately blocked, it will not only fail to block the commercial route, but will also lose the tolls of many merchant ships, and will even continue to offend merchants because of this. Even if Yoshitaka Ouchi is really stupid, it will not be so stupid.

The islands and the islands are full of hills and forests. There are very few flat lands, and the land that can be reclaimed is even more sparse. Now there are only a few local fishermen who make a living. There have always been no pirates on it. After thinking about it, it is really as analyzed by the Intelligence Bureau, it is only possible that the Hodo Navy from Iki Island did what it was done.

Since the Luo family's naval army defeated the main force of the Sonsun family and took over the maritime dominance on the coast of Chimachi-Kyushu, the Hodo family lost land contact with Kyushu. The Danaga Nagato Nagato Nagato was too far away from Iki Island and was worried that the Nagato family was besieged by the Luo family during their trip to Iki Island, so they completely lost contact with Iki Island. The Hado family on Iki Island has since lost the support of the Danaga.

Subsequently, the Luo family naval army began to block the trade routes to Iki, mainly forbidding food, military supplies, etc. to Iki. However, it allowed merchant ships to transport any supplies out, which made the materials in Iki a state where they could only leave but could not enter.

As an island country, Iki has a relatively developed fishery; at the same time, there are plains on the island and grain crops that can be planted. Although the area is not as good as Tsubasa, its arable land and population are higher than Tsubasa. However, the land on Iki Island alone cannot grow food that can support the survival of the entire island's people, so it relies very much on the food support from Kyushu and Honshu land. Now the material trade route can only go out but not in, which makes the Hondo families on Iki Island anxious, especially at this time when the end of the year, if they cannot raise food for winter, not only will the captains be hungry, but the military power of the Hondo families cannot support it. So in desperation, they had to act as pirates to rob merchant ships, especially the merchant ships that transport grain.

It happened that during this period of time, the Luo family's Hirado Island and Hakata Port were all using the income from this autumn harvest to purchase large quantities of grain. Naturally, many merchants saw the opportunity to make money, so they used merchant ships to transport grain to these two places. This time, the robbed was the boat that had always had a good relationship with the Luo family. The Luo family naturally could not sit idly by, and once the business road was affected by pirates, other merchants would also worry that they would be robbed. In this way, the Luo family's foreign trade would also be affected.

What made Zhengliang even more annoyed was that when he was assassinated, there was another incident of being robbed on the commercial road. Zhengliang already suspected that these things were all done by the Boduo family.

"How about going to fight for Iki Island immediately?" After gently putting down the information, Masara asked Yamamoto Kazusuke when he rushed to Heiji Togo who had rushed over because of the news of Masara's assassination.

In the past, it was because Iki Island belonged to the Oui family, so Masayoshi had no idea to fight against Iki in order to avoid turning against him. Later, after turning against him, Masayoshi was busy tangling with the Otomo family and the Oui family. Now he has finally made a free move, and Iki is so close to Hime and Bushou, so naturally he has to consider including him in the power territory of the Luo family.

"There is no problem with military rations." Dongxiang Heishi did not make a clear statement this time, but just told the situation of the materials.

"Lord, this matter is probably inappropriate. Last time, my family went to the Five Islands to fight in the winter. Although I finally won, many soldiers were frostbite because of this. Later, these soldiers had to retire early. Moreover, the sea conditions near Iki were not very good at this time, which was not conducive to leveraging the number of our naval forces. It was not the best time to launch a water war." Yamamoto Kanasuke opposed.

"Yeah!" Zhengliang also began to ponder after hearing this.

As Yamamoto Kazusuke said, if a water war starts in this season, once a soldier falls into the water, he will be frostbite in a very short time. Even if these soldiers recover in the future, they will leave sequelae (such as rheumatism, etc.), and they will not be able to fight on rainy days. Therefore, these soldiers often have to retire early. Moreover, not all the Luo family naval forces are always on hand, and there are also many fishermen who are temporarily recruited. In this season, even if they always have no complaints, those fishermen who are familiar with the harm of starting water war in winter will also complain.

In addition, due to the influence of the monsoon, this season in Iki and Tsumana waters often blew strong winds on the sea, and the waves were also very strong. Such sea conditions are indeed not conducive to the Luo family's navy's numerical advantages.
Chapter completed!