Chapter 463 Where is the Sword Pointing?
Navy soldiers are different from peasant soldiers fighting on land. They are very easy. Generally speaking, if you want to ensure the combat capabilities of the navy, it is best to recruit some fishermen.
Of course, Zhengliang actually prefers those pirates who surrender to the Luo family (in fact, they are fishermen in many cases. When they rob, they are pirates, and when they return home, they become fishermen). After all, they have experienced storms at sea, and after recruiting, they can save a lot of training time.
"Everyone, what do you think about the recruitment of the navy?" said Zhengliang. This time, the navy expanded its troops and increased by 600 people at once. Even if it was recruited from fishermen along the coast of the territory, it might not be able to recruit enough personnel. Even if it was recruited, it would affect the lives of the fishermen due to the large reduction in the main labor force of the fishermen, which would affect the supply of fishermen's meat in the entire Luo Family territory, and even lead to rising prices.
After hearing the head of the family’s question, the retainers present began to ponder.
Seeing the retainers frowning and thinking hard, Masayoro couldn't help but shake his head slightly. Although the number of retainers in the Luo family is gradually increasing, perhaps they can give some ideas on a certain war or internal affairs issue, but not many can give good suggestions on these overall issues. The only remaining ones are except Masayoro himself, there are only two military advisors. So Masayoro looked at the only military advisor Kakuma Ishisou of the meeting and asked:
"Shi Zong, tell me what you think?"
"Lord, when my subordinates express their opinions, can you ask me to analyze the current situation facing my family?" Kakukuma Shisou said.
"It's OK." Zhengliang said.
"Lord, at present, I have almost controlled the entire territory of the Himaki Kingdom, and the territory of central and southern parts of the Himaki Kingdom. Even in Himaki Kingdom, Issue Son also occupied a place." Kakumakuma Shisen looked at a sand table map on the side of the Convention Hall and analyzed to Masayoro. "In the north of Kyushu, Imaki Kingdom was adjacent to the territory of the Himaki Kingdom and Otomo family."
Speaking of this, Kakukuma Ishisect paused for a moment, and then continued: "At present, the Outomo family and the Otomo family are well-deserved overlords, and the family also has the power to fight with them. Therefore, my subordinates think that in the next time, the family should try to avoid getting involved with the Otomo family and even the Otomo family, so as not to greatly consume the resources and combat power of the family."
"Yeah!" Masaru nodded. The current situation of the Luo family is a bit like the Takeda family, Nagao family, Imagawa family, and Hojo family. They are always restraining each other. Once they fall into this situation, it will greatly hinder the pace of development of the family. Takeda tiger, Echizen Dragon, etc. consume a lot of resources in this tug-of-war, and eventually even consume their youth until their youth passes away. Imagawa Yoshi's luck is good. After forming an alliance with the Hojo family and Takeda family around him, he finally got rid of the restraint and could feel at ease. But he met Oda Nobunaga in a tragic way.
Of course, the situation of these overlords is also due to the limitations of their geographical environment. But now the Luo family is different.
"The lord is in the central part of Kyushu. It is Feihou Kingdom. At this time, the country is already across the sea from the Nanfeiqian of our family. There are a large number of relatives and friends in the central and northern part of this place. Similarly, once our family forcibly enters this place, it will definitely cause local wealthy families to join forces with the Oto family to resist our family. If you are not careful, our family will fall into this quagmire. My subordinates think that this place is not suitable for the development of our family for the time being."
"And the southern part of the fat queen is almost occupied by the Satsuki family. At the same time, the Satsuki family has formed an alliance with the Satsuki Shimazu family, which is separated by a mountain. Their strength cannot be underestimated."
"Damn it, this place is not good, it is not good, military advisor, are you planning to let the lord hide in the territory like a turtle?" At this moment, the executive officer, who had always spoken directly, saw that the military advisor had been talking for a long time and advocated the strength of the surrounding forces, and he immediately stopped.
"Haha, no, on the contrary, I think this is exactly what the lord can consider." Kakukuma Shisou said with a smile.
"Oh? Please tell me clearly." Zhengliang said immediately with interest.
"Although the Shimazu family in Satsumazu family unified the Satsuma Peninsula and suppressed the Izumi Shimazu family in the northern part of Satsuma, there are also resistance families such as the Irienyuan family, the Kiraiyuan family, the Rikika family, and the Rikika family. Whether it is the Aoki family in the Faegu family or the various Satsuma family, there are no powerful families like the Otomo family around them, so this is the right place for our family to intervene."
"Whether in the south of the Hokage or Satsuma, if my family wants to intervene in these two places, they must head from the sea, right?" Heiji Togo, who had not spoken, suddenly spoke.
"This is exactly the sea situation we will talk about next. From the perspective of locality, the sea surrounding our family can be divided into three maritime forces, one is Iki Island located in the waters north of our family. Currently, the wealthy families on the island are headed by the Higashi family to fight against the oppression of the Hodo family. In order to avoid arousing suspicion from the Hodo family who are also paying attention to this place, my subordinates suggest that they can secretly form an alliance with the Higashi family to keep the current situation in the island's civil unrest." Kakuma Shisen suggested.
"Yes." Masayoshi nodded. In fact, he had already secretly contacted the Higashi family on the island, and even had several transactions secretly.
"The other is the Five Islands area located in the southwest of our family, and the last one is the Amako Islands area in the Feihou. There are many pirates in these two areas, but they all lack strong tyrant coordination, which is exactly what our family can consider."
"The military advisor means that our family can place the future strategy direction in these two directions, and at the same time, they can also obtain a large number of naval troops from it?" Isono Tomosaki immediately understood.
"Not bad, but the final decision still needs to be decided by the lord." Kakukuma Shisen nodded and admitted.
"Are the Five Islands or the Amako Islands? What do you think?" Masayoro asked with a frown.
"My subordinates think that if our family Yayi Nankai and Satsuma are the ones who should control the Amankara Islands first." Yuanchongji Nobuo expressed his opinion.
"Inappropriate." Togo Heiji immediately expressed his objection, "Even if the family controls the Amako Islands, they can only rely on sea routes when marching to the southern part of Higashigo and Satsuma. However, since these two places are far away from the territory of our country, it will not only greatly increase the consumption of arms, but also easily cause the obtained territory to lose control."
"Haruzu, what about your opinion?" Seeing that the retainers were arguing about whether to attack the Five Islands or the Amako Islands first, Masara found that Arima Haruzu, who was actually the most familiar with the coastal areas, had not spoken, so he asked immediately.
Chapter completed!