"Hasn't it been successful yet?" Masarara said to himself on a small hill outside Utagaki Castle in Yoshikishiki County...

Just under Youtianyue City in front, a large number of soldiers from the Luo family were trying to land on the walls of Youtianyue City, but after climbing up the ladder, the soldiers were often pushed down by the hateful guards. They held spears and pressed hard on the chests and wooden shields of the Luo family soldiers. The elite standing soldiers of the Luo family fell clumsyly from the ladder, not to mention that the arrows in the defenders were constantly shooting at the Luo family soldiers. Although they were mostly blocked by the regular Luo family armor or the Luo family, they would occasionally penetrate the armor or shoot into the standing soldiers. As for those reserved soldiers who were generally well-equipped and peasant soldiers who did not wear any armor, the damage suffered even greater.

After joining forces with Isono Toshihara, the Luo family attacked Utayue City this time with a total of 6,000 troops, and the defenders of Utayue City were estimated to have at least 3,000 troops, most of which were forced to recruit peasant soldiers. These defenders were stubbornly resisting the attack of the Luo family's army with the terrain of the city and blocking the advancement of the Luo family's army. In this case, only the strong attack of Utayue City was to prompt the morale of the defenders in the city to decline, thereby gaining the opportunity to break the city.

For this reason, Zhengliang immediately sent the logistics team with his army to organize some peasant soldiers to cut down trees on nearby mountains, and then urgently created dozens of long ladders, and finally adopted a strong attack strategy against Youtian Yuecheng.

Of course, this city-climbing attack was mainly to allow the blasting teams of the iron cannon teams under his command to cover up. Previously, in order to fully attack Nagato, Zhou Fang, An Yi, Beihou Four Kingdoms and the waters near these areas, Masayoshi divided nine armies into different directions to conduct strategies. As the main force, Masayoshi's army concentrated all the iron cannons and gunpowder that the Luo family participated in the battle. At this time, it was time for these gunpowders to take effect.

In order to siege this time, in addition to ordering the various teams to force the attack, Masayoshi also ordered the iron artillery team to attack the city during the previous attack, and even ordered Li Huamei's giant ship who was patrolling and guarding nearby waters to sail to the nearest waters to Yudayue City, and directly fired several shots in the direction of Yudayue City.

Unfortunately, in such cold weather, the effect of iron cannons and large tubes is not good, especially the large tubes. Due to the muddy roads, they are too heavy and transported very inconvenient, which greatly hindered the speed of the march. In the end, Zhengliang led the army to land on the coast, he was forced to abandon the large tubes. The attack on the iron cannons and the firing of large tubes in various places in Li Huamei Juchuan Mountain only achieved the effect of intimidating the defenders in the city and did not have much damage. In this regard, Zhengliang decided to order the craftsman workshop staff to summarize it after he went back and improve the actual effect of gunpowder in cold and humid weather.

Now, it is precisely because of the poor effect of gunpowder. Even under the cover of the soldiers of the city, the blasting team had lit the gunpowder packs at the Dashou Gate in Yuda Yue City twice in a row, but none of them were successful. The gunpowder only emitted a thick smoke. In this case, the casualties of the soldiers who forced the city to attack were even greater, and it also attracted the attention of the defending army. At this time, the protection of the Dashou Gate had been specially strengthened to prevent the blasting team from approaching the Dashou Gate.

When attacking the Swamp City, we encountered this situation. Of course, since Swamp City is a strong city surrounded by mountains on three sides, there is only one side for the attacking party to act, and this side is still a difficult swamp, which has caused many casualties in the Luo family army. This led to Masayoro gritting his teeth and sending people to siege the Swamp City, and then taking a detour. As for the current siege environment of Yuda Yue City, it is much better than Swamp City, so Masayoro adopted the siege method of attacking. Now it depends on whether these gunpowder will disappoint him.

Finally, after some hard work, the blasting team came to the Dashou Gate of Uta Taki Castle again, and Masara was standing on the hill and watching nervously at the scene at the Dashou Gate of Uta Taki Castle.

"Boom!" With Masara's complaint, the blasting team at the Dashou Gate finally did not disappoint him. With a loud bang, the Dashou Gate of Yudagaki Castle fell down.

Everyone around, whether they were defending the city in Youtianyue City or the Luo family army who were attacking, stopped because of this loud noise.

"Kill!" At this time, Lao Isonoshi Chang, who had been waiting not far away, immediately shouted, and grabbed the horse's belly, leading the Luo family's horse riding team beside him to the gate of Yudayue City where the Dashou Gate had collapsed.

"Kill!" The Luo family army, who was attacking the walls of Youtianyue City, finally realized its momentum, and its morale rose sharply. On the contrary, the morale of Youtianyue City army, which was defending the city, was declining again and again at this time.

"Huh! Is it finally broken?" Masayora also breathed a long sigh at this time. With the breaking of the gate of Uta Yue City, the ending of the fall of this fortress was inevitable. Since then, Uta Yue City, one of the three tough guys encountered in the Luo family's strategy, was finally pulled out, and Uta Family, who intends to bear the Luo family's family, will also be exterminated (the main male will be killed, and the female family will be scattered everywhere to settle or rewarded to the meritorious soldiers).

In fact, after a little thought, Zhengliang also knew why he encountered these stubborn people in the strategy. The fundamental reason was the policy of feudal division of the Luo family's retainers.

In general, the territory in their families adopts the policy of feudalization of retainers. After they basically imparted the territory to their own retainers, the territory was completely controlled by the retainers. As the governor of the Zong family, they only collected a certain amount of tribute from these territories every year and during foreign wars, these retainers led troops to help according to the requirements of the Zong family. Such policies naturally created a large number of countries and China, resulting in the situation of lower-minded superiors. Or they caused the emergence of mountain factions in their families, resulting in mutual conflict, and eventually led to the division of the Zong family, and even annexed by other forces.

Although the policy of the Luo family's retainers' division of the clan family also enfeoffs the territory of the clan to retainers, there are big differences.

First of all, the Luo family adopted a policy of dispersing the feudal power. They tried to disperse the retainers' territories to various places (they would not enfeoff excessive territories to the retainers in one place). In order to manage these territories, the retainers had to disperse their tribesmen and their subordinates to various places to manage these territories. This prevented the retainers from gathering a large number of family forces in a fixed large territory. Under such rules, over time, due to distance, the retainers' families will gradually separate, thereby avoiding the emergence of large families in the territory.

Secondly, although retainers have the right to manage their own territory, the premise is that they must follow the laws and management systems of the Luo family. Moreover, the managers of the villages and towns in these territories can only be appointed by the relevant departments of the Luo family in the Zong family according to the laws of the territory. Although retainers can call these grassroots managers, they cannot appoint and remove these managers. That is, retainers can only have the right to manage and use the grassroots managers in their territory. However, they do not have the right to appoint and punish them. In fact, this is not only a decentralization of the power of the retainers, but also mutual supervision between the retainers and the grassroots managers.

Finally, the military authority of retainers in their own territory was also restricted. According to the current laws of the Luo family, a retainer is allowed to have up to fifteen armed retainers, and the situation of retainers and servants in the family needs to be registered separately in the Luo family Military Pavilion, Internal Affairs Pavilion and Intelligence Pavilion.

On the one hand, such a territorial feudal system retains the territorial system that conforms to this era to a certain extent, avoiding excessive conflicts with the system of this era, thus affecting the development of the Luo family; on the other hand, this territorial system has been improved and the rights of retainers are restricted. Ensure that the clan family monitors all retainers and territory.

Of course, even though Zhengliang has carefully adjusted and improved this system and tried his best to avoid conflicts within the Luo family, this system is still different from the overall system of this era, which has led to many problems.

First, just as we encountered the desperate resistance incident of the Youda family, Naito family, and Sugi family, because these families knew that the Luo family's system would greatly weaken their interests, these families were naturally unwilling to surrender to the Luo family easily. Under such a system, the Luo family will naturally be subject to resistance from many wealthy families in the future in various local strategies, and the fewer wealthy families who are willing to surrender to the Luo family will be greatly reduced.

Secondly, some outstanding talents, especially those who have enjoyed the welfare of some fiefs of daimyo, are not willing to join the Luo family. At least under the same conditions, these talents are more willing to join other daimyos. And those rich families who were defeated by the war are unwilling to surrender to the Luo family. Even if they surrender, they will have some resentment towards the Luo family's feudal system.

Third, there are certain hidden dangers in their own retainers. After all, as their own rights become greater, people's pursuit of wealth, rights, etc. becomes stronger. When the retainers who are gradually growing up see that other famous retainers can obtain greater wealth and rights than them, they will naturally develop some contrasting mentality in their hearts, which will create a negative impact on the rule of the clan, thus becoming a hidden worry of the rule of the Luo family.

Of course, Zhengliang also deliberately remedyed these situations.

First, by establishing a gradually improved internal affairs, military, intelligence and other systems, we decentralize and monitor retainers and firmly control the army. For example, establish our own talent training system (since others are unwilling to surrender, we can only train them by ourselves), we cultivate talents who thoroughly support and obey the Luo family's system from the beginning, and distribute these talents to various departments and institutions in the territory to form a system that completely supports the Luo family. After more than ten years of continuous operation, this system has been gradually completed.

Secondly, treat the grassroots leaders well, so that the leaders can be very grateful to the Luo family, and understand and support the Luo family system. The rule of the Luo family is guaranteed from the bottom. The so-called water can carry a boat and can also overturn the boat. With the continuous development of the Luo family territory, these leaders who seem like ants will occupy an increasingly large position in the rule of the Luo family, thus determining the stability of the Luo family's rule. If all the underground people are unwilling to support it, then even if the people with a large official position rise up and betray, there will be no great storm.

Finally, treat and guide retainers well. For example, increase material and territorial rewards to retainers, guide retainers to invest in other fields such as business, and seek new ** from these areas that can support the development of the territory.

Moreover, it is precisely because of the difficulties encountered at home when implementing this system, Zhengliang gradually built the foundation for this system from the moment the Luo family was established. More importantly, most of the retainers who started the Luo family and even joined the Luo family in the future were actually mainly grassroots, which avoided the emergence of various mountains and systems of retainers in the family from the beginning, thus avoiding the excessive resistance of these systems. This naturally ensured the smooth implementation of the Luo family system to a certain extent. By the time more retainers joined the Luo family's camp in the future, this system had been completely rooted. As the so-called general trend, these retainers could only take the initiative to adapt to it.

Perhaps, some people may say, could Zhengliang not be able to implement the systems followed by other daimyos at this time according to the background of this era, thereby reducing the resistance to the development of the Luo family. In fact, this practice is obviously unrealistic, because by that time, many hills had already formed in the family. When Zhengliang was preparing to implement these systems again, he would encounter a lot of resistance and even be rebelled. In this case, it would be better to implement them firmly from the beginning and leave those who are willing to accept the new system, and those who are unwilling to accept will be blocked outside the door.

Of course, the above systems are just an attempt made by Zhengliang. Even Zhengliang himself does not know whether such a system can adapt to this era more well and achieve success. Everything depends on the final result and the judgment of future history.

However, in Masarara's view, in the Warring States Period, those conservative daimyos would only lead to the decline of the family. The most prominent representatives were Echizen's Hankura family. Those families who were brave enough to innovate would have different developments, such as the Hojo family, Takeda family, Oda family, and even the Maori family that was defeated by the Luo family.

Looking at the entire history of the Warring States Period, in fact, all the famous and powerful are evolving towards the process of centralization. It is only in this process that each family has its own characteristics.

Among these families, the most slow-moving Hankang family in Echizen. The family has always been using the old family system, that is, the family voting system. The rights of the family are controlled by the relatives in the family. These relatives are in conflict with each other, which greatly hinders the development of the family and greatly restricts the right of the family governor.

A few years ago, the Kyoto Ashikaga shogunate was gradually weakening, and the Hosokawa family, which controlled the Kyoto sphere of influence, was in a civil strife and fought with the Miyo family. It was the best opportunity for the Han Gang family to extend its power to the Kyoto area, but the Han Gang family was wasted in vain.

As for the centralization of home supervision at home, we naturally have to be the Maori family, Takeda family, Hojo family and the Oda family in the future.

The Maori family and the Takeda family are roughly the same type. Both under the operation of the powerful family governor, they gradually form a major system of power in their homes. Then the family governor operates the entire family by mastering these systems. For example, the Maori family's Nikawa system and the Takeda family's Nikawa system.

But such a system actually has its drawbacks. This will easily cause these systems to form different mountains. Once these systems lose the suppression of powerful family governors, it will become a hidden danger in the family. This is the most prominent example of the Maori family's two Sichuan system beginning to be divided after Maori Yuan died in history.

The Hojo family started to control the family's power from the bottom. With the efforts of Hojo Saiyun and Hojo Nobuyashi, the Hojo family helped to control the situation of the wealthy families below through a series of internal affairs systems, and calmly started from the bottom to gradually control the overall rights of the family.
Chapter completed!