The drought that lasted from the beginning of the year to the end of August finally came to an end in a light rain in early September.

However, the sequelae of the drought broke out completely at this time. Due to the drought for months, the people of various countries were unable to plough spring, and the continuous wildfires also caused many people to lose their homes and become refugees. With the arrival of the autumn harvest, due to the large-scale poor harvest, the grain reserves in the family of the people were almost exhausted, so the number of people who were short of clothing and food increased. These people suddenly became problems that all the powerful names need to deal with immediately.

As Masayoshi, Fengqian and Fenghou countries, which Masayoshi, had been paying attention to, also encountered such problems. They originally planned to jointly launch an attack on the Luo family after the spring plowing this year, but they encountered such a drought. In order to ensure the spring plowing of the territory and the autumn harvest this year, and it was also inconvenient to fight in such a drought, they had to suspend their attacks on the Luo family.

However, the suspension of their attack on the Luo family did not mean that Zhengliang planned to let them go. Although the Luo family's territory also suffered from drought, the good water conservancy facilities in some areas and the previous savings of the territory could fully support the Luo family to launch a large-scale strategy during this period.

For safety reasons, Zhengliang also specially found many retainers to evaluate the impact of the territory's internal affairs in the southeastern part of Fengqian Kingdom and the northeastern part of Fengqian Kingdom. The conclusion was that even if the drought continued next year, the territory's autumn harvest income could still support the daily operation of the territory. Even if this battle lasted for a year, it could still be supported, but the territory's reserve materials would probably be consumed.

After reaching this conclusion, Zhengliang gritted his teeth and decided to do it directly. This drought caused chaos within the southeastern part of Fengqian Kingdom and the northeastern part of Fengqian Kingdom. It was a favorable opportunity for the Luo family to take the lead, and Zhengliang did not intend to let it go anyway.

Since he was planning to take action, Masara immediately secretly ordered the Internal Affairs and Military Master to prepare for the relevant preparations for the troops. He discussed with the retainers of the Intelligence Bureau headed by Kanasuke Yamamoto to discuss a series of strategies for the wealthy families in the southeast of the Fengqian Kingdom and the northeast of the Fengqian Kingdom. These strategies are mainly as follows:

First, Masarara wrote several letters of local powerful families, including the Sugi family, the Usa Omiya Shi family, the Otomo family, the Yoshien family, the Takeda family, the Tori family, the Tahara family, the Naito family, the Mufu family, and the Tianbei family. The letters would mention the fact that they formed an alliance with the Luo family alone.

This letter will definitely not be sent to the target family with great fanfare. On the contrary, it will enter the territory of other wealthy families near the target family in a secret way, and then pretend to be lost unintentionally to allow other wealthy families adjacent to the target family to obtain this letter. Anyway, the effect is to make these wealthy families know that the neighboring wealthy families are likely to have a secret relationship with the Luo family.

Although these wealthy families may not believe the contents of these letters, in this era, even brothers, fathers and sons may not believe it, so they must not be careful. Therefore, Zhengliang's plan seems to be a conspiracy, but in fact it is an open conspiracy that has to deceive the wealthy families.

With these letters alone, these wealthy families had to suspicion and guard against each other. In this case, when the Luo family invaded the local area later, these wealthy families could not unite to resist with mutual trust, achieving the purpose of differentiating these wealthy families.

Secondly, the Luo family began to send smugglers pretending to be passing through the Luo family's water defense line and began to sneak into the local area to buy food and other supplies. Since the Luo family defeated the Shan family's army in Songshan City, and the Shan family's naval army was taken advantage of the opportunity to be incorporated by Tao Longfang, the protection of the Shan family's naval army has been within the attack range of the Luo family's naval army from the coast of Oto's family in the northeast of Fenghou Kingdom to the southeast of Fengqian Kingdom. It was not until last year that the Luo family's naval army had completely blocked the maritime trade in these areas. It is estimated that the other party is in urgent need of various supplies now.

Although local wealthy families may not be willing to sell materials such as grain, there will always be some stupid people who will be deceived by the temptation of money and other materials. Moreover, Fengqian Kingdom has always been the largest copper mineral output area in Jiuzhou. In addition to copper mines, there are also minerals such as gold mines and sulfur in the southeast of Fengqian Kingdom. During this period, it is estimated that due to the surrounding trade routes blocked by the Luo family, they have accumulated a lot of minerals to store. Under the temptation of interests, they will have to trade. The Luo family's detective happened to pretend to trade with them and asked them to start transporting these materials to the beach, which led to the need for these wealthy families to waste their own materials (such as grain). As a result, after arriving at the beach, they got the result of people leaving the boat.

Of course, the main purpose of these detectives entering the local area is to spread rumors in various places. The content of the rumors is very simple, that is, there is food distribution in the adjacent Luo family territory. As long as you join the Luo family, there will be food, fields, and even places where you live.

After local refugees who were short of clothing and food and could not survive this winter learned the news, they could imagine the consequences that would be caused. A large number of refugees would inevitably lead their families to the border checkpoints bordering the various wealthy families and the Luo family territory.

At this time, the local tycoons will face a difficult choice. To retain these tycoons, they can only take out the food in their own territory to provide disaster relief, but this will consume a lot of their food. Once the Luo family army arrives in the future, even if they hide in the city, due to insufficient food, they will probably have to open the city to surrender sooner or later. In the final analysis, they will not be able to fight a protracted war.

If you don’t open the warehouse and release grain, and then forcibly intercept these refugees, it will definitely cause conflicts with these refugees, and will even inspire these refugees to resist and become mobs in the territory. Then the local wealthy families will have a headache.

As for letting all these refugees go, it is impossible, because all the leaders have been exposed, and they will go there to mobilize peasant soldiers in the future! Moreover, these people will definitely cause chaos in the area when they go to the border of the territory. If the Luo family takes the opportunity to send troops, it will be troublesome.
Chapter completed!