Naruto Millennium Building Blocks

"I order the entire army to set off!"

After an afternoon and a night of intense preparations, at dawn the next day, General Dongfang finally prepared an army of 5000 men and corresponding supplies, and marched toward the capital in a mighty manner.

Yujuro and others were riding in a carriage, marching in the center of the army with General Dongfang, His Highness and others.

While everyone was marching, they also told some interesting stories to pass the time.Thereby using their relaxed appearance to enhance the morale of our own soldiers.

Of course, Yujuro and others can not only talk about some interesting things, but also need to discuss some serious matters that should be discussed.

"General, I wonder which side the other three generals will support? What is their strength?" As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles. Yujuro also wanted to know how many people would support the Second Highness.

In fact, Yujuro should have asked this question yesterday, but Yujuro thought that their dispatch of troops today was already a foregone conclusion anyway, and it would not change in any way depending on whether the enemy was strong or not.So Yujuro didn't ask yesterday in order not to waste time, but waited until he had more time to ask.

"It's hard to say, but based on what I know about them, except for the Western General, the other two generals should remain neutral. As for the Western General, his strength is relatively average. Although he has tens of thousands of elite troops, but because of the territorial Because it is too poor, it cannot afford military expenses independently and needs to rely on additional financial subsidies every year to maintain its own army."

"So this Western general is no threat at all." Dongfang General said confidently.

"Oh? Why is the general so sure that the Western general will be our enemy? Could it be that he was bribed by the daimyo's wife with money?" Yujuro asked with some confusion.

"There is a reason for this, but it is not entirely..." Faced with Yujuro's question, and everyone present, including His Highness, did not understand why, so General Dongfang deliberately conducted a detailed explanation explain.

In addition, because the previous daimyo was still in his prime of life, less than 40 years old, His Highness, who was only [-] years old, had no preparation at all to succeed to the throne.This resulted in His Highness not knowing the specific situation of the major forces in the country at all. In other words, this was because the previous daimyo did not want him to know this information so quickly.

Therefore, it is necessary for General Dongfang to explain this information to his nephew in detail at this time, so that he will be completely blind after he succeeds to the throne, and he has no idea which forces need to be suppressed and which forces need to be won over. of.

First of all, there are the forces of the generals from the north and the south. These two forces are typical wallflowers. Whichever side is stronger will help that side.But since they don't have decisive power, these two forces really don't need to be managed.

In particular, the southern general's power has no special characteristics except for having a fleet and multiple trade fleets.And compared to domestic political struggles, the southern generals seem to prefer to conduct trade by sea and earn a lot of money.

It's just that the money earned by the southern general was used to squander it. He even said a famous saying every day: "Money, after earning it, is used to squander it, isn't it? If it is used in other places, then I would still be so Why work so hard to make money? Wouldn’t it be better to just sit at home and collect taxes?”

It can be seen that the pursuit of the southern general is somewhat unique.

The northern general is more normal and has been doing his best to build his territory and army.

.But because its foundation is so poor, it has been farming for more than [-] years and has yet to achieve anything.It can be seen that he is also a person who has more than enough ambition but not enough strength, so he can only be forced to be a wallflower.

However, there is intelligence that the Northern General seems to be colluding with the Rain Country in the north of the Kawa Country.So this is also something worthy of attention from the Northern General.

Although General Dongfang knew that these two generals were useless, they would not come out to take sides until the winner was determined.But he still sent people to ask for help from these two generals, hoping to send troops together to help His Highness succeed to the throne.

Because as long as these two parties do not send troops to help, the main hall will have reasonable reasons to trouble them after successfully succeeding to the throne.In this way, it is possible to weaken local power and strengthen the prestige of its daimyo. It is definitely a strategy that achieves multiple goals with one stone.

Of course, everything in this strategy is based on His Highness's successful succession to the throne.

To this end, the first goal of Yujuro and others is to defeat the forces of the Daimyo Lady and His Highness, as well as the forces of the Western General who are likely to become enemies.

Speaking of daimyo ladies, don't think that they got there because of their beauty.She is the daughter of a big businessman in the capital. Although she is not the richest big businessman, the merchant force in the capital to which this big businessman belongs is definitely the richest force in the Kingdom of Sichuan.

If it weren't for the lack of force in the hands of this merchant force, the master of the Kingdom of Sichuan would have been replaced long ago.

But this does not mean that these businessmen do not want to control force, or even control the power of the entire country.

Behind the coup launched by the daimyo lady, these businessmen were the driving forces behind the scenes.

And even without the intervention of the Kingdom of Wind, they will attack when the time is right.For example, Western generals receive a large amount of financial assistance from these businessmen every year to maintain their huge military strength.So it can be said that the Western General has been bribed by the Daimyo's wife.

But the reason why we can't say this is that this Western general has colluded with the Kingdom of Wind!

It's funny to say that a general specially set up to defend against the invasion of the Kingdom of Wind would actually take the initiative to have a secret conspiracy with the Kingdom of Wind. This is really the most ridiculous thing in the world.It can be seen that a person can really do anything for power.

Therefore, if the Western General really sends troops to attack Yujuro and others, it will be mainly because of the efforts of the Kingdom of Wind behind the scenes, not just because of the money.Although the money is also essential...

Of course, even if the Eastern General firmly believed that the Western General would be their enemy, he still sent someone to deliver the message, saying that he hoped that he would send troops to help His Highness succeed to the throne.The reason is the same as the reason why he sent letters to the generals of the South and North before.

In fact, due to the rush of time, even if these three generals wanted to send troops to help, time did not allow them.Therefore, the main purpose of General Dongfang is to know what their attitude is.

As for some other small forces, since they do not have the ability to influence the overall situation, General Dongfang will not elaborate on them and only briefly introduces them.

After Yujuro found out that Mrs. Daimyo had so many and powerful support behind her, he said with emotion, "How dare this orphan and widower dare to launch a coup? It turns out that there are so many people behind her." It’s because of people!”

And in Yujuro's view, the reason why the situation in the Kingdom of Sichuan is so complicated is probably because the Kingdom of Wind is behind it, fueling the situation behind the scenes.