Monobe Murashita arranged everything properly in Belle Village in just six days. After all, this city is just a city of more than 20,000 people.
After that was done, Mononobe Murakata began to move in the next direction. He was not in a hurry. If other nearby clans wanted to come and attack him, then they would come.
If they don't come, Mononobe Murashita will pass by.
Belle City's Destruction Department Murakata didn't know if the news had been passed on, but he was not afraid. He knew nothing about the situation in Japan.
After capturing Belle City, Mononobe Murakata immediately divided his troops into three groups to attack three cities that were similar in size to Belle City at the same time.
For these cities whose total number of soldiers is only a few hundred, if they are divided into three rounds and still have 3,000 fully armed soldiers, they are invincible.
Moreover, the walls of these cities were not high. Three thousand soldiers started attacking the city with ladders from all directions, and they rushed up in almost one round.
Because hundreds of soldiers really can't defend it.
After the three new cities were captured, Monobe Murakata directly followed the same method and performed the same direct operations. In less than half a month, Monobe Murakata ruled nearly 100,000 people under his name, almost the entire country. One-twentieth of the Japanese country is there.
The point is, Mononobe Murakata's behavior of turning over the table made the people's hearts win over at an almost terrifying speed. For such a nobleman who does what he says, these people certainly don't believe other nobles.
It would be fine if this nobleman did not have enough troops, but he had enough troops in his hands, and they far exceeded the strength of all other powerful clans around him. Of course, they had high hopes.
What should you do if you have expectations? Of course, I hope he can win the battle, when he knows that Mononobe Murashita continues to march, and the food they need for their march starts to be transported from the dock near Belle City.
Many people from these four cities came over to help deliver food.
Naturally, Monobe Murakata would not object to such behavior, but free help was not needed. He only needed to pay the bill with food.
And there is no need to provide too much food. For these people, they can only sit around in winter and have no work to do. The most they can do is get some wood or find some prey.
But these are uncertain.
And now they are offering to help deliver food for free, and their owners are actually giving them back? Is there such a good thing in the world? What are you waiting for? Give it away!
The grain shipped from the Tang Dynasty may be a bit expensive, but when Monobe Village captures a noble, there will naturally be grain depots, and it is enough to retain part of these grain depots.
The rest has been distributed, just say it has been distributed, and ordinary people naturally don’t know.
And this part is used directly to hire them, which is perfect.
When Mononobe Murashita captured the tenth castle, he almost controlled the entire Chikushi Island (Kyushu Island)! Because among the current Japanese countries, Akitsu Island, the largest among them, has the largest population, with about 1.2 million people.
The combined population of Chikushijima Island and Niinajima Island (Shikoku Island) is almost more than one million, of which Chikushijima Island is approximately close to 700,000, and Niinajima Island has approximately more than 300,000 people.
The population on Hokkaido is almost negligible, probably only tens of thousands.
Among the ten cities, the total population controlled by Monobe Village is close to 400,000, and the land area controlled by them exceeds 60%. There are only about four remaining cities, the largest of which has a population of nearly 100,000.
The other three cities combined have less than 200,000.
As for controlling most of the territory, Monobe Murakata basically didn't care much. Again, he just distributed the land and then selected suitable people to serve as officials temporarily so that they could manage these people.
These people don't have much to do in a short period of time. In order to maintain their current living conditions, they will stay calm for a long time.
Mononobe Murakata is very understanding.
After the land, food, etc. are completely distributed, these people will have accepted this way of governance. When others want to change back, it will be too late.
Because once you give some things to them, they will subconsciously think that these things are their own.
If you rob them again, you are robbing their money and their lives. They will definitely resist.
And this kind of heart will continue to change and strengthen as time goes by.
How can the remaining clans compete with Mononobe Murakata? Even his measures and behaviors are not only within the area he rules, but have actually spread throughout Kyushu Island.
At least now when Monobe Murakita marches, the local people do not resist at all, and silently make way for him. And those clans that rule these people, what they can produce are the soldiers they have always controlled and trained.
And how many are these soldiers?
If Mononobe Murakata wants to rule, forget it. He needs to constantly disperse his troops to protect various places. But he is not ready to rule at all, so Mononobe Murakata does not need to disperse his troops at all.
As for the cities under his name, if they want to fight back, they can fight back. The cities were burned down by Mononobe Murashita long ago. Before they were completely burned, the main buildings were almost burned, and there was nothing left at all. And in Around the city, the people were allocated their own land.
It's winter now, what's the use of taking back the land? It won't be useful until tomorrow's spring anyway.
And there are no soldiers from Monobe Village in these places. Is it possible that they just waved their swords at the common people? Therefore, they could only be attacked by Monobe Murakata, but they had no way to attack the core position of Monobe Murakata.
Because he has no core position, his army is the core. If you want to attack, just come.
There are 10,000 fully armed soldiers. For the entire Kyushu Island, it is impossible to find so many soldiers together, not to mention that the gap in weapons and equipment between the two sides is really too big.
Looking at the largest city in the entire Chikushi Island, Mononobe Murashita said calmly: "Makura, do you think the Nakatomi family that controls this city is anxious at this time? Or is he ready to resist us? The army?"
Makura shook his head slightly: "All they can do is to unite all the clans on Tsukushi Island, but if they transport soldiers from Akitsu Island and Nimei Island, it will be too late. What's more, our ships are always in the waterways over there. blockade."
"No, they still have a choice." Mononobe Murakata said with a smile.
"What choice?" Makura was stunned for a moment.
"Surrender, or what to say." Mononobe Murakata said calmly.
