Maltz you have done it again.

You show a great way to profit and expand with Mori. The opening is such a cluster.... because of so many neighbours.

I had never thought about access as an implicit agreement not to attack; bonus on top of the money you wheedled from them :)

The game does develop along similar lines each time; I used the same "support ally" dodge to attack Ouchi to save my ally Shimazu.