Manure did play a great role in the cultivation of the people. And in order to collect manure, the people have reached the point where they can do everything. The "cow dung picking" introduced earlier is one of them.

The second method is a bit scary, and it is also a bit of a bit of courage and skill. This method is to "steal" pig manure.

Why "steal"?

In the absence of predators, bears and wild boars are the most ferocious animals. After all, the tigers and lions that spread from the Ming Kingdom are all things described by others, and only those who can see and touch them are fierce beasts. In the area, wild boars are the most common beasts of prey.

Don't confuse wild boars with our common domestic pigs. Not to mention this era, even in the previous life, Masahiro often heard reports about wild boars "gnawing" people. And in this era, the wild boar, as the king of the wild, is even more violent. The lords will even refer to the samurai who kill the wild boar as "pig heroes", which is almost equivalent to the Chinese "tiger heroes".

Not to mention, in this era, there are really many famous generals who became famous for killing wild boars when they were young. For example, Zhengliang is a typical example. When he first became a lord, he led a group of lords to the forest to bring a nest of wild boars. It was through the prestige of killing wild boars that Masahiro quickly established unquestionable prestige among the people. To this day, when the detectives of the territory are promoting political goodness inside and outside the Luo family's territory, the name of "pig killing hero" still can't run away.

Now, in order to collect manure, these lords actually run into the forest to find the wild boar's nest, and then steal the boar's manure from the nest. That's bold. It really feels like touching a tiger's butt.

The last way is a bit of a headache for the village head and the interior cabinet. Inside the territory, where there is the most manure? Needless to say? Naturally, it's someone else's manure cellar. As a result, it is not uncommon for manure to be stolen from the homes of the people in the village (which is considered incredible. Even in the countryside of China in the 80s. It is also very common to buy and sell manure and steal manure).

Whenever this time. As the head of the village or town in charge of civil affairs and agricultural affairs, it is the most troublesome time, and sometimes such things will even be troubled in the local internal affairs cabinet (at present, the internal affairs cabinet of the Luo family only extends to the county, and has not yet been detailed to the town or even the village).

Although the people made a lot of trouble to collect manure, in any case, in this era of chemical fertilizers, this manure did greatly increase the yield of crops.

After inspecting the fields, Masara turned to the village.

Although the use of cement and bricks has been vigorously promoted within the Luo family's domain, these things are mainly things that only wealthy families and the Luo family's retainers and samurai can afford to enjoy (this is a way for Masara to deliberately deplete their wealth). lest they have more wealth and more desires.) In the general countryside, most of the houses are still straw and mud houses.

The so-called grass mud house is to first build a few wooden pillars on the ground of the selected Lu to enclose the scope of the house, and then pile up the soil foundation on the basis of these wooden pillars, build a grass and mud board wall, and finally build a little thatch on the roof. Most of the dwellings were mud huts, with the only planks used for sliding doors, and the windows were made of sticks cut from branches. The more affluent lords lived in wooden houses.

The interior structure of the so-called wooden house is similar to that of a grass and mud house. However, the house is larger, and there are a few more planks on the ground. Some of the better conditions of the people's homes will be covered with a few tatami mats.

But whether it is a mud house or a wooden house, they all have the same characteristics on the roof. That is, all on the roof to prevent a lot of thick sticks as well as stones.

Why?

It turns out that the house with such a structure is too unstable, especially the roof. Once a typhoon blows, these roofs are likely to be swept away by the typhoon, which is why so many things are pressed on top of the roofs. But Masahiro couldn't help but think about what these people should do when there was an earthquake. Such a house must be easy to collapse. However, now it seems that such a house is also beneficial, because even if it collapses, it will not cause too many casualties, unlike a large number of tofu scum projects in a certain country in the future, and a large number of people will die in an earthquake. The most ridiculous thing is that he is still deliberately promoting those stories of saving people, but deliberately ignoring how those tofu scum projects came into being in the first place. The reality of sacrificing oneself to save others must be propagated, but some culprits cannot be let go.

In general, after several years of development, the Luo family has brought a lot of changes to the people of the territory, including a stable living environment; There was a field that only had to pay a tax to the daimyo once; Eat enough, dress warmly; Children can be raised and grow up healthy; The physical fitness of the people has also improved; Children can learn cultural knowledge for free; There is hope and hope in life. In the next step, Zhengliang hopes to improve the living environment of the people, so that at least a large number of people can live in wooden houses.

After entering the village, Masara randomly picked a courtyard and walked in. The layout of this courtyard is a bit like the courtyard of the Ming Kingdom, with a main house for living and two ear rooms for stacking houses, with a small empty space in the middle of the three rooms, and the house and the courtyard are enclosed by a simple branch fence. The purpose of these fences is not to guard against thieves, but to enclose the home-raised chickens in the hospital.

These chickens are gradually bred from the pheasants in the agricultural test manor in the backyard of the Yaman Daibun Shrine at the foot of Nodakayama. After so many years of development, the small pheasant coop has developed into a huge chicken shed with hundreds of pheasants in it. After these pheasants hatch more chicks, the Cabinet will wait until the chicks have grown to a certain extent, and then they will be transported to various parts of the territory and sold to the local people. Therefore, at this time, almost most of the lords of Hizen Province will raise a few domesticated chickens in their homes. This situation has gradually begun to spread to Chikugo and Higo provinces.

As far as Masato knows, in the territories of other daimyos, the average lord has no chickens at all, and some wealthy families may have two chickens that lay eggs at home. There is also a rooster that is used as a territorial alarm clock. Therefore, just by raising chickens, you can see the living conditions of the people in the Luo family's territory.

However, there is a situation here that makes Masashi cry and laugh. Although the people in the Luo family's territory can raise one or two pheasants. However, due to the poisoning of temples and shrines in the past, many ordinary people are now reluctant to eat meat. Therefore, even if they are weak and have a few chickens at home, they will not take the initiative to kill the chickens to make soup and eat them (it is also possible that the leaders regard these chickens as very important assets and are reluctant to eat them).

Pushing open a room (presumably the main room) at random, Masarashi discovers that the floor inside is a mud floor. The room was furnished with a wooden cabinet, a water tank, a grain tank, a few broken clay pots, and nothing else.

In the center of the room is a square pit, surrounded by wooden planks, which is supposed to be a fire pit.

This fire pit is the most important facility in the life of an ordinary household. The fire pit is usually used for cooking, lighting at night, and heating in winter, and the whole family's life at night revolves around the fire pit, and even sleeping on the wooden planks around the fire pit (so as not to sleep on the ground and fall into rheumatism).

Don't think you can use oil lamps at night instead of fire pit lighting. Not to mention that the fire oil lamp is so expensive that even the average lord may not be able to see once in his life, even half of the rapeseed oil lamp is a luxury for the average lord. Therefore, when Masahiro uses fire oil to attack the enemy's position or burn the enemy's city gates, what is burned is money.

At this time, after learning the identities of Masara and the others, the two owners of the courtyard knelt on the ground a little frightened. Masara took a closer look at the two men, and the man looked to be only about twenty years old, and the woman was even younger, estimated to be less than eighteen years old. It looks like this is a newlywed couple.

"Huh!" When he looked at the couple again, Masato couldn't help but be surprised.

"Are you from the Ming Kingdom?" (To be continued......)