The third thing that Kamiya Shaoce asked for was that he wanted to become a retainer of the Luo family.\\

For Kamiya Sakusai's request, Masashi was surprised. Although the Kamiya family is not very bullish now, a few years later, with the son of Kamiya Shaoce, Kamiya Shaozhan in charge, the Kamiya family will develop at a rapid speed, and finally become one of the three wealthy merchants of the Warring States. And it is said that the ancestors of the Kamiya family were originally the great officials of the shogunate, so the Kamiya family is very well-established. Such a future wealthy businessman suddenly asked to become a retainer of the Luo family, which somewhat made Zhengliang feel sudden.

But soon Masato found it ridiculous. The reason why he felt sudden was entirely because he knew the future development of the Kamiya family, so he preconceived that the Kamiya family was very good. But Kamiya Sausei himself doesn't know these things, in Kamiya Sause's own opinion, the current Kamiya family is just a barely counted businessman in Hakata, if you want to get greater development and status, you have to rely on the big tree. And he thinks that the Luo family is such a big tree, and it is a thriving tree, this is a good time to take refuge in the Luo family, otherwise it will be a little later, and it will not be his turn to be in the Shenwu family. So he came today, and took out the treasures treasured at home as gifts, hoping to get the Luo family's solicitation.

For such a talent, of course, Zhengliang accepted it without hesitation, and also promised to accept the son of Shenya Shaoce, that is, Shenya Shaozhan as a small surname. In addition, Masaro officially appointed Kamiya Satsuku as the commercial director of the Cabinet of Interiors, and was fully responsible for the territory's snow salt workshops and the territory's commercial affairs. At the same time, a territory of 3,000 koku was carved out in Karatsu Bay, near Kishigaku Castle, as a fief of the Kamiya family. The most rear. He also taught some of the methods of Leshi Leza to Shenya Shaoce, and asked him to go to Dongxiang Heiji to discuss it, and try to implement it in the territory.

Of course, in order to better cooperate with the intelligence work of the territory, Masara asked Kamiya Susea to temporarily conceal his identity as a retainer of the Luo family, but continued to operate in Hakata as a merchant, and then secretly cooperated with Kizo Shigetada's detectives to collect intelligence in various places.

After receiving the reward from Masayo, Kamiya Sauce immediately went to fulfill his duties. First of all, he had to find Togo Heiji first, and negotiate with him to take over the affairs of the Snow Salt Workshop and the trade of the Commander's Territory, and follow the method of the head of the family. It was agreed that measures would be taken to implement the Leshi Leza in the territory of the Roche family. The second is to find Kizo Shigetada, and discuss the matter of gathering information through the trade routes of the Kamiya family. The most important and most important thing is to immediately move the family members to live outside the city of Kishiyue, and at the same time gradually move some clansmen to live in the territory that the head of the family has given him, and even some assets will be transferred to the fief. This is not only to show loyalty to the head of the family, but also to avoid risks. After all, Hakata is full of power, and there are struggles and dangers at every moment.

After sending away Kamiya Shaoze. Masara started to get busy again. This time, he was mainly busy dealing with those wealthy families. As Zhengliang expected, seeing that his original fief was deprived, and then his relatives and clansmen were scattered, many defeated local tyrants began to rebel. Fortunately, Zhengliang had put most of the main personnel of the wealthy families with a certain strength under house arrest beforehand, so there were only a few wealthy families who made trouble.

After all, these wealthy clans only occupy the size of a small village, and their strength is limited. In the face of the overwhelming strength of the Luo family, they were crushed into powder one after another.

Of course, there are also people who are aware of current affairs. Nafu Xinjing is one such representative. As a retainer of the original Longzoji family, he later became the important minister of the old family of Longzoji Takanobu. The old ministers who helped the Longzoji family formulate national politics can see the overall situation more thoroughly. The last time the Shao Er family besieged the Longzuo Temple family, Nafu Xinjing narrowly escaped, and after the fall of the Longzo Temple family, he decisively chose to return to his own territory to live in seclusion, and even when other wealthy families united to try to take advantage of the Shao Er's strength to withdraw from Saga County, he fought with the Luo family for the territory. Under such a good opportunity, he just let the family choose to wait and see the changes, and did not act rashly.

Obviously, he saw the general trend clearly. Right now. When he received the Luo family's request for his family to move to Songpu County, although his clan was quite dissatisfied, he forcibly suppressed this dissatisfaction, not only took the initiative to cooperate with the Luo family's request, but even came forward to persuade those families who tried to resist to cooperate. He knew very well that the resistance of these families was undoubtedly beyond the reach of the praying mantis to block the car.

Masato admired Nafu Shinkyo's move to understand the current affairs, and immediately recruited him as a retainer and allowed him to take up the position of civil commissioner, so that he could assist Togo Heiji in continuing the relocation of the wealthy clan and some of the lords. As for Nafu Xinjing's family, Masashi did not break up, but divided a territory in Songpu County for Nafu Xinjing's family to resettle.

With the help of Nafu Xinjing, the work of immigrants seems to be much smoother. Many wealthy families did not resist again. For Zhengliang, he is also happy to see such a result. His original purpose was only to move these wealthy clans and their relatives out of the three counties of Ogi-gun, Saga-gun, and Kanzaki County, and to separate them from the original people. Then he added the retainers who supported the new system of the Luo family as lords, and then moved in some of the lords of other counties who supported the Luo family. This will allow for the control of new territories and the complete elimination of hidden dangers in these areas.

For those wealthy families, if they cooperate, the entire clan will be relocated to the old territory of the Luo family, and then surrounded by the territories of other retainers of the Luo family and the people who have long supported the Luo family, and finally slowly integrate into the Luo family; If they resist, not only will they be suppressed, the mastermind and their relatives will be killed, and the rest of their relatives will also be scattered and placed in the old territory of the Luo family, almost directly exterminated.

Under the carrot and stick policy, the migration is gradually on track.

It was at this time that new problems arose. The root of the problem lies in those temples. Regarding the question of the temple, first of all, I would like to talk about the situation in Nishimatsuura. Almost all of the temples in West Songpo are occupied by temples that practice Zen Buddhism, and these temples believe in benevolence and meditation, and there are no monks and soldiers. It will not occupy a large number of fields, and the most important thing is to cooperate with the law of the Luo family, even if it occupies some fields, it will pay taxes according to the law of the Luo family. Of course, this is mainly inseparable from the efforts of Master Genji, the main representative of Zen Buddhism.

However, Zen Buddhism is only prevalent in the more remote Nishimatsuura. In other areas, such as Minami Matsuura, Ojo-gun, Saga County and other areas, it is other various sects that prevail. These temples not only occupy a large amount of land, but some even have monks and soldiers. It's just a local tyrant. In addition to the temples, there are also those shrines.

These temple shrines occupy land to receive offerings. Spreading faith to the locals, and also helping to heal minor injuries and illnesses, and praying for blessings. The influence is huge, and it is a force that cannot be ignored at any time. The most famous is the Ichijo sect, who mobilized more than 100,000 people in Kaga Province to establish the so-called 'Earth Buddha Kingdom'.

In the past, it was because of the cooperation of temples and shrines, so Masara didn't worry too much, and he was happy to live in peace with them. But with the expansion of the Luo family's territory, the problem of these temples and shrines became apparent. Especially these days. There have been investigations and reports that some temples and shrines have begun to secretly incite the people. Resistance to the Roche family's immigration work.

"Hmph, these damn guys." Zhengliang said angrily.

"It seems that the time has come for these temples and shrines to have to be disposed of." Shinnosuke Akabane on the side said.

"This matter involves a wide range of issues, and I am afraid it will not be solved overnight." Kakukuma Ishimu, who knows the power of the temple shrine, said.

"I've already taken care of this." Masato was ready to say that he had already thought of a countermeasure.

At this time, the small surname Murakami Takeyoshi came in to report, and Master Genji and Master Shoki Kuaikawa asked for a meeting outside the city. Zhengliang was immediately pleasantly surprised, because in his strategy, he needed the cooperation of some authentic monks, and the arrival of the two of them just solved the matter.

So Masato immediately summoned the two masters. He then talked with them for a long day, and finally persuaded the two masters to help deal with the matter.

On the 30th day of the seventh month of the 10th year of astronomy, a group of leaders suddenly came outside the gate of a temple in Xiaocheng County, crying that the temple monks robbed the people's daughters. Just as the monks of the temple were about to forcibly drive away these vexatious lords, a group of murderous soldiers of the Luo family suddenly came, and after getting the appeal of the lords, they forcibly entered the temple. Sure enough, I found a few imprisoned folk girls there. Therefore, these soldiers did not hesitate to arrest all the monks of the temple, and those who tried to resist were directly hacked to death.

Masahiro, who learned of this, took it very seriously and went to interrogate the monks in person. But at the time of the public trial. In front of everyone, he was assassinated and attacked by several monks, although Masato escaped, but those assassinated monks also escaped. Furious, Masashi ordered a comprehensive search of all the temples in the territory, threatening to find out the real culprit.

The search first began with Ogi-gun, Saga County, and Kanzaki County, and Masashi took advantage of the newly defeated forces around the Luo family, and was busy hiding in his home to lick his wounds and had no time to take care of him, so he dispatched some guards from various cities near the border to conduct a large-scale search of the temples in these three counties.

At the same time, a large number of people suddenly began to cry to the Luo family about the crimes of those temples and even shrines, and the Luo family also found conclusive evidence after searching the family. Thus, a round of purge of temples and shrines began. Under a swift and incomparably forcible crackdown, some of the people of these monasteries were directly slaughtered, some were forcibly returned to the laity as vassals, and some disappeared since, leaving only a few monks who obeyed orders and were willing to submit.

Before the surrounding people could figure out what was going on, the temples were calm again, but the presiding officers and even the Buddha they worshipped had changed. Something similar happened at those shrines, and the people soon discovered that the original shrine priests were gone, and some new priests were replaced, or some of the more friendly priests in the original shrine became new priests.

In just half a month, the temples and shrines in Ogi-gun, Saga-gun, and Kanzaki gun have undergone earth-shaking changes.

Those people who avenged their grievances were arranged by Zhengliang, and similarly, those so-called assassins were also arranged by Zhengliang, and even the evidence of those temples was also planted by the soldiers of the Luo family when they searched it, of course, there are also many real evidences that are conclusive. Everything was designed and arranged by Masahiro himself. First use these things to mislead and confuse the surrounding people, and discredit those temples and shrines. Of course, since the influence of those temple shrines on the surrounding people has long been ingrained, the only purpose of Masarashi doing this is to temporarily divert the attention of the people and then find an excuse to enter the temple shrine.

Then it is to plant blame, and even really eliminate harm for the people. After half a month of investigation by the Luo family, they were basically able to grasp a certain amount of information and kill those who were evil, some people who were highly respected on the surface but secretly were extremely bad were secretly transferred and then killed, and some people who did not cooperate but were not extremely evil were directly forcibly returned to the common people and placed in the slave team for reform, and only those who were kind and willing to cooperate were left behind.

For temples and shrines that have lost their territory, it is common to transfer some people directly from the various Zen temples in Nishimatsuura to move into these temples and serve as new administrators. In the case of insufficient manpower, it is necessary to let some people who are willing to cooperate to preside. The disposal of the shrine is similar, but since there is no personnel to replace, I have to temporarily find some people from the shrine in Matsuura County who have surrendered to the Luo family early in the morning to serve as new priests, or simply let people who are willing to cooperate act as new priests.

As for the land of the temple shrine, it was voluntarily confiscated by the temple shrine or forcibly confiscated by the Luo family, and it was all returned to the Luo family's control.

"Two masters, I am going to practice the law of Du Mu in the territory, and in the future, whether it is a temple or a shrine, I must obtain Du Mu in order to establish temples and shrines in my own territory to preach; In the same way, monks and priests must be given degrees in order to preach in their own territory, otherwise they will be regarded as violating the law and arrested. A month later, Masara said to Genji and Saki Kuaikawa in the council hall of the village castle.

"His Royal Highness Zhengliang can make his own decisions, and the two poor monks are single-mindedly enlightened, so they won't be too involved in this matter." Master Genji said. He and Kuaikawa Shaoxi originally planned to come back to see the situation in Hizen, and then meditate on the Tao, but they encountered such a thing.

Zhengliang also knew the temperament of the two, so he only asked the two of them for two things. First, the Luo family is ready to vigorously promote Zen Buddhism in the territory, which believes in zazen enlightenment. This requires the cooperation of those Zen temples in West Songura-gun. Second, I hope that when necessary, the two of them can come forward as highly respected monks to deal with some temple affairs. In this regard, the two finally agreed.

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