Shengri Xunfang Surabayashore,

The boundless scene is new.

Waiting for leisure to know the east wind side,

Thousands of purples and thousands of reds are always spring.

Masayoshi and his entourage walked through the countryside and mountain roads, and along the way, the ground was full of sprouts of grass and wild flowers in the mountains. A little further away are some trees. These trees are tender, green, and have begun to glow green, and the branches are full of green leaves and buds. Some of the little birds were singing merrily and jumping around on their branches.

"Lord, look there." At this time, Togo Heiji's cheerful voice came from beside him. When Zhengliang heard this, he immediately felt strange, what could make this old and serious family so surprised? So he looked in the direction that Togo Heiji was pointing.

I saw that a piece of mountain land not far away was neatly planted with rows of trees. These trees are supposed to be of the same species, and looking at the traces of cultivation in the mountains, it is clear that these trees are a crop of local farmers. But what kind of plants are these?

"Cotton, lord, these are cotton trees." Togo reminded with a look of emotion.

"Oh! By the way, it's cotton. Masato finally saw it at this time. No wonder he had always felt that this tree had a somewhat familiar look. After realizing the role of cotton in the territory industry and people's lives, Masara spent a lot of money to continuously import cotton seeds and saplings from the Sanhe region of the Wa Kingdom and the Ming Kingdom. After nearly seven years of promotion, cotton cultivation has become a cash crop for the local people of Hizen, Chikugo and Higo. Since cotton is a strategic material. Therefore, for the time being, it can only be sold to the internal affairs cabinet of the Luo family. And because the price of the Cabinet is relatively high. The land for planting doesn't need to be too fertile (the more fertile the land, of course, the better). But the people live on food, and the fertile fields are naturally the priority for growing food), and on the premise of not affecting their food cultivation, many people are also willing to take the initiative to plant them.

Of course, in order to increase the planting area, the Cabinet also organized some slaves to be responsible for the cultivation of cotton in some mountainous areas. Today, dozens of cotton groves have been formed in Hizen Province, Chikugo Province, and Higo Province. When the cotton is in full bloom, it becomes a beautiful sight to stop and see.

Along the way for the next leg of the journey. Masara also discovered groves of small saplings such as lychee, camphor, iron chestnut, pine, cedar, and nanshu.

These groves are planted in mountainous areas that cannot be cultivated for farming. Masato even saw that many of the people were carrying water from nearby to the mountains to water the saplings.

Under the introduction of Togo Heiji, Masayo remembered what was going on. It turned out that it all happened because of a decision he made a few years ago.

Obviously, these trees are not the same as the cotton that we have seen before that is planted exclusively in deliberately cultivated mountain soil. These trees cannot be called economic plants for the time being. They were specially ordered to be planted by Masato for the sake of the resource reserve of shipbuilding materials in the future of the territory.

These saplings are important tree materials for the manufacture of ships, and now they are planted, and after a decade, many trees can be cut down and used as shipbuilding materials. It was based on this consideration that Masato had a large number of such tree seeds collected in the local area of the Wa Kingdom, and even entrusted the Ming merchants to transport the seeds of the trees from the Ming Kingdom to the Luo family's territory for planting.

And the method of encouraging the people to take the initiative to plant these trees is also very simple, and the method of contracting is adopted, and some of the mountainous areas belonging to the daimyo (Luo's family law is stipulated. All the resources such as mountains, forests, trees, minerals, and rivers in the territory belong to the Luo family) are contracted to some local lords, and then the seeds or saplings of various trees are distributed to these lords. The leader is then responsible for planting the trees until they reach the height of one person, and when the contract is over, the Cabinet will pay the agreed remuneration to the people according to the growth of the saplings.

It is also very simple for the people to take care of these saplings, after the saplings have sprouted and grown, they can come regularly to water and weed to ensure that the trees grow naturally. Of course, the faster these saplings grow into one-person tall saplings, the shorter the time for the people to receive their rewards, so in order to complete the task of this hill as soon as possible to receive the task of planting on another hill, they will often take care of these saplings very carefully, and even apply some fertilizer to them to make them grow quickly.

In fact, many retainers were extremely puzzled by the sudden order of the lord to plant those seemingly useless tree species. It's just that they also know that the purpose of Zhengliang is to reserve resources for the future development of the territory on the one hand, and to protect the environment on the other hand.

Although most of the Wa country is a mountainous forest area, and the local productivity level is not high, there are many mountain forests and trees. However, with the continuous development of the territory, a large number of mountain forests have been reclaimed as fields, and some mountain forests have been cut down as firewood and ash fertilizer for the daily life of the people. Planting these reserve trees in deforested areas also protects the local environment and avoids the loss of territory.

"My lord, there's Maeda Village ahead." At this time, a farmer who had temporarily asked the town head of the town to lead the way cautiously ran over to report.

"So it's here!" When he saw this village, Masahiro couldn't help but muttered to himself.

As soon as he saw the ridge at the back of the village, Masayo remembered the origin of the village. Originally, there was a checkpoint on the ridge behind the village, which directly blocked the connection between the mountain castle of Kishidake and the plain of Iliwanzato, and it was occupied by a small family of the Maeda family, who were retainers of the Iliwan family. Later, the wealthy clan perished in the conflict between the Hakata, the Matsuura family, and the Luo family, and even the village where the wealthy clan was originally located was burned down, and after occupying the Imari Bay Plain area, Masara ordered the village that had lost its home to move here in order to appease the local people as soon as possible, but I didn't expect that seven or eight years had passed. The village has grown into a village of hundreds of people.

"Standstill? Who are you? Just as Masashi and the others were walking quickly towards the village, a loud shout came down from a tree. (To be continued......)