In the morning, he went to Kishitake Mountain Castle to pay a private visit to the castle town, and after arresting Mei Ji and Nohime, the two troublemakers, back to the city and putting them under house arrest, in the afternoon of the same day, Masara fell into a busy territory affair again.

The next morning, there was a light wind outside, and even a drizzle, and the weather looked gloomy. It's just that the sky is just dawning, but Masahiro dragged up his body, which was tired all night last night, and began to dress up and prepare to set off under the service of the maid. Before leaving the bedroom, he secretly glanced at Kikuhime, who was still hiding in the quilt and couldn't sleep, and Masarashi smiled happily. The two of them were entangled in death last night, and it is estimated that Ju Ji is overworked, so she can't get up for a moment today.

After breakfast, Masara began to walk towards the mountains near Kishiyama Castle under the escort of everyone. Today he is going to inspect the workshops in the mountains.

Riding out of the gate of Kishigakuyama Castle, he rode out of the black for 100 miles, and what appeared in front of Masato was a marching avenue that could accommodate ten war horses side by side. The avenue is mainly paved with the unique cement raw materials of the Luo family, although it is not as smooth as in later generations, and even the road shows a lot of pebbles mixed in the mud during the mud making process, but compared to other daimyo domestic mud avenues, it is much better.

At this time, the marching roads in the territory of Hizen Province and Chikugo Province, which were first occupied by the Luo family, were already quite developed, and they were all paved with these inferior cement materials. The Higo country has almost completed the laying of the marching avenues in most of the country, and it is expected that by the end of the next year, a network of marching avenues will be formed there in all directions. Only the newly occupied Chikuzen Kingdom and the Fenggo Kingdom were due to the fact that the Luo family did not have much food reserves at this time. The paving of the marching road will not begin until at least after the autumn harvest this year.

The completion of the system of marching avenues extending in all directions in the Luo family's territory. Militarily. It is conducive to the rapid movement of the Luo family's army and the transportation of logistics materials, reducing the consumption caused by road reasons on the way, and allowing the daimyo's decrees to be quickly conveyed to all corners of the territory.

In terms of intelligence, it is conducive to the acceleration of the intelligence transmission speed of the Intelligence Pavilion, and it is also conducive to the Intelligence Pavilion's surveillance of various parts of the territory. Moreover, it also avoids the impassability of the roads, which leads to the self-contained territory of the retainers of the wealthy families in various places, hindering the rule of the Luo family.

In terms of economy, it is conducive to the movement and exchange of people from all over the world, and promotes the integration and unification of culture; It also facilitates the daily transportation of materials for the people and the commercial houses. The development of the territorial economy has been accelerated. Moreover, because the road promotes the opening of the territory, there is no secret in each territory, and invisibly, these people who enter and leave from various territories have become "detectives" who monitor the situation of various territories for the Luo family.

It can be said that after the Luo family's unremitting expansion of the network of marching avenues over the past ten years, a complete road system has now been formed in Hizen and Chikugo provinces. In the next step, Masahiro planned to connect the roads between Kishidake Mountain Castle, Village Castle, and Gibu Castle, and build a wide marching main line from east to west in the Luo family's territory. Then, with this main road as the center, the route of the marching avenue began to spread around the territory. The result is a well-distributed and well-connected network of roads within the Roche family's territory.

In the early morning in the rain, there are not many people on the marching avenue outside the castle of Kishidake Mountain, so the route is quite quiet.

When you walk out of the town, the surrounding area suddenly seems empty, and within a few hundred meters of the two sides of the avenue are freshly planted fields of green rice.

Baili Hei in the front of the road also suddenly became cheerful, and the hooves of the horses nailed to the iron hooves under their feet "da-da-da" sounded a cheerful song on the road. Previously, because Masahiro's other Nanban war horse "Lightning" had been following Masato for a long time, in order to let Lightning get a reasonable rest, Masara had to cancel yesterday's punishment of Baili Hei and reuse it as the nearest mount.

Baili Hei obviously knew that the owner of the Dao would take it around again, so he was also very excited. Today, for the first time, it did not use "invisible hooves" to attack other warhorses that were close to it. Let Masahiro's side, Ahri, Feiduan and others, who are also riding war horses to protect Masahiro, be able to guard Masahiro in the center more reasonably and strictly.

The procession made its way and stopped at the foot of the mountain at the entrance to the mountain range where the workshops were located, where Masari first inspected the paper mills that had been built there.

At present, there is only one paper mill located here in the Roche family's territory. There are also a large number of bamboo forests and a large number of mountain streams, which is indeed the most suitable place to build a paper mill.

Due to the large number of craftsmen and workshop workers who were collected here, which also led to their families moving to live and settle in the vicinity of this area, a village of hundreds of people has been formed near the paper workshop at this time. The nearby lords generally call this village a paper village.

The reason why it is called so by other lords is not only because the only paper workshop in the Luo family's territory is here, but also because it is also the largest paper trading and distribution place in the Luo family's territory. In this village, you can not only see the two largest commercial houses in the Luo family's territory, the Luo family house controlled by Masaara's wife, and the temporary station of the god house controlled by the god house. You can also see the stationing of small commercial houses in various places that have been popping up due to the laws issued by the Luo family to encourage local residents to conduct commercial activities independently.

After nearly eight years of development (the time of the establishment of the paper factory), this paper mill, which was tightly controlled by the Cabinet of the Interior, has developed into a large paper mill with more than 100 craftsmen and workers. The paper it produces is generally divided into three kinds: yellow paper, white paper and fine paper, yellow paper is commonly used by the general people, and it is also the paper used for teaching in the territory of the university, because the price is cheap, and the quality is much better than the paper sold by other commercial houses outside the territory of the Luo family, so these yellow paper is the most widely used paper in the territory of the Luo family, and it has penetrated into the daily life of the people. With the spread of this cheap and high-quality yellow paper, it also changed the situation that most of the people did not look at the paper until they died.

Blank paper is a common paper used as the official body of the territory, the wealthy and wealthy people in various places, and even the wealthy people. Because both the price and the quality are better than the same white paper flowing into the Luo family's territory from abroad, these white papers have also become the only popular white paper in the Luo family's territory.

The last type of fine white paper (referred to as fine paper) was only used by the daimyo mansions and some important institutions of the Luo family (such as the Intelligence Pavilion and the Interior Cabinet). These fine papers are of better quality than white paper. Almost with a touch of your hand, you can tell whether it is fine paper or white paper. Furthermore. The fine paper is printed with coherent Arabic numerals and page numbers in English using Roche's unique printing technique. Since only the Roche family has mastered this printing technique and special numbers in English (other daimyo will definitely not know this technique and special Arabic numerals and English letters). So this can be regarded as the Roche family's secrecy measure for this kind of paper.

Why is this paper so closely kept secret? Because these papers are specially used by the Roche family for issuing orders, transmitting information, and carrying out special management and other related work.

In order to reduce the loss of income in the transportation process of these territories, these retainers and wealthy families are accustomed to directly converting their income into grain or coins and then storing them in the local internal cabinet. The advantage of this is that, on the one hand, it reduces the consumption of the retainers' income lost due to transportation, and on the other hand, it allows the Interior Cabinet to rationally allocate local resources and use these resources for territorial construction in a timely manner. At this time, the Cabinet of the Interior played almost the role of a bank in later generations.

When a retainer or wealthy family deposited their income with the Interior, the Cabinet would leave a record of their own receipts in triplicate for themselves, their retainers or nobles, and the local lords who paid the taxes. The lord held such a record as proof that the tax had been paid. With such a record, the retainers or wealthy families can withdraw their income deposited in any of the internal affairs cabinets within the Luo family's territory. The internal affairs cabinet institutions in various parts of the Luo family paid the money and food needed by the retainers according to their own records. In the event of a discrepancy in the records, the documents of the internal cabinet, the retainers or wealthy families, and the local lords can be compared to distinguish between the real and the fake, and the perpetrators can be severely punished.

But how can we prevent the occurrence of fraud? At this time, the role of fine paper is revealed.

When making fine paper, the paper mill designed it specifically for the situation of the local Cabinet (of course, this was mainly designed using the advice provided by Masari himself).

Every time the retainer's income is deposited, it is faced with a fine paper of records in triplicate. The printed page numbers on these three sheets of fine paper will be regular. The page numbers of the three identical sheets of fine paper are set to represent the local country, county, and the corresponding transactions. For example, the code for Hizen Province is "01" (and the code for Chikugo Province is "02"), the code for Matsuura-gun, the first county is "010A" (and the code for Mihara-gun, the first county of Chikugo Province is "020A"), which is the tenth business of this type in Hizen. The corresponding is the tenth copy of the business paper, and the code is "10". Eventually, the printed page number of this fine paper will be "01010A10". In contrast, even if it is also the tenth business in Chikugo Province, its page number will be "02020A10".

The page numbered paper for the country of representation will only appear in the country of representation and will not appear in other regions. After the paper is manufactured, it will be transported by the personnel of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs and the Intelligence Cabinet on the spot, and then it will be distributed according to the region after it has been registered in both institutions. Moreover, with the codes on these papers, it is also convenient for the two institutions to archive and manage these materials. If there is a problem, you can quickly search for it.

If a foreign force intends to forge these certificates, specially trained local Cabinet officials (usually retired and graduates of Roche University) can distinguish the authenticity from the quality of the paper, the technique of printing, the code printed, and the handwriting on the certificate.

As for the domestic, it is through the dual supervision and supervision of the Intelligence Cabinet and the Interior Cabinet, as well as the surprise of the fine paper printing code, to strictly control the production and flow of these fine papers.

In the same way, using the code printing technique on fine paper, these fine papers have been widely used in territorial orders, intelligence and other affairs. To a certain extent, the situation of territorial orders and information being counterfeited has been eliminated.

In addition to the manufacture of three types of paper, the Modified Paper Workshop is also responsible for printing books for various types of territory, and even accepts reservations from merchant houses to print books for merchant houses. In addition to providing these papers and books for internal use in the territory, some of the commonly used paper and books are sold abroad through merchant houses such as the Kamiya House after being approved by the Interior and Intelligence Cabinets. Earn foreign exchange for the Roche family.

It can be said that this paper mill, in addition to meeting the needs of paper and books in the territory, also plays a role in spreading the culture and ideas of the Luo family inside and outside the territory, and earning money and food. (To be continued......)