Chapter 705: Slave Farm
At the foot of Notaka Mountain, in addition to the above-mentioned places such as merchant houses, brick houses, crops unique to the Luo family, large markets, artisan workshops, recruiting offices, commissioning offices, recruit training camps, and pastures, the three places that are actually more familiar to the people in other parts of the Luo family's territory are the Hero Cemetery, Chunghyosa Temple, and Hachiman Daisutsu Shrine.
The Heroes' Cemetery, as a cemetery for all the soldiers who died in battle for the Luo family, is a large number of people who come to pay their respects every year. And the internal affairs cabinets of the Luo family in various parts of the country will also regularly organize the boy scouts in their respective areas to visit the graves here. As a daimyō, Masayo would regularly lead his retainers to come to worship every year.
In addition, due to the large number of people who come to pay respects, and the unique stone monument landscape in the cemetery, this reason has attracted a large number of tourists from all over the Luo family to visit. For a time, this cemetery with a mountain of stone monuments became the most mysterious and attractive place in the Luo family's territory.
Zhongxiao Temple, as the ancestral temple of the Luo family, enshrines the statue of Masayo, and also enshrines some special objects of the Luo family, such as the mobile phone that Masayo carried when he came here, the old man's head (a 100-yuan coin) that was used as a rare picture scroll, the famous sword Yoshioka Ichi, which was used by Masayoshi but has cracked, and even the "History of the Luo Family" that records the events that have happened since the beginning of the Luo family, etc. This is the most sacred and solemn place in the Luo family's territory.
In addition to being the temple of the Luo family, it is also the location of the Luo family's medical school. The three masters of medicine, Michizo Qu Naase (this guy is still studying the cold medicine that has long expired in Masaara), Xuanru, and Xuanji, are settling here, and they are studying medicine while treating patients here.
In order to retain these talents. On the one hand, Zhengliang sent people to various parts of the country to search for medical classics. On the one hand, he entrusted Wang Hai and other Ming merchants to bring back a lot of Ming medicine classics from the Ming Kingdom. to provide for these masters to study. At the same time, it also provides them with a large number of herbs from all over the world as their research resources.
As a price for these treatments, these masters were not only responsible for teaching some of the students provided by the Luo family's internal cabinet to learn medical skills and be responsible for planting and managing the Luo family's exclusive medicine garden, but also regularly visiting various parts of the Luo family's territory to solve the problems of the people.
After the official opening of the Roche School in Hizen Country, it will also become a branch of the Roche School of Medicine, cultivating more medical talents for the territory and improving sufficient medical security for the military strength of the Roche family and the general people.
Furthermore. In addition to serving as a medical school, the temple is also a place of house arrest for special guests, and it is currently home to the Otomo family's Roji Kanren (Tachibana Michiyuki) and the Otomo family's second son, Otomo Haruei (Ouchi Yoshinaga). According to the report of Black Hawk, who was in charge of placing them under house arrest, the two men are currently living a peaceful life here and have not made any changes.
As for the Hachiman Great Bodhisattva Shrine near Chungkoji Temple, it is one of the most mysterious shrines in the territory of the Luo family. The statue of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman in the shrine is carved with the appearance of Masarashi as a reference, and the statue of the goddess next to the statue of the Great Bodhisattva of Hachiman is carved according to the appearance of Matsumiko.
At the beginning, in order to promote the new crop of sweet potatoes and establish prestige in the hearts of the people, Masato shamelessly pretended to be a god and a ghost here, making the harvest here a miracle. Since then. This is regarded by the people as a place where miracles can be performed and fulfilled in the territory.
Later, I didn't know who it was, and it was said that as long as I visited the statue of the god and goddess in this shrine. You will be able to have more children and be blessed with a healthy family. As a result, people from all over the territory come here every year with their families to pay homage to the idols, some praying for the gods to bless their fields with a good harvest, and others praying for the well-being of many sons and daughters. Over time, it became a sacred place of worship within the Luo family's territory.
It is precisely because of the various miraculous features of Chunghyosa Temple and Hachiman Bodhisattva that they have been preserved in the continuous historical trend of washing up in the future, and have become local places of interest for hundreds of years.
Under the protection of the guards around him, Masayo's team finally passed through the growing crowd of leaders and arrived at the last stop of the inspection, the slave farm at the foot of the wild high mountain.
This farm originated from a small garden that Masayo used to grow various experimental farming. After ten years of continuous expansion, it has become a large farm covering an area of more than 200 acres. And the people who are responsible for the operation of the farm are basically slaves from the slave team of the Luo family.
At present, there are more than 8,000 slaves in the Luo family's territory. These slaves include prisoners of war who are hostile to the Luo family, as well as criminals whose territory has been reduced to slavery status because of the triggering of the Luo family's law. Due to the large number of these slaves, in order to facilitate management, basically every country will have a fixed number of slaves stationed in the local area.
Generally speaking, these slaves were mainly responsible for building the marching roads in the Luo family's territory and demolishing the fortresses left behind by the wealthy clans in various places. However, with the gradual development of some areas (such as Hizen Province, Chikugo Province, and Higo Province), the main local marching roads have been built, and the redundant fortresses have been demolished, while the construction of roads, the construction and maintenance of water conservancy facilities, and the reclamation of fields in the general villages can be completed by the Cabinet of Internal Affairs to organize local subjects to carry out paid forced labor. At this point, the role of these slave caravans became less important (at least there was no longer a need for so many slaves to build roads, etc.). So how to settle these slaves became a problem.
It is impossible to release them directly. Many of them were die-hard members of hostile forces, and if released, they would have a negative impact on the territory. Moreover, if those criminals who were reduced to slavery for violating the laws of the territory were released, it would affect the prestige of the laws of the territory in the hearts of the people.
After much thought, Masara finally decided to establish a slave farm to house these slaves. Concentrate all the slaves who usually perform well in the slave ranks or who are about to be released after accumulating military merits into these slave farms, and do some relatively light farm work on the farms. The slaves who did not perform well remained in their original stations, continuing to do heavy work such as building marching roads and salvaging infrastructure damaged by various natural disasters, in order to drain their excess energy and prevent them from rioting. (To be continued......)