At the end of October of the 18th year of Astronomy, a bumper harvest was ushered in in the territory of the Luo family, and on this opportunity, Masato directly announced the opening of the Luo Academy, and a large number of students who had completed the autumn harvest at home came to the castle town of the school city to prepare for admission to the school accompanied by their families, which made the castle town, which had a population of nearly 6,000 people at this time, suddenly lively.

This autumn harvest, in the Luo family's territory of 1.6 million stones, a total of 1 million stones of grain and nearly 500,000 stones of the rest of the income were obtained. The loss of nearly 100,000 koku income was mainly due to the destruction of fields and the loss of population due to the war between Bungo Province and Chikuzen Province, which affected this year's spring ploughing, and then eventually led to a poor harvest.

According to the current average of five gongs and five agricultural taxes in the territory (only for one million stone of grain income), and some of the sub-feudal territories also need to divide one percent of the territorial income (this is for one million stone of grain and the rest of the income of nearly 500,000 stones) as the income of the feudal retainers, in the end, the Luo family's internal cabinet received 410,000 autumn grain and 490,000 stone of the rest of the income.

The income of the latter, which is the remaining 490,000 stones, refers to the income from the mines, workshops, salt works, commercial taxes and other industries in the territory. This income must also be actually converted into grain by the Cabinet of the Interior through various means of foreign trade. Fortunately, grain prices are generally lower in various places during the autumn harvest, so it is expected that more than 490,000 koku of grain will be purchased. Of course, food prices fluctuate according to a variety of factors, which is difficult to say with certainty.

In addition, why did this part of the industry such as territorial mines, workshops, salt works, commercial taxes and other industries have an income of 500,000 stones, but in the end, the Luo family was after deducting the part of the retainers' commissions. The Luo family still has an income of 490,000 stones? The reason is that the minerals, forestry and workshop property in the territory such as mines, mountain woodyards, workshops, and salt farms are directly under the Luo family. The retainers only have the right to a commission on the income from agriculture and general commerce in their own territory. As a result, the Luo family will eventually have income from various industries of forty-nine stones. On the contrary, there was only 410,000 stone of grain income.

It is precisely the income from agriculture that is the main income of the fiefdoms of each retainer, so they generally pay attention to the local agricultural construction, and then pay attention to the internal affairs of the entire territory. This is exactly where Roche needs to focus on construction at present. It was through the lever of tax revenue that Masayo indirectly guided the retainers and lords of the territory to improve their production skills and adjust their business industries.

Now, in addition to the more than 100,000 stone of grain that the Cabinet had raised through the auction of salt works and Hakata houses, as well as tens of thousands of grain reserves that had been left in the warehouse (most of the grain originally seized from the temples and shrines of Chikuzen Province had been consumed due to war, daily consumption, etc.), the current Luo family's warehouse has a total of 630,000 grains. This is the grain that is actually stored in the warehouse.

As for the remaining 490,000 stone income, it should be converted into grain as soon as possible. can be counted in the actual grain reserves. In general, from this autumn to next year's autumn harvest, it is expected that the Luo family will have an income of 1.12 million yuan to use.

After discussing with the retainers, it was decided that within the next year, the income of 1.12 million yuan would be left as an emergency reserve of 200,000 stone of grain. The other 920,000 koku will be used as a reserve for the daily work of the various institutions and armies in the territory and the daily work of the slave squad (such as daily food, monthly salary, travel expenses, regular pensions for widows and orphans, etc.), 300,000 koku will be used as a reserve for paid conscription such as building marching roads, reclaiming fields, and building water conservancy facilities in the territory, and 300,000 koku will be used as a military reserve (military reserves will only be used passively during battles).

The last 20,000 koku was issued as a "loan" to some local people in need to plant grain for next year's spring plowing and grain planting, in order to encourage the local areas of Bungo and Chikuzen provinces, which had endured last year's war. In fact, the Roche family is in the pension agency. There are already measures to lend grain, spring crops, and farming tools to local lords in advance in the form of "loans" (this part of the consumption is directly counted in the daily consumption of each institution), but considering that these areas have just become the domain of the Luo family. The local lords were suspicious of the Luo family's system and might not apply for a bereavement pension in time, which affected the progress of the restoration of the territory, so Zhengliang simply took out 20,000 stone of grain as a catalyst to make the local lords realize the authenticity of these pension measures, so as to speed up the progress of field restoration while experiencing the benefits of the Luo family.

Of course, relying only on the 500,000 stone of grain returned to the people from this autumn's harvest this autumn would actually not be able to feed the more than 900,000 people in the Luo family's territory.

So how do these people survive now?

This is mainly due to the survival of the internal affairs construction system that the Luo family has been promoting. It has been ten years since the Roche family started. In the past ten years, the Hizen area has been implementing the Luo family law for nearly nine years, the Chikugo area for seven years, and the Higo area for four years. After this period of development, under the promotion of the Luo family's law, the livelihood of the people in these areas has been greatly guaranteed, and the life of eating this meal in the past has passed, and now they can not only solve the food problem every day, but even have surplus food. It is the accumulation of surplus food year after year that allows them to survive.

Of course, it can't be said that they couldn't survive before the arrival of the Luo family in the past. The amount of human strength is infinite, and when there is not much food at home, they eat less and drink gruel to survive. If you really don't have anything to eat at home, then go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and go into the water to catch fish. This can indeed ensure that they will not die, but it also leads to a decline in their physical fitness, and even the appearance of not being able to raise children, not being able to raise children (dying at an early age, which is very common in the Wa Kingdom in this era, and even some wealthy families often have such things), life expectancy and other problems.

In short, in the past, they were barely making ends meet almost every year, but now under the rule of the Luo family for several years, the family has become even close to the balance of payments, and even a slight surplus, and the surplus is more and more every year. In the past, in order to develop these areas, Zhengliang invested a lot of resources in them (that is, "raising the people"), and it can be said that the development of these areas must be guaranteed first while fighting foreign wars. Now that these areas have gradually entered a state of equilibrium, not only do they no longer need the Luo family to invest a lot of resources, but they will even produce more resources for the Luo family.

That is to say, after the promotion of the Roche law in the past few years, a virtuous cycle of internal affairs system has been formed in the territory of Hizen, Chikuhou and Higo. If it is a year, from beginning to end, there is no time to recuperate at all, spring, summer, autumn and winter, wars continue, although it is said to be the Warring States Period, but such wars are too frequent, and in the long run, the internal political system of the territory collapses, and the people rebel, so it is like self-destruction.

If you want to take it, you must give it first. After a lot of manpower and material investment over the past few years, the three territories of Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo have become a booster for the development of the Luo family. It provides a guarantee for the Luo family to launch a strategy, expand its territory, and absorb more people.

In the same way, the current Luo family is actually repeating the same development process as it did in the Hizen and other areas (the various laws such as the large-scale compensatory labor and the large-scale implementation of various "loan" pension systems were actually aimed at helping the people through this difficult period, so that they could get out of the previous situation of making ends meet, and then enter a state of balance of payments).

But unlike in the past, there is no longer a need to be like walking a high-altitude tightrope, worrying about whether the internal affairs of the territory are normal, and at the same time expanding externally. Now with the three stable areas of Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo as the cornerstone, the Luo family can change to a stable and unstable camp expansion strategy.

To put it simply, in the past, with the situation of the Luo family, once defeated, it would be equivalent to everything being zero, and the Luo family would almost fall into a situation of no return (because almost all the resources were invested in military and internal affairs construction, and there was no longer any reserve of talents, materials and other resources). The current situation of the Luo family is that even if the foreign war is lost for a while, it will not have much impact on the territory. The Luo family has withstood the wind and rain and withstood setbacks. This makes Zhengliang more handy and comfortable in implementing the strategy.

Taking advantage of the period when the housewarming moved to a new city, the official opening of the Luo Academy, and the autumn harvest of the territory had just ended, there were no big disputes abroad for the time being (during the autumn harvest, everyone died down, and the Luo family also followed the rules of the powerful and powerful this time, and the military forces in various places were withdrawn to the border station to rest), Zhengliang also handled two major events in a row.

One of the most important things was to give the retainers some money and position rewards in advance according to the performance of the retainers this year (these rewards used to be only given at the New Year's party). In particular, Togo Heiji, Kinoshita Masanao, Yoshida Shigemasa, and Isono Yuanmasa were officially promoted as genealogy retainers. This kind of genealogical reward can only be received by the prominent ministers of the family, and their clansmen will be written into the genealogy of the retainers of the Luo family.

The above four people are all important ministers of the Luo family, and they are also members of the Luo family, and they have followed Zhengliang for the longest time, and their contributions to the Luo family are also obvious to all, so they naturally received this due reward. Moreover, these four people and their families have also filled the gap that the Luo family has always had no genealogy retainers and families. It is conducive to strengthening the rule of the Luo family.

Another major event was the second military parade in the history of the territory under the new home city.

(Thanks to "Ten Nights of the White River" for receiving the light of the great god of this book; Thanks to "dscfd" for being the deacon of this book; Thanks to the "zj_gold" for the monthly pass; Thanks to "leely" for the tip. It's the end of the month, so I'm asking for a monthly pass. (To be continued......)