It's early winter, and the forests of Notaka begin to shed their leaves. Pieces of golden fallen leaves fell to the ground, forming a golden sea on the ground.

The golden sea is like the golden rice that fills the mountains during this autumn's harvest. This year is also a good harvest year, and the harvest of the 220,000 territories is generally good, except for the farmland damaged by the war in the summer. According to the current average agricultural tax of six gongs and four peasants in the territory, in addition to leaving one percent of the income to each lord, the grain actually moved into the granary of the Luo family was as much as 100,000 stones. Masara divided this part of the grain into several batches and stored them in the granaries of Kishigaku Castle and the village castle respectively.

In addition, the original granary had already stored grain, and now the Luo family already has a grain reserve of 150,000 stones.

At this time, in the council hall of Notakayama, the ministers were gathered.

"Your Highness, the relocated Hao clan and the people have completely stabilized." Dongxiang Heiji said, "The 10,000 stone of grain that was turned over before was almost consumed after the resettlement of these lords. If we don't compensate these people who have not harvested for the time being, I am afraid that they will be dissatisfied. ”

"In addition, due to the strategy of my family, many displaced people from the surrounding territories who have had a poor harvest in the autumn have recently come to settle in my own territory, and they also need a lot of food." Heiji Togo has apparently been exhausted lately.

"Isn't it already autumn? Fifty thousand stone of grain was allocated from the granary, partly as compensation for these immigrants, and partly as resettlement grain for the displaced people who had defected from the surrounding powers, and returned to them in the form of forced labor as much as possible. It's winter, and it's a good time to repair water conservancy and reclaim fields. Masato said.

"Yes, Your Highness." I didn't expect Zhengliang to allocate so much food at once, and now not only solved the problem just now, but even didn't need to receive the main grain for a long time. The use of surplus grain to carry out conscription was enough to last a long time.

"Your Highness, I recently bought another fifty cattle from Iki, but the traders there said that it is difficult to catch bison in the mountains now, and even if they are caught, they will have to be domesticated for a period of time, so Iki's cattle can no longer be provided in the short term." Shenwu Shaozhan on the side followed closely with the report.

"How many ploughing cattle are there in the territory now?" Masara asked.

"Five hundred and twenty-three." The answer was Togo Heiji.

"More than 500 heads? It's pretty much it. Try to get as many calves as you can with these farming cows. Masato said. Relying on purchases for a long time is not a long-term solution. Now it's time to start thinking about self-production. Although it takes at least one or two years for a calf to grow, it still needs to be caught.

"Yes," Li Hongfei, who was specifically responsible for the management of the cultivated cattle, immediately ordered.

"How much has the population of the territory increased during this time?" Masara asked.

"More than 3,000 people, these people are all from the surrounding powerful territories, some are homeless, some are the people who can't live in the original territory, and some are other powerful people who were lured by the rumors of their own family, plus these new people, the family is currently close to 110,000 people." Togo Heiji said.

"It seems that our harassment strategy against the powerful around us is still effective." Masara said, "According to the laws of the territory, settle these defectors." Continue to implement these strategies of the family for the powerful people around them. ”

"Your Highness. With the addition of these lords, we also found a large number of other powerful spies. In just this month, more than fifty people have been captured in the territory. Kuniji Onishi complained. There are so many spies that they receive the people who come to report them almost every day, and then go to catch the spies with the cooperation of the people.

"The sudden rise of this family will definitely attract the attention of other powerful people, and the situation of sending spies to infiltrate the territory of this family to spy on intelligence will definitely exist for a long time, since they are willing to increase slaves for us, we will laugh at it." Masarashi said with a smile. It seems that the army of slaves in the territory has grown a lot.

"How is the renovation of Kishigaku Castle, the relocation and construction of various workshops, and the construction of the Territory's marching avenue?" From the slave team of the territory, Masato thought of these things with the slave army as the main force to build.

"All the workshops on Nodakayama have been relocated to the vicinity of Kishigaku Castle. And they're already up and running. Togo Heiji immediately reported, "The renovation of Kishigaku Castle has entered the final stage; In addition, due to the increasing number of slaves, the construction of the marching road has been much faster, and it is expected to be completed before the rainy season of the next year. ”

"The salt works and snow salt workshops in Kurayama Castle have been expanded, and at the same time, the salt works in Eagle Island and Fukudo have been completed. Coarse salt has been dried these days. Kamiya Shaozhan, who is in charge of commercial workshops and business affairs, also reported.

"Also, since you can no longer get a lot of ploughing cattle, do you think you can use snow salt for food?" Kamiya Shaozhan asked.

"Look at it, what the family needs most at the moment are these two resources. As long as the proceeds from the snow salt are used to purchase these supplies. Masato said. Not long after the autumn harvest has ended, the price of grain is indeed relatively low, and it is indeed suitable for purchasing large quantities.

"Your Highness, due to the establishment of a large number of new schools in the newly occupied territories, there has been a shortage of paper." Liu Le, who is in charge of Chinese language education in the territory, also said.

"Huh?" Masarashi looked at the lucky one who managed the supplies.

"What Lord Liu Le said is true." Kosuke confirmed, "I'm afraid it won't be enough until the end of this month." ”

"Clan" Masarashi looked at the Egawa clan, who managed the paper mill, this time. Now the bamboo paper made by the Luo's paper mill is only for the internal use of the Luo's family, and it is no longer sold properly, and there is even a shortage of paper, so Masahiro feels strange.

"Your Highness, a batch of paper will be out of the workshop in the next few days, which should be able to solve the problem of insufficient paper this month. It's just that with the promotion of territorial schools, I'm afraid that with the current scale of the paper mill, it can't cope with it. "The Jiangchuan clan also has bitterness that I can't say.

"Then expand the scale, the food consumed will be extracted directly from Fang Cai's 50,000 stones, and this matter will be decided by you and Pingji." "But it is necessary to ensure that the territory needs paper in the future. ”

"Yes," the two of Togo Heiji, who were called, commanded.

"Now, let's talk about our neighbors. Shigetada, what's going on on Iki Island? After listening to the report on the recent internal affairs of the territory, Masato began to listen to the rest of the information.

"The Hidaka family has reconciled with the Hakata family, but this has caused distrust between several powerful families, and at the same time, Hidaka Soyoshi expressed his friendship to His Royal Highness." Kizo Shigetaka said. The last time he was instructed by Masayo to go to Iki Island in person.

"Hmm," Masaro nodded.

"Your Highness, Your Majesty just received information this morning that Nobuyan Kogawa, who was defeated by the Kamiyo family, ran into a wall when he appealed to the Ouchi family, and now it seems that he is coming towards his own family." Kizo Shigetada continued.

"Hehe, the Ouchi family will definitely not deal with this matter, after all, this family is the nominal lord of Hizen, and the Ouchi family must be worried that once they meddle in this matter, it will cause the displeasure of the family. Thus affecting the previous relationship between the two families. Kakuma said with a smile. It's obviously not worth it to have an unpleasant mess with the Luo family for the sake of the Xiaohe family, a small wealthy family.

"Where is Nobuyan Kogawa now?" Masara asked. It seems that Kamidai Victory and Kogawa Shin'an are really destined to be a pair of enemies. In history, it was the gods who triumphantly killed Kogawa Shinyasu. As a result, the battle is still ongoing. The only difference is that because of the appearance of Zhengliang, Kogawa Nobuyan picked up a life.

Although the Ouchi family did not accept them, they kept them outside Sefukuji Castle for the time being, and provided them with some food. The detectives of the Sefukuji Castle family heard that they were ready to defect to the family. Kizo Shigetada said.

"Your Highness, if the Xiaohe family defects to the family and avenges the family, if the family ignores it, I'm afraid it will be inappropriate, and this time it will hit the prestige of the family in Feiqian." Togo Heiji said.

"Na! Since they have come to defect, of course, they have to be recruited, and they have to avenge their grievances and rebuke the gods in a big way. Zhengliang said with a smile, "Let's settle the Xiaohe family to Baishi in Xiaocheng County, where there are also more than 200 stone territory, enough for the Xiaohe family to live in peace." Tell Kogawa Nobuyan that the county has promised him to take up the position of agricultural minister, and let him go to his family. "Although Kogawa Shinyasu's force is not very good, his internal affairs ability is still good. Moreover, according to Zhengliang's idea, the generals are generally arranged to be refreshed in the cabinet of internal affairs first, and then appointed separately according to their ability. Through the work of the Cabinet of the Interior, these generals can also learn more about the new system of their realms.

"Yes," Kizo Shigetadada immediately said.

"Not only to establish the prestige of the family, but also to get a great righteousness to deal with the family of God in the future, His Royal Highness is wise." Shinnosuke Akabane praised.

The surrounding retainers also praised one after another.

"Let's talk about the other heroes." Masara asked.

"Since occupying Sefukuji Castle and other castles, the Ouchi family has not had any other abnormal actions, and in addition, there has been no change in the Shaoji family, but the family has lost the trace of the Shaoji Dongshang who was exiled to Chikugo, and the last place where the main family found the Shaoji Dongshang is the Akaji Castle occupied by the Otomo family."

"Keep investigating, and find a chance to obliterate it." Masara said. This young Erdong is really ghostly.

When the following Onishi Guozhi heard this, he immediately received his order. Assassination was of course done by Black Hawk.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside.

"What's going on?" Masara asked.

A few cloaked people followed a little girl in. At first glance, it was Ju Ji's maid, whose name was Ajiu, and it was the younger sister of Kunatong who was rescued by Masaara. At that time, there were several little girls who were rescued, and they are all maids in the house.

"My lord, the main mother was born, and she is a young master." The maid said anxiously.

"What?" There was an exclamation from the council hall.

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