After inspecting the shipbuilding workshops in Imari Bay Port, Masarashi boarded several ships of the Navy and went to Fukushima and Takashima Island in Imari Bay.

On both offshore islands, large salt farms were established. Standing in the salt pans, a sea breeze mixed with the smell of spring is blowing in your face. In the salt pans, the salt drying seems to have been completed at this time, and now the people are sparse, leaving only a large area of dark white salt grains left in the salt pans.

"Pingji, I think the salt farm can be opened to the people to operate." Looking at the few workers who were building a filter embankment next to the salt works, Masara said to Togo Heiji, who was accompanying him.

"Lord, what are you?" Togo Heiji was a little confused. At present, there are a total of five salt farms in the Luo family's territory, of which three are in Hizen Province, and Chikugo Province and Higo Province also have one salt farm. Under the management of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, these salt works were well managed, so why did the lord suddenly hand them over to the people to run by themselves?

Of course, Togo Heiji didn't understand Masayo's intentions. The purpose of Zhengliang's purpose in doing this was to reduce the number of personnel in the various institutions of the Luo family, to ensure the streamlining of the personnel of these institutions, and to avoid the flow of time, the personnel of these institutions would be infected with the color of officialdom and thus become moths that consume internal resources.

The reason why the salt farm was completely controlled in the hands of the Luo family was to avoid being used by hostile forces to deal with the Luo family, which led to a shortage of salt in the Luo family's territory. However, with the continuous expansion of the Luo family's power and the improvement of various supervisory agencies, internal affairs agencies, and business systems in the territory, the Luo family no longer has to worry about this situation at all. Even if it does, it is already capable enough to deal with it.

Case. It is better to release this resource to the people. And then let the wealth of the people drive the redevelopment of these resources? With the promotion of the Roche family's law on promoting business development. Now a large number of people have emerged in the territory who are engaged in intra-territory commerce. These people will be more proactive in running these salt farms than the officials who are gradually losing their lives, after all, the income of the salt works is related to their vital interests. This method can not only avoid internal bad consumption, but also promote the development of the territory, why not?

So in the face of Togo Heiji's puzzlement, Masahiro said: "The Interior Pavilion can only keep the snow salt production workshop, and the scale of the snow salt workshop will be doubled." ”

"Yes." Compared to coarse salt salt farms. In fact, snow salt is the bulk of the income, and now the snow salt is not only to meet the needs of the territory itself, but also exported to the Luo family's territory, and even sold to the Ming country through Ming smuggling merchants.

"As for the coarse salt farm, the Cabinet of Internal Affairs will first draw up a list of locations where the salt farm can be built according to the situation in Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo, and after giving me a review, the news that you can come to the territory to buy a salt farm construction permit." This method of Zhengliang is already somewhat similar to the "salt introduction" currently practiced in the Ming Kingdom.

"Then the construction of the salt works and the hiring of the workers are the responsibility of the lords who have purchased the permits?" Togo Heiji already understood Masayo's intentions a little bit at this time.

"Yes, the Cabinet can provide them with guidance on how to dry coarse salt, but the people themselves are responsible for the cost of building the salt works." Masara affirmed, "In addition. The sale of these permits for the construction of salt works takes the form of an auction. ”

"Auction?"

"It's about bringing them together. Then, according to the geographical environment of each salt factory, the Cabinet of Internal Affairs first approved the lowest price for these salt works, and then openly let the people who intended to buy the certificate to bid. Masato said.

"The lord is clever." Togo Heiji's eyes lit up when he heard this.

"In addition, it is required that only grain can be used for purchase this time, and other goods such as coins are not accepted."

"That's right!" Togo Heiji suddenly realized when he heard this. Just take this opportunity to raise another batch of grain, "It's just that, my lord, a household may not have enough food to buy." ”

"They are allowed to buy and operate jointly, and the income of the salt works will be distributed according to their input into the salt works, and this cabinet will keep track of the whole process and make a fair judgment. By the way, in addition, Roche House and God House must also participate in the participation of each salt factory. "Roche House and Kamiya are actually the official commercial establishments of the Roche family. With their participation, on the one hand, they can give the people in the territory a reassuring message, alleviate their concerns about whether the operation of these salt farms can be profitable, and on the other hand, indirectly monitor these salt works. What is important for the government is to form a healthy competition between these salt farms, and to ensure the daily needs of the people for coarse salt at a slightly lower price, instead of allowing them to unite to monopolize and increase the price of coarse salt in disguise.

"In that case, my lordship, why didn't Chikuzen and Bungo implement this law?" Togo Heiji had already thought of the impact of the implementation of this law on the lives of the people and the development of the territory after the implementation of the territory, so he did not understand why Masayo only implemented this law in Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo, but not in Chikuzen and Fenggo.

"Let's wait for the three areas to be effective." Chikuzen and Bungo provinces were still in the war zone at this time, and it was still a bit unsafe for the salt works built on the coast. In addition, the internal affairs cabinets of these two places have just entered the local area, and at this time they are still gradually rolling out the basic internal affairs work of the locality, and there is no manpower and material resources to carry out this work, so the implementation of the salt field law can only be suspended.

"Alright, that's all for today. Let's go back to shore first, and then find a nearby place to eat. Seeing that Togo Heiji personally recorded the request that Masayo had just said, Masara finally said.

So the group began to board the original ship and began to return to the port of Imari Bay.

Imari Bay Port, this time the local government is deeply memorable. When the Luo family was still a small wealthy family in Matsuura County, they once responded to the call of the No. 1 Haoqiang Bo family in Matsuura County at that time, and fought against the Matsuura family, who was also a powerful and powerful family in Matsuura County. He even experienced a thrilling night battle here, and finally fled to the beach in embarrassment and fled back to his own territory on the ship of his own navy that had been arranged for a long time. Soon after, after the Luo family defeated the Hakata family and the Matsuura family, respectively. Masarashi divided all the territories near the port of Imari Bay to the family's important retainer, Kakukuma Ishizong, and some other small wealthy clans.

In the blink of an eye. Seven or eight years have passed. It was also a fertile plain run by wealthy families such as the Kakukuma family, and since the shipbuilding workshop directly under the Luo family was located in the port near this place, at the junction of the Kakukuma family's domain and the port, the workshop workers, their families, and even the local lords gradually formed a small town.

After walking into this small town, I saw a crowd of people inside, which made Masara feel that he had returned to the afterworld to go shopping. There is a large market in this town. Many lords, shipyard workers, and their families traded here.

In the crowd, Masara unexpectedly saw two teams of troops patrolling Komachiko. The first group of troops was composed of a middle-aged man with a broken left hand but still wearing the standard clothes of the Luo family. This kind of standard clothing is specially made by the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet for the personnel of the Luo family's official institutions, and the most obvious mark on the clothes is that a black eagle is printed on its chest. This kind of clothing is only allowed to be worn by personnel of the official organization of the Luo family, and if there are unofficial personnel who imitate and wear it, it will be regarded as a violation of the territorial law and will be punished.

Behind the middle-aged man was a group of children with bamboo guns in their hands who were marching in neat steps. The children, ranging from eight to thirteen or fourteen years old, were both male and female, and the tallest of them carried a banner with a black eagle on his shoulder. This is the flag specially designed by Masato for the Territory Scouts. Almost every town, or even every village, in the Luo family's territory. The local Scout Corps has such a flag.

Obviously, the middle-aged man who had broken his left hand was a standing stander who had retired from the Luo family's military situation. And he should be the town head in charge of the military training of the boy scouts in this town.

On the surface, a middle-aged man with a broken left hand leading a group of children through the crowd in the market must seem a little funny. However, because the whole team was advancing at a neat pace, it looked quite mighty, which made many leaders next to it applaud. Some of the people even proudly introduced some of the children in the team to the people around them, presumably because the children were the children or relatives of these people.

In comparison, the pace of the march of a group of ten young men who also happened to pass by patrolling the market seemed a little scattered. Masarashi saw the Kakukuma family's family crest from the clothes of this military force. This town is a town that belongs to the territory of the Kakukuma Stone Sect, and the Kakukuma family is indeed obliged to ensure the stability of this place. Obviously, this group of troops is the retainers of the Kakuma Ishizong.

According to the law of the Luo family, a wealthy family or retainer who works for the Luo family can only have a maximum of fifteen retainers (these retainers can carry weapons), of course, the number of servants is unlimited (but it is not allowed to carry weapons, the Luo family is clearly stipulated in the law to implement the sword hunting order, and the general people are not allowed to carry weapons without permission, and violators will be severely punished). Under such restrictions, in general, a retainer who is good at martial arts will be more inclined to choose a retainer who is good at management, which will help him manage government affairs and territory; Retainers who are good at government affairs or strategy tend to choose retainers who are good at martial arts, so that they can provide him with protection.

And now that Kakukuma Ishizong is presiding over the work of Bungo Kingdom, there are already enough Luo family members around him to protect him, so naturally he only needs to leave a few retainers with him, and those idle retainers are estimated to have been sent back to maintain law and order in the territory, so there will be two teams of troops in a town at the same time.

For each wealthy clan or retainer territory, the lord implements the management of his own territory on the premise of abiding by the laws of the Luo family. And every town and village in his territory is also subject to the lord's management on the premise of abiding by the laws of the Luo family. The lord supervises the town or village, while the town head and the village head supervise the lord. If either party violates the laws of the territory, they will be denounced by the other party.

Moreover, both the lord and the local town and village head only have the right to manage the internal affairs of the territory, but not the military power. In other words, if a lord mobilizes local scouts or town or village chiefs in charge of military training without the approval of both the local Interior and Military Cabinets, it will be considered a rebellion. The same is true for towns and villages.

Today, Masayo, Togo Heiji and the others all came out to inspect after some disguise by Black Hawk, so neither of these two teams recognized Masara and the others when they passed near Masara and the others. So Masara and the others simply wandered around the market.

After several years of development, the lives of the people of Hizen Province have been greatly improved, and many of them have gradually begun to become wealthy in their homes, and some superfluous items have gradually accumulated in their hands. With this basic condition in place, the market was created in various parts of the territory under the joint promotion of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs and the local lords.

Nowadays, the territory market is not only found in the castle town of the daimyo residence. Rather, it is already available in almost every town, and even in some of the larger villages. A sufficient and evenly distributed number of markets is conducive to promoting the development of the local economy, which is also a measure for the internal development of the territory that Zhengliang strongly promotes. (To be continued......)