Someone secretly contacted the retainers and wealthy families who were dissatisfied with the Luo family in the Luo family's territory, in an attempt to instigate chaos. And Arima Qingchun is one of the wealthy families who received the invitation.

According to common sense, the territory of the Arima family in Nanhou is occupied by the Luo family, although after being forced to surrender to the Luo family, not only the territory of the Arima family has been transferred, but even the territory of the Arima family has been reused by the Luo family, but compared to the days when he stayed alone in Nanfei before being the emperor of the soil, it is indeed not so wishful now. So if the Arima family plotted to rebel, it was absolutely possible.

But Arima Qingchun is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and he has a very transparent view of the situation in the Luo family's territory. Both the retainers and the ordinary small wealthy families in the territory are bound by the laws of the Luo family, not only the family background is insufficient, but even the rights in the territory are basically controlled by the local village heads who support the Luo family, and the lords only have the right to manage the territory as a whole, but have no right to appoint and dismiss these village heads. In the final analysis, as the lords of the territory, they are mainly responsible for the daily civil and agricultural management of the territory, so that the territory remains stable and the production of food is guaranteed.

The most important military strength is basically concentrated in the hands of the Luo family, whether it is a retainer or a small wealthy family, they only have a maximum of fifteen guards. Any more would be considered treason.

It is conceivable that in the absence of grassroots support and even less military strength, even if there is a small group of people who are eager to participate in the rebellion, they are doomed to failure.

It was precisely because he saw through the fate of the rebellion that after secretly receiving an invitation to discuss, Arima Qingchun pretended to agree to the other party's invitation. At the same time, he immediately secretly sent someone to Higo to inform Masayo. So in the end, there was a scene where Arima Qingjun's retainer met Masayo.

When I suddenly learned the news. Masahiro even felt a little self-deprecating. Just now, I was still happy that there was instability in the rear of the Otomo family and the wealthy families of Higo. He was about to do a big job, but in the blink of an eye, it was his turn to have a problem in the rear of his house.

The current situation in Higo is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Luo family, and once it is well mastered, it is really possible to replace the Otomo family in the central and northern regions of Higo. However, this problem has arisen at this juncture.

"Lord, please calm down!" At this time, Kansuke Yamamoto finally finished reading Arima Haruki's letter and saw Masayo's slightly angry eyes. He immediately knew that Lu Dao Zhengliang was annoyed by the problems that arose in the territory. After all, Kansuke Yamamoto is also an elderly person, and he has traveled all over the world, and his experience and psychological maturity are much better than Masa, so even if he suddenly learns of the changes in the territory, he quickly calms down from the shock.

"Strategist, what do you think about this?" Masaro asked, clenching his fists.

"It is imperative that this matter is temporarily blocked." Kansuke Yamamoto said immediately.

"Oh?" Masarashi was stunned when he heard this, but he quickly understood what Kansuke Yamamoto meant. This so-called blockade of news is, first, not to let the enemy know the way, and second, even the people around him can't let them know the way. After all, since there were people plotting rebellion, it was difficult to be sure that there were no rebels among the retainers who were following Masahiro at this time. If they are allowed to perceive the anomaly and let the rebellion break out in advance. Then the situation faced by Zhengliang will be even more difficult.

After understanding what Kansuke Yamamoto meant, Masarashi immediately asked Yougo, who had come to deliver the letter but didn't know about the rebellion, to stay in Masahiro's samurai team for the time being. At the same time, all the rest of the people in the Great Tent were immediately sent out of the Great Tent.

"My lord. His Majesty thought that at this time, the lord should think quietly first, and then come to discuss with his subordinates what to deal with when he calmed down. After seeing the people in General Masarashi's tent cleared, Kansuke Yamamoto immediately said.

Masarashi nodded, then took a deep breath and thought slowly.

The first thing that Masato thought about was why there was sudden instability in the territory. Soon Zhengliang found the first reason, that is, the law of the Luo family. In essence, in fact, the law currently implemented by the Luo family is, first of all, to make the territorial feudal system that is currently prevalent in the Warring States period into a centralized system similar to the Chinese style of "half and half divided".

Such a system only authorized the civil and agricultural management rights of the territories of the retainers and the small wealthy clans below, but firmly controlled the military rights of the territory, and even the autonomous military rights of these people were strictly restricted. As for the other taxing power that they were concerned about, they were also taken into the hands of Zhengliang, and they could only get the harvest of the territory from the hands of the lord of the country, and not directly from the hands of the peasants.

In the final analysis, this kind of law actually made the lords the local administrators, with only administrative power, but no military and financial powers. Such a system obviously weakened the interests of the lords to a certain extent.

The reason why the Luo family was able to successfully implement such a set of laws was because the ministers who followed Zhengliang at the beginning were originally a bunch of poor people, who had nothing, and now they were suddenly divided, although their rights were restricted, but they had nothing to complain about, after all, it was better than when they had nothing.

And some of the retainers who joined later, although they were originally local tyrants themselves, but after all, as the defeated side, they had only the fate of being exploited and disposed of by others, and the Luo family had already formed such a set of legal systems internally at this time, so they naturally had to follow the customs. Even if he complained in his heart, he could only watch his power being weakened, and then obediently follow the law of the Luo family.

It's just that these people also have complaints after all, plus those small wealthy families and small lands that have also been weakened, with the continuous expansion of the Luo family's power, this group must be getting bigger and bigger.

Besides, with the increase of power, the retainers who originally supported the Luo family could hardly guarantee that they would not have more thoughts and need more rights after their material desires were satisfied.

Of course, this was expected by Zhengliang at the beginning of the implementation of the law. That's why he has pursued several policies. For those small wealthy families and small lands that are as many as ants, they can't be killed everywhere, so that the progress of each strategy of the Luo family will be greatly slowed down. Therefore, the way to deal with these local small wealthy families and small lands is to transfer the seal, let them lose their original roots, and then re-root in a new place that has already supported the Luo family, and fall under the surveillance of the supporters of the Luo family.

If there was a rebellion during this period, then a policy of extermination was immediately adopted, killing all the males of the family, and relegating the female dependents to slaves and distributing them to the retainers and soldiers, or relocating them to settle down. This method is tantamount to triggering future contradictions in advance and then resolving them in advance.

In addition, it is necessary to resolutely control the military power, firmly control the military power in the hands, prevent the retainers and wealthy families from becoming their own military groups, and even more so avoid the retainers from supporting the army and respecting themselves. At the same time, he vigorously promoted the retainers who supported the Luo family's law and suppressed the retainers who represented the old law. The most direct way is to let the retainers who represent the old law only hold internal affairs duties, and deny them access to important positions such as intelligence and military affairs. Gradually support a group of retainers who support the Luo family's law.

Then there is the implementation of the university system and the immigration policy. Through the university, a large number of new generations will be cultivated to support the law of the Luo family. More than a decade later, as this new-minded generation gradually took control of the powers of the territory, the political power of Zhengliang was greatly consolidated. A large number of Ming immigrants who have already been nurtured by the local centralized culture in the Ming Kingdom will also be supporters of the political regime.

In the end, it is to forcibly implement the law of the Luo family, using time, the most powerful weapon, to gradually weaken the strength of these old forces. The longer the time dragged on, the fewer civilians supported them (because the commoners had already received the sweetness from the law of the Luo family, and those who knew the best for them), and even the samurai who were loyal to them were unable to join the Luo family's military because they were by their side, so they lost the opportunity to make contributions and gradually left. After reaching the extreme, they could only devote themselves to becoming the lord officials of the Luo family's management place.

However, such a policy will inevitably encounter many obstacles in the early stage of implementation. For example, this rebellion within the territory is the best example. Even once something happens to the governor who is the centripetal force of the family or the strength of the family is greatly weakened, these temporarily compromised guys will surface and start doing evil.

However, even if the Luo family is now implementing the most popular feudal system in the Warring States, such a problem will also arise. It will be even more serious. The most typical example is the split of the retainers after the death of Oda Nobunaga, and the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. In such examples, the wealthy families who are the masters of the family all end up miserable.

The reason is not that although this feudal system made the retainers full of enthusiasm in the early stage, it laid hidden dangers for the future, so that the retainers had all the conditions for rebellion. This system, which relied on the personal charisma of the governor and the moral loyalty of the retainers, was very unstable in the face of the greedy nature and primitive desires of human beings.

The law currently implemented by the Luo family also gives enough material benefits to the retainers who are willing to serve the Luo family, but the difference is that not only are their superficial military and administrative rights restricted to a certain extent, but even the most fundamental land and civilians are directly controlled by the Luo family. In this way, the conditions for rebellion by the retainers were controlled at the root.

If the two laws appear in front of Zhengliang again, let Zhengliang choose, although this is a difficult choice, but for the long-term peace and stability of the territory in the future, as well as the safety of his descendants, Zhengliang will still choose the law that the Luo family implemented first.

Of course, the choice of such a law means that in the early stage of the implementation of the law, Zhengliang will encounter many difficulties. It can even be said that the entire Warring States system is the enemy of political goodness.

For such consequences, Zhengliang is very calm. In his opinion, since he came here for no reason, he must leave something worthy of praise and study for future generations anyway.

Do as the Romans do? No, Masato refuses such a bridge. He prefers to be able to gradually implement what he thinks is right according to the actual situation.

What he wants to do is to be a pioneer and trendsetter in history and the times! (To be continued......)