In this era, due to the underdevelopment of agricultural technology and the limited variety of crops, the grain output of the general Haoqiang territory was not high. If it weren't for the Luo family's vigorous promotion of the divine gourd and the improvement of the farming skills of the people, it is estimated that the current land alone would not be able to support a population of more than 900,000.

Rice, in particular, is planted in a relatively fertile paddy field (at least in a relatively fertile paddy field, and after waiting for the ears of rice, it is necessary to send people to prevent birds and rats from stealing it, and if there is a pest infestation, the rice field will basically have to be abandoned), so its yield is even lower. Even if it is harvested smoothly, it will be used as a tax by the local lords and wealthy families as strategic materials. As a result, I couldn't even eat a mouthful of rice after working all year round.

In order not to starve to death, in addition to eating miscellaneous grains and eating dried radish, the only way for the leaders to go down to the sea to fish for seafood and go up to the mountains to dig wild vegetables was to starve to death. Strange to say, the local culture prohibits eating the meat of four-legged animals (it is said that the "meat ban" issued by the emperor at the beginning said that according to Buddhism, eating meat becomes what you eat, and eating meat is to fall into the animal way, so you should not eat the meat of four-legged animals for the good of everyone). Coupled with the promotion of temples and shrines, the general people are also more ignorant in their thinking, and over time, the people will not eat meat), but it is not forbidden to eat fish. But even if you can eat fish, you have to be able to catch it! With the fishing techniques of this era, it is certainly impossible to rely on fishing to fill your stomach.

After the Luo family came to power, they started a movement in the territory to build ponds around lakes and even cut off rivers, mainly by using lakes and rivers to make some ponds, and then began to raise fish in them. Currently, there are hundreds of ponds in the Hizen Province alone. The fish in these ponds greatly enriched the tables of the lords. To a certain extent, the constitution of the people has been improved.

Of course. In order to improve the physical fitness of the people in an all-round way, to provide better soldiers for the military situation of the territory, and to provide more robust citizens for the construction of the territory, it is important to comprehensively change the dietary habits of the people. This is mainly from the two aspects of expanding the range of meat eaten by the people and changing from two meals to three meals.

The problem of changing the habit of eating two meals a day to three meals can only be promoted among the army and officials for the time being, but it cannot be popularized among ordinary people in the short term. After all, the reason why the people only eat breakfast and dinner every day is because there is not much food. As long as you live a prosperous life, this problem will naturally be solved.

As for meat, it is also being promoted first among the military and officials. At the same time, it also relies on private organizations such as gourmet houses to gradually promote it to the general public (in fact, at present, the dishes ordered by the local gourmet restaurants are basically concentrated in dishes such as sake, rice soup, dried radish, grilled corn, grilled gourd, and steamed fish). As for other meat dishes, few people will take the initiative to order them).

In order to ensure an adequate supply of food, the plan will depend on the large number of large slave farms in the Luo family's territory. And the last stop of Masaliang's tour in the territory this time was this kind of farm.

After spending the night in the village of Narumi Shintane, Masarashi embarks on a journey to a slave farm at the foot of Nodakayama in Matsuura County, accompanied by a hundred cloaked people, a team of 400 standing samurai, and several retainers such as Togo Heiji.

The mighty army attracted the attention of the local lords along the way, and when they learned that the commander of the army was their daimyo lord, the lords came to welcome the army in the way they must pass. In the crowd, Zhengliang even saw a lot of Ming immigrants who were still wearing Ming costumes.

The army marched all the way to the port of Imari Bay in the morning, then boarded the dozens of ships of the Second Standing Naval Fleet that had been waiting for the area, and then began to head for the Matsuura Peninsula.

Most of the sailors on these vessels were improvised fishermen. At present, the Roche family already has hundreds of ships. It is certainly impossible to sail all the ships by relying only on a standing navy of more than 2,000 people, so the various naval units are not only standing forces. After obtaining the approval of the Military Cabinet, the Interior Cabinet, and the Masarashi, a group of fishermen (equivalent to the reserve navy) will be recruited as temporary sailors in the local area on a regular basis.

With Masayo's permission, the navy ships finally set sail into the bay. The fleet sailed along the land coast, passing by Takashima, Fukushima and Hirado Port.

On Hirado Island, on the other side of the port of Hirado, Masashi made a stop. The main thing is to inspect the situation on the island. After several years of renovation by the Cabinet of the Interior Chamber, the island has become an important commercial port in the southern part of Kyushu, where a large number of ships from all over the Wa Kingdom, even Ming smuggling merchants and Nanban merchants, stopped here and traded on the island. Masara walked around the island at will, and found that the streets were clean, and from time to time he would encounter a convoy of peasant soldiers patrolling the streets, and there was a well-organized scene everywhere. Masahiro was quite satisfied with this.

After a short pause on Hirado Island and lunch, Masarashi boarded the ship again and set off for his final destination. Soon after leaving the sea, the fleet soon encountered a maritime patrol team of the Luo family's navy, consisting of five customs ships and twenty small mornings. After learning that Masayo was on board through the flags between the two fleets, the patrol fleet immediately set up a long snake formation across the sea, and all the crew members stood by the ship and saluted Masayo's ship. Being able to accept the inspection of their own family governor at sea is their greatest honor, and it is also a major event that they can boast about after returning to the naval base.

After some turbulence at sea, the fleet finally docked at the pier in Banwu Bay.

"Meet my lord." The retainers who had been waiting on the dock for a long time saluted immediately after seeing Masayo disembark. This time, there were some agriculture-related matters to arrange, so Masayo notified some of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs and the competent people in charge of agriculture to gather here in advance.

As the first cement paving Banwuwan wharf in the Luo family's territory, it has become a commercial wharf of the Luo family at this time, and a large number of Luo family merchant ships load and unload goods from here every day. Among them, the merchant ships carrying sea salt and snow salt are the largest. This is mainly due to the fact that the Roche family's first salt drying plant and the only snow salt workshop are located near this wharf. Over the years, the salt works and snow salt workshops near the wharf have doubled or tripled, and these two workshops have become the main livelihood workshops for the local people.

After meeting with the retainers who had come to greet him, Masarashi began to walk towards Notaka Mountain, accompanied by everyone. At this time, the people along the road had already learned of the arrival of Zhengliang, and they threw away their work and rushed to both sides of the marching avenue. This area is the area where the Luo family made their fortune, so the people here are almost all die-hard loyalists of the Luo family. In contrast to the people of the Imari Plains, who came purely to watch the monkeys, the people here welcomed Masarashi from the bottom of their hearts, and some of them even knelt on the ground and bowed to Masarashi (in their eyes, Masarashi was the embodiment of the real Hachiman Bodhisattva).

As more and more people were used, there were even fanatical attempts to get close to Masayo, which led to the Cloak and Samurai who were responsible for protecting Masayoshi and had to come to both sides of the marching avenue to form a human wall to prevent the people from continuing to approach. He even notified the boot camp at the foot of Nodakayama to lead the peasants from the reserve to come and maintain order.

Riding on a war horse from the temporary Nogaoshan pasture, Masayo waved to the leaders on both sides of the road, but he felt like he was home. This is really his home.

And as the place where the Roche family made its fortune, the changes here are also the greatest. Along the way, Masara saw a lot of things that he was happy about. Like what:

a marching cement avenue that leads to five war horses at the same time; The road is lined with cotton, cherry blossoms and other trees. A little farther away is a large area of fertile farmland, in which Masato saw sweet potatoes (also known as divine melons or Masato melons) and corn that were unique to the Luo family.

What shocked Masahiro the most was that all the houses of the lords in the village here were built of cement bricks. Looking at it from a distance, it looks quite neat and beautiful. (To be continued......)