Hizen Province in July is bathed in the early summer sun, and the temperature is not very high, but it will be uncomfortable to stand in the sun. The hills in the distance are covered with dense forests, and the fields next to the villages and roads are green, and the rice planted in the spring is growing well.

"Let's hope the hell doesn't come back this year!" Now is the critical period for rice earing, and if there is another weather change like last year, then even the Luo family will have to cut back on food.

History often says that fighting a war is an internal affair. This statement is not false at all. Because the Luo family belongs to the emerging powerhouse, the accumulated foundation is not very rich, and in recent years, Zhengliang has almost carried out a strategy of rapid external expansion above the guarantee line of the territory's internal political capacity, and the internal political foundation accumulated in the territory is naturally worse.

After such a natural disaster last year and the man-made disaster of internal rebellion, the difference between the Luo family and some powerful domestic affairs that have accumulated for several generations is reflected. In order to ensure the stability of the territory and quickly recover from the natural disaster, the Luo family had to stop the pace of external expansion, and the Otomo family still had the ability to go to Shikoku to expand the family territory at this time. The Ouchi family is even more at war with the Niko family in Iwami.

"Let's hibernate for a while, take advantage of this time to digest the newly acquired territory, and avoid the recurrence of the last internal rebellion." Masara comforted himself.

In fact, taking advantage of this period of time when he did not have to go east and west, Zhengliang thought carefully about the Luo family's current internal affairs management system.

At this time, the Luo family was facing the problem that the larger the territory, the more difficult it was to manage the territory. In fact, this is a problem that almost all the expanding giants have to face.

General conventions. Naturally, the territory is divided. Then as long as this feudal retainer can respond to the call of the suzerain. Obey the orders of the suzerain, and contribute for a few years every year, and that's fine. As for how the retainer's territory is managed, that's the retainer's own business.

As long as the retainers rebel or the power of the clan weakens, this peaceful situation will be broken, and a new round of warring states will appear again. Even the Tokugawa shogunate in history suppressed the surrounding retainers through a series of weakening measures such as transfer. And then it maintained its own strength, which lasted so long. Eventually, of course, it was outlawed by a new idea, a new system.

In view of the current situation of the Luo family, Zhengliang is ready to implement a new internal affairs system. That is, in accordance with the existing administrative regionalization of each country, each region has a chief officer who is fully responsible for the civil and agricultural affairs of the region. In order to better adapt the retainers to this new policy, the official names of these presiding officials were Guardians. That is, Masarashi is preparing to set up guardians for his own territory. Anyway, with the frequent progress of the Warring States War and the continuous decline of the prestige of the shogunate court, many Sengoku daimyo simply assigned official positions to their subordinates, and Masayo just took the first step. Of course, in order to avoid provoking the truth, Masayo would also spend some money to determine these official positions in the shogunate court.

The Cabinet of the Interior after the reform. There is also a governor who is in charge of the overall civil and agricultural affairs of all regional territories, and then he will have a number of officials with different responsibilities. The next level is the guardian generation of each region. They were under the management of the Luo Family's Cabinet of Internal Affairs, responsible for all agricultural and civil affairs in their area, and he also had a group of subordinate officials to assist them in managing the affairs of the territory. And below these subordinate officials are the local lords, the wealthy clans, and the most basic village heads.

Specifically, the division is as follows.

As the elder of the Luo family and a member of the family, and also the guardian of Hizen recognized by the public government, Togo Heiji will continue to serve as the ruler of the family's internal affairs cabinet, responsible for coordinating the civil and agricultural affairs of all the Luo family's territories. At the same time, he also served as the guardian of Hizen, and was specifically responsible for all civil and agricultural affairs in Hizen Province.

Nafu Shinkei, Chixue Shengqing, and Seongmasaki Dong will be responsible for assisting Hizen guardians in managing Hizen's civil and agricultural affairs as commissioners.

The ministry will have Ma Qingjun, who will be the guardian of Chikugo and will be specifically responsible for all civil and agricultural affairs of the Luo family's territory in Chikugo Province. Masamitsu Oda and Morinobu Naru will be responsible for assisting Chikugo Guardian in managing Chikugo's civil and agricultural affairs on behalf of the Commissioner.

Since returning to the Luo family, he has always behaved in a reserved business, and his management ability in the internal affairs of the Luo family is also quite good. He will also be given the position of guardian of Higo, and will be responsible for all civil and agricultural affairs of the Luo family's territory in Higo Kingdom.

Nobuyasu Kogawa and Masashi Tajiri will be responsible for assisting Higo Guardian in the management of Chikugo's civil and agricultural affairs as commissioners.

In addition to these people, there are also some people in the Cabinet who are only under the control of the government. The details are as follows:

Liu Le, who was promoted to the rank of general of the Luo family, was fully responsible for all Ming immigrants in the Luo family's territory, such as education, agriculture, civil affairs and other affairs.

Aoyama Nobumoto and Egawa Clan will serve as the law and will be responsible for secretly patrolling all over the Luo family's territory and monitoring the implementation of the law of the territory.

Li Hongfei, the ore officer, is responsible for the exploration of various mineral deposits in the territory.

Kamiya Shaoce, the commercial officer, is fully responsible for the territory's snow salt workshop and the territory's commercial affairs.

Qu Naase Michizo and Xuanru, the territorial physician, is responsible for the treatment of the daily ailments of the territorial people and the dissemination of medicine.

Kuaikawa Shaoxi and Genji are responsible for the management of temples and shrines in the territory.

The above is the specific division of responsibilities after the reform of the Cabinet of the Interior. For this reform, Zhengliang does not intend to introduce it directly, but intends to implement it gradually. This will allow the retainers to gradually get used to it.

Similarly, as with the generals of the Military Cabinet, these retainers will change their region every once in a while.

"This should be about the same, as for the final effect, it depends on the specific effect after the implementation." Looking at the set of draft reform of the internal affairs cabinet drafted by his pen, Zhengliang said to himself.

"Lord, something is wrong!" At this time, Yoshiro Kawada, surnamed Kawada, ran in to report.

"What's going on?" Masarashi looked up at Yoshiro Kawada who was kneeling in front of the door of the council hall and asked.

"Are you really here? I've been looking for it for a long time! Before Yoshiro Kawada could continue to reply, a red shadow ran in.

"Lord...... Lords, ministers...... Your Majesty, it's her who is talking about it, and we can't stop it......" Yoshiro Kawada said a little embarrassed. (To be continued......)