Chapter 13 Initial Development of the Territory (1)

In late April of the ninth year of the Astronomical Year of Japan (1540), at the foot of Notaka Mountain, Higashimatsunura County.

At this moment, Luo Zhengliang was standing on a higher hill in the territory, overlooking the entire territory in the distance. Behind him are Sahachiro and Kizaburo, who have performed well due to their hard training, and Luo Zhengliang has fulfilled his promise to promote the two of them to his own surname.

"It's been more than half a month since I came here, and the territory has gradually settled down," Luo Zhengliang said to himself while looking at the scenery under the hill.

As a new lord with no foundation, in the construction, development and stability of the territory, Luo Zhengliang has indeed spent a lot of energy in the past half a month. At the same time, his retainers also played an important role in this.

Although Togo Heiji used to be the head of one of the branches of the Togo family in Satsuma Prefecture, he was actually only the lord of dozens of anti-fields, and he still had to participate in the farming work of the territory when he was busy farming, so he was familiar with the general civil disputes, farming work, census, material statistics and other aspects in the territory. At the same time, because he had received a higher level of education, he was more familiar with the situation of the entire Kyushu and the daily work of the lord, and he was often able to give more advice to Luo Shi Zhengliang on major decision-making issues, and he was also the teacher who quickly integrated Luo Shi Zhengliang into the role of the lord.

Onishi Kuniji, a native of Onishi, is said to have migrated from Honshu Island to his father. Due to the oppression of the wealthy clan and migrated to Hizen, after several twists and turns, the family road gradually declined, and finally became a homeless person, and lived here. He has played a great role in agricultural cultivation and the organization and management of displaced people, and is familiar with the nearby terrain, which is the "living map" of Luo Zhengliang.

Tsuda Hiromune's family was originally a small blacksmith in Ise, but due to the flooding, only Tsuda Hiromune, who was only 13 years old, survived. Although he escaped his life, the flood had washed away everything from Tsuda Hiromune, and he was helpless, and he had to wander everywhere under his grief, living a life full of hunger and hunger day by day. Later, he was taken in by an old monk during a street begging, became a monk, and became a monk in the temple. As a result, within a few years, the old monk also returned to the West. Without restraint, the temple immediately fell into disarray, and its income deteriorated. In the end, several of Tsuda Hiromune's senior brothers decided to take refuge in the Ichijo sect, but Tsuda hiromune was disgusted by what the Ichijo sect did, and finally split up with several senior brothers and began a wandering life alone. Until he was desperate in Satsuma, he had to take refuge in Shimazu Minoru as a wild samurai, and met Togo Heiji. As a wild samurai, he has lived in many places on Honshu Island and Kyushu Island, and he is familiar with the customs of these places; He is bold, has good martial arts, and has a very high comprehension in military training, and is a good hand in Luo's political and good territory security and ashigaru training.

Under the decision-making of Luo Zhengliang and the implementation of the three of them, the territory has been greatly developed in the past half a month.

With the efforts of everyone, the fields in the territory have been expanded from less than 30 to 56 at present, of which paddy fields account for two-fifths, and the land between Komaki and Onishi has basically been reclaimed, and only part of the mountain land is still being reclaimed. The reclaimed fields were immediately distributed to the households under the command of Togo Heiji and Onishi Kuniji, and replanting was immediately organized. The fields that had been sown earlier are now green.

With the development of reclamation work, the grain reserves are also decreasing, especially when the newly reclaimed fields need to grow a large amount of grain, and the current grain reserves in the territory are only about 100 stones. Under the increasing pressure on food, Luo Zhengliang had to increase his hunting and fishing.

When it comes to hunting, the problem of eating meat inevitably comes in. What is the problem of eating meat? This again touches on the issue of Buddhism and Shinto. Now Japan is known as the country of Buddhism, and the whole of Japan has reached the point of fanaticism in respect of Buddhism, and even the emperor issued a "meat ban", declaring that according to Buddhism, what you eat will become what you eat, and eating meat will fall into the way of animals, so for the good of the people, it is not allowed to eat the meat of four-legged animals. Later, due to the popularity of Shintoism, eating animal carcasses was considered to be an act of filth, so eating meat was basically banned. As for fish and birds, they are not four-legged animals and can be eaten, but of course birds are related to Shinto oracles, and most people do not eat birds. …,

It turned out that Luo Zhengliang was indeed worried that because of this reason, the hunting work in the territory would be hindered. As a result, Togo Heiji's words dispelled this concern. The thieves were allowed to eat meat, they were mainly engaged in slaughtering and tanning, such as killing cows, and the leather was used by the samurai to make leather and saddles, and beef for the liver, but the samurai did not eat it, so it was cheaper for these untouchables to enjoy. Later, because of the pressure of life, the filthy people and the displaced people, whose status was similar to that of the untouchables, gradually began to eat meat like these untouchables.

Although the problem of eating meat has been solved, after all, there are too few large animals in the vicinity of the territory, and how to hunt a large amount of meat has become a problem. The largest animal in the vicinity of the territory is the wild boar, but the problem is that the territory does not have the energy to provoke them for the time being, and even hopes that they will not patronize the territory, otherwise the food that has been planted so hard will be wasted. Wild deer exist, but they had to walk over the mountains for nearly two days to find them, and they had to beware of bandits. After all, the hare is too small to catch many in a day. As for the pheasant, this is not the domestic chicken of later generations, these pheasants basically come and go like electricity, extremely fast, and even fly, in the mountains and forests it is difficult to hunt or catch a large number of ordinary hunting methods.

Luo Zheng Liang also specifically asked Onishi Guozhi if there were wild wolves, after all, when he first came here, Luo Zheng Liang really heard the sound of wolf howling, and he also ran for his life in the forest, and Luo Zheng Liang clearly remembered that there were local Japanese wolves in Japan, but they were only extinct at the end of the 15th century. Onishi said that there were, and there were even bears, but they were basically concentrated in higher mountains or dense forests, and there were wolves in the forests that went deeper south of the territory. In general, they avoid humans, as wolf skins and bear skins are highly sasked by merchants. A piece of wolf skin can be sold for at least 10 yuan, which is equivalent to the annual income of an average farmer. Therefore, many hunters want to be able to hunt wolves. Bearskin didn't have to think about it, and Onishi said that he hadn't heard of anyone hunting a bear so far.

If the hunting harvest is too small, then fishing can only be considered. There are four large lakes in the territory alone, and there are certainly a lot of fish in the lakes.

For fishing, after hearing Luo's proposal, Onishi Guozhi immediately organized people to compile the only 7 fishing nets in the territory, after 1 day of rushing to systematize, a net 5 meters deep, about 32 meters long small trawl finally completed the restructuring Welcome the majority of book friends to come and read, the latest, fastest, the hottest serialized works are all in the original!