This time, Masahiro summoned the retainers in charge of the agricultural affairs of the territory to the slave farm at the foot of Nogao Mountain, and in addition to inspecting the first slave farm of the Luo family, there was also an important purpose.

This is the technique that guides them to familiarize themselves with field management.

In his previous life, Masashi was born in the countryside and had a certain understanding of farming. During this period of inspection, he realized that the level of field management of the people was still very low, which would cause a decline in the yield of grain crops, so in order to promote the knowledge of field management to the people, Masaliang decided to first gather some of the retainers and the people who managed the agricultural affairs to come and learn from him, and then they would teach them to his subordinates and other people.

The so-called field management is mainly related to weeding, catching insects, dredging canals, reasonable distance between crops, cutting during crop growth, depth of crop planting, timing of fertilization and watering, mixed planting of crops between fields, etc. In view of the actual situation of various crops in the current territory, combined with the knowledge he has mastered in later generations, Masarashi explained in detail to the retainers and farming experts present one by one in the next few days.

The explanation went smoothly, but Zhengliang didn't expect that his inadvertent personal teaching would bring a great shock to everyone.

As those retainers who followed Zhengliang for a long time, they knew that the lord of their own family was an internal political expert, but they had not heard Zhengliang's personal explanation in such detail. Many of the ideas and farming methods expounded by Zhengliang in the course of the explanation have benefited them a lot. The worship and loyalty of Zhengliang in my heart can't help but rise to a very high level.

And those new retainers who have joined the Luo family one after another in the past few years have not always followed Zhengliang's side. Although I have also heard some old retainers privately praise the domestic governor's ability to do the house. But after all, seeing is believing, hearing is false. I've always been skeptical of this kind of compliment. Now that I have finally seen the real material of Zhengliang, I am suddenly impressed in my heart, and I feel full of hope for following Zhengliang to do some great things.

The last are the folk farming experts, who have always thought that as long as it comes to farming, almost no one can be more powerful than them. If it hadn't been for the Daimyo-sama himself ordering them to be summoned this time, they would have already begun to complain. But after hearing Masayo's description of farming, they even turned red-faced, with their previous farming skills. It's really a bit of an axe in front of Zhengliang.

After this incident, Masara formed an all-powerful image in the hearts of these people, and his personality charm was greatly improved. This incident was also recorded in the family history of the Luo family and in the records and accounts of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, and after the measures mentioned by Zhengliang were confirmed, they would be written into the Luo family's agricultural law and promoted in the form of a law. These well-documented records also provide powerful data for historians to study the once powerful Luo Empire hundreds of years later, and further prove historians' assertion that the founder of the Luo Empire, Luo Shi Zhengliang, was an outstanding civil servant.

While Zhengliang was teaching the knowledge of internal affairs to the retainers and subjects on the farm, the conflict between the Luo family's border area and the surrounding countries was also continuous.

In late April, Masanao Kinoshita, who was stationed at Takasakiyama Castle on the coast of Beppu Bay, Oita County, Bungo Province, received a warrant from Masara. He personally led an army of 500 men into the Beppustana Plain in Ami-gun and began to sweep the fields in the plain. and wantonly looted the local population and property.

War is always cruel, even most of the wealthy families generally do not choose to fight at this time of spring ploughing, but the Luo family will never care about these, from the later generations of political conscience only know that since it is a war, then in order to win, you must do everything. So when Kinoshita Masanao's army suddenly entered, Beppu Beach instantly became a sea of fire. Wherever the Luo family's army passed, all the population and property were looted, and the houses of the Otomo family were burned down and the fields were destroyed.

Since the entire Beppu Beach is a plain area, there is no danger to defend at all, so Masayo does not intend to occupy this difficult place to defend, so he simply has a policy of grabbing and burning down. Masarashi wants to use this place as a bait, constantly harassing the Otomo family's territory through here, and luring their army to come out.

Large-scale battles and long-term wars of attrition cannot be fought by the Luo family, but it is still good to fight guerrilla warfare occasionally. Anyway, at this time, the Otomo family also urgently needs time to recover, and Otomo Yoshijin, who has just inherited the position of family governor, also needs time to integrate the retainers, and he is even more reluctant than Masarashi to launch a full-scale campaign so quickly.

After learning that the Luo family's army had invaded Sumi County, the two people stationed in Quicki County, Mingyue Castle, Kibe Kantai and Zhenyu Zhifang, also rushed out to block it. For the military situation of the Luo family in Takasaki Mountain Castle, which is located on the edge of Ami County, the Otomo family has always sent people to closely monitor it, and almost as soon as the Luo family's army came out, Hosaku, who was hiding nearby, immediately rushed back to report the news.

However, Beppu Beach is a plain area, and the Otomo family did not expect that this hinterland would be invaded one day, so they did not build a castle in Beppu Beach. Establish a checkpoint in the plain for defense, and it will cost a lot of military strength to garrison for a long time, otherwise it will definitely not be able to stop the attack of the Luo family's army, and the field combat ability of the Otomo family's army is indeed inferior to the Luo family's military strength, so the Otomo family's army finally had to choose Mingyue Castle stationed on the border between Quicki County and Kunisaki County.

It's just that the Takasaki mountain castle of the Luo family is located at the southernmost point of Beppu Beach, and the Narutsu Castle is at the northernmost point of Beppu Beach, so when Kinoshita Masanao's army of 500 people came to the central area of Beppu Beach without hurry, this was met by the 800-strong army of the Otomo family who came in a hurry. The two armies immediately started a major battle, and as the commander-in-chief of the Otomo Army, Kibe Kentai and Matama Shori tried to attack Kinoshita Masanao together, but they were stabbed by the latter twice, and finally the two fled in confusion under the protection of their personal guards. Seeing that the Lord was about to flee, the army of the Otomo family followed suit and began to rout and fled. Within three quarters of an hour the two armies had been fighting, the war was over. Not even a single person on the side of the Luo family's army was injured.

After defeating the Otomo family's blocking army. Kinoshita Masanao did not take advantage of the victory to pursue. Instead, they were stationed on the spot, and then sent people to start looting the nearby area.

In Mingyue City, Otomo Town, who learned of the disastrous defeat of his family's army, immediately issued a mobilization order to the nearby Hao clan again, and quickly raised more than 1,000 troops to prepare to hold Mingyue City and wait for the arrival of the Luo family's army, but in the end, he only waited for the news that the Luo family was stationed on the spot and did not approach Mingyue City.

Since the Luo family did not continue to attack, Otomo Yoshizhen simply gritted his teeth and issued a new mobilization order to the wealthy clans in other areas of Kunidong County, ordering them to gather in Mingyue City immediately after collecting troops from their own territory.

At one o'clock on the morning of April 27, the Otomo army, which numbered nearly 3,000 people, set out from Mingyue Castle. Head to the camp of the Luo family in Beppu Beach. Otomo Yoshizhen did not hesitate to let the wealthy clans suspend the spring ploughing in the territory, but also to repel the Luo family's invading army. In this way, he established his prestige in the hearts of the Otomo family.

At 7 o'clock on the morning of April 27, Kinoshita Masanao raised a large tent in an area called Ohira near Beppu Beach and held an evaluation meeting.

There was a curtain around the position, but there was no roof. The sun was blazing hot at the end of April, and the curtain blocked the wind. Kinoshita, who was already thirty years old, was dressed neatly at this time, and he was sitting on top of the people in the military tent.

"My lord, the detective has come to report that the enemy formation is less than two miles away from this formation." Retainers report. According to the rules of the Luo family, a retainer can lead fifteen of his own subordinates to fight with the army.

"Hmm." Kinoshita Masashi nodded when he heard this.

"My lord, according to the news from Black Hawk. There are still nearly 2,000 troops outside the other party's Mingyue City, why doesn't the other party attack with all the troops? It's a bit puzzling. Another retainer spoke.

"Huh. Such a small scheme really can't be compared with the head of the family! Kinoshita Masanao said with a sudden smile.

"Your Excellency, what are you?" The retainers in the military tent looked at Kinoshita Masanao suspiciously, and they were all puzzled.

"Order the army to prepare to go, since the other side has mobilized more than 5,000 troops, then it indicates that the battle we are waiting for has been won. The other party's spring plowing this year is naturally greatly affected, and it is estimated that the autumn harvest income will also drop sharply. As for the military strength left in Mingyue City, it was just planning to encircle Wei and save Zhao. ”

"Wai Wei to save Zhao?" The retainers still didn't understand what it meant.

"Order, raise the army, pay attention to retreat slowly, don't let the other party catch up, and don't let the other party return to Mingyue City." At this time, Kinoshita Masanao did not directly analyze it to everyone, but began to order. After all, the other party has an army of more than 3,000 people, which is six times the number of the Luo family's army of 500 people at this time, for the sake of prudence, it is better to retreat, anyway, this time not only grabbed the population and property, but also affected the other party's spring ploughing, the strategic goal has been achieved, and it is the safest to slowly return to Gaoqi Mountain City.

As Kinoshita Masanao predicted, Otomo Yoshijin's mind was alive this time, he wanted to take this opportunity to repel the Luo family's invasion of Beppu Beach to establish his prestige in his family, and he also wanted to take advantage of the emptiness on the coast of Beppu Bay caused by the Luo family's dispatch of troops to Beppu Beach, and send people to land from the sea and attack Gibu Castle (i.e., Funaikan). Even if the sneak attack is unsuccessful, you can let the Luo family army that invaded Beppu Beach return to rescue Qibu Castle! In his opinion, this ploy was the winning side anyway.

Yoshijin Otomo's idea is good, but he encounters an unexpected opponent. This person is the Luo family's military advisor Kakuma Ishizong, who is in charge of the Bungo Kingdom.

Kakukuma Ishizong was originally a retainer of the Otomo family, and after he became a retainer of the Luo family, he always tried his best to avoid directly facing the old lord Otomo family on behalf of the Luo family. It wasn't until Otomo Yoshikan's death that the traditional territory of the Otomo family, Bungo Province, almost fell into the hands of the Luo family, and after Masarashi married Otomo Yoshikan's daughter, he took the initiative to ask to take charge of Bungo Province himself.

Considering that Kakukuma Ishizong was originally a former retainer of the Otomo family, he was very familiar with the situation of Bungo Province, and he was also very familiar with the retainers of the Otomo family, and he and his people were secretly monitored by Black Hawk, so Masara approved his request.

Kakuma Ishizong's initiative this time was actually an indirect expression to Masara that he had completely surrendered to him. From then on, he only had the Luo family in his heart and no Otomo family, or Luo Masashi had replaced Otomo Yoshikan's place in his heart. After Masarashi married the daughter of Otomo Yoshikan, almost all the former Otomo family retainers had such an idea. In Masaliang's view, perhaps this group of retainers regarded him as the former family governor Otomo Yoshijian. He became the new spiritual sustenance for which these retainers struggled. But in any case, as long as this group of retainers is loyal enough to the Luo family, it is enough. Zhengliang could not force all the retainers to be loyal to the Luo family from the deepest part of their hearts.

Before Kakuma Ishimune left the Otomo family, he had been a military teacher in Otomo Yoshitown, and now he is a student to a teacher. The teacher, Kakukuma Ishimu, who had long been clear about the students' moves, was naturally on guard, and after the Otomo family's army secretly landed from Beppu Bay, they were attacked by the Luo family's army, which had been prepared for a long time, on the beach.

The army of the Otomo family, who was caught off guard, was immediately defeated, and fled to the ships that were still at sea. And at this time, the big barrel on Qibu City also fired.

It is also in line with the bad luck of the head of the Otomo family, who was in charge of the sneak attack this time, Tian Bei Jianzhong. At this time, he happened to be standing on the bow of the ship and commanding his men to fight against the pursuing Luo family's army, trying to collect the Otomo family's rout as much as possible. When I didn't pay attention, I was hit by a rushing iron projectile.

Tian Bei Jianzhong was not stoned to death, but he was knocked unconscious, and then fell into the sea. What's even more unfortunate is that at this time, he was wearing a heavy big kai, so he quickly sank to the bottom of the sea the moment he fell into the sea. Even though several kinship warriors tried to retrieve him from the sea, they were unable to find him. Woohoo lament, Tian Bei Jianzhong, who had only inherited Tian Bei's family for a few months, sank into killing and feeding the fish. Before he died, he claimed to be the first fierce general of the Otomo family, and he didn't even have time to pull out his katana.

Speaking of which, the Tianbei family, which is a branch of the Otomo family, seems to be unlucky as soon as they meet the Luo family. Tian Bei Jianzhong's father, Tian Bei Jiansheng, was defeated twice under the banner of the Luo family's army, and when he met the Luo family's army for the third time, he was beaten by the Luo family's army and finally died of seppuku in order to cover the escape of the Zongjia family governor Otomo Yoshijian.

And now, Tian Bei Jiansheng's son, Tian Bei Jianzhong, the new governor of Tian Bei's family, was stunned by a cannonball from the Luo family, and then sank to the bottom of the sea and drowned. What a wow! What a cry!

After losing two heads of the family in a row in less than a year, the Tian Bei family had to temporarily hold a Yuan Fu ceremony for Tian Bei Zhenzhou, the second son of Tian Bei Jiansheng, who was not yet 16 years old, and directly elected him to inherit the position of the family governor of the Tian North family. It's just that I don't know if Lu Dao, the new governor of the Tianbei family, will be as unlucky as his father and brother the next time he encounters the military strength of the Luo family? (To be continued......)