At the beginning of May of the twelfth year of astronomy (1543). At this time, it is already the busy season for spring ploughing.

Since Kikuchi Yoshitake secretly took refuge in the Luo family and secretly sneaked back to Hiqueen according to Masahiro's instructions, Masashi has hardly been idle for a moment.

On this day, he began to inspect the territory, accompanied by some of his retainers. Grain is the foundation of the country, in order to reflect the importance of the lord of the country to spring ploughing, Masahiro also personally came to the site this time to inspect.

Of course, it is impossible to conduct a private visit to the microserver. Although the Luo family has always had an identity tag authentication system and vigorously encouraged the people to report strangers, it is difficult to prevent some people from infiltrating the Luo family's territory in one way or another. It's not a peaceful time now, so Zhengliang had no choice but to start this inspection trip with a big shout.

"Tick, tick, tick......"

The four hooves of Baili Black pounded briskly on the marching avenue paved with mud and sand and inferior cement, as if beating a beautiful march. Of course, Masashi actually thinks it's a kind of adaptation of Baili Hei to a new gadget called a horseshoe that has only recently been nailed to its four hooves.

As early as three months ago, with the efforts of Ming craftsmen and local craftsmen, the first horseshoe of the Luo family was announced. However, in the case of not knowing whether the road is suitable for local war horses, everyone decided to try it out with a war horse from the wild mountain pasture.

After three months of trial to determine that the war horse could adapt to this kind of horseshoe that had been modified according to the local horse situation, Masahiro immediately decided to promote it on the Roche family riding team. And Baili Hei, as the special rider of the lord of the country, is naturally the first guy to enjoy this benefit.

The guy seems to be very interested in the newly added horseshoe under his hooves, and will always knock the road with his powerful four hooves from time to time.

It's just that these marching roads, paved with low-quality cement and mud, are not so easy to break.

After more than a year of promotion. This new paving material is now used in almost all of the marching avenues in Hizen. The marching avenue is still being laid. It's just that recently, because the main energy has been concentrated on spring ploughing. Most of the people in the territory have gone to work with the farms. As a result, these marching roads could only be paved by the newly settled powerful people and displaced people. Due to the number of people is a little less. The speed of laying is also much slower. But even so, all the marching avenues inside Chikugo will be paved by this year.

Looking across the ground of the marching avenue, Masarashi saw a large paddy field next to the main road that had been planted with seedlings. I don't know why, but when he saw these paddy fields, Masari suddenly thought of Matsumiko. Three years ago, when Masato first came here, it seemed that it was also at such a time of season, when he saw a stubborn young woman and a little girl struggling to pull weeds in the field.

At this time, Matsumiko had become a famous goddess in the Luo family's territory. Privately, many people call her a shrine maiden. Of course, this shrine maiden never had to dance the witch dance. And the one that Masara made at the foot of Nodakayama has now been transformed into a shrine, which enshrines a statue of a god in the shape of Masara's appearance, and Matsumiko naturally became a priest here. It's just that this priest basically doesn't appear in the shrine, because she has now moved to Kishigaku Castle with Masayo.

What's even more interesting is that under the deliberate promotion of the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, such a strange kind of shrine seems to have gradually flourished within the territory of the Luo family. And behind each shrine is a small farm-like garden. It grows a large number of crops that the Luo family has vigorously promoted.

Such shrines also took on a part of the role of assisting the Cabinet in the promotion of new crops. Sometimes, whatever you say, it may not be as useful as a word from a shrine priest.

By this time, the people had already begun to work in the dry fields. Except for rice. They also have an equally high yield to grow, and that is sweet potatoes.

I saw that the leaders found some sharpened planks. Then a rectangular hole was inserted in the field with wooden planks, and the people on the side planted sweet potato canes one by one in this hole and refilled the hole, and at the end, someone watered the planted sweet potato canes. Residents from better families will dig a small pit with a hoe near the cane of the sweet potato planted and bury some fertilizer such as fire ash manure in it.

"Your Excellency, you see, there is a waterwheel we built in front of you." Before you know it, everyone has come to the shore of the Chikugo River, where the water is open. Liu Le immediately pointed to a drainage truck by the river and said.

Masara turned around and looked, and sure enough, he saw a drain overturned car appear in front of him. This kind of waterwheel is the first batch of watermills approved by Masahiro.

The principle of this kind of water turning and overturning is very simple, after the water wheel is set up in a specific position. Extend the tread axle of the overturned car to make a vertical wheel (upright runner). Next to the vertical wheel, set up a shaft in addition, and make two horizontal wheels (horizontal rotors) on the shaft. The upper horizontal wheel and the vertical wheel are the front wheel (the width of the branch is convex from the wheel circumference), and the width of the two is interocclusive. and rushed down the lying wheel. When the water rushes under the horizontal wheel, the lower wheel moves, drives the upper horizontal wheel, and then drives the vertical wheel with the upper horizontal wheel width support, uses the gear linkage principle, uses the gear linkage principle, drives the overturned car placed in the ditch on the side, and the water is transported to the shore.

It is a waterwheel that uses the power of nature to operate, which is very labor-efficient, and this waterwheel can carry water for irrigation day and night. So when Masara first saw its design drawings, he immediately approved its construction.

Unexpectedly, the trial site of the first batch of waterwheels was chosen here. Masa-ra immediately tried to approach the waterwheel by the river, ready to take a closer look. At this moment, the soil on the embankment by the river suddenly shattered.

"Be careful, the head of the house." The retainers behind him immediately exclaimed when they saw that the embankment where the head of the family was standing suddenly collapsed in a small area.

Fortunately, the embankment did not collapse again after a small part of the collapse, and Masayo avoided the bad luck of falling into the Chikugo River.

"Aoyama Nobumoto, Egawa clan." Masayo, who had returned to the safe area, looked at the short section of embankment with a grim face, and shouted in a cold voice.

"Your Excellency." Among the retainers, Aoyama Nobumoto and Egawa clansmen immediately walked quickly in front of Masayo, and knelt down in unison.

"Check, look at who built the embankment, who is responsible for supervising it, no matter who it is, it will be cut down immediately." Masara shouted angrily. The sound was so loud that almost everyone in the vicinity heard it.

Everyone couldn't help but be taken aback. Isn't it just a small embankment collapsing? It's not going to kill all the people in charge, is it?

Of course, they didn't know why Lu Dao Zhengliang was so angry. According to the inspection information provided by the Cabinet of Internal Affairs, the main rivers in Hizen are currently more than a dozen large and small rivers, such as the Matsuura River, Kase River, Rokkaku River, Momogawa River, Kurokawa River, and Karagawa River. Chikugo, on the other hand, is home to more than a dozen large and small rivers, such as the Chikugo River, Yabe River, and Yanagi River, which are shared with Hizen.

Among them, the Chikugo River, the largest river in Kyushu, often floods and causes flooding, although it provides irrigation water to the fertile soil of the surrounding plains. In addition to the Chikugo River, the Matsuura River and the Yabe River are also often flooded.

It is precisely in consideration of the increasingly severe Xiaoice period climate in the future and the situation of avoiding the flooding of rivers due to extreme weather, that Zhengliang has invested a huge amount of money in the construction and improvement of water conservancy facilities in the past three years.

In the case of such a huge investment, there is now a tofu scum project, which makes it impossible for Zhengliang not to be angry. In his previous life, what Zhengliang hated most were these moths who took the people's hard-earned money and filled his own pockets.

Zhengliang is determined to deal with these responsible officials ruthlessly, on the one hand, to make everyone pay attention to the matter of water conservancy construction, and on the other hand, to alert all officials and make them realize that they must not embezzle Zhengliang's hard-earned money and food, otherwise they will have to pay the price of blood.

A good end of a territorial patrol was terminated early after such an incident. In the evening of the same day, Masara received a detailed report from Aoyama Nobumoto and the Egawa clan. Sure enough, it was the official in charge of the construction who was greedy for the grain as wages, which led to cutting corners on the river embankment.

At this time, Zhengliang thought of another punishment. It is to drag these captured officials to parade around the territory, set up negative building materials, and after the parade is over, they will be reduced to slaves, responsible for the maintenance and guarding of that section of the embankment, and once the embankment in charge of the river has problems again, they will be directly beheaded.

While Masato was dealing with this case of embezzlement of ink, a fast horse was speeding towards Kishigaku City with a shocking piece of news.

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