It was the end of November in the second year of Koji, and the weather was gradually getting colder. In the courtyard of Yamaguchi Castle in Zhou Defense Province, a citrus tree is said to have been planted by the late Ouchi Suke Ouchi Yoshitaka himself, and it is already full of golden fruits and full of fragrance. I am afraid that I was tempted by the aroma, and there were many birds and finches in the yard. Masara stood in the warm sun of the courtyard, staring at these birds for a long time.

With the advent of winter, this year's autumn harvest has finally come to an end. Although there was a small drought in northern Kyushu last year, and the eruption of the Mt. Aso volcano, the impact on the income of the Roche family in the Kyushu area was not very large. On the island of Honshu, Nagato Province, Zhou Province, Aki Province, Bigo Province and other places, as expected, their incomes were affected a lot due to the war.

After an autumn harvest, after deducting the income left to the lords and the retainers, the Luo family's territory of 3 million stones collected a total of 1 million stones in taxes, plus the income of more than 400,000 stones in the warehouses before, and the current income of more than 1.4 million stones in the warehouses of the Luo family.

Naturally, Masara could not immediately learn about a conspiracy involving the Luo family in Osaka, but because of the support of this batch of autumn harvest income this time, Masara began to implement a series of policies that he had originally planned. First of all, it ordered the formal start of military expansion and military adjustment. At this time, when the autumn harvest was over, the people were stable, and the area occupied by the Western Kingdom was gradually stabilized, and the two cities that were still resisting, among which the Aralong Castle in the Nagato Kingdom had also been captured, and most of the recalcitrant elements in it were slaughtered, leaving only the women and children to become members of the Luo family's slave farm. Now, only Nushing City, located in Zhou Fangguo, is still stubbornly resisting. Under such conditions. Naturally, it is conducive to the expansion of the Luo family and the development of the military adjustment plan.

Meanwhile. Masarashi officially ordered the transfer of most of the slave troops to the western regions and dismantle most of the castles in these areas. These include:

Among them, in the Nagato Country area, the castles that are about to be demolished include Katsuyama Castle, Kugakuyama Castle, Kameyama Castle, Yada Castle, Seokei Castle, Okabe Castle, Shinda Maru Castle, Arryu Castle, Inner County Castle, and Takayama Castle, and finally only Shigetsu Castle and Watagawa Castle were left to be garrisoned by the Luo clan.

On the side of Zhou Fangguo, the castles that will be demolished include Tsukiyama Castle, Shoshikodake Castle, Himeyama Castle, Udadake Castle, Wakayama Castle, Chausuyama Castle, Ite Castle, Takamori Castle, Mimu Castle, Hakkaisan Castle, Sangaoka Prison Castle, Renhua Castle, Kamiyo Castle, Gumi Castle, and Shimasue Castle, while Numa Castle will also be demolished after the fall of the Luo family, and Yamaguchi Castle, the home castle of the Yuan Taiuchi, is used as a temporary residence of the Luo family, after the Luo family's territories in various parts of the Western Kingdom are completely stabilized. The fort will also be demolished.

As for Aki Province, the castles to be demolished include Katsuyama Castle, Sakurao Castle, Nomi Castle, Maruya Castle, Arisaki Castle, Yano Castle, Kusatsu Castle, Kanayama Castle, Oolongyama Castle, Oyama Castle, Akagi Yamajo, Ikujo Yamajo, Hakurayama Castle, Ryuo Yama Castle, Takayama Castle, Kimura Castle, Katsuragi Castle, and Taishan Castle, while Eshita Castle, Takamatsu Castle, Kinosaki Castle, Chausu Yama Castle, and Oda Castle were used as the stations of the Roche family's permanent team.

Such a large-scale demolition of the city will inevitably require a lot of manpower, material resources and time, but for the sake of the safety of the territory, Masashi still issued the order.

At the same time as the demolition of the various fortresses, Masashi issued a final, more serious order, that is, the relocation order of the people and the wealthy clans.

The first target of the relocation order was the priests and other wealthy families of the shrines on Itsukushima. These guys are the grass on the wall, and Itsukushima is located at sea. It's easy to break away from the control of the Luo family, and more importantly. Masara also wanted to control the place of the shrine that was popular with the people this time, and hoped to open the shrine on the island to promote the Shinto of the Luo family. Therefore, Masara personally issued an order to forcibly disperse all the wealthy families and those original residents on the island to Kyushu to settle down, and the shrine on the island was newly appointed to be stationed by the priests who graduated from the Luo family's school, and the people also selected some refugees who had just taken refuge outside the territory of the Luo family to settle down. In the future, Itsukushima and Itsukushima Shrine will be open to all members of the Luo family as one of the places of worship within the Luo family's territory.

In addition to the relocation of the wealthy clans and lords on Itsukushima, most of the original wealthy clans and lords in the Nagato Province, Shubo Province, and Aki Province will also be relocated to the Bunzen Province, Bungo Province, and the eastern part of Chikuzen Province in the Kyushu region. At this time, these areas were vigorously resuming production under the auspices of his son-in-law, Tang Wang Maru, Luo Shi Huiliang. After the previous counterinsurgency was completed, the local area has quickly calmed down, and after eliminating the rebel temples and shrines and some believers, and re-seizing the land, a lot of land has been added to these areas.

And this vacant land is mainly concentrated in the eastern part of the Bunzen Province and Chikuzen Province, which had already been cleared once when it was first occupied by the Luo family, so this time it was just a matter of clearing out some hidden rebels. These vacant fields are used to house these wealthy families and people who have been relocated. The specific relocation and resettlement matters of the local area can be handed over to the sister-in-law Luo Huiliang to be responsible. As the heir of the Luo family, Luo Huiliang was excellent in the previous local pacification, and after the pacification ended, Masato once again promoted the management authority of his son-in-law (leaving only the inheritance of the intelligence cabinet to be responsible to Masaara), and handed over all the internal affairs and military affairs in the Kyushu region to his son-in-law, and the retainers who stayed behind assisted in his management.

And after the local wealthy families and lords in the western country were relocated, a lot of land was naturally vacant. Some of these lands will be rewarded to the retainers and soldiers who have made military achievements according to the law, so that they can become new local lords and officials, and the other part will be allocated to the slaves of the Luo family whose service is about to expire and the displaced people outside the Luo family who continue to flee.

Such an immigration strategy, on the one hand, is to avoid the possibility of retainers secretly grouping together because of the concentration of territory, and to avoid the emergence of different factions in the family; At the same time, it also weakened the hidden power of forces such as Maori and Nizi in these areas, and disrupted their covert arrangements. On the other hand, it is the migration of large numbers of people into their own forces, which quickly fills the emptiness of these areas and accelerates the control of local rule.

Of course, the purpose of such immigrants is naturally more than that.

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