Subjects are easy to get along with, and as long as you let them see the benefits, they will firmly follow in your footsteps no matter what you decide in the future.

In the Wa Kingdom, brick houses are generally only found in temples (temples are mostly brick and tile, and there is a lot of space inside, the wooden floors of the monks' houses are all suspended buildings from the ground, and the rooms of the abbot and other high monks are covered with tatami mats), but now there are a large number of brick and tile houses around Notaka Mountain in Matsuura County, Hizen Province, Kyushu, which is indeed rare in Wakoku Province, which is dominated by mud and straw houses and wooden houses.

After nearly a decade of development, it has also become the wealthiest area in the Luo family's territory (because it benefited early, it naturally developed faster than other areas), so it was also the first area to build houses into more solid and beautiful brick houses.

And it is precisely because of the previous attempts that I have seen a lot of benefits, so this is also the smoothest place for the Roche family to implement new initiatives. So on the way forward, in addition to seeing crops such as divine melons and corn, Masara also saw two new things that were being fully implemented in the territory.

One of them is the pigsty. Next to the houses of some of the lords, Masashi found some pigsties. In other words, these lords are already raising pigs. Naturally, these pigs came from the slave farm of the Roche family, located at the foot of the wild high mountains.

When the Luo family made a fortune, it was Zhengliang who led a part of the people into the forest and then brought a litter of wild boars that had been harassing the village fields for a long time, killing the big wild boars and harvesting several small wild boars. At that time, Masashi kept these small wild boars in a pigsty on the farm. Since then, there have been people who have caught small wild boars and put them in this pigsty (due to cultural and food and clothing at that time). And the people are not willing to keep these little wild boars in captivity alone). After nearly a decade of development. The pen has grown into a farm with more than 150 pigs.

The piglets that were born were domesticated into domestic pigs, which were then diverted to slave farms throughout the territory to establish new farms. Some of the piglets were sold to the local notakayama people at their request and raised as domestic pigs.

These pigs are treasures, in addition to waiting for these piglets to grow up and can be sold back to the Luo family's internal cabinet, the most important thing is that the pig manure of these pigs can be used as fertilizer to increase the fertility of the field. It can be said that it kills two birds with one stone, so it is very popular with the people.

Except for the pigsty. Masara also saw vegetable gardens and mulberry trees on the foundations of some fish ponds. This is the mulberry fishpond cultivation method that has been practiced in the slave farm of the Luo family, but I didn't expect that the people here have begun to imitate the cultivation.

Especially mulberry trees. At present, in the Luo family's territory, only the textile workshops near Kishidake Mountain Castle and the slave farms in various parts of the territory are cultivating this crop, as for other places, because they are worried that the people will not be able to accept this new crop for a while and lack the cultivation skills, they have not yet begun to promote the popularization of mulberry planting, but the people here have become the first to eat crabs.

The team traveled all the way and soon arrived outside the town of Notaka at the foot of Nodakayama. As the residence of the former daimyo of the Luo family and the origin of the Luo family, the prosperity of this place is definitely not inferior to that of the castle town of Kishidake Mountain Castle.

Before Masarashi moved his residence to Kishigaku Mountain Castle, it had already begun to be renovated. After the renovation is completed. The town is divided into two by a marching avenue that runs from north to south, and is flanked by a commercial street to the west. To the east are residential houses and some official institutions of the Luo family.

Since this is the distribution center of the Luo's snow salt business, and it is also the most prosperous area in the country before the Luo family's hiji, in the commercial streets, Masara saw various commercial houses such as the Divine House and the Luo's House, and even found dozens of commercial houses opened by the people independently. Being able to concentrate such a large number of commercial houses in one place is already the place where Masato has seen the most commercial houses since his inspection.

On the side of the commercial street, Zhengliang also saw a market with an area of more than ten acres. At this time, the market was full of people, and a large number of people who heard that the name of the Luo family had come to inspect came out one after another to watch. Looking at the crowd rubbing shoulders, Masara had the feeling that he was visiting Sakai Town.

On the east side of the town, there are private houses and some of the official institutions of the Luo family. There are several institutions that are well-known in the Luo family's territory and attract a large number of people from all over the world to visit them every year.

The recruiting office is a standing institution for the Luo family to recruit reserves. Almost every day, the consulates (including the ronin samurai) come to sign up, and the recruiting office is responsible for registering the information of the lords and conducting the corresponding tests. The content of the test is mainly the basic movements of the daily training of the peasant soldiers, such as lifting stones, dancing knives and guns, archery, long-distance running, and queue drills (according to the law of the Luo family's territory, the town or village head responsible for the training of peasant soldiers and scouts in each town and village should have at least four days a month for intensive training of peasant soldiers and scouts). These peasant soldiers and scouts can be said to be the lowest source of soldiers of the Luo family, and the soldiers recruited through recruitment are the second level of the Luo family's reserve soldiers. They will receive regular free training with food and lodging. Whenever the Luo family entered the war mobilization stage, these reserves had to be recruited for war first. The third layer of soldiers is the standing soldiers).

Although there are many items in the test, basically as long as one of these participants in the test is outstanding, they will be hired. The selected ones are then sent to a new battalion in the Notaka Mountains and forests for training.

Similar to this recruitment, there are dozens of recruiting stations in the territory of the Luo family, such as the Hizen country, the Chikugo country, and the Higo country, which deliver a large number of qualified reserve soldiers to the Luo family's military every year. In the next step, Masaro plans to lay down such institutions in Bungo Province and Chikuzen Province as well.

Similar to the functions of the recruiting office, there is also a town office. These offices are designed to recruit skilled personnel in occupations such as civil affairs, agriculture, and craftsmen. After passing a special test, the information of these talents will be registered, and then those who have special skills in civil affairs and agriculture will be sent to some small villages to test their talents. During the trial period. There are special personnel to track the probation of these talents. After the trial period ends. The Cabinet will decide whether or not to leave the person based on his or her performance. As the one who stays in the end. They are still stationed at the grassroots level in various places, but they will regularly go to the Cabinet for training to strengthen their expertise.

Although there are still many imperfections in this process, such a measure is the first of its kind in this era. It is also through this way that a large number of grassroots personnel have been accumulated for the Luo family. These people will gradually replace the role of the lord and the wealthy family, and slowly infiltrate the various places of the Luo family, forming the unique management network of the Luo family.

The remaining craftsmen will be handed over to the ironwork and carpentry workshops in Nodakayama for further arrangement.

It is located in the canyon on the Notaka Mountains that once served as the residence of Masayo. At this time, it had become the headquarters of the ironwork workshop and the carpentry workshop. It is inhabited by a large number of craftsmen and their families. But Masahiro's mansion is still preserved, and there has always been a special person in charge of taking care of it. And Zhengliang will also bring all his wives and concubines and children here to relax in his spare time.

For these craftsmen recruited from the government, there is also a strict trial process as the general workshop that oversees all the private ironwork workshops and woodworking workshops in the Luo family's territory. In short, if it weren't for the direct promotion of Zhengliang, the newly recruited craftsmen would have worked outside the main workshop for at least three years before they could come into contact with some of the secret techniques of the Luo family.

In the mountains and forests near the main workshop, it is currently the only recruit training camp of the Luo family. This boot camp is mainly responsible for training the Roche family's standing reserve recruits. It is precisely because of such an important responsibility that the hundreds of instructors in it are all retired from the standing army for various reasons.

As a reserve for the Roche family. They enjoy the treatment of the Luo family's regular free training with food, shelter and clothing, as well as the treatment of their family members who have been promoted because they have become reservists (the law of the Luo family stipulates that after becoming the military of the Luo family, the status level of their family members will also be increased, and they will enjoy lower taxes and military pensions). There are also the following costs:

First, after receiving the mobilization order of the Luo family. They must unconditionally assemble at the meeting place within the specified time limit, and then go out with the army (these are the main sources of peasant soldiers for each of the Luo family's major wars).

The second is to regularly participate in at least two territorial border guard missions and other tasks with the training camp instructor as the main general every year. This is also the main source of peasants and soldiers stationed in the various standing units.

Third, at least half a month of each month should be spent in the training camp of the recruit training camp.

Compared with the peasant soldiers who usually only lead the village head of the village to train for four days a month, these reserve peasant soldiers have higher physical fitness, longer training time (basically semi-full-time), and higher quality of training. They are also the main source of soldiers for the Luo family's conquest and an important source of soldiers to supplement the battle losses of each team. In the future, after the official opening of the Roche Academy in Hizen Country, this boot camp will also become a branch of the Roche Military Academy.

Now that there is a full-time training camp for training reserves, Masahiro plans to build another training camp for the reserve of the navy. The location has also been decided, which is in Dangjin Bay.

At present, among the Luo family's sailors, those sailors and ordinary peasant soldiers are temporarily recruited from the coastal fishermen. Although these fishermen also train on water and land four days a month under the leadership of the village head, their combat effectiveness is still uneven, and their personnel may not all be trusted. After all, the navy is different from the army, once the ship is carefully controlled by the enemy in wartime, it will basically lose at least one warship, which will cause greater losses. That's why Masahiro had the idea of setting up a naval recruit training camp.

Of course, here in Notakayama, in addition to the boot camp, there is also a war horse training camp. That is currently the only ranch of the Luo family.

The ranch is located in a wooded area between Notaka Mountain and Mt. Shotaka. In the middle of the woods there was a lake formed by a forest stream, and around the lake was a flat grassland. It used to be the habitat of a herd of wild horses, but after it was discovered by the Roche family, it was converted into a pasture. Since then, the horses that the Luo family has seized and purchased from all over the world will gather here.

After these horses are selected, a number of horses suitable for use as horses will continue to be trained until they become qualified horses. They will serve as mounts for the Roche's standing cavalry. Since it is the treasure war horse of the Luo family, the treatment is naturally not bad. The daily feed for them is the best feed. Even the stables where they live are the best in the environment, and they are taken care of.

The other part of the horses that are not suitable for war horses are the pack horses that will be used to transport supplies and the communication horses that will be used to supply heralds and scouts. For the sake of material saving, they are treated relatively poorly, but at least they will be guaranteed to be fed. After all, every horse is a valuable resource for the Luo family.

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