Astronomical 16th year (1547), April. In the blink of an eye, it is the spring ploughing season of the year.

In the Eagle Peak City of the Sagara family of the Sagara family of the eighth generation of Nanhigo, there was a meeting at this time.

"Your Excellency, the matter of sending the Ming ship has been prepared, please tell the Explorer, and our family will definitely not disappoint his expectations." Haruhiro Sagara, who nourishes the heir of Sagara Yoshi, said.

Yoshizu Sagara, who was supposed to die last year, unexpectedly persevered. But even so, he was only temporarily lying in bed and waiting for death to come. And the daily political affairs of the Sagara family have been gradually handed over to his adopted heir, Sagara Haruhiro, at this time. Today, Haruhiro Sagara is receiving the envoy from the Ouchi family on behalf of the Sagara family.

"Envoy, I wonder if the letter handed over by the trustee of the Koudao family to Lord Yoshitaka of Ouchi and the Western Kingdom of Ouchi a few days ago, and whether the Visitor-sama has any instructions?" At this time, Uemura Yorixing, who is the biological father of Sagara Haruhiro and a major minister of the Sagara family, asked cautiously.

"This matter has been arranged by the father-in-law, please see the father-in-law's handwritten reply." The Ouchi family envoy responded. After speaking, the messenger took out a letter from his bosom and handed it to Sagara Haruhiro on the other side. The latter immediately watched it with Yoriko Uemura beside him.

After reading the letter, Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoriko glanced at each other, and then involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief at the same time. ”

At the same time, in Okajo Castle in Yashiro-gun, the lord of the castle, Sagara Jiyori, was meeting two important guests in a secret room.

"Lord Jirai, please introduce me to me next. This is one of the three major military divisions of the family, Shinnosuke Akabane-sama. Kato Duanzo introduced to Sagara Jiyori.

"It turned out to be Shinnosuke Akabane-sama who shook Kyushu. In the next long up! Sagara immediately saluted. With the gradual rise of the Roche family in Kyushu. And together with Otomo and Ouchi, they are known as the three heroes of Kyushu, and some of the retainers of the Luo family are gradually known by the local people in Kyushu, and even some people with good deeds have given them some names, such as Kakukuma Ishizong, Yamamoto Kansuke and Akabane Shinnosuke are known as the three military divisions of the Luo family; Kinoshita Masanao was called the gun ghost of the Luo family; Yoshida Shigemasa is known as the first bow of the Luo family, and so on.

And after learning that it was the important minister of the Luo family who was visiting today, Sagara Jiyori, who was still hesitant in his heart, suddenly became a lot more confident. According to historical development, Sagara Jiyori was supposed to be suspected of rebellion by Sagara Yoshitsu the year before and sent troops to conscript, and finally fled his home and wandered around before the arrival of the crusading army. It turned out to be due to a strategy of the Luo family on the fat queen. and deliberately provoked the contradiction between the powerful near Kamiyijo County, which led to Sagara Yoshiji suspending his action against Sagara Jiyori and instead concentrating the main force to compete for the interests of Kamiyijo County.

But even so, Sagara Jiyori is not having a good time in Sagara's house, especially when Sagara Yoshiji is not dead at this time, he is almost always worried about being attacked by Sagara Yoshiji casually making an excuse. Originally, he already had the idea of escaping, but the Luo family's Kato Duanzang came to the door at this time and provided him with a better choice. Today is the moment for him to decide on his final choice.

"Lord Jiri, be polite!" After seeing Sagara Jirai solemnly saluting. Shinnosuke Akabane immediately returned the salute solemnly. Actually, today he came in secret. It is indeed a great risk, once the other party secretly kills him, even if he is protected by Kato Duanzang, he may not be able to escape with his whole body. But for the sake of the master's strategy in Higo, Shinnosuke Akabane was unwilling to give up such a good opportunity, so he came.

At the time of the secret meeting between Shinnosuke Akabane and Jiyori Sagara, in the castle of Hizen Kunigishi, Masara also summoned all the important ministers of the family to make an important assessment.

It has been two years since the natural disaster and the treacherous disaster in the summer of the 14th year of astronomy. The Luo family also took advantage of this time to step up the internal construction of the territory while repairing. Zhengliang is no longer willing to affect his future strategy because of his internal political savings.

After two years of construction, the water conservancy facilities in the territory of the Luo family in Hizen Province, Chikugo Province, Higo Province, and Chikuzen Province were not only greatly improved, but even a large number of water conservancy facilities such as waterwheels and masarachi canals, which played a great role in the last natural disaster, were added.

In terms of fields, after this period of vigorous cultivation and fertilization, the number of arable fields in the territory has also increased significantly.

It should be noted here that the local soil of the Wa Kingdom is basically black soil (mainly volcanic ash), peat soil and panalkaline soil, and black soil is the most common. In addition, the most fertile soil in the area is naturally the alluvial soil formed by the gradual impact of the water, but these places have been basically reclaimed as paddy fields by the local subjects long before the emergence of Zhengliang (limited by the limitations of local land characteristics, the subjects of the Wa Kingdom will basically only reclaim the land that seems to be obviously fertile fields, and ignore the ordinary land), and in fact there are not too many of them. Therefore, most of the fields that have been reclaimed now are black soil fields.

In general, black soils are formed by strong humus accumulation and stagnant water accumulation processes, which is a special meadowization process. However, these black soils in the Wa Kingdom are mostly volcanic ash, not fertile black soil in the traditional sense.

Such volcanic ash black soil, although it is fertile at the beginning, but generally after a few years of reclamation, if the fertilizer and water conditions can not keep up, the soil fertility will decline significantly, especially in the case of extreme lack of phosphorus, coupled with the amount of gravel in most of the soil, the soil layer is not thick, and the drought phenomenon occurs from time to time, which will lead to a rapid decline in the amount of black soil fertilizer, and the yield of grain will naturally decline.

Therefore, in order to maintain the fertility of these lands, Zhengliang vigorously developed the construction of water conservancy facilities (such as the construction of many ponds, small reservoirs, and wells) to solve the problem of paddy fields and drought water, and give full play to the production potential of volcanic ash soil.

After a few years of operation, the income of the Luo family's territory has increased significantly, and the annual income of Hizen Province at this time has increased to about 370,000 koku, Chikuzen Kuni's income is about 4,000 koku, Chikugo's income is about 220,000 koku, and Higo's income is about 55,000 koku. At this time, the total income of the Luo family's territory was already about 650,000.

In terms of population, in the past two years, with the continuous addition of a small number of Ming immigrants, the territory of the Luo family has been in Matsuura County, Ojo County, Takae County, and Saga County in Hizen Province; Several settlements were formed in Mizuma-gun and Yamamon-gun in Chikugo Province. And these Ming immigrants have gradually begun to integrate into local life, and some have even become a standing member of the Luo family's army. More importantly, the arrival of these people brought more advanced cultural concepts and more advanced agricultural farming habits, thus gradually driving the development of cultural concepts and agricultural farming techniques of the surrounding people.

At the same time, with the opportunity of the natural disaster the year before last, the Luo family also took the opportunity to attract a large number of displaced people from the surrounding areas to settle in the Luo family's territory. Therefore, in the past two years, the population in the Luo family's territory has increased by almost 50,000 people, so that the number of registered people in the Luo family's territory has risen to about 350,000. Don't look at this population, it doesn't seem to be large, but compared with the income of the territory and the population in the surrounding powerful territories, the Luo family is already a populous country in the Kyushu region.

With such a population base, if it is drawn according to the ratio of the general strong and powerful army of the Warring States period, it is completely possible to form an army of 100,000. Even if it is one out of ten, it can form an army of 30,000 people.

Of course, the Luo family took the route of standing elite soldiers, which was different from the general temporary recruitment system. Therefore, the Luo family only maintains a standing army of more than 6,000 people.

During this period, many events also occurred in various parts of the Warring States that affected the future direction of history. (To be continued......)