The previous mentioned is the situation in terms of conventional weapons, and the next is the situation in terms of Roche's hot weapons.

Large tube. At present, there is only one large cylinder of the Luo clan, and this large cylinder has been placed by Zhengliang on the fort of Qibu City as a purpose for defending the city. With the range of this large cylinder, it is already completely capable of shooting at ships in Beppu Bay. Therefore, its presence will pose a great threat to enemy ships that attempt to sneak up on Qibu Castle from the sea. In addition, there are two large cylinders that are about to be tested at this time. If all the large cylinders produced this year can successfully pass the test, then the Roche family will have five large cylinders by the end of this year.

Iron cannon side. Due to the limitations of production equipment in this era, as well as the lack of raw materials, only more than fifty iron cannons are currently stored in the warehouse. This part of the iron cannon will be temporarily used as the reserve equipment of the first iron cannon standing team of the Luo family, and after reserving some more iron cannons, Masashi will consider expanding the scale of the iron cannon team.

In terms of gunpowder, it is also limited by raw materials, and there are only less than 2,000 catties of gunpowder in the warehouse at present. Similarly, there are not many large-barreled shells, and only about 50 shells are currently passing. In order to increase the power of the shells, Masarashi has asked the firearms workshop to study how to make flowering shells.

In terms of bullets, based on the fact that a cartridge contains 15 pellets, the Luo family currently has more than 5,000 cartridges and more than 75,000 bullets. In order to facilitate portability, the bullets were placed in a dry, sealed bamboo barrel, just like the early combination technique of gunpowder. An iron cannon is always on hand, and you need to carry at least five rounds of ammunition for each battle.

War horses. At present, the Luo family has more than 300 war horses in the pasture under the wild high mountain, as well as more than 800 reserve war horses (these reserve war horses need to be trained before they can become real war horses).

And on the part of warships. There are already 298 customs ships. More than 500 ships. Eighty-six Dutch ships. Forty merchant ships.

All of the above-mentioned reserves are all the standing armaments that are currently in the Luo family's warehouse and are ready to be supplied to the standing army. In addition to the above-mentioned weapons of the Luo family, in the past wars, the Luo family successively captured more than 7,000 spears and more than 2,000 bows and arrows.

But these spears, bows and arrows are all standard, the quality is uneven, and the quality is much worse than the standard weapons of the Luo family. They were generally used as weapons for temporary conscription of peasant soldiers. When the Peasants are used up, the weapons will be recycled back into the warehouse.

In general, the current armament situation of the Luo family is: 200,000 stone grain, more than 42,000 taels of gold, more than 3,500 taels of silver, 80,000 copper coins, 3,500 spearheads, 1,500 bows, 50,000 bundles of 25 feather arrows, 3,000 katanas, more than 100 black hawk daggers, 20 projection vehicles, 30 siege ladders, 300 Luo's full three front lieutenants, more than 300 pairs of Luo's armor, more than 2,000 catties of gunpowder, 5,000 bullets, more than 50 cannonballs, more than 50 iron cannons, one large cylinder, more than 300 war horses, There were 298 ships, more than 500 small ships, and 86 Dutch ships. In addition, there were more than 7,000 spears of varying quality and more than 2,000 bows and arrows.

A daimyo with an income of 1.6 million koku and a population of more than 900,000 yuan in his territory actually has only such a small amount of armament in his territory's warehouse, which is actually a bit shabby.

But. This is due to the objective situation and objective conditions. In the past few years, the territory of the Luo family has been expanding rapidly (it has a bit of a feeling of being reckless), and it has launched fierce battles with the surrounding daimyos and heroes, and naturally consumes a lot of weapons in the war. And the raw materials used as manufactured weapons were not available for a while (this is the so-called short supply), especially raw materials such as gunpowder even had to rely on Ming merchants and Nanban merchants to obtain, which directly limited the improvement of the Luo family's reserve armaments.

Next, the Luo family had to take a break to recuperate, taking advantage of this time to produce armaments on a large scale, and at the same time to find a way to find a supply road that could stably supply the minerals that were lacking in the local area.

Accompanied by everyone, the inspection of the firearms workshop was completely over, and then Masara came directly to the side of the smelting workshop.

For the smelter. Masato can only put forward opinions from later generations, after all, he is not omnipotent. In the case that he is not very familiar with the smelting industry, he will naturally not blindly command. However, after inspecting the coin minting line in the smelting workshop, Masara was reminded of other aspects of the construction of the territory.

For a long time, for the bad money that flowed into the Luo family from outside the territory (most of it was purchased by the Luo family through the merchant house of the Shenwu family, and even went to purchase copper ore in various places), the silver contained in it was first extracted by the smelting and casting technology introduced from the Ming Dynasty, and then recast into Yongle Tongbao, and finally flowed back to the area outside the Luo family's territory as the main currency of the Luo family's foreign trade.

In the process, the Luo family not only extracted silver from the bad money and the local copper mines, but also made more profits through the difference between the re-minted Yongle Tongbao and the local bad money.

Thinking back on this process, Zhengliang couldn't help but think, since this method can earn the wealth of people outside the Luo family's territory, why can't it be used to earn wealth within the Luo family's territory?

At present, in the territory of the Luo family, the way of trading between the people is basically in the form of bartering (there are not many transactions in the form of coins), among which grain is the most common way to use as currency in the transaction. Therefore, grain is the hard currency in the territory of the Luo family.

For a long time, due to the long-term suffering of lack of food and starvation, almost all the people of the territory would be aware of keeping food at home like golden lumps. Even if they had a surplus, they would rather eat it all than take it out when it could no longer be stored.

It is precisely this concept, and such a way of trading grain as a hard currency, that seriously preserves some of the grain that should have been circulated in the market in the homes of the lords until it is about to rot. Just imagine, if there is this part of the grain, why should the Luo family face the dilemma of having no food at this time? And why hold back when it comes to external strategies?

So how can we change this perception of the people? The answer lies in the coins in the Workshop.

Masahiro plans to establish a money system similar to the bank in the later world in the territory, so that money can replace food as the main intermediate item in the daily transactions of the territory, so as to release the wealth of materials such as grain, etc., and also establish a stable money system in the territory, so that the territory can enter into a healthy development.

At this time, some conditions for the implementation of this system were already in place in the territory.

The first is that the Luo family has minted a large number of coins that belong to the Luo family, and these coins have been gradually introduced into the daily life of the people in the daily transactions of the territory (the law of the Luo family stipulates that only coins unique to the Luo family are allowed to be used in the Luo family's territory). Moreover, the Luo family has always practiced collecting the evil money of other daimyo kept in the hands of the lords, and then exchanging it for the Luo family's unique coins. Therefore, the lords of the Luo family already have the basis for using the Luo family's coins.

Secondly, the Luo family's internal cabinet had actually played the role of a bank equivalent to that of the later generations, and they served as a reserve institution for the income of the lords and the wealthy families of the lords, providing them with reserve food services. On this basis, Masayo could have set up an independent bank-like institution in the Cabinet of the Interior to undertake this kind of business. Then, the unique coins of the Luo family were gradually used as intermediate currency as a hard currency in exchange for the grain of the people and the wealthy families, and the coins were gradually promoted to the main use of currency.

After nearly a decade of development, Hizen Country has become the most prosperous and wealthy area in the Luo family's territory. After so many years of accumulation, it is presumable that the homes of these local people have stored some surplus grain to varying degrees. This provided a basis for the money-for-grain plan implemented by Zhengliang, so as to gradually implement the numismatic system of the Luo family with the Hizen country as a pilot.

Moreover, in order to carry out this plan, Zhengliang can completely let the Cabinet of Internal Affairs study a set of reasonable implementation plans, and at the same time provide some preferential measures to attract the active participation of the people, which will inevitably get a response from the people.

From a long-term point of view, if the Luo family wants to develop steadily in the future, to establish a complete internal political system of the territory, to accumulate foundations, and to become strong, then things similar to the coin system within the territory must be established in advance, and then slowly improved in the process of development. (To be continued......)