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Chapter 13 The Preliminary Development of the Territory (1)

In late April of the ninth year of Astronomy in Japan (1540), at the foot of Takayama No, Higashimaura-gun.

At this moment, Masara Luo was standing on a high hill in the territory, looking at the entire territory from a distance. Behind him were Sahara and Kissara. Due to his hard training and excellent performance, Masara Luo fulfilled his promise and promoted them to his small surname.

"It has been half a month since I came here, and the territory has gradually settled down." Luo's Zhengliang said to himself while looking at the scenery under the hills.

As a new lord without foundation, Luo's Zhengliang did spend a lot of energy in the construction, development and stability of the territory in the past half month. At the same time, his retainers also played an important role in this.

Although Dongxiang Heiji was once the head of the Dongxiang family in Samoa, he was actually only a dozen lords who opposed the fields and still had to participate in the territorial farming work during busy farming, so he was familiar with general civil disputes, farming work, census, material statistics, etc. In the same time, because he had received higher-level education, he was familiar with the situation in the entire Kyushu and the daily work of the lord. He often gave more suggestions to Luo Shi Zhengliang on major decision-making issues, and was also the teacher who quickly integrated into the role of Luo Shi Zhengliang.

The native Daxi Guozhi was said to be a refugee who moved from Honshu Island. Due to the oppression of the rich, he moved to Feiqian. After several twists and turns, his family gradually declined and eventually became refugee and became refugee. He played a great role in farming and organizational management of refugee organizations, and was familiar with the nearby terrain. He was the "living map" of Luo's Masaliang.

Tsuda Hirosum, whose family was originally a small blacksmith in Ise. Due to the flood, Tsuda Hirosum, who was only less than 13 years old, survived. Although he escaped his life, the flood had washed away everything Tsuda Hirosum, who was helpless and had to wander around in grief, living a life of fullness and hunger. Later, he was taken in by an old monk during a street begging, became a monk and became a monk in the temple. As a result, after a few years of work, the old monk returned to the west. Without constraints, the temple immediately fell into a mess and his income was also in a state of affairs.

In the end, several of Tsuda Hirosen's senior brothers decided to surrender to Isaacsen, but Tsuda Hirosen was very disgusted with what Isaacsen did, and eventually split up with several of them and began a wandering life alone. Until he was desperate in Satsuma, he had to surrender to Shimazu Miku as a samurai and met Hirosen Togo. As a samurai, he had been living in many places on Honshu Island and Kyushu Island, and was familiar with the customs and customs of these places. He was generous, had good military power, and had a high understanding in military training. He was a good player in the public security and training of the Luo family's Masayoshi territory.

With the decision of Luo's Zhengliang and the implementation of the three, the territory has developed greatly in the past half month.

With the efforts of everyone, the fields in the territory have expanded from less than 30 to the current 56, of which paddy fields account for two-fifths. The land between Xiaomu Village and Daxi Village has basically been reclaimed, and only some of the mountains are still being reclaimed. The reclaimed fields are immediately distributed to the people of each household under the command of Heiji Dongxiang and Daxi Guozhi, and replanting is immediately organized. The fields that had been sown earlier have now become green.

With the development of the reclamation work, grain reserves are also constantly decreasing, especially when newly reclaimed fields require a large amount of grain cultivation, the territory's grain reserves are currently only about 100 stones left. As the grain pressure is getting stronger, Luo Shi Zhengliang has to increase his efforts in hunting and fishing.

When it comes to hunting, it is inevitable to encounter the problem of eating meat. Why is eating meat a problem? This involves the issue of Buddhism and Shinto. Japan is now known as the Buddha's country, and the entire Japan's respect for Buddhism has reached a point of fanaticism. The emperor even issued a "meat ban order", claiming that according to Buddhism, whatever you eat will become, and eating meat will fall into the animal realm. Therefore, for the benefit of the people, it is not allowed to eat the meat of four-legged animals. Later, because of the prevalence of Shintoism, eating animal corpses was considered filthy, so meat was basically banned. As for fish and birds, they are not within the scope of four-legged animals and can be eaten. Of course, birds are related to the gods of Shinto, and most people do not eat birds.

It turned out that Masayoro Luo was indeed worried that this reason would hinder the hunting work in the territory. As a result, Donggo Heiji's words dispelled this concern. The thief people could eat meat. They were originally engaged in slaughtering and tanning. For example, if they killed cattle, the leather was used by the samurai master to make leather, saddles and liver beef. The samurai did not eat it, so they were cheaper to enjoy it. Later, because of life, the filthy people and refugees with similar status to those of the chaotic people gradually began to eat meat like these chaotic people.

Although the problem of eating meat has been solved, there are too few large animals near the territory, so how to hunt a large amount of meat has become a problem. The largest animal near the territory is wild boars, but the problem is that the territory does not have the energy to provoke them yet, and even hopes that they will not visit the territory, otherwise the food they have been planted will be ruined. There are wild deer, but it takes nearly two days to find it. During this period, you must be wary of the attacks of bandits. After all, hares are too small and cannot catch many in a day. As for pheasants, these pheasants are not domestic chickens from later generations. These pheasants are basically coming and going like lightning, with extremely fast speeds, and they can even fly. It is difficult to hunt or capture in large quantities by relying on ordinary hunting methods alone in the mountains and forests.

Luo's Masara also specifically asked if there were wild wolves in Osaki Kyuji. After all, when he first came here, Luo's Masarara really heard the sound of wolves, and he also ran to death in the forest. Moreover, Luo's Masara clearly remembered that there were local Japanese wolves in Japan, but they were extinct at the end of the 15th century. Dayuji said there were, and there were even bears, but they were basically concentrated on higher mountains or dense forests. There were wolves in the forests deep into the south. Generally, they would avoid humans because wolves and bear skins are hot goods for merchants. A wolf skin can be sold for at least 10 chunks, which is equivalent to the annual income of ordinary farmers. Therefore, many hunters hope to hunt wolves. There is no need to think about bear skins. Dayuji said that he has not heard of anyone who can hunt bears so far.

If you have too little hunting, you can only consider fishing. There are 4 large lakes in the territory, and there are definitely many fish in the lake.
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