Chapter 563
The 16th year of Astronomy (1547), April. It is another spring plowing season for another year.
There was a meeting in Yingfeng City, the Aoki family in the Yada County of Nanfeihou.
"Sir, the matter of sending the ship is ready. Please tell me to the questioner. My family will never let him down." Sarara Haruhiro, who is Surara Yoshi, nourishes his heir.
Yoshizumi Sarara, who was supposed to have died last year, unexpectedly persevered. But even so, he was just temporarily ill and waited for the arrival of the god of death. The daily political affairs of the Sarara family had been gradually handed over to his adopted heir Sarara Haruhi. Today, Sarara Haruhi was on behalf of the Sarara family to receive an envoy from the Otaku family.
"My messenger, I wonder if my family has asked someone to submit a letter to Mr. Yoshitaka, the Exploration of the Great Inn, a letter to Mr. Yoshitaka, who has given instructions?" At this time, Lai Xing, the biological father of Saira Haruhiro and an important official of the Saira family, asked cautiously.
"The lord of my family has made some arrangements for this matter. Please read the lord's personal reply." The envoy of the Oui family responded. After saying that, the envoy took out a letter from his arms and handed it to the opposite side of Aoray Haruhiro. The latter immediately looked at it with Lai Xing, Uemura beside him.
After reading the letter, Aira Haruhiro looked at Lai Xing Uemura, and then involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief. Finally, Lai Xing Uemura said thanking: "If there is such a plan for the topic, my family will naturally be fine."
At the same time, in Okamchi Castle in Yada County, the city lord Aoraya Rai met two important guests in the secret room.
"Master Ori, please let me introduce you to you next time. This is Master Akaba Nobusuke, one of the three major military advisors of our family." Kato Duanzo introduced to Saor Ori.
"It turns out that he was the famous Akaba Nobusuke, who has been famous for a long time in the Kyushu!" Airajira immediately politely. As the Luo family gradually emerged in Kyushu, and together with Otomo and Ouchi, some of the retainers of the Luo family were gradually known to the local people in Kyushu. Some of the good people even gave them some names, such as Kakumakuma Ishisect, Yamamoto Kansuke and Akaba Nobusuke were called the three armed forces of the Luo family; Kinshita Masaru was called the Luo family's spear ghost; Yoshida Shigemasa was even called the first bow pick of the Luo family, etc.
After learning that the person who visited today was an important official of the Luo family. The person who was hesitant in his heart suddenly became much more confident. According to historical development, the Luo family should have been suspected of rebelling and sent troops to fight the enemy two years ago. Finally, before the attacking army arrived, the Luo family escaped from their homes and wandered around. As a result, the Luo family's strategy to Feihou and deliberately provoked conflicts between the powerful people near Shangyicheng County, which led to the Luo family's delay in attacking the attack on Suoliangcheng County and instead concentrated the main force to compete for the interests of Shangyicheng County.
But even so, Saori Haru is not having a good time at Saori's family, especially when Saori Yoshizu was not dead at this time, he was almost always worried about being attacked by Saori Yoshizu. He had already thought of running away, but Kato Kusato of the Luo family came to him at this time and provided him with a better choice. Today is the time when he decided to make the final choice.
"Master Jirai. You're courteous!" After seeing Sairajirai's solemn salute, Nobunosuke Akaba immediately solemnly returned the salute. In fact, he came secretly today, and did take a lot of risks. Once the other party secretly killed him, even if Kato Duanzo is protected by him, he might not be able to escape unscathed. However, for the sake of the master's strategy of the fat queen, Nobunosuke Akaba was unwilling to give up such a good opportunity, so he came.
Just as Nobusuke Akaba and Orirata met secretly, Masara also summoned important officials from the family to make important assessments in the Hibiraki Kyoto Castle.
It has been two years since the natural disaster and rebellion in the summer of the 14th year of the Astronomy. The Luo family also took advantage of this period to rectify and strengthen the internal construction of the territory. Zhengliang no longer wanted to affect his future strategy due to his internal affairs savings.
After two years of construction, the water conservancy facilities in the territory of the Luo family of Feiqian Kingdom, Zhuhouguo, Feihouguo, Zhuhouguo, and Zhuhouguo were not only greatly improved, but also added a large number of water conservancy facilities such as water trucks and Zhengliang Canals that had a huge role in the last natural disaster.
In terms of fields, after this period of vigorous reclaiming and fertilizer replenishment, the fields that can be cultivated in the territory have also increased significantly.
Here we should explain that the local soil in Japan is basically black soil (mainly volcanic ash), peat soil and alkaline soil, and black soil is the most. In addition, the most fertile soil in the local area naturally has alluvial soil formed by the gradual impact of water flow. However, these places were basically reclaimed as paddy fields by local entouragers before Zhengliang appeared (due to restrictions on the characteristics of local land, the Japanese entouragers basically only reclaimed land that looks obviously fat, and ignore ordinary land). And in fact, the number is not too large. Therefore, most of the fields reclaimed now are black soil fields.
Generally speaking, black soil is formed by strong humus accumulation and water retention, which is a special meadowization process. However, these black soils in Japan are mostly volcanic ash, and are not fertile black soil in the traditional sense.
Although such volcanic black soil is still fertile at the beginning, generally after several years of cultivation, if the fertilizer and water conditions cannot keep up, the land fertility will decrease significantly, especially in the case of extremely lack of phosphorus. In addition, most soils have a lot of gravel and not thick soil layers, and droughts occur from time to time, which will lead to a rapid decline in the amount of fertilizer in the black soil and the grain output will naturally decrease.
Therefore, in order to maintain the fertility of these lands, Zhengliang vigorously developed supporting construction of water conservancy facilities (such as building many ponds, small reservoirs, and wells), solving the problem of water in paddy fields and drought, and fully leveraging the production potential of volcanic ash soil.
After several years of operation, the income of the Luo family's territory had increased significantly. The annual income of Feiqian Country at this time had increased to about 370,000 stones, the income of Zhuqian Country was about 4,000 stones, the income of Zhuqian Country was about 220,000 stones, and the income of Feiqian Country was about 55,000 stones. At this time, the total income of the Luo family's territory was about 650,000.
In terms of population, with the continuous addition of a small number of Ming immigrants in the past two years, the Luo family's territory had already formed several settlements in Matsupu County, Xiaocheng County, Gaolai County, and Zoga County in Feiqian Country; Sanzhu County and Shanmen County in the Zhuanghou Country. These Ming immigrants gradually began to integrate into local life, and some people even became a regular part 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 cultural concepts of the surrounding people and the development of agricultural farming technology.
At the same time, with the opportunity of the natural disaster two years ago, the Luo family also took the opportunity to attract a large number of refugees from the surrounding areas to settle in the Luo family territory. Therefore, in the past two years, the population of nearly 50,000 has increased, which has increased the number of registered populations in the Luo family territory to about 350,000. Although this population seems to be small, compared with the income of the territory and the population situation in the surrounding powerful territories, the Luo family is already a large-scale population in the Jiuzhou region.
With such a population base, if the average Warring States period draws a military score of five draws one, it can form an army of 100,000. Even if it draws one draws one draw, it can form an army of 30,000.
Of course, the Luo family took the regular route of elite troops, which is different from the general temporary collection system. Therefore, the Luo family only maintained the regular military strength of more than 6,000 people.
Chapter completed!