Warring States Eagle

Someone secretly contacted the dissatisfied retainers and nobles in the Luo family's territory in an attempt to instigate a conspiracy.And Arima Harujun is one of the rich families who received the invitation.

According to common sense, the territory of the Arima family in Nanhou was occupied by the Luo family. Although after being forced to surrender to the Luo family, not only the territory of the Arima family was transferred, but even Arima Qingchun also got the Luo family. However, compared to the days when he stayed alone in front of Nanfei and became the Emperor of the Earth, it is indeed not so satisfactory now.So if the Ma family conspired to rebel, it was absolutely possible.

But Arima Qingchun is not an easy-going lamp, he has a very clear view of the situation in the Luo family's territory.The vassals in the territory and the general small wealthy families are all bound by the law of the Luo family. Not only is the family's wealth insufficient, but even the rights in the territory are basically controlled by the local village heads who support the Luo family. The right to overall management of the territory, and the right to appoint and remove these village heads.After all, as the lords of the territory, they are mainly responsible for the daily civil and agricultural management of the territory, keeping the territory stable and food production guaranteed.

The most important military force is basically concentrated in the hands of the Luo family. Whether they are retainers or small wealthy families, they only have 15 guards at most.Anything more would be considered treason.

It is conceivable that in the absence of grassroots support and lack of military power, even if there is such a small group of people involved in the rebellion, they are doomed to fail. [

It is precisely because he has seen through the fate of the conspiracy, so after secretly receiving the invitation to discuss, Arima Qingjun pretended to accept the other party's invitation, and at the same time secretly sent someone to Feihou to inform Zhengliang.So in the end there was a scene where Arima Harujun's retainers met with Masara.

When he suddenly heard the news, Zheng Liang even felt a little self-deprecating.Just now, he was still happy about the instability in the rear of Otomo's family and Higo's powerful families, and was preparing to do a big job, but in the blink of an eye, it was his own rear that also had problems.

The current situation of Higo is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for the Luo family.Once mastered well, it is really possible to replace Otomo's family to control the central and northern regions of Higo.But it happened at this juncture that this problem arose.

"My lord, please calm down!" At this time, Kansuke Yamamoto finally finished reading Arima Harujun's letter, and seeing Masara's angry eyes, he immediately knew that Masara was annoyed by the problems in the territory.After all, Kansuke Yamamoto is also an elderly person, and he has traveled around the world. In terms of experience and psychological maturity, he is much better than Zheng.So even if he suddenly learned of the changes in the territory, he quickly calmed down from the shock.

"Military division, what do you think about this?" Zheng Liang asked with clenched fists.

"The top priority is to temporarily block this matter." Kansuke Yamamoto said immediately.

"Oh?" Zheng Liang was taken aback when he heard the words, but he soon understood what Kansuke Yamamoto meant.This so-called blockade of news, one is to keep the enemy from knowing, and the other is not to let them know even the people around them.After all, since someone conspired to rebel.Then it is difficult to be sure that there are no rebels among the retainers who follow Zheng Liang at this time.If they were made aware of the anomaly and allowed the rebellion to break out in advance, then the situation Zheng Liang would face would be even more difficult.

After realizing what Kansuke Yamamoto meant, Masamori immediately asked Youwu, who came to deliver the letter but didn't know about the conspiracy, to temporarily stay in Masamurai's samurai team.At the same time, all the other people in the big tent were sent out of the big tent immediately.

"My lord, I think my lord should think about it first, and then discuss with my subordinates what to do after I calm down." Kansuke Yamamoto said immediately after seeing the people in General Masara's tent clear the scene.

Zheng Liang nodded, then took a deep breath.Think slowly.

The first thing Zheng Liang thought of was why there was sudden instability in the territory.Soon Zhengliang found the first reason, which was the laws of the Luo family.In essence, in fact, the law currently practiced by the Luo family is first of all to turn the territorial enfeoffment system prevailing in the Warring States period into a centralized system similar to the Chinese style of "half salary and half enfeoffment".

Such a system only authorizes the civil and agricultural management rights of the retainers and the small wealthy people below, but it firmly controls the military power of the territory, and even the independent military power of these people is strictly restricted.As for the other tax power they care about, Zheng Liang has also collected it into his hands, and they can only get the harvest of the territory from the hands of the king.Instead of getting the harvest directly from the hands of the farmers.

In the final analysis, this kind of law actually makes the lords become the local administrators, with only administrative power, but no military and financial power.Such a system obviously weakened the interests of the lords to a certain extent.

The reason why Luo's family was able to implement such a set of laws smoothly was because Conglong Zhichen who followed Zhengliang to start a family was originally a bunch of poor people who had nothing at first, but now they were suddenly entrusted.Although their rights are restricted, they have nothing to complain about. After all, it's better than having all of them.

And some retainers who joined later, although they were originally local tyrants themselves.But after all, they were the defeated party, and they had only the fate of being exploited and dealt with by others. In addition, the Luo family had formed such a legal system internally at this time, so they would naturally follow the Romans.Even if there were complaints in his heart, he could only watch helplessly as his power was weakened, and obediently followed the laws of the Luo family.

It's just that these people have complaints after all, plus those small wealthy families and small landlords who have also been weakened in power, with the continuous expansion of the power of the Luo family, this group must be getting bigger and bigger.

Besides, with the increase of power, it is hard to guarantee that those retainers who originally supported the Luo family will not have more thoughts and need more rights after their material desires are satisfied.

Of course, Zheng Liang had already anticipated these at the beginning of the law.That's why he insisted on implementing several policies.For those small wealthy families and small lands that are as numerous as ants, they cannot be killed everywhere, so that the progress of the Luo family's strategy every time will be greatly slowed down.Therefore, the way to deal with these local small wealthy families and small landowners is to relocate them, make them lose their original roots, and then re-root in new places that already support the Luo family, and fall under the surveillance of Luo family supporters.

If someone resists during this period, the policy of extermination will be adopted immediately, and all the male members of the family will be killed, and the female family members will be reduced to slaves and assigned to retainers and soldiers, or resettled.This approach is tantamount to triggering future conflicts in advance and then resolving them in advance. [

In addition, it is to resolutely control the military power, firmly control the general power in the hands, prevent the retainers and wealthy families from forming a military group on their own, and more importantly, prevent the retainers from supporting the army and self-respecting.At the same time, vigorously promoted the retainers who supported the law of the Luo family, and suppressed the retainers who represented the old law.The most direct way is to allow retainers representing the old law to only take on internal affairs positions, and prevent them from contacting important positions such as intelligence and military affairs.Gradually support a group of retainers who support the law of the Luo family.

There is also the implementation of the institution of higher education and immigration policies.Cultivate a large number of new generations who support Luo's family law through the school.More than ten years later, as this group of people with new ideas gradually took control of various functions and powers in the territory, Zhengliang's regime has been greatly consolidated.And a large number of Ming immigrants who have been influenced by the local centralized culture in Ming will also be supporters of the Zhengliang regime.

In the end, by forcibly enforcing the laws of the Luo family, using time, the most powerful weapon, to gradually weaken the strength of these old forces.The longer the time dragged on, the fewer civilians would support them (because the civilians had already benefited from the laws of the Roche family and knew that those were the best for them), and even the samurai who were loyal to them, because they followed them. They were unable to join the Luo family's army, and thus lost the opportunity to make contributions and gradually left.In the end, they could only devote themselves to becoming the lord officials of the Luo family's management area.

However, such a policy will definitely encounter many obstacles in the initial stage of implementation.For example, this incident of conspiracy within the territory is the best example.Even once something happens to the family governor who is the centripetal force of the family or the strength of the family is greatly weakened, these temporarily compromised guys will surface and start doing evil.

However, even if the Luo family is currently implementing the most popular enfeoffment system in the Warring States Period, such problems will still arise.It will be even more serious.The most typical example is the split of the retainers after the death of Oda Nobunaga, and the rise of Tokugawa Ieyasu after the death of Toyotomi Hideyoshi.In such an example, the wealthy family as the main family did not end up in a miserable end.

The reason is not that although the enfeoffment system made the retainers full of enthusiasm in the early stage, it buried hidden dangers in the future, allowing the retainers to have all the conditions for conspiracy.This system, which relies on the personal charm of the governor and the moral loyalty of the retainers, is very weak in the face of human greed and primitive desires.

The current laws of the Luo family also give sufficient material benefits to the retainers who are willing to serve the Luo family. The land and the common people are all under the direct control of the Luo family.In this way, the conditions for retainers to rebel are controlled from the root.

If the two laws appeared in front of Zheng Liang again, and let Zheng Liang choose, although this is a difficult choice, for the long-term stability of the territory in the future, as well as the safety of his children and grandchildren, Zheng Liang will still choose the law that the Luo family goes first.

Of course, choosing such a test means that in the early stage of the test, Zheng Liang will encounter many difficulties.It can even be said that the entire Warring States system is the enemy of Zhengliang.

Regarding such consequences, Zheng Liang seemed very calm.In his opinion, since he came here for a reason, he must leave something worthy of study and praise for future generations.

Do as the Romans do?No, Zheng Liang rejects such plots.He prefers to be able to gradually implement what he thinks is correct based on the actual environment.

What he wants to do is to be a pioneer and trend-setter in history and the times! (To be continued. If you like this work, you are welcome to come to the starting point to vote, monthly pass, your support is my biggest motivation. Mobile phone users, please go to read.)