Warring States Eagle

Tianwen 16th year ([-]), April.In a blink of an eye, it is the spring plowing season of the year again.

In Yingfeng Castle of Sagara's family in Nanhigo Yatsushiro Prefecture, a meeting is going on at this time.

"Master Messenger, the dispatch of the bright ship has been prepared. Please tell Lord Tanti that our family will never disappoint his expectations." Said Haruhiro Sagara, the son of Sagara Yoshihiro.

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

"Master Messenger, I don't know if my family entrusted someone to deliver the letter to Ouchi Nishiki-sama Yoshitaka-sama a few days ago. Did Mr. Tanti give any instructions?" Uemura Laixing asked cautiously. [

"My lord has already made arrangements for this matter. For details, please read my lord's personal reply." The envoy of the Ouchi family responded.After finishing speaking, the messenger took out a letter from his pocket and handed it to Sagara Haruhiro who was opposite.The latter immediately looked at it together with Uemura Laixing beside him.

After reading the letter, Sagara Haruhiro and Uemura Yoshihide glanced at each other, and then involuntarily breathed a sigh of relief at the same time, and finally Uemura Yoshihing thanked him: "If there is such an arrangement for exploring the problem, our family will naturally be in the way. "

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

"Master Jiyori, please let me introduce you to the next generation. This is Lord Akabane Shinnosuke, one of the three major military advisers of our family." Kato Danzo introduced to Sagara Jiyori.

"It turns out that it is Akabane Shinnosuke-sama who is famous in Kyushu, I have long admired you!" Sagara Jiyori saluted immediately.With the gradual rise of the Luo family in Kyushu, and together with Otomo and Ouchi, they are called the three heroes of Kyushu, some retainers of the Luo family have gradually become familiar to the local people in Kyushu, and even some people with good deeds have given them some names. For example, Kakukuma Ishimune, Yamamoto Kansuke and Akabane Shinnosuke are called the three army divisions of the Ro family; Masao Kinoshita is called the gun ghost of the Ro family;

And after learning that today's visit turned out to be an important minister of the Luo family.Sagara Jiyai, who was still hesitant in his heart, suddenly became more confident.According to historical development, Sagara Jiyori should have been suspected of rebellion by Sagara Yoshiko the year before last and sent troops to conquer, and finally fled his home and wandered around before the arrival of the crusade army.As a result, it turned out that the Luo family's strategy against Higo and deliberately provoked conflicts among the tyrants near Shangyicheng County, which caused Sagara Yoshiko to suspend his attack on Sagara Jiyai and instead concentrated on the main force to compete for Shangyicheng County. Benefit.

But even so.Sagara Jiyai was also having a hard time at Sagara's house, especially since Sagara Yoshiko was still alive at this time, he was almost always worried that Sagara Yoshiko would just find an excuse to attack him.Originally, he already had the idea of ​​running away, but Kato Danzo of the Luo family came to him at this time and provided him with a better choice.Today is the moment when he decides his final choice.

"Master Jiyori. You're being polite!" Seeing Sagara Jiyori saluting solemnly, Akabane Nobunosuke immediately returned the salute solemnly.In fact, he came here secretly today, and he did take a lot of risks. Once the other party secretly kills him, even if he is protected by Kato Duanzo, he may not be able to escape unscathed.But for the master's strategy in Feihou.Akabane Shinnosuke was unwilling to give up such a good opportunity, so he came here.

Just when Akabane Shinnosuke and Sagara Jiyori met in secret, Masara also summoned all the important officials in the family to carry out an important assessment in Hizen Kishizake Castle.

Two full years have passed since the natural disaster and treasonous disaster in the summer of Tianwen 14.The Luo family also took advantage of this period of time to speed up the internal affairs of the territory while repairing.Zheng Liang is no longer willing to affect his future strategies because of internal affairs savings.

After two years of construction, the water conservancy facilities in the territory of the Luo family in Hizen Country, Chikugo Country, Higo Country, and Chikuzen Country have not only been greatly improved, but also a large number of waterwheels and Zhengliang Canals have been added. The water conservancy facilities that played a huge role in the last natural disaster.

Fields.After vigorous reclamation and fertilization during this period, the arable fields in the territory have also increased significantly.

Here I want to explain that the local soil in the country is basically black soil (mainly volcanic ash), peat soil and pan-alkali soil, of which black soil is the most.In addition, the most fertile soil in the area is naturally the alluvial soil formed by the gradual impact of water.However, these places were basically reclaimed as paddy fields by the local people long before Zhengliang appeared (limited by the characteristics of the local land, the people of the Wa country basically only reclaimed the land that seemed to be obviously fertile, and Ordinary land is ignored).And actually the number is not too much.Therefore, most of the fields reclaimed now are black soil fields.

Generally speaking, black soil is formed by the process of strong humus accumulation and stagnant water accumulation, which is a special meadow process.However, the black soil in the Wa country is mostly volcanic ash, not the fertile black soil in the traditional sense.

Although such volcanic ash black soil is fertile at the beginning, generally after several years of reclamation, if the fertilizer and water conditions cannot keep up, the fertility of the land will drop significantly, especially when the phosphorus element is extremely deficient. There is a lot of gravel in the middle, the soil layer is not thick, and if drought occurs from time to time, this will lead to a rapid decline in the amount of black soil fertilizer, 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 a lot of ponds, small reservoirs, and wells) to solve the problems of paddy fields and drought water, and give full play to the production potential of volcanic ash soil.

After several years of operation, the income of the Luo family's territory has increased significantly at this time. The annual income of the Hizen Kingdom has increased to about 37 shi, and the income of the Chikuzen Kingdom is about 22 shi. , Chikugo's income is about 65 shi, and Higo's income is about [-] shi.At this time, the total income of the Luo family's territory was already around [-].

In terms of population, with the continuous addition of a small number of immigrants from the Ming Dynasty in the past two years, the territory of the Luo family at this time has been divided into Matsuura County, Xiaocheng County, Gaolai County, and Saka County in the Hizen Kingdom; Several settlements were formed in places such as Mizuma County and Sanmon County.And these immigrants from the Ming Dynasty gradually began to integrate into the local life, and some of them 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 farming habits, which gradually drove the development of cultural concepts and agricultural farming techniques of the surrounding people.

At the same time, taking advantage of the natural disaster the year before last, the Luo family also took the opportunity to attract a large number of refugees from surrounding areas to settle in the Luo family's territory.Therefore, the population of the Luo family's territory has increased by almost 5 in the past two years, and the registered population in the Luo's family's territory has risen to about 35.Although the population may not seem large, but comparing the income of the territory and the population in the surrounding powerful territories, the Luo family is already considered a populous country in the Kyushu region. [

With such a population base, if the army is selected according to the ratio of one out of five for the powerful and powerful in the Warring States Period, it is completely possible to form an army of 3.Even with one out of ten draws, an army of [-] people can be formed.

Of course, the Luo family took the line of standing troops, which was different from the general temporary recruitment system.Therefore, the Luo family only maintains a standing army of more than 6000 people.

During this period of time, many events occurred in various parts of the Warring States Period that would affect the future trend of history. (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.)