Warring States Eagle

In the morning, he made a private visit to the castle town of Kishitake Mountain Castle, and after taking Mihime and Nohime, the two troublemakers, back to the city and putting them under house arrest, in the afternoon of that day, Zhengliang fell into the busy territorial affairs again.

In the early morning of the next day, there was a slight wind blowing outside, and it even started to drizzle, making the weather look gloomy.It was just dawn, but Zheng Liang dragged his tired body from last night and began to dress and prepare to set off under the service of the maid.Before leaving the bedroom, he took another sneak peek at Ju Ji, who was still sleeping soundly under the covers, and Zheng Liang smiled happily.Last night, the two were lingering to death. It is estimated that Ju Ji was overworked, so today she will not be able to get up for a while.

After breakfast, Zhengliang started to go to the mountains near Kishiyama Castle under the guard of the crowd.Today he is going to inspect the various workshops in the mountains.

Riding Bailihei from the gate of Anyue Mountain City, what Zheng Liang saw was a marching avenue that could accommodate ten war horses walking side by side.The avenue is mainly paved with cement materials unique to the Luo family. Although it is not as smooth as later generations, and there are even many cobblestones mixed in the mud in the road, but compared to other daimyo Domestic dirt roads are already much better.

At this time, the marching avenues in the Hizen Kingdom and the Chikugo Kingdom, which were first occupied by the Luo family, were quite developed, and they were all paved with these inferior cement materials.And the Higo country has almost completed the laying of marching avenues in most of the country. It is expected that by the end of next year, a network of marching avenues will also be formed there.Only the newly occupied Chikuzen and Bungo countries, because the Luo family did not have much food reserves at this time.The laying of Xingjun Avenue will not start until at least this year's autumn harvest.

The construction of the marching avenue system extending in all directions in the Luo family's territory.In the military.It is conducive to the rapid movement of the Luo family's army and the transportation of logistics supplies, reducing the consumption caused by roads on the way, and allowing the daimyo's government orders to be quickly conveyed to every corner of the territory.

In terms of intelligence, it is beneficial for the intelligence cabinet to speed up the information transmission, and it is also beneficial for the intelligence cabinet to monitor all parts of the territory.Moreover, it also avoids that due to the situation of impassable roads, the territories of the rich family members in various places form their own systems, hindering the rule of the Luo family.

In terms of economy, it is conducive to the movement and communication of people from all over the country, and promotes the integration and unity of culture; it also provides convenience for the daily material transportation of people and various commercial houses.Accelerated the development of the territorial economy.Moreover, because the roads promote the opening of the territory, there is no secret in each territory. Invisibly, these citizens who enter and exit from various territories have become "detectives" who monitor the situation of various territories for the Luo family.

It can be said that after ten years of unremitting efforts by the Luo family to expand the network of marching avenues, a complete road system has now been formed in Hizen and Chikugo.In the next step, Zhengliang plans to connect the roads between Anyue Mountain City, Village City, and Qibu City into a line, and build a broad marching route from east to west within the territory of the Luo family.Then, with this main line as the center, the route of marching avenues began to spread around the territory.In the end, a reasonably distributed and closely connected road network was formed in the territory of the Luo family.

In the early morning in the rain, there were not many people on the marching road outside Anyue Mountain City at this time, so it seemed quite quiet along the way.

After walking out of the area of ​​the town, the surrounding area suddenly became empty, and within a few hundred meters on both sides of the avenue, all that could be seen were freshly planted fields of green rice.

Bailihei, who was moving forward, also suddenly became cheerful, and the horseshoes with iron hooves nailed under their feet made a cheerful singing sound on the road.Before that, the other Nanman warhorse "Lightning" that Zheng Liang rode had followed Zheng Liang for a long time. In order to let Lightning get a reasonable rest, Zheng Liang had no choice but to cancel the punishment of Bailihei yesterday, and use it as the most recent horse. mounts.

Bailihei obviously knew that the owner would take it to ride around again, so he also seemed very excited.Today, for the first time, no "invisible hooves" were used to attack other horses approaching it.It allows Ahri, Fei Duan and others who are also riding on horses to guard Zhengliang beside Zhengliang to guard Zhengliang in the center in a more reasonable and strict manner.

The team moved forward and stopped at the foot of the mountain where the various workshops were located. Zheng Liang first inspected the situation of the paper mills established here.

At present, there is only one papermaking workshop located here in the territory of the Luo family.And there are also a lot of bamboo forests and a lot of mountain streams here, and it is indeed the most suitable place to build a paper mill.

As a large number of craftsmen and workshop workers were gathered here, their families all moved to live and settle here, so a village of hundreds of people has formed near the paper workshop at this time.Residents nearby generally call this village Paper Village.

The reason why it is called so by other citizens is not only because the only papermaking workshop in the Luo family's territory is here, but also because it is also the largest paper trading place in the Luo's family's territory.In this village, you can not only see the two largest commercial houses in the territory of the Luo family, the Luo's house controlled by Zheng Liang's wives, and the temporary residence of the Shen house controlled by the Shenya family.You can also see the settlements of small commercial houses in various places that have continuously popped up due to the decree issued by the Luo family to encourage people in various places to carry out business activities independently.

After nearly eight years of development (the time when the papermaking workshop was established), this papermaking workshop, which was tightly controlled by the Cabinet, has developed into a large papermaking workshop covering an area of ​​more than 200 square meters, with more than [-] craftsmen and workers.The paper it produces is generally divided into three types: yellow paper, white paper, and fine paper. Yellow paper is the paper commonly used by the general citizens, and it is also the paper used for teaching in the territorial universities. Because of its cheap price, the quality is better than that outside the Luo family's territory. The paper sold by other commercial houses is much better, so these yellow papers are the most widely distributed paper in the Luo family's territory, and they have penetrated into the daily life of the residents.With the continuous spread of this kind of cheap and high-quality yellow paper, it also changed the situation that most of the citizens had never seen paper until they died.

White paper is the common paper used by the official agencies of the territory, wealthy families and even wealthy citizens in various places.Since both the price and the quality are better than the same white paper that flowed into the Luo family's territory from abroad, these white papers have also become the only popular white paper in the Luo's family's territory.

The last kind of fine white paper (referred to as fine paper) is only provided to the daimyo mansion and some important institutions of the Luo family (such as the intelligence cabinet and the cabinet).These fine papers are even better in quality than white papers.You can almost tell whether it is fine paper or white paper by touching it with your hand.also.These fine papers are printed with continuous Arabic numerals and English page numbers by Luo's unique printing technology.Because only the Luo family has mastered this printing technology and special numbers in English (other daimyos will never have this technology and special Arabic numerals and English letters).So this can be regarded as the Luo family's confidentiality measures for this kind of paper.

Why is this paper so closely guarded?Because these papers are special papers used by the Luo family for issuing orders, transmitting information, and conducting special management and other related work.

As mentioned earlier, because the lands awarded by the family are distributed in various parts of the Luo family's territory, in order to reduce the loss during the transportation of income from these territories, these retainers and wealthy families are used to directly converting their income into food. Or coins, and then deposited in the local cabinet.The advantage of this is that on the one hand, it reduces the loss of retainers’ income due to transportation, and on the other hand, it allows the cabinet to rationally allocate resources from various places and use these resources in time for territory construction.At this time, the Cabinet is almost playing the role of the bank of later generations.

When the vassals or powerful families deposit their income in the internal affairs, the Cabinet will leave a triplicate record of relying on themselves, the vassals or powerful families, and the local citizens who have paid taxes.The local people can use such records as a proof of payment of taxes.A retainer or a powerful family can use such a record to withdraw the income they have deposited in any cabinet in the Luo family's territory.On the other hand, the internal government agencies in various places of the Luo family paid the money and food needed by the retainers based on the records in their own hands.Once there is an inconsistency in the records, you can compare the certificates of the cabinet, retainers or wealthy families, and local citizens to identify the authenticity and severely punish the fraudsters.

However, how to prevent the emergence of fraud here.At this time, the role of fine paper is revealed.

When the paper mills made fine paper, they designed the fine paper specifically for this kind of situation in the cabinets of various places (of course, this was mainly designed by using the suggestions provided by Zhengliang himself).

Every time the vassals entrusted their income, they were faced with three copies of fine paper.The printed page numbers on these three fine papers will be regular.The page numbers of the three identical fine papers are all set by representing the local country, county, and the corresponding business order.For example, the code corresponding to Hizen country is "01" (and the code corresponding to Chikugo country is "02"), the code corresponding to Matsuura County, the first county, is "010a" (and the first county of Chikugo country, Mihara-gun The corresponding code is "020a"), which is Hizen's tenth business of this type.Corresponding to the tenth business fine paper, the code is "10".Finally, the printed page number of this fine paper will be "01010a10".In contrast, even if it is also Chikugo's tenth business, its page number will be "02020a10".

The page number of the seat of the representative country will only appear in the seat of the representative country, and will not appear in other regions.After these fine papers are produced, they will be transported away by the personnel of the Interior Cabinet and the Intelligence Cabinet on the spot, and then the fine papers will be distributed according to the region after being registered in these two agencies at the same time.And with the codes on these papers, it is also convenient for the two institutions to archive and manage these materials.Once a problem occurs, you can quickly search for it.

If foreign powers intend to forge these certificates, specially trained local cabinet staff (generally served as retired and standing students or students who graduated from the Roche Institute) can completely check the quality of the paper, printing technology, printed codes, and certificates. The content of handwriting can be used to distinguish authenticity from falsehood.

As for the country, the production and flow of fine paper is strictly controlled through the dual supervision and supervision of the intelligence cabinet and the cabinet, as well as the surprise of the printing code of fine paper.

Similarly, using the code printing technology on fine paper, these fine papers have been widely used in matters such as territorial orders and intelligence.To a certain extent, the situation of territorial orders and intelligence being faked has been eliminated.

In addition to the manufacture of the three kinds of paper, the Renovated Paper Workshop is also responsible for printing books needed by various territories, and even accepts reservations from commercial houses to print books for commercial houses.These papers and books, in addition to being provided for internal use in the territory, will also sell some of the commonly used paper and books abroad through commercial houses such as the Kamiya House after passing the review of the Cabinet of Ministers and the Cabinet of Intelligence.Earn foreign exchange for the Roche family.

It can be said that this paper mill, in addition to meeting the needs of the territory for paper and books, also plays a role in spreading the culture and thoughts of the Luo family inside and outside the territory, and earning money and food. (To be continued..)