Warring States Eagle

To measure a country's war potential, in addition to the country's income, population, number of troops, and other factors, there is another point that is the country's armaments.

While inspecting these weapons workshops and firearms workshops, Zheng Liang also recalled the report on the territory's armament situation submitted by the Logistics Cabinet a few days ago.

The first is the situation of the military rations. Even if the 20 shi of grain seized from the temples and shrines of the Chikuzen Kingdom is added to the current Luo family's territory, the food left in the warehouses of the territory is less than 20 shi. [-] shi of grain seems like a lot?Let's take a look at the daily consumption of the Luo family.

At present, there are 300 permanent members of the Luo family; more than [-] retainers from various institutions, ranging from the elders of the family to the grassroots village heads; more than [-] farmers and soldiers temporarily recruited; Inside, together with the servants in the mansion, there are hundreds of people.The daily food consumption of the above-mentioned people is astonishing (according to the law of the Luo family, as one of the welfare benefits, the food for these people at work is the responsibility of the territory), and they have to pay a part of their salary every month (The Luo's family pays these people by combining territorial income and salary).

In addition, although the land reclamation and the construction of marching avenues carried out by the slave brigade in the territory did not need to pay these slaves during the period, they needed to provide them with meals equivalent to their labor.The general citizens of the territory also need to pay them a certain amount of remuneration after participating in the corvee organized by the local cabinet.Finally, there are those working workshop workers who also need to consume food every day and have to pay monthly salaries.

at the same time.Kinoshita Masunao of Bungo Kingdom is leading his subordinate team to fight against the Otomo family's army in Beppu Beach, Hayami County; Hundreds of peasants and soldiers.Occupying the commanding heights of Mount Takahira at the junction of Tsukumi Bay and Saiki Bay in Haibu County, they confronted the advancing Saeki family army; the Second Cavalry Standing Division led by Masanobu Takasaka was also cooperating with the Cabinet to rectify the local forces in Bungo Country. The power of temples and shrines; the father and son of Honda Toshimasa and Honda Masanobu led a thousand peasants and soldiers to besiege Honjo Takajo, which went straight into the Shiga family in the north of the county; Shinnosuke Akabane of the Chikuzen Kingdom was also leading the army of Tachibanayama Castle Approaching Ouchiie Munakata County in the north.Put pressure on everyone.The actions of the above-mentioned military forces also need to consume food.

Some people may have doubts, since such a system will consume so much money and food in the territory, then simply give up and let the local retainers and wealthy families directly manage their own territory, and they will be responsible for the consumption of their own military power. Wouldn't it be better to be only responsible for assigning tasks to them and then collecting annual tribute?

In fact, this actually reflects the duality of a system.With the current system of the Luo family, it is in this way that the interests of retainers, soldiers, workers, leaders and other groups are tied to the Luo family. These groups can only gain benefits by relying on the Luo family.The side effects brought about by this are reflected here. Such a system will greatly consume the wealth held by the daimyo, and at the same time bring challenges to the daimyo's management of the territory.

The Luo family now has all the wealth and resources in their hands, and then redistributes the wealth resources in a way that everyone can accept. The Luo family is the distributor and manager of wealth resources.Now the daimyos in other areas of the Warring States Period, their system is to divide most of the control and ownership of the wealth resources in their hands to various retainers and powerful families, and then they will support the daimyos together.And because the daimyo lacks direct control over these divided wealth resources, once these retainers and wealthy families become stronger.There will be a danger that they will no longer be willing to support the daimyo, or even take the daimyo's place.Although this method saves the trouble of management.But it is likely to lead to its own demise.

Therefore, with the current grain reserve situation, it can only maintain the daily operation of the territory until this year's autumn harvest.But once there is war with neighboring countries during this period, it will be difficult to say.

Of course, at this time, the temples and shrines in Bungo Kingdom were being rectified by the Luo family. It is said that some temples and shrines have begun to rebel due to dissatisfaction.Now Zhengliang hopes that the local temples and shrines will rise up to resist, so the Luo family can take the opportunity to raid these temples and shrines.With the reference from the Chikuzen Kingdom, Masara was very sure that the temples and shrines in Bungo were also very rich, and after searching them, they would just replenish the Luo family's granary.

In terms of coins, currently in the Luo family's warehouse, there are more than 2000 taels of gold coins, more than 500 taels of silver coins, and [-] copper coins.These coins were mainly used for trade with the southern barbarians, Ming people, and merchants outside the territory of the Luo family.

In terms of weapons, in addition to the current 5000 permanent members of the Luo family and the weapons and equipment equipped by more than [-] farmers and soldiers, the Luo family's warehouse at this time also has:

In terms of long guns, ten standing ashigaru squads can be equipped.A standing team has a total of 600 people, of which 350 are ashigaru with spears and 250 are ashigaru with archers.So at this time, the Luo family has [-] spear heads in reserve (the wooden poles will be installed just before they are sent to the army for use).

In terms of bow-tire bows, six standing ashigaru teams can be equipped, with 250 archers in each team, a total of 25 bow-tire bows.At this time, the Luo family has already eliminated bows and arrows such as earthen bamboo bows and Marugi bows with relatively poor power and range (the eliminated bows and arrows will become weapons for temporary recruits of farmers and soldiers and territorial boy scouts), and replaced them with more powerful, The bow tire bow with a longer range is the main battle weapon.However, since the materials for this type of bow and arrow are more difficult to obtain and more complicated to produce, it is quite good to be able to reserve enough to equip three standing ashigaru squads while ensuring the use of the active stock.In addition, there are 25 bundles of forged feather arrows (each bundle of [-] feather arrows), a total of nearly [-] feather arrows.

As for the katana sword, it can be equipped with five standing ashigaru squads.An ashigaru team of 600 people, each standing ashigaru, whether it is a long spear ashigaru or an archer ashigaru, will be equipped with a samurai sword (others such as iron cannon standing, messengers, etc. are also configured in the same way. Of course, in order to show The difference from the samurai is that the knives of the samurai will be more sophisticated and more beautifully decorated).In other words, the Luo family already has [-] samurai swords in reserve. (To be continued..)