Warring States Eagle

Victory day seeks beauty in Surabaya,

The boundless scene is a fad.

Waiting for leisurely knowledge to gain the east wind side,

It's always spring.

Zhengliang and his party walked among the rural mountain roads. Along the way, the ground was covered with new sprouts of green grass and colorful mountain wildflowers.And a little farther away are some trees.These trees are tender, green, and have begun to glow green, and the branches are covered with green leaves and buds.Some birds are singing happily on their branches, jumping around and playing.

"My lord, look over there." At this time, Dongxiang Heiji's cheerful voice came from beside him.Zheng Liang was immediately surprised when he heard the words, what could surprise this mature and prudent elder?So he looked in the direction that Togo Heiji pointed.

I saw rows of trees neatly planted on a mountain not far away.These trees should be from the same tree, and looking at the traces of cultivation on the mountain, it is obvious that these trees are a crop of local farmers.Just what kind of plants are these?

"Cotton, my lord, these are cotton trees." Dongxiang Heiji reminded carefully.

"Oh! By the way, it's cotton." Zheng Liang finally saw it now.No wonder he has always felt that this kind of tree looks a little familiar.After realizing the role of cotton in the territorial industry and people's lives, Zhengliang spent a lot of money to continuously import cotton seeds and saplings from the Sanhe area of ​​​​Waguo and Ming.After nearly seven years of promotion, cotton planting has become a cash crop for the local people of Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo. Whenever the cotton is harvested, the Roche family's cabinet will send special personnel to each area of ​​the territory. where to buy the cotton.Because cotton is a strategic material.Therefore, it can only be sold to the cabinet of the Luo family for the time being.And because the purchase price of the cabinet is relatively high.The land for planting does not need to be too fertile (of course, the more fertile the land, the better. But people live on food, and fertile fields naturally give priority to planting food). On the premise of not affecting their food planting, many leaders People are also willing to take the initiative to plant them.

Of course, in order to increase the planting area, the Cabinet also specially organized some slaves to be responsible for cotton planting in some mountainous areas.Today, dozens of cotton tree forests have formed in Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo.Whenever these forests are in full bloom, they will become a beautiful landscape that attracts people to stop and watch.

along the way for the next part of the journey.Zhengliang successively discovered groves composed of small saplings such as litchi trees, camphor trees, iron chestnut trees, pine trees, fir trees, and nan trees.

These groves are all planted in some mountainous areas that cannot be reclaimed for farming.Zheng Liang even saw many local people carrying water from nearby to those mountainous areas to water the saplings.

Under the introduction of Togo Heiji, Zheng Liang remembered what was going on.It turned out that all this was caused by a decision he made several years ago.

Clearly, these trees were not the same as previously seen cotton planted exclusively on deliberately cultivated hillland.These trees cannot yet be called economic plants.They were specially ordered by Zhengliang for the resource reserve of shipbuilding materials in the future of the territory.

These saplings are important tree materials for building ships. Now that they are planted, many trees can be cut down and used as ship building materials after more than ten years.It was based on such a consideration that Zheng Liang asked people to collect a large number of such tree seeds in the Wa country, and even entrusted Ming country businessmen to transport the seeds of the relevant trees from the Ming country to the Luo family's territory for planting.

And the way to encourage the lords to take the initiative to plant these trees is also very simple. They take the method of contracting and contract some mountain lands belonging to the daimyo (the law of the Luo family. All the forests, trees, minerals, rivers and other resources in the territory belong to the Luo family) to some The local people, and then distribute the seeds or saplings of various trees to these people.Then the leader will be responsible for planting these trees until the trees grow to the height of a person, and the contract will be terminated, and the cabinet will pay the leaders the agreed remuneration according to the growth of these saplings.

It is also very simple for the residents to take care of these saplings. After the saplings germinate and grow, they come to water them regularly and weed and weed to ensure that the trees grow naturally.Of course, the faster these saplings grow to be taller than a person, the shorter the time for the leaders to receive their rewards, so in order to complete the task on this hill as soon as possible to receive the planting task on another hill, they will often take care of it very seriously. For these saplings, some fertilizer is even applied to them to make them grow up quickly.

In fact, many retainers were extremely puzzled by Lord Zhengliang's sudden order to plant those seemingly useless tree species.It's just that they didn't know that Zhengliang's purpose of doing this was to reserve resources for the future development of the territory on the one hand, and to protect the environment on the other hand.

Although most of the Wa country is a mountain forest area, and the local productivity level is not high, resulting in a lot of forest trees.However, with the continuous development of the territory, a large number of mountains and forests have been reclaimed as fields, and some mountains and forests have been cut down to be used as firewood and ashes for the daily life of the people. In addition, Japan is an earthquake-prone area. I was a little worried that if a landslide happened accidentally, not only the lives of the local people would be threatened, but even the fields and crops reclaimed at the foot of the mountain would be buried.Planting these reserve forests in the deforested places also protects the local environment and avoids the loss of the territory.

"My lord, the front is Maeda Village." At this time, a farmer who had been temporarily dispatched by the town head of the town to lead the way ran over cautiously to report.

"So it's here!" Zheng Liang couldn't help saying to himself when he saw the village.

As soon as he saw the ridge behind the village, Masara recalled the origin of the village.At the beginning, there was a checkpoint on the ridge behind the village, which directly blocked the connection between Kishidake Mountain City and the Yiliwanli Plain, and it was a small wealthy family of the Maeda family who was a retainer of the Yiliwan family who occupied it.Later, this wealthy family perished in the conflict between the Bota, Matsuura, and Luo families. Even the village where this wealthy family lived was burned down. After occupying the Imari Bay Plain, Masaragi ordered the loss of The village that lost its homeland moved here. Unexpectedly, seven or eight years have passed.The village has grown into a village of hundreds of people.

"Stop? Who are you?" Just as Zheng Liang and the others walked towards the village quickly, a loud shout came down from a tree. (To be continued..)