Warring States Eagle

At the end of October in Tianwen 18, a bumper harvest came in the territory of the Luo family. Taking this opportunity, Zhengliang directly announced the opening of Luo's Academy. A large number of students from the academy who had completed the autumn harvest work at home came here accompanied by their families. The preparation for enrollment in the castle town of Xuefu City made the castle town with a population of nearly 6000 people suddenly lively.

This autumn harvest, in the Luo family's 160 million shi territory, a total of 100 million shi of grain and nearly 50 shi of other income were obtained.The loss of income of nearly [-] shi was mainly due to the fact that the Bungo and Chikuzen countries had just experienced war, which resulted in the destruction of fields and population loss, which affected this year's spring plowing, and eventually led to a bad harvest.

按照目前领地内平均五公五农税赋（只针对100万石的粮食收入），以及部分分封领地还需要分出一成领地收入（这个则是针对100万石的粮食以及近50万石的其余收入）作为分封家臣的收入，最终罗氏家的内政阁获得了41万的秋粮以及49万石的其余收入。

The latter’s income of the remaining 49 shi refers to the income of the territory’s mines, workshops, saltworks, commercial taxes and other industries.This income needs to be converted into food by the Cabinet through various means of foreign trade.Fortunately, during the autumn harvest season, grain prices are generally lower everywhere, so it is expected that more than 49 shi of grain will be purchased.Of course, food prices are subject to changes based on various factors, and it is actually difficult to say for sure.

In addition, why does this part of the industry, such as territorial mines, workshops, saltworks, commercial taxation, etc., have an income of 50 shi, but in the end the Luo family deducted the royalties from the retainers.The Luo family still has an income of 49 shi?The reason is that the mineral forestry and workshop properties in territories such as mines, forestry farms, workshops, and salt fields are all directly under the Luo family.The vassals only have the right to commission the income from agriculture and general commerce in their own territory.As a result, the Luo family will eventually have 49 stones of income from various industries.Instead, there was only 41 shi of grain income.

It is also the income from agriculture that is the main income of each retainer's fiefdom, so they generally pay attention to the local agricultural construction, and then pay attention to the internal affairs of the entire territory.This is exactly where Roche needs to focus on construction at present.Zhengliang also used the lever of tax revenue to indirectly guide the retainers and wealthy families of the territory and the people of the territory to improve production technology and adjust the business industry.

Now add the more than 63 shi of grain raised by the Cabinet through the auction of salt farms and Hakata houses, in addition to the tens of thousands of grain reserves that were originally left in the warehouse (the grain that was originally seized from the temples and shrines of the Chikuzen Kingdom Because of the war, daily consumption and other reasons, most of the food has been consumed), and the current warehouse of the Luo family has a total of [-] grains.This is actually grain stored in warehouses.

As for the remaining income of 49 shi, it must be converted into food as soon as possible.Only then can it be counted into the actual grain reserves.In general, from this autumn to next year's harvest, it is estimated that Luo's family will have 110 million income that can be used.

After discussing with all the retainers, Zheng Liang decided that within the next year, from the income of 110 million, 20 shi of grain would be left as an emergency reserve.For the other 92 shi, 30 shi will be used as consumption reserves for the daily work of various institutions in the territory, military standing and slave teams (such as daily food, monthly salary, travel expenses, regular pensions for widows and orphans, etc.) Consumption), 30 shi will be used as a reserve for territorial organizations such as building marching roads, reclaiming fields, building water conservancy facilities, etc., and 30 shi will be used as military reserves (military reserves will only be used when fighting) .

The last [-] shi is to encourage the Bungo and Chikuzen countries that have endured the war last year to speed up the restoration of agricultural cultivation, and will be issued as a "loan" to some local poor people for next year's spring plowing.In fact, in the pension institution of the Luo family.There are already measures to lend food, spring crops, and farming tools to the local people in advance in the form of "loans" (the consumption of this part is directly calculated in the daily consumption of each institution), but considering that these areas have just Become the territory of the Luo family.The local residents are skeptical of the Luo family's system, and may not apply for compensation in time, thus affecting the progress of the restoration of the territory. Therefore, Zheng Liang directly used [-] shi of grain as a catalyst to make the local residents realize the authenticity of these compensation measures , so as to speed up the progress of the field recovery, and at the same time experience the benefits of the Luo family.

Of course, relying solely on the 50 shi of grain returned to the people in the autumn harvest this year, it is actually impossible to feed the more than 90 people in the Luo family's territory.

So how do these people survive now?

This is mainly due to the internal affairs construction system that the Luo family has been promoting to survive.It has been ten years since Luo's family started.In the past ten years, the Hizen area has implemented the Luo Family Law for nearly nine years, the Chikugo area has seven years, and the Higo area has four years.After this period of development, driven by the laws of the Luo family, the life of the people in these areas has been greatly guaranteed. The past life of eating this meal without knowing where they will be is gone. Now they not only It can solve the daily food problem, and even has surplus food.It is also the accumulation of surplus food year after year that allows them to survive.

Of course, it cannot be said here that before the arrival of the Luo family, they would not be able to survive.Human strength is infinite. If there is not much food in the family, we should eat less and drink gruel to survive.If there is really nothing to eat at home, then go up the mountain to dig wild vegetables and fish in the water.This can indeed ensure that they will not die, but it also leads to a decline in their physical fitness, and they may even be unable to raise children (died at a young age, which is very common in Japan in this era, and even some wealthy families often things like this happen), lifespan reduction, etc.

In short, they used to be unable to make ends meet almost every year, but now under the rule of the Luo family for several years, the family has become balanced, and even has a slight surplus, and the surplus is increasing every year.In the past, in order to make these areas develop, Zhengliang invested a lot of resources in it (that is, "supporting the people"). It can be said that while fighting abroad, he must first ensure the development of these areas.Now that these regions have gradually entered a state of balance, not only do they no longer need the Luo family to invest a lot of resources, but they will even produce more resources for the Luo family.

That is to say, after several years of Roche's promotion, a virtuous cycle internal affairs system with balanced income and expenditure has been formed in the territories of Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo.If it is a year, from beginning to end, there is no time to recuperate, and wars continue in spring, summer, autumn and winter. Although it is the Warring States Period, such wars are too frequent. Suicide.

What you want to take must be given first.After a large amount of manpower and material resources have been invested in the past few years, the territory of Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo has become a booster for the development of the Luo family.It provided a guarantee for the Luo family to launch a strategy, expand their territory, and absorb more people.

Similarly, the Luo family is now repeating the same development process as it did for Hizen and other areas in the Bungo and Chikuzen areas (initiating large-scale various paid corvees, implementing various "loan" pension systems on a large scale, etc. These measures are actually designed to help the people get through this difficult period, so that they can break away from the previous situation of making ends meet, and then enter a state of balance).

But what is different from the past is that now it is no longer necessary to walk a high-altitude tightrope, while worrying about whether the internal affairs of the territory are normal, while taking a slanted sword to expand outward.Now that there are three stable areas of Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo as the cornerstones, the Luo family can change to a strategy of expanding the camp step by step.

To put it simply, in the case of the Luo family in the past, once the battle was defeated, everything would be zero, and the Luo family was almost in a doomed situation (because almost all resources were invested in military and internal affairs, and there was no longer any reserves of human resources, materials and other resources).The current situation of the Luo family is that even if the temporary foreign war fails, it will not have much impact on the territory.Luo's family has withstood wind and rain and setbacks.This made Zhengliang more comfortable and comfortable in implementing the strategy.

Taking advantage of the move to the new city, the official opening of the Luo family school, the autumn harvest of the territory has just ended, and there are no major disputes abroad for the time being (during the autumn harvest, everyone died down. During the period when the military forces were withdrawn to the border station to rest and reorganize), Zheng Liang also took care of two major events in a row.

A major event is to reward the retainers with some money and positions in advance according to their performance this year (these rewards were only given at the New Year's meeting in the past).In particular, four people, Togo Heiji, Kinoshita Masao, Yoshida Shigemasa, and Isano Masao, were formally promoted as family members.This kind of genealogical reward can only be received by prominent officials in the family, and all members of their clan will be written into the genealogy of Luo's family's successive generations of retainers.

The four people mentioned above are all important ministers of the Luo family, and they are also members of the Luo family. They have followed Zheng Liang for the longest time, and their contributions to the Luo family are obvious to all. Naturally, they have received this kind of due reward.Moreover, these four people and their families have also filled the gap that the Luo family has not had any descendants and families for a long time.It is conducive to strengthening the rule of the Luo family.

Another major event was the second military parade in the history of the territory under the new residence city.

(Thanks to "Shirakawa Ten Nights" for receiving the great light of the book; thanks to "dscfd" for being the deacon of the book; thanks to "zj_gold" for the monthly pass; thanks to "leely" for the reward. It’s the end of the month, and I ask everyone for a monthly pass. ) (to be continued..)