Warring States Eagle

After more than ten years of development, many workshops have been established in Hizen Country, Chikugo Country and other places. In addition to the aforementioned paper-making and printing workshops, textile workshops, cement workshops, and ceramic workshops, there are other workshops. These include:

The shochu workshop, the only shochu workshop of the Luo family, is located in the castle town of Kishidake Castle, where sake and shochu are mainly brewed.Sake is mainly used for sales inside and outside the territory, while shochu, as a strategic material, is currently only provided to the military for daily consumption and medical purposes, and the formula and brewing process of shochu are absolutely not allowed to be leaked.

There are currently nine salt farms jointly operated by the Luo family's cabinet and the local people, including five in the Hizen country, one in the Chikugo country, two in the Higo country, and one in the Bungo country.The salt field uses advanced salt drying technology in salt fields to ensure the demand for salt in the Luo family's territory. At the same time, it is also sold as a commodity. In addition to the various parts of the Warring States Period, the sales scope also includes the coastal areas of the Ming Dynasty and North Korea.Similarly, the Cabinet of Ministers also adopts strict confidentiality techniques for this sun-salt technology, and it is strictly forbidden to be known by other forces.

The coarse salt that is exposed in the salt field is coarse salt. Most of this coarse salt will flow into the internal and external markets of Luo’s family, while the rest will be transported to the Snow Salt Workshop near Hizen Kunino Takayama for snow salt processing. Here Part of the snow salt produced will be digested internally by the Luo family, and the rest will be sold to merchants from the Ming Kingdom, Nanban merchants, and other regions of the Warring States Period.Slave farms, currently there are 35 farms in Hizen country, 2 farms in Chikugo country, [-] farms in Higo country, [-] farms in Bungo country, and [-] farms in Chikuzen country. There are a total of [-] slave farms, more than [-] slave.Because this time in the strategy of the Western Kingdom, he got a lot of slaves, Zheng Liang planned to build more than [-] new slave farms in the areas of Nagato, Zhoufang, and Anyi.

The slaves on these slave farms are in a much better situation than the laborers who were forced to work because of breaking the law or being hostile to the Roche family.In fact, they are just working for the Luo family for a certain period of time without pay under the condition that they are guaranteed food, clothing and health.After the slave period expires.The Cabinet of Ministers will give different rewards to these slaves according to their performance during their service. At the same time, they will be resettled in the area newly occupied by the Luo family and become new citizens.These slave farms are not only free labor for the Luo family.Moreover, it is also a test site for new technologies of the Roche family.The slaves in the slave farm, among them, the culprits who implicated their families into slaves will be the main force of the Luo family to build roads, improve water conservancy, build fortifications, build houses and other heavy work, while their families will farm for the Luo family for free fields, work in workshops, etc.In addition, some agricultural and industrial technologies newly researched by the Luo family's cabinet will generally be tested and implemented in these slave farms, and will be fully promoted in the territory after the actual results are confirmed.

It is worth mentioning that these slave farms are also good demonstration sites for promoting the Luo family system.Through the actual planting effects of these farms, the lords in the nearby newly occupied areas are often able to actively accept everything promoted by the Luo family.More importantly, these slaves have always been influenced and controlled by the Luo family's culture and system during their life on the farm. When their service period expires, they are assigned to a new area occupied by the Luo family. It will become a model for the surrounding local people.To a certain extent, this also promoted the speed of local integration into the Luo family's ruling system.

The fish pond, here the fish pond can be regarded as a workshop, because in addition to raising fish, the fish pond will also plant mulberry trees, cotton trees and raise chickens around the fish pond.These fish pond systems not only provide a lot of raw materials for the workshop, but also improve the water conservancy system in the area around the fish ponds to a certain extent.They serve as a buffer zone during floods and as a source of irrigation water during droughts.

More importantly, with the large increase of fish ponds, the former residents were unwilling to eat meat or had no chance to eat meat due to their religious beliefs, which led to a decline in physical fitness. Now with the appearance of a large number of fresh fish, it has become a problem. Their food has greatly improved their physical fitness.

Miso Workshop, currently the only such workshop in the Luo family, is located in the mountain city of Gianyue. Because it is the strategic material workshop of the Luo family, it is specially used as military rations for the Luo family's military power, so this factory The workshop is strictly controlled by the cabinet, and no secrets are allowed to be leaked to the outside world.Similarly, the sugar workshop, which is also located in Anyue Mountain City, is also an important strategic material of the Luo family, as an important internal and external trade material of the Luo family.The workshop is also tightly controlled.

In summary.There are currently 27 workshops in the Luo family's territory.Due to the limitations of technology and conditions, these workshops required manual operation for the main process, so they also employed a large number of local people, which initially formed the prototype of the handicraft industry.When the time is right in the future, Zheng Liang plans to promote handicrafts such as textiles to the local people, and thoroughly develop the Luo family's handicrafts among the people.Of course, considering the need for strategy and secrecy, these workshops still need to be strictly controlled and kept secret by the Luo family's cabinet for the time being.

In addition to these workshops mentioned above.In fact, there are other workshops, which are the important pillars of the Luo family's financial resources at present. They are the gold, silver and copper mines in the Luo family's territory, as well as the associated iron ore and lead ore deposits.

At present, the Luo family has a total of 34 mining workshops. The distribution is that the Hizen country has the Unno Silver Mine, the Kuku Mountain Copper Mine, the Shiraishi Copper Mine, the Tianshan Sulfur Mine, the Imari Porcelain Clay Mine, the Arita Porcelain Clay Mine, and the Kishidake Limestone Mine. , Void Mountain Limestone Mine.

In Chikugo country there are Ishikiri Silver Mine, Higatayama Gold Mine, Takatori Mountain Coal Mine, and Gaogao Mountain Limestone Mine; in Higo Country there are Miyahara Silver Mine, Xiyake Copper Mine, and Aso Mountain Sulfur Mine.

Bungo country.There are Weiping Mine and Jiuchonglian Mountain Sulfur Mine.Jiuzhong Lianshan Coal Mine, Hita Sarayama Xiaolutian Porcelain Clay Mine, and Yubudake Limestone Mine.

For Buzen Country, there is only a gold mine in Mt. Yinghiko; for Nagato Country and Zhoufang Country, there is a silver mine in Niutou Mountain and Nishio Hirayama at the junction of the two countries, and there is also a silver mine in Nagato Country’s Huami Mountain. There is a copper mine. These mines are already being mined by the big family. As for whether there are other mines in the area, we can only wait for the Ministry of Internal Affairs to slowly explore.

In the last Anyi Kingdom, there is currently only one gold mine at Eagle's Nest Mountain that was originally mined by the Maori family. Since the land was occupied by the Luo family at this time, the gold mine naturally fell into the hands of the Luo family.In fact, there was originally a gold mine in Sato County, but unfortunately it was excavated by the Ouchi family a few years ago. At this time, there is only Sato Gold Mountain Castle, which proves that this gold mine once existed.As for the two silver mines discovered in Anyi Country, they are located in the mountain counties controlled by the Maori family.The county borders Iwami country and Izumo country respectively. Due to the existence of two silver mines, the Nizi family of Izumo country has been trying to get involved in this area. Now the Luo family has come next to it. I wonder if the Maori family will be able to keep the county and its two silver mines in the future?

In general, among all the mineral deposits discovered by the Luo family at this time, there are three gold mines, six silver mines, five copper mines, one lead mine, one tin mine, six sulfur mines, three Coal mines, three china clay mines, six limestone mines, a total of 34 deposits.Each mineral deposit forms a separate mining workshop, and the raw ore mined will be escorted to Anyue Mountain City for unified smelting.In this process, a large amount of manpower was naturally required, which accelerated the formation of the industry and even the embryonic form of the transportation industry within the Luo family.

In the Luo family, the emergence of a new basic social system, agricultural system, and industrial system naturally led to the formation of the Luo family's business system.

At present, in the Luo family, according to the law of the Luo family, all checkpoints within the territory of the Luo family are completely cancelled. As long as they do business in the territory of the Luo family, they can freely pass through, and will not be charged checkpoint fees, tolls, etc. of taxes.For business, the Luo family only collects [-]% of the tax revenue from each transaction, and adopts a business tax law that separates the public and the eight people.In order to encourage the lords of the territory to actively engage in business, Zheng Liang also temporarily issued a preferential policy, that is, transactions that do not earn enough money every month will not charge taxes and fees, so as to encourage small transactions among the lords and promote The circulation of materials and coins in the territory will improve the life of the people in the territory and accelerate the development of the territory.

At this time, under the deliberate layout and support of the Cabinet, Hizen Country Gishake Mountain Castle, Hizen Country School House City, and Bungo Country Qibu City became the concentration of the main workshops of the Luo family, because of this.This place has become the commodity distribution center of the Luo family.A large number of internal merchants of the Luo family gathered here to pick up the goods manufactured in the workshop.Then they are shipped to their respective commercial houses for sale.At the same time, a large number of commercial houses were concentrated in these three places, and gradually, these three places became the economic center of the Luo family.Every day, the streets of these three areas are full of pedestrians, even more prosperous than the Kyoto area.

In addition, due to the large-scale construction of marching avenues by the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet, the roads to the Luo family's interior are unimpeded.To a certain extent, it also promotes the communication between different parts of the Luo family and the development of internal business.Especially with Anyue Mountain City, Xuefu City, and Qibu City as the center, commerce and trade began to spread and develop in all directions, forming a central economic line within the Luo family from east to west in the central and northern parts of Kyushu.

With the emergence of this economic line, with the support of the Luo family's internal affairs cabinet and Luo's house, a large number of gourmet houses, farmer's markets, cloth houses, farm tool blacksmith houses, farm tool carpenter houses, salt houses, miscellaneous goods houses, wine houses, tea houses, and porcelain houses Waiting for the commercial houses to appear one after another in Luo's family.

Of course, although the Luo family is vigorously promoting the formation of an internal business system, the current financial income of the Luo family mainly depends on two aspects.

One aspect is the mineral deposits of the Luo family, mainly gold mines, silver mines and copper mines.These mineral deposits not only meet the internal needs of the Roche family.It is also the main resource of foreign trade, through transactions with various forces in the Warring States Period, Ming Dynasty merchants, Nanman merchants and even North Korean smugglers.Luo's family in exchange for various materials they need.At the same time, due to the guarantee of sufficient raw materials, the coins minted by the Luo family can be smoothly circulated inside and even outside the Luo family, thus enabling the preliminary formation of the Luo family's financial system and avoiding the danger of being influenced by external forces.

On the other hand, a large number of resources were exchanged from outside through commodities such as paper, salt, silk, ceramics, sugar, Nanban items, Korean items, Ming items, and books.

Although obtaining development resources through transactions with external forces is currently an important source of income for various forces in the Warring States Period, in the long run, in fact, vigorously developing domestic demand and forming a commercial system with domestic demand as the mainstay and external demand as the supplement, this is for a country Otherwise, once the external demand is resisted, the income of the family will be greatly reduced, and the development of the family will be restricted.But no matter what, at this time, the business system of the Luo family, which was gradually taking shape, was already developing on the positive side.

The gradually formed stable social system, good agricultural system, gradually formed industrial system and commercial system are not only part of the background of the Luo family's hegemony, but also created the Luo family's good territorial income.

In August of the second year of Hongzhi, when the autumn harvest was about to come, after several months of hard work, the Luo family's cabinet finally completed its first inspection of the newly occupied Nagato, Zhou Fang, and An Yi countries.

Different from the land inspection work in other areas of the Luo family, since this is the first time that this basic area has been inspected, although many areas have the help of the account books of the past when the big family was in power, the Cabinet still spent a lot of manpower and material resources. After nearly half a year of hard work, the preliminary ground inspection situation was finally obtained.

As for Nagato Country, among the six counties of Asa, Toyoura, Mine, Otsu, Atake, and Mijima, half of Abu County is under the control of the Yoshimi family, so the overall income of Nagato Country in this inspection Temporarily 12 shi.For Zhou Fangguo, the six counties of Oshima, Jiuke, Xiongmao, Dunong, Sabo, and Jifu were all included in the territory of the Luo family, and the total income of the initial inspection was 16.As for Anyi Country, among the eight counties of Numata, Kamo, Anyun, Saeki, Yamagata, Takamiya, Takada, and Shatian, the Luo family only controlled the six counties of Numata, Kamo, Anyun, Saeki, Takamiya, and Shatian, while Shan The county and Takata are still under the control of the Maori family, and the Maori family also controls the only two silver mines in the Anyi Kingdom. Therefore, the total income of the Anyi Kingdom is 15 this time.

Originally, the total income of these places was not so small, but because these areas have experienced Tao Qingxian's rebellion over the years, the Maori family's attack on Anyi Kingdom, and the just-concluded Itsukushima War, etc., plus the past few years Due to the abnormal climate, its total income has naturally decreased a lot.In addition, the above-mentioned land inspection situation does not take into account the land situation and income of the local temples and shrines.

Of course, apart from the income situation in the above-mentioned areas, there have been many changes in other areas of the Luo family in the past few years.

As the place where the Luo family started, the Hizen country has experienced the biggest change in the overall income of the territory after more than ten years of continuous operation by the Luo family.In 1540, when the Luo family inspected the area for the first time, the total income of the Hizen Kingdom was 31 shi. By 1549, the total income of the Hizen Kingdom had risen to 45 shi. 55 shi.Later than the Hizen Kingdom, the Chikugo Kingdom, which was part of the Luo family, was included in the middle of the Luo family. When the Luo family made the first comprehensive inspection of the local area in 1542, the overall income of the Chikugo country was 27 shi. Revenue has risen to 1549 shi, and this year, it has reached 33 shi.Similarly, the Higo Kingdom, which is similar to the previous two countries, has also directly increased from 41 shi in 1544 and 34 shi in 1549 to 37 shi this year.

The areas of Chikuzen, Buzen, Bungo, and Iki Island, which were incorporated into the Luo family later than Hizen, Chikugo, and Higo, also developed a lot.

筑前国从1549年的34万石直接提高到1556年的42万石。丰后国则是从1549年的第一次检地的37万石提高到此时的45万石。丰前国从当初的14万石提高到今年的21万石。壹岐岛也从当初的一万五千石提高到现在的四万石。

As for the newly occupied areas, Tsushima’s land inspection this year resulted in an income of [-] koku, the income of the area occupied by Bingo State was [-] koku, and the income of the area occupied by the Luo family of Yiyu State was [-] koku.The income of Hyugakuni's Luo family secretly occupying the area is [-] shi.

Among all the territories occupied by the Luo family, the Hyuga country is the most special. In order to avoid being discovered by the Ito family, the Mitai family in Zhongshan City in this area has secretly joined the Luo family, and the Luo family has secretly carried out a surreptitious exchange of posts for this place. The local people, including the Mitai family, were secretly moved to other areas of the Luo family to settle down scattered, and some family members of the internal affairs cabinet and military cabinet were moved to these areas, thus forming a stable rule over the local area .In order to confuse the Ito family and the nearby Hao family, the Luo family did not implement any laws and techniques of the Luo family in the local area, but kept the original appearance.As for the local residents who migrated from the Luo family, in addition to receiving regular rewards from the Luo family, their family members who still settled in other areas of the Luo family also received great rewards.

ps: Thanks to "Xingziyun, Lumia" for the monthly pass; thanks to "Lumia, Luanyu Luanyue, Chen Yijun, leely" for the rewards.