Warring States Eagle

In the meeting hall of Tengping City.

"Your Highness, although our family has harvested thousands of shi of grain this time, according to the current territory of Shi Gao, it can barely maintain the expenditure of 2200 people. We need to continue to cultivate the fields," Togo Heiji said.

"Yes, based on the consumption of 1.8 shi per person, it is true that the income of the territory will be very small. In this way, Heiji, starting tomorrow, you will organize the promotion of the territorial law of the newly occupied territory, and speed up the organization of manpower to carry out the corvee work of reclaiming the fields. The expenditure is tentatively set at 500 shi, and the newly reclaimed fields will fully promote the crops in the field I experimented with." Zheng Liang replied, "In addition, for the ashigaru who died in this battle, 10 shi will be given to his family as a one-time pension. , to give relief regularly every month. The male who has not been served is arranged to be my surname. Since the two injured ashigaru can no longer participate in the battle, they are arranged to be the head of the village to assist the daily management of the village. The salary is the same as when I was an ashigaru."

"Yes, Your Highness, I would like to thank His Highness for your kindness on behalf of these ashigaru," Togo Heiji said.

"Your Highness, will we follow this regulation in the future? I'm afraid it will greatly increase the burden on the territory in the future," said Onishi Guozhi in a low voice.

"Well, Heiji added these to the territorial law; as for the problem of increasing the burden of the territory, there will indeed be problems, but it will greatly boost the morale of the ashigaru and the samurai, and improve the combat effectiveness of the army. It is worth it." Zhengliang pointed Nodding, he affirmed Daxi Guozhi's question, and at the same time explained, "Everyone, although the territory of our family has expanded several times, it has attracted the attention of the surrounding tyrants, so please be alert. Next, Guozhi will talk about the territory. Defense situation."

"Yes, Your Highness," Onishi Kuniichi bowed and saluted, and then said, "After two days of repeated investigations and publicity, the newly occupied territory is basically stable, and a total of 36 detectives from the nearby powerful and loyal relatives of the original three families were captured. Among them, those warriors have been hacked and killed, and there are still 30 scouts from other tyrants who need to be confirmed by His Highness how to deal with them."

"All demoted to slaves," Zheng Liang decided without thinking.Among these new slaves, 20 were reported by the leaders. For this reason, Zheng Liang issued a reward of 5 shi of miscellaneous grains according to the standard of 100 shi for each report. Zheng Liang felt very sad about this, so Zheng Liang has made up his mind. If the new slaves cannot generate an income of 200 shi, don't plan to reply to free you." At the same time, all the citizens of the castle town of Fujihira Castle will be forcibly relocated to Yegao Village, and the refugees recruited successively will be arranged to Fujihira In the lower town of the castle. The residents who migrated from Fujihira Castle will be given a certain amount of compensation, and immediately provide free seeds to guide them to replant after they settle in Nogo Town.”

"No, Your Highness, this may cause turmoil among the relocated citizens," Togo Heiji immediately advised.

"Hmph, all those who participated in the turmoil were demoted to slaves, and they were severely hacked and killed directly." Masatoshi said fiercely, "Among the 30 detectives, 13 of the captured detectives were from the castle town of Fujihira Castle. This is different from these The deliberate protection of the people is inseparable, in order to avoid a worse impact, we can only cut the mess quickly." All the retainers looked at each other, once again feeling that the territory of their own family is not as stable as it seems on the surface.

"The Nagakura family and the Oda family who border the main family's territory along both sides of Lake Fujihira have always intentionally invaded the family's territory, and the Taiku family on the other side of Fujihira Lake has an in-law relationship with the Oda family, so we should not take it lightly," Onishi Kuniji continued. , "The Chongliang family in the south has even gathered farmers and soldiers from the territory to form a confrontation with the family at the border."

"Hiss..." Everyone's excited mood due to the expansion of the territory immediately fell to the bottom.

"Everyone, in order to deal with the bad situation that our family may face in the future, I decided to recruit 103 more ashigaru to form a 97-member ashigaru team with the original 200 ashigaru. As for how to recruit new ashigaru, I still follow the above In this selection method, priority will be given to the farmers and soldiers who have surrendered to their clan in this battle." Masaragi paused, seeing that all the retainers had no objections, and then continued, "200 ashigaru, with 40 spear ashigaru and 10 The archers and arrows are divided into four teams. The first team is stationed near the mansion of the lord of Ye Gaoshan, and together with 40 cloaked people, they are the mobile force of the territory, and I am directly under the command; the second team is stationed in the territory of the Chongliang family. The junction is under the command of Onishi Kuniji and is responsible to me; the third team is stationed along the coast of Lake Fujihira, under the command of Tsuda Hiromune, and is responsible to me; the fourth team is stationed at the border junction with the territory of the Donoya, and is led by Chujiro Command, and be responsible to me. Chujiro, where the iron is built, you must strengthen the supervision of other people at the same time to ensure the supply and maintenance of farm tools and weapons in the territory." In this way, after the adjustment, the Luo family has a total of 40 intermediate-level warriors (cloaks) , 160 spear ashigaru, 40 bow and arrow ashigaru.

"Yes, Your Highness," the four people who were assigned immediately bowed to accept the order.

<The plowing time has passed. The original semi-standby training method of the ashigaru team's first half of the day's training and the second half of the day returning to the farmland will be cancelled.The original training method of the territory has been proved to be effective in several battles. Take the rapid defeat of the three tyrants and the lightning blockade of the border of the territory as an example. The leaders nearby have no time to react, and the teams must strengthen the effect of training.Sahachiro, Kisaburo"

"Your Highness," the two who were called immediately responded loudly.

"I am now appointing Sahachiro as the military target of the second and third teams, and Kisaburo as the military target of the first and fourth teams; responsible for the military merit records of each team, the confirmation of rewards and punishments, and calculations, as well as the ideological education of the team; the salary is 25 shi. Leave it after the evaluation, and I will personally guide you how to implement it,” Zheng Liang appointed.In fact, Zhengliang intends to establish a system similar to political commissars in future generations to strengthen the loyalty education of the army to himself.

"Yes, Your Highness," the two immediately replied in unison.The two are very grateful at the moment, not only grateful for being reused, but also excited about getting the salary. With these salary, the family's worry about food and clothing due to the lack of main labor force has been solved.

"Yinuo", just as the two were still distracted, Zhengliang issued an order again, "Immediately form a 20-member detective team with Onishi Kuniji, responsible for infiltrating into the powerful territories around our family, and inquiring about information. These detectives The salary is 10 shi."

"Yes, Your Highness, I will definitely complete the task." Yinuo didn't expect to get such an important task when he participated in the assessment for the first time, and his heart was also fluctuating. He thought to himself, is it possible that my Yinuo's spring is coming?

"Your Highness, forcibly requesting Ashgaru to change from half-day training to full-day training, and not being able to return home for most of a month, I am afraid that it will cause Ashgaru's dissatisfaction." At this time, Onishi Kuniji advised, "The current territory Most of the ashigaru in the family have family members, relying on the salary of 4 shi alone, even if the ashigaru family members work hard to cultivate, but in the absence of the main labor force in the family, it is obviously impossible to guarantee a year for a household leader There is a need for food, so the ashigaru of the territory needs to return to the fields to take care of farming."

Zheng Liang frowned and pondered. Indeed, based on the calculation that a person needs 1.8 shi a year, a family of four needs at least 7 shi a year. "Now is the most important period for our family to gain a foothold. Increase the salary of all ashigaru from the original 4 stones to 7 stones, but change from the original semi-standby ashigaru to standing ashigaru. According to the military system of the samurai, every month You have four days to return to your own farmland to take care of farming.” Zheng Liang finally decided, “Except for samurai and ashigaru, the rest of the males between the ages of 15 and 40 in the territory need to participate in one day in the middle of every month. Training organized by the village head".According to Zhengliang's idea, the military power of the territory is mainly divided into three levels. The first level is the standing samurai, the second level is the standing ashigaru, and the last level is the peasants and soldiers as reserve forces. After all, once foreign enemies invade, all the peasants and soldiers need to be mobilized of.

"Your Highness, this will greatly increase the food burden on the territory," Togo Heiji immediately objected.Based on the calculation of an ashigaru's salary of 7 shi, if 200 ashigaru are recruited and received, the annual military expenditure is 1400 shi, which is equivalent to the current annual income of the territory. In addition, the salaries of samurai and retainers, What about the expenses of the lord's mansion, and the expenses of daily territory construction?The territory's harvest this year is only about 1600 shi. According to the average agricultural tax of seven publics and three farmers, the tax revenue of the territory is only about 1100 shi. This kind of income can't even afford the ashigaru salary, which means that the 4000 shi placed in the warehouse Duoshi (deducting the food consumed by Zhengliang just arranged) will continue to be consumed.

"Heiji, this year's salary has already been allocated from the captured grain. At present, only the increased part of the salary needs to be allocated, which is about 700 shi." Zheng Liang first corrected his mistake, "Of course, if the territory still has the same harvest next year, Then there will indeed be problems. But as long as we get through this difficult period and everything in the territory is on the right track, it will get better."

"Will it get better?" All the vassals looked at each other in blank dismay. Apart from relying on the captured grain to get through this period (but no amount of grain will be consumed one day), what else can they do?

"Hehe, just expand the scope of the territory." Seeing the expressions of all the retainers, Zheng Liang didn't intend to show off, and said with a casual smile.

"What? Your lord is still planning to continue to expand?" All the retainers were stunned.

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