Although he completely occupied Yamaga and Kikuchi counties, Masarashi did not immediately lead his army away. Instead, he let the cavalry return to Chikugo first, and he led the army to stay in Kikuchi County temporarily.

Staying in Kikuchi County is mainly to arrange Higo's affairs first.

The first is the arrangement of defense. The 6th Standing Ashigaru Brigade under the command of Enjoji Nobuyin, Kumon Shigetada, Kuroki Minori, and Masamune of the Rashi clan was stationed from Tsuru Castle in Higo Tamana County to Kufu Castle and Yumachi Castle in Higo Kikuchi County. The former Higo Tamina Prefecture was changed to one of the sub-stations of the first standing cavalry team.

In addition, in order to prevent rebels from using the abandoned castle to defend it, Higo Sarukai Castle, Kamio Castle, Jomura Castle, Tanaka Castle, and Nankan Castle will be demolished.

At the same time, as Higoyamaga and Kikuchi became the domain of the Luo family, the central and southern parts of Chikugo also became the rear of the Luo family, so the 4th Standing Ashigaru Brigade under the command of Kinoshita Masanao, Ueda Shinji, and Shimahara Junshige was changed to the newly built Takara Castle under the Takara Mountain in Chikugo Province. Maowei Castle, Yamashita Castle, Tajiri Castle, and Naganobu Castle in south-central Chikugo will be demolished at the same time, along with Chikugo Ikutsukan and Kamaike Castle.

After the defense is arranged, the next step is to deal with the problems of the local small wealthy clans, small landowners, and even aborigines in Yamaga and Kikuchi counties. For the local small tycoons and small lands, because the family is facing internal rebellion at this time, it is not suitable to forcibly transfer them to the seal at this time to intensify the conflict with them, so Zhengliang decided to temporarily adopt a compromise policy, temporarily maintain the status quo, and deal with these small tycoons after the internal strife at home is calmed down.

As for those natives. The main thing is to adopt a carrot and stick style of differentiation policy. We persuaded these local aborigines through the aborigines who were trafficked to Roche's family in front of and after Chikugo. Provide them with better fields and gradually attract them out of the mountains. At the same time, they are consciously diverted to prevent them from coming out of the mountains and forming tribes again and threatening the security of the territory. As for those who are still resisting, they will focus on appeasement for the time being, and after the Luo family has freed up their hands, they will adopt a bloody policy of extermination, and all those who resist and men will be hacked and killed on the spot. Women were reduced to slavery and distributed to the soldiers' retainers.

In the end, Masara also had a secret conversation with Shinnosuke Akabane, who stayed in Higo this time and was responsible for coordinating all the affairs of Higo.

Masarashi first told Shinnosuke Akabane about the rebellion within the territory. The latter was also immediately taken aback when he learned about it, but quickly calmed down. Since Masahiro only told him at this time, it was obvious that he had already made arrangements to deal with it, and now what he had to do was to help Masahiro protect the newly acquired Higo territory.

Since spring plowing had already begun, Masarashi demanded that Shinnosuke Akabane must fully cooperate with the agricultural affairs office stationed by the Cabinet to do a good job in this spring ploughing work, and at the same time assist the Cabinet in vigorously carrying out paid forced labor for the construction of the marching road (especially the construction of the marching road from Chigo to Higo), field reclamation, and water conservancy repair. In short, everything is to let the people of Higo experience the benefits of the Luo family's law, and at the same time get busy. Let some people with intentions not be able to incite the people to ensure the stability of the newly occupied territory of Higo.

Furthermore. In addition to increasing the local population, there is also the purpose of taking the opportunity to change the distribution of the local population and weaken the control of the local wealthy families and landowners. In this way, when the Luo family forcibly transferred these people in the near future, they would lose more supporters.

Regarding the protection of the newly occupied Higo territory, Masarashi asked Shinnosuke Akabane to pay close attention to the actions of the local small wealthy clans and small lands, and also to pay close attention to the actions of the surrounding Higo wealthy clans and the Bungo Otomo family to prevent them from counterattacking.

In this way, he stayed in Higo for three days in a row, and after everything was arranged, Masayo officially set off to return to Hizen. After escorting him back this time, there were only 100 cloaks, a samurai team of more than 300 people (some samurai were injured in the Higo raiders, so they could only stay in Higo for a while to recuperate, and they could only return to the samurai team after they recovered from their injuries), and a standing iron artillery team of 100 people. The rest of the teams began to return to their respective stations two days in advance, led by their respective generals.

Of course, this time their marching route was a little peculiar. They did not take the quickest route, but followed the route that Masaro and Yamamoto Kansuke had agreed upon. And these routes happened to pass through the territories of some of the wealthy clans who had been largely identified as participating in the rebellion.

At the same time, when he began to return to Hizen, Masayo also asked the Interior Pavilion to take advantage of this spring plowing time to deliberately launch a large-scale spring ploughing, road construction, water conservancy repair, and field reclamation in the territory. It is even more necessary to consciously let the people of various localities carry out conscription across regions, break up the people, and prevent the rebels from inciting the people.

Of course, all of this is done quietly, anyway, almost every year at this time of year, such a conscription will be issued in the Luo family's territory, and this year's scale is just bigger. The reason given by Masahiro to the outside world is that the territory's grain reserves are insufficient, and this move is to increase the harvest of this autumn. Anyway, paid forced labor is already a unique law of the Luo family, and many of the people have long been accustomed to it, so there is no suspicion from anyone.

On April 15, the 14th year of the Astronomical Calendar, after more than ten days of marching, Masayo's army finally returned to Kishigaku Castle, the main castle of Hizen Province.

As soon as he arrived in Kishigaku City, before he had time to reunite with his wives and concubines, Masara received bad news. From the house of Onishi Kuniji in the town of castle, news came that Onishi was critically ill.

Suddenly hearing this bad news, Zhengliang couldn't help but sigh, which made him involuntarily think of the few retainers who followed him when the Luo family was just starting out.

Tsuda Hiromune、Tairasataro was killed in the battle with the Hakata family's Kishigaku Castle.,The rest of Tadajiro has now retired to the background and has become an ordinary farm blacksmith in the territory.,Although Kosuke's ability is average.,But because it's Masayo's father-in-law.,So he also held a position in the intelligence cabinet.,It's rare for the two to see each other in normal times.。 Until now, in fact, only Togo Heiji and Onishi Kuniji are still by Masayo's side from time to time.

"Lord of the Kingdom, the Lord of the House begs to be able to see Lord of the Kingdom before he dies." The retainers of Onishi Kuniji, who came to report the news, pleaded. (To be continued......)