In the council hall, all the retainers carefully looked at the provisions of the law in their hands, sometimes amazed and sometimes frowned. Thankfully, several of the current retainers are educated and at least able to read, which subtracts a lot of the trouble of political analysis.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid that the family's agricultural tax will cause hostility from other powerful people around me, and the Yoruko family and the Hakata family will not sit idly by," Togo Heiji said worriedly.

"Pingci, we will implement the law of blockading the territory, and uniformly declare to the outside world that we are using the agricultural tax of the eight princes and two farmers, if there is really a leak, in the current situation that the territory can only enter and cannot go out, even if other powerful people are suspicious, it is impossible to confirm. Besides, as long as we are given enough time, sooner or later the strength of the territory will be strong enough for other powerful people to dare not move lightly," Masahiro said with a swearing. The other retainers also took it for granted, and in less than a month, the bandits who had plagued the territory for many years were solved, and it can be said that the future of the family is bright.

"Your Royal Highness, Your Majesty once had the privilege of learning about the laws of the Sagara clan in Higo, although the laws of the Sagara clan are more detailed, but the laws of the family are more in line with the reality of the territory, and the thinking is far-reaching, and some of the laws and even the ministers have not fully understood its far-reaching role for a while, His Highness's idea is really admired by His Majesty." The crowd chimed in.

"Then, ladies and gentlemen, from tomorrow this law will be officially implemented, and the specific matters will be left to you. Usually, copy a few more copies and distribute them. As for the relief location, it will be set in front of the gate of my mansion, and it will be collected at Togo Kiku, and she will be in charge of registration, and Matsumiko will be in charge of verifying and executing", seeing that everyone was unanimous, Masari continued, "At the same time, we will find a suitable person to assist in the management of daily affairs as the head of the village." ”

"Yes, Your Highness", the crowd had no objection to this arrangement. As the lord's wife, it is normal for Togo Ju to assist the lord in managing the territory, while Matsumiko has long been recognized by everyone as the lord's concubine, and from the task arrangement just now, she is also very favored by the lord at present.

"In addition, in order to cooperate with the implementation of this law, it is announced to the people that all the people in the current territory will automatically be converted to third-level subjects and enjoy the agricultural tax of six gongs and four farmers," Masara continued.

"Your Highness, will this affect the tax revenue of the territory, even if all the harvest of the territory is added up at present, it will not be able to meet the needs of maintaining the ashigaru team", Onishi Kuniji said with a frown, obviously deeply worried about this situation of making ends meet.

"Well, so you have to step up the recruitment of displaced people, and strive to reclaim more fields and rush to sow grain before mid-May, although the time is a little late, but at least you can harvest in the autumn harvest", in fact, Zhengliang is not worried about the food problem at all, the current sweet potato planting area has been vast to nearly one acre, after mid-May, will also vigorously promote the cultivation of sweet potatoes, anyway, sweet potatoes can also be harvested in November, but the yield is slightly lower, but mixed with miscellaneous grains to cook together, it can also solve the food problem.

"At present, there are 40 ashigaru in the family, and according to the agreement of the last time, I will soon be promoted to the samurai of the family. At the same time, the family will be preparing to recruit 200 ashigaru among the new citizens, what do you think about this? After the question of the law of the territory was confirmed, Masashi immediately threw out the question of the military strength of the territory.

"The original 40 ashigaru in the territory has accounted for four-fifths of the young men in the territory, this time to recruit new ashigaru, please Your Highness fully consider the needs of the construction of the territory", Togo Heiji said, "According to the proportion of the nearby Haoqiang, it is generally between one of five and one of three, but too much of the people as ashigaru will greatly affect the development of agriculture in the territory." ”…,

Five out of one, according to the original plan, if you need to recruit 200 ashigaru, then there will be at least 1,000 young and strong men, plus the families of these men, it is conservatively estimated that the territory will also recruit about 3,000 people, not to mention whether so many people can be recruited, even if it is really recruited, it seems that it is difficult to support these displaced people who do not have much food until the autumn harvest with the remaining more than 2,000 stone of grain alone. Masayo's plan is to recruit hundreds of displaced people in this recruitment, and then draw most of the men from them to form a new ashigaru team, it seems that this practice is equivalent to three draws or even two draws, and it will indeed greatly affect other work in the territory.

Kosuke on the side saw Masarashi frowning and pondering, and said in a low voice, "Your Highness, you can consider reducing the number of samurai and ashigaru at the same time, and not as a standing ashigaru, allowing them to have more time for farming." There are not many standing ashigaru and samurai in the nearby powerful territory, and the Dono family in the southwest has two castle rocks, and there are more than 50 standing samurai, and there is no standing ashigaru; In the Tahara family to the east, there are only more than 20 standing samurai, and there are no standing ashigaru. ”

"No, last year the bandits invaded the Dono family, but the Dono family organized a team of nearly 400 people to drive away the bandits," Onishi Kuniji objected.

"Most of them are temporary recruits and mobilized territorial peasants," said Togo Heiji, "Your Highness, we may consider this method." ”

"No, the peasants and soldiers are generally concentrated once every five to seven days, and then they are uniformly trained for half a day, and their combat effectiveness is low, which is much worse than the warrior monks in the monastery; And the ronin is a temporary team, the discipline is very poor, once there is loot, they will ignore the situation on the battlefield, just care about snatching the spoils", Tadajiro, who had not spoken, suddenly said, "I have carefully studied His Highness's team, in fact, the combat effectiveness of a single person is not high, but it is very disciplined, and it is a team to fight, if you follow the training method of peasant soldiers, it is difficult to achieve the effect required by Your Highness." ”

"With the current state of the territory, the peasants are the most suitable for need. Keeping 40 samurai on standing is enough to deter the surrounding powerful and bandits, and when the territory is harvested this autumn, it is also possible to consider expanding the territory of Ashigaru Standing Reserve," said Heiji Togo.

The crowd began to talk.

Masara raised his hand and quieted everyone down.

"Ladies and gentlemen, my family does not have a prominent reputation, and even the name of the family is not familiar to other powerful people, but it occupies a territory with many paddy fields, in other words, if you find such a neighbor next to you, what will you do?" , Zhengliang slowly raised his head and looked at the retainers below, "You don't have to think about it, they will find a way to annex us." Therefore, before the other heroes and bandits have not discovered us, we must first deal a heavy blow to the guys who have ambitions for us, give them one or two heavy blows, or even annex them, and tell them with actions that our family is not easy to deal with, so that we can recuperate. The new decision cannot be changed. ”

(PS: In the fourth week of the release of the new book, it has been signed A, and it has been updated with nearly 150,000 words, and it will never be updated, at least more than 1.5 million words.) Last week, it was on the Sanjiang potential list, and this week's new book recommendation was classified. No. 2 on the list of new history books for newcomers. Everyone, don't be in a hurry to leave after reading, if you don't have a ticket, you can put it on the shelf, and the little brother kneels and begs. Dear friends, my purpose is to write more than 1.5 million even if I hit the street, and I will fight vigorously! Enjoy writing, enjoy loneliness. ）

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