"Your Highness, Tadajiro was wounded in the battle to defend Kishigaku Castle, and has now been sent back to Tadakoji Temple in Notaka Mountain to be personally treated by Master Genru, and before leaving, he asked his subordinates to deliver this letter to His Highness."

After finishing speaking, Kosuke handed the letter to the little surname Takeshi Murakami who came to him after receiving Masayoshi's signal.

After Murakami took the letter, he respectfully delivered it to Masayoshi.

Masahiro took the letter, opened it, and read it. In the letter, Tadajiro first congratulated Masahiro, and then changed the subject, once again proposing to Masara to step down as deputy commander of the First Standing Ashigaru Brigade, and then take charge of forging and restoring the reputation of his ancestors.

Masarashi read the letter, bowed his head and sighed, and then said to Kosuke: "Okay, allow Tadajiro to step down as the commander of the first standing ashigaru team, and I will be in charge for the time being." Tell Tadajiro that the ironware house in his family's domain will ask him. "The ironware house, which was independently run by the Luo family, was in need of manpower, and Tadajiro was the right person after he stepped down.

"Yes, Your Highness," Kosuke said with a somewhat curtainous expression. At this moment, he did have a bit of an end in his heart, it turned out that there was a line of wild mountain bandits, and with the retirement of Tadajiro, now he was the only one left.

"What about the casualties of the family this time?" After adjusting some important positions, Masara then looked at Togo Heiji and asked.

"Your Highness, this time I have experienced many battles with the Huzi family and the Hakata coalition forces, and the casualties are relatively serious," Togo Heiji said with his head bowed.

"Say," Masaro said.

"My family has killed three retainers in the battle this time. eleven cloaks, twenty-one low-ranking samurai, fifty-eight standing ashigaru, and one hundred and thirty-one peasant soldiers; The number of injured is innumerable. After some of the wounded recovered, it is estimated that they will no longer be able to participate in the battle" After receiving Masarashi's order, Togo Heiji slowly picked up the account book and read it in a low voice.

Even Masahiro, who had been mentally prepared, felt like he had fallen into an ice cave all of a sudden, and his whole body was cold. The loss of three generals is already a great damage. Now the regular army has also suffered great damage. When you want to know the strength of the Luo family, there are only 40 people in the cloak, only 30 low-level samurai, and 200 people in the standing ashigaru. Now, even if you don't count the wounded, the number of dead alone has greatly weakened the Luo family's standing combat strength. In such a situation, of course, Zhengliang is heartbroken.

"In addition, due to the repeated battles. There has also been a lot of wear and tear on the weapons of the family," Togo Heiji continued to report, "The military reserve grain has also consumed more than 800 stones, and according to His Highness's promise, the more than 800 slaves in the territory will all be converted into the subjects of the territory." ”

After Togo Heiji's words ended, the council hall fell silent. This time, although the Luo family won. But it's also a bit of a fiasmal victory. Of course, this time, the Luo family is a small fish fighting a big fish, and if they want to win, this is the price they must pay.

"Hmm" was silent for a moment. Masato opened his mouth and commanded, "All the fallen warriors. Including the peasants and soldiers, they were buried in the 'Heroic Cemetery' of Notakayama. An article has been added to the military law of the family, and every year various teams must be organized to pay respects to the heroes who died in the cemetery to show respect for the heroes who died in the battle for their families. ”

"Well, the students of the Roche Academy also participate in the tomb sweeping regularly," Masarashi continued. This can be regarded as patriotic education.

When Togo Heiji heard this, he immediately picked up the pen and paper handed over by Yoshinomaru and recorded it.

"Warriors who have died in battle shall be strictly compensated according to the law of territorial pensions. Wounded warriors should be properly placed, and warriors who can no longer participate in combat after recovery are supplemented to the new ashigaru training camp in the territory, and are responsible for the training guidance of the first month of new ashigaru; Or assign the newly occupied villages to help manage the villages. ”

"As for the slaves of the original realm, fulfill the promise of their own family, return their freedom, and honor the promise of their rewards, but make sure that they can only stay and settle in their own territory, and the slaves who died in this battle are also buried in the 'Tomb of Heroes', and those rewards are managed to be given to their families," Masara continued.

"Your Highness, I'm afraid this move will consume a lot of food!" Immediately, a retainer spoke. In the eyes of most of the retainers, allowing those slaves to gain freedom or even become lords and be able to settle in the Luo family's territory is already a great favor, and the reward can not be mentioned at all.

"No," Zhengliang flatly denied, "This is my promise to the people of the Luo family, which is equivalent to the law of the territory, do you want me to break my promise and violate the law of the territory?" In Zhengliang's view, it is necessary to keep promises when dealing with oneself, but it is not necessary to do so with enemies. Moreover, Zhengliang also intends to let the retainers realize that he is the law of the territory, and the law of the territory cannot be easily violated and changed.

"Your Highness is wise!" After hearing this, all the retainers below were moved, and they bowed down to Zhengliang one after another.

"This time, the family captured a total of 723 heads of the Yokoko family and the Bojia coalition army, and captured 256 people. More than 400 spears of various kinds, more than 200 swords, a total of 27,000 stone of grain, more than 5,000 taels of gold and silver, and more than 30,000 copper coins were seized.

"Hmm," Masaro nodded. Compared to the tragic comeback just now, this is much better news.

"Iron and copper are still being cleaned up, and it is expected to be tens of thousands of catties; In terms of population, a register is also being carried out in accordance with the territorial law, and it is estimated that the population of the family territory will be more than 30,000 people. ”

"In terms of territory income, plus the family's business income, it is expected to reach about 50,000 stones," Togo Heiji almost trembled and said the stone height of the territory.

"Huh?" "Congratulations, Your Highness! "The Luo family's martial arts are prosperous! ”

Sure enough, after Togo Heiji said the result, all the retainers were elated.

Fifty thousand stones? After listening to this, Masahiro also pondered. The original strength of the Hata family was equivalent to a 50,000 stone income, but the income of Hata was also added to the income of Iki. This time, Masahiro added up the income of Higashi Matsuura and North Matsuura, plus some income such as snow salt, etc., and it was indeed about the same. If he gives Masato another one to two years, Masato can completely rely on his current territory to reach an income of 70,000 stones.

After the retainers gradually quieted down, Masara began to give orders again.

"In terms of weapons, let's replace all the soldiers with the latest weapons. As for the weapons damaged in this battle, they were handed over to the armory workshop in Notaka Mountain for repair. At the same time, those seized weapons that do not meet the specifications of their own weapons are also handed over to the armory workshop for transformation," said Masahiro. At present, the weapons of the Luo family are all in a unified format as much as possible, such as spears, and the only ones that are unified are three guns. As for the armory workshop, after adding more than a dozen craftsmen from the Ming Kingdom, plus the Japanese craftsmen originally hired or kidnapped by the Luo family, the scale of the armory workshop has reached the scale of twenty people, and it is barely able to undertake this task.

"The iron materials will be transported to the warehouse of the Nogaoshan Lord's Mansion and stored as war materials," Masarashi continued to instruct, "The copper materials can be contacted by Wang Hai and Samoyang, who are still stranded at the port of Banyawan in the main family, and they must be very interested in this batch of copper materials." ”

"The rest of the weapons were shipped to the warehouse of the Notakayama Lord's mansion and preserved," Masarashi said.

"In terms of bows and arrows, only the bow and the heavy wisteria bow were left, and the rest of the bows and arrows were handed over to Kamiya Sakuze and Amada Nobuyasu, telling them to replace them with bows and bows," Masaro said. After feeling the power of the bow, Masashi was no longer interested in other bows and arrows with less power. For this reason, he was even willing to sell the rest of his bows and arrows and exchange them for expensive bows.

"The gold and silver will be shipped to the Nogaoshan warehouse, and as for those copper coins, take some of them out of them, and negotiate with the Kamiya family to buy a batch of ploughing cattle," Masara ordered. With the retreat of the big and small heroes led by the Wave family to Iki, it will inevitably strengthen the control of Iki, if the Wave family completely controls the foreign trade of Iki Island, the Luo family, who is at odds with it, will not be able to obtain farming cattle from it, so Masarashi wants to take advantage of the fact that the Hiroka family has not completely controlled the trade of Iki, so that the Kamiya family will buy another batch of farming cattle. With the expansion of this territory, the population and arable land will inevitably increase greatly, and the demand for cultivated cattle will also increase accordingly. To this end, Zhengliang must take precautions.

"Yes, Your Highness" Togo Heiji, Xingsuke, and Liu Le, who were in charge of cleaning up these materials, immediately bowed down and received the order.

"Your Highness, my family has just occupied the territory, and the local people have not yet completely returned to their hearts, do you want to speed up the implementation of the laws of the territory?" Togo Heiji asked.

"Well, the implementation of the territorial law must be accelerated," Masashi nodded and said, "In this way, from the original territory of the family on the East Matsuura Peninsula, select a group of people who are familiar with the situation of the territorial law to serve in the newly occupied villages and be responsible for the implementation of the territorial law, and those soldiers who can no longer participate in the war after recovering from their injuries will also be arranged in these places as much as possible to be responsible for the implementation of the military law," Masara said.

"Your Highness, in this way, I am afraid that it will attract the resistance of those people in the village!" Togo Heiji said immediately.

"Hmph, the rebellion is also a guy who has a certain strength in the village" Masashi snorted lightly, "Pass my order, in the territory of the original Huzi family, the Hakata family, and the Sashi family, all this kind of guys need to accept the territorial arrangement and move to live elsewhere, and the specific matters are the responsibility of the two of you, Dongxiang Heiji and Onishi Kuniji, and the relocation must be completed within a month, and the rebels will be killed directly." "Although these guys are not small tyrants, they have the strength to transform into small tyrants, and they are a potential destabilizing factor in the territory, when you are strong, they will be obedient like sheep, and once there is a crisis, they are likely to become a poisonous snake that bites people in the back, so Masahiro is determined to take a migration method to minimize their influence and completely eliminate this hidden danger......)

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