To measure a country's war potential, in addition to the country's income, population, number of troops, and so on, another point is the country's armament.

While inspecting these weapons workshops and firearms workshops, Masarashi also recalled the report he had seen a few days ago on the armament situation of the territory submitted by the Logistics Pavilion.

First of all, the situation of military rations, at present, in the territory of the Luo family, even if the 80,000 stone of grain seized from the temples and shrines of Chikuzen Kingdom is added, the grain left in the territory warehouse is less than 200,000 stone. 200,000 koku of grain seems like a lot, right? Let's take a look at the daily consumption of the Roche family.

At present, the Roche family has 8,300 people standing on stand; There are more than 10,000 retainers of various institutions, including the elders of the family and the heads of small villages at the grassroots level; more than 5,000 peasant soldiers were temporarily recruited; There are also hundreds of people in the Masara Mansion, including the main lady Kikuhime, and the subordinates in the mansion. The daily food consumption of these people is very amazing (according to the law of the Luo family, as one of the benefits of treatment, these people are responsible for the food at work), and they have to pay a part of these people's salaries every month (the Luo family pays these people's salaries in the form of a combination of territorial income and income).

In addition, the slave brigades of the territory were required to provide them with food commensurate with their labor, although they were not required to pay the slaves for the work of clearing the fields and building the marching roads. The general people of the territory also need to pay them a certain amount of remuneration after participating in the conscription organized by the local internal affairs cabinet. At the end of the spectrum are the working workshop workers, who also need to consume food every day and pay a monthly stipend.

Meanwhile. Kinoshita Masanao of Bungo Province was leading his team to fight against the Otomo family in Beppu Beach in Ami-gun; Enjoji Nobuyin and Kumon Shigetada are leading 300 standing ashigaru and 500 peasant soldiers. Occupying the commanding heights of Takahira Mountain at the junction of Tsukumi Bay and Saeki Bay in Kaibe County, it confronted the Saeki family's army that rushed to confront it; The 2nd Cavalry Standing Brigade led by Takasaka Masanbu is also cooperating with the Cabinet to rectify the local temples and shrines in Bungo Province; The two fathers and sons, Toshimasa Honda and Masanobu Honda, led a thousand peasant soldiers to besiege the castle of Takajo, which went straight to the Shiga family in the north of the gun; Shinnosuke Akabane of Chikuzen Province is also leading the army of Tachibanayama Castle towards the Ouchi family Sonata County to the north. Put pressure on the Ouchi family. The actions of these forces also require the consumption of food.

Some people may wonder, since such a system would consume so much money and food in the territory, wouldn't it be better to simply give up and restore the system of letting the local retainers and wealthy clans directly manage their own territories, and they will be responsible for the consumption of their own military power, while the daimyo will only be responsible for assigning tasks to them and then collecting annual tribute.

In fact, the two sides of a system are reflected here. With the current system of the Luo family, it is in this way that the interests of the retainers, soldiers, workers, and lords are tied to the Luo family, and these groups can only obtain benefits by relying on the Luo family. The collateral effect of this is reflected here, as such a system would greatly deplete the wealth held by the daimyo and pose a challenge to the daimyo in managing the territory.

The Luo family is now equivalent to grasping all the wealth and resources in their hands, and then redistributing the wealth resources in a way that is acceptable to everyone, and the Luo family is the distributor and manager of wealth resources. Nowadays, the daimyo in other parts of the Warring States period have a system in which most of the control and ownership of the wealth and resources in their hands are divided among the various retainers and wealthy families, and then they come together to support the daimyos. And because the daimyo lacked direct control over these fragmented wealth resources, once these retainers and wealthy families became powerful. There is a danger that the daimyo will no longer be willing to support the daimyo or even take the daimyo's place. This method saves the trouble of management. But it is likely to lead to its own demise.

Therefore, with the current situation of grain reserves, it is only possible to maintain the daily operation of the territory until the autumn harvest of this year. But in the event of a war with the neighboring countries during this period, then it is difficult to say.

Of course, at this time, the temple shrines of Bungo Province were being reorganized by the Luo family, and it is said that some temple shrines were already rebelling due to dissatisfaction. Now Masahiro hopes that the local temples and shrines will rise up to resist, so the Luo family can take the opportunity to sweep these temples and shrines. After learning from Chikuzen Province, Masara was very sure that the temples and shrines of Bungo were also rich, and after they were scavenged, they just replenished the granary of the Luo family.

In terms of coins, at present, in the warehouse of the Luo family, there are more than 42,000 taels of gold, more than 3,500 taels of silver, and 80,000 taels of copper coins. These coins were mainly used for trade with the Nanban, Ming, and merchants outside the Luo family's territory.

In terms of weapons, in addition to the weapons and equipment currently equipped by the 8,300 standing members of the Luo family and more than 5,000 peasant soldiers, the warehouse of the Luo family at this time also has the following reserves:

In terms of spears, it can be equipped with ten standing ashigaru teams. A standing squad consisted of 600 men, of which 350 were spearmen and 250 were archers. Therefore, at this time, the Luo family had 3,500 spear heads in reserve (wooden poles would be installed before they were sent to the army).

In terms of bows, there are six standing ashigaru teams, with 250 bows and arrows in each team, for a total of 1,500 bows. At this time, the Luo family had eliminated the homemade bamboo bow and maruki bow, which were less powerful and had a lower range (the eliminated bows and arrows would become the weapons of the temporarily recruited peasant soldiers and the territorial scouts), and replaced them with bows and bows with greater power and longer range as the main battle weapons. However, since the materials for this type of bow and arrow are relatively difficult to obtain and more complicated to make, it is quite good to be able to reserve the number of three standing ashigaru teams while ensuring the use of the standing equipment in the current service. In addition, there were 50,000 bundles of well-forged feathered arrows (25 feathered arrows in each bundle), making a total of nearly 250,000 feathered arrows.

In terms of katana, it can be equipped with five standing ashigaru teams. There are 600 people in a team of ashigaru, and each ashigaru is always equipped with a katana, whether it is a spear or a bow and arrow, it will be equipped with a katana (other equipment such as iron cannons and heralds are also equipped in this way.) Of course, in order to show the difference from the samurai, the samurai's knives will be more sophisticated, and the decoration will be more beautiful). In other words, the Luo family currently has three thousand katanas in stock. (To be continued......)