Judging from the current situation, the Luo family will be slightly behind the Otomo family in terms of relationships with the shogunate and the court.

The Otomo family has always maintained good relations with the shogunate and the court. The most typical example is that the Otomo family and the Otomo family were in a dispute a few years ago. When the Otomo family was at a disadvantage, it was the shogunate general Ashikaga Yoshiharu who mediated, and finally ended the struggle between the two families by marrying the woman to the head of the Otomo family. For example, in history, when the Shimazu family rose and almost occupied the entire Kyushu, the Otomo family also asked for help from the court, and finally the Toyotomo Hideyoshi sent troops to Kyushu.

Of course, the times are different now. Both the court and the shogunate have fallen into decline, so the way to establish a good relationship with them is very simple, just give food and money.

Thinking of this, Masayoshi first replied to Shenglong's letter, and then ordered Huna to quickly organize a fleet, mainly consisting of merchant ships and lord ships, with a certain number of ships to transport 10,000 stag of copper coins and 1,000 stones of rice to Kyoto.

Ten thousand guan of copper coins were used to buy officials from Shenglong and offer them to the court and shogun. One thousand stones of rice were extracted directly from the territory warehouse. Since a lot of rice was seized in the war, there were more than 5,000 stones of rice in the Luo family's warehouse. Some of these rice will be given as gifts to a retainer and eat by himself, and the other part will be used as gifts to establish a good relationship with the court shogun.

The reason for giving money and food to the court was because Morita mentioned in his letter that the court was preparing to repair the ban in Kyoto. In my memory, next year, it seemed that Oda Nobuhide also received rewards from the court by providing repair costs to the ban. Masayoro happened to imitate it. And he was in front of Oda Nobuhide. Maybe he would get a good control reward.

And donating money and grain to the shogunate general Ashikaga Yoshiharu. This is not just about making good friends with the general. Masara also secretly hopes to arouse the general's ambition. Although there is not much money and grain, it is already very good for the current shogunate. With coins and grain, the general's ambition to repeat the shogunate majesty will naturally increase a little, and the Kyoto area will naturally not be too quiet. This is what is most in line with Masara's interests.

During this long voyage, Masara planned to stop walking the waterways in the Seto Inland Sea, because there were too many naval troops in this direction. If they were found to be transporting coins and food on the ship, they would probably be robbed soon.

This time the voyage route is changed to start from Hirado, then bypass the Osumi Strait, then follow Tosa Bay to enter the Kii Waterway, and finally arrive at the Bie Port. Although the distance has increased by half, there will be less pirates on the road and wider the waterway. If you encounter danger, you can have greater room for maneuver.

The most important thing is that the reconnaissance who set out with the fleet can record the situation along the way, which will be conducive to the future actions of the Luo family's naval army in this area.

After making this matter aside, Masarara finally took time to reunite with the family. At this time, Masarara's legitimate son, Tang Wangmaru, was over one year old. The second child that Tsurumi was pregnant was also born, and he was also a boy. He was named Song Wangmaru by Masarara. Ta Miko was also two years older and looked more and more beautiful.

After spending several days at home, Zhengliang had to devote himself to government affairs again. This time Zhengliang was going to a workshop in the mountains near Anyue City.

The workshop is located ten miles outside Anyue City, in a canyon between Riyue and Daye Mountain. When Masayoshi raised troops to counterattack Anyue City coalition within one day, he gathered troops in this canyon.

There are peasant soldiers guarding the entrance and exit of the canyon where the workshop is located, and the Black Hawk's settlement is also near the canyon. Usually, there are a large number of Black Hawks on the periphery of the canyon to be alerted. It can be said that this canyon is the main defensive location of the Luo family.

As soon as he walked into the entrance of the canyon, Zhengliang saw a young woman appearing in front of him. When the young woman saw Zhengliang, she immediately knelt on the ground in surprise and saluted.

Zhengliang recognized who the young woman was. It turned out that she was Zhang Qian, the orphan of the craftsman who Zhengliang met when he went to Ningbo Prefecture of Ming Dynasty. Later, it was with her help that Liu Le was able to motivate many Ming Dynasty craftsmen to Zhengliang's territory. Not long after coming to Zhengliang's territory, she married Liu Le, and now she already has a daughter.

Seeing Zhang Qian, Zhengliang couldn't help but remember the first batch of Ming immigrants who followed Zhengliang from Ming. Most of these immigrants moved to Ming immigrant settlements near Yegao Mountain, while the other part moved to the canyon to settle near this canyon. Due to the need for confidentiality, the craftsmen and their families in the territory can only carry out activities in a fixed area for the time being.

Almost two years have passed, and these people who moved here have already adapted to life here. Zhengliang has even received a report from Liu Le recently that the first example of Ming immigrants and local residents intermarried. It was a Ming young man who married a beautiful local woman. Two different ethnic groups have finally begun to merge.

With Zhang Qian's introduction, Zhengliang also learned more about the immigration of the Ming Dynasty in more detail. As the news of Zhengliang's arrival spread, more and more people rushed to the entrance of the canyon to catch up with Zhengliang, the legendary lord.

Among the welcome crowds, Zhengliang found the stone, the little boy who tried to pickpocket Zhengliang to save his sick sister in the cold winter. Now, the little boy has grown into a young man.

Not long ago, Zhengliang also approved Shitou's request submitted by Liu Le. Shitou was preparing to return to Ming Kingdom, with the main purpose of assisting Wang Hai to migrate more Ming refugees to the territory and collect more technologies needed by the territory. Of course, Zhengliang also knew Shitou's other purpose was to go back to avenge his mother. Although the culprit who killed his mother died, many accomplices were still alive and happy. He wanted to go back to avenge him.

Masayoshi really couldn't find a suitable reason to stop him from revenge, so he had to approve it in the end. And his sister continued to stay in the territory. In order to make Shi Tou feel at ease and to further reassure the rest of the Ming immigrants, Masayoshi took Shi Tou's sister as his elder sister, and like Ta Miko, they became the princess of the Luo family.

After saying hello to the leaders in the canyon, Zhengliang first walked into the first workshop, the weapons workshop, in the canyon.

The Weapon Workshop is a place where the swords, spears, arrows, stirrups are specially created for Luoshifan, and is responsible for repairing armor and damaged weapons.

As soon as I entered the workshop, I saw a lively scene, with a large number of craftsmen constantly pounding the embryos of weapons. However, after a while of patrol, Zhengliang stopped.

"Is it possible that the entire process of building every weapon in my workshop is done by a craftsman?" Zhengliang looked at the workshop head next to him and asked Liu Ye.

"Yes, sir." Liu Ye replied directly. He felt very strange. All the craftsmen have always worked like this. Why does the lord seem to be unsatisfied?

"Have you ever thought about separating the construction process of each weapon and then being responsible for it by different people?"

"Huh?" Liu Ye couldn't help but lit up after hearing this. Although he was obsessed with the development of weapons, it did not mean that he was not a management talent. After hearing Zhengliang's suggestions, he immediately thought of the benefits.

"Okay, let's redistribute the workshop staff according to our method. I want to see the effect within one month." After seeing Liu Ye's expression, Zhengliang decided directly. Zhengliang believed that Zhengliang no longer needed to say anything more, and Liu Ye already knew what to do.

The reason why Zhengliang demanded this was that in addition to accelerating the speed of weapons construction, he also hoped to strengthen confidentiality in the weapon manufacturing process. Each craftsman only mastered one link to avoid the secrets involved in the overall construction technology.

After instructing the assembly line construction method, Zhengliang then inspected the weapons workshop for a while, and finally made another request, that is, to create the first bow and arrow of the Luo family as soon as possible.

Among the main weapons used by Luoshi, the bow and bow and the full can only be supplemented by purchasing from outside the territory. Not to mention the complete things, but the bow and arrow can actually be made by itself.

However, Masayoshi hopes that the craftsmen in the Weapons could combine the local Japanese bows and arrows with the Ming Dynasty to create more suitable bows and arrows that are needed on the battlefield. In Masayoshi's view, Japan's bows and arrows are too big now and cannot be carried on the battlefield.

So under Zhengliang's command, a team of five, six Ming Kingdoms and local craftsmen had already started to study it a long time ago; the combination of the two bows and arrows was a problem, but now it seems that it has been delayed for a long time, Zhengliang hopes to come up with the results as soon as possible.

After inspecting the weapons workshop, Zhengliang immediately came to the firearm workshop. At present, the firearm workshop is mainly responsible for making mesh rope guns, fuses, gunpowder and bullets. Basically, the Luo family has achieved the self-producing capacity of the full set of musket equipment. Although the quality of gunpowder and bullets needs to be further improved.

"Didn't you consider changing the casting method?" Masayoro was quite surprised after seeing these craftsmen still using the traditional clay casting method. Could it be that ordinary blacksmiths in the Warring States Period in Japan used clay casting method?

But soon Zhengliang felt even more confused? Because he soon realized that even if these local craftsmen didn't know, those Ming craftsmen, even Ander, who was the head of the firearm workshop, would always know the iron craftsmanship method that was more advanced than the clay casting method?

"Lord, we have also thought about using the iron casting method, but there is not much iron material here and it seems not very suitable for the iron casting." Ander seemed to see Zhengliang's doubts and immediately analyzed.

"Is the quality of iron materials not good? There is no problem with this. I will find a way to bring some better quality iron materials from Mingguo as iron models." Zhengliang immediately made a decision after knowing the whole story. In addition to the problem of iron models, Zhengliang also realized that the smelting technology that the family currently mastered seemed to be ineffective, and it seemed that Wang Hai and others would also need to help solve it.

"In addition, in some workshops in Ming Dynasty, a more advanced casting method has been used." Zhengliang said at last.
Chapter completed!