In the early morning, after spending a night in Chemu Village, Zhengliang's army set out on the journey home again.

Yesterday afternoon, Masara inspected the third regular football team accompanied by his generals Hirozo Tsuda and Sasuke Junmu Fu. Although Hirozo Tsuda is a bit unreliable, he has fully learned from Masara's methods in football training and trained the entire third team with a precise and concise nature. Of course, based on the need for confidentiality, the foot training area is strictly protected and other personnel are strictly prohibited from approaching.

Last night, Zhengliang also received the latest news about Zhongwei Village sent by Kuaima. The 200 stones of grain from Huzi's family had been transported. Zhengliang issued an order to store the grain in Zhongwei Village, mainly to prepare for the upcoming war. As for the fast horses sent by the letter, Zhengliang was specially allocated to Zhongwei Village. Currently, there are three small horses in the territory, one for Zhengliang, one for Zhengliang, and the last horse is placed in Zhongwei Village, and the last horse is placed in Yegao Village. These two horses are mainly used to convey emergency information and are fed by a dedicated person. In the future, as the number of horses in the territory increases, Zhengliang is preparing to establish a cavalry team, and at the same time, all the detectives learn to ride horses, so that the intelligence transmission speed will be much faster.

Last night, it rained heavily. In the early morning, there were still a pool of puddles on the roads in the fields. The horse's hooves of the pony stepped in the puddles, splashing strings of water droplets. Looking at the wasteland surrounding the surroundings, Zhengliang stopped from time to time and came to the field to check. Yesterday, he saw that all the city lords gathered to welcome the lords, which led to the temporary suspension of the territory's construction. Zhengliang immediately arranged personnel to inform the next lords to stop such a welcome ceremony. At this time, the liberated lords came to the fields one after another, some were taking care of their own fields, while others participated in paid corvee labor organized by the territory, and digging deep water canals for the reclaiming fields. Seeing Zhengliang's arrival, they gathered to salute the lord. At the same time, everyone was happy, and the lord who was high above actually went down the field.

In this way, I walked around and stopped, and finally arrived near the original Tada Village near noon. The original Tada Village had been demolished and replaced by a town with several times larger area. After hearing the news, Yukisuke rushed to Masaru. Masaru waved his hand and signaled that there was no need to be too polite, and then asked, "How is the road open from the lord's mansion to the foot of the mountain?"

"Your Highness, there are currently 71 slaves responsible for opening the road. It is expected that the road construction from here to the lord's mansion will be completed in the next month," said Yukisuke. According to Masara's arrangement, there are 25 regular first teams stationed here, and Yukisuke is temporarily led by Yukisuke, responsible for guarding the territory slaves who are responsible for guarding the open road.

"71? Why are there so many slaves all at once?" Zhengliang clearly remembered that in mid-May, there were less than 50 slaves in his territory.

"This is exactly what the ministers are preparing to report. During this period, the nearby powerful men sent Xiaotao to sneak into the family from the mountain path on the edge of the territory to investigate the news, but they were soon discovered and reported by the people. So far, with the cooperation of the people, 26 spies have been captured, namely from the Nagakura family, the Taijue family, the Mingyue family, the Sashi family, the Huzi family, and the Akasaka family." Yukisuke reported the report immediately.

"Hiss", Zhengliang's back was sweating coldly, and he didn't expect that there were so many powerful men who favored him. This was not a good thing.

"The information that was interrogated has been summarized to Tadajiro. After His Highness returns to the mansion, Tadajiro will report to you personally. At the same time, the newly discovered mountain paths have also been blocked or monitored." Yukisuke continued to report, "Hehe, those guys don't know how powerful the people's war initiated by His Highness. Our family is now like a man-eating beast. The fine arts entering the territory have been reported and captured by the people, and they can no longer leave. It seems that the families will soon not dare to send the fine arts in."

"After completing the roads on the mountain, we will continue to be responsible for the openness and strengthening of the main military roads in the territory," Zhengliang said harshly. Zhengliang felt heartbroken at this moment. Each of the 26 people would be rewarded with 5 stones of miscellaneous grains to the reported people, and they consumed 130 stones of miscellaneous grains at once. It would cost to launch a war to the people.

"Yes, Your Highness." When he heard Masaru's voice as if gritting his teeth, Yukisuke immediately bowed to take the order, "In addition, Your Highness, we caught a ninja the day before yesterday."

"Huh?" Masara was stunned. To be honest, Masara had never seen a real ninja. It is said that the ninja at this time were very powerful. The most powerful ones were the Santafu of Hattori, Hanzo Hattori Hanzo, Kotaro Fengmo, etc. Now that he suddenly heard that he had caught a ninja, Masara was immediately interested.

"It's like this. The ninja attempted to inquire about the demise of the Omu family. The leader was seen through by the leader. Finally, he was captured under the siege of the leader led by Lord Tsuda and the leader." Seeing Masaruo was very interested, Yukisuke immediately increased his voice and said, "But the ninja seemed unwilling to hurt the ordinary leader. Although the hidden weapon was very powerful, he finally surrendered."

"Has it been asked what happened?" Masara asked. He became more and more interested in this strange ninja. There were even ninjas who could not bear to hurt the people and surrender. There were really no strange things in the world.

"The subordinates used all the tortures from His Highness's church, but the ninja just said that he was from Yamakura and his name was Ichiruo." Yukisuke seemed ashamed of not obtaining useful information.

"Hiss", Zhengliang shivered. If Zhengliang did not understand it wrongly, Yukisuke used some of the "Top Ten Tortures of the Qing Dynasty" by the Zhengliang church. Some people actually revealed so little information under such torture. They are indeed tough guys.

Yamakizuki, Yiruo, Xiaomu family, Masarara instantly thought of an important message and immediately ordered, "Bring that ninja here."

"Yes, Your Highness", I was lucky to help me take the order and leave.

Soon a thin young man covered in scars was carried to Masaru. Looking at the ten bloody fingers, Masaru shivered again. Masaru was now very suspicious whether Yukisuke was trying to add the fear he had interrogated him at that time to these slaves. After all, if you were hurt here, you would find happiness from other people's pain. This is Yukisuke's personality.

"No need to waste your energy anymore, you will not say any information anymore," the ninja lying on the ground closed his eyes and said disdainfully. After being tortured for two days, he still has the strength to speak? It turns out that under his thin body, there is a strong heart hidden.

Zhengliang looked at the ninja's face in front of him, looked at it for nearly a minute, and finally said, "Yinuo from Chemuzhai, who is you?"

After hearing Masayora's words, the ninja's eyes suddenly opened, then looked up at Masayora and asked, "Who are you? How did you know him? He...where is he now?"

Seeing the performance of the ninja, Masako's heart first broke out. Sure enough, he was able to tell the direction by listening to the sound and at the same time he even more affirmed the original guess in his heart, "Hehe, he is now the head of the footlight team of our family."

"Hmph, don't think that you can deceive me like this. You won't be fooled so easily." Although Masayoshi's mind was suddenly disturbed by the words just now, the ninja quickly recovered.

"You will know whether you have deceived me or not. Yukisuke, please place him well, and notify Yinuo and tell him that his relatives are coming." Masara waved his hand and ordered, "If you want to see Yinuo, please don't leave easily." Masara was worried that after letting go of this ninja, the latter left without saying goodbye.

"Yes, Your Highness", Yukisuke immediately lifted up the ninja with a puzzled face and walked down.

Haha, the Godsuke Luo family sent a ninja at this time. Looking at the ninja gradually moving away, Masaru thought happily.

After lunch and instructed Yukisuke in detail what he needed to pay attention to, Masara set out on his return journey again. Masara did not take the secret path leading to the Notakayama Lord's Mansion, where the road was opened by a large army of slaves, and it was difficult to pass quickly, so Masara chose the road where the Harada Harahara family and Notaka Village were handed over. After Yukisuke's care, the width of this road had nearly doubled. According to Masara's original requirements for Togo Heiji, it was necessary to establish a wide road connecting the main villages. The leaders along the road saw the lord's main flag and knelt on the ground to salute.

After nearly half an hour of marching, following the newly built forest avenue and passing through a forest, he entered an open territory. Nogao Village finally arrived, which is where Masayoshi rose. He rode on his horse and looked into the distance. Nogao Village seemed to have expanded several times. On the edge of the forest, some people were cutting down trees, while the other people simply processed the trees and then transported them to the village to prepare for building wooden houses.

Tadajiro, who had been waiting for a long time, led the fourth-legged light team, who had no mission, to salute Masaro, "Your Highness".

Masara waved his hand and signaled everyone to avoid the gift. Then he said to Tadajiro who was kneeling in front of the horse, "Let's go, talk while you walk."

Tadajiro immediately climbed up and respectfully took the horse for Masaru. If the retainer in the Luo family was most looking forward to seeing Masaru, Tadajiro would be the first to be Tadajiro. During this period, Tadajiro was responsible for the daily training and territory guarding of the fourth-legged light team, and always paid attention to the movements of Yunoo Village. In addition, he was also responsible for the daily affairs of Notakamura and the Lord's Mansion. After all, the Lord's Mansion had his future mistress, which was not negligible at all. So he ran from the mountain to the bottom of the mountain every day, and then from the bottom of the mountain to the mountain, back and forth several times, so tired that Tadajiro's shiny bald head was almost smoking.

"Your Highness, with the help of plowing oxen, the speed of land reclamation has been greatly accelerated. The wasteland in the southwest of Nogao Village has been basically reclaimed. If you push it inside, you will enter the forest." Tadajiro reported while walking.

Zhengliang was very surprised when he heard this. Although he had all the five seized oxen here, he did not expect that he would reach the edge of the forest so quickly? You know, it was very close to the place where he fought with the wild boars.

"According to Your Highness's requirements, the next step of reclaiming is to go south, where there are more wastelands." Tadajiro continued to report, "There are nearly 1,000 people in Notaka Village, and the size of the village is constantly expanding. According to Your Highness's original requirements, the houses of the people are built according to the designated location." After hearing Tadajiro's words, Masara also looked up at the houses in the distance. As expected, Lentz was built in an orderly manner, as he had asked him.

At this time, the surrounding leaders had already discovered Zhengliang's team, and they all stopped what they had done and surrounded both sides of the road. This was the root of the Luo family's family's origin. Although many refugees from other places later joined, under the subtle influence of the original leaders, they all worshiped Luo's Zhengliang. It is no exaggeration to say that there are Luo's Zhengliang's most loyal governors, even fanatical believers. Riding on horseback and looking at the governors who kept gathering on both sides of the road, Zhengliang suddenly felt a sense of happiness, a kind of happiness that was relied on and admired by others.

The 40 cloakers were also excited at this moment. They were nearly a month away from home, and they finally saw their families today. Masayora also noticed the mood changes of the intermediate samurai around them, and immediately announced that the cloakers would be on holiday for one day and gather in the camp next to the lord's mansion tomorrow. As for the 20 low-level samurai, since they had no family members here, they could only continue to protect Masayora.

After learning about Zhengliang's decision to take a holiday, the commotion immediately burst out cheers, and the cloaks ran to their families next to the avenue. Many people hugged each other, and the scene was very touching for a moment.

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Chapter completed!