After Du Fei returned to the city, he calculated the numbers reported in Dongxiang's resettlement report. In just a few days, the number of soldiers in the city suddenly swelled from dozens to nearly a thousand, and the originally lax city defense suddenly became tighter.
Although he spent a lot of money, Du Fei felt more at ease day by day as he looked at his gradually increasing military strength.
At this time, Shimazu Yoshihisa's crusade army had returned. They fought until they reached Zuobo City before embarking on their return journey. They overcame obstacles along the way and captured the empty-defense port city and county town with less than a thousand troops. However, they heard that Saeki When the defender of the city was Takahashi Shaoyun, he didn't hesitate much and immediately chose to return with his troops.
When he saw that the originally weak Duyu Jincheng had become stronger and stronger, he was very surprised. He asked Du Fei who came to greet him: "Where did these soldiers come from? The former city lord, General Makabe, In fact, even if you went from village to village to catch young men for several months, you still couldn't get enough 200 men, but you managed to get nearly a thousand men in less than a week!"
"Haha," Du Fei pulled Dongxiang Zhongzhi out: "This is all due to Dongxiang Zhongzhi, Your Highness, you gave me a capable assistant!"
"Oh, that's it! I regret it a little bit, haha, you guys do your best! There is a bright future for us Shimazu family!" After finishing speaking, Shimazu Yoshihisa shouted to the soldiers behind him: "March quickly! We must rush back to Daou Gaoshan City as soon as possible!"
"What? Your Highness Yoshihisa, the conquest just ended, why don't you take a rest here?" Du Fei asked curiously.
"No, there's another uprising in the Ichigo clan in the South. I need to go back and suppress it!" Shimazu Yoshihisa said with a look of frustration: "It's really adding fuel to the fire! Some remaining forces of the Ito family haven't been wiped out yet. That’s it”
"Do you want us to help? It's just a training session!" Du Fei saw Shimazu Yoshihisa's embarrassment.
I couldn't help but blurt it out.
Shimazu Yoshihisa stretched out his hand and patted Du Fei's shoulder affectionately and said: "No need, I can handle these little troubles! You'd better consolidate your city more! You must know that those guys from the Otomo family will not give up!"
After that, he hurried away with the exhausted-looking crusaders, leaving only Du Fei's blurred figure behind.
Du Fei understood that Shimazu Yoshihisa at this time must have really hoped that Du Fei could lead troops to help him, but the still aggressive power of the Otomo family made him give up this idea. After all, these cities were the result of the hard work of the Shimazu army. The number of casualties was calculated only after the battle was won. Once it is lost again, it not only affects the morale, but also makes the death of those soldiers seem meaningless.
So Du Fei began to settle down and manage his city carefully. He imitated the way of Renji City and began to build his city wall wider and thicker, and added the city wall construction technology of China to it, using glutinous rice mixed with boulders to make it Stronger.
Du Yujin City originally had two lines of defense. According to the original plan, Du Fei was originally going to build three and four pills. However, after Du Fei's careful calculation, he chose to build only one more line because the foundation of the city was too small. But this line of defense is not only strong and thick, it is also full of stone towers, and the gaps are filled with bamboo sticks pointing toward the sky. Its strength is even worse than that of the human-made city.
After the city was built, Du Fei began to further expand his army. The area of the city increased, and more soldiers could live there. He recruited two thousand more people from his own area in one go, of which one thousand were in San Recruited from Xiacun. Because he adopted relatively moderate policies after taking power, which were more beneficial to both businessmen and farmers, he was widely supported by most people.
Therefore, the number of people joining his army increased day by day. The original plan was to recruit another two thousand people, but in the end, three thousand people came enthusiastically!
As a result, the expanded city could no longer accommodate people, so Du Fei had to learn from the inner city and build an outer city around the city. The difference was that the houses in the inner city were built by the samurai themselves, while Du Fei's These samurai houses and the cubicles where the ashigaru lived were all built by him using his own money for the soldiers.
Seeing this, Du Fei simply built simple facilities such as taverns, teahouses, and small restaurants in the city outside the city for the soldiers to entertain themselves. Gradually, businessmen from nearby merchant towns were gradually attracted by the conveniences here. Many people have opened shops here.
After Du Fei's transformation and construction in just a few months, Du Yujin Castle was transformed from a small mountain town into a city-town integrated fortress that was even more prosperous than the Ou Takayama Castle where Shimazu Yoshihisa lived. .
Since the taxes collected by Dufei are lighter than those in other places, and the army stationed there is strong and strong, many outsiders with small carts have settled in the town where the newly born city was born.
Du Fei invested a lot of personal funds in building and renovating the city and recruiting soldiers, and due to his low taxes, he lost a lot of money at the beginning.
But he was not anxious at all, because he knew that only high investment would lead to high returns. Gradually, the scale of Du Yujin Castle Town was getting bigger and bigger, and the business was getting better and better. Du Fei improved a little at this time. Commercial tax. Although the merchants complained a little, the scale of Du Yujin Town had already been established at this time, and no one was willing to give up this geomantic treasure, so they all obediently paid the tax.
The failed business case of the Xiangliang family made Du Fei deeply understand that sometimes wealth needs guidance before it falls into his pocket.
Like the Xiangliang family, they were originally economically deficient and had to build so many large cities at one go. In the end, they were unable to make ends meet and had to raise taxes.
But the more taxes are raised, the more people will flee, which will form a vicious circle. He did the opposite. First, he used ultra-low taxes to attract merchants and people to live and work here. After the town reached a certain scale, he would On the basis of what is acceptable to the people, slightly increase taxes.
For example, the tax collected by the Sagara family is 100 kusen per merchant per year, but there are only ten merchants in his trading town, so in the end, the tax revenue is only 1,000 kan. In the end, the merchants complained.
Although Du Fei's tax rate is 50 guan per merchant per year, there are fifty merchants gathered together! So in the end his tax was 250 guan. He not only made money, but also became a good person.
Du Fei's inn in Yatsushiro Town and the shops in Hirado Town and Town Town are also managed by several smart and capable shopkeepers, who continuously provide him with financial resources, giving him financial peace of mind.
His army also continued to expand with the expansion of his property. By the fourth month, Du Yujin City had grown from a few dozen people at the beginning to 5,000 people! Many people from other places came to join him. Experienced wild samurai mercenaries.
Du Fei has developed so prosperously in the small territory of Hyuga Country that even Shimazu Yoshihisa is a little wary of his strength. Because he spent all his efforts to rebuild his army, which is only more than a thousand people. That's all. Shimazu Yoshihiro was even more extremely frightened. He understood that Du Fei's military strength at this time had reached a level that could challenge the entire Shimadzu family, but he simply did not turn his back.
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Du Fei led a team through Shimazu Yoshihiro's territory in a mighty manner, and it was already time to meet Liu Zhanqin to buy goods. Du Fei purchased a large number of Ming dynasty weapons that were 80% new. So he brought them
Hundreds of people were recruited to carry arms and on the one hand to strengthen security.
These days, arms can be said to be soft gold, and bandits, bandits, and pirates are all coveting them. The Ryuzouji Temple and the Otomo family are also constantly plundering this important strategic material. Fortunately, Du Fei's power
It was already huge, so they didn't dare to offend Du Fei on the surface.
So his troops passed through Higo Country smoothly and arrived at the delivery point agreed with Yanagi Zhanqin.