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After an in-depth exchange with Lilu, Yi Yin finally determined the shogunate's general trade policy for the Nanban.

It is to open up to the outside world, expand the scale of Nanban trade in Sakai Port, add more fresh blood to the Hokuriku Road trade route system, and offset the danger of excessive Siba food stamps by making the cake bigger.

Although Yiyin never forgets the final plan of opening up direct trade tomorrow, it seems that the Nanban trade plan is more realistic and effective, and can temporarily stabilize the financial system of the Shiba family.

Lifting the restrictions on Nanman trade and expanding the scale of foreign trade will naturally relax the restrictions on Nanman religion.

As the patron saint of Buddhism, Bishamonten, it is impossible for Yoshiyin to agree with the teachings of the Nanban and betray his own Shinto foundation.

However, once the Nanban trade was liberalized and a large number of Nanban people went deep into the interior of the island country, it would be difficult for the auditors of the island country to distinguish the identity of the missionaries.

A large number of missionaries will follow the Nanban merchants and infiltrate the interior of the island country. The physical isolation of the Nanban beliefs will fail, and underground churches will spring up like mushrooms after a spring rain.

Yiyin didn't know what trouble this would bring, but he couldn't care about it for the time being.

If you want the benefits of the Southern Barbarian trade, you must accept the disadvantages of the Southern Barbarian trade. There is never a perfect good thing in the world. The fundamental principle of political choice is that the advantages outweigh the disadvantages.

Of course, Yiyin would not do this bad guy face to face, but use the political platform of the shogunate to promote the reform of Nanban trade.

Let the shogunate come forward and provide political chips to Lilu, the general agent of Nanman, to use in business negotiations with Nanman merchants.

As for the anger of Buddhism, the shogunate prevaricated various Buddhist sects on the grounds that they resolutely opposed the entry of Nanban missionaries and only allowed Nanban merchants to do business.

In fact, just as Yoshiyin thought, the shogunate is in such a bad state that it has no ability to distinguish the difference between Nanman missionaries and Nanman businessmen, let alone restrict the activities of Nanman people in various places.

The weak shogunate opened a hole in the dam against the Nanman, and then the surging tide would soon break the dam, making the shogunate's restrictions on the Nanman missionaries useless.

This is also a bit of sweetness that Lord Yiyin gave to the Nanman Church. Although he rejected the Nanman belief politically, the reality is that the Nanman missionaries can finally go deep into the island country to preach.

I believe that the Nanman Church will also assess the situation and gladly accept the goodwill of the shogunate, hiding in the caravans of the Westerners and Portuguese, and entering the island country to preach.

As long as the Nanman Church supports it, the biggest obstacle to expanding the Nanman trade will be removed, and then there will be business negotiations, which Lilu is best at.

Lilu will reveal the old background of the Westerners and Portuguese, and force them to make concessions, so that the Hokuriku Road trade route system headed by the Shiba family can eat the fattest piece of meat in the Southern Barbarian trade.

After all, no matter what kind of trade you are in, you cannot do without water and sea logistics. The cost and risk of land transportation are much higher than water and sea transportation.

As long as the Shiba family still controls the mature logistics system of the Hokuriku Road trade route, no business behavior can bypass the cooperation with the Shiba family.

At the same time that Yoshihiro completed the layout of the Nanman trade, the shogunate group and the Ashikaga Huis were also slowly running in, and gradually formed a new political balance in Kyoto, which made Yoshihiro breathe a sigh of relief.

It's ridiculous to say that compared with the punishment of laws and regulations, the shogunate group that controls Kyoto is actually more afraid of public opinion.

What they are afraid of is not the turbulent public opinion under the public opinion, but that the public opinion will pierce the illusion of harmony they have woven, and let the saints above see the truth.

The shogunate wrote so many laws and regulations, all of which were good laws that served the samurai family wholeheartedly. In the end, no one was afraid of the majesty of the law. The only thing they were afraid of was public opinion revealing the truth.

This joke is really not funny at all, what is wrong with this samurai society?The Emperor's New Clothes is a fairy tale that will never go out of style.

As a higher ruler, Yiyin is actually blind and deaf. He can only rely on and mobilize the low-level Ji warriors to find out more hidden dangers and try to change some injustices.

The shogunate group dare not speak out, but they will definitely try their best to slander behind their backs, and regard the changes in Kyoto as a political catastrophe.

Those with vested interests will never be able to understand the feelings of the victims. They will only dig out the foundation of the entire samurai group without hesitation for the petty profits in front of them.

And Yiyin is just a selfish feudal theocratic ruler, he will not do it for ten or eight years, causing the vested interests to complain, and he will be cursed forever.

A ruler who is selfless and dedicated must not be a normal person. Yiyin can't imagine, what exactly is that kind of person planning?
Yiyin is just an ordinary person. Like Zhu Yuanzhang, he hopes that his descendants can rule this island country and enjoy prosperity forever.

As long as this political goal can be achieved, he doesn't care whether the future of the islanders is bright or bleak.

If the weak and foolish people can make Shiba's descendants stand at the top of the island country's pyramid forever, Yoshigin will not hesitate to turn the island country into a closed society that will always be ignorant.

After all, he never regarded himself as an islander in his bones. When considering the future of the island country, he only cared about the happiness of his family.

What's interesting is that the islanders of this era don't have the feelings of family, country and world. They are also selfish and only care about the future of their own family.

That's why Yiyin can join hands with the admirers of the Wu family group to create his own theocracy, and pull out the meaning of bloodlines and precious species from the height of the sky.

If it were placed in the Celestial Dynasty, it would be hard to imagine that those elites who shouted that the princes and generals are kind, and care about family affairs, state affairs, and world affairs, would wholeheartedly collude with righteousness and money, and engage in corrupt theocracy.

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The cold wind in winter is getting more and more bitter. Yiyin, who has completed the layout of Nanban trade and political arrangements in Kyoto, knows that he should set off.

Things can never be finished, and if it continues, it will be delayed until the beginning of spring. It is more convenient to take a boat back to Kanto directly from the Hokuriku Road Commercial Road.

But Yoshigin rejected the Hokuriku Road from the bottom of his heart, and still wanted to go back to Kanto via the Tokaido Road.

The birth of Uesugi Miyuki made him feel daunted.It's not that he doesn't like his daughter, it's just that he has too many entanglements with Echigo's political interests, and he has lingering fears.

The Echigo Kingdom was the starting point for Yoshigin to conquer the Kanto. The Echigo duopoly formed by him and Uesugi Kenshin is still the most important political cornerstone for the Shiba family to gain a foothold in the Kanto.

Even the political platform of the Kanto Chamberlain, which is booming, is actually based on the Echigo duopolitics.

Without the full support of the brave and wealthy Echigo Samurai Group, Yoshihiro would not have a solid pedal to enter and exit the land of eight states.

But on the other hand, because Echigo's two-headed politics is too important, the birth of Uesugi Miyuki's second daughter is far more complicated and difficult than the eldest daughter Takeda Yoshinobu and the third daughter Yubi Hamadanko.

Because this daughter has a high starting point, Uesugi Kenshin and the Echigo Samurai Group behind her must hope that this daughter can inherit everything from the Shiba family, but Yoshigin is unwilling.

The Wu family group is also moving towards political maturity step by step.

From the equal inheritance of each heir in the Kamakura shogunate period to the inheritance of the family governor of the Ashikaga shogunate, the inheritance method of the samurai family has become more and more zero-sum game.

To put it simply, each heir can get a little from the old lady, no matter how much, he still has a partial inheritance right after all.

But now, only the house governor eats alone, and the other branches either give the house governor some leftovers as a dog, or don't have any at all.

A family of inheritance is beneficial for the Wu family to maintain the family business, and will not gradually lose power due to the division of the territory.

But on the other hand, because the house governor eats alone, all the heirs desperately want to become the house governor, and the struggle for inheriting the family business becomes very fierce.

This is a zero-sum game, where the winner takes all and the loser gets nothing.

The three generations of general Ashikaga Yoshimitsu enjoyed the benefits of this era, and used the heirs of various families to compete for the right to inherit, split and weakened, and became the only powerful general in the Ashikaga shogunate.

Water can carry a boat, but it can also overturn it.The prosperity of the Ashikaga family stems from the balance method of Ashikaga Yoshimitsu, but the decline of the Ashikaga family is also due to this.

During the Yatsushiro Shogun Rebellion, the Yamana family and the Hosokawa family also played a battle of successors, pulling the Ashikaga shogun they supported to start the war.

That battle greatly weakened the strength of the shogunate's high gate, and wiped out most of the shogunate's prestige and control over the local area.

For the shogunate as a whole, the final political result is that there is no winner, and the shogunate samurai are all losers.

This is the disadvantage of the family governor's inheritance, because it is so cool to eat alone, and everyone wants to grab this chair, which leads to a very fierce battle for inheritance rights, with almost no lower limit.

Yiyin was worried.

The god-descendant family that I am building will eventually cause the god-descendants of each family to fight each other in order to grab the chair after my death because of the too strong theocracy, so that I can't rest in peace in the spirit of the sky.

Yi Yin already had some thoughts in his heart, he wanted to remove his chair.

In fact, according to the tradition of the samurai family, as early as the royal family system of the Kamakura shogunate, there was a political tradition of joint governance and discussion among nobles.

It's just that Minamoto Yoritomo's heirs were weak at that time, and the exercise of power relied on the various Ji warrior regiments under him, so it was impossible to establish a strong blood co-governance system.

But Yiyin is different. Yiyin is a man. He doesn't need to give birth by himself. He only needs to work hard to sow seeds, and he can turn the leaders of the powerful Ji warriors into mothers of his own children.

What he needs to consider is how to use the child's mother so that the children can get used to the political form of the nobles discussing together, so that everyone can discuss things together and jointly maintain the supremacy of the god-descendant group.

Yoshigin was holding Takeda Yoshinobu in his arms at this time, and Kosaka Masanobu sat next to him who was ecstatic.

"Really? Saint, do you want His Highness to go back and visit His Highness Takeda?"

Yiyin nodded, stroked the child's little head, and said.

"It's been two years since Yixin left his mother. He left home at the age of three, and now he almost can't remember his mother's appearance. This is not good for the child's growth.

I'm leaving soon, from Tokaido to Kanto to take care of business, Yoshinobu will go back with me, Takeda Shingen should also miss a child. "

Of course Masanobu Kosaka knew that Takeda Shingen missed his children day and night, and the love of every letter he sent was overflowing with letter paper.

But the problem is that Takeda's family failed to go to Luo, and Takeda Shingen had no choice but to use Takeda Yoshinobu as a hostage girl to provoke the Shiba Oda War. She, as a mother, bears the original sin.

Don't look at everyone's propaganda that Yoshihiro started the war with Oda Nobunaga for the sake of the samurai family. In fact, everyone understands that the real trigger is His Royal Highness Takeda.

If Takeda Shingen provoked a war of 20 people after a year of preparation, and could easily take his daughter home with his back foot, he would really treat everyone as a fool.

Takeda Yoshinobu is by Yoshigin's side, allowing the Shiba family to control the heirs of the Takeda family. This is a political balance point. Takeda Shingen has no right to interfere with the child's future, and he cannot even see the child.

This is the political price Takeda Shingen has to pay, and she can only accept it painfully.

And Yoshihiro's generosity at this time made Kosaka Masanobu overjoyed and unbelievable, and her hesitation was also expected by Yoshihiro.

If Yoshigin is an ordinary samurai daimyo, he must carefully arrange Takeda Yoshinobu for the sake of family business succession, so as not to cause big troubles in the future.

But Yiyin's current identity is Bishamonten Arrival, he is a living god.

His child is a descendant of the gods, and he is planning to improve the structure of theocratic rule. From the highest level eating alone, it becomes a new political structure in which a group of descendants of the gods join forces to maintain the theocracy.

The Takeda family is no longer the target of the Siba family's suppression, but a part of the Siba theocracy, and needs to contribute their own strength to safeguard the theocracy.

Takeda Shingen is so bad that he has sores on the top of his head and pus on the soles of his feet. Yoshigin needs such a powerful villain to help her. For the future of her children, she must also wholeheartedly protect Shiba's theocracy.

Takeda Shingen is planning to participate in the crusade against the Eastern Crowd, and in the name of Takeda Yoshinobu, the child's generation, he will attack the Hitachi country Satake's family.

She wanted to occupy the magpie's nest, and in the name of Takeda Yoshinobu's righteous silver blood, she took over the guardianship of the Satake family of the same clan in Hitachi, and expanded the territory of the Takeda family.

At this juncture, Yoshinobu took the initiative to let Takeda Yoshinobu go back to visit his relatives, which can be regarded as a kind of encouragement and encouragement politically.

Kosaka Masanobu was inevitably puzzled, what the sage was going to do.But Yiyin knew very well in his heart that what he wanted was theocratic power and prosperity.

Showing selfishness and being biased is to prove to everyone that Shiba Yoshihiro is a god who is willing to agree to anything for children, has soft ears, and has a strong pillow.

Uesugi Kenshin's strength is too strong, so let's recruit more descendants of the gods to share the influence of the Uesugi family in Kanto and artificially create a balance.

Yiyin's principle is to be a loving father. If any of you cry, I will be soft-hearted. If you expand as much as you want, it will be your own children's property in the end anyway, and the meat will always rot in the pot.

But the upper-level relations must be united. He must find a way to make the descendants of the gods form a united front, unify the outside world, and use a better profit distribution plan to make internal fighting meaningless.

As for the future, Yi Yin already has some ideas in his mind, Lian Lian. .Emperor elector. .False monarch real proposal. .

He smiled at Kosaka Masanobu.

"I rode a horse on the Tōkaidō, and my child was too young to ride bumps with me, and along the way, I always had to stop and see the local daimyo.

How about this, you take Yoshinobu to go to Ise country first, then take the sea route back to Suruga country, it will be steady and fast. "

With Yoshigin's current influence, no one dared to use their brains to say hello in advance, and then send a team of Siba to take care of them, pass through the Oda family's territory, and send the child back to visit relatives by sea.

When Masanobu Kosaka saw Yoshigin say this, he naturally believed that he sincerely asked the child to go back to visit his mother, and was very pleasantly surprised.

"Thank you Saint, I will write a letter to His Highness Takeda and ask her to send someone to Suruga Country to meet him."

Yiyin nodded and pinched the child's little face.

"Yixin, you can go back to see your mother, are you happy?"

"Happy!"