different warring states of japan

Chapter 414 Decisive
In the feudal era, the status of merchants was extremely low, and in the final analysis it was to disrupt social stability.

In the eyes of rulers, warriors fight, farmers cultivate, craftsmen manufacture, and even religion can numb the untouchables and ease conflicts.

What is a merchant good for?

Except for a few necessities such as salt, iron and cloth, for feudal lords, unchanging stability is more conducive to rule than the circulation of population and materials.

Businessmen are bastards who buy low and sell high, disrupting social stability for their own self-interest.

All the farmers were working hard, and suddenly a few businessmen came.

It is said that the next door village is suitable for farming. There is not much food in the valleys here, so why not grow hemp, we are responsible for the distribution, and we will earn a difference.

It seems that the two villages have taken advantage of exchanging supplies, but in a disaster year, the food in the neighboring village is not enough to feed themselves, what should we do?
More than half of the farmers in the hemp-growing village starved to death, and more than half of the land was exchanged for grain by the merchants. Do the Wu family in the village hate the merchants?
No food is unstable, and the ability to resist risks in the agricultural era is extremely poor.If there is not enough food to eat, people have to die until there is enough to eat.

People are so hungry that they lose their minds, and the riots they cause are a terrible thing that shakes the foundation of the rule.

If merchants are indulged, their greed can easily lead to chaos in the event of natural and man-made disasters.

Therefore, businessmen must be suppressed.

For businessmen, ancient history is a history of blood and tears of oppression. The rulers are not good men and women, and the sword is more powerful than money.

If it weren't for the troubled times of the Wu family, businessmen were needed to raise military expenses, and these rentier bastards were not worthy of entering the Wu family's eyelids.

Takada Yoshino was willing to do business with merchants in Sakai Port kindly and make an agreement, which was out of consideration for the interests of the Shiba family.

When encountering a crisis in which the family business was unstable, she would tear off her face immediately and eat them alive, not caring about the businessman's resentment at all.

If I destroy you, what does it have to do with you?How many divisions do you have. .No, how many reserve teams?

In Sakai Port, Takada Yoshino's only concern is the Miyoshi family, but this time is different from the past.

As a result, Shiba Yiyin was trapped in Yuezhong, and the Shiba family mobilized a large amount of resources to support the governor, which had already exhausted the family fortune and even affected the Omi War after the spring plowing.

This is a crisis that shakes the foundation, but there is an opportunity in the crisis, and it is also an excellent opportunity for Takada Yono to show her value and improve herself.

As long as she can raise a large amount of supplies to help Shi Bo's family survive the disaster, all the forces in Si Bo's family will have to pay attention to her existence.

Only by proving one's own strength and making contributions can one have the right to speak and be eligible to participate in the battle for matriarchy.

After Maeda Toshiie, she will be the sixth party recognized by the Shiba family, Maeda Toshie, Shima Katsuto, Akechi Mitsuhide, and Yamanaka Niko.

In the situation where the samurai generally despise business, this opportunity is rare.

Even if she wiped out a number of big businessmen in Sakai Port and robbed her of her fortune, and damaged her goodwill of fair trade, she had to help the Shiba family pass this test.

This is to help the master tide over the difficulties, and also to prove his own worth, the pros and cons of which Takada Yono has already calculated clearly.

If Tsuda Zongji didn't get the hang of it, she would really kill and steal.

Secondly, the situation in Nishikinji at this time is no longer what it was when Shiba's family settled in Sakai Port.

At the beginning of the recent war, Miyoshi Changqing retreated with hatred, and out of various political considerations, allowed the Shiba family forces to enter Sakai Port.

At that time, Miyoshi was strong and the shogunate was weak, and the Shiba family even danced on a tightrope.

The forces of Miyoshi's family retreated, it was a retracted fist, and it could be punched out again at any time.

The Shiba Shinsengumi is a human alarm that stands in front of the shogunate. Once the Miyoshi family attacks the Shinsengumi, it will be a harbinger of the war.

Therefore, for the sake of the overall situation, the Miyoshi family turned a blind eye to the Shiba family's team stationed in Sakai Port, and only then did the Shinsengumi have room to operate.

But even so, Takada Yono did not dare to go too far.

The Shiba family has prestige but no strength, so they can only frighten the businessmen through the Ikedaya incident, and with the acquiescence of the Miyoshi family, they barely gain a foothold in Sakai Port.

But today's Shiba family has successfully integrated local powerful factions, Izumi, Kita Hanoi, Kita Yamato, and Iga into one, united as one.

In the shogunate, Ashikaga Yoshiki relied heavily on him, tidying up the shogunate ministers and rectifying the interior, showing a thriving rising posture.

On the other hand, after Miyoshi Yoshiken passed away, the remaining Miyoshi trio inherited her dissatisfaction with Miyoshi Yoshinori, the heir.

The conflict between the two sides became more and more intense, and even involved Dongyasu Anzhai, one of the Three Good Four Sisters. The Three Kingdoms and Four Sisters system on which Miyoshi Changqing relied was on the verge of collapse.

At this time, how could the Miyoshi family be willing to fight against the powerful factions in the shogunate, and even the entire shogunate, for the trivial matter of a few businessmen in Sakai Port?

What Takada Yono did was not for himself, but for the leader of the local power faction, Yoshihiko Shiba.

Even if the matter becomes a big deal, Ashikaga Yoshiki will support her.

As Takada Yono said, in the face of the political situation where the Miyoshi shogunate confronted each other, Tsuda Zong and the so-called great merchants in Sakai and Hong Kong were nothing but puppet.

Imai Zongjiu is a well-known big businessman, a big tea master, and he can be regarded as a fine person.

However, her inherent insufficiency in business background made her political sensitivity far worse than that of Takada Yono, so she put the cart before the horse and misjudged the matter.

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Iga country, Koga mouth.

The four passages in the Iga Basin communicate with the outside world, and the Kogakou corresponds to the South Omi River.

The Suzuka Mountains are bounded by Minami Omi to the north, Iga Country to the west to the south, and Ise Country to the east. This mountain region is the dividing line between Tokaido and Kinji.

Suzuka Pass, located in Ise, is one of the three passes separating Kanto and Kansai in a broad sense.

Maeda Yili had already led the sidelines to the Banner Ben and arrived at Hekou near Jiahekou, stationed in Guitumu Village, and only waited for the spring plowing before the whole army went out to battle.

On this day, Otani Yoshitsugu received an urgent communication from Maeda Yili and came to the garrison for a military meeting.

Wrapped in white cloth, with the banner standing beside him, she walked quickly into Maeda Yili's shogunate, only to find that all the villages under Yu Ye had arrived.

Otani Jiji frowned slightly, feeling that something was wrong, all the places were busy during the spring plowing time, and if they recruited all the land, they might cause dissatisfaction.

She and Maeda Yili greeted each other, hesitating to speak.

Maeda Yoshiki shook his head and said.

"The spring plowing in the villages of Yu Ye has already passed halfway, leaving the fields will not affect the plowing, and everything that needs to be explained has been explained.

You look at this first. "

Otani Yoshitsuji slandered, even if you don't need to arrange it, your own field is always right, and you are unpopular for doing so.

She took the document, looked at ten lines at a glance, and for a moment her face was solemn, and she asked that something really happened.

"Master Island has already set off?"

Maeda benefit nodded.

"Master Nizi had already left when he sent the letter."

"How much is the military reserve left for us?"

"Ten is not one."

Otani Jiji was silent, she must not show any dissatisfaction with this matter.

The lord's kindness to her is as great as a mountain. Now that something happened in Yuezhong, the minister should be ashamed to repay her kindness.

But the battle on Yihe's side had to be fought. Without supplies, how would they fight?
The spring plowing is more than halfway through, not to mention what is going on in Meinong, Nanjinjiang in the north has already made moves.

Most of Otani Yoshitsugu's subordinates were Chinese warriors who could not survive under the Minami Omi Liujiao family, and there were constant news about their relatives there.

The Liujiao family has already started to conscript military supplies, raise supplies, and mobilize the people of the country, causing complaints from the lower-level martial arts families.

After many years of fighting, once the Liujiao family was beaten back to its original form, the benefits were not shared much, and the heavy taxes were crushed to the waist. The little samurai have long resented.

Liujiao Yixian also understands that the more unstable the lower class is, the more they need to use the proceeds from the Northern Expedition to fill the dissatisfaction of the lower class, and they are more active in preparing for the war.

Ihe is only a hundred thousand shi, so he is already weak, but now that he is short of supplies, the situation is even worse, how to fight?
Otani Yoshitsugu asked.

"The materials are not in order, what should we do in the war?"

Maeda Masayoshi glanced at her and said firmly.

"beat!"

(End of this chapter)