Daming Yuanfu

Chapter 1592 Taking Chestnuts from the Fire (Twenty)
Toyotomi Hidecho's negotiating trip went very smoothly, but unfortunately he came here with a strong body, and fell ill on the way back to Shihuan Mountain City, so he couldn't worry about the follow-up implementation.However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi basically approved of this negotiation, especially being able to buy those warships from Jinghua, which is very helpful to his big plan. On this basis, he is willing to make some concessions on other things.

The purchase of such a large number of warships would logically impose a serious financial burden, but Japan's current situation is rather special.It is a big silver-producing country with a large population, but its agricultural productivity is not strong, which has caused a problem: silver is cheap and goods are expensive.

To some extent, exporting silver in exchange for materials can effectively reduce inflation.It’s just that now Toyotomi Hideyoshi is not exchanging money for hard currency such as food and cloth, but for warships. The effect of alleviating inflation will probably be greatly reduced—of course, since there is less money, at least it will not continue to inflation .

However, Toyotomi Hideyoshi still thought of the food issue, so Ishida Mitsunari, who went to Ishigakuyama Castle to intercede for Toyotomi Hidekatsu, was sent to Misaki Castle for additional negotiations. The main topic of the negotiations was to buy grain.

The matter of buying grain exceeded the scope of Gao Wushi's authorization to Luo Yuan, because Gao Wushi did not expect Toyotomi Hideyoshi to buy grain before.In fact, it is not that Gao Pragmatism has no food on hand, but that the level of transportation in this era is relatively restricted.

Transporting grain from southern Xinjiang to the north of Ming Dynasty has always been considered by Gao Yushi as "not cost-effective", and the cost of transporting it to Japan is similar, or even worse. This is why Gao Yushi only sent a mere target Marine Corps to Japan. one.

However, the Toyotomi family wanted to buy food, which was different from the pure consumption of the Marine Corps. Even if the transaction failed in the end, it would not be a loss-making transaction.So Luo Yuan didn't make a decision immediately, but urgently called the person in charge of trade to inquire about the price of grain in Japan.

It doesn't matter if you don't ask, but you will be shocked when you ask.The price of rice in Japan is far higher than that of Ming Dynasty, and the price of rice in cheap areas is more than twice that of Daming, and it is even more exaggerated in expensive areas, reaching three times at every turn.

In contrast, rice prices in southern Xinjiang have continued to decline in the past two years as the war subsided and the household registration and naturalization system was promoted.Especially in the Cambodian region, due to the relatively small population and poor consumption capacity, it is almost all plains, and the grain production is extremely sufficient, so that the grain price is extremely low. Now it has become a large granary for high-level grain output.

Even though Cambodia was shaved a few times by Gao Pragmatism, a lot of land was lost, but the agricultural elite area is still there. With the surplus grain of the country alone, Gao Pragmatism estimates that it can guarantee the supply of at least two provinces in the north of Daming when they are severely affected by disasters. needed.

It is true that there are many disasters in Ming Dynasty now, but the characteristic is that this year here, and next year elsewhere, it is not considered a large-scale outbreak. In addition, high-level officials have advocated "self-help", and adopted measures such as planting high-yield crops in the North America, which will more or less cause disasters. Therefore, the surplus grain in Cambodia is relatively sufficient—the surplus grain in Annan and Siam was not even used in Daming, but was used to protect Nanzhang and Myanmar.

In this case, selling a part to Toyotomi Hideyoshi can be done.After all, the amount Toyotomi Hideyoshi wants to buy is actually not that big in Jinghua's opinion, because he only needs to manage his own territory (including Fudai and other direct descendant territories), and he doesn't care whether other daimyos lack food or not.

The only trouble is that Luo Yuan has not been authorized, so even if he finds out the difference in food prices, he can only tell Ishida Mitsunari that he needs to ask for instructions.Although Ishida Mitsunari did not get the result, he thought that Luo Yuan himself seemed to agree with this, so he was generally relieved and prepared to leave.

Luo Yuan once again urged Toyotomi Hideyoshi to withdraw his troops from Ninja Castle, but Ishida Mitsunari raised a question: It is not impossible for Toyotomi's family to withdraw their troops from Ninja Castle, but Narita, the lord of Ninja Castle, is still in Odawara Castle.If there was no order from Narita's head, would Ninjo send troops to attack the surrounding areas after seeing the withdrawal of the Toyotomi family?
This problem is quite realistic. After all, the surrounding area of ​​Ninja Castle was previously the territory of the Hojo family. For Toyotomi Hideyoshi, it is completely new. It is reasonable that the people's hearts are not attached.In this way, if Ninja City really attacked the surrounding areas after the Toyotomi family withdrew their troops, it might not be uncommon to even go down a few cities.

The only way to ensure that Ninja City will not "mess up" is to write a letter from Mr. Narita himself.But Mr. Narita was almost under house arrest in Odawara City, so it was very difficult to contact him, and it would be even more difficult to expect him to give orders.

In fact, Narita's head was still free when he first started the cage city in Odawara Castle. As the crisis of the Hojo family deepened, the Hojo family was worried about his position and began to put him under house arrest.Later, when negotiating a marriage with the Sea Trade Alliance, Narita's head regained his short-term freedom a little bit. Unfortunately, after the marriage was concluded, the Hojo family worried that he would rely on the strength of the Sea Trade Alliance to cause trouble, so they put him under house arrest again.

Although the Hojo family's approach seems a bit reckless, as if they don't care about the future, but they can take care of the present now. The future is really too extravagant, so it is understandable.It's just that if the head of Narita can't be contacted, the Ninja Castle issue seems to be deadlocked all of a sudden.

Being in a stalemate is not a good thing for Luo Yuan. First, Narita Kai is now theoretically one of his mistresses. Second, according to the previous agreement, the Narita family will move from Ninja City to Yusheng City. Misaki Castle is a relationship between lips and teeth. To ensure that the power of the Narita family is not weakened is to contribute more to the security of Misaki Castle in the future.

Yusheng City is a flat mountain city. Although it is not steep, it is not a flat mountain city.According to Luo Yuan's prediction, if Jinghua is willing to provide some firepower support in the future, judging from the combat effectiveness displayed by the Narita clan this time, as long as they have 5000 people willing to stick to Yusheng City, it is certain that the enemy will not have [-] to [-] troops. Can't take it.

However, after sending away Ishida Mitsunari, Luo Yuan suddenly came up with an idea: If the head of the Narita family suddenly died now, who should inherit the Narita family business now?
At present, the Joyo of Ninja Castle is the eldest son of Narita Yasuki, Narita Nagain, but Narita Nagain is only the cousin of Narita's head, and it is definitely not as good as Kai Ji in terms of closeness.His position as Joshiro was actually quite a coincidence - when Narita's head left Ninjo Castle for Odawara Castle, he appointed his uncle Yasuki Narita as Joshiro. Unfortunately, Narita Yasuki had just started the Battle of Ninja Castle He died of illness.

Since the head of Narita himself was not there at the time, out of consideration for stabilizing the interior of Ninja Castle, Narita head took over the responsibilities of his father naturally, and thus picked up his father's title of castle generation.

However, the military power of Ninja Castle is in the hands of Kaihime, who is a woman. She is not only the general of Ninja Castle, but also has accumulated considerable prestige during several months of combat.Although the crusading army is full of famous teachers and generals, they all hit a wall in Ninja City-of course, some of the famous generals, such as Sanada Masayuki and his son, are actually suspected of playing tricks, and I am afraid that they did not try their best in the battle.

Even so, the feats of the enemy generals and soldiers that Kaiji personally obtained are always real meritorious service.In Kanto, the "hometown of samurai", military exploits are prestige, and prestige is strength.So at this moment, Shinobi, although Narita's eldest relative is Joyo in name, but the one who really controls the battle and decision-making is probably his cousin Kaiji instead.

Luo Yuan thought deeply: Since most of the real power in Ninja City is in the hands of Jia Feiji, and Gao Yunping has temporarily stationed in Ninja City with more than a thousand elite marines, then once the Narita family dies, Jia Feiji will have a big By chance, he could obtain the inheritance rights of the Narita family, and then give up Ninja Castle, and was ordered to transfer it to Yusheng Castle.

Japanese women can inherit the family governor. For example, Ii Naotora and Tachibana Chiyo mentioned above all inherited the family business as daughters and became female daimyos.

However, Kai Ji's situation is somewhat different from that of Tachibana Chiyo, but more similar to that of Ii Naotora.Tachibana Chiyo was established as the governor of the family when Tachibana Michiyo was alive, and he was only six or seven years old at the time.Later, Tachibana Daoyuki made a marriage contract for her and Takahashi Shaoyun's son, Takahashi Totorora. When Takahashi Totorora became an adult, he joined Tachibana's family, changed his name to Tachibana Zongshige, and ruled Tachibana Mountain Castle together with Tachibana Chiyo.

Ii Naotora is different. Her grandfather Ii Naotora participated in the siege of Tahara Castle in the Mikawa Kingdom under the order of Imagawa Yoshimoto and died in battle.Because her father, Ii Naomori, had no son, he planned to make his cousin Ii Naochi (the son of Naomori's uncle Ii Naomi) his son-in-law and adopted son.

Because of the slander of Michitaka Ono (Masanao), the elder of Ii's family, Ii Naoto's father, Ii Naomitsu, and his younger brother, Ii Naoyoshi, were suspected of plotting against Imagawa Yoshimoto and were forced to commit suicide, and Naoki fled to Shinano.During Jingyi Naotora's escape, Jingyi Naotora became a nun.

Naoto Ii returned to the Imagawa family one year after Michitaka's death, but during his stay in Shinano, he married the daughter of Okuyama Asari (or Okuyama Asori) as his main wife, so he could only dissolve the relationship with Naoto Ii. Tiger's Marriage.

Five years later, Ii Naomori was killed in the Battle of Ozama.Two years after the vacancy of the family governor, Ii Naoki succeeded the family governor, but because of the slander of Ono Michiyoshi (Michiko's son), he was given death by Imagawa Shima.The Jingyi family was implicated by this, and was rescued with the support of his uncle Shinno Mamoto (the elder brother of Jingyi Naotora's mother Yuchunni).

In another two years, because the Imagawa family's reputation continued to decline, it triggered a rebellion by Iio Renryu and others. Shinno Omoto and Naomori's important minister Nakano Naoyu were killed on behalf of Imagawa's crusade against Hima Castle.Uncle Nanxi Ruiwen, who was the abbot of Longtan Temple, learned of this, and transferred his immediate relative's youngest son, Husong, who later became Jingyi Naomasa, to Fenglai Temple, where Jingyi Naotora adopted him as an adopted son to raise him.

In the following year, because there was no male in the family, Jing Yi Naotora returned to secular life (she used the name of Master Jiro before), and inherited the position of Governor of the Jing Yi family in the name of Jing Yi Naotora's son.

From this point of view, although Tachibana Chiyo is the successor of the family governor as a daughter, in fact Tachibana Daoxue has been looking for her son-in-law to "jointly rule" Tachibana's family, and finally succeeded.

In Naotora Ii, the men in the family are almost dead, and there is only one Naomasa Ii who is still an infant, so he has no choice but to become the governor of the family.In other words, it seems more difficult for Kai Fei Ji to inherit the Narita family, after all, the Narita family still has males.

Wanting to understand this, Luo Yuan scratched his head a little.It is not difficult to kill the Narita clan head, as long as the agreement between the Toyotomi family and the Maritime Trade Alliance is announced to the world, the Hojo family, who is consciously abandoned, will definitely kill the Narita clan head.

However, if the Hojo family hadn't lost their minds, they probably wouldn't have directly killed Mr. Narita at that time, and probably would have considered continuing to use Mr. Narita to stabilize Shinobi.But it doesn't matter, as long as you think of a small way to make the Hojo family think that Ninja Castle has "rebelled", then the chief Narita who has no use value will definitely be used to sacrifice the flag.

Such a simple borrowing of a knife to kill people does not require the master to come in person, Luo Yuan can handle it.

The trouble is that the current Ninjo Jojo Narita Nagakin is Kaihime’s cousin, and his father Narita Yasuki and his old governor Narita Choyasu are brothers. He can basically be regarded as the direct line of the Narita family, and the right of inheritance still exists objectively. .

Regarding the matter of setting up a family governor, whether it is an adult man in his 30s or a girl who can't stand a double tenth, even in Japan, there is no dispute, and the former must have more supporters.Unless Jia Fei Ji launched a mutiny, there should not be too many arguments, and there is a high probability that Narita Nagain will become the new city lord daimyo.

Then how about doing Narita's eldest relative by the way?I'm afraid it won't work.Although Luo Yuan didn't care about killing a few Japanese, the situation of Narita Naga and Narita's chief was different. The latter had been restricted in freedom, and his life and death were in the hands of the Hojo family. It was rare for him to do anything.The former is not only in good condition, but also a legal Joyo, and has gained some prestige because of Shinobi's persistence so far.

In addition, there is another biggest problem, which is Kaiji's own attitude, especially whether she will choose to fight for her father's inheritance rights after her death.

Throughout the Warring States period of Japan, basically every daimyo will be succeeded by a woman only if the male dies. Since Narita's eldest relative will not die, it may be difficult for Kai Feiji to take the initiative to fight for the position of family governor.

This seems to be a dead end.Luo Yuan frowned secretly, if Yusheng Castle was inherited by Narita's eldest relative, it would be better to find a way to fish out Narita's elder from Odawara Castle.After all, the head of the Narita family is the father of Mrs. Ru, and the head of the Narita family is just a cousin. If the head of the family is transferred to Yusheng City, the control of Jinghua must be much more secure, and it can be regarded as occupying the entire Miura Peninsula.

With the Miura Peninsula in hand, Edo Bay has almost become a dish under Jinghua's nose. Even if Tokugawa Ieyasu moves to Kanto in the future, he will have to face up to the status of Jinghua or the Maritime Trade Alliance.

Gao Yushi didn't tell him what would happen in the original history, so Luo Yuan's considerations were more focused on how to expand the influence of the Maritime Trade Alliance in Kanto.

He is the commander of the Kanto Squadron. As the name suggests, he is in charge of the affairs of the Kanto region (the Greater Kanto region, which actually includes the entire "Eastern Kingdom"). After the news that Tokugawa Ieyasu will move to the Kanto region was passed from Toyotomi's family to his ears , he naturally had to make targeted arrangements.

Now Luo Yuan doesn't know where Tokugawa Ieyasu will choose as his residence after he comes to Kanto, but after thinking about it, Luo Yuan thinks it's nothing more than Odawara Castle or Edo Castle.If he chooses Odawara Castle, it means that his eyes are on the military, and his primary goal is to ensure the safety of the city.If he chooses Edo, it means that he chooses to focus on production and hopes for long-term peace and stability—after all, Edo is second to none in the most core area of ​​the Kanto Plain, which is close to the sea and has convenient transportation.

The Miura Peninsula is not far from Odawara Castle and Edo. To the west is Odawara, and to the east is Edo. Therefore, "if you want to influence Kanto, you must first consolidate Miura."

From this point of view, the head of Narita still has no choice but to find a way to get the head of Narita out before Toyotomi announces the results of the negotiations with the Maritime Trade Alliance.
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