Pillars of the Wu family

The public enjoys the right to exempt local taxes. Of course, if you do business, you still have to be entangled in customs fees and local miscellaneous taxes. However, the tributes in Shangluo are different. Historically, the manor has only deducted tributes, and there is no reason for tributes to be intercepted halfway. , the deceitful side can use it as an excuse for natural disasters and military chaos, etc. The only reason to keep back is greed. A lord who is greedy for everything is easy to be attacked by everyone, so the Kira family wants to use it as an excuse to pay tribute every year. Obtaining benefits is indeed a tricky idea.

The people of Mikawa can think of this level is already very remarkable, and only Okochi Nobusada can think of it at a deeper level. He wants to take the opportunity of transporting the Kira family's own sea salt to Luo, and open up the salt sales channel from the Kira family to Sakamoto. However, the promise of Owari Tsushima Ohashi’s family can’t satisfy his appetite. Only the farther Gyeonggi is the best choice for maximizing profits.

"The price of salt in Kinai is uneven. The rough sea salt costs about [-] renminbi per stone, and the slightly pure sea salt is about [-] renminbi per stone. The refined sea salt produced by our own salt pond has never appeared in Kinai. The high price in the short term is not The problem... But in the long run, it is still necessary to control the price, the expenses of transportation, transshipment, and handling of Chinese people are about three guanwen per shi, and as long as the price is more than six guanwen, the family can get half of the profit."

The annual salt production of the Kira family’s own salt pond basically maintains a level of 8000 shi. In addition, the salt pond of a family genealogy has a total of more than [-] shi. The trade routes of the Tokaido currently only maintain Owari, Ise, and Enjiang respectively. Set up a salt house to distribute refined sea salt. In order to prevent the Imagawa family from coveting, there is no plan to set up a salt house in Suruga for the time being.

Of course, the big merchants in Owari and Ise have noticed that the refined sea salt of Kira’s family is extraordinary, and they have not given up the plan to collect it except eating a lot of it. They can digest more than [-] shi in the Tokaido and Mino areas. In recent years, merchants who have been traveling to and from the Kanto for business will also eat a large amount of refined sea salt every time they stay in Sanhe, as a routine means of returning goods to protect their capital.

The sales volume of refined sea salt has grown steadily. Last year, it sold a total of [-] shi. However, there is still a certain distance before the inventory is sold out. A large amount of sea salt is put into the market and it is worried about rapid depreciation. For the first time, the salt house was successfully established in Sakamoto. With the throughput of Kinai, not to mention three thousand koku of salt, even five thousand koku can be sold out, and the profit is also an astonishing figure. Get great tax returns.

Kira Yoshitoki confessed to Okochi Jigao: "Go back and tell Dan Mashou that the family has already understood his plan! Let him prepare enough new salt and wait for the good news from the family!"

"Your servant must report it as soon as possible. What else does the Master have to say?"

"Just let Tajira maintain the current state. The Imagawa family will be very happy that the Mikawa power seems to be in harmony with the gods. I warn those retainers who have illusions, don't dream about the unification of the two Kira, it will only bring disaster to the two families, this sentence Just ask Dan Mashou to pass it on to your brother!" Yoshiki Kira frowned slightly, but decided it would be better to speak clearly.

Mikawa's samurai do not have great wisdom, but they have a lot of crooked minds. In terms of bravery, they are not inferior to Kanto samurai, but they can't change their short-sighted stereotypes. Ji Liangyi didn't have the heart to correct these short-sighted guys. Mikawa's split is in line with the Imagawa family. His interests are also in line with Kira Yoshitoki's interests. He wished that Matsudaira's family could be divided into eight parts, one person and one part, each of whom would be independent.

At the beginning of May, when Takikawa Masashige, the bare-handed navy general of the Kira family, approached Kira Yoshige, he said, "My lord! Our family cannot live without its own navy. If the abundant inland waterways in Gyeonggi are not properly utilized, it would be a waste of God's gift." ah!"

"Yes! This family has never thought about this question! What does Yizhong mean?"

"My lord, please allow me to go back to Shima and recruit a group of sailors for my family!" Takikawa Masaki bowed his head.

"Are you recruiting? No problem!" Yoshitomo Kira nodded in agreement with his proposal, and then asked a new question: "It's just that the family doesn't have a boatman, how can we build a boat? Going to Sakaimachi to hire a boatman seems to be very expensive!"

"I'll leave this bag to my ministers! In addition to the navy, I, Shima, have boatmen and fishermen. If there are more than a hundred boatmen, I dare not say that a hundred or ten boatmen can still be brought here!" Takikawa Masashige said confidently.

"So that's how it is! Then leave it to Yizhong to do it! After this is done, you will be a veritable navy general of our family!"

"The wish of this subject is to lead the Iron Cannon Team for the Master! Since I have not been in the sea for the past few years, I have been practicing Iron Cannon skills, so I implore the Lord Master to allow you to be transferred to the Iron Cannon General after the incident." When he mentioned the Iron Cannon Team, he seemed to remember Masushige Takigawa said that he was good at iron artillery and wanted to be a general of iron artillery. This is the position he hoped for when he became an official. Even after being a polished commander for half a year, he did not change his original intention.

"Okay! That's up to you! But you have to recruit a qualified navy general for this family! You must not be a half-baked guy!"

"Yes!" Takikawa Masuju bowed and stepped back excitedly.

Not long after, Takigawa Masushige brought more than 100 boatmen as promised, and accompanied by more than 200 sailors. Their leader was Kuki Shigetaka from the Shima Kuki family. Kuki Shigetaka was the second son of Kuki Tailong , the elder brother is the heir of the governor of the Kuki, because he has no inheritance rights in the Kuki's family, so he is drawn into the Kira family by Takikawa Masashige, a fellow villager.

"It turned out to be from the Kuki family! Isn't your family the same as the Kumano Besto clan's Kumano family? Later, because they failed to compete for the dominion position, they went to Shima to become a native of the country?"

Kumano Shigetaka said excitedly: "Yes! The family of the servants is the Kumano Kumano family!"

"Isn't your family a powerful native of Shima Kingdom? How did you think of joining the family?" Kira Yoshitoshi had never heard of Kuki Shigetaka, so he couldn't help but doubt his intentions.

"Because of the intervention of the Ise Kingdom Division Kitabata family, the situation of the subordinate family has become much worse than before."

The Kuki family has not been doing well in recent years. The reason is that the Kitabata family, the governor of Ise, has extended its tentacles to the Shima country. As the leader of the Seven Clans of Shima and the largest force in Poche County, the Kuki family must face the strength of the Kitabata family. Facing the menacing Ise Kokuji, the Kuki family naturally did not want to stand still. In recent years, the Kuki family has joined the Shima Seven Clans to fight against the Kitabata family. There are more and more powerful families in the country, and the Jiugui family, the temporary leader of Zhimo Kingdom, has become more and more sad.

Therefore, Chonglong, the second son of the Jiugui family, once thought about seeking foreign aid, but at this time no one could save them. Takikawa Masushige, learned from his mouth that he was already a retainer of the Kira family, and his brother Takikawa Kazuyoshi also came from the Oda family, so Shigetaka Kuki's thoughts suddenly came alive.

When Masushige Takikawa proposed to invite him to be an official in the Kira family, Shigetaka Kuki agreed without hesitation, and then recruited more than 100 people who followed him from the same family and old friends from the same village, together with 100 people recruited by Masushige Takikawa through old relationships. Several sailors went to Beijing together.

Then Kira Yoshitoki asked some basic questions about naval operations, and appointed Shigetaka Kuki as the general of the Kira family's navy with a salary of 200 years. The more than [-] sailors were his subordinates. In this matter, I offer a suggestion: "Please, the owner of the museum, invite the Yodogawa people to discuss in the name of discussing the Sakamoto Water Transport!"

"Sakamoto water transportation? I understand! Are you planning to control the inland water army?" Yoshitoki Kira praised: "This is indeed a good idea!"

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