A tour of Japan's Warring States Period

The war in Kanto has come to an end again, but Xiaopingtai's plan to make a fortune has just begun.

Naturally, Teruhora Uesugi retreated with hatred when he went to Kanto this time, so he grabbed it, right? They didn't grab much, and Minami Musashi didn't even get into it completely. He was trapped under Kawagoe Castle for more than a month, and he almost lost all his money.

Fortunately, except for a tough battle between Kamikawa and Murakami Yoshikiyo, and a few people who died during the attack on Kawagoe Castle, basically no one died in the Echigo group. Although there was no rush for food, at least everyone had enough to eat in the past two or three months. The looted property can also be taken home to improve your life and wear new clothes during the New Year. 【Note 1】

The Yamauchi family basically didn't gain anything by sending troops this time. It showed their presence in Kanto. In addition, because the scale of this war was not as large as the first battle in Kanto, the number of troops mobilized was relatively small, so there was no Mobilize Jiangji people. 【Note 2】

Since there is no need to mobilize the Ejiri people this time, Ejiri does not need to send troops to fight, so it has nothing to do with Xiaoheita, the Ejiri Castle representative who temporarily leads the Ejiri people. Kodaira is too happy to be free from fighting. He is actively trying to cultivate weavers, recruit craftsmen, and recruit skilled townspeople and farmers to revitalize Ejiri Town.

And Sukezaemon, who was favored by Yamauchi Yoshiharu, was miraculously promoted to deputy captain by Imai Munehisa after returning to Sakai. With more than ten powerful trainees, he represented the business giant Naya. Come to Ejiri to open Natsuya's first store on Tokokukaidō. 【Note 3】

Under the secret instruction of Yamauchi Yoshiharu, Koheita opened the door for Suzaemon. Soon Suzaemon got the distribution rights of Ejiridie. As for the general distribution rights, it depends on whether he can It was decided to defeat the local business groups in Ejiri and capture a larger share of sales than them.

Koheita didn't just sell straw mats in Ejiri. There were so many derivatives that were in hot demand during the Warring States Period when supplies were scarce. Many farmers are reluctant to wear a pair of small straw sandals, and countless farmers' children in their teenage years have grown barefoot. The lord giving Ashigaru several pairs of straw sandals a year was considered a welfare package, so he didn't have to worry about sales.

Sukezaemon now uses Ejiri Dai as his entry point, and Nawu, a powerful dragon, is tantamount to officially declaring war with the local merchants in Ejiri. The commercial struggle is equally fierce and extraordinary, life-and-death, and there are many bloodshed.

It is conceivable that Sukezaemon will have a very unhappy life in the next long period of time when he has not yet established a firm foothold and is struggling to open the way. He may even encounter unexpected dangers from time to time. However, with the financial power and business talents of Imai Munehisa, and the secret connivance of Yamauchi Yoshiharu, if he could not open up the situation in Ejiri, he would probably be abandoned in just one sentence.

Xiao Pingtai will definitely help his old partner with whatever he can, and the rest will be up to him to figure out a solution.

Because the first batch of Ejiri-layers were woven very quickly. Except for the dozens of pieces that were not very good at the beginning because the workers were unskilled and the technology was immature, the subsequent Ejiri-layers were produced in terms of both techniques and materials. They are already as famous as Tsuyama Die and Usuki Die.

Everyone is weaving by machine, and one is a small farmer who weaves individually at home during the off-season. The output is unstable and the quality varies. One is centralized weaving in large-scale handicraft workshops with unified scale and procedures, ensuring that the level of materials is almost the same and that the weaving process is exactly the same.

Except for a few weavers who are extremely skilled and very particular about the materials they use, they may be much better than Ejiri's weavers on a certain quilt, but they are only a minority after all. Ejiridie can completely defeat this occasional exquisite product with the advantage of large-scale products with roughly the same quality. This is the advantage of the progress of the times.

However, the Ejiri merchants who were dissatisfied and forcibly suppressed by Yamauchi Yoshiharu and Koheta came to receive the sales share found that Ejiri Die was indeed very good, and their moods calmed down a lot. The quick-thinking businessman is already planning how to sell Ejiridai, which is one-tenth cheaper than the market price.

Except for a few businessmen with sad faces, because their main business direction is selling salted fish, seafood or horses and livestock, they have no sales ideas at all. The calculations in other businessmen's minds have long been fiddled with, and many of them have golden eyes.

Sukezaemon was so prosperous that he achieved the position of deputy captain in his twenties and was appointed as the manager of the Ejiri branch. At this moment, when he was full of energy and ready to show off his talents, he didn't know what good idea he had thought of. He actually planned to host 10,000 Ejiridai in one go, and promised to increase the number in a few months. Such a generous move, coupled with the aura of a successful businessman coming from within, made the Ejiri merchants' hostility toward him seem to deepen.

Of course Xiaoping didn't care. He just hoped to sell as many mats as possible. After all, hundreds of mat looms could produce more than 200 mats per day. Due to the production of rushes, they could at least produce more than 30,000 mats per year. Considering that normal Japanese-style houses usually only have one floor, they generally occupy a relatively large area. There are only a few dozen or a hundred tatami used in the house. The annual output of 30,000 tatami can only be a drop in the bucket in the face of such a large market. 【Note 4】

In short, what Koheita envisioned is being realized at an incredible speed.

[Note 1]: This is simply an endless cycle. When there is no food to eat and no money to use, we go to Kanto to rob, and then we are stuck in the quagmire of the Kanto War, and we have been unable to pull out the troops and enough money to go to Luo. Having no other choice, I thought of going down to Kanto to rob him. The time dragged on longer and longer, and finally I dragged Uesugi Kenshin to death.

[Note 2]: The reason is very simple. This battle is considered a smooth battle. Everyone is planning to follow behind Uesugi Teruhu and grab a piece of it. For such a good thing, the Yamauchi people will definitely go first, and the Ejiri people will have to wait until they have to fight hard. Only when the time comes. Everyone can definitely understand this reason. When good things happen, you must first focus on your own people.

[Note 3]: It is called a store, which can be understood as a branch. As for why it is called a store. Because they established stores in other places and maintained local business rights for the head office, they were called merchants, which were independent merchants.

In addition, door merchants have another meaning, which refers to merchants who conduct foreign trade, because at that time there was a symbolic gate on the border between North Korea and China, called the "Forbidden Gate", and those who crossed this gate to do business were called door merchants.

[Note 4]: Japan now has one square meter and two tatami mats. Many samurai houses start at fifty square meters. There are many large-scale samurai houses preserved from the Edo period. There are now thirty to forty thousand samurai in the country, and there will be more in the future. , this business can last for who knows how many years.